STRAIGHT OUT OF EGYPT: STAND STILL AND SEE

Exodus 14:13 ESV

And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.

LONG WAY

Exodus 13:17–18 ESV

When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.

THE LONG WAY OUT CHALLENGE THE WAY YOU SEE

1. CHALLENGES HOW YOU SEE RESCUE

a. Long way

Exodus 14:17–18 ESV

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 host, his chariots, and his horsemen. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

Exodus 14:18 ESV

And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

2. CHALLENGES HOW YOU SEE RELATIONSHIPS

Exodus 14:5–9 ESV

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 we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him, and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the people of Israel while the people of Israel were going out defiantly. The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.

o LEAVE THE HATERS YOU LOVE – BUT THEY WILL PURSUE YOU

1ST PETER

1 Peter 4:1 ESV

Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

1 Peter 4:2–3 ESV

so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

1 Peter 4:4 ESV

With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;

Luke 14:26 ESV

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

WILLING TO LEAVE THEM

Matthew 16:24–25 ESV

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

3. CHALLENGES HOW YOU SEE REALITY

Exodus 14:10–13 ESV

When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord. They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? 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.” And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.

- THE EXODUS- SIN IS BEHIND US COST THEIR WISSDOM (WANT TO GO BACK)

o EGYPT IS AN ILLUSION

§ THEY ARE OUT…

§ WHATS IN FRONT IS REALLY BEHIND (

· SIDE MIRROR

o MANUFACTURER HAS TO TWLL YOU THAT BECAUSE IF HE DID NOT YOU MIGTH BE FOOLED BY WHAT YOU SEE

· SIN IS BEHIND US – THOUGH IT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF US

o IN FRONT – NATURAL

o BEHIND US – REAL REALITY

o THE DECEPTION OF EGYPT:

§ DEATH (EGYPT) LOOKS LIKE LIFE AND

· LIFE (FREEDOM) LOOKS LIKE DEATH

§ THE PEOPLE DO NOT LONG TO LEAVE EGYPT BECAUSE LIFE OUTSIDE OF EGYPT LOOKS HARD

4. CHALLENGES HOW YOU SEE RIGHTEOUSNESS

Exodus 15:22 ESV

Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

Exodus 15:23 ESV

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

Exodus 15:24 ESV

And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Exodus 15:25 ESV

And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,

Exodus 15:26 ESV

saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

§ ROMANS 8:29

Romans 8:29 ESV

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

§ EPH 1:3-4

Ephesians 1:3–4 ESV

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love