But it is a strange plea he urges: For it is a stiff-necked people. After this follow two things worthy of all heed, a nearness of communication between Jehovah and His servant never enjoyed before, and more than that, a blessing secured to the people never vouchsafed before. The legal ordinances and institutes were but shadows; still they were types distinctly constituted; and we should learn by them all. Thanks be to God who gives us the victory by our Lord Jesus Christ. People who seem to think that the God of the New Testament is all love and forgiveness, and the abrogating of the capital punishment and all of this, had better read the book of Revelation, and they'll find out that He is also a God of judgment, and a God of wrath that shall come and be visited. It is evident that law as such, first of all, has no object to present to man. The sanctification here in question then applies from the start of an effectual inward work even before a soul knows pardon and peace, but there is also room for the practical power of the Holy Ghost in subsequent work in heart and conscience severing us more and more by the truth to the Lord. They were a people in the flesh. Grace and truth were demonstrated in Jesus Christ, but to those who reject that grace and truth, as Hebrews tells us, "There remains then a fearful looking for the fiery indignation of the wrath of God that will devour His adversaries. Our only business is to learn what He is, what He says, and, more than that, to confide in Him; and when we do not know what He means, always to take the ground of faith against all adversaries. And Moses was not able to enter because the cloud dwelt thereon, and the glory filled the tabernacle. So in the Old Testament we have a God of grace and mercy, and longsuffering and forgiveness revealed to us. They can't see the truth of God in Jesus Christ. Now we must always bear in mind that, though in the Christian walking aright the righteousness of the law will surely be fulfilled, never has Christianity either a legal principle or a legal character: not a legal principle because it flows from the known grace of God to the soul; not a legal character because it is consistency with Christ risen from the dead, not merely with the Ten Command meets. The people thereon mourn; and Moses has recourse to a remarkable act. PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD, called out and explained the THIRD SECTION must be followed: the subject of the verbs is Moses (see Exo Moses is commanded to hew two tables of stone, similar to those which If a Hebrew servant were bought, he was to serve for six years, in the seventh to go out free for nothing "If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. And none shall appear before me empty ( Exodus 34:18-20 ). Exodus 1 The Israelites Multiply in Egypt ( Genesis 46:727) 1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. On this, being so thoroughly familiar to all, I of course do not enlarge. 5.And the Lord descended in the cloud It is by no means to be doubted but that the cloud received Moses into it in the sight of the people, so that, after having been separated from the common life of men for forty days, he should again come forth like a new man. By the physical law of heredity. After the call to the people to bring their offerings, we find the use to which they were to be applied First and foremost stands the centre of Levitical worship the ark. Thus there are plainly two distinct senses of sanctification: one absolute, in which a man is severed once for all from the world to God; the other relative, as being practical and hence differing in measure in the after career of each Christian. Private and Safe The guilty may be spared so that they may repent, but they will not be cleared. Now this mingling of grace with the law is the kind of system which Christians have accepted as Christianity. Exodus 1960 Approved 3 h 28 m IMDb RATING 6.7 /10 10K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:48 1 Video 49 Photos Action Drama War The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors. WebIn this chapter Moses has orders to hew two tables of stone, that God might write on them the ten commands, and bring them up with him to the mount, Ex 34:1-4 where the Lord Those who reason from Israel to us, without intending it, ignore the relationship of the Christian, and set aside the bearing of redemption on our walk: so serious is that error which to many seems a pious thought, and I am sure taken up by them with the desire of honouring God and His will. 8 Moses intreateth God to go with them. Finally, when the work was finished and all duly set up, a cloud covered the appointed tent, and the glory of Jehovah filled the dwelling. 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. He uses all the personal confidence that God had in him on behalf of the people. There isn't a God of the Old Testament, and a different God of the New. 8 Moses intreateth God to go with them. PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD._ May Christians believe and use for God the portion each has in Christ! ". Early Christians saw the Exodus as a typological prefiguration of resurrection and salvation by Jesus. Revelation alone emblazons God in the full circle of His perfections. As people are arguing about God, God is faulted for the order of the extermination and not making covenants with these people. Filled with joyful boldness, he turns the very fact of Israels stiff-neckedness into a plea for the presence and favour of God. Both unite in Christ and His atoning death. is one of the most striking sermons in the Bible. Hence we find, for instance, the righteousness of God in Romans. He who cannot appreciate the blessedness of such a place, with the great high priest bearing up thus the names of God's people before God, must be very insensible to the highest favours. This was the transfiguration of Moses. There is hardly a subject on which men are so apt to make mistakes as the true nature and application of love. Against the fruits of the Spirit there is no law, as the apostle so emphatically says to the Galatians. Christ is essentially apart from sin and sinners; we by grace are set apart. This is here called "sanctification of the Spirit." For the bare possession of a new nature or place would not enable us to do the will of God. Hearken, says Law, to the melody of this sweet note. We see this demonstrated all the time. THE TEXT OF EXODUS 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The Lord, the Lord, the The name of the God of the Jews, who is also the God of the Christians, is The Lord God, merciful and gracious., Most glorious art Thou! revelation that "God is love." The children of Israel saw the face of Moses, the skin of Moses' face it was shining: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went to speak with the Lord ( Exodus 34:29-35 ). WebExodus 34:5-8. But they had no such thoughts of themselves, more than real knowledge of God. Let us not then have either hard thoughts of God or hard hearts towards our brethren. Exodus 34:6. It has brought saving joy to countless multitudes. The coat of fine linen embroidered means personal righteousness in ways, set off with every beauty of grace. on the first tables, which thou _AND THE LORD DESCENDED IN THE CLOUD, AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE, AND WebHis thoughts are with the nation of Israel and the reaching of the goal God had set for them: the conquest of Canaan. If the true God deigns to give a law to man, it must be an unimpeachably wise and worthy law adapted to the condition of man, as far as a law possibly can be; and such is God's law holy, just, and good. So Christ entered by His own blood entered in once for all into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption that we might have a common place with Him by blood and in the Spirit's power. This section coheres As you see these little gods that are representations, or were representations to the people of Baal, you'll see that Baal's arms are always folded, and the hands in an upright position like this. Ver. "Now it is sad that the sins of the parents are visited upon the children. Many words are here heaped up, to acquaint us with, and convince us of, God's goodness, and to show how much his goodness is both his glory and his delight, yet without any tautology. I grant you this that, looked at as a whole, distressing failure was setting in just as it was here; yet as here the very failure isolated the truehearted, but isolated them not in want of love but in the strongest possible manifestation of divine charity and sense of God's glory. He will by no means clear the guilty. "If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature and the old things are passed away, and every thing becomes new"( 1 Corinthians 5:13 ). on high), that they also might be sanctified by the truth." When He says they were washed, He is referring to the water of the word used by the Spirit of God to deal with man. prayer. His descending bespeaks his condescension; he humbles himself to take cognizance of those that humble themselves to walk with him. Scholars of all shades of belief have extolled and praised the revelation here concerning the nature, or attributes, of God Himself. This denotes, [1.] More manifestly we shall be heavenly at the coming of Christ, but not more really than at present. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CHAPTER XXXIV.THE VISION OF GOD.Exodus 34:1-35It was when God had most graciously assured Moses of His affection, that he ventured, in so brief a cry that it is almost a gasp of longing, to ask, "Show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory" (Exodus 33:18).We have seen how nobly this petition Of them He came, and He deigned to have the memorial of them on this table before God. Moses, man just got down on his face and began to worship God.] 8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. The man who met God was unaware of his glory till others told him of it; by contrast, the people who had easily fallen into sin were afraid when they met one who appeared to them as a shining messenger from God (29-35; cf. Their highest conceptions were to clothe him with clouds, while the poets robed him in terrors. Forgiveness is for the repentant. Accordingly we may regard the law as a whole, consisting not only of moral claims but of national institutes, ordinances, statutes, and judgment) under which Israel were put. 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[ a] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. He takes and pitches the tabernacle, it is said, "without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the Congregation." There are many young adults today that cannot even remember years of their childhood because their minds have blocked them out. Next, from the latter part ofExodus 27:1-21; Exodus 27:1-21 we have a change evident, and of more weight. And so surely tremendous declarations of God's grace, God's mercy, God's forgiveness, God's goodness, God's truth. Not a soul that has been since brought to the knowledge of God but what at least ought to have profited in point of fact, must have profited by this grave lesson. In Israel's case it was not so. II. WebThe Lord had told Moses that he had found grace in his sight. before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation ( Exodus 34:1-7 ). In this opinion there is no absurdity; let us be at liberty, then, to take it as applying either to Moses or to God Himself, i.e., either that God Himself proclaimed in a loud voice His power, and righteousness, and goodness, or that Moses himself professed his piety before God. All I can do is just bow my head and worship in wonder and in awe, that God should love me, and care for me, and place value in me so much that He would give His Son for my redemption. And I will inscribe upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Some read it so as to express a mitigation of wrath, even when he does punish: When he empties, he will not make quite desolate; that is, "He does not proceed to the greatest extremity, till there be no remedy." The Holy Ghost is the only power for rightly using, and applying, and enjoying the truth; and therefore He is called "the truth" no less than the Lord Jesus. That they become the innocent victims of their parents' folly. 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 was the power of the Spirit. That is, it was a prohibition of man's will. The glory of God, or at any rate the effect of seeing His goodness, was brought too near to them. That the terror of his greatness may not make us afraid, we are told how good he is; and, that we may not presume upon his goodness, we are told how great he is. We know His tender mercy in the smallest matters; but in that which so nearly concerns His honour, it is indeed a truly merciful provision that the Great High Priest bears the iniquity of holy things, where other wise defilement would be fatal. But if they are allowed to make a covenant and live among the people, they will infect God's people with this same deadly corruption. In addition, He is the eternal Creator, Healer, Savior, Judge, and the very pinnacle of wisdom, understanding, and Practical sanctification for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus! And The proclaiming of it denotes the universal extent of God's mercy. He is long-suffering. Then we have the holy anointing oil, which also had to do with fitting the priests for drawing near to God. Many children go into withdrawals after birth because of the mother having been hooked on particular drugs. As divine life alone can have affections according to God, so a divine object alone can either act on those affections or minister to them. WebWith this, people have a great difficulty with God because of His orders to wipe them out, to exterminate them. This was the second proclamation. *Dr. Fairbairn's "Typology" is here, as in general, poverty itself. You can't go forty days and forty nights without food or water." The Lord told him that no man could see His face and live. And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. For what was presented there? In token that the people are forgiven, God renews His covenant He forgives offences of all sorts--iniquity, transgression, and sin, multiplies his pardons; and with him is plenteous redemption. What impression it made upon him: Moses made haste, and bowed his head,Exodus 34:8; Exodus 34:8. There lay the insuperable difficulty once; but now grace perfectly meets it, and meets it in a way which evinces alike the goodness and the wisdom of God. It consisted of a declaration by God of the truth Additional reminders concerned requirements for sacrifices and firstfruits (25-26; see 23:18-19).God then made a declaration that the covenant Israel had broken was now re-established. Thou shalt make thee no molten images ( Exodus 34:15-17 ). The Divine name was proclaimed absolutely. 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. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair. For I will cast out the nations before thee, enlarge your borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year. Thus did this visible demonstration of Gods glory avail to awaken faith in the commandments. pillar of cloud which had hitherto gone before Israel, and had th 1 The Tables are renued. Once more the Divine justice operates through natural laws, visiting the iniquity of the fathers, &c. How? But if there be two separate objects in these types first, God displaying Himself to man; and, secondly, man in consequence drawing near to God the way of all is clear. This is the brightest jewel of His crownovertopping the heavens, outliving all times, outshining all perfections. Human sacrifice was commonly practiced, as well as all kinds of licentious practices.Now by the very nature of their worship they would soon destroy themselves. It has ever been the pious mind which has through the eyes beheld the chain of revelation and the long series of Divine manifestations gradually unwind themselves. "Take this stiffnecked people for Your inheritance." pillar, which was now gone up from the door of the tabernacle, and was Gods glory is His goodness. He will not always suffer even the pardoned sinner to escape with entire impunity. That as His goodness is based upon His power man must not presume.(2.) The Son of the Father, He brings us into the knowledge of the true God as the Son knew Him in heaven, as the Son still of course knew Him on earth. "And Moses alone shall come near Jehovah, but they shall not come nigh, neither shall the people go up with him." If the people were under the test of law, Moses was under the test of grace. His descending bespeaks his condescension; he humbles himself to take cognizance of those that humble themselves to walk with him. Here it seems in substance the same thing as in 1 Peter 1:2. Longsuffering, not good by spasm or effort, but patient and unwearied. And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? And the vessels of the sanctuary described after the priesthood are those which preserve the same common character of presenting the service due to God approached in His sanctuary. Translations for Exodus 34:1. At the same time the righteousness of the law is fulfilled so much the more in those that "walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.". It is not to be allowed that God's word makes mistakes: man does, but is it with the Spirit of God? Surely this is a wondrous truth, and of the greatest possible importance. Thus it is evident that, no matter what the subject may be, the Sabbath has always a place assigned to it. I speak of our relationship and title. Others have had the page of nature spread before them, and yet have been either atheists or idolaters. A remarkable provision is that the ephod of the high priest, which was the most important part of his costume, had the names of the children of Israel twice over. Though the first tables of the law had been given to Moses, they never The proclamation of Jehovah (Exodus 34:5) That is, we are children as having God's own nature. were in the first tables, which you broke. Secondly, when the blood of the victims was shed, it was sprinkled on the book as well as on the people (verses 7, 8). Then, after the priesthood has been fully brought before us, we have the various portions of their dress. Revelation of Gods Grace. Exodus /. 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. 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