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Exodus chapter 19 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 19 verse one, in the third month when the
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  children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt
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  the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
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  So here we can see that it is a three month anniversary of their
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  exodus out of bondage out of Egypt.
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  And you can see here that God is about to manifest and show His
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  glory, to show His power and His might unto them and to get them
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  to a place of love and adoration and obedience unto all the
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  things that He's rescued them from.
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  He did not save them of bondage and saved them out of oppression
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  just for them to come out and self destruct in the wilderness.
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  Verse 2 For they were departed from Refidim and there and they
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  were come to the desert of Sinai and had pitched in the
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  wilderness. And there Israel camped before
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  the mount. So we can see here that this
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  mountain of God is going to tremble, is going to shake
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  flashes of lightning and peals of Thunder, and God's going
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  going to show his manifest glory to the Israelites. 3 And Moses
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  went up to God, and the Lord called to him out of the
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  mountain, saying, Thus shall you say to the House of Jacob, and
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  tell the children of Israel, What does he want to tell them?
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  Notice how he calls Israel Jacob here.
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  And we know that Jacob was unrefined, and we know that
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  Jacob was the deceiver and the heel catcher.
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  And here in a play of words, God calls them Jacob.
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  Because they sure have been acting way more like Jacob than
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  Israel, the one who wrestles with God.
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  For you have seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I bore you on
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  eagle's wings, and brought you to myself.
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  So God here is likened unto an eagle who carries them.
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  And he showed them his might and his power.
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  And he showed them how easy it was for him to call down lice
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  and plagues and boils, and to make the water into blood, and
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  to have Moses's hand be leprous and then clean again.
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  How the staff was turned into a snake.
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  Friends, we got to see the first born slain, and we got to see
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  the Passover when the destroying Angel did not touch any of the
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  houses that had the blood on the lentil.
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  And here God is wanting them to call back to remembrance.
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  Friends, this amazing time of their deliverance, and that is
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  the same thing that you and I need to do in correlation to the
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  cross of Christ. Go back and remember, break the
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  bread and drink the wine and remember what Jesus did for us
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  on that night when He spilled His innocent, precious blood out
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  for us and covered us in the blood, so that we can stand in
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  the Holy Presence of God Almighty alive.
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  Now. Therefore, if you will obey my
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  voice indeed and keep my covenant, then you shall be a
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  peculiar treasure to me above all people, for all the earth is
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  mine. So even though every single
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  nation, every tongue, every people group, every continent,
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  every single dialect belongs unto God Almighty, He wanted and
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  wants the Jews to be the priest, to teach all of the world who
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  Yahweh is everlasting the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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  He wants to show the world through the Jews who He truly
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  is, and it is the responsibility of the Church today to do the
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  same thing. We are to teach the world who
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  God is, and far be it from us to make merchandise out of God, and
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  to turn his house into a den of thieves.
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  We should make his house into a House of prayer, and we should
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  be the ones exhibiting all the qualities of God Almighty unto a
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  lost and dying and perverse world. 6 And you shall be unto
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  me a Kingdom of priests, a holy nation.
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  These are the words which you shall speak to the children of
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  Israel. So that is our responsibility
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  and our job, and God is the one who is making us into a peculiar
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  nation of Kingdom of priests unto God. 7 Moses came and
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  called for the elders of the people, and laid before their
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  faces all these words which the Lord commanded him.
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  So God reveals himself to us in Word, and it is the very word
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  that you hold in your hands, friends. 8 And all the people
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  answered together and said, All that the Lord has spoken we will
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  do. And Moses returned the words of
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  the people to the Lord. So it was a quick knee jerk
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  reaction. They said, yes, whatever the
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  Lord wants we shall do. Let's see how the Lord thinks
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  about it. 9 And the Lord said to Moses, Lo, I come unto you in
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  the thick cloud, that the people may hear, when I speak with you,
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  and believe you forever. And Moses told the words of the
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  people to the Lord. So they're going back and forth
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  as a mediator. And Moses is hearing from the
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  Lord and speaking to the people. The people are speaking unto
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  Moses, and Moses is taking it to God, tending.
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  The Lord said to Moses, Go to the people, sanctify them today
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  and tomorrow and let them wash their clothes.
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  So God's going to return on the third day.
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  And that's what he did with Jesus on the third day.
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  He raised him from the dead and ascended to the right hand of
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  God. And that is what you need to
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  understand is all of this is a pictorial.
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  It's a masterpiece that God is painting for what is to come.
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  All of the law shows us the need that we have for Jesus Christ
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  Christ. 10 And the Lord said, Go to the people, have them wash
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  their clothes, 11 and be ready against the third day.
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  For the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all
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  the people unto Mount Sinai. So here they're getting ready
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  for this grand visitation from Yahweh, everlasting God
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  Almighty, the manifest glory of God, descending and resting upon
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  that holy, terrible mountain. 12 and the And they shall set
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  bounds to the people around and about, saying, take heed to
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  yourselves that you do not go up to the mount or touch the border
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  of it. Whosoever touches the mount
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  shall surely be put to death. So you need to understand that
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  they were not to have hubris, and not to take it lightly, not
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  to take it in vain that God's manifest presence was among
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  them, not to come and think of it as a light thing, or they
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  would be put to death. 13 There shall not a hand touch it,
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  neither shall he neither, but he shall surely be stoned or shot
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  through, whether it be beast or man that shall not live.
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  When the trumpet, when the trumpet sounds longs, they shall
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  come up to the mount. So this was an angelic trump.
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  There was no man blowing it. This was celestial.
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  God was going to blow the trumpet long and signal and sign
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  to them that it was time to approach unto His holy presence.
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  14 And Moses went down from the mount to the people, and
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  sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.
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  So here they're consecrating themselves.
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  They're getting ready for God by getting rid of any filth and
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  anything that doesn't belong, and they're having the holy
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  reverence to come unto a holy God. 15 And he said to the
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  people, Be ready against the third day, Come not at your
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  wives. So they were not to have any
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  kind of intercourse. They were to solely set their
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  minds and their hearts and their bodies and their psyche and
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  their intellect towards God and God alone. 16 And it came to
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  pass on the third day in the morning that there were thunders
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  and lightnings, a thick cloud on the mount, and the voice of the
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  trumpet exceeding loud, so that all the people that was in the
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  camp trembled. Can you hear it, friend?
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  Can you hear the trumpet blast? Do you feel the quaking of the
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  ground beneath you and the flashes of lightning, this
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  terrible sight and sound? 17 And Moses brought forth the
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  people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the
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  nether part of the mount. So they were exceedingly,
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  dreadfully afraid, because this was a terrible sight of God's
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  presence coming and sitting upon Mount Sinai. 18 In the Mount
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  Sinai was all together smoke, because the Lord descended upon
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  it in fire, and the smoke of ascended as the smoke of a
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  furnace in the whole mount quaked greatly.
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  So we know that God dwells in unapproachable light.
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  Friends, we know that if we are to worship Him, we are to
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  worship Him in spirit and truth. And we can see here that God's
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  presence is a dreadful thing. 19 And when the voice of the
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  trumpet sounded long and grew louder and louder, Moses spoke,
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  and God answered him by a voice. So we see that God was revealing
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  his manifest presence to them through all of these signs and
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  wonders. And then the audible voice of
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  God spoke. 20 And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai on the top
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  of the mount, and the Lord called Moses up to the top of
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  the mount, and Moses went up. Can you see the scene in your
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  mind? Can you see it in your
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  imagination? Do you see Moses ascending up to
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  speak to God? 21 And the Lord said to Moses,
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  Go down, charge the people, unless they breakthrough into
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  the Lord, to gaze, and many of them perish.
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  So he's saying, go and warn them not to act flippantly, but to
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  have reverence. And if anyone thinks that this
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  is a novelty, that this is some kind of sideshow, then they will
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  be sorely displeased when their life is demanded of them. 22 And
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  let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify
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  themselves, unless the Lord break forth upon them.
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  So the priests were not to act flippantly where they were not
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  to be irreverent with the holy God. 23 And Moses said unto the
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  Lord, The people cannot come up to the Mount Sinai for you.
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  Charges of saying, Set bounds unto the mount and sanctify it.
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  So Moses is reminding God that they had set the barricade, the
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  barriers up, so the people would not cross them. 24 And the Lord
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  said to him, Away Get you down, and you shall come up, you and
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  Aaron with you. But let not the priests and the
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  people breakthrough to come up to the Lord, unless he break
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  forth upon them. So he's reminding them of his
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  power and his might. He's reminding them of their
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  need for reverence and awesome worship unto a holy God.
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  We'll end on 25 S. Moses went down to the people
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  and spoke to them. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter. We can see here that we
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  desperately need the blood of Jesus Christ to cover us from
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  the top of our head to the soles of our feet so that we can stand
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  in the holy presence of God. There is no way that mankind
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  could ever make himself right before a God of this magnitude.
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  It is only by the blood of Jesus Christ that we come boldly into
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  the holiest of holy places and dine and Sup with God.
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  What an amazing thought. We thank God for Jesus Christ,
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  we thank God for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the down
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  payment that lives inside of us. Let us pray, Father, we love
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  you. We thank you, God, for these
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  words. We thank you for teaching us
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  your ways. We thank you, God, for giving us
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  all of the marching orders and helping us to know what to do
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  and when to do it and how to do it.
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  We say yes and Amen to all of your ways, for you are
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  beautiful. You are holy and righteous.
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  God, we munch and we dine and we eat sumptuously upon this
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  scroll. Let it go in our mouths, sweet
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  like honey, God, even though it is bitter unto our bellies.
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  We love you Father, we love everything about you.
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  In Jesus name I pray. Amen.