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HERE COME THE PLAGUES (3 OF 8)

by Jeff Schreve

Scripture: Exodus 7:1-25, Exodus 8:1-19
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Here Come the Plagues (3 of 8)
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Exodus 7:1-8:19


If you have your Bible, please turn to Exodus chapter 7, Exodus chapter 7. I want to talk to you today from Exodus 7 and 8 on a message I've entitled Here Come the Plagues.

Now, there was a song that was written back in the day. It came out in April of 1972. It was released by singer/songwriter Jim Croce. It became a big hit. And many who are young people in our audience today will remember the words to this song because it's been around for so long. Here are the lyrics:

"Uptown got its hustlers; the Bowery got its bums; 42nd Street got Big Jim Walker; he's a pool-shooting son of a gun. Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come, but he's stronger than a country horse. And when the bad folks all get together at night, you know they all just call Big Jim boss, just because. And they say you don't tug on Superman's cape. You don't spit into the wind. You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger. And you don't mess around with Jim." A dud-dud-a-dud, do, do-do-do, just to help you out. "Well, out of south Alabama came a country boy. He say, 'I'm looking for a man named Jim. I'm a pool-shooting boy, my name is Willie McCoy, but down home they call me Slim. Yeah, I'm looking for the king of 42nd Street. He's driving a drop-top Cadillac. Last week he took all my money, and it may sound funny, but I come to get my money back.' And everybody say, "Jack, don't you know you don't tug on Superman's cape. You don't spit into the wind. You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger. And you don't mess around with Jim.' Well, a hush fell over the poolroom. Jimmy come bopping in off the street. And when the cutting were done, the only part that wasn't bloody was the soles of that big man's feet. Yeah, he were cut in about a hundred places, and he was shot in a couple more. And you better believe they sung a different kind of ...

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