Types of Redemption in the Old Testament
Bitter Water Made Sweet
Exodus 15 - Background

1. Moses had just led the people of Israel out of Egypt and they had all seen the miracle of God parting the Red Sea.
• Exodus 14:31 Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord and they believed in the Lord and in His servant Moses.
  
  
2. So after praising God, they continued on their journey to the promised land. They travelled for 3 days and at the first sign of trouble, they started complaining again. They arrived at Marah (bitterness) where they finally found water but they couldn’t drink it because it was bitter.
• Exodus 14:24 And the people grumbled against Moses…
  
  
3. And Moses, being the super-spiritual giant of faith prayed with authority and commanded the water to become drinkable. NO!
   Moses was reacted in the same way any human under stress. He CRIED out to God.
   
   
4. God showed him a log / a tree, and Moses threw it into the water and the water became sweet.
1. The Log / Tree is a picture of the cross
2. The Waters of Marah / bitterness is a picture of pain, disease, sickness.
   
   
• John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.
• Isaiah 53:4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! 5 But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. (NLT)
  
  
5. There are conditions that have to be met. Rules to enjoy the sweet waters.
• Exodus 15:26
• diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God
• do what is right in His sight,
• give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes