When Moses went to see Pharaoh about the deliverance of the Israelites from the bondage of slavery, the Lord gave him specific instructions about what to say. Exodus 8:20 tells us this:

Now the Lord said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, as he comes out to the water, and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says, “Let my people go, so they can worship Me.”’"

The Lord had a specific reason for delivering the Israelites out of bondage: He wanted them to be free to worship Him. Our worship is important to God. It should be important to us, too.

God wants our undivided love and worship, and He will go to great lengths to secure both. Look at the magnificent strategy He employed in finally convincing Pharaoh to let His people go. Then, after letting the Israelites go and changing his mind, Pharaoh was once again humbled by the Master Strategist—God simply parted the Red Sea to ensure the freedom of His people to worship and serve Him.

The magnificence and grandeur of the parting of the Red Sea pales in comparison with God’s ultimate plan of redeeming His people from the worst tyrants of all—sin and death. God’s Word is clear that the human race—apart from Christ—is in far worse bondage than the Israelites were during their Egyptian captivity. “For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 7:14, 6:23).  

God sent His Son, His only begotten Son, into this world to redeem us—to free us from the bondage of sin and death. This is the Christmas message—this is the good will toward men that the angels heralded.

                   Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as    it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering    for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh.  (Romans 8:1-3)