God Restores Us Through His Word
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There's a really wonderful thing that happens when we read scripture. We find encouragement and direction. We find correction and strength. But there's something else that happens. I started call it the coin effect. Because every coin has two sides. And even when we are reading Scripture about other people and their relationship with God, we can flip that coin and see our relationship with God. It helps us to see how others relationship Jehovah works. Reading the Bible gives us a better understanding of what's needed and expected in this relationship.
Now whether your heads or tails on the coin I don't know. And it may depend on the day on how you feel. What I so know is that when we read about Israel, we can read about ourselves as well. Their sins and struggles and shame are sins and struggles and shame that we deal with . So in a lot of ways Israel is us.
Israel at times does not follow God's plan and we have not followed His plan either. You and I have sinned against our great and holy God, Iso had Israel. Sometimes when I read about Israel and their need of Grace I realize the flip side of the coin is we need His Grace too.
God Restores His Word
God Restores His Word
When Israel broke their bond and their relationship with God? It broke Moses's heart and enraged him. Remember as Moses came near to the camp and saw the calf and the people dancing, his anger flared. He threw down the tablets and smashed them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
But God's not giving up on His people and He's willing to restore His word they may know of His care and His love for them and how to live and have a proper relationship with Him. Real love doesn't give up
The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.” So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
When Israel broke their bond and their relationship with God? It broke Moses's heart and enraged him. Remember as Moses came near to the camp and saw the calf and the people dancing, his anger flared. He threw down the tablets and smashed them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
But God's not giving up on His people and He's willing to restore His word they may know of His care and His love for them and how to live and have a proper relationship with Him. Real love doesn't give up
Now whether your heads or tails on the coin I don't know. And it may depend on the day on how you feel. What I so know is that when we read about Israel, we can read about ourselves as well. Their sins and struggles and shame are sins and struggles and shame that we deal with . So in a lot of ways Israel is us.
But there's something here that we're going to pray about this morning. We're going to pray that just like Moses had been promised, and now Joshua been promised it now God will also make it so no one can stand before you. Our prayer is that in the same way Jehovah was with Moses, Hell be with you. God won’t give up on you; Jesus won’t leave you.
In these verses hear God is promising to give a portion to is people. AA territory. Area. Now it may be God's plan for you to have some land. But there might be a new Venture for you as there is a new school year on the horizon. And if even if you're not in school you might be still plugging away in the school of life and there's a new area that God wants to give you. Of spiritual territory you might say. And what we're talking about is there maybe a certain place that God wants to see you Excel and he's prepared a way for you but we have to be faithful to follow. Sometimes in life it can be scary. Sometimes we are in love with someone and we feel we should take the next step but we are afraid to ask them out. Or maybe you're afraid to ask someone to marry you. In that regards this is the same kind of thing we're talking about. Maybe you are to ask your boss for a raise. Maybe you were to ask for a new position at work. But you have been hesitant because you're fearful that maybe you were not going to get that promotion. Maybe you won't get that job. Maybe your boss will say no to the raise. But if there is something God has put on your heart and he has been preparing those steps for you, we have to be faithful to go through on it. There are certain things that God is decreed in life that will come true. If there are things that God is purpose in your life so you'll be in that place to love people, to receive the benefits of being faithful, and to minister to others, this morning we want to pray that you would not only be faithful. But you would quickly follow that plan. Often we hear about ministers who have been called by God to preach the word but they refused to go. And we hear how they suffer. We hear how the more they run from God the more miserable they are. I remember one brother and Christ by the name of David he was very successful in business he owns his own business he told of the the great economic Bounty of his work, but he was completely miserable the whole time. Until he finally surrendered his life to Christ and that's when he found such great freedom and living out the faith that God always called him to!
Israel at times does not follow God's plan and we have not followed His plan either. You and I have sinned against our great and holy God, Iso had Israel. Sometimes when I read about Israel and their need of Grace I realize the flip side of the coin is we need His Grace too.
When Israel broke their bond and their relationship with God? It broke Moses's heart and enraged him. Remember as Moses came near to the camp and saw the calf and the people dancing, his anger flared. He threw down the tablets and smashed them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
But God's not giving up on His people and He's willing to restore His word they may know of His care and His love for them and how to live and have a proper relationship with Him. Real love doesn't give up
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Some of us have found people in life that when things break down they don't stick with us. Sometimes they just flat abandon you when life gets turbulent. They disappear on you when life happens. Some emotionally checked out. Others mentally zone you out. They put physical distance between you and them. Some completely divorced themselves from you in their heart. And on paper.
What you find is some of these people never really loved you. It was all about what they can get from you. Their care or love for you was based off of performance. And when you did not jump through hoops or do good enough. They nixed you. But God's not that way. We've never been able to offer God anything. Never been able to live up to any kind of bargain. And yet scripture says that God chose to love us and make His own. That's the Lord’s relationships with us. That's why He's restoring His word with Israel. To restore that broken relationships so they may be right with Him again.
In Jeremiah we read -
Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
God’s word is so powerful that it can destroy the lies of Satan. It can incinerate what is holding you back in life. God’s word is a well spring of hope and an endless supply of strength. Anything someone has said to you, done to you, even held against you- God’s word is more powerful. Yahweh can break down whatever wall we have built up in our lives betweens him and us. He will break them down, but we have to let down our guard and ask Him in to our lives. Why don’t you do that today.
Ask God to consume all the things that are keeping you down and from living for Him. Pray and ask God to destroy the shackles of spiritual bondage that enslave you.
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
5 You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
God’s plans for your include a future now and a future in eternity with Him. You have people in your life that you are there was no future for you… The sin in your life may have prevented you from living the life you have dreamed of… Your family may have told you that nothing good can ever happen for you because of who you are. Kids at school may tell you that you are the wrong type of person.... But that is not what God said.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Some of us right now are being held down by things that were said to us over the years. We needed power of God and His word to destroy the past. Destroy the lies. To destroy what what said about us. We were told we could not accomplish anything and so now we feel we can't. Or maybe so much bad has happened we feel that nothing good could ever happen. A lot of people will tell me that they have no worth and nothing good should ever happen for them.
Some of us right now are being held down by things that were said to us over the years. We needed power of God and His word to destroy the past. Destroy the lies. To destroy what what said about us. We were told we could not accomplish anything and so now we feel we can't. Or maybe so much bad has happened we feel that nothing good could ever happen. A lot of people will tell me that they have no worth and nothing good should ever happen for them.
Some of us right now are being held down by things that were said to us over the years. We needed power of God and His word to destroy the past. Destroy the lies. To destroy what what said about us. We were told we could not accomplish anything and so now we feel we can't. Or maybe so much bad has happened we feel that nothing good could ever happen. A lot of people will tell me that they have no worth and nothing good should ever happen for them.
But no where do we see that assigned to us in scripture. Know where does God say that.
Know God's word says that he's so valued us as his creation that he died for us. That none of us are any good. That because of our sin we are always the wrong kind of people the problem is the other people in your life think that there is something special when they're not. They think they are all that and a bag of chips and the big fat chocolate chip cookie at the end. But really they are failed sinners who have no hope apart from God. And that's everyone who walks and breathes upon this Earth. Jesus came for you and he came for them he came for me and everyone here because we were already condemned by our sin. He came to save us. He came so that way anyone who would claim him, that would call upon his name would be saved. Jesus died so that straight jacket of sin and condemnation would be removed from us so that way we could finally take a breath of life in Jesus and be free. Free from it all. Free in Jesus who died your death and paid the price for you.
In the Bible tells us that when you have new life you are not the same person anymore. You may look the same on the outside but you're definitely not the same on the inside. You have a new heart, a New Hope, a New love, and with that comes a new identity in Christ.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
God Renews His Covenant
God Renews His Covenant
And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst. You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods. “You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal. “You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. All that open the womb are mine, all your male livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed. “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end. Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year. “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.” And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
Ex 34:0-27
5 You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
God Radiates His Glory
God Radiates His Glory
So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. Whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
ex 34:
28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 30 Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. 32 Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. 34 Whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, 35 the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
God’s word is so powerful that it can destroy the lies of Satan. It can incinerate what is holding you back in life. God’s word is a well spring of hope and an endless supply of strength. Anything someone has said to you, done to you, even held against you- God’s word is more powerful.
When we trust Christ in faith we become a new person, a new creature. If God Almighty does not hold your past against you anymore then why should others... why should you? God's standard is perfection. It's true and complete righteousness. And if God standard can't be met by us except through Christ and then when he looks upon us he sees his son who is all those things, what are other people trying to hold you to with their views? Why would they hold you to a greater standard than God? Why wouldn't they love you like God loves us?
Here at Chapelwood where a bunch of imperfect people who have found out that the only way to have happiness and joy in this life and as well as an eternal life is in a relationship with Jesus Christ. and that's why we love other people like Jesus loves us.... It is a love that unconditional, unreserved, and unrelenting.
As much as having a Church family is important your most important relationship is with God through His son Jesus who died for you!
As much as having a Church family is important your most important relationship is with God through His son Jesus who died for you!
All you have you do is start that relationship by asking Him to forgive you and save you.
Remember our passage this morning - The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty
The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty
We are guilty of sin.You and I are responsible for it. God will not excuse us. God will hold us accountable for the sin we commit.
This morning I don't know where you are in a relationship with God. Whether you're at the beginning or you're somewhere at the middle. But there's one thing I'm certain of. We all need to take another step forward in faith today.