GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES
Exodus 14:23-31
FAILURE BY YOUR OWN DESIGN
23 The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh\’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. 24 During the last watch of the night the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.
A. God does not need your help to fulfill His promises.
1. The previous day, the Lord told Moses to tell the people that
they would not see the Egyptians any more forever.
2. There are times when God moves immediately and there are
times when God waits before He acts.
3. This was the time when nation of Israel was in immediate
danger and the time was right for them to see the fulfillment of
God’s promise.
B. Notice, God acted without discussion with Moses.
1. God saw Israel safe on the other side of the Red Sea and the Egyptian
army in the middle of the sea.
2. To do what God promised you, sometime God destroys you enemies.
3. God set a trap for the Egyptian army,
b. First God confused the minds of the army.
c. He let Israel walk through the river bed on dry land
letting the army think they could do the same.
d. God moved the cloud that blocked the Egyptians from getting
to the people of Israel giving them a false expectation.
e. God allowed the pride and the evil mind of the Pharaoh to
drive his army in to a death trap.
4. What God allows for you may be a trap for those who want to
harm you.
TROUBLE DESIGNED BY GOD
V:25-27. 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.\”
26 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.\” 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place
A. Once the Egyptian army was in the red Sea, God filled the river bed
with water so that it was like mud.
1. There is a time when God prevents you from turning back.
2. He will give you over to your own evil desires.
Ps 81:12
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts
to follow their own devices.
3. The cloud blocking the Egyptian army was one last chance for
Pharaoh to redeem himself.
B. The Pharaoh’s pride blinded him from seeing the power of God in
the waters standing as a wall on both sides of the pathway.
1. The Pharaoh couldn’t recognize that miracle wall of water would
be his death.
2. What God protect me in, may be the end of my enemies.
Ps 1:6
For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
3. God hates the proud
Ps 31:23
Love the Lord, all his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful,
but the proud he pays back in full.
GOD HATES THE PROUD
V: 27b-28..The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the Lord swept them into the sea. 28 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.
A. It was the Pharaoh’s pride that killed all his men.
1. The evil in your heart, not only hurts you but others around you.
2.
Ps 21:11
Though they plot evil against you
and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed;
Ps 27:2
When evil men advance against me
to devour my flesh, when my enemies and my foes attack me,
they will stumble and fall.
SALVATION IN PLAIN SIGHT
V:29-31. But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. 30 That day the Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. 31 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.
A, In God’s time, He will rescue us from our enemies.
1. Israel was enslaved for 430 years according to a promise that
God made with Abraham.
2. Sometimes our troubles are designed by God to grow us up
into a mature state so we can be blessed by Him.
B. God allows us to see His awesome power when He destroys people,
so we can be driven to fear Him.
1. God’s glory is in every terrible act He allows.
2. It is by His grace and mercy that we are saved from ourselves.
a. When Israel started complaining after being freed, God could
have given them over unto their own desires.
b. God could have allowed the Egyptian army to capture them.
c. Our complaining does not change God’s plan for us.
THANK GOD FOR HIS PLAN FOR OUR LIVES
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
5510 West Sam Houston Parkway North
Houston, Texas 77041
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