1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,800 We're in the book of Exodus. We're going through there 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:07,080 looking at the life of Moses. We're in chapter 34. 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:11,080 And what's happened so far is the Lord's led his people out of 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,200 Egyptian bondage and into the wilderness, and he has taken 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,160 them to Sinai. And he's taken Moses up to the 6 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,040 mountain to give him the commandments and the 7 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:22,040 instructions on building the Tabernacle. 8 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,800 And while Moses is up there, they are worshipping the golden 9 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,440 calf. And then when Moses comes down, 10 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,840 before he ever gets down the mountain, he sees that they've 11 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,120 broken all the laws of God already, so he smashes the 12 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,200 tables of stone. He and the Lord engaged in a 13 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,400 conversation which we looked at last week. 14 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,360 And now we continue this conversation as Moses and the 15 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,520 Lord are talking. And Moses is going to be 16 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:50,080 instructed by the Lord to give it another shot, and he's going 17 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,240 to tell him to get two more tablets and let's try this 18 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,120 again. So here now, the word of the 19 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,780 Lord. The Lord said to Moses, Cut for 20 00:00:57,780 --> 00:01:02,020 yourselves 2 tablets of stone like the 1st, and I will write 21 00:01:02,020 --> 00:01:05,459 on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which 22 00:01:05,459 --> 00:01:08,740 you broke. Be ready by the morning, and 23 00:01:08,740 --> 00:01:12,140 come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself 24 00:01:12,140 --> 00:01:13,820 there to me on top of the mountain. 25 00:01:14,580 --> 00:01:17,580 No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen 26 00:01:17,580 --> 00:01:21,220 throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze 27 00:01:21,220 --> 00:01:26,330 opposite that mountain. So Moses cut 2 tablets of stone 28 00:01:26,330 --> 00:01:29,370 like the first, rose early in the morning and went up on Mount 29 00:01:29,370 --> 00:01:33,010 Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand 2 30 00:01:33,010 --> 00:01:36,970 tablets of stone. The Lord descended in the cloud 31 00:01:36,970 --> 00:01:41,330 and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 32 00:01:41,690 --> 00:01:47,650 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed the Lord the Lord a 33 00:01:47,650 --> 00:01:51,690 God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger. 34 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,120 Abounding and steadfast love and faithfulness. 35 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:59,800 Keeping steadfast love for thousands for giving iniquity 36 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:04,360 and transgression and sin. But who will by no means clear 37 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:08,280 the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children 38 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,960 and the children's children to the third and 4th generation. 39 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:18,480 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshipped, 40 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,370 and he said. If now I have found favor in 41 00:02:22,370 --> 00:02:27,370 your sight, oh Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, 42 00:02:27,730 --> 00:02:31,810 for it is a stiff necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our 43 00:02:31,810 --> 00:02:35,090 sin, and take us for your inheritance. 44 00:02:35,730 --> 00:02:40,610 And the Lord said, Behold, I am making a covenant before all 45 00:02:40,610 --> 00:02:44,090 your people. I will do marvels, such as not 46 00:02:44,090 --> 00:02:47,170 have been created in all the earth or in any nation. 47 00:02:48,130 --> 00:02:52,250 And all the people among them who you shall see the work of 48 00:02:52,250 --> 00:02:56,690 the Lord, for it is an awesome thing. 49 00:02:57,210 --> 00:03:02,290 That I do with you. The word of the Lord you may be 50 00:03:02,290 --> 00:03:14,220 seated, and so the Lord summons mountain top experience for 51 00:03:14,220 --> 00:03:17,450 Moses. And this is precisely what it 52 00:03:17,450 --> 00:03:19,730 is. Did you detect in the text that 53 00:03:19,730 --> 00:03:22,690 Moses didn't know it? Maybe at first, but he was 54 00:03:22,690 --> 00:03:26,250 attending a worship service? First thing the Lord came out 55 00:03:26,250 --> 00:03:32,250 and did was preached to him, He says The Lord proclaimed, the 56 00:03:32,250 --> 00:03:35,530 Lord proclaimed. It's the Lord preaching to 57 00:03:35,530 --> 00:03:39,450 Moses. And faith comes by hearing and 58 00:03:39,450 --> 00:03:43,490 hearing by the word of God. And as God spoke His word, it 59 00:03:43,490 --> 00:03:46,330 engendered in Moses. Incredible faith. 60 00:03:46,330 --> 00:03:50,650 You remember how discouraged and how upset and really confused 61 00:03:50,650 --> 00:03:55,130 Moses was last week when we first met him after the golden 62 00:03:55,130 --> 00:04:00,450 calf experience. But now the Lord preaches a 63 00:04:00,530 --> 00:04:05,850 wonderful sermon well orbed in theology, as you might expect 64 00:04:06,370 --> 00:04:11,410 from the Lord to Moses, and engenders in his heart that 65 00:04:11,650 --> 00:04:15,380 grace and mercy and. Shed abroad in his heart is that 66 00:04:15,380 --> 00:04:19,019 love of God, his understanding of who God is, And even though 67 00:04:19,019 --> 00:04:22,220 he has begun to understand God since the days of the burning 68 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:26,460 Bush, he is now understanding and learning more and more about 69 00:04:26,780 --> 00:04:29,260 his God. And as the Lord completes His 70 00:04:29,260 --> 00:04:33,100 message to Moses on this occasion, we find there in verse 71 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:38,820 8, and Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and 72 00:04:38,820 --> 00:04:43,110 worshipped. And I'll see what the Lord said 73 00:04:43,110 --> 00:04:46,830 here in just a moment. But I think it's important to to 74 00:04:46,830 --> 00:04:51,950 see Moses response. And then Moses said, if now I 75 00:04:51,950 --> 00:04:57,750 have found favor in your sight, Moses is feeling and knowing and 76 00:04:57,750 --> 00:05:01,910 understanding the grace of God. The word favor in our text is 77 00:05:01,910 --> 00:05:07,270 the word grace. Moses was finding grace in the 78 00:05:07,270 --> 00:05:09,710 eyes of the Lord. He was beginning to see that is. 79 00:05:10,050 --> 00:05:14,250 Sinful and his stiff necked and rebellious as the people were as 80 00:05:14,250 --> 00:05:18,770 angry and confused and confound and ambivalent as Moses was. 81 00:05:18,970 --> 00:05:26,450 God was still God, and he was still gracious and merciful and 82 00:05:26,450 --> 00:05:31,170 loving, and he's still determined to carry out his 83 00:05:31,170 --> 00:05:34,130 purpose. And since Moses had the 84 00:05:34,890 --> 00:05:37,810 engendering of this faith in his heart. 85 00:05:38,610 --> 00:05:42,450 By hearing the word of God and had this exposure, in this 86 00:05:42,450 --> 00:05:50,970 experience of grace, my word God is going to stay with it. 87 00:05:52,250 --> 00:05:56,810 He's not going to give up. He's going to be steadfast and 88 00:05:56,810 --> 00:05:59,930 continuous in his love. He's going to actually save 89 00:05:59,930 --> 00:06:02,250 Israel. And bring us out of this 90 00:06:02,250 --> 00:06:06,170 wilderness and into the promised Land, and do great things beyond 91 00:06:06,170 --> 00:06:07,610 that. In fact, the Lord says at the 92 00:06:07,610 --> 00:06:11,570 end, and all the people among you, you shall see the work of 93 00:06:11,570 --> 00:06:14,530 the Lord. And this is really what ought to 94 00:06:14,530 --> 00:06:19,130 be my topic and my theme this morning, for it is an awesome 95 00:06:19,130 --> 00:06:22,090 thing that I will do with you, says the Lord. 96 00:06:22,410 --> 00:06:25,210 And that's precisely what the Lord's going to do. 97 00:06:25,370 --> 00:06:28,050 He's going to do an awesome thing with Israel. 98 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,960 He's going to actually save them and protect them and bring them 99 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:32,920 through the wilderness. It's going to take about 30-8 100 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,200 more years to finally get them into the promised land. 101 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,640 But they're actually going to occupy the promised land and 102 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,960 they're actually going to live there in peace and prosperity 103 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,960 for about 300 years. And God is going to raise up a 104 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,840 king. And in the third generation of 105 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:51,640 kings, we're going to have a king by the name of Solomon, and 106 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,720 Solomon is going to be the greatest king. 107 00:06:53,980 --> 00:06:57,300 In Israel, David's son solemn. He's going to build the temple. 108 00:06:57,420 --> 00:07:01,100 He's going to lead the people. He's going to expand the borders 109 00:07:01,100 --> 00:07:05,260 of the Israeli empire from the Euphrates River to the Nile 110 00:07:05,260 --> 00:07:10,820 Valley, which is exactly what God had promised Abraham. 111 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:17,900 And during his days now, admittedly, Assyria hadn't come 112 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:21,620 on the scene yet. We haven't heard anything about 113 00:07:21,620 --> 00:07:25,700 the Chaldeans, about the Babylonians yet in human history 114 00:07:26,060 --> 00:07:30,260 at that point of Solomon's day, and we really know that the 115 00:07:30,260 --> 00:07:34,500 Egyptians were in a period of several centuries of decline 116 00:07:34,780 --> 00:07:39,300 during that period. But never mind what the other 117 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:42,100 nations are doing. That was the time in which God 118 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:48,460 brought everything to a literal fulfillment of glory in the days 119 00:07:48,460 --> 00:07:51,050 of King Solomon. The Bible says everything that 120 00:07:51,050 --> 00:07:54,450 God promised, Everything God had promised Moses, everything God 121 00:07:54,450 --> 00:07:59,050 had promised Abraham came to pass during the days, literally 122 00:07:59,250 --> 00:08:03,370 physically, of King Solomon. Solomon was considered in his 123 00:08:03,370 --> 00:08:07,210 day the greatest king in the known world. 124 00:08:08,170 --> 00:08:12,130 It didn't last long, but actually there was an ascendancy 125 00:08:12,530 --> 00:08:17,970 to Solomon's reign that Israel never saw before, never saw 126 00:08:17,970 --> 00:08:21,730 again. And at the time, Solomon was the 127 00:08:21,730 --> 00:08:27,930 greatest, most powerful, wealthiest, wisest, most 128 00:08:27,930 --> 00:08:30,890 benevolent king on the face of the earth. 129 00:08:32,289 --> 00:08:36,090 It's interesting that when the Lord came, he said greater than 130 00:08:36,330 --> 00:08:39,770 Solomon is here. Lord says I'm going to do 131 00:08:39,770 --> 00:08:43,250 awesome things in a lot of 1000 years go by. 132 00:08:43,250 --> 00:08:49,130 And Jesus did come, and in that work that he accomplishes. 133 00:08:49,790 --> 00:08:55,270 In his first coming is laying all the groundwork of justice in 134 00:08:55,270 --> 00:08:57,950 order to build a righteous Kingdom. 135 00:08:58,910 --> 00:09:02,430 There's some things that need to be done on the score and the 136 00:09:02,430 --> 00:09:07,470 side of justice in Jesus First coming. 137 00:09:08,270 --> 00:09:10,710 One of the things a great king will do according to scripture 138 00:09:10,710 --> 00:09:13,390 and even according to any kind of geopolitical thought is a 139 00:09:13,390 --> 00:09:18,030 great ruler will establish justice in the land. 140 00:09:19,050 --> 00:09:22,250 And there was a great need for justice to be established. 141 00:09:22,250 --> 00:09:25,170 And this is this. Justice is the justice. 142 00:09:25,170 --> 00:09:31,770 That is the Lord's justice. Sin, the great rebellion, had to 143 00:09:31,770 --> 00:09:38,810 be dealt with. Sin had to be atoned, A price 144 00:09:38,810 --> 00:09:41,610 had to be paid, A penalty had to be paid. 145 00:09:41,610 --> 00:09:45,770 A condemnation was going to work its way out in a penalty. 146 00:09:47,250 --> 00:09:51,770 In order to have great justice, in order for God to be just and 147 00:09:51,770 --> 00:09:58,850 the justifier of sinners, there needed to be a judicial forensic 148 00:09:59,010 --> 00:10:05,290 transaction between God and man. And that was accomplished in the 149 00:10:05,290 --> 00:10:11,730 man Christ Jesus, who himself, God and man took upon himself 150 00:10:11,730 --> 00:10:17,490 the burden of God's salvation. The enterprise of God's saving 151 00:10:17,490 --> 00:10:26,210 work and also took upon himself the sinfulness, the lostness, 152 00:10:26,490 --> 00:10:32,890 the condemnation, the burden of the penalty of the sins of his 153 00:10:32,890 --> 00:10:38,370 people. No sin goes unpunished. 154 00:10:38,930 --> 00:10:43,970 That's God's justice. The sin will either be punished. 155 00:10:44,660 --> 00:10:48,340 In the person of the Sinner or it will be punished. 156 00:10:48,340 --> 00:10:55,820 In the person of Christ the sinners substitute, Yes, it is 157 00:10:55,820 --> 00:10:58,900 an awesome thing. That I will do with you. 158 00:10:59,940 --> 00:11:05,580 And this gospel of saving grace, redeeming grace, justifying 159 00:11:05,580 --> 00:11:09,300 grace, will be preached to the world. 160 00:11:11,180 --> 00:11:16,470 And so in around 30. A D And following the life of 161 00:11:16,470 --> 00:11:21,910 our Lord's earthly ministry, a small group of apostles begin to 162 00:11:21,910 --> 00:11:26,270 preach this gospel of saving grace. 163 00:11:26,870 --> 00:11:31,110 They begin to proclaim this righteousness and this justice 164 00:11:31,110 --> 00:11:36,350 of God in the cross of Christ, and how that Christ had died in 165 00:11:36,350 --> 00:11:42,230 order that you and I might be exonerated, acquitted. 166 00:11:43,590 --> 00:11:46,670 That we may live under a sentence of There is therefore 167 00:11:46,670 --> 00:11:51,070 now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus. 168 00:11:51,590 --> 00:11:54,630 And if we come to him by faith, we receive that which he has, 169 00:11:54,630 --> 00:12:01,430 and that is a perfect life to bestow upon us, and all of our 170 00:12:01,430 --> 00:12:06,830 sin to take away from us. And that gospel has been 171 00:12:06,830 --> 00:12:09,110 proclaimed now for about two millennia. 172 00:12:10,590 --> 00:12:12,470 And there are little flocks of men. 173 00:12:12,870 --> 00:12:14,830 That's the way they're referred to in the Book of Ezekiel. 174 00:12:15,270 --> 00:12:21,390 Little flocks of men, little churches all over the world. 175 00:12:22,470 --> 00:12:25,710 The world is. The church is Apostolic. 176 00:12:26,190 --> 00:12:30,870 That is, it holds to those doctrines that Christ taught the 177 00:12:30,870 --> 00:12:34,430 apostles and that they preach to the world, fulfilling the Great 178 00:12:34,430 --> 00:12:38,790 Commission. The church is. 179 00:12:39,260 --> 00:12:45,980 Orthodox in that they hold to core truths of the Deity of 180 00:12:45,980 --> 00:12:49,980 Christ, the existence of God, the Deity of Christ, His atoning 181 00:12:49,980 --> 00:13:01,100 work, and his righteous Kingdom. The Church is Catholic, meaning 182 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:03,180 it's universal. It's everywhere. 183 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,640 And that's what we preach from this pulpit in all Protestant 184 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:09,480 pulpits. The Roman Church will tell you 185 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,400 they're the only branch of the church that's the real church. 186 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:17,120 So they're not Catholic. They like the name, but they're 187 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,560 not really Catholic, which means universal worldwide, including 188 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:26,320 all the unity of the faith, all the Saints of all the ages. 189 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,000 The Eastern Church claims they're the only true church. 190 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,760 That doesn't make them very Orthodox. 191 00:13:33,470 --> 00:13:37,270 Even though they call themselves Eastern Orthodox, it is only 192 00:13:37,270 --> 00:13:42,670 those that reject those provincial labels and those 193 00:13:42,950 --> 00:13:48,110 boundaries, and those that have come to Christ freely and have 194 00:13:48,110 --> 00:13:52,830 in him and in His salvation the unity of Christ. 195 00:13:54,990 --> 00:14:01,550 So there's a huge multibillion person flock. 196 00:14:02,490 --> 00:14:07,170 On the face of the earth, we're a long way from a few 100,000 at 197 00:14:07,170 --> 00:14:11,410 the foot of Mount Sinai, sitting there worrying about what 198 00:14:11,410 --> 00:14:15,970 they're going to eat for their next meal, a band of slaves. 199 00:14:17,050 --> 00:14:20,690 We're now men and women all over the world, of all time and of 200 00:14:20,690 --> 00:14:29,050 all centuries, free and beloved and united in the gospel of 201 00:14:29,050 --> 00:14:32,330 Jesus Christ. We've all heard the voice of the 202 00:14:32,330 --> 00:14:35,530 shepherd saying, come, follow me. 203 00:14:36,130 --> 00:14:38,770 And we are living in a wonderful time. 204 00:14:38,770 --> 00:14:41,250 And I'm here to tell you that we're actually living just in a 205 00:14:41,250 --> 00:14:45,970 time of tribulation and a time of anticipation, a time of 206 00:14:45,970 --> 00:14:50,130 incompleteness, a time in which we still have great hope. 207 00:14:50,970 --> 00:14:54,410 And that is, there will be a time when the kingdoms of this 208 00:14:54,410 --> 00:14:57,090 world will become the Kingdom of the Lord. 209 00:14:57,090 --> 00:15:00,010 It is Christ. There'll come a time when Christ 210 00:15:00,010 --> 00:15:05,650 will return in reigning glory. There'll be a time when there'll 211 00:15:05,650 --> 00:15:09,770 be a new heaven and a new earth, and I will make all things new. 212 00:15:09,770 --> 00:15:13,370 And the Creator who created in the 1st place will now create 213 00:15:13,490 --> 00:15:19,530 more gloriously than ever. It is an awesome thing that I. 214 00:15:19,530 --> 00:15:23,290 Will do with. You that's where worldwide 215 00:15:23,290 --> 00:15:28,090 Christian Catholic Orthodox faith is it came. 216 00:15:28,710 --> 00:15:32,510 Way back there in those days when God was making himself 217 00:15:32,510 --> 00:15:35,070 known to the patriarchs, to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and 218 00:15:35,070 --> 00:15:38,990 others, and then here with Moses, and this presents itself 219 00:15:38,990 --> 00:15:43,750 as straightforward history, this is didactic pros. 220 00:15:43,750 --> 00:15:48,070 Those that find a mythological interpretation in these things 221 00:15:48,070 --> 00:15:53,310 exclusively miss a lot, because this is God working in human 222 00:15:53,310 --> 00:15:58,200 history with human beings using. Human language and accommodating 223 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,520 himself and letting himself be known to his peaceful this is 224 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:05,760 the self revelatory God revealing himself, pulling back 225 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:12,280 the curtain, giving as it were a a, an apocalypse an unveiling of 226 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,640 himself. And what does he say about 227 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:20,000 himself? Well, let me point out the 228 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:24,400 particulars, the outline that the sermon, the proclamation. 229 00:16:25,070 --> 00:16:27,550 That God preached to Moses and we see it there in the middle of 230 00:16:27,550 --> 00:16:30,710 our chapter. It says the Lord passed before 231 00:16:30,710 --> 00:16:36,910 he went in front of Moses and he proclaimed the Lord the Lord. 232 00:16:38,710 --> 00:16:46,270 That's God's subject matter. God is preaching about God, but 233 00:16:46,270 --> 00:16:48,510 He's preaching about God in personal terms. 234 00:16:48,510 --> 00:16:51,610 This is Yahweh. This is the personal God, the 235 00:16:51,610 --> 00:16:54,450 true God, the one true God, the living God, the God of heaven 236 00:16:54,450 --> 00:16:57,970 and earth, the God that created everything, the God to whom 237 00:16:57,970 --> 00:17:01,970 there are no other rivals. There is no other God like him. 238 00:17:02,490 --> 00:17:06,970 In fact, there are no gods but him, supreme and superior in all 239 00:17:06,970 --> 00:17:14,010 way the source of all things. And this is the one that is 240 00:17:14,010 --> 00:17:17,450 making himself known in a personal way to a personal 241 00:17:17,530 --> 00:17:20,240 people. And now he has continued that 242 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:24,359 all through the centuries God is making himself known as a 243 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:28,000 personal God, personally to persons. 244 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,240 And that's what the Lord does to us in the gospel and in the 245 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,600 Scripture, and in that. So he says something about 246 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,440 himself, not only His Majesty and his authority, his 247 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:45,320 supremacy, his his full deity, but God says in this sermon that 248 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:50,720 he is merciful. Gracious, slow to anger, 249 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,560 abounding and steadfast love and faithfulness and keeping 250 00:17:54,560 --> 00:18:00,120 steadfast love for thousands. That's our God. 251 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:07,560 Have you come to realize that that our God, that we serve, is 252 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:12,440 a God of love and mercy and grace? 253 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,280 I love this phrase here. That said, the Lord says about 254 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,400 himself, He's slow to anger. The Lord knows his own 255 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,680 temperament. He knows what gets him wrathful, 256 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:25,720 and he does get wrathful, but for good cause and righteously 257 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:31,240 so. But he's slow to anger. 258 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:36,720 The Lord's waiting on you to just get sick of your sin, to 259 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,120 repent of your sin, to forsake your sin, and to come to Christ. 260 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,240 And turn to him for mercy and grace and salvation. 261 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,240 If it wasn't for the Lord's mercy, you would already be 262 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:52,200 consumed, every one of us. But the Lord is slowed anger. 263 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,040 The Bible says that he is forbearing. 264 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,720 He puts up with it. He allows it. 265 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,840 Way back in the days of Abraham there was a filthy, filthy 266 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,520 tribe. They did everything wrong, 267 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:05,680 ungodly, sinful. They were the most corrupt 268 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,600 people on earth since the days of Noah. 269 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:10,740 It was called the Amorites. And the Lord looked at him and 270 00:19:10,740 --> 00:19:13,660 said, you know, the iniquity of the amber right, is not full. 271 00:19:15,180 --> 00:19:18,260 He was waiting on them to turn. And if they didn't repent, they 272 00:19:18,260 --> 00:19:20,180 were just going to get worse and worse. 273 00:19:20,340 --> 00:19:23,700 And they did. And finally, hundreds of years 274 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:27,820 later, hundreds of years later, almost 1000 years later, not 275 00:19:27,820 --> 00:19:32,180 quite about 700 years later, the Lord finally says, you know, 276 00:19:32,780 --> 00:19:39,730 those filthy vile anti God. Amorites, it's time to judge 277 00:19:39,730 --> 00:19:42,090 them. And so he sends. 278 00:19:42,490 --> 00:19:46,530 At that time in the fullness of God staff Joshua and the armies 279 00:19:46,530 --> 00:19:49,890 of Israel in to defeat the Amorites and take over their 280 00:19:49,890 --> 00:19:52,450 land. People are all upset when they 281 00:19:52,450 --> 00:19:56,210 read the Bible about how Joshua went in and fought off the 282 00:19:56,210 --> 00:19:59,570 Canaanites. Well, the Canaanites were were 283 00:20:01,810 --> 00:20:05,290 disobeying God and mocking God and living like the. 284 00:20:06,050 --> 00:20:10,530 Antediluvian civilization, the peoples before Noah, where their 285 00:20:10,530 --> 00:20:16,290 wickedness was immeasurable, and the Lord finally slow in his 286 00:20:16,570 --> 00:20:20,410 after 7 centuries dropped the hammer. 287 00:20:21,850 --> 00:20:25,770 And I'll tell you here's the other side of the story, and the 288 00:20:25,770 --> 00:20:30,050 Lord puts it in the very next phrase, forgiving iniquity, 289 00:20:31,130 --> 00:20:35,420 transgression and sin. Lord, in His great grace and 290 00:20:35,420 --> 00:20:38,140 mercy and in his provision of Christ, will forgive our sins 291 00:20:38,140 --> 00:20:42,460 for the sake of Christ. And our sins are there's three 292 00:20:42,460 --> 00:20:44,340 terms that are used. They're slightly different. 293 00:20:44,340 --> 00:20:47,500 They're all have to do with sin, but iniquity has to do with that 294 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:51,180 certain perverseness and twistedness that's in us at 295 00:20:51,180 --> 00:20:53,540 certain warp. That's upon our soul that keeps 296 00:20:53,540 --> 00:20:57,220 us from being what we ought to be, that depravity, that 297 00:20:57,220 --> 00:21:00,380 downward pull, that tendency to do evil. 298 00:21:01,750 --> 00:21:04,790 Transgression speaks of things having to do with God's order. 299 00:21:04,790 --> 00:21:07,350 In God's law, God created things a certain way. 300 00:21:07,430 --> 00:21:10,270 He wants things to operate a certain way, and when we violate 301 00:21:10,270 --> 00:21:13,630 that, we are transgressing. And the transgression is not 302 00:21:13,630 --> 00:21:16,790 just merely the disobedience to the law, but it is an affront to 303 00:21:16,790 --> 00:21:21,310 the person and the righteousness and the holiness of all powerful 304 00:21:21,350 --> 00:21:25,230 holy God. That's our transgres and our sin 305 00:21:25,230 --> 00:21:28,150 are those things that are measured by the law. 306 00:21:28,750 --> 00:21:32,360 Sin is lawlessness. Sometimes we fall a little short 307 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:35,000 of the law, Sometime we step outside the law, outside the 308 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 balance. Sometime we kind of oppose the 309 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 law, sometime we kind of twist the law. 310 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,760 A lot of times, most of the time we just kind of ignore the law. 311 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,160 And all of those are different words in the Bible. 312 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,720 Having to do with sin is the way you treat the righteous and holy 313 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,640 law of God. Not just the 10 commandments, 314 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,400 but all that He set out. And let me tell you what God 315 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:58,880 says about that who Speaking of himself, the Lord says who will 316 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:03,100 by no means. Clear the guilty. 317 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:12,460 God's wrath abides upon you if you're not in Christ. 318 00:22:13,740 --> 00:22:18,500 There's a justice issue that needs to be handled, and that is 319 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:24,340 you need your sins forgiven. You need to come to Christ, come 320 00:22:24,340 --> 00:22:27,020 to God for forgiveness. God's not going to let the 321 00:22:27,020 --> 00:22:31,450 guilty get away with anything. And if you're still living under 322 00:22:31,450 --> 00:22:35,250 the guilt and condemnation of your sin, you just wait. 323 00:22:35,290 --> 00:22:38,530 I don't know if the Lord will give you 700 years like He gave 324 00:22:38,530 --> 00:22:46,290 the Amorites, or whether he'll give you 7 days, but be sure 325 00:22:46,730 --> 00:22:53,170 your sin will find you out and come to this gracious, loving, 326 00:22:53,370 --> 00:22:57,610 forgiving, justifying, righteousness establishing. 327 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:05,080 God and his Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, who came not to 328 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:09,040 condemn the world, the world's already condemned, but to save 329 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:15,680 the world, to save the world. It's an awesome thing that I'm 330 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,840 going to do, says the Lord to Moses.