closely with the last section of the preceding chapter, and must be "But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God." concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His So in the Old Testament we have a God of grace and mercy, and longsuffering and forgiveness revealed to us. That he is a good God. WebExodus 34:5-8. The ark, the golden table, the golden candlestick, the tabernacle with its curtains, the veil, the brazen altar, and the court, form the first division of the types, the common object of them all being the display of God in Christ to man. This expression, indeed, frequently occurs with reference to prayers. This was the first full revelation, the last is like unto it. God is love, and they are enough for faith and hope and work Notice, 1. The Certain things which happened to Israel may be types for the Christian, but nothing more. So three times a year they were to appear before God, the God of Israel. And none shall appear before me empty ( Exodus 34:18-20 ). "Justified" is not when the prodigal son returns to his father, but when the best robe is put upon him; then he is, according to1 Corinthians 6:1-20; 1 Corinthians 6:1-20, not washed and sanctified alone but "justified." Key Verses (Ex 6:6; Ex 19:56). When Christ went into the presence of God, what a mighty effect did not the Spirit produce! clause of Exodus 34:28, the pronoun _he_ refers, not to Mose EXPOSITION "In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before Jehovah." His descending bespeaks his condescension; he humbles himself to take cognizance of those that humble themselves to walk with him. regarded, as the historical account of how God fulfil And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them He for giveth iniquity, transgression, and sin. Then we have the holy anointing oil, which also had to do with fitting the priests for drawing near to God. In His love He is become a servant for ever; and He loves to be so. The Moses loved Israel with a love stronger than death; yet he who thus loved them showed unsparingly his horror of the leprosy that had broken out among them. If the Spirit of God has thus wrought in him, he is separated to God from what he was. Thus he is sanctified by the Spirit unto the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus. 6 Then he passed in front of Moses, calling out, The Lord, the Lord, a compassionate and merciful God, patient, always faithful and ready to forgive. Let us not forget it. The judgment of One who could not bear sin was represented in the copper sockets of the boards which gave immutable stability; but grace in redemption was that on which all hung and shone in the chapiters and fillets also, the ornament of the work. It bespeaks promised goodness, goodness and truth put together, goodness engaged by promise, and his faithfulness pledged for the security of it. The children have to suffer because of the sins of the parents.There are even worse cases of children suffering for the sins of the parent, for there are parents who are-mothers who are addicted to drugs. After that, he besought a month; then a year. He uses all the personal confidence that God had in him on behalf of the people. All the people then saw the thunderings and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, and stood afar off, asking that not God but Moses should speak with them. God doesn't just say to a person, "Well, that's all right, you're forgiven." No doubt all was advancing as regards the world; but that which was brought to us now was before the world, and altogether above the world in its own nature. It is no less a misfortune for the Christian, because what those in Christ are called to is neither law, nor the mingled system of law interspersed with the gracious care of those under it (who must have been consumed had law reigned alone), but pure grace in Christ without the law. The whole of the Old Testament pants and throbs with this Divine yearning, and it also shows us the finger of God writing in the heart of man the great preparation for the Gospel. People only read in it what they want to read, but in reality He is revealed in both Testaments as gracious, and loving and kind, and merciful, and forgiving and in both Testaments as a God of judgment and wrath, by no means clearing the guilty; that is, without there being repentance. You shall speak all that I command you. [383] "The translation of V. is, At the end of these communications a call is given Moses to come up to Jehovah. It is of no use to decry the plain meaning of the scripture because the Romanist theologian perverts the fact more fatally than the Protestant. Had He dealt on the ground of pure law, how could it have been? Many children go into withdrawals after birth because of the mother having been hooked on particular drugs. When God the Father shall have accomplished His present purpose here below, then will be caught up to meet the Lord those among whom the Spirit is thus making known God; and after that the ordinary dealings of God will resume their course through this world. In divine things there is nothing like simplicity; by it we enjoy a wisdom far higher than our own and real power to strengthen and guide the heart. For the Christian it is not so. It was the power of the Spirit. But the written word of God is the sole instrumental means and the revelation of it all. Amongst astronomers, remarks Hamilton, it is a favourite speculation that the sun himself is something else than a mere ball of fire, and that inside of his burning atmosphere there may be a mighty globe with cool meadows, seas of glass, rivers of crystal, and every conceivable provision for a vast and rejoicing populationthe possible home of even the just made perfect. The It is not merely as having the word that reveals heaven; but we know it from Him who comes from heaven and is above all, and testifies what He has seen and heard; we know it through the Holy Ghost who has come down from it, and hence should know it better than the earth, and the things of the world which ensnare the flesh. The Old Testament proves, and indeed the New Testament also, how utterly Israel failed, and what the consequences have been alike in the justice and in the grace of God. WebHe put a veil on his face: It is easy to think that Moses wore the veil so the people would not be afraid to come near him (Exodus 34:30), or that the purpose of the veil was to protect concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His It is not thus that the believer, even if a Jew and therefore under law, was withdrawn from its condemning power. If it is contended that it was, how is it that only Jews and Christians have arrived at this knowledge of the Divine name? Thus 2 Corinthians 5:1-21 corresponds with the ark rather than the brazen altar. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. We are adopted sons; but then we are more than that. Impossible for such access to exist and be enjoyed till God had drawn near to man and shown us what He is to man. We cannot look upon him in his full brightness; but when he is passing away, we can, as it were, enjoy and wonder at the beauty he has, or the splendour he leaves behind. Gracious, because unless Gods goodness was tree, spontaneous, and unconstrained, man could never enjoy it, as he has not the wherewith to purchase or deserve or draw it forth (2 Corinthians 8:9). This was impossible yet. Nevertheless, here as everywhere God maintains His right to call, and gives the requisite gifts. WebWith this, people have a great difficulty with God because of His orders to wipe them out, to exterminate them. And it came to pass, when Moses came down from the mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face was shining while he talked with him. He will "by no means clear the guilty"; and despite some efforts to distort the meaning of that promise by reading it, "He will not even completely destroy the guilty," no such rendition is honest. We ought to know heaven better than the earth. Scholars have identified three literary traditions in Exodus, designated by the letters J, E, and P. We must take care that we receive the sense which God intends, otherwise we may err seriously, to His dishonour and to our own hurt and that of others. But it is generally and chiefly a means of health, filled with beautiful sounds, fragrant with sweetest odours, the pathway of sunbeams, the source of sparkling dew, the parent of harvests and fountain of earthly life. on the first tables, which thou _AND THE LORD DESCENDED IN THE CLOUD, AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE, AND In fact we could not have the full image till Christ appeared and died on the cross and went to heaven. We see the degraded society around us today that is in such desperate need of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ, to deliver us out of the cesspool and the pits, and to raise us up.Oh, how I thank God for the godly home in which I was raised. p. 190. Such was the choice of Jesus not to be merely a servant here on the earth for a time He has chosen of His own gracious will to be servant for ever. But after the form of hallowing the priests, the Spirit prescribes in the end of Exodus 39:1-43 (ver. He reproaches them once more with being a stiff-necked people; He will not go up in the midst of them, lest He should consume them in the way. _And proclaimed the name of the Lord._] In answer to Moses's Exodus hides the complex details while assets are exchanged in seconds. The first of the firstfruits of the land ( Exodus 34:24-26 ), Notice, "the first of the firstfruits" is what God demands from you, not the leftovers. Jesus emphasized over and over, "unless you repent, you will likewise perish".People are troubled with the fact that it declares, "visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children to the third and the fourth generation." lest I consume thee in the way." (2 Corinthians 3:1-18) Hence we can understand the earthly, external, and temporal character of the legal economy. Practical sanctification for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus! His relationship is that of a son, not merely of one adopted into that place with no more reality than he obtains in human things. is one of the most striking sermons in the Bible. II. The holiness of God is as a consuming fire to the guilty conscience; but within this light inaccessiblewithin this refulgent atmosphere of truth and sanctity, is a glory more intimate and essential still, the inmost perfection and divinest beauty of the Godhead. Exodus is designed for people who have never used an exchange. This was the second proclamation. Next (versesExodus 26:15-30; Exodus 26:15-30) follows the account of the acacia boards with their tenons and bolts, the sockets of silver and the rings of gold. Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD, called out and explained the THIRD SECTION The pardon of Israel's sin in worshipping the calf was now to pass the seals; and God, by this declaration, would let them know that he pardoned ex mero motu--merely out of his own good pleasure, not for their merits' sake, but from his own inclination to forgive. The proclamation of Jehovah (Exodus 34:5) We may be ignorant, and unable to expose them; but we may rest perfectly sure that God is never wrong and man ever untrustworthy. Thus Israel never was under absolute law. 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