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The Spirit given to the Christian is of power, love, and a sound mind. Then Aaron is duly clothed; as in the priestly character Christ appears before God for us. Even so, in Exodus 34:6, we have the lengthened explanation of the Divine glory; while in 1 John 4:0 there is the same and substancethe essence of allin the three words, God is Love., (2.) Very simple are the words and expressions; but how detailed. The Old Testament proves, and indeed the New Testament also, how utterly Israel failed, and what the consequences have been alike in the justice and in the grace of God. Filled with joyful boldness, he turns the very fact of Israels stiff-neckedness into a plea for the presence and favour of God. The glory of Jesus was veiled by his humanity. 35. She needed two units of blood to survive. The Christian position is altogether different: we are elect as children "according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit," meaning by this the separating power of the Holy Ghost from the very first moment of our conversion. Here it seems to be not so much what we have by Christ, but that fragrance in Christ Himself of which God alone is the adequate judge, and which rises up before Him in all its perfection. I get so tired of hearing them say, "Well, I just don't love them anymore." When the time was come, He took a basin of water and a towel, and washed His disciples' feet. Thus, though physically it is an impossibility, we are dealing with a God of miraculous power and God who can set aside certain laws of nature.Now I don't recommend that you try and go forty days and forty nights without water or food. exodus commentaries Exodus 29:5-6). The first, Exodus 3:4, was delivered to Moses for his instruction and comfort on his special mission. Both unite in Christ and His atoning death. 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. WebThe eyes of the Lord are forever on those that hope in His unfailing love, and God dispatches ministering angels to protect His children who trust in His name. Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation." After this follow the general institutions of the law, which mainly insist on retribution. What can be more lovely, more according to Christ, than this? And when he would come out, and speak with the children of Israel that which was commanded. This is in connection with God's sanctuary and presence. This was impossible yet. Moses, man just got down on his face and began to worship God.] So that they would not see the fading away of the old covenant, his face was veiled.But Paul goes on to say, "But even today their faces are still veiled when it comes to the word of God." (1) God is good, therefore repent and come to Him; but (2) just, and therefore cannot connive at sin.J. Children become the innocent victims because their parents aren't able to soften their hearts before God and each other enough to make the marriage work. But cloud by day and fire by night, the token of is presence was ever before all Israel (versesExodus 40:34-38; Exodus 40:34-38). God ordered their idols to be cut, to be destroyed, their groves to be cut down. The apostle uses this to show that, as the veiled Moses speaking to the people of Israel is the most apt possible figure of the actual state in which they were placed (that is, not law simply, but with gracious care for the people mingled with it), so the condition of the Christian is in marked contrast. He uses all the personal confidence that God had in him on behalf of the people. And what sweet beauties did his eyes descryemblems of those invisible beauties which the soul in communion with God beholds, The vivid brilliant streaksOf crimson disappear, but oer the hillsA flush of orange hovers, softening upInto harmonious union with the blueThat comes a-sweeping down., (1.) You can't go forty days and forty nights without food or water." Next came the table,* and upon it a defined supply of bread. exodus Web (Exodus) 34 - : . Undoubtedly there is another measure of responsibility. I. In His love He is become a servant for ever; and He loves to be so. WebExodus 34:5-7. We are children, members of the family of God. ". This is pursued to the end of the chapter, and in a very interesting way. Against the fruits of the Spirit there is no law, as the apostle so emphatically says to the Galatians. This bespeaks both freeness and kindness; it intimates not only that he has a compassion to his creatures, but a complacency in them and in doing good to them, and this of his own good-will, and not for the sake of any thing in them. Still Christ does bring us into His own relationship as far as it is possible for the creature to possess it. At the end of the verse, to call in the name of the Lord, is equivalent to proclaiming His name, or promulgating what God would make known to His servant. 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. In answer to Moses who advances in his demands, yet withal no less suiting them to the divine glory than to the people's wants according to the light then vouchsafed, God makes a covenant different from what went before. For the bare possession of a new nature or place would not enable us to do the will of God. And the Lord passed by before him Fixed views of God are reserved for the future state; the best we have in this world are transient. Such was the choice of Jesus not to be merely a servant here on the earth for a time He has chosen of His own gracious will to be servant for ever. It is false that the law is dead. WebMatthew Henry Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 30:1-10. It is no less a misfortune for the Christian, because what those in Christ are called to is neither law, nor the mingled system of law interspersed with the gracious care of those under it (who must have been consumed had law reigned alone), but pure grace in Christ without the law. You know, that would be such a glorious thing if you had a religious nation. (1.) the objects of such countless favours, and of such signal honour on God's part. The blood of the bullock for a sin-offering was put on the horns of the altar; the blood of one ram for a burnt-offering was sprinkled round about upon the altar; and the blood of the other ram for consecration was put on Aaron's right ear, and that of his sons, on their right thumb and right great toe. Another reason also is because Gods mercy cannot be comprehended, except upon the testimony of His word, the certainty of which must needs be well assured lest our salvation should be wavering and insecure. Surely the scripture describes the days in which we live when it refers to "unnatural affections". (379) See C.s own translation. today bible year scripture exodus readings september psalm god (1.) So the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and in all the people among whom thou [shalt, among whom thou] art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is an awesome [The word terrible is an old English word, should be translated "awesome"] thing that I will do with thee. All such doings, &c., must be referred to and compared with the glories that here compose Gods name. This is the God we worship, not the fiction of a disordered fancy or a diseased mind, but the Lord, the Lord God, &c.ii. 2 Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. They prepare the way for types which, instead of displaying God in Christ to man, set forth rather man drawing near by the appointed channel to God. If I may venture on such an expression without irreverence, it is the introducing us into the family circle of the heavens the Father made known in the Son by the Holy Ghost. Moses hews new tables of stoneHe goes up into Mount Sinai for forty daysThe Lord proclaims His name and attributes and reveals His lawHe makes another covenant with IsraelThe skin of Moses face shines, and he wears a veil. If the Spirit of God here puts "sanctified" before "justified," our plain duty is to learn what is meant, not to wrest His word because of Popish misuse of it a misuse due largely to the common ignorance of the primary force of sanctification. This I believe to be the true meaning of the passage, and especially of the term "sanctification of the Spirit" here; though it is frankly and fully allowed that this is not the only meaning of "sanctification" in scripture. Can this God be unkind or unjust? Yet what perhaps, well it's not even any worse, but fathers that abuse their own sons. It is in no way the glory which is the hope of the Christian. "In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before Jehovah." Secondly, when the blood of the victims was shed, it was sprinkled on the book as well as on the people (verses 7, 8). God was able to sustain him without food, without water. Thus the labourer, mechanic, or servant who attends to his work in the faith and fear of God, may be as wise, for his place, as the most useful minister, and he equally accepted of His descending bespeaks his condescension; he humbles himself to take cognizance of those that humble themselves to walk with him. Which, though it sends forth thousand streams, tis neer. Coming from within that light inaccessible, the only-begotten Son from the bosom of the Father declared what was thereviz., love. I. Therefore, according to the usual phrase of Scripture, the sacred name of God is applied to the visible symbol; not that the empty cloud was a figure of the absent Deity, but because it testified His presence according to the comprehension of men. That is very true; it is impossible if you're only dealing with natural things. Exo 34:1. Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Exodus 34:5: Deuteronomy 32:1-43 1 Kings 19:10-18 Psalm 73:12-14 And there the solemn compact into which Israel had passed is renewed. It was the power of the Spirit. His humble reverence and adoration of God's glory, giving him the honour due to that name he had thus proclaimed. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving What were they doing at the high places? The springs of mercy are always full, the streams of mercy always flowing; there is mercy enough in God, enough for all, enough for each, enough for ever. You cannot do that to a child without marking the child, without damaging the child psychologically, putting psychic scars upon that child's mind that's gonna be with him the rest of his life.Thank God for the power of the blood of Jesus Christ; it's the only thing that I know that can straighten up the mess that people's minds are in because of some of the stupid things their parents did. All the people answer when the words and judgments are pronounced, "All the words which Jehovah hath said will we do." 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. However, we find that God was pleased to give subsequently and separately, but yet in connection with the ten words, certain ordinances which concerned Israel in their worship. Every Christian has a nature that is intrinsically divine, as we are told in 2 Peter 1:1-21. Then (Exodus 20:1-26) are uttered those wonderful ten commandments which are the great centre of divine communications through Moses the fundamental expression of God's law. 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. (2.) Even the force of the silver redemption-money he thinks disproved by the fact that the sockets of the door were made of brass. And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. WebThe Lord told him that no man could see His face and live. This warning was particularly appropriate in view of recent events in the worship of the golden idol. He was a sinner, and nothing else. "Thou shalt make thee no molten images.". Without it the guilty people never could have been spared, but must have perished root and branch, as it was in consequence of this change that a new generation of the people of Israel entered into the land at all. Now your first born son, you had to redeem from God. There's a difference between seeing and observing, and God isn't saying, "see the things I command you, but observe", that is see and live in harmony with it. He had made himself known to Moses in the glory of his self-existence and self-sufficiency when he proclaimed that name, I am that I am; now he makes himself known in the glory of his grace, and goodness, and all-sufficiency to us. You can find the best commentary on Exodus for you using the tools on the right side. (2.) Let us not forget it. Therefore God gave Moses three very impressive credentials. The first was a staff that turned to a deadly, venomous serpent (4:2-5). 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. This cloud was to strike an awe upon Moses, that the familiarity he was admitted to might not breed contempt. (2.) Amongst astronomers, remarks Hamilton, it is a favourite speculation that the sun himself is something else than a mere ball of fire, and that inside of his burning atmosphere there may be a mighty globe with cool meadows, seas of glass, rivers of crystal, and every conceivable provision for a vast and rejoicing populationthe possible home of even the just made perfect. The church comes under that now. GOD 'S GLORY VEILED THAT IT MAY BE REVEALED . It was now a question of a nation, and not of individuals merely, thus governed of one nation in the midst of many which were to behold in it the consequences of fidelity or the lack of it toward the law of Jehovah. He is abundant in goodness and truth. WebExodus 34:5-8. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, [Verse nineteen] All that openeth the matrix is mine; [So the first born of everything belongs to God.] WebExodus 34:7 - who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of Perhaps this satisfied him, and he desired no more; as we read not that Thomas did thrust his hand into Christ's side, though Christ invited him to do it. It is in vain to argue that the fruit of the teaching of Peter or of James had the same power with it as the fruit of Paul not very long after, or of John latest of all. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, The No way. Mercy extended to thousands of persons. Truth. It is based upon the Divine immutability; He cannot deny Himself. Universal; keeping mercy for thousands; universal as regards space, universal as regards time. Scholars of all shades of belief have extolled and praised the revelation here concerning the nature, or attributes, of God Himself. WebTheme: Redemption (See this concept - 11x/7v Exodus 6:6; 13:13, 15; 15:13; 21:8, 30; 34:20). So Moses hewed out the two tables of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. We know Him better than even His earthly people will know Him by and by. Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? 2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. What do people mean by restricting themselves to a sense of sanctification which necessarily involves in it so portentous a conclusion? That the God with whom we have to do is a great God. It would be a glorious thing that three times a year all the men in the nation would have to come and stand before God in this time of worship and so forth. And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them. If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. It is not a merely legal way of escaping the dreadful doom that he sees is the just portion of those that despise God. 2. 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. We may have absolute confidence in the word of God. God expounds eleven attributes: YHWH, El, the Merciful One, the Gracious One, the Longsuffering One, the Mighty One, the Kind and Loving One, the True One, the One who Preserves Kindness, the Forgiving One, and the Chastising One. The descent of God, which is here recorded, indicates no change of place, as if God, who fills heaven and earth, and whose immensity is universally diffused, altered His position, but it has reference to the perceptions of men, because under the appearance of the cloud God testified that He met Moses. He delivered up His own Son for you because He prizes you that much. Der Auszug aus gypten oder Exodus (lat. Auszug) ist die Erzhlung von der Rettung der Israeliten aus der Sklaverei des Pharaos gyptens, die im Buch Exodus in Kapitel 115 zu finden ist. Or we could say that He expounded before Moses on the third commandment. It is of no use to decry the plain meaning of the scripture because the Romanist theologian perverts the fact more fatally than the Protestant. [2.] (3.) One loaf? Watch Now Visual Commentary: Exodus 34:6-7 Character of God Series 6:06 Exodus 34:6-7 is one of the most quoted passages in the Bible. Moses sees them so stiff-necked that, for his part, he has neither patience nor power enough to deal with them. There is no doubt that it is the goodness and mercy of God; but it is to a people still under the government of the law. God has revealed His mind, and to this, if wise, we must needs be subject. Divorce has become such an easy thing. : . WebExodus 34:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible MOSES ALLOWED TO SEE GODS GLORY. It is certain therefore that all the common-places about the law as the rule of the Christian's life are practically a denial of what Christianity is. The rest of the book of Exodus consists of the people's response, and the actual accomplishment of the directions that were given inExodus 25:1-40; Exodus 25:1-40; Exodus 26:1-37; Exodus 27:1-21; Exodus 28:1-43; Exodus 29:1-46; Exodus 30:1-38, and calls for no lengthened remarks in such a sketch as this. 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. 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. 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