The Parting Of The Sea Series

- No burden is too heavy for prayer because:

As John R. Rice says, “Prayer can do what God can do!”

3) God gives the delivered a song.

Most of know how Moses felt as he sang and Miriam felt as she sang and danced and waved that tambourine. Folks I have been to MEETINGS. The musicians get us worked up. The preacher’s oratory gets us worked up. The music and invitation get us worked up to walk an aisle. We have “felt good” so we talk about how “God was there!”

Maybe so, maybe not. Sometimes we just work up a feeling and call it “God”. But I know this - when God REALLY touches you and me it will set us to singing, shouting, dancing, etc.

Worship leaders today are constantly telling us to raise our arms and clap our hands, so a lot of people do it now every time they go to church. That is fine if that is the way you enjoy the Lord for all he has done for you.

But when it is manufactured it becomes meaningless. Vance Havner says the most excited thing in a barnyard is a chicken with its head cut off, but it is still dead.

I don’t believe Miriam danced and praised every day. In the next forty years we will hear more of Moses’ sighs than his songs. This day was special. When God comes - whether you wave your arms or go out in the woods alone to cry you will have a new song to sing - a song of true praise. But I must end on a negative note. . .

4) God separates us in the final storm of judgment (Ps. 77:17-19).

This pictures the final where the saved are spared andthe lost are not. This was a terror filled night of thunder and lightning. (Ps. 77:17-19). On one side of the angel of God was darkness and on the other was light (14:19-20).

One day God will shake this whole universe and the Bible says the lost will cry for the rocks and mountains to hide them from the wrath of the Lord (Rev. 6:15-17). I’m reminded of the old song,

“I dreamed of the great judgment morning

When the lost were told their fate

They cried for the rocks and the mountains

They prayed but their prayers were too late”

What happened to the Egyptian army will be exactly what happens to the lost who are left on earth when Jesus comes and removes His church. Paul says,

The Lord will come like a thief. While people are saying ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape (I Th. 5:3). Exodus 14:28 says of Egypt’s soldiers, “Not one of them survived.”