Healing the Bitter Pool | Clip 1

• It was rather significant that this morning the opening song that we sang was taken from the 15th chapter of Exodus. The song of triumph that Moses and the people of Israel sang after they’d crossed through the Red Sea and then watched the waters come back and cover their Egyptian pursuers. The passage that I’m going to read this morning follows on immediately after that incident.
• The next thing that happened was that the prophetist Miriam took out a tambourine and led all the uh Israelite women in dancing and praise on the sands of the Red Sea. And I think sometimes we read words and don’t sufficiently picture what’s involved. But conservative estimates place the number of the people of Israel at that time at 2 1/2 million, which means there must have been close on 1 million women capable of dancing.
• And I think the sight of 1 million women praising the Lord. Well, I mean it really boggles the imagination. It’s hard to conceive what that would be like. Incidentally, we also tend to overlook the age of the people involved. As I understand it, the prophetus Miriam at that time was 84 years old at least. So, none of you have reached retiring age here this morning.
• And I think there’s one thing that helps to keep you young. It’s praising the Lord. and praising the Lord in a pretty active way. All right, I’m going to read now the next incident. It’s remarkable how God deals with his people. They come moments of pressure, moments of tremendous difficulty, then great victories, moments of triumph and praise, and we tend to take the attitude, well, now everything’s settled. That’s it. No more problems.