Shadows to Substance: Moses - DJ Dickerson

This morning we are continuing our

series entitled Shadows to Substance.

And [clears throat] as we have noted

throughout this series

that the Bible truly is one continuous

divine story from beginning to end.

And as stated throughout this series

that although the old testament and new

testament are divided into well we see

old and new both old and new are two

sides of one eternal plan as the old

testament conceals and what the new

testament reveals.

We think about the words again as I've

mentioned the words that mystery that

Paul would talk about that has been

revealed.

So, as we look at the Old Testament,

we're we're not just reading simply what

some of us say, well, it's just history,

but we are reading prophecy in picture

form. And I hope that we're seeing that

throughout these throughout these

lessons that God through inspired events

and lives were that painting shadows of

the greater realities to come in Jesus

Christ.

So,

as the Old Testament gives us shadows,

hinting and outlining of what was to

come, the New Testament gives us the

very substance, the fulfillment of those

shadows in Christ. Even as Colossians 2,

we've noted throughout this series,

talks about a shadow of things to come,

but the substance is of Christ. Now, one

of the greatest figures of the Old

Testament that we many times will study

about, read about, of course, is one of

the great deliverers of his time, of

course, uh, for that of Israel, God's

people, and that, of course, is Moses.

Well, Moses is going to be our study

this this morning,

who, as we know, really is a type and

shadow of Christ. And I'm going to

present several things. As I've

mentioned before, I I have handouts that

that are in the back there that

accompany the regular PowerPoint charts.

If you haven't seen those, there there

are still some back there I can see. Uh

I made extra copies this time. Uh so

hopefully everybody's able to get a

chance to get one of those. Um but

[clears throat] there's a lot of things

that I won't be able to go into detail

because each one of these could be

miniseries. Okay? Isaac could have been

a series. Moses today will be a

miniseries. We could do that, but I'm

I'm giving you some of that of of what

time allows. But as we know with Moses,

he was a lawgiver, wasn't he? He was a

deliverer, a mediator between God and

his people. But as as great as Moses

was, he was never the end of the story.

His life was a pattern. His life was a

prophetic picture of the one who would

come after him.

I want you to look at Deuteronomy

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chapter 18 and verse 15. Again, we flip

back and forth, of course, during this

series because we we got the shadow on

the Old Testament and the substance of

the New Testament. So, we're a lot of

back and forth. We're going to go to

Deuteronomy chapter 18 and verse 15. I

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want you to to read and and see this

for yourselves. Don't just take my word

for it, okay? Read it for yourselves.

What's said in Deuteronomy 18:15,

Deuteronomy 18:15

"The Lord your God will raise up for you

a prophet like me from your midst, from

your brethren, him you shall hear."

Who is the prophet like me? Sometimes

the big hint is the capital P. Okay?

Because other prophets, we don't put

capital P's on on those. We see the

prophet is again referencing Jesus

Christ, the son of God, who is the

redeemer of all mankind.

So, I'm going to walk through this uh

this morning with you as we journey from

shadow to substance yet again from Moses

to Jesus and see how God's plan of

deliverance in the Old Testament finds

its perfect fulfillment

in his son. So the first one I want to

bring before your attention is in

regards to Moses and Jesus is that both

were sent by God to deliver their

people. When God's people cried out

under the lash of Egyptian bondage, he

called to Moses out of the burning bush.

Now this of course is referenced here in

Exodus chapter 3. And you'll find in

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Exodus chapter 3 much there's a lot. But

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as Moses was tending to the flock of

Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of

Midian, he led the flock to the back of

the desert and came to Ore, the mountain

of God. And the angel of the Lord

appeared to him in a flame of fire for

the midst of a bush. So he looked, and

behold, the bush was burning with fire,

but the bush was not consumed. Then

Moses said, "I will now turn aside and

see this great sight." Why? The bush

does not burn. Now, as you go on

through, of course, we know that here

you have God calling out to Moses out of

the burning bush, right?

Well, what does he say in verse 10? Come

now, therefore, and I will send you to

Pharaoh that you may bring my people,

the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

Now, as we know, that's what Moses did.

Now, Moses, of course, we know there

were several excuses that was made and

those excuses didn't work because God

told him to go and he did. And uh it was

a very difficult thing as we know with

with Moses going and and delivering the

Israelites out of Egyptian uh captivity.

We'll talk some more about that as as we

go through these next few points. But

the fact of the matter is Moses was

called to be a deliverer of his people

centuries later when the world cried out

under the weight of sin

under captivity of sin. And that's how

we even find it described in the book of

Romans as well. Bondage is another word

that you see with that of sin. God sent

his son from heaven. And what said in

John 3 and verse 17, we know verse 16,

right? For God so loved the world that

he gave his only begotten son that

whosoever believes in him should not

perish but have everlasting life. A lot

of times we forget about verse 17. But

verse 17 says, for God did not send his

son into the world to condemn the world,

but that the world through him might be

saved. What does that say to you when

you read that? Deliverance, right?

deliverance from the bondage of sin. So

Moses was sent to deliver Israel from

the bondage or the captivity of Pharaoh.

Jesus was sent to deliver mankind from

the bondage of sin. Think about think

about what they both faced. Kind of

consider that. Moses, he faced Pharaoh.

He was the ruler of the world's greatest

empire of its time. Jesus faced Satan,

the ruler of the world's greatest

darkness.

But what did both really come with? They

both came with a message. Sometimes the

message I think of from both of them is

let my people go is kind of the idea,

isn't it? Let my people go.

And when Moses stretched out his hand,

what happened? Remember they were they

were escaping the captivity. And as

they're making their way,

they made it to the Red Sea. And then

what what when Moses stretched forth his

hand, what happened to the Red Sea? It

divided. It parted, didn't it?

Think about when Jesus stretched out his

hands.

What happened?

There was grace that was extended,

wasn't it?

When Israel groaned beneath their

burden, God heard their cry. That's what

Exodus chapter 2 and verse 24 that was

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leading up to this. So God heard their

groaning and God remembered. He

remembered

his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac,

and with Jacob. In verse 25, and God

looked upon the children of Israel, and

God acknowledged them,

God

heard our cry too when we grown beneath

our sin. And he sent not a man, not not

[clears throat]

simply we think, you know, it was Moses

being a man, but he sent his only

begotten son.

And what I take from that is time and

time again, God sends deliverance.

Moses, yes, in this parallel, we would

even think for the Israelites in their

bondage and captivity of Egypt and with

Christ in our bondage to sin. Look at

Romans 5 6-9.

Romans 5:es 6-9.

It says, "For when we were still without

strength, in due time Christ died for

the ungodly. For scarcely for a

righteous man will one die. Yet perhaps

for a good man, someone would even dare

to die. But God demonstrates his own

love toward us, and that while we were

still sinners, Christ died for us. Much

more then, having now been justified by

his blood, we shall be saved from wrath

through him."

That's exactly what we see with Moses

and we see with Jesus

is both were sent by God to deliver

their people. Now, there's some more I

want to share with you on that point in

just a moment. But let's go to the next

one.

Both were rejected by their own, weren't

they? Now, see that parallel? It's

there.

If you if you go back in Exodus chapter

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2, I was reading there at the last two

verses of Exodus chapter 2. Uh uh Exodus

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chapter 2 and verse 14 is actually

uh Exodus 2 gives really the kind of the

background here was about Moses, you

know, when he was born and and uh when

he went to try to defend his uh Hebrew

brothers, one turned to him and said,

"Who made you a prince and a judge over

us?

you intend to kill me as you kill the

Egyptians. So Moses feared and said,

"Surely this thing is known,"

you know. So yeah, they Moses obviously

was defending his Hebrew brothers

and they questioned it.

Years later, Jesus came unto his own,

the children of Israel. And what did

John write in John 1 and verse 11 about

him?

He came to his own and his own did not

receive him.

And we know as you go throughout and

look at at Jesus and the accounts

throughout the gospels

that the same spirit that rejected Moses

in Egypt rejected Christ in Galilee.

And I think about a shadow of Moses who

was refused as a deliverer.

And yet the substance you even find that

Jesus was rejected as the Messiah

even though prophecy over and over again

spoke of Jesus who would be that great

deliverer

of all mankind.

that even in the passage of we know of

the recorded of what we commonly call

the suffering savior of Isaiah 53 and

verse three says he is despised it's

talking about Jesus he is despised and

rejected by men a man of sorrows and

acquainted with grief and we hid

as it were our faces from him he was

despised and we did not esteem him.

How true is it?

A lot of similarities, don't we? Right

off the bat, both were sent by God to

deliver their people and both were

rejected by their own.

What else do we think about when we

think about Moses and Jesus?

I think we see that both were mediators

between God and man.

Moses went up on the mount to

receive the Ten Commandments.

And while he was gone,

what were they doing below? We had kind

of this we had this this we talked about

this a little bit in the the sermon

about uh the Q&A about the difference

between patience and waiting, right?

Well, their impatience,

what happened is they built a golden

calf, right?

And after Israel's sin with the golden

calf.

We know that was recorded for us in

Exodus chapter 32 that God's wrath

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burned hot

and he was ready

to destroy them.

But what happened?

Well, Exodus 32 records Moses

interceding. Read it with me. Exodus

32:es

30-32.

Now it came to pass on the next day that

Moses said to the people, "You have

committed a great sin. So now I will go

up to the Lord. Perhaps I can make

atonement for your sin." Then Moses

returned to the Lord and said, "Oh,

these people have committed a great sin

and have made for themselves a God of

gold.

Yet now,

if you will forgive their sin,

but if not, I pray, blot me out of your

book which you have written.

You ever notice that?

That Moses stood between a sinful people

and a holy God.

But there is a understanding that there

was a limit to what Moses could do.

He could plead

but he could not pay.

And then came Jesus

who is known as the true med mediator. A

lot of true we think about the great

high priest a lot of the terminology

that we think we'll see some of that

throughout this series as well but 1

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Timothy chapter 2 5 and 6 again Moses he

could plead but he could not pay

but Jesus 1 Timothy 2 5 and 6 for there

is one God and one mediator between God

and men the man Christ Jesus who gave

himself what's it say a ransom for all

to be testified in due time.

Because Jesus didn't just plead for

forgiveness,

he purchased it with his own blood.

Moses said, "Blot me out."

What was Jesus saying from the cross,

"Father, forgive them for they know not

what they do.

Moses stood in the gap, but Jesus built

a bridge.

You think about this.

When we sin, we don't need a prophet or

a priest as the Old Testament we know.

We think back to that. We need Jesus

because he is still mediating for us

today at the right hand of God.

What's Hebrews 7 25 say? Therefore, he

talking about Jesus is also able to save

to the uttermost those who come to God

through him since he always lives to

make intercession for them. Y'all

remember Jesus is the one who said in

John 14:6, I am the way, the truth, and

John 14:6

the life. No man comes to the father but

through me. Isn't that what Hebrews 7:25

Hebrews 7:25

is attesting to as well? Of course it

is. Oh yes.

Both were mediators between God and man.

Moses, he was a shadow, but Jesus is a

substance.

What else do we find? Well, Moses and

Jesus, we also find that they both led

God's people out of bondage. I mentioned

that earlier and and and that this is

where I want to kind of get back to uh

from earlier is as Moses was leading

Israel out of Egyptian captivity. Y'all

remember that what preceded this was of

course the blood of the Passover lamb.

Y'all remember that? And through the

parted waters of the Red Sea. Those are

some really distinct and I believe

wonderful uh wonderful imagery that we

get from this

because when you put those together, we

talked about blood and we've talked

about water several times already and in

doing a study on blood and water

throughout the Bible is absolutely

astonishing. Okay? Because here is yet

another example of this that Jesus leads

believers out of sin through his own

blood and through what? The waters of

baptism. Now, I'm going to bring this

full circle now of what we talked about

uh with with a study of Noah is one of

those places in the Old Testament that

emphasizes that water was the plan and

reaches to the New Testament to teach

such about our deliverance today. The

passage that brother Aiden Mosie read

for us this morning was 1 Corinthians 10

1-4. Did you pick up on that? Did you

see that? There's a shadow on a

substance right here in 1 Corinthians

10:es 1-4. It's right there, isn't it?

Because in verses 1-4, the Apostle Paul

used the example of the Israelites to

show to the Corinthian brethren of the

similarities of the blessings they both

enjoyed. And if you'll notice it yet

again in the verses there before you, he

outlines the similar spiritual blessings

as follows. Similarities

under the cloud. Y'all remember that?

That's Exodus chapter 13 21 and 22 where

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the Israelites experienced the divine

protection and divine guidance of the

Lord. He goes on to say that all passed

through the sea. All were what? Baptized

into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

Where do we find that at? Exodus 14:es

19- 25.

And having crossed the Red Sea with the

Israelites walking on dry land in the

midst of the sea, and the waters were a

wall to them on their right hand and on

their left. So the Lord saved Israel

that day. That's what Exodus 14 29 and

30 says.

So what does that mean? Well, the

Israelites experienced the divine

deliverance from the Lord and such

brought them into a relationship with

the Lord and recognized Moses as the

Lord's servant to lead them. That's what

Exodus 14 and verse 31 says.

What else does it go on to say? Well,

all ate the same spiritual food and all

drank the same spiritual drink. What is

that telling us? The Israelites received

divine provisions, mana. Remember that

Exodus 16 and verse 14, water from the

rock, Exodus 17, Numbers chapter 20

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even. And that was provided to them in

the wilderness that would sustain their

physical vitality.

Interesting. You fast forward

John, you go to the book of John, you're

going to find Jesus saying John 6 and

verse 48, I am the bread of life.

Jesus actually takes that moment to

refer back even to the Old Testament.

Some great lessons that he ties in John

John 4:10

4:10, Jesus is found speaking of himself

as one who provides what? Living water.

What did Paul say?

For they drank of that spiritual rock

that followed them, and that rock was

Christ. shadow

substance.

It all ties together, doesn't it?

Because the Lord God has called numerous

passages of the Old Testament as what?

The rock. Deuteronomy 32 and:4,

Psalm 94:22 or just two of the passage

Psalms 94:22

you'll find where he is identified as

the rock. Jesus is identified as the

rock by Paul as to whom the spiritual

blessings flow to them. And the Lord God

sustained the Israelites with blessings

that flowed from him. And similarly, the

Corinthian brethren were sustained by

the rock that is Christ. Friends, what

what Paul is telling the Corinthian

brethren is that the Israelites passing

through the Red Sea typified

baptism into Christ.

And if you walk through the Old

Testament account again, Exodus 13 and

chapter 14, it is quite intriguing as

one certainly sees those similarities.

The Israelites were in Egyptian

captivity and while they were there,

they heard and believed the promise of

deliverance. That was our first point,

right? They began their journey out of

captivity. And I believe there's an

interesting question in this. When were

the Israelites free from captivity? When

were they free?

Well, I think the answer is clear is

they were not free from their bondage or

their captivity until they had actually

passed through the Red Sea.

To get out of Egypt,

they actually had to pass through the

Red Sea. They had to go through the

water.

Isn't that just so interesting?

As one has said, they weren't out of

Egypt until they were out of Egypt.

Okay.

Paul points the similarities in 1

Corinthians 10. And what he does there

so masterfully

is noting such comparisons to our own

deliverance from the captivity of sin.

The Red Sea was a very dividing line

from captivity and freedom.

And what this illustrate for us today,

just like we talked with Noah about

Noah, as we see yet another type wherein

water has been and still is an intricate

part of God's plan of salvation, you

can't escape it. The scriptures are

quite clear

as one is led out of bondage as Romans

Romans 6:3

6:3 and4 talks about or do you not know

that as many of us as were baptized into

Christ Jesus were baptized into his

death? Therefore, we were buried with

him through baptism into death that just

as Christ was raised from the dead by

the glory of the father, even so we also

should walk in newness of life. You see

in Romans, you can go through all these

all of Romans chapter 6. And I'm going

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tell you what you're going to find

interesting when you go through there

because as it's talking about baptism,

how one becomes dead to sin, alive to

God through that passage and and and

goes in those great descriptions here.

But what goes on even further is what I

said earlier in the book of Romans.

You're going to find that he also uses

the type of language that we've been

talking about already in regards to

servants or slaves. The idea of bondage

or captivity that he talks about in this

passage.

But God be thanked that though you were

slaves of sin yet you obeyed from the

heart that former a doctrine to which

you were delivered.

That's verse 17 of Romans chapter 6.

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He would say, "For when you were slaves

of sin, you were free in regard to

righteousness. What fruit did you have

and the things of which you are now

ashamed? For the end of these those

things is death, but now having been set

free from sin." That's deliverance.

And having become slaves of God, you

have your fruit to holiness and the end

everlasting life. For the wage of sin is

death and the gift of God is eternal

life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

See the pictures are all there. The

imagery is quite clear.

The shadow

is Israel passed through the sea, the

Red Sea to freedom.

The substance that we see is Christian.

How do how do we become a Christian? How

do we become a child of God as we pass

through the water to new life?

When Israel looked back,

they saw Pharaoh's army destroyed in the

sea.

And when we look back, we see our sins

washed away forever.

We've been cleansed by the blood of the

lamb.

But what I want us to see is between

that of Moses and that of Jesus. And

what these both show us is you cannot be

free unless you follow the deliverer

through the water.

I think the passages again are so clear.

Let me move to our next point

regards to Moses and Jesus.

Both were lawgivers of a covenant.

Moses, he went to up on Mount Si and he

received the law from God written on

tablets of stone.

And Jesus, he ascended

Mount Calvary and established a new

covenant that was written not on tablets

of stone but on hearts.

What Moses said in Exodus chapter 24,

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you find in verses 7 and 8, it says it's

Moses said he took the book of the

covenant and read it and read in the

hearing of the people and they said all

that the Lord has said we will do and be

obedient. Look what Moses did there in

verse eight. And Moses took the blood,

sprinkled it on the people, and said,

"This

is the blood of the covenant which the

Lord has made with you according to all

these words."

Fast forward

Matthew 26 and verse 28. and the

institution of the Lord's supper.

This is significant, right? Jesus said,

"For this is my blood of the new

covenant which is shed for many for a

mission of sin."

He said, "It's my blood

of the new covenant."

What was the shadow? The shadow was the

law that condemned sin but could not

remove it.

Then what's the substance?

Substance is grace through Christ that

both forgives and transforms.

What's interesting is you go from the

Old Testament to the New. The law

revealed man's guilt. The cross revealed

God's grace.

And we're no longer under Moses. In

Hebrews, there's a great study in the

book of Hebrews. There's so much that

speaks about those laws, the old

covenant, the new covenant. It's the

similarities that that can give you a

lot of great pictures of and such.

But as as the Hebrew writer would even

go on to tell, we're not we're not under

the old law.

That was nailed to the cross. But we are

under Christ. The shadow has served its

purpose. It has been fulfilled. Now the

substance is what stands before us and

that is Jesus Christ the righteous.

But both of them are lawgivers of a

covenant.

What else do we see?

What about both offering uphealing

through lifting up?

One of the accounts, you know, is

numbers chapter 21 89. It's a pretty

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scary pretty scary when you really look

at this thing about fiery serpents.

Okay, people are grumbling and

complaining. Should always give us

pause, you know, not to be grumbling,

complaining as as the Israelites did.

But as these fiery serpents were biting

the people,

this is what the Lord said to Moses in

Numbers 21:89. Make make a fiery serpent

and set it on a pole, and it shall be

that everyone who is bitten when he

looks at it shall live. So Moses made a

bronze serpent and put on a pole. And so

it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone,

when he looked at the bronze serpent, he

lived.

God told Moses to make a bronze serpent

and lift it on a pole.

Whoever looked upon it lived.

You know Jesus actually uses this very

passage from Numbers chapter 21 in John

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3 14 and 15. And as Moses lifted up the

serpent in the wilderness, even so must

the son of man be what? lifted up that

whoever believes in him should not

perish but have eternal life. See Jesus

referred back to numbers 21 referring to

Moses who lifted up the serpent in the

wilderness and in likeness of such the

son of man must also be what? Lifted up.

And with such with Jesus being lifted

up, Jesus goes on to say that whoever

believes in him will have eternal life.

And being lifted up references the cross

that Jesus would be lifted up to die on.

The way the only way for the sin sick

souls to live.

And although yes, the cross is

representative of death, the one who

gave himself on it would become that

which life could be obtained

for all who would look to him, believing

in him, obeying him.

You see the shadow here, the serpent on

the pole, you know what that brought?

That brought temporary healing. That

kept them alive physically.

The substance though is the savior on

the cross brought eternal life. It

brought spiritual vitality

and those who looked lived. Those who

refused died.

The same is true today.

For the wages of sin is death. Why does

the Hebrew writer say in Hebrews chapter

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12 talking about looking unto Jesus, the

author and finisher of our faith? See,

there's a lot to that, isn't it?

Salvation is still found in looking and

following Jesus, believing, obeying his

word.

It's all right there. Look at all these

passages we're connecting with Moses.

Let me give you another one.

Moses and Jesus both reflected the glory

of God.

You ever think about that? When Moses

came down from Sinai, it it describes

him in such in Exodus 34 29 and 30 that

the two tablets of the testimony were

were uh in in Moses' hand when he came

down from the mountain that Moses did

not know that the skin of his face shone

while he talked with him. So when Aaron

and all the children of Israel saw

Moses, but behold, the skin of his face

shone, and they were afraid to come near

him.

You see, his face shone with reflected

glory

so much that he had to cover it with a

veil.

But when Jesus came,

he didn't reflect glory. He radiated it.

I know that because 2 Corinthians 4:6

2 Corinthians 4:6

says, "For it is the God who commanded

light to shine in darkness, who has

shone in our hearts to give the light of

the knowledge of the glory of God in the

face of Jesus Christ." Moses was simply

reflecting borrowed light. That's what

he was doing. That's a shadow. But the

substance is Jesus is the light.

He is the light.

At the mount of transfiguration,

Moses stood beside Jesus. But the voice

from heaven said, "This is my beloved

son. Hear him."

So as you go through, you know what you

find? The glory of Moses faded,

but the glory of Christ endures forever.

There's a shadow in the substance right

there.

These parallels,

I think you would agree with me.

are very intriguing.

The shadows and substance are perfectly

aligned.

Now, all of what we've been talking

about sent by God to deliver Israel,

rejected by his people, mediator of the

old covenant. Jesus was mediator of the

new covenant. Led people through water

to freedom. Jesus leads people through

baptism to freedom. Shadow of Moses gave

the law substance. Yes, Jesus came and

gave a new covenant grace and truth.

Signs and wonders were performed by by

Moses as well as by Jesus who has

performed divine miracles. The serpent

was lifted up. Jesus was lifted up on

the cross. Moses reflected God's glory

and Jesus is the glory of God revealed.

Look at all those things we have

covered.

mediator,

all of those miracles confirmed,

authority again. And there I I kind of

go into more detail on those charts.

These are the ones you'll have handouts

as well in the back. So, make sure to

grab those

more

the prophecy of the greater prophet. I

thought the final words too. The fact is

the shadow of Moses, he could not enter

the promised land himself. But what

Jesus did is he opened the gates of

heaven for his people.

And I share all that with you again

because definitely there could be a lot

more to say on on Moses, Jesus here.

Well, it stated a moment ago, the shadow

and substance that I hope we see,

they're perfectly aligned perfectly

because really when you look at the very

account of Moses, you see so much in the

account of Jesus stories in outline, in

spirit, and in purpose. You find it

Moses brought Israel to the very edge of

the promised land, but could not take

them in. Jesus brings us not to the

edge,

but into the very presence of God.

Deuteronomy 18 and verse1 15 was

fulfilled when Christ came

that he would say that a prophet like me

God will raise up from your midst. You

know what that's true. God raised him up

not from a bush

but from a grave.

John 1 and verse1 17

says this

for the law was given through Moses

but grace and truth came through Jesus

Christ.

friends, their birth,

their roles as deliverers

of their people from bondage, their

provision in sustenance,

physical in Moses' case, spiritual in

Christ,

their work and establishing covenants

between God and his people,

them being mediators,

their shared connection

to the promise of a better land

all reveal striking parallels.

I believe that few examples in scripture

display a more vivid type or shadow

relationship

nor one marked by so many corresponding

details. What do you think?

To bring the lesson to a close in the

shadows and substance

lesson,

Moses led Israel out of bondage

from that of Egyptian captivity, from

that of Pharaoh. And again, I remind you

that Jesus leads us out of bondage from

sin.

But what I shared with you earlier,

don't forget

that just as Israel had to pass through

the waters of the Red Sea to be

delivered from their bondage and their

captivity, you must also follow pass

through the waters of baptism to be

delivered from your bondage of sin, too.

Connected, isn't it?

Romans 6:3 and4. being buried with him

Romans 6:3

in baptism to rise and walk the good

newness of life

and he calls you this morning.

Do you believe that he is a son of God?

If you do, belief, a mental acceptance

is not enough. You have to act upon it.

For we all have sinned and fallen short

of the glory of God. As Romans 3 and

verse 23 says, there's not one

righteous, know not one. Romans 3 uh

Romans chapter 3 and 10. Then repent of

Romans 3 · chapter mention

your sins, confess Jesus to be the son

of living God as Romans 10 says, and be

baptized for the remission of your sins

as you see him do in Acts 2, as well as

what's stated in Romans 6 3 and 4. And

you know what? He will lead you safely

across those waters to a new birth into

the promised land of eternal life

to live faithfully to him to be called

truly a child of God and to be added to

his church that belongs to him that he

purchased with his own blood.

Oh, there's a lot more to say on all

these shadows of substance. There's a

lot.

But I hope that it has helped you this

morning to see yet another connection

in the very wonderful divine story from

beginning

where we are today.

As a disciple of Christ, if there's

something missing your life, this

invitation is for you as well.

Because even as the Israelites, you know

what they did many times is they looked

back to the days of Egypt

and oh did they sin.

Friends, how thankful we are that Jesus

is our mediator, our great high priest

who sits at the right hand of the throne

of God makes intercession for us today

and we can come to him as his child and

we can say forgive me.

Forgive me repenting of your sins. You

can do that and he will restore. He

looks for you. Just like that one sheep

that was astray. He's still looking.

He's still wanting you back in the fold.

Or you need prayers on your behalf for

any any struggles that you may be going

through. Strength, prayers for strength,

whatever it may be.

Or one is not the body of Christ in

baptism, you can do that today. Pass

through the waters. As you're subject to

the invitation call, won't you come as

we stand as we sing the song that's been

selected.