Green Light At The Red Sea

Here's the message. I'm so glad you came today. I'm so glad that God directed your steps to be here and ordered your steps. I have a sneaking suspicion that you're about to find out why you had to come to church today, why you had to log on today, why you had to click that video today. And God's going to show you join me right now in Psalm one O six. Turn your attention to Psalm one O six. Thank you laurd Oo wheel me. Yeah, who did y'all

love that new song? Thank you Jesus. But I'm very convincing, how y'all just clap them. We're gonna do it again next week anyway. Don't care if you liked it. I liked it. Verse seven. When our ancestors were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles. They gave no thought to your miracles. They did not remember your many kindnesses. And they rebelled by the sea, the Red sea, which c They rebelled by the sea, the red Sea. Yet he saved them for his name's sake, to make his

mindmighty power known. He rebuked the red sea, and it dried up. He led them through the depths as through a desert. He saved them from the hand of the foe, from the hand of the enemy. He redeemed them. The waters covered their adversaries. Not one of them survived. Then they believed his promises and sang his praise. Then they believed his promises and sang his praise. But I want to go back to verse nine for a moment, where it says that he rebuked the red sea and it

dried up. He led them through the depths as through a desert. He rebuked the red sea, and it dried up. My sermon title today is green Light at the Red Sea. When God gives you a green light at the sea, somebody shop preaching pastor furnicut here, let's go be seated, Be seated, Be seated, Be seated, be seated. The parting of the Red Sea is one of the most celebrated events in the history of the nation of Israel. They

still celebrated to this day. It's worthy of celebration if you think about it, because it's what did I write down in my notes. It's like one hundred and eighty miles wide on average to cross it. The Red Sea. Now, don't confuse it with the other bodies of water that are also significant in scripture, the Jordan River where Joshua led the people across a little bit later, or the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus did a lot of his ministry, or the Dead Sea. The dead sea, you know, where

nothing is going out, so nothing can come in. The constipated sea. And I don't mean, I don't mean to be unappetizing early in my sermon, but I just used that word. It came to my mind. There are constipated Christians who spiritually sorry to ruin your breakfast. But the Red Sea is significant, not only geographically and generationally, but symbolically it symbolized something so great for the people. It's

no surprise that it's mentioned. When Stephen was giving his speech to the Sanhedrin in Acts chapter seven, he talked about the Red Sea and what God did there. He mentioned it by name, the Red Sea. It's literally called the sea of reeds, but it was transliterated red Sea. And so you see that in Acts chapter seven, and interestingly enough, you see it again in Hebrews chapter or

excuse me, in First Corinthians chapter ten. First Corinthians chapter ten, where Paul compares the red Sea that the Israelites went through coming out of Egypt to baptism the waters that we go through to become a new creation in Christ. And so he makes this very special connection that the people who originally went through it would have never made. But with time and understanding the cross of Jesus Christ and the coming of the Holy Spirit, he mentions the

Red Sea. He doesn't even name it, he just calls it the sea. That's how special it was to these people. That's how much of an accomplishment and a miracle it was to these people. They didn't even have to name it, even though there's all these other different It was the only body of water. But when they said the sea, they knew. They knew that God had to bring them through this sea, through this body of water to bring them into freedom. And it proved two things when he did.

Because this is why so significant. It proved that God is committed to me being free. He will split a sea to get me free. Clap for that one, because it gets rough. After that. He will remove a relationship to get me free. He will allow certain pain to do its job in my life. Like well, Paul called it a thorn in the flesh. He's like, I don't really know. I want to tell you what it really is, but I'm gonna call it a thorn. I have this

thing in my life. I have a prayer request, he told his men's group, And I asked God to take it away. But God so wanted me to be free of pride so that I could receive grace that he gave me something that I wanted him to take away. He was so committed to me being free that he said no to me. So it's significant because it shows

us that God is committed to me being free. I want you to write that down somewhere in your phone, But just put God is committed to me being free, more than he's committed to me feeling happy, more than he's committed to me being comfortable, more than he's committed to me being right. He's committed to me being free. That's the first thing that the Red Sea reminds us of, and it represents in our lives. The second thing is that God is going to get his glory. God is

going to get his glory. If you don't put anything else in the chat, that's an all caps moment in the chat. God is going to get his glory somehow, some way. You can resist it. But every need shall bout and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father. God is going to get his glory. Now, if he can't find a single soldier in then of Israel to fight Deliath, he'll bring a shepherd boy up with a lunch, because God

is going to get his glory. Who is this uncircumcised listing that he should defy the armies of the Living God. This is about God's glory, This is about his weight, this is about his name, This is about his strength. This is about his reputation. God is going to get his glory if it means he has to tell a storm to be quiet and shut up and be still to show that he is Lord. He will lead you through a storm to show you his glory. We want to avoid storms, but God won't let you avoid a storm.

If a storm is what it takes to show you his glory, he needs you to know that you're not dependent on the weather of the forecast, or the sunshine or a dry boat to make it through. God is going to get his glory with nails in his hands. He's going to get his glory with nails in his feet. He's going to get his glory with a spear. We're in his side. He's gonna get his glory between two fees. He's gonna get his glory for days that Lazarus is coming forth for the glory of God. Even now, I

believe I will see the glory of the Lord. God is going to get his glory. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Just before God can get his glory, we have to go through some things our own red sea.

Wish I could tell you I thought of this sermon while I was studying the history of Israel and considering the theological implications and the philosophical and so teiological implications of this text as we reference it an Old Testament and New Testament, surrounded by concordances and vine strong Bible Dictionary. But I was just driving to church last week and the Lord gave me the sermon. It was actually a couple weeks ago. Holly was preaching. I had Graham and Elijah.

They were so excited that Donda drop. They were so excited, and I was excited to get the church to hear to hear Holley preach. I was so excited because I didn't have to preach. I love to preach, but I liked I really like to hear somebody else preach to, especially Holly. So I'm kind of, you know, navigating the speed limit, negotiating, you know, where the Lord would have me to sit and where he where he would have

me to operate and function. And right before we turned into the church, Elijah and Graham are losing their minds, saying by I'm off the grid or something like that, and I'm going to turn in and the person in front of me wouldn't go and the light was green right around the corner from where we turn in to come to Valentine, and my instinct was to hit my horn. Now I'm ana do a quick poll. How many I'm gonna see what kind of Christian you are? How many seconds do you give the car in front of you

before you honk. I'm gonna count up one second, seconds, three seconds, put it in the chat, four seconds, five, six, six. So it's been a good five seconds. And I want to see my wife and I want to be at church. I'm running a little bit behind how the schedule that I wanted to be because one of my kids was messing with his hair late and so the very last minute. And I'm also realizing, like Elijah's about to get his driver's license. He's got it now, but he was about

to go take the driver's test. It's a totally different test, by the way, now in North Carolina. And I know it's an international church, so I don't want to make this example too local. It's a totally different test than it was in South Carolina when I was sixteen. In South Carolina, when I was turned fifteen, all you had to do was show up and stumble in the driver's

department and hit a few buttons on a thing. Wait thirty days and come back and drive around with a woman who terrified you within an inch of your life for about twenty minutes, and they handed you your license. In North Carolina, it's classes and it's hours, and it's an app and you have to log on. And I

think that's probably better. Considering that these are our lives that we're putting in jeopardy at this moment, is probably a good idea to make a little bit of a degree of difficulty, give them a little bit of bar to jump over. But it's different here, and so I'm thinking this might be the last time that I drive Elijah the church. And I'm con emotional. But then the person in front of me won't go, and the light is green, and as I'm going to hit my horn,

I had this. It's like the Holy Spirit spoke to me, you can't drive like this to the church. I'm just being honest with you. If we'd been in Atlanta or something like that, or I didn't have an elevation sticker, my tent was more on my windows and they couldn't see me. I'm gonna do it. But the Lord said, you can't be this big of a jerk this close to the church. And I'm so glad I didn't holp because they turned on and then went into the parking lot to come here, and then turned on their flashers

because they were a first time guest. And I'm so glad I didn't honk. Come on, Praise God that I didn't honk. A lot of times I did, but this time I didn't, And God's not finished with me small steps. When I read about the children of Israel going across the Red Sea, I not only see the water standing up at the right and the left. I not only hear the click clack of the chariot wheels of Pharaoh's cadillacs as he chased them down because he realized what

he was losing. Oh yeah, the enemy fights you the hardest when you're on the verge of a horizon of a greater, truer, newer version of you that God has seen and all along. And so I hear the chariot wheels because I've read the story so many times, and I bet you've heard it once or twice two. But this time when I read it, I heard God honking to tell his children you got to go. Yeah, you got to go after four hundred years of generational oppression.

And so yes, I'm talking about some of the things that your parents struggled with, and their parents struggled with, and their parents struggled with. Whether that is cycles of poverty, whether that is cycles of dysfunctional thinking, whether that is cycles of substance of use, whether that is cycles of sexual confusion, whatever that is, that's what I'm talking about. And now God has seen the misery of his people

and he came down to do something about it. And someone who six is interesting because it's giving us a sort of a what you call this a reflection on a revelation that God gave his people so many years earlier. Now, Psalm one oh six is written to some people who are coming out of captivity and in the process of reflecting on that this is a remembrance of what God

did in Egypt. And he said, when our ancestors were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles, They did not remember your kindness, and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea. Now you know that really got me because I've always taught about and thought about how they rebelled in the wilderness once they got out of Egypt. But the Red Sea I always associated with faith, and I think you should too, because you probably never had faith that great in your life to go through some

water too deep to swim through. And well, it's so many people. I mean, good grief. I barely have faith for for eighty five traffic. You know what I mean. I'm just telling you the truth. I mean, I think I think it's great faith. The writer of Hebrews also mentions the Red Sea. Remember earlier when I said, Hebrews, this is the one I was thinking about. I just remembered it. He said, by faith, the children of Israel crossed through the Red Sea, though when their enemies tried

to do it, they drown. So I always associated the Red Sea with faith. It was interesting to me that in this Psalm, in reflecting on it, he doesn't mention the rebellions that we typically know about. When they got in the wilderness and they started complaining, Oh, we got to eat mana every day. Mom, do we have to eat this again? Moses, do we have to eat this mana again? We're sick of mana. We used to have quail in each of God, Do I really have to

go back to this job? Well, you did pray for that job, okay, But I'm not going to talk about that because it wasn't the wilderness wanderings that were in focus here. It was that moment when they had seen the hand of God and they had seen God afflict the Egyptians with the plagues, turn the Nile River to blood, and coming out of that loaded with the substance of Egypt to pay them back for everything that they didn't

get while they were working for Pharaoh. At the moment when they should have been able to celebrate their freedom, they were attacked from behind and salmono success. They rebelled at the Red Sea. So I went back to read it because my first thing was, well, no, they didn't. They walked through the Red Sea. We sing about it a lot in church, turned seas into highways, stuff like that. But I read it and I realized they they did kind of rebel. Let's read it together. Exodus chapter fourteen.

It says in verse ten, you know what I think you deserve the other part two in chapter thirteen, I'm going to chapter thirteen just for you. In chapter thirteen, verse seventeen, It says, when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter, for God said, if they face war, they might change their minds and return

to Egypt. Only God knows when you're really ready. Next verse says that Verse eighteen says, so God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. So now we see the reason for the Red Sea, the reason for the Red Sea. You've been trying to figure out why am I going through this? Why is this happening to me? And please do not try to play God in somebody else's life and answer that, well, God is just using this to test your faith. Shut up and pass your own test and keep your eyes

on your own scantron number two pencils. But here, by the spirit of the Lord, there's a revelation given. And maybe I can't tell you the reason you're going through what you're going through, but maybe God will show it to you in these moments together. Today it says the reason God brought them to the Red Sea was there were some things that if they were not drowned before they went across, they would be defeated when they got there. It says that they left Egypt ready for battle. Show

them that verse eighteen. They went up from Egypt ready, everybody say ready, say it again. Ready. That's what a green light means. You can go now. You're ready now. And sometimes we think it's ready, and God gives you a red light instead of a ready light, and you're like, God, I'm ready, I'm ready for this. I'm ready for something better. I'm ready for more. I'm ready, God, I want more influence?

Are you ready for more responsibility? Really ready? Are you ready to be the one who has to put up with with all the crap as you're praying about a bigger income? Because that's what happens. Only God knows when we're really ready. They were ready for battle, dressed for it, but not ready for it, dressed for it but not ready for it. God said, if they face the Philistines right now, they'll get killed. And he was proven correct.

Guess what God was right when they saw the Canaanites when they finally got in the promise Lan after they crossed through the Red Sea, they wouldn't fight. They weren't ready. They were dressed like they were ready. They were looking like they were ready. They were posting that they were ready. They were hashtagging like they were ready, but they weren't really ready. Only God knows when you're really ready. You'll know how y'all shout it over the green light at

the Red Sea. I wonder would you shout put up the other one? I wonder would you shout over this one? Show me how excited this is to you? Yes Lord, Yes, Lord, bring it on. I want my harvest, I want my blessing, I want my boss. I'm a deep Christian. I read ruth. But if you ever asked God for a king and then you got Saul, you will start shouting over here. I know it's unnatural, but do it real quick. You

will start shouting over here. For when God says I'm not taking the thorn away, I'm leaving it to keep you grounded. I'm not moving the Red Sea. I'm moving you through it. And I'm sending the Egyptians to make sure that you keep moving because I know you'll go

back if I don't do it. Lord, when they listen to this message, please help them not to pervert the spirit of what I'm saying, because some of them will say that God is telling them they have a green light to walk away from something you called them to. And I don't want them to abuse my message and compare things to Egypt that are really the things that you've called them to. Stick out. So, please Lord, help

this message not to be misinterpreted in Jesus name. Amen, Now that I got that out of the way, you have to thank God for this. What does this mean? Y'all? Must have had a South Carolina driver's testy, I said, what does this mean? The most basic thing in the world, and then let's don't even talk about what does that mean? Yes, speed, I know how you are. I see you driving around, but take it down, taking out. This is not driver's ed class. This is the church Meetia. So how many

of you have your driver's license? Right? So you did it. You didn't shout when I asked that, You didn't dance, you didn't shake a tambourine. Remember how big it was when you when you did it. Remember when you were when you were excited about that, Olivia and you were shouting and singing about your driver's license and it was a big deal. And see, remember I only can preach of what I live. And so having a kid had just got the driver's license. We started telling all the

old stories. We went around table, had somethingily over over Labor Day, everybody saying, well, when I got my driver's license, and when I got mine, and this is the rules when I got mine. This is the first wreck I got into, and this is the mailbox I crushed, and this is all I almost died. Oh isn't that funny?

And Holly has this awful story about how when her older sister got her driver's license, they drove and they thought that the traffic lights were facing the wrong way in Miami, Florida because they had just had their contacts or what was it, your eye went to the dilated And so she's driving and she goes, huh, these traffic lights are going the wrong way. Now you are, they're driving the wrong ways, the traffic lights full. You'll notice how we want to blame stuff like, oh god, where

are you? Where are you? Get called? You put the put the things back up. He't told you put them on, put them up, put them on, put them up. He can't told you. But you ran it. You ran it. So when it came my turn to tell my driver's license story, mine's pretty funny because I didn't even want to get my driver's license. I was scared to get it. My dad comes home one day from lunch. She had barbershop. He came home from lunch. Guys, come on, we're going

to get your back your driver's license. Take the test. And we got in his jimmy, and you remember the jimmy. We got in his jimmy. And when the woman came out, when I came to back out of the parking lot, the car cut off. She's sitting next to me and she said, you have two more attempts to start your engine. After that, this test will be terminated. And sure enough, I put it in reverse again, he cuts off. It cuts off three times. Three strikes are out. She says,

this test is over. We will now go back into the office. My dad. Now, you got to think this is low country South Carolina, one hundred and seventy three degree heat in the middle of July. My dad's a big dude. He's running across the parking lot like the father run into the prodigal, come around, and he goes, you have to know my dad. He's in heaven now, but you have to really know him to get this story. How funny it is, He goes, ma'am, ma'am, he's short

on breadth. There's a whole is very dramatic, ma'am, ma'am. I'm so sorry. It's not his fault. I didn't prepare him. I didn't tell him. This old car man, when you put it in reverse with the air conditioning on, it cuts off. You have to cut off the air conditioning, the mix. How many y'all had some cars before? How many y'all first car wasn't a BMW? How many y'all first car wasn't a G wagon? I preached to some slinky people with this car, he said, he said, he said.

I didn't tell him. You got to turn the air conditioning off before you back it up, or it cuts off. Please, ma'am, please don't fail him. It's my fault, ma'am. It's my fault. He's on the cross like Jesus upon him for my sin. It's my fault. I didn't tell him how to back up. I didn't tell him how to back up, because every time I put it in reverse it didn't work. And she said, I'll give you one more chance. And when I turned off the air conditioning, the Red Sea party.

I cruised through Highway seventeen A. I parallel parked the Jimmy. I pulled it back in the parking lot and I got my license. Come on. It was exciting at the time. It was big at the time. It was huge at the time. But it didn't work every time I put it in reverse. I almost didn't get out of the parking lot to take my test. I almost failed to test in the parking lot because I put the car in reverse. When God brought his people out of Egypt, he was bringing them into freedom and he was getting

his glory for himself. But the first thing they did. I want to show you this in Exodus fourteen. Now, now you're ready for Exodus fourteen. As Pharaoh approached first in the Israelites looked up and there were the Egyptians. What do the Egyptians represent? Something more powerful than them. It represents their past, and really it represents their way of life, all that they've known. It also represents the provision that they've grown accustomed to receiving. But now what

they used to depend on is chasing them. All they can see in front of them is a red sea. Remember I told you this is not a creek m and you can't doggy paddle through this. And let me be clear, some of you are there right now. The red Sea can represent anything. I know. Some people think that the Bible is mainly a history book. I don't think that. I think that the Bible uses history to teach theology, and so it uses the example of a body of water to get meet to think about things

in my life that I'm looking at going. I don't see how. I just really don't see how. I was excited. I was dressed for battle. I had my under armour on, I got my gym membership. I was ready. I had my Bible reading plan. I was ready. I was going to do it. This was going to be a new year. A knew me all that stuff. I thought I was ready. I was ready for the Promised Land. But I was not ready for this Red Sea. I was not ready. I thought I was. I talked to somebody the other day.

They were like, growing old is not for whimps. I just didn't know. I thought I was ready to age gracefully. I always said I won't be this kind of person. I won't be that kind of person. I thought I was ready, and I was ready in a sense, but I wasn't ready for this barrier. I wasn't ready for

this test. And the first thing that you do when you come up on something that you were not ready for, not ready at all, no training, no expertise, no swimming classes, no boat, no floats, no vehicle to get you across. And God said, you've been feeling that way lately. I don't know who you are. I don't care if it's three of you or thirty thousand. But God said, you're standing in front of it right now, and it is what stands between you and freedom. It's what stands between

you and freedom. And God's gonna get his glory as you go through, as you go through. So now the word gets really deep because it says as Pharaoh was approaching them from behind, the people turned to Moses and say verse eleven, was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? Watch them put their faith in reverse? What have you done to us by bringing us up out of Egypt? They are barely out of the parking lot church, They

are barely out of Egypt. They are barely used to the idea or the concept that they are a mighty nation and the car cuts off. The first thing they do is to blame. The first thing they do is to shift responsibility. The first thing they do, and we can understand it, is to want to return to what wasn't even working in the first place. I would rather serve them than die at their hands. This is exactly what they say. Let me teach you the Bible lesson. We've always heard the Red Sea as a story of

great faith. But before they had great faith, watch at their fear. Great faith doesn't look like you think it does. I don't care what anybody tells you about how long they pray, or how much they believe God, or how they taught their children how to knit quilts and pray for missionaries at the same time. That's all wonderful, But I promise you that their testimony had a stage of terror. It's been terrorizing you, hasn't it. It's been terrorizing you some things you did in the past that you wish

you could get back. It's been terrorizing you some things you didn't do to prepare and now you're not ready. It's been terrorizing you, hasn't it. It's been chasing you, hasn't it. It's been making you want to give up on you, hasn't it. It's been making you sabotage yourself, hasn't it. It's been making you think maybe there's not a reason for me to go through at all. It's been make you want to turn around and go home. It doesn't work in reverse. You can't go back there.

And Moses is in a difficult dilemma because now they want to go back to Egypt and they're making crap up. They're making crap up. They're just this didn't happen. Didn't we say to you in Egypt, leave us alone? This is Verse twelve, Leave us alone, let us serve the Egyptians. No, you didn't say that to him in Egypt. They never said that in Egypt. If you find it, put it on some social media and I'll I'll meet up with you there. It's not out. You can't find it. They

didn't say that. This is a revision is history. Ah. Now I feel really bad for Moses, even more than I feel bad for them, and I feel bad for everybody because I you know, I would be saying the same stuff. I would be having the same thoughts. I'd be wanting to go back to I do it all the time, but Moses has to motivate them to keep moving. In fact, in verse thirteen, he answered, the people, do not be afraid. Stand firm, and you will see the

deliverance 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 to be still. Now. Part of that is true, the Lord will fight for you. But part of it is false. You don't get to be still. In fact, the moment Moses gets his motivational speech out of his mouth, God corrects him, I wonder did you ever read this about the green light at the Red Sea? I wonder did you ever really think

about this? Because Moses is saying, Hey, God's got this. He told us to come through the Red Sea. He's gonna do it. He's God, he's faithful. He brought us out. He didn't bring us as far and leave us. Just stand still, no, watch God. In verse fifteen, then the Lord said to Moses, why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites honk honk, move on. That's God honking. That's not Pharaoh chasing, that's God honking. That restless thing

inside of you. This letting you know you can't stay in these excuses and just be who you were ten years ago. That's God honking. Be beep beep by resent be beep, that's God honking. That's a bet beep. Now, God will give you a courtesy honk before he lays on the horn. And this is a courtesy honk from God. This word, this message today from God through me to you.

This is a courtesy honk from God. Because if you stay here in this dry spot and feel so sorry for yourself, or blame others, or spend your time in reverse, you're not gonna make it out the parking lot. You're not gonna get to see the manna. You're not gonna get to taste the grapes. You're not gonna bring down the giant. This is God hanking. He said, if you stand there and stay in your feelings. I don't know if you noticed, but it said they were terrified. I

guess they were. Well, see, I wouldn't because the Lord fights my battles. Shut up, Shut up. I don't want God to strike you for lying while I'm preaching. I'd have to call the ambulance. And all of that don't lie. But the miracle is not in your feelings. The miracle is in your feet. It's not in your feelings, just in your feet. What you've got to do is move, move, move,

beat beep is green. You've got the go ahead from God, even though it doesn't look like it, even though you don't see it, even though this is kind of an off road season for you, and you've never been this way before, and you've never figured this out before, and you weren't educated for this, You've got a green light. And if you sit at this green light in this intersection long enough, look, God will give you the green light. But he's not gonna drive the car. Oh oh, looks

like I hit a nerve. Y'all were singing, Jesus take the wheel. He's like, nope, yavo. I walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death. I will fear no evil because you're with me. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. It's in my feet. He enables me to go through the valley. That's what he gets me grace for, not to make it so that I never experienced a valley. Quit looking to external means of testimony. To the goodness of God. You gotta get a green light on the inside.

You gotta get a green light on the inside to say, you know what, I know. God is calling me to love this person even though they get all my last nerves. That's what I mean by a green light at the Red Sea. When God enables you to do something that you could note you could never do apart from Him, apart from me, you can do nothing. But I can do all things. Through Christ too strengthens me, and I can do this too. God's gonna get his glory. But you gotta go. You've gotta go. I don't mean running

from stuff. I don't mean moving cities. I mean walking by faith, not sight, to pass through the sea. That's the reason He brought you to the Red Sea, because the Egyptians can't swim that far. Oh God, too much should have been a series. All I came to prophesy today is you've got green and you gotta go. You gotta go. So where should I move? With Tampa Atlanta? You keep thinking it's about geography. It's not about geography. Yeah,

I walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death. Yeah, I walked through the Valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil, though I walk through. I will fear no feeling. Well, I feel fear, but the miracle is not in my feelings. This is I fear and you know what else? Song twenty three says, he maketh me lie down. He knows when it should be read, He knows when it should be green. He maketh me lie down? In what pastures? Did you just say green?

Does my whole sermon go together to get you to realize that you've got green even in the valley, that he will feed you. He will feed you in the low place. Yeah, yeah, you're depressed, Yeah, yeah, you're anxious, Yeah yeah, just girt up? Yeah yea, yeah you did it. But he's still a break you through anyway. Where's the argain? Where's argain? I need to celebrate. I need the celebrate. I need this celebrate. I need the celebrate. It is all by myself. Whoa whoa, whoo, whoo, whoa, whoa whoa.

I got that go through annoyting. I got that anyway, annongtain, I got that red sea revelation. He let me through the depths, through the depths like it was a desert. He brought me through dysfunction. He brought me into destiny. He led me through the desert. He led me through the desert. He led me through the desert. The proof that God is leading you is not that it's easy. He prepare at the table for me in the green Valley, in the presence of my enemies. He's leading me. I'm

not going the easy way. I'm going through the sea. I've been baptized in water. I've been baptized in the fathered love. I've been baptized by fire. Had up facom forth, that's go, that's go. I'm coming out of this for a fine I'm coming out of this for a storm. I'm coming out of this for the revelation. Because I got a green light at the Red Sea. I asked the Lord in coming to preach this message, what did he want to give you to get you through? And I said, show me, Lord what you want to give

to get them through? Because he gave Moses a staff. And I'm like, well, surely you can give them something that rod and thy staff. They comfort me. When Moses had a staff, David had a staff. God of Moses got to David, what did he give Annabelle. What was your name again, Lady that I said, I was going to preach to Kathy. What did he give Kathy? So I'm praying you. And the first thing God said he want to give you as you go through this right to see shout it again. You got green, you got green.

I want to see green light emojis all in the chat when I watched this message water this week, because the first thing he said he wanted to give you was grace. Grace. Grace not just any kind of grace, because we put that before we eat the casserole. Let's say grace, not that kind of grace. He said, he wanted to give you grace for your greatest embarrassments, for the thing you won't talk about, for the thing you pretend like you got through but you're really drowning in it.

I won't stay here long because you'll pretend like you got to go to the bathroom and get up and walk out, if like you're talking about this, but this between you and God. And he told me to say it just like that, he said, tell him. I want to give them grace for their greatest embarrassment, for their most spectacular failure, for their most idiotic mistake. Remember, and I need to show you this again in someone because I never saw it quite this way before. I thought

the Red Sea was about faith. I didn't know us also about failure. They rebelled, please one more time in the back end, I'll stop. I just want you to see this one more time. Would y'all be happy if I picked this up next week too? Would you be happy if I let me know in the chat? Because I think we need to keep talking about this idea that God will give you a green light, the strength and the assurance and the calling to go through something that you've never seen anybody else go through, and that

you've convinced yourself. I was telling my friend the other day. They were saying, well, you're gonna get better at this, and you're gonna develop that. I said, I'm forty one. I don't believe you. Stop lying. If I'm not all those things by now, I'm never gonna be I didn't want to hear it, you know. I want to put it in reverse. Always been this way, So now I'm gonna be stuck in the park. I'm gonna be stuck outside of the peace of God because I want to

go back to Egypt. My dad's running the crowd. Give him another chance. Please, he's breathing heavy. Thank God for second chances. You better voluntarily testify. Third chances, four chances, fifth chances. Because it said, it said, it said, they did not remember verse seven, So they rebelled. When you don't remember, You rebel when you don't remember who God is, what he's done, what he's called you, what Jesus has done for you on the cross. When you forget that,

your sole focus becomes what's in front of you. And the Red Sea is big, so of course you want to go back. Where else are you going to go? But you just saw the nile turn to blood. You just saw frogs cover the land. You just saw the firstborn of Egypt struck dead. Because God will get his glory. He's committed to it, and God is committed to your freedom. They rebelt. They rebelled by the sea, by the Red Sea. I knew they rebelled in the wilderness. I knew they

rebelled at sign. I remember they built the Golden Calve, dancing around and taking their clothes off and all that. But they rebelled before they even got out. They almost failed to test the faith in the parking lot on their way to the Promised Land. But what really got me was the word yet in verse eight, Yet he saved them for his name's sake. Don't you know? He leadeth me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake, green pastures, stillwater. They rebel, Yet he saved them for

his namesake, to make his mighty power known. I wonder if God brought you to the Red Sea to give you a green light, to kill off the insecurities, to kill off the arrogance, to kill off the idols, to kill off the Egyptians. I wonder if He brought you to this not to kill you, because it wouldn't make much sense if He did all of that to bring you out of Egypt and sent his son to spare you and then left you here at this red sea. Would have They rebel. But my soul got happy when

I read what he did. Verse nine. He rebuked the Red Sea. See the symmetry of the text. They rebelled. He rebuked. That's what God will do. Okay, I'm gonna preach it boldly. God's gonna do it for you anyway. God's gonna do it for you. Anyway. But don't list your resume of all the good things you did, of why God should help you. Right now, you won't need any of that. It's not what you did that's gonna

get him to do what only he could do. He's gonna do it in spite of it, in spite of it, in spite of your stupid in spite of your stubborn He's gonna give you grace for your greatest embarrassment, and your kids will live to tell of it, and your grandkids will know about it. He's gonna save you anyway. I declare it. You gotta read life, but you gotta go. You got green, you gotta green, You got green, but you gotta go. I don't know. I don't know what grace you need, but God said, I'm gonna give you

grace for your greatest embarrassing. But that's not all the infomercial used to say. But wait, there's more. Yeah. I don't know who would leave at this point in the sermon, but I encourage you to stay for this last thing I'm gonna give you. I'm telling you right now, God's spirit is in this place. The Word of God is alive and active. I'm preaching this. Whoever you are, the Lord said, is green. It's green. It's green. It's green. It's green. You will make it. You will make it.

You will make it. You will make it. You will make it. So, he said, grace for your greatest embarrassment. He said he wanted to give you resource for your deepest need. Not the one you think you need, it the one he knows you need. If that's peace, you're gonna have it. It's going to be green in the valley. It's gonna be dark, but it's gonna be green. He said, I'm gonna give you resource for your deepest need. Do

you know what else? He said? And I know when I hear God and when I'm just making stuff up, But all of these, he said, he wanted to give you today. He said, he wanted to give you energy. Well, you need it, I can tell. He said. He wants to give you divine power to demolish strongholds and a fresh feeling of the Holy Spirit. Fill your horn with oil and be on your way. It's great. You gotta go. Thank you, Jesus. He said. He wanted to give you

energy for your most draining relationships. Don't look at anybody right now. Do not look at anybody right now. They will not like that, they will not like that. But just receive it. Just receive it. Just receie that I wrote these down because I knew i'd forget the fourth one. What was the fourth one, Lauren? Oh? Yeah, he said he was gonna give you evidence. Whoo whoo. He said, I'm gonna give you evidence is for your most stubborn unbelief. You see that staff in your hand, that's evidence of

God's faithfulness. You're gonna point back to this red sea. I told Graham this morning, I'm gonna write a song called Grandkids. It's gonna say I'm gonna tell my grandkids about what God did. I don't know how the melody is gonna go yet, but that's what I'm saying. God is gonna give you evidence that will serve for a future generation to know the Lord. Wow, and to prove

to you that he can be trusted. And the final thing, because I was like Lord, that almost the first letter of those almost spells green, the grace, and the resource got any ease, Yeah, energy and evidence. I said, there's not a lot of words that start within Lord. We gotta spell green here so they can remember this, because I want to tell the people you got green. You got green. You don't have to stay here and die just because you feel afraid or just because you feel ashamed.

So the Lord spoke to me another driving word. He said, navigate. He said, I'm gonna help you navigate your most complicated places. So that's what we mean about a green light at the red sea. The red Sea's not gonna move. God's gonna give you grace for your greatest embarrassment. You don't think Moses was embarrassed that he killed an Egyptian and now he's having to deliver people who only know him as a murderer, and God gave him grace for that.

Think about the resources that were needed. Hey, did you ever see in John chapter six when Jesus fed the five thousand with the little boys life? Did you see it before? One thing I don't know if you ever saw is said that they didn't have enough food. Can you put that verse up there? They said, here's a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, But how far will they go among so many? So you don't have a lot of bread, But watch what they did have verse ten, Jesus that have the people

sit down. There was plenty of grass in that place. That's a weird detail to point out there's plenty of green. Yeah, just sit down in it for a second. Yeah. God's going to give you somewhere to sit. He's going to give you something to sit in in this season. I know it in my spirit. I declare it to your spirit. Do you receive it? Are you receiving this? I didn't come here to perform a speech for you. Do you receive this in your spirit? So listen, he said, I'm

going to meet the deepest need. You've been asking me for more friends, but I want to fix what's on the inside of you that doesn't reach out to the ones you already have. Yes, So I'm gonna I'm gonna give you resource for your deepest needs. I'm gonna give you energy for your most draining relationships. You're gonna be putting up with people. I'm gonna show you how to dodge them some too, so you can save your energy. God's going to do this for you. He will do it.

He will do it. You got a green light at the Red Sea. He's going to give it to you and You're going to have the rest of your life when you pass through this season the evidence of His faithfulness, and you can preach to your unbelief tell him who Jesus is to you, Tell him what God already did for you. You're gonna be able to preach about this for the rest of your life. What you're going through right now, you receive it. That's God honking b b H. But if you stand still, you die. You die inside.

So that's why God's gonna help you navigate. There's no way, Buck. I want you to come take this because I know what you're going through, and I had it in my heart for you to hang that up on your mirror and just remember that. All right. I want you to show that to Miss Tammy too. But just look, just just just lift your hands for a moment. Lift your hands for a moment. Lift your hands for a moment. The spirit of grace, we need you. It's deep waters

ahead and fierce enemies behind them. We got a green light. Let us know we can do all things. And greater see that is in me than he that is in the world. So I speak to your people not to run away from problems today, but to move forward into your promises, confident of your presence. Now, Lord, your word has gone forth. Today, your word has gone forth. You've fed us the bread from heaven. We're just taking this moment with our hands lifted, just to let you know

that we know that this sea doesn't part unless you speak. Yeah, So when we ask you to make a way for us, we're not asking you to drive the car. Finally, Lord, before I close my time of ministry, I want to pray for the person who has put it in reverse. They've been going back, but I see you running across the parking a lot. Heavenly Father, I'll see you run it across the parking lot, talking about give them another chance, another chance, a greater grace, and a new beginning. I

declare it over your life today in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of things I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. You can also help us reach others by investing today at Elevationchurch dot org. Slash give and thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast.