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Crossing your Red Sea, the path to victory Exodus 14

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  8. Does anybody know not know the story of Red Sea?

  9. Everybody knows isn't it is the favorite story of every child

  10. because they learn it in the home, they learn in the Sunday

  11. school. It's just an awesome story.

  12. It's a bit over beaten like you are too familiar with it.

  13. So it is very scary to preach on very familiar passages because

  14. everybody knows isn't it so hard, a great difficult job.

  15. But anyway, we will look into that.

  16. What my first question is what does the Red Sea mean in human

  17. experience? What does the Red Sea mean in

  18. human experience? I was thinking about it

  19. yesterday and I wrote it down. It stands for a situation with

  20. an insurmountable obstacle in front of you, an invincible,

  21. unbeatable enemy behind you, and no way out.

  22. Then God makes a way which was not existing before, which never

  23. entered a human brain. No eye has seen, no ear has

  24. heard. Such are the things kept in

  25. store for all of us who believe in Jesus Christ.

  26. It has not entered anybody's mind.

  27. That is how He opens and makes a way for us, and that is opening

  28. a Red Sea for you and for me. You have not thought about it.

  29. You, you, you see the insurmountable problem.

  30. You cannot overcome it. You cannot swim through the Red

  31. Sea. And the bam behind you see the

  32. enemy following you. And you are, you are cornered

  33. and you feel helpless and you feel confused and you feel a

  34. loss of hope. And you say, what's happening in

  35. my life? Is there a God?

  36. And he opens the way, makes a way through the Red Sea, and he

  37. opens the way for you. And you walk through it and then

  38. you ask this question, How come I didn't think about it?

  39. No, you cannot think about it. Only He knows what He is going

  40. to do. In the tight spot He opens the

  41. way for you, which no man has ever thought about.

  42. And that is who why we call him Yahweh, God the Lord, because He

  43. is God. The Red Sea stands for present

  44. struggle. We are going through a real

  45. struggle in the present time in the present tense where present

  46. struggle between our past and the future, freedom and liberty.

  47. What God has for you, he is going to give it to you.

  48. And during the worship time, I said before the sundown, God is

  49. going to visit somebody and he will make that way open for you.

  50. The Red Sea is opening for you before the sundown today, and

  51. don't forget to come back next Sunday.

  52. Give the testimony because he is.

  53. When he says he will do, he will do.

  54. He will do it. So Red Sea stands for present

  55. struggle between our past and the future, freedom and liberty.

  56. So what? God has freedom for you in mind.

  57. But right now you're standing at the Red Sea and thinking, how am

  58. I going to come through it? How am I going to come through

  59. it? No, that's the reason why Red

  60. Sea stands for God who makes a way with his no way.

  61. He makes a way, there's no way. I'll tell you briefly a story of

  62. me one day. If you are, you are traveling

  63. winter on a holiday to India and then at Chennai.

  64. We were flying to Coimbatore. And then I gave my jacket to see

  65. my and said please keep it for me.

  66. And I went to the toilet and by the time I came out, they were

  67. rushed into the aircraft and she left with my jacket.

  68. And in that jacket was my wallet with my everything in it, my

  69. phone and everything in it. Nothing was there in me except

  70. the boarding pass that was in my top pocket in my shirt.

  71. So when I came they are all gone.

  72. And they said you can't go in now.

  73. The bus is already gone to the So what am I going to do?

  74. How am I going to? No, you cannot go.

  75. You had to go by the next flight.

  76. So now I want, I was standing there going to the office,

  77. talking to people. They'd say, no, there's no way.

  78. You have to buy a fresh ticket and go.

  79. But where is my wallet? It's not there.

  80. How do I pay for it? No money.

  81. And I only had this passport and the boarding pass.

  82. I don't know why I kept them. That was all that I had.

  83. And I was standing there pleading with them.

  84. And they say people come and tell stories to deceive people

  85. and take money. You know something like this

  86. there we can't trust everybody and buy a ticket for everybody

  87. so you are on your own. So I want to go out so that I

  88. can go back to my friends home and then get the money back and

  89. come back and buy another ticket and travel.

  90. But he would not let me go out because I have the boarding

  91. pass. So I can't go out, I can't be

  92. in, I can't go forward. I stood there and said God, you

  93. are a God who makes a way where there is no way.

  94. I believe you now to open the way for me in the name of Jesus.

  95. After some time, one girl, one girl, she was very short and she

  96. came to me and said Sir, I believe you but I'll swipe my

  97. card for you but promise me you'll pay me the money back.

  98. I said sure 100% you will trust me.

  99. I'm not though I'm an Indian, I still get his passport, New

  100. Zealand passport and I stand by my passport.

  101. I'm an honest man and I will pay you back the money.

  102. And she goes inside and talks to the boss and boss comes out and

  103. he says OK I will swipe my card for you and you pay the money

  104. 100%. Yes I said 100% and he swiped

  105. the card and he gave me the ticket and it came down to it

  106. was supposed to be ₹6000 or ₹10,000 but it came down to only

  107. ₹2500 and why? Because he was not sure I am

  108. going to pay the full money S he bought it as tough price, staff

  109. price, lower price. What the concession they get the

  110. staff get the concession. So he bought me a ticket at

  111. staff price and when I landed there back in Coimbatore, I told

  112. my friend we had to pay the money S Google Pay.

  113. He transferred the money. We paid 3500 more.

  114. So he gave a call. Why did you pay more?

  115. I didn't spend so much. My friend wants you to have it

  116. because you helped him in a difficult time.

  117. This is just a brief explanation of what God can do.

  118. We, we can be in tight spot where there's no way.

  119. But God, our God is awesome God. He's a living 1.

  120. He opens a way where there's no way.

  121. He makes a way where there's no way.

  122. Let's say he makes a way where there's no way.

  123. So the chapter 14 is a key chapter that talks about the

  124. crossing of the Red Sea. Verses 1 to 4 is like a summary

  125. of the whole chapter. Again you revisit the chapter

  126. and more explanation comes into the rest of the chapter.

  127. But first of all was a says the Lord said to Moses, you know

  128. this is the most keyword is the Lord said to Moses.

  129. If we do not have that Lord speaking then we have no Red Sea

  130. opening. Remember revelation is the key.

  131. God's voice is the key for us to experience the miracles.

  132. Do you hear God when you are in a crisis?

  133. If you hear God, the miracle is going to happen, you will come

  134. out of the problem. God said to Moses that's very

  135. key tell the Israelites should turn back and in camp near π

  136. Hahirat between Migdal and the sea.

  137. I wanted to check out this geography and all that, but

  138. there's not enough time. One thing is for a long time

  139. people did not know where exactly these places are.

  140. And now modern research, modern archaeology.

  141. They you can go on YouTube and lookout just put Red Sea

  142. crossing. So many videos will come up

  143. where you will see divers going into the water and you see all

  144. the chariot wheels and axles that are falling on the bottom

  145. of the sea. You can see it now.

  146. So they are able to say this is the spot where they must have

  147. crossed. So you can you can follow it up

  148. and they are to encamp by the sea directly opposite Bal Zafan.

  149. He said turn back. The word they use is turn back.

  150. Why God said to turn back because he wanted to fool the

  151. Egyptians. So they were in a particular

  152. spot. He said, OK turn back, come to

  153. so and so spot where he when he when they came to that spot,

  154. what accent what exactly was happening was they were trapped

  155. by the sea on the one side and the Egyptian, Egyptians pursuing

  156. them on the other side. Does God lead you into trouble

  157. Sometimes If he leads you, he will also lead you out of the

  158. trouble. Remember when Jesus Christ

  159. himself, when he was baptized, he was filled with the Holy

  160. Spirit, driven by the Holy Spirit into wilderness for

  161. fasting and prayer for 40 days and 40 nights.

  162. The Holy Spirit will will drive you into problem and when He

  163. does it, He will also bring you out of the problem.

  164. God ordained fast. God ordained trouble.

  165. Sometimes will bring glory to God.

  166. That is how He leads. That is how He leads.

  167. Does it mean if you are a believer you will not have any

  168. trouble? Sometimes He will lead you into

  169. trouble, but when He leads you to trouble, no for sure He will

  170. bring you out of the trouble. Shall we shout Hallelujah?

  171. OK, Now turning back, the word everybody said turn back is a

  172. very important word in the Scriptures.

  173. You see many times when things have changed for good because it

  174. turned back. When Naomi came back with her

  175. daughter-in-law, Ruth, she turned back to Bethlehem because

  176. she heard there was bread in Bethlehem.

  177. She came back and you have a big story coming out of that.

  178. When you turn back, there is going to be a breakthrough.

  179. When you turn back to God, there is going to be a solution to

  180. your problem. When you turn back to God, the

  181. Red Sea is going to split for you.

  182. This whole Old Testament, you know when you look at different

  183. stories, they are very symbolic. Why they are symbolic?

  184. The Red Sea itself stands for Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

  185. Did anybody think about it as a Rishi was split, his body was

  186. split so that you can encounter God and see him.

  187. That screen that was hanging between the holy of holies and

  188. the holy holy place, the thick screen that no human can ever be

  189. able to lift it up. The heavy may be 6 inches or

  190. more, no light will penetrate it.

  191. And that was torn from the top of the top, from the top to the

  192. bottom, because an Angel of God and came and just cut through

  193. the screen. Why?

  194. Because the Holy of Holies is now exposed.

  195. Man can access God straight anymore.

  196. There's no barrier anymore. Jesus body was broken that we

  197. may receive revelation in his face.

  198. The revelation of God. The Red Sea stands for Jesus

  199. himself, He stands for Jesus himself, and Moses stands for

  200. the mediator. Like Jesus himself is a

  201. mediator. Moses is a type of Christ.

  202. His life gives us more understanding of Christ, what he

  203. does for us. He stands between God and man

  204. and He speaks for you. He is now seated, brother, and

  205. the Father is interceding for you.

  206. I tell you that should blow away every, every cloud over your

  207. life. Just to know that Jesus is

  208. praying for you should make you feel strong and face any

  209. situation, any situation because he seated by the right hand of

  210. the Father. He is seated by the right hand

  211. of the Father, now victorious over Sydney and Satan and he has

  212. defeated every enemy that is going to touch you.

  213. He has defeated the mall. Nothing.

  214. He did leave. He did not leave one more enemy

  215. to fight. Did not leave one more fight to

  216. fight. He finished it.

  217. That's why he shouted on the cross.

  218. It is finished. It is finished and the Red Sea

  219. stands for the cross because if Egypt stands for Satan, God loot

  220. Satan by the cross, it is a trap for him.

  221. We think that cross is a trap for Jesus Christ.

  222. No, it was a trap for the enemy, for Satan, because by that cross

  223. he defeated him and Satan thought he is going to have a

  224. strong hand, he is going to overpower the Son of God, he is

  225. going to defeat the Son of God. He is going to completely subdue

  226. the Son of God, but he did not know that he is going to be

  227. defeated by the same cross. And the Red Sea stands for the

  228. cross because Jesus Christ has not only the Lord not only

  229. defeated the whole Egyptian army, not one was left.

  230. That's what you see in the book in chapter 14 at the end of it

  231. says no one of them survived. That's the defeat is complete.

  232. No one survived after the cross. There is not one demon.

  233. There is no, no, no force of the darkness that can say I have not

  234. been touched by the cross, not the force can say it.

  235. No demon can say it, no principality, power, dominion

  236. can say that they are not defeated anymore.

  237. They know it well because when Crash worked on Earth, they came

  238. running and said have you come to destroy us before our time?

  239. Because they know that judged already.

  240. That Red Sea stands for the cross where the Satan is judged

  241. 100%. I tell you, you can't study the

  242. word and be untouched by the word.

  243. You are more than Congress. You are more than Congress.

  244. You don't have to look at Satan and shiver in your boots

  245. anymore. Why he has been defeated.

  246. The dragon, the old serpent is defeated, Satan our devil is

  247. defeated, Principalities, powers, rules of ducks are

  248. defeated, and wickedness High place is defeated.

  249. Snakes Coffin all the father enemy is defeated.

  250. That's the reason why if you understand the story of the Red

  251. Sea, you can stamp under your feet Snakes coffin all the

  252. father enemy. That is Gods purpose for you and

  253. me to trample down Snake Coffin all the father enemy.

  254. No sickness, no defeat, no loss of Job, no situation is going to

  255. destroy you anymore. They have no power to touch you.

  256. They have no power to touch you. And now he hardened the heart of

  257. Pharaoh to pursue Israel. Israel.

  258. He came to 600 of his best Chariots and many other Chariots

  259. and soldiers and swords and everything.

  260. But what was happening was there was a pillar of cloud by day,

  261. pillar of fire by night that was standing there.

  262. And when they came nearby, the people of which they looked at

  263. Egyptians said, why have you brought us here there?

  264. Are there no enough graves in Egypt that you brought us here

  265. to kill us in this place? You want to make graves for us

  266. in this place. I tell you that is a language of

  267. unbelief. There's a language of not

  268. knowing who your God is. There's a language of forgetting

  269. your past experiences. You forgot God is giving you so

  270. many miracles. He did how He set you free by

  271. sending the 10th place. You forgot it.

  272. He has accomplished a salvation with His mighty hand.

  273. We forget it so quickly. We have amnesia, forgetfulness,

  274. spiritual forgetfulness, we forget what God has done.

  275. Look at your own life now, the all your past and you will see

  276. Gods hand so many times rescuing you, providing for you, opening

  277. the way for you, because he is the living God.

  278. So in verse 1211 it says they said to Moses, was it because

  279. there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the

  280. desert to die? What have you done to us by

  281. bringing us out of Egypt? Didn't we say to you in Egypt,

  282. Leave us alone, let us show the Egyptians.

  283. I tell you that is a spirit of the world, governing,

  284. controlling the human nature. When I don't know where I have

  285. written it now in my notes, I will come back to it.

  286. So here it is. Didn't we say to you in Egypt,

  287. leave us alone? They didn't want, they did not

  288. want to come out. How many of us really wanted to

  289. be saved? No, we did not want to be saved.

  290. We resist the grace of God. We resist the revelation of

  291. Christ. We did not want to be saved, but

  292. He saved us in spite of it. And how many of us want to go

  293. back? How many of us want to go back?

  294. We want to sin and enjoy sin. And just like a swine, just like

  295. the pigs, they like to wallow in the mud.

  296. We have gone, I have gone, but God is still merciful.

  297. He wants to bring, bring us out, basically.

  298. So I return down here. I want to ask a question this

  299. morning. What is your Red Sea in life?

  300. What is your Red Sea? I want you to cross, walk

  301. through the Red Sea in your life and go to the other side.

  302. What is the Red Sea in your life?

  303. You look at the Red Sea and make some proclamation, make some

  304. declaration, Say to the Red Sea. I identify your Red Sea and say

  305. to it, I am not afraid of you. You will give way to me.

  306. I will go through you successfully, since my Lord will

  307. make a way where there is no way.

  308. Look at your problem this morning, look at his eyes and

  309. say, I am not threatened by you. I am not afraid of you.

  310. I am not defeated by you. Why?

  311. Because God is my Savior. So shall we say I am not afraid

  312. of you. In your mind, hold that problem

  313. that is threatening you and tell that problem I am not afraid of

  314. you. Say you will give way to me.

  315. Say it loud, you will give way to me.

  316. I will go through you successfully since my Lord will

  317. break a way where there is no way.

  318. Guys, there has to be conviction when you say it.

  319. OK, I want to hear it loud and clear this time.

  320. Let's do it again. I will go through you

  321. successfully since my Lord will break a way where there is no

  322. way. You will be on the other side

  323. before the end of the day. The Lord is not surprised by

  324. your impossible situations. A believer stature is formed not

  325. in comfortable places, but by passing through the Red Sea

  326. where only God can help and save.

  327. Your stature is proportional to the enemy you overcome, just

  328. like by killing a Goliath. Small David stature increase

  329. more bigger than the size of a Goliath inspired.

  330. It inspired a whole nation and many generations.

  331. It triggers every child's imagination and every seasoned

  332. Christian warrior. What is your experience?

  333. What is your experience of Red Sea?

  334. Has the Red Sea swallowed you or have you crossed through the Red

  335. Sea? That destiny of being swallowed

  336. is for the Pharaoh and his army. It is for the devil and his

  337. foreign angels. It is not for us, not for us.

  338. We are more than Congress. Let us declare it.

  339. We are more than Congress mindset of the devil.

  340. How do you know how devil thinks?

  341. There is a poet by name John Milton and he wrote Paradise

  342. Lost in the book 1 he says the the devil is encouraging the

  343. fallen angels. What is he telling to them?

  344. He says it is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.

  345. It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.

  346. And what is the believer going to do?

  347. Believers are not having a mind. They also have their own

  348. mindset. They should have a believers who

  349. are not having the spirit to overcome.

  350. Have a mindset, keep the status quo and serve the devil.

  351. What they were telling Moses. Why did you bring us from there?

  352. Did you not tell you we want to be in Egypt?

  353. Did you not tell you we are happy there?

  354. Why did you bring us from there? That is the mindset of the devil

  355. which has overtaken the minds of the believers.

  356. It is like Peter saying 1 moment he says you are the son of the

  357. living God and next time when he says son of man will betrayed,

  358. he will be crucified, he will be raised up.

  359. On the third day he pray takes him behind to the side and says

  360. no this is not going to happen to you.

  361. It is not going to happen to you.

  362. That is the mind of the devil. That's the reason why Jesus can

  363. see through the Peters heart and say you devil, get behind me.

  364. We ought to be having that those kind of moments.

  365. We have to have those kind of moments.

  366. The mindset of believer should be why should I tolerate what

  367. Jesus my Lord has defeated? What should be our mindset?

  368. Why should I tolerate what Jesus has defeated?

  369. That should be our mindset. What they see is the Egyptian

  370. army, what God promised his deliverance.

  371. When we focus on the army, fear takes over our hearts.

  372. Moses said stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.

  373. Learning to stand still is not easy.

  374. Learning to stand still is not easy.

  375. This distinguishes a strong believer from a baby Christian.

  376. How do you know you are a strong Christian when you are not

  377. terrified by the enemy, When you feel not defeated?

  378. Before you go through the whole problem, you already feel

  379. defeated. No, we are not those kind of

  380. people. We had to be standing straight

  381. and standing still is not something new.

  382. You will see through the scriptures many places.

  383. When Jehoshaphat had to fight the army, what did he say to the

  384. army? Stand still and see the solution

  385. of God. You don't have to do anything.

  386. You don't have to lift your sword and kill an enemy.

  387. They will be killed before you kill them, before you fight

  388. them, they are finished. And the Red Sea stands for many

  389. things in the Scripture. One of the things is it stands

  390. for the baptism. They when they walked through

  391. the Red Sea, they were all baptized into Moses and into the

  392. cloud. They are baptized into Moses and

  393. the cloud that followed them. Red Sea experience can be

  394. compared to baptism. 1 Corresis 10 verses one and two.

  395. Secondly, Red Sea stands for death to self and a new

  396. identity. Death to self and a new

  397. identity. When you go through the Red Sea,

  398. you come out on the other side. You have a new identity.

  399. You were slaves in Egypt. Set free and you cross the Red

  400. Sea. You walk into your promised

  401. land, the liberty, the blessing of God, promises of God.

  402. So that is what God wants you to enjoy today.

  403. I could have told a story like in a Sunday school, but I

  404. thought I will not do that. I want to give you some meat

  405. this morning. I want to give you some strong

  406. food S that you will become and become mighty soldiers for God.

  407. That's my purpose, basically a demand to forget the past.

  408. Thirdly, stands for walking by faith.

  409. Hebrews 11/29 says by faith the people pass through the Red Sea

  410. as on dry land, but when Egyptians tried to do so, they

  411. were drowned. The Red Sea is a blessing to the

  412. Israelites, but a curse to the Egyptians.

  413. It's salvation to the Israelites but destruction for Egypt.

  414. The cross is salvation to the Sinner, but the destruction for

  415. the devil and his foreign angels.

  416. That is how it is my friends, all over the Scripture you see

  417. God salvation coming through and they will being judged every

  418. time. Let your life save you and judge

  419. the devil and condemn him because that is the that is the

  420. inheritance of the Saints. That's your inheritance in Jesus

  421. Christ. He wants you to be victorious.

  422. He wants you to walk in power. Victory over enemies, Victory of

  423. Jesus Christ over sin and death. Egyptian drowning of the

  424. Egyptian army is compared to Christ victory over spiritual

  425. forces. Christ victory over spiritual

  426. force. How do we know the this is just

  427. a story? It is embedded in human

  428. experience. Experience of 1 nation called

  429. Israelites. The Hebrews and their story is

  430. the story of Jesus and your life story is the story of Jesus.

  431. Your testimony, it has power. So don't underestimate your

  432. testimony. What is your experience of

  433. Christ? Open your mouth or share.

  434. It is going to touch somebody's heart.

  435. Go touch somebody's heart. Exodus 1411 and verses 11 and

  436. 12. It says here after 400 years of

  437. living in Egypt, they are not one or two years.

  438. They lived there for 400 years and they became slaves in Egypt.

  439. After 400 years of Egypt, Egypt became a part of DNF Israelites.

  440. It became a part of DNA. They have Egypt in their nose.

  441. They have Egypt in their flesh. They have Egypt with their

  442. emotions. And now listen to me.

  443. Christians may deny they still carry old DNA into their

  444. present. No, no, no.

  445. I have a believer. Nothing of the old is there in

  446. me anymore. No, no, no, after we are born

  447. again, when the old life pulls us strongly, it stops us from

  448. making a jump of faith. When we forget the pain and the

  449. lessons we learned, particularly when we want to go back to the

  450. old things we left behind and the attraction becomes too

  451. strong. Brothers and sisters, we have

  452. the DNA strongly embedded in US. The garlic, the onions, the

  453. leeks and the fish satisfy just that moment.

  454. That's why we need to hear the voice of the one who said man

  455. shall not leave a bread alone. But by every word that pushes in

  456. the mouth of God that this DNA of all life because weak and

  457. fades away in proportion to obedience to the Lord and being

  458. set on fire with His will for life.

  459. The old DNA must go up into flames and be blown away by the

  460. wind like this ashes on altar. The Red Sea will reveal what

  461. sounds like Egyptian us. The Red Sea will reveal what

  462. sounds like Egyptian us. When you go through problem,

  463. whether you still have old life in you, that will reveal verses

  464. 13 and 14. Moses answered the people do not

  465. be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the

  466. deliverance the Lord will bring you today.

  467. Egyptians you see today you will never see again.

  468. The Lord will fight for you. You need only to be still.

  469. You need only to be still. You don't need to work hard.

  470. Its not about striving, its not about working too hard, its not

  471. about taking up the sword and fighting the enemy.

  472. No, you just need to stand still.

  473. Everybody say stand still, is it easy job is not easy job because

  474. we are striving, always wanting to fix it, panicking, worrying.

  475. You need only to be still. Stop worrying, stop striving,

  476. stop panicking, stop fixing. You want to fix immediately, you

  477. want to fix. We need to stop that.

  478. Be still. Not acting out of fear or panic,

  479. but standing in faith some for 6/10 says be still and know that

  480. I am God. That's the best word in the

  481. whole of the Bible. Be still and know that I am God.

  482. We need to become still. Second Chronicles 20 and verse

  483. 17. You will not have to fight this

  484. battle. Take up your position, stand

  485. firm and see the deliverance the Lord will give you.

  486. Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid, do not be

  487. discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow and

  488. the Lord will be with you. That's a prophecy by Jahaziel to

  489. Judah and King Joshabad. And in Ephesians 613 therefore

  490. take up the whole armour of God, that you may be able to

  491. withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm,

  492. to stand firm, to stand still. And in Isaiah 79 it says if you

  493. do not stand firm, you will not stand at all.

  494. If you don't learn to stand still and see God's power, we

  495. won't stand at all. We need to learn to stand firm

  496. and faith requires stability. Faith requires stability.

  497. We need to learn to be stable. Moses stretched out his hand.

  498. You see that three times in this chapter 14, verse 21, verse 26,

  499. verse 27, Moses stretched out his hand.

  500. How? Why did he do it?

  501. Because God commanded stretch out your hand.

  502. What is meant by stretching out your hand?

  503. Have you asked this question? What is meant by stretching out

  504. your hand? You are releasing the authority

  505. of God. You are releasing the promise of

  506. God. You are releasing the power of

  507. God when you stretch out your hand.

  508. Why do we touch people when we pray for people?

  509. Because we want God's power to be released into them for

  510. healing, for restoration, for hope to build.

  511. We touch, stretch out a hand. When you stretch your hand, you

  512. are releasing the mighty power of God.

  513. And when He took the staff in his hand, the stands of the

  514. authority of God, and you enforce the authority of God in

  515. the situation that is drowning, threatening you to drown,

  516. threatening to drown you. You stretch that staff, the

  517. authority of God on the problem that is threatening you, and it

  518. will subdue, it will be subdued before you.

  519. In Psalm 23 it says Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

  520. Thy rod stands for the staff that Moses carried and stretched

  521. on the Red Sea, and it split before it.

  522. God caused the east wind to blow on that sea all night, and there

  523. was the sea split into two. Left side is a wall of water,

  524. the right side is a wall of water.

  525. How this wind was blowing and separating the water at the same

  526. time without being blown away? People walked on it.

  527. That's a miracle. If the wind is blowing 300 miles

  528. an hour, can you stand? And I'm sure it was more

  529. powerful than that. The wind was more powerful than

  530. that to drive the water and make a way, but yet when the people

  531. walked they did was they were not falling down because of the

  532. wind speed. That is a miracle.

  533. That is a miracle. So Moser, stretch out his hand

  534. and I, we had to learn to stretch out a hand on problems

  535. of threatening us. We have to stretch out a hand.

  536. When you stretch out a hand, you are proclaiming to the Satan,

  537. you are proclaiming the situation to the devil and of

  538. the fallen angels that they are defeated.

  539. They are defeated and they are going to be subdued and you are

  540. going to come through the waters on the other end successfully,

  541. safely because you are enforcing the authority of God.

  542. We have to learn to walk to the Red Sea all of our life.

  543. We are going to learn. It's not one day.

  544. Every day you see a situation, every day you see a problem.

  545. Every day you see some kind of some something that's

  546. threatening you. You must learn to stretch out a

  547. hand and say in the name of Jesus, who has overcome you, who

  548. has defeated you. I come on that things will cease

  549. to threaten me anymore. They are going to fall flat

  550. before me. You are going to give my you.

  551. You will give me way because Jesus has defeated you.

  552. It is hard job. Standing still is hard job.

  553. And then you see here when we cross through the Red Sea, we

  554. leave behind the past life, the abusers, we suffer, addictions,

  555. we were enslaved, consequences of past life chasing us, threats

  556. of our enemies and the devil that entice us to return.

  557. We just leave behind. You will not see the past

  558. anymore as Jesus Christ dealt with all that stuff and they

  559. cannot rule over us anymore. The dominion is broken, we are

  560. free. Pinch yourself and tell yourself

  561. I am free, I am free. Pinch yourself, you can't

  562. believe it, say I am free. I want to end with the story of

  563. a lady called Corit and Boom. Have you heard her name Corit

  564. and Boom? When you go home, put it in the

  565. YouTube Corit and Boom and you will come across a little

  566. little. They made a movie out of a

  567. biography hiding place. And when that family, Boom

  568. family decided to shelter the Jewish people during the Second

  569. World War, they were Gestapo. One day came to know that these

  570. people are sheltering people. They came, raided them and

  571. arrested them and put them in the concentration camp.

  572. And the living conditions were so bad that Betsy, her sister

  573. died because of sickness. And before she died, what she

  574. said is Betsy death. Cory was suddenly Betsy

  575. prophesied. We must tell people that no

  576. matter how deep the darkness Gods love is deeper still got us

  577. deeper still. Those words were echoing in the

  578. mind of Koritan boom. And she survived that

  579. constitution camp and one day she was released after Bitsy's

  580. death, very suddenly she was released because of a clerical

  581. error. They made a mistake of who

  582. should be released. Somehow there was a mistake and

  583. they came and said, OK, you're going now.

  584. And they released her. God comes through, makes people

  585. make a mistake and made her to be released from the from the,

  586. from the prospect of being put to death.

  587. And then while they were in the in the, in the concentration

  588. camp, they smuggled a Bible with them all the number of months

  589. and years they were in the inside that concentration camp.

  590. Their Bible was never discovered by the Gestapo or anybody.

  591. They had the Bible and they secretly read it and they

  592. started praying for people and they started having lot of women

  593. in the concentration camp coming to know the Lord and they had

  594. worship services in in the jail inside the concentration camp.

  595. Can that happen when the Red Sea is threatening you?

  596. God makes a way through the Red Sea.

  597. He makes a way through the Red Sea.

  598. And then what happened? They held worship services in

  599. the barracks. Women came to crash.

  600. Hope spread in a place designed to crush hope.

  601. Where there was darkness, light came where there was complete

  602. darkness. And then she was set free.

  603. And when she came out, she became a global ambassador for

  604. forgiveness. She had to preach forgiveness.

  605. But those people who tormented her finished off her family.

  606. She had to forgive them and she had to.

  607. She preached this message of forgiveness, which is validated

  608. by her own experience, the cross.

  609. The message of the cross is so powerful.

  610. It becomes more powerful because of your experience.

  611. When you speak, because you have gone through the Red Sea, it

  612. becomes more powerful. Red Sea experience is never

  613. wasted in your life. When He takes you through the

  614. Red Sea, it is never wasted. It is for His glory.

  615. She preached reconciliation in more than 60 countries.

  616. That's almost 1/4 of the world she visited and preached.

  617. She forgave the gods who tortured her.

  618. She carried the message that God delivers even through death.

  619. This morning I just want you to encourage you that do not shut

  620. your heart to the Red Sea. Don't say I don't want to go

  621. through Red Sea, don't say I want to go through Red Sea

  622. either. But when it happens, be strong,

  623. be still, and know that he is God.

  624. Shall we pray? Thank you Jesus, thank you,

  625. Jesus, Thank you Jesus for your word, my Father, in the name of

  626. Jesus. Let these words comfort your

  627. children. Encourage your children, build

  628. their faith, make them strong and make them overcome us.

  629. Make them my father like King David who has killed the

  630. Goliath. I pray make them my father like

  631. King Joshua. Without even fighting, they won

  632. the war. Make your children know the

  633. power of staying still and seeing your mighty power come

  634. through and split the sea for them.

  635. What is what is in my heart? There's something that you have

  636. gone through that is too much for you to bear, too much for

  637. you to bear. And you're saying why, why, why

  638. did I have to go through it? I want to pray for you this

  639. morning if you come in the front.

  640. Because God wants to set you free from your Red Sea.

  641. He wants you to take the other side of the Red Sea.

  642. He wants to disconnect your past from your future.

  643. He wants to disconnect your past from your present.

  644. He wants to heal the abuse you have suffered.

  645. Whatever you have gone through, difficult situations.

  646. He wants to put that nail Pierce hand on your heart and heal your

  647. heart. If somebody says now it's too

  648. much for me to bear, but I want God to touch me, just stand up

  649. and come to the front. We want to pray for you because

  650. Jesus wants to heal you. You have to believe.

  651. You have to believe and take your freedom.

  652. You have to believe and cross through the Red Sea.

  653. You have to believe and walk through your victory.

  654. You have to believe, you have to believe.

  655. The darkness is going, it is defeated, its defeated, its

  656. defeated, its defeated. Darkness cannot have power over

  657. you anymore. Shahasseh Sarano maba haste

  658. Santa Rana Kasaroni Risha Rahastako cinema Rahaste

  659. Sastakoroni. No army shall stand before you,

  660. Jesus said. I see set and fall like

  661. lightning from heaven to earth. And we need to be in that place.

  662. We need to be in that place. We need to be in that place

  663. where we can be with the disciples and see set and fall

  664. like lightning. And I tell you, he has been done

  665. with, dealt with, He is defeated, He is defeated, His

  666. dominance is broken, His rule is broken, and Jesus Christ has set

  667. you free. You have to believe it.

  668. If any spirit is stopping you from believing your freedom, say

  669. in the name of Jesus, I go free. Now we praise the Lord again,

  670. Father, we thank you for your presence.

  671. We thank for your voice. Thank you, Lord, for taking us

  672. by hand and walking us through the Red Sea.

  673. We worship you. We ascribe dominant authority,

  674. power, glory unto you. Holy are your Father, Holy are

  675. Jesus. Holy are holy.

  676. Ghost. You are holy.

  677. You are holy. You are holy.

  678. You are holy. You are holy.

  679. We praise you Jesus. Jesus.

  680. Mighty name. Amen.

  681. Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.

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