1 00:00:02,700 --> 00:00:07,400 Chapter 19 and we are in the narrative about Moses in the 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,800 life of Moses with God's people coming out of Egypt in the 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:15,000 wilderness and we're now chapter 19 of Exodus and this is the 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:22,900 story partially of what happened when they reached Mount Sinai. 5 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,100 And so a lot of things happened at the foot of Mount Sinai, both 6 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:31,900 before and after Moses went up to Mount Sinai to receive the 7 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:34,900 ten and that's the law from god. So let's just look at this 8 00:00:34,900 --> 00:00:39,200 portion here in chapter 19. These first nine verses on the 9 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,600 third month, after the people of Israel had gone out of the land 10 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,300 of Egypt. On that day, they came to the 11 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:49,200 Wilderness of Sinai and they encamped in the wilderness, 12 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:53,500 their Israel and camped before the mountain while Moses went up 13 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:56,000 to God. The Lord called to him out of 14 00:00:56,008 --> 00:00:59,600 the mountain saying, thus, shall you say to the house of Jacob 15 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:04,000 and tell the people of Israel, you Our sales have seen what I 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,100 did to the Egyptians how I bore. You on Engel Eagle's Wings and 17 00:01:09,100 --> 00:01:13,700 brought you out to myself. Now, therefore, if you will 18 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:18,100 indeed obey my voice and keep my Covenant, you shall be my 19 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:22,700 treasured possession, among all the peoples for all the Earth is 20 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:26,200 mine. And you shall be to me a kingdom 21 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:30,300 of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you 22 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:32,100 shall speak to the people of Israel. 23 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,700 So Moses came and call the Elders of the people and set 24 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:38,300 before them all the words, the Lord had commanded him. 25 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:41,600 All the people answered together and said all that. 26 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:46,000 The Lord has spoken. We will do and Moses reported 27 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,500 the words of the peat people to the Lord. 28 00:01:48,500 --> 00:01:52,000 And the Lord said to Moses behold, I am coming to you in a 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:57,300 thick Cloud that the people may hear when I speak with you, and 30 00:01:57,300 --> 00:02:01,800 I met all and may also believe you forever. 31 00:02:02,700 --> 00:02:07,500 The word of the Lord, you may be seated. 32 00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:15,200 You'll notice What's Happening Here. 33 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:19,700 Moses is speaking to the Lord. The Lord is speaking to Moses. 34 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:21,800 In fact the scriptures tell us that there was a unique 35 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,400 relationship. They had the word is used that 36 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,500 God spoke to Moses face to face. Now we know later on exactly how 37 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:32,300 that worked out, but what it really means is God spoke 38 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,000 directly to Moses. In other prophets, he'll speak 39 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,300 in dreams and visions and all sorts of symbols and things like 40 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:42,000 that. And occasionally, he'll speak 41 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,700 audibly to them of speak deep within their consciences. 42 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:48,400 But in this instance, God spoke to Moses. 43 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,500 And he gave Moses. What he wanted Moses to hear, 44 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:56,100 that is called special Revelation that is called 45 00:02:56,100 --> 00:03:00,300 self-disclosure God discloses himself, what he's thinking, 46 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:03,100 what he wants his people to know what he wants his people to do. 47 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:09,600 He makes it known He is there and he is not silent. 48 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,900 Would be a good title for a book wouldn't it think Francis 49 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:14,700 Schaeffer wrote that book a few years ago? 50 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,900 God is there. He speaks we live believe it 51 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:23,500 whether we like it or not Christians we are the recipients 52 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:27,800 of Oracle Oracle religion. Is our religion. 53 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,100 We actually believe that God speaks on a mountain to a 54 00:03:32,100 --> 00:03:36,200 person. Sometimes it's hard to get 55 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,900 comfortable with that idea, particularly, but that's what we 56 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:41,600 have. Now, we have authentication all 57 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,700 through the centuries that it was indeed God. 58 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:47,900 Speaking at these prophets, were faithful in their communication 59 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:52,900 of what God Said but that is God speaking to the prophet and this 60 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:56,000 case Moses later on Isaiah, Jeremiah and many others. 61 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,800 And then the prophet speaking to the people, but then we also see 62 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:07,500 here that the people would speak to Moses and Moses would go back 63 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:11,700 and tell god what the people had said. 64 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,399 That's called mediation. Moses is a mediator. 65 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:19,700 He's in the middle between God and the people. 66 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,100 In that instance, in many other instances, Moses is a type, a 67 00:04:24,100 --> 00:04:29,200 very clear type and lesson as to Christ's Ministry Christ is a 68 00:04:29,207 --> 00:04:33,400 mediator, there is one mediator between God and man, and that's 69 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:34,700 the man Christ Jesus. Des. 70 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:37,900 Jesus is in fact, the word of God. 71 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:41,700 He speaks the word of God. He is the word of God to his 72 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:45,600 people, and in responding. Back to him. 73 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:49,300 We come to him through that mediator. 74 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:56,400 What God told the people here is that one day. 75 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,600 And he speaks it and he brings it to pass. 76 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,000 It's the people are going to be priests and Kings. 77 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,200 He's going to make of this little fragile people that he's 78 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,500 brought out of slavery and brought into the desert. 79 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,700 And as we saw last week, he has given them water to drink and 80 00:05:16,700 --> 00:05:19,100 food to eat. He has protected him in the 81 00:05:19,100 --> 00:05:25,500 desert and now he is going to call them his people, all the 82 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:27,700 Gentile Nations on the face of the Earth. 83 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,200 And the Earth was full of people in those days. 84 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:35,600 But God selected, this one family, the family of Jacob, the 85 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,600 family of Israel came into Egypt, 70 souls. 86 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,400 And now, his left is a great throng. 87 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,600 He's going to make of this little Nation. 88 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:48,500 This little little group, a nation, a great nation with a 89 00:05:48,508 --> 00:05:52,400 great name, and a great reputation, and a great king is 90 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,700 going to sit on the throne of this nation. 91 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,200 And they're going to rule and reign with this great king 92 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:02,900 forever. And the words that Moses uses 93 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:05,200 and speaks to the people are Eternal words. 94 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:08,900 Notice, he says that they may also believe you forever. 95 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:11,100 There's a whole lot more Happening Here than just this 96 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:12,800 little story of them in the desert. 97 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,800 What we have here is the god of Heaven and Earth. 98 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,500 The Creator is talking to his people and he is enabling his 99 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:22,500 people to talk to him. He's establishing a mediator 100 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:25,000 between the two and he's going to see. 101 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:30,000 Then one day a greater mediator, Moses was faithful in the house 102 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,400 of the Lord, as a servant, the book of Hebrews says, but Jesus 103 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:41,400 is faithful in the house of the Lord, as a son, hey, where is in 104 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,300 time past, God spoke to the prophet to the father's by the 105 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:49,600 prophets and all kinds of ways. But now he has spoken to us by 106 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,100 one who is the son, Jesus Christ. 107 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:58,200 Jesus Christ is all over this. This scene at the face of Mount 108 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:03,100 Sinai, on the floor of the desert, the Wilderness God is 109 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:04,900 opening up. He's showing himself. 110 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:07,600 He's telling what kind of relationship he will have with 111 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,200 his people. And here's one of the most 112 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,800 tender things, you'll read anywhere in the Bible is here at 113 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:17,100 about verse for, I think it is. You yourselves have seen what it 114 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:19,300 says the Lord speaking. You've seen what I did to the 115 00:07:19,300 --> 00:07:25,000 Egyptians and how I bore You On Eagle's Wings and brought you to 116 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:29,100 myself. And brought you. 117 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:37,300 To myself. That's what the Lord does to his 118 00:07:37,300 --> 00:07:42,500 own. Has the Lord brought you to 119 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:47,500 himself. My sheep hear my voice. 120 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:53,900 Jesus said, I know them, they follow me. 121 00:07:56,700 --> 00:08:02,300 There's only one way to be brought to God and that's in the 122 00:08:02,300 --> 00:08:07,500 arms of the Good Shepherd, as a lost lamb straying. 123 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:09,800 All we like sheep. Have gone astray. 124 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:13,100 We have turned to our own way, but we've been solved. 125 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:20,000 And we've been bought and we've been brought To the father. 126 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:23,400 By Jesus Christ in his finished work. 127 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:26,700 I don't want you to leave here, we only have a few minutes 128 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:29,200 together, these Sunday mornings, but I don't want anybody to 129 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,400 leave and walk through those doors without knowing Jesus 130 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,500 Christ. That's all I really really care 131 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:37,100 about. I love the Bible of all this 132 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:38,500 history. I love to teach, I love 133 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:40,700 Doctrine. I love all that stuff, but my 134 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:43,600 heart says, I want everybody in this room to come to know 135 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:47,200 Christ. And coming to know Christ that 136 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,400 they will love him and serve him and be safe for all eternity. 137 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,000 Not only for this life, but the life to come and that's what the 138 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,500 Lord says. Now, therefore, beginning in 139 00:08:58,500 --> 00:09:03,600 verse 5, the Lord is going to make a covenant with his people. 140 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:06,100 Now me say a word about covenants in the Bible. 141 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:08,800 There are several varieties of Covenant. 142 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,800 A covenant is not simply a contract to coveted his more 143 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:15,200 than that, the most important Covenant anywhere in the Bible. 144 00:09:15,300 --> 00:09:17,900 And as far as getting the Old Testament and everything 145 00:09:17,900 --> 00:09:21,000 foundationally laid out is the Covenant that God made with 146 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,800 Abraham God made the Covenant with Abraham and it was a 147 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:28,400 promissory Covenant. God says, I will do this this 148 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,400 and this it was kind of on the arrangement of some of the 149 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,300 ancient Covenant, swear a great Susan rain, or a great Sovereign 150 00:09:35,500 --> 00:09:39,800 has performed a great Act of rescue and help as he led 151 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,000 Abraham out of the ER of the Chaldeans up the Euphrates 152 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,100 Valley and across down the Jordan Valley in Toward the Nile 153 00:09:46,100 --> 00:09:48,800 and all the way into Egypt and the great Fertile Crescent. 154 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,200 Took him on that great journey and brought him to where he 155 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,600 wanted him to be. Abraham was given this Covenant 156 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,600 that's back in the Book of Genesis, you read about in 157 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,500 chapter 12 15 and other places their God. 158 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:06,100 Repeated this to the, to the Patriarchs Isaac and Jacob, he 159 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:09,100 gave this promissory Covenant that he was going to accomplish 160 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:12,100 it and my friends, he's accomplished every syllable of 161 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:18,400 it literally in King Solomon. And greater than that. 162 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:22,500 In one who's greater than Solomon in a great Eternal 163 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,800 spiritual way in. Jesus Christ, everything God 164 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,900 promised them. He gave them a land, he gave 165 00:10:30,900 --> 00:10:35,600 them a great nation, he gave them a great name, he gave them 166 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,000 a great king, he gave them a great blessing. 167 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:43,400 And all this was fulfilled in the days of Solomon. 168 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:45,800 Literally, the Bible says it all came to pass. 169 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,500 If you're looking for a literal fulfillment of the abrahamic, 170 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:53,300 Covenant, there it is about 1,000 years before Christ. 171 00:10:54,700 --> 00:10:58,700 Literally fulfilled Solomon's Reign was from the Euphrates to 172 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:02,300 the Nile, the whole Fertile Crescent, the whole, and not 173 00:11:02,300 --> 00:11:04,500 just a little tiny land of Canaan there in the middle of 174 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:06,700 it. But the whole thing, but in a 175 00:11:06,708 --> 00:11:11,400 greater sense, God gives his people What Abraham really 176 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,300 expected when he was talking to God, according to Paul, in the 177 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:16,600 Book of Romans, he gave him the whole Earth. 178 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:20,100 In fact he did more than just give him the Earth is it is he 179 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:23,400 gives him the Earth as it's a new Heaven and a new Earth. 180 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,400 The great fulfillment of everything. 181 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:29,100 God promised to Abraham is fulfilled in Israel. 182 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,400 As Israel, brings in the Gentiles is Israel believes in 183 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,900 the Messiah as unbelieving, Israel is punished and cut off 184 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:40,400 as believing. Israel is given the inheritance 185 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:45,700 which is Christ. That's what's being set up here. 186 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:51,300 This these old ancient stories are historical but they're not 187 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,600 they're not merely just the raw history. 188 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,300 I hear sometimes historical Redemptive preaching and it's 189 00:11:58,300 --> 00:12:03,000 very historical and I don't hear the Redemptive element as strong 190 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,300 as it comes through in the scriptures at least my reading 191 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:07,900 of the scriptures but look at what the Lord says he's going to 192 00:12:07,900 --> 00:12:11,600 require them to do some things because the Mosaic Covenant the 193 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,900 Covenant God makes it Sinai. Is not a promissory Covenant. 194 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:21,700 It's an obligatory Covenant, you're obligated to do certain 195 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:23,700 things, and if you do them, I'll do this. 196 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:25,000 But if you don't do it, I don't want. 197 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,300 In fact, I'll do something else. And that's what you see, spelled 198 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:31,900 out beginning in chapter 20, all the way through the rest of the 199 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:33,200 pentateuch. Like, especially through the 200 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:37,500 book of Deuteronomy, you say, you hear God saying I will do 201 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:42,700 certain things for you if you will do these things for me and 202 00:12:42,700 --> 00:12:47,800 he lists them out here. He says. he says, if you will 203 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:56,400 obey my voice, keep my Covenant. So they've got to do some things 204 00:12:57,100 --> 00:12:59,500 as God's redeemed. People notice that they're 205 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:02,900 redeemed at this point. He's talking to Believers. 206 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:06,400 Bible's talking to Christians when he talks about obeying the 207 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:12,200 law, not talking to unbelievers. Unbeliever can't take the law 208 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,100 in. Try to obey it in order to be 209 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:17,400 saved, you just don't work that way, the laws got nothing but a 210 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:22,200 curse in it for Sinners. There's a death penalty in the 211 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,300 law for Sinners. But Christ has died taking that 212 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:27,900 very sentence. That very ordinance that very 213 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:31,200 prescription into his own body on the tree nailing it to the 214 00:13:31,208 --> 00:13:35,800 Cross, Paul says, in Colossians, and it's been fulfilled every 215 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:41,800 last bit of that Covenant. Has been fulfilled in Christ. 216 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:47,700 The law, the Commandments are given to a redeemed. 217 00:13:47,700 --> 00:13:52,700 People a saved people. A rescued people of people that 218 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:56,700 have already said but they said here all that the Lord has 219 00:13:56,700 --> 00:13:58,200 spoken. We will do. 220 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,700 This is a two-way street. God says do this and they say 221 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,800 we'll do it now later on God's going to spell out in quite a 222 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,000 bit of detail all that they are to do. 223 00:14:09,100 --> 00:14:12,900 And the consequences, the wonderful consequences of 224 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:17,200 perfect obedience. but the people never give perfect 225 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:23,500 obedience Jesus Does And that's why he's the only true Covenant 226 00:14:23,500 --> 00:14:25,600 keeper. And that's why in order to be a 227 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,500 covenant keeper, you've got to be in Christ by faith. 228 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:33,900 To be regarded as a covenant keeper and receive the blessings 229 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:37,900 of the Covenant. Just making any sense at all. 230 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,500 Because everything I'm saying every statement I'm making in my 231 00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:44,900 head. I'm thinking boy this a heresy 232 00:14:44,900 --> 00:14:46,500 out there. I need to draw upon a little bit 233 00:14:46,500 --> 00:14:48,000 but I don't have time to do that. 234 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:49,900 There's a misunderstanding out there. 235 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,000 We need to chase down and kill. Don't have time to do that. 236 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,100 He's just try to set it forth positively and affirmatively. 237 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,100 but for Covenant Breakers, those that do not keep the law in the 238 00:15:03,100 --> 00:15:08,700 first place and for any person that claims to be redeemed, When 239 00:15:08,700 --> 00:15:13,300 he comes to keep the law when he fails, he has to recognize that 240 00:15:13,300 --> 00:15:16,400 it's sin. And he needs to be confessed and 241 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,800 forsaken, his be put under the blood of Christ. 242 00:15:19,700 --> 00:15:26,600 He needs to be taken to Christ. And that's the Ten Commandments. 243 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,700 Now, we will see what time will we got a minute or two? 244 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:32,700 Let me just bring you read them. I mean, Robbie read them, a 245 00:15:32,708 --> 00:15:34,500 moment ago, you contemplated them. 246 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:36,500 Let me just take for brevity's sake. 247 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:40,300 The, the second table first table has to do with God first 248 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:43,100 four Commandments, and then commandment five through 10 has 249 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:46,700 to do with our relationship, to one another loving each other. 250 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:50,900 And let me just sort of sketch through with the Lord does for 251 00:15:50,900 --> 00:15:54,000 us in the Commandments. This is for a and people that I 252 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:59,700 say that, Think I did. This is not how you get saved, 253 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:02,400 folks. This is what you do when you are 254 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,400 saved. If you're saved. 255 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:06,700 A lot of people claim to be saved. 256 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:08,500 They don't keep these Commandments at all and that's 257 00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:12,400 the fruit that's the test. We see people breaking his 258 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,300 Commandments. The question mark can go up over 259 00:16:14,300 --> 00:16:16,400 their head or they really Believers. 260 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,200 Are they really walking in the ways of the Lord? 261 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:20,600 Are they? Keeping his statutes and his 262 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,500 Commandments. Are they obeying his voice? 263 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:27,200 Are they in the Covenant? Really are the in there by faith 264 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,200 believing in Jesus, as they should be, let me just sketch 265 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,000 through them. He says, honor your father and 266 00:16:32,008 --> 00:16:35,400 your mother. That establishes for all of the 267 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:40,400 earth authority, The Authority is in the father in the mother 268 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:46,300 in the home and that basic unit. Of civilization forms, 269 00:16:46,300 --> 00:16:48,700 everything else. All in the world of family is is 270 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:51,800 expansion of a mother and father all in the world. 271 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,200 Neighborhood is is expansion of a family. 272 00:16:55,700 --> 00:16:58,800 All in the world of community is an expansion of a neighborhood, 273 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:02,300 all the world of town at you. Get the point all the way up to 274 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:05,599 State all the way up to Nation. It's just all the same. 275 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:07,700 God has an authority that he's established. 276 00:17:07,700 --> 00:17:11,700 He spells it out in unbelievable detail throughout the rest of 277 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:14,200 scripture, but it establishes it with honor. 278 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:16,500 Your father and your mother. If you honor your father and 279 00:17:16,508 --> 00:17:19,400 your mother, you are a civilized person. 280 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:25,900 You are a citizen of the kingdom of God's chosen people. 281 00:17:26,900 --> 00:17:30,500 Then you shall not murder into this commandment the Lord 282 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:34,400 establishes the principle of Life, the sanctity of Life, the 283 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,300 right to life, to protect life and all about life, the right to 284 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:41,700 life. He says Thou shalt not commit 285 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:44,900 adultery in this God sanctifies marriage. 286 00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:49,200 One woman one man for one lifetime establishing, the whole 287 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,500 order of sexuality for every person on the face of the Earth. 288 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:59,400 And anything else is ADD alt and alter e. 289 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:02,400 It's to go to something else. Any deviation off that any 290 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:08,900 perversion of that is breaking of the Covenant with God, he 291 00:18:08,900 --> 00:18:12,400 says you shall not steal. This establishes, the principle 292 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:18,000 of private property. Private property, you are 293 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,400 entitled to certain things because why? 294 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,200 Because if you obey God will bless you. 295 00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:30,000 Everything you have is a gift of God, it's sacred. 296 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,100 And I don't have a right to it and everything God's given me, 297 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,400 not only that. Let me just say one of the thing 298 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:41,400 when God comes time to curse you to discipline you, to bring you 299 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,100 in line for whom the Lord. Loveth he chasteneth and 300 00:18:44,100 --> 00:18:47,100 scourges every son. That's is God might take some of 301 00:18:47,100 --> 00:18:51,800 that property away. He may change that property, 302 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,000 leave a turn that property into little bit of an aggravation. 303 00:18:55,300 --> 00:18:58,600 God can do all kinds of things with your property and I'm 304 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,300 talking about that's all you possess in order to discipline 305 00:19:02,300 --> 00:19:05,900 you and to bring you where you need to be and that needs to 306 00:19:05,900 --> 00:19:09,200 apply to you. The soul that Sins Not to the 307 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,400 whole community and I'll just jump straight to the very last 308 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,500 one. Thou shalt not covet for a 309 00:19:14,500 --> 00:19:20,400 community. An ethnic group, a state. or a 310 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,500 government of federal government or any other kind of government 311 00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:28,900 to go after your property is the spirit of envy And they can work 312 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:31,400 it out through What's called the politics of envy. 313 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:35,800 Yeah, make the rich pay more taxes. 314 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,700 Yeah, let's give those reparations. 315 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:44,700 Yeah, I'm going to stop there. Thou shalt not bear false. 316 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:51,100 Witness that establishes truth and truth is the basis of a 317 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:53,700 society of a society is not have truth. 318 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,800 It does not have personal relationships, it does not have 319 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,000 business contracts. And it does not have most 320 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,500 importantly, I justice system. Most important thing that 321 00:20:03,500 --> 00:20:05,900 happens in a courthouse is when you put your hand on the Bible 322 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:08,800 and swear in which you're about to say the truth, the whole 323 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,300 truth and nothing but the truth in this commandment establishes. 324 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:14,600 It Thou shalt not bear. False witness. 325 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:18,300 Let me say one more thing about the passage. 326 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,600 If you'll give me a moment, notice that Moses, when he's 327 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,200 talking to the Lord, the Lord says I'm going to be talking to 328 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:31,600 you from now on in a cloud. You noticed that in the text, a 329 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:37,700 thick cloud is going to be the partition between God and Moses, 330 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:40,000 and Moses is going to be in a cloud. 331 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 He'll hear the voice of God in a cloud. 332 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:43,800 This is the Shekinah Glory of God. 333 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,200 This is the glory Cloud. This this Cloud spoken. 334 00:20:46,300 --> 00:20:49,300 Love all through the scriptures. This Cloud was an incredibly 335 00:20:49,300 --> 00:20:52,300 important to Israel in their days because this Cloud hovered 336 00:20:52,300 --> 00:20:55,700 over them, when the burning Sun of the desert was about to fry 337 00:20:55,700 --> 00:20:57,800 them. On the desert floor, This Cloud 338 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,600 gave them shield and comfort and cool, and rest. 339 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:04,900 That's Christ. Is that cloud? 340 00:21:04,900 --> 00:21:10,200 By the way, it's the glory cloud of God's spirit enshrined upon 341 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,600 his people at night. That cloud turned into a pillar 342 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,100 of fire, when the desert floor got cold. 343 00:21:15,100 --> 00:21:19,400 And when the winds blew there was the warmth of God's presence 344 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,100 in the thick Cloud, that was over them. 345 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:24,900 I got to stop right here and I'm going to tell you this, you 346 00:21:24,908 --> 00:21:27,200 remember on the Mount of transfiguration. 347 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:32,400 Who's up there? Moses, Elijah, and Jesus 348 00:21:32,700 --> 00:21:34,500 remember what the wolves are all around them. 349 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,400 A bright Cloud. Why was it a bright cloud and 350 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,800 not a thick dark cloud? Because it had inside of it, the 351 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:29,200 light of the world. Who's up there? 352 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,900 Moses, Elijah, and Jesus remember what the wolves are all 353 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:36,600 around them. A bright Cloud. 354 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:40,400 Why was it a bright cloud and not a thick dark cloud? 355 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:44,200 Because it had inside of it, the light of the world.