TRAPPED. STAND STILL?

You're trapped. And you know it. The the sea is in front of you. The sea. Not a puddle. And everything. You've been chased and chased and chased and still being chased, and everything that's chasing you is closing in behind you. And there's no way forward that you can see, no way back. That isn't worse. You've run every option. You've game planned it. Every option. Every option through your head. And you landed on the same conclusion every single time. There's nowhere left to go. Israel stood in exactly that spot. Water on one side. Pharaoh's entire army on the other. And Moses gave them the strangest instruction anyone's ever received in a genuine crisis. The strangest one. Not run, not fight, stand still. How's the sound, by the way? I had to disconnect a bunch of stuff, but hopefully I put it back right. Hopefully you can hear me not just seeing my mouth move. Welcome. Shalom and welcome. This is true word, faith for life with Dr. Sean. Two guesses, yes. Both of them are I am Sean. It's day 69. Day 69. Exodus 14, the Red Sea. This is the moment the whole story's been building toward since the very first plague. And that's real. Oh by the way. I've written a couple of books, and uh most recent one is True Word Faith for Life. I know. Imagine that. And uh it's a very well-constructed book. Anywhere you buy anywhere you can buy books, you can buy there. Uh but we prefer you buy it from Trueword FaithforLife.com. I know it's gonna be super hard, super hard to remember. Truewordfaith for Life.com. The name of the book is True Word Faith for Life. The name of the show is True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. Are you noticing a trend here? Anybody? Because there is a trend. So it's there. There's a link in the show description too. Get a copy, maybe get one for somebody standing at their own impossible. They're standing right at the edge of an impossible decision, standing at the sea. There it is. Okay, I I gotta go this way. And I don't I don't know. I mean, how do I how do I do that? Cause like I this is I can't this this obstacle is I can't go through that. Thank you, by the way, all of you, for your uh sound tech. Doing you're doing great. This this book could very well be for somebody who's going through an impossible sea. They they don't know which way to go. I think all of us have been in that place at one time or another. So, by the way, welcome to everybody. Everybody. I see the chat is full. Uh they'll squeeze in, make some room for you. Our only rule rules is no profanity. Don't put a link there to some crazy foreign thing. And uh, you know. Be kind. Just be kind. Be respectful. Anyway, what do you do when there's no way out? Seriously. That's the question of the day. What do you do when there's no way out? I maybe you haven't never been there. Maybe it's just me. All right. Well, we're here. Let's just do it. God gives Moses an instruction that sounds it sounds almost reckless. Turn back, camp by the sea. Let Pharaoh think you're lost, wandering, trapped. God tells him plainly why. I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. Wow.

What in the world?

I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. Pharaoh's heart hardens one final time. Man, this guy was mad. You ever be around somebody like that? Somebody so mad? I have. And well, sometimes here on earth, there's only one thing. There's only one thing that can deal with that. Finality. Pharaoh pursues with six hundred of his best chariots. And the rest of Egypt's chariots besides, catching up to Israel, camped right where God had told them to camp water in front. Egypt's entire military bearing down behind. Israel panics. They cry out to the Lord, and they turn on Moses. Were there no graves in Egypt that brought you that you brought us out here to die in the wilderness? It would have been better to serve the Egyptians than to die out here. And Moses answers with words that have echoed for three thousand years. Do not be afraid. Stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent. Then the pillar of cloud, which had been leading in front, moves. It repositions itself behind the people, between Israel's camp and Egypt's, giving light to one side and thick darkness to the other, so that neither camp comes near the other the entire night. Moses stretches his hand over the sea, and the Lord drives it back with the strong east wind all night long, turning the sea into dry ground, the water standing like a wall on the right and on the left. And Israel walks through on dry ground. And Egypt follows them into the very middle of the sea. And in the morning watch, the Lord looks down from the pillar of fire and cloud on the Egyptian army and throws it into confusion, clogging their chariot wheels so they can barely drive. Facebook, uh, I love I love broadcasting there, but for whatever reason, they're not, they have stopped participating. So that is what it is. I I don't know how to fix that. It's it's a their thing, not a not our thing. I I want to pause here for one second. Not a second, maybe more than a second. I wasn't gonna do this, but I I have to. I am absolutely compelled to do it. By the way, welcome to all of you. Miss Sharon, uh Linda, Susan, Tammy, uh, three wings, so nice to see you. Yeah, what a group. To be continued 25, good to see you. Nicole, Dragonfly Three Wings, I already said that. Susan, I think I already said that. And a bunch more. Bunch that you can't see. That's kind of cool. Cheryl's on our prayer list for sure. Hello if you're watching. Miss Cheryl. We are praying for you. And for Miss Sharon. God bless you. All of you. I pray for all of you. Linda, Susan, Tammy, Dragonfly. Why wouldn't I? It's a ple it's a privilege, I think. Nicole, we're praying for you as well. What you mentioned the other day. I'm gonna say this, I can't help but to say it. I could help it, but I'm choosing not to. Um, you know, the the preliminary hearing is going on for the murderer of Charlie Kirk. And during the course of time, there have been certain groups out there that follow Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and others. And um, Candace Owens, uh, I I have always, I've always said, all the way back to her very beginning, she's a snake in the grass. I believe she's got a Jezebel spirit. I believe she's demon-possessed, to be real with you. And look, I have dear family that I love that follow her, and many that follow Tucker. But Candace, Candace is, and those in her inner circle are. They're following her, not blindly, not they just choose. It's by choice, they're choosing to follow her. And and uh despite overwhelming evidence, overwhelming evidence, Candace Owens and her and her crew, those who follow her and support her and believe in her, she is vulgar. You're absolutely right, Miss Sharon. And uh might be some of you listening. Um, I I know that there are people that follow me that you know I soon after the show, Joe has seen it. Um, but soon after the show, I uh I do I cut these up into reels. The computer doesn't, I don't do it. AI. And and a lot of times people will respond, you know, they go out to bazillion places, and um they'll I get yesterday I got a response from uh a woman, uh you know, good Christian woman who uh her her Jew hate was oozing out a lot. I don't have any time for it. Saying the same old tired stuff that people that get on the internet and they they believe the stupid stuff because it aligns with what they want to believe. Confirmation bias, and it's the same with Candace. And again, I have people that I dearly love, relatives, close relatives, who believe her. They believe Tucker. He's evil too, but she I believe is possessed. And they've been saying things all along that are just horrific. I did a I did a whole episode on why I can't support them. I actually did three episodes that are related. Um, and I go in deep, and if you go back and watch it, you will see I talk about evidence. I used to be in law enforcement, so um in several different capacities. And the fact of the matter of it is is, you know, I said from the beginning, listen, when this when the evidence comes out, it's it's she said, I have my investigators, and she doesn't have investigators. She has people on the internet that look on the internet and they find stuff that agrees or confirms what she believes, and they share it. They amplify it. They're every bit is wrong. You might say, what does this have to do with today? Why in the world would you say this today? Trapped stand still. If you look at the thumbnail, the image, that's what they call on YouTube, is a thumbnail. And there's these people on the other side, and hands that belong to somebody's holding back the water. The water for us and the army for us that's behind us, coming after us. The water on either side is is believing crazy things. You know why they say it? They say it because it sells. Crazy things sell. Candace Owens has has painted herself as someone who was close to Charlie. That is not true. It's not true. Charlie helped her until Charlie started to see there's this woman got a Jezebel spirit. And he was nice to her because Charlie was nice to everybody. And when it came time for her to move on, bygones, be bygones. I firmly believe that she is obsessed with Charlie. He didn't choose her. She thought for sure he would. She wanted to be around his genius. He was going places, he was doing things, he'd be president one day. I firmly believe that. Had he not been murdered. There's a lot of people that'll say, even, you know, they'll they'll go and that, well, a Navy SEAL says that it is impossible for uh a 30 odd six round not to go through for there not to be an exit wound in the neck, the neck's never gonna stop it. Well, you know, because somebody's a Navy SEAL or this or that, whatever they put before, whatever qualifier they put before it, that is meaningless. It's meaningless. There's a the fact of the matter of it is devil to bendel. There is a minister of darkness. I am able to see it very clearly. Okay. Thank you for joining on YouTube. So they'll say this, and and then at the trial, at not even a trial, it's a preliminary hearing. By the way, this is a farce. It it is such an insanely look, I've I've presented cases, and I can tell you this one, mountains of evidence from start to finish, mountains of evidence. Oh, that was sketchy. The text messages are sketchy, seem like they're written by someone else. Well, you know, unless two people are willing to go along. Why I don't know. Why? Why would they go along with it? It makes no sense. It makes no sense. There's there's nothing there. The the evidence is so overwhelming. I would think God have a case that strong. But Candace says she has her investigators in for, you know, all this time since the shooting, what is it, 300 and some days? A preliminary hearing usually happens that week. You present the evidence. Generally speaking, the the uh accused attorney, their attorneys wave it. They spend all this time delay, delay, delay, stupid delay. And you see it in the courtroom if you watch it, you see it. What they're doing is abnormal. It's abnormal. The judge, he should have chosen a different career. Or but he could be choosing this on purpose to get all the information out there. Not all of it, most of it. So that so that she's made a fool that Candace Owens is made a fool of. But that that doesn't that doesn't happen. They didn't cover the crime scene. Listen to the evidence. Devin to Bendel. They didn't they didn't cover the crime scene. And who is they? They killed him, you know it. Who is they? We know who the accused is, and if you watch the trial and listen to the evidence and watch the evidence, it is indisputable. Beyond a reasonable doubt, but you know what I've learned, and this is my whole point with this part of it, and then we'll go right back to it. There is a group of people that heretofore appeared to be very normal. They did. Most of them appeared to be conservative relatively, politically. Uh many of them present themselves as Christians, believers in some form or fashion, and yet I'm just asking questions. I mean, don't you agree? I did a whole thing on manipulation, that's the psychology of manipulation that they use. Tucker uses it, so to see, it's a it's a whole episode. It's long, but it is in painstaking detail. And I talk about evidence and I talk about how it's gathered, and I talk about, you know, from personal experience, firsthand experience, how evidence is handled, how trials are presented, how the case is presented. You can't demand this and that. We demand to know why haven't you shared this? Because you're not in you're not in the case. Good morning, Miss Cumming. You're not in the case. You are a superfluous, crazy person who claimed. To love Charlie. Charlie Kirk was one of one. One of one. I put him on par with Rush Lindball. Both one of ones. I'm telling you right now, Charlie would have been president one day. At 19 years old, I shook his hand. Not, I wasn't 19, he was 19. I shook his hand. And uh we I said, one day you'll be president. And he's he said, Well, Charlie Kirk, I hope I can count on you for your vote. Just so quick. Mine like nobody else. I mean, it's incredible. And I will tell you this, he was so kind. And he was murdered for words. Buddy of mine said the other day, he's just sick of the coverage. Every day, he's sick of it. And I said, Let's think about this for a second. The man was murdered. Why not release the video from behind them? Um, why would they do that? Let's cover that. Why not? Why would they do that? Why would they release evidence that's going to be presented in the trial? They have hundreds upon hundreds of videos. It's evidence. It's not for public consumption. The trial isn't held out in the public. That's not what happens. That's not how it happens. And if you're if look, if your mind is so poisoned by these crazy, crazy things, you will believe anything. I said all that to say this. When all of the evidence is presented, and there's mountains more than what has been presented. Oh, I see. The Israel government is evil. See, it's that same way. Do not listen to someone who's trying to lie. Remember, they are paying people to support their cause. Well, if you want to know what one of the things is that gets you banned, it's that. You come on here and you be an anti-Symite, poof. I'd do it in person if I could. Here's the thing. There was once a time where you could speak reason to people. And they would go, okay. Yeah, that makes sense. And you could show them. You could show them evidence. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I see it there. Or they would go, yeah, I mean, this is a huge event. I mean, yes, it was on video, and and yes, there are people that that espouse Candace Owens even said it that, you know, his own team had him killed. Israel had him killed. Erica had him killed. The bodyguards were in on it. Nicole said, and and uh let me put it on there. Nicole said, and and I agree, we are in a season of great deception and divide where evil will escalate, and many people are blinded and believe it is truth. Prayers for the eyes to be opened, amen. Listen, and I said I said all that to say this, and here's the this. When everything comes out in a trial, this is not a trial, it's a preliminary hearing. The judge today or or or Monday or whenever uh they finish presenting what they want to present, at any point in time, the judge could go, eh, I've heard enough. We're remaining in the trial. There's sufficient evidence to take this to trial. All of the people saying all of the crazy things that they say, Candace Owens included, I believe she should go to jail. She is, she should go somewhere. That's just straight up evil. You want to see what evil looks like. Doesn't look like a red man with horns, it looks like her. And all those who follow her, and same with Tucker. Have no patience with him. But all those that follow her, at the end, when it is so obvious and so clear based on the trial, they will pivot and say, Well, um, you know, I was just asking questions. I wasn't accusing anybody. Yes, you were. Candace Owens says accused Charlie's best friends. You know, the security team that he had adored him. Adored him. I have my own quibbles, quibbles with what they, you know, sometimes, you know, they looked apart really well. But anyway, there's a whole discussion on professional executive protection. Um, the whole picture of it. It is a whole picture. That was my specialty. I owned a company called Executive Protection Team. That's what I did. High level, super dangerous. So I don't speak out my rear end here. The fact of the matter of it is, quibble or not, those people loved Charlie. They loved him and not for nothing. He was the golden goose. It's so nonsensical. But I'm telling you this, my purpose of all this is to tell you, you will not be absolved. If you're one of the people spreading that stupid stuff, you will not be absolved. If you're one of the people that is still watching Candace Owens right now, if you still are, there's no, there's nothing for me to say to you other than you are not absolved and you will not be. You can pivot all you want, and she'll do it too. Because she wants to keep making money. At a certain point, she'll realize, she'll concede, hey, I can't convince him anymore. There's a big thing coming. It's a big thing coming. There's a big thing coming. Never does. I promise you, I'm gonna get back to the teaching. Just a minute. Look, you will not be absolved. You are guilty. You are guilty. Dragon, dragonfly three wings, spot on. Amen, Nicole. The real question is what spirit is operating within a person? Amen. Amen. She not only has a Jezebel spirit, she's she's she's evil, she's straight up demonic. And I am telling you, there'll be a huge group of people that they'll acknowledge that, yeah, Tyler Robinson killed Charlie Kirk. And I said a minute ago about SEALs, and I want to complete that thought. Because someone is a SEAL or they have millions of followers or whatever, and I have all due respect for Navy SEALs, and I'm not lumping them all together. But people will put, well, he was a SEAL. Well, he said, meaningless. It's meaningless. It has come out already, and it will come out further about the the bull, the bullet that killed him broke up. A fragment hit him. It fragmented both within him and hit him. I've done countless ballistic tests, and you you don't know what the bullet will do. You don't. The spinal column is incredibly strong. I have a spinal injury. I can tell you it's incredibly strong. It holds the body up. And all that will come out. And those people who spread all that crap. She said it, Candace Owen said it, and people spread it. And believe me, I love people. There are people that I dearly love that buy into it and have bought into it. We are called to serve the Lord like Charlie. We can expect a tax because we are a threat to the deception. Amen. Thank you, Nicole. Here's the deal. Here's the bottom, bottom line. If you're one of those people who support Candace Owens and her line of thinking, you need to repent. And you need to get as far from and you need to disavow her, not quietly slip away from her, disavow her. With that self-righteous fervor that you posted all the stuff on social media, the spew from Candace Owen's mouth, just ignorant, ignorant stuff. You need to repent of it publicly. And you need to really examine your head. You need to examine your head. How and why you do what you do. Because I'm going to tell you something. Candace Owens has a problem. So do you. And look, I I have people, I have dear friends, dear friends who are conservatives, but they have gone mental with this. They need to repent publicly. Hey, I posted a lot of stuff over the time. And and and don't blame somebody else. Don't blame, don't blame uh Candace Owens. Don't blame her. In your repentance, don't blame her. Don't qualify it. Well, I listened to her and I thought she was pretty solid, but no, no, no, no. Don't blame her. You chose. Repent. It's sickening. It's utterly sickening. Erica Kirk, they say, well, how could she do some big show like she did, you know, right after, and her her dabbing her tears with the corner of a of a of a hanky handkerchief? Whatever you want to call it. And it was just so weird. And hugging the president and J.D. Vance, how he came out with her. JD Vance was close friends with Charlie. Can you imagine how hard that was for everyone? Can you imagine how many friends he had dear, dear friends that adored him? And you know what? He sewed into the relationship. Every single friend said the same thing. They said the same thing. This guy is precious. He's not perfect. He's precious. He just was precious. He was he was none of the things that he was always accused of. None of those things. All one had to do is watch him and listen. He was up against a mountain and up against a sea and the army behind him, and God split the sea. And he was walking through. He trusted God. He was learning more and more and more about God, about theology. He wrote a book about observing Shabbat. It is an incredible book. It was finished shortly before he died. He was murdered. Look, people say, well, SEALs will say, well, you know, that is an impossible shot. No, it's not. It's easy peasy. I have sniper training, obviously. You got to be trained on all elements if you're leading a team. And I'm gonna tell you, yeah, 140 something yards, easy peasy. It's super easy, especially with a good scope. It is not hard. It's not. Folks, stop saying stupid stuff. It's a layup in basketball parlance. A layup. All of that, all of the stuff that's gonna come out, the details of of the the granular investigation as they come out, you will be made fools of. Repent publicly. Ten times as publicly as you uh spewed her crap, Candace Owens and others, and others. It falls to others. By the way, because somebody has millions of followers, it doesn't, there's no more credibility to it. There's no more credibility to that. There, I can give countless examples. But not everybody is right all the time either. There are some that that I'm I'm flummoxed at the fact that they believe this Candace Owens crap, that they would even question it. They know better. And I'll tell you what a big part of it is greed. Another big part of it for people who are in social media just kind of casually spreading this crap. For them, it's likes. That's the currency. Likes. Like me, like me, make me current. Oh, you know what? I want to be a person that goes against the grain. I'm just asking questions. Well, you need to repent. You need to repent publicly. I'm telling you, I am not the one that would absolve you of the evil that you spread. For me, unforgivable. Unforgivable. Erica Kirk was a model and a pageant person. She is a beautiful human being, physically, spiritually, in all ways. And her husband was murdered. And she has to stand in front of all those people. I don't know, I don't know how many tens of thousands of people. And even more in overflow outside, and even more in another stadium. They had to open up another facility. And it was beautiful and it was incredible. And then she has to speak. They say, well, she doesn't act like somebody who's grieving. I used to do grief, you know, living through grief on purpose. That is that is my thing. If you've ever heard of it, that's me. I wrote it, I did it. It's a workshop. People grieve in different ways. She's still got an organization with thousands of people relying now on her. You say, well, you know, that's a little bit of nepotism there. Well, it'll never be the same, you know, with Charlie gone. They're doing crazy things now. You know what? They're doing the best they can. And every one of those people went to work at Turning Point USA because they loved Charlie, because they were moved by Charlie and what he did. I'm telling you, I am devastated that Charlie was murdered. But I am even more devastated in the behavior of people who should know better. It is tragic. It is heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking. Listen, Stuart, you can make, and welcome, I'm glad to have you. You can make all the analogies to Aaron you want. I've heard it before about Donald Trump. Donald Trump, he is he is a a flawed person, but he is an incredible president. Do I wish that he would just hush? Yes, I do. Sometimes he just says one thing too many. And I don't love it. The fame didn't get to Charlie's head. The fame did not get to Charlie's head. He was the most humble guy. You just people say stuff. And I think, where do you arrive at these things? That's all stuff going on in your head. You didn't know Charlie. Charlie was an incredibly humble man up to the very last moment of his life. Did Charlie know he was a genius? Yeah, I think he was starting to understand that. And he was snuffed from us by someone filled with hate. Call it what it is. You think this movement or these movements that are gathering together against us, they want to kill our president, they want to kill us, they'll do it. I'm telling you, as a guy who's done threat assessments, they'll do it. Now, I'm going to sum that up with this. If you know people, if you're friends with people, if you're family with people who are following this crap and espousing that nasty stuff, just utterly insane stuff. If you're one of those people that's doing that, you need to repent publicly, vigorously. You need to get on your hands and knees before God and plead that he'll give you a stable mind and that he'll forgive you. Because Charlie was one of his. And Erica Kirk and the children, they are his as well. You should be praying for her, but you're not. You are the evil that's pursuing her. Listen, I have more, I'll have more to say. I'm going to do a separate episode about all this. But suffice to say for now, I pray that you repent. If you're one of those people, I pray that you repent. Repent before God, not before me, before God. But then make that repentance and that apology every bit as public, if not more, than all of the things that you were saying. It's just sick. And it's weird the connection between the people, and they'll say, well, Charlie was, Charlie has turned against Israel, and Israel killed him. Mossad killed him. Listen, if Mossad killed him, there would be no gunshot. There would be no, I know Mossad. I worked with them. I'm telling you, that ain't how they work.

Bruh.

And he and he didn't have a problem with Israel. Come on, stop believing all that. Read his book. Listen to speeches. He said what he meant.

Jeez.

Stupid people. Dumb. Just dumb. Dumb and evil. Possessed by God. I'm telling you, some of the people, and I knew they would come here. As soon as you start talking about the algorithm goes, ooh, controversy. And that's part of the problem. God tells Moses to stretch out his hand one more time. One more time. The sea returns to its normal flow, covering the chariots, the horsemen, and the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed Israel into the sea. Not one of them remained. They were all dead. Israel, meanwhile, had walked through on dry ground the whole way, water standing like a wall on their right and on their left. Thus left. Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians. Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. And Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against Egypt. And the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses. First, God engineered this trap himself on purpose. God wasn't going, oh, what will I do? Oh, yeah, okay, you can do this. No. Think it through. Think it through. Watch the whole thing. Think it through, folks. God led the Israelites there. God led Egypt there. He knew what he was gonna do. He's never surprised. I talked yesterday about being in the journey and going the long road instead of the short road. And there's a purpose behind it. God has a purpose behind it. You think, oh man, why didn't I get this? Job. You can go back and listen to that episode. You can listen to all of them. It's free. It's seriously, it's free. Click on subscribe, like and subscribe. Boom. God engineered this trap himself on purpose before Pharaoh ever made a move. Camp here. He told Moses specifically so Pharaoh would think, You're lost. This wasn't a crisis. This wasn't some crisis that God rescued Israel from, despite his plan. It was the plan. God doesn't only work in the moments when the path is clear and it makes sense. Sometimes he deliberately walks people into a place with no visible way out, because that's exactly where his power gets seen for what it actually is. Listen, I'm preaching in person. Um I'm honored to do it this Sunday at Virginia Creek Ministries at Virginia Creek Campground in Surf City, North Carolina. And I will tell you this it is it is an honor to do it. It's the third anniversary of Pastor Russ and and um and Miss Kathy being there uh preaching at the campground, leading that ministry, which is an amazing story. You'll hear about it. If you come, you will hear about it. Um, I'd love for you to come. If you have one of my books, I'll sign them. Makes it instantly worth the half. Sorry about that. But the fact of the matter, if it is, is I'll be there. And if you want to be there with us and celebrate Pastor and Miss Kathy, it will be wonderful. Listen, Amen, three wings. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens outside of God's will. Amen. Listen, God's power gets seen for what it actually is because He is unstoppable. Do you understand that? He is unstoppable. Look, second, I want you to watch what happens the instant the people panic. The pillar which had been in front the whole journey, they're following the pillar, and now it moves. It doesn't retreat or it doesn't vanish. It repositions itself between Israel and the threat, standing guard through the night, while Moses tells a terrified nation to do the single hardest thing anyone in genuine danger is ever asked to do. Stand still. Look, we train, we train, um, you know, in anyway, we train to move. Don't don't shoot and stand. If you're standing and shooting, you're gonna get shot. A still target is easy to hit. Move, shoot and move. He said, stand still. Stand still, Israel. Ocean in front of you, sea in front of you, might as well been an ocean. It's right in front of you. And all those, all those soldiers, hardcore, bad people. They're right behind you. Just stand still. Has God ever given you? Has God ever given you the direction to we always talk about uh where is he sending me? Where is he sending me? God may be telling you, stand still. This is your mission, this is your mission field, all around you. Go you into all the world. All the world in in Hebrew, ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context is the length of your forearm. It starts at the end of your arm. If only you would know that. Oh, I got to go some far-flung place. No, you don't. Stand still. There's people that need to see the Lord in you right where you are. Don't go somewhere else to put a coat on somebody that's cold. Are there cold people around you? Give them coats. And once you got all them, keep moving, keep moving, keep moving, work your way out, concentric. But here's a news flash. There will always be a need right where you are. There will always be a need right where you are. There will always be people that need a warm coat, that need to see the light of Christ, that need a meal, that need you to sit down with them and say, Man, I'm not perfect. I am not perfect. Far from it. But this is what God has done for me. This is what God has done for me. Amen. Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46, 10. And here's the thing: be still. I want you to understand, stand still, be still, be still and know that I am God. It it connotes in normal thinking, it connotes just standing in one place. But be still there in its natural context, language, and and context, language, and culture. Be still. He's speaking this. Be still, be still in your mind. Be still in your mind. Don't with all this. What if, what if we what if we're walking around? I don't have time to study the word. I don't have time. I'm busy. I got all this going on. Uh well, okay. Well, let me check this and let me check that. And let me, okay, yeah. Ooh, and every 10 seconds, the phone, your face is in the phone. You're walking around with the phone. People drive around with their phone. There's a good Christian lady that she is. She's a sweet lady. She lives, I know she loves the Lord, but she lives in my community. And if ever it's you, it's illegal to text and drive. And plus it's stupid. There are as many people now, actually more, that are killed, more fatalities. They're killed on a greater frequency because of phone. Hand phone in the hand. It's illegal to drive around, do it. What if? What if? And I'm not advocating drive around and reading the scripture, but you can play scripture on the radio. What if? What if you put this in front of your face? Being still. This is one of my Moose Works Bibles, by the way. Amazing. Mooseworks, good lands. She's not a sponsor. I want you to understand. I I talk about Mooseworks Bible rebinding because I'm blown away by what she does. And people deserve to know it. She's one person working in a little shop. I've never met her in person. Only by message. I've never even heard her voice. Her name is Melissa Mooseworks Bible. Etsy. I don't know the first thing about Etsy, but look, the single hardest thing you say, I can't, I can't with being still and being quiet. I can't do it. I can't do it. I have to do something. Don't I have to do something? No. Sometimes just be still. Meditate on the word of God. Talk with God. Stop looking around for the solution all around you. It's in the Lord. The solution is in the Lord. The Holy Spirit will guide you, but you've got to stand still. You've got to breathe deep and you've got to be quiet. And you've got to let the Lord speak to you through the Holy Spirit, not emotions. Just listen. Listen. Listen, it's not because passivity is a virtue in general. It's not. It's because this is in this specific moment, this one we're talking about, the fight wasn't theirs to fight. The Lord will fight for you. And you have only to be silent. Third, I know, going way over time. Yeah, that let's know. The deliverance wasn't partial. The deliverance wasn't partial. Not one of them remained. The enemy that's coming after them, not one of them, do you hear that when you read it? If you're reading and following along, when you read that, do you understand? Not one of them remained. The entire enemy wiped out, including the big bosses. Scripture says of the entire pursuing army, God didn't thin out the threat. He removed it completely so thoroughly that Israel could stand on the far shore and see the whole thing settled with their own eyes. And that's what finally moves people from fear to belief. Not an explanation. But I'm going to tell you something. As sad as I am to say this, I'm I it makes me super sad to say this. It does. It breaks my heart. Breaks my heart for me, breaks my heart for you, breaks my heart for everyone. Listen, you know, history tells us that when Yeshua or Jesus ascended to heaven, it was in front of 500 people. And we know from historical writings and all of these things that about 125, only 125 followed Yeshua, became followers of the way. They saw it. People say, Well, I just need a miracle in my life. I need to see the Lord work. You know, I'm still a miracle in front of you. I'm not a beautiful miracle, not by any stretch. I don't say that to be self-deprecating. It's the facts. I am a complicated, jacked-up dude. But for whatever reason, God sustained me through every time people tried to kill me. I survived. I'm alive. I survived an unsurvivable crash. The car was examined by experts, and they didn't know the details of the crash. They didn't know who was in it or whatever, but they said driver did not survive. Unsurvivable. These are the scientists that study crashes. They study the car, they cut it up, they study the metallurgy, the whole deal. And they concluded driver did not survive. I did survive. Here I am. I died for a little bit, but here I am. I have no idea why. I have no idea why God would sustain me. I have no idea why. I did not earn it. Trust me when I tell you, I did not earn it. Before or since. And my life is a passage of one just awful struggle after another. And I tell people this and they think that I'm making it up. I am not making it up. I deserve this. I I earned it. I did, I earned it. But listen, I survived this crash. And it was explained to us by the the the head um the head paramedic or emt that was there. You were dead, Dr. Greener. You were dead. And then the second guy comes, his his second in command, and then they do all the checks. Yep, he's dead. I don't know why. I have no idea why. I have no memory of being a near-death experience. None whatsoever. None whatsoever. I don't I don't have it. About 90 something percent of people that that actually experience coming from death, even believers, they didn't, they don't recall a near-death experience. Doesn't mean it didn't happen, it just means they don't recall it. I can't explain it. Listen, these people, they couldn't explain it. They they looked at, they looked at the wall of water and said, first of all, A, when Noah, we're gonna, we're gonna talk more about that. When Noah he he listened to God, and people say, but Trump, oh, he's a person of two minds, no double-minded man. They they misinterpret, they misapply scripture, and they and and they'll say, Well, this is why. This is why we're we're not for Trump. I was foreign, but then now he's double-minded. They they twist and contort and proof text scripture, and it drives me insane. Short trip, I know. When you're delivered, sometimes it doesn't feel like music is playing and bands and trumpets are playing and all that. Sometimes it's my deliverance, my finished deliverance is awful. It's it's excruciating. It's one failed body system after another. It's one more thing I can't do. Deliverance. People look for this big thing in deliverance. It's not an explanation, it's not scientific, it's not anything other than the Lord. But in this, the Lord chose to give them a deliverance, a finished deliverance, the Israelites, a finished deliverance that they could see. And I'm telling you, they experienced it and they couldn't believe what they saw. Look, this chapter says something that holds for every impossible situation since. Even the impossible situation you're in. You've been delivered, but you're still in pain. You've been delivered, but you know, what you think are your problems are not taken away. What you think are the thing that you were to be delivered from. Maybe that's not the thing. God sometimes leads you into the trap on purpose. He fights battles that were never actually yours to fight. And he finishes what he starts so completely that what's left behind is faith, not just relief. Oh, come on. Somebody, you are living this right now. The Lord has delivered you, the Holy Spirit is with you. God, Adunai Elohim, Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus the Messiah, he has intervened in your life. You are here. You say, but I'm barely hanging by a thread. You are still there. Against all odds, you're still there. Whether it's going through a horrific divorce, some of you are facing the end of your life. Let's be real. I deal with it all the time. I have stood at the bedside of people that I was there when they got their diagnosis and their prognosis. I have stood at the bed when they were leaving this earth. I have held many hands for their last breath. I was touching my mother's feet as we were all gathered around, as she drew her last breath. She saw me take my first breath. I saw her take her last. Deliverance doesn't look like what you think. Doesn't look like what you think. The fight is still on. Jill Stable, may God rest her beautiful soul. Jill Stabley used to say, We work until he comes. And she did in her own way. And John Stabley, her husband, precious man, precious man, he just facilitated the mission. And he was he is a man of great faith. Work until he comes. Work until he comes. If you think that your deliverance, somehow or another, your deliverance, you think your deliverance is about the easy path. It's not. It is not about the easy path. Get that out of your head. This is why when I lead people to Christ, I say, listen, this is not an easy path. Don't let anybody tell you that you're gonna pray this prayer from your heart, believing, believing, placing your faith in Christ, choosing to follow him, accepting his, accepting his. Thank you, dragonfly. Oh my gosh, that is vulnerability in its highest form. Thank you. May the Lord be praised from your lips, from your soul, from your heart. Listen, it doesn't look like you think it's gonna look, like you hope it's gonna look. I have this technique that I learned it anyway. Doesn't need to be explained how I learned it. Being trained to deal with pain, extreme pain, not de minimis pain. I'm talking about extreme pain, excruciating pain, pain that makes you talk, pain that makes you divulge things. And in that process, I learned don't make deals with yourself. If you're being tortured, don't make deals with yourself. Oh, in in three minutes, if this pain isn't gone, if they don't stop torturing me, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Whatever the I'm gonna. No, don't make deals with yourself. Pain happens. Sometimes it ain't going away until he, till the Heavenly Father fixes it in heaven, till you face the healer face to face. And all is made perfect. Your life will not be easy. You place your faith in Christ. I'm telling you right now, if no one knows you're a Christian because you say, well, well, um, you know, the thing is, is I keep religion and the workplace separate. Um, you know, politics and religion, that's just something we don't talk about. Don't believe that. Don't believe it. Oh, well, I'm a person of faith, so I'm not involved in politics. You know, it's a dirty business. You know what? If you're not involved with politics, you will be subject to it. Get involved. Stop using that as an excuse. Listen, God finishes what he starts, and he finishes it so completely that what's left behind is faith, not just relief. You think you're gonna have this some kind of, I don't know, floating on a cloud thing when God solves your problem. There's much to be learned in pain. There's much to be learned in suffering. Sharon, if I may, I hope, you know, Sharon is suffering terribly, and she does. Miss Cheryl suffers terribly. Many of you suffer terribly. I want you to know that that suffering doesn't mean God isn't here, here, or in you. The Holy Spirit, the Ruaka Kodesh, the Holy Spirit in you is in you, and you will be fixed here or in heaven. But I'll tell you what, the repair in heaven is final, it's eternal. God finishes what he starts. Faith, it's hard to practice, isn't it? It's a lot harder than people think. I wish people, when they led people to the Lord, when they gave the invitation, they didn't say, Hey, well, let's solve this today. It's gonna be beautiful on the other side. Yeah, it will be beautiful on the other side, but it's gonna be difficult. Because if nobody knows that you're a person that placed your faith in Christ, whether a long time ago or 10 minutes ago or right now, gotta ask yourself, why? Why? Why don't they know I'm a Christian? Why am I using the excuse of, well, I don't discuss politics or religion? Why? You're afraid. That's all it is. I talked the other day, this week, about people will people know when they ask you the question? Will you will they know that you're a believer? How will you answer? I'm not talking about bumper sticker theology. Little quick little quips and sayings, tell your story. There's nothing more compelling than your story. And it's more compelling when you tell it. Don't be silent. Here's here's where here's where this message gets personal. And I I get it. You didn't tune in for this today, and and uh if it has offended you, I would say I'd apologize, but that would be an insincere apology. There's a purpose in it. I trust God. I am flawed. When I tell you I am flawed, it's not just a saying, it's not just being self deprecating, it's not just some dude on a YouTube channel trying to, you know, draw you in. It is a fact. I am flawed. Fiercely and terribly flawed. I'm not perfect. I'm so far from it. But I will tell you this. I have stood between an impossible sea and something bearing down behind me. I've done it. I've done it. Miss Colleen can tell you many times I've done it. And God has sustained me through it all. Don't know why, don't know how. I just know He did. Were things fluffy on the other side? No. So no. So not. But you know what? I've learned a valuable lesson. It'll be like that in heaven. But here is a struggle. And it's a privilege to continue to do it. Some of you know what it's like to stand be this this impossible thing. You're standing between an impossible sea and an army barren down behind you. And you're trapped. You feel trapped. But here's what's uncomfortably honest about this chapter. Israel's first response wasn't faith, it was blame. Were there no graves in Egypt? It would have been better to stay enslaved than to face this. Listen, when we're genuinely afraid, our instinct usually isn't grand, defiant trust. I will, I used to have this hashtag I use, still use it every now and then. You know, resolve, decide, resolve, stand. Make your decision. Stop being on the fence about stuff. You know, research thoroughly. Make a decision. Be resolved. And then stand. Come what may. Listen, our instinct usually isn't grand. It's not. It's not this big, grand, defiant trust. Oh, I know the Lord will get me. Sometimes it's like, okay, Lord, now I got this going on. I know I know some of you. Some of you listening. You have heard the words from your physician, and they've taken your breath away. And you're going to live until you're gone. And then you're going to join. And those who have gone before. And you're going to see Yeshua face to face, your Redeemer face to face. Doesn't make it easier to know you're leaving. Some of you are facing a mountain. Literal mountain. These people blamed. I didn't blame God from a crash. People, people have said, you know, why didn't you? What you know, why are you still serve God? I mean, He didn't deliver you. Oh, He delivered me. It's often exactly this looking for somebody to blame. Israel was looking for somebody to blame. Listen, hate comes from below you, not from above you. Negative talk, blame, all of these things, they come from below you. They're beneath you. Don't join in it. Don't join in it. Gossip. God hates gossip. It comes from beneath you, not above you. Tearing people down, that's beneath you, not above you. If you're one person that does that, if you're a person that gossip, you're a person that does all these things, stop doing it. Stop it. You do not represent God well when you do those things. But Israel and others, they they they look for somebody to blame. They wonder is this whole thing a mistake? And sometimes you wish for familiar bondage. You'd rather have familiar bondage over the unfamiliar territory and the terror of the unknown. If that's been your honest reaction to your own impossible see, you're not disqualified from this story. You're right in the middle of it. The instruction that follows is the part most of us resist the hardest. Stand still. Stand still. Most of our instincts, when we're in a crisis, our instincts are to run in the opposite direction. I gotta get away from this pain. I gotta get away from this risk. I gotta get away from this problem. That's instinct. I gotta do something. I gotta fix it. I gotta negotiate. I gotta run. And there are absolutely moments that call for that action. I said in a moment, if you're standing still and shooting in a gunfight, you're gonna be the dead one. Shoot and move. Shoot and move. There are moments in your life that call for action. When you're getting beat by your spouse, time to go. Time to go. That's a time for action. You nobody ever said that you're supposed to be uh you're supposed to be a punching bag for anybody. No. When you're in a dangerous situation, you hey, look, there are moments that call for action, and that's one of them. Get away from the danger. I train my family. You hear gunshots, you go the opposite direction. You hear a bunch of yelling and screaming, you go the opposite direction. When you enter a place, figure out where the exits are. Know where all the exits are. Not just the ones that are the normal ones. I'm talking about the ones that people don't know about. Know it and know how to get there quickly. And as soon as the ruckus starts, you leave. You leave. You don't get up and get your phone out and hold it up and be trying to film. That's the dumbest thing. I hate that. I absolutely hate that. People are just looking to go viral. It's a virus, all right. There are, there, listen, there are. There are moments where you got to take decisive action. But there are also moments. There are also moments, real ones, where the fight in front of you was never actually yours to fight. And the most faithful thing you can do is stop scrambling. Stop scrambling long enough to let God do what only He can do. Be still doesn't mean have the TV on, playing a show in the background. It doesn't, it means it means sitting still with the Lord. And meditating on his word and praying and be silent and listen. Only God can fix things. The scientists said, only by the grace of God is this guy alive. People have told me that, doctors have told me that. Me and this Colleen. And you know what's funny? If they only knew, hey look, this ain't the first time, probably won't be the last. One day my beating heart will stop. God holds that button. It is in his hands. Listen, let God do. Stop scrambling. Stop. Stop fighting. Long enough to let God do what only He can do. I want you to notice too that Israel's belief didn't show up before the sea closed. It didn't. It showed up after. It's easy to do that. It's easy to show faith and trust. It's easy to do when it's all been handled. And you look back. Oh, that's my God. What happened before when you were blaming Moses? And when you were saying, well, we had a place to lay our head back there. We had food back there. Was nobody trying to kill us back there? Yes, they were. How soon they forget. Standing on the far shore watching the completed deliverance with their own eyes. That's worth remembering the next time you're tempted to think your faith should already be stronger than it currently is. You're standing in the middle of your own unfinished crisis. Sometimes belief isn't the thing that gets you through the sea. Sometimes it's what's waiting for you on the other side of it. Once you've actually seen what God has finished, sometimes we need that. And God gives it to us. The Apostle Paul or Shaol tells us that Israel's crossing through the sea was kind of a baptism, passing through death into a new life on the other side, the old Egypt left behind for good under the water. That pattern doesn't stop the Red Sea. It's the same pattern every believer walks through in Yeshua, in Jesus Christ, an old life left behind, completely, a new one begun on the far shore. And think, think again about the instruction to stand still. Because the cross, the cross at it asks exactly the same thing of us in a different form. There was nothing you could do to fight the battle that mattered most. Sin and death, hurts, habits, and hangups were never a fight you were going to win. You've never been equipped to win that fight by scrambling harder. He vacated a grave. Just like he said, he did it on your behalf and on mine. And he finished it so thoroughly that what's left for you isn't more fighting. It's belief. It's standing on the far shore, looking at a completed work, not one of them remained. Scripture says of Pharaoh's army at the cross, Yeshua's own his own final word was just as complete. It is accomplished. It is finished. Some of you may read in your scripture, but it is it is accomplished, not partially handled, not thinned out, finished, accomplished. The way the sea closed completely over every last chariot. Somebody take a deep breath. Here we go. The same God who told a terrified people to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord is still saying it. The fight that mattered most was never yours to win. It was already finished. It was already accomplished completely on the far side of the cross. Faith in the end looks less like scrambling and more like standing on the shore, watching what God has already completed and finally believing it. And I mean believing it enough to tell others, believing it enough to finally be bold and say, Let me tell you about my Lord. Let me tell you why I smile the way they do. And listen, if you're a person that doesn't smile, if you're a curmudgeon, you don't have to be like that. If you are sarcastic all the time, you don't have to be like that. No one will be led to Christ that way. They see your life. That's your testimony. That's your witness. Does it testify of Christ? Does it testify of him redeeming you? If you're not a person that smiles and you and you claim you're a believer, I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what to tell you. But you say, hey, I need some concrete obedience steps here. First, name your impossible see. Name it. The situation where you genuinely cannot see a way through on your own strength. Stop pretending it isn't as dire as it feels. Sometimes it is. Name it honestly. If you've gotten a prognosis that says, TikTok, live your minutes. You're near the end of your dash. Stop pretending it isn't what it is. Stop being in denial and live your dash. Name it honestly. Whatever it is, name it honestly. Second, identify what's actually yours to do versus what was never your fight to begin with. Some situations they do, they call for action, others call for exactly what Moses told Israel. Stand still and let God fight. Third, look for what God has already finished, not just what he's still working on. Look what he's finished. Faith often grows fastest, not in the middle of the crisis, but on looking honestly back on what he did in your life. Tell your story. Tell your story. Tell your story. Look honestly at what he's already brought you completely through. I have for you today in this long, long day. A challenge and a choice. There's nothing easy about it. That's why they call it a challenge. But there's a choice to it. It's yours to make or not. What impossible sea are you standing in front of right now? No visible way through. Has your first response been faith, or has it looked more like Israel's blaming the messenger, wishing for old bondage instead of facing the unfamiliar terror ahead? Is there a fight in front of you right now that was never actually yours to win by scrambling harder? Here's your choice today. Keep trying to force your own way through the sea or stand still, the way Israel finally did, and let the one who already fought this battle let him finish what only he can finish. Come on, I want you to pray with me. Father, in the name of Yeshua, your blessed Redeemer and our Savior and our Lord. Thank you that you sometimes lead us into impossible places on purpose, not to abandon us, not to leave us there, but to show us a salvation we'd never see any other way. We'd never see it any other way. Thank you that the battle that mattered most was already fought and finished on the cross. Thank you, Father. For everyone standing at their own impossible sea today, teach them to stand still and see what you're about to do. For everyone still scrambling to fight a battle that was never theirs to win alone, Father, give them the courage to let go and trust you completely. In Yeshua's matchless name. Amen. Listen. Maybe today. Maybe the sea in front of you today isn't a circumstance at all. Maybe it's the weight of your own life before God. And you've been trying to fight your way through it on your own strength for far too long. Solve it. Handle this. Handle it today, right now. Whether you're listening live or on playback, handle it today. Pray this with me. Yeshua, I need you. Jesus, I need you. I believe you died for me and you rose from the grave. I surrender my life to you today. My please forgive me of my hurts, habits, and hangups. Forgive me of my sins. Fill me. Lead me. I'm yours. In your name. Amen. Listen, if you just prayed that, welcome to the family. 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It's everything I've used, every resource that I've used. Everything is footnoted. The bibliography is a Turabian style bibliography. You can copy the study guide all you want, you can share it all you want. You can use it as people have told me they use it as a devotional or they lead a small group, and that's what they use. The only thing I ask is when you copy it, copy the copyright. I don't need accolade, I don't ask for any money. I just, you've got to honor the copyright.com. Contact. My parents don't want me to be a Christian, but I'm I am. I don't know what to do. I'm happy to help you. Listen, if this is your first time with us, we've been walking through scripture, and I want you to be with us. Start at day one. Walk it with us from the beginning. You can still listen to the current one, but go back and listen. Or you can watch it on YouTube. Hey, look, you do what you want, whatever you like. You can actually listen to them on Trueword, FaithfulLife.com. We have the episodes you can listen to. The sea is in front of you. The army is behind. And in between, one instruction nobody expected, stand still. The water stood like a wall on the right and on the left, and not one of the pursuers remained. Whatever impossible sea you're facing, the same God is still saying it, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. If somebody you know is standing at their own impossible sea right now, send them this episode. Tell them the fight that matters, the fight that matters most, has already been won. Stand still and watch. I want you to receive this in his holy, heavenly name. I'll pray it first over you in Hebrew because that is the language of God. Are you ready? Take a deep breath. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Sunday at 6 30 PM Eastern Standard Time, that's when we will be back. In the meantime, Shalom Bishem Yeshua. Shabbat Shalom.