And I want to make a few comments
from this passage of scripture and then it's going to become
obvious how these passages are connected. That is Exodus chapter
14 with Psalm 74. Let's ask God's blessings again
upon the service. We give thanks, O God, that you
have given us a saving interest in the gospel of your grace. And, Lord, all of your people
would acknowledge with thanksgiving that there's nowhere on this
earth that we would rather be and under the sound of the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is here that you have so often
blessed us and we have experienced the wonders of your magnificent
salvation. So often we have left and we've
said, Lord, thank you Thank you for speaking to me. Lord, thank
you for giving me grace in Christ. And thank you for letting me
hear with a measure of understanding the message of grace, the message
of redemption, the message of the blood sacrifice of the Son
of God. And Lord, it is Your will that
we be here this evening, and so we thank You that even before
You made all things, You purposed that this evening we would be
found in the house of God. We bless You for that. Now we
ask that You would give us a goodly measure of faith and understanding
to embrace that which we shall hear this evening. Lord, we are
fully reliant upon you. We need your spirit to be with
us and to break open this alabaster box of delightful fragrance that
is this message of the salvation of poor sinners by one way. Even as there was just one way
through the Red Sea, there's one way through to the land of
promise for us. And that is the new and the living
way of our Lord Jesus, in Him crucified, buried, and risen
again. We thank you that we do have
access, Father, unto you. Give us eyes of faith to behold
the deliverance of your people by your might and by your grace. And so exalt yourself and bless
us. For Jesus' sake, amen. And Psalm 74, as I indicated
this morning, here the church kind of recounts the doings of
God in their past as an argument for his help in the present circumstances
in which they found themselves. And of course, this is the Psalm
of instruction by Asaph. And he says this in verse, and
I'll read verse 12 again to you. I read it to you this morning.
Psalm 74 verse 12, for God is my king of old. working salvation
in the midst of the earth. Here is a remembrance that God
is the king. He is my king, Asaph says, and
he tells us the length of days or weeks or months or years that
God has been king of old. that is from eternity. God has always been my king.
I didn't know he was my king. You didn't know he was your king.
But then one day you found out God is my king and he's my king
of old, of old. He's always been the king, therefore
he's always been the sovereign. He's always been the one that
reigns. He's sovereign over his people. And so Asaph says, God
is my king. He's certainly sovereign over
all men. And the word sovereign, the root
word is reign. He certainly reigns over all
men, but all men do not acknowledge his sovereignty. But God's people,
we recognize that our God reigns and we rejoice that he reigns.
I'm so thankful that God reigns, that my God reigns. Once I thought the devil reigned
in a good many things. or that luck reigned, or fate
reigned, but fate is impersonal, and luck, there is no such thing
as luck, either good or bad. That one who reigns is my God,
and this is what all of the people of the Lord should enter into
and rejoice in, that our God, our God is King. He's the Sovereign
over all of His people. We say with great delight. We
say in rejoicing, God is my King. He's my King. The Savior is my
King by virtue of the fact He redeemed me and He did the work
that God gave Him to do and therefore God has exalted Him. He is my
King. His name is King of kings and
Lord of lords. So He's sovereign over His people.
Secondly, He is sovereign over His enemies. And look at verse
13. Thou didst divide the sea. Oh, there's the connection. Here's Asaph, and he is speaking
with God, but he also wants to teach and give some instruction
to the people of God. And he wants to encourage the
saints of God. And so he goes back, what story
does he go back to? What event in all of the history
of Israel does he, is he led of the Spirit of God to go back
and lay hold of and in essence say, remember what God did back
then. He goes back and he reminds the
people of Israel, God divided the sea. And he speaks to the
Lord Himself, you divided the sea by your strength, by your
power. This is our God, this is my God,
Asaph says. And all of the people of God
say, this is our King. And we know he can deliver us
if it's his will. Perhaps in your life, you find
yourself in difficulty and trouble or sickness or some other anxious
situation. event that disturbs you or something
going on in the family, something in the job, something wherever. We have a multitude of troubles.
Well, what can we go back and draw from to rest assured that
our God will see us through this? And Asaph, he speaks to God and
knowing that the people of God for many, many years until time
shall be no more, the saints of God are going to be reading
this. Well, what event does the Spirit of God enable him to draw
from to remind us here this evening of the greatness of our God,
of God's strength, of God's might, that God fights our battles for
us, that there is a way to life. There is a path. There is an
opening through the Red Sea, just one, but bless the name
of God, there is an opening. There is a way to God. And that way to God is through
the Lord Jesus, our Savior. And he says here that thou didst
divide the sea by thy strength. And then he says, you broke the
heads of the dragons in the waters. The dragons here, and then in
verse 14, thou breakest the heads of Leviathan in pieces. He's talking about the mighty
armies of Egypt. Lord, you broke them all. You
destroyed them all. There was nothing left. And you
know, as Brandon read to us, the Israelites right at the end,
they saw the dead bodies of the Egyptians on the seashore. And
you know, God provided abundantly for Israel because when they
came out of Egypt, now they had gold and they had silver, which
the people said, here, take whatever you need, just go. but they didn't
have any weapons. And they're going to meet some
enemies as they journey through the wilderness. And then when
they come to the Jordan River and go across, there'll be enemies
yet to fight. Where are they gonna get their
weapons, their bows and their arrows and the swords and the
spears and so forth? Where are they gonna get those?
Oh, they're gonna wash up on the Red Sea shores. God is going
to abundantly provide for all the needs of his people. And these dragons that have been
after them, And this Leviathan, Pharaoh himself, God will break
them to pieces. The mighty military of Egypt,
the greatest nation in the world at that time. God is going to
break them. He's going to dispose of them
and their dead bodies will wash up on the shore. And God said
to the Israelites, they'll never bother you again. In many ways, I think that the
dragons and Leviathan, they picture our sins, which our Lord Jesus has, he
slaughtered them. He's drowned them, not drowned
in water. like the Egyptian army was drowned
in the waters of the Red Sea, but he has drowned all of our
sins in the flood of his own blood. And he washed them all
away. And you'll never see them again.
They'll never rise up against you again. The mighty army of
Pharaoh, the dragons and the Leviathan are forever gone just
like your sins. God's sovereign over his enemies
and he's sovereign over nature. He's sovereign over his people,
he's sovereign over his enemies and he's sovereign over nature.
He split the Red Sea. And he made a wall of water on
this side and on that side. And it is estimated that great
path right through the Red Sea was at least seven miles wide,
because you got to get two and a half million people to the
other side. And so here they go, several
hundred abreast, marching through the Red Sea. And as they stood at the Red
Sea, when God told Moses to tell them, and Moses said, just stand
still and see the salvation of God. Well, they had no hope in
themselves. What could they do? Facing the
Red Sea, there's a great mountain range on one side and on the
other side, nothing but desert. On this side, another great mountain
range. And in back of them, here comes
all the might, the military might of Egypt, led by Pharaoh and
his chariot. And there's the Red Sea in front
of them. What's that Psalm, Psalm 105, does it say? They came to
their wits end. their wits end. Have you ever
faced your wits end in something? And you think there's just, what
can I do? A lot of times you can't do anything. What could they do? Oh, as we
shall see, they fussed a little. They murmured a little. A few
of them apparently believe God. There wasn't anything they could
do. Let me tell you something. As they faced that Red Sea, the
way to safety was right in front of them, but they didn't see
it. They didn't see it. And then
God enabled them to see that He will make a path for you,
just like He made a path for us to glory. to acceptance. And for so many years, we couldn't
see it. We were blind to that. And it's
been in front of us all along. And God says, stand still. Watch me work. And then God has his servant. Stand forth. And then with the
eye of faith, they began to behold as that sea begins to split wide
open. A great wall of water here, a
great wall of water there. And they didn't even have to
walk through mud puddles. Dry ground. And I tell you, there's
a way to God. There is one way to God, not
many ways, Cause you got mountains over here, you got mountains
over here, you got the law back here. And you're all boxed in. Who
can help me? None but God. None but God. And God is going to bring these
people, as we shall see, in fact, you can go back to Exodus chapter
14. God is going to bring them to
the realization none can help them. None can come to the rescue
but God. I promise you this, in this matter
of salvation, there will be no salvation that comes to you until
God brings you to your wits end, until God brings you to see there
is no way out for you by your strength. And you throw up your
hands and you say, you know, Lord, I've tried to believe.
I can't believe. Do you know you can't believe
unless God gives you faith? And you may have a determination. I'm going to believe. I've just
decided I'm going to serve God. That's what people say. I've
decided I'm going to serve God. Well, go ahead. I've decided
I'm going to believe him. Well, go ahead. You can't do
it because you're staring at the Red Sea. And you got mountains
over here and mountains over here and you got an army behind
you. And when God brings you to see,
I have no hope, I'm utterly helpless. He's brought you to that position.
And then miraculously, he opens up the way. And you say, there
is a way. There is a way of safety. There
is a way of forgiveness. There is a way of life, even
for me. And God himself made the way.
So go back to Exodus chapter 14. I hope you're there already.
Let's talk about this great deliverance. And let me read the last two
verses which have already been read to us, but let me read verses
30 and 31 of chapter 14 of Exodus. Thus, thus, the Lord saved Israel. And the title of my message is
the Lord saved Israel. The Lord saved Israel that day
out of the hand of the Egyptians. And Israel saw the Egyptians
dead upon the seashore. And Israel, they saw that great
work which Jehovah did, God our Savior. See, that's what God shows us. He shows us that great work God
our Savior did, the Lord Jesus. God shows us the difficulty involved,
this difficulty of salvation and the impossibility of self-salvation. And he brings us to this point
of frustration, as it were, and we see, I can't do anything. God's got to save me, but He
doesn't have to. God's got to give me faith, He
doesn't have to give me faith. He brings you to see that you
totally are in the hands of a sovereign God. And He can do with you and
He will do with you according to His good pleasure. He's going
to bring you to that point. Because that way, you see, you'll
give him all the glory. When he saves you, when he delivers
you, he will do the great work, the great work. The Israelites, they leave Egypt
with great joy. dancing, happy. I just can't
imagine the way they feel, the bondage they've been under for
all of these years, especially since the good Pharaoh died,
who knew Joseph, and then another Pharaoh began to make life most
difficult for them. And here they're free. And they're
full of joy. They're full of happiness. They
probably think, boy, we're free from all difficulties now. Well, we know that God has never
given to his people an outlook of life without trouble. I think oft times new believers
tend to think Well, now that God has saved me, that is now
that God has revealed the Lord Jesus to me, my struggles are
over. My troubles are over. No, no. In many ways, they're just beginning. That's what Saul of Tarsus found
out. And many of the saints of God
have learned this. But what God does assure us of
is this, that he will be with us during those times of trouble. And all of the people of God
will understand what I'm going to say. It is better to have
troubles and God be with us by his spirit than to not have troubles
and not have God with us. I'll take the troubles in the
Lord, thank you very much. Yeah. You see, the way we grow in grace
and in knowledge and confidence is in those hours of difficulty. It's like the disciples when
they were out on a nice tranquil Sea of Galilee. Didn't matter
that the Savior was asleep in the back of the boat. It's okay. Boy, isn't it wonderful? Never
seen the sea this calm. That's so nice, it's so peaceful.
Life's good, brethren, isn't it? Say, yeah, it sure is. But
then the one in the back of the boat, he deemed it the right
time. to bring the storm about, and
the waves kick up, and the winds are blowing, and water's washing
over top of their little fishing boat. Boy, they're concerned
now. And they go back and wake him
up. Master, carest thou not that we perish? Oh, ye of little faith. See, faith doesn't grow when
the sea is nice and calm. It's when the sea is troubled. And you have to flee by faith
to the master of the sea. He is the only one who can speak
peace to your heart And then if he's pleased to do it, speak
peace to the storms. Peace be still, he said. This interesting episode in the
history of Israel is often appealed to in the scriptures as being
a great reminder to the people of God of the strength of our
Lord. 800 years after this, Isaiah, he
wrote that the Lord said, I am the Lord by God that divided
the sea, whose waves roared, the Lord
of hosts. That's my name. That's what he
said. He goes back to this. Nahum announced this in the book
of Nahum chapter one, verses three and four. He said, the
Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm. The clouds
are the dust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea. He rebuketh
the sea and it's dry. when our Lord renewed his promise
to his people in the days of Micah. Micah 7.15, the Lord said,
according to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt,
I will show you marvelous things. In Joshua, the Lord said, I brought
your fathers out of Egypt and you came through the sea. The
Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen
into the Red Sea. And when they cried to the Lord,
he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and he brought
the sea upon them, and he covered them. Your eyes have seen what
I did in Egypt. It was this notable event which
made such a great impression upon the enemies of Israel once
they entered into the land of Canaan. Joshua chapter two and
verses 10 and 11, for we have heard how the Lord dried up the
water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt. Over
and over again, the people of God are reminded of this. And
I want to remind you tonight, our God has not changed. He is
still the God of deliverance. He is still the God who fights
our battles for us. Stand still and see the salvation
of the Lord. Now, as I'm going to point out
in just a few minutes, there's a time to stand still. And then
Moses said, let's go. Let's move. God give us wisdom when to know
when to stop and when to go. Look at a few interesting things.
First of all, their location. Chapter 14, one and two. And the Lord spake to Moses saying,
speaking to the children of Israel that they are gonna make a turn. And it's not toward the promised
land. You know who's turning them?
The Lord is. You turn and encamp before Piahiroth
between Migdal and the sea over against Baal-ziphon before it
you shall encamp by the sea. Now, what this is, this is like
the entrance to the Red Sea. this town called Migdal. It was a location of a kind of
a tower and was right at the edge of the Red Sea. And this
god, Baal-ziphon, he was a god who was positioned up in this
tower. It was his job the job of that
idol to make certain that none of the servants of Egypt, such
as the Israelites, that nobody broke loose from the captivity
of Egypt. That's his job. Now he's an idol. That's all he is. He's an idol. Beelzephon. And he's positioned
up there in that tower. What's he up there for? Oh, he's
on the lookout. What's he on the lookout for?
Any slave who would try to escape Egyptian captivity? Reckon he's
ever captured anybody? Reckon he's doing any good up
there? And you see, even the Egyptians,
though this was their god, a dunghill god, Beelzephon, though he was
the one of their many, many gods. They had thousands of gods. Yet
it is obvious they had no confidence in Beelzephon to stop the captives
from escaping. Otherwise, Pharaoh and his army
wouldn't have been in pursuit. Well, we'll just leave that to
our God. He'll stop them. No, he won't stop. Because somebody
had to carry him up there into that tower and somebody had to
position him and every once in a while somebody has to go in
there and give him a bath and wash him off and shine him up
and get their God looking good again. But he's useless. Useless. This is the location that God
brought the Israelites to. And here's what God is going
to do. He's going to expose the inability of this Egyptian God
to do the Egyptians any good. You see all along, here's what
God's been doing three things. He's delivering his people, he's
defeating his enemies, and also he has been exposing the uselessness
of all the gods of Egypt. This is what he did in setting
forth all those plagues. Each one of them was designed
to defeat one or more of the gods of the Egyptians. You see,
you gotta remember, in Egypt, there was no separation of church
and state. There was purely a religious
nation, starting with Pharaoh himself, whom the people considered
to be, and he considered himself to be a god. And every one of
the plagues that God sent was to defeat one of their gods,
if not two or three of their gods. They were a very superstitious
people. And God is going to expose, He's
going to show that their gods were nothing. They're nothing. And He will defeat them all.
He turns the water to blood. The Nile River was very sacred
to them. They had a God, his name was
Khun, K-H-N-U-N. He was the guardian of the Nile.
He'll protect the Nile River because the Nile River of all,
really, of all the countries in the world, at least back then,
the historians say, no river was more vital to a nation's
economy than the Nile River was to Egypt. And what did God do?
God turned it into blood. He turned it into blood. Killed
all the fish. The crocodiles had to leave.
The crocodiles were sacred to them. Why, they have even found,
they embalmed crocodiles. They were so sacred to them. The frogs that God sent, that
was to defeat a frog-headed God. The lice to defeat Leb, the earth
God. I got a list of all of them here.
And what God is doing, He is showing that these things are
useless. I'm God, He says. And so therefore,
after they come out of Egyptian bondage, and after they cross
the Red Sea, and they go to Mount Sinai, one of the very first
things God wrote in His law, thou shall have no other gods
but me, because they have lived in Egypt. They've been in Egypt for years
and years, and they've seen multitudes of gods. And the God that they worship,
the God Jehovah, Abraham's God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, he's invisible. And they got in deep trouble
further over in the book of Exodus, in Exodus chapter 32, when the
Israelites said, we wanna have a visible God just like the Egyptians
have, like all the other nations have got. And so Aaron said,
well, give me yourself, give me gold. And he fashioned a golden
calf. And God said very specifically,
no God's but me, no God's but me. Well, then here's what the
Lord did. So he brings him to this location.
It's a hopeless situation. And then he does this in verse
three. He says, Pharaoh will then say
of the children of Israel, they're entangled, they're confused,
they're perplexed, they've lost their direction. They don't even
know where they're going. And I'm sure in the mind of Ferry,
he thought, this has got to be the nuttiest people in the world.
Why'd they take this path? Why are they going in this direction?
Come on, boys, let's go. These people, they don't even
know how to navigate through our country. They have no idea. This is a dead end road. Because this leads to the Red
Sea. And here's the reason he began
to think that way, because verse four, God hardened his heart. The heart of the king is in the
Lord's hand. As the rivers of water, he turneth
it whichever way he will. And so Pharaoh says, I'll pursue. Because you see, God's going
to get him too. Because he considers himself
a god And the Lord is going to show that there is but one God
and it sure isn't Pharaoh So all of his army goes with him As you get down here in verse
7 it says he took 600 chosen chariots and all the chariots
of Egypt and captains over every one of them and Some of you have
the works of Josephus. I know you've got it, maybe a
few other. He was a Jewish historian, lived
in the first century. But he writes concerning this,
and he's not inspired, obviously. But he is a historian, and generally
he is regarded as an accurate historian. He said that not only
did Pharaoh have 600 chariots, but he had 50,000 horsemen and
200,000 foot soldiers. This is a massive army after
the Israelites who have no weapons of war. And to Pharaoh and all of his
army, this seems like easy pickings. No problem. And so we read in verse four,
the Egyptians pursued after them all the horses and the chariots
of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army. They overtook them
in camping by the sea beside Piahiroth before Baal-ziphon. That is right there where the
land and the sea meet. And he's in pursuit. Well, we
see in verse, look at verse 10. And when Pharaoh drew nigh the
children of Israel lifted up their eyes and behold, the Egyptians
marched after them and they were sore afraid and the children
of Israel cried out unto the Lord. Then the next verse, verse
11 says, then they said to Moses, because there were no graves
in Egypt, Hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?
Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us to carry us forth out
of Egypt? Is not this the word that we
did tell thee in Egypt, saying, leave us alone, that we may serve
the Egyptians? For it had been better for us
to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness."
Now, a couple of the commentators, and I really think this is an
accurate, I think they're accurate in this
conclusion, that in the verse number 10, the children of Israel,
that is the children of God, those who believed God, they
cried out to God. But the majority of them were
unbelievers. And so they began to murmur against
the providence of God. I don't know why he didn't leave
us back in Egypt. At least we had safety back then. We had something to eat back
then. And of course, they're gonna
follow this pattern through their wilderness journey. This is an awful trial of their
faith. And many of them showed they
didn't have any faith at all. When God puts us in a great dilemma, may He give us grace to believe
Him. I do believe that a lack of faith is the besetting
sin of all of the people of God. We do believe, we believe Christ,
I believe Him. You believe Him. We trust the
Lord Jesus. We trust Him to save us. We trust
His blood. We trust His righteousness. We're
trusting His sacrifice. We're trusting His reign. We
believe He's governing all things for the good of His people. We
believe, but so often our faith is weak. We know that and we
may as well confess that. And it's not an excuse, it's
a sinful thing. And God helped us to weep over
that, and we ask God, give us a stronger faith. Indeed, the
object of our faith is the Lord himself. But our faith, as you
know, grows weak often, as it did with the children of God. What is God doing with Israel
though? He's bringing them to this position. They have no hope other than
the Lord. That's it. And really to have
the Red Sea in front of you and a mountain here and a mountain
here and a military might back here, it's really the best place
to be. You know why it's the best place
to be? Because God brought them there. And they're not going
to learn of His strength and His mercy in making a way through the Red
Sea for them. They will not learn that any
other way except this way. That's the only way they're gonna
learn. That's how we learn too. He brings us to dead-end roads. Then we say, Lord, how'd I get
here? Well, how did they get there? They're led by the pillar of
fire by night and the pillar of cloud by day. The Lord led
them. It says very clearly up here,
the Lord turned them. He turned them. so that he's put them in this
position. And it's really a blessed day
when the Lord leads us to a dead-end road to where we finally have
to say, Lord, I don't know what to do. And then Moses, Moses, God's
servant, he said, just stand still. You watch what God does. How many deliverances have you
received from the hands of God over the years when you thought
there was no way out? The salvations of God. Spiritual salvation, yes. Eternal
salvation, yes. But also physical salvation.
These deliverances are of God. Stand still. Fear not. Stand
still and see the salvation of the Lord. He says, fear ye not. And I was thinking just a couple
of days ago, I was out walking. You know, it's so easy to tell
people when they're facing trouble in life, Don't be afraid, the
Lord's with you. And that's a good thing to say,
the Lord. But it's a different situation
when the trouble is coming to you. That's totally different. It's
easy to give that kind of advice. Just trust the Lord, brother.
Trust the Lord, sister. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Then that storm comes. in your
life, and you hear the thunder, and you see the lightning, and
you feel the rain, the troubles of life. Ain't so easy to be
fearless then, is it? But it is the right thing, that's
the right attitude, is not be fearful. Not be fearful. And then we see in verse 15,
the Lord said into Moses, why cry to me? Speak to the children
of Israel. Go forward. He just said, stand
still. Now he says, go forward. Go forward
by faith. Where are we going? We're going
right into that sea right there. We're going right in the midst
of it. What are we gonna do? What are
y'all gonna do? I guess we'll just follow Moses.
I can't go this way, I can't go that way, and I'm sure not
gonna go back this way. That's death. Moses said, let's
go, let's go. And Moses walks up there, and
he, by the might of God, divides that sea, and all of a sudden
they watch. There's an opening. And I mean
it's not a little opening either. It's big. It's wide. And here they go. Here they go. Stand still and see God's salvation. See what God has done. Now, go
forward. Go forward by faith. Go forward acknowledging His
strength. The scripture speaks of this
as being baptized in the book of 1 Corinthians. They were all
baptized in the sea. You see, they had believed. Now
they're believing God. And now their confession of faith
is in the water, with the water on both sides. They just go through. They were all baptized in the
sea. See, baptism always follows faith. Follows faith. And then they go through and
Pharaoh and the Egyptians, they see the opening and they don't
think twice. Here we go right in behind them.
But then some unusual things began to happen to them. Verse
25, all those chariots, those 600 chariots, they in real trouble
according to verse 25. Wheels start falling off. A chariot's
not much good without wheels. Because there's driving them
heavily. Let's go, they're beating their horses. God had the wheels
fall off. Let me tell you something. God
has caused all the wheels of the chariots of your enemies
to fall off. They can't hurt you. They can't
hurt you. And all those horsemen and 200,000
foot soldiers, all the forces of hell can't hurt God's people. Now you just remember that. You
file that away in your memory banks. It can't hurt you. You see what it says in verse
25? The Egyptians said, let us flee
from the face of Israel because somebody's fighting for them. I love this. Somebody's fighting
for them. The Lord is fighting for them. They get to the other
side. Moses stretched forth his hand
over the sea. Verse 27, the sea returned to
its strength when the morning appeared. The Egyptians, they
began to run, trying to run back to the shore. The picture I have
in my mind is all of Israel. Here they get to the shore, and
as they get to the shore, then the sea begins to come back,
starting there on that western shore, making its way toward
Pharaoh and all of his chariots and his horsemen and his foot
soldiers. And they see it coming, and they're
running. But you can't outrun God's judgment. You hear me? You cannot outrun
God's judgment. And God killed every last one
of them. Thousands of men, Egypt's finest,
all of them dead. Nobody survived. You cannot survive
a war with God. Impossible. But there are some people, lo
and behold, over there on that far shore, there's two and a
half million people. They're safe. Not through any ingenuity of
their own, not through any strength of their own. It says in verse 29, notwithstanding what happened
to the Egyptian soldiers, but the children of Israel walked
on dry land in the midst of the sea and the waters were a wall
under them on the right hand and on their left. Thus, the
Lord saved Israel. Oh, that's the key. What do we take away from this,
Jim? The Lord saved Israel. Salvations of the Lord. It's
of the Lord in its purpose. It's of the Lord in its purchase.
It is of the Lord in its power. It is of the Lord in its preservation. And it is of the Lord in its
perfection. The Lord saved Israel. And everybody who's not Israel,
Everybody who's opposed to God, God took care of them. Oh, how wonderful it is to know
our God is king and he rules, he governs all things for his
glory and the good of his people. So the next time you find yourself
in a bit of a predicament Just do like the Lord so often
did to Israel. Be reminded of what He did at
the Red Sea. And know this, He says, I'm the
Lord. I change not. I don't change. At Red Sea you're facing, nothing
to Him. That's His Red Sea. That's his
Red Sea. Well, I hope that'll help you
a little. Lord, bless the word that's gone forth this evening
and we ask you to strengthen us in faith as we are reminded
many times in scripture of what you did for Israel at the Red
Sea. So we should always be aware of what God in Christ has done
for us. Lord, You've saved us. You've
brought us through one way of salvation. That is, our Lord
Jesus, who is Himself the way, the truth, and the life. And
through His substitutionary death, He opened the way for all of
your people. And we see that our Our very
salvation and our strength is in the Lord Jesus Christ. Minister
to your dear children. Let us be encouraged in the Lord.
Let us know when to stand still and see your salvation and let
us know when to go forward. And you do that by opening up
doors for us You lead us by your spirit and through the word of
God. So we thank you for all things. Thank you for the privilege
of meeting together today. Bless all of your children and
Lord, those who know you not. We ask that you'd bring them
to faith in the son of God, the only savior of sinners. In his name, I ask these things
with thanksgiving. Amen.