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The Lord Passes By

Exodus 34:1-9The Lord Passes By If you have your Bibles, we are in Exodus 34, in the middle of the story of the golden calf and its aftermath, which runs from Exodus 32 to 34. It's ironic, isn't it, right smack in the middle of a section on worship, we have a story about idolatry. Of course, there's no mistake in that, that's precisely the pooint that Moses is making. Our hearts are idol factories, and even as God is giving instructions on worship while he's on the mountain, the children of Israel are worshiping idols down in the valley. So this is a standing warning against our own fickle hearts. We've already notes several themes that run throughout this section in Exodus 32-34. For instance, we said that this whole section highlights the person and the role and…

A Mediator with a Heart

Exodus 33:12-23A Mediator with a Heart If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 33, as we continue our study in the Old Testament. In the first eleven verses of this chapter, especially verse 3, the Lord says to Moses, “to go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, for I will not go up in your midst.” This summarizes the emphasis of Exodus 33:1-11, that God is assuring Moses and His people that He will refrain from immediately destroying them, that He will fulfill His promise to take them into the Promised Land to clear the Canaanites out before them, to settle them in that land, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, but He will not go up in their midst. That means not only that He will not go up in their midst in the tabernacle which He has…

I Will Not Go Up in Your Midst

Exodus 33:1-11I Will Not Go in Your Midst If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 33. In Exodus, one of the great themes we have seen over and over, is that we are saved to worship. God not only brought His people out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, in order to enter into a fruitful land, but also to glorify and enjoy Him forever. This was at the heart of what He was doing. It's not an incidental. That wasn't a trick that Moses used to try and get Pharaoh to let the people go for a little while so they could sneak away. Moses really did mean it, when he said to Pharaoh, “You need to let us go three days into the desert to worship God at the mountain which He has shown us, lest He strike out at us.” For the very purpose of God was…

Who is on the Lord’s Side?

Exodus 32:19-35Who is on the Lord's Side? If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 32, as we continue to study the story of the golden calf. We've looked previously at this idolatry of Israel and Moses’ beautiful prayer of intercession in response, and in our previous study we raised some significant questions regarding how God responds to prayer, and whether or not we can change His mind. When we sing the hymn, “Who is on the Lord's side,” the hymn…

Sin at Sinai

Exodus 32:1-10 Sin at Sinai Open your Bibles please to Exodus 32, as we continue to work our way through this great book. You may remember that from Exodus 25 to 31, God in great detail explains the structure at which He will meet with His people in worship, and the way in which His people must come to Him in worship. So, the totality of that section is given over to the subject of how you meet with and worship God, and how you give glory to God. Now, that is a profound irony in light of our…

A Sweet Smell For the Lord

Exodus 30:1-38A Sweet Smell for the Lord If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn to Exodus chapter 30. Let's begin with reading Exodus chapter 30: 1-10. “Moreover, you shall make an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit, it shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and…

Preparations for Priests

Exodus 29:1-46Preparations for Priests We have been looking at this section of Exodus that runs from Exodus 24 through 40, with one interruption in 32, 33, and 34. This whole passage has to do with the right worship of God. Now you maybe wondering about that interruption, we’ll get there early next year God willing. And that interruption is about wrong worship. So the whole of the end of Exodus is about worship, both right and wrong. And so we find this series of connected chapters focusing on…

The Beauty of Holiness

The Lord's Day Morning October 27, 2002 Exodus 28:1-45 “The Beauty of Holiness” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III From Exodus 24 on, we've said several times the focus is on the details of the worship of God. Exodus 24 is the great turning point of the book. It's the “swing chapter” or dividing point of the Book of Exodus, and we commented even as we launched into Exodus 25, that it is striking that that passage begins a thirteen-chapter account of the tabernacle. Think of it: nearly a…

The Blood of the Covenant

Exodus 24:1-11The Glory Blood of the Covenant If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Exodus 24. During the summer on Wednesday evenings, we worked through the Book of the Covenant. Now, keep your finger at Exodus 24, and turn back to Exodus 20, and look at verse 22. The Book of the Covenant begins in that verse. The Book of the Covenant contains the applications and illustrations of how the Ten Commandments apply to the daily life of Israel as individuals and as a…

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