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And God Showed Up

Old Made New: Pt. 6 (Lev.

9)

Pastor Tim Brisson

Luke 24 (NRSV)

44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”

45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them,

“Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

48 You are witnesses of these things.

49 And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

The Lucan Commission

• Jesus is the Suffering Messiah

• We are to proclaim repentance and forgiveness in His name

But what do the Scriptures say about the Messiah

God reconciles fallen world to Himself in, through, and with the Messiah, his Son

He mends the bonds, the relationships that were broken in the Fall

Let’s review and end up at tonight’s scripture

Let’s see how Leviticus us actually a key moment in God’s plan

Back to Genesis

Remember where were were, IT IS VERY GOOD

and then the Serpent says, DID GOD REALLY SAY

Adam and Eve turn to the Created instead of the Creator

and downhill it goes

Look how God showed up - as a cool evening breeze

But now shame has entered the Garden

Creation is stained

From here on God put limits on His presence

We were supposed to guard the tree of life

Now God has to

God places his deputies in charge of security, the cherubim and a flaming sword

To keep us out

away from him and his presence, and his innermost creation - the garden

we got thrown out of the club and kicked to the curb

You even been thrown out, fired, rejected

God places a limit on our relationships

Keep the term limit in mind

Here is another limit that will play into the message tonight

The Tower of Babel

Genesis 11 (NRSV)

1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.

2 And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.”

And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

5 The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.

6 And the Lord said, “Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

7 Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

9 Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

So the whole earth had one language

they had a relationship

but how were they using it

to make a name for themselves

So God puts limits on our language, and therefore our relationships

Moving forward, God pulls the Israelites out of Egypt, and brings them to MT Sanai

There He meets and consecrates them

Exodus 19 (NRSV)

1 On the third new moon after the Israelites had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that very day, they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 They had journeyed from Rephidim, entered the wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

3 Then Moses went up to God; the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the Israelites: 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.

5 Now therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession out of all the peoples.

Indeed, the whole earth is mine, 6 but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation.

These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.”

7 So Moses came, summoned the elders of the people, and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.

8 The people all answered as one: “Everything that the Lord has spoken we will do.”

Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord.

9 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, in order that the people may hear when I speak with you and so trust you ever after.”

When Moses had told the words of the people to the Lord, 10 the Lord said to Moses: “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow.

Have them wash their clothes 11 and prepare for the third day, because on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

12 You shall set limits for the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful not to go up the mountain or to touch the edge of it.

Any who touch the mountain shall be put to death.

13 No hand shall touch them, but they shall be stoned or shot with arrows; whether animal or human being, they shall not live.’

When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they may go up on the mountain.”

14 So Moses went down from the mountain to the people.

He consecrated the people, and they washed their clothes.

15 And he said to the people, “Prepare for the third day; do not go near a woman.”

16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, as well as a thick cloud on the mountain, and a blast of a trumpet so loud that all the people who were in the camp trembled.

17 Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God.

They took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

18 Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently.

19 As the blast of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses would speak and God would answer him in thunder.

20 When the Lord descended upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to the Lord to look; otherwise many of them will perish.

22 Even the priests who approach the Lord must consecrate themselves or the Lord will break out against them.”

23 Moses said to the Lord, “The people are not permitted to come up to Mount Sinai; for you yourself warned us, saying, ‘Set limits around the mountain and keep it holy.’

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24 The Lord said to him, “Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you; but do not let either the priests or the people break through to come up to the Lord; otherwise he will break out against them.”

25 So Moses went down to the people and told them.

So just about three months after the Exodus, God makes plans to show up to his people, his chosen nation

Limits = to rope off, to tie off a boundary

When God shoes up, he puts on quite a show

But they were reminded not to breach the limits

Only Moses and Aaron had backstage passes

they had the laminates that got them behind the ropes

oh by the way, Exodus 20 - 10 commandments

and that is where we pick up tonight

Tonight is a bit of a review and a conclusion

we will see all the previous weeks come together

and the torch being passed to Aaron

last week we consecrated Aaron, and got him all dressed up in his fancy vestments

tonight is showtime

Now to tonight’s text

Leviticus 9 (NRSV)