Exodus Chapter 15 Verse 1

• The nation of people has just been delivered from an undefeatable threat (by all human standards). A tank is worth 1,000 men and Pharaoh has 600 of them.  Trained soldiers, elaborate and readied weaponry…and the Eqyptians had perhaps what was most dangerous of all…determination to destroy their enemy. And then God performed the miraculous.  I stood on the banks of the Red Sea and tried to picture the waters standing like walls and dry land in the midst and even to picture it was beyond me…but God had done it.
• Every father looked at his sons and daughters, now spared from death and safe. Every husband looked at his wife, now safe and no longer trembling with distraught and terror.  Every mother now able to comfort their desperate child…and their gratitude reached a point where nothing could be said, it had to be sung.  Perhaps you’ve been there…perhaps you haven’t.  At any rate, I want to exhort you, admonish you to sing unto the Lord.  Unknown by many in our “convenience Christianity” we have concocted in the post modern world, singing is precisely what your flesh and especially the enemy DOES NOT want you to do for the Lord. 
• Ezekiel 28:13-19 is the most descriptive text we have on Satan. In verse 13 we read, “The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was created for you on the day you were created.”  Now timbrels we see in several other places of the Bible but oddly enough, this word pipes…we see only once.  In fact, the only place we ever even see another pipe at all is in Zechariah Chapter 4 when the prophet is describing the elements of the tabernacle in heaven!  What’s my point?  I would submit to you what many others have concluded, that Lucifer was not only the highest and most beautiful angel ever created but he was also the one who led the song of heaven which hasn’t been sung since he fell.
• Pipes were only his. Created for only  And those pipes today remain silent…yet…they have been replaced by the pipes of the redeemed and that chorus echoes as we sing to the Lord.  You may be one that doesn’t sing because it’s not your thing or because you don’t have a talent for it…I would encourage you today, sing unto the Lord.  Doesn’t have to be loud…doesn’t even have to be more than a whisper…but singing, as is all of worship…all of this life lived unto God…is not about you.
• We are commanded to sing unto the Lord. Colossians 3:16, Ephesians 5:18-19.  Moreover, singing unto God, obeying Him, takes the Word of God and digs it into your heart of hearts.  Again, Colossians 3:16 says that the Word of Christ dwells in you richly, how?  By singing songs to God!  Third, singing encourages your fellow believer!  Have you ever looked around the room and while you are pouring your heart out to God there is another absolutely stoic and uninvolved…distracting to say the least.  Fourth, singing unto God spiritually strengthens you!  Remember Paul and Silas imprisoned in Acts 16.  Recall the times of Psalms in David’s life…  Fifth, you singing…glorifies  So if you don’t today, please make this change…sing songs to the Lord!
• Oh, that may be the problem. Perhaps you’re singing songs about the Lord…that’s not what we are to do, that’s not what Moses did, look here…, “Moses and the children of Israel sang this song TO the Lord…”  Consider that next worship set.  Not your thing?  Not your thing to sing to the Lord…not sure you understand Him then…
• This is the first song ever recorded in the Bible and wonderfully enough, it is also the last. We see the Song of Moses again in Revelation Chapter 15, this time sung by those, “Who have victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass…”  Why is the song sung?    First from Egypt, and last from the evil one himself.  What is freedom?  The triumph of God in your heart and life.

Exodus Chapter 15 Verses 2 – 5

• That might trip you up a little bit because isn’t God love? Absolutely, 1 John 4:7-8.  So what is this?  The Lord is a man of war?  How does that fit?  Listen, God is indeed love but outside of God, on this earth and throughout creation exists a lot that is not like God.  If God is love then He must be opposed to and at war with all that is not love lest He be nothing but superficial and a fraud.  Of which He is neither. 
• On the contrary, Psalm 5:4 says that, “No evil dwells with God.” If love frees us then sin traps us.  If love satisfies us then sin emaciates us.  If love is God’s nature then evil is His enemy and therefore when evil presents, God defeats.  This is a powerful testimony of the cross of Jesus Christ…the greatest show of force there ever was as by one Man, God Himself, all evil was put to open shame…  God is indeed all and completely love which also makes Him all and completely a God of war when it comes to evil…
• I love this…Spurgeon pointed this out, notice, Moses does not say that the Lord gives him strength, he says there in verse 2 that the Lord IS his strength. How strong are you believer?  How powerful is your spirit that enlightens and illuminates your soul?  I say it with reverence (words of Spurgeon), you are as strong as the Lord.  My words, walk in the Spirit…find what Paul found, “I can do all things through Christ who is my strength!”

Exodus Chapter 15 Verses 6 – 10

• I love that! The “I will” statements of the enemy and then we read, “You blew with Your wind…and they sank.”  What is the wind?  I would submit to you, wind in the Bible represents God’s power, plan and will as revealed in His Word.  Psalm 107:25 says, “For He commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves of the sea.”  Packed with symbolism the short exhortation is this.  Walk in the Word of God and His power and plan will sink like lead every “I will” statement of the enemy in your life!

Exodus Chapter 15 Verses 11 – 19

• Notice this song is all about God! It’s all about what He has done and how God is worthy to be praised and glorified!  Who is like you among the gods, O Lord!?  The Lord shall reign forever and ever!  I believe the completion of this prophecy, this song, came about in the proclamation of the Gospel.
• When Jesus defeated death He in essence defeated every other god ever imagined. The god of the harvest, the god of rain, the god of the season, the god of the sun that…gives life…all become nothing on display when Jesus defeated death and showed He alone has the power of eternal life!  It’s the gospel, the good news that sin is defeated, this temporal world is not enough and it is not our home…and a place has been prepared for all those who will follow Him there…
• Moses and the people sang, “Who is like You, oh Lord, among the gods.” Jesus in Matthew 16 took His disciples all the way up to the Northern most part of Israel, to Caesarea Philippi near the city of Dan and next to Mount Hermon.  There He asked them, (Matthew 16:13-16), “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”  So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”  He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”  Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”  Fast forward to verse 18, Jesus responded, “On this rock (this confession) I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” 
• There’s a place there, right near Mount Hermon in Caesarea Philippi and interestingly enough, there is a “strip mall” of temples to false gods at one spot and one of the temples, the Temple of Pan, is called the Gates of Hades. You see, Jesus was there, took His disciples all the way to the northern tip of the land, put them in front of crowds of people paying their gods off…and asked them this question.  Who am I to you?  That is the same question you are answering every day of your life as you face the panic of the situation…The Gates of Hades was the ultimate pagan worship…and Jesus said to them and to us, “Trust Me,” …and find what Moses sang, there is none that prevail against Him.  Find dry land in the midst of an impossible sea.