1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:03,440 Exodus chapter 23 is our scripture reading. 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:05,520 And once. Again, we have a rather long, 3 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:08,760 lengthy reading and we're going to do everything differently 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:11,640 like we always. Do I'm going to read about half 5 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,480 of this, and that's going to be our scripture reading for the 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:15,720 morning. Which will also give us the 7 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,560 story. Background for the sermon the 8 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,400 sermons found. In the second. 9 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,040 Half of our reading, and I I will not. 10 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,640 Read that aloud instead. I will walk through it a little 11 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,560 bit as we take a look. At the message there in the time 12 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:28,840 we have but here now the word of the. 13 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,090 Lord. This is Moses. 14 00:00:31,890 --> 00:00:36,050 The Golden Calf episode is just. Ending. 15 00:00:36,570 --> 00:00:39,770 And the Lord is dealing with his people and he. 16 00:00:39,770 --> 00:00:43,010 And Moses are. Engaged in this entire chapter 17 00:00:43,010 --> 00:00:44,810 long conversation. Including the. 18 00:00:44,810 --> 00:00:47,890 Background that I now read, the Lord said to Moses. 19 00:00:47,890 --> 00:00:49,530 Depart up from. Here. 20 00:00:49,810 --> 00:00:51,530 You and the people whom you've brought. 21 00:00:51,530 --> 00:00:53,970 Up out of the land of Egypt. To the land to. 22 00:00:53,970 --> 00:00:57,490 Which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacobs, saying to your 23 00:00:57,490 --> 00:00:59,480 offspring, I will give it. I will. 24 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:01,920 Send an Angel before you. And I will drive out the 25 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,480 Canaanites, the Amorites, the. Hiptites, the parasites, the 26 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:07,560 Hipites and the Jebusites. Go up to A. 27 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,080 Land flowing with. Milk and honey, but I will not 28 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:15,120 go up among you, lest I consume. You on the way. 29 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,640 For you. Are a stiff necked people, by 30 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,240 the way that was the Lord talking. 31 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:24,960 When the people. Heard the disastrous words they. 32 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:28,000 Mourned and no one put on his ornaments. 33 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,560 For the Lord had said to Moses, Say to the people you. 34 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,960 Are a stiff necked people if. For a single. 35 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:37,120 Moment. I should go up among you. 36 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:41,160 I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments 37 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,280 that you may know what to do with that I may know what to do 38 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,240 with you. Therefore the people of Israel 39 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:47,760 stripped. Themselves of their ornaments 40 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:53,080 from Mount Horeb onward. Now Moses used to take the tent 41 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,120 and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he 42 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,550 called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord 43 00:01:59,550 --> 00:02:02,430 would go up to the tent of meeting which was outside the 44 00:02:02,430 --> 00:02:04,750 camp. Whenever Moses went up to the 45 00:02:04,750 --> 00:02:07,590 tent, all the people would rise up, and each one would stand at 46 00:02:07,590 --> 00:02:11,270 his tent door and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent 47 00:02:11,950 --> 00:02:13,550 when. Moses entered the tent, the 48 00:02:13,550 --> 00:02:16,590 pillar of cloud. Would descend and stand at the 49 00:02:16,590 --> 00:02:18,750 entrance of the tent and the Lord. 50 00:02:18,910 --> 00:02:20,710 Would. Speak to Moses. 51 00:02:21,270 --> 00:02:22,670 When all the people saw the pillar. 52 00:02:22,670 --> 00:02:24,790 Of Cloud standing at the entrance of the tent. 53 00:02:24,990 --> 00:02:27,830 All the people would rise up and worship each. 54 00:02:27,870 --> 00:02:29,190 At his tent. Door. 55 00:02:29,910 --> 00:02:32,510 Thus the Lord used to speak. To Moses. 56 00:02:32,670 --> 00:02:36,470 Face to face. As a man speaks to a friend when 57 00:02:36,470 --> 00:02:38,630 Moses turned again into the camp. 58 00:02:38,870 --> 00:02:41,430 His assistant. Joshua the son of none. 59 00:02:41,750 --> 00:02:44,310 A young man would not. Depart. 60 00:02:44,430 --> 00:02:46,710 From the tent. The Word of the Lord. 61 00:02:49,390 --> 00:02:58,230 You must be seated right now. Did you catch what you just 62 00:02:58,230 --> 00:03:00,470 read? The Golden Calf incident? 63 00:03:01,110 --> 00:03:03,030 I say incident. One of those horrible sins. 64 00:03:03,030 --> 00:03:05,670 In the history of humanity. Second probably only to the 65 00:03:05,670 --> 00:03:08,150 Garden of Eden. And the snake. 66 00:03:09,660 --> 00:03:12,180 God's people have while Moses was on the. 67 00:03:12,180 --> 00:03:14,420 Mountain communicating with God and getting. 68 00:03:14,420 --> 00:03:15,980 All the instructions. He needed. 69 00:03:16,180 --> 00:03:18,060 Concerning how they. Were to live in every. 70 00:03:18,060 --> 00:03:20,980 Facet in detail of their life as well as how they were to. 71 00:03:20,980 --> 00:03:22,900 Worship in every facet in detail. 72 00:03:23,060 --> 00:03:26,460 Of a Tabernacle in a sacrificial system that he would build for 73 00:03:26,460 --> 00:03:31,420 them, where that God might dwell in their midst In a Tabernacle 74 00:03:31,420 --> 00:03:32,940 while Moses. Is getting all of that. 75 00:03:33,460 --> 00:03:35,580 God's people down. Below, get impatient. 76 00:03:35,620 --> 00:03:37,820 And they start a worship service. 77 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:39,940 There's a good worship service. It was loud. 78 00:03:40,180 --> 00:03:43,060 It was joyous. It was very, very. 79 00:03:43,380 --> 00:03:47,380 Dynamic and exciting. But it was false worship. 80 00:03:47,380 --> 00:03:50,260 It was worship of the veil. It was the worship of the 81 00:03:50,260 --> 00:03:53,980 fertility cult, the Golden Young Bull. 82 00:03:54,500 --> 00:03:56,060 And it was. Horrible. 83 00:03:56,450 --> 00:03:57,930 And God. Came down and dealt. 84 00:03:57,930 --> 00:03:59,690 With his. People and one of the. 85 00:03:59,690 --> 00:04:03,890 Things that that had happened in that particular episode was God 86 00:04:03,890 --> 00:04:08,290 was up there telling Moses how much gold was going to be in the 87 00:04:08,290 --> 00:04:11,010 Tabernacle and on the. Mercy seat and was. 88 00:04:11,010 --> 00:04:13,290 Going to overlay the pieces of furniture. 89 00:04:13,290 --> 00:04:17,290 Gold, gold, gold. And the people were down below 90 00:04:17,290 --> 00:04:22,250 at the same time. Squandering their gold and 91 00:04:22,250 --> 00:04:23,810 building a golden. Calf. 92 00:04:24,740 --> 00:04:26,300 And you remember what happened if you read this. 93 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:29,380 We didn't read it last week, but I know you know the story is 94 00:04:29,380 --> 00:04:31,220 Moses. Ended up melting down. 95 00:04:31,220 --> 00:04:33,340 Crushing and melting. Down into a. 96 00:04:33,340 --> 00:04:35,460 Powder. And then into a liquid. 97 00:04:35,460 --> 00:04:38,460 That that golden calf. And made the people drink it. 98 00:04:39,020 --> 00:04:41,420 And a great plague came upon them, and there was all sorts. 99 00:04:41,420 --> 00:04:43,820 Of things. And God, at this point, is not 100 00:04:43,820 --> 00:04:46,300 really sure what he's. Going to do. 101 00:04:46,710 --> 00:04:48,870 With Israel? Now, of course, I speak 102 00:04:48,870 --> 00:04:50,630 anthropomorphically. God. 103 00:04:50,630 --> 00:04:53,190 Always knows what he's going to do, but in dealing with them, 104 00:04:53,190 --> 00:04:57,030 he's working at their pace, he's working at their level. 105 00:04:57,670 --> 00:04:59,590 And that's what God. Does he accommodates? 106 00:04:59,590 --> 00:05:00,710 Himself to his. People. 107 00:05:01,030 --> 00:05:03,550 But what an awful. Accommodation has to be made, 108 00:05:03,550 --> 00:05:05,950 and so finally. In the tent. 109 00:05:05,950 --> 00:05:08,390 Of meeting that had been set up in the tent of meeting. 110 00:05:08,390 --> 00:05:10,530 Was not the sanctuary. It was not the. 111 00:05:10,530 --> 00:05:12,850 Tabernacle. It had not been erected yet. 112 00:05:13,090 --> 00:05:17,130 What they had there was a place where Moses would go outside 113 00:05:17,130 --> 00:05:18,450 the. Camp not. 114 00:05:18,450 --> 00:05:21,250 With God dwelling in the. Midst of them not God with us. 115 00:05:21,250 --> 00:05:26,250 Not Emmanuel that you have in the temple, but I'm, I'm in the. 116 00:05:26,250 --> 00:05:27,770 In the. Tabernacle then later in the 117 00:05:27,770 --> 00:05:29,930 temple. But you had this ten of meeting 118 00:05:29,930 --> 00:05:33,490 and it was a place out there. Basically it was kept by Joshua. 119 00:05:33,490 --> 00:05:34,530 The young. General. 120 00:05:34,890 --> 00:05:37,930 In Moses army. And who had been one of the 121 00:05:37,930 --> 00:05:38,610 spies? Who? 122 00:05:38,610 --> 00:05:40,650 Ends up being the leader of Israel, but he's in his. 123 00:05:40,650 --> 00:05:42,890 Younger days and he keeps that 10 of. 124 00:05:42,890 --> 00:05:45,370 Meeting, and it's a place where God would come. 125 00:05:45,570 --> 00:05:48,090 In the Shakinah glory. The pillar of cloud. 126 00:05:48,090 --> 00:05:51,530 And would meet with Moses. And would speak to him like God 127 00:05:51,530 --> 00:05:53,730 had. Spoken to no one else, not just 128 00:05:53,730 --> 00:05:56,410 in a dream and in a vision. But God's presence would. 129 00:05:56,410 --> 00:05:57,690 Be there, and Moses would be there. 130 00:05:57,690 --> 00:05:58,410 And they. Would talk. 131 00:05:59,050 --> 00:06:01,410 They had started this particular habit back at. 132 00:06:01,410 --> 00:06:04,610 The burning Bush. That's where God. 133 00:06:04,970 --> 00:06:07,230 Encountered. With Moses. 134 00:06:07,230 --> 00:06:10,350 And that's had been their relationship all along through 135 00:06:10,350 --> 00:06:12,710 Egypt. Through the Red Sea and now 136 00:06:12,710 --> 00:06:13,990 through. The Wilderness and through the. 137 00:06:13,990 --> 00:06:16,110 Giving of the mana and through everything. 138 00:06:16,110 --> 00:06:17,630 That had happened to them up to this point. 139 00:06:17,750 --> 00:06:19,590 We're probably. About a year out. 140 00:06:20,110 --> 00:06:23,830 From the Red Sea at this point in terms of time, but the people 141 00:06:23,830 --> 00:06:25,910 have made it over to Mount Sinai. 142 00:06:26,150 --> 00:06:28,430 And listen to the language. Of that right there, I'll just 143 00:06:28,550 --> 00:06:30,830 make a couple of, the Lord said to Moses. 144 00:06:30,830 --> 00:06:33,840 Depart. Go up from here, you and the 145 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:36,160 people whom? You have brought up out of the 146 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:37,720 land. Of Egypt do. 147 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:41,760 You hear that? The Lord. 148 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:43,000 Says to Moses. You brought them. 149 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,440 Up, out of the land of Egypt, they're your. 150 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,000 People. You go with them, you take care 151 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,080 of them. You're their leader. 152 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,200 Oh, what a what a background and what a relationship. 153 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,280 Moses is already. Having with the living. 154 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:56,960 And the true. God, it's amazing. 155 00:06:57,880 --> 00:06:59,520 He's the great mediator. Of the old. 156 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,640 Covenant And they and it was. Very, very significant. 157 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,680 We delighted the new covenant we'll talk. 158 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,280 About that in. Just a moment, but the old 159 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:10,320 covenant was wonderful within itself because God was squarely. 160 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,480 Standing up and talking to a representative man, that is 161 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,200 Moses. And so this is what God says. 162 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,880 I promise to give him the land and I'm going to give him the 163 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:22,960 land. I'll go before you. 164 00:07:23,410 --> 00:07:25,130 I'll have a presence. I'll have an Angel. 165 00:07:25,130 --> 00:07:26,930 I'll have an embassary. I'll have a warrior. 166 00:07:26,930 --> 00:07:29,210 Somebody. You'll possess the land. 167 00:07:29,210 --> 00:07:31,690 I'll fulfill my promises. God says. 168 00:07:33,530 --> 00:07:35,370 That it's going to be. You and you're going to go. 169 00:07:36,490 --> 00:07:40,770 And that's when Moses realized. That he could not go and would 170 00:07:40,770 --> 00:07:42,930 not go. If God. 171 00:07:43,250 --> 00:07:44,810 Would not. Go with him. 172 00:07:45,570 --> 00:07:47,770 And that's what the rest of the chapters all about is. 173 00:07:47,770 --> 00:07:50,930 This conversation between Moses and the Lord and let me. 174 00:07:50,930 --> 00:07:52,010 Just sort of. Summarize. 175 00:07:52,010 --> 00:07:53,920 It for you. Because it's it. 176 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,360 It's very, very involved, but I think you can see sort of a. 177 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:02,320 An outline to it. I've sort of titled this to 178 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:03,720 myself. Getting to know. 179 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:09,120 Your God getting to know your. God in Knowledge. 180 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,120 Who God is his ways? Getting to know. 181 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:18,400 The presence of God, his person, His presence. 182 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,700 And then? Coming to see something? 183 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:25,740 Not everything, but something. Of the glory of your God, 184 00:08:27,540 --> 00:08:31,260 getting to know your God as. To who he is and that's what we 185 00:08:31,420 --> 00:08:35,260 we have here. In the first part of this this 186 00:08:35,260 --> 00:08:36,780 section with Moses. Beginning. 187 00:08:36,780 --> 00:08:38,659 In verse 12. And then you keep your head down 188 00:08:38,659 --> 00:08:40,780 and read the text because it encourages me to. 189 00:08:40,780 --> 00:08:42,620 Keep me at my head down to read the text. 190 00:08:43,020 --> 00:08:44,660 We don't have to worry about eye contact. 191 00:08:44,660 --> 00:08:47,540 They taught us about that in seminary, but it's not important 192 00:08:47,540 --> 00:08:50,220 today. Moses said to the Lord. 193 00:08:50,460 --> 00:08:53,900 See, you say to me. Bring up this people you told. 194 00:08:53,900 --> 00:08:57,980 Me to bring up this people, but you have not let me know. 195 00:08:57,980 --> 00:09:00,700 Whom you will send with me. Who's going? 196 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:02,380 Moses said I can't. Do it. 197 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:04,260 I need someone to be. With me? 198 00:09:05,540 --> 00:09:09,420 Yet you have said, I know you by name, and you have also found 199 00:09:09,420 --> 00:09:12,480 favor in my sight. Moses recognizes. 200 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:13,840 That God had definitely called him. 201 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:15,560 God was working with him. In fact, God had. 202 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,600 Had called him from, literally. From the bulrushes. 203 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,400 And he had been through the. Burning Bush and through. 204 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:23,800 The Red Sea and all the rest. He says now. 205 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,600 Therefore, if I have found favor. 206 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:26,920 In your sight. This is Moses. 207 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:32,080 Still speaking please. Show me now your ways that I may 208 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,080 know you in order to find favor in. 209 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,640 Your sight. There's a sermon right there. 210 00:09:40,290 --> 00:09:41,810 That's as far as we really need to go. 211 00:09:42,650 --> 00:09:45,770 Here was the heart plea of Moses to his God. 212 00:09:46,890 --> 00:09:49,570 Teach me your ways. I. 213 00:09:49,570 --> 00:09:55,090 Want to know your ways? I want to know what you think, 214 00:09:55,330 --> 00:09:59,250 how you act, what you expect. How can I find? 215 00:09:59,250 --> 00:10:01,330 Favor with you. How can I please you? 216 00:10:02,090 --> 00:10:05,050 Moses was in covenant with his God, there was no doubt about 217 00:10:05,050 --> 00:10:07,770 that. And he's had that longing of his 218 00:10:07,770 --> 00:10:10,660 heart. To know God that I might know 219 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:15,340 him. In a true and intimate way. 220 00:10:16,260 --> 00:10:21,260 But then he also moves on to. Worry about the presence. 221 00:10:21,620 --> 00:10:25,420 Of God, not just the knowledge of God in order. 222 00:10:25,740 --> 00:10:29,260 To consider to. That this nation is your nation. 223 00:10:29,980 --> 00:10:31,980 And he said my presence. Will go with. 224 00:10:31,980 --> 00:10:33,620 You and I will. Give you. 225 00:10:33,980 --> 00:10:36,580 Rest that's exactly. What? 226 00:10:37,170 --> 00:10:39,810 God promised his people. That's what Canaan was to be. 227 00:10:39,810 --> 00:10:44,170 Canaan was. To be a place of rest, by the 228 00:10:44,170 --> 00:10:45,650 way. Can you hear? 229 00:10:46,210 --> 00:10:49,690 The voice of Jesus coming to me. And I will. 230 00:10:49,690 --> 00:10:52,970 Give you rest. This is Moses now and God in 231 00:10:52,970 --> 00:10:56,490 this ancient about 1400. Years before Christ. 232 00:10:56,970 --> 00:10:58,610 And he said to him, if. Your Presence. 233 00:10:58,610 --> 00:11:00,930 This is Moses. Speaking again, if your presence 234 00:11:00,930 --> 00:11:03,610 will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. 235 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,760 For how shall it be known that I have favor in your sight, I and 236 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:09,280 your people? Is it not in your? 237 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,040 Going with us so that we are distinct. 238 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,440 And I and your people from every other people. 239 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,440 On the face of the earth. Moses is reminding. 240 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,880 God of all those things God had separated from all the nations. 241 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,160 This One Nation that he was going to make. 242 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,400 Holy. Think about that. 243 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,980 That was God's. Design. 244 00:11:28,980 --> 00:11:31,860 That's what God wanted to do, was to have a people, peculiar 245 00:11:31,860 --> 00:11:34,620 people, unto himself. A redeemed people. 246 00:11:34,780 --> 00:11:38,100 A sacred people. And just what had they just? 247 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:42,820 Got through doing. Don't you hear the admonition of 248 00:11:42,820 --> 00:11:46,260 the apostle coming to us and talking about how we are of the 249 00:11:46,260 --> 00:11:49,610 world and we have? Drenched ourselves in the world 250 00:11:49,610 --> 00:11:52,690 and we are supposed to be separated to God for a special. 251 00:11:52,690 --> 00:11:56,410 People and our number one thing is that we have the manual we 252 00:11:56,410 --> 00:12:00,050 have. God with us, and that's. 253 00:12:00,050 --> 00:12:02,570 How the? Pagans of the world will know 254 00:12:02,570 --> 00:12:06,690 who we are, because we dwell together in this holiness, in 255 00:12:06,690 --> 00:12:08,370 this separated. And clean. 256 00:12:08,370 --> 00:12:13,130 Life that God has given us, with a behavior and a worldview that 257 00:12:13,130 --> 00:12:18,100 is distinct from theirs. So Moses knows that they won't. 258 00:12:18,100 --> 00:12:20,460 Get very far and they won't. Be very impressive and they 259 00:12:20,460 --> 00:12:23,660 won't have a. Light to shine if they don't 260 00:12:23,660 --> 00:12:26,580 have. God's very presence. 261 00:12:26,940 --> 00:12:30,620 With him when they go up, so Moses is is is making. 262 00:12:30,620 --> 00:12:33,820 Strong intercession. There's strong theodyssey. 263 00:12:33,820 --> 00:12:37,540 Here is Moses deals with. All of the things that. 264 00:12:37,540 --> 00:12:38,980 God had promised. That God had. 265 00:12:39,060 --> 00:12:41,510 Called him to. And yet, at the same time, it 266 00:12:41,510 --> 00:12:43,710 was looking kind of. Dark and bleak at this. 267 00:12:43,710 --> 00:12:44,830 Point in fact the. People. 268 00:12:44,950 --> 00:12:46,990 The people. Were out there in mourning, you 269 00:12:46,990 --> 00:12:49,870 saw in the text they had. Taken off all their party 270 00:12:49,870 --> 00:12:53,030 clothes and their ornaments and all of their their things that 271 00:12:53,030 --> 00:12:54,910 were shallowing of this world. And they were. 272 00:12:54,910 --> 00:12:57,030 In sackcloth and ashes before God. 273 00:12:57,310 --> 00:12:58,590 And they. Realized just how. 274 00:12:58,630 --> 00:13:00,550 Unworthy and how? Undone they. 275 00:13:00,550 --> 00:13:04,650 Were and. God hadn't offered him a whole 276 00:13:04,650 --> 00:13:06,130 lot of grace at this point, either. 277 00:13:06,130 --> 00:13:07,970 He just. All he talked about as we closed 278 00:13:07,970 --> 00:13:09,450 out last week was. All he talked about was. 279 00:13:09,650 --> 00:13:13,330 Judging their sin. Absolutely and positively 280 00:13:13,330 --> 00:13:15,810 judging sin. And that's where you stand with 281 00:13:15,810 --> 00:13:19,250 God this morning apart. From Jesus Christ. 282 00:13:21,210 --> 00:13:26,410 There's some issues. Between you and God, God's hand 283 00:13:26,410 --> 00:13:29,130 is not shortened that he cannot save neither. 284 00:13:29,130 --> 00:13:31,210 Is his ear. Heavy that he cannot hear. 285 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:33,980 But your sins have separated. Between you. 286 00:13:34,180 --> 00:13:36,060 And your God. And your. 287 00:13:36,060 --> 00:13:38,940 Sin, your iniquity has hid his face from you. 288 00:13:39,380 --> 00:13:43,220 And he will not hear. So says the prophet Isaiah. 289 00:13:44,020 --> 00:13:46,180 And that's the condition of many of us, I hope. 290 00:13:46,180 --> 00:13:48,300 If that's the condition of your heart. 291 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:51,980 This morning that you begin in penitential prayer, coming to 292 00:13:51,980 --> 00:13:55,700 the Lord, knowing the things that are about to be outlined 293 00:13:55,700 --> 00:13:58,100 here further in this particular conversation. 294 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:00,560 Picking it up in verse 17 and the. 295 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:02,840 Lord said to Moses, this is. Back and forth this. 296 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,920 Is the conversation. This very thing. 297 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:06,600 That you have spoken, I will. Do. 298 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,440 For if you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by 299 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:14,440 name, isn't that marvelous that when? 300 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:18,120 Moses just bears his heart before the Lord. 301 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,480 And cries out and say I. Won't I won't. 302 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,880 Go if I don't have you. He's like Father Jacob that 303 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,880 wrestled with God's Angel and said I won't go. 304 00:14:29,220 --> 00:14:31,820 I won't let you go until you bless me. 305 00:14:35,060 --> 00:14:39,140 Prayer. Wrestling with God, talking to 306 00:14:39,140 --> 00:14:49,180 God, Clinging to God, Not letting God go until he blesses 307 00:14:49,180 --> 00:14:53,100 us, not because of anything we deserve, but because. 308 00:14:53,670 --> 00:14:55,510 We've heard the gospel. We've heard the news. 309 00:14:55,510 --> 00:14:58,510 We've heard that he's gracious and slow to anger and 310 00:14:58,510 --> 00:15:01,590 long-suffering and merciful. And you can't. 311 00:15:01,590 --> 00:15:07,670 Let a God like that go. If he doesn't save you, you're 312 00:15:07,670 --> 00:15:12,310 not saved. So Moses. 313 00:15:12,310 --> 00:15:16,390 Said Please show. Me. 314 00:15:16,950 --> 00:15:21,150 Your glory. He wanted to know God. 315 00:15:22,110 --> 00:15:23,710 He wanted the. Presence of God. 316 00:15:23,710 --> 00:15:32,350 With him and he wanted. More do you ever your spiritual 317 00:15:32,350 --> 00:15:36,790 life, want more? You ever feel like gnawing 318 00:15:36,790 --> 00:15:38,990 hunger in your soul to know more about? 319 00:15:39,070 --> 00:15:40,790 Well, you've got the Bible. You read it. 320 00:15:41,030 --> 00:15:44,310 There's all sorts of things you wonderful God has graciously 321 00:15:44,310 --> 00:15:47,910 revealed himself in so many ways, in the sky as well as in 322 00:15:47,910 --> 00:15:49,510 the Christ. But. 323 00:15:50,430 --> 00:15:53,110 But you say there's more, there's a need for more. 324 00:15:53,990 --> 00:15:55,830 And he wanted to see the glory of. 325 00:15:55,830 --> 00:15:58,830 God, that is, he wanted to see God's weightiness. 326 00:15:59,350 --> 00:16:01,750 God's worth, God's value? God's. 327 00:16:01,750 --> 00:16:05,390 Splendor God's majesty. God's dignity. 328 00:16:05,390 --> 00:16:13,630 That's what the glory of God is. Moses knew God well enough at a 329 00:16:13,630 --> 00:16:19,190 certain level, but he couldn't get enough his. 330 00:16:20,570 --> 00:16:26,090 Heart pan it like the deer. Panning. 331 00:16:27,050 --> 00:16:30,370 For the river of water, the water of life. 332 00:16:30,730 --> 00:16:32,690 And so this. Episode did as we close out, 333 00:16:32,690 --> 00:16:35,290 tells us something about how. God accommodated that. 334 00:16:36,210 --> 00:16:39,690 God says, I know you, and I'll make your myself known to you. 335 00:16:40,130 --> 00:16:41,650 That'll help you in your knowledge. 336 00:16:41,970 --> 00:16:44,770 God says, OK, I'll go with you, I'll be with you. 337 00:16:46,910 --> 00:16:50,270 And that's always the promise of God, even in the when Jesus left 338 00:16:50,270 --> 00:16:52,030 and ascended, he told his disciples. 339 00:16:52,070 --> 00:16:55,230 And I'm with you till the end of the age. 340 00:16:55,710 --> 00:16:59,310 And now this request that Moses please one. 341 00:16:59,310 --> 00:17:04,589 Time Show me. Thy glory, and this is how the 342 00:17:04,589 --> 00:17:08,390 Lord accommodated him, he said. I will make all my. 343 00:17:08,390 --> 00:17:11,470 Goodness, pass before. You and will proclaim before 344 00:17:11,470 --> 00:17:12,910 you. My name. 345 00:17:13,540 --> 00:17:15,780 It's an interesting, Lord said. Well, I'll show you how bright 346 00:17:15,780 --> 00:17:17,460 I. Am how big I am, how I've 347 00:17:17,460 --> 00:17:18,339 mentioned. He said. 348 00:17:18,339 --> 00:17:20,180 I'll try to give some kind of. Vehicle that. 349 00:17:20,180 --> 00:17:23,900 Will demonstrate to your small finite mind some of my greatness 350 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:24,700 and my gory. But, he said. 351 00:17:26,060 --> 00:17:31,020 Let me just give you a brief. Sketch of my goodness. 352 00:17:31,940 --> 00:17:35,340 Of all the attributes of God that could have been made known 353 00:17:35,340 --> 00:17:40,460 to Moses, it was his goodness that God. 354 00:17:40,460 --> 00:17:45,120 Wanted to be known. Foremost, and I will proclaim 355 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:51,360 before you my name. The True God, Yahweh, Jehovah 356 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:55,920 God, the Living God, the Lord. God the Lord. 357 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,240 Is his name. And then I will be gracious to 358 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,560 whom I will be gracious. I will show mercy on whom I. 359 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:08,640 Will show mercy. This is the germinal. 360 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,400 Assets of the sovereignty of God. 361 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:18,320 Paul quotes that in. Romans 9 to that very point 362 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:19,960 that. God will have. 363 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,040 Mercy upon whom he will have mercy. 364 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,240 And he will have the gracious to. 365 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,240 Whom he will be. Gracious, in fact, later on he 366 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,800 will say, I raised up Pharaoh for that very. 367 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,520 Point is, order that I might. Show I will. 368 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:34,600 Have mercy upon whom I will have mercy. 369 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:37,080 And that's what he says. And he says. 370 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,920 You cannot see my face, for no man shall see me and live. 371 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,560 No man can see God. God is most. 372 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,200 Pure spirit. We just sang it. 373 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:54,960 Immortal, invisible. So what? 374 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:57,280 Can I see? What? 375 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:03,040 Can we do in verse 21 then mote? The Lord said. 376 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,120 Behold. There is a. 377 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:06,480 Place by me. Where you shall. 378 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:08,500 Stand. On the rock. 379 00:19:09,780 --> 00:19:12,100 Well, if I was a preacher, I'd stop right there and I'd preach 380 00:19:12,100 --> 00:19:15,700 about there's a place God says by me. 381 00:19:16,340 --> 00:19:19,940 In the bosom of the Father, where you can stand on a solid 382 00:19:19,940 --> 00:19:22,020 rock, is that not a? Sermon. 383 00:19:22,660 --> 00:19:24,180 Well, we. Got to pass it up and and finish 384 00:19:24,180 --> 00:19:27,540 out here there. Is a place. 385 00:19:27,580 --> 00:19:29,540 By me. Where you shall. 386 00:19:29,540 --> 00:19:31,780 Stand on the rock. And I. 387 00:19:31,780 --> 00:19:33,420 Suppose he's. Talking about one of the cragly. 388 00:19:33,420 --> 00:19:37,100 Rocks there at the Mount Sinai. And while my. 389 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:40,820 Glory passes by. I will put you in the cleft of 390 00:19:40,820 --> 00:19:44,180 the rock right now. God's protecting Moses because 391 00:19:44,180 --> 00:19:47,860 he knows if Moses ever gets a good eye full of Jesus, I mean 392 00:19:48,020 --> 00:19:50,180 of of the God Almighty. He. 393 00:19:50,180 --> 00:19:53,580 Will not live. So this is the way the Lord says 394 00:19:53,580 --> 00:19:55,140 I'm going to let you see something, but. 395 00:19:55,140 --> 00:19:57,060 You're not going. To see enough to kill you. 396 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:00,180 And here's what he says. I'll put you in the. 397 00:20:00,180 --> 00:20:01,820 Cleft of the Rock, I'll put you in a. 398 00:20:01,820 --> 00:20:05,380 Crevice in that rock and I'll cover you with my hand. 399 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,360 Until I have. Passed by, it said. 400 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:11,200 Then I will. Take away my hand once I've 401 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,960 passed by, God says I take away my hand. 402 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:21,360 And you shall see. My back, but my face shall not 403 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:23,680 be seen. God's face is not seen. 404 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:27,120 Then it's not. Seen now except in one. 405 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,600 Jesus Christ, Interesting, he said. 406 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:35,280 I will proclaim my name. He said my goodness will pass by 407 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:41,680 and I will proclaim my name. That's God. 408 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,800 As he does so many times in the Old Testament. 409 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,240 Preaching the gospel, That's God. 410 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,280 Doing what the apostles did, and that is. 411 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:56,600 Proclaiming the name of God. In the person of his very son, 412 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,320 Jesus Christ, Moses, as we mentioned. 413 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,980 So often. Ended up. 414 00:21:02,980 --> 00:21:06,940 Finally seeing Christ. On the mount of Transfiguration 415 00:21:06,940 --> 00:21:09,300 there. During the earthly ministry of 416 00:21:09,300 --> 00:21:12,900 Christ. And that's where we see God is 417 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:16,180 in Christ. Moses is a faithful servant in 418 00:21:16,180 --> 00:21:23,740 God's house, but Jesus Christ is a son, not a steward in the 419 00:21:23,740 --> 00:21:27,060 house, but the Son of the house. And that's the. 420 00:21:27,060 --> 00:21:30,220 Theme of the book of Hebrews that implores us. 421 00:21:30,750 --> 00:21:34,630 To look to Jesus, the author. And finisher? 422 00:21:34,990 --> 00:21:35,590 Of our faith.