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Divine Deliverance | James Kline
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by any stretch of the imagination, but I enjoy tinkering around with it.
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It's sort of a stress reliever for me and I tend to like gravitate towards towards stuff that I just really enjoy playing.
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And one of the things I enjoy playing is some like old sort of like blues old, old blues chord progressions or riffs.
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And often when I'm with around a campfire or with friends, if I start playing a certain blues riff or somebody will turn to me and be like, hey, I know that song.
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What is that song?
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And what happens is, is this certain chord progression is actually used in a lot of old, old, more blue style songs, songs, and so I can't, like I can't really tell them, hey, it's this specific song, but I'm sure that they've heard it in one in an oldie song at some point.
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Yeah Well, I'm going to be talking about today is sort of along holds this idea as well, that in the Old Testament how many of you guys have heard of the idea of the scarlet thread throughout the, throughout the Old Testament, familiar with that term?
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Ok, so we see, when we read, as we read through the Old Testament, we see time and time again stories of God saving His people, of God redeeming His people, bringing them out of, rescuing them from evil or from danger.
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And this idea is almost is ultimately fulfilled in Jesus on the cross, through His blood.
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And today we're going to be looking at one of those stories that, if you hear it, you'll be like hey, that sounds familiar.
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Where have I heard that before?
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And it's this, this, this theme of God's salvation and His renewing His people, that ultimately finds its fulfillment in Jesus.
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Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10,.
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He says, for I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
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All were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
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What does he mean by that?
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We're going to be looking at the story of the Red Sea crossing today, of God delivering His people, bringing them through the Red Sea and defeating Pharaoh and his armies today, and ultimately, we'll be ending up in the New Testament and looking at how that, that theme, is ultimately found, finds its its, its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus on the cross, and and how that applies for us today.
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So back in Exodus, chapter 13,.
Exodus 13 chapter mention
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We've been, I've been preaching through Exodus over the past I don't probably six months, and we've just been following God.
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What God has been doing in the story of the Israelites who were enslaved in Egypt, ultimately were Pharaoh had had had enslaved them, had used them as slave labor, and God rescues them from Egypt.
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Last time we looked at at the, the tenth plague, the Passover, and how God struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, of the of of the Egyptians, and how that they ultimately left Egypt.
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So now we catch up with them in chapter 13.
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I'm going to see what God does for his people as they're fleeing Egypt.
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Egypt has been completely decimated.
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They've lost all their livestock, all their, their, their crops, their firstborn sons, and now Israel is headed far away.
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Moses is leading them All right.
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Exodus 13,.
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Picking up in verse 17.
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I'm going to be reading large portions of of of scripture here and then and then going back and making some comments on it.
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So verse 17,.
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When Pharaoh let the people go, god did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near.
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For God said lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.
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But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea.
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And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.
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Moses took the bones of Pharaoh, of Joseph, with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying God will surely visit you and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.
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And they moved on from Sucath and encamped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness, and the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light that they might travel by day and by night.
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The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people we see as a couple of things here to note.
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First of all, this pillar of cloud and of fire.
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I've noticed in gas stations recently that there are a lot of times, especially the marathon stations, will have a little bin of solar eclipse glasses that you can buy for like three bucks.
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And so on April the eighth, maybe there's a total solar eclipse planned or worse, I guess, happening from what I've heard.
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I guess God has planned it and it's sort of a big deal Like.
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I don't know if I've ever seen it.
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I think the day that I was born in Paraguay there happened to be a complete solar eclipse.
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I hope that has some significance for my life, but the idea is that when, when, when things happen in the heavens that are out of the ordinary, it is for all of time people have pointed to things happening that are out of the ordinary in the heavens, as the hand of God or the work of God or the gods, and this was clearly something that was out of the ordinary.
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This was a pillar of cloud during the day and it had their attention.
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I think for Moses and for the Israelites, this had to be a great, great source of comfort.
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Moses, he had called the children of Israel out of Egypt and he was leading them, but for him to say you know what?
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This is, not just me.
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Look at the cloud, god is is leading us.
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God is leading you, says, but God led the people around the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea.
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One of the questions that has been interesting for me to look at is what was the route that Israel took out of Egypt and what?
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Where did they actually cross?
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Where did they cross the Red Sea.
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So we can see, we know I actually I have a picture of a map here.
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I don't know if that up.
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Chris, if you could pull up the projector, that would be great.
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We know that they didn't go the way of the Philistines.
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The way the Philistines was the northern, the northern route, and there's there's actually a lot of debate around around where exactly the Israelites went after they left Egypt, where they crossed, and what route they took to the Promised Land.
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Of course, thank you.
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Okay, I'm not sure what's going on.
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My apologies.
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Actually, if you guys have your phones, pull out your phones.
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Pull out Google Maps, if you don't mind.
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All right, I mean, I have.
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This is just a picture.
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Ok, sounds good.
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Is that what you want, right there?
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Oh, ok.
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Let me just try that.
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I got it.
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Ok, you got it, chris.
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To the rescue.
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I'm always amazed at his his ability to just roll with the punches.
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In the meantime, pull out your phones, go to Google Maps and search Egypt.
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Ok, chris, if you could pull that in a little bit closer.
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So, up there to the, to the, that is the top little green triangle up there of green is sort of the Nile Delta, and Goshen was where the Israelites would have would have been living in.
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Sort of the right side of that triangle was where they were at.
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Zoom out a little bit further, chris.
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So there's a lot of debate on as to where they actually went after they left Egypt and there's sort of there's two sort of main theories, chris.
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If you could zoom out even a little bit further and catch the, the two golfs there right there, perfect, okay, in a little bit more, thank you, okay.
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So one one theory is that, okay, on the bottom, that the large body water on the bottom is what we know as the Red Sea today and it's got two little fingers the left finger is a golf of Suez and the, the the right finger is a golf of akaba.
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So the sort of the traditional theory is that they would have left Egypt North of that that left finger and crossed right in there somewhere.
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The problem is is that in our, our bibles, when it, when it reads the Red Sea, in Hebrew the word is actually the sea of reeds, and that got translated the Red Sea into into our English through the Greek translation of the Old Testament.
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So the, the sea of reeds, that can that could mean a certain body of water, like a specific body of water, or it could mean Like a body of water that has a bunch of reeds in it, and so there's there's a lot of questions as to where this actually was.
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So the product, that sort of the traditional theory, is that they crossed north of that left finger, there a little bit, there's there's a couple linkage, like there a couple of lakes that are there, or that they cross south of there, right right over that that left finger, the golf of Suez, and then made their way From there down to Mount Sinai in the Sinai peninsula Down, and then ended up in the promise land.
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The other theory is that they actually the Red Sea crossing happened on the right side, right in the northern tip of that of the Gulf of Aqaba somewhere in there.
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My point, I guess, is, in showing this is that this is something that that that Is is a real place today and it's a place that that we can go to.
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We don't know exactly where it happened, but this isn't just a a story out of Out of our Bible story books.
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This is a real place with real people with real struggles, just like you and me, and what's amazing to me is that God, god's hand, is so moved so powerfully in this story, in a real place, just like this on Google Maps.
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So, going back to back to our scriptures here and just keep that, that up there for now, chris, he says in verse 20 says they they move from Sakath and encamped at Ethan, on the edge of the wilderness they had lived for 400 plus years in that green triangle is some of the most, the world's most fertile fertile like farmland and Now God was asking them to leave that.
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This is home for for many of them, for four generations, and you can see the stark contrast between the wilderness and the land of Egypt.
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Now God is calling them to go out into that brown, barren wasteland, and I'm sure they had questions.
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Okay, so going to verse chapter 14 now, of Exodus, exodus 14.
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Then the Lord said to Moses tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of pihira, between Mighdal and the sea, in front of Bal Zephan you shall encamp, facing it by the sea.
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For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, they are wandering in the land, the wilderness has shut them in, and I will harden Pharaoh's heart and he will pursue them and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host.
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Just pausing there, real quick, keep that word glory in your minds, sort of in the back of your minds, until a little bit later.
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And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.
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And they did so.
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When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people and they said what is this?
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We have done that we have let Israel go from serving us.
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So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him and took 600 chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.
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And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
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He pursued the people of Israel.
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While the people of Israel were going out defiantly.
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The Egyptians pursued them all, pharaoh's horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them and camped at the sea by piha hi-rath in front of Bal Zephan.
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When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them and they feared greatly.
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And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord Just pause right there.
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So the children of Israel, following Moses and following God's presence, that the pillar of cloud during the day, pillar of fire at night, and God turns them around and and has them camp at the edge of the of a sea.
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Now, we're not exactly sure where exactly that was.
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There's a couple different options there, but this was a large body of water and At by now, the king of Pharaoh has heard that they're out there wandering around somewhere and and now the dust has sort of settled they had just lost all their firstborn sons and he says you know what?
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We need to get those people back here.
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Now imagine, imagine that you are out in this group of people wandering around, you've camped by the sea, you have your family, your children with you and All of a sudden you look off in the distance, and in the distance, on the horizon.
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You see this large cloud of dust billowing and Pretty soon you hear rumors of, of a talk of hey, this is that's Pharaoh's army coming.
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Imagine the fear you must have felt.
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Now I was, I was thinking a little bit about From Pharaoh's perspective, what it was, what it was like.
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So Pharaoh is coming and his whole army.
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They are very, very angry.
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How many of you remember where you were at on 9 11?
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Okay, I was in second grade and they had to show me a picture of the twin towers and the encyclopedia, because I didn't.
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I didn't Know what it was, but it was a.
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I remember the first.
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What was the feeling that you felt on that day?
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Anybody, you sort of fear, okay, and I'd say that was probably the same for for almost everybody in America.
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There was a sense of fear.
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The after the reality sort of sank in.
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Maybe over the coming weeks, that feeling of fear for most Americans turned into livid anger and we ended up starting two wars In pursuit of this.
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I guess, fulfilling this anger towards the injustice that had happened.
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Pharaoh, I think, is maybe feeling the same thing.
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He had just lost All his entire economy, all of his livestock, all of his crops and now all of their firstborn sons.
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He lost his son.
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His whole army probably lost a son.
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Maybe there was missing, missing army buddies who, who had died because they were firstborn sons too.
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So this army is coming and they are.
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They are angry and they are determined to either enslave the children of Israel again or just wipe them out.
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And naturally that the children of Israel know this and they're like okay, we are in trouble, we're trapped and there's nowhere to go.
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How do they respond?
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In verse 11 he says they said to Moses is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness?
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What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt?
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Is not this what we said to you in Egypt Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians, for it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.
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They had, the children of Israel had just witnessed some of the most amazing acts of God in Egypt the 10 plagues.
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They had been delivered miraculously, and now they are.
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They're wondering what is going to happen.
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I think for myself and for a lot of us.
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We know we've seen God work in our lives, we've seen, we know what it's like to experience God's salvation and His rescue.
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But so often, when we get into a pinch or into a bind or we face hardship, I think we often respond how the children of Israel did here.
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Our first reaction is to doubt that God will actually protect us or watch over us.
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Our first response is like God, I know you've done it before, but now this is where you're just going to let me go, this is where you're going to abandon us.
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What does Moses say?
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He says fear not.
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Stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today.
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For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again, the Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.
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So they find themselves trapped.
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Pharaoh's army is coming and they are completely out of options, and Moses tells them just stand back.
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You don't have to do anything, just wait, be silent.
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God has got this.
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I don't know about you all, but when I feel like I'm trapped in life, when I feel like I am up against the sea and there's nowhere to go, I spend all of my time I tend to spend all of my time trying to figure out what's my exit route here?
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How am I going to get out of this situation?
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How am I going to be rescued?
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But God tells us just be silent, just wait on me, like I have you.
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I've rescued you before, I'll rescue you again.
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And the question, obviously, that you're thinking is like well, what if I don't get rescued?
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What if something really bad happens to me?
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And that is the question that we do wrestle with and struggle with, but ultimately we need only to be silent and wait on God.
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The Lord will fight for you.
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The Lord said to Moses why do you cry to me?
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Tell the people of Israel to go forward, lift up your staff, stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it.
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But the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground and I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his hosts, his chariots and his horsemen, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.
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When I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen, then the angel of God who was going before the hosts of Israel moved and went behind them and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.
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We see God's presence moving from the front of them to the back of them, where he gets between the armies of Egypt and Israel.
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Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the Lord drove back the sea by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land and the waters were divided and the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
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What do you guys picture when you read that?
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We have pictures in our minds of what this must have looked like from maybe from Sunday school books, to maybe movies, to pictures, to whatever.
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But to actually be there and to experience this, to see, like I picture, lake Erie, to see Lake Erie divided into two walls of water with a clear, dry path in the middle to walk through.
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It's almost so hard for me to picture that, but this is what we're told happened.
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God splits the water miraculously and Moses and the Israelites walk through.
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We see verse 23,.
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The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots and his horsemen and in the morning watch, the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into panic, clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily.
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And the Egyptians said let us flee from before Israel, for the Lord fights for them, against the Egyptians.
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We notice here it's not the Israelites fighting, it's the Lord fighting on their behalf.
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Then the Lord said to Moses stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and upon their horsemen.
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So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared and as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.
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The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the hosts of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea.
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Not one of them remained.
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But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
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They hadn't, they didn't.
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We had the luxury of seeing how this story ended.
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But imagine taking your little family taking that first step into the, into that dry ground, and seeing this mountain of water on your on the right, left and on your right hand side, and we know God held the water back, but they, they didn't.
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They saw it and they moved forward in faith and probably fear.
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But God held the waters back and the Israelites walked through and when they crossed the other side, god brought the waters back together and destroyed the, the armies of Egypt and Pharaoh, the.
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Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
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Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians so that the people feared the Lord and they believed in the Lord and in his servant, moses, amen.
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This event was the.
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The birth story was one of the foundational birth stories of of Israel as a nation.
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They came to the Red Sea as runaway slaves, fleeing Pharaoh and Egypt, and when they crossed to the other side, they were a new nation.
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They no longer were in bondage.
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Their identity was no longer as slaves that were running away.
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Their identity was as a new nation with a new king.
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Pharaoh was no longer their ruler.
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God was.
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God was their ruler.
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I think the analogy of this event of the Red Sea rescue.
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For us today is a powerful picture of what God has done for us through Jesus, of how he has rescued us.
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Apostle Paul, going back to 1 Corinthians 10, he says they were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
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The Israelites had followed Moses out of Egypt.
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They had gone to the Red Sea.
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They crossed the Red Sea following Moses and they followed him all the way to the Mount Sinai and eventually to the Promised Land.
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They completely cast their lot in with Moses.
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They were all in the picture of them entering the water, the sea and coming out on the other side as a new creation, as a new nation, is the picture for us today of what God has done in our lives through salvation and through the new birth.
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For us today, for you and me, if you've experienced the salvation that is through Jesus and his blood, you know what it's like to go from bondage to sin and to Satan, experiencing the new birth through Jesus' blood and the cross and coming out the waters of baptism as a new creation, a new creature.
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You and I, we were once in bondage to sin and our ruler was Satan, but on the cross Jesus took the whole sins of the world, all the sins, the bondage that we were in, the bondage of the whole world, and he absorbed it within himself and he took the sins of the world upon himself and he paid the price to set us free.
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It was his blood that was shed on the cross that saves us, that covers our sins and sets us free from the bondage of Satan, and it's through his blood and resurrection that he has raised us to be a new creation, to be part of his new kingdom, to go from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of Jesus.
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We're no longer slaves, we're sons now, sons and daughters of Jesus.
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We're not Satan's property, we're God's children.
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And today the new birth through Jesus and baptism serves as our birth story, as our foundational story of going from slavery to a new existence, a new creation in Jesus.
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Paul says in Romans 6, go ahead and turn to that, please.
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Romans 6, 1-4.
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I think Paul, as he spoke about the reality of the new birth and of baptism, I think he alludes to this event in some way.
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At least there's similar themes.
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It's almost like that certain song riff that sounds familiar.
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When you read this it's like, hey, we just read about this.
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What shall we say then?
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Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
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By no means.
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How can we who died to sin still live in it?
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Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ?
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Jesus were baptized into his death.
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We were buried, therefore, with him, by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
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Our sins were buried, just like the Egyptian armies.
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Pharaoh was buried in the sea, completely submerged and destroyed.
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When you accepted Jesus as your Lord and as your Savior.
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When you do that, your sins are washed away.
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They're buried and utterly destroyed In order that, as Christ was raised from the dead, we know that Jesus, he rose again.
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When we experience a death that comes through salvation, we are raised again with him into a new creation that we may walk in newness of life.
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The Israelites would have to learn from here what it meant to walk as a new people.
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They were used to being slaves.
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For 400 years they were slaves, and now, on the other side of the Red Sea, they would spend the next 40 years learning to walk as to walk in newness of life, learning what it meant to be children of God, not slaves anymore, for us today.
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We say my sins have been washed away, I've been forgiven, I'm a new person.
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Why do I still struggle with sin?
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Why am I still tempted?
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Why do I fail sometimes?
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We're going to see in the future that Israel deals with the same thing too.
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They're no longer slaves, but slavery has been so embedded and ingrained in them that they have to learn what it means to walk as children of God in a new kingdom and a new reality.
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And that's what it's like for us today.
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As believers, we have died to sin.
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We are walking in newness of life, but we are learning at the same time what it means to walk in that reality.
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There's a song that we sing from time to time, called it Is Finished.
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That, I think, sums up what happened here so well.
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There's a line that's been drawn through the ages.
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On that line stands the old, rugged cross.
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On that cross, a battle is raging for the gain of man's soul or his loss.
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On one side marched the forces of evil, all the demons and devils of hell, on the other, the angels of glory, and they meet on Golgotha's hill.
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The earth shakes with the force of the conflict.
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The sun refuses to shine, for there hangs God's sun in the balance and then, through the darkness, he cries it is finished, the battle is over, it is finished, there'll be no more war.
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It is finished, the end of the conflict.
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It is finished.
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And Jesus is Lord, not Pharaoh, not Satan.
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God is Lord, jesus is Lord, and that's the reality for us today, the same way as it was for the Israelites.
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We have a new reality and our Lord is Jesus.
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So, going back to Exodus, that word glory is mentioned over and over.
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He says I will get glory over Pharaoh.
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That idea of glory is so key throughout Exodus that everything that God has done is for his own glory, in our lives as well.
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Sebastian Bach was a famous musical composer in the, I think, 1700s maybe.
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He wrote hundreds of pieces of music for church and for secular use as well, and at the end of every single one of his musical compositions he would write down SDG.
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And SDG stood for the Latin phrase solideo gloria.
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That means to God alone be the glory, and he wanted everything that he did in his life to point to God's glory.
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And that's what God wanted to do in the story of Israel is what he did for them, how he rescued them, was for his glory, is that the whole world would know.
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And as they entered the Promised Land, the people that were living in Canaan they heard before the Israelites came.
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They said we've heard how your God rescued you and they feared.
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Actually, as we go about our lives in the world today, does the world see what God has done in your life?
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Does your life point to the glory of God?
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I trust that our lives will show the world what God has done and will bring him glory ultimately.
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In closing, I have asked Sean to come forward and, if you don't mind just coming forward right now, keep your Bibles open to Exodus 15.
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And I'm going to ask Sean to read this song.
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It's called the Song of Moses and M의 하 في ح ihrer الله.
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This song puts, puts into words what, what happened here at the Red Sea, and and pay attention, at least for the first half, there's a they.
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The song looks back at what God has done, how he's rescued them, and then, from verse 13 onward, it looks, looks sort of forward to what God is going to do as they enter the Promised Land.
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And this song, I think, as as we read it.
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Think of what God has done in your life and how he's, how he is completely, how he's rescued you from sin, how he's brought salvation to you from and and Freed you from bondage.
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To say to Satan to sin and allow these words to.
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I guess what was a physical reality for for Israel.
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Allow them to be an encouragement to you, as a spiritual reality for for us.
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Today We'll read verse one all the way through verse 21.
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Thank you.
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Exodus 15 1 through 21.
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Exodus 15, verse 1.
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Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying I Will sing to the Lord for he has triumphed gloriously, the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
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The Lord is my strength in my song and he has become my salvation.
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This is my God and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
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The Lord is a man of war.
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The Lord is his name.
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Pharaoh's chariots and his host.
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He cast into the sea and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
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The floods covered them.
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They went down into the depth like a stone.
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Your right hand, oh Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, oh Lord, shatters the enemy.
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In the greatness of your majesty, you overthrow your adversaries.
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You send out your fury.
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It consumes them like stubble At the blasts of your nostrils.
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The waters piled up.
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The flood stood up in a heap, the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
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The enemy said I will pursue, I Will overtake, I will divide the spoil.
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My desire, my desire shall have its fill of them.
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I will draw my sword.
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My hand shall destroy them.
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You blew with your wind.
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The sea covered them.
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They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
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Who is like you, oh Lord, among the gods?
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Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome and glorious deeds doing wonders?
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You're stretched out.
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You stretched out your hand.
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The earth swallowed them.
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You have led in your sad, fast.
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Love, the people whom you have redeemed.
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You have guided them by your strength, to your whole, to your holy abode.
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The peoples have heard.
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They tremble.
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Pangs have seized the inhabitants of Felicia.
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Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed?
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Trembling seizes.
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The leaders of Moab, all the inhabitants of Canaan, have melted away.
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Terror and dread fall upon them.
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Because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone till your people, oh Lord.
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Pass by.
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Till the people, pass by whom you have purchased.
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You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, oh Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, oh Lord, which your hands have established.
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The Lord will reign forever and ever.
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For when the horses of Pharaoh, with his chariots in, with horsemen, went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them.
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But the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
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Then Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron Took a tambourine in her hand and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing, and Miriam sang to them.
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Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously.
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The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
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What a wonderful story, what a wonderful song.
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We still serve that god, that same god, today.
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He is still doing wonders, and just the wonder of Taking away our sin and blotting out our sin to where we will know it no more, he will know it no more, is a miracle, the same miracle that he did back here in Exodus.
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Thank you, randy, for Proclaiming god's word in simplicity and in truth.
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Thank you, is there anybody that would like to give testimony?