Stand Firm (3 of 7)
Series: Walking with Moses
Jeff Strite
Exodus 14:5-31
OPENING: At the entrance to a one lane bridge in Sonoma Calif.: ''When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.''
APPLICATION: Why does that seem so silly?
Probably because it's so obvious.
If the water was up that far you couldn't read sign anyway!
The world can often be like that - often overlooking the obvious.
I. The people of Israel crossing the Red Sea is an obvious and unavoidable part of scripture.
Cecil B. Demille's depiction of this event (in ''The Ten Commandments'') was beautiful. You could almost sense the awe that God's people must have felt as they passed beneath those walls of water.
The crossing of the Red Sea is a central part of the story of Israel. However, as obvious a part of God's Word as that event was, there are critics who reject it. They can't accept story as true because - in order to do so - they must accept God and His role in the story.
But there exists a significant problem for the skeptics. There is a rule among historians: if a story is central to a people's history, that story must have some element of truth to it. Critics therefore must deal with this Red Sea story by offering some alternative explanation - even if that explanation is as absurd as a sign that's under water.
ILLUS: In the 1980's, Pennsylvania State Univ. physicist Dr. Alistair Frasier addressed the Optical Society of America and proclaimed that the crossing of the Red Sea was a particularly accurate picture of a mirage.
A Mirage?
Joshua 2:8-11 tells us ''Before the spies lay down for the night, (the prostitute that protected the spies) went up on the roof and said to them, ''I know that the LORD has given this land to you and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in
this country are melting in fear because of you.
We have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and wh ...
Series: Walking with Moses
Jeff Strite
Exodus 14:5-31
OPENING: At the entrance to a one lane bridge in Sonoma Calif.: ''When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.''
APPLICATION: Why does that seem so silly?
Probably because it's so obvious.
If the water was up that far you couldn't read sign anyway!
The world can often be like that - often overlooking the obvious.
I. The people of Israel crossing the Red Sea is an obvious and unavoidable part of scripture.
Cecil B. Demille's depiction of this event (in ''The Ten Commandments'') was beautiful. You could almost sense the awe that God's people must have felt as they passed beneath those walls of water.
The crossing of the Red Sea is a central part of the story of Israel. However, as obvious a part of God's Word as that event was, there are critics who reject it. They can't accept story as true because - in order to do so - they must accept God and His role in the story.
But there exists a significant problem for the skeptics. There is a rule among historians: if a story is central to a people's history, that story must have some element of truth to it. Critics therefore must deal with this Red Sea story by offering some alternative explanation - even if that explanation is as absurd as a sign that's under water.
ILLUS: In the 1980's, Pennsylvania State Univ. physicist Dr. Alistair Frasier addressed the Optical Society of America and proclaimed that the crossing of the Red Sea was a particularly accurate picture of a mirage.
A Mirage?
Joshua 2:8-11 tells us ''Before the spies lay down for the night, (the prostitute that protected the spies) went up on the roof and said to them, ''I know that the LORD has given this land to you and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in
this country are melting in fear because of you.
We have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and wh ...
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