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Discover the powerful lessons from the book of Exodus, where God reveals Himself at Sinai and leads His people through the wilderness to their promised land. Learn about obedience, provision, and the contrast between the old and new covenants. Reflect on the importance of listening and obeying God's commands in order to experience stability and wisdom in life.
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1 Corinthians 10:11 These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.
Revelation of God at Sinai The Believers Promised Land
I. Journey to Sinai • Exodus 15-18 • The standard of Israel’s faithfulness 15:26 • Listen carefully to the voice of the Lord • Obey his commands • Not suffer the diseases of Egypt • I am the Lord who heals you
1 Corinthians 10:1-5 1I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. 2In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. 3All of them ate the same spiritual food, 4and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. 5Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
II. God Revealed at Sinai • Exodus 19 – 40 • God’s people – if you will obey me • My special treasure • My holy nation • My kingdom of priests
1 Peter 2:5, 9 5And you are living stones that God is building into his spiritual temple. What’s more, you are his holy priests. Through the mediation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifices that please God… 9… for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
Fear • No more God speak • God’s way – so your fear will keep you from sinning
Moses gets the rest of the law from God up on Sinai • Judicial laws (21-23) • Feasts (23:14-19) • Promise of possessing the land (23:20-33) • Covenant explained to the people (24) • We will do everything the Lord has commanded (24:3,7) • Covenant established (24)
Corrupted Israelites • God to Moses • Your people you brought out of Egypt • Let me Nuke them • Moses to God • Your people you brought out of Egypt • Remember your promise • Ezekiel 22:30 "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it…“ • God changed his mind (32:14)
III. Contrast of Covenants • Hebrews 12:18-29 - Mt Sinai and Mt Zion • Zion defined
You have not come to Sinai • You have come to Zion • To the assembly of God’s firstborn • To God • To the spirits of the righteous ones in heaven (12:1 – the great cloud of witnesses) • To Jesus the mediator of the new covenant
Warnings • Be careful that you do not refuse to listen • Israel did not escape when they refused to listen • We will not escape if we reject the One speaking to us • Promise – shake again the earth and heavens • We have a kingdom that cannot be shaken • God is a consuming fire • Fear God
Reflection Time • Shaken – or not. Everything that can be shaken will be. This is when we find out how much of our life is based on principles that govern the Kingdom of God. Stability is established on listening and obeying. How stable are you? • In relationships • In finances • Eternal vs. temporal things
Your house standing vs. falling after the storm is dependent on listening and obeying the words of Jesus (Luke 7:46-49). How are you doing with listening and obeying? It determines if you are wise or foolish. Do you want to be the wise person or do you want to be the fool?
Purpose of the Law • Define transgression (sins) until the seed (Jesus) should come (Gal. 3:19) • Through the Law comes the knowledge of sin (Rom. 3:19-20) • The law was a tutor to bring us to faith in Jesus. Once we have come to faith in Jesus, the law has fulfilled its purpose and we are no longer under the tutor (Gal. 3:24,25)
The Law is called a: • Ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones (2 Cor. 3:7) • Ministry of condemnation (2 Cor. 3:9) • Ministry of fading glory as compared to the ministry of the Spirit which is more glorious and unfading in its glory (2 Cor. 3:7-11) • The Law could not save us because of the weakness of our own flesh (Romans 8:1-4)
The reason the law is called a ministry of death and condemnation is because the law had no power to change a person’s life, save them, or even give them the strength to keep the law. (as evidenced by the people who heard it direct from the mouth of God and within 40 days violated the very first thing they were commanded) • So in the law, people were able to see their own sinfulness and their own spiritual death. They would then realize their need for a Savior who could save them from their own sinfulness. When they would see Jesus as their Savior then the law had accomplished its purpose.
The New Testament makes it very clear what the purpose of the law was, and what it means to walk in the fulfillment of the law. Read Romans Chapters 2, Chapter 3, and Chapter 4 and then Galatians Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. In these chapter you will see these things. The purpose of the Law was to: • It was actually added to the covenant God gave to Abraham and it closed everyone in to a place where they realized they had a nature of sin and could not be good enough, or keep the law good enough, to be right with God (Gal. 3:19,22) • Then 2 Corinthians 3 really shows the reality of walking by the Law in contrast to walking by the Spirit. • The Law could not save us because of the weakness of our own flesh (Romans 8:1-4) "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit." • To say we are no longer under the law is not to say that we have become without law, or that we have abolished the law. Instead we walk in the fulfillment of the law which looks different than the Old Covenant law given to the Israelites. Rather than living by a list of rules that gives us no power to do it, we walk by the Spirit and therefore not carry out the desires of the flesh (Galatians 5:16). Rather than being careful to not lie, not envy, not commit adultery, we are strengthened by the Spirit to Love God and our neighbors as ourselves. In walking in love and by the Spirit we will not be sinning against God or against the laws of God – that’s why it says in Romans 13:8-10 that Love is the fulfillment of the law, and it starts listing some of the 10 commandments. Love does no wrong to a neighbor, therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law. See, you can follow a command to not commit adultery – and still not love your neighbor. But if you love your neighbor – you are not going to commit adultery; therefore to love is a higher law and fulfills all others. There is a phrase that I remember that goes like this: • Do this and live, the law commands • But gave me neither feet nor hands • A better word the gospel brings • It bids me fly, and gives me wings • In other words the law gave a prescription to be right with God (Do this and live), but the law did not give us the power to live right (But gave me neither feet nor hands), because of our own weak flesh (Romans 8:3). But the gospel of salvation by grace through faith, not only saves us and makes us right with God, it gives us the power to live right by giving us power through the Spirit of God to walk by the Spirit and to walk in love (It bids me fly, and gives me wings).
He urges them to perseverance by the nature of the dispensation under which they were, as compared with the one under which they had formerly been—the Jewish; Heb. 12:18-29. Under the former, everything was suited to alarm and terrify the soul; Heb. 12:18-21. The new dispensation was of a different character. It was adapted to encourage and to win the heart. The real Mount Zion—the city of the living God—the New Jerusalem—the company of the angels—the church of the first-born—the Judge of all—the great Mediator—to which they had come under the new dispensation, all these were suited to encourage the fainting heart, and to win the affections of the soul; Heb. 12:22-24. Yet, in proportion to the sacredness and tenderness of these considerations, and to the light and privileges which they now enjoyed, would be their guilt if they should renounce their religion—for under this dispensation, as under the old, God was a consuming fire; Heb. 12:25-29.
In the passage before us, the apostle evidently contrasts Sinai with Mount Zion, and means to say that there was more about the latter that was adapted to win the heart and to preserve allegiance than there was about the former. It cannot
The eternal principles of truth, and law, and righteousness. These would enter into the new kingdom which was to be set up, and of course that kingdom would be permanent. These are not changed or modified by time, circumstances, human opinions, or laws. They remain the same from age to age, in every land, and in all worlds, They have been permanent in all the fluctuations of opinion; in all the varied forms of government on earth; in all the revolutions of states and empires.
This cannot be intended to be understood literally, for it was not literally true. The rock from which the water flowed was evidently an ordinary rock, a part of Mount Horeb; and all that this can mean is, that that rock, with the stream of water thus gushing from it, was a representation of the Messiah. The word was is thus often used to denote similarity or representation, and is not to be taken literally. Thus, in the institution of the Lord’s Supper, the Saviour says of the bread, “This is my body,” that is, it represents my body. Thus, also of the cup, “This cup is the new testament in my blood,” that is, it represents my blood, 1 Cor. 11:24-25. Thus, the gushing fountain of water might be regarded as a representation of the Messiah, and of the blessings which result from him. The apostle does not say that the Israelites knew that this was designed to be a representation of the Messiah, and of the blessings which flow from him, though there is nothing improbable in the supposition that they so understood and regarded it, since all their institutions were probably regarded as typical.
Isaiah 4:5 5 Then the LORD will provide shade for Mount Zion and all who assemble there. He will provide a canopy of cloud during the day and smoke and flaming fire at night, covering the glorious land.
