Exodus 14:21-28
More and more movies and television shows are sequels or remakes. We watch reboots of 90’s sitcoms or we buy tickets to eighth Avengers movie. Sequels have to be bigger and better than the ones before. Take the movie Die Hard. In the first movie, John McClane was just a regular police officer with above average pain tolerance and grit. He does heroic things, but they’re within the realm of possibility. By the end of the series, he’s driving cars into helicopters and leaping on the the wings of jets.
In the Bible, the New Testament tells sequels to Old Testament stories. In the two testaments, we see an exodus from Egypt and an even bigger and better exodus from sin and death through Jesus. In this sermon, you’ll hear how the Exodus story of the Red Sea points us to our rescue through baptism from sin and death.