Trust in the Lord, He Makes a Way - Pastor Tom Loghry
Our Exodus series concludes in Exodus 13:17-14:31, where the Israelites complete their exodus from Egypt by crossing the Red Sea by the power of God.
Editing note: The audio recording for this week was a bit choppy.
Transcript:
Wednesday night was training night over at the Chopmist Hill Fire Station. The North Scituate crew, rescue crew came over with their truck to show us their equipment and instruct us as to how we could help them, help them on medical emergencies, scenes, going over everything that they had. One of the things we went over was the stair chair. Now you might not be familiar with what a stair chair is for, but the name is kind of a dead giveaway. When we show up at a scene where the patient can't walk to the rescue and we can't bring a stretcher to them because of stairs or other obstacles, then we grab the stair chair, and with someone standing at the back and a person grabbing the front handles, we can lift and carry patients outside to the stretcher.
It works well, but there can be a challenge that arises along the way. As you might imagine, sitting in a chair when people are picking you up, that can be a little bit of an unsettling feeling and, and so the patients sometimes struggle with trust and they wanna reach out and grab something, feeling unbalanced. Now, it's actually when that happens that things get thrown off and they might get dropped. The safest thing they can do is to just stay still and to let us carry them out. That's why we're there. They called and we're there to help.
The people of Israel were enslaved in Egypt, originally favored and free during the time of Joseph, who had been made second in command in Egypt. They were subjugated by later Pharaohs who feared them 'cause they were getting too big. So greatly they feared them, they ordered the murder of their, of the Hebrew newborn baby boys. The people cried out for deliverance and their cries did not fall upon deaf ears. The God of their fathers, Yahweh, the one called I Am, was prepared to deliver them in keeping with his promise to Abraham. He raised up Moses and Aaron of the tribe of Levi to lead them out of slavery and to bring them to the promised land of Canaan. Now, at this point in our study of Exodus, now after 10 plagues demonstrating his power culminating in the death of the Egyptian firstborn and the deliverance of the firstborn of Israel under the blood of the Passover lamb, the people are leaving Egypt because of God's hand of intervention, enriched with goods from their Egyptian neighbors who are willing to give anything for them to just leave so all this stops. They cried for help and God answered.
But as he is lifting them up, we will see that they kind of waver and we'll also see that nevertheless, the hand of God is sure. So we pick up in Exodus 13, verse 17. Moses writes, it says, when Moses, when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, if they face war, they might change their minds then return to Egypt. So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle. Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear in oath. He had said, God will sure will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up with you from this place. After leaving Sukkoth they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert.
We here that God anticipates that the people are going to be weak in heart, that if they were to face battle right out of the gate, they might turn to Egypt. Now it's interesting 'cause it says they went up out of Egypt ready for battle. So at least in their minds they're thinking, we're ready. We're ready to strike out here. But God knows them better. He knows that if they actually have to engage in pitched battle, they'd make their way back to Egypt.
With this in mind, God directs them on a longer path. There's a shorter path that they could have taken to their destination, but God takes 'em on the longer path knowing their weakness of heart. And just as kind of a reflective aside here, it makes me think about our own journey through life and how maybe we feel we've, we've discerned that God has called us to do something. And we see it, it's right there. And if these things line up, we can get there real quick in doing that thing, but rather than the quick way, God takes us on a longer path to getting there, and we don't know why, but maybe it's because of some weakness. Some weakness, some hardship that we would face that we would not be prepared to take on at that particular time and place. And so God takes us on a longer path.
Now what's really interesting here is that there's actually archeological evidence that pairs up with this account. So the two different paths we're talking about here is, one is, is known either as the way of Horus, Horus is one of the Egyptian gods, or also, as you can the Way of the Philistines, that upper path there, kind of along the Mediterranean Sea.
Now, along that way, archeologists have found 11 fortresses. So it was a really, a very heavily guarded route. And in fact, just in October it was shared, some information about one of these fortresses that was discovered along that way. And so it would appear that God probably directed them to go along the way of Shur, which is the lower path there and towards the Red Sea. Now, when we think about the Red Sea, often think of what we know today as the Red Sea, this body of water down here. Now in Hebrew, however, the words, red Sea are yam, and the word suph is not red. Yam is sea word. Suph does not mean red. It means reeds, and so a more accurate translation would be the sea of reeds. And that's not a conclusion I'm coming to on my own. That's, that's what the scholars are saying in looking at the Hebrew text. Now that leads you to wonder, well, where did they come up with the name Red Sea then? Well, that was a traditional name that was the Body of Water down below that we know as the Red Sea, and it's a descriptor that was put in place in the Septuagint, which is the Greek translation of the Bible. And if you go to the Greek translation, it's, it, it reads in the Greek, eruthran thalassan, the Red Sea. Now they don't know why it was called the Red Sea. It's possible that it was because it bordered the land of the Edomites who were kind of associated with the color red, but we don't really know.
What we do know is, is that in the Hebrew Yam Suph means sea of reeds, or one minor suggestion was that maybe it's yam sof which would mean sea at the end, which would also be appropriate because what's proposed is that this sea would've been right along the border between Egypt, heading into the Near East.
Now as we go along here, we'll kind of consider some more of the significance, some more of the archeological details here. But this idea that they're going to be crossing a sea of reeds sets up for us a really interesting kind of echo, because where was Moses placed as a, as a child, he was placed in a basket among the reeds of the Nile. It's, it's kind of a nice kind of book ending here in, in Moses' story in Egypt.
Now we see that in obedience to a promise that had been made to Joseph, Moses took the bones of Joseph with them in their exit, and what's just striking about this is that, Joseph was so sure of God's promise, that he would indeed deliver his people from Egypt and bring them into the Promised Land, and we, we find record of this in Genesis 50, verses 24 through through 25. That, that's the background here for this oath that was given. And then from there, God leads the people to Sukkoth, which means booths, and then Etham, which would seem to be kind of a Hebrew version of the word atum, which was complete. Now we don't know exactly where these places are, but archeologists, archeologists make proposals for the different locations.
Now, you might be wondering, well, what determined the course that they were taking? How were there, how were they guided along the way? Well, picking up in verse 21, we learn how. It says by day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so they could travel by day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people. Now, in these verses, we tend to kind of fixate on the what, the pillar of cloud, the pillar of fire. But I wanna draw your attention to the who. Who is leading them. It's the Lord. It is the Lord who's leading them in the pillar of cloud and fire.
So we shouldn't think of these, the pillar of cloud and fire as just like these things from God. God is actually residing within the pillar of cloud and of fire, and we find testimony to this later on in Exodus 33: 9. Says, as Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance while the Lord spoke with Moses.
Numbers 12 five, in the first half, the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam.
Deuteronomy 1:32-33. It says, in spite of this, you do not trust in the Lord your God, who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.
God himself was personally leading his people out of Egypt. Now another consideration for you, in, in thinking about this is there, is there two pillars or like, the pillar of cloud is on, on duty during the day, in the evening the pillar of fire shows up, how does that all work? Scriptures seem to indicate that in fact it's one that serves both functions. So we look at Exodus 40 verse 38.
So the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and the fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels.
In Numbers 16, it says on the day the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant law, was set up, the cloud covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the Tabernacle looked like fire. That's how it continued to be; the cloud covered it, and at night it looked like fire.
All of that tracks together with what we're seeing here. So it's one that had both of these qualities, depending on the time of day, or depending on what side you're on, as, as we'll see as we go along. So the Lord's guiding them in the form of this pillar of cloud. And in chapter 14, he gives Moses a surprising direction that would seem to confound any purposeful direction, but God has his purpose.
So continuing on in verse one, it says, then the Lord said to Moses, tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon. Pharaoh will think, the Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert. And I'll harden Pharaoh's heart and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I'm the Lord. So the Israelites did this.
So if you're trying to kind of wrap your mind around the itinerary that they're taking here, we actually have a parallel account in numbers 33 verses five through nine, and they, both accounts say the same thing.
They depart from Pi Rameses toward the Sea of Reeds. They go to Sukkoth, Etham, and then they turn back to Pi Hahiroth. Oh man, that was a tough one. They camp between Migdol and Sea between, opposite of Zephon. Now thinking about the geography here. This is a map by, James Hoffmeyer, who's an Egyptologist. He's an expert in, in these things. This is a route that he's proposed that they took. So you see that, that they go south. They're in Sukkoth, and then they turn back up north and then you see that they're going to cross, or, which might be surprising to you 'cause when you're thinking about them crossing the Red Sea, the Sea of Reeds, you might think that it's down there.
And to be fair, there's, there's many viewpoints as to where they crossed. It seems like a lot of the leading experts are proposing that in fact it's in this area that they cross, but it's tough to see any water there. And the reason would be is because in fact, that water is no longer there. The landscape changes over time. At the time of the Exodus, in fact, there were many bodies of water along the border of Egypt, including these lakes, and even between these bodies of water, there was large canals and so it proposes, and what other others propose, is that the Israelites are going to go up and they cross across one of these bodies. Now the interesting thing here is that this body of water would also be known as the Sea of Reeds. And so in some ways this is contiguous with the rest of it.
I just wanna say on the whole, this, as we're trying to sort all these details, what you'll find as you study these things is there's no absolute certainty as to these locations. It's a, it's a situation with where there's smoke and because there's smoke, we know that there's fire, even if we don't know exactly where. It's a testimony to the fact that this account is rooted in history. It's rooted in a time and place, it's not as though they just made this story up, because otherwise there would be no reference points to meaningfully try to pin down here within reasonableness.
Now, the other thing that's interesting in just thinking about this map is as they're heading towards the east, they're heading towards where the sun rises. As we talked about a couple Sundays ago, the Egyptians revered the sun God Ra, and this plays into all of their kind of mythology. And when you get into some of the Egyptian mythology and how it relates to this account, it entails a lot of speculation. But I mention it to say this, is that there's greater significance here, probably even through the eyes of the Egyptians, as they see what God's going to do here in delivering the people of Israel. Now we learn here that what God's purpose is, is that it's, it's to deliver the people of Israel and show his glory by the power of Pharaoh. He's trying to draw Pharaoh in. It says that Israelites are, it says that it's going to prompt Pharaoh to think that Israelites are wandering around in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.
And you can see, and this again is a proposal of Hoffmeyer, this area that you're in, you can kind of see how they would be kind of hemmed in. You've got bodies of water here on all different sides. Be tough to escape the army. And so the Israelites, under the leadership of Moses, obey God. They go in the direction that he's leading. As God foretold, Pharaoh's heart was hardened as the people departed. So we continue on in verse five, when the King of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, what have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services! So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him. He took 600 of the best chariots, along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them. The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly. The Egyptians, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots, horsemen and troops, pursued the Israelites and took them, overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon.
So we, we see what Pharaoh's thinking here. He's seeing the Israelites leaving. He's saying, he thinks to himself, Hey, there goes my free labor. And he decides I wanna get that back. So something to keep in mind is that his purpose isn't to exterminate the Israelites, because he wants them back to be his slaves. But getting him, getting them back is obviously going to entail quite a bit of violence and death. And so Pharaoh deploys his army after the Israelites. Says that he sends 600 of the best chariots. Now, he sends 600 of the best chariots, but that's not all. This is a detail that's easy to miss. Not only the 600, but along with all the other chariots of Egypt. So there's, it seems like there's a little bit of an indefinite number here as to the actual number of chariots that are pursuing the Israelites. Now in the ancient world, chariots were kind of like helicopters in relation to people that were just foot soldiers. They flew around the battlefield, they could go close to 30 miles an hour. There's a video on YouTube on the Military Heroes Channel that gives a great description of, of all they could do. Their real advantage is you could have one person driving the chariot and then you have another guy in the chariot, and he's shooting arrows. It turns into a really deadly force. So you can imagine this huge army that's pursuing them and, and them feeling like we don't got a chance here.
They were able to catch up with them so quickly. The Israelites noticed this. It says in verse 10, as Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. They said to Moses, was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn't we say to you in Egypt, leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians? It would've been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!
Isn't it interesting to see how they just absolutely crumble in the face of adversity? And I have to say, I'm sympathetic to them. If it was any of us, if it was us we'd all react in the same sort of way. And notice just how human they sound. Just the, the sarcasm that they bring, you had to bring us out here to die? There wasn't enough graves in Egypt? And the thing is, if you know Egypt, there's lots of graves in Egypt. So, but what we see here though, we have to consider is that there is weakness inside of ourselves, that our faith would probably be weak in those circumstances, but God has shown them so many signs. You would hope that they would have confidence in God's ability to deliver them. In this moment, in doubt, Moses steps up as the leader that God had called him to be.
Verse 13 says, Moses answered the people, do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today, you'll never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still. So what Moses tells them is don't be afraid. Don't be afraid, not because we're capable, but because God is capable. Because God is powerful. He can deliver us. He's the one that's going to fight for you. God's gonna fight for you. And because God's going to fight for you, you just need to be still. You need to calm yourselves.
Now, that's a really difficult thing. Again, this is a point of sympathy for us with the Israelites when we face circumstances that seem like they're going to overwhelm us. Don't you just feel like I, I have to do something. We get, we get so anxious. Yet Moses' instructions to Israel would be a better response for our own part, which would be be still, trust in the Lord. Trust that he's got you.
Now, in verse 15, we see that the Lord speaks to Moses, says, then the Lord said to Moses, why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. I'll harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. I'll gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. The Egyptians will know that I'm the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen. And so it seems that Moses had conveyed the cries of the people to the Lord, and he said, enough crying, enough crying out, get moving. I have a plan. And the plan doesn't include them setting up a defense, which, if you were just thinking naturally in these circumstances, that's what you would want to do to make the best of the situation. In ancient warfare, the time in which people usually died was in retreat, when their backs were turned to the enemy and they're trying to run away.
God does not tell them to get prepared to face the enemy. He says, just keep going. Move on. Because again, it's, it's the Lord who's going to fight. And he instructs Moses to raise his staff, stretch out his hand so that dry ground would appear across the Sea of Reeds. And so that after the Israelites have passed, the Egyptians might come after and then be consumed by those waters. Now, once again, God says, my purpose here is that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. God is demonstrating his authority and power. In Exodus 15 I, I think these, these events and all those that are going to follow are also building up a reputation for God as the Israelites are heading into Canaan.
In Exodus 15, it says The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the people of Philistia. The chiefs of Edom will be terrified, the leaders of Moab will be seized with trembling, the people of Canaan will melt away; terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of your arm they will be as still as a stone-- until your people pass by, Lord, until the people you bought pass by.
Now God instructs Moses to stretch out his hand with his staff to part the waters. It sets everything in motion for the crossing of the Sea of Reeds. First we read in verse 19, it says, then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel's army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillow of cloud had also moved from in front and stood behind them, coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.
Now it's interesting because it says the angel of God who had been traveling in front of the Israel's army went behind them. And then it says that the pillar of cloud also moved. Now, in other translations in the Bible, it doesn't use the word also. And I was looking over the Hebrew text briefly and I'm not sure what led the NIV translators to include also, but I take this to be as just kind of a description of, kind of the one and the same thing happening, that the angel of God and this pillar of cloud are a pair. They go, they go together, and you might be thinking, well, I thought it was God who is leading the Israelites. Well, it's important to remember that the angel of God is another way of talking about God actually.
In Genesis 31, verses 11 through 13, we find the angel of God speaking to Jacob. Says, the angel of God said to me in the dream, Jacob. I answered, here I am. And it goes over some details about goats that we're not gonna get into right now, and then jumps down to verse 13 says, I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land. So the angel of God is, is is the speaker here And he's saying, I'm the God of Bethel. So there's no discrepancy here. It's still God who's leading him, leading them. This is just another way of talking about him. Now, it says that the pillar of cloud moved behind them to divide the Egyptian army from the Israelites, and so it was dark on one side and light on the other. So it's really, this is another place where it seems like we're talking about one pillar here.
And in this case, the pillar is doing two things at the same time, seeming, it seems that it's giving light to the Israelites. Now as directed, we read in verse 21, it says, then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and it turned into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaohs horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea.
Now, something I want you to notice about these details here. The parting of the waters is not instantaneous. A lot of times when we think about the story of the, the crossing of the Red Sea, we imagine Moses stretching out his arm and then it's like boom, back.
That's not what the Bible says. The Bible says that a wind blew that whole night and that it was from that wind blowing, this east wind, that these walls of water were created and the ground is made dry so that the people can cross. If the ground's not dry, it's gonna be very difficult to cross, and you can imagine that they're bringing carts with them. Now at the point that the Israelites make it across, the Egyptian pursuit continues. Now we pick up in verse 25, 24, we again see the Lord in the pillar.
It says, during the last watch of the night, the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, let's get away from the Israelites! The Lord is fighting them against, fighting for them against Egypt.
Now it's interesting to wonder how, how it was that these problems with the wheels arose. Was it that maybe the water started coming back and it got muddy, or, we don't know. Something miraculous happened where God intervened, and he messed with their wheels so that they began to realize, uh oh, God's fighting for them.
So, and this was happening during the last watch of the night, right before dawn, and so in the midst of this calamity, this chaos amongst the Egyptian army, the Lord commands Moses to bring the waters back upon the Egyptians. Continuing in verse 26, then the Lord said to Moses, stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen. Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the Lord swept them into the sea. The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
Now, the thing that I think is, one of the things that I think is striking here is just the role that Moses is playing here, and that God's instructing him to put out his hand so that the waters may come back. Now, obviously it's not Moses who possessed the power. It is God who is using Moses instrumentally, including actually Moses in the work of God, even though Moses in and of himself possesses no innate power, and I think it's kind of a picture of what God does. None of us has power on our own to do anything, but God invites us in on the action. And so Moses lifts his hand, the water returns, Egypt's army is swept into the sea and it says none survived.
Now, we don't know if that includes Pharaoh or not, the, you almost think that the text would highlight that, if Pharaoh had been included. He might have just told his army, go ahead, go, go get them. I'm not running between the, the, the walls of water. Now as we think about this, just the sort of death that they suffered, there could be significance bound up in this. In the Egyptian world, their hope in the afterlife was dwelling in a land of reeds. Now instead of dwelling in a land of reeds, they're drowned in a sea of reeds, and there, and there could be more significance going on there. And it's very kind of mind spinning when you try to get into all of it. But there seems like there's some significance here. And also to consider, while some of the bodies could have been recovered, some of them wouldn't have been able to. Now as you know, Egyptians are famous for what? Mummies, they're famous for mummies. Now the reason why they did that wasn't just 'cause they thought it was cool to kind of keep people preserved, it's because they thought it was necessary for their safe transport, their safe entrance into the afterlife. So if you can't retrieve the body and mummify, that does not bode well for their place in the afterlife.
Now God was sending a message here. God was sending a message, not just to the Egyptians, but to the Israelites. In verse 29 it says, but the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. That day the Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, that people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant. So this question that had been raised as to whether the people could trust in God, even as Pharaoh's Army's bearing down on them, the answer is yes.
Yes, yes he could be trusted. He delivered his people from the Egyptian army, they see their bodies lying dead on the shore. Verse 31 says, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant. God produced that faith that he was looking for mercifully by his deliverance of of his people.
God didn't need to prove anything to Israel. But he did prove that he is trustworthy. This moment is erected as a monument in Israelite memory to recall that it is God who delivered them, it is Yahweh who made them. And if God could bring them out of Egypt, out of slavery, out of all of this, they could trust him in these circumstances, then they could trust him with what whatever was in front of them. Hundreds of years later, the Lord reminds his people of this through the prophet Isaiah, Isaiah 43 verses one through two.
But now, this is what the Lord says-- he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel. Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.
God keeps promise. He kept it in Exodus, he kept it throughout Israel's history, and he kept it at Christmas. God gave Israel, God gave the entire world the Promised Messiah. Jesus Christ brings us, brings us through the flames. Now, this doesn't mean that life is without suffering. You shouldn't think that. God doesn't promise us a life without suffering, flood and the flames surround-- but we are delivered from destruction. Christ is our way through it all. He puts our feet on dry ground so that we might walk through. And as the Israelites were reminded by the pillar of cloud and fire and as Isaiah reminded God's people, so Christ reminds us now in Matthew 28 20. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
We don't need to be afraid. We just need to be still. To be still and trust in the Lord our God. Our salvation has come, and we will see our salvation with our own eyes, because Jesus Christ is coming. Praise to the Lord. Let's pray.
Dear Father, I, we stand in awe of your power. Of how forces are under the control of your hand, that you don't need us, father, you don't need human beings to do anything, and yet you invite us into your plan and purpose and we see that, Father, in Moses and the people of Israel.
Father, our prayer is that we would harken unto your voice, that we would look to where you're leading and that we would follow you, and be still and trust even when the odds seem impossible. Father, that we would trust in you, that your hand is able to deliver us. In your power and goodness, you will fulfill your promise to us.
And so Father, today, we are looking forward to the return of Jesus Christ, when everything that you promised will be established once and for all in the new creation that is going to be revealed. We give you praise in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Hey there, Pastor Tom here. I hope you enjoyed this sermon I offered to Rockland Community Church. Rockland Community Church is located at 212 Rockland Road in North Scituate, Rhode Island, just around the bend from the Scituate Public High School. We invite you to join us in person or virtually this Sunday as we worship God and hear the preaching of his word. It's our joy to welcome you into our community
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Title: River Meditation
Artist: Jason Shaw
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