What if through all those difficulties, all those obstacles, all the seemingly unanswered prayers, these long seasons of waiting, if you understood what God was doing here with Israel that he's also doing in your life, maybe that would change your attitude toward God during difficult seasons like this.

Welcome back to the Summit Life podcast with Pastor J.D. Greer. Before we get started today,

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and more to help you grow in your faith. Now to today. You know, the parting of

the Red Sea wasn't just an epic moment in Israel's history. It became one of the clearest pictures of

salvation in the Old Testament. Today, Pastor Jady shows us how God gave the Israelites this moment

to look back on when their faith began to waver. And in the same way, when we're tempted to doubt God's goodness in our own lives,

we're reminded to look back to his faithfulness as well,

shown to us through the death and resurrection of Jesus.

So let's join Pastor J.D. right now.

Exodus 14, if you have your Bibles this weekend, and I hope that you do.

Exodus 14.

You have probably heard the name Harriet Tubman before.

She was the incredibly valiant woman, a former slave herself, who led an entire movement of slaves to freedom via what they call the underground railroad. One surprising fact that I learned about her that I did not

know was that she always carried a small pistol on her person at all times. But it was not for the

reasons that you might suspect. You might think she did that to ward off

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