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God’s Covenants

Part 1: Abraham Part 2: Moses Part 3: David

Here are the songs we sang this Sunday. This shows the song name, the artist who performed the song, and the cd that contains the song.

At Your Name – Phil Wickham – Response Jesus – Chris Tomlin – Jesus Mighty to Save – Hillsong (Live) – Mighty to Save Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) – Hillsong United – ZION Because of Your Love – Paul Baloche – A Greater Song

Cologne Cathedral

The Sistine (“16th”) Chapel

Botticelli’s Trials of Moses

Recap from last week

• Covenant basics

The basics: God’s covenants are

• all about relationship
• fundamental to understanding the bible
• always at His initiative and by His grace
• for our good and His glory
• both conditional and unconditional
• filled with promises we can trust

Recap from last week

• God’s covenant with Abraham promised a

people, a place, and a permanent relationship

• All nations blessed through Abraham
• Abraham believed God,

God counted it as righteousness

• God will fulfill both sides of the covenant

600 Years from Abraham to Moses

• Covenant promises confirmed to Isaac,

then Jacob, and then 12 tribes of Israel

• Joseph, Egypt, a family becomes a nation
• Forgetful Pharaoh: oppression, slavery,

and attempted genocide

• Moses, plagues, passover, and exodus

God’s Covenant with Moses

A listening outline and challenge

• The promises of the covenant
• The primary obstacle to the covenant
• A curious re-confirming of the covenant
• God’s provision for keeping His covenant

Exodus 19:3-4

Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD …said, “This is what you are to…tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.

Exodus 19:5-6

Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession for the whole earth is mine. You will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’

Exodus 19:7-8

So Moses…set before them all the words the LORD had commanded him to speak. The people all responded together, “We will do everything the LORD has said.” So Moses brought their answer back to the LORD.

Exodus 20:1-3

And God spoke all these words: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me.

Exodus 20:4-5a

“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or

• n the earth beneath or in the waters
• below. You shall not bow down to them or

worship them;

Exodus 20:5b

for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

Exodus 20:6

but showing love to a thousand generations

• f those who love me and keep my

commandments.

Exodus 20-23

• The Ten Commandments
• People are terrified of God
• Book of the Covenant

Exodus 24:3

When Moses went and told the people all the LORD’s words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the LORD has said we will do.”

Exodus 24:4

Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 24:5

Then he sent young Israelite men, and they

• ffered burnt offerings and sacrificed young

bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.

Exodus 24:6-7

Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey.”

Exodus 24:8

Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

Exodus 24-31

• Moses, elders approach God (24)
• God writes and gives the tablets (24)
• Moses spends 40 days with God(24)
• Tabernacle plans and blueprints (24-31)

Exodus 32

When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain… they said to Aaron, “Come, make us a god who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”

Exodus 32:2-4

Aaron…“Take off your gold earrings…and bring them to me.” …He cast them into an idol in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “This is our god, O Israel, who brought (us) up out of Egypt.”

Exodus 32:5-6

Aaron…built an altar in front of the calf… “Tomorrow will be a festival to the LORD.” …the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings... Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.

Exodus 32:7-8

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them…

Exodus 32:9-10

“I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked

• people. Now leave me alone so that my

anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

Exodus 32:11

But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

Exodus 32:12

Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars and I will give your them all this land I promised, and it will be their inheritance forever.’”

Exodus 32:14

Then the LORD relented and did not bring

• n his people the disaster he had

threatened.

Exodus 32-33

• Moses returns, sees and burns with anger
• Smashes the tablets, destroys the idol
• Confronts Aaron, calls for repentance
• Commissions the Levites
• Punishment, plague, and pleading

Exodus 32-33

• People mourn in deep repentance
• Flows into genuine worship
• Moses continues to intercede
• Asks God for His continued presence and
• A glimpse of His Glory
• God graciously grants

Exodus 34:4

So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.

Exodus 34:5

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD.

Exodus 34:6-7a

He passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.

Exodus 34:7b

Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”

Exodus 34:8-9

Moses bowed to the ground at once and

• worshiped. “Lord,” he said, “if I have found

favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with

• us. Although this is a stiff-necked people,

forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”

Exodus 34:10

Then the LORD said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you.

The promises

• Treasured

Possession

• Kingdom of

Priests

• God’s Personal

Presence

The obstacles

• Our SIN
• Rebellion
• Stubbornness
• His Holiness
• His Law

God’s provision

• His mediator
• His character
• His love
• His forgiveness

Conclusion

Because He loves us and we love Him, God faithfully forgives and forgets our sin.