14 July 2019 - Secrets From Moses’ 40 Days - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon Notes(Originally preached on 26 November 2014) John 1:17 - The Law was given from a distance, but Grace (Jesus) came in person. The Law is true, but Grace is the truth that will set you free. “For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17 WEB) A servant (Moses) can tell you what claims and demands the Master has upon you, but it takes the Son to unveil the heart of God. Exodus 32:30 - Moses wasn’t sure (he said “perhaps”) that he could make atonement for Israel, whereas our Lord Jesus went up to the cross sure that He would make atonement for us. “On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”” (Exodus 32:30 WEB) Moses had 2 occasions of 40 days with God—1) Moses came down because of Israel’s idolatry, 2) Moses came down from Mount Sinai after receiving all commandants and statutes from God. Jesus also had 2 occasions of 40 days with God—1) the testing from the devil in the wilderness. Jesus came out of the 40 days with the power to bless. 2) Jesus spent 40 days with the disciples on earth after His resurrection. 40 is the number of testing, trial or probation. Jesus was not tempted to sin. He was tested by the devil. Jesus had no sin nature, so there was no stirrings inside Him when the devil tried to tempt Him. Jesus was born of a virgin, being totally free from sin from birth. Jesus is impeccable. It’s not that He would not sin—He could not sin. Jesus is like a pure gold bar, tested and verified that there is no impurity in Him. It’s not enough to know a person’s ways. You must know the person’s heart. Does God judge and discipline? Yes. But He doesn’t punish believers. Today the world is interested in creation. In the whole Bible, only only one chapter was dedicated to creation—Genesis 1. However, Moses wrote 7 chapters dedicated to God’s redemption—Exodus 25-31, corresponding to Moses’ 40 days on Mount Sinai. Deuteronomy 9:8-12 - During the period of Egypt to Sinai, God dealt with Israel by pure Grace. There was no record that God was ever angry with them during that time. Israel kept sinning against God during that time, but God just kept providing for their needs. It was not dependent on Israel’s goodness, but on His goodness. Had Israel said “Don’t bless us based on our faithfulness but on Your faithfulness,” God wouldn’t have given them the Law. The Law was never given to justify man, but to expose man’s sinfulness. The Law results in the wrath of God. Do you want to be under Law or Grace? How can we be fulfilled by the shadow (Law), when the substance (Grace) has already been given? Moses had the Grace to fast for 40 days and 40 nights. Read the Four Gospels—in the presence of Jesus, no one died. In His presence there is healing and even resurrection. To partake unworthily of Holy Communion means to act as though your sins are not already all forgiven. Moses only received the tablets of the Ten Commandments at the end of the 40 days. Moses broke the two tablets of the Ten Commandments and God wasn’t angry. If Moses had brought the tablets into the camp, all the children of Israel would have died—the Law is the ministry of death. Whoever was on Moses’ side gathered to him (specifically the tribe of Levi), and they slew 3000 people who insistent on worshiping the golden calf. On the other hand, when the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Day of Pentecost, 3000 souls were saved. The second time Moses came down from the mountain with the new tablets of the Law, Moses put them in the Ark of the Covenant—a picture of our sins covered and forgiven because of the blood of Jesus Christ. “Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you. When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly. It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant. Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”” (Deuteronomy 9:8-12 WEB) Israel boasted in their ability to do anything that God wanted (Exodus 19). They pledged obedience to whatever contract without seeing it first. Right after that, God covered the mountain in a dark cloud and said that whoever approached would die. Before that, God never did this. What was the result of Israel’s boasting? They committed idolatry by making a golden calf to worship. Under Grace, we can draw near to God and receive more life—it is a new and living way. The blood of bulls and goats only provides a temporary covering. The blood of Jesus provides a lasting forgiveness. The blood of Jesus has made us totally righteous. God the Father is so pleased with Jesus’ finished work. We are no longer under Law, but under Grace. We are sons, not just servants.
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