Haven't You Read?

Matthew 19:3-4; Genesis 5:1-2,  3:20; Matthew 21:12-17; Isaiah 56:7; Psalm 8:1-3; Luke 2:41-52; Matthew 21:23-27; Luke 4:16-22; Isaiah 61:1-2; Isaiah 58:6; Matthew 12:1-8; Hosea 6:6; Leveticus 24:5; 1 Chronicles 9:32; 1 Samuel 21:1-7; Mark 12:26; Exodus 3:1-10; 2 Chronicles 20:17; Luke 2:46; Exodus 3:18; 2 Timothy 2:15

We are walking in today:  Haven't You Read?  

Thank You, Adonai for sending Your servant, Pastor Wagner with this word this morning.  We pray that You would continue to use her in a mighty and awesome way, all for Your glory!  There is no one like unto Thee!  Thank You for sending us this on time word this morning!

 

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4 He answered, “Haven’t you read in your Bible that the Creator originally made man and woman for each other, male and female?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

NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)

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                

NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)

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.”

MIN JEANETTE WOULD YOU PLEASE RECITE 2 CHRONICLES 20:17 PLEASE

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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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We seal this prayer in the precious blood of Jesus of Nazareth, the only Begotten of the Heavenly Father and by the Holy Spirit:  Fiveamprayer, we must study and read His word for ourselves--2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.