Wednesday, January 26, 2005
God wants me to know him
I want to keep going on the altitudes of God. Here is what I think it means. It means that God is knowable. God wants us to seek him and that means he will tell us who he is when we week him. My text tonight is Ex 34. Lets look at this text
4 So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
5 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
Here Moses has gone to God and he gives the Law. God in this tells us who he is. God wanted to show Moses who he was and this is for us to know. Note that God reveals the truth of his name here. God is mercy meaning he gives us forgiveness of our sins. He is grace meaning he gives to us. God gives so much to me. Life and food and all I am and will ever are is in God. God is long suffering. God is going to wait for people to repent and trust him. God is going to put up with wickness holding out hope for one to repent. It is not forever this is going to be. In the end hell is there for the non-repent. If you do not know Jesus you best get it now. God is going to forgive and he is going to save. God is wanting you to know his Love for you.
In the old testament the Lord demanded things to see him. You had to know how to know him and be clean to see him. God did make a way back and to know him. Look at this as a example in Lev
12 The vessel of earth that he who has the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
13 ‘And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in running water; then he shall be clean. 14 On the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and give them to the priest. 15 Then the priest shall offer them, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD because of his discharge.
Note we had to do some things to come into his space.
Here are some Psalms
1 Praise is awaiting You, O God, in Zion;
And to You the vow shall be performed.
2 O You who hear prayer,
To You all flesh will come.
3 Iniquities prevail against me;
As for our transgressions,
You will provide atonement for them.
4 Blessed is the man You choose,
And cause to approach You,
That he may dwell in Your courts.
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
Of Your holy temple.
God shows people who can come into his room. Note the Lord chooses who is going to come in
Ps 145 18 The LORD is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon Him in truth.
He is near and wants to be found
6 Seek the LORD while He may be found,
Call upon Him while He is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
Let him return to the LORD,
And He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
God rewards the seeker with knowledge of his news.
Here is the place where God is giving us his kids the chance to be in his place
51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split,
AS I see Jesus brings me to the place where God wants to know me. Here is the thing Lets go before the Lord that made us his and spend time knowing him
Shadman
4 So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
5 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
Here Moses has gone to God and he gives the Law. God in this tells us who he is. God wanted to show Moses who he was and this is for us to know. Note that God reveals the truth of his name here. God is mercy meaning he gives us forgiveness of our sins. He is grace meaning he gives to us. God gives so much to me. Life and food and all I am and will ever are is in God. God is long suffering. God is going to wait for people to repent and trust him. God is going to put up with wickness holding out hope for one to repent. It is not forever this is going to be. In the end hell is there for the non-repent. If you do not know Jesus you best get it now. God is going to forgive and he is going to save. God is wanting you to know his Love for you.
In the old testament the Lord demanded things to see him. You had to know how to know him and be clean to see him. God did make a way back and to know him. Look at this as a example in Lev
12 The vessel of earth that he who has the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
13 ‘And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in running water; then he shall be clean. 14 On the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and give them to the priest. 15 Then the priest shall offer them, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD because of his discharge.
Note we had to do some things to come into his space.
Here are some Psalms
1 Praise is awaiting You, O God, in Zion;
And to You the vow shall be performed.
2 O You who hear prayer,
To You all flesh will come.
3 Iniquities prevail against me;
As for our transgressions,
You will provide atonement for them.
4 Blessed is the man You choose,
And cause to approach You,
That he may dwell in Your courts.
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
Of Your holy temple.
God shows people who can come into his room. Note the Lord chooses who is going to come in
Ps 145 18 The LORD is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon Him in truth.
He is near and wants to be found
6 Seek the LORD while He may be found,
Call upon Him while He is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
Let him return to the LORD,
And He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
God rewards the seeker with knowledge of his news.
Here is the place where God is giving us his kids the chance to be in his place
51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split,
AS I see Jesus brings me to the place where God wants to know me. Here is the thing Lets go before the Lord that made us his and spend time knowing him
Shadman
