1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,200 If you would, please stand for the reading of God's word. 2 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:11,000 We're going to spend the next couple of Sunday's looking at 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,700 this section of scripture in Exodus 15. 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,600 Called the song of Moses. So, the song of Moses the 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:23,300 Israelites and Miriam, it's an amazing Passage. 6 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:30,000 It tells us the experience of worship that the Israelites had 7 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,900 just as they had crossed the Red Sea. 8 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:36,700 One of the great challenges for us is that we already know the 9 00:00:36,700 --> 00:00:40,900 end of the story and because we know the end of this story, we 10 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:45,500 don't enter into it in a way that allows us to be overwhelmed 11 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:49,400 by what they experienced and want you to think about this for 12 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,500 a moment. This people the Israelites 13 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:58,600 600,000 men plus women and children had their backs against 14 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:05,500 the water. There was no way out unless a 15 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:12,100 divine intervention, the Divine Miracle, Divine rescue would 16 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:17,000 take place and then those people, well, over a million, 17 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,900 I'm sure stepped onto dry land, that had been land, that was 18 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:29,500 holding the sea and they walked across as God Faithfully held 19 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:32,400 back, the wall. As of water on each side. 20 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:39,400 This is the story put to music at the people saying in 21 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,500 celebration of that Divine. Miracle that Divine rescue. 22 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:51,300 Listen now as I read, From Exodus 15 1221, then Moses, and 23 00:01:51,300 --> 00:01:55,800 the people of Israel sang, this song, to the Lord saying I will 24 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,900 sing to the Lord. For he has, triumphed gloriously 25 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,800 the horse and his rider. He has thrown into the sea, the 26 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:10,100 Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. 27 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,100 This is my God, and I will praise him. 28 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:16,000 My father's God, and I will exalt him. 29 00:02:16,700 --> 00:02:21,300 Board is a man of war. The Lord is his name Pharaoh's 30 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:25,600 chariots and his hosts. He cast into the sea and his 31 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,600 chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea. 32 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,500 The floods covered them. They went down Into the Depths 33 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:37,300 like a stone, your right hand O Lord glorious and power. 34 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:41,700 Your right hand O Lord, shatters the enemy in the greatness of 35 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:44,800 your majesty. You overthrow your adversaries, 36 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:49,600 you send out your Fury. It consumes them like stubble at 37 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,900 the blast of your nostrils. The water piled up the flood 38 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:57,300 stood up and a heap. The deeps congealed in the heart 39 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:01,500 of the sea. The enemy said, I will pursue. 40 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:04,800 I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. 41 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,400 My desire shall have its fill of them, I will draw my sword. 42 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:14,400 My hand shall destroy them. You blew with your wind, the sea 43 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,000 covered them. They sank likely Add in the 44 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,700 mighty Waters. Who is Like You? 45 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:25,200 O Lord among the gods who is like, you Majestic in Holiness. 46 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:28,400 Awesome and glorious Deeds doing wonders. 47 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:32,400 You stretched out your right hand the Earth swallowed them. 48 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:35,700 You have lad in your steadfast, love the people whom you have 49 00:03:35,700 --> 00:03:37,800 redeemed. You have guided them by your 50 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:42,000 strength to your holy Abode. The people's have heard they 51 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,800 tremble. Pangs of sees the inhabitants of 52 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:49,000 philistia now are the the chiefs of Edom dismayed, trembling 53 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,100 seizes the leaders of Moab, all the inhabitants of Canaan, have 54 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:57,600 melted away Terror and Dread fall upon them because of the 55 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,700 greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone, till your 56 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:05,600 people, O Lord passed by to the people pass. 57 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,200 By whom you have purchased, you will bring them in and plant 58 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:13,100 them on your own Mountain. The place O Lord, which you have 59 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:16,100 made for your Abode, the sanctuary O Lord with your 60 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:18,600 hands. Established the Lord will reign 61 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,200 forever and ever for when the horses of pharaoh with his 62 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,600 chariots and his Horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought 63 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,600 back the Waters of the sea upon them. 64 00:04:27,700 --> 00:04:31,100 But the people of Israel walked on dry ground and the midst of 65 00:04:31,100 --> 00:04:34,800 the sea, then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron 66 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,800 took a tambourine in her hand and all the women went out after 67 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,600 her with tambourines and dancing and Miriam saying to them sing 68 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,500 to the Lord for he has triumphed gloriously. 69 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:51,100 SLI the horse and his rider. He has thrown into the sea. 70 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,800 This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God, please be 71 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:05,800 seated. Music is powerful. 72 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:15,900 It's personal. some of you would say you have a song, That's my 73 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:21,500 song. Some of you take bulletins on a 74 00:05:21,508 --> 00:05:25,400 certain Sunday and highlighted and say to somebody that you 75 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,800 love loves you. I went to this him, this piece 76 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:35,100 of music at my memorial service. It's a privilege to sit with 77 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:36,900 families as they move through that. 78 00:05:36,900 --> 00:05:40,200 And here, the different songs that one who's now going to be 79 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,500 with the warlord loves. This is my song, the summer. 80 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:47,600 Many of you will travel by yourself or with family and you 81 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,100 may have a playlist. I have them in my phone, when I 82 00:05:51,108 --> 00:05:52,600 go on a mission trip, there's certain songs. 83 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:59,500 I want to listen to my song. I remember being on a date late 84 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:02,500 in high school. It was a second date. 85 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,400 The first date went really well and the second date was actually 86 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,900 going really well, too. We were driving. 87 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:11,100 I'm not sure where we were going but we were driving in the music 88 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:13,900 was light. I was speaking to her her name 89 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:18,300 is Becky and then she goes She shushed me. 90 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:23,000 And she said, this is my song Turned Up the Radio. 91 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:27,600 There wasn't a third days there wasn't because I couldn't get 92 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,200 over being shushed. It was the song that she'll 93 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:36,900 selected as her song. This is my song. 94 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:42,400 I want to ask you to do something today and actually 95 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,800 want to ask you to do something each day this week. 96 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:52,200 I want you to ask the Holy Spirit to help you evaluate. 97 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,800 Your own personal worship of the Lord. 98 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:03,100 Sunday after Sunday, we gather together in this place and what 99 00:07:03,100 --> 00:07:07,300 a gift it is, and Sunday after Sunday, we all exit and go to 100 00:07:07,300 --> 00:07:10,900 various places. There are lots of things that we 101 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:14,100 can think about. And evaluate we ask questions, 102 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:16,200 like what did you think of the sermon? 103 00:07:16,900 --> 00:07:18,800 How was Sunday morning Community. 104 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,200 Today, there are lots of things that we ask and talk about but I 105 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:26,700 wonder how often do you and you have to have the holy spirit's 106 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:28,700 help. Ask him to help. 107 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,100 Up, you evaluate the way in which you worshipped. 108 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:34,500 If you are a member of our church, you made a vow of much 109 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:36,200 like the men this morning made vows. 110 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:39,400 And one of your vows is I promise to support this church 111 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,600 and its worship and work to the best of my ability. 112 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:48,400 So, Sunday, after Sunday, do you ever pause to say how? 113 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:53,100 God did I bring you? Glory today we're tempted to 114 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:56,400 evaluate everything else. Whether we like the song or 115 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,600 didn't like a song, whether it makes it into our Stubby want in 116 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:04,200 a memorial service are not, but what about your own personal 117 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:08,200 worship of the Lord, as you've gathered collectively with the 118 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,800 larger body? Have you been distracted? 119 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,400 Horizontally by many things? Have you been distracted? 120 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,800 Internally by many things. Many burdens that you've brought 121 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,500 in. This is important. 122 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:24,200 And what I want you to do this week is I want you to come back 123 00:08:24,900 --> 00:08:30,000 to Exodus 15 and like a song that you love that, you listen 124 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,799 to over and over on. Repeat I want you to read this 125 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:40,200 song, this song Exodus 15 12 21, many times during the week. 126 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:45,900 Ask the Holy Spirit to help you answer these two questions. 127 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:52,700 What informs the songs? We sing because there's a lot to 128 00:08:52,700 --> 00:08:57,400 be seen in this text. What informs the songs that we 129 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,500 sing? Why do we select these songs and 130 00:09:00,500 --> 00:09:03,200 sing them and desire to do? So with full voice for the glory 131 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,800 of God? The second question is what 132 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:13,100 informs the way you sing? What are the forms of the way 133 00:09:13,100 --> 00:09:16,100 you sing from one Sunday to the next? 134 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:19,400 Is it always the same? Are there moments when there's 135 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:23,100 something sweeter or moments when it's not as sweet. 136 00:09:23,100 --> 00:09:25,900 Because each day with Jesus is not necessarily sweeter than the 137 00:09:25,900 --> 00:09:30,200 day before. What informed you this morning 138 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:35,900 as you entered into this place of worship, To bring God glory 139 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,900 at his invitation. I want to give you a few 140 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:45,200 observations from the text that I want you to take with you this 141 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,500 week. And next Sunday we're going to 142 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:51,300 be right back in this passage but I want you to have spent 143 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:55,500 time with the Holy Spirit thinking about what saturates 144 00:09:55,500 --> 00:09:58,100 this song. What is it that this song really 145 00:09:58,100 --> 00:10:01,100 is about? How can what we see in print and 146 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:03,400 this early section of the scriptures? 147 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,500 The book of Exodus that can inform the way we sing as well 148 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:09,100 as what? We sing. 149 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:12,400 So there's three things I want you to listen. 150 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,500 For first, it's fear and Freedom. 151 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:20,300 The second is, how God centered this song is. 152 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:27,300 And lastly how this song tells a story, more than that, it tells 153 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:31,100 our story. Let's begin by talking about 154 00:10:31,100 --> 00:10:38,600 fear and freedom, There's two fears that are present in the 155 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,300 passage. The first has to do with fear of 156 00:10:42,300 --> 00:10:44,900 the enemy, it's not printed in your bulletin. 157 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:47,900 So grab the blue Pew. Bible that is in front of you 158 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:52,500 and turn to Exodus 14. This is where Paul Goble was 159 00:10:52,500 --> 00:10:55,100 last week in the excellent sermon that he preached. 160 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:57,400 That was so deeply encouraging to my soul. 161 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:02,700 They are a people that has experienced the Deliverance of 162 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:06,000 God away. From pharaoh and the Egyptians. 163 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:08,700 But now they was heart has been hardened. 164 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:12,100 He's changed his mind. And there is a fear that this 165 00:11:12,100 --> 00:11:16,600 people is experiencing as their backs are against the water. 166 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:22,100 Look with me and X is 14, 10. When Pharaoh, Drew near the 167 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:27,500 people of Israel lifted up their eyes, this is important where 168 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:34,800 our eyes are greatly affects How We Worship the Lord, where our 169 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,600 eyes, go, where our eyes are fixed, greatly affects The Way 170 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,200 We Worship the Lord. When Pharaoh Drew near the 171 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:46,700 people of Israel lifted up their eyes and behold the Egyptians 172 00:11:46,700 --> 00:11:52,200 were marching after them and they feared greatly the people 173 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:57,200 of Israel cried out to the Lord. So In Their Fear is their eyes 174 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,800 are lifted up. They see this the most powerful 175 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:05,500 Nation on Earth, the ones who kept them in slave for over 400 176 00:12:05,500 --> 00:12:09,100 years. They see this Mighty Army coming 177 00:12:09,100 --> 00:12:12,300 towards them and their backs are against the water. 178 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,800 There is no place. They can go. 179 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,100 There's nothing that they can do. 180 00:12:17,100 --> 00:12:21,600 So they cried to the Lord. Then they speak to Moses in the 181 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:25,600 complaint, is it because there are no graves in Egypt that 182 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,300 you've taken us away to die in the wilderness? 183 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:32,500 What have you done to us? And bringing us out of Egypt, is 184 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:35,200 not this. What we said to you in Egypt, 185 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,200 leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians. 186 00:12:38,700 --> 00:12:42,800 Do you see and Paul said the so well last week, how irrational 187 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:47,800 their minds have become and so quickly we would rather be in 188 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,600 Egypt as slaves. The now with our backs against 189 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,000 the water, facing this enemy, the Egyptians that are 190 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,600 approaching for, it would have been better for us to serve the 191 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,000 Egyptians than to die. In the wilderness verse 13 and 192 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,100 Moses said to the people fear, not stand firm. 193 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:09,700 See, the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today 194 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 for the Egyptians whom you see today. 195 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,800 You shall never see again. The Lord will fight for you and 196 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,700 you have only to be silent. Man serving as elders and 197 00:13:19,700 --> 00:13:23,000 deacons in his church, there are going to be moments. 198 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,100 When you're shepherding an individual who feels as if their 199 00:13:27,100 --> 00:13:32,200 life is back against the water moments, where they feel like 200 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:35,500 unless God does something Divine. 201 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:38,900 Unless there is a miracle that takes place, this isn't going to 202 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:41,500 work out. You're going to the privilege 203 00:13:41,500 --> 00:13:45,600 like Moses of standing firm with them, and urging them to stand 204 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,600 strong. It might not be just an visual 205 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,400 it might be a corporate reality that we face as a church in this 206 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,800 country in this world where it's growing darker and darker and 207 00:13:55,800 --> 00:14:01,900 more full of decay Where our eyes going to go, where RI our 208 00:14:01,900 --> 00:14:04,700 eyes, as Leaders going to go, they've got to remain fixed on 209 00:14:04,700 --> 00:14:10,800 Jesus. The first fear was the fear of 210 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:15,900 the enemy. But there's a second fear that 211 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:21,000 takes place with their bags, against the water. 212 00:14:21,700 --> 00:14:27,000 With the Enemy approaching with the only thought that unless God 213 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,500 does something, we are all going to die here in the wilderness. 214 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,200 They cried to the Lord, they were afraid, they were 215 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:38,400 terrified. But God did show up. 216 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:45,700 There's not a man not even Moses who could have imagined what was 217 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:49,700 about to happen. There wasn't a person. 218 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:55,400 Who in their wildest imagination could have thought. 219 00:14:55,700 --> 00:15:03,300 This see that we are backed up against is about to part and it 220 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:08,400 will be wide enough and dry enough for us to move through to 221 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,700 the other side. But God does show up. 222 00:15:12,900 --> 00:15:17,700 The waters part. The fear of the enemy. 223 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:22,600 Is now going to be replaced at least for a little while. 224 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:28,600 Buy a greater fear. And that is the fear of the one 225 00:15:29,100 --> 00:15:36,200 who is able to do immeasurably more than we imagined, ask, or 226 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:42,800 think this is where you begin to see how profoundly saturated. 227 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:50,000 This song is with the glory of God, this song is god-centered, 228 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:55,700 it's not centered on them, it's not centered on Moses for sure. 229 00:15:56,100 --> 00:16:02,700 Centered on God and you see as this god-centered focus makes 230 00:16:02,700 --> 00:16:04,800 its way into the lyrics of the song. 231 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:06,900 How powerfully they describe him? 232 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:12,200 Look with me at verse 6 of Exodus, 15, your right hand. 233 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:15,800 Oh Lord, glorious and power. Your right hand. 234 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:20,500 O, Lord shatters the enemy verse 7, in the greatness of your 235 00:16:20,500 --> 00:16:25,200 majesty, you overthrow your adversaries, you send out your 236 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,900 Fury. It consumes them like stubble. 237 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:30,700 Forsake at the blast of your nostrils. 238 00:16:30,700 --> 00:16:34,900 Is that an amazing description at the blast of your nostrils? 239 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:39,500 Holy God at the blast of your nostrils. 240 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:44,600 The waters piled up the flood stood up in a heap, the deeps 241 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,400 congealed in the heart of the sea. 242 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,700 Look with me at verse 12, you stretched out your right hand 243 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:55,200 and the Earth swallowed them, the very same. 244 00:16:55,200 --> 00:17:00,400 God that That you have been singing to today is the same. 245 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:04,599 God, they were singing to the very same God that you are 246 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:07,400 crying out to you as your back is against. 247 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,599 The water is the one they were crying out to this. 248 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:17,500 God, overwhelmed them, overwhelmed, the sea, and 249 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:21,500 ultimately overwhelmed, the enemy, the Egyptians. 250 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:25,700 So what happened? Look with me back into Exodus. 251 00:17:25,700 --> 00:17:34,200 14 go to verse 31 Israel saw the great power that the Lord used 252 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,100 against the Egyptians. Now, let's not run over that too 253 00:17:37,100 --> 00:17:40,600 fast. This God, this power. 254 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:45,400 This reality is not a metaphor for some neat story, it's a real 255 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:49,200 story. It's our story the Living God 256 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,400 did this to that. See the Living God did this. 257 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:57,800 For the people of Israel. The Living God did this against 258 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,100 his enemy. He swallowed them up. 259 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:05,100 The NIV says he hurled them into the sea. 260 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,500 So what did this do to them back to 1431? 261 00:18:08,900 --> 00:18:12,200 Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the 262 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:16,200 Egyptians. So the people feared the Lord 263 00:18:16,300 --> 00:18:21,100 and they believed in the Lord. And in his servant Moses, That's 264 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:24,500 the second fear. The first fear was the fear of 265 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:27,500 the enemy. Their backs are against the 266 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:31,800 water, the only place they can turn and go as into the water. 267 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,500 That's not an option, they will drowned, they can't move 268 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:36,600 forward, and fight this enemy, it's too powerful. 269 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,100 Their backs are against the water, but now the Lord has done 270 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:46,100 it. the only one who could this great God leads them over a 271 00:18:46,108 --> 00:18:51,700 million of them through this wall on both sides of water and 272 00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:56,400 they get to the other side and it says they were fearful, the 273 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:04,000 fear here is a fear that is of reverence and awe and shock and 274 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:10,000 frankly what is profoundly missing in the church today. 275 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,600 The intimacy we have with God, which is real. 276 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:22,500 He lives in us should never minimize the awe and wonder we 277 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:25,700 have of who he is. Remember. 278 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:29,400 And I think Paul alluded to this last week when Jesus was on the 279 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:34,100 boat asleep and the storm came, they eventually cried out to 280 00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:36,400 Jesus. Don't you care that we are 281 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:42,400 drowning Jesus stood up and he hush the storms and the Sea and 282 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,700 they were calm, he was powerful over it. 283 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:55,200 And Mark tells us they said in fear who is this man who is this 284 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,700 man that even the wind and the Sea obey? 285 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:07,200 every song we sing together in this church, every song you sing 286 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:09,700 to the glory of God in your own private time. 287 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:17,400 Should lead you to that place. It should lead you to that 288 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,100 place. We see here in Exodus 15:11, 289 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,900 they cry out in their song. Who Is Like You? 290 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:29,000 O Lord, among the gods who is like, you Majestic in Holiness. 291 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,300 Awesome. And glorious Deeds doing 292 00:20:31,300 --> 00:20:37,800 wonders, who is like him? Every song We Sing, the ones, we 293 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,800 sing this morning, the ones, we'll see you next week. 294 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,900 Every one of those songs should lead us to a place where we say, 295 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:50,000 who Who is he? Who is like him and there should 296 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:57,300 be a holy fear a reverence and all that's why when you enter 297 00:20:57,300 --> 00:21:01,500 into this place is our desire that immediately you recognize 298 00:21:01,500 --> 00:21:03,700 that there's something different. 299 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:07,200 There's something different about this moment and this space 300 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,600 as we come to worship him, we want to experience the familiar 301 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:16,700 intimacy with god without ever losing the And wonder of his 302 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:25,100 Transcendence and his Holiness. That's why fear and freedom Mark 303 00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:30,000 our worship. Go back up to verse 1. 304 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,400 Now listen for the freedom that is in the voice of Moses, the 305 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:39,400 Israelites and then later from the voice of Miriam, then Moses 306 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,300 and the people of Israel sang. This song to the Lord saying I 307 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:49,500 will sing to the Lord. For he has, triumphed gloriously 308 00:21:49,900 --> 00:21:53,300 the horse and his rider, he is thrown into the sea, that's the 309 00:21:53,300 --> 00:21:55,700 opening line. It's also. 310 00:21:55,700 --> 00:22:00,500 What Miriam sings go to the last text, the last verse in the text 311 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:05,100 were looking at this morning, Miriam sang to them, sing to the 312 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:09,300 Lord for he has, triumphed gloriously the horse and his 313 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:11,500 rider, he is thrown into the sea. 314 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:16,900 As you look at this song and play it over and over this week, 315 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:19,100 in your mind with the spirits help. 316 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:26,700 See the freedom that is here. Ask God to show you and enable 317 00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:31,200 you to feel the freedom that they felt when they were on the 318 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:36,600 other side of the sea. And their eyes look back across 319 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,900 the water. They saw the Egyptians who have 320 00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:45,000 been in golfed by the water that had been split apart for them 321 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,600 and they were dead. The enemy that had enslaved 322 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,000 them. The enemy that had brought down 323 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:58,500 tremendous oppression for over 400 years was no longer a 324 00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:04,600 threat. They had been set free and in 325 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,500 Freedom, they lifted their voices. 326 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:15,300 Fear of the holy God, freedom in him. 327 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:20,700 The holy God, this him. So god-centered. 328 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:28,900 It tells a story. And the great hymns and the 329 00:23:28,900 --> 00:23:33,100 great pieces of music in the church that we sing ones. 330 00:23:33,100 --> 00:23:38,200 That will be newly, written ones that are ancient the great ones. 331 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:46,200 All, tell a story, but the story isn't like a bland history book. 332 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:50,200 The stories actually more like a musical. 333 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:55,000 It's like this narrative that has been written where God who 334 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,300 created us, the sing brings us into moments of incredible 335 00:23:59,300 --> 00:24:03,400 pressure and fear when we have our backs against the water. 336 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:06,300 And when we do, and there's nowhere else to go, and we're 337 00:24:06,300 --> 00:24:10,000 coming to the end of ourselves. We cry out to the one, and only 338 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:16,900 one who can save us. And he does what only his Divine 339 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:20,700 hand can do. He rescues us. 340 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:27,300 Our worship. Must be saturated. 341 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:34,300 Out of that kind of desperation, where we don't forget, what we 342 00:24:34,300 --> 00:24:38,900 have been saved from for as great as this story of The 343 00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:43,000 Exodus is for, as great as this story of the Red Sea. 344 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,300 Being part of it is, it's not the greatest story of the Bible. 345 00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:53,100 The greatest story of the Bible is that this same Father, Son 346 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:57,500 and Holy Spirit are going to do everything that's necessary. 347 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,500 To purchase his people once and for all. 348 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:08,400 Is that unfolds Jesus is going to find his back against the 349 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:13,700 cross. And the walls of God's Wrath 350 00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:19,500 that have been held back until that moment are going to be 351 00:25:19,500 --> 00:25:25,000 poured out on Jesus. What you and I deserve to be 352 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:30,400 engulfed in in the very righteous pure wrath of God, 353 00:25:31,300 --> 00:25:34,900 it's not going to hit us It's going to hit his only son. 354 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,400 His only son knows it's coming and so in the garden, he prays 355 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,300 father. If you were willing take this 356 00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:46,500 cup from me yet, not my will be done but yours and it was the 357 00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:51,100 will of the father to pour out all of his Wrath. 358 00:25:52,300 --> 00:26:00,200 Wrath poured out for the sin of his people. that we could walk 359 00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:08,000 safely and its presence forever. Friend. 360 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:14,900 When you consider as a believer in Jesus, what it means to 361 00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:17,100 worship Him to the best of your ability? 362 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:24,800 The only way that's possible is, if God gives you and gives me an 363 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:29,900 overwhelming sense of who he is, what should create holy, 364 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:36,400 reverence all and fear. But at the same time of Freedom 365 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,500 that we come into this place, knowing that we are singing to 366 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:46,200 the one who has done everything necessary to set us free now and 367 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,400 forever. As you play this song over and 368 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,000 over this week. Listen for fear. 369 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:57,300 Listen for Freedom. Look at how saturated it is, how 370 00:26:57,300 --> 00:27:01,700 god-centered it is. And then see something that is 371 00:27:01,700 --> 00:27:07,000 amazing to me. And the question of what is your 372 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,800 song? Is better asked of Christians, 373 00:27:11,300 --> 00:27:18,800 who is your song? For that, opening stanza verse 374 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:25,500 to the people cried out. The Lord is my strength and my 375 00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:30,900 song. Our Song is not just theology. 376 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:37,100 Its identity. What we deserved we haven't 377 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:41,600 received when we just go through the motions. 378 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:47,400 Of worship. It is not pleasing to the Lord. 379 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:53,000 What's pleasing to the Lord. As we read, when we recognized 380 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:59,000 by his work in our lives, our desperation for him, our backs 381 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:05,400 were against the water. The water of God's Wrath. 382 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,500 It was poured out on his son. All of it. 383 00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:14,600 And that's why Jesus said it is finished. 384 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:20,500 One person in history, we know that was profoundly impacted by 385 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:25,900 the reality of the shore. Was Peter for before Christ said 386 00:28:25,900 --> 00:28:30,400 it is finished. Not long before Peter denied 387 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,700 that he even knew him. Then not long after after. 388 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:41,500 Jesus had rose from the dead there on the shoreline is Jesus 389 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,700 cooking breakfast for the disciples. 390 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:54,300 Do you think it was just familiarity that led Peter to 391 00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:57,700 jump out of the boat? Or do you think there was an 392 00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:03,900 amazing awe and reverence and fear, fear and freedom? 393 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Those are important parts of our worship. 394 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:10,900 Seeing how sinnard it must be on God. 395 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:16,800 And seeing the story that we are a part of is really important, I 396 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:22,000 cannot wait to see what the Lord shows you this week. 397 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:27,800 As you plan to enter back into this place to worship the same 398 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:32,800 one. Moses, the Israelites and Miriam 399 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:35,800 were singing to Father in heaven. 400 00:29:37,900 --> 00:29:44,000 Spend a beautiful morning. We have raced to this place and 401 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:48,300 are tempted to race away because that's the world that we live 402 00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:51,200 in, and it's so easy to conform to it. 403 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:55,300 Father, I do pray through the powerful work of your spirit 404 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:59,300 that even as we lift our voices in this final Anthem, we really 405 00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:03,600 would take the heart. Exodus 15, we really would spend 406 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:07,600 time in touring into it asking, your spirit to illuminate. 407 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,000 What's there that? It might inform us. 408 00:30:11,300 --> 00:30:15,400 In what we should sing. But also the way we should sing. 409 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,800 We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. 410 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:12,700 Please stand. In what we should sing. 411 00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:17,900 But also the way we should sing. We pray this in Jesus name. 412 00:30:18,300 --> 00:30:19,700 Amen. Please stand.