1 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,560 Happy Monday. I'm Pastor Matt. 2 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,880 Pastor Chris, I didn't know if I was injuring myself on that, so 3 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,800 I just, that's why my name came out as a question. 4 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,360 It was a question, you're sure of it though. 5 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,360 I'm yeah, yeah. You know what? 6 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:28,320 I am. I'm very. 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,360 You sure of your title? No, no. 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,640 You found a way. You found a way. 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,600 I can't believe you did it. You found a way to bring that 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,360 back. Second service people are are 11 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,160 questioning what happened because it did it well. 12 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,280 They might have noticed you didn't draw attention to it in 13 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,400 the second service. I thought I I thought I 14 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,360 apologized for it profusely during the second service. 15 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,920 I think I did. Oh, I did because I said I meant 16 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,200 to change that in between services because I felt like a 17 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:56,960 total dummy during the first service. 18 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,880 Just leaves the title part of the slide reading title. 19 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,360 In title, the title of the sermon is title, right? 20 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,520 So you know, it's not seeking God's glory, it's title. 21 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,640 Title perfect. I'm just, you know, sometimes, 22 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,120 sometimes things happen to me or not they, I, I shouldn't say it 23 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,760 that way because that would be as if I had nothing to do with 24 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:16,880 it. I, I, I want to take 25 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,760 responsibility. Sometimes I do things or don't 26 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,200 do things and I look at myself and I go, dude, what are you 27 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,640 doing? And then I answer myself and I 28 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,400 go, well, clearly you weren't paying attention. 29 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,160 And I go, why do you do that? And the conversation goes on and 30 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:33,840 on until I just, you know, whatever. 31 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,560 But. So it's so fun to work with you. 32 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,360 There's always something else. It's madness. 33 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:41,800 It's madness. I don't know how anybody not 34 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,760 named me does it because I don't know how I would work with me. 35 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:51,440 Yeah, so week 11 in Exodus, we got one more week, then it's 36 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:56,640 then it's Advent Christmas preparation season. 37 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,760 And yeah, we're almost to the end here. 38 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:07,240 So this week we're touching up on Exodus 33 and 34 and next 39 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,000 week we're actually jumping out of Exodus still into into 40 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,640 Deuteronomy, which is still. Still the Moses story, right? 41 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,360 Yeah, So that'll close us out in week 12. 42 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,920 Before we get there, though, it's it's my birthday today. 43 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:22,960 Thank you for all of you who have who have reached out 44 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:28,840 conflicted about thanking Kristen for the video she made 45 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,320 for the services yesterday on sure. 46 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,440 Thank you, Kristen, for the video that you made for the 47 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,480 services yesterday. Watching you spin on a chair 48 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,160 looping was actually maybe one of the IT just. 49 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,280 It brought joy to my heart. So glad. 50 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,600 So glad. And, and I like the very end of 51 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,560 the loop where you kind of like lean into the camera a little 52 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:51,880 bit. And I'm just like, oh, OK, 53 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,200 that's that's even more fun. So fun. 54 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:56,880 So yeah, birthday, birthday today. 55 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,560 Thank you for all your well wishes and and birthday texts 56 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,280 and messages and things. But you have a somewhat 57 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:08,280 age-related icebreaker question. I don't even know if it's a 58 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:09,920 would you rather but icebreaker question. 59 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,320 I do as as I as I thought about you today, obviously in the 60 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,680 context of your, excuse me, 35th birthday. 61 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,920 Yeah, 35. Wow, there you go. 62 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,120 As I thought about that, I was like, OK, like what has been 63 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,640 your favorite age to be so far? You know, you're, you're 35, you 64 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:31,280 know, and, and we have people who, you know, 6078 years old, 65 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,880 probably listen to the podcast and, and I would wonder their 66 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,960 answer to like, what's your favorite age to be? 67 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,560 A lot of pros and cons I feel like to a lot of the ages. 68 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:50,360 Right. Because do you go, do you go 10 69 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:51,720 like? Oh yeah. 70 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,600 When I was 10, had a fair amount of independence, bike around, 71 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,080 bike around the city, get to where I wanted to be. 72 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,680 Wasn't cooking for myself though, wasn't working, but 73 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,320 didn't have like responsibilities other than 74 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,480 whatever school. But that wasn't, I don't know, 75 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:09,400 school wasn't a big thing for me. 76 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,920 So do you do that? But then you don't have like I 77 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:17,480 didn't have decision making power over my life or. 78 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,279 Did you, did you even know you wanted that at 9 or 10 years? 79 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,400 Old, I guess, yeah, that somewhat of the oblivion of that 80 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,680 was was nice and that so the other that jumps out to me. 81 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,840 Do I go like super young almost not that I didn't have 82 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,960 responsibility, but really like I didn't have to be an adult. 83 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:37,680 There's no adulting didn't have to worry about. 84 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:39,520 That didn't have to have any of that stuff. 85 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,040 Or like the the other, the other age that is in my mind is like 86 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:51,880 is like 25 because young enough that you're not like I'm I'm 35, 87 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:53,880 don't hear or not still still young. 88 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:59,040 I don't quite have the I, I haven't quite experienced the 89 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:03,960 age where like if I sleep wrong things things hurt. 90 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,480 Like if you sneeze, you throw your back out, right? 91 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,760 Like I'm not, I'm not there yet. And and I know that's somewhere 92 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,080 in the next 10 years for sure is probably going to get to that 93 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:14,600 point, no. Bifocals or anything? 94 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:16,200 Well my eyes are terrible already. 95 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,840 Haven't been since I was 10. Legally blind without my that's 96 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,840 madness. My contacts and glasses by the 97 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:24,280 way. But I always wear contacts so 98 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,000 anyway that's not age-related at all. 99 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,040 I just got my dad's eyes, and his eyes are terrible. 100 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,320 And we're flying together. Yeah. 101 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,400 So like, those are the two that jump out 25, still, like, young 102 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:43,960 enough to feel and be young, but old enough that you are somewhat 103 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,240 taken seriously as an adult. Like, you can hang out with 104 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,280 adults at 25. I feel like at like 1820, like, 105 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:51,880 you can hang out with adults, but you're still like, a kid. 106 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:53,800 You're still. Yeah. 107 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,600 Not a like reliable responsible adult. 108 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,640 My, my 21 year old daughter, and maybe I'll always do this, just 109 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,040 it's a term of endearment. If it's a, it's a term of 110 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,400 endearment. But I say, hey, kiddo, you know, 111 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,360 And at 21, I feel very safe doing that without, you know. 112 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:17,520 Sure, but you would you wouldn't do that to so like, oh man, I 113 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,960 don't know who do we have recent, recent graduate Annie 114 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:22,120 Ellison. Like would you call her kiddo 115 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:24,280 like 20 years old, second year college? 116 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:26,680 Gosh, maybe. I think that's more because 117 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:27,840 that's your kid. Right. 118 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:29,040 Yeah, you're probably right about that. 119 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:29,960 Like. That's true. 120 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:31,720 I think most 20 year olds you're probably not just. 121 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,400 Like, no probably, kiddo. But like, either way you were 122 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,600 thinking about at 25 maybe. I see. 123 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,360 I bet you still call your daughter kiddo at 25. 124 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:40,320 I bet that could. Happen. 125 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:41,720 Yeah, probably. I'll probably still do when 126 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,960 she's 40, right? Honestly, yeah. 127 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:46,720 How old would that make you? Oh gosh. 128 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,680 Let's not do the math right now. I don't want to think about it. 129 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,480 I would rather not. I mean, I already have enough 130 00:06:53,480 --> 00:07:02,880 Gray hair for both of us so. So I think I yeah, I'm, I'm 131 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,880 laboring on this question too, too hard. 132 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:09,840 But I think I think like 25 would be, I don't know are we 133 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:11,520 are we're just like going back to where we. 134 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,200 Were at at 25. Do we have to keep the? 135 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,480 Head knowledge we have now. And how does this work? 136 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:16,480 I think. I think. 137 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,280 Like physical age. I just think the physical age 138 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,400 and the just normal responsibilities or lack thereof 139 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,680 for a person that age. So I'm not even saying you have 140 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,600 to go back to your life at that age. 141 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:32,000 I'm just saying the age itself, at which case I think you make a 142 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,680 strong point for like 9-10 years old. 143 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,040 I think that's where I'm landing because I mean, at 910 years 144 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,120 years old, at least in the 80s when I grew up, man, I could 145 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,280 just ride my bike all day everywhere throughout the Quad 146 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,520 Cities, for example, and just come home. 147 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,600 When it got darker, I got hungry or whatever. 148 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:51,960 No responsibilities, no anything. 149 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:56,080 It was just like it to me. As I look back over the 44 150 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:00,280 years, it was the epitome of human freedom. 151 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,360 Now, obviously, you know, in my particular situation, I had 152 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,360 older brothers and like, you know, all these kinds of things. 153 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:10,480 But that age in general, like, it was so easy to be me. 154 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,400 It was so easy. I I feel like you just opened 155 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,080 this up to turn this so hard on you. 156 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:17,840 Oh no. Oh no. 157 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,920 I used the phrase that was the epitome of human freedom. 158 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,720 So what's what's 20 years of marriage feel like, Chris? 159 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,040 It's the best thing I've ever experienced. 160 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,040 Please, please hear that it's the. 161 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:32,360 Best thing I've ever experienced. 162 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:34,799 I wouldn't change anything. I love being 44. 163 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,120 Thanks Matt for throwing me under the. 164 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,240 Box again, you said these things just happen. 165 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:43,880 They don't just happen to you. You bring them. 166 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,280 Dang it. Bring them upon yourself, Dang 167 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:49,040 it. So that's the only. 168 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,600 I mean, that's and honestly, that's because there are things 169 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,640 at 10 years old that you don't experience or or even can do in 170 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,000 your in your 20s. Like I don't know, I think 171 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,600 that's where I'm at. I think 25 still I old enough to 172 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,800 do the things that I like about being an adult, Young enough to 173 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,840 still feel like physically, I don't feel physically dead, but 174 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,400 like, I don't know, I don't know things. 175 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:17,360 I still think you can outrun multiple teenagers in our youth 176 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:18,200 group. I think. 177 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,720 I think you can. I think you can outplay them in 178 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,880 sports if you wanted to. Still got the wheels. 179 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,120 Yeah, it's, it's there. I've seen it. 180 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,360 Yeah. So, but yeah, take take 10 years 181 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:29,760 off and I think I feel better about that. 182 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:33,000 So 25, I'm going to go 20. 5 go 25 Well I'm you know what 183 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,520 despite. You're sticking to 10. 184 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:37,760 I couldn't convince you why. Not why not? 185 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:43,320 We're just, we're going to hold on to it and well and and. 186 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:47,480 This is why it keeps happening. I'm presenting logical, 187 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,680 rational, explainable things and you're just like, Nah, I'm good. 188 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,600 I'm just going to do this. Well, it's too late. 189 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:57,640 We're we're just we're just going to stick to it. 190 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,040 I give up. I give up because otherwise I 191 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,760 will inevitably foot will go into mouth deeper if I keep 192 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:05,320 talking. So we're just going to stick. 193 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,560 With it, take one mat lifetime off your age and get the end of 194 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:09,120 time. Let's do. 195 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:11,920 That Let's do that. Cool. 196 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,600 Oh my gosh. Yep, we're back. 197 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:20,080 ERC leftovers, Strong and steady as always. 198 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,520 This web page is not loading. I'm going to need that to queue 199 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,600 up. Here we are in Exodus 33 200 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,480 portions, kind of the middle part of that chapter and then 201 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,840 jumped into the beginning of Chapter 34 as well. 202 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:40,120 We started, you started yesterday at verse 12. 203 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,200 I did kind of kind of halfway through. 204 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:46,400 What are some things, maybe before that, other contextual 205 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,320 things that you wanted to highlight or or throw in that we 206 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:51,600 didn't spend a whole lot of time in yesterday? 207 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,240 Yeah, well, I did. It wasn't part of the original 208 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,160 reading, but I did. I did use a couple verses from 209 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,480 the beginning, you know, speaking specifically about 210 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:05,160 God's going to drive out these people and you can go up to this 211 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,440 land, and this land is pretty fantastic, and it's going to be 212 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:09,840 yours. I promised you the gift. 213 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,320 So I'm going to, I'm going to fulfill that promise. 214 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,560 But yeah, I don't know if I should go with you that that may 215 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:17,840 not be a great idea for your life. 216 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,840 And then we see, of course, Moses buck back against that a 217 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,560 little bit and say like, listen, you know, if if you're not with 218 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:27,880 us, we're not distinct. And I want to be distinct. 219 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,440 And so I think those early verses, I think that's those are 220 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,320 those are important verses. But I think enduring word 221 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,280 commentary when it says I will not go up in your midst. 222 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:44,640 David Guzik says this God did say he would deny that Israel 223 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,760 his presence, or at least the near sense of his presence. 224 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,960 We might say that God said, I won't stay so close to you 225 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:52,960 because I might judge you along the way. 226 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:54,880 But go and take the promised land. 227 00:11:55,560 --> 00:12:01,120 And so I mean, I, I, I look at that and you know, I just, that 228 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,600 feels so bad. It's almost like if, if, if you, 229 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:09,000 if your parents say, OK, I'm going to, I promise you this 230 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 thing when you turn this age or whatever. 231 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,520 And I, and I can, I guess I'm going to fulfill the promise, 232 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,840 but I don't like it and I'm not, I don't feel like I can even 233 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:18,360 fully endorse this, but I promise. 234 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,160 So I guess I'll do it. And and that feels bad. 235 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,040 And it does feel bad. It sounds harsh if we have the 236 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,840 you are a stiff necked people language here in the in the 237 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,120 first part of this passage in chapter 33 as well. 238 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:35,800 I think as far as this, I won't stay so close to you because I 239 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:37,920 might judge you along the way, but go and take the promised 240 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:39,800 land as far as, as far as that thought. 241 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:46,720 I actually see a really good picture of like biblical 242 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,160 relational boundary there too, right? 243 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:53,640 Because we walk this line of, of truthing in love, caring for, 244 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:58,600 providing for, but not to the point of enabling, right? 245 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,760 Like we, we don't, we don't want to encourage destructive habits 246 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,760 or, or even sinful habits, right? 247 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:10,160 And, and that's kind of what I hear, hear from God is, Hey, I 248 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:15,120 still love you, but I can't keep perpetuating this sort of 249 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,360 screwed up rebellion that you keep coming back to me with. 250 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,600 So I need to, I need to distance myself, still want to still 251 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:29,880 love, care, provide this life for you, but it's not the way 252 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:33,240 I'd like it to be because, because I'm a little afraid of 253 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,720 getting hurt again. And, and yes, infinite, infinite 254 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:43,960 grace, infinite love for us, but our sin still hurts God, right? 255 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,160 Like he's, he is grieved by our sin, right? 256 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,400 And I think you point that out very well here. 257 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,840 You know, the the fact that sin isn't just something that God 258 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:55,280 is. I'm angry because you broke my 259 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,320 law. No, like it, it hurts me to 260 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,960 watch you live this way because I know there's a better way for 261 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,480 you. And so in in talking about the 262 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:07,240 the character of God here, we see, we see God's heart. 263 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:09,560 We don't just see God's judgement because if you yeah, 264 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,440 like you just did, if you look just beyond just below the 265 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,760 surface, you're seeing not just an anger of you broke my law. 266 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,600 We're seeing an emotional pain here because you're not living 267 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,120 the the best way you could be. And I know it could be better 268 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:25,560 for you. I know we could have a better 269 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,440 relationship. You just continuously rebel and 270 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,560 I and I don't understand why you wouldn't want this great thing 271 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:35,200 and why you would choose the lesser. 272 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,000 Yeah, so I just, I see that in there as as God related to his 273 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,960 people and maybe at times as we relate to people in our lives, 274 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:49,200 potentially even children, grown grown adult children maybe and 275 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,280 in our lives too, or even just other relationships with people 276 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:56,360 that keep trying to season it with grace and caring. 277 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:01,560 And if we we've had questions over the weeks of about 278 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,080 boundaries and about letting this person back in my life or 279 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:08,480 about has have has this person truly repented? 280 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,720 Have I truly forgiven them? I think all that's present. 281 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,920 God's not saying they're irredeemable or that he doesn't 282 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,720 forgive their wrongdoing, but there is a emotional toll of 283 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:21,360 sorts that's being extracted from their sin here. 284 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:23,800 I think during the first service, I don't think I said 285 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,880 this during the second service, but I think during the first 286 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:28,960 service I mentioned it's like we have, we have this intimate 287 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,560 relationship with this person that we care about and we've 288 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,560 we've cheated on them because that's essentially what idolatry 289 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,320 is. Idolatry is OK, I've got this 290 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,600 Worshipful intimate relationship with God and then I choose 291 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,280 somebody else as my partner to worship. 292 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:49,840 That's, that's cheating, right? And so, you know, what, what do 293 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,800 we do when, when we've done that to somebody and we've, we've 294 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,000 hurt them and, and we've lost their trust. 295 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,680 Now God is infinitely loving and forgiving and, and he's all 296 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,880 these things that we so need him to be. 297 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:05,480 But I, I, I have to think, you know, that there is the sense 298 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,280 of, OK, how then do I, how, how do I get better at this 299 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,040 relationship thing with this person? 300 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:14,680 And you know, in a human relationship, obviously it's, it 301 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,280 takes a lot of repentance, it takes a lot of work and 302 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,000 accountability to build trust back when you've broken it in 303 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,560 such a way. It can take years. 304 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,720 Well, we know with God because of God's word, the Bible tells 305 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:32,120 us that in repentance, in naming the thing and turning away from 306 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,880 it, God instantaneously forgives us. 307 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:40,000 And he instantaneously those those sins are on Jesus's 308 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,680 shoulders and then he looks at us with a purely clean slate. 309 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:48,400 So the great thing about this infinitely loving God is we 310 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:52,200 don't have to grind and work and do all these things for years on 311 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,720 end feeling bad about ourselves. We don't have to do that for 312 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:56,840 years. We can go and confess our sins 313 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:01,880 to him and instantaneously the Bible tells us he has removed 314 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,080 those sins from us. He is. 315 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,800 He's put them where they belong, which is Jesus Christ. 316 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:13,079 So Yep, he who knew no sin becoming sin for us. 317 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,920 Then we get this interesting picture. 318 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:18,160 I just I just like this language. 319 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,920 The heading, of course, these aren't these subheadings aren't 320 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:22,800 in the original language usually. 321 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,880 But the next verse 7 through 11 is called the tent of meeting. 322 00:17:27,319 --> 00:17:31,960 And there's a tent that Moses pitched and went into the tent 323 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,840 conversing with the Lord and verse 10 says whenever the 324 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,960 people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the 325 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:44,640 tent, this this sort of representative presence of of 326 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,080 God, the Lord would speak to Moses face to face as one speaks 327 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,120 to a friend. We, we see this picture of 328 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:56,840 devotion that that God has for Moses and, and Moses's 329 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,160 reciprocal faithfulness in that. That's what results in this, in, 330 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,160 in this sort of cherished relationship. 331 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,280 And we get insight into his young, his young age. 332 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,960 Joshua, son of Nun did not leave the tent even even when Moses 333 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:12,400 did. And this is the, this is the 334 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,960 succession. This is Joshua the the the first 335 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:20,000 glimpses of Joshua being raised up to lead the people post 336 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,440 Moses, right? Showing, showing a tremendous 337 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,800 amount of leadership and faithfulness to the call itself. 338 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,400 The second thing that you brought up there that I did not 339 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,960 have time to talk about yesterday, which again, it seems 340 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,000 like a contradiction. So you get into the verses that 341 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,640 we talked about and God says no one shall see my face and live. 342 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,680 But then here it says, talk to him as a friend talks to a 343 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:45,840 friend face to face and you're like, wait a minute. 344 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:47,760 That seems like a direct contradiction. 345 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,160 Well, what we learn in language in in in this original space is 346 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:57,120 it's not a physical face to face conversation because again, that 347 00:18:57,120 --> 00:19:00,920 would be showing Moses, a sinful person, the total glory of God. 348 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:04,480 It'd be seeing God bear, which no human in our current state 349 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,720 can do. And so we understand from the 350 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:11,240 original language that this is, is it an idiom? 351 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:15,520 Is that the right language to say or the right phrase to just 352 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,880 say? They were close knit as friends 353 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,200 were right. They had that level of 354 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,080 relationship. But it was still not literally a 355 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,280 face to face conversation between Moses and God. 356 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:30,440 Because as we learn later on in the chapter and in chapter 34, 357 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:34,320 Moses as a sinful person would have been completely consumed by 358 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,520 the incompatible nature of him. And as a human and God in all of 359 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,880 his bare glory, it would not have worked. 360 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:44,080 It is an idiom. Thank you. 361 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:45,600 Correct. A phrase or expression whose 362 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:47,920 meaning is figurative. It cannot be understood from the 363 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,160 literal meaning of the individual words, so just the. 364 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:51,960 Glad I got that right. You did nailed. 365 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:53,200 It sweet. I didn't know that. 366 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:54,840 I don't. I don't know grammar things. 367 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:55,840 I'm just. I was. 368 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,160 I was taking a shot in the dark. That's correct. 369 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,120 Also an idiot. Is that also an idiot? 370 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,120 Shot in the dark. I mean, maybe, I don't know, 371 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:07,840 it's really yeah, yeah. See, we need, we need the 372 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,960 English police on this, on this podcast to help us out a little 373 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,920 bit. Yeah, that's not, not me as far 374 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,400 as grammar and syntax things go. So, yeah. 375 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:20,200 So just a little insight into that. 376 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,480 Then we get into your your text in Moses and the Glory of the 377 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,280 Lord. This is another one of those 378 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:33,080 just eye-catching moments for me in the Old Testament of like, 379 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:38,360 where did these guys where, where did these old and and I 380 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:40,240 don't like using the word characters because these were 381 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,800 real people. But these these figures in the 382 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:48,040 Old Testament that are the foundations of the faith. 383 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:56,200 This is like a Solomon moment here of of this answer. 384 00:20:56,360 --> 00:21:02,600 Moses asks, show me your glory. And just as both as it is, it's 385 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,480 also it's also a wise thing, right? 386 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,080 It's it's it's the Solomon answer, the one, the one thing I 387 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:12,960 the wisdom of of the Lord that that's the most useful thing for 388 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,080 my life to have the wisdom of the Lord Moses too here like 389 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:19,680 this is the thing I've been longing after it. 390 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,320 It is the thing that my heart seeks. 391 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,840 Show me your glory. It's it's just an immensely 392 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,200 intelligent and and passionate answer here or a request of the 393 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:35,560 Lord just to blows my mind 'cause we, I don't maybe some of 394 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,560 you do think about that. I I don't, I don't always just 395 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:45,600 like so plainly meditate on that, that that was Moses's 396 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,760 longing of his heart in plain words. 397 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:52,920 Show me your glory, God. He wants he wants to see the the 398 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:59,080 aspects, the character, the nature of God that is, it's 399 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,320 overwhelming. It's well, and why would he want 400 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:02,760 to do that? Why would he want to do that? 401 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,360 Well, and here's the thing that we can learn about Moses here, 402 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:07,520 which I think is really important and it didn't come out 403 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:12,560 yesterday. Do I love God for simply who he 404 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:16,000 is? Like, do I seek after his beauty 405 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,800 and his mercy and his perfect judgment? 406 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,080 Do I seek after those things just because I am enamored by 407 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,800 him himself, right? And so like, this has nothing to 408 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,040 do with the benefits of God. It has nothing to do with he's 409 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,040 going to give us this land flowing with milk and honey. 410 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,160 He's going to kick out our enemies. 411 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:33,920 Has nothing to do with any of those things. 412 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:38,240 It's just, I want you for you. And not only do I want you for 413 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,560 you, I want to see all of you again. 414 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,200 I, I, I kind of related yesterday with, you know, a 415 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,560 marriage scenario where it's like, I, no, I, I want to know 416 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,000 all of you, good, bad and ugly. But when you ask that of God, I 417 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,920 want to know all of you, good, good and good. 418 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,960 And, and I think that's that is an amazing ask that shows us the 419 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,560 position, the position of Moses's heart. 420 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,160 And, and the Lord's answer to this and of course, the you 421 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,240 cannot see my face for no one may see me and live you. 422 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,320 You will see my back, but my Facebook must not be seen. 423 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:13,840 I, I love the answer that he does and how that informs our 424 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:19,120 understanding of what the glory of God is or, or can be too, 425 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:21,520 because I, I think we hear that phrase, show me your glory. 426 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,720 And we kind of get we kind of get revelation a little bit 427 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:29,160 right, little bit resplendent throne room and and the bright 428 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:33,160 shimmering white purity brightness of of it all. 429 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,120 God kind of I feel like peels back the layers a little bit. 430 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:39,160 And Moses says, show me your glory in verse 19. 431 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:41,280 I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you. 432 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,000 I proclaim my name, the Lord in your presence. 433 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,400 I will have mercy. I will have compassion. 434 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,880 The are are those things and not innately the glory of God, like 435 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,080 the the things that we maybe quote, UN quote, take for 436 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:58,160 granted in in our everyday life, the goodness of God, the 437 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,640 simplicity of his of his presence of time with him. 438 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,080 Like those are the things that make up his glory right there. 439 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,920 He's he's glorified in those things. 440 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,320 And I think, and I think we maybe, yeah, theatricize his 441 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,840 glory more than that when it's really those small moments. 442 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,280 And there's an element of beauty and that I think we can we can 443 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:23,600 see even in nature itself because nature is what God 444 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:29,200 created to reflect his glory. So if you think about nature in 445 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,440 its best version, which we don't get its best version, we have a 446 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,480 kind of broken world with thorns and thistles and all these kinds 447 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,280 of things. But if we even consider nature, 448 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:44,360 so go out on a, on a terribly clear night and look at the 449 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:48,960 stars and go out and, and, and if you're near a mountain range 450 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,200 or the ocean or any of these things that are, they make you 451 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,480 feel small. They almost make you feel 452 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,400 insignificant because they're there's so much glory, there's 453 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:02,080 so much beauty to them. All of those are a reflection of 454 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,160 God's glory. But even as we are kind of 455 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,040 sometimes, if we allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by those 456 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:12,760 glorious things that he created, those are still infinitely dim 457 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,560 compared to his glory. So if we if we think about that, 458 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,440 if if at any time in your life you were ever overwhelmed by 459 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,320 nature or being surrounded by creation itself and it was 460 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,040 overwhelmingly beautiful to you or peaceful or any of these 461 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:31,960 things, that is still a dim, dim comparison to what the glory of 462 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,560 God is. Yeah, yeah, that's so good. 463 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:43,080 We get into chapter 34, and we kind of glazed past Moses's 464 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,200 frustrated destruction of the first set of 10 commandments. 465 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,200 But in the first few verses of chapter 34, God instructs him to 466 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,880 chisel out two more stone ones and that God will. 467 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,240 So he tells excuse me Moses to make the tablets and then he 468 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,640 says I will write the Lord will write the words that were on the 469 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:06,160 first tablets which you broke. So the first few verses of 34 we 470 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,920 are re establishing the the 10 commandments re establishing the 471 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,520 actual tablets of the law of God. 472 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,520 And Moses follows the instruction. 473 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,680 He carries the stone tablets in his in his hand and the Lord 474 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,360 reveals himself to to Moses to the point that Moses is then 475 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:28,320 proclaiming verse 6 the Lord, the Lord compassionate and 476 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,720 gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and 477 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,040 faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands and forgiving 478 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:37,200 wickedness, rebellion and sin. The next part of this verse is 479 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,360 important. Yet he does not leave the guilty 480 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:41,120 unpunished. He punishes the children and 481 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:43,320 their children for the sin of their parents to the third and 482 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,480 4th generation. Again, harsh language, their 483 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:52,680 consequence, but truth in that right? 484 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,840 Like this is how truth is established. 485 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,800 It is God's way. It it is the Lord's way. 486 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,920 And those that are faith that we, we have this generational 487 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,320 inheritance, right, this generational blessing for those 488 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,440 that are following his way, that there's generational fallout, 489 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,480 though, from, from those that are rebelling against the way of 490 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,720 the Lord too, right? Well, and, and I think if we're, 491 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,040 if we're being honest with ourselves, we can see 492 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,040 generational fallout in our own family. 493 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:28,320 So if you are old enough and mature enough to know not only 494 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,880 who your grandparents were, but the kind of lives they lived, 495 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,680 how they, how they use their money or how they use their, 496 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:41,040 their, their social and, and, and relational capital with 497 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:45,040 other people, what that looked like, I think it's, I think you 498 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,360 can see that play out in humanity. 499 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,600 You can see it play out when there was kind of, if there was 500 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,120 kind of a shyster somewhere along your line and they, they 501 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:57,200 hurt people and they took advantage of people. 502 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,280 Well, there's some, there may still be some, you know, 503 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,640 relational effects from that working its way down through two 504 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,120 or three or even 4 generations. And so I do think we see those 505 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:10,480 things play out. And of course, like, if you want 506 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,480 to get into a whole new conversation, you can talk about 507 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,640 like, you know, generational wealth or generational poverty. 508 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,640 And we have watched those things play out for more than a century 509 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,320 in the United States alone. But that of course, happens 510 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,960 everywhere. So I mean, I think there is just 511 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,760 the honest reality of like, yeah, there's there's 512 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,200 consequences for future generations of people for the 513 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,360 things that we do. And I think sometimes when we 514 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,320 make decisions in our life, we're so US focused and right 515 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:45,520 now focused that we don't look at the big picture of how this 516 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:49,360 may have an impact on my kids or my kids kids and so on and so 517 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,760 forth. And so there's a, there's a very 518 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,960 clear reality to that. But God is God is a perfect 519 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,360 judge, and he's, he's going to judge rightly. 520 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:05,840 Yep, and Moses once again then appeals verse 8. 521 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:07,800 He bows down to the ground and worship Lord. 522 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,720 If I found favor in your eyes. Let the Lord go with us. 523 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,760 Although this is a stiff necked people forgive our wickedness 524 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,160 and our sin. Take us as your inheritance. 525 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,800 The Lord once again covenants with his people on making a 526 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,040 covenant with you before all your people are do wonders never 527 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,640 before done in any nation in the world. 528 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,760 The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that 529 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,760 I the Lord will do for you. And then he lists off all the 530 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:35,400 peoples that that he's going to drive out in the in the promised 531 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,440 land for them. And then verse 12, be careful 532 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,120 not to make treaty with those who live in the land where you 533 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,120 are going, or they will be a snare among you. 534 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,240 This isn't the exact verbiage here, but it's where it's where 535 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,080 the idea in the world, not of it. 536 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,040 Sure. Is is is rooted right They they 537 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:58,520 are in this land amongst other people of differing religions, 538 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:04,960 beliefs, gods and God. Simply saying do not become like 539 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,680 minded with them. Don't, don't compromise this 540 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:12,600 truth, this law my way for the ways of the world, right? 541 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,360 You can be in it, but not of it. Yeah. 542 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,840 And you know in these verses, you know that you mentioned like 543 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:23,600 12/13/14, you know, 15 what you shall destroy their altars, 544 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,920 break their sacred pillars, cut down their wooden images, 545 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,400 etcetera, etcetera. And you know, in some ways, if 546 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:36,600 we, gosh, you could read these verses and then a person might 547 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,280 go, you know, what is going to make God really happy? 548 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,520 If I go burn down that temple, you know, modern day, like 549 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,560 honestly, if I go burn down that Buddhist temple or whatever. 550 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:53,960 And no, no, that's, that's not what he's allowing for here. 551 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,480 I don't believe, you know, he's not allowing for unnecessary 552 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,640 violence against other human beings because that is certainly 553 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,840 not loving our neighbor as ourselves, even though that 554 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,200 neighbor have might have different ideologies. 555 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,640 But there is still a very clear message here of like, I will not 556 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:16,280 endure amongst my people any other worship of any other gods 557 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,640 or idolatry. I will not allow that among you 558 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,280 and I need you to make sure that that does not exist in this 559 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,800 space. So I, I think maybe practically 560 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,720 speaking within the, within the Christian community, in the 561 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,560 Christian Church, if there is something among us that is 562 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,360 pushing us or encouraging idolatry among us. 563 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,600 And maybe that's a building project and it has to look this 564 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:41,720 way. And we have to have this color 565 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,800 carpet and we have to do this forget all that stuff like those 566 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,120 you're, you're building in a way you're kind of building altars 567 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,800 to yourself because you're saying this is who we are and 568 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,800 look how great we are almost Tower of Babel style. 569 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,520 And so we do have to be cautious about that. 570 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,800 Yeah, and he and he goes on even to institute some of the 571 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,480 unevenly yoked language that that we see in the New Testament 572 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,040 between believers and non believers. 573 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,520 Verse 16, when you choose some of their daughters as wives for 574 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,160 your sons and his daughters prostitute themselves to their 575 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,600 gods, they will lead your sons to do the same. 576 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:17,960 We're not again in it not of it. We're not intermingling God. 577 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:22,800 God is warning against adopting or, or even just kind of 578 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:29,280 sleepily allowing these, these Pagan practices to inhabit their 579 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,520 lives and, and to take up their, their mental space and physical 580 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,840 space and societal space. Verse 17 do not make any idols. 581 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:41,480 And then he goes into a whole long list of, of traditions, 582 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:48,160 including festivals to follow and, and re establishing Sabbath 583 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,960 and, and the first fruits being brought to the Lord and, and 584 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:56,240 things like this. So the Lord instructs them, Hey, 585 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,360 you're going to be in the world there. 586 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,840 There's still this list of things that is going to keep you 587 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,480 closest to me there. There's still these practices 588 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,280 that are going to set you apart as a holy people, set you apart 589 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,400 as my people when you follow them, right? 590 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,680 Well, and actually let's rewind just a little bit to the 591 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:18,440 beginning of this chapter. When you know, we we God, God is 592 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,680 the one who takes the new tablets that have been kind of 593 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,480 carved out and he writes on them. 594 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,040 Why does that matter so much that God is the one writing the 595 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:31,000 word? Well, we see especially I kind 596 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,760 of highlighted a little bit yesterday, but John chapter one 597 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,840 in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and 598 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:41,320 the word was God. So as we see God writing the law 599 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:47,200 personally on those tablets, we see God encompassing that word. 600 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,080 He is that word. It's not just the law is the 601 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,080 thing that we're supposed to follow. 602 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:57,320 No, he is that thing. And so the the word in in modern 603 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:01,840 day Bibles, it's why we encourage people so often stay 604 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,680 in the word, stay in the word. It's not just for Bible trivia 605 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,800 night. It is because in the Word is 606 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,320 God's character, in the Word is God's truth, in the Word is God 607 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,639 himself. He is encompassed in that. 608 00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:18,320 And so as things are written and recorded so that future 609 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,800 generations can hold on to the Word of God, we have this 610 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,880 incredible anchor. And we say it's a, you might say 611 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,600 on the, on the surface level, it's an anchor for morality, 612 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,080 which is true. But really it's our being 613 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,440 anchored in the character and in the person of God. 614 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:42,880 And so the word of God itself is so key to being those distinct 615 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,120 people because there are lots of people around the world who will 616 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,400 claim, quote UN quote, to be Christians. 617 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:55,000 But I'm sorry, like if, if the word itself, which is God, I am 618 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,880 the word, you know, if the word itself is not, if you're not 619 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:03,160 tuned into that really regularly, then then how can you 620 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,720 then how can you say you're, you're God's people because his 621 00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:09,160 word is himself. So I, I wonder about that. 622 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,840 And that's why that's part of where when I said all in or 623 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,560 nothing, you know, yesterday is kind of the first point of the 624 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,040 sermon. That's that's part of the heart 625 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:22,560 beside behind saying something that strongly is like it's it's 626 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:26,400 the word, which is God or what do you what do you want? 627 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,600 If you don't want that? Because if you don't want that, 628 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,400 then you don't want him and don't act like you do. 629 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,720 Yeah, yeah. And again we see this 40 day 630 00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:38,760 period, he was on the mountain for the first time 40 days. 631 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,480 Get in the first tablets verse 28 in chapter 34 here it says 632 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,320 Moses was there at the Lord 40 days and 40 nights without 633 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,320 eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the word 634 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,320 of the covenant, the 10 commandments. 635 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,760 Then Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the 2 tablets of the 636 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,640 covenant law. He was not aware that his face 637 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,640 was radiant because he has spoken with the Lord. 638 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:03,760 We got like shiny Moses happening here, and his face is 639 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,200 shimmering and bright. Verse 30 When Aaron and all the 640 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,320 Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant. 641 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:13,440 They were afraid to come near him, but Moses called to them. 642 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,520 So Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him 643 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,320 and he spoke to them. Afterward all the Israelites 644 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,160 came near him and he gave him all the commands the Lord had 645 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,280 given to him on Mount Sinai. So this is like 10 commandments 646 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,680 plus this is, hey, my law is still here. 647 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,840 We're still going into the promised land and this is this 648 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,200 is the life I have planned for you, right? 649 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,240 Shiny Moses. Yeah. 650 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:37,000 Can you imagine? I mean, I'm trying to, you know, 651 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,760 and I'm not, I'm not, I'm not quite old enough to, you know, 652 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,240 the original 10 Commandments movie with what's his face? 653 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:45,840 I can't remember. Charlton Heston. 654 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,120 Charlton Heston, I'm not quite old enough to be Charlton Heston 655 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,200 10 Commandments, but I know what Charlton Heston looks like. 656 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,080 And it's like you make that guy super shiny and glowy and all of 657 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,800 a sudden, man, I don't know if I don't know if I can be in your 658 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:01,320 presence. This is really weird. 659 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,120 This is kind of an overwhelming experience. 660 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:07,840 And so I, I mean, I can, in some ways I can, I can understand 661 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,080 where the people are coming from. 662 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:13,360 Like this is, this is too much. And I can also understand based 663 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,800 on that, why they needed Moses so badly. 664 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:21,000 They needed this mediator because they very much 665 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,560 understand, for all their flaws, all their sin, they very much 666 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:29,680 understand the fear of the Lord. They are actively in the classic 667 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,680 sense of the word, they're actively afraid of the power of 668 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,280 God and what that means for them and what that means in his 669 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,840 presence. And so on that level, you, you 670 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,440 got to give them some credit because there's a very real 671 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,640 sense of awe there that they're activating. 672 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:51,520 And you know, Moses as God's mediator to these people, he 673 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,440 man, he's reflecting the glory of God. 674 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,760 And that's that's an amazing thing to think about. 675 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,400 Well, and we have a kind of look ahead to Jesus in this moment 676 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,600 too, right? Brings to mind the 677 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:13,000 transfiguration in Matthew 17. And Jesus made made bright 678 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:17,880 again, like made made shining. Matthew 17 There he was 679 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,560 transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun and 680 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,040 his clothes became white as the light then just then appeared 681 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,080 before them. Moses and Elijah talking with 682 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,680 Jesus. So we see these parallels in 683 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,560 Moses too, right? He's, he's still the mediator 684 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,960 between God and the people. He's still going to God on the 685 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:41,560 people's behalf, reminding God of of his mercy of of his of his 686 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:46,400 plan, of his inheritance in May Make us your remnant, make it 687 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,160 make us your people. Keep us as your people and we 688 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,320 still have parallels here, verse 6 of Matthew 17, after the 689 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,960 disciples here, this is my son whom I love with Him I am well 690 00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,680 pleased. Listen to him. 691 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,800 When the disciples heard this, they fell face down on the 692 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,200 ground terrified like that. They have the same fear response 693 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:11,200 right after God in both places gave this law to Moses, right? 694 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,560 Here's the word, listen to it, follow it. 695 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:17,840 Here's the law God of Jesus in Matthew 17. 696 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:19,120 This is my son who I love with him. 697 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,720 I'm well pleased listen to him. Same thing providing the the 698 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:26,560 instructor, the leader, the chief shepherd for this and and 699 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:31,200 we see again this kind of pre Jesus parallel from from Moses 700 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:35,760 to the true shepherd. Well, I'm going back to Moses on 701 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,920 in kind of the the cleft of the mountain. 702 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:43,080 His reaction to experiencing a partial view of God's goodness 703 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,960 and glory is to fall on his face. 704 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:51,520 Yeah, and it's, it's, it's amazing and consistent that, you 705 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,360 know, these these two men who have been walking around with 706 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,880 Jesus for probably a couple years now, they have the same 707 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:02,440 reaction in scene. Again, not God's total glory 708 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,120 laid completely bare, but just just a preview of it. 709 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,040 And they're they're on their faces instantly. 710 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,480 And so I do think that like there's, there's a level of 711 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,640 excitement to that or there should be a level of excitement. 712 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,720 That for anybody who believes in God, that there is going to come 713 00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:27,960 a day when I get to meet and stand in the presence of Father, 714 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,360 Son, Holy Spirit. And I cannot wait to feel so 715 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,320 overwhelmed by joy and awe and reverence and respect and love 716 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,240 that it just makes me fall on my face. 717 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,360 Like I, I need a fall on my face kind of moment. 718 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:44,360 So, you know, and I think we all in some ways, even those people 719 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,720 who are not terribly emotive, you know, maybe you're not a 720 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:50,960 hand raiser in church and stuff, you're not an emotive person. 721 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:55,680 But I think like, if you understand at least human 722 00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:59,120 intellectually who God is, you're craving that fall on my 723 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,800 face moment because you want that so bad. 724 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,600 I want to be so overwhelmed by him and his glory and his 725 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,320 goodness that that is the only reaction I have. 726 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,120 And I don't even have to think about the reaction. 727 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,480 It just happens. Like I want that. 728 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:12,880 That's awesome. Yeah. 729 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:17,960 I want amazing to think about. Yeah, this isn't incredibly 730 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,400 deeply theological, but it it, it just popped into my head from 731 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,200 reading this transfiguration passage again. 732 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,720 How did they know that it was Moses and Elijah? 733 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:31,360 Like, I know Matthew's just recording it, but it's not like 734 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,000 they had Google. They were like, they didn't know 735 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,840 what Moses looked like. Like they, they just see this 736 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,600 random dude and it's just like, oh, that's got to be Moses like. 737 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,720 Context of conversation? I don't know. 738 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:46,000 That's a great question. Well, that's and that's there 739 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,040 had to have been something, there's just something just not 740 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,840 in the narrative of of the Gospel of Matthew there. 741 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,440 You would think there was some sort of interaction or 742 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,640 explanation or or introduction of sorts. 743 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,400 It's just not recorded in the Gospel. 744 00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,760 But he just says it so plainly, like, yeah. 745 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:03,560 And Moses and Elijah were there, and the disciples just knew 746 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,760 that. Well, well, and actually, you 747 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,240 know what? You just bring up something 748 00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:11,920 really interesting. It begs the question, if that's 749 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,160 true, that they pretty much instantaneously knew who these 750 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,440 people were, who they'd never actually seen in real time. 751 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:23,480 It begs the question, when a person exits this life and 752 00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:27,840 enters the heavenly realms with God, do you look around at 753 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,040 everybody and you're like, boom, that guy and that guy and that 754 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,560 woman and that one. And I know them because like God 755 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,640 has, God has created a God has formed us in such a way without 756 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:41,680 sin that we have this perfect intimate knowledge of people and 757 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,400 we don't see any flaws in there because God has completely wiped 758 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,400 those flaws away. And so guess what? 759 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,200 That whole thing of, oh, I'm going to ask him about this. 760 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:51,560 I'm going to ask that person about that. 761 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,240 No you aren't. You aren't because you already 762 00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:58,840 have this intimate, in depth, loving knowledge of of how God 763 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,000 created that soul and who that person is. 764 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,480 I wonder. Interesting. 765 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,720 Yeah, it's an idea. Yep, then that could maybe that 766 00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:12,400 could be they were in their plainest glorified form. 767 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:17,040 They were just seen in truth, could be in the spirit that's. 768 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,400 I mean, I wouldn't preach that as gospel truth. 769 00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:21,600 But sure but. It's a theory. 770 00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:23,800 It's a theory, yeah. I don't know. 771 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,480 That'd be cool if that's the way it is. 772 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,080 Yeah. I, I mean, I think there's 773 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,040 something there. I think you, I think you're on 774 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:29,920 to something. Yeah. 775 00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,280 Well, I'm not going to write any books about it anytime soon, OK? 776 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,400 So I don't want any angry emails. 777 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:39,320 That's we're to the end of 34. There we are. 778 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,760 Yeah, unless you want to spend some more time talking about 779 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,920 Sabbath regulations in in 35 and the materials for the 780 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,480 Tabernacle. The materials for the 781 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,400 Tabernacle, you know, I am not a construction genius. 782 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,720 And God bless those people who are so faithful to do those 783 00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:57,880 things because as you read those chapters about, you know, the 784 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,800 building of the Tabernacle and stuff like that, it's so far 785 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,000 over my head just like, OK. And then there is this purple 786 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,240 garment that was this long and they stitched it together and 787 00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:09,040 they put these ornaments on it. And you know, I do love that the 788 00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:13,800 Bible does that though, because it, it, it embeds us in history. 789 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,560 It embeds us in the particular details of history. 790 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,480 And I love that God is so particular because God doesn't 791 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,200 do anything by accident. So he's not like, well, just 792 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,680 give me a space that's about 12 by 12 or no, no, he's very 793 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,760 particular about this is what's honoring to me. 794 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:35,200 And so I, yeah, I, I do like those details, but it's a lot to 795 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,960 take in. Yeah, yeah, that's where we're 796 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,840 going to put a pin in it for today, jumping into Deuteronomy 797 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:45,320 and the end of the Moses story next week. 798 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,160 But yeah, until then, it's been great. 799 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,120 Hanging with you all. Thanks for tuning in for a 800 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:55,000 little more in depth discussion and conversation around the 801 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,120 context of the message this past week. 802 00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,960 This has been ERC leftovers. Have a blessed week, Church.