Moments of Hope - Exodus 14

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scripture that indeed there will be clarity these verses will speak to us on a very personal level and above all oh god that indeed your name will be glorified and dear lord uh there will be something deposited in our souls because your voice i mean your word is not void of power thank you and thank you once again in jesus name we do pray and believe so we are looking at exodus chapter number 14 and uh this is the red sea crossing an amazing chapter with a lot of truth and a lot of power we went through the ten plagues uh and and we realized that every plague was there to deal with a specific god in egypt egypt was highly and densely populated with gods of course these are the dimensions of the principalities the fallen angels that take forms of gods and seek worship at the end of the day and we see that god not only delivered them from every of the gods that captivity that took place in egypt was had some dimensions that were very spiritual and so their captivity needed divine intervention the lord threw his armies led his own children out of captivity we saw um that by the blood on the doorpost this uh deliverance actually happened and so now they are out of egypt out of bondage out of captivity and now the journey begins i try to you know use this as an analogy for our salvation there is a destination there is a place that god is leading us and out of every captivity there is a journey with god and that's the most amazing part because the pillar was on them and the fire the pillar to give them shade in the desert terrain and the fire to give them warmth in their desert kind of climate and of course this was the visible presence of god as the lord says i'll never leave you not forsake you god does not just deliver people he also walks with them to the place of their establishment of course god will not eliminate the process he will not take away the journey he will strengthen you for the journey and the lord will also be there with you but there are things that must be done by you so he will only give you grace capacity and leadings but there are things that have to be outright done by you they didn't sleep then wake up in canaan there was a journey same way in our walk in faith this is a journey this is a journey we'll not just slippers and wake up in heaven there are many things that are expected of us and anticipated of us and the bible says now the lord spoke to moses saying speak to the children of israel that they turn and come before p hahi wroth between mgdol and the sea opposite baal zelphon you shall come before it by the sea for pharaoh will say of the children of israel they are bewildered by the land the wilderness has closed them in then i will harden pharaoh's heart so that he will pursue them and i will gain honor of a pharaoh and over all his army that the egyptians may know that i am the lord and they did so now it was told the king of egypt that the people had fled and the heart of pharaoh and his servants will stand against the people and they say why have we done this that we have let israel go from serving us so he made ready his chariots and took his people with him also he took 600 choice chariots and all the chariots of egypt with captains over every one of them and the lord hardened the heart of pharaoh king um the pharaoh king of egypt and he pursued the children of israel and the children of israel went out with boldness so the egyptians pursued them all the horses and chariots of pharaoh his horsemen and his army and overtook them campaigned by the sea beside p he wrote before baal zephorn and when pharaoh drew near the children of israel lifted their eyes and behold the egyptians much after them so they were very afraid and the children of israel cried out to the lord then they say to moses because there were no graves in egypt have you taken us away to die in the wilderness why have you so dealt with us to bring us up out of egypt is this not the word that we that we told you in egypt saying let alone that we may serve the egyptian for it would have been better for us to serve the egyptian than that we should die in the wilderness and moses say to the people do not be afraid stand still and see the salvation of the lord which he will accomplish for you today for the egyptians whom you see to them you shall see again no more forever the lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace and the lord said to moses why do you cry to me tell the children of israel to go forward but lift up your road and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it and the children of israel shall go on dry ground through the meads of the sea and i indeed will harden the heart of the egyptians and they shall follow them so i will gain honor of a pharaoh and over all his army his chariots and his horsemen then the egyptians shall know that i am the lord when i have gained honor for myself over pharaoh uh his chariots and his horsemen and the angel of god who went before the camp of israel moved and went behind them and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them so it came between the camp of the egyptians and the camp of israel that it was a cloud and darkness to the other and it gave light by night to the other so that the one did not come near the other all that night then moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea into dry land and the waters were divided so the children of israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground and they and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left and the egyptian pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea all feral horses hysterias and his horsemen now it came to pass in the morning watch that the lord looked down upon the army of the egyptians through the pill of fire and cloud and he troubled the army of the egyptians and he took of their chariots wheels so that they drove them with difficulty and the egyptians said let us flee from the face of israel for the lord fights for them against the egyptian then the lord said to moses stretch out your hand over the sea that the waters may come back upon the egyptian on their chariots and on their horsemen and moses stretched out his hand over the sea and when the morning appeared the sea returned to its full depth while the egyptians were fleeing into it so the lord overthrew the egyptians into the midst of the sea then the waters returned and covered the chariots the horsemen and all the army of pharaoh that came into the sea after them not so much as one of them remained but the children of israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left so the lord saved israel that day out of the hand of the egyptians and israel saw the egyptians dead on the seashore thus israel saw the great work which the lord had done in egypt so the people feared the lord and believed the lord and his servant moses so an amazing narration that is coming up here about crossing the red sea this is one of them very contentious kind of scriptures when it comes to research and historical and also argumentation uh because there's all they called the sea of the reeds uh there are people who don't even know up to date there are so many academic propositions on where exactly the children of israel past but at least the bible gives us a few a few clarities and a few journals are written on just showing that this was not a fictitious story but this is something that happened real time and it is real because it happened you know you can't read all the plagues and come undoubtedly the opening of the red sea you know if god had the power to do all this amazing stuff does it mean that opening the red sea would have been the thing that he could not do he's the creator of the universe everything is in existence because of him and for him so he's in charge and then we see the lord spoke to moses saying to the children of israel that they turn and camp before so there's a place where they were supposed to camp and as they come to them they were there uh you shall come before it by the sea so the lord knew the intention of pharaoh even the dead of the fastball never bald never bowed the heart of pharaoh you can see how stubborn and and and how stubborn even our walking faith is and the lord knew that this man of course he will think maybe this is all i have you know we faced the plagues and we've gone through the system of the plagues what else does the lord have to offer so and this time now they decided to shift the battle and and the ba and the lord knew you see there is nothing new god knows not only our our actions god does not wait for us to act god knows the intentions of our hearts because he sees beyond he sees the very intention and that's why sometimes god will act before you act because he knows the intentions and so he does not need to see the action mature he can act on an intention because he's the only one who has the ability to see the hearts of men david writes and says such my heart oh god it's only god who has the ability to discern the hearts of humanity and so they were camping in this area a very specific area and so you know you shall come before the sea for pharaoh will say of the children of israel they are bewildered by the land the wilderness has closed them in then i will harden pharaoh's heart so that he will pursue them and i will gain honor of a pharaoh and over his army that the egyptians may know uh that i am the lord and they did so so we begin to see that pharaoh's heart was hardened and the pharaoh mobilized we can see it and it was told the king of egypt that the people had fled on the heart of pharaoh and the servant was stand against the people and they said why have we done this that we have let israel from serving us so he made ready his chariots and took his people with him he took six thousand choice men got ready his chariots took his best man boom ready to pursue the children of israel and there are few lessons that emanate out of this number one deliverance is not enough the enemy does not give up the enemy will always continue in pursuit that is why anytime you are delivered or a captivity is broken never lose your relationship with a deliverer for me this is practical lessons because the devil does not get tired that's why we pray always the fact that you got born again does not mean now everything was suspended and now now the enemy cannot pursue you listen this guy doesn't give up spirits don't die spirits don't get tired they will always be on your case because their core business is to keep you in egypt is to keep you bound and keep you in chains as a slave building monuments for the enemy but this time by the blood of jesus the york is broken the chain is broken so we begin to see that the lord conquered the territorial atmosphere the lord conquered the powers on the ground and now the children of israel have already been released and they're outside there but the pursuer the enemy is still pursuing them not no amount of plagues are made feral bowel and you see this is very practical you you pray you pray you experience victory then boom warfare begins that's why we cannot lose number one our relationship with our deliverer and number two whatever delivered us is what is supposed to be sustained someone said many people lose their deliverance because the agent of your deliverance will be what will sustain your deliverance so if you went to church you were prayed for and you got delivered then that should be what will sustain your deliverance more prayer and more visits to the house of god but people can't get delivered and go back to their normal life they will fall back pharaoh is coming with his chariots and his choice man the the other thing that we need to get here is that uh the chariot when you look at the bible the battle of chariots was battle of kings anytime chariots were released it means that kings went into that war the battle of chariots was the battle of kings the battle and this was automatically the battle of conquest when kings went out for battle they were going to conquer a territory it was a territorial battle you didn't send you are you you are ordinary man you sent your choice men and that's why pharaoh was part of this battalion because he had lost ground over the israelites he's the one who released them but now he's coming to reclaim and restore ground so this is a battle of territory and even in the realm of the spirit there is a level where battles are in chariot level in that level you can't engage in that battle or in that level you need to allow the lord to fight for you they are called chariots and these are technical the enemy has launched all his arsenals and he has brought his choice men at that level is the time when god begins to fight for us so we see that this was the battle of chariots and be sensitive any time you read about chariots because they were made of iron and these chariots were very fast they were expensive and the chariots could only be afforded by communities that had military capacity and so we see this in the philistines battle we see this in this bottom we see this in judges all the battles that entail chariots were battles of kings and it was battles of a territory and anytime the devil is thinking territory he does not come with arrows he comes with chariots and that means the point is to bring you under his control and bring you under his radar and ordinance so he came with his six thousand he took six hundred not six thousand six hundred choice chariot and all the chariots of egypt with captains over every one of them so he was coming with the best oh jesus when the enemy is pursuing he doesn't play dice he gets the best 600 and they are captains these are the best warriors he's coming to get the israelites back remember the children of israel were not in an economy of war they were just slaves task masters brick makers for lack of a better word working in a quarry that's what they were doing making bricks for the oppressor and and coming with 600 choice men captains to fight them the easiest thing was to surrender they didn't have any weapons they just carried their animals um they are living bread and and their children ready to go and worship yahweh but what pharaoh didn't know this men who used to make bricks had a covenant with god and these men that used to make bricks god was the one in charge of their battle so pharaoh was not rising against this man he was rising against god himself and that's why the bible says so the egyptians pursued them all the horses and chariots of pharaoh his horsemen and his army and overtook them camping by the sea beside p thor before baal phone and and you can see not only were their chariots they were horsemen and the best choice men of war pharaoh has brought all his best remember getting born again is not the end of pursuit in fact the enemy is not happy when souls are lost from his kingdom and that's why we hear people talking about backsliding recapturing by pharaoh going back to the place of making bricks and when pharaoh drew near the children of israel lifted their eyes and behold the egyptians marched after them number one they were very afraid and the children of israel cried out to the lord they never cried in faith it was a cry of fear but god will always respond to our cry whether in faith or even in fear he is our father he knows what we are going through this rescue mission was not our mission it was his mission so if they died at that level the lord would have lost so this was his mission and they cried unto the lord and then um so they were very afraid and the children cried unto the lord then they said to moses now you can see their their attitude to god and their attitude to moses is different this is fear speaking and you can see how they were beginning to speak this was almost a week out of egypt they not even stayed for long and then they began to speak to moses and this was very uh you know kind unkind of them they said to moses because there were no graves in egypt have you taken us away to die in the wilderness why have you so dealt with us to bring us up out of egypt is this not the word that we told you in egypt saying let us alone that we may serve the egyptian for it would have been better for us to serve the egyptian than that we should die in the wilderness let me explain this after you are deliverance physically the next thing that needs to be delivered is mentally these people were out of egypt but egypt was not out of them they still had the mentality of egypt they were slaves for so long and they were free but their minds were still bound they say that research was done between two dogs and um one dog was tied on a leash and they will place a place of meat there and the dogs struggle to reach the meat and then it will go back and they did that for a week and then one day they took the leash out and placed the plate of meat the dog looked at the meat and continued because it was bound for so long that even the time when it was free it was still bound in its mind it was like oh da you know every day they put it i can't go there's always a leash on my neck and then they took a different dog they did that for two days and then on the that day they removed the leash and the dog ate now there are many believers that are out of egypt but egypt has never gotten out of them and anytime they are faced with crisis they begin to remember the days of their backsliding and the days when they were not with god statements like pasta when i was not born again i used to have money that is egypt mentality pastor when i was not born again things were working that is egypt mentality what you don't know you have begun a new journey and the lord wants you to forget about egypt and the egyptian and this is exactly what was happening they were out of egypt physically but they were not out of egypt mentally and sometimes the devil does not bind us physically he goes to the next level and binds us mentally that you are out of the world and out of the kingdom of darkness but something still tells you you can be cast something still tells you you can operate and um under generation of patterns and diseases because you are out of egypt and you have never tasted freedom and this freedom for you looks like something new and this is our work of faith we get out of egypt but at the end of the day egypt must get out of us and when pharaoh drew near um we should be looking at off is this not the world that that we told you in egypt saying let us alone that we may serve the egyptian for it would have been better for us to serve the egyptian that we should die in the wilderness and moses said to the people now i like the leadership of moses he has seen god the speech of a man that has encountered god is a speech of boldness this is not literature he knows what god can do see what moses says and moses said to the people do not be afraid stand still and see the salvation of the lord which he will accomplish for you today for the egyptians whom you see today you shall see them again no more forever the lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace stand still there are different options when a man is in fear number one you can retreat and just surrender to the enemy the second thing presumptuous or presumption will tell you jump in the sea because if you knew how you suffered in egypt then jumping in the sea will be easier we'd rather die in this sea something else can tell you retreat and at this level god was not willing for them to jump in the sea or to surrender he just needed them to allow him to take charge of the battle and that's why he said stand still there are times whereby we need to surrender to god and stand still and watch him walk out there are places you reach and you know you are intellect you are capacity you are ability you are strength you know it's just beyond you in this life you'll come to those areas where you don't know whether to cry whether to laugh because whatever is ahead of you whether you cry or laugh it doesn't change it's beyond you so whether you cry the whole night it it doesn't change whether you laugh the whole night is still the same thing and those are the quiet and the perfect moments of saying you know what god this is my red sea this is the enemy i don't know where to go you know my life better than anyone else because you knew me before you formed me you figured out my life and you knew this person this day is going to come how i will get out i don't know but i choose to stand still and know that you're god do not be afraid stand still and see the salvation this was literal salvation of the lord which he will accomplish for you today and then he releases now this is a leader that has encountered god and he says the egyptians you see today you will see them no more now moses has not just comforted but he has also encouraged them they say leadership is tested on how you lead people in the wilderness because the wilderness will present opportunities of crisis and one of the greatest elements of leadership is encouraging the people and giving them hope irrespective of the challenges that are ahead there are people who right now i know companies that survived covered not because the challenges were not there but because there was a leadership that kept on telling them things will be okay we are getting out of this yet we are slashing your surrenders salaries but guess what we are getting out of this one they will bounce back to normalcy and people held on to that hope and the company's been closed they still delivered and it is the same thing it is in wilderness that leadership is tested if you can navigate a people in the place of despair and frustration and a place of hopelessness just know you're a leader and and and so we begin to see that he gave them hope but when we see the position that god gave moses he said you shall be a god and to pharaoh so moses had not yet been fired from his godship and so whatever he uttered is exactly what god was going to implement that the egyptians you see today you shall see them no more this is moses saying but he doesn't know how god will do that but he said you stand still i also don't know stand still and know that is god what i know these egyptians will see them no more they have crossed a line in the spirit and god has to react now and the lord said to moses why do you cry to me tell the children of israel to go forward but lift up your road and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it and the children of israel shall go on dry ground through the meads of the sea and indeed will harden the heart of the egyptians and they shall follow them so i will gain honor of a pharaoh over all his army his chariots and his horsemen then the egyptians shall know that i am the lord when i have gained honor for myself of a ferocious chariots and his horsemen what an amazing time there is this common phrase in prayer pasta but there are times and this was the time moses is there waiting on the lord and the lord is saying moses i'm waiting on you i delegated power to you you are to be the lord the god of a pharaoh pharaoh is back take back your position the road you have in your hand strike the waters and and it was not the road that separated the water it was the rank that moses had in the spirit that he had the ability to deal with nature the hand of god was the hand of the hand of moses was held by the hand of god remember moses had just given a statement that the egyptians you see he spoke as a god because god told him you shall be a god unto pharaoh so anytime pharaoh shows up the authority of moses in the god level entered and at that level moses cannot act otherwise he must continue with the operation because god said you shall be a god unto unto unto pharaoh and so he strikes the water and the sea departs i say there are many people who argue and say you know the red sea was not as deep it was very shallow and so it was just at the knee level and you know some people always say wow at the knee level so you want to mean the the the egyptian soldiers drowned with water that was at the knee level so if the miracle was not in the parting of the sea then the miracle is in the drowning of the soldiers with their chariots if the water was at the knee level and so moses raises his stick and over the sea and divided it and the children of israel went on on dry ground but as he was executing that matter and as that instruction came for him to continue with the office of god something happened and the angel of god who went before the camp of israel moved and went behind them and the peel of cloud went from before them and stood behind them this angel of god is god we say this is the theophany some people call it the christophany this is god in bodily form so this is the time we are realizing that the lady was the leading of god even where they had reached the angel of god was there with them because this is not their journey and as a believer we need to come to a place of surrendering this journey to the owner the angel led them and this was the leading of the angel and guess what they reached out this place the angel moved from the front and went at the back to protect them so pharaoh and his armies could not touch the children of israel there was a divine protection this battle became the battle of the law and then the cloud because god the cloud was the physical presentation of the invisible god and so when they when the lord moved of course the cloud moved on the pillow fire also and then we begin to see move that went behind them and the peel of cloud went from before them and stood behind them so it came between the camp of the egyptian and camp of israel it was a cloud and darkness to the one and it gave light by night to the other so that the one did not come near the other and all the night remember that cloud shielded them from the heat of the desert the fire warmed them from the cold of the desert so the people pharaoh did not experience the cavalry neither the warmth of the fire so moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the lord caused the sea to go back by a strong eastward we are coming again to the east wind all that night and made the scene to dry land and the waters were divided so the children of israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground if the bible says it's dry dry ground we better believe it was dry ground all the water there was no even the the ground dead and it divided and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left and the egyptian pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea all feral horses his chariots and his husband now it came to pass in the morning watch this is very key it came to pass in the morning watch that name watch there is the language of prayer and the morning watch is between three to six that's the morning watch so we and remember what what i said the midnight hour is always a very contentious hour in terms of spirituality the morning watch is when demons have done the activity and now they're retreating back so at that morning watch that the lord looked down upon the army of the egyptian through the pillar of fire and cloud now i said when chariots are released out for battle this becomes a battle of kings and so this time the king of kings the king of israel had to confront the king of the egyptians and and we can see the interruption he looked at that hour three to six the morning watch he looked at them these were people mounting on their chariots the bible says 90 came to pass in the morning watch that the lord looked down upon the army of the egyptian through the peel of fire and cloud he doubled the army of the egyptians and he took off their chariots wheel so that they drove them with difficulty and the egyptians said let us flee from the face of israel for the lord fights for them against the egyptians you know when they began to cross over the red sea they were pursuing them now they have the advantage of chariots and horses and the lord dislodged and interrupted the wheels of the chariots so they were slowed down and sometimes the the lord will make sure that your pursuers are slowed down so that they don't catch up with you even as you access the open door and moses ah then the lord said to moses stretch out your hand over the sea that the waters may come back upon the egyptian on their chariot and on their horsemen so we see the main sense god was fighting for these people but god was now finishing that business i have dealt with the gods of egypt and that system is collapsed i've judged all of them i have dealt with the economy of egypt it is a dead economy i have bailed with the throne of pharaoh i've judged it the child is dead and now i'm about to finish the military power of egypt by the time they were finishing with the red sea egypt was a finished nation now he's dealing with the military and political infrastructure of egypt um then the lord said to me says stretch out your heart over the sea that the waters may come back upon the egyptians on their chariots and on their horsemen and moses stretched out his hand over the sea and when the morning appeared the sea returned to its full depth while the egyptians were fleeing into it so the lord overthrew the egyptian in the midst of the sea then the waters returned and covered the chariots the horsemen and all the army of pharaoh that came into the sea after them not so much as one of them remained but the children of israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea and the waters were a wall to them on the right and on the left immediately they finished passing their soldiers were covered with the water drowned and they died delivered without the firing of a bullet when god takes charge he begins to frustrate every infrastructure and system that the enemy sponsored to keep you in captivity that's why i believe the bible says it's not by might not by power but by my spirit there are things that only god can intervene and give you victory that is in accordance to your level and you read the whole bible there is no time where israel had a conflict with egyptians again no this matter was settled once and for all and that was it so the lord saved israel that day out of the hand of the egyptians and israel saw the egyptian dead on the seashore they didn't touch them they didn't kill them they didn't engage in this battle god just dealt with them thus israel saw the great work which the lord had done in egypt so the people feared the lord and believed the lord and the seven moses that named fear is they revered the lord and they also believe that this moses is his servant this was a super power this was a nation that possibly people would look at and nobody would have thought that egypt will one day drown or go down what is the communication here no matter how wicked people can be god is still sovereign anyone can come down if the lord is not by their side i'd rather be a man making bricks but with a covenant with god than look like a superpower that my strength is in my chariot and armory because i know all that is bound to fail some people you look at them they look hopeless but they have god they may not have what other people have but they have what other people don't have and that is god and you look at how god fights for them and contends for them you even wonder we are blessed to know that we serve a mighty god that can open the red sea drown the armies deliver without war judge the gods of egypt and usher people to a journey so it's good to remember that the fact that you're out of egypt egypt must be out of you and the fact that you're out of egypt it doesn't mean that the assignment and the desires of pharaoh have been terminated he will still pursue you and so that's why we need to be with the savior and the deliverer all the rest of our life for him to lead us guide us and we see in assurance the bible says he will never leave us not forsake us he was there in front of them when the enemy came he took the backside god is always there with us we may not see him we may not feel him but there is nothing that we are going through that is beyond our grace and the grace he has given us father we bless you and we thank you even tonight just reminding us of your supreme power and reminding us that nothing will ever interrupt and interfere with your program the enemy may decide to pursue us again but in your authority and power you keep on intervening and intercepting dislodging the wheels of the chariots someone today is looking at their lives and yes the red sea is ahead of them and they feel like the egyptians are just behind them oh god and when they look the chariots are rolling dear lord this is a battle of kings king of glory the lord of hosts show up fight for them defend for them give them victory that the egyptians they see today they shall see them in jesus mighty name we have prayed hallelujah thank you very much and thank you so we'll be having the midnight prayer um being on friday we still push matters in the spirit and water friday this is the first day of the month of october so let's stand on the ground to program the man in the spirit i sense that the egyptians you have seen in september you will see them no more in the month of october may god bless you may god keep you and thank you for just being a blessing it's time to give our sacrifices it's time to give our offering and the giving details are there remember it is by your giving that we are able to reach out from one city to the other one school to the other evangelizing the gospel of our lord jesus christ this is the system that the lord provided for the resource mobilization we don't sell anything but it is by your generous giving that we are able to do a lot so the giving details are there eighty one seventy three seventy and all seven two six seven seven god bless you [Music] is [Music] so good so cool so cool you're so good so good jesus oh [Music]

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