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Podcast Introduction Our reading today is Exodus 13-16, and I’m calling the episode “Where Is Your Focus?” Comments on Exodus 13-16 The Israelites wanted safety. They wanted to be taken care of, even if that meant they would stay in slavery. You cannot remain free and also be safe. If you want to be safe, you will have to give up your freedom. But you say, "Steve, aren't we supposed to be slaves to Christ?" Yes, beloved. His is the only yoke is light, and in Him, we have freedom from slavery to sin. God is LOVE, and being a slave to Him is NOT the same as being a slave to any other person or entity or anything or anyone else. In Him is absolute freedom to be who He created you to be. In chapter 14, verse 31 we read, "When the Israelites saw the great power with which the Lord had defeated the Egyptians, they stood in awe of the Lord; and they had faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses." But we read in 15:22 that they soon began complaining. When they had been in the desert for three days, a