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Moses and the Veil
Introduction
Mt Athos
20 Monostaries
Place for the pursuit of Holiness.
Todd Story
Todays text is an account about coming face to face with the Holiness of God, how we can begin to reflect his Glory back into the world.
Main Point: Under Moses the the mediator of God’s presence brings fear, under Jesus it brings freedom.
Let me bring out a few observations from the text that would have been important to the original hearers.
Mountain - A place of revelation through out the Bible
Tablets - The foundational documents of the Old Covenant.
Moses - Mediator between God and the people
[11] Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.
When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
(ESV)
[11] Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.
When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
(ESV)
People
People - The people of Israel just after they had been very disobedient
Main Point: Under Moses the the mediator of God’s presence brings fear, under Jesus it brings freedom.
Explicit interpretation from Saint Paul
There is a certain Premise where we use the New Testament to interpret the Old Testament.
There was a certain meaning for the people who originally read the Exodus Text, mainly what we just mentioned, over that we give its its higher and better interpretation
What the Apostle Paul uses this event in the life of Moses to compare and contrast the Old Covenant to the New Covenant.
Let me just take a minute with the Old and New Covenant
Covenant of Noah
Covenant of Abraham
Covenant of Moses
Covenant of David
New Covenant
Covenant of Noah
So in our text we have this poetic examination of these two in light of Moses
Condemnation verses righteousness
Limited Glory verses Limitless Glory
Fleeting verses Permanent
We have it even better than Moses did the same Moses.
We are the mediators
With the law in our hearts
Can stand in the presence of Glory and be objects of Glory
We can be transformed
Main Point: Under Moses the the mediator of God’s presence brings fear, under Jesus it brings freedom.
How then shall we live?
With boldness
We will experience a Glory beyond the Glory of Moses
We can live without fear, with complete moral courage.
In our careers
In our social circles
Educationally
Financial
Personal safety
Main Point: Under Moses the the mediator of God’s presence brings fear, under Jesus it brings freedom.
The New Covenant and the New Old Covenant
I think the church is living in fear of the wrong things.
John Stott the Bible Speaks today
There is still an important place for sharing the gospel with church-goers, God-fearing people on the fringe of the church, who may attend services only occasionally.
The equivalent of the agora will vary in different parts of the world.
It may be a park, city square or street corner, a shopping mall or market-place, a ‘pub’, neighborhood bar, café, discothèque or student cafeteria, wherever people meet when they are at leisure.
I think what our non-Christian neighbor is fighting against is a covenant of works, but new works, a New Old Covenant.
Eat organic not McDonalds
Keep your kids away from screens
Have a career and a clean house
Don’t be materialistic but live in a great nieborhood with great school district.
Have the exact right opinions on women’s health race sexuality and gender and be in constant advocacy for those opinions.
Men don’t be self obsessed but look like you lift
Women don’t be a sexual object, and don’t be a prude.
And don’t worry if any of you gets it right we will change the rules next week.
Come to me all you who are weary I will give you rest.
The gospel takes the paradigm of freedom and gives its highest meaning
Fake freedom verses gospel freedom.
Main Point: Under Moses the the mediator of God’s presence brings fear, under Jesus it brings freedom.
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