Scripture Cannot be Broken

Introduction

Open your Bibles to Exodus Chapter 34, we will be in verses 5-9 this evening

Jesus said, in John 10:35 that the “[s]cripture cannot be broken.” (Jn 10:35, ESV). If that is true, and it is, our text tonight presents us with the same question the disciples had after Jesus spoke to the right young ruler. The disciples asked, “Who then can be saved?” (Matt 19:24, ESV).

Lets Read Exodus 34:5-9

Exodus 34:5–9 ESV

The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 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, 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.” And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Body

Main Body Division 1

Text

Exodus 34:5–7a “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… ”

Explanation

“The LORD descended in the cloud”

God is still not fully visible to Moses.

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Main Body Division 2

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Exodus 34:6–7 ESV

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, 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.”

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Main Body Division 3

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Exodus 34:8–9 ESV

And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

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