Out of The Frying Pan and Into The Fire

Austin Prince

Exodus • Sermon • Submitted 3 years ago

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Exodus 15:1–27 (ESV) — 1 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. 2 The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. 3 The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name. 4 “Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea. 5 The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. 6 Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy. 7 In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble. 8 At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea. 9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’ 10 You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11 “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? 12 You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them. 13 “You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode. 14 The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia. 15 Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. 16 Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone, till your people, O Lord, pass by, till the people pass by whom you have purchased. 17 You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established. 18 The Lord will reign forever and ever.” 19 For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea. 20 Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. 21 And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.” 22 Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah. 24 And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25 And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them, 26 saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.” 27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.

Introduction

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Highlights from Ex. 15

Moses weakness of tongue is now singing praises

We’re going to join Moses in worshipping the Lord in this song today.

The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation (v.2)

This is my God, and I will praise Him (Response to revelation - not our imaginings/feelings)

The Lord is a man of war - Revelation 19

Revelation 19:11–16 (ESV) — 11 Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. 12 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. 13 He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. 14 And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. 15 From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.

God’s right hand is glorious in power - He shatters his enemies (v.6)

The easy sovereignty of God

See Revelation. The devil and Michael are more of equals than the devil and Christ

And the songs dies down as they walk through the desert.

The rest of the book sets a trajectory of fickleness more than faithfulness.

The multiple songs of Moses

Read Deuteronomy 31:19-32:47

See Ps. 78 and Revelation

Psalm 78:5–8 (ESV) — 5 He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, 6 that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, 7 so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments; 8 and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psalm 78:11–20 (ESV) — 11 They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them. 12 In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap. 14 In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light. 15 He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep. 16 He made streams come out of the rock and caused waters to flow down like rivers. 17 Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert. 18 They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved. 19 They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness? 20 He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?”

Psalm 78:36–43 (ESV) — 36 But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues. 37 Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant. 38 Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath. 39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again. 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert! 41 They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel. 42 They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe, 43 when he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.

What happened in those three days? God did not fail and we are not told that they sinned. This is God’s plan. They went to bed with Rachael, but they woke up with Leah.

God’s provision and testing.

3 Days without water, 3 weeks without food, etc.

The anticipations grows in the object of your desire is near. Think of having to go to the bathroom and you see the bathroom sign, or thinking about being more thirsty when you are near the water fountain

Testing: Not just sweet water all the time, but bitter waters made sweet.

There is a tree they can make a better waters of Maura sweet

God promises that if we obey him he will heal us. This is the first time we get a new name for God, the healer (Rapha)

Remember Naomi and Ruth, she told Ruth to call her Marah bitterness, but her Elim was coming with Boaz and then with David and then with Jesus

Philippians 4:19+ And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 3:20+ Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,

Psalm 50:10-15 “For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills. 11 “I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine. 12 “If I were hungry I would not tell you, For the world is Mine, and all it contains. 13 “Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats? 14 “Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High; 15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.”

What does Jesus teach about burdens and trials? How are we to carry our crosses? What did the disciples think about when Jesus said that?

See Jeremiah Burroughs on this point, but what is there in our lives that hasn’t been experienced and conquered by Christ? He has been poor, He has been lowly, He has been betrayed, He has been beaten, etc.

There is not a place that you can go or experience that you can have that he is unable to comfort in sympathize

In the New Testament, Marah and Elim are right beside each other. We carry our crosses, but we are freshly supplied with the grace of Christ. We are not waiting but we are abundantly receiving grace through every trial all the time

A good father reproves the son he lives - see proverbs — that’s what God is doing here

Repentance/Confession:

We often join Israel in easy praise when things are good and quick grumbling when trials come. We too are fickle, fussy, and full of complaints - disappointed in God.

Let’s take a minute and repent of our grumbling and discontented hearts. Let’s repent of our minds that lean on their own understanding and fail to remember God rightly.

Assurance:

Even though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, or you walk for three days with no water, are you suffer trials, he leaves his flock to still waters in good pastures. God is our Rapha - our great Healer who was obedient when we were not. He who knew no sin, no complaints, no fickleness, took up the cross with joy and become sin that we might become the righteousness of God.