Text: Exodus 13:20:21

Introduction.

• The time of traveling was 11 days. But it really was 40 years.
• God turned his people from the Philistine’s way.
  “God not always take us to the easy way, but gives us the power to go through the hard way.
• v. 21. “And the Lord went ahead of them…” The own presence of God.
• Clouds in the desert. How? If cloud itself form from water?
• Take a look in its local geography. It is impossible to form the clouds.
• Any water that comes from the Mediterranean Sea would become vapor.
• Why the invitation: Let’s stay under the cloud.

• John 14:6. “I am the way...”
• Colossians 2:6. “Walk in him...”
• Jesus is the complete way for salvation and for daily life.
• Egypt represents slavery. Canaan is liberation.

• Exodus 12:37:38- A crowd left Egypt.
• Exodus 3:14. God says “I am everything.”
• Day and night’s orientation
• I Corinthians 10:1-4. The rock was Christ. We can say that the clouds as well.

• Exodus 40:34.
• II. Chronicles 5:13. The priests couldn’t stand.
• N.T. Luke 9:34. The experience of the transfiguration.

Conclusion

• Exodus 40:37. Let’s follow the clouds movement.
• What is God’s direction?
• There is total delivery. Confidence.
• “It was easier to take the people from slavery than to take slavery from people”
• In the moment of insecurity, weakness, God takes his people to the desert and makes a great work.
• Deuteronomy 8:15-16 “...to do well in the end.”
• The world is a desert, completely insecure.
• The invitation: Let’s stay under the cloud.