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Intro:
Last week we dug into chapter 32 in which we see Israel fail to keep the covenant they just vowed to keep with God.
Moses had gone up to the mountain to speak with God and while he is gone they panic and ask Aaron to make them an idol.
He does.
SMH
God revealed how important it is that we pursue Him daily and that our abiding needs to be the source of our decision making, not our wisdom, feelings, or piers.
We touched briefly on those that God has called to leadership and that their call does not vaccinate them against sin.
We need to intentionally pray for those that God has called to lead the church.
We saw that after God sees Israels sin, he wants to wipe them out and start over with Moses.
Moses intercedes for them and asks God to remember His promise to make them a great nation.
We need to intercede for one another in the same way.
Our prayers for one another matter greatly!
Lastly, we talked about our response to the covenant we made with God reaches far beyond just our lives.
God’s plan to reveal Himself is those who follow Him.
God is calling each of us to walk with Him daily, abiding, and obeying all that he calls us to do.
We are going to pick up where we left off last week in Exodus 32.
Moses begins with, again, confronting their sin, and making it known that God is fully aware of all that has transpired since He and Moses went up on the mountain.
He offers to go to God, on their behalf, and beg for God to forgive them.
Moses goes back up the mountain and says the most peculiar thing.
Do you see it?
Do you see what Moses ask of God?
He ask God to forgive them, but if He won’t, to take Moses instead.
What could possibly motivate Moses to offer himself for Israel?
What motivates you to love in a radical way?
Some say that he wasn’t offering himself.
He was just saying that if God was going to take them out to take him out as well.
If that is the case...
At the very least, he is aligning himself with their sin and asking that God dole out the same punishment to him that God will be giving to Israel.
Moses had no part in their sin.
He was completely innocent.
Yet, he ask God to give him the punishment.
Moses loved Israel enough to offer his life for theirs.
We all know that Israel has been looking for a new “Adam” since the fall.
This is what they are looking forward too.
They are looking for someone that can finally crush the serpents head.
We also know, and Moses knew, that He isn’t the new Adam because of his sin.
So why would he do this?
Why and How could Moses love these people to this radical extent?
Look at what Paul says about this same idea in Romans chapter 8 and 9.
Paul begins by speaking about God’s love and it is a passage that most are familiar with.
We need to read the end of chapter eight so that we know what Paul is referring too in the beginning of chapter nine.
Paul is describing the incredible love of God.
We know how powerful these words are and we speak them to ourselves when life gets hard as a reminder of the power and love of God.
Look at what Paul goes on to say and the value that he gives that love of God.
In verse one and two, Paul is internalizing why he feels the way he does and ask God to reveal it’s motivation.
He wants to know why he is sorrowful and anguished.
The sorrow is so great that he is willing to be cut off from Christ so that his brothers in Christ might know Him!
What is the cause of the anguish that Paul is experiencing?
What or who has God highlighted in your life that breaks your heart?
What Paul is saying is that his heart is breaking because the people, to whom the Christ was promised, have completely missed it.
He is in anguish because he knows and has experienced the love and mercy of Christ forgiveness and they have not!
Because of his experience with the Holy Spirit, His heart is breaking for those who have not experienced the HS.
He finishes this thought in chapter 10.
He telling the church in Rome that God has done all this work, performed miracle after miracle, and Israel still doesn’t know God.
He and Moses share this same desire to give up themselves so that the people in their lives might truly know God.
My fear is that we too, like so many, who have witnessed the works of God, are also still floundering in this weird world of trying to live under the grace, but motivated by the law.
My heart is anguished because I see some of you still seeking the things of this world in hopes of finding purpose and fulfillment.
Instead of asking God to reveal His purposes, we fight God’s call as if it was some terrible task.
Do you remember the kind of man Moses was?
Why did he flee Egypt in the first place?
He killed a man in an attempt to save a Hebrew slave.
He tried to bring about justice under his own power instead of bringing it to God.
Remember the kind of man that Paul was before his conversion.
He sought out to imprison and murder believers of Jesus because he was making application of the law that was not what God intended when He gave the law.
Paul too tried to bring about “justice” under his own authority.
What changed both of these men?
An encounter with a Holy, Loving, God.
Experiencing God’s love changes all that we previously thought was important.
God gives us new perspective on everything!
Both of them, in response to their experiences with God, walked with God in ministering to His people.
The love they felt and knew from God drove them to love in dramatic and costly ways.
We cannot set people free that we do not love.
jumping back to Moses and his request on behalf of Israel.
If Moses life can’t atone for their sins, what good did it do to offer it?
Imagine if someone offered themselves up to you.
They wrote a blank check and said, “what ever you need, I’ll do”.
How would that change the dynamic of the relationship?
What would it communicate the people that God has called you to bless if you took their burdens and placed them on yourself?
How does it feel when your wife is going to have her first chemo treatment and your friends, who have three babies of their own, offer to keep your five kids so that you can go with her?
Deeply, unselfishly, loved.
This was one of the most meaningful expressions of love that I have ever experienced from a brother and sister in Christ.
If there was ever any doubt in Israel’s mind about the commitment that Moses had to them, it should have been erased.
God is calling us to love like He loves, and lay down our lives for one another.
This is not simply rhetoric.
Hymn: They will know we are Christians by our love.
I know this is a process, but we must go through it.
We must move beyond ourselves.
Do you recall the how reluctant Moses was to even accept his assignment?
He straight up told God to find someone else!
This is after God has already proven that He will be going with Moses and doing the work through him.
He has done all the staff/snake stuff.
Yet, that isn’t good enough for him.
Moses still doesn’t want to go.
I don’t think he doubted that God could do it, he just didn’t want to go.
We are no better.
God is offering us opportunities to love people and we aren’t taking them.
Here’s the truth though, we’re just like Moses.
We are still asking God to send someone else.
I know that’s a bold statement.
I know that there is much about each of your lives that I don’t know.
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