Joel Muddamalle: Well, hey, friends, welcome to  Week Three of “Seeing Jesus in the Old Testament.”   This week we’re gonna look at Patterns.  I’m Dr. Joel Muddamalle. This is my friend,   Lysa TerKeurst. As we look at Patterns this  week, really what we’re going to unpack   is how we can find Jesus or see Jesus in  those moments where we want to quit.

Now,   here’s the good news, I think. Well, it’s  not really good news, might be bad news.   I think we’ve all wanted to quit at some point  in time. Have you ever wanted to quit, Lysa? Lysa TerKeurst: Oh,100 percent, yes. JM: But here’s the good news–this  also isn’t kind of good news,   it’s also a little bit of bad news as well–that  in the Bible, there’s lots of instances of people   wanting to quit. But I do have good news.

The good  news is that even in the midst of wanting to quit,   that there’s always a reason  why we should fight that desire,   and actually find that we’re not left helpless In  the middle of those moments we want to quit. That   God actually empowers us and helps us to fight  through it and to make it onto the other side. LT: Well, and sometimes quitting is good.

Like,  there are some things that we need to stop in   our life. But the children of Israel were marching  toward good promises. They were marching toward a   good promise of God and a purpose of  God for them to enter into the promised   land and possess that land. So I think the  kind of quitting that we’re talking about   is the kind of quitting where you need  to press through because your life is   pointed towards something good, and you don’t  want to stop before you get to God’s good.

JM: Yeah. And that’s exactly what’s happening  for the people of Israel in Exodus Chapters 14,   15 and 16. And a quick summary, you know, the  people of Israel have just experienced the crazy   miraculous goodness of God, as He separates  the Red Sea and delivers them through it.   And then I can, I don’t know, Lysa, if I’m writing  the Bible–we should all be grateful that Joel’s   not writing the Bible.