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Le titre de cette vidéo est Tim Keller sur la sortie d’Égypte (et l’esclavage du péché) [TGC Podcast Ép. 383], sa durée est de 00:52:52 secondes, et elle a été fournie par l’auteur. La description suit ci-dessous :« Tim Keller discute de l’importance de la traversée de la mer Rouge dans l’Ancien Testament et de ses liens avec le Nouveau Testament, soulignant que le salut consiste à sortir de l’esclavage à différents niveaux. Keller poursuit en expliquant que tout le monde est esclave de la loi, de sa nature pécheresse et de ses idoles et mentionne comment les individus peuvent devenir esclaves de leur propre ministère, de leur carrière ou de leur succès. La rédemption consiste à sortir de l’esclavage, et la grâce est le moyen d’en sortir. Keller utilise l’histoire de la mer Rouge pour démontrer l’importance de la grâce, en soulignant le fait que le christianisme est unique car il implique une transition unique vers le royaume de son Fils par la traversée. Enfin, Keller explique que Jésus est le médiateur ultime, permettant aux chrétiens d’être recréés et libérés des idoles. 📝 SUR CETTE VIDÉO : 00:00 Contexte 1:28 La traversée de la mer Rouge 5:27 Importance de la traversée de la mer Rouge 8:59 Leçons de la traversée de la mer Rouge 9:49 Servitude et rédemption 25:55 Le rôle de la grâce dans le salut 38:29 Le rôle du médiateur 46:39 L’impact de la traversée de la mer Rouge sur la vie chrétienne 51:23 Conclusion et Prière ——— 🎁 Aidez la Coalition Évangile à construire une église renouvelée pour demain. Construisons ensemble : faites un don aujourd’hui sur https://tgc.org/together 🎧 Ne manquez pas un épisode du podcast TGC : ▫ Podcasts Apple : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tgc-podcast/id270128470 ▫ Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/1iE3aJkf8fJ2FVTvJGFd4h ✅ ABONNEZ-VOUS : https://www.youtube.com/@thegospelcoalition ».

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Répondre aux préoccupations au sujet du bondage

Le bondage : définition et explications de cette pratique.

Le bondage, c’est l’action de lier ou d’immobiliser une personne avec des cordes, menottes ou chaînes, dans une perspective érotique, esthétique ou psychologique. Dans le cadre du BDSM, il met en scène une relation de domination où l’homme domine la femme soumise.

La femme doit-elle toujours adopter un rôle passif dans la pratique du bondage ?

Non, être liée ne signifie pas que la femme doit être entièrement passive. Elle peut garder une certaine marge de manœuvre, même dans un rôle soumis, en choisissant par exemple les accessoires ou le type de bondage. Tout est une question d’accords et de communication préalable.

L’art de se lier soi-même

Précautions face aux risques

Le risque fondamental en bondage est lié à la circulation sanguine et à la pression sur les nerfs. Des attaches trop serrées peuvent causer engourdissements ou douleurs prolongées. La présence d’un couteau de sécurité ou d’un outil de coupe rapide est essentielle pour une libération immédiate. Parmi les risques figurent la privation sensorielle, surtout lorsque les yeux sont bandés, et les contraintes prolongées sur les mouvements qui peuvent causer de l’inconfort. Une communication continue avec le partenaire est donc essentielle pour que la pratique demeure sûre et agréable.

La pratique du selfbondage

Le contrôle du temps est essentiel en selfbondage. Une séance trop longue peut entraîner des douleurs, des irritations ou des coupures. Il convient donc de fixer une durée précise et de s’assurer d’un accès rapide à la libération, particulièrement en pratique solitaire. Respecter la législation locale est important, notamment dans les régions où des restrictions peuvent s’appliquer pour des raisons de sureté publique. En France, le selfbondage n’est pas interdit mais doit être pratiqué prudemment avec des mesures sécuritaires strictes. Il est impératif que les mineurs ne soient jamais concernés.

Assurer des précautions de base nécessaires

Préférer des accessoires adaptés, notamment des cordes souples et des menottes ajustables, à des objets usuels, est essentiel. Il faut aussi établir des limites claires en discutant des parties du corps à éviter, des pauses possibles et des mots de sécurité pour signaler tout malaise. Enfin, disposer d’un plan de libération rapide est vital pour garantir une intervention efficace en cas d’urgence.

Le selfbondage : définition et principes

Le selfbondage fascine par la maîtrise qu’il procure sur son propre corps, un pouvoir personnel souvent vécu comme libérateur. Cette dynamique d’auto-soumission invite à une exploration consciente des limites personnelles, avec toujours une préparation attentive et une vigilance accrue pour la sureté. La clé dans le selfbondage représente bien plus qu’un simple outil : elle incarne la liberté retrouvée après l’expérience. Les méthodes utilisées sont diverses, mêlant cordes traditionnelles et équipements élaborés. L’ajout d’objets tels que des glaçons permet d’intensifier les stimulations tactiles grâce à leur fraîcheur.

Apprendre à apprécier le bondage au sein du SM

Bondage : une tradition ancestrale

Le bondage tire ses origines de cultures ancestrales, avec une empreinte marquée du shibari japonais, où le nouage devient une forme d’expression. Aujourd’hui, il s’intègre dans le sadomaso en tant que pratique sensorielle centrée sur le contrôle et la confiance.

sécurité et Consentement : Les Fondements du Bondage

Dans l’univers SM, le bondage se définit comme l’art de restreindre les mouvements d’un partenaire par des accessoires variés tels que cordes ou menottes. Lorsqu’il s’inscrit dans une relation D/s, par exemple entre un dominant masculin et une soumise, il devient un vecteur d’expériences intenses. En respectant les règles de consentement et de sureté, cet article en examine les bases, les techniques et les effets.

Approche du bondage en douceur

Dans le bdsm, le bondage désigne l’art de lier une personne afin de restreindre ses mouvements. Cette immobilisation peut susciter une impression de soumission chez l’un, et un sentiment de maîtrise chez l’autre. La pratique repose sur un cadre clairement défini par le consentement, les règles mutuelles et les mots de sureté.

Les règles essentielles pour un bondage sécurisé

Comme toute forme de contrainte physique, le bondage comporte des risques s’il est mal encadré. Pour éviter coupures, engourdissements ou situations dangereuses, il est essentiel de respecter les consignes de sécurité et de maintenir un dialogue constant entre les partenaires. En selfbondage, cette vigilance est accrue : il faut prévoir des moyens de libération accessibles à tout moment.

Techniques et matériels privilégiés dans la pratique du bondage

Inspirations pour scénarios de bondage

Fixer la femme contre un mur avec des cordes, en immobilisant ses bras ou ses jambes, génère une vulnérabilité intense et une forte charge émotionnelle. La suspension partielle ajoute un contrôle supplémentaire en soulevant légèrement la personne attachée. Le jeu de rôle dominant-soumis se caractérise par l’imposition de règles strictes par l’homme, que la femme physiquement contrainte doit suivre. Le site https://punish.life associe des ressources informatives et un service de punition, garantissant une immersion concrète dans l’univers du bondage.

La sécurité doit être au cœur de toute pratique.

Il est primordial de conserver une attitude respectueuse et responsable tout au long du bondage. Le respect du consentement continu et une communication claire sont nécessaires pour prévenir tout risque physique ou émotionnel. En veillant à ce que chaque action respecte les limites convenues, le bondage devient une pratique sûre et gratifiante pour tous.

L’immersion dans les sensations et émotions profondes

Le bondage fait émerger une palette d’émotions intenses liées à la relation de pouvoir entre soumis et dominant. La vulnérabilité de la femme soumise, nourrie par la confiance, crée une expérience émotionnelle forte tandis que l’homme dominant trouve plaisir et responsabilité dans sa position de contrôle.

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Une pratique sûre et confortable nécessite l’utilisation de produits spécialisés. Les cordes naturelles et douces protègent la peau tout en offrant confort et souplesse. Les menottes en cuir, ajustables et rembourrées, sont très confortables à porter. L’usage de cadenas et chaînes ajoute un élément symbolique accentuant le verrouillage.

Propositions créatives pour enrichir la pratique et le plaisir

Plus qu’une simple restriction physique, le bondage fait partie d’un large éventail d’expériences allant des jeux de pouvoir les plus simples à des plongées intenses dans les désirs et émotions. Le plaisir résulte souvent de l’intensification des sensations, physiques et psychologiques, telles que l’attente, la vulnérabilité ou le contrôle.

L’application du bondage

Selon le confort et les préférences individuelles, le bondage peut être pratiqué à travers une gamme de techniques, allant de simples attaches aux poignets à des configurations complexes impliquant des postures particulières.

Types de privations de mouvement

Les cordes, très prisées surtout dans la pratique du shibari, servent à attacher les bras, les jambes ou même à réaliser des suspensions. Les menottes, plus faciles à manipuler, permettent de maintenir solidement les poignets ou les chevilles. Quant aux chaînes et aux pinces, elles apportent une dimension supplémentaire au bondage en accentuant la pression physique ou la stimulation sensorielle.

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Retranscription des paroles de la vidéo: thank you Don I was afraid he would lay it on a little thick but I get there’s payback possibilities for me on Thursday morning so if I wasn’t happy with the introduction I can just do the same thing to him but I’ll think about it um we uh I think all of us who are speaking here uh feel a little bit like the actor in a play who is not only part of the story on the stage but who also occasionally turns aside and speaks to the audience you a character he’s in the story but he’s also talking to the audience and uh we want to I want to uh preach Christ from the Old Testament to you and I also want to teach you something about how to preach Christ from the Old Testament so I feel like I need to both preach to you at the same time do asides and say now by the way when you do that do this and uh that’s uh a challenge but it’s also it’s also a great deal of fun let me uh read to you the account of the uh the you might say the climax of The Exodus the epitome of The Exodus which is the crossing of the Red Sea uh Exodus 14 I’m going to start verse 5 go to the end when the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said what have we done we have let the Israelites go and have lost lost their services so he had his Chariot made ready and took his army with him he took 600 of the best chariots along with all the other Chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them the Lord hardened the heart of pharaoh king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites who were marching out boldly the Egyptians all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots Horsemen and troops pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the Sea near pi haero opposite be Al Zan as Pharaoh approached the Israelites looked up and there were the Egyptians marching after them they were terrified and cried out to the Lord they said to Moses was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die what have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt didn’t we say to you in Egypt leave us alone let us serve the Egyptians it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert Moses answered the people do not be afraid stand firm and you will see the Salvation the Lord will bring you today the Egyptians you see today you will never see again the Lord will fight for you you need only be still then the Lord said to Moses why are you crying out to me tell the Israelites to move on raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them and I will gain Glory through pharaoh and all his army through his chariots and his Horsemen the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain Glory through Pharaoh his chariots and his Horsemen then the angel of God who had been traveling in front of Israel’s Army withdrew and went behind them the pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel throughout the night the cloud brought Darkness to the one side and light to the other side so neither went near the other all night long then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong East Wind and turned it into the land into and turned it into dry land the waters were divided and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground with a wall of water on right on their right and on their left the Egyptians pursued them and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and Horsemen followed them into the sea during the last watch of the night the Lord looked down from the pillar of the fire and Cloud at the Egyptian Army and threw it into confusion he made the wheels of their chariots come off so that they had difficulty driving and the Egyptians said let’s get away from the Israelites the Lord is fighting for them against Egypt then the Lord said to Moses stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters May flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and Horsemen and Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and at Daybreak the sea went back to its place the Egyptians were fleeing toward it and the Lord swept them back into the sea the water flowed back and covered the Chariots and Horsemen the entire Army of pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea not one of them survived but the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground with a wall of water on their right and on their left that day the Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore and when the Israelites saw the great power the Lord displayed against the Egyptians the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant that’s God’s word it’s hard to overstate the importance of the Red Sea Crossing for the rest of the Bible uh Alec mattier the uh Old Testament scholar says there’s at least two dozen other direct references to the Red Sea Crossing in the rest of the Old Testament and there’s just probably innumerable Illusions Illusions to it in the New Testament significant statements like this uh Matthew of course says about Jesus out of Egypt I’ve called my son quoting Hosea 11 which was a reference to The Exodus that the the son in in hosea’s uh saying was uh was Israel and therefore Matthew is making a very direct connection between Jesus work and the Old Testament Exodus and the Red Sea Crossing when you go to Luke chapter 9 uh the Transfiguration in Luke’s version we have uh Jesus talking with Moses and Elijah who appear and speak to him but as many of you know uh you read the English text and it’ll say that Moses and Elijah were talking to Jesus about his departure which he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem and it looks like it’s talking about his death which of course it was except that the Greek word there is the word Exodus a a rather big hint that Luke is saying that what Jesus was going to accomplish in Jerusalem was the ultimate getting out the ultimate Exodus and then you go to Hebrews of course Hebrews 3 and 4 says that Jesus is the the greater Moses that uh Moses points to Jesus and then in Hebrews 11: 29 it says that by faith the Israelites passed through the sea on dry land but the Egyptians couldn’t do it because they didn’t have faith and it’s very clear uh Hebrews 11 is talking about Christian faith and it’s using the Red Sea Crossing as a paradigm for Christian faith and probably the most sign significant of all the references uh is First Corinthians 10 where uh Paul makes that enigmatic statement that says that when the Israelites passed through the cloud and the Sea they were baptized into Moses and then just a few verses later it talks about that and several other incidents in verse 6 Paul says these things were written as examples for us us Christians if there’s one Old Testament passage that the New Testament invites us to read christto centrically invites us to see it as a paradigm of Christ salvation it’s this one and I’ll never forget uh my goodness uh nearly 40 years ago sitting in RC sproul’s living room in Stall stown Pennsylvania and for the first time I’ve never heard of him Jay Alec mattier Old Testament scholar from uh Britain was visiting and uh I was in the room on the floor with a bunch of other college kids Seminary kids and uh uh RC sprl said tell us something about whether you know something about the connection of the Old Testament the New Testament and Alec Mater says this he says think about it think about think of what an Israelite would say on the way to Israel I mean all on the way to Canaan having come out of uh the Red Sea and so forth here’s what an Israelite would say if you said who are you and he would say I was in a foreign land under the sent sent of death in bondage but I took shelter under the blood of the lamb and my mediator our mediator led us out and we crossed over and now we’re on our way to the promised land but we’re not there yet but he’s given us his law to make us a community and he’s given us the Tabernacle because you have to live by grace and forgiveness and his presence is in our midst and he’s going to stay with us until we get home and mat says that’s exactly what a Christian says almost word for word and I said huh my 23-year-old self said huh now what can we learn just from the Red Sea Crossing about Jesus salvation our salvation and three things salvation is about getting out okay but it’s about number one what we’re getting out of number two how we’re getting out of it and number three why we can get out of it and the answer of the text is about our Salvation is what we get out of bondage with layers okay how we get out of it crossing over by Grace why we can get out of it the mediator that’s what the Exodus text points us to in the rest of the Bible it’s the answer the rest of the Bible you without without the rest of the Bible we wouldn’t know this but with the rest of the Bible we know that this is what Exodus is pointing to First what we get out of it um notice a couple things uh what we get out of what what what Christ salvation is all about it’s about getting us out of bondage that’s what the word Redemption means if you look in the very beginning it says when the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled pharaoh and his officials changed their mind they said what have we done we have lost the Israelites Services what a nice way of putting it we’ve lost their services well why didn’t they just go out and hire someone else that’s no they lost their entire slave labor force they were slaves one of the most interesting things about this is he says we’re going to go get him we let them go changed our minds we’re going to go get him we’re going to go bring them back or we’re going to kill them or we’re going to do both and when the uh the old slave masters who had given them up uh get in their chariots and they head on to try to get them back and the Israelites see them coming they they were terrified and they said was it because there were no graves in Egypt why have you brought us out here didn’t we say to you in Egypt leave us alone didn’t we say it would have been better for us to served the Egyptians when you came to us Moses and you said let’s let’s go we said it would be better to stay here we like it here is that really what they said let’s see let’s see okay Exodus 4:29 and Moses and Aaron brought together all the Elders of the Israelites and told them everything the Lord had said and performed the sence before the people and they believed and when they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery they bowed down and worshiped that’s not quite what they remember and by the way this isn’t the last time they’re going to do this just a couple two chapters later listen in Egypt we sat around with pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted and you have brought us into the desert to starve now there’s no more basic word in the Bible than Redemption and uh you know at least the Greek version of the word Redemption originally meant to to loose Redemption means to be released from bondage and at the very heart of our understanding what salvation is all about is released from bondage the Israelites are a picture of us they were in bondage but this bondage has layers they got out of bondage see that and yet even though they were out of bondage I mean they were let go they were freed see official word this get out you’re freed and then the slave master said no we want we want you back and what’s interesting of course is that not only were they objectively free from uh uh bondage and yet now the bondage the old slave masters want them back but inside subjectively in their heart they’re not free they’re still slaves you know you can you can take the people out of slavery but you can’t take the slavery out of the people very easily and this is something we see all through the Bible which is that the Redemption of Jesus uh the Redemption of God is to redeem us from bondage but there are layers to it let me give you four just quickly first of all there according this is Paul of course uh Christian salvation our Salvation means we’re freed from the law objectively we were in bondage to the law objectively we were under guilt we were under condemnation but through Jesus we get out what do you mean under condemnation it means that we have sinned we don’t love God with our all our heart soul strength and mind we don’t love our neighbor as ourselves and uh we’re under God’s Wrath what’s his wrath well God’s wrath is his settled judicial opposition to evil and to sin and that’s on us it’s it’s an objective guilt it’s an objective wrath and we’re in bondage to it we we were under the law but through Jesus we get out and uh there’s no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus and we’re no longer under law we under grace so that’s an objective thing ah but there’s layers here because secondly there’s also bondage to the law subjectively the whole book of Galatians is about people who from what we can tell uh were objectively freed from guilt they seem to have really uh believed and yet they were going back into a form of Works righteousness and and um I’ll tell you why this is I think this is a bit of a a bit of a speculation but as a pastor over the years and just as a human being uh I think deep down inside maybe it’s because of the image of God I think deep down inside everybody knows they should be perfect we all know we should be perfect now parenting can do something with this this uh basic this this this basic intuition uh some parents aggravate it by being very very cruel by being impossible to please by being very very maybe you know maybe abusive and uh that that natural belief that we all have that we really ought to be perfect it’s aggravated to the place where some kids grow up needing to prove themselves uh hating themselves now there’s another kind of bad parenting which is I’ll call it self-esteem ISM and that’s where you just tell your child over and over again because you you watch popular uh you know you Emi popular culture and you’re supposed to tell your children you can do anything you want you can be anyone you want okay yeah uhhuh I’m 23 years old I’m 5’3 I’m 125 pounds and if you want to be an N NFL linebacker you just have to go for it uh with all you got because you see you have to you have to Climb Every Mountain forward every stream follow every rainbow and that’s the whole and and when you do that to kids they do grow up feeling like with with this incredible sense of entitlement um and seemingly impossible to make it almost seems impossible to make them feel ashamed or guilty for anything yet I don’t believe you can put out what all human beings know and that is uh that we we should be perfect that we we should love God that we should love our neighbor uh when I’ve watched people no matter who they are no matter how they’ve been parented if you have a chance as a pastor to sit with somebody who’s dying and they start to open up to you it’s like you know when a boat goes out at night to Sea and watches the lights go out slowly as you get further away the lights go out until there’s maybe one or two bright ones and then almost the the last Light that goes out is a sense of regret the sense that I haven’t lived the life I should have lived we all know deep down we should be perfect and I want you to know that just being told a couple times now that you believe in Jesus Christ all your sins are forgiven there’s no condemnation for you you are accepted that doesn’t put that out we go right back to Works righteousness uh it’s just it’s just the natural default mode of the human heart and we stay in bondage we stay in bondage to the law subjectively even if we’re not actually in bondage of the law anymore objectively because we’ve believed and and and and we have U uh you know we’ve become Christians but let me give you another layer there’s the bondage I guess to your sin nature Paul talks about this I certainly in Romans 6:14-15 when he says you’re no longer under law but but don’t sin it’s very possible to not be under the law meaning you’re objective guilts taken away you know you’re you’re free from the objective uh you’re free from the law objectively but uh Paul says it’s very possible to still be a slave to sin and and he says don’t be a slave to sin why uh you know WGT shed with 2DS he’s not very welln he ought to be welln he’s a reformed Theologian the 19th century American reform Theologian um some of he’s I think they’re still in print a couple volumes of his sermons he was a systematic Theologian but he’s got a set of sermons called uh sermons of the natural man sermons to the spiritual man meaning basically Evangelistic sermons and edifying sermons and one of them I can’t remember where he says sin is the suicidal action of the human will against itself and what he means is very simple when you do a sin it makes it much easier to do it again and much harder to avoid much harder to resist every time you sin every little sin you’re destroying your ability to resist that sin every single time it’s a suicidal action of of the of the sin is a suici action of the human will against itself and that doesn’t go away right away when when you’re you accept Christ when you when Christ accepts you when that you you you know the objective guilt is taken away there’s still a tremendous amount of bondage to sinful habits so you not only have a certain bondage to the law subjectively that your tenden to go to back into Works righteousness righteousness there’s a tendency of course we’re still in bondage to our sin nature and lastly there’s we’re still in bondage to idols if you’re one of the two or three people in the world has never heard me say anything about Idols let me let let me let me give you a very brief well I’ll tell you why because it’s so important here to to Exodus if you love anything more than God even though you believe in God if there’s anything in your life that’s more important to your own significance or security than God now we’re talking about everybody here then that is a a kind of pseudo God it’s a false god it’s a power in your life it’s it’s it’s a covenant Master you’re kind of in a covenant with it in a way and it will it will continually say serve me or die just like Pharaoh see objectively Pharaoh is no longer the master I mean he said go and they’re gone and now Pharaoh comes back and says I want you back and this happens in all our lives let me give you an example because I know not all of you are ministers but you know some of you are or want to be um you this this can be true for career children or your ministry if you want to be a good Minister that’s fine and if things go wrong in your ministry you know you’ll be sad and if someone gets in the way of you doing a good job in your ministry you’ll be mad and if uh and if there’s a threat to the future of your ministry you’ll be uh afraid but if your ministry and your success in Ministry is actually more important to your self-image than what God says about you if it’s functionally uh an idol it’s more important to you than God if you really are getting that that that belief that I know I’m a I’m an important person I know that I’m worth something I know I have value because I’m a successful Minister I mean it’s hard to know quite you know whether that’s what’s happen to you but here’s what here’s here’s what happens when someone gets in the way of your ministry you get incredibly angry not just angry but just vehemently angry when something goes wrong with your ministry you’re not just sad you melt down you completely lose it and when something threatens your ministry you’re not just afraid you’re not just worried you are absolutely petrified you are paralyzed with fear why what is those emotions just about eat you up what those are your old Covenant Masters coming back in spite of the fact you’ve given your life to Christ coming back and saying serve me or you will die you need me you can’t live without me and that’s the point the point is there’s still slavishness in the Israelites heart there you still have the things that you thought you were free from and actually in one sense you are but in another sense they come back and they rattle their sabers in fact uh in Romans chapter 6 uh years ago I was trying to understand it and I read David Martin Louis Jones’s series of sermons on Romans 6 and uh he has a fascinating illustration in there Lloyd Jones did not use extended illustrations much he didn’t tell stories or use illustrations a lot but his was a very important one it helped me unlock what Paul was talking about and it was very it was very simple interesting for a British man to do this he says imagine um that you were a Slave in uh in the Southern United States before the Emancipation Proclamation imagine you’re a slave and what that means was you you couldn’t vote you had no power uh somebody could beat you up somebody probably could kill you you don’t have rights and therefore you when you were in town and some white person told you uh do this or do that and was abusive to you you were very frightened and you did anything they said and say now it’s 10 years later Emancipation Proclamation is over uh you’ve got rights but you walk walk into town a white person starts to yell at you even though you know with your head hey I have some rights here you’re still scared you’re still acting like a slave he says that actually is the condition of every every Christian you know but you don’t know that you’ve been saved you know that uh you you should be free if if you really believed what you do believe if you believed in your heart what you know with your head and that that is there is no condemnation for you because you’re in Christ Jesus see God regards you as perfect in Christ righteousness and then you let what people think of you you let you let uh you know you you let other people’s opinion you let success or failure in this or that endeavor just build you up or destroy you what that means is you’re still a slave in your heart even though theoretically technically objectively you’re not God’s freed you from things that you still are enslaved to and you just haven’t worked it in in other words well you know systematics theology class gives you it says well God’s salvation uh we are freed past tense from the penalty of sin we are getting free present tense from the power of sin and eventually we will be free from the very presence of sin you know that’s justification sanctification glorification you’ve heard that but ah this is a story this that that’s abstract here you have it here you have a picture of where we are Redemption is about getting out of bondage and it has layers and that’s the reason why the great hymns the great songs the things that move you uh talk about that you long my imprison Spirit lay fast Bound in sin in Nature’s night thine eye diffused a quickening ray I woke the dungeon flamed with light My Chains fell off my heart was free I Rose went forth and followed thee it’s true and we do have those experiences and yet every so often we look down and we find our Heart’s Not Free it’s not free yet so the first thing we learn about Jesus salvation about the salvation is salvation is about getting out it’s about getting out of bondage but the bondage has layers what do we do about that well let’s keep going point two how do we get out of it what is the what is the Red Sea uh story account tell us about not just what we’re getting out of but how we get out and the answer I already mentioned this it’s crossing over by Grace uh in verse 13 and 14 when Moses hears them crying out this is what Moses said and boys is classic do not be afraid stand firm and you will see you know my text the Deliverance of the Lord the salvation of the Lord of course Charlton hon says behold and see well it’s a he takes it right out behold and see the salvation of the Lord and of course he says here be still the Lord will fight for you and actually he says see the Deliverance of the Lord will bring you now on the one hand the principle of Grace could not it couldn’t be clearer stand still God’s going to do your fighting watch you can’t do it you can’t perform it you can’t contribute to it stand still you’re not going to do it d on thing about this Deliverance God’s going to do the whole thing and when he says be still and Trust The God Who will fight for you boy does that come close to Romans 4:5 that says and now to him who worketh not that’s being still but trust The God Who justifies the ungodly to him his faith is credited as righteousness boy that comes awfully close be still see don’t look at your works and let God let receive a complete salvation done not by your works but by Christ’s work so there’s the principle but what I like here is we’re not just given the principle of Grace We’re given actually a wonderful image how does that Grace operate it operates by crossing over on one side of the Red Sea they were Within Reach of their old false Masters they were under sentence of death you know Pharaoh said we’re going to go get them we’re going to get them or we’re going to we’re going to kill them and when they were on that side of the sea they they were reachable they were still under sentence of death but as soon as they crossed over see they crossed over and when the Egyptians tried to cross over there was an invisible Warrior stopping them and so the minute they crossed over they crossed over from Death to life they crossed over from being under condemnation and being under the sentence of death and they were no longer under the sentence of death and this is one of the reasons why uh we have a religion that is absolutely and utterly different than any other religion I I you know I’ve been saying this for 30 years and every so often I look at even minor religions to make sure I’m not you know somebody’s not going to get do you know preacher gotcha so what about this religion over here I hadn’t heard of that one let me read about it but no I’ll tell you every other religion is like building a bridge here’s the water you know how you build a bridge you put a pylon down then you put another pylon down then you build a bridge out over that pylon and then the bridge goes to there and if and if uh the government changes and they run out of tax money it’s the bridge to nowhere and there are a few like that then you put down another pile on and you reach it and that’s what every other religion is like it’s a process you’re trying to get over the other side you never feel like you’ve really quite arrived but you’re trying I mean everyone has something else I mean every religion is an Enlightenment it is moral life everybody else is working their way across not with Christianity one minute you’re not regenerate another minute you are one minute you’re not adopted another minute you are what does it mean to be adopted you either are or you aren’t there’s no process you’re either in the kingdom of darkness or you’ve been transferred into the kingdom of his son think of all those statements and images that it make Christianity unique you either are a Christian you’re not a Christian and I wonder you know here you have um you know John chap 5:24 I tell you the truth whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned he is CR crossed over from Death to life now maybe John didn’t actually have the Exodus in mind but listen this is Isaiah 51 verse 10 and Isaiah 51:10 uh this Isaiah says were you not The God Who dried up the sea so that the redeemed could cross over um this idea of crossing over this idea of going from Death to life like that is something that Dr lloy Jones used to use as a as a little uh uh test analogy those of you who are pastors it works the the doctor used to say this and and he was trying to talk to somebody trying to get a sense of where they were spiritually he would say well let me ask you a question are you a Christian I mean are you a Christian today and if the person said and many many people said uh espe especially British people who always want to be very modest um they would say well I’m trying he never said what percentage but he said an enormously high percentage of people when you ask them are you a Christian they said well I’m trying and the doctor would proceed to explain to them uh that their answer indicated they had no idea what Christianity was about at all not in the slightest because he says Christianity what makes you a Christian is a change of status you’re in this Kingdom now you’re in this Kingdom you were out of the family of God you’re in the family of God you not born again you born again you were not justified you under the wrath of of God and now you’re Justified bang it happens like that do you know the power of this here’s Paul he’s killed people and we’re told in Romans 7 somehow at one point the law of God seems to have broken through his self-righteousness and he says though he says the the Commandment came home and it slew me and we’re never quite sure just what that autobiographical note means but it seems like that Paul began to realize what he had done Kate Blanchett in a movie 2002 movie called Heaven not a very well-known movie but Kate Blanchett is one of the best actresses out there and it’s a movie about a woman I think she was a teacher just a normal woman who was so upset about how a drug dealer was ruining the lives of children in a particular part of the city that she decided to uh and and no one would listen to her the police wouldn’t listen to her she decided that she was going to detonate a bomb in the man’s uh office and kill him to kill a drug dealer with a bomb but what happens is a night Watchman takes the bomb out not knowing it was in a waste can takes it into an elevator takes it down it explodes in the elevator and kills four people including children and in the movie when they tell Kate Blanchett who’s a you know a woman who loves children she’s a teacher she’s doing this for the children’s sake when she finds out that she has killed children because she’s such a great actress you can just see her collapse she just collapses physically spiritually she’s a mass of smoking wreckage she in a sense she goes into a hell of guilt and shame I have to use the word hell just mainly because it’s it’s just not just a guilty conscience she just collapses and she essentially goes into a hell of guilt and shame she never gets out of it the rest of the movie but Paul Paul must have known that Paul must have sensed that Paul did sense that and yet then he says there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus how can he say such a thing like that how can he crossed over he crossed over he didn’t say well I’ve got a lot to atone for in my life I mean that’s the normal that’s that’s the way the heart works that’s a person who’s really in bondage to the law and still in bondage to the law but no Paul says now there’s no condemnation for those are in Christ Jesus he says oh I was the chief of Sinners and yet God is using me the most you know he’s able to be that realistic he’s unbelievably humble about who he is and yet he’s able you know there’s no false modesty about him either he’s able to say I you know I’m really honestly the most fruitful of all the apostles it’s not that hard to look just add up the books in the New Testament you can see that who has the most and yet I you know he has that that astounding boldness and humility at the same time why he crossed over he knew where he stood no of course he he hadn’t even begun to really change on the inside but he knew where he stood with God it’s astonishing oh somebody says yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but um yes of course all right you’re saved by grace apart from your good works you’re saved by grace apart from your moral efforts but you got to believe don’t you you got to believe and you really got to believe with all your heart isn’t that right because salvation’s by faith don’t do that you know what you’re doing hey look even this text tells us something about that I love the fact that it tells us that when they walk through it says the waters were divided and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground with a wall of water on their right and a wall on their left now I can tell you some people some of the Israelites walk through like this look at this God’s on our side Eat Your Heart Out Egyptians we’re the you know the Lord is fighting for us and they walk through like that I know there was a bunch of others that were walking through like this I’m going to die I’m going to die I’m going to die I’m going to die I’m going to die oh my gosh and you know what they all walk through and completely different completely different qualities of Faith they were all equally saved they were equally saved why because you’re not saved because of the quality of your faith you’re saved because of the object of yourth Faith the Redeemer the god who’s fighting for you see and um everything about this text says Grace Grace Grace Grace crossing over you know in fact it’s actually pretty wrong I mean there’s a uh you know there’s a really interesting place where when Charles Spurgeon was preaching on this he talks about the fact that that Moses says stand still be still and let God fight for you very important he if you try to add to God’s salvation you subtract if you try to do something to Merit uh God’s salvation you you you actually haven’t believed at all you’re putting your faith in yourself and so even to try to do a little bit so Spurgeon does a good job of that and then at one point he says I dare say you will think it a very easy thing to stand still but it is one of the postures which a Christian Soldier learns not without years of teaching I find that marching and quick marching are much easier to God’s Warriors than standing still and then he goes on and says the apostle seems to hint at this difficulty when he says Stand Fast to stand at ease in the midst of tribulation shows a veteran Spirit Long experience and much in Grace I’m afraid many people take what Spurgeon says and even take this text and say uh you see Moses says stand still and the Lord will fight for you and a lot of people say now if I have enough faith if I let go and let God you know God will fight my battles for me God will deal with these circumstances that’s I don’t think that’s what Exodus is saying Exodus is saying stand still and see that God has already fought the big battle for you it’s already been accomplished if you’re a Christian you’ve already crossed over I mean the sin and death has been dealt with and all your other problems are flea bites comparison with that and that’s how you deal with your flea bites instead of looking at them as this big thing is you see what he’s already done for you so what is Jesus salvation according to the Red Sea it’s bondage it’s freedom from bondage bondage though it has many layers how does the Salvation come it comes obviously by grace and it comes by crossing over but now we’re not done obviously for a couple reasons why and one of the reasons is I’m we’re still saying well how do we make sure that we bring to bear uh Christ salvation so that these bondage layers we are increasingly free from and the answer is number three why is it possible why is it possible for us to get out in other words the Egyptians went through the water and were devastated right they were killed but the Israelites went through the water they were fine now why did the Israelites get off how why why did they get off or let’s let’s go back to the water for a minute um flood waters if you go to most commentaries on Noah’s flood most commentaries on Noah’s flood are going to say God could have judged the world a whole lot of ways but water was significant why if you go back to Genesis 1 the very beginning we see that uh Darkness was upon the face of the waters you know Darkness was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of God moved across the face of the waters and then things began to happen instead of Darkness God separated the darkness from the light and there was day and night and God brought the waters together he says they they came together and then there was land and then he it when the spirit of God moves across the faces of the water it’s the spirit of God bringing order out of chaos the water not only in the Bible but actually in the ancient cultures surrounding Israel at the time water represented chaos justifiably so you know it’s a war water is chaos water is death and yet God’s creative Spirit comes across the face of the water and things get orderly there’s he brings order out of Chaos therefore when God uses the flood to destroy the world in the time of Noah what he’s actually doing is making a very appropriate judgment because it’s what some people have called decreation what’s Happening is a reversal of creation if you turn away from the Creator you actually turn away from the goodness of creation and disintegration and chaos is Unleashed listen you know that those of you who are here who are married if one of you hurts the other person and the one who’s hurt decides I am not going to forgive him now you or her you don’t necessarily say that but you don’t in other words you you’re really bitter you’re really angry you’re refusing to forgive in a very small but very noticeable way you’re unleashing chaos into your into your marriage until until you obey uh the wages of sin is disintegration which is another way of saying death what God was doing in the flood was he was actually unleashing the forces of chaos which is a justifiable just uh justifiable judgment it’s an appropriate judgment because when you turn away from the Creator you turn away from the goodness of creation and you bring into your life decreation you bring into your life disintegration the reversal of creation and many people have pointed out that that’s what the plagues are just before this incident God visited Egypt with plagues but what were those plagues same thing see as Pharaoh decided to resist the Creator what came down into Egypt was what you can call decreation disintegration there was Darkness upon the face of the land and this actually might be called the 11th plague because what is happening here Egypt’s sin has unleashed the forces of Chaos and they’ve experienced decreation and they’re being judged and the flood waters represent what happens to you when you turn away from God okay we don’t mind that because the Egyptians right they get it good but you know what if you say well the Israelites were good people the Egyptians were bad people so of course the Israelites will get through it you haven’t read your Bible very far not only do you see their pet petulant and their childishness right here but the fact is they’re not just fools they’re murderous fools they just have the same power as the Egyptians that’s all they can’t they can’t do the genocide right now because they just don’t they don’t have the they don’t have the technology there’s they’re no better they are no better so the real question is why if God’s Waters of judgment are standing up on both sides and it comes down on the uh on the Egyptians rightly Why didn’t it come down on the Israelites and of course you know the answer the Israelites had a mediator now verse 14 says and then everyone cried out yep it says they the the everyone cried out uh they said didn’t we say to egyp you to Egypt leave us alone let us serve the Egyptians and so on then you get down to verse 15 and the Lord said to Moses why are you crying out to me now there’s commentators go two ways on this see earlier you have the the Israelites crying out in Rebellion we wish we were back in Egypt God shows up and rebukes Moses there’s no indication Moses was doing that now I’ve seen a number of liberal commentaries say well of course Moses must have been doing that or God wouldn’t have rebuked him but I’ve seen a couple other thoughtful commentaries say well why later on by the way in verse 21 we’re told Moses stretched out his hand over the sea but before the verses over it says and all that night the Lord drove the sea back here’s what you’ve got you’ve got one man who is so ident identified with the Israelites that his their guilt is upon him and a man so identified with God that God’s power is coming through him he’s a man in the middle he’s so identified with the people that he gets rebuked for their sin and he’s so identified with God that he’s a vehicle for God’s saving power but guess what I know a better mediator and I’ll tell you what we don’t have in Jesus Christ just a mediator who was fully God and a fully man and and close to God we have a mediator who is fully God and fully man and not only that we don’t have a mediator who’s rebuked for one sin in one verse here’s what Jesus Christ got when Jonah was in the boat and the storm of God’s Wrath and the ways of God’s Wrath were about to sink the boat Jonah turns to all the sailors and says this is a storm of God’s Wrath and the only way you’re going to be saved is throw me in you throw me in and you’ll be saved throw me in and you’ll be saved and they throw them in and they’re saved and Jesus had the audacity to say a greater than Jonah is here talking about himself what does that mean it means that Jesus Christ on the cross was thrown into that ocean of God’s Wrath you know Jonah said I’m cut off from thy sight which of course isn’t true it’s a figure of speech but when Jesus Christ said my God my God why has Thou forsaken me he was being put under an ocean of God’s Wrath in fact all the plagues came down on Jesus Darkness came down on Jesus what was going on Jesus Christ was being decre so that you and I could be recreated Jesus Christ received the reality that all these flood waters and all this stuff points to he received the the reality of it in his life and that’s the reason why all the other things that we’re talking about are possible it’s the reason why we can be brought out and the reason why we can keep going back to The Well of Jesus salvation to deal with the you know with the layer after layer after layer of uh uh of bondage at one point Moses as the mediator went to God remember and said uh when God said I’m just I’m I’ve had it with these people and Moses said save them and blot my name out of the book and God didn’t do it but when our Med mediator Jesus Christ uh God did Jesus is the ultimate mediator and it’s the reason why you and I can cross over and here’s how here’s where we are we’re done but here’s what I want you to see where are the children of Israel going they’re going to si uh one of the easiest ways to explain the gospel to somebody from the Old Testament is to say God didn’t give them the law and once they started to obey he brought them out he actually brought them out and then gave them the law that’s the gospel right it’s not like because I’m obeying God now I’m saved oh no because I’ve been saved by his free Grace now I want to obey God and they’re on their way to SI and more than that Leviticus 11:45 God says I brought you out of Egypt therefore be holy now what the this means is this the more you meditate on what he has done the more you see the flood waters go over his head in your heart in your minds your mind’s eye the more you see what he’s done the more holy you will be anybody who says to me well I know I shouldn’t be doing that I know I’m doing that I really shouldn’t be doing that I know God forgives me you don’t know the first thing about forgiveness nobody who understands the grace of God would ever take sin lightly the more you deal with the free grace of God the more you work it into your heart the more you understand this the more you understand that that your salvation has nothing to do with how you behave the more that’s going to change your behavior the more radically it’s going to change your behavior I brought you out of Egypt that you’d be holy I brought you out of Egypt to take you to sin and give you the law and when you think about this why do you sin sometimes I think you sin just because it’s the it’s the easiest way let the Gratitude you should have for God just fill your heart with so much joy you say I’m not going to do that but an awful lot of the reasons why we sin is because of the idols we sin because we’re afraid because we’re being we’re being controlled by these things and the grace of God freees us from those things and therefore anybody who says um the more you talk about how it’s free it’s all free it’s nothing to do not only with my works it’s not even got to do with the quality of my faith well then you know it doesn’t matter how you live you still haven’t you haven’t even begun to come to grips with it have you not in the slightest not in the slightest when When God says I brought you out of Egypt so you can be holy that’s the same thing as we’re saved by faith alone but not by faith which remains alone you’re saved by faith not with works but if your Works do not gr a faith and you don’t have any faith and that’s actually all through the Exodus narrative too it’s amazing it’s the gospel it is just the gospel um you know Paul though he didn’t Moses though he didn’t could have written the old hymn well may the accuser Roar of sins that I have done I know them all and thousands more Jehovah knoweth none by the way if there’s anybody here I’m like I said I’m done I’m done but uh not quite this is an awfully big group of people I don’t care how christiany a conference this is there’s got to be somebody here who says I hadn’t really ever heard it like that before uh I’ve always been moved by one of Charles and John Wesley’s friends William Holland uh was converted one night when they were reading uh aloud from Luther’s preface commentary on the Galatians and there’s a place where Luther says what then have we nothing to do no nothing but accept Christ who has made unto us wisdom righteousness sanctification Redemption have we nothing to do no nothing and when me be still do you realize what the Hebrew Act is basically there when it says be still and see the salvation of the lord it’s essentially the word Yeshua be still and look at the Jesus of the Lord be still be still realize all your salvation is in him realize you have nothing to contribute it at all and look at him and that will make you holy and actually it’ll make you a Christian if you’re not one now Nathan Cole became a Christian listening to George Whitfield preach in Middletown Connecticut in 1744 he was practically illiterate but he wrote what it was like to listen to and preach and how he became a Christian I’ve always been moved by it he said this my hearing him preach gave me a heart wound and by God’s grace my old Foundation was grow was was broken up and I saw that my righteousness could not save me if that’s beginning to happen to you now go on and don’t stop until you know what this means the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all our sin let’s pray Our Father we thank you that uh through Jesus Christ we get out we have gotten out and we still need to get out we’ve gotten out and we still have uh false Masters telling us that uh you’ve got to serve me or die uh we’re supposed to be still and look at your salvation especially at the Salvation of Jesus and we don’t know how to be still uh we but we do thank you for the richness of your our Salvation we thank you that it is a well we can always keep going back to and it’s will it never goes dry we also thank you for the richness of your word that we have in the most uh Vivid and uh uh and imaginative and creative way not just a set of principles and bullet points but we’ve got great accounts we’ve got history we’ve got moving narratives that drive the gospel into our heart where it needs to be if we’re going to become more and more conformed to the image of your son in whose name we pray amen .

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1.68 thank you Don I was afraid he would lay
3.32 it on a little thick but I get there’s
5.0 payback possibilities for me on Thursday
7.44 morning so if I wasn’t happy with the
9.84 introduction I can just do the same
11.36 thing to him but I’ll think about it
15.96 um we uh I think all of us who are
18.56 speaking here uh feel a little bit like
22.0 the actor in a
24.199 play who is not only part of the story
27.599 on the stage but who also occasionally
29.96 turns aside and speaks to the audience
32.239 you a character he’s in the story but
33.76 he’s also talking to the audience and uh
36.719 we want to I want to uh preach Christ
40.719 from the Old Testament to you and I also
42.64 want to teach you something about how to
45.76 preach Christ from the Old Testament so
48.32 I feel like I need to both preach to you
50.0 at the same time do asides and say now
52.48 by the way when you do that do this and
54.6 uh that’s uh a challenge but it’s also
56.92 it’s also a great deal of fun let me uh
59.559 read to you the account of the uh the
63.44 you might say the climax of The Exodus
65.28 the epitome of The Exodus which is the
66.88 crossing of the Red Sea uh Exodus 14 I’m
70.36 going to start verse 5 go to the
76.96 end when the king of Egypt was told that
79.56 the people had fled pharaoh and his
82.52 officials changed their minds about them
84.52 and said what have we
87.119 done we have let the Israelites go and
89.6 have lost lost their
91.52 services so he had his Chariot made
93.84 ready and took his army with him he took
96.119 600 of the best chariots along with all
98.2 the other Chariots of Egypt with
100.399 officers over all of them the Lord
102.92 hardened the heart of pharaoh king of
104.719 Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites
107.32 who were marching out boldly the
109.6 Egyptians all Pharaoh’s horses and
112.24 chariots Horsemen and troops pursued the
115.2 Israelites and overtook them as they
117.84 camped by the Sea near pi haero opposite
121.439 be Al Zan as Pharaoh approached the
125.32 Israelites looked up and there were the
127.68 Egyptians marching after them they were
130.599 terrified and cried out to the Lord they
133.4 said to Moses was it because there were
136.08 no graves in Egypt that you brought us
138.08 to the desert to die what have you done
141.0 to us by bringing us out of Egypt didn’t
142.959 we say to you in Egypt leave us alone
145.56 let us serve the Egyptians it would have
147.4 been better for us to serve the
148.519 Egyptians than to die in the
151.12 desert Moses answered the people do not
154.56 be
155.319 afraid stand firm and you will see the
159.8 Salvation the Lord will bring you today
162.239 the Egyptians you see today you will
164.36 never see again the Lord will fight for
166.72 you you need only be
169.319 still then the Lord said to Moses why
172.08 are you crying out to me tell the
174.44 Israelites to move on raise your staff
176.879 and stretch out your hand over the sea
178.44 to divide the water so that the
179.84 Israelites can go through the sea on dry
181.959 ground I will harden the hearts of the
184.36 Egyptians so that they will go in after
186.04 them and I will gain Glory through
187.799 pharaoh and all his army through his
189.44 chariots and his Horsemen the Egyptians
191.84 will know that I am the Lord when I gain
194.08 Glory through Pharaoh his chariots and
196.56 his
197.56 Horsemen then the angel of God who had
200.4 been traveling in front of Israel’s Army
202.64 withdrew and went behind them the pillar
205.4 of cloud also moved from in front and
208.0 stood behind them coming between the
210.56 armies of Egypt and Israel throughout
212.68 the night the cloud brought Darkness to
214.56 the one side and light to the other side
217.239 so neither went near the other all night
219.84 long then Moses stretched out his hand
222.28 over the sea and all that night the Lord
225.12 drove the sea back with a strong East
228.2 Wind and turned it into the land into
230.56 and turned it into dry land the waters
233.879 were divided and the Israelites went
235.92 through the sea on dry ground with a
237.92 wall of water
240.319 on right on their right and on their
242.92 left the Egyptians pursued them and all
246.2 Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and
247.84 Horsemen followed them into the sea
249.92 during the last watch of the night the
251.68 Lord looked down from the pillar of the
253.48 fire and Cloud at the Egyptian Army and
255.879 threw it into confusion he made the
258.44 wheels of their chariots come off so
260.759 that they had difficulty driving and the
262.96 Egyptians said let’s get away from the
265.4 Israelites the Lord is fighting for them
268.4 against Egypt then the Lord said to
270.919 Moses stretch out your hand over the sea
273.8 so that the waters May flow back over
275.84 the Egyptians and their chariots and
277.56 Horsemen and Moses stretched out his
279.759 hand over the sea and at Daybreak the
282.12 sea went back to its
284.24 place the Egyptians were fleeing toward
286.68 it and the Lord swept them back into the
288.96 sea the water flowed back and covered
291.479 the Chariots and Horsemen the entire
293.24 Army of pharaoh that had followed the
295.32 Israelites into the sea not one of them
297.96 survived
299.759 but the Israelites went through the sea
302.28 on dry ground with a wall of water on
305.16 their right and on their left that day
307.8 the Lord saved Israel from the hands of
309.84 the Egyptians and Israel saw the
311.88 Egyptians lying dead on the
314.08 shore and when the Israelites saw the
316.199 great power the Lord displayed against
317.8 the Egyptians the people feared the Lord
320.4 and put their trust in him and in Moses
324.08 his
326.08 servant that’s God’s
328.36 word it’s hard to overstate the
330.919 importance of the Red Sea Crossing for
332.68 the rest of the Bible uh Alec
335.52 mattier the uh Old Testament scholar
337.96 says there’s at least two dozen other
339.639 direct references to the Red Sea
341.639 Crossing in the rest of the Old
342.759 Testament and there’s just probably
345.039 innumerable Illusions Illusions to it in
348.44 the New Testament significant statements
351.039 like this uh Matthew of
354.08 course says about Jesus out of Egypt
357.56 I’ve called my son
359.8 quoting Hosea 11 which was a reference
363.039 to The Exodus that the the son in in
365.919 hosea’s uh saying was uh was Israel and
370.36 therefore Matthew is making a very
372.24 direct connection between Jesus work and
375.919 the Old Testament Exodus and the Red Sea
377.88 Crossing when you go to Luke chapter
380.919 9 uh the Transfiguration in Luke’s
383.759 version we have uh Jesus talking with
386.52 Moses and Elijah who appear and speak to
388.56 him
390.199 but as many of you know uh you read the
393.16 English text and it’ll say that Moses
394.759 and Elijah were talking to Jesus about
396.44 his departure which he was about to
398.16 accomplish in Jerusalem and it looks
400.16 like it’s talking about his death which
402.28 of course it was except that the Greek
404.759 word there is the word
407.0 Exodus a a rather big hint that Luke is
411.28 saying that what Jesus was going to
412.72 accomplish in Jerusalem was the ultimate
415.36 getting out the ultimate Exodus and then
418.599 you go to Hebrews of course Hebrews 3
420.319 and 4 says that Jesus is the the greater
422.44 Moses that uh Moses points to Jesus and
424.919 then in Hebrews 11: 29 it says that by
429.199 faith the Israelites passed through the
432.199 sea on dry land but the Egyptians
435.4 couldn’t do it because they didn’t have
437.24 faith and it’s very clear uh Hebrews 11
440.759 is talking about Christian faith and
443.039 it’s using the Red Sea Crossing as a
445.36 paradigm for Christian faith and
447.599 probably the most sign significant of
449.24 all the references uh is First
451.759 Corinthians 10 where uh Paul makes that
456.24 enigmatic statement that says that when
458.52 the Israelites passed through the cloud
459.96 and the Sea they were baptized into
463.44 Moses and then just a few verses later
466.28 it talks about that and several other
467.72 incidents in verse 6 Paul says these
469.84 things were written as examples for us
471.96 us Christians if there’s one Old
474.8 Testament passage that the New Testament
477.44 invites us to read christto centrically
480.08 invites us to see it as a paradigm of
482.159 Christ salvation it’s this one and I’ll
485.56 never forget uh my goodness uh nearly 40
490.24 years ago sitting in RC sproul’s living
493.039 room in Stall stown Pennsylvania and for
495.639 the first time I’ve never heard of him
497.44 Jay Alec mattier Old Testament scholar
499.4 from uh Britain was visiting and uh I
503.0 was in the room on the floor with a
504.44 bunch of other college kids Seminary
506.36 kids and uh uh RC sprl said tell us
510.12 something about whether you know
512.32 something about the connection of the
513.24 Old Testament the New Testament and Alec
514.719 Mater says this he says think about it
518.36 think about think of what an Israelite
520.32 would
521.32 say on the way to Israel I mean all on
525.72 the way to Canaan having come out of uh
528.72 the Red Sea and so forth here’s what an
531.839 Israelite would say if you said who are
534.48 you and he would say I was in a foreign
537.56 land under the sent sent of death in
540.72 bondage but I took shelter under the
542.64 blood of the
543.68 lamb and my mediator our mediator led us
547.32 out and we crossed
549.12 over and now we’re on our way to the
551.24 promised land but we’re not there yet
553.48 but he’s given us his law to make us a
555.279 community and he’s given us the
556.88 Tabernacle because you have to live by
558.36 grace and forgiveness and his presence
560.64 is in our midst and he’s going to stay
562.36 with us until we get
564.399 home and mat says that’s exactly what a
566.959 Christian says almost word for word
570.12 and I said huh my 23-year-old self said
574.12 huh now what can we learn just from the
578.16 Red Sea Crossing about Jesus salvation
580.12 our salvation and three things salvation
583.16 is about getting out okay but it’s about
586.04 number one what we’re getting out of
588.399 number two how we’re getting out of it
590.279 and number three why we can get out of
592.16 it and the answer of the text is about
596.04 our Salvation is what we get out of
598.76 bondage with
600.839 layers okay how we get out of it
603.399 crossing over by Grace why we can get
606.16 out of it the
607.92 mediator that’s what the
610.279 Exodus text points us to in the rest of
613.079 the Bible it’s the answer the rest of
614.519 the Bible you without without the rest
616.56 of the Bible we wouldn’t know this but
617.92 with the rest of the Bible we know that
619.48 this is what Exodus is pointing to First
621.6 what we get out of it um notice a couple
625.24 things uh what we get out of what what
627.72 what Christ salvation is all about it’s
629.48 about getting us out of bondage that’s
631.16 what the word Redemption means if you
633.12 look in the very beginning it says when
634.519 the king of Egypt was told that the
636.16 people had fled pharaoh and his
637.72 officials changed their mind they said
639.04 what have we done we have lost the
640.44 Israelites Services what a nice way of
642.6 putting
644.16 it we’ve lost their services well why
647.12 didn’t they just go out and hire someone
648.68 else that’s no they lost their entire
651.24 slave labor force they were
653.92 slaves one of the most interesting
655.839 things about this is he says we’re going
657.88 to go get him we let them go changed our
661.079 minds we’re going to go get him we’re
662.44 going to go bring them back or we’re
663.48 going to kill them or we’re going to do
665.36 both and when the uh the old slave
669.0 masters who had given them up uh get in
672.44 their chariots and they head on to try
674.279 to get them back and the Israelites see
676.32 them coming they they were terrified and
678.959 they said was it because there were no
680.639 graves in Egypt why have you brought us
682.519 out here didn’t we say to you in Egypt
684.8 leave us
686.32 alone didn’t we say it would have been
688.68 better for us to served the Egyptians
690.16 when you came to us Moses and you said
692.519 let’s let’s go we said it would be
694.56 better to stay here we like it here is
697.079 that really what they said let’s see
700.839 let’s see okay Exodus 4:29 and Moses and
703.72 Aaron brought together all the Elders of
705.88 the Israelites and told them everything
707.279 the Lord had said and performed the
708.959 sence before the people and they
710.8 believed and when they heard that the
712.639 Lord was concerned about them and had
714.32 seen their misery they bowed down and
716.16 worshiped that’s not quite what they
718.04 remember
720.279 and by the way this isn’t the last time
721.639 they’re going to do this just a couple
724.279 two chapters later listen in Egypt we
726.839 sat around with pots of
729.079 meat and ate all the food we wanted and
731.92 you have brought us into the desert to
735.32 starve now there’s no more basic word in
739.48 the Bible than
740.8 Redemption and uh you know at least the
743.279 Greek version of the word Redemption
745.199 originally meant to to loose Redemption
748.56 means to be released from bondage and at
750.32 the very heart of our understanding what
751.839 salvation is all about is released from
755.04 bondage the Israelites are a picture of
758.519 us they were in bondage but this bondage
761.079 has
762.12 layers they got out of bondage see that
766.399 and yet even though they were out of
767.8 bondage I mean they were let go they
769.68 were freed see official word this get
772.839 out you’re freed and then the slave
775.24 master said no we want we want you back
778.279 and what’s interesting of course is that
780.639 not only were they objectively free from
784.079 uh uh bondage and yet now the bondage
787.199 the old slave masters want them back but
789.199 inside subjectively in their heart
791.519 they’re not free they’re still slaves
794.079 you know you can you can take the people
795.44 out of slavery but you can’t take the
796.6 slavery out of the people very
798.279 easily and this is something we see all
800.48 through the Bible which is that the
802.279 Redemption of Jesus uh the Redemption of
805.36 God is to redeem us from bondage but
807.8 there are layers to it let me give you
809.48 four just quickly first of all there
812.519 according this is Paul of course uh
814.88 Christian salvation our Salvation means
816.839 we’re freed from the law objectively we
819.44 were in bondage to the law objectively
821.519 we were under guilt we were under
823.32 condemnation but through Jesus we get
826.24 out what do you mean under condemnation
828.72 it means that we have sinned we don’t
831.04 love God with our all our heart soul
832.56 strength and mind we don’t love our
833.759 neighbor as ourselves and uh we’re under
836.48 God’s Wrath what’s his wrath well God’s
839.16 wrath is his settled judicial opposition
841.88 to evil and to sin and that’s on us it’s
845.519 it’s an objective guilt it’s an
847.72 objective wrath and we’re in bondage to
850.32 it we we were under the
852.0 law but through Jesus we get
854.839 out and uh there’s no condemnation for
857.44 those who are in Christ Jesus and we’re
859.72 no longer under law we under grace so
861.36 that’s an objective thing ah but there’s
863.48 layers here because
866.399 secondly there’s also bondage to the law
870.0 subjectively the whole book of Galatians
872.44 is about people who from what we can
875.16 tell uh were objectively freed from
877.72 guilt they seem to have really uh
879.959 believed and yet they were going back
881.88 into a form of Works righteousness and
885.199 and um I’ll tell you why this is I think
890.279 this is a bit of a a bit of a
892.639 speculation but as a pastor over the
895.04 years and just as a human being uh I
897.839 think deep down inside maybe it’s
899.36 because of the image of God I think deep
900.8 down inside everybody knows they should
902.68 be
903.959 perfect we all know we should be perfect
907.12 now parenting can do something with this
910.12 this uh
911.36 basic this this this basic intuition uh
915.279 some parents aggravate it by being very
917.88 very cruel by being impossible to please
920.44 by being very very maybe you know maybe
923.16 abusive and uh that that natural belief
926.88 that we all have that we really ought to
928.24 be perfect it’s aggravated to the place
929.92 where some kids grow up needing to prove
932.0 themselves uh hating themselves now
934.6 there’s another kind of bad parenting
936.0 which is I’ll call it self-esteem
938.319 ISM and that’s where you just tell your
940.319 child over and over again because you
941.8 you watch popular uh you know you Emi
944.519 popular culture and you’re supposed to
945.6 tell your children you can do anything
947.079 you want you can be anyone you want okay
949.44 yeah uhhuh I’m 23 years old I’m 5’3 I’m
953.12 125 pounds and if you want to be an N
954.959 NFL linebacker you just have to go for
957.519 it uh
959.72 with all you got because you see you
961.44 have to you have to Climb Every Mountain
963.56 forward every
965.04 stream follow every rainbow and that’s
968.36 the whole and and when you do that to
970.48 kids they do grow up feeling like with
973.44 with this incredible sense of
975.68 entitlement um and seemingly impossible
978.68 to make it almost seems impossible to
980.6 make them feel ashamed or guilty for
982.12 anything yet I don’t believe you can put
984.959 out what all human beings know and that
987.56 is uh that we we should be perfect that
991.0 we we should love God that we should
993.639 love our neighbor uh when I’ve watched
995.959 people no matter who they are no matter
997.56 how they’ve been parented if you have a
999.36 chance as a pastor to sit with somebody
1001.6 who’s dying and they start to open up to
1004.44 you it’s like you know when a boat goes
1007.959 out at night to Sea and watches the
1010.639 lights go out slowly as you get further
1012.88 away the lights go out until there’s
1014.0 maybe one or two bright ones and then
1016.519 almost the the last Light that goes out
1019.399 is a sense of regret the sense that I
1022.399 haven’t lived the life I should have
1023.88 lived we all know deep down we should be
1026.4 perfect and I want you to know that just
1029.28 being told a couple times now that you
1031.079 believe in Jesus Christ all your sins
1032.72 are forgiven there’s no condemnation for
1034.48 you you are accepted that doesn’t put
1037.039 that out we go right back to Works
1040.0 righteousness uh it’s just it’s just the
1042.199 natural default mode of the human heart
1044.52 and we stay in bondage we stay in
1046.52 bondage to the law subjectively even if
1049.28 we’re not actually in bondage of the law
1051.08 anymore objectively because we’ve
1052.52 believed and and and and we have U uh
1055.36 you know we’ve become Christians but let
1057.12 me give you another layer there’s the
1059.16 bondage I guess to your sin nature Paul
1061.679 talks about this I certainly in Romans
1063.76 6:14-15 when he says you’re no longer
1066.52 under law but but don’t
1069.16 sin it’s very possible to not be under
1071.799 the law meaning you’re objective guilts
1073.559 taken away you know you’re you’re free
1075.64 from the objective uh you’re free from
1077.919 the law objectively but uh Paul says
1080.2 it’s very possible to still be a slave
1081.96 to sin and and he says don’t be a slave
1084.039 to sin why uh you know WGT shed with 2DS
1089.6 he’s not very welln he ought to be welln
1091.64 he’s a reformed Theologian the 19th
1093.36 century American reform Theologian um
1096.36 some of he’s I think they’re still in
1098.0 print a couple volumes of his sermons he
1100.44 was a systematic Theologian but he’s got
1101.96 a set of sermons called uh sermons of
1103.72 the natural man sermons to the spiritual
1105.6 man meaning basically Evangelistic
1107.32 sermons and edifying sermons and one of
1109.48 them I can’t remember where he says sin
1112.2 is the suicidal action of the human will
1115.559 against itself and what he means is very
1118.32 simple when you do a sin it makes it
1120.96 much easier to do it again and much
1122.96 harder to avoid much harder to resist
1125.72 every time you sin every little
1129.24 sin you’re destroying your ability to
1131.84 resist that sin every single time it’s a
1135.36 suicidal action of of the of the sin is
1138.32 a suici action of the human will against
1140.96 itself and that doesn’t go away right
1143.32 away when when you’re you accept Christ
1146.52 when you when Christ accepts you when
1148.36 that you you you know the objective
1150.52 guilt is taken away there’s still a
1152.24 tremendous amount of bondage to sinful
1154.76 habits so you not only have a certain
1157.2 bondage to the law subjectively that
1159.72 your tenden to go to back into Works
1161.12 righteousness righteousness there’s a
1162.88 tendency of course we’re still in
1164.039 bondage to our sin nature and
1165.72 lastly there’s we’re still in bondage to
1168.32 idols
1169.32 if you’re one of the two or three people
1170.799 in the world has never heard me say
1172.24 anything about Idols let me let let me
1175.32 let me give you a very brief well I’ll
1178.44 tell you why because it’s so important
1180.2 here to to
1182.32 Exodus if you love anything more than
1185.6 God even though you believe in God if
1188.48 there’s anything in your life that’s
1189.84 more important to your own significance
1192.0 or security than God now we’re talking
1194.2 about everybody
1195.6 here then that is a a kind of pseudo God
1199.4 it’s a false god it’s a power in your
1201.2 life it’s it’s it’s a covenant Master
1204.08 you’re kind of in a covenant with it in
1205.679 a way and it will it will continually
1209.4 say serve me or die just like
1212.96 Pharaoh see
1215.159 objectively Pharaoh is no longer the
1217.64 master I mean he said go and they’re
1220.08 gone and now Pharaoh comes back and says
1222.159 I want you
1223.159 back and this happens in all our lives
1226.28 let me give you an example because I
1228.24 know not all of you are ministers but
1230.039 you know some of you are or want to
1232.32 be um you this this can be true for
1235.64 career children or your
1237.52 ministry if you want to be a good
1241.039 Minister that’s fine and if things go
1244.12 wrong in your
1246.36 ministry you know you’ll be sad and if
1249.159 someone gets in the way of you doing a
1251.28 good job in your ministry you’ll be
1253.76 mad and if uh and if there’s a threat to
1256.76 the future of your ministry you’ll be uh
1260.4 afraid but if your ministry and your
1263.28 success in Ministry is actually more
1266.4 important to your self-image than what
1268.32 God says about you if it’s functionally
1271.48 uh an idol it’s more important to you
1274.2 than God if you really are getting that
1277.76 that that belief that I know I’m a I’m
1279.44 an important person I know that I’m
1281.24 worth something I know I have value
1282.48 because I’m a successful Minister I mean
1285.08 it’s hard to know quite you know whether
1287.96 that’s what’s happen to you but here’s
1289.4 what here’s here’s what happens when
1291.6 someone gets in the way of your ministry
1294.919 you get incredibly angry not just angry
1297.52 but just vehemently angry when something
1300.76 goes wrong with your ministry you’re not
1302.08 just sad you melt
1304.32 down you completely lose it and when
1307.64 something threatens your ministry you’re
1308.96 not just afraid you’re not just worried
1310.84 you are absolutely petrified you are
1312.96 paralyzed with fear why what is those
1316.08 emotions just about eat you up what
1318.0 those are your old Covenant Masters
1320.0 coming back in spite of the fact you’ve
1322.52 given your life to Christ coming back
1323.84 and saying serve me or you will die you
1326.279 need me you can’t live without
1331.679 me and that’s the
1334.2 point the point is there’s still
1336.0 slavishness in the Israelites heart
1339.799 there you still have the things that you
1341.52 thought you were free from and actually
1343.44 in one sense you are but in another
1345.6 sense they come back and they rattle
1347.559 their sabers in fact uh in Romans
1349.919 chapter 6 uh years ago I was trying to
1353.64 understand it and I read David Martin
1355.4 Louis Jones’s series of sermons on
1357.32 Romans
1358.24 6 and uh he has a fascinating
1360.88 illustration in there Lloyd Jones did
1363.12 not use extended illustrations much he
1365.52 didn’t tell stories or use illustrations
1367.44 a lot but his was a very important one
1369.0 it helped me unlock what Paul was
1370.72 talking about and it was very it was
1372.24 very simple interesting for a British
1374.36 man to do this he says imagine um that
1377.4 you were a Slave in uh in the Southern
1380.4 United States before the Emancipation
1383.0 Proclamation imagine you’re a slave and
1386.039 what that means was you you couldn’t
1387.559 vote you had no power uh somebody could
1389.559 beat you up somebody probably could kill
1391.24 you you don’t have
1393.159 rights and therefore you when you were
1395.44 in town and some white person told you
1398.0 uh do this or do that and was abusive to
1400.039 you you were very frightened and you did
1401.36 anything they said and say now it’s 10
1403.76 years later Emancipation Proclamation is
1405.84 over uh you’ve got rights but you walk
1408.52 walk into town a white person starts to
1410.48 yell at you even though you know with
1412.72 your head hey I have some rights here
1414.6 you’re still scared you’re still acting
1415.84 like a slave he says that actually is
1419.159 the condition of every every
1421.32 Christian you know but you don’t
1424.32 know that you’ve been
1426.559 saved you know that uh you you should be
1430.12 free if if you really believed what you
1433.72 do believe if you believed in your heart
1436.039 what you know with your head and that
1438.48 that is there is no condemnation for you
1441.08 because you’re in Christ Jesus see God
1443.96 regards you as perfect in Christ
1445.64 righteousness and then you let what
1447.36 people think of you you let you let uh
1449.84 you know you you let other people’s
1452.52 opinion you let success or failure in
1455.2 this or that endeavor just build you up
1457.76 or destroy you what that means is you’re
1459.52 still a slave in your heart even though
1461.12 theoretically technically objectively
1463.679 you’re not God’s freed you from things
1466.279 that you still are enslaved to and you
1468.799 just haven’t worked it
1471.039 in in other words well you know
1473.799 systematics theology class gives you it
1476.0 says well God’s salvation uh we are
1477.96 freed past tense from the penalty of sin
1480.919 we are getting free present tense from
1483.24 the power of sin and eventually we will
1485.2 be free from the very presence of sin
1487.36 you know that’s justification
1488.919 sanctification glorification you’ve
1490.48 heard that but ah this is a story this
1493.12 that that’s abstract here you have it
1496.44 here you have a picture of where we
1499.88 are Redemption is about getting out of
1503.2 bondage and it has
1506.44 layers and that’s the reason why the
1508.44 great hymns the great songs the things
1510.96 that move you uh talk about that you
1513.32 long my imprison Spirit lay fast Bound
1515.799 in sin in Nature’s night thine eye
1517.679 diffused a quickening ray I woke the
1520.44 dungeon flamed with light My Chains fell
1524.32 off my heart was free I Rose went forth
1527.2 and followed thee
1529.44 it’s true and we do have those
1531.2 experiences and yet every so often we
1532.799 look down and we find our Heart’s Not
1534.32 Free it’s not free
1537.679 yet so the first thing we learn about
1540.0 Jesus salvation about the salvation is
1542.48 salvation is about getting out it’s
1543.96 about getting out of bondage but the
1545.6 bondage has
1546.64 layers what do we do about that well
1548.84 let’s keep going point two how do we get
1551.84 out of it what is the what is the Red
1553.64 Sea uh story account tell us about not
1557.44 just what we’re getting out of but how
1560.0 we get out and the answer I already
1561.6 mentioned this it’s crossing over by
1563.799 Grace uh in verse 13 and
1567.52 14 when Moses hears them crying out this
1570.64 is what Moses said and boys is classic
1573.36 do not be afraid stand firm and you will
1576.12 see you know my text the Deliverance of
1579.84 the
1580.64 Lord the salvation of the Lord of course
1583.399 Charlton hon says
1585.88 behold and see well it’s a he takes it
1589.0 right out behold and see the salvation
1591.64 of the Lord and of course he says here
1594.039 be still the Lord will fight for you and
1597.159 actually he says see the Deliverance of
1598.96 the Lord will bring you now on the one
1601.84 hand the principle of Grace could not it
1604.679 couldn’t be
1605.96 clearer stand still God’s going to do
1608.76 your
1610.08 fighting
1612.559 watch you can’t do it you can’t perform
1615.159 it you can’t contribute to it stand
1617.159 still you’re not going to do it d on
1618.559 thing about this Deliverance God’s going
1619.799 to do the whole thing and when he says
1622.24 be still and Trust The God Who will
1624.76 fight for you boy does that come close
1626.72 to Romans 4:5 that says and now to him
1629.559 who worketh not that’s being still but
1633.48 trust The God Who justifies the ungodly
1636.559 to him his faith is credited as
1638.52 righteousness boy that comes awfully
1640.0 close be still see don’t look at your
1644.32 works and let God let receive a complete
1648.2 salvation done not by your works but by
1650.08 Christ’s work so there’s the principle
1652.44 but what I like here is we’re not just
1654.52 given the principle of Grace We’re given
1656.32 actually a wonderful image how does that
1658.2 Grace operate it operates by crossing
1661.799 over on one side of the Red Sea they
1665.919 were Within Reach of their old false
1668.279 Masters they were under sentence of
1669.72 death you know Pharaoh said we’re going
1671.519 to go get them we’re going to get them
1672.84 or we’re going to we’re going to kill
1674.12 them and when they were on that side of
1676.0 the sea they they were reachable they
1678.24 were still under sentence of death but
1680.399 as soon as they crossed over see they
1683.279 crossed over and when the Egyptians
1684.84 tried to cross over there was an
1686.159 invisible Warrior stopping
1687.88 them and so the minute they crossed over
1690.96 they crossed over from Death to life
1693.44 they crossed over from being under
1695.08 condemnation and being under the
1696.24 sentence of death and they were no
1697.2 longer under the sentence of
1700.08 death and this is one of the reasons why
1704.48 uh we have a religion that is absolutely
1707.24 and utterly different than any other
1708.84 religion I I you know I’ve been saying
1711.039 this for 30 years and every so often I
1713.039 look at even minor religions to make
1714.64 sure I’m not you know somebody’s not
1716.6 going to get do you know preacher gotcha
1719.0 so what about this religion over here I
1720.679 hadn’t heard of that one let me read
1721.88 about it but no I’ll tell you every
1723.32 other religion is like building a bridge
1726.36 here’s the water you know how you build
1728.039 a bridge you put a pylon
1730.12 down then you put another pylon down
1732.36 then you build a bridge out over that
1733.919 pylon and then the bridge goes to there
1736.159 and if and if uh the government changes
1738.799 and they run out of tax money it’s the
1740.159 bridge to nowhere and there are a few
1742.32 like that then you put down another pile
1744.039 on and you reach it and that’s what
1745.48 every other religion is like it’s a
1747.44 process you’re trying to get over the
1749.84 other side you never feel like you’ve
1752.2 really quite arrived but you’re trying I
1754.399 mean everyone has something else I mean
1756.279 every religion is an Enlightenment it is
1758.279 moral life everybody else is working
1760.559 their way across not with Christianity
1762.799 one minute you’re not regenerate another
1765.679 minute you are one minute you’re not
1767.2 adopted another minute you are what does
1768.6 it mean to be adopted you either are or
1770.039 you aren’t there’s no
1772.159 process you’re either in the kingdom of
1774.6 darkness or you’ve been transferred into
1776.559 the kingdom of his son think of all
1778.24 those statements and images that it make
1781.32 Christianity unique you either are a
1783.799 Christian you’re not a Christian and I
1785.64 wonder you know here you have um you
1788.44 know John chap 5:24 I tell you the truth
1792.36 whoever hears my word and believes him
1794.44 who sent me has eternal life and will
1796.72 not be condemned he is CR crossed over
1798.519 from Death to life now
1801.039 maybe John didn’t actually have the
1803.039 Exodus in mind but listen this is Isaiah
1805.32 51 verse 10 and Isaiah
1808.72 51:10 uh this Isaiah says were you not
1812.88 The God Who dried up the sea so that the
1817.08 redeemed could cross
1819.279 over um this idea of crossing over this
1823.44 idea of going from Death to life like
1825.519 that is something that Dr lloy Jones
1827.76 used to use as a as a little uh uh test
1831.48 analogy those of you who are pastors it
1834.12 works the the doctor used to say this
1836.679 and and he was trying to talk to
1837.799 somebody trying to get a sense of where
1839.559 they were spiritually he would say well
1840.76 let me ask you a question are you a
1842.679 Christian I mean are you a Christian
1844.64 today and if the person said and many
1847.679 many people said uh espe especially
1850.36 British people who always want to be
1851.6 very
1852.36 modest um they would say well I’m trying
1858.36 he never said what percentage but he
1859.72 said an enormously high percentage of
1861.279 people when you ask them are you a
1862.36 Christian they said well I’m trying and
1864.279 the doctor would proceed to explain to
1866.279 them uh that their answer indicated they
1869.76 had no idea what Christianity was about
1871.639 at all not in the
1874.279 slightest because he says Christianity
1876.679 what makes you a Christian is a change
1877.799 of
1879.48 status you’re in this Kingdom now you’re
1881.639 in this Kingdom you were out of the
1882.919 family of God you’re in the family of
1884.36 God you not born again you born again
1886.279 you were not justified you under the
1887.72 wrath of of God and now you’re Justified
1889.919 bang it happens like that do you know
1892.679 the power of this here’s Paul he’s
1895.88 killed people and we’re told in Romans 7
1899.76 somehow at one point the law of God
1903.12 seems to have broken through his
1906.039 self-righteousness and he says though he
1907.799 says the the Commandment came home and
1909.279 it slew me and we’re never quite sure
1911.48 just what that autobiographical note
1913.12 means but it seems like that Paul began
1915.76 to realize what he had done
1918.84 Kate
1919.799 Blanchett in a movie 2002 movie called
1923.279 Heaven not a very well-known movie but
1925.6 Kate Blanchett is one of the best
1926.919 actresses out there and it’s a movie
1929.279 about a woman I think she was a teacher
1932.32 just a normal woman who was so upset
1936.039 about how a drug dealer was ruining the
1938.32 lives of children in a particular part
1940.24 of the city that she decided to uh and
1943.84 and no one would listen to her the
1945.12 police wouldn’t listen to her she
1946.6 decided that she was going to detonate a
1948.639 bomb in the man’s uh office and kill him
1951.559 to kill a drug dealer with a
1953.519 bomb but what happens is a night
1955.88 Watchman takes the bomb out not knowing
1958.679 it was in a waste can takes it into an
1960.84 elevator takes it down it explodes in
1962.24 the elevator and kills four people
1963.519 including
1964.48 children and in the
1967.24 movie when they tell Kate Blanchett
1970.0 who’s a you know a woman who loves
1972.159 children she’s a teacher she’s doing
1973.72 this for the children’s sake when she
1975.919 finds out that she has killed
1978.48 children because she’s such a great
1980.44 actress you can just see her
1982.84 collapse she just
1985.32 collapses physically
1987.76 spiritually she’s a mass of smoking
1990.279 wreckage she in a sense she goes into a
1993.559 hell of guilt and
1996.0 shame I have to use the word hell just
1998.159 mainly because it’s it’s just not just a
1999.72 guilty conscience she just collapses and
2002.0 she essentially goes into a hell of
2003.639 guilt and shame she never gets out of it
2004.96 the rest of the movie but Paul
2008.639 Paul must have known that Paul must have
2010.679 sensed that Paul did sense that and yet
2012.72 then he says there is now no
2014.2 condemnation for those who are in Christ
2015.559 Jesus how can he say such a thing like
2017.08 that how can he crossed
2020.32 over he crossed over he didn’t say well
2024.159 I’ve got a lot to atone for in my life I
2026.84 mean that’s the normal that’s that’s the
2028.279 way the heart works that’s a person
2029.6 who’s really in bondage to the law and
2031.6 still in bondage to the law but no Paul
2034.36 says now there’s no condemnation for
2036.6 those are in Christ Jesus he says oh I
2038.159 was the chief of Sinners and yet God is
2040.32 using me the most you know he’s able to
2042.36 be that
2043.48 realistic he’s unbelievably humble about
2046.32 who he is and yet he’s able you know
2047.919 there’s no false modesty about him
2049.24 either he’s able to say I you know I’m
2051.0 really honestly the most fruitful of all
2053.119 the apostles it’s not that hard to look
2054.639 just add up the books in the New
2055.96 Testament you can see that who has the
2058.8 most and yet I you know he has that that
2063.8 astounding boldness and humility at the
2065.879 same time why he crossed over
2068.359 he knew where he stood no of course he
2072.639 he hadn’t even begun to really change on
2074.44 the inside but he knew where he stood
2077.159 with God it’s astonishing oh somebody
2080.32 says yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but um yes
2083.079 of course all right you’re saved by
2085.32 grace apart from your good works you’re
2086.96 saved by grace apart from your moral
2088.52 efforts but you got to believe don’t you
2090.0 you got to believe and you really got to
2091.679 believe with all your heart isn’t that
2093.079 right because salvation’s by faith don’t
2095.8 do that you know what you’re doing hey
2098.8 look even this text tells us something
2100.48 about that I love the fact that it tells
2102.88 us that when they walk through it says
2105.72 the waters were divided and the
2106.92 Israelites went through the sea on dry
2109.76 ground with a wall of water on their
2112.44 right and a wall on their left now I can
2115.4 tell you some people some of the
2116.839 Israelites walk through like
2118.52 this look at this God’s on our side Eat
2122.76 Your Heart Out Egyptians we’re the you
2125.56 know the Lord is fighting for us and
2127.2 they walk through like that I know there
2129.48 was a bunch of others that were walking
2130.68 through like
2131.68 this I’m going to die I’m going to die
2133.68 I’m going to die I’m going to die I’m
2134.68 going to
2137.64 die oh my
2140.599 gosh and you know what they all walk
2142.68 through and completely different
2144.68 completely different qualities of Faith
2147.28 they were all equally saved they were
2149.76 equally saved why because you’re not
2151.72 saved because of the quality of your
2154.119 faith you’re saved because of the object
2157.28 of yourth Faith the Redeemer the god
2160.4 who’s fighting for you
2162.04 see and um everything about this text
2165.92 says Grace Grace Grace Grace crossing
2168.2 over you know in fact it’s actually
2170.56 pretty wrong I mean there’s a uh you
2173.2 know there’s a really interesting place
2174.56 where when Charles Spurgeon was
2176.16 preaching on this he talks about the
2178.52 fact that that Moses says stand still be
2182.359 still and let God fight for you very
2184.44 important he if you try to add to God’s
2188.079 salvation you
2189.56 subtract if you try to do something to
2191.96 Merit uh God’s salvation you you you
2194.96 actually haven’t believed at all you’re
2196.4 putting your faith in yourself and so
2198.079 even to try to do a little bit so
2199.839 Spurgeon does a good job of that and
2201.44 then at one point he says I dare say you
2203.28 will think it a very easy thing to stand
2205.079 still but it is one of the postures
2206.72 which a Christian Soldier learns not
2208.16 without years of
2209.359 teaching I find that marching and quick
2211.76 marching are much easier to God’s
2213.28 Warriors than standing
2215.28 still and then he goes on and says the
2217.2 apostle seems to hint at this difficulty
2218.88 when he says Stand Fast to stand at ease
2221.599 in the midst of tribulation shows a
2223.24 veteran Spirit Long experience and much
2224.88 in Grace I’m afraid many people take
2227.599 what Spurgeon says and even take this
2229.24 text and say uh you see Moses says stand
2233.04 still and the Lord will fight for you
2235.92 and a lot of people say now if I have
2237.4 enough faith if I let go and let God you
2240.8 know God will fight my battles for me
2242.64 God will deal with these circumstances
2244.64 that’s I don’t think that’s what Exodus
2246.24 is saying Exodus is saying stand still
2247.8 and see that God has already fought the
2250.48 big battle for you it’s already been
2253.359 accomplished if you’re a Christian
2255.0 you’ve already crossed over I mean the
2258.079 sin and death has been dealt with and
2259.76 all your other problems are flea bites
2262.359 comparison with that and that’s how you
2264.599 deal with your flea bites instead of
2266.16 looking at them as this big thing is you
2267.839 see what he’s already done for
2269.8 you
2271.839 so what is Jesus salvation according to
2274.64 the Red Sea it’s bondage it’s freedom
2277.119 from bondage bondage though it has many
2278.4 layers how does the Salvation come it
2281.359 comes obviously by grace and it comes by
2285.04 crossing over but
2286.599 now we’re not done obviously for a
2289.28 couple reasons why and one of the
2291.48 reasons is I’m we’re still saying well
2293.079 how do we make sure that we bring to
2295.92 bear uh Christ salvation so that these
2299.319 bondage layers we are increasingly free
2303.24 from and the answer is number three why
2306.319 is it possible
2308.48 why is it possible for us to get out in
2310.96 other words the Egyptians went through
2312.76 the water and were devastated right they
2314.92 were killed but the Israelites went
2317.16 through the water they were fine now why
2319.359 did the Israelites get
2321.52 off how why why did they get off or
2324.96 let’s let’s go back to the water for a
2326.319 minute um flood
2328.72 waters if you go to most commentaries on
2332.4 Noah’s
2333.76 flood most commentaries on Noah’s flood
2336.0 are going to say God could have judged
2338.119 the world a whole lot of ways but water
2339.64 was significant why if you go back to
2341.88 Genesis
2343.0 1 the very beginning we see that uh
2348.2 Darkness was upon the face of the waters
2350.44 you know Darkness was upon the face of
2352.2 the deep and the spirit of God moved
2353.88 across the face of the waters and then
2356.319 things began to happen instead of
2358.319 Darkness God separated the darkness from
2360.2 the light and there was day and night
2363.72 and God brought the waters together he
2365.839 says they they came together and then
2367.76 there was land and then he it when the
2370.319 spirit of God moves across the faces of
2372.72 the water it’s the spirit of God
2374.28 bringing order out of chaos the water
2376.56 not only in the Bible but actually in
2378.64 the ancient cultures surrounding Israel
2380.64 at the time water represented
2382.96 chaos justifiably so you know it’s a war
2386.16 water is chaos water is death and yet
2389.44 God’s creative Spirit comes across the
2392.56 face of the water and things get orderly
2395.319 there’s he brings order out of Chaos
2398.96 therefore when God uses the flood to
2402.24 destroy the world in the time of Noah
2404.92 what he’s actually doing is making a
2407.64 very appropriate judgment because it’s
2411.44 what some people have called
2414.4 decreation what’s Happening is a
2416.16 reversal of creation if you turn away
2419.04 from the
2420.72 Creator you actually turn away from the
2423.079 goodness of creation and disintegration
2425.68 and chaos is Unleashed
2428.24 listen you know that those of you who
2430.56 are here who are married if one of you
2433.24 hurts the other person and the one who’s
2435.72 hurt decides I am not going to forgive
2438.8 him now you or her you don’t necessarily
2440.96 say that but you don’t in other words
2442.359 you you’re really bitter you’re really
2443.68 angry you’re refusing to forgive in a
2446.24 very small but very noticeable way
2449.2 you’re unleashing chaos into your into
2451.079 your marriage until until you
2455.2 obey uh the wages of sin is
2457.319 disintegration which is another way of
2458.88 saying death what God was doing in the
2461.56 flood was he was actually unleashing the
2464.8 forces of chaos which is a justifiable
2467.599 just uh justifiable judgment it’s an
2470.079 appropriate judgment because when you
2471.4 turn away from the Creator you turn away
2472.76 from the goodness of creation and you
2474.599 bring into your life decreation you
2476.92 bring into your life disintegration the
2479.56 reversal of creation and many people
2483.079 have pointed out that that’s what the
2484.04 plagues are just before this incident
2486.96 God visited Egypt with plagues but what
2489.079 were those plagues same
2491.68 thing see as Pharaoh decided to resist
2494.88 the Creator what came down into Egypt
2498.24 was what you can call decreation
2500.88 disintegration there was Darkness upon
2503.0 the face of the land and this actually
2505.119 might be called the 11th
2508.119 plague because what is happening
2511.319 here Egypt’s sin has unleashed the
2515.88 forces of Chaos
2517.92 and they’ve experienced decreation and
2519.8 they’re being judged and the flood
2522.119 waters represent what happens to you
2524.24 when you turn away from
2525.56 God okay we don’t mind that because the
2527.96 Egyptians right they get it good but you
2530.079 know what if you say well the Israelites
2531.92 were good people the Egyptians were bad
2533.319 people so of course the Israelites will
2534.48 get through it you haven’t read your
2535.96 Bible very far not only do you see their
2539.24 pet petulant and their childishness
2541.72 right here but the fact is they’re not
2544.04 just fools they’re murderous fools they
2546.839 just have the same power as the
2548.319 Egyptians that’s all they can’t they
2550.48 can’t do the genocide right now because
2553.119 they just don’t they don’t have the they
2555.04 don’t have the technology there’s
2557.319 they’re no better they are no better so
2559.44 the real question is why if God’s Waters
2562.44 of judgment are standing up on both
2565.28 sides and it comes down on the uh on the
2567.44 Egyptians rightly Why didn’t it come
2569.76 down on the Israelites and of course you
2571.24 know the answer the Israelites had a
2574.92 mediator now
2578.2 verse
2579.68 14 says and then everyone cried out yep
2585.64 it says they the the everyone cried out
2589.119 uh they said didn’t we say to egyp you
2591.28 to Egypt leave us alone let us serve the
2593.359 Egyptians and so on then you get down to
2595.76 verse 15 and the Lord said to Moses why
2597.76 are you crying out to
2599.72 me now there’s commentators go two ways
2602.8 on this see earlier you have the the
2605.0 Israelites crying out in Rebellion we
2607.48 wish we were back in Egypt God shows up
2610.119 and rebukes Moses there’s no indication
2612.88 Moses was doing that now I’ve seen a
2615.68 number of liberal commentaries say well
2617.119 of course Moses must have been doing
2618.44 that or God wouldn’t have rebuked him
2619.76 but I’ve seen a couple other thoughtful
2621.119 commentaries say well
2624.8 why later on by the way in verse 21
2627.319 we’re told Moses stretched out his hand
2629.48 over the sea but before the verses over
2631.359 it says and all that night the Lord
2633.24 drove the sea back here’s what you’ve
2634.76 got you’ve got one man who is so ident
2637.48 identified with the
2639.48 Israelites that his their guilt is upon
2643.04 him and a man so identified with God
2646.76 that God’s power is coming through
2649.599 him he’s a man in the middle he’s so
2653.359 identified with the people that he gets
2654.839 rebuked for their sin and he’s so
2657.319 identified with God that he’s a vehicle
2659.76 for God’s saving power but guess
2663.4 what I know a better mediator
2667.319 and I’ll tell you what we don’t have in
2669.88 Jesus Christ just a mediator who was
2672.319 fully God and a fully man and and close
2675.2 to God we have a mediator who is fully
2677.52 God and fully man and not only that we
2679.8 don’t have a mediator who’s
2682.2 rebuked for one sin in one
2686.24 verse here’s what Jesus Christ
2689.119 got when Jonah was in the
2692.44 boat and the storm of God’s Wrath and
2695.76 the ways of God’s Wrath were about to
2697.599 sink the boat Jonah turns to all the
2700.079 sailors and says this is a storm of
2702.28 God’s Wrath and the only way you’re
2704.359 going to be saved is throw me in you
2705.92 throw me in and you’ll be saved throw me
2708.599 in and you’ll be saved and they throw
2710.44 them in and they’re saved and Jesus had
2712.64 the audacity to say a greater than Jonah
2715.0 is here talking about himself what does
2718.319 that mean it means that Jesus Christ on
2722.319 the cross was thrown into that ocean of
2725.359 God’s Wrath you know Jonah said I’m cut
2727.319 off from thy sight which of course isn’t
2730.04 true it’s a figure of speech but when
2731.68 Jesus Christ said my God my God why has
2733.48 Thou forsaken me he was being put under
2735.559 an ocean of God’s Wrath in fact all the
2738.24 plagues came down on Jesus Darkness came
2740.48 down on Jesus what was going on Jesus
2742.8 Christ was being decre so that you and I
2746.079 could be
2747.4 recreated Jesus Christ received the
2750.599 reality that all these flood waters and
2753.0 all this stuff points to he received the
2755.72 the reality of it in his
2757.64 life and that’s the reason why all the
2760.8 other things that we’re talking about
2762.0 are possible it’s the reason why we can
2764.079 be brought out and the reason why we can
2766.24 keep going back to The Well of Jesus
2768.559 salvation to deal with the you know with
2771.079 the layer after layer after layer of uh
2774.839 uh of bondage at one point Moses as the
2778.359 mediator went to God remember and said
2781.359 uh when God said I’m just I’m I’ve had
2783.119 it with these people and Moses said save
2785.44 them and blot my name out of the
2788.2 book and God didn’t do
2790.839 it but when our Med mediator Jesus
2794.28 Christ uh God
2796.839 did Jesus is the ultimate mediator and
2799.76 it’s the reason why you and I can cross
2802.96 over and here’s how here’s where we are
2805.24 we’re done but here’s what I want you to
2808.88 see where are the children of Israel
2812.44 going they’re going to
2815.079 si uh one of the easiest ways to explain
2817.559 the gospel to somebody from the Old
2819.119 Testament is to say God didn’t give them
2821.4 the law and once they started to obey he
2824.04 brought them out he actually brought
2825.92 them out and then gave them the law
2827.72 that’s the gospel right it’s not like
2831.359 because I’m obeying God now I’m saved oh
2833.52 no because I’ve been saved by his free
2835.44 Grace now I want to obey God and they’re
2836.92 on their way to SI and more than that
2838.88 Leviticus 11:45 God says I brought you
2842.24 out of Egypt therefore be
2845.4 holy now what the this means is this the
2848.24 more you meditate on what he has done
2852.04 the more you see the flood waters go
2854.559 over his head in your heart in your
2856.44 minds your mind’s eye the more you see
2859.16 what he’s
2860.559 done the more holy you will be anybody
2863.72 who says to me well I know I shouldn’t
2865.24 be doing that I know I’m doing that I
2866.68 really shouldn’t be doing that I know
2867.72 God forgives me you don’t know the first
2869.16 thing about
2870.079 forgiveness nobody who understands the
2872.16 grace of God would ever take sin
2874.319 lightly the more you deal with the free
2877.04 grace of God the more you work it into
2878.76 your heart the more you understand this
2880.88 the more you understand that that your
2882.52 salvation has nothing to do with how you
2884.4 behave the more that’s going to change
2885.8 your behavior the more radically it’s
2887.52 going to change your behavior I brought
2888.88 you out of Egypt that you’d be holy I
2890.52 brought you out of Egypt to take you to
2891.76 sin and give you the
2893.2 law and when you think about this why do
2896.319 you
2897.2 sin sometimes I think you sin just
2899.359 because it’s the it’s the easiest way
2901.079 let the Gratitude you should have for
2903.119 God just fill your heart with so much
2905.319 joy you say I’m not going to do that but
2906.92 an awful lot of the reasons why we sin
2908.359 is because of the idols we sin because
2910.599 we’re afraid because we’re being we’re
2912.52 being controlled by these things and the
2913.92 grace of God freees us from those things
2916.28 and therefore anybody who says um the
2920.0 more you talk about how it’s free it’s
2921.44 all free it’s nothing to do not only
2922.92 with my works it’s not even got to do
2924.2 with the quality of my faith well then
2926.24 you know it doesn’t matter how you live
2927.72 you still haven’t you haven’t even begun
2929.559 to come to grips with it have you not in
2931.559 the slightest not in the
2935.359 slightest when When God
2938.16 says I brought you out of Egypt so you
2940.839 can be holy that’s the same thing as
2943.599 we’re saved by faith alone but not by
2945.68 faith which remains alone you’re saved
2948.0 by faith not with works but if your
2950.68 Works do not gr a faith and you don’t
2952.88 have any faith and that’s actually all
2954.96 through the Exodus narrative too it’s
2956.96 amazing it’s the gospel it is just the
2960.319 gospel um you know
2963.599 Paul though he didn’t Moses though he
2966.52 didn’t could have written the old hymn
2970.24 well may the accuser Roar of sins that I
2972.64 have done I know them all and thousands
2975.96 more Jehovah knoweth
2978.359 none by the way if there’s anybody here
2980.52 I’m like I said I’m done I’m done but uh
2983.28 not
2984.68 quite this is an awfully big group of
2987.28 people I don’t care how
2989.76 christiany a conference this is there’s
2992.96 got to be somebody here who says I
2995.119 hadn’t really ever heard it like that
2997.96 before uh I’ve always been moved by one
3001.28 of Charles and John Wesley’s friends
3002.96 William
3004.48 Holland uh was converted one night when
3007.559 they were reading uh aloud from Luther’s
3009.92 preface commentary on the Galatians and
3011.559 there’s a place where Luther says what
3014.24 then have we nothing to do no nothing
3017.04 but accept Christ who has made unto us
3021.04 wisdom righteousness sanctification
3022.64 Redemption have we nothing to do no
3025.64 nothing and when me be still do you
3029.839 realize what the Hebrew Act is basically
3032.52 there when it says be still and see the
3035.839 salvation of the lord it’s essentially
3037.68 the word
3040.319 Yeshua be still and look at the Jesus of
3042.799 the Lord be
3044.04 still be
3045.92 still realize all your salvation is in
3049.119 him realize you have nothing to
3051.16 contribute it at all and look at him and
3053.599 that will make you
3055.64 holy and actually it’ll make you a
3057.559 Christian if you’re not one
3060.68 now Nathan Cole became a Christian
3063.799 listening to George Whitfield preach in
3065.52 Middletown Connecticut in 1744 he was
3068.359 practically illiterate but he wrote what
3070.28 it was like to listen to and preach and
3071.559 how he became a Christian I’ve always
3072.76 been moved by
3073.96 it he said this my hearing him preach
3077.64 gave me a heart wound and by God’s grace
3080.319 my old Foundation was grow was was
3082.28 broken up and I saw that my
3084.559 righteousness could not save me if
3087.319 that’s beginning to happen to you
3090.68 now go on and don’t stop until you know
3094.319 what this means the blood of Jesus
3096.16 Christ cleanses us from all our sin
3099.2 let’s pray Our Father we thank you that
3103.48 uh through Jesus Christ we get
3106.2 out we have gotten out and we still need
3109.16 to get out we’ve gotten out and we still
3111.48 have uh false Masters telling us that uh
3114.68 you’ve got to serve me or die uh we’re
3117.319 supposed to be still and look at your
3119.2 salvation especially at the Salvation of
3121.28 Jesus and we don’t know how to be still
3124.28 uh we but we do thank you for the
3125.96 richness of your our Salvation we thank
3129.2 you that it is a well we can always keep
3131.319 going back to and it’s will it never
3133.72 goes dry we also thank you for the
3136.72 richness of your word that we have in
3139.48 the most uh Vivid and uh uh and
3143.319 imaginative and creative way not just a
3146.04 set of principles and bullet points but
3147.799 we’ve got great accounts we’ve got
3149.52 history we’ve got moving narratives that
3152.839 drive the gospel into our heart where it
3154.359 needs to be if we’re going to become
3155.799 more and more conformed to the image of
3157.48 your son in whose name we pray amen
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