Take a beer. Take a beer. for His name to worship in. We have come into this house gathered in His name to worship God's throne. So forget about yourself. So forget about yourself and concentrate on Him and worship Him. So forget about yourself Concentrate on Him and worship Christ the Lord. Worship Him, Christ the Lord. So let's lift up holy faith and magnify His name and worship Him. So let's lift up holy faith and magnify His name and worship Him. So let's lift up holy faith and magnify His name and worship Christ the Lord. Worship Him, Christ the Lord. He is all my righteousness. He is all my righteousness, I stand in Him complete and worship Him. He is all my righteousness, I stand in Him complete and worship Him. He is all my righteousness I stand in Him complete And worship Christ the Lord Worship Him Christ the Lord Good morning. Let's all stand together and sing hymn number 195. 195. I've a message from the Lord, hallelujah. A message unto you I'll give. Tis recorded in his word, hallelujah. It is only that you look and live. Look and live, my brother, live. Look to Jesus now and live. Disrecorded in his word, hallelujah. It is only that you look and live. I've a message full of love, hallelujah. A message, O my friend, for you, tis a message from above. Hallelujah! Jesus seen, and I know tis true. Look and live, my brother, live. Look to Jesus now and live. It's recorded in his word, hallelujah. It is only that you look and live. Life is promised unto you. Hallelujah! Eternal life thy soul shall have. If you'll only look to Him. Hallelujah! Think to Jesus, sin alone can't save. Look and live, my brother, live. Look to Jesus now and live. Tis recorded in his word, hallelujah. It is only that you look and live. I will tell you how I came, hallelujah, to Jesus when he made me whole. T'was believing on his name, hallelujah, I trusted when he saved my soul. Look and live, my brother, live. Look to Jesus now and live. It is recorded in his word, hallelujah. It is only that you look and live. Be seated. We'll sing hymn number 249. 249. Just as I am without one plea, but that Thy blood was shed for me, and that Thou bidst me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come. I could. Just as I am and waiting not to rid my soul of one dark lot to thee whose blood can cleanse of God I come, I come. Just as I am though tossed about, with many a conflict, many a doubt, fightings, and fears within. With thou, O Lamb of God, I come. Bye, girl. Just as I am poor, wretched, blind, sight-wretched, feeling of the mind, they all I need in Thee. To find, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. Just as I am, Thou wilt receive. with welcome heart and clenched relief, because Thy promise I believe. O Lamb of God, I come. Turn with me to Exodus chapter 14, Exodus chapter 14. You know, that's something about our Lord, that He always takes us just as we are, every moment of every day. We don't have, you know, we try to prepare ourselves for worship, you know, to, but yet he takes us as we are. When we get up in the morning, go through our day, get to the end of the day, he takes us just as we are. And ain't you grateful he's that way? If we had to be different, had to make ourselves difference to be accepted of him, we'd never be accepted. bless his holy name, takes us just like we are. Now, that don't mean that we'd like to be different. I mean, we'd love to be without sin, love to be without this flesh to hinder us. We'd love to be without that. But if we got that to contend with till the day we leave this world, but that's why the Lord takes us just as we are. Let me read Exodus 14, verse 1 down through 22, and I hope to, by God's grace, to bring a message from this. I, the Lord, speak unto Moses. That's the first thing you got to understand. God's the one doing the talking. Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihaiaroth, between Migdal and the sea, over against Baal Zephan, before it you shall encamp by the sea. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, they are entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut them in. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them. And I will be honored upon Pharaoh and upon all his host, that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so. And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled, and the heart of Pharaoh of his service were turned against the people. And they said, What have we done that we should have had Israel go from serving us? And he made ready his chariot, and he took his people with him. And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he pursued after the children of Israel. And the children of Israel went out with a high hand. But the Egyptians pursued after them all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them, encamping by the sea beside Pi-hi-horaz, before Baal-ziphon. 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 unto the Lord. And they said unto Moses, Because thou wert no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Wherefore hast thou dealt with us to carry us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let 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. Moses said unto the people, Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you today. For the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore cryest thou unto me, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. But lift up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. And behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. And I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his hosts, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, whom when I have gotten me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. And the angel of the LORD went before the camp of Israel, removed, and went behind them. And the pillar of cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them. And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. It was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these, that the one came not near the other all the night. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground, and the waters were a wall under them on their right hand and on their left." Our blessed Savior, our great and glorious God of heaven and earth, Lord, we read of your wonder-working power. We read of the supernatural work that you do in this world. And, Lord, I thank you that you give us your word to tell us of your mighty acts, your wondrous works, the pictures of salvation of your people. And, Lord, we're thankful to be able to come here today together with the people of God. But yet, Lord, we also pray for those who've never been converted, those who've never been saved by your grace, those that the blood has never cleansed their souls from their sin. May the gospel have power today. May the gospel be alive and real into the hearts of those that don't know you. Lord, you said in your word that there's a day when the gospel becomes the gospel of our salvation. May today be the day the gospel becomes the gospel of their salvation. May the truth have such power on them that they can get no rest until they come to our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ. And Father, we pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ. Lord, who has such a hard time right now, pray for Jim and Debbie, Rick and Helen, and others among us whose bodies are frail, who are weak, who has troubles in their home, troubles in their heart, trouble in their mind. God bless the word today to be an encouragement to them, to edify them. Lift them up, be a comfort to them. And Lord Jesus, have mercy upon our children and our grandchildren, God, who have no interest in you. But Lord, you can create an interest in the blink of an eye. You can bring a person to dust just in a moment. And so we pray that you do that for our loved ones and bring glory to yourself in whatever you do. We ask these things in our blessed Savior's name. Amen. Amen. Let's stand together and sing the hymn of the day in the bulletin. How sweet and awful is the place with Christ within. the doors, while everlasting love displays the choices of his stores. Hear every bowel of our God. With soft compassion rose, Here peace and pardon, love and blood, Is food for dying souls. While all our hearts and all our songs Join to admire the feast Each of us cry With thankful tongues, Lord, why was I not guessed? Why was I made to hear thy voice, and enter while there's room, when thousands make a wretched choice, and rather starve than go. T'was the same love that spread the feast, had sweetly forced us in, else we had still refused to taste and perished in our sin. Be seated. I hope you still got your Bibles open to Exodus 14. I want to talk about supernatural salvation. Supernatural salvation. That's one of the things that's a mark of God doing a work. It's a miracle, it's miraculous, and it's supernatural. It's a supernatural act for God to take out a stony heart and put in a heart of flesh. It's a supernatural act for God to take away the darkened mind and give an enlightened mind. It's a supernatural act of God for God to take a man and give him a new nature. give Him a new nature, make Him a new creature. But here in Exodus 14, as God is leading the new nation of Israel, they've just been brought, coming out of Egypt. They're still in Egypt. They haven't crossed yet. He's bringing out the new nation of Israel, and we have a typical picture of God's dealings with His elect as He sees them. And you know, he brings them out because of a covenant. He brings them out because the covenant that God made with Abraham. And, and, and, and then a promise that he made to Abraham, he said, your seed will go down into Egypt and they'll stay down there for 400 years. And I'll bring them out with a high hand. And they stayed down there for 435 years and God brought them out because of a covenant that he made with Abraham. and a promise he made to Abraham. And as we read and deal with the subject, we're confronted with God, what he said about himself and about us. He said, my ways, my thoughts, my ways are higher than your ways. And my thoughts are higher than the heavens in your thoughts. In other words, he said, men, you're nothing like at all. We're not like each other at all. My thoughts are higher than the heavens. My thoughts are not your thoughts. My ways are not your ways. And that's what people don't understand. There's so many preachers don't understand. God's ways and our ways is not the same. They're not the same. Don't even come close. Don't even come close. And all the Holy Spirit, when I do know this about what he does, when the Holy Spirit begins to convince a soul of sin, of sin, S-I-N, not sins, sin. Sins are what we do. We do sins because of what we are, sin. Born with it, bred with it, it's in us, it's just us breathing air. And yet he also not, but he comes and convince us of righteousness, a righteousness we don't have. And there's only one place to get that righteousness, and that's in the Lord Jesus Christ. And then He comes along and convinces you of judgment to come. Now, when He convinces you of sin and righteousness and judgment, you say, I can't deal with those things. I can't deal with my own sin. I certainly don't want to face God in my own righteousness, and I certainly don't want to face Him in judgment. Don't want to do that. But, oh, when He leads the soul, into a true sense of its emptiness and its barrenness. And I'll tell you something, this got to happen. It's got to happen for you to ever, ever be thankful for God's grace in Christ. He got to bring you to the end of yourself. You got to empty you before you ever feel, got to kill you before he makes you alive. And that's what he does here as he leads Israel into this wilderness and he weaves them into the wilderness for one reason, to save them. To save them. Look what it says in verse 3 here. What it says in verse 3. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, they are entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut them in. He said, boy, I've got them right where I want them. They're in a helpless condition. God said this is what Pharaoh's going to do. And they're entangled in the land. And the wilderness has shut them in. Now here's their situation. He's backed them right up to the Red Sea. They're right up to the Red Sea and there's these big rocks and everything all around them. And they can't go back because Pharaoh's coming after them. And they're sitting there by the Red Sea. They're sitting there in the wilderness. They're sitting there, and they're kept there. And they're shut in, and there ain't no way. And Pharaoh says, I'm going to, I've got them right where I want them. And I'll tell you, the enemy sometimes thinks I've got them right where I want them. But the Lord led them to this place, just like He does a convicted sinner without hope. Look what it says in verse 2. He says, Speak unto the children of Israel that they turn and encamp before Pi-ha-hi-roth, between Migdal and the sea, over against Baal-sephon, before it shall be encamped by the sea." What are they going to do? What are they going to do? You know, God, excuse me, God brought them to this place and made Pharaoh come after them. just to show them that they had no hope in themselves whatsoever. They were like a, and this is something that we don't know anything about, conviction of sin. Conviction of sin. That's a lost thing in preaching today, conviction of sin. And what conviction means is just like you're standing before a judge and the judge finds you guilty. Finds you guilty of so many crimes. Well, that's the way it is with God. God finds you guilty. There's nobody, everybody, God says you're guilty. You're before the judge. He says you're guilty. What am I guilty of? Sin? Rebellion? Enmity? High handedness? High mindedness? Mouthing off? Murmuring? Complaining? Oh my. And they're shut up. And they're shut up here like between the broken law and the sea of human inability. There's that broken law. I still don't understand how people could believe that they can go to the law and be justified by the law and be kept by the law and face the law when it says the law is ten commandments. Now, we're not talking about ceremony and rituals, but how in the world could anybody stand up and say, I love the Lord my God with all my heart, mind, soul, strength, and body? How could anybody stand up and say, I've never told a lie? I've never coveted it. I've honored my father and mother all the days of my life. I've never had any other gods before me. So that's where we're at. We're at that law. And then there's man and his human inability, his barrenness. Oh my. And I tell you, how are they going to save themselves here? Has God made a mistake in leading them into this trap? And that's what it is. It's a trap. Pharaoh, that's what he says there in verse four. He says, Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel. Then he will say, I've got them. I've got them. I've got them. You keep Exodus 14. Look in Psalm 71. Look in Psalm 71 with me. Look in Psalm 71. Verse 11. saying, God hath forsaken him, persecute him, and take him, for there is none to deliver him. Now that's where these Pope, that's what they said about David, said persecute him, there's nobody gonna save him. Nobody gonna save him. And Pharaoh say, I've got him where I want him. But oh my, God led them to this place, led them to this place where they're trapped against the Red Sea. and Pharaoh coming after them. And, oh, God led them to this place. Has He ever led you to such a place where you had not got any ability? Has He led you to the place that you know your inability, you know you ain't got no power, you know you ain't got no rights, you know you ain't got salvation, you know you ain't got a new heart? Has He ever led you to such a place where you can't do nothing for yourself, your husband can't do nothing for you, your wife can't do nothing for you, your mom and daddy can't do nothing for you? Has He ever led you to a place where nobody can help you? Not the preacher, nobody? Oh my. Has he ever caught you between the enemies and the sea of inability? Oh my. The hardest thing for folks to understand, realize, is their inability. Inability. And I, you know, our Lord said this, without me, you can do nothing. That's man's problem. He thinks he can do it. He thinks he has the ability to do anything he wants to do. You know, everybody's been left up to their free will. Everybody's been left up to their own power. Everybody's believed, oh I'll make a decision, I'll be okay. But God put these people in this place right here where they could not do nothing for themselves. Oh my. Now look what they do when they get in this situation. Look what it says down in verse 9. Nine and ten. But the Egyptians pursued after them all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army and overtook them in camping by the sea. And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes and behold, the Egyptians marched after them And what's this now? And they were so afraid. And what was the first thing they done? They cried unto the Lord. You know when they cried unto the Lord? When they didn't have no place else to go. When they didn't have no place else to go. Somebody, I think it was Chris Cunningham, put out something about, you know, that God brings us into trouble sometimes. just to make us trust Him. And one of the things that troubles me more than anything about myself, and I believe it does every believer, I hate having a cold heart. I hate it. I despise it, having a heart that's cold. Come to worship God, come to open the Bible, come to call on God, and your heart's cold, cold. Oh, cold. Oh, how could I? How could we have? But, oh, Pharaoh drew nigh, and they were afraid. They were afraid. And then they cried unto the Lord. Oh, my. Who else could they call on? Tell me, who else could they call on? Who else could they call on? But they only called on him when they were sore, sore afraid, terrified, absolutely scared to death. All earthly help and hope must be cut off before anyone will ever come to the Lord. Huh? Oh, my soul must be shut up to faith, shut up to faith. Are you afraid? Let me ask you this. Are you afraid of facing the Lord? You're afraid of leaving this world and facing God on your own? I would be. I am. I am. But a soul has to be shut up to faith. You know, our Lord Jesus, the disciples went out onto the Sea of Galilee, and a big storm come up. I mean a big storm. They thought the ship was going to sink. And the Lord Jesus was laying asleep. He was asleep. He was a man. He got tired. He was laying asleep. And the scripture says he is asleep on a pillar. So he had a pillar in that boat, in that ship, and he was asleep. And them fellas jumped, they got scared to death. They said, Oh my, what are we going to do? We're going to all perish. And they run and woke the Lord Jesus up and said, Master, don't you care that we perish? Asked the Lord Jesus Christ, don't you care that we perish? Our Lord got up and he looked out over that storm. He said, peace. Now here's a sleep. God don't sleep, but the man Christ Jesus did. But when he got up and said, peace, be still. The wind ceased and the water got just as calm. Only God can do that. But they were scared to death they was going to perish. Huh? And it's like Bartimaeus. He was a beggar, been blind. Oh, he's a beggar. He is a beggar. And that's one thing. You ain't going to find nobody begging for mercy. But oh my, here's Bartimaeus. And he was crying out, heard the Lord was coming by. He began to cry out, Jesus, that son of David, have mercy on me. He said, shut up, shut up, shut up. And you know what the scripture says? He cried the more. I ain't fixing to shut up. He's the only one that could do anything for me. Bring him over here. What do you want me to do for you? I might receive my sight. You got it. You got it. And that's the way it is. God's got to bring you to the place where you've got no place else to go but to Christ. And if He ever brings you to that place and you ever start coming to Christ, you'll never stop coming to Christ. And I'll tell you something else about coming to Christ. You can come to Christ and not move a muscle. You can come to Christ right where you sit. You know why you can come to Christ right where you sit? Because it's an act of faith. It's something you do. You believe what you're hearing. You say that's true. You say that's the condition I'm in. And you say, Lord, have mercy on me. I need you. I'm like that blind. I'm like Bartimaeus. I'm like the fellows in the ship. I'm like these people here. Pharaoh's about to get me. And I ain't got no place else to go. And oh my, my soul. And I'll tell you something else, the moment you come to Christ, the moment you start toward Christ, you're there just like that. It don't take, it don't take an hour to get to him. There was a fella, Bruce Crabtree was preaching one place one time and this fella come up and told him, he said, I've been seeking the Lord 25 years. Bruce said, that's way, way, way too long. He's not that hard to find. They was making seeking the Lord to be salvation. The trouble that he was going through. And so 25 years of Bruce said, that's way, way, way too long. Christ is right here, right now. And the moment somebody comes to him, they're there. Just that quick. That's how quick it is. Lord, they got the Lord up. How long did it take him to calm that sea? How long did it take him to give Bartimaeus sight? How long does it take God to do anything? And I pray, and oh, I pray that God will bring somebody to the end of themselves. Oh, my. And I tell you, Got to be shut up. I want to show you something in Psalm 107. Keep Exodus 14. Look in Psalm 107. Look in Psalm 107. Look in Psalm 107. Look what it says in verse 6. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their trespasses. Look down verse 13. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. Look down verse 19. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. Look down verse 28. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. You know, every time those folks got in trouble, they cried unto the Lord. Oh, my. You know, they despair and cry, Lord, save us. Lord, They cried unto the Lord. Who else are they going to cry unto? And then look what it says down here in verse 12 and 13. And this is what, this is what these people said. Verse 12, they said, Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, that we should die in the wilderness. And look what Moses said unto him. Salvation. We're going to talk about this supernatural salvation by the Lord's presence and power. And look what he said. Moses said unto the people. The prophet said unto the people. God said, tell these people. What's the first thing he said to them? Fear not. Fear not. Fear not. Don't be afraid. They're scared to death. Fear not. Fear everything until you hear this from the Lord. Fear sin. Fear self. Fear your flesh. Fear religion. Fear carnal reasoning like these people did. Let us go back to Egypt. It better be back there under bondage than it is to die out here in the wilderness. But he said, oh my, now look what else he said. Fear not. Stand still. Stand still. You know what that means? That don't mean that they're just supposed to stop, not move. I mean, you're talking about a couple of million people, I mean, standing there. They're all moving. But what he means is be still and know that I am the Lord. You be quiet in your heart. Be quiet in your mind. Be quiet in your soul. Be quiet before God. Let your soul be calm. Let your mind be calm. Just stand still. Just calm down. Don't be disquieted. David asked this question, Why art thou disquieted in my soul? O my soul, hope thou in God. And that's what he said. Stand still. Why do you want me to stand still for? Look what else it says. And see the salvation of the Lord. We're going to be lost here. We're going to die. Stand still, and you're going to see something you ain't never seen before. You're going to see something. You're going to experience something that you've never experienced or seen before in your life. You're going to see the salvations of the Lord. Jonah learned that in the belly of the whale. He learned that in the belly of the whale. He said, Lord, salvations of the Lord. And that whale, listen, and you know people say there's no way in the world that a whale swallowed Jonah. Well, if the Bible says that Jonah swallowed the whale, I'd believe it, because I believe God's Word. But that whale swallowed Jonah, and he said, salvation's in the Lord. And that whale took him out and spit him out on dry land. God's salvation saves you all the way to glory. It don't save you just here, it saves you forever. Salvation's of the Lord, God Himself. God devised salvation, and He devised salvation before this world ever began. Christ stood as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. God said, I'll send my son to execute that salvation. I'll put him on a cross, and I'll cause him to bear sin in his own body on that tree. And then he'll go to the grave, and I'll raise him from the grave. And then I'll reveal him to people, because there's no other name under heaven given among men whereby he must be saved other than Jesus Christ. And then he said, I'll send the Holy Spirit to take what I purposed, what my son did, and I'll send him and make what he did effectual in the hearts of those people whom he died for. He'll go call them. He'll go call them. And, oh, stand still. Cease from your works. Cease from your wearying. And see the salvation of the Lord. anyone ever sees and experiences salvation, they will know it's of the Lord. They'll know it's of the Lord. You cannot be, you know, the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord. Abraham saw the salvation of the Lord. Jacob saw the salvation of the Lord. Abraham God promised him a child. He waited 25 years for that promise to be fulfilled. But he performed. And then Jacob, he was asleep one night and a fella grabbed a hold of him. He was asleep one night and a fella got a hold of him. And got a hold of him and started, he said, what's your name? My name's secret, that's what it is. My name's wonderful, that's what it means. And he got a hold of Jacob, and he turned Jacob every way, every way there was to turn him. And you know what happened to Jacob after God saved him on that night? When he appeared to him, he changed his name from Jacob to Israel, a prince with God. And you know what else he did to him? He changed his walk. He walked with a limp from then on. What happened to you, Jacob? The Lord met me. The Lord saved me. And I walked different. That's what God does. He made that man to walk different than he ever walked before in his life. And oh my, I tell you what. And oh my, salvation to the Lord. Thank God. And there was an old man. There was an old man. And he was old. He'd been waiting for the consolation of Israel and he was in the temple one day and there's all kinds of mothers and dads that had their sons in there the eighth day that they were born to have them circumcised and Dedicate them to the Lord given to the Lord the firstborn is given to the Lord and they had the Lord Jesus in there and That man walked over with all him male children in there, he walked over and he saw one baby, and he picked that baby up, eight days old now, he picked that baby up, held it in his arms, and he's looking at an eight day old infant, he said, I see the salvation of the Lord. I've been waiting for this, A day old child. He said, I've seen the salvation of the Lord. Now let thy servant depart in peace. He gave that baby back to his mother. He probably died the next day. Went to be with the Lord. But he saw salvation in an infant. If he saw salvation in an infant, can you not see salvation in a risen Lord? One sitting at the right hand of God. King of kings and Lord of lords. Huh? Oh, my. I want to show you something. Keep Exodus 14. Look in Romans 10. We need to see this. I think we need to see this. I think it. Now, you may not think it, but I do. And we need to see this in Romans 10. This is so sad, really, when you think about it. Romans chapter 10. Look what it says here in verse 2. He's talking about Israel now. He said, for I bear them record. I go on record against these people right here. They have a zeal for God. Oh, they're so zealous for God. They want to go soul winning. They want to go out witnessing. They want to knock on doors. They want, they just, oh, but their zeal didn't have any knowledge behind it. What are you going to tell them when you get there? When you start witnessing somebody, what are you going to say? What are you going to tell them? You got this zeal and you want to go out and do something, but you ain't got no knowledge, so what are you going to say? If you don't know what you're talking about, why open your mouth? And that's what these fellas did. They didn't know what they was talking about. But look what else he goes on to say. And this is what knowledge they lacked. They was ignorant of God's righteousness. God's righteousness. And how do you know that they were ignorant? Because they went about to establish their own righteousness. I want my own. I don't want to face God for somebody else's righteousness. I want to face God for my own. And that's what they thought about. But look what it says, and have not submitted themselves. Unto the righteousness of God. Well, what is the righteousness of God? Christ is the end the fulfillment the completion for righteousness to what to everyone that believes not works Everybody that believes Their zeal and labor didn't profit them. Nothing stand still and seize the salvation of the Lord And now look what he says down here, verse 15, back over in our text. Well, verse 14, excuse me, first. He said, you know, you'll never see the Egyptians again from today, no more. The Lord shall fight for you. And look what he says. You should hold your peace. Don't you say another word. Don't you say anything. Don't you say anything about the way I'm saving you. Don't you dare say anything. You hold your peace. Hold your peace. And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore cryest thou unto me? Speak. Speak. Preach. Tell them, the children of Israel, that they go forward. You all go forward now. And then, oh my, look what he says down in verse 22. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea, up on dry ground. Oh, my. And behold, the waters were a wall unto them on the right hand and on the left hand. You know how that happened? Moses just lifted up his rod. Oh, my. Oh, this is the, this is the supernatural way of salvation. All of God's doing. Let me tell you something else that happened. The blood had already been shed at the Passover. The blood's been shed. The blood's been applied. When the Passover was, they had the blood. God said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over it. So God taking these people that the blood's been shed for, the blood's been applied, and now he's gonna, the blood's been, the blood's been applied, God's gonna bring you out with power. And he's bringing these people out with power and with his presence. Oh, the blood's been shed. Now God is going to manifest his saving power upon them. The enemy's behind them. The sea's before them. How are we going to be saved? It's going to take a miracle. It's going to take a miracle. Let me read something to you. It took a miracle to put the stars in place. It took a miracle to hang the world in space. But when he saved my soul, cleansed and made me whole, it took a miracle of love and grace. Oh, it took a miracle. It took a miracle. It took a supernatural power. God saved them in such a way that he gets all the glory. that nobody else can say I had something to do with this he done it in such a way that he gets all the glory nobody else gets any whatsoever and oh my and God opened for us anew in a living way you know how he did it having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest of all how through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, newly slain, always slain, newly, like it's always been there. And where Christ is, you can go, go right into the very presence of God. Let us draw near. The way, the way through the seer has been maintained till the last redeemed one walks across that and ends up on the other side. You know, Can you imagine what, there's two million people, can you imagine what kind of people they were? There were babies that mothers had to carry in their arms. There was grannies and old people that somebody had to carry them on their back because they couldn't walk very well. And there was every type of person that you can imagine. Young, old, babies, infants, old, there was people so old Moses was 80 or 90 years old when he went through there. But all these people walking through there, people that's infirm, and they're saved just as strong as the sons. Saved just as strong. Oh my, there's no, and I'll tell you something. There was no danger of that water falling on them and drowning them. Not a bit of danger in that. You think God's going to let us drown? When you go through the waters, he said, when you go through the waters, I'm going to be with you. When you go through fire, I'm going to be there with you. There's no danger of water coming down upon and drowning them. Oh, you sometimes may think it is, but it won't. It's like Noah in the ark. Rain beat on that ark, but not one drop fell on Noah. Not on Noah. And then look what House has said here now, in verse 22. Verse 15, he said, first of all, he says, speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward. Just tell them to go forward. Huh? In other words, he's saying, you got to take, you got to walk by faith. You got to go. You can't stand here and be saved. You got to go the way God said. He said, go that way. I'm going to make it dry for you. Go that way. Oh, go forward. And what did it say? And they went into the midst of the sea. I believe every time somebody stepped their first foot in, the water just kept going. They just kept walking and kept going, kept walking, kept going. They get, they stepped in there, water's gone. Oh my, I've got to hurry, I do. It's not enough to hear there is a way. It's not enough to know there's a way. It's not enough to see the way. Not enough to even praise the way. Not enough to magnify the wisdom and power of him who made the way. You got to go into the sea. Got to go. Must be entered. They went in. The enemy was hot on their trail. And Paul said, lay hold on eternal life. And there's no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. And then let me show you something else, and I'm done. Look in verse 19 and 20. And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them. And the pillar of the cloud, which went before their face, stood behind them. And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. It was cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these. The one came not near the other all night." See the difference God made? They're looking at the same thing and they don't see nothing but darkness. We're over here in Christ and we see nothing but light. They've got the angel of the Lord, and they've got the pillar of the Lord. On one side, it's darkness. That's the way people do. You know, Isaiah 55 said this, they put sweet for bitter, bitter for sweet, darkness for evil, and darkness for light, and light for darkness. They're just backwards about everything. And I tell you, it came between them. What a place of safety. To our enemies, it was darkness. and light on our side, the other side light, or one side darkness. And that shows that those that are in the way, they're going to be protected. They're protected. It's the pillar of His presence. Ain't that what it says? The pillar of His presence. And oh, there's such a difference between us and the world. Egypt, they see darkness, we see light. And we're looking at the same thing. Looking at the same verses, they see darkness, we see light. They see confusion, we see understanding. They want war, we want peace. Oh my. They love darkness, we love light. They walk in darkness, we walk in the light. And God's people will be kept in this way. And look what it says, they came not near each other. What does light have to do with darkness? What communion have they do? And then I may give you this, just the first verse of this song, Exodus 15. Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously, the horse and his rider, thrown into the sea. Now let me tell you in this song, you can read it, it's the first song in the Bible, Moses' song with deliverance. There are three thines, ten thous, eleven thys, but no mes. Thine, three of them, That's this new song. Oh, my, I'll sing unto the Lord. Ten thous, you did this. Eleven thys, but no me, no I. To the Lord be the glory. Great things he hath done. Huh? Well, I hope that's a blessing. Supernatural salvation. Everybody that's saved by the grace of God is a miracle. It's a miracle. And the fact that we stay saved and God keeps us saved, that takes power. And that takes grace. That takes love. That takes mercy. Our Father, in the blessed name of our Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for allowing us to be here today. Thank you for your gospel. Thank you for making it so clear, so plain, so understandable. We know and believe with all of our heart the salvations of the Lord. Salvation is the one. He's the one that saves. He's the one that keeps. He's the one that calls us. He's the one that upholds us. He is our strength. He's our portion. And, oh, Lord, please bless this gospel today. Use it, Lord, to your glory. Oh, use it to your glory. Save sinners. Save sinners. If there's a sinner in this place who found out that that's what they are, you've taught them that they are, that they don't have no ability, they have no strength to save themselves. God, please bring them to the end of their self where they'll trust our Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. We bless you and praise you and keep these dear saints for Christ's sake. Amen. Let's turn to 268 in the hymn book. Houston, you come on. You lead us in this. How firm a foundation. That's what it is, ain't it, 268? Yeah. I got it right there. All right, let's stand, sing this, and you'll be at liberty to go. 268. How firm a foundation, ye Saints of the Lord! It is laid for your faith in his excellent Word. What more can he say? Then to you he hath said, To you who for refuge to Jesus hath fled. Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed, For I am thy God, I will still give thee aid. I'll strengthen thee, help thee, The end calls me to stand. Upheld by my gracious omnipotent hand, When through the deep waters I called thee to go, The rivers of hope shall not thee overflow, for I will be with thee thy troubles to bless. and sanctify to Thee Thy deepest distress. When through fiery trials Thy pathway shall lie, My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply. The flame shall not hurt thee. I only desire thy draws to consume. and thy gold to refine. The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to his foes. That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake. Let me mention something about our