Lesson of the Amorites
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10 minutes, 10 minutes is all we need this morning to discuss some very important and fundamental characteristics about the nature of God.
10 minutes, 10 minutes is all we need this morning to discuss some very important and fundamental characteristics about the nature of God.
The lesson of the Amorites
As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. 14 But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
There are two ways we can take this, and I believe two ways that we should take this.
There are two ways we can take this, and I believe two ways that we should take this.
the most obvious is that God is a God of justice. He will inflict judgement on those who not only sin but sin against him. That was David’s perspective and Joseph’s perspective that their sin was against God. I think that’s an important thing to remember. God is not a capricious God with an arbitrary list of rules that we violate when we sin. When we sin, it is a an affront to the very nature of the holy God who created us and it is a marring of the image we bear and it is a rejection god the purpose for which God made us. And so God is a just God who will punish the wicked, that’s our first point.
when we sin, it is a an affront to the very nature of the holy God who created us and it is a marring of the image we bear and it is a rejection god the purpose for which God made us. And so God is a just God who will punish the wicked, that’s our first point.
The second thing we should understand from this is a point that is much more subtle. That is that God is a God of mercy. God didn’t destroy the Amorites outright. He could’ve wiped them from the face of the earth but instead He was patient and merciful in giving them time to repent. God is a God of grace and mercy.
Both of these points are stated by God Himself in a profound way in .
Before we get there we need to set the context.
9 And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. 10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.”
9 And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
Moses inteceeds and God relents
Ex.
but he will not go up with the people any longer
So Moses interceeds again, in the process He asks God for two things
13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.”
18 Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” 19 And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
ex 33.
5 The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Ex 34.5-
Ultimately, the lesson of the Amorites is demonstrated through Jesus Christ. As Jesus died, for our sins, we see God’s grace and justice worked out as He graciously removed the stain of sin from our lives and allowed us to stand justified before him.
Ultimately, the lesson of the Amorites is demonstrated through Jesus Christ. As Jesus died, for our sins, we see God’s grace and justice worked out as He graciously removed the stain of sin from our lives and allowed us to stand justified before him.
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
As we walk the narrow way, these truths, God’s justice and God’s grace should be our guides rails on either side keeping us moving forward on our ever-pressing journey toward Him.
As we walk the narrow way, these truths, God’s justice and God’s grace should be our guides rails on either side keeping us moving forward on our ever pressing journey toward Him.