MATTHEW 19:3, 4 (NIV)
3
SOME PHARISEES CAME TO HIM TO TEST HIM. THEY ASKED, “IS IT LAWFUL FOR A
MAN TO DIVORCE HIS WIFE FOR ANY AND EVERY REASON?” 4"HAVEN'T YOU READ,"
HE REPLIED, "THAT AT THE BEGINNING THE CREATOR 'MADE THEM MALE AND
FEMALE,'
Matthew 19:4 The Message (MSG)
4 He answered, “Haven’t you read in your Bible that the Creator originally made man and woman for each other, male and female?
GEN 5:1, 2 (NIV)
This is in the laws of Moses
1THIS
IS THE WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF ADAM’S FAMILY LINE. WHEN GOD CREATED MANKIND,
HE MADE THEM IN THE LIKENESS OF GOD. 2 HE CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE
AND BLESSED THEM. AND HE NAMED THEM “MANKIND” WHEN THEY WERE CREATED.
WESLEY'S NOTES
5:2
WHERE WE HAVE A BRIEF REHEARSAL OF WHAT WAS BEFORE AT LARGE RELATED
CONCERNING THE CREATION OF MAN. THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE NEED FREQUENTLY TO
HEAR OF, AND CAREFULLY TO ACQUAINT OURSELVES WITH. OBSERVE HERE:
1.
THAT GOD CREATED MAN. MAN IS NOT HIS OWN MAKER, THEREFORE HE MUST NOT BE
HIS OWN MASTER; BUT THE AUTHOR OF HIS BEING MUST BE THE DIRECTOR OF HIS
MOTIONS, AND THE CENTER OF THEM.
2. THAT THERE WAS A DAY IN WHICH
GOD CREATED MAN, HE WAS NOT FROM ETERNITY, BUT OF YESTERDAY; HE WAS NOT
THE FIRST – BORN, BUT THE JUNIOR OF THE CREATION.
3. THAT GOD MADE
HIM IN HIS OWN LIKENESS, RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY, AND THEREFORE UNDOUBTEDLY
HAPPY; MAN'S NATURE RESEMBLED THE DIVINE NATURE MORE THAN THAT OF ANY OF
THE CREATURES OF THIS LOWER WORLD.
4. THAT GOD CREATED THEM MALE AND
FEMALE, GEN 5:2, FOR THEIR MUTUAL COMFORT, AS WELL AS FOR THE
PRESERVATION AND INCREASE OF THEIR KIND. ADAM AND EVE WERE BOTH MADE
IMMEDIATELY BY THE HAND OF GOD, BOTH MADE IN GOD'S LIKENESS;
5. HE
CALLED THEIR NAME ADAM - HE GAVE THIS NAME BOTH TO THE MAN AND THE
WOMAN. BEING AT FIRST ONE BY NATURE, AND AFTERWARDS ONE BY MARRIAGE; IT
WAS FIT THEY SHOULD BOTH HAVE THE SAME NAME, IN TOKEN OF THEIR UNION.
GOD DIDN’T GIVE EVE HER NAME. ADAM DID.
GENESIS 3:20
20 ADAM NAMED HIS WIFE EVE, BECAUSE SHE WOULD BECOME THE MOTHER OF ALL THE LIVING.
MATTHEW 21:12-17 New English Translation
Matthew 21:12-13
Cleansing the Temple
12
Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were
selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of
the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. 13 And he said
to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’
but you are turning it into a den of robbers!”
WHERE IS IT WRITTEN? IN THE SCROLLS OF ISAIAH
ISAIAH 56:7 NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)
7 THESE I WILL BRING TO MY HOLY MOUNTAIN
AND GIVE THEM JOY IN MY HOUSE OF PRAYER.
THEIR BURNT OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES
WILL BE ACCEPTED ON MY ALTAR;
FOR MY HOUSE WILL BE CALLED
A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS.”
I WILL CONTINUE WITH MATTHEW 21:14-17
14
The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed
them. 15 But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the
wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple
courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant 16 and said
to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes.
Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants
you have prepared praise for yourself’?” 17 And leaving them, he went
out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.
MATTHEW 21:16 (MSG)
16
Jesus said, “Yes, I hear them. And haven’t you read in God’s Word,
‘From the mouths of children and babies I’ll furnish a place of praise’?
****THIS IS THE ORIGINAL SCRIPTURE, OUT OF THE BOOK OF THE PSALM OF DAVID
PSALM 8:1-2(NIV)
1 LORD, OUR LORD,
HOW MAJESTIC IS YOUR NAME IN ALL THE EARTH!
YOU HAVE SET YOUR GLORY
IN THE HEAVENS.
2 THROUGH THE PRAISE OF CHILDREN AND INFANTS
YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED A STRONGHOLD AGAINST YOUR ENEMIES,
TO SILENCE THE FOE AND THE AVENGER.
****I
AM GOING TO SHOW THAT JESUS READ ALL THE TIME. WE HAVE TO GET INTO A
HABIT OF READING TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHO HE REALLY IS. JESUS WAS
ABOUT HIS FATHER’S BUSINESS AT AN EARLY AGE. AMEN!!!
LUKE 2:41-52
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THE BOY JESUS AT THE TEMPLE
41
EVERY YEAR JESUS’ PARENTS WENT TO JERUSALEM FOR THE FESTIVAL OF THE
PASSOVER. 42 WHEN HE WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD, THEY WENT UP TO THE FESTIVAL,
ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM. 43 AFTER THE FESTIVAL WAS OVER, WHILE HIS
PARENTS WERE RETURNING HOME, THE BOY JESUS STAYED BEHIND IN JERUSALEM,
BUT THEY WERE UNAWARE OF IT. 44 THINKING HE WAS IN THEIR COMPANY, THEY
TRAVELED ON FOR A DAY. THEN THEY BEGAN LOOKING FOR HIM AMONG THEIR
RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. 45 WHEN THEY DID NOT FIND HIM, THEY WENT BACK TO
JERUSALEM TO LOOK FOR HIM. 46 AFTER THREE DAYS THEY FOUND HIM IN THE
TEMPLE COURTS, SITTING AMONG THE TEACHERS, LISTENING TO THEM AND ASKING
THEM QUESTIONS. 47 EVERYONE WHO HEARD HIM WAS AMAZED AT HIS
UNDERSTANDING AND HIS ANSWERS. 48 WHEN HIS PARENTS SAW HIM, THEY WERE
ASTONISHED. HIS MOTHER SAID TO HIM, “SON, WHY HAVE YOU TREATED US LIKE
THIS? YOUR FATHER AND I HAVE BEEN ANXIOUSLY SEARCHING FOR YOU.” 49 “WHY
WERE YOU SEARCHING FOR ME?” HE ASKED. “DIDN’T YOU KNOW I HAD TO BE IN MY
FATHER’S HOUSE?” 50 BUT THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT HE WAS SAYING TO
THEM. 51 THEN HE WENT DOWN TO NAZARETH WITH THEM AND WAS OBEDIENT TO
THEM. BUT HIS MOTHER TREASURED ALL THESE THINGS IN HER HEART. 52 AND
JESUS GREW IN WISDOM AND STATURE, AND IN FAVOR WITH GOD AND MAN.
A SIDE BAR:
MATTHEW 21:23-27 The Authority of Jesus
23
Now after Jesus entered the temple courts, the chief priests and elders
of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, “By what
authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”
24 Jesus answered them, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer
me then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things. 25
Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from people?” They
discussed this among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he
will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’ 26 But if we say, ‘From
people,’ we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet.”
27 So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then he said to them,
“Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things. IN
OTHER WORDS, YOU ARE SO SMART AND ARE SCHOLARS AND EXPERTS, FIGURE IT
OUT.
WE HAVE TO GET REVELATION KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WORD. FAMILY.
DON’T BE DECEIVED BY THE COVER, READ THE BOOK, DON’T GET DECEIVED BY THE
OUTER APPEARANCE OF A THING--INQUIRE. DON’T BE SO QUICK TO BELIEVE WHAT
YOU HEAR. ASK GOD FOR THE WISDOM TO DISCERN SITUATIONS AND
CONVERSATION. AMEN.
****LIKE I STATED BEFORE: JESUS READ ALL THE TIME
LUKE 4:16-22 NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)
16
HE WENT TO NAZARETH, WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP, AND ON THE SABBATH
DAY HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE, AS WAS HIS CUSTOM. HE STOOD UP TO READ,
17 AND THE SCROLL OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH WAS HANDED TO HIM. UNROLLING IT,
HE FOUND THE PLACE WHERE IT IS WRITTEN: 18 “THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS
ON ME, BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME TO PROCLAIM GOOD NEWS TO THE POOR. HE
HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM FREEDOM FOR THE PRISONERS AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT
FOR THE BLIND, TO SET THE OPPRESSED FREE,
19 TO PROCLAIM THE YEAR
OF THE LORD’S FAVOR.” 20 THEN HE ROLLED UP THE SCROLL, GAVE IT BACK TO
THE ATTENDANT AND SAT DOWN. THE EYES OF EVERYONE IN THE SYNAGOGUE WERE
FASTENED ON HIM. 21 HE BEGAN BY SAYING TO THEM, “TODAY THIS SCRIPTURE IS
FULFILLED IN YOUR HEARING.” 22 ALL SPOKE WELL OF HIM AND WERE AMAZED AT
THE GRACIOUS WORDS THAT CAME FROM HIS LIPS. “ISN’T THIS JOSEPH’S SON?”
THEY ASKED.
FIVE AM FAMILY: “TODAY THIS SCRIPTURE IS FULFILLED IN YOUR HEARING.”
MATTHEW 12:1-3, 5 (NIV)
JESUS IS LORD OF THE SABBATH
1
AT THAT TIME JESUS WENT THROUGH THE GRAIN FIELDS ON THE SABBATH. HIS
DISCIPLES WERE HUNGRY AND BEGAN TO PICK SOME HEADS OF GRAIN AND EAT
THEM. 2 WHEN THE PHARISEES SAW THIS, THEY SAID TO HIM, “LOOK! YOUR
DISCIPLES ARE DOING WHAT IS UNLAWFUL ON THE SABBATH.” 3 HE ANSWERED,
“HAVEN’T YOU READ WHAT DAVID DID WHEN HE AND HIS COMPANIONS WERE HUNGRY?
4 HE ENTERED THE HOUSE OF GOD, AND HE AND HIS COMPANIONS ATE THE
CONSECRATED BREAD—WHICH WAS NOT LAWFUL FOR THEM TO DO, BUT ONLY FOR THE
PRIESTS. 5 OR HAVEN’T YOU READ IN THE LAW THAT THE PRIESTS ON SABBATH
DUTY IN THE TEMPLE DESECRATE(DECORATED) THE SABBATH AND YET ARE
INNOCENT? 6 I TELL YOU THAT SOMETHING GREATER THAN THE TEMPLE IS HERE. 7
IF YOU HAD KNOWN WHAT THESE WORDS MEAN, ‘I DESIRE MERCY, NOT
SACRIFICE,’ YOU WOULD NOT HAVE CONDEMNED THE INNOCENT. 8 FOR THE SON OF
MAN IS LORD OF THE SABBATH.”
MATTHEW 12:3-5 THE MESSAGE (MSG)
3-5
JESUS SAID, “REALLY? DIDN’T YOU EVER READ WHAT DAVID AND HIS COMPANIONS
DID WHEN THEY WERE HUNGRY, HOW THEY ENTERED THE SANCTUARY AND ATE FRESH
BREAD OFF THE ALTAR, BREAD THAT NO ONE BUT PRIESTS WERE ALLOWED TO EAT?
AND DIDN’T YOU EVER READ IN GOD’S LAW THAT PRIESTS CARRYING OUT THEIR
TEMPLE DUTIES BREAK SABBATH RULES ALL THE TIME AND IT’S NOT HELD AGAINST
THEM?
BY DOING "SERVILE WORK." SERVILE WORK IS CHIEFLY PHYSICAL.
CHURCH WORK THAT IS FORBIDDEN ON SUNDAYS AND ON CERTAIN HOLIDAYS AND
ARE BLAMELESS?--THE DOUBLE OFFERINGS REQUIRED ON THE SABBATH DAY (
NUMBERS 28:9 ) COULD NOT BE PRESENTED, AND THE NEW-BAKED SHOWBREAD
(LEVITICUS 24:5 , 1 CHRONICLES 9:32 ) COULD NOT BE PREPARED AND
PRESENTED EVERY SABBATH MORNING, WITHOUT A GOOD DEAL OF SERVILE WORK ON
THE PART OF THE PRIESTS; NOT TO SPEAK OF CIRCUMCISION, WHICH, WHEN THE
CHILD'S EIGHTH DAY, HAD TO BE PERFORMED BY THE PRIESTS ON THE SABBATH.
1 SAMUEL 21:1-7, ABOUT DAVID AND HIS MEN
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DAVID AT NOB
21
DAVID WENT TO NOB, TO AHIMELEK THE PRIEST. AHIMELEK TREMBLED WHEN HE
MET HIM, AND ASKED, “WHY ARE YOU ALONE? WHY IS NO ONE WITH YOU?” 2 DAVID
ANSWERED AHIMELEK THE PRIEST, “THE KING SENT ME ON A MISSION AND SAID
TO ME, ‘NO ONE IS TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE MISSION I AM SENDING YOU
ON.’ AS FOR MY MEN, I HAVE TOLD THEM TO MEET ME AT A CERTAIN PLACE. 3
NOW THEN, WHAT DO YOU HAVE ON HAND? GIVE ME FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD, OR
WHATEVER YOU CAN FIND.” 4 BUT THE PRIEST ANSWERED DAVID, “I DON’T HAVE
ANY ORDINARY BREAD ON HAND; HOWEVER, THERE IS SOME CONSECRATED BREAD
HERE—PROVIDED THE MEN HAVE KEPT THEMSELVES FROM WOMEN.” 5 DAVID REPLIED,
“INDEED WOMEN HAVE BEEN KEPT FROM US, AS USUAL WHENEVER I SET OUT. THE
MEN’S BODIES ARE HOLY EVEN ON MISSIONS THAT ARE NOT HOLY. HOW MUCH MORE
SO TODAY!” 6 SO THE PRIEST GAVE HIM THE CONSECRATED BREAD, SINCE THERE
WAS NO BREAD THERE EXCEPT THE BREAD OF THE PRESENCE THAT HAD BEEN
REMOVED FROM BEFORE THE LORD AND REPLACED BY HOT BREAD ON THE DAY IT WAS
TAKEN AWAY.
A SEEMINGLY INNOCENT ACT ON THE PART OF OUR LORD’S
DISCIPLES PRECIPITATED AN INCIDENT IN WHICH THE PHARISEES CHALLENGED THE
LORD JESUS TO DEFEND OR DENOUNCE HIS DISCIPLES: “AT THAT TIME JESUS
WENT ON THE SABBATH THROUGH THE GRAIN FIELDS, AND HIS DISCIPLES BECAME
HUNGRY AND BEGAN TO PICK THE HEADS OF GRAIN AND EAT. BUT WHEN THE
PHARISEES SAW IT, THEY SAID TO HIM, ‘BEHOLD, YOUR DISCIPLES DO WHAT IS
NOT LAWFUL TO DO ON A SABBATH’” (MATTHEW 12:1-2).
BEFORE LOOKING
AT THE RESPONSE OF OUR LORD, LET US MAKE SEVERAL IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS
ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE THAT IS FOUNDATIONAL TO AN ACCURATE
INTERPRETATION OF THIS TEXT.
(1) OUR LORD WAS NOT BEING ACCUSED
OF WRONGDOING HERE. THE ISSUE HERE IS THE “HARVESTING” AND “THRESHING”
OF GRAIN BY OUR LORD’S DISCIPLES. JESUS WAS BEING CHALLENGED TO EITHER
CONDEMN THE DEEDS OF HIS DISCIPLES OR TO CONDONE THEM, THEREBY OPPOSING
THE AUTHORITY AND THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PHARISEES.
(2) WHILE THE TORAH (THE LAW OF MOSES) NOWHERE CONDEMNS SUCH AN ACT, THE HALAKAH (THE JEWISH COLLECTION OF INTERPRETATIONS) DID.
(3) AMAZINGLY, JESUS GRANTED THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE ACTIONS OF HIS DISCIPLES WAS “WORK” AND THUS A BREAKING OF THE SABBATH
THESE
THREE FACTS PROVIDED THE LORD WITH A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO AVOID THE
ISSUE OF THE SABBATH, AND TO CONCENTRATE ONLY ON THE TECHNICAL QUESTIONS
INVOLVED. OFTEN, JESUS DID AVOID “CREATING A SCENE,” WHETHER IT BE THAT
OF PERFORMING A MIRACLE PUBLICLY, OR THAT OF INCITING A DISPUTE
PREMATURELY BETWEEN HIMSELF AND HIS ADVERSARIES. HERE, JESUS COULD HAVE
REFERRED HIS CRITICS TO HIS DISCIPLES, SINCE HE HAD NOT GATHERED ANY
HEADS OF GRAIN FOR HIMSELF, NOR HAD HE EATEN ANY. HE COULD HAVE POINTED
TO THE FACT THAT THE TORAH NOWHERE CALLED SUCH A MINIMAL EFFORT WORK,
AND THAT THIS WAS ONLY THE FALLACIOUS CONCLUSION OF SOME MISGUIDED,
KNIT-PICKING SCHOLARS. INSTEAD, JESUS CHOSE TO LET THESE TECHNICAL
MATTERS GO BY THE BOARDS. HE WANTED TO DISCUSS THE INTERPRETATION OF THE
SABBATH AND HIS ACTIVITIES WHICH COULD BE CONSTRUED TO BE A BREAKING OF
THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. HERE IS A MATTER JESUS DID WANT TO DISCUSS, AND
HE SIDESTEPPED EVERY PERIPHERAL ISSUE TO GET TO THE HEART OF THE
MATTER.
BEARING THESE THINGS IN MIND, NOTICE HOW SKILLFULLY OUR
LORD ANSWERED THE CHALLENGE OF THE PHARISEES. KNOWING FULL WELL THAT HE
WOULD NOT CHANGE THE PHARISEES’ MINDS ABOUT THE DISCIPLES’ ACTIONS BEING
VIEWED AS WORK, JESUS ALLOWED THE ALLEGATION OF SABBATH-BREAKING TO GO
UNCHALLENGED (EVEN THOUGH WRONG). OUR LORD THEN TURNED HIS CRITICS’
ATTENTION TO AN OLD TESTAMENT EVENT WHICH BEAUTIFULLY PARALLELED HIS OWN
SITUATION IN CRITICAL POINTS. HE POINTS TO THE TIME WHEN DAVID WAS
FLEEING FROM SAUL, ACCOMPANIED BY A FEW MEN, AND WHEN DAVID AND HIS
HUNGRY MEN TOOK CONSECRATED BREAD FROM AHIMELECH THE PRIEST AND ATE IT
(CF. 1 SAMUEL 21:1-7). NOTE THE COMMON DENOMINATORS OF BOTH INCIDENTS,
WHICH MAKE THE OLD TESTAMENT CASE A PRECEDENT FOR OUR LORD’S ACTIONS,
ALONG WITH HIS FOLLOWERS.
(1) DAVID AND THE LORD BOTH HAD FOLLOWERS WITH THEM, WHO PARTICIPATED IN THEIR “SABBATH-BREAKING”.
(2)
FOOD WAS EATEN TO ALLEVIATE HUNGER. HUNGER PROMPTED JESUS’ DISCIPLES TO
PLUCK THE GRAIN, JUST AS IT NECESSITATED DAVID AND HIS MEN EATING THE
SACRED BREAD.
(3) SOMETHING WHICH WAS SANCTIFIED, SET APART FOR A
SPECIAL USE, WAS PROFANED BY BEING PUT TO A COMMON USE. IN DAVID’S
CASE, SANCTIFIED BREAD, SET APART FOR USE ONLY BY THE PRIESTS’ WAS
EATEN. THE LORD’S DISCIPLES, TOO, PROFANED THE SABBATH (WHICH WAS
SANCTIFIED) BY GATHERING GRAIN, WHICH WAS COMMON LABOR.
(4) THERE WERE CONSIDERATIONS WHICH JUSTIFIED ACTIONS THAT NORMALLY WOULD HAVE BEEN CONDEMNED AS LAW-BREAKING.
WE
CAN SEE THAT THE SIMILARITIES IN THESE TWO SITUATIONS ARE SIMILAR
ENOUGH SO THAT THE JUSTIFICATION FOR DAVID’S ACTIONS (AND, OF COURSE,
HIS MEN) MIGHT ALSO VINDICATE OUR LORD’S DISCIPLES FROM THE CHARGE OF
LAW-BREAKING. LET US PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE ARGUMENT WHICH OUR LORD
PUTS FORWARD HERE, FOR IT IS A MASTER-STROKE.
FIRST, OUR LORD
ASSUMES THAT THE ACTIONS OF DAVID AND HIS MEN ARE ACCEPTABLE TO THE
JUDAISM OF HIS DAY, AND THUS, TO HIS ADVERSARIES. NOBODY WANTED TO
ACCUSE DAVID OF WRONG-DOING HERE. SECOND, IF THIS IS SO, THEN THE
PHARISEES GRANTED EXCEPTIONS TO THE LAW. THIRD, IF LAW-BREAKING WAS
ALLOWED IN SOME CASES, IT MUST BE TO SOME HIGHER REASON OR
CONSIDERATION. WHAT, THEN, ARE THE REASONS FOR WHICH DAVID COULD BE
ACQUITTED, AND FOR WHICH OUR LORD AND HIS DISCIPLES COULD BE AS WELL?
MARK 12:26 KJV READS:
26
AND AS TOUCHING THE DEAD, THAT THEY RISE : HAVE YE NOT READ IN THE BOOK
OF MOSES, HOW IN THE BUSH GOD SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING I AM THE GOD OF
ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB?
****IN THE BOOK OF MOSES
EXODUS CHAPTER 3:1-10
MOSES AND THE BURNING BUSH
1
NOW MOSES WAS TENDING THE FLOCK OF JETHRO HIS FATHER-IN-LAW, THE PRIEST
OF MIDIAN, AND HE LED THE FLOCK TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE WILDERNESS AND
CAME TO HOREB, THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD. 2 THERE THE ANGEL OF THE LORD
APPEARED TO HIM IN FLAMES OF FIRE FROM WITHIN A BUSH. MOSES SAW THAT
THOUGH THE BUSH WAS ON FIRE IT DID NOT BURN UP. 3 SO MOSES THOUGHT, “I
WILL GO OVER AND SEE THIS STRANGE SIGHT—WHY THE BUSH DOES NOT BURN UP.” 4
WHEN THE LORD SAW THAT HE HAD GONE OVER TO LOOK, GOD CALLED TO HIM FROM
WITHIN THE BUSH, “MOSES! MOSES!” AND MOSES SAID, “HERE I AM.” 5 “DO NOT
COME ANY CLOSER,” GOD SAID. “TAKE OFF YOUR SANDALS, FOR THE PLACE WHERE
YOU ARE STANDING IS HOLY GROUND.” 6 THEN HE SAID, “I AM THE GOD OF YOUR
FATHER, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC AND THE GOD OF JACOB.” AT
THIS, MOSES HID HIS FACE, BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID TO LOOK AT GOD. 7 THE
LORD SAID, “I HAVE INDEED SEEN THE MISERY OF MY PEOPLE IN EGYPT. I HAVE
HEARD THEM CRYING OUT BECAUSE OF THEIR SLAVE DRIVERS, AND I AM CONCERNED
ABOUT THEIR SUFFERING. 8 SO I HAVE COME DOWN TO RESCUE THEM FROM THE
HAND OF THE EGYPTIANS AND TO BRING THEM UP OUT OF THAT LAND INTO A GOOD
AND SPACIOUS LAND, A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY—THE HOME OF THE
CANAANITES, HITTITES, AMORITES, PERIZZITES, HIVITES AND JEBUSITES. 9 AND
NOW THE CRY OF THE ISRAELITES HAS REACHED ME, AND I HAVE SEEN THE WAY
THE EGYPTIANS ARE OPPRESSING THEM. 10 SO NOW, GO. I AM SENDING YOU TO
PHARAOH TO BRING MY PEOPLE THE ISRAELITES OUT OF EGYPT.”
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17
YE SHALL NOT NEED TO FIGHT IN THIS BATTLE: SET YOURSELVES, STAND YE
STILL, AND SEE THE SALVATION OF THE LORD WITH YOU, O JUDAH AND
JERUSALEM: FEAR NOT, NOR BE DISMAYED; TO MORROW GO OUT AGAINST THEM: FOR
THE LORD WILL BE WITH YOU.
EXODUS 3: 11 TO THE END
11 BUT
MOSES SAID TO GOD, “WHO AM I THAT I SHOULD GO TO PHARAOH AND BRING THE
ISRAELITES OUT OF EGYPT?” 12 AND GOD SAID, “I WILL BE WITH YOU. AND THIS
WILL BE THE SIGN TO YOU THAT IT IS I WHO HAVE SENT YOU: WHEN YOU HAVE
BROUGHT THE PEOPLE OUT OF EGYPT, YOU WILL WORSHIP GOD ON THIS MOUNTAIN.”
13 MOSES SAID TO GOD, “SUPPOSE I GO TO THE ISRAELITES AND SAY TO THEM,
‘THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS HAS SENT ME TO YOU,’ AND THEY ASK ME, ‘WHAT IS
HIS NAME?’ THEN WHAT SHALL I TELL THEM?” 14 GOD SAID TO MOSES, “I AM WHO
I AM. THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE TO SAY TO THE ISRAELITES: ‘I AM HAS SENT ME
TO YOU.” 15 GOD ALSO SAID TO MOSES, “SAY TO THE ISRAELITES, ‘THE LORD,
THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS—THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC AND THE GOD
OF JACOB—HAS SENT ME TO YOU.’ “THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, THE NAME YOU
SHALL CALL ME FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. 16 “GO, ASSEMBLE THE
ELDERS OF ISRAEL AND SAY TO THEM, ‘THE LORD, THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS—THE
GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB—APPEARED TO ME AND SAID: I HAVE WATCHED
OVER YOU AND HAVE SEEN WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU IN EGYPT. 17 AND I
HAVE PROMISED TO BRING YOU UP OUT OF YOUR MISERY IN EGYPT INTO THE LAND
OF THE CANAANITES, HITTITES, AMORITES, PERIZZITES, HIVITES AND
JEBUSITES—A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY.’ 18 “THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL
WILL LISTEN TO YOU. THEN YOU AND THE ELDERS ARE TO GO TO THE KING OF
EGYPT AND SAY TO HIM, ‘THE LORD, THE GOD OF THE HEBREWS, HAS MET WITH
US. LET US TAKE A THREE-DAY JOURNEY INTO THE WILDERNESS TO OFFER
SACRIFICES TO THE LORD OUR GOD.’ 19 BUT I KNOW THAT THE KING OF EGYPT
WILL NOT LET YOU GO UNLESS A MIGHTY HAND COMPELS HIM. 20 SO I WILL
STRETCH OUT MY HAND AND STRIKE THE EGYPTIANS WITH ALL THE WONDERS THAT I
WILL PERFORM AMONG THEM. AFTER THAT, HE WILL LET YOU GO. 21 “AND I WILL
MAKE THE EGYPTIANS FAVORABLY DISPOSED TOWARD THIS PEOPLE, SO THAT WHEN
YOU LEAVE YOU WILL NOT GO EMPTY-HANDED.”
LUKE 2:46 KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
46
AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT AFTER THREE DAYS THEY FOUND HIM IN THE
TEMPLE, SITTING IN THE MIDST OF THE DOCTORS, BOTH HEARING THEM, AND
ASKING THEM QUESTIONS.
EXODUS 3:18 NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)
18
“THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL WILL LISTEN TO YOU. THEN YOU AND THE ELDERS ARE
TO GO TO THE KING OF EGYPT AND SAY TO HIM, ‘THE LORD, THE GOD OF THE
HEBREWS, HAS MET WITH US. LET US TAKE A THREE-DAY JOURNEY INTO THE
WILDERNESS TO OFFER SACRIFICES TO THE LORD OUR GOD.
CONCLUSION:
JESUS READ AND STUDIED, HEARD AND INQUIRED FOR 3 DAYS,
HERE MOSES TOOK A 3 DAY JOURNEY IN THE WILDERNESS TO OFFER SACRIFICES TO THE LORD OUR GOD.
WHAT
IS GOING TO BE YOUR SACRIFICES FOR THE NEXT 3 DAYS? WE ARE IN THE COOL
OF THE DAY. HE IS CALLING US FOR THE NEXT 3 DAYS TO SACRIFICE TO HIM,
TO READ HIS WORD, TO INQUIRE OF HIM, AND TO STUDY HIS WORD.
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