Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna get to the message in just a moment,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to make sure you knew about Elevation Nights.
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Speaker 1: Here's the message. I'm so glad you came today. I'm
Speaker 1: so glad that God directed your steps to be here
Speaker 1: and ordered your steps. I have a sneaking suspicion that
Speaker 1: you're about to find out why you had to come
Speaker 1: to church today, why you had to log on today,
Speaker 1: why you had to click that video today. And God's
Speaker 1: going to show you join me right now in Psalm
Speaker 1: one O six. Turn your attention to Psalm one O six.
Speaker 1: Thank you laurd Oo wheel me. Yeah, who did y'all
Speaker 1: love that new song? Thank you Jesus. But I'm very convincing,
Speaker 1: how y'all just clap them. We're gonna do it again
Speaker 1: next week anyway. Don't care if you liked it. I
Speaker 1: liked it. Verse seven. When our ancestors were in Egypt,
Speaker 1: they gave no thought to your miracles. They gave no
Speaker 1: thought to your miracles. They did not remember your many kindnesses.
Speaker 1: And they rebelled by the sea, the Red sea, which
Speaker 1: c They rebelled by the sea, the red Sea. Yet
Speaker 1: he saved them for his name's sake, to make his
Speaker 1: mindmighty power known. He rebuked the red sea, and it
Speaker 1: dried up. He led them through the depths as through
Speaker 1: a desert. He saved them from the hand of the foe,
Speaker 1: from the hand of the enemy. He redeemed them. The
Speaker 1: waters covered their adversaries. Not one of them survived. Then
Speaker 1: they believed his promises and sang his praise. Then they
Speaker 1: believed his promises and sang his praise. But I want
Speaker 1: to go back to verse nine for a moment, where
Speaker 1: it says that he rebuked the red sea and it
Speaker 1: dried up. He led them through the depths as through
Speaker 1: a desert. He rebuked the red sea, and it dried up.
Speaker 1: My sermon title today is green Light at the Red Sea.
Speaker 1: When God gives you a green light at the sea,
Speaker 1: somebody shop preaching pastor furnicut here, let's go be seated,
Speaker 1: Be seated, Be seated, Be seated, be seated. The parting
Speaker 1: of the Red Sea is one of the most celebrated
Speaker 1: events in the history of the nation of Israel. They
Speaker 1: still celebrated to this day. It's worthy of celebration if
Speaker 1: you think about it, because it's what did I write
Speaker 1: down in my notes. It's like one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: miles wide on average to cross it. The Red Sea. Now,
Speaker 1: don't confuse it with the other bodies of water that
Speaker 1: are also significant in scripture, the Jordan River where Joshua
Speaker 1: led the people across a little bit later, or the
Speaker 1: Sea of Galilee, where Jesus did a lot of his ministry,
Speaker 1: or the Dead Sea. The dead sea, you know, where
Speaker 1: nothing is going out, so nothing can come in. The
Speaker 1: constipated sea. And I don't mean, I don't mean to
Speaker 1: be unappetizing early in my sermon, but I just used
Speaker 1: that word. It came to my mind. There are constipated
Speaker 1: Christians who spiritually sorry to ruin your breakfast. But the
Speaker 1: Red Sea is significant, not only geographically and generationally, but
Speaker 1: symbolically it symbolized something so great for the people. It's
Speaker 1: no surprise that it's mentioned. When Stephen was giving his
Speaker 1: speech to the Sanhedrin in Acts chapter seven, he talked
Speaker 1: about the Red Sea and what God did there. He
Speaker 1: mentioned it by name, the Red Sea. It's literally called
Speaker 1: the sea of reeds, but it was transliterated red Sea.
Speaker 1: And so you see that in Acts chapter seven, and
Speaker 1: interestingly enough, you see it again in Hebrews chapter or
Speaker 1: excuse me, in First Corinthians chapter ten. First Corinthians chapter ten,
Speaker 1: where Paul compares the red Sea that the Israelites went
Speaker 1: through coming out of Egypt to baptism the waters that
Speaker 1: we go through to become a new creation in Christ.
Speaker 1: And so he makes this very special connection that the
Speaker 1: people who originally went through it would have never made.
Speaker 1: But with time and understanding the cross of Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: and the coming of the Holy Spirit, he mentions the
Speaker 1: Red Sea. He doesn't even name it, he just calls
Speaker 1: it the sea. That's how special it was to these people.
Speaker 1: That's how much of an accomplishment and a miracle it
Speaker 1: was to these people. They didn't even have to name it,
Speaker 1: even though there's all these other different It was the
Speaker 1: only body of water. But when they said the sea,
Speaker 1: they knew. They knew that God had to bring them
Speaker 1: through this sea, through this body of water to bring
Speaker 1: them into freedom. And it proved two things when he did.
Speaker 1: Because this is why so significant. It proved that God
Speaker 1: is committed to me being free. He will split a
Speaker 1: sea to get me free. Clap for that one, because
Speaker 1: it gets rough. After that. He will remove a relationship
Speaker 1: to get me free. He will allow certain pain to
Speaker 1: do its job in my life. Like well, Paul called
Speaker 1: it a thorn in the flesh. He's like, I don't
Speaker 1: really know. I want to tell you what it really is,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna call it a thorn. I have this
Speaker 1: thing in my life. I have a prayer request, he
Speaker 1: told his men's group, And I asked God to take
Speaker 1: it away. But God so wanted me to be free
Speaker 1: of pride so that I could receive grace that he
Speaker 1: gave me something that I wanted him to take away.
Speaker 1: He was so committed to me being free that he
Speaker 1: said no to me. So it's significant because it shows
Speaker 1: us that God is committed to me being free. I
Speaker 1: want you to write that down somewhere in your phone,
Speaker 1: But just put God is committed to me being free,
Speaker 1: more than he's committed to me feeling happy, more than
Speaker 1: he's committed to me being comfortable, more than he's committed
Speaker 1: to me being right. He's committed to me being free.
Speaker 1: That's the first thing that the Red Sea reminds us of,
Speaker 1: and it represents in our lives. The second thing is
Speaker 1: that God is going to get his glory. God is
Speaker 1: going to get his glory. If you don't put anything
Speaker 1: else in the chat, that's an all caps moment in
Speaker 1: the chat. God is going to get his glory somehow,
Speaker 1: some way. You can resist it. But every need shall
Speaker 1: bout and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
Speaker 1: to the glory of God, the Father. God is going
Speaker 1: to get his glory. Now, if he can't find a
Speaker 1: single soldier in then of Israel to fight Deliath, he'll
Speaker 1: bring a shepherd boy up with a lunch, because God
Speaker 1: is going to get his glory. Who is this uncircumcised
Speaker 1: listing that he should defy the armies of the Living God.
Speaker 1: This is about God's glory, This is about his weight,
Speaker 1: this is about his name, This is about his strength.
Speaker 1: This is about his reputation. God is going to get
Speaker 1: his glory if it means he has to tell a
Speaker 1: storm to be quiet and shut up and be still
Speaker 1: to show that he is Lord. He will lead you
Speaker 1: through a storm to show you his glory. We want
Speaker 1: to avoid storms, but God won't let you avoid a storm.
Speaker 1: If a storm is what it takes to show you
Speaker 1: his glory, he needs you to know that you're not
Speaker 1: dependent on the weather of the forecast, or the sunshine
Speaker 1: or a dry boat to make it through. God is
Speaker 1: going to get his glory with nails in his hands.
Speaker 1: He's going to get his glory with nails in his feet.
Speaker 1: He's going to get his glory with a spear. We're
Speaker 1: in his side. He's gonna get his glory between two fees.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get his glory for days that Lazarus is
Speaker 1: coming forth for the glory of God. Even now, I
Speaker 1: believe I will see the glory of the Lord. God
Speaker 1: is going to get his glory. But I'm getting ahead
Speaker 1: of myself. Just before God can get his glory, we
Speaker 1: have to go through some things our own red sea.
Speaker 1: Wish I could tell you I thought of this sermon
Speaker 1: while I was studying the history of Israel and considering
Speaker 1: the theological implications and the philosophical and so teiological implications
Speaker 1: of this text as we reference it an Old Testament
Speaker 1: and New Testament, surrounded by concordances and vine strong Bible Dictionary.
Speaker 1: But I was just driving to church last week and
Speaker 1: the Lord gave me the sermon. It was actually a
Speaker 1: couple weeks ago. Holly was preaching. I had Graham and Elijah.
Speaker 1: They were so excited that Donda drop. They were so excited,
Speaker 1: and I was excited to get the church to hear
Speaker 1: to hear Holley preach. I was so excited because I
Speaker 1: didn't have to preach. I love to preach, but I
Speaker 1: liked I really like to hear somebody else preach to,
Speaker 1: especially Holly. So I'm kind of, you know, navigating the
Speaker 1: speed limit, negotiating, you know, where the Lord would have
Speaker 1: me to sit and where he where he would have
Speaker 1: me to operate and function. And right before we turned
Speaker 1: into the church, Elijah and Graham are losing their minds,
Speaker 1: saying by I'm off the grid or something like that,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to turn in and the person in
Speaker 1: front of me wouldn't go and the light was green
Speaker 1: right around the corner from where we turn in to
Speaker 1: come to Valentine, and my instinct was to hit my horn.
Speaker 1: Now I'm ana do a quick poll. How many I'm
Speaker 1: gonna see what kind of Christian you are? How many
Speaker 1: seconds do you give the car in front of you
Speaker 1: before you honk. I'm gonna count up one second, seconds,
Speaker 1: three seconds, put it in the chat, four seconds, five, six, six.
Speaker 1: So it's been a good five seconds. And I want
Speaker 1: to see my wife and I want to be at church.
Speaker 1: I'm running a little bit behind how the schedule that
Speaker 1: I wanted to be because one of my kids was
Speaker 1: messing with his hair late and so the very last minute.
Speaker 1: And I'm also realizing, like Elijah's about to get his
Speaker 1: driver's license. He's got it now, but he was about
Speaker 1: to go take the driver's test. It's a totally different test,
Speaker 1: by the way, now in North Carolina. And I know
Speaker 1: it's an international church, so I don't want to make
Speaker 1: this example too local. It's a totally different test than
Speaker 1: it was in South Carolina when I was sixteen. In
Speaker 1: South Carolina, when I was turned fifteen, all you had
Speaker 1: to do was show up and stumble in the driver's
Speaker 1: department and hit a few buttons on a thing. Wait
Speaker 1: thirty days and come back and drive around with a
Speaker 1: woman who terrified you within an inch of your life
Speaker 1: for about twenty minutes, and they handed you your license.
Speaker 1: In North Carolina, it's classes and it's hours, and it's
Speaker 1: an app and you have to log on. And I
Speaker 1: think that's probably better. Considering that these are our lives
Speaker 1: that we're putting in jeopardy at this moment, is probably
Speaker 1: a good idea to make a little bit of a
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty, give them a little bit of bar
Speaker 1: to jump over. But it's different here, and so I'm
Speaker 1: thinking this might be the last time that I drive
Speaker 1: Elijah the church. And I'm con emotional. But then the
Speaker 1: person in front of me won't go, and the light
Speaker 1: is green, and as I'm going to hit my horn,
Speaker 1: I had this. It's like the Holy Spirit spoke to me,
Speaker 1: you can't drive like this to the church. I'm just
Speaker 1: being honest with you. If we'd been in Atlanta or
Speaker 1: something like that, or I didn't have an elevation sticker,
Speaker 1: my tent was more on my windows and they couldn't
Speaker 1: see me. I'm gonna do it. But the Lord said,
Speaker 1: you can't be this big of a jerk this close
Speaker 1: to the church. And I'm so glad I didn't holp
Speaker 1: because they turned on and then went into the parking
Speaker 1: lot to come here, and then turned on their flashers
Speaker 1: because they were a first time guest. And I'm so
Speaker 1: glad I didn't honk. Come on, Praise God that I
Speaker 1: didn't honk. A lot of times I did, but this
Speaker 1: time I didn't, And God's not finished with me small steps.
Speaker 1: When I read about the children of Israel going across
Speaker 1: the Red Sea, I not only see the water standing
Speaker 1: up at the right and the left. I not only
Speaker 1: hear the click clack of the chariot wheels of Pharaoh's
Speaker 1: cadillacs as he chased them down because he realized what
Speaker 1: he was losing. Oh yeah, the enemy fights you the
Speaker 1: hardest when you're on the verge of a horizon of
Speaker 1: a greater, truer, newer version of you that God has
Speaker 1: seen and all along. And so I hear the chariot
Speaker 1: wheels because I've read the story so many times, and
Speaker 1: I bet you've heard it once or twice two. But
Speaker 1: this time when I read it, I heard God honking
Speaker 1: to tell his children you got to go. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: got to go after four hundred years of generational oppression.
Speaker 1: And so yes, I'm talking about some of the things
Speaker 1: that your parents struggled with, and their parents struggled with,
Speaker 1: and their parents struggled with. Whether that is cycles of poverty,
Speaker 1: whether that is cycles of dysfunctional thinking, whether that is
Speaker 1: cycles of substance of use, whether that is cycles of
Speaker 1: sexual confusion, whatever that is, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: And now God has seen the misery of his people
Speaker 1: and he came down to do something about it. And
Speaker 1: someone who six is interesting because it's giving us a
Speaker 1: sort of a what you call this a reflection on
Speaker 1: a revelation that God gave his people so many years earlier. Now,
Speaker 1: Psalm one oh six is written to some people who
Speaker 1: are coming out of captivity and in the process of
Speaker 1: reflecting on that this is a remembrance of what God
Speaker 1: did in Egypt. And he said, when our ancestors were
Speaker 1: in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles, They
Speaker 1: did not remember your kindness, and they rebelled by the sea,
Speaker 1: the Red Sea. Now you know that really got me
Speaker 1: because I've always taught about and thought about how they
Speaker 1: rebelled in the wilderness once they got out of Egypt.
Speaker 1: But the Red Sea I always associated with faith, and
Speaker 1: I think you should too, because you probably never had
Speaker 1: faith that great in your life to go through some
Speaker 1: water too deep to swim through. And well, it's so
Speaker 1: many people. I mean, good grief. I barely have faith
Speaker 1: for for eighty five traffic. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you the truth. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: I think it's great faith. The writer of Hebrews also
Speaker 1: mentions the Red Sea. Remember earlier when I said, Hebrews,
Speaker 1: this is the one I was thinking about. I just
Speaker 1: remembered it. He said, by faith, the children of Israel
Speaker 1: crossed through the Red Sea, though when their enemies tried
Speaker 1: to do it, they drown. So I always associated the
Speaker 1: Red Sea with faith. It was interesting to me that
Speaker 1: in this Psalm, in reflecting on it, he doesn't mention
Speaker 1: the rebellions that we typically know about. When they got
Speaker 1: in the wilderness and they started complaining, Oh, we got
Speaker 1: to eat mana every day. Mom, do we have to
Speaker 1: eat this again? Moses, do we have to eat this
Speaker 1: mana again? We're sick of mana. We used to have
Speaker 1: quail in each of God, Do I really have to
Speaker 1: go back to this job? Well, you did pray for
Speaker 1: that job, okay, But I'm not going to talk about
Speaker 1: that because it wasn't the wilderness wanderings that were in
Speaker 1: focus here. It was that moment when they had seen
Speaker 1: the hand of God and they had seen God afflict
Speaker 1: the Egyptians with the plagues, turn the Nile River to blood,
Speaker 1: and coming out of that loaded with the substance of
Speaker 1: Egypt to pay them back for everything that they didn't
Speaker 1: get while they were working for Pharaoh. At the moment
Speaker 1: when they should have been able to celebrate their freedom,
Speaker 1: they were attacked from behind and salmono success. They rebelled
Speaker 1: at the Red Sea. So I went back to read
Speaker 1: it because my first thing was, well, no, they didn't.
Speaker 1: They walked through the Red Sea. We sing about it
Speaker 1: a lot in church, turned seas into highways, stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But I read it and I realized they they did
Speaker 1: kind of rebel. Let's read it together. Exodus chapter fourteen.
Speaker 1: It says in verse ten, you know what I think
Speaker 1: you deserve the other part two in chapter thirteen, I'm
Speaker 1: going to chapter thirteen just for you. In chapter thirteen,
Speaker 1: verse seventeen, It says, when Pharaoh let the people go,
Speaker 1: God did not lead them on the road through the
Speaker 1: Philistine country, though that was shorter, for God said, if
Speaker 1: they face war, they might change their minds and return
Speaker 1: to Egypt. Only God knows when you're really ready. Next
Speaker 1: verse says that Verse eighteen says, so God led the
Speaker 1: people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea.
Speaker 1: So now we see the reason for the Red Sea,
Speaker 1: the reason for the Red Sea. You've been trying to
Speaker 1: figure out why am I going through this? Why is
Speaker 1: this happening to me? And please do not try to
Speaker 1: play God in somebody else's life and answer that, well,
Speaker 1: God is just using this to test your faith. Shut
Speaker 1: up and pass your own test and keep your eyes
Speaker 1: on your own scantron number two pencils. But here, by
Speaker 1: the spirit of the Lord, there's a revelation given. And
Speaker 1: maybe I can't tell you the reason you're going through
Speaker 1: what you're going through, but maybe God will show it
Speaker 1: to you in these moments together. Today it says the
Speaker 1: reason God brought them to the Red Sea was there
Speaker 1: were some things that if they were not drowned before
Speaker 1: they went across, they would be defeated when they got there.
Speaker 1: It says that they left Egypt ready for battle. Show
Speaker 1: them that verse eighteen. They went up from Egypt ready,
Speaker 1: everybody say ready, say it again. Ready. That's what a
Speaker 1: green light means. You can go now. You're ready now.
Speaker 1: And sometimes we think it's ready, and God gives you
Speaker 1: a red light instead of a ready light, and you're like, God,
Speaker 1: I'm ready, I'm ready for this. I'm ready for something better.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for more. I'm ready, God, I want more influence?
Speaker 1: Are you ready for more responsibility? Really ready? Are you
Speaker 1: ready to be the one who has to put up
Speaker 1: with with all the crap as you're praying about a
Speaker 1: bigger income? Because that's what happens. Only God knows when
Speaker 1: we're really ready. They were ready for battle, dressed for it,
Speaker 1: but not ready for it, dressed for it but not
Speaker 1: ready for it. God said, if they face the Philistines
Speaker 1: right now, they'll get killed. And he was proven correct.
Speaker 1: Guess what God was right when they saw the Canaanites
Speaker 1: when they finally got in the promise Lan after they
Speaker 1: crossed through the Red Sea, they wouldn't fight. They weren't ready.
Speaker 1: They were dressed like they were ready. They were looking
Speaker 1: like they were ready. They were posting that they were ready.
Speaker 1: They were hashtagging like they were ready, but they weren't
Speaker 1: really ready. Only God knows when you're really ready. You'll
Speaker 1: know how y'all shout it over the green light at
Speaker 1: the Red Sea. I wonder would you shout put up
Speaker 1: the other one? I wonder would you shout over this one?
Speaker 1: Show me how excited this is to you? Yes Lord, Yes, Lord,
Speaker 1: bring it on. I want my harvest, I want my blessing,
Speaker 1: I want my boss. I'm a deep Christian. I read ruth.
Speaker 1: But if you ever asked God for a king and
Speaker 1: then you got Saul, you will start shouting over here.
Speaker 1: I know it's unnatural, but do it real quick. You
Speaker 1: will start shouting over here. For when God says I'm
Speaker 1: not taking the thorn away, I'm leaving it to keep
Speaker 1: you grounded. I'm not moving the Red Sea. I'm moving
Speaker 1: you through it. And I'm sending the Egyptians to make
Speaker 1: sure that you keep moving because I know you'll go
Speaker 1: back if I don't do it. Lord, when they listen
Speaker 1: to this message, please help them not to pervert the
Speaker 1: spirit of what I'm saying, because some of them will
Speaker 1: say that God is telling them they have a green
Speaker 1: light to walk away from something you called them to.
Speaker 1: And I don't want them to abuse my message and
Speaker 1: compare things to Egypt that are really the things that
Speaker 1: you've called them to. Stick out. So, please Lord, help
Speaker 1: this message not to be misinterpreted in Jesus name. Amen,
Speaker 1: Now that I got that out of the way, you
Speaker 1: have to thank God for this. What does this mean? Y'all?
Speaker 1: Must have had a South Carolina driver's testy, I said,
Speaker 1: what does this mean? The most basic thing in the world,
Speaker 1: and then let's don't even talk about what does that mean? Yes, speed,
Speaker 1: I know how you are. I see you driving around,
Speaker 1: but take it down, taking out. This is not driver's
Speaker 1: ed class. This is the church Meetia. So how many
Speaker 1: of you have your driver's license? Right? So you did it.
Speaker 1: You didn't shout when I asked that, You didn't dance,
Speaker 1: you didn't shake a tambourine. Remember how big it was
Speaker 1: when you when you did it. Remember when you were
Speaker 1: when you were excited about that, Olivia and you were
Speaker 1: shouting and singing about your driver's license and it was
Speaker 1: a big deal. And see, remember I only can preach
Speaker 1: of what I live. And so having a kid had
Speaker 1: just got the driver's license. We started telling all the
Speaker 1: old stories. We went around table, had somethingily over over
Speaker 1: Labor Day, everybody saying, well, when I got my driver's license,
Speaker 1: and when I got mine, and this is the rules
Speaker 1: when I got mine. This is the first wreck I
Speaker 1: got into, and this is the mailbox I crushed, and
Speaker 1: this is all I almost died. Oh isn't that funny?
Speaker 1: And Holly has this awful story about how when her
Speaker 1: older sister got her driver's license, they drove and they
Speaker 1: thought that the traffic lights were facing the wrong way
Speaker 1: in Miami, Florida because they had just had their contacts
Speaker 1: or what was it, your eye went to the dilated
Speaker 1: And so she's driving and she goes, huh, these traffic
Speaker 1: lights are going the wrong way. Now you are, they're
Speaker 1: driving the wrong ways, the traffic lights full. You'll notice
Speaker 1: how we want to blame stuff like, oh god, where
Speaker 1: are you? Where are you? Get called? You put the
Speaker 1: put the things back up. He't told you put them on,
Speaker 1: put them up, put them on, put them up. He
Speaker 1: can't told you. But you ran it. You ran it.
Speaker 1: So when it came my turn to tell my driver's
Speaker 1: license story, mine's pretty funny because I didn't even want
Speaker 1: to get my driver's license. I was scared to get it.
Speaker 1: My dad comes home one day from lunch. She had barbershop.
Speaker 1: He came home from lunch. Guys, come on, we're going
Speaker 1: to get your back your driver's license. Take the test.
Speaker 1: And we got in his jimmy, and you remember the jimmy.
Speaker 1: We got in his jimmy. And when the woman came out,
Speaker 1: when I came to back out of the parking lot,
Speaker 1: the car cut off. She's sitting next to me and
Speaker 1: she said, you have two more attempts to start your engine.
Speaker 1: After that, this test will be terminated. And sure enough,
Speaker 1: I put it in reverse again, he cuts off. It
Speaker 1: cuts off three times. Three strikes are out. She says,
Speaker 1: this test is over. We will now go back into
Speaker 1: the office. My dad. Now, you got to think this
Speaker 1: is low country South Carolina, one hundred and seventy three
Speaker 1: degree heat in the middle of July. My dad's a
Speaker 1: big dude. He's running across the parking lot like the
Speaker 1: father run into the prodigal, come around, and he goes,
Speaker 1: you have to know my dad. He's in heaven now,
Speaker 1: but you have to really know him to get this story.
Speaker 1: How funny it is, He goes, ma'am, ma'am, he's short
Speaker 1: on breadth. There's a whole is very dramatic, ma'am, ma'am.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. It's not his fault. I didn't prepare him.
Speaker 1: I didn't tell him. This old car man, when you
Speaker 1: put it in reverse with the air conditioning on, it
Speaker 1: cuts off. You have to cut off the air conditioning,
Speaker 1: the mix. How many y'all had some cars before? How
Speaker 1: many y'all first car wasn't a BMW? How many y'all
Speaker 1: first car wasn't a G wagon? I preached to some
Speaker 1: slinky people with this car, he said, he said, he said.
Speaker 1: I didn't tell him. You got to turn the air
Speaker 1: conditioning off before you back it up, or it cuts off. Please, ma'am,
Speaker 1: please don't fail him. It's my fault, ma'am. It's my fault.
Speaker 1: He's on the cross like Jesus upon him for my sin.
Speaker 1: It's my fault. I didn't tell him how to back up.
Speaker 1: I didn't tell him how to back up, because every
Speaker 1: time I put it in reverse it didn't work. And
Speaker 1: she said, I'll give you one more chance. And when
Speaker 1: I turned off the air conditioning, the Red Sea party.
Speaker 1: I cruised through Highway seventeen A. I parallel parked the Jimmy.
Speaker 1: I pulled it back in the parking lot and I
Speaker 1: got my license. Come on. It was exciting at the time.
Speaker 1: It was big at the time. It was huge at
Speaker 1: the time. But it didn't work every time I put
Speaker 1: it in reverse. I almost didn't get out of the
Speaker 1: parking lot to take my test. I almost failed to
Speaker 1: test in the parking lot because I put the car
Speaker 1: in reverse. When God brought his people out of Egypt,
Speaker 1: he was bringing them into freedom and he was getting
Speaker 1: his glory for himself. But the first thing they did.
Speaker 1: I want to show you this in Exodus fourteen. Now,
Speaker 1: now you're ready for Exodus fourteen. As Pharaoh approached first
Speaker 1: in the Israelites looked up and there were the Egyptians.
Speaker 1: What do the Egyptians represent? Something more powerful than them.
Speaker 1: It represents their past, and really it represents their way
Speaker 1: of life, all that they've known. It also represents the
Speaker 1: provision that they've grown accustomed to receiving. But now what
Speaker 1: they used to depend on is chasing them. All they
Speaker 1: can see in front of them is a red sea.
Speaker 1: Remember I told you this is not a creek m
Speaker 1: and you can't doggy paddle through this. And let me
Speaker 1: be clear, some of you are there right now. The
Speaker 1: red Sea can represent anything. I know. Some people think
Speaker 1: that the Bible is mainly a history book. I don't
Speaker 1: think that. I think that the Bible uses history to
Speaker 1: teach theology, and so it uses the example of a
Speaker 1: body of water to get meet to think about things
Speaker 1: in my life that I'm looking at going. I don't
Speaker 1: see how. I just really don't see how. I was excited.
Speaker 1: I was dressed for battle. I had my under armour on,
Speaker 1: I got my gym membership. I was ready. I had
Speaker 1: my Bible reading plan. I was ready. I was going
Speaker 1: to do it. This was going to be a new year.
Speaker 1: A knew me all that stuff. I thought I was ready.
Speaker 1: I was ready for the Promised Land. But I was
Speaker 1: not ready for this Red Sea. I was not ready.
Speaker 1: I thought I was. I talked to somebody the other day.
Speaker 1: They were like, growing old is not for whimps. I
Speaker 1: just didn't know. I thought I was ready to age gracefully.
Speaker 1: I always said I won't be this kind of person.
Speaker 1: I won't be that kind of person. I thought I
Speaker 1: was ready, and I was ready in a sense, but
Speaker 1: I wasn't ready for this barrier. I wasn't ready for
Speaker 1: this test. And the first thing that you do when
Speaker 1: you come up on something that you were not ready for,
Speaker 1: not ready at all, no training, no expertise, no swimming classes,
Speaker 1: no boat, no floats, no vehicle to get you across.
Speaker 1: And God said, you've been feeling that way lately. I
Speaker 1: don't know who you are. I don't care if it's
Speaker 1: three of you or thirty thousand. But God said, you're
Speaker 1: standing in front of it right now, and it is
Speaker 1: what stands between you and freedom. It's what stands between
Speaker 1: you and freedom. And God's gonna get his glory as
Speaker 1: you go through, as you go through. So now the
Speaker 1: word gets really deep because it says as Pharaoh was
Speaker 1: approaching them from behind, the people turned to Moses and
Speaker 1: say verse eleven, was it because there were no graves
Speaker 1: in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die?
Speaker 1: Watch them put their faith in reverse? What have you
Speaker 1: done to us by bringing us up out of Egypt?
Speaker 1: They are barely out of the parking lot church, They
Speaker 1: are barely out of Egypt. They are barely used to
Speaker 1: the idea or the concept that they are a mighty
Speaker 1: nation and the car cuts off. The first thing they
Speaker 1: do is to blame. The first thing they do is
Speaker 1: to shift responsibility. The first thing they do, and we
Speaker 1: can understand it, is to want to return to what
Speaker 1: wasn't even working in the first place. I would rather
Speaker 1: serve them than die at their hands. This is exactly
Speaker 1: what they say. Let me teach you the Bible lesson.
Speaker 1: We've always heard the Red Sea as a story of
Speaker 1: great faith. But before they had great faith, watch at
Speaker 1: their fear. Great faith doesn't look like you think it does.
Speaker 1: I don't care what anybody tells you about how long
Speaker 1: they pray, or how much they believe God, or how
Speaker 1: they taught their children how to knit quilts and pray
Speaker 1: for missionaries at the same time. That's all wonderful, But
Speaker 1: I promise you that their testimony had a stage of terror.
Speaker 1: It's been terrorizing you, hasn't it. It's been terrorizing you
Speaker 1: some things you did in the past that you wish
Speaker 1: you could get back. It's been terrorizing you some things
Speaker 1: you didn't do to prepare and now you're not ready.
Speaker 1: It's been terrorizing you, hasn't it. It's been chasing you,
Speaker 1: hasn't it. It's been making you want to give up
Speaker 1: on you, hasn't it. It's been making you sabotage yourself,
Speaker 1: hasn't it. It's been making you think maybe there's not
Speaker 1: a reason for me to go through at all. It's
Speaker 1: been make you want to turn around and go home.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work in reverse. You can't go back there.
Speaker 1: And Moses is in a difficult dilemma because now they
Speaker 1: want to go back to Egypt and they're making crap up.
Speaker 1: They're making crap up. They're just this didn't happen. Didn't
Speaker 1: we say to you in Egypt, leave us alone? This
Speaker 1: is Verse twelve, Leave us alone, let us serve the Egyptians. No,
Speaker 1: you didn't say that to him in Egypt. They never
Speaker 1: said that in Egypt. If you find it, put it
Speaker 1: on some social media and I'll I'll meet up with
Speaker 1: you there. It's not out. You can't find it. They
Speaker 1: didn't say that. This is a revision is history. Ah.
Speaker 1: Now I feel really bad for Moses, even more than
Speaker 1: I feel bad for them, and I feel bad for
Speaker 1: everybody because I you know, I would be saying the
Speaker 1: same stuff. I would be having the same thoughts. I'd
Speaker 1: be wanting to go back to I do it all
Speaker 1: the time, but Moses has to motivate them to keep moving.
Speaker 1: In fact, in verse thirteen, he answered, the people, do
Speaker 1: not be afraid. Stand firm, and you will see the
Speaker 1: deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you
Speaker 1: see today, you will never see again. The Lord will
Speaker 1: fight for you. You need only to be still. Now.
Speaker 1: Part of that is true, the Lord will fight for you.
Speaker 1: But part of it is false. You don't get to
Speaker 1: be still. In fact, the moment Moses gets his motivational
Speaker 1: speech out of his mouth, God corrects him, I wonder
Speaker 1: did you ever read this about the green light at
Speaker 1: the Red Sea? I wonder did you ever really think
Speaker 1: about this? Because Moses is saying, Hey, God's got this.
Speaker 1: He told us to come through the Red Sea. He's
Speaker 1: gonna do it. He's God, he's faithful. He brought us out.
Speaker 1: He didn't bring us as far and leave us. Just
Speaker 1: stand still, no, watch God. In verse fifteen, then the
Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, why are you crying out to me?
Speaker 1: Tell the Israelites honk honk, move on. That's God honking.
Speaker 1: That's not Pharaoh chasing, that's God honking. That restless thing
Speaker 1: inside of you. This letting you know you can't stay
Speaker 1: in these excuses and just be who you were ten
Speaker 1: years ago. That's God honking. Be beep beep by resent
Speaker 1: be beep, that's God honking. That's a bet beep. Now,
Speaker 1: God will give you a courtesy honk before he lays
Speaker 1: on the horn. And this is a courtesy honk from God.
Speaker 1: This word, this message today from God through me to you.
Speaker 1: This is a courtesy honk from God. Because if you
Speaker 1: stay here in this dry spot and feel so sorry
Speaker 1: for yourself, or blame others, or spend your time in reverse,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna make it out the parking lot. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna get to see the manna. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: get to taste the grapes. You're not gonna bring down
Speaker 1: the giant. This is God hanking. He said, if you
Speaker 1: stand there and stay in your feelings. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you noticed, but it said they were terrified. I
Speaker 1: guess they were. Well, see, I wouldn't because the Lord
Speaker 1: fights my battles. Shut up, Shut up. I don't want
Speaker 1: God to strike you for lying while I'm preaching. I'd
Speaker 1: have to call the ambulance. And all of that don't lie.
Speaker 1: But the miracle is not in your feelings. The miracle
Speaker 1: is in your feet. It's not in your feelings, just
Speaker 1: in your feet. What you've got to do is move, move, move,
Speaker 1: beat beep is green. You've got the go ahead from God,
Speaker 1: even though it doesn't look like it, even though you
Speaker 1: don't see it, even though this is kind of an
Speaker 1: off road season for you, and you've never been this
Speaker 1: way before, and you've never figured this out before, and
Speaker 1: you weren't educated for this, You've got a green light.
Speaker 1: And if you sit at this green light in this
Speaker 1: intersection long enough, look, God will give you the green light.
Speaker 1: But he's not gonna drive the car. Oh oh, looks
Speaker 1: like I hit a nerve. Y'all were singing, Jesus take
Speaker 1: the wheel. He's like, nope, yavo. I walk through the
Speaker 1: valley of the Shadow of Death. I will fear no
Speaker 1: evil because you're with me. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: It's in my feet. He enables me to go through
Speaker 1: the valley. That's what he gets me grace for, not
Speaker 1: to make it so that I never experienced a valley.
Speaker 1: Quit looking to external means of testimony. To the goodness
Speaker 1: of God. You gotta get a green light on the inside.
Speaker 1: You gotta get a green light on the inside to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I know. God is calling me to
Speaker 1: love this person even though they get all my last nerves.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean by a green light at the
Speaker 1: Red Sea. When God enables you to do something that
Speaker 1: you could note you could never do apart from Him,
Speaker 1: apart from me, you can do nothing. But I can
Speaker 1: do all things. Through Christ too strengthens me, and I
Speaker 1: can do this too. God's gonna get his glory. But
Speaker 1: you gotta go. You've gotta go. I don't mean running
Speaker 1: from stuff. I don't mean moving cities. I mean walking
Speaker 1: by faith, not sight, to pass through the sea. That's
Speaker 1: the reason He brought you to the Red Sea, because
Speaker 1: the Egyptians can't swim that far. Oh God, too much
Speaker 1: should have been a series. All I came to prophesy
Speaker 1: today is you've got green and you gotta go. You
Speaker 1: gotta go. So where should I move? With Tampa Atlanta?
Speaker 1: You keep thinking it's about geography. It's not about geography. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I walked through the Valley of the shadow of death.
Speaker 1: I will fear no evil, though I walk through. I
Speaker 1: will fear no feeling. Well, I feel fear, but the
Speaker 1: miracle is not in my feelings. This is I fear
Speaker 1: and you know what else? Song twenty three says, he
Speaker 1: maketh me lie down. He knows when it should be read,
Speaker 1: He knows when it should be green. He maketh me
Speaker 1: lie down? In what pastures? Did you just say green?
Speaker 1: Does my whole sermon go together to get you to
Speaker 1: realize that you've got green even in the valley, that
Speaker 1: he will feed you. He will feed you in the
Speaker 1: low place. Yeah, yeah, you're depressed, Yeah, yeah, you're anxious,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, just girt up? Yeah yea, yeah you did it.
Speaker 1: But he's still a break you through anyway. Where's the argain?
Speaker 1: Where's argain? I need to celebrate. I need the celebrate.
Speaker 1: I need this celebrate. I need the celebrate. It is
Speaker 1: all by myself. Whoa whoa, whoo, whoo, whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 1: I got that go through annoyting. I got that anyway, annongtain,
Speaker 1: I got that red sea revelation. He let me through
Speaker 1: the depths, through the depths like it was a desert.
Speaker 1: He brought me through dysfunction. He brought me into destiny.
Speaker 1: He led me through the desert. He led me through
Speaker 1: the desert. He led me through the desert. The proof
Speaker 1: that God is leading you is not that it's easy.
Speaker 1: He prepare at the table for me in the green Valley,
Speaker 1: in the presence of my enemies. He's leading me. I'm
Speaker 1: not going the easy way. I'm going through the sea.
Speaker 1: I've been baptized in water. I've been baptized in the
Speaker 1: fathered love. I've been baptized by fire. Had up facom forth,
Speaker 1: that's go, that's go. I'm coming out of this for
Speaker 1: a fine I'm coming out of this for a storm.
Speaker 1: I'm coming out of this for the revelation. Because I
Speaker 1: got a green light at the Red Sea. I asked
Speaker 1: the Lord in coming to preach this message, what did
Speaker 1: he want to give you to get you through? And
Speaker 1: I said, show me, Lord what you want to give
Speaker 1: to get them through? Because he gave Moses a staff.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, surely you can give them something
Speaker 1: that rod and thy staff. They comfort me. When Moses
Speaker 1: had a staff, David had a staff. God of Moses
Speaker 1: got to David, what did he give Annabelle. What was
Speaker 1: your name again, Lady that I said, I was going
Speaker 1: to preach to Kathy. What did he give Kathy? So
Speaker 1: I'm praying you. And the first thing God said he
Speaker 1: want to give you as you go through this right
Speaker 1: to see shout it again. You got green, you got green.
Speaker 1: I want to see green light emojis all in the
Speaker 1: chat when I watched this message water this week, because
Speaker 1: the first thing he said he wanted to give you
Speaker 1: was grace. Grace. Grace not just any kind of grace,
Speaker 1: because we put that before we eat the casserole. Let's
Speaker 1: say grace, not that kind of grace. He said, he
Speaker 1: wanted to give you grace for your greatest embarrassments, for
Speaker 1: the thing you won't talk about, for the thing you
Speaker 1: pretend like you got through but you're really drowning in it.
Speaker 1: I won't stay here long because you'll pretend like you
Speaker 1: got to go to the bathroom and get up and
Speaker 1: walk out, if like you're talking about this, but this
Speaker 1: between you and God. And he told me to say
Speaker 1: it just like that, he said, tell him. I want
Speaker 1: to give them grace for their greatest embarrassment, for their
Speaker 1: most spectacular failure, for their most idiotic mistake. Remember, and
Speaker 1: I need to show you this again in someone because
Speaker 1: I never saw it quite this way before. I thought
Speaker 1: the Red Sea was about faith. I didn't know us
Speaker 1: also about failure. They rebelled, please one more time in
Speaker 1: the back end, I'll stop. I just want you to
Speaker 1: see this one more time. Would y'all be happy if
Speaker 1: I picked this up next week too? Would you be
Speaker 1: happy if I let me know in the chat? Because
Speaker 1: I think we need to keep talking about this idea
Speaker 1: that God will give you a green light, the strength
Speaker 1: and the assurance and the calling to go through something
Speaker 1: that you've never seen anybody else go through, and that
Speaker 1: you've convinced yourself. I was telling my friend the other day.
Speaker 1: They were saying, well, you're gonna get better at this,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna develop that. I said, I'm forty one.
Speaker 1: I don't believe you. Stop lying. If I'm not all
Speaker 1: those things by now, I'm never gonna be I didn't
Speaker 1: want to hear it, you know. I want to put
Speaker 1: it in reverse. Always been this way, So now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be stuck in the park. I'm gonna be stuck
Speaker 1: outside of the peace of God because I want to
Speaker 1: go back to Egypt. My dad's running the crowd. Give
Speaker 1: him another chance. Please, he's breathing heavy. Thank God for
Speaker 1: second chances. You better voluntarily testify. Third chances, four chances,
Speaker 1: fifth chances. Because it said, it said, it said, they
Speaker 1: did not remember verse seven, So they rebelled. When you
Speaker 1: don't remember, You rebel when you don't remember who God is,
Speaker 1: what he's done, what he's called you, what Jesus has
Speaker 1: done for you on the cross. When you forget that,
Speaker 1: your sole focus becomes what's in front of you. And
Speaker 1: the Red Sea is big, so of course you want
Speaker 1: to go back. Where else are you going to go?
Speaker 1: But you just saw the nile turn to blood. You
Speaker 1: just saw frogs cover the land. You just saw the
Speaker 1: firstborn of Egypt struck dead. Because God will get his glory.
Speaker 1: He's committed to it, and God is committed to your freedom.
Speaker 1: They rebelt. They rebelled by the sea, by the Red Sea.
Speaker 1: I knew they rebelled in the wilderness. I knew they
Speaker 1: rebelled at sign. I remember they built the Golden Calve,
Speaker 1: dancing around and taking their clothes off and all that.
Speaker 1: But they rebelled before they even got out. They almost
Speaker 1: failed to test the faith in the parking lot on
Speaker 1: their way to the Promised Land. But what really got
Speaker 1: me was the word yet in verse eight, Yet he
Speaker 1: saved them for his name's sake. Don't you know? He
Speaker 1: leadeth me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake,
Speaker 1: green pastures, stillwater. They rebel, Yet he saved them for
Speaker 1: his namesake, to make his mighty power known. I wonder
Speaker 1: if God brought you to the Red Sea to give
Speaker 1: you a green light, to kill off the insecurities, to
Speaker 1: kill off the arrogance, to kill off the idols, to
Speaker 1: kill off the Egyptians. I wonder if He brought you
Speaker 1: to this not to kill you, because it wouldn't make
Speaker 1: much sense if He did all of that to bring
Speaker 1: you out of Egypt and sent his son to spare
Speaker 1: you and then left you here at this red sea.
Speaker 1: Would have They rebel. But my soul got happy when
Speaker 1: I read what he did. Verse nine. He rebuked the
Speaker 1: Red Sea. See the symmetry of the text. They rebelled.
Speaker 1: He rebuked. That's what God will do. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: preach it boldly. God's gonna do it for you anyway.
Speaker 1: God's gonna do it for you. Anyway. But don't list
Speaker 1: your resume of all the good things you did, of
Speaker 1: why God should help you. Right now, you won't need
Speaker 1: any of that. It's not what you did that's gonna
Speaker 1: get him to do what only he could do. He's
Speaker 1: gonna do it in spite of it, in spite of it,
Speaker 1: in spite of your stupid in spite of your stubborn
Speaker 1: He's gonna give you grace for your greatest embarrassment, and
Speaker 1: your kids will live to tell of it, and your
Speaker 1: grandkids will know about it. He's gonna save you anyway.
Speaker 1: I declare it. You gotta read life, but you gotta go.
Speaker 1: You got green, you gotta green, You got green, but
Speaker 1: you gotta go. I don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 1: grace you need, but God said, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: grace for your greatest embarrassing. But that's not all the
Speaker 1: infomercial used to say. But wait, there's more. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't know who would leave at this point in the sermon,
Speaker 1: but I encourage you to stay for this last thing
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you. I'm telling you right now, God's
Speaker 1: spirit is in this place. The Word of God is
Speaker 1: alive and active. I'm preaching this. Whoever you are, the
Speaker 1: Lord said, is green. It's green. It's green. It's green.
Speaker 1: It's green. You will make it. You will make it.
Speaker 1: You will make it. You will make it. You will
Speaker 1: make it. So, he said, grace for your greatest embarrassment.
Speaker 1: He said he wanted to give you resource for your
Speaker 1: deepest need. Not the one you think you need, it
Speaker 1: the one he knows you need. If that's peace, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have it. It's going to be green in the valley.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be dark, but it's gonna be green. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you resource for your deepest need. Do
Speaker 1: you know what else? He said? And I know when
Speaker 1: I hear God and when I'm just making stuff up,
Speaker 1: But all of these, he said, he wanted to give
Speaker 1: you today. He said, he wanted to give you energy. Well,
Speaker 1: you need it, I can tell. He said. He wants
Speaker 1: to give you divine power to demolish strongholds and a
Speaker 1: fresh feeling of the Holy Spirit. Fill your horn with
Speaker 1: oil and be on your way. It's great. You gotta go.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus. He said. He wanted to give you
Speaker 1: energy for your most draining relationships. Don't look at anybody
Speaker 1: right now. Do not look at anybody right now. They
Speaker 1: will not like that, they will not like that. But
Speaker 1: just receive it. Just receive it. Just receie that I
Speaker 1: wrote these down because I knew i'd forget the fourth one.
Speaker 1: What was the fourth one, Lauren? Oh? Yeah, he said
Speaker 1: he was gonna give you evidence. Whoo whoo. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you evidence is for your most stubborn unbelief.
Speaker 1: You see that staff in your hand, that's evidence of
Speaker 1: God's faithfulness. You're gonna point back to this red sea.
Speaker 1: I told Graham this morning, I'm gonna write a song
Speaker 1: called Grandkids. It's gonna say I'm gonna tell my grandkids
Speaker 1: about what God did. I don't know how the melody
Speaker 1: is gonna go yet, but that's what I'm saying. God
Speaker 1: is gonna give you evidence that will serve for a
Speaker 1: future generation to know the Lord. Wow, and to prove
Speaker 1: to you that he can be trusted. And the final thing,
Speaker 1: because I was like Lord, that almost the first letter
Speaker 1: of those almost spells green, the grace, and the resource
Speaker 1: got any ease, Yeah, energy and evidence. I said, there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of words that start within Lord. We
Speaker 1: gotta spell green here so they can remember this, because
Speaker 1: I want to tell the people you got green. You
Speaker 1: got green. You don't have to stay here and die
Speaker 1: just because you feel afraid or just because you feel ashamed.
Speaker 1: So the Lord spoke to me another driving word. He said, navigate.
Speaker 1: He said, I'm gonna help you navigate your most complicated places.
Speaker 1: So that's what we mean about a green light at
Speaker 1: the red sea. The red Sea's not gonna move. God's
Speaker 1: gonna give you grace for your greatest embarrassment. You don't
Speaker 1: think Moses was embarrassed that he killed an Egyptian and
Speaker 1: now he's having to deliver people who only know him
Speaker 1: as a murderer, and God gave him grace for that.
Speaker 1: Think about the resources that were needed. Hey, did you
Speaker 1: ever see in John chapter six when Jesus fed the
Speaker 1: five thousand with the little boys life? Did you see
Speaker 1: it before? One thing I don't know if you ever
Speaker 1: saw is said that they didn't have enough food. Can
Speaker 1: you put that verse up there? They said, here's a
Speaker 1: boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish,
Speaker 1: But how far will they go among so many? So
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of bread, But watch what
Speaker 1: they did have verse ten, Jesus that have the people
Speaker 1: sit down. There was plenty of grass in that place.
Speaker 1: That's a weird detail to point out there's plenty of green. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just sit down in it for a second. Yeah. God's
Speaker 1: going to give you somewhere to sit. He's going to
Speaker 1: give you something to sit in in this season. I
Speaker 1: know it in my spirit. I declare it to your spirit.
Speaker 1: Do you receive it? Are you receiving this? I didn't
Speaker 1: come here to perform a speech for you. Do you
Speaker 1: receive this in your spirit? So listen, he said, I'm
Speaker 1: going to meet the deepest need. You've been asking me
Speaker 1: for more friends, but I want to fix what's on
Speaker 1: the inside of you that doesn't reach out to the
Speaker 1: ones you already have. Yes, So I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you resource for your deepest needs. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you energy for your most draining relationships. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: putting up with people. I'm gonna show you how to
Speaker 1: dodge them some too, so you can save your energy.
Speaker 1: God's going to do this for you. He will do it.
Speaker 1: He will do it. You got a green light at
Speaker 1: the Red Sea. He's going to give it to you
Speaker 1: and You're going to have the rest of your life
Speaker 1: when you pass through this season the evidence of His faithfulness,
Speaker 1: and you can preach to your unbelief tell him who
Speaker 1: Jesus is to you, Tell him what God already did
Speaker 1: for you. You're gonna be able to preach about this
Speaker 1: for the rest of your life. What you're going through
Speaker 1: right now, you receive it. That's God honking b b H.
Speaker 1: But if you stand still, you die. You die inside.
Speaker 1: So that's why God's gonna help you navigate. There's no way, Buck.
Speaker 1: I want you to come take this because I know
Speaker 1: what you're going through, and I had it in my
Speaker 1: heart for you to hang that up on your mirror
Speaker 1: and just remember that. All right. I want you to
Speaker 1: show that to Miss Tammy too. But just look, just
Speaker 1: just just lift your hands for a moment. Lift your
Speaker 1: hands for a moment. Lift your hands for a moment.
Speaker 1: The spirit of grace, we need you. It's deep waters
Speaker 1: ahead and fierce enemies behind them. We got a green light.
Speaker 1: Let us know we can do all things. And greater
Speaker 1: see that is in me than he that is in
Speaker 1: the world. So I speak to your people not to
Speaker 1: run away from problems today, but to move forward into
Speaker 1: your promises, confident of your presence. Now, Lord, your word
Speaker 1: has gone forth. Today, your word has gone forth. You've
Speaker 1: fed us the bread from heaven. We're just taking this
Speaker 1: moment with our hands lifted, just to let you know
Speaker 1: that we know that this sea doesn't part unless you speak. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So when we ask you to make a way for us,
Speaker 1: we're not asking you to drive the car. Finally, Lord,
Speaker 1: before I close my time of ministry, I want to
Speaker 1: pray for the person who has put it in reverse.
Speaker 1: They've been going back, but I see you running across
Speaker 1: the parking a lot. Heavenly Father, I'll see you run
Speaker 1: it across the parking lot, talking about give them another chance,
Speaker 1: another chance, a greater grace, and a new beginning. I
Speaker 1: declare it over your life today in Jesus' name. Amen. Well,
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