1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:06,640 All right, you can resume. Please remain standing. 2 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,720 Please remain standing. As we read the word. 3 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,520 We're in the book of Exodus. We're going through there 4 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,800 looking at the life of Moses. We're in chapter 34. 5 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,800 And what's happened so far is the Lord's led his people out of 6 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,920 Egyptian bondage and into the wilderness, and he has taken 7 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,880 them to Sinai. And he's taken Moses up to the 8 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:34,760 mountain to give him the commandments and the 9 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:36,760 instructions on building the Tabernacle. 10 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,520 And while Moses is up there, they are worshipping the golden 11 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,160 calf. And then when Moses comes down, 12 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:45,560 before he ever gets down the mountain, he sees that they've 13 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,840 broken all the laws of God already, so he smashes the 14 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,920 tables of stone. He and the Lord engaged in a 15 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,120 conversation which we looked at last week. 16 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:58,090 And now we continue this conversation as Moses and the 17 00:00:58,090 --> 00:01:01,090 Lord are talking, and Moses is going to be instructed by the 18 00:01:01,090 --> 00:01:05,209 Lord to give it another shot, and he's going to tell him to 19 00:01:05,209 --> 00:01:07,410 get two more tablets. And let's try this again. 20 00:01:07,810 --> 00:01:11,730 So here now the word of the Lord, the Lord said to Moses, 21 00:01:12,050 --> 00:01:15,530 cut for yourselves 2 tablets of stone like the 1st. 22 00:01:15,930 --> 00:01:19,130 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first 23 00:01:19,130 --> 00:01:23,440 tablets which you broke. Be ready by the morning, and 24 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,840 come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself 25 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,520 there to me on top of the mountain. 26 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:32,320 No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen 27 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:35,920 throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze 28 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:41,040 opposite that mountain. So Moses cut 2 tablets of stone, 29 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,120 like the first rose early in the morning, and went up on Mount 30 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:45,680 Sinai. And as the Lord had commanded 31 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:50,200 him, and took in his hand 2 tablets of stone, the Lord 32 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,640 descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and 33 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:58,320 proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and 34 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:05,440 proclaimed the Lord the Lord a God, merciful and gracious, slow 35 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,840 to anger, abounding and steadfast love and faithfulness, 36 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:14,520 keeping steadfast love for thousands for giving iniquity 37 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:19,070 and transgression and sin. But who will by no means clear 38 00:02:19,070 --> 00:02:22,550 the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the 39 00:02:22,550 --> 00:02:25,790 children and the children's children to the third and 4th 40 00:02:25,790 --> 00:02:30,830 generation? And Moses quickly bowed his head 41 00:02:31,190 --> 00:02:36,550 toward the earth and worshipped. And he said, If now I have found 42 00:02:36,550 --> 00:02:41,030 favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the 43 00:02:41,030 --> 00:02:45,710 midst of us, for it is a stiff necked people, and pardon our 44 00:02:45,710 --> 00:02:49,790 iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance. 45 00:02:50,430 --> 00:02:55,310 And the Lord said, Behold, I am making a covenant before all 46 00:02:55,310 --> 00:02:58,830 your people. I will do marvels, such as not 47 00:02:58,830 --> 00:03:03,270 have been created in all the earth or in any nation, and all 48 00:03:03,270 --> 00:03:07,790 the people among them who you shall see the work of the Lord. 49 00:03:09,350 --> 00:03:14,310 For it is an awesome thing that I do with you, the word of the 50 00:03:14,310 --> 00:03:25,220 Lord. You may be seated, and so the 51 00:03:25,220 --> 00:03:29,620 Lord summons mountain top experience for Moses. 52 00:03:30,540 --> 00:03:32,500 And this is precisely what it is. 53 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:35,460 Did you detect in the text that Moses didn't know? 54 00:03:35,460 --> 00:03:38,940 It may be at first, but he was attending a worship service. 55 00:03:39,660 --> 00:03:43,020 First thing the Lord came out and did was preached to him. 56 00:03:44,220 --> 00:03:47,930 He says the Lord proclaimed, the Lord proclaimed. 57 00:03:47,930 --> 00:03:54,170 It's the Lord preaching to Moses and faith comes by hearing and 58 00:03:54,170 --> 00:03:58,210 hearing by the word of God. And as God spoke His word, it 59 00:03:58,210 --> 00:04:01,050 engendered in Moses incredible faith. 60 00:04:01,050 --> 00:04:05,370 You remember how discouraged and how upset and really confused 61 00:04:05,370 --> 00:04:09,850 Moses was last week when we first met him after the golden 62 00:04:09,850 --> 00:04:15,160 calf experience. But now the Lord preaches a 63 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:20,560 wonderful sermon well orbed in theology, as you might expect 64 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:26,120 from the Lord to Moses, and engenders in his heart that 65 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,680 grace and mercy and shed abroad. In his heart is that love of 66 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,000 God, his understanding of who God is, And even though he has 67 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,540 begun to understand God since the days of the burning Bush, he 68 00:04:38,540 --> 00:04:41,780 is now understanding and learning more and more about his 69 00:04:41,780 --> 00:04:43,980 God. And as the Lord completes His 70 00:04:43,980 --> 00:04:47,820 message to Moses on this occasion, we find there in verse 71 00:04:47,820 --> 00:04:53,540 8, and Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and 72 00:04:53,540 --> 00:04:57,820 worshipped. Now we'll see what the Lord said 73 00:04:57,820 --> 00:05:01,780 here in just a moment, but I think it's important to to see 74 00:05:01,780 --> 00:05:06,650 Moses response. And then Moses said, if now I 75 00:05:06,650 --> 00:05:12,490 have found favor in your sight, Moses is feeling and knowing and 76 00:05:12,490 --> 00:05:16,610 understanding the grace of God. The word favor in our text is 77 00:05:16,610 --> 00:05:22,010 the word grace. Moses was finding grace in the 78 00:05:22,010 --> 00:05:24,450 eyes of the Lord. He was beginning to see that as 79 00:05:24,690 --> 00:05:28,330 sinful, and his stiff necked and rebellious as the people were, 80 00:05:28,740 --> 00:05:33,020 as angry and confused and confound and ambivalent as Moses 81 00:05:33,020 --> 00:05:40,900 was, God was still God, and he was still gracious and merciful 82 00:05:40,900 --> 00:05:45,900 and loving, and He's still determined to carry out his 83 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:48,860 purpose. And since Moses had the 84 00:05:49,620 --> 00:05:54,140 engendering of this faith in his heart by hearing the Word. 85 00:05:54,140 --> 00:05:59,090 Of God and had this exposure and this experience of grace. 86 00:06:00,530 --> 00:06:05,650 My word, God is going to stay with it. 87 00:06:06,970 --> 00:06:11,530 He's not going to give up. He's going to be steadfast and 88 00:06:11,530 --> 00:06:14,650 continuous in his love. He's going to actually save 89 00:06:14,650 --> 00:06:18,130 Israel and bring us out of this wilderness and end to the 90 00:06:18,130 --> 00:06:21,090 promised land and do great things beyond that. 91 00:06:21,090 --> 00:06:23,930 In fact, the Lord says at the end, and all the people among 92 00:06:23,930 --> 00:06:26,950 you, you shall see the work of the Lord. 93 00:06:26,950 --> 00:06:31,510 And this is really what ought to be my topic and my theme this 94 00:06:31,510 --> 00:06:35,910 morning, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you, 95 00:06:35,910 --> 00:06:38,910 says the Lord. And that's precisely what the 96 00:06:38,910 --> 00:06:41,790 Lord's going to do. He's going to do an awesome 97 00:06:41,790 --> 00:06:44,510 thing with Israel. He's going to actually save them 98 00:06:44,510 --> 00:06:46,390 and protect them and bring them through the wilderness. 99 00:06:46,390 --> 00:06:49,190 It's going to take about 30-8 more years to finally get them 100 00:06:49,190 --> 00:06:51,430 into the promised land, but they're actually going to occupy 101 00:06:51,430 --> 00:06:54,640 the promised land, and they're actually going to live there in 102 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,200 peace and prosperity for about 300 years. 103 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,480 And God is going to raise up a king. 104 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,480 And in the third generation of kings, we're going to have a 105 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:07,480 king by the name of Solomon, and Solomon is going to be the 106 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,280 greatest king in Israel. David's son Solomon's going to 107 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,240 build the temple. He's going to lead the people. 108 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:18,200 He's going to expand the borders of the Israeli empire from the 109 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:22,850 Euphrates River to the Nile Valley, which is exactly what 110 00:07:22,850 --> 00:07:28,050 God had promised Abraham and during his days. 111 00:07:28,650 --> 00:07:33,570 Now, admittedly, Assyria hadn't come on the scene yet. 112 00:07:34,290 --> 00:07:37,530 We haven't heard anything about the Chaldeans, about the 113 00:07:37,530 --> 00:07:42,770 Babylonians yet in human history at that point of Solomon's day. 114 00:07:43,450 --> 00:07:46,850 And we really know that the Egyptians were in a period of 115 00:07:46,850 --> 00:07:50,730 several centuries of decline during that period. 116 00:07:51,460 --> 00:07:54,980 But never mind what the other nations are doing. 117 00:07:55,020 --> 00:07:59,500 That was the time in which God brought everything to a literal 118 00:07:59,860 --> 00:08:04,620 fulfillment of glory. In the days of King Solomon, the 119 00:08:04,620 --> 00:08:07,580 Bible says everything that God promised, everything God had 120 00:08:07,580 --> 00:08:11,380 promised Moses, everything God had promised Abraham came to 121 00:08:11,380 --> 00:08:16,100 pass during the days, literally physically, of King Solomon. 122 00:08:16,580 --> 00:08:21,040 Solomon was considered in his day the greatest king in the 123 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,880 known world. It didn't last long, but 124 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:31,040 actually there was an ascendancy to Solomon's reign that Israel 125 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,240 never saw before, never saw again. 126 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,880 And at the time, Solomon was the greatest, most powerful, 127 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:45,120 wealthiest, wisest, most benevolent king on the face of 128 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,040 the earth. It's interesting that when the 129 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:52,200 Lord came, he said, greater than Solomon is here. 130 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:55,520 Lord says I'm going to do awesome things. 131 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,200 You know, let 1000 years go by. And Jesus did come. 132 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:05,800 And in that work that he accomplishes in his first coming 133 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:10,800 is laying all the groundwork of justice in order to build a 134 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,840 righteous Kingdom. There's some things that need to 135 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:21,750 be done on the score and the side of justice in Jesus first 136 00:09:21,750 --> 00:09:24,230 coming. One of the things a great king 137 00:09:24,230 --> 00:09:26,710 will do according to scripture and even according to any kind 138 00:09:26,710 --> 00:09:29,990 of geopolitical thought is a great ruler will establish 139 00:09:30,350 --> 00:09:35,190 justice in the land. And there was a great need for 140 00:09:35,190 --> 00:09:39,310 justice to be established. And this is this justice is the 141 00:09:39,310 --> 00:09:42,870 justice. That is the Lord's justice sin. 142 00:09:43,710 --> 00:09:47,950 The great rebellion had to be dealt with. 143 00:09:49,220 --> 00:09:55,780 Sin had to be atoned, A price had to be paid, a penalty had to 144 00:09:55,780 --> 00:09:58,820 be paid. A condemnation was going to work 145 00:09:58,820 --> 00:10:03,340 its way out in a penalty. In order to have great justice, 146 00:10:03,340 --> 00:10:09,820 in order for God to be just and the justifier of sinners, there 147 00:10:09,820 --> 00:10:17,500 needed to be a judicial forensic transaction between God and man. 148 00:10:18,500 --> 00:10:23,100 And that was accomplished in the man, Christ Jesus, who himself, 149 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:28,660 God and man took upon himself the burden of God's salvation, 150 00:10:29,940 --> 00:10:36,300 the enterprise of God's saving work, and also took upon himself 151 00:10:37,020 --> 00:10:44,140 the sinfulness, the lostness, the condemnation, the burden of 152 00:10:44,140 --> 00:10:48,100 the penalty of the sins of his people. 153 00:10:50,380 --> 00:10:54,900 No sin goes unpunished. That's God's justice. 154 00:10:57,260 --> 00:11:02,180 The sin will either be punished in the person of the Sinner or 155 00:11:02,180 --> 00:11:05,660 it will be punished in the person of Christ, the sinner's 156 00:11:05,660 --> 00:11:12,660 substitute. Yes, it is an awesome thing that 157 00:11:12,660 --> 00:11:17,550 I will do with you and this gospel of saving grace, 158 00:11:17,550 --> 00:11:23,310 redeeming grace, justifying grace, will be preached to the 159 00:11:23,310 --> 00:11:30,110 world. And so, in around 30 AD, and 160 00:11:30,110 --> 00:11:35,310 following the life of our Lord's earthly ministry, a small group 161 00:11:35,310 --> 00:11:40,990 of apostles begin to preach this gospel of saving grace. 162 00:11:41,700 --> 00:11:45,820 They begin to proclaim this righteousness and this justice 163 00:11:45,820 --> 00:11:51,060 of God in the cross of Christ. And how that Christ had died in 164 00:11:51,060 --> 00:11:58,420 order that you and I might be exonerated, acquitted, that we 165 00:11:58,420 --> 00:12:02,020 may live under a sentence of There is therefore now no 166 00:12:02,020 --> 00:12:05,780 condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus. 167 00:12:06,350 --> 00:12:09,310 And if we come to him by faith, we receive that which he has, 168 00:12:09,310 --> 00:12:16,110 and that is a perfect life to bestow upon us, and all of our 169 00:12:16,110 --> 00:12:21,550 sin to take away from us. And that gospel has been 170 00:12:21,550 --> 00:12:26,070 proclaimed now for about two millennia, and there are little 171 00:12:26,070 --> 00:12:28,470 flocks of men. That's the way they're referred 172 00:12:28,470 --> 00:12:31,830 to in the book of Ezekiel. Little flocks of men, little 173 00:12:31,830 --> 00:12:39,350 churches all over the world. The world is the Church is 174 00:12:39,350 --> 00:12:43,590 Apostolic. That is, it holds to those 175 00:12:43,590 --> 00:12:47,110 doctrines that Christ taught the apostles and that they preach to 176 00:12:47,110 --> 00:12:49,790 the world, fulfilling the Great Commission. 177 00:12:51,310 --> 00:13:00,070 The Church is orthodox in that they hold to core truths of the 178 00:13:00,070 --> 00:13:04,090 Deity of Christ, the existence of God, the Deity of Christ, his 179 00:13:04,090 --> 00:13:09,170 atoning work, and his righteous Kingdom. 180 00:13:12,490 --> 00:13:16,810 The Church is Catholic, meaning it's universal. 181 00:13:16,810 --> 00:13:21,570 It's everywhere, and that's what we preach from this pulpit in 182 00:13:21,570 --> 00:13:24,210 all Protestant pulpits. The Roman Church will tell you 183 00:13:24,210 --> 00:13:27,130 they're the only branch of the church that's the real church. 184 00:13:27,530 --> 00:13:31,830 So they're not Catholic. They like the name, but they're 185 00:13:31,830 --> 00:13:35,270 not really Catholic, which means universal worldwide, including 186 00:13:35,270 --> 00:13:41,030 all the unity of the faith, all the Saints of all the ages. 187 00:13:41,670 --> 00:13:44,710 The Eastern Church claims they're the only true church. 188 00:13:45,430 --> 00:13:48,910 That doesn't make them very Orthodox, even though they call 189 00:13:48,910 --> 00:13:53,510 themselves Eastern Orthodox. It is only those that reject 190 00:13:53,510 --> 00:14:00,010 those provincial labels and those boundaries and those that 191 00:14:00,010 --> 00:14:05,730 have come to Christ freely and having him and in his salvation, 192 00:14:06,050 --> 00:14:14,090 the unity of Christ. So there's a huge, multibillion 193 00:14:14,570 --> 00:14:18,330 person flock on the face of the earth. 194 00:14:19,290 --> 00:14:22,570 We're a long way from a few 100,000 at the foot of Mount 195 00:14:22,570 --> 00:14:26,770 Sinai, sitting there worrying about what they're going to eat 196 00:14:26,770 --> 00:14:30,660 for their next meal, a band of slaves. 197 00:14:31,740 --> 00:14:35,620 We're now men and women all over the world of all time and of all 198 00:14:35,620 --> 00:14:44,220 centuries, free and beloved and united in the gospel of Jesus 199 00:14:44,220 --> 00:14:47,020 Christ. We've all heard the voice of the 200 00:14:47,020 --> 00:14:50,220 shepherd saying, come, follow me. 201 00:14:50,820 --> 00:14:53,460 And we are living in a wonderful time. 202 00:14:53,460 --> 00:14:55,980 And I'm here to tell you that we're actually living just in a 203 00:14:55,980 --> 00:15:00,690 time of tribulation and a time of anticipation, a time of 204 00:15:00,690 --> 00:15:04,850 incompleteness, a time in which we still have great hope. 205 00:15:05,690 --> 00:15:09,130 And that is, there will be a time when the kingdoms of this 206 00:15:09,130 --> 00:15:11,770 world will become the Kingdom of the Lord. 207 00:15:11,770 --> 00:15:14,730 It is Christ. There'll come a time when Christ 208 00:15:14,730 --> 00:15:20,400 will return in reigning glory. There'll be a time when there'll 209 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,480 be a new heaven and a new earth. And I will make all things new. 210 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,080 And the Creator who created in the 1st place will now create 211 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:34,280 more gloriously than ever. It is an awesome thing that I 212 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:38,760 will do with you. That's where worldwide Christian 213 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:45,490 Catholic Orthodox faith is. It came way back there in those 214 00:15:45,490 --> 00:15:48,530 days when God was making himself known to the patriarchs, to 215 00:15:48,530 --> 00:15:51,810 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and others, and then here with 216 00:15:51,810 --> 00:15:53,810 Moses. And this presents itself as 217 00:15:53,810 --> 00:15:58,450 straightforward history. This is didactic pros. 218 00:15:58,450 --> 00:16:02,810 Those that find a mythological interpretation in these things 219 00:16:02,810 --> 00:16:08,050 exclusively miss a lot, because this is God working in human 220 00:16:08,050 --> 00:16:12,920 history with human beings, using human language and accommodating 221 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,200 himself and letting himself be known to his peaceful this is 222 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:20,480 the self revelatory, God revealing himself, pulling back 223 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,960 the curtain, giving, as it were, a a, a, an apocalypse, an 224 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:30,360 unveiling of himself. And what does he say about 225 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,720 himself? Well, let me point out the 226 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:39,080 particulars, the outline that the sermon, the proclamation 227 00:16:39,770 --> 00:16:42,250 that God preached to Moses, and we see it there in the middle of 228 00:16:42,250 --> 00:16:45,450 our chapter. It says the Lord passed before 229 00:16:45,450 --> 00:16:51,610 he went in front of Moses and he proclaimed the Lord the Lord. 230 00:16:53,410 --> 00:17:00,970 That's God's subject matter. God is preaching about God, but 231 00:17:00,970 --> 00:17:03,250 He's preaching about God in personal terms. 232 00:17:03,250 --> 00:17:05,410 This is Yahweh. This is the. 233 00:17:05,410 --> 00:17:07,810 Personal God. The True God, the One True God, 234 00:17:07,810 --> 00:17:10,130 the Living God, the God of heaven and earth, the God that 235 00:17:10,130 --> 00:17:14,369 created everything, The God to whom there are no other rivals. 236 00:17:14,369 --> 00:17:18,930 There is no other God like him. In fact, there are no gods but 237 00:17:18,930 --> 00:17:23,650 him, supreme and superior in all way the source of all things. 238 00:17:26,650 --> 00:17:30,010 And this is the one that is making himself known in a 239 00:17:30,010 --> 00:17:32,770 personal way to a personal people. 240 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:37,580 And now he has continued that all through the centuries God is 241 00:17:37,580 --> 00:17:41,780 making himself known as a personal God, personally to 242 00:17:41,780 --> 00:17:44,740 persons. And that's what the Lord does to 243 00:17:44,740 --> 00:17:48,700 us in the gospel and in the Scripture and in the So he says 244 00:17:48,700 --> 00:17:52,580 something about himself, not only His Majesty and his 245 00:17:52,580 --> 00:17:55,580 authority, his supremacy, his his full deity. 246 00:17:56,300 --> 00:18:04,540 But God says in this sermon that he is merciful, gracious, slow 247 00:18:04,540 --> 00:18:08,660 to anger, abounding and steadfast love and faithfulness 248 00:18:08,660 --> 00:18:12,540 and keeping steadfast love for thousands. 249 00:18:13,820 --> 00:18:19,060 That's our God. Have you come to realize that 250 00:18:20,460 --> 00:18:26,180 that our God, that we serve, is a God of love and mercy and 251 00:18:26,180 --> 00:18:28,760 grace? I love this phrase here. 252 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:31,200 That said, the Lord says about himself He's slow to anger. 253 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:32,680 The Lord knows his long temperament. 254 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,680 He knows what gets him wrathful, and he does get wrathful, but 255 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,960 for good cause and righteously so. 256 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:48,400 But He's slow to anger. The Lord's waiting on you to 257 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:53,320 just get sick of your sin, to repent of your sin, to forsake 258 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,840 your sin, and to come to Christ and turn to him for mercy and 259 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,640 grace and salvation. If it wasn't for the Lord's 260 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,760 mercy, you would already be consumed, every one of us. 261 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:06,920 But the Lord is slowed. Anger. 262 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,720 The Bible says that He is forbearing. 263 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:13,440 He puts up with it. He allows it. 264 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,560 Way back in the days of Abraham there was a filthy, filthy 265 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,240 tribe. They did everything wrong, 266 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,360 ungodly, sinful. They were the most corrupt 267 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:22,320 people on earth since the days of Noah. 268 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,660 It was called the Amorites and the Lord looked at him and said, 269 00:19:25,660 --> 00:19:28,380 you know, the iniquity of the amber right, is not full. 270 00:19:29,900 --> 00:19:32,980 He was waiting on them to turn and if they didn't repent, they 271 00:19:32,980 --> 00:19:34,900 were just going to get worse and worse. 272 00:19:35,060 --> 00:19:38,420 And they did. And finally, hundreds of years 273 00:19:38,420 --> 00:19:42,500 later, hundreds of years later, almost 1000 years later, not 274 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:47,780 quite about 700 years later, the Lord finally says you know those 275 00:19:47,780 --> 00:19:54,760 filthy vile anti God Amorites. It's time to judge them. 276 00:19:55,600 --> 00:20:00,200 And so he sends at that time in the fullness of God stuff Joshua 277 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,240 and the armies of Israel in to defeat the Amorites and take 278 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,160 over their land. People are all upset when they 279 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,960 read the Bible about how Joshua went in and fought off the 280 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,240 Canaanites. Well, the Canaanites were were 281 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:20,000 disobeying God and mocking God and living like the. 282 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:25,240 Antediluvian civilization, the peoples before Noah, where their 283 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:31,000 wickedness was immeasurable, and the Lord finally slow in his 284 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:35,120 after 7 centuries dropped the hammer. 285 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:40,480 And I'll tell you, here's the other side of the story, and the 286 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:44,760 Lord puts it in the very next phrase, forgiving iniquity, 287 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:50,130 transgression, and sin. Lord in His great grace and 288 00:20:50,130 --> 00:20:52,850 mercy and in his provision of Christ, will forgive our sins 289 00:20:52,850 --> 00:20:57,170 for the sake of Christ. And our sins are there's three 290 00:20:57,170 --> 00:20:59,090 terms that are used. They're slightly different. 291 00:20:59,090 --> 00:21:02,210 They're all have to do with sin. But iniquity has to do with that 292 00:21:02,210 --> 00:21:05,890 certain perverseness and twistedness that's in us, that 293 00:21:05,890 --> 00:21:08,770 certain warp that's upon our soul that keeps us from being 294 00:21:08,770 --> 00:21:12,530 what we ought to be. That depravity, that downward 295 00:21:12,530 --> 00:21:17,910 pull, that tendency to do evil, transgression speaks of things 296 00:21:17,910 --> 00:21:20,350 having to do with God's order in God's law. 297 00:21:20,350 --> 00:21:22,070 God created things a certain way. 298 00:21:22,150 --> 00:21:24,990 He wants things to operate a certain way, and when we violate 299 00:21:24,990 --> 00:21:28,350 that, we are transgressing. And the transgression is not 300 00:21:28,350 --> 00:21:31,510 just merely the disobedience to the law, but it is an affront to 301 00:21:31,510 --> 00:21:36,030 the person and the righteousness and the holiness of all powerful 302 00:21:36,070 --> 00:21:39,950 holy God. That's our transgres and our sin 303 00:21:39,950 --> 00:21:42,870 are those things that are measured by the law. 304 00:21:43,470 --> 00:21:47,080 Sin is lawlessness. Sometimes we fall a little short 305 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,720 of the law, Sometime we step outside the law, outside the 306 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,680 balance. Sometime we kind of oppose the 307 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,720 law, sometime we kind of twist the law. 308 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,480 A lot of times, most of the time we just kind of ignore the law. 309 00:21:57,360 --> 00:21:59,880 And all of those are different words in the Bible. 310 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:03,440 Having to do with sin is the way you treat the righteous and holy 311 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,360 law of God. Not just the 10 commandments, 312 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,120 but all that He set out. And let me tell you what God 313 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:13,600 says about that Who Speaking of himself, the Lord says who will 314 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:24,940 by no means clear the guilty. God's wrath abides upon you if 315 00:22:24,940 --> 00:22:30,340 you're not in Christ. There's a justice issue that 316 00:22:30,340 --> 00:22:34,700 needs to be handled and that is you need your sins forgiven. 317 00:22:36,060 --> 00:22:40,380 You need to come to Christ, come to God for forgiveness. 318 00:22:40,380 --> 00:22:44,140 God's not going to let the guilty get away with anything, 319 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,720 and if you're still living under the guilt and condemnation of 320 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,880 your sin, you just wait. I don't know if the Lord will 321 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:55,960 give you 700 years like He gave the Amorites or whether He'll 322 00:22:55,960 --> 00:23:05,640 give you 7 days, but be sure your sin will find you out and 323 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,880 come to this gracious, loving, forgiving, justifying 324 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:16,880 righteousness, establishing God and his Christ, Jesus of 325 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:21,600 Nazareth, who came not to condemn the world the world's 326 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:27,200 already condemned, but to save the world, to save the world. 327 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,880 It's an awesome thing that I'm going to do, says the Lord to 328 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:33,560 Moses.