I want to bring to you a message this good Friday that I'm calling forever, hold your peace.

Forever hold your peace. If you have a way to get to the scriptures Exodus 14 and if you don't,

we'll have them on the screen for you. I want to read to you verses 10 through 16 and it says,

and when Pharaoh drew near the children of Israel lifted their eyes and behold the Egyptians marched

after them. So they were very afraid and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Then they

said to Moses, because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness?

Why have you so dealt with us to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in

Egypt saying, let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to

serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness. And Moses said to the people,

do not be afraid, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will accomplish for you

today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will

fight for you and you shall hold your peace. And the Lord said to Moses, why do you cry to me?

Tell the children of Israel to go forward but lift up your rod, God said to Moses and stretch out

your hand over the sea and divide it and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the

midst of the sea. God, we bless your name and we say that you're good. We're grateful

for this day and what we remember and what it causes us to realize and what it gives us permission

to look forward to. We don't know what to say in response to such great love except thank you.

And we pray in these quiet moments together you would cause something new to burst forth inside of us.

We pray for people who don't know you to be drawn to you through your Holy Spirit. Thank you

for the way that we are linked up across thousands of different cities and places all around the

country and world and yet we have this in common. We're loved by our God and you have something to

say to us and you wrote a book for us to read and your spirit is with us near not far able to help

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