Exodus 34:29-35
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Letting Your Light Shine
Letting Your Light Shine
29 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke with them. 32 Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33 When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face; 34 but whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would take the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, 35 the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of his face was shining; and Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
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1 Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. 3 When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. 4 His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.
To the burning bush
To the first pass over
to the crossing of the red sea
to the provision of manna and quail
to the ten commandments
to obedience
to disobedience
to provision after provision
to hope and new hope
to time spent in isolation with God
to today...
29 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke with them. 32 Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33 When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face; 34 but whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would take the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, 35 the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of his face was shining; and Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
—> Our interactions with God leave a visible and lasting effect. A noticeable difference. Yet sometimes it isn’t noticeable to us.
29 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.
—> many times our interactions with God change us in ways that we don’t realize. It takes others pointing it out to us.
—> This happened to me last Sunday at “5 Guys”…
For Moses this reality hits in vrs 30
30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.
—> the reality that God is near can be off putting to people. I’ve heard so many times when people become Christians or they get serious in their faith that they lose friends that don’t approve or their new lifestyle or even family starts to move away from them, and I hear it over and over, “you’ve changed, they’ve changed”
Real interaction, real connection with God changes us. Moses kept drawing near to God. He kept experiencing and encountering God so that his face never lost the glow. He remained changed.
—> Real encounters with God last beyond the experience
—> God is visible not just on the mountain, but God is present in us in the valley.
However, not everyone is comfortable around the presence of God. In fact some people will avoid you because they see God in you and it makes them uncomfortable.