Exodus 19: Text Worksheet

Structure

Israel’s covenant relationship with God is fulfilled and heightened (1-8a)

Moses goes up the mountain (3)

Israel called to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (5)

Moses goes down to the people and tells these words to the elders and the people commit to obey the Lord (7-8a)

Moses commanded

Israel’s covenant relationship with God is a holy relationship (8b-19)

Moses ‘goes up’ (e.g. the Lord speaks) (8)

Moses goes down consecrates the people (14)

Moses brings the people to the mountain to meet God (17)

Israel’s covenant relationship with God is always through God’s covenant mediator (20-25)

The Lords comes down on Sinai and call Moses to ‘go up’ the mountain (20)

Moses ‘goes down’ to set limits around the mountain and to bring Aaron (23-25)

Context

Immediate: is fulfilled, “He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

Exod

Whole Book: This Sinai experience lasts till as the covenant relationship is mediated through Moses.

Historic/Redemptive: This passage initiates Israel under the ‘pedagogue’ of the Mosaic code to learn sin ().

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Main Idea for Them/Then

Relationship with God is on his covenantal terms—specifically in terms of commission, holiness, and mediation.

Relationship to Gospel

: The Law was to teach sin until Christ came.

: We have a greater mountain to approach through a greater mediator.

“For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest 19 and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. 20 For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.” 21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2016), .

Argument and Implications for us/now

Relationship with God is always on his covenantal terms. He sets the terms for behavior and mission. He sets the terms for what is required to approach him. He sets the terms for who can mediate the relationship.

Homiletical outline

Homiletical outline

Prop: Relationship with God is always on his terms.

Path: God’s terms come in three big ideas in this passage: dedication, consecration, mediation.

Dedication: God sets the terms for your conduct and mission (1-8a)

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nt: initiation of a covenant not lifted till Abrahamic fulfillment in Jesus. The law served as a ‘school master’ to learn sin. We enter out covenantal relationship by faith in Christ ()

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NT: Jesus gives our mission to make disciples of all nations (). We are a chosen people called to proclaim the excellencies of him who called us out of darkness into his marvelous light ().

Consecration: God sets the terms for what is required to approach him (8b-19)

NT: We are the salt of the earth and become useless in our mission if we lose our saltiness (). We are called to be holy, as God is holy (). Jesus consecrated himself so we’d be sanctified in truth ().

nt: Heb 12

Mediation: God sets the terms for who can mediate your relationship with him (20-25)

NT: initiates a covenant not lifted till Abrahamic fulfillment in Jesus. The law served as a ‘school master’ to learn sin. We enter out covenantal relationship by faith in Christ (). Now, we don’t approach the condemnation of Mt. Sinai, we have a new mountain, new mediator, and new covenant that is eternal and permanent ()

Conclusion:

NT: New mountain, new mediator, new covenant ()

Hebrews 12:28–29 ESV

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 12: