Moses - Part 32
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Transcript
Intro
Intro
Chapter 17 - Moses fought with Amalek and prevailed...
Chapter 18 - Moses and Israel finally has some down time and Jethro and Moses’ family come to him...
There we learned a few things of simply managing the matters of daily life...
Before we venture into chapter 19, I want to note that Israel is still encamped at the base of Sinai.
They will have been at the base of Sinai for about 1 year...
1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
Encamped: 3rd month
They won’t depart until Numbers 10:11
11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
Depart: 20th day, 2nd month, 2nd year
Nearly 1 full year...
God had already prepared Moses for this moment:
12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
This was now prophecy fulfilled from God to Moses
6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: 7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Transition:
Now we move on in chapter 19...
We find Moses was not just a deliverer, but a messenger...
Moses would be the mediator and messenger between God and Israel...
3 And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the moutnain....
Notice the directional movement… “God came down”...
1. We see the Reminder
1. We see the Reminder
4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
Let’s talk about that phrase: “...and how I bare you on eagles’ wings...”
From studying the life of Eagles, we know that:
At a certain stage of development, the mother eagle breaks up the comfortable nest for their young and forces their eaglets to fly...
The young eagles may not be anxious to leave the comfort of the nest, but they must learn to fly if they are going to survive and if they are going to fulfill their purpose...
The adult eagle stays near their young and they even carry them on their wings to help them get a feeling of what flying is like...
From God’s perspective:
Egypt was a furnace of affliction for Israel:
20 But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
Unfortunately, the Jews didn’t always see it that way:
1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: 3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Sometimes we get comfortable in our nests and the nest is nothing but an iron prison that we place ourselves in...
Never fully coming to maturity to accomplish what God wants us to do...
The nest: indicates food, shelter, water… basic living necessities for the young eagle...
Yet, God is interested in giving and using us for more than basic necessities...
2. The Recharge
2. The Recharge
5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
“Now therefore”… “Because of this”
If you will:
Obey my voice
Keep my covenant
(Things God has already communicated to Israel before)
26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Does God ever have to tell you something more than once?
But then God says they will be a:
Peculiar treasure to God “above all people”
For: “the earth is mine”
29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the Lord; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lord’s.
1 The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof;
The world, and they that dwell therein.
3. The Reward
3. The Reward
6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Notice the important connection from new to old testaments:
New testament:
15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
“because it is written”… where?
Many places through the old testament… Specifically to the Jewish people...
But I Peter address the “strangers”… those NOT in the covenant of Israel...
So there are some things that God did not extend from the Jew to the church and there are other things (like this) that God DID extend from the Jew to the church...
So, if we are to be holy in like manner… what does that look like?
For Israel, it revolved around:
what they ate
what they wore
how they married
how they buried their dead
how they worshipped
God does not extend all of those specific law details to us, but He does want us to be holy in all areas of our lives...
