THE RIGHT CAN BE WRONG AND SO IS WHAT’S LEFT

EXODUS 14:22-29

Pastor Rick Jackson

Obviously right and left are helpful directional instructions. Genesis 13:9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. But sometimes right and left are both wrong. Sometimes it would be disastrous to go either left or right. Exodus 14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

I. GOD’S WORD TO ISRAEL

1. To The People [Deuteronomy 5:32-33]

2. To Leaders [Deuteronomy 17:14-20]

3. To Be a Testimony [Deuteronomy 28:14-15]

II. GOD’S WORD TO JOSHUA

1. Obedience takes Strength [Joshua 1:6-7]

2. Obedience takes Courage [Joshua 1:6-7]

Joshua 23:6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;

3. Obedience Pays Off [Joshua 1:8, Ps. 1]

III. GOD’S WORD TO US

1. Animals Obey Him [1 Samuel 6:12]

And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.

2. All Ages can Obey Him [2 Chronicles 34:1ff]

3. We should Obey Him [Proverbs 4:20-27