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Getting the Job done: Exodus 33:7-17
October 29th 2000
(one
month before our move to Ennerdale Road Baptist bldg.)
Intro: God
has a plan outlined here for getting His will known, for getting the job done. For
blessings and assurance.
The Predicament:
This is a crucial place in
the history of the nation of
The Place:
Moses goes to the Tabernacle
–the place of worship.
7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without
the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the
congregation. And it came to pass, that
every one which sought the LORD went
out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
Isn’t it strange that a bunch of lost or backslidden
rebels knew where to go to get right with God? They went to the place of
worship to get direction from God!
Where was it located? without the camp
The physical reality in the Old Testament usually has a
spiritual application.
They were separate from the world. We are to be “without
the camp” in the sense of being spiritual separated from the world.
8 And it came to
pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and
stood every man at his tent door, and
looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
The world ought to know where we go for help! When Moses
headed on over to church people stood up and took notice!
*ILL. They know if you are
home on Sunday morning! Next month you better go to your neighbours
and explain that you are meeting in the afternoons!
The
Pillar:
9 And it came to
pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked
with Moses.
God met with Moses as God meets with us. Where do you go
when You have a problem, a decision, a trial…?
The
Praise:
10 And all the
people saw the cloudy pillar stand at
the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
The
Persistence:
11 And the LORD spake unto
Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into
the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out
of the tabernacle.
The
Problem:
12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let
me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and
thou hast also found grace in my sight. 13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I
have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that
I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
The
Promise:
14 And he said, My presence shall go with
thee, and I will give thee rest.
The
Proof:
15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. 16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. 17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sig