This is the Bainwell Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host Brent Billings. Today we

are looking at the story of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea in Exodus 14 and then we

will dissect their first test on the weight of Mount Sinai in Exodus 15.

Yeah, so just a little bit of review. We'll make it brief this time. We've been spending some time

in the review but remember we have talked about the book of Genesis now. Got that all wrapped up as

we talked about that as God's preface and introduction to his larger narrative.

So if God's narrative starts in the book of Exodus, that means Genesis gives us a preface of

chapters 1 through 11 and where God introduces us to the, I mean like the really basic premises of

his story and that is that he's made a good creation. He's pretty much crazy about his creation.

He thinks it's it's good. He loves it. He values it. He accepts it as it is and invites that creation,

particularly mankind, to trust that, to not live in fear and insecurity that they're not enough

but trust that they are. And they struggle to do that until we get to the introduction. Genesis 12

through 50 and we meet the family of God. And we meet the family of God with a guy named Abraham.

We're going to talk about Avram as the father of faith in our in our tradition quite a bit and

and that that's going to be because this family is going to be the kind of family that God wants to

use. They have the Hutspa. They have the hospitality. They have the compassion. They seem to know how to

lean back into the story and that's kind of what sets up the story and then God's narrative begins.

And we talked about the tale of two kingdoms. And in the story of the Exodus you have this juxtaposition

and this contrast setup between two different ways. And so we talked about in the last couple

podcasts the way of power and his hand outstretched over his over the people that he's oppressing.

The people that stand against him and there's a stick in his hand and and we'll always talk about

empire as being this metaphor for fear and coercion and a particular kind of power. It's a

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