“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of Jehovah before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
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… the scene in Exodus chapter 33, where Moses asked God to show him his glory. And the Lord said in response, I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. But he said, You cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live. And then the Lord said, There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock, and when my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. And then I will remove my hand, and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen. I love once when we begin even just to get an inkling of this wonder of God who is transcendent. it points to triviality at any point in our experience, not least of all in our worship. …
… quoting Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. That's the end of human boasting. It's over. It's the death of self idolatry. Finally, number four, Moses drives the stake through the heart of self idolatry by teaching justification by faith alone apart from works of the law. Justification by faith alone apart from works of the law. In In Romans 4, Paul builds his entire argument on Moses, namely Genesis 15-16. Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness. You have to be righteous friends, you know this. You feel it. If you don't have a stitch of training in Christianity, you know your conscience says, if I'm ever to stand before the living God, I've got to have a righteousness. You can try to establish your own righteousness, it's called self-righteous, or you can embrace Jesus whose righteousness counts for years. Here's Romans 10, 3 and 4. Being ignorant of the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own. …
Make you think of a text? I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. I will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. Exodus 33, 19, Romans 9, 15. This is the election of grace. As Paul calls it in Romans 11, 5. the election of Israel according to sheer, sovereign, free grace. And since the choice of Israel is totally of grace, not deserved by any ethnic feature, any human trait, any spiritual qualification, it excludes all boasting. And as soon as any Jewish person begins to boast that God must show him or her favor because of Jewishness, the words of John the Baptist ring out. Do not presume to say to yourselves, we have Abraham as our father, because God can raise up from stones, children to Abraham. which means that when the Bible speaks of Israel as chosen and existing for the glory of God, which we'll see in just a minute, it means for the glory of his grace. Israel exists by sheer, sovereign, free, electing grace. …
… at the beginning at the 18th verse, and it says, And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. This is Moses talking to God. And he said, I will make God is now talking back to him. They're having a conversation. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee. Can you imagine that? I'm going to make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. And see, what you have to understand if you read the whole chapter, Moses is trying to figure out God's name because God has only told him that I am that I am. And he says, I want to know you. I want to have a deeper relationship. You have known me. I want to know you. So the Lord says, I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. …
… and we just close with these last three verses where moses said in verse 18 please show me your glory and god said i will make all my goodness pass before you and and will proclaim before you my name the lord and i will be gracious to whom i will be gracious and i will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But he said, you cannot see my face for man cannot see me and live. How in the world can we read verses like this? And then treat these times as common. When you have a God that says, man cannot see my face and live. I sure hope your times with God have not grown routine and common. Meditate on these passages. Return to Exodus 32-33. If your times with him ever get ordinary or dry, and remind yourself of the holiness of God.
… Now, today we're looking at this fascinating spot in verse 11 where it says, The Lord would speak to Moses face to face as a man speaks with his friend. What's friendship with God? Why would God dare call himself our friend? And let's ask the question of the text like this. Why is friendship with God so important? So why is it so important? Then secondly, what it is? And thirdly, what it brings? And lastly, how we get it. Why it's important, what it is, what it brings, how we can get it. Now, number one, why is it important? You have to understand this incident here where Moses goes out to the tent of meeting and gets things from God. You see, for example, it says, whenever Moses would go out, all the people rose and stood at the entrance of the tent. Anyone inquiring of the Lord would ask Moses, and then Moses would go into the tent, what is this all about? It's very simple. …