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Paul
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Shelby
Hey, this is Shelby and Paul, and we are walking you through the book of Exodus today. We're in chapters 14 through 16. And Paul, you told me that these are some of your favorite chapters in the book of Exodus. So bring us right into it. Why do you love these chapters?
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Paul
Yeah, I mean, this is like, the moment, right? This is the thing that we've been building up towards that God is going to deliver his people from Egypt, right? And now the moment has finally come. A pharaoh's finally let them go, but he changes his mind, and so he pursues after them. And so you have, you know, this scene that we've probably often heard before or seen in movies, like Prince of Egypt we talked about a little a few days ago. But, you know, the parting of the Red Sea, like, what a moment. Like, I just imagining that in my. Like, imagining it makes me awestruck, you know, And I think just because we've heard this story probably many times doesn't mean we should lose the power of it. That literally, like, they crossed through the sea on dry ground, and then once they were on the other side, the sea came crashing back and destroyed the whole army. Like, that's. It's such a cool story. Such a cool story. Yes. I also really love these chapters because, honestly, to confess, like, I really relate to Israel a lot. I think in these chapters following, like, they literally just witnessed, like, like we said, Israel this crazy scene, right? And yet immediately, they are complaining about God's goodness, right? And I'm really not much better than them. But I think, like, we often find ourselves forgetting the things that God has done for us. And like I talked about yesterday, the importance of remembering what God has done for us, right? And it makes me just realize, like, it's no wonder that God instituted the Passover, right? It's not even been a few days and they're already doubting God's goodness, right? And so a yearly reminder probably isn't even enough, Right? And so, yeah, these chapters just make you in awe of God, truly.
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Shelby
Yeah. I feel like whenever I see the Israelites or anyone else in scripture responding in a, you know, way that, like, complaining right after God does this miraculous thing, I like to think that I would not be a part of that crowd. But then if I observe my just, like, attitudes and responses in my daily life, I'm very sure that I would be part of that complaining crowd. And so. So I love that the Bible gives us those really human moments, and we're going to continue to see those throughout Exodus. I know in chapter 15, though, as we get toward the end of today's reading, there's a really significant moment that kind of foreshadows things to come. Can you walk us through that?
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Paul
Yeah. So in chapter 15, verse 26, God has this declaration where he says that if they do what is right, if they obey him, that they won't receive these diseases like the Egyptians did. And I think implied in that is that if they do obey, they won't receive those diseases. Right. And I think that can often cause us pause, you know, especially considering, you know, we know that we are saved by faith and by God's grace. Right. And so I think I want to point us to a specific truth about this. It's that, you know, Israel's obedience here isn't earning God's love or their salvation. And we know this because God just delivered them, right. Their salvation from Egypt is complete. It's done. He did that apart from anything that they did. And in fact, I'm sure that they were probably plenty disobedient while they lived in Egypt, and yet he still delivered them. Right. And so it's important, you know, remembering that the relationship between obedience and salvation is not one that's necessarily about obeying enough so that God will save us. Right. But that God already saved us, and the obedience we have in the future is in response to that. And so God's blessings and the, you know, the joy of following him certainly is predicated on our obedience. Right. There are certain blessings in the Old Testament that God will give if they obey and curses that he will give if they won't. And this is a foreshadowing of that, that we're going to get the law later. But it's just important to remember, like, this isn't a works relationship, right. That God is their God, and that's been established by the Exodus. And that won't change no matter what they do.
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Shelby
Yeah, I'm glad that you brought that up, because I think that we could have questions about the relationship between our salvation and the blessings that God provides for obedience. And so I know we'll continue to get into that throughout this book and some other Old Testament books to come. But, man, what a climactic moment. Today we see God deliver his people. And maybe for me, the big thing that I'm taking away is we saw God say he was going to deliver his people. And then we saw this struggle between Moses and Pharaoh. And God is bringing these plagues and working through Moses and Aaron. And there could have been plenty moments in there where you could doubt what was actually going to happen. But God has been faithful and he has delivered his people. And that's a truth that we can hold on to.
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Paul
That's right.
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Shelby
All right, we'll be back tomorrow to talk through the next few chapters in the book of Exodus. Foreign.
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