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Now is our time when we share our Joys and concerns with each other.

so, if you have any, you would like to share with your church family, Let me know, I know Marv shared with me the other week and then shared more with me today.

Mike Ripley, who is a son?

Write Amy.

Amy son had an accident and is not doing well in the I see you.

And Friday, he did open his eyes but after the weekend they will make the decision to continue to keep him on life support or not.

So continue to pray for him, pray for the family as they are faced that tough decision.

Does anyone else have any prayer requests?

They would like to share with anyone.

As always, we remember those who are staying in our nursing care facilities and those who work there and are other healthcare workers.

Within our church family.

We remember those who serve in the military and all the missionaries that we support as a church as well.

Please smile with me in prayer.

heavenly father as we come to you today, Lord, we thank you for the many, many blessings you give us Lord, we pray that you will be with us and guide us as we go through out this next week.

Lord, I pray that you will be with.

Mike, Ripley and his family.

Or give them wisdom and what to do? Give them peace and give them a surance during this time.

And Lord, we pray for others in our community who are facing Illnesses are facing the loss of a family member Lord.

We pray that you will just be with them and comfort them during this time.

And Lord is sweet come to you today and study your words, I pray, you will help us to focus in on what you have for.

Each of us to learn today and that you will bless the Lord with me knowing that you are always there with us walking with us in the midst of any and every situation, we pray this all in your most holy name.

Amen.

You know, all of pharaohs horses and all of pharaohs men couldn't get the Israelites back to Egypt again.

Yeah, they tried but they couldn't do it.

Yeah.

Here we have the most powerful nation in the world at that time.

The most powerful King.

In the world, with the most powerful Army.

And yet, all of these things are nothing compared to the Lord God of Israel.

Because God has determined that he is going to free his people.

So he sets and motion all of these events.

To accomplish his will.

You're here.

We find an Egypt, a kingdom that has indeed been broken.

He knows we start the story about, you know, the Israelites being let out.

We find that, you know, after all of the plagues that, you know, Pharaoh, finally concedes since is fine, take your people and go.

But then they realize that they just let all the help though.

They let all the people who did the manual labor go, they let all their construction workers.

Go, what are they going to do now?

So his heart is again, hardened and Pharaoh decides to assemble all of his troops and pursue the Israelites to bring them back.

And once again, will see the Pharaohs plans fail and God uses that failure to accomplish his plans.

In Exodus.

14:10 it says as Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and there were the Egyptians marching after them.

They were terrified and cried out to the Lord.

Yell as I Was preparing for this 7 commentary setting a 600 chariots may not seem like a lot when there's estimates that there may have been as many as two million Israelites leaving at that time when you think of men women children all of that.

But you also have to consider that and that day and age.

The Chariots were kind of considered, you know, the most modern and deadly form of warfare that they had.

It's like the tanks of our day and age, that's what the Chariots were.

So as the Israelites see those coming They think they're trapped.

You know, on the one side, they're blocked by the Red Sea.

And on the other side, they see this mass of troops coming after them.

And like I said, when they see his troops coming over the horizon, they begin to become filled with fear and doubt.

and, you know, it's our doubts, that feeds our fear

You known as the Israelites stand there between the Red Seas and the armies of pharaoh there, doubt just continues to grow as their fear grows.

One feeds off the other.

and they're in a situation where if God doesn't choose to intervene, They know it's not going to be good.

They know that they'll be slaughtered and those who do end up Surviving this attack will just be dragged back to Egypt and placed into slavery again.

So they begin to doubt that this is God's plan in fear, begins to take over.

continuing on in Exodus chapter 14, verse 11 and 12, they said to Moses Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die.

What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

Didn't we say to you and Egypt?

Leave us alone.

Let us serve the Egyptians.

It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert.

Clearly, they're not trusting God, in this situation, they're letting what they see in front of them overwhelm them.

You know, God's plan and right now they're thinking, this is just Moses is playing, you know, it's just not working out the way that they thought it should.

That's why they go so far as to say and it would have been better for them to stay slaves rather than to go.

Workout is leading them, that is essentially what they're saying.

And really if you know, they're doubting God that much if they're doubting the person that God has sent them that much, they really aren't worthy or deserving of God's intervention.

But what does God do?

He intervenes.

You got intervenes for a people who do not deserve it.

In Exodus 14 going on 2 verses 13 and 14.

Moses answered the people.

Do not be afraid, stand firm.

And you will see the Deliverance.

The Lord will bring you today.

The Egyptians you see today you will never see.

Again, the Lord will fight for you.

You need only to be still.

I'd imagined as they heard him say this, when they were just yelling at him about.

Why did you bring us out here to die?

That doesn't sound like much of a plan to them.

Just stand.

Still, don't worry about it.

God's got this.

Yonkers from their point of view, they're sitting ducks for the army of Egypt.

So it's no wonder that fears beginning to take over that.

They feel all of this doubt.

You know, Moses reminds them that their security Comes from the Lord.

And then we see God intervene in a couple of different ways.

The first one is he intervenes through this pillar of cloud and Fire.

You know, this pillar had been leading them.

The dentist will see here in this next passage God uses that same pillar that had been leading them to stand between.

The Egyptian Army and the Israelites.

Exodus 14:19 and 20th, then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel's Army, withdrew and went behind them.

The pillar of cloud.

Also moved from in front and stood behind them.

Coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel throughout the night.

The cloud brought Darkness to the one side and light to the other side.