What Do You Do the Morning After?

You just watched God do the impossible thing. And by the next morning, you were already back to normal. Already worrying about what's next. Already scanning the horizon for the next problem instead of still standing in the weight of what you just survived. The sea is still soaking your sandals. The bodies of the warriors, of the men, of the Egyptians who were chasing you just a few hours ago. They're now washing up on shore, dead. The very same shore that you're standing on now. And somehow, by sunrise, most of us are already on to the next thing. Israel wasn't. The first sound out of two million exhausted, terrified, newly free people. It wasn't logistics. It was song. Shalom. And welcome to True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. As you might have guessed, I'm Dr. Sean. Stay 70. Exodus 15. Israel just walked through the Red Sea on dry ground and watched Pharaoh's entire army drown behind them. Before a single practical question gets answered. What are we gonna do about water? What are we gonna do about food? Which direction do we go? The text stops entirely for a song. By the way, you can get my book Trueword Faith for Life at TrueWordFaithforLife.com. Under store. Get a copy, get one for somebody who's never actually stopped to name what God's already done for them. Okay, listen up. The most dangerous person in America isn't the one who hates you, it's the one who's certain he's good. New research. Majorities of both parties political wings. They now register some justification for political murder. Both. Both of them. I spent a minute in law enforcement. This episode names what I see. And it names a name. Sourced, footnoted, unapologetic. It's a special episode. There'll be no fluff. There'll be no wandering off the path. Focused. July 14th, 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Live only on True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean channel on YouTube. We will soon only be streaming to YouTube. So you can still listen and do all that, but you want to come over to True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean channel, S-H-A-W-N on YouTube. You want the one that has about 4,000 followers. That's the main one. I have a backup channel. Blah, blah, blah. Superfluous. Tuesday night. I'm still going to be streaming tomorrow. I'm still going to be streaming Wednesday morning at 7. Nothing's going to change. And then Thursday morning and then Friday morning. This is a special additional live episode. It's hard-hitting. Preliminary hearing was last week. Some very irregular, crazy things happened. I'm going to break it down quickly and I'm going to tell you what God says all about it. Tell you, friends. So today's question. What do you do the morning after a miracle? All of us have prayed fervently for a miracle. We have prayed our faces off and then it happened. What do we do the morning after that? Well, the very first thing. The very first thing Israel does on the far shore isn't plan their next move. It's sing. Moses and the people of Israel sing this song to the Lord. I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea. This is some of the oldest poetry preserved anywhere in Scripture. Structured in the way ancient victory hymns were structured, but aimed at a God, the God, no other nation's victory song had ever actually named. The song calls God strength and song. And it named something else too. That he has become my salvation. My Yeshua. A man of war, a language Israel had never had reason to use about their God before this exact week. Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea and his chosen officers. They were sunk in the Red Sea. The floods covered them. They went down into the depths like a stone. And it describes the terror that will fall on the surrounding nations when they hear what happened here. The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia. Terror and dread fall upon them. Edom, Moab, and Canaan will still be as a stone until your people pass by, the people you have purchased. The song ends looking forward, all the way to the mountain of your own possession. The place you have made for your dwelling, and it closes with a declaration that reaches past this single moment entirely. The Lord will reign forever and ever.

Then something something happens that the text deliberately takes time to name. Miriam the prophetess, Miriam.

Aaron's sister takes a tambourine in her hand, and all the women go out after her with tambourines and dancing in Miriam sings back to them the same refrain that opened the song. A lot of theology behind that, by the way. I want to thank you. Good morning, all. Good morning, Tammy, and and Linda and uh Miss Sharon and Joe and Nicole. Thank you for joining. Those of you who have gotten up super early to join us live, and those of you who are holding off bedtime after a long day's work. Thank you. I do not take it lightly. So there's some deep theology here. Four things in this chapter carry weight, most people will read right past. First, the timing. The song comes immediately, not after a planned meeting. What shall we do? One of the things that aggravates me gets all over on my nerves. I was a secretary of deacons for a relatively large church, conservative church. This is years ago. And you know, they had committees for everything and committees to about committees and and all that. But but I was at one church in particular, um not that long ago, not my church, but a different church. Um, and they're a large church, $40 million campus. They have all the resources in the world, lots of extra money, lots and lots. And uh somebody had something, you know, had a baby and it was a very difficult delivery, and the mom turns up with cancer, and yeah, it's a bad deal all the way around, and they need help. They had a large family, and it's self-employed. And what in the world are they gonna do? Meeting after meeting, trying to figure out what they can do, and the thing that they settled on was a $25 gift certificate. They went round and round about gift certificate to food, gift certificate to Walmart. What do we do? Aggraves me to no end. That's uh a virtue signaling deal there. Oh, we hoped, yeah. Well, you have to be good stewards of God's money. That's a great excuse. So this wasn't this singing wasn't after some big meeting. What should we sing? Well, what instrument should we use? Now we probably shouldn't use a tambourine. That seems kind of a bunch of people are dead back there. Probably shouldn't be, you know, tambourines, some kind of celebratory. No, there's none of that. Not after some, they didn't even have they didn't even take the time to figure out the logistics of feeding two million people. You know, that's a big deal. Not after anybody had processed what they had just survived. The first recorded act of a delivered people was worship. Before the practical questions even had a chance to crowd it out. Second, the content. This isn't a vague, thank you very much. It's specific. Horses named, chariots named, officers named, the exact method of the enemy's defeat named. You know what? Vague gratitude, it fades quickly. I say all the time in my sermons, my speeches, and in my books, I say this. Listen, you better praise as hard as you pray. God answers your prayer. You better praise and remember. That's the reason the Jews are are just such incredible people and such long-suffering people, and why their faith has carried these thousands of years. Because they remember. It's part of their DNA. They remember. That's what all of these Moedim, these feasts, these celebrations, these appointed times, that's what these are all for. You say, well, why are they doing it? This legalistic no, it has nothing to do with legalistic, nothing at all. It has to do with remembering. My friends, we pray for a miracle, and then we ever so quickly, in the evening after the miracle is given. Our praise grows quiet. Vague gratitude fades fast. Specific testimony gives you something to hold on to. Something to hold on to when the when on the days when the memory needs reinforcing. Number three, the title. Ish Mirchamah. I tried to say it slow over and over and adding an element each time, but it's Ish Mirchamah. This isn't poetic decoration. It's Israel discovering in real time an entirely new dimension of who God is, one who they never needed language for while they were slaves with nothing to fight for. Fourth, Miriam's response matters as much as Moses' song. She doesn't write a new song. She takes the same words the whole camp just heard and gives them back, and she brings the women with her. Tambourines. I think it's the first line dance, maybe. Tambourines, maybe. I don't know. Maybe it was the first electric. I don't, it could have been the first electric slide. I don't know the answer to that. I have not received a text from any of the relatives that were involved there. All I know is it was tambourines and women dancing, full-bodied, public. Full on. Worship here isn't private reflection kept quiet in your own head. It's corporate, it's physical, it's immediate, the kind that moves your hands and your feet, not just your thoughts. Listen, there is more to corporate worship. What does that mean, corporate worship? Well, I go find a corporate company, or what am I doing here? No. Corporate worship means you're gathering together. You're you're a community, you become part of a community. You go to somewhere. Every church, listen, every church has its problems. If I go to a church, suddenly it's got the problem. Me. I'm flawed. So are we all. And when we go to a church, we bring our flaws with it. People will fail us. We will fail people. Stop throwing this around like, well, I don't go to church. You don't, I don't go to church because there's nothing but none but um hypocrites up in the church and and um and and all that. And I just don't go because there's a bunch of hypocrites. You're a hypocrite. You don't go because you're a hypocrite. Stop flinging that around as an excuse not to go and worship with others, to be in the presence of other believers. You don't think that's gonna come in handy at some point? Come on now. Stop making excuses. Stop making excuses why you don't go, you don't go and find a church. Not every church is gonna have everything you want. I talked to somebody the other day, and she went on and on and on and on and on and on, and however that thing goes, the rap song goes, and and uh what is it, uh something rhapsody. Yeah, anyway, it's awesome. Pointless, not related, but she went on and on about you know what I just can't find the right church, and and um, you know, we've been searching, we've been going, we've tried different churches and everything. Um, tell me a little bit about your family. Well, it's just me, and it's just me. Um, yeah. Um, my husband passed away a few years ago, and uh, yeah, you know, I'm just going, you know, I just try. Okay, well, do you have children? Oh no, they all grown. They all grown. Okay, okay. So, okay, what are you looking for? Well, I like a church that has um nursery, good nursery programs, good children's programs, lots of security in there. I like when they give out tags, you know, and you have the tag and then they have the number up on the screen talking about, you know, child number 911. Your child needs help. You better come back here and get this child. Um, you know, whatever. And I stopped her and I said, Didn't you just say your children are all grown? Do they go to are they going to go to the same? Do they live with you? No, they live somewhere else. Oh, okay. Do they have small children? No. Okay, so why do you why why do you need the scrolling ticker with the number of your child and look down at your thing or a little beeper or some kind of thing? Why do you need that? Well, I just like it. I just like it. Okay. How about preaching? How about women's group? How about a women's small group? How about a place that has women's retreats? You can get with some women. Well, I don't like hanging out. Um women are catty. Listen, it's easy. This is going to step on some toes. And maybe subconsciously my own. It's easy to look at a worship team and go, well, they're not very accomplished musicians. You know, I frequently watch, and by frequently I mean every day, First Baptist Atlanta. I love their worship music. I love their music in general. Their orchestra is amazing. Um, that's Dr. Stanley's church, In Touch Ministries and all that. That's that's actually First Baptist Atlanta. It's an amazing church, it continues to be. And um, I just love their music. I think it's amazing. But guess what? The preaching is off the chain, it's incredible. And if they had terrible music, but the preaching was as it is, maybe you grit your teeth a little bit. Stop wanting to be entertained at church. I love great music. Miss Colleen can tell you, Doyle probably has hearing loss from me jamming and praying and crying, crying out to God, thank you, Father, pleading, pleading some of your names before the Father. Asking him to give me, give me understanding of him more, asking him to forgive me of my many sins, my hurts, my habits, my hangups, my failings of him. I sit here every time before and I say, Father, I can't imagine why you chose me for this. I know me, I wouldn't have chosen me. But I'm gonna tell you something. Hallelujah to the living God, the living God who inclines his ear to hear us. Doesn't matter what's around you, doesn't matter if the singing is incredible or meh. Doesn't matter. Listen, the church needs to be clean, it needs to be safe. You need to have a secure, I don't care if your church is 25 people, you better have some folks thinking about security up in your church because folks are shooting up churches. They're stomping in there. What are you gonna do if some nut job activist comes in there beating a drum during the middle of your service, and there's 20, 30, 40, or 50, or 150 of them that want to come into your church and disrupt? What are you gonna do? Better have a plan. I'm telling you this. Worship. Your hallelujah had better be powerful. It had better be meaningful. It better, it had better reach out, and it had better not just by yourself. Listen, I praise by myself. I I have worship. Sometimes I'm so tired, I can't barely stand up. And then I'll enter into a period of worship, and God gives me energy to stand. I was I was with the wonderful people at Virginia Creek Ministries yesterday morning, and I was privileged, just so honored to be able to be to even be asked by Pastor Russell um right to preach his third anniversary message. Do you do you know for a preacher that what an honor that is? He says, here, here's my pulpit. On my third anniversary here, 52 years of ministry, not for nothing, he and Miss Kathy. I love those people. They're the nicest people over there. Not some fancy worship band or anything like that. There's a fellow that plays guitar, has a great, amazing heart and an amazing mountain music voice, and a dear lady that plays the piano. And people that sing that love Jesus, that love the Lord. And great preaching, not my preaching, but Pastor Russell's preaching. And folks that love on you. Nothing fancy in that joint. Miss Ann and Mr. Robert, they created that ministry there. It's a concrete building. It's nice and cool in the summer, it's nice and warm in the winter, comfortable chairs. And it's clean. Could eat off that floor together. You gather together to worship. Physical worship. Immediate. The kind that moves your feet and hands. Not just your thoughts, a passing thought that comes into your head. Thank you, Lord. Wait, whoa, whoa, wait a second. What happened to all that? Oh, Lord, please help me. Please help me. I'm in this bad, bad way. Lord, Lord, Lord. Oh, I'm in this bad way. Come help me. Oh my Lord, I need help. And it barely gets a thank you. Come on, you've been praying and praying and praying for deliverance. No, you didn't have two walls of water on either side of you that the war that the Lord spread apart. And you didn't have an army behind you of warriors ready to kill you, ready to eliminate you. First of all, just keep driving 196. Thank you for joining us on YouTube, the true word, faith for life with Dr. Sean Channel. Says social media is only spreading stupidity and hatred. I disagree. Someone was saying white people have only been around for 1500 years and they are the cause of the world's problems. Social media is evil. I am redeeming social media for the Lord. They said the same thing about the internet. No offense to you. I just have a different viewpoint. My viewpoint is this the internet, oh, that was the bane of all existence. That's the worst thing ever. Don't do it. Stay away from it. Meanwhile, reaching millions. I'm not reaching millions, but my radio show used the internet. You know, God and country, the collision of faith in politics, millions of people. Millions of people. How did it do it? It did it through the internet. Listen, if we stand the same thing with AI, we stand and we look at it and we don't use the tools that we have to promote Jesus, to say the name of Jesus, to sing the name and the praises of Jesus, to put the name of Jesus in front of all these people who think they've got it figured out. Jesus, for all the people that they don't have anything else, but they got an internet connection. Maybe they're sitting outside of McDonald's and they have a burner phone and they have a link to the Wi-Fi there. And they hear through the internet, Jesus, Jesus saves, Jesus will lift you from this. Jesus will touch your heart. Jesus will lift your soul. Jesus went to the cross. He was tortured. He was murdered. And he was put into a barred grave. And three days later, according to prophecy, he rose again and he took with that that victory over the grave, your sin, your shame, your hurts, your habits, and your hangups. You don't have to stay where you are. Praise the Lord. Listen, I get it. I'm not yelling at you. I just got to say I have a different viewpoint. I say, look here. Look what we got here. Look what we got. We can get on this thing. And we can talk into this little box. And it comes out all over the world. There's people that listen to this show from the Philippines, of all places, the Philippines. We've had people listen from China and Japan. We've had people listen regularly from Israel. We have people listen from the Czech Republic. We have two people that listen regularly from Russia. Come on. God can use all things. He can use all things. There's nothing, nothing He can't use. We have to put it, we have to put it out there. We have to say, I am going to redeem this for the Lord. Don't give up. Don't buy into any of that. I look, I understand. Just keep driving 196. And I and I I have some affection for your thought. I look at it and I say, oh Lord, this mess on here. This mess on here. And at the same time, at the same time, I find a way to reach out. Look, I can't, and you have a good point. The internet can spread across the world, but human interaction touches more than anything. Absolutely, I agree. But guess what? Guess what? You can through the internet reach out to people that are outside of your touch. They are outside of your touch. Go ye into all the world. You know what that means in Hebrew, in ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context? Into all the world. The Great Commission. You know what that actually means? That's idiomatic. From your elbow to the tips of your fingers. Everything, everything from there out is all the world. That's what this internet does. That's what it does. I hate to tell you, man, I resisted it too. What in the world, I said? Smartphone. Smartphone. With this thing, I get to reach out. I get to reach out to my children anytime I want if they answer. I I get to I get to talk to people I love. With this thing, I'm far from people that I love, but I can reach out and touch them. People can reach out and touch me and say, Pastor, Dr. Greener, Sean, I'm struggling, man. With this thing right here. It's acute counseling for people who are in real, real trouble. And through this thing, they can reach out to me any hour of the day. I've gotten calls on this thing and text messages on this thing from people saying, I just lost the love of my life. She's gone. He's gone. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I've gotten calls from dear family. So and so is gone. What do I do? I've gotten calls from people who they're not one to pick up the phone very often, but they picked up the phone and they dialed my number and said, listen, you were on my mind. I want you to know I love you. Man, don't you know? I want you to know I'm praying for you right now. I have a text in my phone every Monday I get from Pastor Russell. He's praying for me. I'm praying for him. Come on, y'all. Come on. Don't fear the internet, don't fear social media, redeem it for good. I understand. It's easy to look at it and go, man, this is nothing but trash. Scroll right past that. First of all, set a timer. Set a timer. Don't let yourself be, you know, just looking and looking and looking and looking. Oh, that's touching. Oh, dragonfly. Thank you for sharing that. What a vulnerable thing to share. I'm gonna read it. I'll put it on the screen, obviously, if you're watching. But if you're listening on audio, here's what it says. I'm just a baby in my walk with God Almighty, and I began praying last fall. He would bring people. Man, this is tiny print. He would bring people with his character in my life, and he has. And most have been digital versus in person. Glory to God. Come on, somebody, somebody praise the Lord. Father, we can reach out to people. There are ministries. I mentioned First Baptist Atlanta. I have never once set foot in there. Now, I loved Dr. Stanley. I loved him. I loved him. What an amazing man. What a humble, humble man. You don't know the struggles he had in his life. Man, oh man, did he have a hard way? Most people point at his son Andy and go, Well, you know, he's liberal. Yeah, well, he is. He is. I don't agree theologically with him on a lot of stuff. I'm not going to agree with everybody on everything. I'm not. But I'm not going to quibble about a bunch of stuff. Jesus, the name of Jesus, spreading the name of Jesus, spreading the relationship with Adunai Elohim, the Lord God, spreading the ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context so people can understand, so people can understand God, even a little tiny bit, and they can understand that listen, He loves you. He loves you, He's a plan for your life. He has plans for good. Yes, hard times, hard times they come. But I'm telling you, I'm talking about the corporateness of their worship here. They're on the other side, and bodies are washing up on shore. And listen, I bet it doesn't smell good. Meanwhile, the women are beating tambourines. There's water still all over them. Everything's waterlogged. And they're beating the tambourines. You know, they walked across dry. It was dry, the bed of the Red Sea, dry. Come on, somebody, somebody look at that. You say, well, there sure aren't miracles like that in my life. No, God doesn't do miracles like that anymore. I'd sure love to see that, really. Internet. Internet. It's a miracle. Rockets going up. It seemed like every day, and I love watching them. I I have a little alert on my phone. Oh, SpaceX. Click. Turn the sound up. I want the ground to shake. I get to see things. I get to become a part of things. I told you about the lady. The lady who was, she wanted advice on a church, and and and every single, every single part of it, she was just tearing. She's the one that with the numbers. She wanted the numbers and the screen, and children don't have no children. Don't they're her children are grown. They shouldn't have grandchildren. They don't even live in the area. And she wants a church. What I'm looking for, it's a church that has a nursery that has that little board up there with the number 911 child. Back home get your child. Nitpicky, find a reason not to go. Worship. Worship. Storm is barely over. Worship. Thank God. For breath in your lungs. Thank God. For people who you can reach out and you can touch them. For friendships. Even on the internet. Friendships. People say, well, it's not real. Well, if you're real and the other person is real, it's real. Listen, I'm I'm known for maintaining friendships. I used to work, you know, 12 to 16 hours a day before I got hurt. And I'm going to tell you this, people used to marvel at it. I'm not tooting my own horn, I'm just telling you how it is. It was important to me. Maintaining friendships. And some of those friendships I didn't maintain as well as I wanted. I had dear friends in the military. They wanted to stay in touch with me. I just didn't. I just didn't. And I would to God that I would connect with them again. Internet. Worship. But another lady contacted me through the website, truewordfaithforlife.com. Hit on the contact button up top. And she was asking for a church where she lives. She said, I can't find a good church. Well, I used my resources and found her a good church. And she was she was saying to me that she's intimidated when she goes around those people. They have nicer clothes, they have nicer things, nicer cars, and they know all know how to sing, they know all the words, they know where every book of the Bible is. My Bible's rag tagged. Intimidated by the perfection. Those people aren't perfect. That's what I said to her. I said, Oh, sweet, sweet lady. Those people aren't they're they're not even pretending to be perfect. They're that if you only knew what they're going through, people I mentioned Dr. Stanley. Listen, that man went through hell for decades. Suffered privately.

For decades. No fault of his own. Nobody knew. Well, I shouldn't say very few knew. Until he preached the word.

And through the internet, he reached hundreds of millions. I get it old school, I do. I understand. Old fashioned. I believe Jesus wanted us to spread his word through your actions. Oh, amen. If you listen for 10 minutes, you'll know. Hey, I'm not about a bunch of bat, bat, bat, bat, bap. I'm about, let's get out there. Don't let somebody be cold. You got ten coats in your closet, and somebody that's don't have enough money, and you're talking about somebody should do something. Well, take one of those coats. Give it to that person. Doesn't matter why they don't have a coat. What they do with it after, it's up to them. You're you're doing it to honor God. Do it kindly. And don't go on and on and on. Listen. I I encourage you to let that go. UBU. Meet people. Talk to people in the grocery. I say this all the time. Talk to people in the grocery. Find places to connect with human beings. You like more touch. So do I. I like real. I have a dear friend that works far away, and we get together whenever they're back home. We get together for coffee and we sit and talk. Sometimes I try new new drinks. I tried the matcha the other day. Or the other day, the other month. But not for me. But it's fun watching people around. Yeah, I look at all these young ones with head in the computer. But let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. There's an awful lot of grown folk like this. Grown folk in there. What if? What if? What if? What if we went around like this? What if we went around like this? Our head buried in the Bible. A little bit more. But you know what? Yes, we gotta do that. You never you're never gonna know the Lord unless you invest in it. If you don't pick up your Bible and read it, if you don't get on your knees if you can and pray, if you don't, if you don't interact with a friend, you they won't be a great friend because you haven't invested. Invest in the Lord. Listen, we are here, but for a short time. Listen, this chapter, I think it's amazing. Put together this chapter says something about what should happen the moment deliverance lands. Name it, say it out loud, say it immediately, and let it be loud, let it be physical enough that other people catch it too. Hey, what's that person got? I don't know, but I want some of it. I say all the time. I've said it in both of my books, I say it in many of my speeches and sermons. I say, listen, if you can't put a smile on your face, you say you're a Christian, but you can't put a smile on your face and greet somebody without looking at them and judging them, looking up and down. So what I said to the lady the other day, I said, Stop looking at these people. You think they're judging you, you're judging them. You'll never be friends with me because I don't have what you have, what you appear to have. You probably don't have the debt either. But listen, don't judge them. You don't know their life. Stop going around judging people. And when you worship, worship, worship. People say, well, I don't like going to a church. People lift their hands. That's that's weird. That's performative. Let me tell you what. I I grew up where you lift a hand, you say amen, you say amen, but amen is only reserved for the deacons. Only one or two of them. You can't be a bunch of amen in. I tell you, I've I've I've thankfully grown out of that. I love, I this is gonna flip you out, but listen, I love all kinds of worship. When I preach in in black churches, and look, don't be spun out over that. That's what they call themselves. We a black church. We let white people in here, but we let all kinds of people in here, but we a black church. I've gotten invited to preach at them. I love it because the food is delicious and long, you know, they don't care about it going over. In fact, you you preach in 40 minutes, they think, oh, he's trying to short us where he got to go, what plane he got to catch. Let me tell you something. There is performative worship. There is, there absolutely is. I remember the first time I I preached in a black church, it was on my first book tour, and when I preached, it was it was kind of wild because I, you know, I didn't wasn't expecting it. And a fellow was on that Hammond B3 organ with the Leslie swirling. Ooh, oh my lands. And he played along my whole sermon. I didn't give him some script to my sermon. He didn't know what I was gonna preach, but he did it, and it was awesome. Like a soundtrack, you know. I liked it. Let's listen, get out of your own head. The Lord is delivering you, he has delivered you. Listen, there's people listening right now. Hey, sometimes the healing doesn't happen here, except for the heart that we carry on to heaven. My buddy Chris, he, Chris Kahalen, he loved the Lord more than anything else. He has a beautiful wife, beautiful children, wonderful family. His mother's amazing. Great, great people. He had a lot going for him, but he loved the Lord more than anything else. And one of the last talks that we had, we talked about the healing. He said, Why didn't the Lord heal me? I said, He did heal you. You're ready to see him. You have accepted the fact that on earth we live and we die. And your your life is going to be cut off way too soon. I hate that. I hate it for me. I hate it for your wife, I hate it for your family, I hate it for your children. But I've got a news flash for you. This ticking heart inside of us. You know, Senator Lindsey Graham, you can think about him whatever you want. I wasn't a big fan of his delivery, but you can't argue with his commitment. And the fact of the matter of it is, the same thing that killed him, I got. They've just come out with preliminary findings. It wasn't some drug from some other country. The toxicology isn't back yet, so I should probably retract because I'll know that. But he died of an aortic dissection. I have a massive uh ascending aortic aneurysm. It's huge. Razor's edge of life and death. This is what they tell me. News flash, I believe him. In one moment I could die. Just one second, boom, you're gone. President Trump said, I talked to him last night. He's a dear friend of his. He said, I talked to him last night, he was doing great. And then he died. I said, Chris, when I was talking to Chris about dying, he's he's he said, you know, I'm so worried about my family. I said, You've done a great job preparing them for this. He said, I spent so much time worried about stupid stuff. I I hate that I did that. I said, listen, the moment you cross over, that will be gone. That that that regret will be gone. But I said, in the time that you have left, talk to your family, talk to your children, tell your wife how much you adore her. I get it. You want to spend all your time apologizing for not living up to what you wanted to be as a husband. Let me tell you what, she's blown away. By how lucky she was to have you. I said, Dad, Gummit, talk to your children. Don't try to shield them from the fact that you are going to depart this earth soon. Teach them not to hate God for it, but to love him for it because you got a place. You got a place, and you'll be waiting for them. Live your life, children. Live your life. Live full. Love Jesus. Learn about the Lord. Live it. Christians, don't walk around. Don't walk around sour face all the time. Don't do it. You can't tell somebody about the love of God with you can't tell people what the Lord did for you with some grimace on your face. Stop it. The ingratitude is sickening. Tick tock. The heart beats. And then it stops. Stop looking for some big thing you're going to praise for. Those women picked up those tambourines at the other edge while the dead bodies and the corpses of the horses were rolling up on shore. And they praised God. Listen, here's where this gets personal. Because most of us, most of us are far better at surviving the crisis than we are at actually stopping to sing about surviving it. Oh, we can survive it fine. But singing about it on the other side? Nope. You prayed God came through. The very next thing you did was move on to the next, whatever the next problem was. You didn't even pause to actually put words to what just happened. Write it down. I always say this keep a journal. Write in your Bible when God delivers you from something. Write in your Bible. Had somebody look at my Bibles. I have a it's a modest Bible collection, but it's a Bible collection. I love the Bible. I love the Word of God. I love the Word of God. Can you imagine this gift we've been given and we don't pick it up? Why? Why did I have Moose Works do all these amazing covers for my Bible? I got two more coming. I'm gonna blow your mind. Melissa at Mooseworks, amazing. She's not a sponsor. I just love the work she does. I've never even met her. Why did I spend the money and take the time to put these beautiful, amazing custom covers on here that are unlike any other any the rebonding, like you've never seen, you've never seen Bibles like this, you've never held a Bible like this. I'm telling you, why did I do it? So that this could live on. This book could be go from generation to generation. It can be inherited by my family. And and and they can have it and it'll hold together, it'll be protected. But pick it up, pick it up. Let the oil from your hands stain the pages, let your tears stain the pages. But when God delivers you, write it in there. There's all kinds of blank pages in that book. Write it in there, put the date. Use you a good pen. Put the date on there, and the Lord delivered. Here was the problem, and here's how he delivered. And go back to it. Look how the Lord delivered me. We are so ungrateful. Our gratitude is so short-lived. Listen, there's people listening right now. I know it for a fact. You are terminally ill, and you know it. That diagnosis didn't come back the way you wanted it to. It was a big surprise. It was a devastating, terrible surprise. And then there's some listening. Oh. You prayed and you prayed and you prayed and you prayed. And your family prayed. And you shed tears. And nobody was looking. Your hands started shaking. You're drinking your coffee in the morning. And you haven't gotten your diagnosis back. And you're worried. The test results, you don't know. And your hands start shaking. And you're afraid your coffee's gonna spill all over you. So you you put it down. And you say, God, I'm afraid. I'm afraid. I haven't. I haven't prepared my family. I don't know if I'm strong enough to go through this thing. What if it is this? If it is this, I don't know if I'm strong enough. That's prayer. That's prayer. You say I don't know how to pray. That's prayer. You just prayed. And then it comes back clear. And you just do one of these. And all that sitting there, sitting your coffee down so you don't spill because you're shaking and afraid. All that pleading to God, it just goes like a vapor. Write it down. Document. Sometimes it comes back clear and sometimes it doesn't. Write it down both ways. Listen, maybe it's the marriage that didn't end the way that it looked like it was gonna be good. It looked like it was gonna work out. It looked like it was gonna be safe. All of those things, it looked like that. But it wasn't. Maybe it was the provision that showed up with no explanation for where it came from. Box of food on your doorstep. And you had no food in your cupboard. I know people right now listening who have been in that place. And nobody else knew, but somehow somebody knew. And they put a box of food on your doorstep and walked away. And you felt something in that moment. But you never actually said it out loud to God or to anybody else. You kept it to yourself. Before your mind was already three problems down the road. Next problem, next problem, next problem. Somebody just put food on your on your stoop. You say that my kids are hungry. What am I gonna do, God? And somebody, nobody knew it. You didn't run around telling everybody, nobody knew it. Somehow food ends up there. Praise the Lord. And you move on. Next problem. Listen, I don't know how to explain it. I used to think of myself as a a better than average communicator and brain injury and all that. I'm not where I used to be, but I'm gonna tell you this. I'll fudge through it if I can. Listen. Take it one at a time. Praise God. Like you're on that shore. And that salt is all over you. And the stench of the problem is back there. Yes, there'll be another problem coming. Absolutely. Until we get to heaven. Listen, this chapter suggests that that habit of praying our faces off, and then that we're delivered, and then half a second of praise and we're on to the next problem. This chapter suggests that's a habit worth breaking. Not because God needs the praise to feel validated, he doesn't need that. But because you need the naming, write it down. Annotate it, document it, write it down. Doesn't have to be a big thing, just a couple little lines. Specific testimony, spoken or sung, it becomes something you can return to later. On the day the next Red Sea shows up for you, and you need to remember he's done this before. A deliverance. A deliverance you never named becomes a deliverance you can't draw upon later. When the doubt comes back and it will, and you need evidence of the things God has done. If you don't pick up this book and know and study and learn, you won't have it. If you don't document the things in your own life, oh, I'll remember. No, you won't. Not just some vague memory of how things worked out somehow. No. Midiyam didn't wait for someone else to start the song, and she didn't wait until she felt like it either. She picked up the tambourine herself in the moment while the sand was still wet. Is there a deliverance in your own story that never actually, you've never actually sung about out loud, specifically you, not somebody else, you. I'm talking to you. You've been delivered many times. Have you sung about it? Have you prayed about it? Have you praised about it? Have you told anybody else your story? The story of how God delivered you. It doesn't have to be some big Red Sea thing. It could be, hey, I had no chance in the world of getting that job. I couldn't believe it. I went for the interview and they said, you know what? When can you start? And I've been at that job 14 years now. I couldn't believe they gave me the job. I still can't believe it today. You should still be praising God for it. Praise him also for the closed door. Praise him also for the no. Listen, Yeshua is all over this. Jesus Christ is all over this. People are dumb. Got none better to do. Patty Craig, stupid. Just dumb. Chill out. That's probably a grown man. Probably a grown man acting like that. If you're if you're not listening live, you don't have the live comments going, you will miss out on it. But stupid. Just dumb. No home learning. No character discipline. Listen, the song calls God my strength and my song. And he says, He has become my salvation, my Yeshua. That word doesn't first show up at Bethlehem. Oh no, it's already here on the far shore of the Red Sea, sung by a people who had just watched deliverance with their own eyes. Every time Israel sang this song in the centuries that followed, they were, whether they fully understood it or understand it now, they were singing a word that would one day become a name. Yeshua. And this song doesn't end at the Red Sea. John Yochanan sees it still being sung on the other side of eternity. Revelation, the book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, describes the redeemed standing beside a sea of glass, holding harps, singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the lamb, the same song still being sung because a deliverance from a bondage far older than Egypt at the hand of an enemy far worse than Pharaoh is still worth singing about forever. The Apostle Paul or Shaol tells us to be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart. The pattern set at the Red Sea, immediate, specific, corporate worship after deliverance is the same pattern the New Testament assumes for everyone, everyone who has been delivered through the cross. My friends, the song at the sea was never just history. It was rehearsal. Every time a delivered people names what God has done, they are singing the same song Israel sang because the same God, the same God, the same God who became their salvation has become ours. Somebody praise God. Longstanding, King of kings and Lord of Lords, forever he will reign. He didn't just save you quietly. He gave you something worth singing, specifically, immediately, out loud. Stop worrying about the embarrassment. Stop worrying about are you doing it right? He gave you a song worth singing again and again and again on the other side of every problem you face. You want a way to obey concretely first. Name one specific deliverance in your own life, not vaguely, name it specifically, but with the details, the way the song names horses and chariots by name. Miss Colleen and I, we could tell you the story. We could tell it separately. I'll probably tell a little bit different than her because I got bumped on the head by a car going 92 miles per hour. She's got a better memory than me. We drove up, we were going to close an account we had, had a house uh that that uh I desperately needed to sell. I had a renter in it that destroyed it. And and we were down there two and a half hours from where we were living. And let me tell you what, worked, worked our fingers to the bone. We drove up to the bank and we're gonna close out that account. I didn't have any money in the account. I don't think I even thought I had enough money in there to keep the account open without paying a fee. So, well, let's go through the drive-thru, see what we can do here. They said we had, what was it, hun, thirty-eight, thirty eight hundred dollars? I didn't have no thirty eight hundred dollars. I also didn't have thirty eight hundred dollars anyway. We needed money and we needed it. And you might think, well, $3,800, that's not that much money. Oh, yes, it was. Times were tough. And we said, no, no, no, you got the wrong account. No, no, I got the right account. Well, we're gonna come in there, we're gonna come in there and solve this because I don't want to take any money, and then all of a sudden somebody's giving me a call when I've paid all the bills with it, and it's all gone. Whew. We came in there and they checked and checked and checked and checked. Nope. I said, okay, well, we'll make a deposit, we'll make a withdrawal. I don't know who deposited, don't know how it got there, neither do they. I tell you this, we needed it desperately, and we still praise God's name. That was a miracle for us. You say, oh, that's stupid. That's that was just a clerical error, really. Really? You can choose to look at it that way, but you'll be the same curmudgeon that nobody will ever. You put a bumper sticker on your car, follow me to such and such Baptist church, such and such Episcopal church, such and such whatever church. They're not gonna follow you. They're not gonna want to believe in Jesus because a smile never they've known you, they've seen you, they've been around you for years, they've never seen a smile, they've never heard laughter come from you. You say, Well, my life is hard. Everybody's life is hard. Don't stop believing that your life somehow is the only hard life. Deliverance. Write it down, be specific. The way the song names horses and chariots by name, second, second thing you can concretely obey with. Say it out loud today, today, to God directly, even if it's just a sentence. Number three, tell one other person, one other person specifically what God did in your life. The way Miriam brought the women in after her. She could have gone out there and she could have sang it alone, done a solo, but instead the choir joined her. Come on, nobody will join you in singing if you don't ever start. I have for you today a challenge and a choice. Is there a deliverance in your story you've never actually put into words? Come on, somebody. What's kept you from naming it specifically instead of just feeling grateful in some sort of vague passing way, already halfway to the next problem before the thank you is even finished? Here is your choice today. Let the miracle fade into the background noise. One more thing that happened, or do what Israel did on the very first morning after, and sing about it, sing about it, sing about it specifically, immediately, out loud. Heavenly Father, in the name of Yeshua, your matchless son, thank you, Father, for the cross. Thank you for the 33 years your son lived on this earth, this spotless, blameless Lamb. Thank you, Father. Only by his name can we approach you. Thank you for every deliverance we've moved past too quickly. We've too quickly to actually name. Thank you, Father, that you are our strength and our song, and that you have become our salvation. Father, I pray for everyone carrying gratitude they've never spoken out loud. Give them the words today. In Yeshua's name. Amen. Listen, maybe the miracle you need today, maybe the miracle you need today isn't your past at all.

Maybe it isn't in your past at all.

Maybe it's maybe it's the one only he can do in you right now. Stop fighting it. No, it will not be easy. This part is easy. The part that brought this part to you wasn't easy. It was horrific. And after you give your life to Christ, if you truly do, it will not be easy until He returns. But I tell you, I wouldn't trade this for anything in the world. If God says, listen, you'll never suffer pain again if you reject me. Or if you just walk away. No big statement. Just walk away. I'll take the pain.

Come on. Stop fighting it.

I'll help you. You have me as a resource. I'm a free resource. Yes, it's the internet. I'm a real person. I've helped countless others. I will help you. I am not perfect. I am so not perfect. So if you're sitting there thinking, look, I can't give my life to Christ, why would he want my life? I know what I've lived. Let me tell you what. If he'll save me, he'll save you. Pray this with me right now. Not one more second of delay. Call him by name, by his name, Yeshua. Salvation, Yeshua. Tell him you need him. I need you, Lord. Tell him you need him. He's listening. Yeshua, I need you. I believe you died for me and you rose from the grave. I surrender my life to you today. Please forgive me. Fill me. Lead me. I am yours in your name. Amen. If you just prayed that prayer, welcome to the family. Go to true wordfaithforlife.com, contact, tell me about it. I'll help you. It's not just talk. And if this is your first time clicking in with us, we've been walking through scripture chronologically since Genesis. Start at day one. There's a million ways to listen. You've got, you've got Spotify, you've got whatever. However you listen to podcasts, if you listen to audio only, normally, however you do it, I'm on it. Trust me. Search true word, faith for life with Dr. Sean, spelled S H A W N. I'm there. Go to day one. Listen, they're free. You can still listen as you go. Begin walking it with us. We'll be happy to have you. Tell you, friends. Listen, the sea closed. The army was gone, and the very first sound out of a delivered people wasn't planning, it was singing. Horse's name, chariot's name, to strength, a song, a salvation named out loud. Whatever he's already done for you is still waiting to be sung. Listen, if somebody you know has a deliverance they've never actually named out loud, send them this episode. Tell them it's not too late to sing about it. Now, regarding Tuesday night's episode, it's a special episode. It is rough, it is not going to be interactive, it'll be alive, it'll only be on YouTube. Only on YouTube. We are going to be converting to streaming only to YouTube. There's a whole big reason for it. I can't go into it now, but it is what it is. Tuesday night, hey, they engraved, they engraved bullets. Hey, fascist. Deliberately, intentionally. Because Charlie Kirk wasn't a man to them anymore. He was a category. Tuesday, 8 p.m. Eastern Time Live. I name the machine that builds assassins. I name what's rotting in my own camp, and I name who's been tormenting Charlie's widow while she buries him every day. 17 sources, zero apologies given. I apologize for nothing. Come armed with your assumptions. Tuesday night, 8 p.m. Eastern live. If you are not a subscriber to my YouTube channel, True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean, I can't encourage you more. Join, subscribe, click the little bell for all notifications. Look for the one that's about 4,000 subscribers. That's the one you want. I want to give a blessing to you that's been given for thousands of years. I'm nobody special, but I want to give this to you. Receive this in his heavenly name. I'm going to pray it first over you in Hebrew, the language of our Lord, and then I'm going to translate it in English. 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. Until tomorrow at 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. And then again tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Until then, Shalom Bashem Yeshua.