Mt. Sinai

All right, good morning. Let's go to Exodus chapter 19 is

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where we're going to start Exodus chapter 19.

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But Exodus chapter 19 Well, thank you for some of have asked

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fine. So Exodus chapter 19, we're

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going to read verses one through 8.

Remember we started a new series called Mountains and Valleys and

we are in the mountains right now and we're going to look at a

second one this morning. We're going to look at Mount

Sinai, but I'm going to read our text and then we're going to

pray and get into this lesson. Exodus chapter 19 and verse one.

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We'll read verses one through 8 it says.

And in the third month when the children of Israel were gone

forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the

wilderness of Sinai, for they were departed from Refidim and

were come to the desert of Sinai and had pitched in the

wilderness. And there Israel camped before

the mount, and Moses went up in unto God.

And the Lord called unto him out of the mountains, saying, Thus

shalt thou say to the House of Jacob, and tell the children of

Israel, You have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I

bear you on eagle's wings, and brought you unto myself.

Now therefore, if you will keep, if you will obey My voice

indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar

treasure unto unto Me above all people, For all the earth is

mine, and you should be unto me a Kingdom of priests and an holy

nation. These are the word which which

thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

So he was talking to Moses that whole time.

And verse 7. And Moses came and called for

the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all

these words which the Lord commanded him.

And all the people answered together, and said, All that the

Lord has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of

the people unto the Lord. Let's pray and then we'll get

into this lesson. Father, I thank you for this day

you've given us. Thank you for the opportunity we

have to open your word. God, I pray we would never take

that for granted. Every single week, multiple

times a week, we come in and we are able to open your word and,

and glean from it and God, and there are other places that do

that under, under the threat of, of real harm and from their

governments and different things.

So God, I pray that we would just take these privileges that

we have to do that and be thankful for them.

And God, I just pray as we open your word today that you would

feed us from it both this morning here in Sunday school,

but also in the in the service to follow in Jesus name, I pray,

Amen. Now I was reading through here

because you start to get in OK. And in Exodus chapter 20, we're

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going to skip the rest of chapter 19, but it talks about

the the instructions from God to Moses saying, look, don't let

the people get too close. They touch them out and I'm

going to kill them. And so then you get to chapter

20 and we all know what chapter 20 is.

That's the 10 commandments. But I got to looking at it and

you know, very quickly. So you had in verse 8, verse 7,

and Moses came and called for the elders and laid before their

faces all the words which the Lord had commanded.

This is in chapter 19 and verse 8, all the people answered

together. This is the leaders, the elders

and said all that the Lord has spoken we will do.

And by chapter 32, they got a golden calf.

So I got to looking at that. And that's not the point of this

lesson this morning. But how did that happen so

quickly? Well, you have in chapter

2020120223 all the way to chapter 32, when Moses comes

back down the mountain, that's him.

That's God giving the law to Moses.

That's what that is and so if you read through there chapter

23, just jump right in. Thou shalt not raise a false

report. Put not thine hand with the

wicked to be an to be an unrighteous witness.

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.

Verse chapter 24 he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord,

thou and Aaron and Nadab and abaya and 70 of the elders of

Israel and worship you far off. Moses alone shall come near the

Lord, but thou shalt not come thine neither shall the people

go up with him. Moses came and told the people

all those words and then God gives him some more law and, and

all the way through these these 1012 chapters, we have God

giving Moses the law of what was supposed to happen.

And no wonder what Moses is up there for 40 days and 40 nights

talking to God. He comes down and they've got a

golden calf, exactly what God just told them not to do.

Now they didn't have the 10 commandments yet.

But remember in chapter 19 he says, if you will obey my voice

and keep my covenant, and you should, then you'll be a

peculiar treasure unto me above all people.

And verse 8, all the people answered together and said all

that the Lord has spoken we will do.

And literally 40 days later they've got a golden calf and

they're worshipping it. So no wonder Moses was so

frustrated and crushes those tosses, those, those 10

commandments that were written on it and breaks them and makes

them eat the golden calf literally that he grounded up.

But we want to look real quickly at Mount Sinai then.

So this this whole chapters 19 through 32, roughly what was the

significance of Mount Sinai? And we're going to jump straight

into this. But you know, the 10

commandments that we have is really a summary of about 600

plus commands that the law had given the children of Israel.

So the 10 commandments were not the only thing they had to

follow. Now remember in the New

Testament when the, when the rich young ruler comes to Christ

and says, I've kept all those commandments.

He didn't keep all 600 and whatever commandments that that

God had given to Moses, but he was talking about the 10

commandments. I've I've kept those from my

youth and it's just a summary of the law.

So let's jump straight into it. What was the purpose of this law

that God was giving the children of Israel?

We see that in verse 3 of chapter 19.

Moses went up unto God and the Lord called unto him out of the

mountains, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the House of Jacob,

and tell the children of Israel, You've seen what I did unto the

Egyptians, and how I bear you on eagle's wings, and brought you

unto myself. Here's the purpose of the law

now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my

covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above

all people for all the earth is mine and you shall be unto me a

Kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of

Israel and then we already read verse 7.

Moses shows that to the to the, to the elders and they agree to

it. Now God was directing.

It's, it's very important here that what we see in verse 3,

because look how many times even before this, we see the children

of Israel rebel against Moses. You've, you've brought us to the

Red Sea. Now we're going to die.

The the Egyptians are behind us. The sea is in front of us and we

should have just left us there. God delivers them.

They cross the Red Sea and and if you read through Exodus, it's

like every chapter starts with the children of Israel

complaining about something, right?

So God is clear here to Moses in verse 3 and the Lord called on

to him out of the mountain saying, thus shalt thou say to

the House of of Jacob and tell the children of Israel.

God is saying, tell them this is from me.

This is not your law that you're giving them because they will

not follow it. It's too much to follow anyways,

even coming from God. But I want them, I do want them

to attempt to follow this law, but tell them it's from me.

So God gives Moses that first, but then he goes to verse 4 and

says, remind them what I delivered them out of in verse

4, ye have seen what I did under the Egyptians and how I bear you

on eagle's wings and brought you unto myself.

So God's about to give them these, this huge law that they

need to follow, but he says, but remind them that I delivered

them out of Egypt. And I think the reason he

reminds them of this is because they, they're going to resist in

their hearts, they're going to resist this law, but they needed

to be reminded of the goodness of God what he had brought them

out of. So God is not trying to make a

case or or convince them to follow.

He's just easing the, the instruction a little bit because

he knows these people for 19 chapters we see them fighting

and fighting and fighting God's man.

So he's, he's getting ready to give them the law.

But he says, Moses, tell them it's from me.

And also remind them that this is with their best interest in

mind. I'm not doing this because I

hate them. I'm doing this because I love

them. Remind them what I did in

delivering them from Egypt. But then in verse 6, we see what

was the, what was the purpose? What was the desire of God's

heart in giving them the law. We see that in verse 6 of

chapter 19. If you keep the law, if you will

obey my voice and keep my covenant, then verse 6 ye shall

be unto me a Kingdom of priests and an holy nation.

These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of

Israel. The whole purpose God's reason

for this was to draw them to bring them close to him and be

so they could be his people, a peculiar nation of king of

priests and holy people that were God's people.

So, but there, there are some prerequisites and we'll get to

that in just a second. But that was God's desire.

God's desire wasn't to say, watch what I put these people

through. They'll never be able to keep

this law. The, the whole purpose was to

draw them closer to God so that they could be his people.

And we see that all the way through the Old Testament,

especially with the prophets. Look at Jeremiah and and Isaiah

and the children of Israel just wandering away from God.

And God is has his prophets there to preach to them about

about their waywardness. But they have this promise here

in chapter Exodus 19, verse 6. If you'll keep this covenant,

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you shall be unto me a Kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

So that was God's purpose in giving them the law and not but

secondly, what was God's path here?

Now to for this we're going to go to Exodus chapter 20 to the

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10 commandments. Because God wanted to make the

children of Israel a unique people on the earth.

And he did, but that was his goal.

He wanted them to be a unique people that would be separated

from the rest of the world, that would stand out as God's people.

But he had to give them some guidelines.

And like I said before, the 10 commandments are just a summary

of the the law that was about to come in the next chapters.

So in Exodus chapter 20 verses one through 17, we see the 10

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commandments. I'm not going to read all that,

but we are going to refer to them quickly.

And we're going to go through all ten of these commandments.

And you may have heard this before, but the first five

commandments are are man's duty toward God.

OK, So real quickly, let's look at those, the 1st 5

commandments. We see that and you and they are

all they all start off with the Lord thy God.

So verse two, I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out

of the land of Egypt, out of the House of bondage.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

And you keep seeing that I am the Lord thy God.

I am the Lord thy God. So these are these are man's

duties or the commands toward God that we need to follow.

And so the first one we see is in, in verses 2 and three, I am

the Lord thy God, which I brought thee out of the land of

Egypt, out of the House of bondage.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

And that was a, it's a pretty simple command.

And I think we often think that as long as we aren't worshipping

other gods like little idols, we're, we're in the clear on

this commandment. And then I do believe that that

was probably the real reason here for this command to the

children of Israel. They were already starting to

follow after these other gods. And you see it 40 days later,

they've got a golden calf built and they're worshipping it, not

just deciding, hey, what are we going to do with this golden

calf we found? They build it and they're

worshipping it. And and that's so God knew their

their heart. He knew where they were at here

with us. I've no other gods before me,

but for us, we, we may not have little idols in our houses that

were, that were worshipping or that we're carrying around as

good luck charms, but we do have other gods in our lives.

And I think so this is a very important command for us.

Don't have anything that's more important than God in your life.

Otherwise, it's a God. It is taking the place of God

because, because why else would he say thou shalt have no other

gods before me, Don't have any gods that you're worshipping

that are more important than me? He's not giving, he's not giving

liberty here to have other gods as long as I'm the most

important one. He's saying don't have any other

gods that you that that take importance over me.

And, and so I think in our lives, it's very obvious that

those are, you know, work and money, even kids, even family,

don't let them become a God before me.

I mean, he says that in the New Testament when he's telling the

the disciples, it's going to look like you hate your own

mother and your own father and your own children and your own

life also. That's what it's going to look

like when you have me in first place.

And I think that's what God was saying here in verses 2 and

three. Don't have anything else that

takes the place of God. And this is nothing we've not

heard before, but it's something we need to be reminded of

because there are plenty of things in our lives that that we

start to to. And I'll just give you a simple

example. But when was it job that said

I'd, I'd, I, I desire your word more than my necessary food?

Or was that David? I don't remember, but one of

them. What about us?

Do we get up in the morning and just go about our day?

It's we have so much important things that we've got to get to

those have become a priority over God.

And I'm not saying that, you know, I mean, the Bible is

pretty clear early in the morning.

We need to seek him and all the rest of that.

Now, you know, schedules differ and things like that.

But if you don't have a time where you're spending time with

God during your day, think other things have taken the place of

God and you have a God before him.

That's the first commandment. The second one is in verse 4.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness

of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in earth

beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Pretty simple command. But within a few chapters, there

go the children of Israel making a graven image of something in

the earth, a calf that they're going to worship.

But we're going to move through these fairly quickly, just

forsake of time. Verse, verse 7, we have a third

one. Thou shalt not take the name of

the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him

guiltless that taketh His name in vain.

And I preached a message just a a few months ago on this, so I'm

not going to belabor that point. But it's not just with our

mouths, even though that is important.

Not taking the Lord's name as a curse word or anything like

that, but also not taking His name for vanity.

And we, we preached a whole message on that, that you take

the name Christian, you take God's name and then you don't

live as a Christian. That's taking his name in vain.

And we need to be very careful of that.

Again, these are just a a summary of of these 10

commandments. Verse chapter 20, verse 8.

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy works, But the 7th day

is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.

In it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy

daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle,

nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and

all that in them is, and rested the 7th day.

Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath and hallowed it.

So keep the Sabbath. Now I'm not going to get into

this, but there is a whole faction that believes and that

is really making a big deal about the Sabbath being Saturday

and Satan stole Sunday and now we've followed Satan in making

Sunday the Sabbath. Not going to get into it, but

but there is there is quite a bit in the Bible.

In fact, I'll, I'll leave it at this.

Christ told the Pharisees, the Sabbath is not man is not for

the made for the Sabbath. The Sabbath is made for man.

So don't worry about which day particularly that you're

worshiping on or holding Sabbath on.

And I'll leave it at that. But Christ was pretty clear,

stop worrying so much about which day and just make sure

that you have one where you set aside and you worship God and

we'll leave it at that. But there is there's a whole lot

more we could talk about. It's actually a very interesting

study and I think that it's perfectly fine and right to have

the Sabbath on Sunday. There's nothing wrong that we're

doing, even though people do believe that Satan has hijacked

Sunday as his day. Anyways.

Don't let, don't let this man be, Don't let the Sabbath take

man. What Jesus said, let the Sabbath

be for man, not man for the Sabbath.

All right then the last one in these duties to God or these

commands God word is verse 12 Honor thy father and thy mother

that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God

giveth thee. So that's that's the key there

that little phrase, the Lord thy God.

So this is still God word, but he rewards that honor of thy

father and thy mother. And then we have 5 duties or

five commands that are man word and we start those right in

verse 13. Thou shalt not kill.

Very simple. But first we're reminded here in

these five commandments of the worth that God recognizes.

He made life. He created all living beings.

And he's saying don't, don't kill.

Don't just take life carelessly or without a justified cause.

Because there are other places in the Bible that God commands

life to be taken. But killing is for no reason

just because I feel like it or I'm angry.

But anyways. So God gives gives that

commandment. Verse 14, thou shalt not commit

adultery, another institution, institution of God marriage.

He says don't commit adultery. Verse 15, thou shalt not steal

again, these are still man word. Thou shalt not steal.

And you know, there's, there's the Bible does say that if a man

steals because he's hungry and, and can't provide for his family

and doesn't get caught, it is what it is.

But he says if he gets caught, he needs to repay fourfold.

So there are places that the Bible that God talks about, you

know, stealing for necessity or for life itself.

And I'm not, I'm not condoning stealing, but I'm just saying

God doesn't say that you need to die for theft.

But what he is talking about here is where you are defrauding

or stealing for your own increase for your own own gain

to to to build your portfolio or to build your resources.

Thou shalt not steal pretty simple command that we see verse

16. Thou shalt not bear false

witness against thy neighbor. You know God rebukes us having a

false testimony about somebody else or about anything else.

This when we used to learn these in in Sunday school as a kid, I

used to think, well, that doesn't say thou shalt not lie,

says don't lie about somebody about your neighbor.

But I but I think it does go without without saying God

expects us to be honest in the words that we use.

Thou shalt not bear a false witness.

That doesn't mean that you're giving a false testimony.

That means you're lying. That means you're something

false is coming out of your mouth with your tongue.

Don't do that. So, so don't lie.

And then verse 17, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.

Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's wife that nor his

manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor

anything that is thy neighbor's. And I'll just say this about

this last commandment and then we'll move on.

But God is God is commanding us to be careful of what we are

going after. That's the covetous because what

our mind craves to have, we will pursue it.

When you set a goal in your mind of, you know, whatever the goal

may be, that's just how we are made.

We're made to go after it. And that's why if we, if we

guard our hearts and, and, and put our hearts to seek after

God, we will pursue that. But if we are being covetous,

and this is the, this is the warning here and the command not

to covet, because when we do start coveting it, we will, we

will get it, we will go after it.

So be careful of what you are, what you're letting your mind

begin to crave and covet because your hand will soon pursue it if

you let your mind go to that spot.

So, so the command is simply thou shalt not covet.

All right, So we see those those commands, those those 10

commandments, A brief summary of the law.

And then we have the promise of God.

But that's back in chapter 19. So go back to chapter 19 of

Exodus and we'll finish with this that what is this promise

of God Verses 19, chapter 19, verses 5 and 6.

Now therefore we read these already.

But if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant,

then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all

people, for all the earth is mine, and you shall be unto me a

Kingdom of priests and an holy nation.

These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of

Israel. It's interesting there that God

says all the earth is mine. I could, I could choose anybody

I want. I could choose any nation I

want. But I'm going to choose you,

Israel. Why?

Because I chose you. Job says that pretty clearly

when his friends are are are talking to him about, oh, you

must have sinned and and the rest of that and Job, God

actually tells Job, because Job starts to come to God a little

bit and say what is going on? And God says, who are you to

question me? I do for my own pleasure,

whatever I do, don't don't question what I do and kind of

push Job back in his place. Well, that's what we have here

in verse in chapter chapter 19, verse 5.

Why did he choose the children of Israel?

Because he chose them. There's no reason but he says,

first of all, this promise is a provisional promise.

If is a big word there in verse 5, if you'll keep my

commandments, then you'll be a peculiar treasure unto me above

all people. It was not a, a, a promise that

no matter how they acted, he was going to, he was going to, this

was going to be the case. And again, we see that in Isaiah

and Jeremiah. God is reminding them, I told

you, you were going to be my people if you obey my commands

and all the rest of that. And that's the those prophets

trying to bring the children of Israel back into covenant with

God or back into that relationship with God because

they're breaking this covenant that was given here all the way

back in Exodus on Mount Sinai. But the second thing is it is a

positive promise. Look at verse 6.

Ye shall be unto me a Kingdom of priests and an holy nation.

I'm going to treasure you above all other people.

That is a positive promise. And again, remember at the very

beginning of chapter 19, God, God told Moses to tell the

children visual, this is from me.

But also tell them this is not for their hurt.

This is this is a good thing. You're going to be my people.

It's a very positive promise of the of the great possibilities

that lay ahead for Israel the the the promised land.

You know when God tells them I'm going to give you this promised

land of Canaan and the and the spies go in and are very

negative about what they see. God promised them that land that

was a positive thing, not were they going to have to go through

a lot of fighting and and, and hardships to gain that land.

Yeah. But if they would, they would

have this promised land that God promised to them to have for

their own. And it's the same way with these

commands. If you keep these commands that

I'm going to give you, you're going to be my people.

That's a positive promise for the children of Israel.

But then we have a problem with this promise in in.

I want you to go to Hebrews chapter 8, if you will.

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Hebrews, chapter 8. So this was this is a great

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promise that God gave to the children of Israel, but we do

have a bit of a problem here and it's not a problem on God's

part. In Hebrews chapter 8 and verse

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8, Bible says for finding fault with them.

Let's let's read verse 7. For if that first covenant had

been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the

second, the second what? The second covenant, right,

verse 8 for finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days

come, sayeth the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with

the House of Israel and with the House of Judah.

So what was the problem with this covenant?

The problem was that it had faulty men trying to keep the

promises or keep the commands in order to get this promise.

It had a fault and it wasn't God's fault.

God didn't make a mistake saying, all right, I'm going to

set this law in order and hopefully they can keep it.

He knew they couldn't keep it. He purposely built that fault

in, and we'll see this in just a minute.

For a very, very good reason. You can't keep the law.

I want you to try and you're going to be my people if you

keep the commands that I give you.

But there's a problem. And you see that in wrote in

Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 7. If the first covenant had been

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faultless, was it? Was there errors in the first

covenant? Then?

No, the fault was with the men that were trying to keep the

first covenant. And so in Romans chapter 10 and

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verse 4, you don't have to turn there.

But in Romans chapter 10 and verse 4 now, so now we have this

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great promise of God, but now we have we have a problem.

They can't keep it. So what does God do?

He provides for them in Romans chapter 10 and verse 4 for

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Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that

believeth. So he's the end of the law in an

in an attempt for righteousness. There is no more law in order to

be righteous before God and Christ completely does away with

that with the new covenant. And we see that in in Matthew 5

Matthew 5:17

verse 17 when Christ is preaching his sermon on the

mount. Mankind was left with really

helpless. We can't keep the law.

So now what? What are we supposed to do?

Christ comes in and fulfills the demands of the law and you can

write that verse down Matthew 517 if if you want to go back

and look at it. But we just heard this verse a

couple maybe last Sunday night when pastor was was teaching for

whosoever shall keep the whole law and maybe it's Sunday

morning and yet offended one point.

He's guilty of all. So you've got this law that you

need to keep in order to be a peculiar people to me.

But if you offended one point, you're guilty of the entire law.

And so Christ was sent to fulfill that law.

And again, from the beginning of eternity, this was God's plan.

He was going to set this law in order, but he was going to, he

knew they couldn't keep it and he knew he was going to send his

Son to be the fulfillment of that law for them.

And this is the last point I want to make.

And this is, we know this, but I think this is a great reminder

to use in our own witnessing and in our own sharing the gospel

with others. Go to Galatians chapter 3 and

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verse 24. This is really the the

culmination of what was the point of this really beautiful

law that God gave the children of Israel, but that they

couldn't keep Galatians chapter 3 and verse 24.

Galatians 3 · chapter mention

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto

Christ that we might be justified by faith.

And and I say that you know, we we use this to in our own

witnessing because almost always when you knock on somebody's

door and say, hey, do you know that your sins have been taken

care of by Jesus Christ? Do you know that you're going to

heaven when you die? What it what is the typical

response? Almost every door.

I hope so almost every single door you knock on now not every

because we have had some say Nope, I'm not going me and me

and Frank talk to one. I'm I'm a Satanist.

I'm not going to heaven, but most doors, I hope so that so

they want to be reconciled to Christ.

They do want to they don't know how they don't know what.

So when you say, well, what do you mean by I hope so the very

next answer. It's almost like a script.

Well, I'm a good person. I I mean, I, I, I try to help

people. I'm a good neighbor.

I mean all these things. It's it's almost like somebody

wrote a script for them and I think somebody did his name is

Satan to make us think I can get myself to heaven.

But here in Galatians chapter 3, it says wherefore the law was

Galatians 3 · chapter mention

our schoolmaster. So if you start if you start

when they say I hope so I'm a good person.

You say, oh, have you if you you keep the 10 commandments.

That's that's yeah, yeah, I try, I try to have you ever lied?

I think those are the wrong questions other than to show

somebody you you haven't kept the whole law.

You are a Sinner because I heard, I heard somebody say this

and I, I, I really, really liked it.

First Corinthians talks about this.

You look into the perfect law of liberty and what's the point of

that? To, to see in that mirror that I

am dirty and I need Christ. But I heard, I heard somebody

talking about this and he was actually arguing with an atheist

or, or a definitely a non believer, probably more of an

agnostic and they were having a good conversation.

But this guy said, well, then what was the whole point of the

law? What was the point of the law in

the Old Testament? Because I think they're two

different things. And there's so many verses we've

read some of them that Christ fulfilled the law.

But this, this guy that was the believer said this to him.

He said, you know, reading the Bible to try to be, to try to

get yourself to heaven by following, you know, those laws

is like looking in the mirror, seeing the dirt on your face and

then taking the mirror off the wall and trying to wipe your

face with the mirror. The mirror is just showing you

that you're dirty. Then you need to go clean it

off. And he said, that's what the law

is. It's showing us that we are

dirty. We cannot get to heaven.

So we turn to Christ for that cleansing.

And I think that's, that's exactly what this law was for.

God gave it to the children of Israel to be a peculiar people

if they followed it and then to show them you can't follow it,

can you? I'm that's why I'm sending

Christ to, to be the fulfillment of that law.

And it's the same for us. There is no other way to

reconcile ourselves back to the Father except through Christ.

There's verse after verse after verse.

Romans chapter 3 verse 20 says that therefore by the deeds of

Romans 3:20

the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight.

For by the law is the knowledge of sin, not the cleansing of

sin. For by the law is the knowledge

of sin. And we don't attempt to keep the

law right now, but we do. We have plenty of things that we

try to obey in the Bible, commandments that we try to

follow. For what?

For our salvation? No, for our knowledge that we

can't keep it. And so we must turn to Christ

to, to for that reconciliation back to God.

So that's where the the law was given to the children of Israel

on Mount Sinai. Another name for Mount Sinai was

Mount Horeb. You'll see that in other places

in the Bible. But Mount Sinai, Mount Horeb was

they were given the law to show them that they couldn't keep the

law, but they needed a savior. And Christ eventually came and

fulfilled that. And, and that's the same, same

thing that we have. We are saved the exact same way.

We can try to be a good person. That's great to be a good

person, but that's not your salvation that you're showing

you that you can't keep all the laws that God gave us to keep.

And that's not on God. As we said, there's a fault in

this system. And it's not, it's not an error

on God's part. It's a it's a problem on ours.

We cannot keep it. And so we need a Savior and

Christ graciously and mercifully came to be that savior for us.

And hopefully you're thankful for that and hopefully you know

that. And and that's what we'll finish

today with Mount Sinai. We'll get into another mountain

next week. Let's pray.

Father, I thank you for this day you've given us.

God, I thank you for just the clarity in your word.

God, if we actually read it and and attempts to know your heart

and what you were doing God in fact you're it's it's very clear

in the Bible exactly what you were doing.

You even tell us that the the law was not there to cleanse us.

It was there to show us that we need, we need cleansing from

something far beyond us. And God, I thank you again for

the sacrifice of your son and coming to to be that that

penalty for us. And God, I just pray as we get

into the next service, God, as I know the gospel will be preached

at some point in there. I pray if anybody in here during

that service is not saved, that you will help them to understand

their need of a Savior, that we can't be good enough to save our

souls. And I just pray that you'll be

with Pastor, give him the words to say and give him power as he

preaches. Pray that you'd meet with us

this morning in Jesus name, I pray, Amen.

We're dismissed.