God's Resume'

5 Attributes of God

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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.”

we all love to let people know who we are. we post on social media about where we are. . what we do. . where we travel. we put it all on the web. It’s a description of who we are .

resumes and cover letters describe you on paper, however, it doesn’t describe you in full detail. It serves as a summary statement highlighting key components of your professional career.

credit reports do the same to determine credit worthiness.

medical reports used by insurance underwriters to gauge terms for life insurance and other procedure.

They give highlights of an individual, Representing a full life’s body of work.

God, in our text submits to Moses and for our hearing what many scholars would say is God’s resume. . this is His tiktoc reel. . His facebook story.

He does so by choosing some specific attributes to summarize His whole body of work in the lives of his people.

He only gives us 5-7, he could have given us more. . less. He could have chosen some different ones. . . but He didn’t. He gives us what He wanted Moses to be reminded of as they moved closer to the place God was taking them.

Merciful-Gracious- Slow to anger-Stedfast love-Faithfulness

Attributes of God- the highlight Reel: watch this highlight reel unfold.

Sports videos of great players- top 10 plays

Actors- top 10 lines or movies (Erika and coming to America)

top songs from an artist- Aretha, Whitney, Gladys Knight. . . can’t reduce them to just 10 songs

Exodus: Evangelical Exegetical Commentary (Commentary)

Even though glimpses of the moral, ethical character of Yahweh have been demonstrated in his words and deeds already (cf. 33:12–16), this is the most succinct statement of who Yahweh is in the Pentateuch.

There is a bit of tension in our text; Moses wanted to see God. He desperately wanted to see God. . over and over again Moses had asked God to “show me your Glory. I want to see you !”

Have you ever been there? Ever wanted to see someone you enjoyed, so badly?

Erika, my wife, and I have since reconciled since she denied me and opportunity to see Prince in Concert. I love some Prince. . i grew up listening to prince. . i wanted to play guitar because of Prince .

like my desire to see Prince. . . on a much greater level. . MOses wanted to see God.

God tells Moses you can see me live. . so i will show you my backside. . you can see the exhaust of the dust and smoke when i pass through this clift.

God here gives Moses a sermon of His Faithfulness, rather the sight of His Face.

Moses, like us, had to walk by faith and not by sight.

and so. . . .

Exodus—Saved for God's Glory God: A Definition

This is one of the most important verses in the entire Bible. We know it’s important because it is quoted or referred to dozens of times, especially in the Old Testament. King David prayed, “But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness

ps 86:15 “But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.”

ps 103:8 “The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.”

ps 145:8 “The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.”

joel 2:13 “and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.”

Jon 4:2 “And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.”

Merciful-meaning that he genuinely cares about humans and holds toward them a tender attitude of concern and mercy

he cares about your situation, he cares about what you are going through

sickness

disease

hardships

psa 103:1-6 “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.”

Gracious- meaning that he does things for people they do not deserve and goes beyond what might be expected to grant truly kind favor toward people, favor of which they are not necessarily worthy.

gives me what i’m not worthy of

slow to anger- meaning that his patience with people’s less-than-satisfactory behavior and/or failures in any realm, including the moral, is very great

when i stumble he is long suffering

our sins are many His mercy is more

Stedfast Love (covenant loyalty)-long-term, reliable loyalty of one member of a covenant relationship to another.

not brotherly love (mutual wellbeing) grizz game high 5’s

Faithfulness-meaning that whatever he says is correct and reliable and may be trusted even to the extent of life and death issues, or indeed eternal life and death issues

forgiving of our sin