The presence of God on Sinai was unlike any other message ever preached.  We cannot stand before the judgment of God alone.  We must have Christ as our mediator.  We cannot stand on our good works, our good deeds or anything else.  God speaks to man in many ways and the law had been placed in their heart.  Their hearts had been filled with sin and had suffocated the law.  God had to remind them of the original law with the Ten Commandments.

The law is given and no man can live up to it or even measure it.  It reveals our true nature and the need for redemption.  Then we see judicial law given.  This has been carried down through time as a basis for the law of the land.

The Israelites came into the wilderness of sin and began murmuring against their current conditions and God.  It had only been two months and the supplies have been used.  They look back to their lives in Egypt and wish that they had died in the plagues or never been delivered at all.

God hears all our doubts, our murmurings and dissent.  We should consider this and get in our minds that we will be a grateful people even before we are placed in these conditions.  God sends the supply in the form of quails and manna from above for forty years until they reach Canaan.  The bread was only good for a day except for on the Sabbath.  This made them be dependent and have faith that God would deliver the next day.

They reached an area that was dry and what did they do, they murmured….again.  God had brought them through so much, but they still questioned if God was with them.  We see ourselves do this all the time.  No matter what God has brought us through in the past we still question if He will be there in the future.  When we face a wall, we worry, then we try to scale the wall or run around it leaving God behind us.  When we fail to scale the wall we look around for God.  Where is He?  Right where we left Him.

In remembrance of the death of the first-born of Egypt, the Passover, and the deliverance out of Egypt the first-born of the Israelites were to be set apart.  The were to be given to the service of God.  There were two ways from Egypt to Canaan.  God led the Israelites through the wilderness bypassing the most direct way.  The Lord led them by cloud and pillar of fire.

Pharaoh   thought them to be easy targets in the wilderness and set his army after them.  The Israelites trapped we see the resentment begin against Moses and God.  Why did you deliver us unto death?  The greatness and mercy of God has been all around them, yet they cannot see it in this time where the greates faith is needed.  Moses reassures them to look above for their deliverance.

When we cannot see a way through our troubles God opens a door or in this case parts a sea.  The Israelites walked across the Red Sea on dry ground.  The water crushed the Egyptian army as they followed behind.