CROSS THE SEA, NOT YOUR WIRES

Mark 4:41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?

EXODUS 14

Pastor Rick Jackson

We know that when working with electrical systems that crossing your wires can be annoying when it doesn't work or catastrophic when it destroys the object. Many times people cross their wires spiritually. They seek God's help without doing things God's way. Or they ignore God's warnings and are destroyed as a result. We see both these things in Exodus 14 as well as the success when we do things God's way.

I. CROSS YOUR HEART? [v. 1-10, Jer. 17:9-11]

1. The Deceitfulness of the Heart [v. 1-5]

Jer. 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

2. The Drive of the Heart [v. 6-8]

Jer. 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

3. The Danger of the Heart [v. 9-10]

Jer. 17:11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

II. CROSS THE SEA [v. 10-19]

1. Steps of Fear [v. 10-12]

2. Strength of Faith [v. 13-14]

3. Steps of Faith [v. 15-19]

III. CROSSING YOUR WIRES [v. 20-31]

1. Same Difference? [v. 20]

The same Word of God that comforts believers, condemns the unbeliever.
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

2. Strong Deliverance [v. 21-22]

3. Sudden Destruction [v. 23-31]

Proverbs 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.