ACTUALLY PREACHED FROM A PULPIT!

Sometimes I cannot believe what is being preached in churches across America. In fact there are times I am completely shocked by what I hear.

Consider the following example:

The Church:

Fountain Gate Fellowship

Abilene, TX

Here is the link to the Church web-site:

Fountain

The Sermon:

Guest Speaker-Johnny Moffett

Here is the link so you can listen for yourself:

sermon

At about the 22:15 minute mark the following comment was made:

"Moses walked up to the red sea and stuck a stick in it and it turned to Jello, they walk across on dry land, those 3 million Jews, and when the Egyptians tried it God melted the jello and it drowned them all. Y'all don't look at me like that, study, study, study, In the Hebrew that word parted the red sea means congeal."

I am not making this up, in fact I don't think I could make this up if I tried. A preacher stood in a pulpit and actually told the people that Moses turned the red sea into Jello!


I can't believe I have to actually do this but let's study the text:

Exodus 14:
21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Notice a few things:

1. Moses did not stick his stick in the water, he streched out his hand over the water. If we go back a few verses we read God's instructions to Moses

Exodus 14
15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: 16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground

So already the preacher made a mistake but all preachers sooner or later can simply make a mistake.

But let's continue our study:

According to the sermon the water turned to Jello, let's look at the text again:
21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.


The text is pretty clear, the wind pushed the waters apart, the text does not say the molecular structure of the water was changed into Jello!

The pastor claimed the Hebrew word means congeal.

Let's take a look:
Exodus 14:16

Divide
Hebrew
(qb


Phonetic Spelling
baw-kah'

Transliterated Word
Baqa`


Parts of Speech
Verb

Definition
to split, cleave, break open, divide, break through, rip up, break up, tear (Qal) to cleave, cleave open to break through, break into (Niphal) to be cleft, be rent open, be split open to be broken into (Piel) to cleave, cut to pieces, rend open to break through, break down (Pual) to be ripped open, be torn open to be rent to be broken into (Hiphil) to break into to break through (Hophal) to be broken into (Hithpael) to burst (themselves) open, cleave asunder


As you can see, what the preacher said was 100% false!

Yet the Church actually placed the sermon online so people can download it!

Professing Christians who are members of that Church has allowed something so completely foolish and false to be placed on the Churches website!

Think about it, the preacher taught that the Red sea was turned to Jello! Maybe the children of Israel was hungry so God gave them a tasty Jello snack! (sarcasam)

This is so pathetic that all Christians should be saddened and angered that this is what some people consider preaching and that Christians will tolerate this in their Church!