Next, we find Moses and the people of Israel at the Red Sea.  They had Pharaoh's army chasing them and the Red Sea blocking them, and they immediately forgot what God had already done and thought they were going to be killed.  If we are doing what God leads us to do, and find ourselves in a seemingly impossible situation, we should still keep our faith in God.  As with the people of Israel, God will provide a way of escape, even if we lose our mortal life.  We just have to remain true to Him.  For the Israelites, the way of escape came when God parted the Red Sea.  I hear people  occasionally referring to Moses parting the Red Sea, but he didn't do it.  God did, though he worked through Moses using the rod that God had given him, which I hadn't mentioned, to show God's presence in the act.  We today need to be certain that God receives the credit for the things that He does through us.  After Moses and the people of Israel passed through the Red Sea on dry land, Pharaoh and his army chased them in and were drowned when God allowed the waters to close in again.  As stated when discussing this passage, the people of Israel did not pass through a marshy area as some claim, or Pharaoh and his army drowned in that same marsh.  When the people of Israel were on the other side and Moses went up the mountain to receive God's law, they immediately forgot all that God had done and demanded that Aaron make them a god.  Even though Aaron was God's spokesman for Moses, he did as they asked.  Today, we as followers of Christ cannot give in to the demands of the world and attempt to make false gods in our lives.  On the mountain, God knew what was going on below.  We cannot hide our sins from God, even if we think He is not watching us.  Moses interceded for the people, but when he came down and saw what they had done, as they worshipped the golden calf, he became angry.  We should be upset if we see those who are supposed to be God's people worshipping the things of this world.  I believe that anyone who claims that Christianity is a way to material blessings and that all we have to do is claim them is misrepresenting the gospel.  After dealing with the people and Aaron, who was not truthful about what had happened, Moses had to go back up the mountain, because he had literally broken God's law, the tablets on which the law was inscribed.  Even if we see others who profess to be Christians breaking God's law, we cannot afford to allow their actions to cause us to do the same.  When the people complained, as they often did, about being led out of Egypt only to starve when they were free, God again provided for their needs.  We need not complain about God's lack of providing for us, because if we live by faith in Him, He will always provide for our needs.  Finally, we have a record of the building of the tabernacle in accordance with God's design.  God planned it and then he equipped people with the ability to build it.  Today, we have God's salvation plan to share with the lost world.  Salvation comes only through God's plan, and He equips us, as followers of Christ, to share it with the lost people of the world.  Just as Moses followed God's leadership at that time, so must we today.