Daily Bible Podcast - Exodus 13-15: Trusting God's Guidance and Celebrating Deliverance

In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts welcome their "ones and ones" of Instagram live viewers, and recap the recent women's Bible study and the excitement around upcoming men's activities. They dive into the scriptures, focusing on Exodus 13-15, discussing the Israelites' journey from Egypt, the significance of the Passover, and the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea. Key points include Moses' leadership, God's powerful hand in delivering the Israelites, and the importance of praising God through songs of deliverance. The episode concludes with an encouragement to engage in corporate worship and prayer, underlining the vital role of singing in the Christian faith. Listeners are encouraged to keep reading their Bibles and join the next episode for more biblical insights.

00:00 Welcome to the Daily Bible Podcast

00:41 Women's Bible Study Insights

02:09 Men's Bible Study and Retreat

04:29 Exodus 13: Instructions and Remembrance

07:38 Exodus 14: Crossing the Red Sea

09:24 Exodus 15: Song of Praise and Grumbling

14:49 Closing Thoughts and Prayer

15:53 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey, how did women's Bible study go?

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I heard good things about it.

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Kristen texted me and said it

was really good as per the usual.

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No, I heard good things from

my wife as well about it.

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I haven't gotten a chance to listen to it

myself yet, but you listen to her sermons.

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Sometimes I do.

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Yeah.

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Do you take notes?

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Yeah.

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I feel like as the lead pastor

of our church, I should have

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a general understanding of

what's going on in the church.

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That's a good idea.

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I walk through her manuscript

and everything with her

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before she goes up there.

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So I know what she's going to

How many pages is her manuscript?

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I'm Listen, man, I'm not

going to sell my wife out.

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I'm not throwing her under the bus.

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We're not selling out anybody.

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She told everybody that was in earshot.

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It was a circle of trust.

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That was how it, that

was trying to blow it up.

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I'm not blowing it up.

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I'm just asking the question.

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Yeah.

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No inquiring minds want to know.

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She launched Ephesians though.

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And she's doing a great job.

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She was talking about our adoption

and the significance of our adoption

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for those ladies as daughters of God.

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And Ephesians quite well, cause you just

went through it with the youth, not long.

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I went through it faster

than she probably will.

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Yeah.

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Because I was doing high level.

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Yeah.

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I didn't do that with the

gospel of Matthew so far.

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I've been taking it much too slow They

wouldn't finish the gospel of Matthew

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until they all graduated at this point.

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So we're gonna speed it up hey speaking

of gospels, we're gonna finish the gospel

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of john by the end of may is that right?

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And listen, this is god's providence.

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You ready for this?

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I'm ready.

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Okay, so The chapter or the

section on the crucifixion is

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going to fall on Good Friday.

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I know we talked about this, that

it was going to be just off, but

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I rearranged things believable.

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So we're going to hit the crucifixion

on Good Friday and then surprise

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the resurrection on Easter Sunday.

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No way.

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Yep.

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It's going to happen.

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I am.

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Slack jawed.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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You should not be.

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My flabber has been gasted.

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Okay, I don't even know.

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I don't know what to do with that.

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Men's Bible study on Saturday though.

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We are kicking off a brand new series.

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Oh, yeah.

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Qualified.

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That's right.

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We're going to talk about what it is to be

a qualified man for the office of elder.

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Even though we're not expecting

every man to be a pastor slash

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elder, we do want every man to be

qualified for the role of pastor.

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Because it's the kind of character

that we want to inculcate

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and encourage in our ranks.

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Inculcate.

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That's an SAT word for you, by the way.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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I'll drop them every now and then boom,

might drop to, and then just walk away.

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Yeah.

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How about our men's retreat?

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Do you want to give a little preview

of what that's going to be on?

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Yes.

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We're calling it.

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Uncompromised.

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And so essentially we're

looking at a retreat.

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That's going to focus on

integrity, and a few key areas.

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And I'm debating whether or not I

want to tell you what those areas are,

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although you probably could guess, but

we want to make this something awesome.

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So we're already working on some things to

give away, which I think you're going to I

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just submitted an order for those things.

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And.

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And we're actively working toward

that already setting up some of the

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major pieces, but this is going to be

something I'm really excited about.

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This is an area that every man will

benefit from an area that every man

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probably struggles in one way, shape,

or form at some point in his life.

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This will be well worth your time.

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Yeah.

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In fact, on Saturday, I had my son

Jonathan at his basketball game and the

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coach, I appreciated this before the game.

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He said, Hey.

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Does anybody know what

our word of the day is?

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And I'm like pulling out my wordle

thinking, okay, maybe it's, he's going

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to give me the answer on wordle, but he

does a word of the day with these young

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men as he's coaching them basketball.

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And he said, our word

of the day is integrity.

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And so he said, do you guys

know what integrity is?

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And these eight year olds are

sitting there No, we have no idea.

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So he was talking about how it's

correlated or related to honesty.

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And and so that's what he chose

to emphasize on their honesty

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and the things that we do, our

work ethic, everything else.

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So yeah, this is going

to be a great topic.

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It's good for eight year olds.

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It's good for eight year olds.

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It's good for everybody in between too.

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So yeah, there's, in fact, we should

probably tell you when the dates are for

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that so that you could earmark them in

your calendar so that you don't miss them.

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Yes.

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Cause that'd be tragic.

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That would be tragic.

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And it's may.

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May 1st.

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It's in May.

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I'm gonna tell you right now.

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It's in May.

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It's May and it's gonna

be May 16th and 17th.

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That's what it is Friday and a Saturday.

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We'll leave on Friday.

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We'll have one night there We're gonna

be back at Mount Lebanon Baptist Camp

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such a good place It was a great place

and I can't wait to get back there

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again Hopefully the weather's a little

better this year, but we're gonna

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be there again, May 16th and 17th.

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Please mark it in your calendars

We would love to have Every

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single one of you there.

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Yep.

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Hey, even our ladies are

going back to Mount Lebanon.

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Is that right?

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They're going to Mount Lebanon.

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For the first time.

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Because of how good it was.

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It was just awesome.

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So good.

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They do a great job down there.

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And it's close enough.

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It's close enough because

you know how I know this?

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Because last year I left my laptop

there and I had to drive down there on

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Sunday morning, right before church.

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So it's only about an

hour away from our church.

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I know that to be true.

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Wow.

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On a Sunday.

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You got there pretty quick.

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Yeah, I did.

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Anyways.

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Hey, let's jump into our text.

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Exodus 13 and 13 through 15.

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Yeah.

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13 through 15.

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Exodus 13.

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We've got the initial exit

from Egypt behind us now.

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So Moses gathers the people to deliver

further instructions from the Lord.

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And then he says, And he tells them

how they were to redeem the firstborn

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and act and act remembering how God had

delivered the firstborn from the plague

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of the firstborn that they had just

happened as we talked about yesterday.

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And also explained again, the way

that they were to go about remembering

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and celebrating the Passover.

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So he's gathering the people together.

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He's reinforcing these things.

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He's saying, you just

saw what the Lord did.

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Now it's time.

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You're going to have to

redeem the firstborn.

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You're going to have to remember these

things and consecrate the firstborn

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yourself in a symbolic act there.

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Super close note.

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Exodus 13, 3, 9, 14, and 16.

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The repeated phrase for by a strong hand,

the Lord brought you out from this place.

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That is is something that is, is easy to

miss because we can read through Exodus

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13 and we can read that repeated phrase.

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All those different times.

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And if we're not looking for repetition,

we might miss the significance of that.

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So Moses wants them to

be absolutely clear.

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In fact, this is, was a cool moment.

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Just as a dad last night, as we're

recording this, so Friday night I

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was putting my son Luke to bed and he

was sitting in his bed and he had his

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notebook out, he likes to write in

it and he had written some questions

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down and one of the questions he

wrote was, why did God use Moses?

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To deliver the people from Israel.

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And we talked about that.

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I said why, what questions do you have?

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Why wouldn't he use Moses?

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And he said Moses murdered a man.

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And we talked about how he was defending

the Israelite and everything there.

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But the point is, and I

think it's here as well.

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Moses wanted the people to know this

as well, that Moses wasn't the hero.

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Moses wasn't the deliverer.

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Moses was.

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Just simply the guy that God used, but

God is the one that gets the glory.

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For by a strong hand, the Lord

brought you out from this place.

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Moses wanted them to be

abundantly clear on that.

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When we talk about our church

and the victories that we have as

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a church, that's something that

we want to be clear on as well.

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God is the one building the

church unless the Lord builds it.

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Those who labor build it in vain.

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So we are not the heroes of the story.

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We are not the heroes of the church.

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God is the one that's doing it.

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Exodus 13, 9, 14 and 16

that repeated phrase.

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Also notice in verse five,

the focus on the land.

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The land is the reference to the Abrahamic

covenant in the words which he swore

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to your forefathers to give to you.

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So God is promising them the land

as well there in in Exodus chapter

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13, and you are having too much fun

with this Instagram live situation.

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, I'm sorry man.

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I'm just, okay.

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I'm back here.

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Were you validating that I had coffee

in my mug and not something nefarious?

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We want to know what's in there.

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The people want to know, bro.

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I'm just doing, I'm a man of the people.

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I'm doing what they want me to do.

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It's coffee.

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It's coffee.

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Okay.

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Anyways, verses 17 through 22 then.

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The Lord is not going to abandon

them once they're out of Egypt.

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It's not hey, good luck.

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See you later.

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And again, there's a, this is a

microcosm of salvation, right?

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The Lord delivers us from our sin and

then he stays with us and he's going

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to lead us, he's going to guide us.

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He's going to work for

our Christ likeness.

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And so here it's not that, that he's

working towards their Christ likeness,

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but he's not going to abandon his people.

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It's not Hey, I got you out of slavery.

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Good luck.

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He's going to lead them on the way, and

he's going to do that by night and by day.

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And it's going to be the pillar of cloud

by day and the pillar of fire by night.

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In the rest of chapter 13 there, anything

on chapter 13, it's a really good chapter.

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That's insightful.

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I've got all the insights.

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I'm only half paying attention

because I'm now so fascinated

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with what we're doing here.

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Social media the ones and ones

of people that are watching.

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I just, I feel so obligated to

care for them and I just want

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to show them around as well.

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I'm sure they would love to see

what you're doing at the same time.

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So you don't have a

coffee mug or anything.

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I have nothing fun over here.

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All right.

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Chapter 14.

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Pastor, why don't you

take chapter 14 for us?

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I'm not prepared.

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Okay.

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This chapter is about the

crossing of the red seat.

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Does that jog your memory there?

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I see it.

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I'm looking at it on the page.

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All right, the first 14 verses of

chapter 14, they set up the tension

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and then after this God is going

to work through this deliverance.

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So the first 14 verses that they're

getting to the Red Sea, they

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know, okay, nobody's expecting

the seat apart here, right?

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We know the story, but

they didn't know the story.

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And so nobody at this point is sitting

there going, okay, Moses is going to,

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part the Red Sea and all Pharaoh's

army is going to do the dead man float

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after we crossed through on dry land.

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And Oof.

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Nobody's expecting this.

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And so they're panicked.

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God says, Hey, here's

what I want you to do.

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I want you to drive them forward

and hold out your staff and

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the water's going to part.

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And he sends a wind to

drive the water back.

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And this is a miraculous event, not

just a windstorm because the ground

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is dry as they walk across it.

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And no matter how strong the wind may

have been at number one, to drive the

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water back in different directions,

you're not going to find natural wind.

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That's going to blow two

directions at the same time.

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And then number two, the fact

that the ground is dry, I don't

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care how strong the storm is.

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It's not going to dry that quickly.

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And right after this, then when Pharaoh's

army goes in their wheels and everything

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else, they get caught in the mud.

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So This is a God thing that he does to

deliver the heart, to deliver the people.

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He's going to do a lot of that here.

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He's going to remind the people that

he is God, that he's the one behind all

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this, so as to encourage them and not

to let them grow weary or frightened.

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Speaking of behind, in verse 19,

it says that the angel of God,

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who is going before the host of

Israel, Moved in, went behind them.

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It's I couldn't help, but think of the

shepherd analogy in Psalm 23, he goes

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before us, he goes beside us, he goes

behind us, he's chasing this down with

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mercy and grace all the days of our lives.

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I love this image of God circling

them about as it were to ensure

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that they get across safely.

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And they seem to get the point.

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This is one of the high points in

Israel's history, not only in the salvific

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events, but also in their response.

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I don't want to steal your

thunder in there, but they

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respond really well to this.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, which is chapter 15, the

song that they sing, the song of

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praise, and it just rejoices in

everything that God has done there.

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One more note in chapter 14, notice

in verse 14 and verse 25 verse

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14, the Lord will fight for you.

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And then again, in verse 25, it

says, the Egyptian said, let us flee

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from Israel for the Lord fights for

them and think back to the changing

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of Jacob's name to the name Israel.

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The name Israel again can mean

fights with God or God fights.

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And if the emphasis is on God

fights then here we see that

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God is fighting for Israel.

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God is fulfilling the name of

his people by fighting for them.

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Something that even the Egyptians know.

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But yeah, chapter 15 they create a song.

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They begin to praise God for his

deliverance and In anticipating even not

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just the deliverance, but that they're

going to see that the promise land,

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and this is a high point but it's not

going to stay a high point for long.

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Unfortunately, as we'll see mostly in

tomorrow's Episode but a little bit

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here at the end of chapter 15, but

this also Tells us that the nations

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took note of this, too Now there was

no instagram live during the exodus

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and so they couldn't go on just like

we are right now and say hey Listen up.

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This is the god of israel doing this

but news traveled news of pharaoh's

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defeat And the nations, the Philistines,

the others began to tremble and fear

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the Israelites, which is part of what

God was doing to prepare the entrance.

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You'll remember.

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And we'll get there when

Joshua and the sends out the

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spies and they come to Rahab.

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Rahab knows about Israel.

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How does Rahab know about Israel?

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Because they know.

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This situation the deliverance that

God had worked for the people of

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Israel had been broadcast whether

it's through this song or through

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other Situations and the nation's

knew that God fought for his people.

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What do we do with the fact that

Deborah's called a prophetess?

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Sorry, not Deborah Miriam.

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That's a different prophet.

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Miriam at the bottom of chapter 15 verse

20, then Miriam, the prophet is the sister

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of Aaron took a tambourine in her hand.

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And with all the women went out

after her with tambourines and

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dancing and Miriam sang to them.

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So Miriam gets a little bit of a head

nod here in that she's doing something

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similar to what Moses is doing.

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We know that there's going to be

issues between the three of them later.

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There's going to be some jealousy there.

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But the wording about calling her a

prophet is that seems I don't know.

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That seems like a bit much.

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Yes, except that This is not The only

situation we have in the old testament

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of god using A woman in a position that

is unique you think forward to Deborah

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as you mentioned and in others This is at

the same time not the church right and so

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we would draw a distinction and say that

she is not serving as a this is not Some

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people will appeal to this and be like

look we should have women pastors because

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miriam was a prophet totally But this is

not the church And the instructions that

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are given to the church are separate and

distinct from those that were governing

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this particular dispensation in the,

during the history of the people of God.

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I think it's also telling that still the

leader that got entrusted, the leaders

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that God put in place were the men and

the, they were the ones that were called

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to fulfill the role that God had for them.

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But I think we, we're, Playing on two

different fields, when we try to look

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at Old Testament examples and draw

the parallel to New Testament offices

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and say, because this Old Testament

example exists, we should say that

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there's room for it in the New Testament

when the New Testament is the church.

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And there are different, there are

superseding instructions given in the

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New Testament that specifically speak

to the role of women and men within

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the church and where authority lies.

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That's a really helpful insight.

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And I just want to draw one to point your

attention to, and it's that Moses wrote a

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song to commemorate what they were doing.

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He sang he led them to sing they were

all in unison as it were singing to

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the Lord saying look at what God Has

done he deserves our songs This is

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one of the reasons we still sing in

our churches today Even though there

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is some discontinuity between the Old

and New Testament There is continuity

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and one of the things is that we sing

we are singing people and it's because

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God has saved them That's why they sing

and consequently Salvation acts warrant

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our heart Hardy responds in song to

the Lord, which is why again, we still

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sing today and why it's so important.

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It's commemorated in

scripture It's acknowledged.

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It's one way to honor the Lord and that's

why you should be at church tomorrow

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Wait, what day is today tomorrow as we

record so you guys be at church tomorrow.

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That's right This is for the instagram

live people which is why you should go

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to church on sunday and sing heartily

and show up on time I know sometimes

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it's hard to get out the door i'm not

immune to having those difficult days of

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putting people in the van or whatever You

But being there and showcasing to your

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family and your church family that this

is worth your time and attention Such a

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good thing to do and it's again biblically

prescribed as part of the people of god.

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Yep.

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Yeah, I agree Exodus 15 verses 22

through 27 then the chapter ends This

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is the first post exodus account of

the people grumbling against moses.

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And so the high point Is not high for very

long because now they're going to say we

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don't have any water and there's no water

to drink So moses, what are you doing?

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You should have left us in egypt.

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There was how quickly things

have turned Yeah, how quick yeah,

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although it is interesting because

we don't know exactly The time

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frame that's passing 13 minutes 13.

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Okay.

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That's my guess.

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Your bible has a note that mine

doesn't have Is that the one that

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the press and sprinkle wrote?

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What if he listens to our podcast

what are you going to do about that?

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He can reach out to me.

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I'll talk to him.

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All right, press and hit

me up I'll talk to you.

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Let me tag them for you right now.

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Awesome.

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Great.

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And so Moses goes to God.

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God says, here's what I'm going to do.

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And God is patient right now.

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And he's going to continue to be patient

with his people for a good amount of time.

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God is a long suffering God.

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He is slow to anger.

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His anger is going to come, but

he's going to be slow to anger.

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Responds and gives them this water

from the the, by throwing a rock

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into the stream there, or a log

rather into the stream there.

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But then he challenges them

with this conditional promise.

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And he says, look, I'm

going to be your healer.

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I'm going to be God, your healer,

if you obey me, but if not.

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You know what?

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You're going to suffer the plagues

that had befallen the Egyptians.

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And one author said, it's a note

here that he doesn't say I'm going

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to heal the water, but I'm going to

heal you because the issue was not

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so much that the water was had a

problem, but their heart had a problem.

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And so God is saying to his people,

Hey, I'm going to be with you as

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your healer spiritually speaking.

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But here's what I'm asking of you.

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You need to obey.

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You need to listen.

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You need to be committed to me in that.

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And if you don't, then men buckle up

because bad things are gonna happen.

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All right, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, thanks for your word.

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Thanks for just the clarity.

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We do thank you for song.

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It's something that in the new

Testament we're commanded to do.

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We're commanded to sing spiritual

songs to one another in hymns.

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And that is something that

we need to do corporately.

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That is even the context of Colossians

three, this is to one another.

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And so if we are not participating in

that and the body of Christ, then we

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are not Participating in something that

you've designed for us and called us

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to do if we're not prioritizing that

because we don't think it's as Important

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as another part of the service and then

we are missing A vital component of

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the spirit's work in our lives is the

body of christ So god, I pray that we

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would have the wherewithal to see it as

what it is as important as crucial as

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integral And even that we would desire

it because how often are we going through

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our day and a song pops in our mind?

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And how good would it be to have that song

be one that we sing together on Sunday?

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That song to be one that we are

hearing the voices of our brothers

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and sisters in Christ in our head as

we're singing through it together.

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So God, we want to do everything we do

as a church with Vibrancy and passion

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and drive and so we ask that would be

true of our body at compass And so we

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thank you for this in christ's name.

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Amen.

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Amen Keep reading bibles tuning

in again tomorrow for another

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edition of the daily bible podcast.

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Texas, you can go to compassntx.

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org.

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