Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption.

And we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Welcome back to a year in the Bible of daily grace. My name is Katie and today we're diving

in to Exodus 13 through 15. In chapter 13, the Israelites are fresh out of slavery. They

just watch God preserve their people through ten gruesome plagues and now they are free

to venture into their promised land. God first gives them instructions on how to follow

post-Egypt. They are to dedicate the first born to Him. Second, they are to celebrate the

Feast of unleavened bread for generations and generations to come. Unleavened bread was

considered to be pure. They were to eat this bread for seven days in remembrance of all

that God has brought them through. God led the Hebrews out of Egypt and into the wilderness.

God is with us people guiding them by a pillar of smoke in the daytime and a pillar of fire

by night. But God was a dumb with Pharaoh. After the plagues subsided, Pharaoh again got comfortable

and he doubted God. He chased after the Egyptians, giving God another chance to display his glory.

The Egyptians got closer and closer and they almost overtook God's people. The Israelites

were terrified. They begged Moses just to send them back into slavery. But Moses trusted God

and encouraged his people to keep marching on. God instructed Moses to do the impossible.

He told Moses to stretch out his staff over the red sea and divide the waters. Just when the

Israelites had nowhere to go, just when they had lost hope, God parted the sea. He sent a strong

east wind to part the waters throughout the night. Can you imagine walls of water towered to

their left and their right? It must have been incredible. The Israelites passed through the red sea

on dry ground. And Moses raised his staff again in the morning. The sea returned to its normal

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