These questions are guidelines for your personal or small-group study based on Sunday's sermon passage. Feel free to study and meditate on the passage more deeply. ​​

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1. Moses didn't begin the song with Israel's ordeal, the Red Sea drama, or his own leadership. He began with the LORD. What does it reveal about the state of our own worship when the first thing we reach for after God does something is the story of what happened rather than the Person who made it happen?

2. As we heard, Moses said, "the LORD is my strength," "He is my song," and "He has become my salvation," not that God gave those things, but that God is those things. How does the difference between receiving something from God and knowing God Himself as the thing you need actually change the way you live between the moments when He shows up? 

3. Pastor Randy said that the miracles God works in our lives are meant to teach us something about the God who performed them, and that if we only remember the event, we may forget the lesson. Take a moment as a group: what is one thing a past work of God in your life taught you about His character specifically, not just that He came through, but what it revealed about who He is? 

4. Israel's song shifts from looking backward at the Red Sea to looking forward toward God's holy habitation, and that redemption always has a destination, not just a rescue but a "saved to" and not merely a "saved from.” Describe how this has perhaps revealed itself in your life.

5. Three days after the greatest worship moment in Israel's history, they were grumbling about bitter water. Pastor Randy said the deeper problem wasn't the thirst; it was that the need had grown larger in their minds than the God who brought them to it. What can we do in our lives to prevent making our problems bigger than our God?

6. We heard that God told Israel at Marah, "I am the LORD who heals you," Jehovah Rapha, and that the bitter water test was actually designed to teach them He could sustain them in the ordinary, not just deliver them in the dramatic. Where are you currently needing God to show up in the ordinary, not as the God of the Red Sea but as the God of Marah, faithful in the small, daily, unglamorous provision? 

7. As a group, look up Revelation 15:2-4, where those who have overcome the beast stand before God singing what Scripture calls "the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb." Compare the language in Revelation 15:3-4 with what we heard Sunday from Exodus 15:11: "Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" What does it mean that the song Israel sang at the Red Sea is still being sung in heaven at the end of all things, and what does that continuity say about the nature of God's character and the permanence of His redemptive work across all of history?