What We can Learn in a Wilderness

We have a Song to Sing Part 5

“a special treasure to Me above all people…a kingdom of priest and a holy nation” (Ex.19:5-6).

“proven character” (Rom. 5:3) NASB

“Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it” (Heb. 12:11) NKJV

“cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches, and desires for other things” (Mk. 4:19).

“lead the way…so as to go by day and night” (Ex. 13:21)

“By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned” (Heb. 11:29) ESV

“Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; he has hurled both horse and rider into the sea. The LORD is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. This is my God, and I will praise him—my father’s God, and I will exalt him! The LORD is a warrior; Yahweh is his name! Pharaoh’s chariots and army he has hurled into the sea. The finest of Pharaoh’s officers are drowned in the Red Sea. The deep waters gushed over them; they sank to the bottom like a stone. “Your right hand, O LORD, is glorious in power. Your right hand, O LORD, smashes the enemy. In the greatness of your majesty, you overthrow those who rise against you. You unleash your blazing fury; it consumes them like straw. At the blast of your breath, the waters piled up! The surging waters stood straight like a wall; in the heart of the sea the deep waters became hard. “The enemy boasted, ‘I will chase them and catch up with them. I will plunder them and consume them. I will flash my sword; my powerful hand will destroy them.’ But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. “Who is like you among the gods, O LORD—glorious in holiness, awesome in splendor, performing great wonders? You raised your right hand and the earth swallowed our enemies. “With your unfailing love you lead the people you have redeemed. In your might, you guide them to your sacred home. The peoples hear and tremble; anguish grips those who live in Philistia. The leaders of Edom are terrified; the nobles of Moab tremble. All who live in Canaan melt away; terror and dread fall upon them. The power of your arm makes them lifeless as stone until your people pass by, O LORD, until the people you purchased pass by. You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain—the place, O LORD, reserved for your own dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established. The LORD will reign forever and ever!” When Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and charioteers rushed into the sea, the LORD brought the water crashing down on them. But the people of Israel had walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground! Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine and led all the women as they played their tambourines and danced. And Miriam sang this song: “Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; he has hurled both horse and rider into the sea” (Ex. 15:1-21) NLT

“Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord and believed the Lord and His servant Moses” (Ex. 14:31) NKJV

“These people draw near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men” (Mt. 15:8-9).

“The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God” (Rom. 8:16)

“And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life” (1 Jn. 5:20).

“Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29).

under the power of the evil one (1 Jn. 5:19) BSB

“were by nature children of wrath… without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. (Eph. 2:3, 12-13) NKJV

“…that through death He might destroy him who had the power over death, that is, the devil, and release those who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage (Heb. 2:15)

“…The Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. (1 Jn. 3:8)

“But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete” (Gen 15: 16, 18-20)

“The people will hear and be afraid; Sorrow will take hold of the inhabitants of Philistia. Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, Trembling will take hold of them; All the inhabitants of Canaan will melt away. Fear and dread will fall on them; By the greatness of Your arm They will be as still as a stone, Till Your people pass over, O Lord, Till the people pass over Whom You have purchased. You will bring them in and plant them In the mountain of Your inheritance, In the place, O Lord, which You have made For Your own dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established. “The Lord shall reign forever and ever” (Ex. 15:14-18).

“Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you. For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction. When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below” (Joshua 2:8-11).

“your descendants…will be strangers in a foreign land where they will be oppressed as slaves…but then I will punish that nation that enslaves them for 400 years…after…your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction” (Ex. 15: 13-14, 16) NLT.

“Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey” (Ex. 3: 16-17) BSB.

“where is the lamb” (Gen. 22:7) NKJV

“Behold! The Lamb of God” (Jn. 1:29)

“Worthy is the Lamb” (Rev. 5 12)

“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Cor. 3:18)

“and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him” (Col. 3:10)