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521 | God Makes A Way · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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There are many times in our lives that we feel as if our backs are against the
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wall or that there seems to be no escaping the problems that are set before us.
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Today, as we walk through Exodus chapter 14, we are going to see how Moses,
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under the direction of the Lord, showed the Israelites that when they feel squeezed
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and their backs are against the wall and everything around them seems to be
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crumbling, they needed to trust in the Lord because God will always make a way of escape.
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Join Kim in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as she takes us on
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a journey revealing the amazing deliverance of God.
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Hello, and thank you for joining us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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We're in a familiar passage of Scripture in Exodus chapter 14.
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But one that I don't think we often look at through the lens of our own lives
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or through the lens of Hebrews 12, 2 and 3.
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Hebrews 12, 2 and 3 says this, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of
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our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
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despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself,
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lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
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So often as we live our lives, there are things that come into our lives that
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will bring us to our knees.
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There are things that come into our lives that we are just simply not looking to have happen.
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And if we are not...
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Secure in our faith, and if we are not looking to Jesus,
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the author and finisher of our faith, if we are not purposely focused on who
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he is and what he has done and what he will continue to do,
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we can find ourselves doubting.
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We can find ourselves in despair.
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We can find ourselves living a life that isn't shining the light.
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But when we look at what Jesus said, one, that he is the author and finisher
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of our faith, so if things are starting to creep up in your mind and heart, you can go to him.
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And we know that 1 John 1, 9 says he's faithful to forgive us of our sins and
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to cleanse us from all unrighteousness when we confess our sins to him.
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But we can go to him and ask for an increase in our faith.
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But when we think about what Jesus endured on the cross of Calvary and then
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realize that Hebrew scroll tells us that he counted that as joy,
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then we begin to look at our lives slightly different.
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How could the King of kings and the Lord of lords who humbled himself in front of man.
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Who gave himself a sacrifice for my sins and your sins, how could he have found that joyous?
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How could he?
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Yeah, I get that he was God, but he's also fully man. I'll tell you how he did.
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He didn't count the cost.
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He looked at the result.
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Jesus knew that there was no way that you and I could go to heaven unless he
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sacrificed his entire self.
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And he loved us so much that he was joyful to provide what we needed so that we could all go free.
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Even those that we know for a fact will reject him, has rejected him, he died for them as well.
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And we often talk about that as we talk about how we are to be a light into the world to everyone.
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But when you think about what Christ endured on the cross, counting it as joy,
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knowing that the very people he was dying for, many would not receive his free gift of salvation.
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And then we allow ourselves to move forward in our hearts and minds,
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and we begin to think about the trials and the temptations, the setbacks,
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the hardships, the difficulties.
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That living for Christ in this world—,
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offers us, we begin to see that we don't often count that as joy.
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We don't count it as joy for God to use us in a difficult situation to show
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others how they might see Jesus.
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We don't count it joy when God puts something in our life or allows something
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in our lives, and it's for the good and benefit of someone else to watch a good,
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godly Christian man or woman go through it.
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We don't count it joy when we're tools in his hands if the work to be done is
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difficult, arduous, unpleasant.
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But nothing he's going to call us to do, nothing he's going to ask of us is
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ever going to put us in a situation that is anything like what he counted joy as he endured the cross.
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And praise be to God, he gives us a lot of examples in Scripture to help us
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to see when difficulty comes,
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when seemingly things are happening in our lives and we feel like we're squeezed
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or we feel like our back's against a wall and we have this concept that there's simply no way out.
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When we look at Exodus 14, we see that God is always working,
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that he always has a plan for us, that he's not going to allow us to not escape.
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Our text tonight comes from Exodus 14,
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and the entire account is what we're going to be referring to,
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but I want to read in your hearing Exodus 14, 21 through 30.
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The remaining parts of that chapter, the previous verses, I would ask that you would read on your own.
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And allow the Lord to open your heart and mind to receive what he has for you.
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Exodus 14, beginning in verse 21.
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And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to
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go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land,
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and the waters were divided.
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And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground,
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and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left.
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And the Egyptians pursued and went in after them to the midst of the sea,
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even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
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And it came to pass that in the morning watch, the Lord looked unto the host
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of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud,
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and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
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and took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily.
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So that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel,
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for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
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And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea,
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that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians.
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Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians.
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And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.
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And Israel said, That great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians.
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And the people feared the Lord. And believe the Lord.
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And his servant Moses. We are all familiar with this passage of Scripture,
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but I want to walk through this,
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and I want you to look through the lens of nothing in your life is compared
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to the endurance of the cross.
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And Jesus counted that joy, and we are Christ-like,
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and Jesus counted that joy because his suffering provided a way of escape for
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every human being so that they did not have to spend their eternity in hell,
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but they could live for eternity in heaven through Jesus Christ by the shedding
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of his sinless blood and we receiving that blood for the forgiveness of our sins.
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And he endured this suffering for someone else.
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He endured this suffering so that the glory of God could appear among all people.
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He endured this suffering by the grace and mercy and love of God,
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because it was God who sent his son to die so that we might go free.
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And in Exodus 14, it opens up with the Lord speaking to Moses.
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And he's telling the children of Israel that they're to go camp by the sea and
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if they camp by the sea Pharaoh will find this out and he'll think they're trapped
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between the Egyptians and the sea,
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And God then tells Moses that he will harden Pharaoh's heart and that Pharaoh
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will follow after the Israelites and that God will demonstrate that he is God
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and Lord and the Egyptians will know this.
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The Egyptians are going to be told by Moses, because Moses was directed by God,
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to go place themselves in what logically seems like an incredibly vulnerable place.
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It can't make sense to anyone to go to the sea where you are fully trapped,
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as those that come behind you.
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And so Moses shows amazing trust in God's word.
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And the question remains, as you are looking at the precipice,
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or maybe you're in the midst of some fiery trial,
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or maybe you're on the other end, but do you trust God's word enough to defy man's logic?
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Do you trust God when it seems like there is no way this is going to work out?
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See, my friend, when we trust God, when we place our faith in God,
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and we feel like the only thing that's going to work here is for God to change
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all of logic, for God to intervene in ways like you've never seen.
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But okay, he says go, so I'm going. And that's who Moses is.
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Moses knew God so well that what God said didn't have to make sense to him.
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But God knew that Moses was always right and that God was always looking out for our good.
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Now that is faith in action. He heard the voice of God, and we talked about this so often recently.
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Do you know the voice of God?
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Do you know his character? Have you spent time in the word, learning of him?
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Have you spent time with him?
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Seeking His face, His righteousness, knowing that every moment you spend with
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Him is an investment in your relationship with Him,
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knowing that the stronger your relationship is with Him, the more blessings
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you are going to receive because you're going to find yourself in the place
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where the blessings are coming out.
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You're going to be under the spout where the glory comes out.
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You're not going to be left or right of the center of His will.
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The Israelites, under the direction of God...
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Through the leadership of Moses, are heading straight for the sea.
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And just as God said, and just as God planned, the Egyptians were furious that
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the Israelites were fleeing them.
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They were escaping their bondage of serving the Egyptians.
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And the Egyptians didn't like that. I want you to take just a moment to see
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how this syncs up perfectly with our lives.
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See, this is a picture of sin.
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The Egyptians had the slaves in bondage.
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And for some of us, we are in bondage. We are slaves to sin.
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We are controlled by our fleshly desires, our fleshly thoughts,
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our need to be right and to win at all costs.
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And Jesus, his grace and his mercy and his love, this is the freedom from sin.
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And so Moses is explaining that God has said we need to do this.
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And just as we have to place our faith in Jesus Christ to forgive our sins,
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we have to understand that when we do that, according to Romans 6,
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14, that sin no longer has dominion over us.
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We're not under the law, but we're under grace.
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And all things are possible, and we need to trust in the Lord and lean not unto our own understanding.
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In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct our paths.
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The Israelites are moving to
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what any rational, thoughtful, strategic person would say is their doom.
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But faith doesn't follow man's logic.
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Our mind is finite, and God is infinite.
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God chooses to deliver these people in a way that we've never seen before.
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I've not seen since, but that does not inhibit God's power.
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Because you don't know it, and because I don't know it, because we haven't seen
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it, All that does is limit our mind into understanding how he might do it.
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But none of that should ever calculate into our faith.
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He's God. And we're going to watch him be God.
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Because Moses, under the direction of God,
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uses his leadership to influence and to lead these Israelites to an amazing deliverance.
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Pharaoh takes 600 chariots and all of his people and the captains and all that
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it takes for that, and he goes and he pursues the Israelites.
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And verse 10 says, and when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted
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up their eyes and behold, the Egyptians marched after them and they were sore afraid.
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And the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord.
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As soon as they allowed their faith to decrease and their logic to increase,
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they become paralyzed in a crisis.
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In a faith crisis, in a spiritual dilemma, because now they're trying to rationalize who God is.
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And let me just tell you, there is no way your mortal mind could ever rationalize
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why a God would leave the splendor of heaven, why he would leave everything behind.
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He doesn't even bring one piece of ruby, one piece of gold, one piece of sapphire.
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He doesn't bring any of his legions of angels to make him comfortable,
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but he comes into a lowly stable as a common man to die and to save people who
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he knew would reject him,
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sometimes long before they ever receive him, and some who would never receive him.
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Logic is out there, people. There's no place for it in that.
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We don't understand how to love like that, even though we are given the love
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of Jesus and God is love, and therefore we are to love one another as we love ourselves.
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We do not have the capacity to love God the way Jesus and God and the Holy Spirit love us.
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But we have the authority. We have the privilege.
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We have the amazing gift of receiving it.
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And so these individuals, these Israelites, they begin to forget what Moses had said.
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Moses had been spoken to straight from God.
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And these Israelites are forgetting his promises.
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How often do we forget the promise that he'll never leave us or forsake us?
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How often do we forget the promise that he never sleeps or slumbers?
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How often do we forget the promise that he will give all that we need,
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that he supplies the strengths we need?
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How often do we forget the promise that our God is a deliverer?
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How often do we forget the promise that he has a plan for us to prosper us and to give us a hope?
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Nowhere in Scripture does it say he promises your life will like it be a bed
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of roses, that there'll be no problems. In fact, he says...
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In this world, you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer,
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for I have overcome the world.
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We don't have to like the plan, but we have to embrace the plan.
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There was no way this plan of deliverance that God had for them was going to
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come to fruition if these Israelites stayed at the place they received the leadership
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instruction from Moses.
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I also want to bring to your attention, there's no way that these Israelites
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were going to escape under this plan if they had not had a leader who knew who God was,
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and that they could discern the word of God and they would trust God to do what he said he would do.
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So at the first sign of trouble, they begin to murmur and complain.
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Faith will lose its way to doubt. And doubt causes fear.
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And like when we saw Peter who got out of the boat and as long as he kept his
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eyes on Jesus, when he looked left or right or when he began to think rationally
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and when he started to look at the storm instead of looking at Jesus,
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what happened was he sunk.
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When we take our eyes off of Jesus and his word, we're relying on our own strength,
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and we aren't fit for the battle.
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1 Samuel 17, 47 says, the battle's not ours. It belongs to the Lord.
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But in order for that to take place, we have to submit under the mighty hand
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of God and allow him to exalt us in due time.
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The Israelites wanted to go back.
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They wanted to turn to their old ways. They somehow began to think that living
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as servants of the Egyptians was a better deal than following God's commands.
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I want you to know something, my friend. In 2 Corinthians 5,
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17, we are told, therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
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Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new.
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We're not who we used to be, so we don't fit into our past.
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Our past isn't going to lead us to our future.
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It is the transforming power of Jesus Christ that creates in us a desire to both do good and be good.
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It is the transforming power of Jesus Christ that sets us on the path that he wants us to be.
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We cannot turn back. You can't keep looking back.
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You can't serve both God and man. you've got to keep your eye on the prize towards
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the high calling here's what we are told,
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in philippians 3 13 and 14 brethren this is paul talking i count not myself
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to apprehended but this one thing i do forgetting those things which are behind
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and reaching forth unto those things which are before.
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I press toward the prize, the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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God is leading. He's not pulling.
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He's a gentleman. He'll reach back, and he will pick you up out of the miry
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clay, and he will set your feet on the solid rock.
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But you have to choose to follow.
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We always have to be forward-focused. God is not pulling us,
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and if we look backwards to the world, we cannot be following where God is leading.
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He said that we're to walk towards the mark of the prize of the high calling. We're to move forward.
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We can't be in the center of his will if we are looking left or right of where he is.
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You don't get to be in the center of God's will and do it your way.
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In Exodus 14, verses 13 through 14, here's what he says.
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And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still and see the salvation
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of the Lord, which he will show you today.
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For the Egyptians whom you have seen today, ye shall see them no more forever.
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The Lord shall fight for you, and he shall hold your peace.
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God delivers his people. He doesn't do anything halfway.
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He saves completely.
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And we need to trust him to do what he says he will do.
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God promised Moses if the children of Israel,
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if the Israelites would follow the commandment God gave Moses and walk in the
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ways of the Lord and do exactly what he told them to do, that he would deliver them.
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Our god delivers he tells us in isaiah 46 4 and even to your old age i am he,
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even in your hoary hair in your gray hairs i will carry you i have made you
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and i will bear even i will carry and will deliver you but if you take yourself
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out of the hand of god if you refuse to live by his commandments,
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if you won't walk in his ways, if you won't heed his voice,
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if you lose your faith in who he is.
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He's not going to deliver because you won't receive.
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In Psalms 118.6, we're told, The Lord is on my side.
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I will not fear. What can man do unto me?
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These Israelites who are murmuring and complaining, who see a little trouble
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coming their way, instead of digging deep, instead of falling on their knees,
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instead of increasing their faith,
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instead of asking the Lord to just give them more faith, instead of doing all
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those things, They want to run back to be slaves to sin.
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What's drawing you back to the world? What sinful desire do you have?
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What wicked way in you do you need to ask the Lord?
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As the psalmist David said in Psalm 139, in those last two verses,
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what way in you is so appealing to you that you're willing to live in the bondage
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of sin that you know is not right?
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That never lasts, because only the well of water springing up through Jesus
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Christ will ever satisfy your thirst.
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You won't find it in a bottle.
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You won't find it in drugs.
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You won't find it in recreational use of drugs. You're not going to find it
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in illicit sex. You're not going to find it in your hobbies.
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They're all going to leave you at the end of the time empty, wanting more.
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But what did the woman at the well say? In John 4, verse 29,
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she said, Come see a man which told me all I ever knew.
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Is not this the Christ? Come see a man who told me all things ever I did. Is not this the Christ?
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She didn't leave empty. She left thrilled.
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Jesus transformed her in a moment,
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and her want-tos and her attitude, her understanding, and her desires,
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all went from the world and the bondage of sin to the freedom and the grace
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and the mercy of Jesus Christ.
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These Israelites simply were forgetting who God was.
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And right now, you may be going through a horrible thing.
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There may be difficulties, and it may be health-related. It may be financial.
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It may be relationships. It could be a plethora of things. But the answer remains the same.
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It is we have to trust Jesus Christ to deliver us.
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Moses was not detoured. He knew the promises of God.
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He heard the voice of God. and he did not hold back, telling the people he loved,
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the people for whom he was responsible, what they needed to do.
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I want us to take a close look at Isaiah 43.2.
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This is the kind of protection God places on his people.
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Many people, for various reasons, have bodyguards.
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Many people, for various reasons have security that are looking at them.
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They're telling them, they're following them, and their job is to take care
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of them, but they're fallible.
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Sometimes the person pursuing whom they are protecting is smarter.
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Sometimes they fail.
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But our God says in Hebrews 13, 5, that he will never leave you nor forsake you.
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And our God says in Isaiah 43, 2, when thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee.
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And through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.
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When thou walkest through the fire, thou shall not be burned.
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Neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. Notice he doesn't say,
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you won't pass through waters.
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He says, when thou passest through the waters. He doesn't say,
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you won't have rivers, that you won't have fire, that you won't have problems.
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In fact, again, we go back to his words in John that says, in this world,
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you will have tribulation.
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But be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world. In 1 John 4,
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4, he imparts this promise to us.
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Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. My friend,
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we just read, what can man do unto you?
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The Lord is on your side.
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So when trouble comes, don't doubt, buckle down.
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When difficulties come, that's not the time to lose your faith.
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That's when you really need to hold on to it.
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In situations that are unpleasant and uncomfortable. This is the time to believe.
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I remember when my dad died.
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It honestly was the first person I ever knew that died.
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My grandparents and such had passed
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away before I was born, or at least before I was old enough to know.
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So it was the first funeral I'd gone to.
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And I remember leading up to that it was a very odd passing my father was very
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healthy he ended up getting bit by a tick.
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He was brought to his death by an allergic reaction to a tick bite.
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I remember being with my pastor at the time, and I don't know where the rest
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of my family was, but it was just me and him, and he's a pretty renowned pastor in my area.
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And the tears were coming down my face like a waterfall,
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because I couldn't understand what life would be like without my dad,
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and I didn't want to know. Thank you.
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And I remember at that moment in time as the tears were hitting on this carpet
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very thin, and so it made a noise, and it was soaked when I put my hands down
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on my hands and knees and was crying out to God.
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And after some time passed, and I had prayed everything I could pray,
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and my heart had no more words, and my body had no more tears,
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I spent a few more moments there, and then I stood up.
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And I remember this pastor putting his arm on my shoulder, looking me in the
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eyes and saying, what a blessing it is to see your face.
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I was 25 years old, pretty full of myself and in complete distress.
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And I don't think I'll ever forget what I returned to that statement.
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I said, don't be impressed.
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Don't be blessed. If he's not real now, he's never been real.
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And I have never in my lifetime needed him to be more real, more of who he is,
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more of what the word of God says than I need him to be right now.
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This is what I refer to as desperation faith.
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My friend that I spend a lot of time with, a young lady, she often says that
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God is the rock when you hit rock bottom.
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I had to let God be God because no other thing.
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Going to deliver me from my despair, my hurt, and my confusion.
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But God being the God that I knew who he was, even though my heart was having
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a hard time, the God that I knew in my mind and the character of who he was,
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I clung to with every fiber of my body.
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No time in my life before that evening had I ever clung to Jesus like I did.
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And I want you to know he had already passed into the heavens.
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He was already enjoying his time with Jesus.
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But my heart and my mind had to be filled with faith where everything that I'd
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ever known, everything I'd ever believed,
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was going to be abandoned at that moment.
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But I knew that I knew, regardless of my circumstances, he is God.
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And I needed God more than I've ever needed him.
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And I have to believe that these Israelites,
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who doubted what Moses had told them, who forgotten the promises of what God
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had said, knew they were marching towards the sea.
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And Moses knew this for sure. They were at a moment in time where they had to
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believe him to be who he said he was.
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They couldn't murmur and complain. In verse 14, 15a through 16,
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he says, And the Lord said unto Moses,
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But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea,
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and divide it, and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
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God speaks and gives Moses quite the command.
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Now, these Israelites are following
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Moses, but Moses has got to follow Jesus. He's got to follow God.
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We can get a lot of information, but the information we have to follow has to be what God has said.
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And the Lord says unto Moses, wherefore criest thou unto me,
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speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.
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Look, now it's time, Moses, step up and speak with authority,
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because I'm going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians.
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And they're going to follow you. And I'm going to honor myself.
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Pharaoh is going to honor me. And upon all his coasts and all of his chariots and upon his horsemen.
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And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.
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This difficulty, this trial that the Lord is getting ready to deliver you from,
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is going to bring him glory.
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And it's going to be for your good. but it may be completely for someone else,
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so that someone else can see who God is, so that someone else can see what the
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power of trusting in Jesus means.
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So that others can see our God delivers.
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Everything that happens, God is using for our good and his glory.
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The Israelites are in a predicament.
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They're backed up to the sea. Hundreds of warriors are coming after them.
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And God asked Moses to pull out his rod and stretch it over the sea.
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Sometimes your backs are against the wall so that
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god can be glorified and we can be blessed and sometimes
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what he asks us to do is simply not
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logical but a faith-filled christian who's placed their trust in jesus can begin
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to see that regardless of what's going on around them regardless of the situation
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god is still god and all of the attributes and all the characteristics of God has never changed.
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And verse 18 says, And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord,
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when I have gotten the honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
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It's easy for God to do what he wants to do with us and to change us how he chooses.
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We cannot resist his power when he forces it upon us.
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God is working all things out.
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Our mind can't comprehend it. The Egyptians had forgotten that no one tells God what to do.
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And on verse 22, he says, And the children of Israel went into the midst of
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the sea upon the dry ground, and
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the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left.
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He provided a way where there was no way.
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And he'll do the same for you.
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He said you're going to go through waters, but hey, I'm going to pass you through
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them. The rivers are not going to overflow you, but he doesn't take you away from them.
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God has a plan. We know that in Jeremiah 29, 11, and it's a good one to prosper
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you and to give you a hope.
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Stop putting God in a box, limiting him to our knowledge and our capabilities.
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God makes a way where there is no way. And thus the Lord saved Israel that day
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out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.
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Your life is a testimony because he says in verse 31, And now Israel saw that
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great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians, and the people feared the
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Lord and believed the Lord and his servant Moses.
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All of that information wasn't divulged to Moses when he came to him in the
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beginning and said, Moses, lead your people and camp in front of the sea.
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But through every step of faith, and even when doubt arose, they were able to
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overcome it by the word and the power of God's people.
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Because we have this.
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Jesus said unto him, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that
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believeth. This is the truth we have to live by.
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I don't know what you're going through. I don't know what problem you're facing.
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I don't know how difficult your day was or what tomorrow will be.
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But this is what I do know.
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You're not facing it alone. He has a plan to deliver you. You may have to go through it.
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You may not like it. But you won't fight the battle alone if you submit to him.
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And you will be victorious because we are more than conquerors through Christ.
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Who loved us. Thanks be to God, to Jesus, who gives us the victory and makes
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a way where there is no way.