Ever feel like following God has made life harder, not easier? Like you traded predictable pain for terrifying freedom? This is a message for anyone who has ever stood at a Sea moment and thought, “Maybe I should just go back.”

In Exodus 13–14, the people of Israel are finally free… and immediately feel trapped. Pharaoh changes his mind. A sea blocks their path. Fear rewrites their memories and freedom suddenly feels overwhelming.

We look at why God sometimes takes “the long way,” how fear convinces us that slavery was easier, and how Jesus (the better mediator/Moses) accomplishes for us the greatest Exodus, from sin, shame, and sorrow.

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