1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,440 Happy Monday, we're back in with the ERC Leftovers podcast. 2 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,600 I'm Pastor Matt. Pastor Chris. 3 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:19,680 Pastor Chris. Still here? 4 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,400 I'm back from vacation apparently. 5 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,000 Vacation. You said it wasn't vacation. 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,080 Yeah, definitely not. No, it was a good time. 7 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,960 There was travel with the kids was was pretty easy. 8 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,480 They had a great time at Inspiration Point this weekend, 9 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,600 bringing back, yeah, a crew of eight from camp. 10 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,080 You had quite the You went on quite the monologue about how I 11 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,680 hung you out to dry with this week's sermon text and Exodus 12 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,920 15. I mean, it's just a peek behind 13 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,440 the. Curtain, the gift I gave you, is 14 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:50,520 that what it was? It was a. 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:51,800 Gift. And you know what I think? 16 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:56,160 I think our systematic professor for decades, Dr. Bo, would 17 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,400 appreciate the fact that I received that gift. 18 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:03,480 I did not in planning appreciate it, but it's fine. 19 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:05,239 It's fine. God's got plans. 20 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,360 You've got kids that camp and it's like. 21 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,640 No, I thought, I thought you spoke really well. 22 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,960 This, this Moses series. I think it's, I mean, I say it 23 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:18,720 like I'm surprised. I'm not I'm not surprised and we 24 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,520 shouldn't really be surprised, but how much it has built on 25 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,040 even the series and acts that we were in just kind of there's 26 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:32,040 there's Christian living in Moses, which is, which is not 27 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:33,280 funny. Again, I don't want to act 28 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,200 surprised by it because all of scripture points to Jesus. 29 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,400 All of scripture is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, 30 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,800 training in in righteousness. But I think just those that on 31 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,040 the surface, well, what do we want to see for Christian 32 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,400 living? OK, we need, we need the New 33 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:50,800 Testament. We need the early church in 34 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:51,920 acts. Like that's where we want to 35 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,520 look. There's there's lots of gems 36 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,160 here too and like God hasn't changed right. 37 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:02,880 It's the the blueprint's been the same yeah entered Jesus 38 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:09,039 enters the scene in 2000 years ago, but like the the the bones 39 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:11,800 of it, the foundation for what it means to follow God. 40 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:17,480 Same going going back to Moses didn't change with Jesus coming 41 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,880 in on the scene. So yeah, anyway, I think I think 42 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,920 it's been really good even you're just daily battle sort of 43 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:27,920 language that you were talking about yesterday. 44 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:30,040 I just do you know, do you know who you're fighting? 45 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,000 Do you realize you're fighting? Do you do you realize you're in 46 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,640 a spiritual fight? And then of course, the 47 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:39,480 response, the example of response that we have in Exodus 48 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:44,360 15, the first kind of recorded song of response and worship. 49 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,160 So no, I thought you spoke really well, even on the the 50 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,320 unexpected gift that you had. Yeah, yeah, I actually, you 51 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,440 know, when I eventually, again, I use language like this, when I 52 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,040 finally found my line, in other words, like it's a, it's a, it's 53 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,840 a line of thought that the text all directs, right, 'cause the 54 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,880 text has to direct what I say. Otherwise I'm just giving you 55 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,440 like some weird, not great motivational speech. 56 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:11,880 And I'm not a good Ted Talk guy, but, you know, so like, once I 57 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:16,040 actually found the line, after hours and hours of 58 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,360 ridiculousness, I was, I was really happy. 59 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,320 I was, I was, I was happy to have received that gift. 60 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,480 So it's, you know, it's fine. God works it all out. 61 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,200 All right, our we're still going through the pile of Ask Me 62 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,200 anything questions here, and what we're going to talk about 63 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,680 today may be a simple question, but I think worth talking about. 64 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,480 Should we say God bless you when someone sneezes? 65 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,960 It's it's so silly. Now I'm not, I mean in a 66 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,800 nutshell as it relates to Christendom or like being a 67 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:01,360 Christian. No, there, there's no this. 68 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:05,280 You should you have to do this. It's not the 11th commandment. 69 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,000 It's not the 11th, not anything close to being the 11th 70 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:08,680 commandment. OK. 71 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,720 Cool, glad we got that. Out of the way, it's even the 72 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:17,079 tradition of that is primarily rooted to like the advent of, of 73 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:22,480 the bubonic plague and, and people, even the sickness people 74 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,440 like wishing blessing and healing on the person who might 75 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,240 be sick with this crippling disease. 76 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,080 Like that's, that's really where it started. 77 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,920 There's also some loose things throughout history about the 78 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,880 idea in from some other religions about that, like your 79 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,280 soul could leave your body when you sneeze or or there's like an 80 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:43,600 opening for evil spirits to come in when you sneeze. 81 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,680 I'll tell you what, man, I, I have to say this, that as I've 82 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,760 gotten older and it's true, I think there's there's a thing 83 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:55,280 called the dad sneeze, which. I feel like your soul, which I 84 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:57,040 your body. And that's the whole point. 85 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:03,240 So there are times when I sneeze and I absolutely think I left my 86 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,040 body for a second because that was so violent and so loud and 87 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,680 ridiculous. And it's not as though I'm doing 88 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,680 that on purpose because I hear people sneeze and it's these 89 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,160 cute little at you, you know, those like things. 90 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,400 My my God bless my sister-in-law is a very quiet, like kind of a 91 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,440 cute sneezer, right? And then I come in and I feel 92 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:28,720 like the wolf who is blowing the house down of the three pigs 93 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,640 when I sneeze. And actually it's mildly 94 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:33,680 embarrassing. I I think it's weird. 95 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,680 I, I have, I only sneeze violently. 96 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,040 No, I like, I hear, I hear what you're saying and I feel a 97 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:43,920 little ridiculous, but also just that's how I sneeze and I yeah, 98 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,040 so I get it. So. 99 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,040 Yes, it does feel like my soul is sometimes leaving my body 100 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,240 because it's so violent. So with all that it does, 101 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,160 there's not any sort of like spiritual protection. 102 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,560 I don't necessarily think it rooted to that. 103 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,080 It's it's steeped in that tradition of the time of the 104 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:04,160 bubonic plague, a little bit of the flawed theory that a soul 105 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,600 could leave a body during a sneeze or that even evil spirits 106 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:13,800 might enter or escape. But no, there's nothing biblical 107 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,840 about it for sure. This other thing that it says I 108 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:19,960 like too, because there is a rumor that the heart stops when 109 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:21,800 we sneeze. And so you're basically 110 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:26,960 welcoming, welcoming them back to life because supposedly a 111 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,920 person's heart stops when they're about to sneeze or 112 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,640 during the course of the sneeze. And so when you say God bless 113 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,480 you, you're welcoming them back to real life or, like, you know, 114 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:36,520 your heart's back. Good. 115 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,120 We're glad you're alive after that very violent sneeze. 116 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,040 Yeah. So there it's just all those 117 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,200 things and it's just a general politeness. 118 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,400 A a, a wishing good health, I think isn't the the German word 119 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,120 gazuntite. It literally is. 120 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,600 I think good health to you now. Now I've said that I've spoken 121 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,640 that into ether and someone who actually speaks German, though I 122 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,680 my name is Schweitzer and I don't speak German. 123 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,400 You have. The most German name of anybody 124 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,320 I've ever met who lives in Iowa. It just literally means health. 125 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,080 Yeah. So that's that's fine. 126 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,280 Health to you? Yeah. 127 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:10,960 Do you? Ever say gazuntite? 128 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,280 Is that a thing you do? No, I there was a point, I think 129 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,040 it was, I think it was in high school or early college. 130 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,680 I was actually kind of Snooty about that because I was so 131 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,360 like, I, I felt there was no good reason to say God bless 132 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,080 you. So I would only respond with 133 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,480 gazoon tight when someone there was definitely a point in my 134 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,200 life where I was like, no, not saying God bless you. 135 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:33,800 I'm glad. That's where you drew the lining 136 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,520 in the sand. You're like, you know what? 137 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,560 Of all the things to care about, this is the one. 138 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:39,800 I'm I'm putting my flag down on this. 139 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:41,480 That's awesome. There, there was a point in my 140 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,360 life where I did that, but I'm not, I'm not, I'm not about that 141 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:49,440 anymore. So no, it's just rooted in 142 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,600 somewhat of a spiritual battery or even a health battle in the 143 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,760 bubonic plague. But no, it's just a general 144 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,240 politeness, not anything that we're actually like wishing 145 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,240 God's protection over necessarily. 146 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:06,040 So you can, if sneezes are like a good reminder to like, hey, 147 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,760 Jesus loves you or, or praying for you or like whatever, sure, 148 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,320 use it as a use it as a trigger of God bless you. 149 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,280 Yeah, I that's kind of cool. I. 150 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,520 Think you know? I suppose, you know, to to bring 151 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:22,560 this to a witnessing level, Gosh, you know, somebody sneezes 152 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,160 and you give the whole instead of just, oh, bless you, you say 153 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,160 God bless you. And then all of a sudden 154 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,440 somebody's like, why? Why do you do that? 155 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,559 And if you don't cite the plague reason, you could say, oh, well, 156 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,000 and then maybe you get into a spiritual conversation. 157 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,280 So who knows? Maybe a sneeze leads to a 158 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,760 conversation about the gospel. Who knows? 159 00:08:44,039 --> 00:08:46,200 All right, you heard it here first, Pastor Chris. 160 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:47,400 Do it. Go for it. 161 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,000 Go for it like you might as well like. 162 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,160 Striking out sneezing evangelism. 163 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,840 Oh, can we get T-shirts made for sneezing evangelism? 164 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:58,080 I don't think that's going to catch on. 165 00:08:58,080 --> 00:08:59,320 It doesn't sound like a movement. 166 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,000 OK, well I tried. We'll have to rebrand that one 167 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,640 of you can be creative about. Yeah, our sneeze. 168 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:07,840 That's join our sneezing ministry. 169 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,600 Join our join our gazoon tight ministry like that. 170 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,320 I don't think that works. OK, that's fair. 171 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:15,080 But you know, for the people who like. 172 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,360 We like to try things here. I'm not super excited about 173 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,000 trying that to be honest. With you let me OK. 174 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,920 Do you know any like multi sneezers? 175 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:27,240 I am you're a multi. So if I do, there's usually two 176 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:29,640 more following it. And unfortunately, Clara, our 177 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:33,400 oldest daughter, like also, that's the only way she sneezes 178 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,360 is like in threes. Wow. 179 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,400 Or sometimes she gets caught. She can. 180 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:39,600 I think I've heard like 7 or eight in a row from her. 181 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,560 Wow, see, I I always thought my sneezes are so violent. 182 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:47,200 I got it all out in one, whereas again, like these kind of 183 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:52,080 softer, like no man, there was more to whatever, get out ex, 184 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,040 you know, expel and so you need multiple because you're not as 185 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,080 violent as maybe you should be. So you just needed multiple 186 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:01,280 tries at it. So you feel yours is violent. 187 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:04,840 Is there, is there anyone in your life that you just know? 188 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,560 Oh, they have a cute sneeze. Like like it's, it's just like a 189 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:11,840 quiet innocent, just like. Yeah, it's definitely my 190 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:13,800 sister-in-law. She goes in fours. 191 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,560 Oh, of the little ones, I. Mean every time, without fail. 192 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,000 Without fail. Yeah, Once she starts, you're 193 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,800 like, we're just going to wait for five seconds, 'cause this is 194 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:24,480 going to happen. Yeah. 195 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,200 So that's I, I know at least one for sure. 196 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:30,920 Multiple sneezer and it's always 4. 197 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:33,560 Weird. Yeah, I know. 198 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,440 Sneezes are weird. It is a strange thing. 199 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,000 It's do we know why? Well, oh gosh, I don't want to 200 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,360 get too far off, but like, why do has anybody ever actually 201 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:43,760 answered? Why do we yawn? 202 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,520 Like what's that? About yawn is a lack of oxygen 203 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,480 to the brain, isn't it? That's why I've heard. 204 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,320 But is that real? So then why do I always have a 205 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:54,240 lack of oxygen to my brain when I'm tired? 206 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:56,040 Yes. Is that why I'm like? 207 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,400 Isn't that the point? Like your body is trying too 208 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:01,320 hard to to replenish oxygen to your brain. 209 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,880 So you need to rest, which is why you're tired and why you're 210 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:05,520 yawns. And and so the yawn is like this 211 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:10,760 big inhale. Again, not a doctor, but that's 212 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:15,360 that's what's in my brain, Yeah. OK, well, maybe I'll ask. 213 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:16,440 Maybe I'll ask. AI know. 214 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:17,880 I know a doctor. We know a doctor. 215 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:19,160 Google. Search what we really need. 216 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,520 We need a producer for the podcast to look these things up 217 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:25,240 while we're talking so that he can either affirm or deny our 218 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,080 thoughts on these are fake doctor thoughts. 219 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,760 Yeah, oh boy. All right, we're off to a 220 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,440 sprinting start as usual. As usual. 221 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,920 Heard it here first, Sneezing Ministries. 222 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:40,680 And why you yawn. All right, we're going to jump 223 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:44,680 into a little more knowledgeable content on some deeper dives 224 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,800 into Exodus 15 and the Song of Moses here. 225 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:53,360 You preached on Exodus 15 verses one through 21 yesterday. 226 00:11:53,360 --> 00:12:01,400 This is the first like recorded song of response of worship in, 227 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,600 in the Bible. Of course, we, we get the idea 228 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,120 of the psalmist in Psalm 40 sing a new song to the Lord. 229 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:13,280 What's what's interesting is this was kind of a spontaneous 230 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:14,720 song. I think it's funny that they put 231 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:16,680 this out here as a song that everyone was singing. 232 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,000 But no, what that's not how we learned something. 233 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,960 Like we don't, we don't just get together on Sunday mornings and 234 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,680 they're like, all right, everyone start singing something 235 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:29,400 that we don't know what it is, but it's going to come together 236 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:30,560 and be great. We're all going to sing the 237 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:32,240 words together. Like there's this weird picture 238 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,440 of they were all singing the song, but nobody knew what the 239 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,960 song was. It kind of came into being an 240 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,640 obvious, like it kind of came into form. 241 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,240 I guess they were maybe writing a song together and it kind of, 242 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,920 and it kind of came into this form and was recorded at that 243 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,560 in, in scripture And, and this is what it is, but it's a, it's 244 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,280 a funny picture to me of just like, hey, they sang this song 245 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,480 that nobody knew and it was just powerful. 246 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,320 Yeah, and and I thought that interesting too, when I in in my 247 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:02,080 own commentary notes that I wrote, I said like, how is this 248 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,720 likely that the voices were in unison on all of these 249 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,080 particular words of this time? The only, the only way that we 250 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:12,280 get a sense that like people could have joined in without 251 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,400 knowing this ahead of time, I suppose, without God, just like 252 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,480 putting the words in their mouth and making them sing like 253 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:19,920 Beetlejuice. That's a funny reference, by the 254 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:24,640 way. The only way that Miriam, she 255 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,160 repeats what Moses says. So at the end she kind of says 256 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,680 this is the chorus. And so they bust out the 257 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:33,320 tambourines and they're dancing and they're having a great time. 258 00:13:33,560 --> 00:13:35,640 And so she she repeats what Moses says. 259 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,040 So that's like the chorus of the song, right? 260 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:39,800 So I mean, we get that sense to it. 261 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,000 But as far as them singing in unison, that would have had to 262 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,200 have been God literally just moving their mouths for them to 263 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:51,240 be able to do that. And that is possible, but I that 264 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,680 seems less probable to me. But I think that's the beauty 265 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:57,920 and maybe a little bit of the misunderstanding of worship too, 266 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:03,040 that worship is unto the Lord. So as much as we like to have 267 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:06,880 what we sent, we sent out the setlist every Sunday like, hey, 268 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,640 these these songs are these songs are coming up and the band 269 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,120 obviously is prepared with with songs that we're going to sing 270 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,280 and we kind of plan out those moments of worship. 271 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:19,280 That's a that's a, I'm not going to say unbiblical picture of 272 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:20,520 worship because I don't think it is. 273 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:25,600 I think, but worship can also be spontaneous if it's to the Lord, 274 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,440 like it doesn't doesn't need to be planned out. 275 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:33,200 It's just things that are said in awe and reverence to him like 276 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,960 that. That's that's what worship is as 277 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,640 his basis form. So he can take the form of these 278 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,400 just like seemingly random throwing this, throwing this 279 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,840 song together in the moment. If it's about him and it's true 280 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,320 and and it's and it's attributes or attributing or praising to 281 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,080 him and these things, yeah, that that is worship. 282 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:54,600 Charles Spurgeon says this is the very first of those sacred 283 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,160 songs preserved in Scripture, and in some respects it is first 284 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:03,440 in merit as well as in time. This is why I was excited about 285 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:08,880 this passage that I subsequently dumped on you because it kind of 286 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:14,880 frames the, the structure, the format, the layout of what 287 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:21,080 songs, hymns, psalms to the Lord look like in, in the rest of 288 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,720 Scripture, right? Like if this was truly and we 289 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,720 don't know because, because we don't like what was this? 290 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,000 Was this passed down? Did they come back to this? 291 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,240 Was it, was it a song of remembrance? 292 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,200 I, I think it probably was because we have again, hymns 293 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:41,760 songs that at one point in time we're crazy meaningful and and 294 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,320 truthful about God for the people of God. 295 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:48,360 But the ones that have stuck around are the ones that remain 296 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:52,280 true that that that are in that. So I don't think this was like a 297 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:54,720 one and done in this instance. This was something that was 298 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,120 passed down in tradition. So it's kind of it's kind of the 299 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,720 model for, OK, this is how we write songs of remembrance, of 300 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:05,280 response for what God has done. And actually several scholars, 301 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,200 they look at it and they, they give different titles, but you 302 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,280 know, there's like stanzas here essentially. 303 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,840 So like verse one through 5 is its own stanza in a sense. 304 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,520 And if you just look thematically at those verses, 305 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,840 like you say, well, what's happening? 306 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,840 Well, the Lord is my strength. Pharaohs, you know, Chariots and 307 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,400 all that kind of stuff, and the floods covered them. 308 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:29,360 And so like, it is just speaking to the power and the nature of 309 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,760 God in that first stanza. And then you just continue to 310 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,360 kind of break that down into thematic spots, you know, 311 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,800 throughout the verses. And actually you're like, no, 312 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:43,160 that, that makes good sense that this is a song because each 313 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,360 little stanza that you might break it down into, you know, it 314 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,680 has its theme. So like one of the themes, for 315 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,200 example, within the song is what are God's weapons of war? 316 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,280 You know, so like he can, you know, I don't need to get into 317 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,400 all that this particular second. But like, yeah, take the time to 318 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,840 look at your Bible and break these things down into, into 319 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:04,359 spaces. And you're like, Oh yeah, 320 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,599 especially the with the Psalms, with this, you can definitely 321 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:10,640 say, OK, there's a pattern, there's a, there's a methodology 322 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:12,440 here to how this works. Yeah. 323 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:15,440 And I think that even some of that language there is 324 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:21,040 interesting that that the Lord, the Lord is a man of war. 325 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,400 The Lord is his name. It doesn't. 326 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:28,720 I think we hear war and we just think of aggression. 327 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,240 It's both sides, isn't it? Like like we have until 328 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:37,080 recently, even in this not trying to bring politics or 329 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,080 anything, just think about we had we had a Secretary of 330 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,400 Defense, right? And now that's now that's 331 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:45,440 renamed as the secretary of War, right, which which sounds 332 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:50,680 aggressive and weird, but even going back to scripture here, 333 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,480 like living as a Christian isn't all about playing defense 334 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:56,840 either, right? Like it's not it's not the Lord 335 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,560 is a man of defense. There, there's, there's and we 336 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,520 have we've talked about, I think at least at guy's nights, but 337 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,280 maybe on the podcast before, like the sword of the spirit, 338 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:07,680 right? Yes, you can use a sword to 339 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:12,880 block and parry and and defend, but also Jesus used it to fight 340 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,360 back, right? Like he quoted scripture to the 341 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:18,440 devil and, and beat him back in his temptation, right? 342 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,720 Like there's, there's an offensive, aggressive side of 343 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:24,480 war. It's not, it's not just defense, 344 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,280 right? So, and we see, I mean, we see 345 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,320 that in the Red Sea. We see that in in the Old 346 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:34,520 Testament the the the people of Israel fought literally and but 347 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:36,240 also spiritually. Yeah. 348 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,600 And we see, again, bringing this forward into the New Testament, 349 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,840 and I brought it out a little bit yesterday, but we see Jesus 350 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:46,120 absolutely going to war with religious figures. 351 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:50,800 We see him going to war against things within the culture of his 352 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,920 time that do not honor God. And ultimately, of course, we 353 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,600 see him go to war against Satan and death itself on the cross. 354 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:06,480 And that war is 1 with the empty tomb that it's an absolute 100% 355 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,360 you are fully defeated kind of moment. 356 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,400 And so I, I just think that's really neat to think about, not 357 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,960 think about, but just like reflect on the fact that, yeah, 358 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:22,360 Jesus went to war for us through the means of humility and 359 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:24,480 sacrifice. And that's what war looked like 360 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,120 for him. And you, you better believe that 361 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:30,760 that was a war because as he's praying the night before, he's 362 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,680 going to be crucified. Imagine the war that is within 363 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,040 his head and within his body and within his spirit. 364 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,800 It's a war that caused him to bleed in prayer. 365 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:43,840 That's how heavy this war is. And so he's, he's a fighter all 366 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,120 the way. And he fought for us and he and 367 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:48,680 it's done. It's won. 368 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,400 I think another really important thing to draw out here and it's 369 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,480 this is labeled as like, right, the song of Moses, right? 370 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,400 Sometimes this the song of Israel, right? 371 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:04,160 I think it is some, some ways. Notice that it's not not about 372 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,920 Moses, right? Even though it's the Song of 373 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,280 Moses. It's not about, it's the song 374 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,520 that Moses sang. It's the song that Israel sang. 375 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,880 It's not about Israel. And this is part of the filter. 376 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:16,960 We've, we've talked about peeling the curtain back a 377 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,640 little bit in, in how we choose songs for worship or what songs 378 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,120 we do in worship. One of the most important 379 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:24,680 questions to ask, especially the songs that we do together on 380 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,120 Sunday mornings. Who's doing the verbs? 381 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:34,360 If this is a song that is filled with eyes and, and things that I 382 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:39,080 have done or things that I like. The the really the only phrase 383 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:43,960 I'm really comfortable even in I doing is is like I believe or, 384 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:49,040 or I will praise you or or like it still needs to be God is 385 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,640 still like the the subject. Is that the object? 386 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,440 I'm terrible at grammar again, but the object of my action, 387 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,840 right? So even if I am the subject, 388 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,560 he's he's still the object of the verbs that I'm doing. 389 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,680 If I'm doing anything in that song, it's to God. 390 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,800 Otherwise in that song, it's about what God is doing. 391 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,880 And then we see that in this song, right? 392 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,680 He has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown them into the sea. 393 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:20,440 He is my strength and my song. Yeah, really the the I in here 394 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,000 is right away in verse one, I will sing to the Lord. 395 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,960 And then after that it's all about him. 396 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,320 It's all about him, whether whether it's throwing the, you 397 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,600 know, throwing the enemy into the sea or whatever that looks 398 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,440 like. It is all about him and his 399 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,240 actions. And so this is a model picture 400 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:43,640 of worship and in within song for God's people, it, it's 401 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,640 absolutely the model. And it's so good in that way. 402 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:50,120 And so, yeah, thank you, by the way, for choosing songs that 403 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:54,440 like don't focus on us because that would be disheartening, 404 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,200 especially when we fail and we're like, Oh no, I Can't Sing 405 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,800 this song because I I failed and I'm not really that good at this 406 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,440 thing. And so then it's very just 407 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:07,520 disingenuous and not helpful. The final phrase that sticks out 408 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:13,360 to me kind of from this first stanza, he has become my 409 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:14,880 salvation. I think that's not that's it's 410 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:16,360 in the middle of it. It's not towards the end, but 411 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:22,920 like he has become my salvation. Recognizing as hard as we may 412 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:29,200 try, we cannot save ourselves and and not even he is like he 413 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,000 is our salvation. It does take that step of 414 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,960 humility of Nope. OK, taking up my cross daily. 415 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,560 God, I need you. I'm, I'm not enough to do that. 416 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,280 In fact, I can't contribute anything. 417 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,240 You're my salvation. I'm entering in kind of, I mean, 418 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,120 walking through the Red Sea kind of kind of thing, like, like 419 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:53,280 following you in that. He's made the path. 420 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,400 He's made the way. Do you trust him and not because 421 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,400 of your own strength? You're standing on the shore 422 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,080 with the army behind you. Like that's that's as far as you 423 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,560 yourself got, right? Yeah, absolutely. 424 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,400 So, yeah. Just just a powerful picture 425 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,760 there. He has become my salvation. 426 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:15,000 He who has God for his strength will have him for his song. 427 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,800 There's a there's a thought from the commentator Clark and I 428 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,920 don't think that's far off. God made us. 429 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,880 God made us as responsive beings in in praise and song and music. 430 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,760 I even think about like sporting events, right? 431 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:32,800 We've got we've got these little jingles or, or, or just even 432 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,720 just little things. When the when the whatever, when 433 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,680 the baseball team hits a home run, there's a there's, there's 434 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,960 a song that's played or there's a cheer that's stirred up. 435 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:45,240 Like we respond to strength with a song in everything. 436 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:47,360 So of course we would do it for God, right? 437 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,360 Oh, you you ought to you, you better. 438 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:53,840 And you know, The thing is, one of my favorite response songs 439 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,640 that is obviously very secular is when the Cubs win, right? 440 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:58,440 Go Cubs. Go, Cubs. 441 00:23:58,600 --> 00:23:59,080 Go. Yeah. 442 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,520 Like there's a song that's been ringing true for decades and 443 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,440 decades in response to like, hey, we're really excited about 444 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,240 that. We're on the winning side. 445 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,680 Yeah. And so, you know, to that extent 446 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,200 like. But that's what this song is. 447 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,160 This is this is go God, go. Right. 448 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:19,280 Like, oh God, Now it sounds like a Doctor Seuss book, but shoot. 449 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,200 OK, OK, here's the thing. Hear me out. 450 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,160 Hear. Me out our we've got several 451 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,160 people on our worship team who write on Fridays because you 452 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,120 know, they're working on working very hard at producing original 453 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:39,200 God loving, God honoring music. Why can't we have a go God go 454 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,640 song to that to that theme? Can we, can we just do that? 455 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,960 Like, like, let's say, let's say you're on stage and you just 456 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,120 preach the paint off the walls. Man, you just, you just hit a 457 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:51,880 home run and like, you know, you got people weeping in the alley. 458 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,520 Like, Oh my gosh, the Lord is moving. 459 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,360 And then we just sing go God, go. 460 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:56,200 Come on. Do it. 461 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,000 Do it. Do it. 462 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,000 Do it. Do it, do it. 463 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,200 Go God, do it. Do it. 464 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:05,360 Go God. Go, God. 465 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:10,040 Go. Hey man, what do you say God is 466 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,960 gonna win today? Dude, let's go. 467 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,640 So dumb. That was the dumbest thing. 468 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:22,600 So friends on the worship team who are writers, you know, you 469 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,480 know what your job is. This is also why we need a 470 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,720 producer to just like, cut that stuff out of this show. 471 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,120 Oh my goodness. Oh no, I'm I'm hoping that the 472 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,120 the the dozens and dozens of people who listen to this 473 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:41,440 podcast will now come up to you re like relentlessly begging for 474 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:42,760 that tune. Let's. 475 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,400 Go. Oh man, Yeah. 476 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,400 And that's how I quietly make Cubs fans out of all of us. 477 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,760 There's not going to. Be a whole lot of Cubs fans if 478 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,760 they do what they did on Saturday that wasn't. 479 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,480 That's just hurtful. That's just hurtful. 480 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,800 I I tried, I tried to have vacation this weekend. 481 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,360 I tried to take Saturday off, went out for lunch, tried to 482 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:03,720 watch the Cubs. They were down 9 nothing by the 483 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,320 end of the 30 and I was like vacation. 484 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,160 I went home. I was yeah. 485 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:10,640 So I. Feel. 486 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,560 That anyway, sorry, brief sports sidebar between the stanzas here 487 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,720 in Exodus 15. Anything else in the 1st 5 488 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,320 verses you want to jump to the second stanza here? 489 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,960 Let's well, yeah, we let let's move on. 490 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:28,360 OK, That's that's fine. Let's do that second stanza kind 491 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:36,040 of versus 6 through 10 a lot about God's hand in this 492 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,560 actually you have overthrown those who rose against you is is 493 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,520 kind of the the theme of this second stands that your right 494 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,120 hand, O Lord has become glorious in power. 495 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:50,800 Your right hand, O Lord has dashed the enemy in pieces the 496 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,640 quoting God later my hand shall destroy them. 497 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:58,720 You blew them with your wind weird. 498 00:26:58,800 --> 00:26:59,320 What? What? 499 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,480 A lot of God's right hand here. Yeah. 500 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,920 So one of the one of the things that's kind of interesting and 501 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:11,600 to take it quite literally, right hand opposite the word 502 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,920 right meaning opposite of wrong. Right now, I'm not picking on 503 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,160 left-handed dominant people. I'm not. 504 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,120 That's not the point. But it's, it's a directional 505 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:24,760 word. No, literally, it's a 506 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,320 directional word, a moral word. Yeah. 507 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,120 So you can, you can take it that way. 508 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:34,040 And it's, it's what oftentimes prior to modern ages, like this 509 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:38,640 is the standard. So although there are plenty of 510 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:43,080 people who are dominant with their left hand like way back 511 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,640 when, like this is the standard. The standard is that you use 512 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,520 your right hand for all the important things. 513 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,320 So think about it. If you're a warrior, like your 514 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,480 shield is on your left, your sword is on your right. 515 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,920 So there's a, there's a directional thing happening here 516 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,040 and there's a, a standard, a right and wrong. 517 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,040 OK, so think about it that way first. 518 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:07,240 But then so take that and apply it to biblical culture, you 519 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,760 know, thousands of years ago and it, and it starts to make a lot 520 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,760 of sense now more particular to God. 521 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,640 What makes sense is that who is seated at his right? 522 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,720 Jesus. Jesus is seated at his right. 523 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:26,680 It's Jesus, not Jesus. Jesus. 524 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:33,160 Producer cut that, no? So Jesus sitting at the right 525 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,960 hand of God, what that means biblically, whoever is at the 526 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,360 right hand of the king, not just biblically but even Kingdom 527 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,280 wise, whoever's at the right hand of the king has the same 528 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:48,200 power as the king. So as Jesus sits at the right 529 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:53,360 hand of God, he has the same power of Father God. 530 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,160 And so that's where a lot of this comes from. 531 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:01,480 And so think about God using his powerful right hand to do this 532 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,320 work of salvation. All of a sudden it makes sense, 533 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,120 especially as you look forward God who and the and the the 534 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:12,320 person of God who sits at his right hand does the saving in 535 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,160 Jesus Christ. And so thematically, again, all 536 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,360 66 books point to the same thing. 537 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:22,720 Thematically, we see God's right hand, AKA Jesus, creating 538 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:28,320 salvation for people. And being so also connecting 539 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:33,560 sort of the spirit, if John Gospel of God, John in the 540 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,520 beginning was the word and the word is with God and the word 541 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,840 was God. If the words in his right hand, 542 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,880 that's that's the weapon, right? That that's the that's his 543 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,880 authority, exercising his authority with the word, who is 544 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,920 Jesus? All it's it's all the things, 545 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,600 right? And interesting that he uses his 546 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,000 mighty powerful right hand. And as we just said a few 547 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,200 minutes ago, that mighty powerful right hand actually 548 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,880 does the opposite of what you would think you would do with 549 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:01,600 your right hand of power and strength. 550 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:06,840 And in humility, he dies. So again, we've got a lot of 551 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,040 play, a lot of dynamic here with this, with this right side, 552 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:14,040 right hand bit. But yeah, ultimately God uses 553 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:19,240 his own power, his most powerful arm, to actually die. 554 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,960 And we needed that because we are sinners, saved by grace 555 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,160 alone. Bam. 556 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,920 Bam, couple more things in Scripture because this is an 557 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:34,920 idea throughout Scripture as well about the right hand of 558 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,760 God. Psalm 45, Four, God's right hand 559 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:42,000 teaches us Psalm 4810, God's right hand is full of 560 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,720 righteousness. Again, that that the morality 561 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:49,760 that you're talking about that he exercises with the Father. 562 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,640 Obviously Psalm 110, but we also talk about this in the New 563 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,720 Testament to Psalm 110. One, the Father invites the Son 564 00:30:55,720 --> 00:31:00,400 to sit at his right hand in Habakkuk, a book that we don't 565 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,360 often reference, but the cup of God's judgement is held in his 566 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,800 right hand again. So, so with this, it's not only, 567 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,960 it's not only peace and salvation, but if you're on the 568 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,920 wrong side of right, the wrong. Side of right? 569 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:13,160 Exactly. If you're on the wrong side of 570 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:14,840 right there, there, there's judgement there. 571 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,200 And then of course, Paul affirms in Ephesians 120 that Jesus is 572 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,840 seated at the right hand of the Father. 573 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,960 So again, continuous God didn't change. 574 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,520 The the the game didn't change. The design didn't change. 575 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,240 Well, and also, you know, you get to revelation in these kind 576 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:37,240 of judgement moments and what does he do with the two parties, 577 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,880 'cause there's only two parties. This is what we would call a 578 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,920 binary situation. There's only two. 579 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:47,000 And there's those who believe in trust in Jesus Christ who will 580 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,200 go One Direction. There's those who refuse to 581 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,160 trust in him who will go another direction. 582 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,720 Who do you think's going right? Those who trust in him, they are 583 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,560 going to the right, right? So that those all those things 584 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:06,520 like they automatically work together for that bigger phrase. 585 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:11,320 Yeah, all right. The third stanza here asks the 586 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,200 question, who? Who is like you? 587 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,760 This is verse 11. Who is like you, O Lord among 588 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,840 the gods, Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in 589 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,360 praises, doing wonders. You stretched out your right 590 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:25,680 hand. The earth swallowed them. 591 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,360 So we have kind of the continuation of that idea. 592 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:36,680 Remember going back to last week to A big part of the idea of 593 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:41,000 God's deliverance in the Red Sea was also that Egypt would know 594 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,000 he would be glorified by Egypt, by his enemies, knowing that he 595 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,320 was God. Right now we have this 596 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:53,440 reflection of Israel kind of saying, who are you? 597 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,440 You are a no. It's kind of the same question 598 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,960 as as the Egyptians, they had that moment of realization of, 599 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,680 of fear, right? Of oh, God fights for them. 600 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:06,040 We, we now know the might and power and strength in this song. 601 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:11,000 Now we have this moment of yeah, you're, you're a mystery to the 602 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,160 nations of the earth. But we know we and we should and 603 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,480 we should know and acknowledge and fear the righteousness of 604 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,200 your right hand, that the the might of your right hand. 605 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:26,160 And there's no one that compares to who is like you, fearful and 606 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,160 praises doing wonders. Sometimes the best questions are 607 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,640 the ones that are rhetorical and everybody already knows the 608 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,560 answer to. And after the events in Egypt, 609 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,880 everybody within 1000 miles knows the answer to this 610 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,200 question. And so that's pretty important. 611 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,800 We'll talk more about that in a minute in a couple upcoming 612 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,160 verses. But His Holiness just so set 613 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:53,360 apart, so different than the quote UN quote lowercase G gods. 614 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,400 And so one of the interesting things, if you look back 615 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,160 historically, and this is true and it's probably still true 616 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,400 today in certain cultures, is that, oh, maybe it's even true 617 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,800 in Christianity when we get it wrong. 618 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:08,480 Here's the thing, the gods quote UN quote could be manipulated. 619 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:14,280 They are, they are beings that are emotionally immature. 620 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,000 So think about even the Greek gods and and stuff like that. 621 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,840 They fight each other. They have all these wars and 622 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,920 sometimes one wins, sometimes 1 loses. 623 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:26,239 And they're very much bent on these ever changing emotions 624 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,920 like anger and lust and all these kinds of things. 625 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,760 Who's like this God who is unchanging? 626 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,159 That's right. All those other gods, they can 627 00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:37,639 be manipulated, they can be changed, they can all these 628 00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:39,920 things, and they're wildly inconsistent. 629 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:43,400 What we see throughout the entire biblical narrative over 630 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:48,199 thousands and thousands of years is God is wholly consistent in 631 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:52,480 his character. And so even when he's angry, we 632 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,679 see that God gets angry, his nostrils flare up, or if you 633 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,240 translate that literally, his nose gets red. 634 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,840 So he's angry. But even inside that anger, he 635 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,520 is still in his heart. He's working towards salvation 636 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,920 at all times. He is wholly consistent in that. 637 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,160 Wow man. Yeah, some good history there. 638 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:19,760 Ongoing, still working. I love this thought from David 639 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,480 Guzik on just the idea of worship. 640 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,600 Again, he he authored the enduring word commentary. 641 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,440 It's great online commentary to give you deeper thoughts on 642 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,400 Scripture and it's free. So that's why that's why I like 643 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,440 referencing it. Well, because it's accessible 644 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:35,960 that in response to this question of who is like you, he 645 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,200 just has this reflection. Worship should proclaim the 646 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:43,880 superiority of the Lord God over anything else that claims to be 647 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,480 God. Commandment #1. 648 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,680 That's what worship is and that's and that's when we fall 649 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,760 short, right? That's making an idol of 650 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,760 something else is putting something else over God. 651 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,600 Worship is simply proclaiming the superiority of the Lord God 652 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,720 over anything else. There we are. 653 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:03,000 This is great. Look at that, look at that. 654 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,400 So if as we move forward a little bit more, there are these 655 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:14,200 verses that 14 through. Let's see here 16 Yeah. 656 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:16,600 OK. So the peoples have heard, they 657 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,440 tremble, pangs of seas. The inhabitants of Philistia now 658 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,240 are the chiefs of Edom. Dismayed, trembling seizes the 659 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:24,320 leaders of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan 660 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,560 have melted away. Tear and dread fall upon them 661 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,040 because of the greatness of your arm. 662 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,960 They are still a stone till your people pass by. 663 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,480 Till your people pass by whom you have purchased. 664 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,280 So what's actually happening here? 665 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,240 Why are we, why are we in the middle or towards the end of 666 00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:42,320 this song praising God? Why don't we bring up all these 667 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:47,200 other people groups that weren't even a part of the Egypt thing? 668 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,200 Why do we even bring those up? Well, the, the short answer is 669 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,240 that nothing happens in a vacuum, especially when God is 670 00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:58,160 doing it. And so if you think long before 671 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,080 the Internet, long before newspapers or whatever, how did 672 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,200 people receive information from distances? 673 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:04,360 Man? You've got runners, you've got 674 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,680 talkers, you've got people who are moving all over the land all 675 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,520 the time. And it would be no small thing 676 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,640 for the people who are surrounding the area of Egypt 677 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:16,000 and beyond to notice. Oh my gosh, I, I heard through 678 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:20,800 the Grapevine that most of Pharaoh's army was sunk in the 679 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,600 sea. And in fact, I went down to the 680 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,880 seashore and there's chariot wheels and there's bodies 681 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,640 everywhere. Can you imagine? 682 00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:29,480 So that word starts to go out to the people of Philistia and the 683 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,680 people of Moab, and they're like, oh, no, like this story I 684 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,680 heard, I saw the bodies on the shore. 685 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,760 This is true because I know those Israelites, they they've 686 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,840 been stuck there forever. They're slaves. 687 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,880 We only have ever known them as slaves for the past couple 100 688 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,960 years. And somehow they're not in Egypt 689 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:46,960 anymore. And there's all these dead 690 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,880 bodies on the shore. So like, yeah, Can you imagine 691 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,880 the level of fear? Because it's not like they had 692 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,280 weapons. They didn't have anything to 693 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,080 fight. What? 694 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,240 So yeah, these people are, like melting, as the Bible would say 695 00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:01,040 they are. They are freaked out. 696 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:05,280 Well, and to to reinforce this idea of the story going out, 697 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:11,440 Joshua 210 Rahab, the prostitute who's housing protecting the 698 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,800 Israeli spies who are coming and scoping out the city. 699 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,800 Joshua 210 says for we have heard how the Lord dried up the 700 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,520 water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt. 701 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:25,120 Like that's 40 years later after after this happened. 702 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,720 That's still on the thoughts and minds of of these people groups 703 00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:32,960 of these what would be enemies of Israel. 704 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:39,000 They know that the the Lord is known and feared right by by 705 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,120 these people, by these enemies. So of course, of course that 706 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:44,560 goes out. There's out there's some some 707 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,680 natural revelation things there too that are just the the the 708 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:52,280 might of the Lord goes forth the the heavens declare and the 709 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:56,400 skies proclaim the work of his hands like that's that's ongoing 710 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,360 as well. Well, and you've got somewhere 711 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:04,160 in the neighborhood again of 2 million people hanging out in 712 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,960 these areas and moving through locations over a 40 year period. 713 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:13,080 And you're like, how are 2 million or so people just moving 714 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,360 together like this? What would even cause something 715 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,160 like that? Because that is a mass exodus 716 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:23,480 and movement unlike anything the world has ever seen and hasn't 717 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,400 seen since. And so like when you start 718 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,120 seeing that many people moving in the same direction at the 719 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,520 same time, you're like, and maybe those stories were true. 720 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,000 I, I heard about this stuff in Egypt, haven't been to Egypt, 721 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,040 but man, this, this feels like it's fitting the narrative that 722 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,600 I heard. And that's, that's got to be so 723 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,400 scary. Yeah, and it was as scary as it 724 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,440 was for the enemies. There's also just this immense 725 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,520 rejoicing like you can, you can hear the certainty and the 726 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:55,160 safety in these words of the of the experience that the people 727 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,600 of Israel have had in this. But as as we'll get to in the 728 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:03,000 coming weeks, that doesn't last. And and and it's and it's a lot 729 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,440 like Jesus and the parable of of the seeds too, right? 730 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:10,560 Like that, that faith, that surety of salvation that burns 731 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:15,720 so brightly. And yet how quickly we forget we 732 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:20,000 like they even between we see this again and again, the people 733 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,560 of Israel forget between being freed from Egypt and getting to 734 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,920 the Red Sea. They're like, our lives were 735 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,080 better. No, no, they weren't. 736 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,120 But you just got freed from slavery, that was. 737 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,040 Yesterday and you forgot about that, that you were slaves 738 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:37,520 yesterday. Like so again, the you're going 739 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,840 to hear us say it again and again, But it's, it's one of 740 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:42,920 those things I said it to the youth group this past week. 741 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:48,440 Like it feels hard and it feels like discipline to be in the 742 00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:52,720 word every day. And it, and it especially at 743 00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:56,000 first, I think anything that's worth doing at first, discipline 744 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,000 feels like a chore. It feels like a burden, going to 745 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,960 the gym, eating right, being in prayer with your spouse or kids 746 00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,440 or your or your family. Like it feels awkward and 747 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:11,880 burdensome. And you won't say that like even 748 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:16,440 the Israelites a day or two free of captivity, they're not 749 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,920 experiencing the full fruits of that freedom, right? 750 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:21,560 They're just wandering in the desert. 751 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,720 They're not, they're not doing it. 752 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:26,200 They're they're not living the life, doing the thing. 753 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:30,440 They're learning how to walk with God, right? 754 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,400 So, and that's, that's us each and every day. 755 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,960 So how do we not forget that's being in the word? 756 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:37,600 And you know what? If you don't have a good word 757 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,680 habit, day one's going to feel weird. 758 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,360 Day 2's going to feel weird the whole the whole first week. 759 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:46,760 You're going to get to the end of that first week and be like, 760 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:51,480 I don't know if this works, like I don't, I don't know this, but 761 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:58,880 on day 100, a year later, on day 304 hundred, you're going to see 762 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:00,360 some of the pieces. You're going to see some of the 763 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,280 footsteps behind you. You're going to look back on the 764 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,200 red seas that he's that he's walked you through and and be 765 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:12,720 able to remember the people of Israel at this time didn't have 766 00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:14,440 this discipline. Maybe if they had sang, if they 767 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,000 had sang the song each and every day, if they if they had been 768 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,200 back in this each and every day, I don't know. 769 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,160 I'm not saying it absolutely would have been different, but I 770 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,360 think that's the challenge for us here to learn from the 771 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:30,000 forgetfulness the the things that the times where they did, 772 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,760 they weren't worshipping. They were putting things before 773 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:37,040 God instead of their worship being God over everything else. 774 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:41,600 Amen. I Yep, that's it. 775 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,400 You got that, that. No, no, that's, that's pretty 776 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,480 spot on, man. One of the things that I I came 777 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,720 out of yesterday with, or actually prior to yesterday 778 00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:54,520 thinking about is that this entire text, and we can get back 779 00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,920 to the specifics of it in a minute, but like this entire 780 00:42:56,920 --> 00:43:03,320 text, is it not a text that points to baptism being saved 781 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,600 through the water? Through the water. 782 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,160 Yeah. And so and watch, watch this 783 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,480 too. OK, so they are saved through 784 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,040 the water. They literally go through the 785 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:16,200 water and they're saved. And what does the water do to 786 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:17,960 their enemy? It crushes it. 787 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,200 What happens to us in baptism? We are saved through the water 788 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:25,400 and we are buried with Christ in our baptism. 789 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:30,200 And so therefore the waters of baptism rush, come down and 790 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,120 destroy the sin that we partake in. 791 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,640 But that's what God tells us baptism is. 792 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:40,520 It is being buried with Christ. It is crushing death, it is 793 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,680 crushing sin. And it is his adoption saying 794 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,880 you are my people, you are my person. 795 00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,560 Now I've adopted you through the water. 796 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:54,200 And so that's just like another thing that may not be super 797 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,800 obvious on the surface of this text, but it's right there. 798 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,880 And it's like scholar, I always universally agree that that is 799 00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,080 right there. Yep, and that's I mean, that's 800 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:06,120 where my message was a couple a couple weeks ago and I don't 801 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,960 know why it's been like, I think I've always known and thought 802 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,400 that, but just in the past couple weeks, that aspect, not 803 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,120 only the the washing, the positive of baptism, but also 804 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:19,280 what that means, like the life we're supposed to leave behind. 805 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,280 The the the whole picture of this Red Sea has has kind of 806 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,360 just like galvanized that thought in my mind. 807 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:29,280 It's it's not only washing you, cleansing you into freedom. 808 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:34,160 It's it's crushing, burying, killing, that sin and death, 809 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,880 fear life that you're supposed to leave behind too. 810 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,640 So, and I think maybe far too often we've in our in our 811 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,800 purity, in our cleanliness, we're kind of like dragging 812 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,560 along the sin and death with us. And we're supposed to and and 813 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,640 those are the things that tempt us to forget, right? 814 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,400 Those are the things that follow along and and kind of linger. 815 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:55,800 Gotta leave. It's that burn the ship's 816 00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,280 mentality or Yeah, yeah. Don't look back. 817 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,800 Don't look back. You've been buried with Christ 818 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,280 in your baptism. You are a new creation and you 819 00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,440 can go on and on and on. All of those things are true. 820 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,600 Yeah. And and to that, to that, don't 821 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:13,000 look back. I will say there's one 822 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:14,720 acceptable it's time to look back. 823 00:45:14,720 --> 00:45:17,080 Maybe we said it. I don't I don't remember it came 824 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,560 out of a it was a gem that came out of Thursday morning Bible 825 00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:20,960 study. You're welcome to come to food 826 00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:25,240 for thought 10 AM We usually meet at Fieldstone do it talking 827 00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:27,880 more about the about the sermon from the week before as well. 828 00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:32,040 But the one time that it's good to look back is when we're 829 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:33,440 looking back to see God's faithfulness. 830 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,240 That's that's the only time we should be looking back to see 831 00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:40,240 what God has brought us through. And that's an important part of 832 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,760 fighting as a Christian. So we talked a lot about 833 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,400 fighting yesterday. But fighting as a Christian, 834 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,800 oftentimes looking includes looking back at God's 835 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:56,240 faithfulness, at his redemptive power, whether that's in that 836 00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:58,760 could be in so many things. So one of the things that I 837 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:03,360 often times mentally look back on from for me to re, to 838 00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,680 remember and to restore the fact that God is powerful, he is 839 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,800 unchanging, he is sovereign, all these kinds of things. 840 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,080 One of the things that I look back on. 841 00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,840 Well, let me name a couple, but I won't get into the details. 842 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:18,760 So with both my kids before they were born and immediately after 843 00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,520 they were born, man, I look back to that and see God's 844 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,920 faithfulness and I see his fingerprints all over that. 845 00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:27,520 Going to seminary and all of the crazy financial struggles we 846 00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:32,120 had, looking back, remembering all the ways that God provided 847 00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:36,120 in seemingly miraculous ways that made no sense. 848 00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,760 Those are things that I look back on often, especially when I 849 00:46:41,240 --> 00:46:44,840 seem to be forgetting who God is and how powerful he is and how 850 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:49,480 faithful he is to his people. So remember, yeah, look back on 851 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,320 on all the ways that God has just blessed your socks off. 852 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:55,840 Final thought here. I think we're going to jump into 853 00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:59,280 the last few verses. 1919 through 21 here. 854 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:06,200 Miriam Moses, his sister and this we, we from, from what we 855 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,240 can tell scripturally and historically, Moses only had one 856 00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:12,080 sister and this same sister was talked about. 857 00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,120 She, she was the one who kind of launched the basket him, him in 858 00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,880 the basket onto the Nile River and arranged for the for the 859 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,680 hiring of of Moses's mother as a nurse. 860 00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:23,040 Pretty slick. Right. 861 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,640 And this, so she would be the older sister of Moses, but this 862 00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:31,400 is her Miriam, adult Miriam, obviously like, like later 863 00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,040 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron took the timbrel 864 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:37,960 in her hand. And all the women went, women 865 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,960 went out with her, with timbrels and with dances. 866 00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,480 And Miriam answered them. And she kind of echoes what's 867 00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,680 been sung before, right? Sing to the Lord for his triumph 868 00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:50,760 gloriously, the horse and its rider, he is thrown into the 869 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,560 sea. So we have this and, and this 870 00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,960 word here prophetess. So there's, there's a prophetic 871 00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:00,960 gift here with the sister of Moses. 872 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,360 So we have we have these siblings really Aaron helping 873 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:08,560 Moses lead the people, Miriam stirring up the women, leaving 874 00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,640 the women in response and worship and and joy. 875 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:18,760 It's pretty cool to see all this planned and ordained and even 876 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,840 how even how they were working together even in their 877 00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,960 childhood. The the way God like wove these 878 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,800 scenarios and encounters together for for purposes 879 00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:33,960 decades in the future. And, and we're seeing this come 880 00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:38,720 to fruition here, Miriam Moses, sister, leading the women in 881 00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:42,440 worship in this song as well. One more thing to point out 882 00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,760 about the amazing thing that Miriam does in this moment. 883 00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,040 You know what? She's doing this in this moment. 884 00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:54,320 She is helping God's people worship with their whole selves. 885 00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:57,720 Think about this, they're singing, they're dancing, 886 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,240 they're raising their hands, they're stomping and out. 887 00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,400 They are worshipping with their whole selves. 888 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,960 And so we get this great picture of what it looks like to 889 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,720 celebrate the Lord and what he's done and what he's doing and 890 00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:14,240 what he will continue to do with our whole selves. 891 00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,440 Yep. There's a good time to sit down 892 00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,720 and be intellectually challenged and, and, and all that kind of 893 00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:23,360 stuff as I sit quietly or whatever and read my Bible and I 894 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,760 am still as God has called me to be still. 895 00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:29,880 But there are also times to stomp it out, to dance it out, 896 00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:33,200 to raise your hands to, to, to all the things man do all the 897 00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,480 things. And so like Miriam brings that 898 00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,800 about. She helps bring that out in her 899 00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,320 in God's people. And if nothing else, which 900 00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:44,720 there's a lot more, but if nothing else, Miriam helps give 901 00:49:44,720 --> 00:49:48,080 us this beautiful example of worshipping God with our whole 902 00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:52,520 selves. I heard this phrase from Josh 903 00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,080 Howerton. He's on, he's on a lot of social 904 00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,400 media, pastor at Lake Point Church. 905 00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,600 He was he recorded an invite to their worship night and he was 906 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:04,720 like, we're kind of we're kind of Presba Baptist coastal here 907 00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:06,720 at that lake, but like. What is that? 908 00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:08,440 What? Presbyterian, Baptist and 909 00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,640 Pentecostal, like he was like kind of Presba Baptist Coastal 910 00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,360 and tonight's worship night, like we're coastal tonight. 911 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:18,120 Like have you known anything about those? 912 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,480 I just thought that was to what you're saying, an interesting 913 00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,640 way to put it. A like in this moment. 914 00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:29,800 Yeah, it was this this response of worship was all holds barred. 915 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,440 Like it's, it's it's out there, not held back. 916 00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:41,360 Wholehearted body, mind and soul worship, literally body bringing 917 00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:45,080 out in in intensity and action and movement and and just 918 00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,080 wholehearted picture of worship here. 919 00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,160 Not saying it has to be that exactly what you were saying. 920 00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,520 It's it's this. This was not a time for 921 00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:57,720 reflective quiet. Like, all right, everybody, 922 00:50:57,800 --> 00:50:59,120 everybody spread out a little bit. 923 00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,600 Let's do our tag time, our time alone with God, and let's just 924 00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:03,440 quietly reflect on what he's done. 925 00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:07,640 Oh no, you just came through the Red Sea on dry ground and your 926 00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,360 enemies are vanquished. You are partying, you are 927 00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,560 dancing, you are singing, you're doing all of it. 928 00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,480 Yep. So that's pretty great. 929 00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:20,600 Yeah, important thing to to point out and even just even 930 00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:25,960 just seeing the leadership of don't need to get in a hold like 931 00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:29,840 women in ministry, egalitarianism versus 932 00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:32,520 complementarianism stick here either. 933 00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:38,520 Mostly just pointing out we do see women leading the people 934 00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:42,520 have got like this is an instance we can point to. 935 00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:44,600 We can point to Lydia and the New Testament. 936 00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:48,520 We can we can point to others even even Rahab at like helping 937 00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:50,160 out. There's there's plenty of other 938 00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:56,920 instances of women leading now don't don't read into what I'm 939 00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:58,720 saying here either. I'm not I'm not. 940 00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,120 I do think it's pretty clear about the position of pastor 941 00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:06,000 specifically being being for men like we would we see that 942 00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:12,680 scripturally, but everything including and up to that line 943 00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,960 women. That's fair game for you in 944 00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,880 ministry and and leading the people of God. 945 00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,200 And then this is a, this is a passage that supports that. 946 00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:27,520 Yeah, I actually, so in our confirmation material, I have it 947 00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:29,680 built in. And actually we're on that year, 948 00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,400 this year in our confirmation material, we're going to take a 949 00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:36,480 week and we're just going to look at women in leadership of 950 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,640 God's people. And so that's one of the weeks 951 00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,280 that we get to do in confirmation this year. 952 00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:43,120 And I'm super excited about it because, yeah, to the, to 953 00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:47,920 whatever extent that God allows any given person to lead with 954 00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:50,200 the gifts that he's given them, man, you better. 955 00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,000 You better go wholeheartedly into that thing. 956 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,600 And God has given a lot of room and a lot of space and a lot of 957 00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,480 opportunities for women to lead. And throughout the Bible, we see 958 00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:00,920 them step up. And actually, quite frankly, in 959 00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,720 our own church, I see women step up all the time and do 960 00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:09,120 incredible things that allow us to to reach people, to reach one 961 00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,320 more with the gospel. I see women doing stuff like 962 00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,120 that all the time, and it's beautiful. 963 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:14,800 And we couldn't do it without them. 964 00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:17,720 Yeah, absolutely. Very cool. 965 00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,920 A couple things coming up in the life of church. 966 00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:25,600 We have a hymn night coming up on Friday, October 17th. 967 00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:27,800 That'll be 630 to 8. A lot of you chimed in on 968 00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,880 Facebook with many song suggestions and and hymns 969 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,040 things. I think the list was up near 40 970 00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:34,320 lately, so we're going to have to. 971 00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:35,960 We can't cram all of them in on one night. 972 00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:38,440 We're going to have to play a second one already apparently. 973 00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,800 Do you think we'll see some of the back rowers move to the 974 00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,240 front for that night 'cause they're like, Oh no, this is my 975 00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:46,440 jam now I got this. I don't know. 976 00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:50,680 It is going to be, we are being a little more stripped down an 977 00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,880 intentional intimate about about that night too. 978 00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,600 It's going to be, it's going to be largely like acoustic guitar, 979 00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,120 upright piano, just light percussion. 980 00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,960 It's not, it's not going to be the normal like full band that 981 00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,040 we see. We're going to we're going to do 982 00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,480 a little more acoustic for that night of him, so come on out for 983 00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,400 that. Friday, October 17th, 6:30 to 984 00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:12,560 8:00-ish. We've done worship nights like 985 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,360 this in the past and usually there's a lot of you linger 986 00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:20,520 afterwards as well, but 6:30 to whenever you all have to go home 987 00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,240 is. Yeah, well, come, come sing a 988 00:54:23,240 --> 00:54:25,160 song to the Lord. Come in worship. 989 00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:29,240 I mean, you know, hymns, hymns in modern day church, sometimes 990 00:54:29,240 --> 00:54:32,200 they get a bad rap, but there was a point in time when they 991 00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:36,160 were the new hotness and most of the lyrics of these hymns that 992 00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,480 have lasted for hundreds and hundreds of years, they've 993 00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,000 lasted that long for a reason, because they're true and they're 994 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,640 right and they're good. And so I'm excited about that. 995 00:54:44,720 --> 00:54:48,320 Yep, no very stoked to to share that night of worship with you 996 00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,440 all. Next couple Sundays big big 997 00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,120 stuff is coming up. Budget meeting after worship on 998 00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:57,960 the 19th and then we also have the baptism event on the Wapsey 999 00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:03,840 noonish following that budget meeting and then October 26th 1000 00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:07,800 Vision Sunday. What God's calling us into next 1001 00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:09,640 church. We're not going to we we don't 1002 00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:12,400 believe that we have done everything that we possibly can 1003 00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:16,280 to reach our city for him and to reach the one more into it. 1004 00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,520 So what's he calling us into next? 1005 00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:22,720 We're going to focus on that and step into that, the beginnings 1006 00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:25,960 of that together in worship on October 26th. 1007 00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,960 Worship on at 9:30 and then we saw a little preview of that 1008 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,160 this past week. But out of that, we're into two 1009 00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:35,920 services on November 2nd, 9:00 and 10:45. 1010 00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:39,520 We've been jam packed and it's time to continue to grow. 1011 00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,960 It's time to make more space and room for the one more. 1012 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:43,480 Absolutely. Let's do it. 1013 00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:44,880 Have a blessed week, Church.