Delivered - God Has Your Back!
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The LORD, Our Protector
The LORD, Our Protector
The Red Sea - No Legend or Metaphor
The Red Sea - No Legend or Metaphor
Israel leaves, Egypt follows, hems them in with the Red Sea
People already complain to Moses:
“Better to be slaves in Egypt than die here.”
VERSE 14 - “You keep silent!” (“ Shhhhhhh, I got this”
God had this chase planned already
Lured Pharaoh through his pride
Key Points to God’s Protection
Key Points to God’s Protection
1) The LORD goes to extremes to protect His people
1) The LORD goes to extremes to protect His people
They just need to trust Him
Cloud by day, fire by night - Shekinah Glory!
Notice how He MOVES
First He leads them, then He protects them
Why would He tell them to go, if He wasn’t going to help them?
The Angel of the LORD is Who protects them
The Sea parts, Israel walks through - 2M of them!
2) The LORD does the fighting!
2) The LORD does the fighting!
His people just need to trust Him
NOT - sit by and do nothing
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward.
“I told you, I’ve got this, now GO!”
Be silent, and keep going - that’s the plan!
Egyptians follow, the Sea closes on them
History supports a weakened Egyptian empire in the generation that follows this event
3) We don’t always see what is to come
3) We don’t always see what is to come
Israelites SAW all of this, the exodus from Egypt, and they doubted when this event occurs
Then they walked through the Sea, saw Egypt destroyed, and...
They feared the Lord
They believed in the Lord
They trusted Moses
Ever “feel” like you’ve not really been delivered? Or you don’t “feel” like you’re saved? (It’s positional, it’s a relationship)
Ever feel like you are not your mother’s/father’s child? NO.
Hopefully, they never made you feel like that
But if you are a child of God, YOU ARE HIS CHILD
We don’t always see what is to come
We don’t always see what is to come
We don’t need to
We just need to trust Him
There could still be very big challenges ahead
We recall what we do KNOW
He is good
He’s got this
Today - COVID-19, Tomorrow??
REM: Disciples on Saturday? Didn’t know what to do
Now, in the Scriptures, they tell you, God’s got this. We missed it, you don’t need to!
They should have been preparing for Jesus to come back
So should we!
ISRAEL - this is the people God told to be a light to the Gentiles
At the Red Sea, they didn’t “feel” like they had just recently been delivered/rescued
CHRISTIANS - we are the people God says is to light the world, b/c Jesus is the light!
Why would God tell us to go, make disciples, be the light, be bold, courageous, IF HE ISN’T GOING TO HELP AND PROTECT US?
We’ve been offered deliverance, salvation
We’ve been offered deliverance, salvation
The fight is done, the victory is secured
We should be preparing for Jesus
He’s STILL fighting for us
“I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
US
US
Yahweh parted the Red Sea - they walked through on dry land!
Raise a Hallelujah!
Yahweh provided the sacrifice
John 16:33 - He has overcome the world
No matter what the world throws at you
Keep moving, keep growing, keep following
Has God helped you? How?
Salvation
Other
Do we forget His past help when future/present issues arrive?
God had delivered Israel - miraculously
They face a new challenge/threat
Response: Fear, anger, blame, frustration
God has delivered believers - blessed, provided, SAVED
We face a challenge today, along with the world - other challenges will come
Response: fear, anger, frustration, blame - OR
Church strong, prayer, believe/faith/trust
ASIDE: Nature
The plagues - nature answers to God
Stormy sea - Mark 4:39 - Hush, be still, “I’ve got this”
I love mornings - birds singing, trees budding, flowers blooming
Nature knows God is in control - Romans 8:22 - creation groans, longing for the end of this fallen world, longing for the next
NATURE KNOWS
DO WE?
CLOSE
CLOSE
If God fights for you - He wins, you win
Easter - we celebrated vistory over death
If you have let Jesus fight this fight, you’ve already won?
Why fear this world, all that is going on?
He has shown us the way to go
Who to follow
How to trust
Then when you follow, He moves, to guard your back, He covers you all around
Feel vulnerable? It’s OK. He’s got it. He’s got YOU!
God told Israel: Shhhhh, be still, let me do this, just follow
Jesus told the sea: Hush, be still, then told disciples to follow
We are told to repent, trust, follow, go, tell others
We say, but, but, but
And the Holy Spirit says: Shhhhh, Hush, you have all the power and strength you need. Jesus advocates for you.
The Father says: YOU ARE MY CHILD. Let Me handle ALL this.
WILL YOU? LET HIM!