Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm the host of

a podcast called Follow Him and I am here with my wonderful, beautiful, fantastic co-host

John, by the way, one of the greatest people ever. Yeah, that guy just behind you there,

John. Who's he talking about? Now, for this year, John, for Follow Him Favorites, we've

been answering a question from each lesson. The question this week for Exodus 14 through

17 is basically, how do I connect with the old testament? This stuff is really old. We're

talking the parting of the Red Sea and bread falling from heaven. This isn't something

that happens to me every day. How do I connect with something that is so long ago?

Here's what I like to say. It's not just their story. It's our story. I had a girl in

one of my classes, Hank. She had a Jewish background. I had asked just throughout the

question, somebody, tell us about Passover. What is that? What happened? And her answer,

all she said was, it was so brief, but it changed my life. She said, oh, that is when

we were saved from the plague by marking the doorposts with blood. She didn't say

that is when they were saved. This is us. She said, that is when we were saved from one

of the plagues by the blood being over. And she referred to these people as us. And I

will never forget that identified with them. And so that helped me to say, this is our

story. This is the people of God. We are trying to be the people of God. So how do we connect

with them? Well, this is our story. And we can even look at this and look at our patriarchal

blessings and say, yeah, these are my people because I came from one of these tribes.

And yeah, it's different culture, background names, everything. But we see so many of the

things that we do in what they do because we murmur, we complain, but we're delivered.

Yeah, let's talk about this murmuring and complaining idea. Because when I say, oh,

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