Key Episode Scripture: Exodus chapters 32-34 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.” So he was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, […]
Read More For 40 Days – Day 10: Covenant Renewed: ConsequencesKey Episode Scripture: Exodus chapters 32-34 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. (Exodus 34:29 ESVUK) Why did Moses spend a second […]
Read More For 40 Days – Day 9: Covenant Renewed: ConclusionsKey Episode Scripture: Exodus chapters 32-34 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. (Exodus 33:11 ESVUK) Moses spends 40 days without bread or water in […]
Read More For 40 Days – Day 8: Covenant Renewed: ConceptsKey Episode Scripture: Exodus chapters 32-34 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 […]
Read More For 40 Days – Day 7: Covenant Renewed: ContentKey Episode Scripture: Exodus chapters 32-34 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 […]
Read More For 40 Days – Day 6: Covenant Renewed: ContextAaron going with Moses was not a concession by God. I can see how it looks that way. Moses gave reasons why he couldn’t do what God called him to do, and God finally said, “OK, how about your brother, Aaron?” Yet the reasoning that God outlines shows something more than a concession. It shows […]
Read More JJ 24 #03: Not On Your Own You Won’tMoses had spend considerable time in the Lord’s presence. This was for the sole purpose of getting God’s instructions for the construction of a special dwelling place. Moses paid careful attention to the instructions and then encouraged the people to likewise pay attention to them and offer any support they could to the development of […]
Read More A Moses Profile: 18 – Set Up to be Settled InHe had interceded for his people. He already enjoyed the privilege of engaging with God as friend to a friend. Now, however, Moses sought something more. Please show me your glory. Exodus 33:18 The relationship between God and Moses was already special. The first encounter had seen Moses given an insight into who God was that […]
Read More A Moses Profile: 17 – Not Just The Regular (Part Two)Moses was clearly a man given to routines. Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. Whenever Moses went out to the tent, […]
Read More A Moses Profile: 16 – Not Just The Regular (Part One)Has someone ever shared with you an incident that got them really upset and when you heard it, you thought they might be overreacting? Maybe it’s not that bad, you think. It’s something that can be dealt with in a calm and rational manner, you think. Then you go and see the situation for yourself […]
Read More A Moses Profile: 15 – Anger and Intercession
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