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Exodus chapter 14 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 14 let us pray our Father who is in heaven.
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  Lord, we thank you for another day to come and to worship you
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  in spirit and truth. God, we thank you for the
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  Shekinah glory all around us. Lord, we thank you for the cloud
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  by day and the pillar of fire by night.
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  Thank you, God, for covering over all of our sins.
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  Thank you, God, for covering over all of the enemies in our
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  lives. God, for completely annihilating
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  and destroying all opposition. Lord, we are free, and we are
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  free indeed. God, we thank you for who you
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  are. Lord, we thank you that you are
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  good, You are worthy and holy. Lord, we thank you for our
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  justification. We thank you, God, for our
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  imputed righteousness. God, we thank you that you've
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  cleaned us up. You've made us whole.
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  God, you are there in heavenly places and we are seated with
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  you. God, thank you for allowing us
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  to get on the boat. Lord, thank you for shutting the
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  door behind us. Thank you, God, for inviting us
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  into eternity. Thank you, God, for giving us
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  enough wherewithal, God, to make that decision.
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  For you, Lord, help us to live on fire.
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  For you help us to live lives, God, that are meaningful.
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  Thank you for giving us dignity. Thank you for giving us worth.
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  Thank you for giving us our marching orders and helping us
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  to know what to do and when to do it, God, and how to do it,
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  for fueling us. God, thank you for miracles
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  breaking out. Thank you for the breath, God.
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  Thank you for speaking to us, Lord, in this still small voice.
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  Thank you, God, for quickening it in the inner man.
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  Thank you, Father, for all the many blessings that you've
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  already bestowed upon us. Thank you, God, for our
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  inheritance. Thank you Lord for the down
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  payment, the deposit, the Holy Spirit.
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  Thank you God Almighty for who you are.
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  Thank you Father that you are our Shekinah glory.
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  You are our everything. You are the most high God.
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  You are the God who sees. You are the banner over our
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  lives. You are the great physician.
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  You are the provider Father, you are our very breath and the
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  heartbeat in our chest. God.
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  Thank you for the neurons God that fired off.
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  Thank you, God, for our ability to reason, into thinking the to
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  ponder and to muse and to meditate upon your Holy
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  Scriptures. God, help them to come alive in
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  our lives. Help us to put them into
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  practice today, God. Not just to set it on a shelf to
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  collect dust, God, but to actually get into the firefight,
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  get into the game today. God, I pray that we'll be out in
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  the harvest. We see that they're ripe.
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  Father, help us not to leave low hanging fruit on the tree.
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  Help us not to rot. Father, help us us to be your
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  hands and feet to actually do the work of an evangelist God,
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  to actually be the answer to all the problems.
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  Father, we thank you for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  We thank you for the shed blood on Calvary.
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  We thank you, God, that you've given us everything that we need
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  in Christ Jesus. Lord, and we rest in the
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  finished work of the cross, Lord.
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  We rest in what Jesus Christ did for us, Lord.
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  And we know that he is the all sufficient sacrifice.
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  And Lord, it's not about any everything that we did, but it's
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  everything that he did for us, God.
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  And so we trust in Jesus, We trust in his work.
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  We trust in the promises of the Bible.
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  God, we thank you, Lord, open our eyes up to your wonderful
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  word today. And it's in Jesus Christ, holy
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  and precious and powerful name that I pray men.
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  Let's start in verse one. And the Lord spoke unto Moses,
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  saying, What'd he say? We'll have to move to verse 2 to
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  find out. Speak to the children of Israel
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  that they turn and camp before Piharov between Migdal and the
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  sea, over against it by al Zephan before it.
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  Shall you encamp by the sea. So here God was going to lead
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  them in a little turn around worldly race.
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  God was going to get them to make some adjustments to seem as
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  if they were turned around and lost, and to get the Egyptians
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  to actually pursue them. Three, for Pharaoh will Save the
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  Children of Israel. They are entangled in the land.
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  The wilderness has shut them in. So here you can see that Pharaoh
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  acted on his impulses, and the natural way of thinking would
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  have been that the Israelites were lost and they did not know
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  how to set themselves free. They did not know where to go.
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  They were just wandering around aimlessly.
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  And here it would have caused Pharaoh to jump on the
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  opportunity to go and wrangle them back in for And I will
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  harden Pharaoh's heart that he shall follow after them.
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  And I will be honoured upon Pharaoh and upon all his hosts,
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  that the Egyptians may know that I am Lord.
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  And they did so. And so God here is saying that
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  He is going to be honored and greatly praised throughout all
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  the land. When they look backwards,
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  they're going to know that this was the strong arm of God, that
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  he was fighting for the Israelites.
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  Verse 5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled,
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  and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against
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  the people. And they said, why have we done
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  this? That we have let the Israel go
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  from serving us. So here you can see that they
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  had forgotten about the 10 plagues.
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  They had forgotten about the hail mixed with fire.
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  They had forgotten about the locusts and the fleas.
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  They had forgotten about the lice.
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  They had forgotten about the frogs.
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  They had forgotten about the water turned to blood.
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  They had forgotten about all the cattle dying in the first born,
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  and here they're wondering why in the world did we let our free
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  labor go? 6 And he made ready his chariot
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  and took his people with him. 7 And he took 600 chosen Chariots,
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  all the Chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
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  So he took his entire fighting force out to wrangle these
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  Israelites back in 8 And the Lord hardened the heart of
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  Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of
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  Israel, and the children of Israel went out with a high
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  hand. So God Almighty is the one who's
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  pulling the strings. God Almighty is the one
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  orchestrating these events. God Almighty will never be
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  mocked and put to shame. There is nothing you can do
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  against the Holy Almighty God, who literally can do anything
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  that He pleases, and there be being LED out by a strong hand.
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  9 But the Egyptians pursued after them all the horses and
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  Chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army, and
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  overtook them in camping by the sea beside π Hauraf before by al
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  Zafon. So here you can see that the
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  Israelites were hemmed in, and it would have looked as if their
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  back was against the corner, and they did not know what to do in.
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  And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up
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  their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them,
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  and they were sore afraid, and the children of Israel cried out
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  to the Lord. So you can see here that they
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  had thought that they were trapped after all the rejoicing
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  of being set free. And when they set their tents up
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  and rejoiced at the fact that they were set free, now, the
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  horror of seeing this massive, powerful army coming towards
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  them and they were defenseless. They had nothing.
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  They were just shepherds, but they had God, and one plus God
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  equals more than all the amassment of all the armies in
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  the entire world, of all the nuclear bombs, of every tank
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  plane, of every bomb. There is no power that is
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  greater than the power of God Almighty, and one Christian is
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  more powerful than all the armies in the entire world. 11
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  And they said to Moses, because there were no graves in Egypt,
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  Have you taken us away to die in the wilderness?
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  Why have you dealt us with us to carry us forth out of Egypt?
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  So here they're complaining. You're going to see this just
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  continuously pop up over and over and over.
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  This is the beginning of what you're going to see, this
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  murmuring from the Israelites against Moses, and they're going
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  to be railing him with so many accusations.
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  And here's one of their sarcastic accusations that there
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  were no graves in Egypt, and that is why you'd let us out
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  here to die. 12 Is not this the word that we did tell you in
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  Egypt, saying, Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians, if
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  it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we
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  should die in the wilderness? So here you see the Israelites,
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  and you can see the finiteness of them.
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  You could see that they are just human.
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  Then they do not have the overarching view that God has.
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  But God is slow to anger, and God is long-suffering, and he is
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  merciful and graceful friends, and you can see here that he's
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  putting up with them. 13 And Moses said unto the people, do
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  not fear, stand still, see the salvation of the Lord, which he
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  will show to you today. For the Egyptians whom you have
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  seen today, you shall see them again no more forever.
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  So God had not revealed unto Moses how he was going to crush
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  the opposition of the Egyptian army.
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  But Moses here is operating in the spirit of faith, whereas the
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  Israelites are operating in the spirit of fear.
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  And this is a call for us, friends.
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  Do not rely on your senses. Do not rely on what you can see.
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  We raise up the banner of faith over our circumstances.
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  We raise up the banner of faith over our emotions, over what the
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  world is screaming at us, friends.
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  And we believe in the infallible, inerrant Word of God
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  that tells us exactly how it's going to go from the beginning
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  to the end. The Alpha and the Omega.
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  We know how it all ends, friends, and we need not fear.
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  What can man do to us? If God is for us, then who can
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  be against us? And do not fear the one that can
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  kill the body, but fear the one that can kill the body.
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  And cast your soul into hell. 14 The Lord will fight for you, and
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  you shall hold your peace. 15 And the Lord said unto Moses,
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  Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel
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  that they go forward. God says here, there's no need
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  to pause, there's no need to reflect, there's no need for
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  meditation, but you must act. It is high time for you to put
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  your faith into action and to move forward.
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  Too many of us sit in our holy huddles singing kumbaya, waiting
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  for God's return, when the fact of the matter is we need to be
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  out in the harvest doing the work of an evangelist. 16 But
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  lift you up your rod and stretch out your hand over the sea.
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  Divide it. The children of Israel shall go
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  on dry land through the midst of the sea.
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  What a preposterous notion. God is speaking unto Moses.
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  Moses has enough wherewithal to actually understand that it's
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  God who's speaking to him, and he does not doubt that it's God
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  who's speaking to him. And God says, lift up your rod.
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  And the Israelites 6,000,000 souls are going to go across on
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  dry land, as he takes the water up into these walls that are
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  going to be on each side of them, as they cross dry land
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  where the sea once SAT. 17 And I behold, I will harden the hearts
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  of the Egyptians, and they will follow them, and I will get me
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  honor upon Pharaoh and upon all his hosts, upon Chariots, and
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  upon the horsemen. God's going to get himself the
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  honor and his fame and notoriety is going to be spread throughout
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  all the land when this story gets told of how he overtook the
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  Egyptian army. 19 And the Angel of God, which went before the
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  camp of Israel, removed and went behind them, and the pillar of
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  cloud went from before their face and stood behind them.
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  So here you can see that God should kind of glory.
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  The divine protection of God is now moved from where they need
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  to go, and it's actually standing behind them and it's
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  acting as a curtain, it's acting as a shield.
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  As the Egyptians are coming down again, the Israelites, God has
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  parted the sea and they're going to get to walk across on dry
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  land, and it's not going to be visible to the Egyptians as
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  they're storming the beach. 20 And it came between the camp of
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  the Egyptians and the camp of Israel, and it was a cloud in
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  darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these so that
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  the one came not near the other all the night.
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  So they're crossing over on dry land and God has put the cloud
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  in front of the Egyptians. He cannot see what's going on,
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  but the Israelites have the light and it's over the water
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  and they are able to actually walk across, and they're not
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  stuck tumbling and they are not on top of each other.
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  There is no panic. It is all in a peaceful
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  procession across this dry land. 21 And Moses stretched out his
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  hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a
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  strong E wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and
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  the waters were divided. So can you see these walls of
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  water on each side, and the Israelites passing through on
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  dry land, their cattle, their children, their wives, the men,
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  22 and the children of Israel? Went into the midst of the sea
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  upon the dry ground, and the waters were a wall unto them on
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  their right hand and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians
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  pursued and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even
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  all Pharaoh's horses, his Chariots, and his horsemen.
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  So all the Israelites, 2 million souls crossed over, and they're
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  on the other side. And now here comes the army, and
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  they think they can do the same thing. 24 And it came to pass
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  that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the
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  Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and
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  troubled the host of the Egyptians.
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  So here you can see that all the Egyptians are thinking that they
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  can get safe passage through this miraculous dry land in
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  between these walls of water. 25 and took off their chariot
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  wheels and they drove them heavily so that the Egyptians
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  said, let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights
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  for them against the Egyptians. So everything was going awry.
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  The wheels are falling off and they are in chaos and panic and
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  they're saying God is surely for the Israelites.
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  And it's no different today, friends.
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  Miracles after miracles after miracles are still breaking out
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  in the land of Israel today. 26 And the Lord said unto Moses,
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  Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come
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  again upon the Egyptians, upon their Chariots, upon their
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  horsemen. 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and
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  the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared, and
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  the Egyptians fled against it. And the Lord overthrew the
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  Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
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  So here they are thinking they're closing in, they're
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  closing the gap, they're coming up on the Israelites.
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  They're all down in the midst of the sea, walking across the dry
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  land, driving their Chariots. And then Moses stretched forth
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  the rod, and the waters returned back to their original place.
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  Let's see what happens. 28 In the waters returned and covered
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  the Chariots and the horsemen and all the hosts of Pharaoh
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  that came into the sea. After them there remained not so
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  much as one of them. 29 But the children of Israel walked upon
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  dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall
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  to them on their right hand and on their left.
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  So can you see it? All the Egyptians drowned, The
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  horses, the Chariots, everything is completely deluged. 30 Thus
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  the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
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  Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the
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  seashore. We'll end on 31 And Israel saw.
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  That great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians and the
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  people feared the Lord and believed the Lord and his
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  servant Moses. Let's see how long that's going
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  to last. What you need to know are the
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  dead bodies are washing up on the shore.
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  And it proves to the Israelites in the morning light that it was
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  not a dream, it was not some kind of fantasy.
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  This was the reality, friends, that God saved them with a
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  mighty outstretched hand, and He can do the same today.
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  We serve the same God and He's not done yet.
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  Just know that God is still fighting your battles and He
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  wants to rescue you from all of the opposition and all of the
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  strongholds, from all the slave drivers, from all those who
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  would want to entangle you from the sin nature.
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  He wants to rescue you friends, and He wants to take you to
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  higher planes. He wants to be your God, and He
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  wants you to know that He is real.
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  I hope that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.