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Exodus chapter 33 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 33. Let us pray.
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  Our Lord, our God, our King are everything.
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  We thank you, God, for another day to come and worship you in
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  spirit and truth. We thank you for who you are and
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  what you represent. We thank you that you are good.
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  You are holy and worthy. We empty ourselves of ourselves.
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  We come in, Lord, to the holiest of holy places.
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  Touch us God, anoint us. God, give us a greater measure
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  of who you are. I pray that we could see you
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  rightly high, lifted up. Above all entities, above all
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  governments, all principalities, all rulers.
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  You are high and lifted up. You are lofty.
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  You're the greatest thought that we could ever have, Lord.
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  We desire more. We want to see you, God.
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  We want to be there with you. Come and be here with us.
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  Teach us your ways. Teach us your paths.
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  Help us to come out on the other side, intact and whole.
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  Help us, Lord, when we go through the waters, Lord, be
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  there with us. Grab our hands and lead us
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  through it, Lord. Help us not to live in fear.
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  Help us not to be consumed with anxiety, God.
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  Help us not to be lovers of mammon, God.
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  Help us not to serve mammon, God.
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  Help us not to be those who only care about the physical things,
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  but help us to be preoccupied with the spiritual God
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  throughout our entire life. Lord, it's you and it's you and
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  it's you alone, God, that we love and we desire and we want,
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  Lord, and we need more than breath.
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  Help us, Lord, to snatch those firebrands out of the fire, to
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  snatch those out of the frigid, icy waters.
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  God, into the lifeboats. Put the new garments upon us,
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  God, the garments of praise. God, take away the heaviness,
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  Lord. Thank you God, for Jesus Christ
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  who saved us and is saving us. God, it's in his holy and
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  precious and powerful name that I pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  And the Lord said to Moses, depart, go up here, you and your
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  people, which you have brought out of the land of Egypt unto
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  the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
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  saying unto your seed, I will give it.
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  So Moses here is told to continue to stay the course.
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  And God's here he's saying, just go, go to where I told you you
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  could go first two, and I will send an Angel before you, and
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  I'll drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite to Hittite, the
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  Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebizzite.
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  So you need to know these are real people and real points of
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  problems for the Israelites. You need to understand this is
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  not just an easy March in. You need to understand that
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  God's ways are not our ways, His thoughts are not our thoughts,
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  and if we were God, we'd do it completely different.
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  But God knows just what He's doing and just how to do it to
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  develop us into the character of the people, of the men and women
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  that He desires for all of eternity.
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  And He uses all of these points of conjecture.
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  He uses all of this contention in our lives to get us to the
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  place where we can finally rule and reign with Him for all of
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  eternity. 3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey, For I will
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  not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff necked
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  people, lest I consume you in the way.
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  So God's loving kindness says it's best for me not to continue
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  on with you as I have in the past, because you're so stiff
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  necked and bent on destruction that the 3000 that were just
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  slain will be nothing compared to when my holy reverence breaks
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  out in the camp of people who turn their backs on me.
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  So it's best that I send an Angel to lead you and to drive
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  out all the enemies, for I cannot go with you.
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  For. And when the people heard these
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  evil tidings, they mourned, and no man did put on his ornaments.
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  This was a rightful response. This was the correct response to
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  the news that God was not going to go with them anymore, that it
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  was going to be an Angel that was going to lead them from this
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  point on. And they mourned, even though
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  they took God for granted, they mourned that He had said that He
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  was not going to go with them. 5 For the Lord had said to Moses,
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  Say to the children of Israel, You are stiff necked people, I
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  will come up into the midst of you in a moment and consume you.
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  Therefore now put off your ornaments from you, that I may
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  know what to do to you. So they were in a holding
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  pattern and God said to get rid of all the ridiculous vain
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  jangling and to have reverence for Him and to know that we are
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  just dust. We bring nothing to the table,
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  Friend. It's all about King Jesus and
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  what He does. He gives us our worth.
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  He gives us our dignity. He gives us our inheritance.
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  We do not work for it, friends, so that you can boast.
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  It is all about the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Six And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their
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  ornaments by the Mount Horeb. So you can see here that they
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  were just dancing and revelling and drunken orgies.
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  And here you can see that now they have been completely
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  humiliated. They're stripped of everything
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  outwardly, and they must sit and think and fix their eyes and
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  their minds upon a holy God who is in limbo.
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  Indecision of trying to figure out what to do. 7 of Moses took
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  the Tabernacle, and he pitched it outside.
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  The Moses took the Tabernacle and pitched it outside the camp,
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  far off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the
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  congregation. And it came to pass that
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  everyone which sought the Lord went out to the Tabernacle of
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  the congregation which was outside the camp.
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  So here we know that Moses took his common tent and he placed it
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  outside of the camp. And it was him taking it and
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  sanctifying it and consecrating it.
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  And he's taking his tent, and he is making it holy and set apart
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  from the rest of the camp. 8 And it came to pass when Moses went
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  out to the Tabernacle, that all the people rose up and stood
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  every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses until he was
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  gone into the Tabernacle. So as Moses got up and started
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  to walk outside the camp to his tent that he had made holy and
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  set apart, the people would come to the edge of their tent, to
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  the door, and they would watch him as he walked towards his
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  tent. 9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the
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  Tabernacle, that the cloudy pillar descended and stood at
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  the door of the Tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
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  Can you see the scene, friends? Moses gets up and he starts to
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  head towards his tent. The people come to their door to
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  watch him go. When Moses goes in, the pillar
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  of cloud goes and sits right at the edge at the door of his
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  tent. And God spoke to Moses tin, and
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  all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the Tabernacle
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  door. And all the people rose up and
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  worshipped every man in his tent door.
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  So here they could see that there was a manifest presence of
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  God, Yahweh. And it was pleased to go and sit
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  at the door of Moses's tent, which was holy and outside of
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  the camp. And all the people bowed down
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  low and worshiped God. And I wonder why they couldn't
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  have done it when Moses was up on the Mount Sinai.
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  And that's for you. And that's for me, friends.
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  We need to worship God when we can't see him.
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  We need to worship God when we don't feel like it.
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  We need to worship God when all of our senses is telling us to
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  rely on self, to rely on money, to rely on the government, to
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  rely on this world, to rely on the physical.
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  We need to know that we know that we know that we know that
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  God is worthy to be praised, even when we don't feel like it,
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  even when we can't see it. Friends. 11 And the Lord spoken
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  to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.
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  And he turned again into the camp of his servant Joshua the
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  son of Nun, a young man departed, not out of the
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  Tabernacle. So think about it.
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  Here we can see that Joshua is Privy.
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  He has the front row seat to all of the things of God and of
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  Moses as they talk and they Sup and they dine with each other as
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  they are friendly to each other. Joshua gets to see behind the
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  curtain, behind the scenes friends.
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  He has a front row pass friends and it's going to help him as
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  Moses departs from the scene. Joshua's going to remember all
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  of these things about Yahweh Everlasting. 12 And Moses said
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  to the Lord, See, you say to me, bring up this people, and you
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  have not let me know whom you will send with me, yet you have
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  said, I know you by name, and you have also found grace in my
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  sight. So this is Moses interceding and
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  advocating for Israel, and he's saying to God, You've not told
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  me who you were going to send with me. 13 Now therefore I pray
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  you, if I found grace in your sight, show me now your way,
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  that I may know you, that I may find grace in your sight.
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  And consider that this nation is your people.
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  So we can see here that Moses is being developed by God, and God
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  is getting the character out of Moses and refining Moses into
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  the great and mighty man that he is to become. 14 And he said, my
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  presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest Praise God.
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  Hallelujah. Underline it, highlight it, mark
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  it, put it in your journal, memorize it, commit it to
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  memory. Friends, God's going to give us
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  rest, and he's going to go with us.
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  Praise the Lord. 15 And he said to him, If your presence go not
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  with me, carry us, not from here.
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  So he's saying I don't want to go anywhere if you're not with
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  us. Can you say the same?
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  Friends? Do not go out in your own
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  strength. Wait on the Lord, and when the
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  Lord moves you go, friends. But when the Lord says wait, and
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  he says stop, don't keep going. 16 Wherein shall it be known
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  here that I and your people have found grace in your sight?
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  It is not in that you go with us.
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  So shall we be separated, and I your people, and all the people
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  that are upon the face of the earth.
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  So Moses is saying, how will we know that you're with us?
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  How do we know that you're for us if you will not go with us?
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  17 And the Lord said to Moses, I will do this thing also that
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  you've spoken for. You have found grace in my
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  sight, and I know you by name. So here Moses, just like Jacob,
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  when he wrestled with God, Moses was developed and God gave in,
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  but he already knew what he was going to do.
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  Don't forget that, friends. 18 And he said, I beg you, show me
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  your glory. So this was a stamp that Moses
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  is looking for. He's saying, OK, I believe your
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  words that you're going to go with us, but I want to see your
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  glory. I pray that that's what you
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  press towards friends. I pray that it is the glory of
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  God that consumes you day and night, night and day, day after
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  day, after day after day, 365 days, 24 hours a day, seven days
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  a week. The glory of God.
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  Let it consume your mind. Let it consume your will and
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  your emotions. Friends, do not be consumed by
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  this world and not be overtaken by mammon.
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  Friends, not be overtaken by your emotions.
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  Be consumed by the presence of God.
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  Show me your glory. 19 And he said, I will make all my
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  goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the
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  Lord before you, and I, and will be gracious to whom I will be
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  gracious, and I will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
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  So isn't this amazing that this is the God that we worship?
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  He elects and he predestines friends, and he already knows
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  who's going to be there with him in the end. 20 And he said, You
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  cannot see my face, for there shall no man see me and live.
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  God is brighter than all the known Suns in the universe, all
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  put together. You cannot stare upon the sun
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  without your eyes burning out of your skull, and it is no
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  different with the holy God, who burns brighter than all the Suns
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  put together. He dwells in unapproachable
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  light, friends, and that is what is referenced here. 21 And the
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  Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me that you shall stand
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  upon a rock. Perhaps this is the same rock
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  that Elijah finds later on. 22 And they shall come to pass,
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  while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the
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  rock, and I will cover you with my hand while I pass by.
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  So you need to understand that God is Spirit.
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  You need to understand that any physical manifestation of God is
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  our Lord Jesus Christ. You need to understand that God
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  here is so incredibly kind, in the same way that whenever Moses
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  went up and they got to see the footstool of God and they had a
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  dinner, there at the foot of God is no different.
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  Here, friends, the God in some amazing miraculous way hides
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  Moses with his hand and allows him to see his backside. 22 And
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  they shall come to pass, while my glory passes by, That I will
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  put you into the cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with
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  my hand will end on. 23 And I will take away my hand, and you
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  shall see my back parts, but my face shall not be seen.
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  Isn't it amazing in the Book of Revelation that God comes down
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  with New Jerusalem, and He's there with us forever and ever?
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  We have to be outfitted to be able to see God in this physical
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  body that you and I are stuck in right now.
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  We cannot see God and live. We must be given a new tent,
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  must take off the perishable and put on the imperishable in order
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  to seek God. I pray that you've been blessed
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  by this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.