Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back; but my face shall not be seen.
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… 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. You see, because if your notion and my notion of God is that he is simply somehow an extension of myself—he is, as in the book Places in the Heart, Sheila's God—she says—sheila, one of the characters in the book, says, I have my own little God. I call it Sheila. And my religion is called Sheelahism. Well, there's a huge difference between that and this. But if we live with this, then when we come to worship and someone says, Come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our God, our Maker. …
… He's talking to you. And I will take away my hand and thou shalt see my back parts, my afterglow. That we're going to get into that a little bit more. But my face shall not be seen. Can you say amen? Remain standing with me for a minute. I want to talk about close proximity. Close proximity. No longer afar off, no longer at a distance, but close proximity. Let's pray while we're standing. Spirit of the living God, fall fresh. Anoint these lips of clay that they may be endowed with what is necessary to declare the word of God so clearly and succinctly that the children understand it as well as the oldest amongst us. from the illiterate to the most profound, educated person in the room. Let the word of God hit everybody and everybody come into an awareness of what you're able to do and speaking to them in your own language and in a way that they can understand it. Make it plain, make it clear, make it relevant, make it life-reforming, make it life-changing, make it thirst-quenching, mind-renewing. …
… 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. …