After Egypt Part 2 - The Red Sea
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April 23, 2023

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After Egypt Part 2 - The Red Sea - The Power of Trusting in God’s Plan

April 23, 2023

What we learned in part 1

  • Egypt represents the

    of the sin of the world.

  • We learned about the power of the

    of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, as illustrated in the Passover lamb

  • The Passover speaks of

    . We pass from death to life because of faith in Jesus.

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him Who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. —John 5:24

  • Saved - sozo. Saved, healed, ; to make whole. To protect.
  • Salvation is not just forgiveness of sin, but it is

    from sin.

    1. Passover is not where the story ends, it’s where the story .
    2. The Israelites journey from Egypt was specially written as an for end-time believers
      1. God has a unique for every individual, and every generation.
      1. It’s all about His Presence. The Lord prioritized relational between Himself and His people.

After Egypt – Part 2 – The Red Sea - The Power of Trusting in God’s Plan

The Crossing of the Red Sea pictures – Water Baptism

Repeat after me. There is Power in

God’s plan. God has a plan for my life!

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope —Jeremiah 29:11

1. When God leads, .

  • Get out of the drivers seat –
    -Are you good at being a

    ?

  • Now that we are saved we are following His lead.

17Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.” 18So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. —Exodus 13: 17-19

Change their

and to Egypt

There was a specific reason the Lord lead them this way. He had their best

in mind.

1Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2“Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon; you shall camp before it by the sea. 3For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in. —Exodus 14:1-3

5Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people; and they said, “Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” 6So he made ready his chariot and took his people with him. 7Also, he took six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt with captains over every one of them. 8And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; and the children of Israel went out with boldness. 9So the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon. —Exodus 14:5-9

10And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. 11Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? 12Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” —Exodus 14:10-12

Trapped between the Sea and the Egyptian Army

Fear
Anxiety
Not being able to see what the Lord was doing.

2. God’s power is than our problems.

13And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. 14The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” —Exodus 14:13-14

15And the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. 16But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. —Exodus 14:15-16

  • Moses why are you crying to me?
  • What is in your Hand?

17And I indeed will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. So I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen. 18Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gained honor for Myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.” —Exodus 14:17-18

21Then 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 into dry land, and the waters were divided. 22So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
—Exodus 14:21-22

23And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
24Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the Lord looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians. 25And He took off their chariot wheels, so that they drove them with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.”
26Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.” 27And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained.
29But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
30So the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses.
—Exodus 14:26-30

3. Trusting in God leads to .

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. —Exodus 20:2