WEBVTT - Green Light At The Red Sea 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:02.639 Well, we're gonna get to the message in just a moment, 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.880 but I wanted to make sure you knew about Elevation Nights. 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:11.280 It's gonna be amazing eight cities October twenty sixth through 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:13.800 November fourth. You got to go to Elevation Nights dot 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.360 com to see if we're coming to a city near you. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:21.320 It's gonna be me, Elevation Worship, a few friends, and you. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:22.680 I want to see you there. I want to see 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.959 you and everybody that you know there. Go to Elevation 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.639 Nights dot com. I can't wait to see you soon. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:32.040 Here's the message. I'm so glad you came today. I'm 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.199 so glad that God directed your steps to be here 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:39.199 and ordered your steps. I have a sneaking suspicion that 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.559 you're about to find out why you had to come 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.320 to church today, why you had to log on today, 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:49.000 why you had to click that video today. And God's 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.040 going to show you join me right now in Psalm 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.040 one O six. Turn your attention to Psalm one O six. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:11.240 Thank you laurd Oo wheel me. Yeah, who did y'all 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:17.959 love that new song? Thank you Jesus. But I'm very convincing, 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.320 how y'all just clap them. We're gonna do it again 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.320 next week anyway. Don't care if you liked it. I 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:33.520 liked it. Verse seven. When our ancestors were in Egypt, 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:38.120 they gave no thought to your miracles. They gave no 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:42.720 thought to your miracles. They did not remember your many kindnesses. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:49.160 And they rebelled by the sea, the Red sea, which 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:55.440 c They rebelled by the sea, the red Sea. Yet 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.760 he saved them for his name's sake, to make his 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:04.480 mindmighty power known. He rebuked the red sea, and it 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:08.679 dried up. He led them through the depths as through 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.720 a desert. He saved them from the hand of the foe, 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.920 from the hand of the enemy. He redeemed them. The 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:20.919 waters covered their adversaries. Not one of them survived. Then 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:27.320 they believed his promises and sang his praise. Then they 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.839 believed his promises and sang his praise. But I want 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:33.679 to go back to verse nine for a moment, where 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.920 it says that he rebuked the red sea and it 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.399 dried up. He led them through the depths as through 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.200 a desert. He rebuked the red sea, and it dried up. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:51.400 My sermon title today is green Light at the Red Sea. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:00.960 When God gives you a green light at the sea, 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:06.440 somebody shop preaching pastor furnicut here, let's go be seated, 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:13.200 Be seated, Be seated, Be seated, be seated. The parting 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.800 of the Red Sea is one of the most celebrated 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:19.079 events in the history of the nation of Israel. They 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:25.320 still celebrated to this day. It's worthy of celebration if 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.680 you think about it, because it's what did I write 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.800 down in my notes. It's like one hundred and eighty 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:39.600 miles wide on average to cross it. The Red Sea. Now, 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.040 don't confuse it with the other bodies of water that 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:46.400 are also significant in scripture, the Jordan River where Joshua 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.720 led the people across a little bit later, or the 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.880 Sea of Galilee, where Jesus did a lot of his ministry, 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.000 or the Dead Sea. The dead sea, you know, where 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.120 nothing is going out, so nothing can come in. The 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.440 constipated sea. And I don't mean, I don't mean to 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.000 be unappetizing early in my sermon, but I just used 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.120 that word. It came to my mind. There are constipated 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:19.360 Christians who spiritually sorry to ruin your breakfast. But the 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:25.080 Red Sea is significant, not only geographically and generationally, but 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:30.120 symbolically it symbolized something so great for the people. It's 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:35.200 no surprise that it's mentioned. When Stephen was giving his 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.400 speech to the Sanhedrin in Acts chapter seven, he talked 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.800 about the Red Sea and what God did there. He 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.440 mentioned it by name, the Red Sea. It's literally called 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:49.479 the sea of reeds, but it was transliterated red Sea. 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.520 And so you see that in Acts chapter seven, and 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.359 interestingly enough, you see it again in Hebrews chapter or 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.960 excuse me, in First Corinthians chapter ten. First Corinthians chapter ten, 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.440 where Paul compares the red Sea that the Israelites went 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.880 through coming out of Egypt to baptism the waters that 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.159 we go through to become a new creation in Christ. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.080 And so he makes this very special connection that the 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.159 people who originally went through it would have never made. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.200 But with time and understanding the cross of Jesus Christ 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.480 and the coming of the Holy Spirit, he mentions the 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.880 Red Sea. He doesn't even name it, he just calls 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.640 it the sea. That's how special it was to these people. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.359 That's how much of an accomplishment and a miracle it 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.599 was to these people. They didn't even have to name it, 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.800 even though there's all these other different It was the 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.120 only body of water. But when they said the sea, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.360 they knew. They knew that God had to bring them 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.760 through this sea, through this body of water to bring 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.120 them into freedom. And it proved two things when he did. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.520 Because this is why so significant. It proved that God 0:05:54.120 --> 0:06:01.840 is committed to me being free. He will split a 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:07.960 sea to get me free. Clap for that one, because 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:15.960 it gets rough. After that. He will remove a relationship 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:28.240 to get me free. He will allow certain pain to 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:29.960 do its job in my life. Like well, Paul called 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:31.120 it a thorn in the flesh. He's like, I don't 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:32.479 really know. I want to tell you what it really is, 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.160 but I'm gonna call it a thorn. I have this 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.680 thing in my life. I have a prayer request, he 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.120 told his men's group, And I asked God to take 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.919 it away. But God so wanted me to be free 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.640 of pride so that I could receive grace that he 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.000 gave me something that I wanted him to take away. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:54.200 He was so committed to me being free that he 0:06:54.200 --> 0:07:00.559 said no to me. So it's significant because it shows 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.200 us that God is committed to me being free. I 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.440 want you to write that down somewhere in your phone, 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:09.120 But just put God is committed to me being free, 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:13.320 more than he's committed to me feeling happy, more than 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:17.240 he's committed to me being comfortable, more than he's committed 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.760 to me being right. He's committed to me being free. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.240 That's the first thing that the Red Sea reminds us of, 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.440 and it represents in our lives. The second thing is 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:32.840 that God is going to get his glory. God is 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.040 going to get his glory. If you don't put anything 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.480 else in the chat, that's an all caps moment in 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:43.560 the chat. God is going to get his glory somehow, 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.520 some way. You can resist it. But every need shall 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:52.080 bout and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.800 to the glory of God, the Father. God is going 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.840 to get his glory. Now, if he can't find a 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.120 single soldier in then of Israel to fight Deliath, he'll 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.600 bring a shepherd boy up with a lunch, because God 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:09.200 is going to get his glory. Who is this uncircumcised 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.640 listing that he should defy the armies of the Living God. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.760 This is about God's glory, This is about his weight, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.760 this is about his name, This is about his strength. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.880 This is about his reputation. God is going to get 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.280 his glory if it means he has to tell a 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.559 storm to be quiet and shut up and be still 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.280 to show that he is Lord. He will lead you 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.800 through a storm to show you his glory. We want 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.160 to avoid storms, but God won't let you avoid a storm. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:39.880 If a storm is what it takes to show you 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.040 his glory, he needs you to know that you're not 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.880 dependent on the weather of the forecast, or the sunshine 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:50.080 or a dry boat to make it through. God is 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:54.480 going to get his glory with nails in his hands. 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.679 He's going to get his glory with nails in his feet. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.160 He's going to get his glory with a spear. We're 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.520 in his side. He's gonna get his glory between two fees. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.280 He's gonna get his glory for days that Lazarus is 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.680 coming forth for the glory of God. Even now, I 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.400 believe I will see the glory of the Lord. God 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.640 is going to get his glory. But I'm getting ahead 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:22.960 of myself. Just before God can get his glory, we 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:27.240 have to go through some things our own red sea. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.600 Wish I could tell you I thought of this sermon 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.920 while I was studying the history of Israel and considering 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:37.400 the theological implications and the philosophical and so teiological implications 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.440 of this text as we reference it an Old Testament 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:43.880 and New Testament, surrounded by concordances and vine strong Bible Dictionary. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.280 But I was just driving to church last week and 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.719 the Lord gave me the sermon. It was actually a 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.080 couple weeks ago. Holly was preaching. I had Graham and Elijah. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:57.240 They were so excited that Donda drop. They were so excited, 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.480 and I was excited to get the church to hear 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.240 to hear Holley preach. I was so excited because I 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.360 didn't have to preach. I love to preach, but I 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.400 liked I really like to hear somebody else preach to, 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.720 especially Holly. So I'm kind of, you know, navigating the 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.960 speed limit, negotiating, you know, where the Lord would have 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.520 me to sit and where he where he would have 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:22.920 me to operate and function. And right before we turned 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.880 into the church, Elijah and Graham are losing their minds, 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.000 saying by I'm off the grid or something like that, 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:35.840 and I'm going to turn in and the person in 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.319 front of me wouldn't go and the light was green 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:42.839 right around the corner from where we turn in to 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:48.600 come to Valentine, and my instinct was to hit my horn. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.959 Now I'm ana do a quick poll. How many I'm 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:52.880 gonna see what kind of Christian you are? How many 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.400 seconds do you give the car in front of you 0:10:55.480 --> 0:11:00.920 before you honk. I'm gonna count up one second, seconds, 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.079 three seconds, put it in the chat, four seconds, five, six, six. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.120 So it's been a good five seconds. And I want 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.240 to see my wife and I want to be at church. 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.559 I'm running a little bit behind how the schedule that 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.040 I wanted to be because one of my kids was 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.280 messing with his hair late and so the very last minute. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.200 And I'm also realizing, like Elijah's about to get his 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.679 driver's license. He's got it now, but he was about 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.040 to go take the driver's test. It's a totally different test, 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.280 by the way, now in North Carolina. And I know 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.080 it's an international church, so I don't want to make 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.600 this example too local. It's a totally different test than 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.320 it was in South Carolina when I was sixteen. In 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.679 South Carolina, when I was turned fifteen, all you had 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.880 to do was show up and stumble in the driver's 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.439 department and hit a few buttons on a thing. Wait 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.680 thirty days and come back and drive around with a 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.600 woman who terrified you within an inch of your life 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.080 for about twenty minutes, and they handed you your license. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.640 In North Carolina, it's classes and it's hours, and it's 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:04.120 an app and you have to log on. And I 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.040 think that's probably better. Considering that these are our lives 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.360 that we're putting in jeopardy at this moment, is probably 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.000 a good idea to make a little bit of a 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.640 degree of difficulty, give them a little bit of bar 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.240 to jump over. But it's different here, and so I'm 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.480 thinking this might be the last time that I drive 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:26.200 Elijah the church. And I'm con emotional. But then the 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.440 person in front of me won't go, and the light 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.079 is green, and as I'm going to hit my horn, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.600 I had this. It's like the Holy Spirit spoke to me, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:43.560 you can't drive like this to the church. I'm just 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.360 being honest with you. If we'd been in Atlanta or 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.760 something like that, or I didn't have an elevation sticker, 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.080 my tent was more on my windows and they couldn't 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.320 see me. I'm gonna do it. But the Lord said, 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.079 you can't be this big of a jerk this close 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.720 to the church. And I'm so glad I didn't holp 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.640 because they turned on and then went into the parking 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.000 lot to come here, and then turned on their flashers 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.720 because they were a first time guest. And I'm so 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.720 glad I didn't honk. Come on, Praise God that I 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.080 didn't honk. A lot of times I did, but this 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:27.439 time I didn't, And God's not finished with me small steps. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.400 When I read about the children of Israel going across 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.280 the Red Sea, I not only see the water standing 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.480 up at the right and the left. I not only 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:43.679 hear the click clack of the chariot wheels of Pharaoh's 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:48.240 cadillacs as he chased them down because he realized what 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.480 he was losing. Oh yeah, the enemy fights you the 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:57.480 hardest when you're on the verge of a horizon of 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.760 a greater, truer, newer version of you that God has 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.200 seen and all along. And so I hear the chariot 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.240 wheels because I've read the story so many times, and 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.080 I bet you've heard it once or twice two. But 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.400 this time when I read it, I heard God honking 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:19.600 to tell his children you got to go. Yeah, you 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.680 got to go after four hundred years of generational oppression. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.240 And so yes, I'm talking about some of the things 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.240 that your parents struggled with, and their parents struggled with, 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:35.680 and their parents struggled with. Whether that is cycles of poverty, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.040 whether that is cycles of dysfunctional thinking, whether that is 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.200 cycles of substance of use, whether that is cycles of 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:46.560 sexual confusion, whatever that is, that's what I'm talking about. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.280 And now God has seen the misery of his people 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.840 and he came down to do something about it. And 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:57.440 someone who six is interesting because it's giving us a 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:03.480 sort of a what you call this a reflection on 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.480 a revelation that God gave his people so many years earlier. Now, 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.120 Psalm one oh six is written to some people who 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.480 are coming out of captivity and in the process of 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:18.720 reflecting on that this is a remembrance of what God 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:23.760 did in Egypt. And he said, when our ancestors were 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.800 in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles, They 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.240 did not remember your kindness, and they rebelled by the sea, 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.880 the Red Sea. Now you know that really got me 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.320 because I've always taught about and thought about how they 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.720 rebelled in the wilderness once they got out of Egypt. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.560 But the Red Sea I always associated with faith, and 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.840 I think you should too, because you probably never had 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.800 faith that great in your life to go through some 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.120 water too deep to swim through. And well, it's so 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.280 many people. I mean, good grief. I barely have faith 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.120 for for eighty five traffic. You know what I mean. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:59.840 I'm just telling you the truth. I mean, I think 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.720 I think it's great faith. The writer of Hebrews also 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.240 mentions the Red Sea. Remember earlier when I said, Hebrews, 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:06.720 this is the one I was thinking about. I just 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.680 remembered it. He said, by faith, the children of Israel 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.120 crossed through the Red Sea, though when their enemies tried 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.760 to do it, they drown. So I always associated the 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.920 Red Sea with faith. It was interesting to me that 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.720 in this Psalm, in reflecting on it, he doesn't mention 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.040 the rebellions that we typically know about. When they got 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.080 in the wilderness and they started complaining, Oh, we got 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.560 to eat mana every day. Mom, do we have to 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.920 eat this again? Moses, do we have to eat this 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.160 mana again? We're sick of mana. We used to have 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.720 quail in each of God, Do I really have to 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.560 go back to this job? Well, you did pray for 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.320 that job, okay, But I'm not going to talk about 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.480 that because it wasn't the wilderness wanderings that were in 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.960 focus here. It was that moment when they had seen 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.480 the hand of God and they had seen God afflict 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:59.080 the Egyptians with the plagues, turn the Nile River to blood, 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.080 and coming out of that loaded with the substance of 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.720 Egypt to pay them back for everything that they didn't 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.520 get while they were working for Pharaoh. At the moment 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.960 when they should have been able to celebrate their freedom, 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:21.120 they were attacked from behind and salmono success. They rebelled 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.040 at the Red Sea. So I went back to read 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.920 it because my first thing was, well, no, they didn't. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.240 They walked through the Red Sea. We sing about it 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:35.080 a lot in church, turned seas into highways, stuff like that. 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:41.159 But I read it and I realized they they did 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.680 kind of rebel. Let's read it together. Exodus chapter fourteen. 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:53.440 It says in verse ten, you know what I think 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.320 you deserve the other part two in chapter thirteen, I'm 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:01.200 going to chapter thirteen just for you. In chapter thirteen, 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:05.679 verse seventeen, It says, when Pharaoh let the people go, 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:07.920 God did not lead them on the road through the 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:13.639 Philistine country, though that was shorter, for God said, if 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.919 they face war, they might change their minds and return 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:25.240 to Egypt. Only God knows when you're really ready. Next 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:32.240 verse says that Verse eighteen says, so God led the 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.640 people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.960 So now we see the reason for the Red Sea, 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.639 the reason for the Red Sea. You've been trying to 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.520 figure out why am I going through this? Why is 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.280 this happening to me? And please do not try to 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.440 play God in somebody else's life and answer that, well, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.480 God is just using this to test your faith. Shut 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.000 up and pass your own test and keep your eyes 0:18:56.040 --> 0:19:01.800 on your own scantron number two pencils. But here, by 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.479 the spirit of the Lord, there's a revelation given. And 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.200 maybe I can't tell you the reason you're going through 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.119 what you're going through, but maybe God will show it 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.360 to you in these moments together. Today it says the 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.960 reason God brought them to the Red Sea was there 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.240 were some things that if they were not drowned before 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:21.360 they went across, they would be defeated when they got there. 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:28.000 It says that they left Egypt ready for battle. Show 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:32.040 them that verse eighteen. They went up from Egypt ready, 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:36.520 everybody say ready, say it again. Ready. That's what a 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.920 green light means. You can go now. You're ready now. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:44.159 And sometimes we think it's ready, and God gives you 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:48.200 a red light instead of a ready light, and you're like, God, 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:51.040 I'm ready, I'm ready for this. I'm ready for something better. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.840 I'm ready for more. I'm ready, God, I want more influence? 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:58.280 Are you ready for more responsibility? Really ready? Are you 0:19:58.359 --> 0:19:59.879 ready to be the one who has to put up 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:01.919 with with all the crap as you're praying about a 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:07.360 bigger income? Because that's what happens. Only God knows when 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:12.119 we're really ready. They were ready for battle, dressed for it, 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:17.960 but not ready for it, dressed for it but not 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.800 ready for it. God said, if they face the Philistines 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.320 right now, they'll get killed. And he was proven correct. 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:29.720 Guess what God was right when they saw the Canaanites 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.479 when they finally got in the promise Lan after they 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.919 crossed through the Red Sea, they wouldn't fight. They weren't ready. 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.200 They were dressed like they were ready. They were looking 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.119 like they were ready. They were posting that they were ready. 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.640 They were hashtagging like they were ready, but they weren't 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:49.880 really ready. Only God knows when you're really ready. You'll 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:51.879 know how y'all shout it over the green light at 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.679 the Red Sea. I wonder would you shout put up 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.439 the other one? I wonder would you shout over this one? 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:14.280 Show me how excited this is to you? Yes Lord, Yes, Lord, 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:19.560 bring it on. I want my harvest, I want my blessing, 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.960 I want my boss. I'm a deep Christian. I read ruth. 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:35.399 But if you ever asked God for a king and 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:42.200 then you got Saul, you will start shouting over here. 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:45.760 I know it's unnatural, but do it real quick. You 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:51.200 will start shouting over here. For when God says I'm 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:53.720 not taking the thorn away, I'm leaving it to keep 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:59.000 you grounded. I'm not moving the Red Sea. I'm moving 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:05.040 you through it. And I'm sending the Egyptians to make 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:07.720 sure that you keep moving because I know you'll go 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:14.560 back if I don't do it. Lord, when they listen 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:16.760 to this message, please help them not to pervert the 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:18.760 spirit of what I'm saying, because some of them will 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:20.720 say that God is telling them they have a green 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:22.840 light to walk away from something you called them to. 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:25.480 And I don't want them to abuse my message and 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:27.720 compare things to Egypt that are really the things that 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.240 you've called them to. Stick out. So, please Lord, help 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.280 this message not to be misinterpreted in Jesus name. Amen, 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:37.240 Now that I got that out of the way, you 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:43.200 have to thank God for this. What does this mean? Y'all? 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:45.520 Must have had a South Carolina driver's testy, I said, 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:50.080 what does this mean? The most basic thing in the world, 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:59.840 and then let's don't even talk about what does that mean? Yes, speed, 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:02.200 I know how you are. I see you driving around, 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:05.480 but take it down, taking out. This is not driver's 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:11.640 ed class. This is the church Meetia. So how many 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:17.160 of you have your driver's license? Right? So you did it. 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:22.160 You didn't shout when I asked that, You didn't dance, 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:26.159 you didn't shake a tambourine. Remember how big it was 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:29.800 when you when you did it. Remember when you were 0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:32.880 when you were excited about that, Olivia and you were 0:23:33.720 --> 0:23:36.359 shouting and singing about your driver's license and it was 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:39.680 a big deal. And see, remember I only can preach 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:42.919 of what I live. And so having a kid had 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:44.919 just got the driver's license. We started telling all the 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:48.159 old stories. We went around table, had somethingily over over 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:50.679 Labor Day, everybody saying, well, when I got my driver's license, 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:52.240 and when I got mine, and this is the rules 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:54.080 when I got mine. This is the first wreck I 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:56.359 got into, and this is the mailbox I crushed, and 0:23:56.400 --> 0:23:58.600 this is all I almost died. Oh isn't that funny? 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:01.479 And Holly has this awful story about how when her 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:03.840 older sister got her driver's license, they drove and they 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:06.119 thought that the traffic lights were facing the wrong way 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:09.480 in Miami, Florida because they had just had their contacts 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:12.080 or what was it, your eye went to the dilated 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:14.679 And so she's driving and she goes, huh, these traffic 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:19.359 lights are going the wrong way. Now you are, they're 0:24:19.480 --> 0:24:22.440 driving the wrong ways, the traffic lights full. You'll notice 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:25.560 how we want to blame stuff like, oh god, where 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:28.320 are you? Where are you? Get called? You put the 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:30.760 put the things back up. He't told you put them on, 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:32.080 put them up, put them on, put them up. He 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:38.920 can't told you. But you ran it. You ran it. 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:47.200 So when it came my turn to tell my driver's 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:50.439 license story, mine's pretty funny because I didn't even want 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:52.320 to get my driver's license. I was scared to get it. 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:55.200 My dad comes home one day from lunch. She had barbershop. 0:24:55.240 --> 0:24:56.840 He came home from lunch. Guys, come on, we're going 0:24:56.880 --> 0:24:59.840 to get your back your driver's license. Take the test. 0:24:59.880 --> 0:25:04.600 And we got in his jimmy, and you remember the jimmy. 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:09.560 We got in his jimmy. And when the woman came out, 0:25:10.720 --> 0:25:12.320