Use this page to help you follow along with the sermon. When you see this icon below, it’s a place you can type in notes.

When you see this:

, it’s a fill-in-the-blank which will correspond with something on the slides. You can email your reflections at the end of the document. When you log into the church app and your user account, your notes are saved to your profile.

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Summer Discipleship

1. I’m bringing back the sermon
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2. I will be writing
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3. We have a virtual
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   (fill-in notes | devotional posts | small group)

Backstory:

Genesis 46 (vv. 28-29, 33-34) – Jacob moves his 12 sons & family to Egpyt with Joseph’s help

Exodus 1 (vv. 6-10) – Egypt views Joseph’s desvendants (Israel) as a threat

Exodus 13 – God’s Spirit frees Isarel from Egypt and leads them to the desert

Rule 1: You’re Where You’re Meant to Be

Then the Lord gave these instructions to Moses: “Order the Israelites to turn back and camp by Pi-hahiroth between Migdol and the sea. Camp there along the shore, across from Baal-zephon. —Exodus 14:1-2 (NLT)

We Follow Our Own Path

If we have

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, then sometimes we’ll to choose things God

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want.
(free will, didn’t)

We Follow God’s Path

Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world. —1 Peter 4:12-13 (NLT)

When life is hard, or bad things happen, it’s because God is unhappy with us. True or False:

Where are you Right Now?

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Go Beyond the Sermon…

All summer, there will be daily devotions to help you take the sermon into your day-to-day life. Keep up through the church app, website, or on our social pages.

Questions to Ponder:

Red Seas comes in all shapes and sizes. What’s the Red Sea you’re focusing on for this journey?

Why is life so hard? Why do problems persist? Why do we encounter these Red Seas?

Be honest—how have you been initially reacting to your own Red Sea experience, whatever it is?

How can embracing Rule #1 affect your response?

*Morgan, Robert J. The Red Sea Rules (p. 17). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.