Moses - Part 51
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Transcript
Intro
Intro
I’m going to preach through the text until we get to verse 12, where I believe the Lord would have us to take our admonition this morning…
1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.
So Aaron, Moses, Nadab, Abihu and 70 elders of Israel come up…
Note: while Moses was meeting with God, God wanted the remaining leadership of the nation to be worshipping Him…
2 And Moses alone shall come near the Lord: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
The call to “come near the Lord” will be needed as we get further into the text…
3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.
After Moses spoke all the words to the people that God wanted spoken, the people responded with “All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.”
4 And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Here we have a great example of what inspiration of the scriptures looks like…
“And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD…” simple…
5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord.
I love to see young people serve the Lord…
Young people SHOULD be involved in running things and we should be happy to invest in building them up to take our places eventually… (not now, but someday when God changes your ministry or calls you home)
6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
a.) You have blood on the altar
b.) And blood on the people
Great picture that blood on the altar alone does not take care of the person…
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. 19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Notice verse 8 of our text:
8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
This was a fulfillment of God’s promises…
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: (Promise # 1 - completed)
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. (Promise # 2 - completed)
8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord. (Promise # 3 - in progress)
Keep reading:
9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
Now look at verse 12 *our main text*:
12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
I want to encourage you for just a moment to “Just be there”…
“…Come up to me into the mount, and be there…”
3 commands in this text:
1.) Just Be There
2.) God Will Teach You What You Need to Know
3.) Teach Others Also
3 Things it takes to “Just Be There”:
1. Obedience
1. Obedience
12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount,…
After the miraculous displays of God, I would aniticipate that there would be an immediate miraculous communication from God as well…
Yet God’s words to Moses: “…come up to me into the mount…”
It seems so anti-climatic after all that God did and how He displayed Himself…
What God is saying is, “Go and wait…”
In other words, “Just be there”
Obedience always precedes the miracle…
The Jordan did not part until the priests took the ark of the covenant down into the water…
Elijah was sustained by some Ravens, but not until he went to the Brooke Cherith…
Isaac was delivered from being sacrificed at the hand of Abraham, but not until Abraham and Isaac obeyed and went up the mountain…
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
And before God could impart to Moses what He wanted too, Moses had to “just be there” in obedience…
2. Patience
2. Patience
12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Waiting for what you need or want from God…
Instead… “Just Be there”… in patience…
7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him:
Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way,
Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings as eagles;
They shall run, and not be weary;
And they shall walk, and not faint.
25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Moses had to “just be there” in obedience… but also in patience…
3. Endurance
3. Endurance
16 And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
6 days with nothing but the glory of God…
No food that we know of…
Notice: God needed Moses to see the glory of God as a cloud… and Israel to see the glory of God as a fire…
The cloud represented guidance…
The fire represented judgement…
Question: Does God communicate on your timeline?
We want God to communicate the first minute, hour or at least day we are “in His glory”…
Yet God waited 7 days before He communicated to Moses!
Here’s the admonition:
Just Be There…
In Obedience
In Patience
With Endurance
