(3.) Gracious, because unless Gods goodness was tree, spontaneous, and unconstrained, man could never enjoy it, as he has not the wherewith to purchase or deserve or draw it forth (2 Corinthians 8:9). THE FULFILMENT BY GOD OF HIS PROMISE TO MOSES. And Jehovah plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made." It is not a merely legal way of escaping the dreadful doom that he sees is the just portion of those that despise God. Thus it is evident that, no matter what the subject may be, the Sabbath has always a place assigned to it. This is all the more striking too, because even after the redemption of the people from Egypt there are grievous faults, unbelief, complaints, and murmurs; nevertheless, not a blow, not a single answer on God's part save in tender mercy towards a poor and failing people. The thought may sometimes rise, that mercy visits but a favoured few, that the rare gift enriches but rare souls. He is crucified with Christ and nevertheless he lives, yet not himself but Christ in him. Hence, as duty is ever measured by responsibility, that of the Christian is according to the place in which grace has put him. There are all kinds of pressures that have been placed upon the home, and love has been made out to be something that it really isn't. (1.) There, the sins of the parents being visited upon the children.Taking it from a sociological standpoint, and a psychological standpoint there are people today who are having a hard time making it in life because their parents were so totally messed up. His relationship was with them as they then were, redeemed from Egypt by His power and brought to Himself indeed, but only after an outward sort, neither born of God, nor justified. Exodus 34:1. 7 keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation,b. W. Burn. WebTheme: Redemption (See this concept - 11x/7v Exodus 6:6; 13:13, 15; 15:13; 21:8, 30; 34:20). He is not only good to Israel, but good to all; let all take notice of it. fulfill three conditions: (1) _Earliness_: My soul, be ready in the 1. WebThat's the way Joel understood Exodus 34:57. "Thousands "; "Lovingkindness for thousands " Thousands of what? CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. 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. regarded, as the historical account of how God fulfil And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them The ark, the golden table, the golden candlestick, the tabernacle with its curtains, the veil, the brazen altar, and the court, form the first division of the types, the common object of them all being the display of God in Christ to man. But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if you do not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. We may be ignorant, and unable to expose them; but we may rest perfectly sure that God is never wrong and man ever untrustworthy. Where Christ is thus received in the Holy Ghost, a new kind of responsibility is created. Exodus 30:1-38; Exodus 30:1-38 resumes the account, for a reason already explained, of the various vessels of the sanctuary which had to follow the priesthood, and pursue the truth meant by it, namely, the means of access to God. What a motive for parents! We have it intrinsically by the Holy Ghost Himself. That is, we are children as having God's own nature. Ay, God is indeed full of mercys flowers and fruits. Deuteronomy 10:4_. By the physical law of heredity. 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." The word means "exit," "departure" (see Lk 9:31; Heb 11:22 ). made to him. Mercy entailed upon thousands of generations, even those upon whom the ends of the world have come; nay, the line of it is drawn parallel with that of eternity itself. Yet the Bible declares, Paul the apostle prayed for the Ephesians that they might know what are the riches of His inheritance in the saints. 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 ). And WebEnglish Standard Version. This does not take them out of their condition of flesh and blood and all that pertains to it. 8 Moses intreateth God to go with them. I get so tired of hearing them say, "Well, I just don't love them anymore." As Law says, this heart is mercy. "Now Moses is just saying that, "Lord, take these people, put the value on them as Your inheritance." This was impossible yet. Hence, therefore, appears the extent of His goodness, since He blots out an infinite mass of iniquities. When the veil was rent (namely, by Christ dying as a man), man could go into the presence of God, at least the believer. I cannot understand it, don't ask me to explain it.Here is the place where I, as a devout Jew, though I am not a Jew, but as a devout Jew who's just comes to that place where he bows his head and says nothing, when I think of how God has placed such a high value on my life. I speak of our relationship and title. The Divine name was proclaimed personally. 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 The Matthew Henry' Commentary comments on this by saying: "Thus Moses, like a man of a truly public spirit, intercedes even for the children that should be born. This bespeaks his tender compassion, like that of a father to his children. For the Christian it is not so. 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. 24:18). It is the display of God in both cases the one in the presence of God where He manifests Himself; the other in dealing with man and his wants in this world. The childs primer on geography is a very different thing from that which the child has in mature school-days. Oh how I thank God and praise God for the value that He's placed upon my life. Web5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. the Lord, ch. Thus Israel never was under absolute law. were in the first tables, which you broke. _I will write upon these tables. 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. For it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God"( Hebrews 10:27-29 , Hebrews 10:31 ). And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. But sincerity will not serve in lieu of His word; and our own thoughts and desires can never be trusted as a standard of principle or of practice. God is not the discovery of the unaided intellect. 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[ a] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. So he would veil his face when he would go out and talk with the children of Israel, because he would have this shining on his face. (2.) God, the cloud removed from the door of the Tent of Meeting, 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! (vs.1-28) The goats' hair would seem to speak of Christ in His prophetic separateness; the rams' skins dyed red point to His absolute consecration to God; as the power which kept out all evil would appear to be meant by the badgers' or tachach skins, which covered the tent above. The reason is manifest. As He will never cease to be God, He will never cease to be man. It was the seat of Divine Majesty in Israel; and as all know (and most significant it is), the mercy-seat was pre-eminently that throne of God the mercy-seat which afterwards we see with blood sprinkled on it and before it the mercy-seat which concealed the law destructive to the pretensions of man, but maintained it in the place of highest honour, though hidden from human view. And he was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; and he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. with Moses. Six days shalt thou work, but the seventh day shall be a day of rest: even in the harvest time and in the earing time thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, [that is] the first of the wheat harvest ( Exodus 34:21-22 ). Jehovah however stands to His own ways, and says to Moses, "Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. 8. (1.) His relationship is that of a son, not merely of one adopted into that place with no more reality than he obtains in human things. not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; 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. The word continent requires sentence after sentence of explanation to the child-mind; but when the child has become the youthful student, three words suffice to explain the same. And be ready in the descended Exodus 19:18 Exodus 33:9 Numbers 11:17 Numbers 11:25 1 Kings This denotes, [1.] The attributes of God mentioned in this passage are usually cited as follows: (6) forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin (a summary of all wickedness). This sacred glimpse of God's loving mercy lies behind the N.T. WebExodus 34:5 And the Lord descended in the cloud The same with the cloudy pillar, which was now gone up from the door of the tabernacle, and was on high in the air over the 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. Jesus emphasized over and over, "unless you repent, you will likewise perish".People are troubled with the fact that it declares, "visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children to the third and the fourth generation." God would guard His people from an outrage in comeliness, were it even about a dumb or dead animal; as Satan triumphs in all that is abnormal and unnatural in the superstitions which usurp the place of the truth, and are bound up with idolatry. For they who despised Moses' law were put to death in the mouth of two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, he could be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and who hath counted the blood of His covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the spirit of grace? Accordingly they were severed by the ordinance of circumcision and other rites. The bells give their sound when the high priest goes in and when he comes out. 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. This is true, no doubt; but unless it goes farther than this, it is a declarative sanction of God's punishing in case of failure to meet His demands. 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. The more we see of God's goodness the more ashamed we should be of our own sins, and the more earnest for an interest in it. Clearer CONTENTS: Second tables of the law. Thus he expressed, (1.) 5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. It's tragic but there are so much pressures, so many pressures being placed upon the home today. God's promises are intended, not to supersede, but to direct and encourage, prayer. THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. The reason is manifest; for the proper knowledge of the Christian is such knowledge as the Son, speaking according to His own communion with His Father, communicates to us. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. What impression it made upon him: Moses made haste, and bowed his head,Exodus 34:8; Exodus 34:8. 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