Exodus 14:14-15 New International Version (NIV) 14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” 15 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

1. FAITH + ACTIONS

2. 14 “The LORD will fight for you; you need only
to be still.” 15 Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Why are you crying out to me? Tell the
Israelites to move on.
-Exodus 14:14-15

3. • Exodus 14:14 is by far one of the most
misinterpreted verses in the Bible.

4. • Most of us, including myself, have looked at it
as a faith infusing verse of what we should do
when we need help or a breakthrough.
• When we’re looking for God to do something
big. Or when we’re waiting to see God bring
something into our lives.

5. • Be still. Let the Lord fight the battle for you.
Let go and let God.

6. • In short,
do nothing.
There’s just one
problem with
that: verse 15.

7. • In verse 14 Moses tells the people that God
will fight for them and to be still.
• But in verse 15 God comes in and
immediately contradicts Moses.
• He doesn’t tell them to stand still. He tells
them to shut up and get moving. Into the sea.

8. • Moses was wrong.
• In isolation, verse 14 is wrong. Yes, God’s going
to fight for them.
• But it won’t be while they’re standing there and
doing nothing.
• It’s in the parted sea.
• It’s while they’re moving that God will be
fighting.

9. • Sometimes it can be easy to mistake patience
for what’s really passivity.
• Faith for what could be laziness. Or even
faithlessness.

10. • Sometimes it can be easy to think that we
should stand still and cry out when God’s
actually looking for us to shut up and get
moving.
• Not to do everything on our own, obviously.
• But to realize that faith isn’t necessarily sitting
and waiting for God to do everything on His
own for you. God fights while you move.

11. • For example, if you’re unemployed
it isn’t faith for you to stay at home
and watch the GAME SHOW while
praying during commercial breaks
and expecting God to throw a job
into your lap.
• Faith is updating your resume.
Getting yourself out the door.
• And applying for jobs.
• Let God fight for you in your job
search.

12. • You could apply this to pretty much every area
of your life. Relationships. Finances. Major life
decisions.

13. • Faith isn’t passive; It’s active.
• Read Hebrews 11.
• I defy you to find me one verse that says, “By
faith, they watched.”
• It’s always by faith, they moved and by faith,
they did.

14. • That’s because faith is
knowing who God is
and acting accordingly.
• And then watching
Him act accordingly.

15. • One of our biggest problems is that we
confuse faith with hope.
• Many people are standing in
hope instead of walking in faith.