The Red Sea 7

Location: West Seattle Campus
Preacher: James Noreiga
Date:10/13/10
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The Red Sea - 7
Constantly God shows up
God Mocks Pharoh and Egypt with his plagues
He even show the oppressors grace by revealing the true God
God used pharoh to destry pharoh
Just likes he still does
The Isaelites look back at the army approaching and yearn for the old place of slavery
"wasn't this ocean on your map God?" Mockery
It would have been better to have left me in bondage
Impassibility is the only way we are freed from bondage - Jesus' Death and Ressurection
God puts me into an impossible place where I must have faith (which he gives) to get through
We have only to be silent for God to deliver us - Like in Exodus where God responds to the fear with a demand for silence
God showers his grace by even drying out the sea floor they walked on
God is the Lord our Healer
He has destroyed the enemy
God invites us to reset our view of normal (slavery as the norm vs. our identity in Christ as the norm)
God used the evil of Pharoh toward salvation and the promised land
The very thing that saved us is the very thing that destroyed the enemy (I.e. the water)
Now the enemy has no force, no power over us like the egyptians death
Weapon of the enemy: Shame for our sin
There is nothing that could shame Jesus, he scorned the shame of the Cross
We in Christ now are immune to shame unless we open the door to welcome us in
Jesus was imperviuos to shame because he knew his identity
The crux scares we not a sybol of shame, instead a reminder of His identity as God's Son
Similarly my scares are a reminder of my identity as God's son
My scares and the memories of my sin are a reminder that That is how big God's grace to me is