GOD IS ON THE THRONE THOUGH ALL APPEARS HOPELESSLY LOST THEY’RE GIVEN A MEDIATOR POINTING TO ANOTHER WAY THE LORD ACTS, PROTECTS, AND RESCUES THE RESULT IS WORSHIP GOD IS ON THE THRONE EX 14:1-2 - THEN THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, “TELL THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL TO TURN BACK AND ENCAMP…"

GOD IS ON THE THRONE, LEADING THE WAY, TAKING THE INITIATIVE, RULING GRACIOUSLY OVER HIS PEOPLE…EVEN WHEN THEY DON’T SEE IT, EVEN WHEN IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE. GOD IS ON THE THRONE EX 14:1-2 - TURN BACK AND ENCAMP IN FRONT OF PI- HAHIROTH, BETWEEN MIGDOL AND THE SEA, IN FRONT OF BAAL-ZEPHON; YOU SHALL ENCAMP FACING IT, BY THE SEA.

GOD IS ON THE THRONE WORKING HIS PLAN OF REDEMPTION. GOD IS ON THE THRONE

EX 14:3 - FOR PHARAOH WILL SAY OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, ‘THEY ARE WANDERING IN THE LAND; THE WILDERNESS HAS SHUT THEM IN.’

WANDERING = LOST, AIMLESS, WITHOUT DIRECTION SHUT IN = ENTRAPPED/ ENTANGLED GOD IS ON THE THRONE

WHAT PHARAOH SEES AS WEAKNESS AND GOD’S ABSENCE, IS ACTUALLY GOD PERSONALLY, PROVIDENTIALLY WORKING AMONG HIS PEOPLE TO BRING ABOUT PHARAOH'S FINAL ULTIMATE DEFEAT. GOD IS ON THE THRONE EX 14:4 - I WILL HARDEN PHARAOH’S HEART, AND HE WILL PURSUE THEM….

EX 14:5 - WHEN THE KING OF EGYPT WAS TOLD THAT THE PEOPLE HAD FLED, THE MIND OF PHARAOH AND HIS SERVANTS WAS CHANGED TOWARD THE PEOPLE… GOD IS ON THE THRONE EX 14:4 - I WILL HARDEN PHARAOH’S HEART, AND HE WILL PURSUE THEM…AND I WILL GET GLORY OVER PHARAOH AND ALL HIS HOST, AND THE EGYPTIANS SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD. WHAT LOOKS TO THE WORLD AS ABSURD AND WEAK IS ACTUALLY GOD’S WISDOM AND POWER ON DISPLAY IN DEFEATING HIS ENEMY AND FREEING HIS PEOPLE. THOUGH ALL APPEARS HOPELESSLY LOST EX 14:6-7 - SO HE MADE READY HIS CHARIOT AND TOOK HIS ARMY WITH HIM, 7 AND TOOK SIX HUNDRED CHOSEN CHARIOTS AND ALL THE OTHER CHARIOTS OF EGYPT WITH OFFICERS OVER ALL OF THEM.

ISRAEL IS IN A HOPELESS SITUATION, FACING CERTAIN DEATH AND DEFEAT THOUGH ALL APPEARS HOPELESSLY LOST EX 14:10 - WHEN PHARAOH DREW NEAR, THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL LIFTED UP THEIR EYES, AND BEHOLD, THE EGYPTIANS WERE MARCHING AFTER THEM, AND THEY FEARED GREATLY. THOUGH ALL APPEARS HOPELESSLY LOST EX 14:11-12 - AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL CRIED OUT TO THE LORD. 11 THEY SAID TO MOSES, “IS IT BECAUSE THERE ARE NO GRAVES IN EGYPT THAT YOU HAVE TAKEN US AWAY TO DIE IN THE WILDERNESS? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO US IN BRINGING US OUT OF EGYPT? IS NOT THIS WHAT WE SAID TO YOU IN EGYPT: ‘LEAVE US ALONE THAT WE MAY SERVE THE EGYPTIANS’? FOR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR US TO SERVE THE EGYPTIANS THAN TO DIE IN THE WILDERNESS.” THOUGH ALL APPEARS HOPELESSLY LOST

THEY ONLY SEE THINGS BY THEIR LIMITED PERSPECTIVE AND MEASURE GOD BY THAT STANDARD. PS 106:7

THEY SAW ONLY HORIZONTAL SOLUTIONS AND THEREFORE GREATLY FEARED. “YE FEARFUL SAINTS FRESH COURAGE TAKE, THE CLOUDS YE SO MUCH DREAD ARE BIG WITH MERCY, AND SHALL BREAK IN BLESSINGS ON YOUR HEAD. JUDGE NOT THE LORD BY FEEBLE SENSE, BUT TRUST HIM FOR HIS GRACE; BEHIND A FROWNING PROVIDENCE, HE HIDES A SMILING FACE.” WILLIAM COWPER THEY’RE GIVEN A MEDIATOR POINTING TO ANOTHER WAY EX 14:13-14— AND MOSES SAID TO THE PEOPLE, “FEAR NOT, STAND FIRM, AND SEE THE SALVATION OF THE LORD, WHICH HE WILL WORK FOR YOU TODAY. FOR THE EGYPTIANS WHOM YOU SEE TODAY, YOU SHALL NEVER SEE AGAIN. THE LORD WILL FIGHT FOR YOU, AND YOU HAVE ONLY TO BE SILENT.”

THEY ARE GIVEN A “WHO.” THEY’RE GIVEN A MEDIATOR POINTING TO ANOTHER WAY

MOSES IS BANKING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD

THE LORD WILL FIGHT FOR YOU

YOU NEED ONLY BE SILENT / STILL THE LORD ACTS, PROTECTS, AND RESCUES

EX 14:15 - THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, “WHY DO YOU CRY TO ME? TELL THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL TO GO FORWARD.

EX 14:16 - LIFT UP YOUR STAFF, AND STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND OVER THE SEA AND DIVIDE IT, THAT THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL MAY GO THROUGH THE SEA ON DRY GROUND. THE LORD ACTS, PROTECTS, AND RESCUES EX 14:17 - I WILL HARDEN THE HEART OF THE EGYPTIANS SO THAT THEY SHALL GO IN AFTER THEM… AND I WILL GET GLORY OVER PHARAOH AND ALL HIS HOST, HIS CHARIOTS, AND HIS HORSEMEN. AND THE EGYPTIANS SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD. THE LORD ACTS, PROTECTS, AND RESCUES

EX 14:19-20 - THEN THE ANGEL OF GOD WHO WAS GOING BEFORE THE HOST OF ISRAEL MOVED AND WENT BEHIND THEM, AND THE PILLAR OF CLOUD MOVED FROM BEFORE THEM AND STOOD BEHIND THEM, COMING BETWEEN THE HOST OF EGYPT AND THE HOST OF ISRAEL. THE LORD ACTS, PROTECTS, AND RESCUES

EX 14:21-22 - MOSES STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND OVER THE SEA, AND THE LORD DROVE THE WATERS BACK BY A STRONG EAST WIND ALL NIGHT AND MADE THE SEA DRY LAND, AND THE WATERS WERE DIVIDED. AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WENT INTO THE MIDST OF THE SEA ON DRY GROUND, THE WATERS BEING A WALL TO THEM ON THEIR RIGHT HAND AND ON THEIR LEFT. THE LORD ACTS, PROTECTS, AND RESCUES

HERE, THOSE WHO TRUST IN GOD DO NOT RECEIVE WATER, WIND, OR WRATH.

INSTEAD, THEY WALK THROUGH SAFELY ON SOLID, DRY GROUND WITH THE WATER OF GOD’S WRATH PILED UP LIKE MASSIVE CITY WALLS. THE LORD ACTS, PROTECTS, AND RESCUES EX 14:23-25 - THE EGYPTIANS PURSUED AND WENT IN AFTER THEM INTO THE MIDST OF THE SEA, ALL PHARAOH’S HORSES, HIS CHARIOTS, AND HIS HORSEMEN. AND IN THE MORNING WATCH THE LORD IN THE PILLAR OF FIRE AND OF CLOUD LOOKED DOWN ON THE EGYPTIAN FORCES AND THREW THE EGYPTIAN FORCES INTO A PANIC, CLOGGING THEIR CHARIOT WHEELS SO THAT THEY DROVE HEAVILY. THE LORD ACTS, PROTECTS, AND RESCUES

EX 14:25 - LET US FLEE FROM BEFORE ISRAEL, FOR I AM FIGHTS FOR THEM AGAINST THE EGYPTIANS. THE LORD ACTS, PROTECTS, AND RESCUES EX 14:26-29 - STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND OVER THE SEA, THAT THE WATERS MAY COME BACK UPON THE EGYPTIANS, UPON THEIR CHARIOTS, AND UPON THEIR HORSEMEN…AND AS THE EGYPTIANS FLED INTO IT, THE LORD THREW THE EGYPTIANS INTO THE MIDST OF THE SEA…NOT ONE OF THEM REMAINED. BUT THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WALKED ON DRY GROUND THROUGH THE SEA THE RESULT WAS WORSHIP

EX 14:30-31— THUS THE LORD SAVED ISRAEL THAT DAY FROM THE HAND OF THE EGYPTIANS, AND ISRAEL SAW THE EGYPTIANS DEAD ON THE SEASHORE. ISRAEL SAW THE GREAT POWER THAT THE LORD USED AGAINST THE EGYPTIANS, SO THE PEOPLE FEARED THE LORD, AND THEY BELIEVED IN THE LORD AND IN HIS SERVANT MOSES. THIS IS FIRST A WORD TO ISRAEL AS THEY STAND AT ANOTHER BODY OF WATER IN ANOTHER WILDERNESS. GOD IS ON THE THRONE WORKING ON YOUR BEHALF THOUGH YOU FACE AN INSURMOUNTABLE ENEMY LISTEN TO THE MEDIATOR CALLING YOU TO TRUST IN GOD WATCH THE LORD ACT, PROTECT, AND RESCUE AND WORSHIP IN THE PROMISED LAND THIS IS SECONDLY A WORD TO US AS WE STAND IN THE WILDERNESS OF SIN AT THE WATER OF GOD’S WRATH. GOD IS ON THE THRONE WORKING HIS RESCUING GRACE THOUGH YOU ARE DEAD IN YOUR SIN GOD’S MEDIATOR, JESUS, HAS COME. DON’T TRY TO ADD TO HIS WORK, TRUST HIS WORK ON YOUR BEHALF TRUST HIM & WATCH THE LORD ACT, PROTECT, AND RESCUE AND YOU WILL WORSHIP IN THE PROMISED LAND FINALLY A WORD TO BELIEVERS WHO’VE BEEN RESCUED FROM THE WILDERNESS OF SIN & THE WRATH OF GOD.

GOD IS STILL ON THE THRONE SUSTAINING YOU BY GRACE THOUGH YOU ARE DAILY IN IMPOSSIBLE, BROKEN CIRCUMSTANCES YOU NEED ONLY BE SILENT AND REST IN JESUS’ DAILY PRESENCE, PROTECTION, AND POWER. HOPE IN HIM & WATCH THE LORD ACT, PROTECT, AND RESCUE AND WORSHIP