Exodus 14: The Red Sea

Joel Miles

November 5, 2023

With a friend, your family or in your small group, discuss the following questions:

1. Read Genesis 12:1-3. According to these verses, why did God choose Abraham's family? How does this idea of being chosen for the sake of others challenge the notion of favouritism or privilege? 
   

  2.  Why is understanding that Abraham's line was chosen not just for their own sake, but for the sake of others, important for how we                   understand something like the crossing of the Red Sea? 

  3.  Do we usually think about God in light of his works of salvation? Read Exodus 6:2-8. How does this text explain why God had his people           suffer under the hand of Egypt? How does this highlight the significance of the Red Sea crossing for understanding God? 

  4.  Read Exodus 13:17-18 and 14:5-12. Why were the Israelites so afraid? Can you relate to this kind of fear?

  5.  Read Exodus 14:13-14. What is good about Moses' response? What is wrong about it? In what misguided ways do we often look for God           to save us?

  6.  How did God save his people in Exodus 14, and how is this different and greater than what they expected?

  7.  Why does this story of salvation stil leave us looking for a greater or second Exodus? 

  8. Read Mark 10:35-45. How has Jesus accomplished this salvation? How has he taken us through deep waters? How has he called us to            follow him on that path from death to life?

  9. What would it look like for you to follow Jesus through deep waters?