It has brought saving joy to countless multitudes. upon the children. They are made of iron; they are made of stone. This is the brightest jewel of His crownovertopping the heavens, outliving all times, outshining all perfections. Without life it is impossible for one to produce that which is according to God; and without a worthy object, nay without a divine object presented, there can be nothing to draw out divine affections. God having thus proclaimed his name, Moses says, "It is enough, I expect no more till I come to heaven;" at least he did not think fit to relate what he saw. However, the Jews find in this same passage what they are pleased to call "The Thirteen Attributes of God. But what I have stated is very suitable, that, lest impunity should beget audaciousness, after God has spoken of His mercy, He adds an exception, viz., that the iniquity is by no means pardoned, which is accompanied by obstinacy. Grace binds us with Christ as Aaron with his sons. We know Him better than even His earthly people will know Him by and by. It was the power of the Spirit. The latter is practical sanctification, admits of degrees, and is thus relative. Such is the effect, it is to be observed, "when he goeth in" and "when he cometh out." Ver. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, The Lord, the Lord, the The Lord accordingly hearkens in grace, and undertakes for Israel against the Canaanites, warning them against a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and insisting on His own sole worship, His feasts, His firstlings and firstfruits; on His sabbaths, on the absence of leaven and unseemly ways, the fruit of Satan's wiles among the heathen. No covenant was to be made with them, no peace treaty. The consequence of such a division is indeed lowering in the extreme. ", These words must be viewed as a fulfillment on God's part of the revelation which he had promised Moses at the end of the preceding chapter. But God, who showed how He would continually remember those He loved, and who could not have a high priest without having their names in honour and love before Him that blessed God has given us much more. Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 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. THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. This is true indeed, but not so nmch an exposition as a plausible conceit. He descended _in the cloud_ Probably that "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 ). 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. WebHe put a veil on his face: It is easy to think that Moses wore the veil so the people would not be afraid to come near him (Exodus 34:30), or that the purpose of the veil was to protect That wasn't the prophet Isaiah thundering out, that was the writer of the book of Hebrews declaring the judgment of God that shall come upon those who have rejected His grace, and His mercy, through Jesus Christ. This follows here. It is the putting the believer into an entirely new place before God, which is a different thought from his receiving a new nature. This is greatly confirmed by what follows. Then it was sort of a Thanksgiving. This was the second proclamation. 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. manifestation of his glory. The Divine goodness. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. Next, from the latter part ofExodus 27:1-21; Exodus 27:1-21 we have a change evident, and of more weight. This is pursued to the end of the chapter, and in a very interesting way. Let us not forget it. 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. Moses sees them so stiff-necked that, for his part, he has neither patience nor power enough to deal with them. WebExodus 34:5-7 NIV Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD. 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.) (Exodus 27:1-21) Not less than the ark, the golden throne of God in the most holy place, it shows us God's righteousness; but with this difference between them that gold is the righteousness of God for drawing near where God is; brass is the righteousness of God for dealing with man's evil where man is. When he'd go before the Lord he'd take the veil off.Now twice in the New Testament this veil is mentioned there in a couple of different ways. It is recounted daily in Jewish prayers and celebrated in festivals such as Passover. He had to put a veil on his face. 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. He will not always suffer even the pardoned sinner to escape with entire impunity. preacher, and God himself in his covenant engagements is the "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out We must take care that we receive the sense which God intends, otherwise we may err seriously, to His dishonour and to our own hurt and that of others. And it came to pass, when Moses came down from the mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face was shining while he talked with him. It is not thus that the believer, even if a Jew and therefore under law, was withdrawn from its condemning power. Lord wrote on these tables according to the first writing. He besought the Lord again to re-establish His covenant acknowledging the sinfulness of the Israelites with whom he humbly identified. 24/7 Support We wont leave you out to dry. The rabies are gonna kill the dog. proclaimed the name of the LORD. behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite. I grant you that, looking at the Pentecostal saints, in them we see the most powerful united testimony that ever was borne in this world; but it was borne in what was comparatively not the severest trial in earthly things chiefly, the superiority of those who had been newly created in Christ to the wretched selfishness of human nature. There cannot be a more striking illustration of the truth that Christ is the continual object of the Holy Ghost than that, even in these temporary ordinances, God cannot refrain from looking onward to His Son. This is another thing, and only a consequence when the due moment arrives. From this moment a new plea is urged: the faultiness of the people is used as a reason why God should go up the very reason which righteousness made a ground for refusing to go with them, lest His anger should burn against such a stiff-necked people. When the people first swore their faithfulness to the covenant, they promised to keep all its requirements (see 24:3-8), but in practice they failed badly. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The Lord, the Lord, the For any father to make any kind of a sexual advance towards his daughter, something's got to be sick, sick, sick. It will scarcely be affirmed that what we discern in the church, while limited to the circumcision, had the same depth and heavenly character stamped upon it, as what was found when the full grace of God broke all barriers and flowed freely among the Gentiles. (1.) 2. The reason is manifest. (1.) PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD._ The childs primer on geography is a very different thing from that which the child has in mature school-days. Why should souls be driven from the truth by prejudice or clamour? What God is in and o Himself is thus defined: The Lord, the Lord God. The self-existent, self sufficient, all-powerful One. Yet Moses was able to, only by the sustaining hand and power of God. Not just-I can't, in my wildest imagination, I cannot imagine a father abusing his own daughter, or even being attracted to his own daughter in a sexual way. The Had He not done so, we should not have had duly raised the solemn question of man's competence to take the ground of his own fidelity before God. "I will CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. were in the first tables, which you broke. In divine things there is nothing like simplicity; by it we enjoy a wisdom far higher than our own and real power to strengthen and guide the heart. God is oftentimes faulted. Even the force of the silver redemption-money he thinks disproved by the fact that the sockets of the door were made of brass. 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. They greatly err who in this sense quote "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin," and stop there. But if I don't kill it, that mad dog can actually kill a lot of these beautiful, innocent little children. Therefore, they were to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread and maintain the practice of redeeming their firstborn (18-20; see 12:15-36; 13:1-16). This proclamation is of valuei. Or, he will not clear the impenitently guilty, that go on still in their trespasses: he will not clear the guilty without some satisfaction to his justice, and necessary vindications of the honour of his government. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." 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. concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His Much of what is boastfully called natural theology, and the revelation of God in the universe, are but facts read into nature from the Bible and by Bible men. He would cause the world to be amazed at the greatness of his power as he drove out nation after nation to give his people the land he had promised them (10-11). God ordered their idols to be cut, to be destroyed, their groves to be cut down. 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. As He will never cease to be God, He will never cease to be man. 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. His mercy is grace, free grace; this teaches us to be not only pitiful, but courteous, 1 Peter 3:8. Abundant; to Gods goodness there is no limit. He ordered that there should be the Urim and the Thummim connected with the high priest's breastplate; that is the means of divine guidance for the people. No doubt the time was not yet come for God to reveal Himself as He is. And when their child is born, it is born with an addiction to drugs. Web5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. And Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land. a. 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