1 00:00:29,860 --> 00:00:30,540 Good evening. 2 00:00:30,540 --> 00:00:31,780 Thank you for being here. 3 00:00:32,180 --> 00:00:37,060 I'm honored to have another opportunity. 4 00:00:38,740 --> 00:00:39,860 My mic's right there. 5 00:00:40,020 --> 00:00:40,580 All right. 6 00:00:41,060 --> 00:00:42,580 I'm making a mess up here. 7 00:00:42,900 --> 00:00:43,420 All right. 8 00:00:43,420 --> 00:00:47,940 Well, I want to thank you for just your faithfulness. 9 00:00:48,660 --> 00:00:51,620 Your faithfulness is an encouragement to more people than 10 00:00:51,620 --> 00:00:52,420 you realize. 11 00:00:52,820 --> 00:00:55,710 And God uses people in our lives to. 12 00:00:55,940 --> 00:00:57,660 To help us along the way. 13 00:00:57,660 --> 00:01:01,660 And just want to let you know, you have helped me and you're helping 14 00:01:01,660 --> 00:01:01,940 others. 15 00:01:02,020 --> 00:01:02,900 So thank you. 16 00:01:02,980 --> 00:01:06,780 And then I just want to mention, too, I got a text from my 17 00:01:06,780 --> 00:01:12,820 son Daniel this week on Monday, and he does this to me constantly. 18 00:01:12,820 --> 00:01:19,060 And he'll say, hey, dad, you have everything that I have. 19 00:01:19,060 --> 00:01:23,630 If I die, I said, I'm going to jump through this phone. 20 00:01:25,310 --> 00:01:26,670 What are you talking about? 21 00:01:26,830 --> 00:01:33,070 Well, he's having to fill out some paperwork, and it got real this 22 00:01:33,070 --> 00:01:33,390 week. 23 00:01:33,870 --> 00:01:35,950 And pray for him. 24 00:01:36,510 --> 00:01:41,070 He has an opportunity to influence people around him by having 25 00:01:41,150 --> 00:01:41,630 faith. 26 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:48,520 It's noticeable. 27 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:50,240 People see you. 28 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,120 People see how you handle things in difficult situations. 29 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,120 And you can encourage or discourage. 30 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,160 You can bring people along, or you can shoo people away. 31 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,720 And we have so many opportunities that I think we take 32 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:04,440 for granted. 33 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,320 But I've been praying for him in that way. 34 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,960 If you would pray for Daniel in his way of his testimony. 35 00:02:10,920 --> 00:02:13,570 And I know the Lord will protect him. 36 00:02:13,570 --> 00:02:14,530 The Lord has him. 37 00:02:15,090 --> 00:02:16,290 Lord knows what he's doing. 38 00:02:16,610 --> 00:02:21,010 And pray for Mama, too, so she's worried about him. 39 00:02:21,010 --> 00:02:23,010 But open your Bibles. 40 00:02:23,810 --> 00:02:26,050 Exodus, chapter number 34. 41 00:02:26,610 --> 00:02:27,890 Exodus 34. 42 00:02:29,490 --> 00:02:31,890 We're going to be back in the Old Testament again. 43 00:02:32,690 --> 00:02:39,650 We are going to look at a man of his, a man named Moses, of how 44 00:02:39,650 --> 00:02:41,450 he heard from God. 45 00:02:42,250 --> 00:02:47,130 Have you been in a position in your life where nothing else mattered 46 00:02:47,930 --> 00:02:49,290 but to hear from God? 47 00:02:50,250 --> 00:02:57,330 Has life drawn you to the place where absolutely nothing else 48 00:02:57,330 --> 00:03:03,530 matters but that I hear from God into a particular way where I 49 00:03:03,530 --> 00:03:05,090 don't care about food or drink. 50 00:03:05,090 --> 00:03:07,090 I don't care about anything else. 51 00:03:07,090 --> 00:03:08,970 I have got to hear from God. 52 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:11,480 Well, if you haven't, it's coming. 53 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:12,520 Your day's coming. 54 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,240 I'm sure you're going to have multiple days where it is vitally 55 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,120 important for you to hear from God. 56 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:20,680 And Moses is preparing now. 57 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:21,880 Moses is. 58 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,680 We're going to pick up the reading here in verse number one, 59 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,480 and we'll read through the first few verses, and then we'll 60 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,800 make some comments and I'll give some context here after we pray. 61 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:32,880 So let's read verse one. 62 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:37,470 And it says, and the Lord said unto Moses, hew thee two tables of 63 00:03:37,470 --> 00:03:38,750 stone like unto the first. 64 00:03:38,750 --> 00:03:43,150 And I will write upon these tables the words that were on the 65 00:03:43,150 --> 00:03:44,990 first tables which thou breakest. 66 00:03:45,150 --> 00:03:46,310 And be ready in the morning. 67 00:03:46,310 --> 00:03:49,990 And come up in the morning unto Mount Sinai and present thyself 68 00:03:49,990 --> 00:03:52,110 there to me in the top of the mount. 69 00:03:52,990 --> 00:03:57,190 And no man shall come with thee, neither let any man be seen 70 00:03:57,190 --> 00:03:58,270 throughout all the mount. 71 00:03:58,270 --> 00:04:01,790 Neither let the flocks nor herds feed before the mount. 72 00:04:02,250 --> 00:04:05,610 And he hewed two tables of stone likened to the first. 73 00:04:05,610 --> 00:04:09,770 And Moses rose up early in the morning and went into Mount Sinai 74 00:04:09,770 --> 00:04:11,370 as the Lord has commanded him. 75 00:04:11,450 --> 00:04:15,530 And took his hand the two tablets of stone. 76 00:04:15,530 --> 00:04:16,330 Let's pray. 77 00:04:17,050 --> 00:04:19,250 Lord, I pray that you speak to us tonight. 78 00:04:19,250 --> 00:04:21,370 We do desire to hear from you. 79 00:04:21,610 --> 00:04:24,370 I pray that we can learn something from your word. 80 00:04:24,370 --> 00:04:26,850 That you would speak directly to us, Lord. 81 00:04:26,850 --> 00:04:28,450 That it would make a difference in our life. 82 00:04:28,450 --> 00:04:30,010 A tangible, real difference. 83 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:32,020 I ask this in Jesus name. 84 00:04:32,020 --> 00:04:32,620 Amen. 85 00:04:33,180 --> 00:04:34,380 So Moses is here. 86 00:04:35,020 --> 00:04:37,900 He is having a conversation with God. 87 00:04:39,020 --> 00:04:44,140 This picks up after the children of Israel were in bondage 88 00:04:44,140 --> 00:04:46,060 of Israel or in Egypt. 89 00:04:46,219 --> 00:04:48,860 They were there captives for 400 years. 90 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:51,980 Remember the family of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? 91 00:04:51,980 --> 00:04:52,820 Well, there went. 92 00:04:52,820 --> 00:04:56,695 There was about 75 members who went to Egypt after the famine. 93 00:04:56,695 --> 00:04:56,850 They. 94 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,240 They grew up there. 95 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:03,520 And that family, Joseph at the time was the prime minister, if you 96 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:04,960 will, of Egypt. 97 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,600 And his family came and he rescued his family, forgave his brothers. 98 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:09,680 You remember that story? 99 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:14,480 Well, 400 and some years later, these 70 some people have 100 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,400 grown into 2 to 3 million. 101 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:19,400 This is a nation. 102 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,800 This is the promise of God. 103 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,240 That God had said, hey, I'm going to bless you and I'm going 104 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:24,210 to multiply and. 105 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,080 And I'm going to give you a descendants as numerous as the sun. 106 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:28,520 And this is the nation. 107 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:29,960 This is the nation of Israel. 108 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,000 Well, the nation is in bondage in Egypt. 109 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:37,520 God sends the 10 plagues, raises up Moses, sends him to Pharaoh. 110 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:38,440 Let my people go. 111 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,840 They come out, they cross through the Red Sea. 112 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:43,800 They get all the way here to Mount Sinai. 113 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:48,560 And God calls Moses up into the mountain to give him the ten 114 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:49,160 Commandments. 115 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:49,740 And. 116 00:05:49,810 --> 00:05:53,810 And when he comes down, he finds the children of Israel worshiping 117 00:05:53,810 --> 00:05:56,130 the golden calf in a wicked, vile way. 118 00:05:56,450 --> 00:06:00,570 They were giving praise to something that they fashioned by 119 00:06:00,570 --> 00:06:01,330 their own hand. 120 00:06:01,650 --> 00:06:05,330 By that imagination, they imagined what they wanted to do. 121 00:06:05,330 --> 00:06:06,250 They crafted it. 122 00:06:06,250 --> 00:06:08,530 And then they began to give praise and worship to it. 123 00:06:09,250 --> 00:06:11,090 And they blamed Moses. 124 00:06:11,090 --> 00:06:14,530 And then Moses, you know, it was not a good situation. 125 00:06:14,610 --> 00:06:16,340 Moses sees this. 126 00:06:16,340 --> 00:06:17,620 God knows what's going on. 127 00:06:17,620 --> 00:06:21,660 He comes down, he hears this music that is being played in the 128 00:06:21,660 --> 00:06:21,940 camp. 129 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:25,140 The children of Israel are dancing to this music. 130 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:27,940 And it sounds like war. 131 00:06:28,020 --> 00:06:32,740 The first time they go up, they are. 132 00:06:32,980 --> 00:06:35,260 They hear this, and they come down. 133 00:06:35,260 --> 00:06:38,260 Moses breaks the tablets, and then. 134 00:06:38,260 --> 00:06:39,940 Now this is where we're at. 135 00:06:42,190 --> 00:06:46,990 God is speaking to Moses in a way, and he's telling him, hey, listen. 136 00:06:47,630 --> 00:06:48,910 Actually, let me back up. 137 00:06:48,910 --> 00:06:54,630 So in verse, or in chapter 33, God tells Moses, listen, I've promised 138 00:06:54,630 --> 00:06:55,390 you this land. 139 00:06:55,550 --> 00:06:58,350 I'm going to give it to you, but I'm not going with you. 140 00:06:59,070 --> 00:06:59,790 You go. 141 00:07:00,030 --> 00:07:02,310 You don't want to worship, you go by yourself. 142 00:07:02,310 --> 00:07:04,110 Moses says, I will not go. 143 00:07:04,430 --> 00:07:06,110 I will not go by myself. 144 00:07:06,270 --> 00:07:09,180 He says, if you don't come with, we don't want to go. 145 00:07:09,580 --> 00:07:14,300 And so Moses had a time where God got his attention fully. 146 00:07:14,460 --> 00:07:17,980 Have you had that time where God has gotten your attention? 147 00:07:18,380 --> 00:07:19,340 Are you listening? 148 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:21,020 Have you been there? 149 00:07:21,340 --> 00:07:22,860 Have you been there to the place? 150 00:07:24,300 --> 00:07:28,300 Has God orchestrated your life where there's nothing else that matters 151 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:29,580 but what God says? 152 00:07:29,820 --> 00:07:31,340 Well, this is where Moses was. 153 00:07:31,580 --> 00:07:35,420 He was right here, and he was to the point. 154 00:07:35,950 --> 00:07:39,230 Look back in chapter 33, you need to look at a couple of these 155 00:07:39,470 --> 00:07:42,510 where it says, look at 33, verse 13. 156 00:07:42,510 --> 00:07:46,630 And it says, now, therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace 157 00:07:46,630 --> 00:07:50,710 in thy sight, show me now thy ways that I may know thee that I 158 00:07:50,710 --> 00:07:52,630 might find grace in thy sight. 159 00:07:52,630 --> 00:07:55,070 And consider that this nation is thy people. 160 00:07:55,470 --> 00:07:59,470 Moses said, God, I want you to come with us. 161 00:08:00,030 --> 00:08:02,350 And we're not going if you don't go. 162 00:08:04,180 --> 00:08:04,900 I need you. 163 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:05,700 I want you. 164 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:07,380 I need to know more of you. 165 00:08:07,620 --> 00:08:09,220 Moses wanted more of God. 166 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:14,860 And so God says, verse 34, he says, I'm sorry. 167 00:08:14,860 --> 00:08:19,020 Chapter 34, verse 1 says, and the Lord said unto Moses, hew thee 168 00:08:19,020 --> 00:08:20,740 two tables of stone like unto the first. 169 00:08:20,740 --> 00:08:23,340 And I will write upon these tables the words that were written 170 00:08:23,340 --> 00:08:25,780 on the first tablets which thou breakest. 171 00:08:27,380 --> 00:08:29,220 So he's getting him ready. 172 00:08:29,220 --> 00:08:32,740 God is speaking, and he is getting Moses ready to prepare for 173 00:08:32,740 --> 00:08:33,380 this meeting. 174 00:08:33,750 --> 00:08:34,150 Okay? 175 00:08:34,470 --> 00:08:39,030 And this meeting, in verse two, God is telling Moses, look what 176 00:08:39,030 --> 00:08:41,670 he says in verse two, and be ready in the morning. 177 00:08:42,550 --> 00:08:45,430 So the first point is preparation. 178 00:08:45,750 --> 00:08:48,710 You've got to be ready if you want to hear from God. 179 00:08:49,110 --> 00:08:50,990 You and I have to prepare. 180 00:08:50,990 --> 00:08:52,550 We have to be ready for it. 181 00:08:52,950 --> 00:08:53,510 Okay? 182 00:08:53,510 --> 00:08:58,070 There's so many times that we can come to church. 183 00:08:58,790 --> 00:09:00,310 Not picking on anyone here. 184 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:01,400 We. 185 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:02,120 I'm. 186 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:02,720 If anyone. 187 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:03,600 I'm picking on myself. 188 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,680 I can come to church just like a. 189 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:09,160 It's just part of what I have to do. 190 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:10,440 It's my weekly schedule. 191 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:11,760 I'm supposed to be there. 192 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:12,760 I just need to go. 193 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,360 And I kind of deal with God carelessly. 194 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:18,440 I was never ready. 195 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,880 I never prepared myself to hear from God. 196 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:28,040 Now, I don't know about you, but Moses had to get things ready. 197 00:09:28,430 --> 00:09:28,990 Did he need. 198 00:09:29,470 --> 00:09:31,950 Well, he needed two stones. 199 00:09:32,590 --> 00:09:34,590 Well, how are you going to get two stones, Moses? 200 00:09:35,310 --> 00:09:36,550 Well, I need some tools. 201 00:09:36,550 --> 00:09:38,030 I need a hammer, I need a chisel. 202 00:09:38,270 --> 00:09:39,870 I need a way to get these out. 203 00:09:39,870 --> 00:09:44,230 So he had to go and physically prepare something that God wanted 204 00:09:44,230 --> 00:09:47,630 him to before God was going to deal with him. 205 00:09:48,350 --> 00:09:53,830 So God lays out these parameters, says, hey, I'll just 206 00:09:53,830 --> 00:09:57,240 say this, God does business with, with those who mean business. 207 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:03,560 And so I've been in a service business. 208 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:07,960 In 2008, I started a small business in Ohio. 209 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,760 2018, I started business, small business here in Texas. 210 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,400 And I've hired guys and I fired guys. 211 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:16,520 And there are certain. 212 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,960 I've hired way more guys than who have worked for me because there 213 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:26,080 are certain guys who show up, they are not ready, they have not 214 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,840 prepared, said, hey, I want you to be here at 7am and you're 215 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:30,320 going to need this. 216 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,000 And you're going to need this, and you're going to need this. 217 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,320 Well, they didn't show up on time. 218 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,040 They didn't have what I asked them to or something. 219 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:38,480 They weren't serious. 220 00:10:38,799 --> 00:10:42,000 I said, hey, you're probably better off to find something else. 221 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:43,080 They said, why? 222 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,800 I said, it's just, I just think, I think we're just not going 223 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:47,680 to be a good fit. 224 00:10:48,730 --> 00:10:49,130 Okay? 225 00:10:49,370 --> 00:10:54,330 Just, I'm sorry, but I need somebody to take these serious. 226 00:10:54,330 --> 00:10:56,130 This is work now. 227 00:10:56,130 --> 00:10:57,290 We're talking about God. 228 00:10:57,290 --> 00:10:59,530 He needs us to take him seriously. 229 00:11:00,090 --> 00:11:04,490 We need to be able to approach God with the right mind, not with 230 00:11:04,490 --> 00:11:09,170 a flippant attitude or a careless hazard haphazardness. 231 00:11:09,170 --> 00:11:13,050 When we seek the presence of God, we should prepare our hearts. 232 00:11:13,850 --> 00:11:16,430 We need to go out and prepare our hearts. 233 00:11:16,430 --> 00:11:19,710 If there's anything in our hearts that would hinder my relationship 234 00:11:19,710 --> 00:11:23,910 with God or would hinder my relationship with someone else, that's 235 00:11:23,910 --> 00:11:24,910 part of preparation. 236 00:11:26,670 --> 00:11:30,430 God says, if I regard the psalmist says, if I guard iniquity 237 00:11:30,430 --> 00:11:32,430 in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. 238 00:11:33,710 --> 00:11:36,910 So if you want to hear from God, we've got to get serious about 239 00:11:36,910 --> 00:11:37,190 it. 240 00:11:37,190 --> 00:11:38,430 We've got to prepare. 241 00:11:39,150 --> 00:11:41,950 God told Moses, be ready. 242 00:11:42,460 --> 00:11:45,100 Are you prepared for what I have for you? 243 00:11:45,420 --> 00:11:51,100 And Genesis, or in Exodus teaches us that we need to prepare 244 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:52,460 our hearts to seek God. 245 00:11:52,620 --> 00:11:58,780 If you can, turn with me to 2nd Chronicles 12, 2nd Chronicles 246 00:11:58,940 --> 00:12:00,380 12 14. 247 00:12:04,060 --> 00:12:04,940 Look at this verse. 248 00:12:04,940 --> 00:12:07,100 This is an interesting verse. 249 00:12:07,830 --> 00:12:09,430 The Bible says This is Rehoboam. 250 00:12:10,230 --> 00:12:15,430 And the Bible says, and he did evil because he prepared not his 251 00:12:15,430 --> 00:12:17,270 heart to seek the Lord. 252 00:12:19,830 --> 00:12:26,710 It doesn't say that he did evil because. 253 00:12:27,270 --> 00:12:30,950 It doesn't say that he did evil because he didn't seek the Lord. 254 00:12:31,830 --> 00:12:36,040 He still sought the Lord, but he didn't prepare himself for it. 255 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:37,640 Do you see that? 256 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,040 That's a strange verse, in my opinion. 257 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:44,120 It says, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord. 258 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,440 How are you and I supposed to prepare our heart? 259 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,320 We are supposed to prepare our heart by making sure there is nothing 260 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,360 in between thee and me. 261 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:56,040 Nothing between God. 262 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:01,790 Am I holding any type of anything against anyone, any grudge 263 00:13:01,790 --> 00:13:02,990 or unforgiveness? 264 00:13:03,230 --> 00:13:04,670 It is going to hinder. 265 00:13:04,670 --> 00:13:08,590 It's going to put a blockade in the flow of hearing from God. 266 00:13:08,590 --> 00:13:09,430 We are going to put. 267 00:13:09,430 --> 00:13:13,390 We're going to plug our ears when God starts speaking if we are 268 00:13:13,390 --> 00:13:18,630 not doing the things that God is requiring us so that we can hear 269 00:13:18,630 --> 00:13:19,390 him clearly. 270 00:13:19,710 --> 00:13:28,590 Because what will happen is we, even if we seek God in the condition, 271 00:13:29,170 --> 00:13:31,970 we are not going to properly receive what he has for us. 272 00:13:32,530 --> 00:13:37,090 And so you can stay there, or if you can turn with me, either way, 273 00:13:37,090 --> 00:13:40,930 it's second Chronicles 19:3. 274 00:13:41,490 --> 00:13:42,130 Look how. 275 00:13:42,210 --> 00:13:43,490 Look at this wording. 276 00:13:44,210 --> 00:13:45,970 Interesting passage as well. 277 00:13:47,810 --> 00:13:49,770 2Nd Chronicles 19, verse 3. 278 00:13:49,770 --> 00:13:53,930 It says, nevertheless, there is a good thing found in thee in 279 00:13:53,930 --> 00:13:59,630 that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land and has prepared 280 00:13:59,790 --> 00:14:01,710 thine heart to seek God. 281 00:14:02,910 --> 00:14:04,190 Do you see the pattern here? 282 00:14:04,750 --> 00:14:09,430 You see, God is working, but he wants to make sure that you and 283 00:14:09,430 --> 00:14:11,030 I are serious. 284 00:14:11,030 --> 00:14:15,710 Are we taking God serious when we approach him, when we open our 285 00:14:15,710 --> 00:14:16,110 Bible? 286 00:14:16,910 --> 00:14:18,030 Have we prepared? 287 00:14:18,190 --> 00:14:23,590 Okay, in your morning devotion, my pastor in Ohio, Pastor 288 00:14:23,590 --> 00:14:26,750 Jerry Seiler, he used to say, hey, you're not going to do anything 289 00:14:26,750 --> 00:14:28,030 that you don't plan to. 290 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:32,740 Which sometimes we, you know, we accidentally. 291 00:14:32,740 --> 00:14:35,940 You're probably not going to accidentally start reading your Bible. 292 00:14:35,940 --> 00:14:36,580 Whoops. 293 00:14:37,940 --> 00:14:38,500 Okay. 294 00:14:38,500 --> 00:14:41,220 You're probably not accidentally going to start serving 295 00:14:41,220 --> 00:14:45,700 God in any form or any capacity without planning for it. 296 00:14:45,940 --> 00:14:49,300 So are you planning for what you're going to do? 297 00:14:49,620 --> 00:14:53,780 God told Moses to do what he said, be ready in the morning. 298 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,240 So basically, get to work now. 299 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:03,520 And Genesis teaches us that we prepare for our day the night before. 300 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,960 In the evening and the morning were the first day. 301 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,680 So we need to be ready for tomorrow. 302 00:15:09,999 --> 00:15:10,440 Tonight. 303 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,200 We need to start planning the things that we need to do. 304 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:14,440 Do I need to make a phone call? 305 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,440 Do I need to make something right between a brother or a sister? 306 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,240 Do I need to Plan out my daily reading. 307 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,960 Do I need to set an alarm early so that I get up on time? 308 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:28,200 Do I need to make sure that my schedule allows for my daily reading? 309 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:29,040 That's. 310 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:30,360 That's being ready. 311 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:32,680 That's being ready to hear from God. 312 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:33,680 And he. 313 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:34,040 He. 314 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:35,360 That's what Moses did. 315 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,520 Moses said, or we'll keep reading. 316 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:39,920 It says, and be ready in the morning. 317 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:40,520 Verse 2. 318 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:44,760 And come up in the morning unto Mount Sinai, and prepare thyself 319 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:46,280 there to me. 320 00:15:46,650 --> 00:15:49,930 Present thyself there to me in the top of the mountain. 321 00:15:50,330 --> 00:15:55,130 So he says, hey, I want you to come, but I want you to be ready. 322 00:15:55,450 --> 00:15:56,890 Then look at verse three. 323 00:15:57,770 --> 00:16:01,210 It says, and no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man 324 00:16:01,450 --> 00:16:03,330 be seen throughout all the mount. 325 00:16:03,330 --> 00:16:08,010 Neither let the flocks nor herds feed before the mountain. 326 00:16:08,650 --> 00:16:09,530 So we have. 327 00:16:09,690 --> 00:16:11,290 So first we got to be ready. 328 00:16:11,450 --> 00:16:15,590 And then secondly, God says, you need to be alone. 329 00:16:16,310 --> 00:16:17,750 No one's coming with you. 330 00:16:18,150 --> 00:16:19,670 Joshua's not coming with you. 331 00:16:19,670 --> 00:16:22,150 Last time Joshua went halfway up, waited. 332 00:16:22,230 --> 00:16:25,670 Joshua heard the sound of war him and Moses were talking about. 333 00:16:25,670 --> 00:16:29,470 They were amazed with what they saw when they got down at the 334 00:16:29,470 --> 00:16:31,190 bottom of the mount of Mount Sinai. 335 00:16:32,630 --> 00:16:34,350 He says, hey, you got to be ready. 336 00:16:34,350 --> 00:16:36,350 And then I want you to come alone. 337 00:16:36,350 --> 00:16:37,990 I want no distractions. 338 00:16:38,380 --> 00:16:40,620 He says, moses, this is just me and you. 339 00:16:40,780 --> 00:16:44,340 If you want to hear from me, it's just going to be me and you 340 00:16:44,340 --> 00:16:44,700 there. 341 00:16:45,180 --> 00:16:47,820 Do you have a quiet time with God? 342 00:16:49,740 --> 00:16:54,380 We live in a society that wants everything now. 343 00:16:55,740 --> 00:16:57,340 We want next day shipping. 344 00:16:58,060 --> 00:16:59,660 We want them to get our order right. 345 00:16:59,660 --> 00:17:02,780 First time in the drive through, I don't want to pull up. 346 00:17:02,780 --> 00:17:05,190 I'm sorry, I. I do not want to pull forward. 347 00:17:05,190 --> 00:17:07,670 I went through the drive through, so I didn't have to go in. 348 00:17:07,830 --> 00:17:13,590 Okay, I don't mind waiting here, but we want everything now. 349 00:17:13,590 --> 00:17:15,830 See, I mean, that's what I want. 350 00:17:15,830 --> 00:17:17,070 I want everything now. 351 00:17:17,070 --> 00:17:18,190 Well, I want to hear from God. 352 00:17:18,190 --> 00:17:19,750 I want a relationship with God now. 353 00:17:19,990 --> 00:17:21,430 This can't be manufactured. 354 00:17:21,910 --> 00:17:23,350 This can't be manipulated. 355 00:17:23,350 --> 00:17:26,150 In a way, this is alone time with God. 356 00:17:26,790 --> 00:17:31,500 In Psalm 46, verse 10, I believe it is, it says, be still 357 00:17:32,060 --> 00:17:33,740 and know that I am God. 358 00:17:34,460 --> 00:17:35,100 Have you. 359 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:39,340 When's the last time that you have been able to shut everything 360 00:17:39,820 --> 00:17:44,060 off and go to the closet and shut the door? 361 00:17:46,860 --> 00:17:48,700 This cannot be overstated. 362 00:17:48,860 --> 00:17:53,380 We have got to have a type of relationship that is with God, that 363 00:17:53,380 --> 00:17:55,580 is intimate, that is personal. 364 00:17:55,900 --> 00:17:56,160 That is. 365 00:17:56,309 --> 00:18:00,109 That is where you say, there is nothing else that matters to me 366 00:18:00,109 --> 00:18:02,709 right now than to go in and hear from God. 367 00:18:03,429 --> 00:18:07,669 And there Are times in our life where I get it, I do it too. 368 00:18:08,149 --> 00:18:09,029 We're busy. 369 00:18:09,909 --> 00:18:12,869 The world is ran by busy, tired people. 370 00:18:13,429 --> 00:18:15,589 We are all busy and we're all tired. 371 00:18:16,469 --> 00:18:20,109 And there's times that we have to prioritize this. 372 00:18:20,109 --> 00:18:21,589 That's why we have to be ready. 373 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:23,480 We have to set side. 374 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:29,000 We have to set time aside to make sure that we, we are doing, 375 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:30,840 we are being who we need to be. 376 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,040 And you and I. I cannot be the father I need to be. 377 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,640 I cannot be the husband I need to be if I don't have that time alone 378 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:39,080 with God. 379 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,200 When I feel those, those relationships slipping a little bit 380 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,080 or maybe, maybe I'm a little short tempered or whatever the case 381 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:46,480 may be. 382 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:47,560 That doesn't happen, does it? 383 00:18:48,030 --> 00:18:52,030 No, that I know that. 384 00:18:52,110 --> 00:18:54,110 Oh, there's something wrong here. 385 00:18:54,270 --> 00:18:55,550 I've got to get back. 386 00:18:55,550 --> 00:18:58,670 I got to get back to God. 387 00:18:58,670 --> 00:19:02,990 I need him to guide me and I don't want anything else right now 388 00:19:03,230 --> 00:19:04,510 but to hear from God. 389 00:19:05,150 --> 00:19:08,590 And Moses was in this place where he was taking notes. 390 00:19:08,910 --> 00:19:10,830 I would assume he's taking notes. 391 00:19:10,910 --> 00:19:11,950 I mean, if he. 392 00:19:12,590 --> 00:19:14,420 Well, do you take notes? 393 00:19:15,940 --> 00:19:18,340 Do you take notes when God speaks to you? 394 00:19:19,380 --> 00:19:23,380 Are you interested in remembering what God says? 395 00:19:26,020 --> 00:19:27,380 I'm jumping ahead of myself. 396 00:19:27,380 --> 00:19:30,700 But I just want you to know that this alone time with God is 397 00:19:30,700 --> 00:19:32,820 a special, special, special time. 398 00:19:33,540 --> 00:19:35,460 And you cannot manufacture it. 399 00:19:35,540 --> 00:19:36,820 You can't rush this. 400 00:19:37,860 --> 00:19:42,040 This is a repeated time where you get alone with God. 401 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:43,320 You say, what does it look like? 402 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,160 It can look differently for other people. 403 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,080 But I can tell you that there's times where I just need to 404 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,040 sit in my truck. 405 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:53,800 Yes, I can pray driving down the road. 406 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:58,280 I can do some thinking and some contemplating while I'm driving. 407 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:00,840 But I'm still distracted. 408 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:03,880 I still have to stop. 409 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:07,760 I still have to obey the road. 410 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:08,400 Right? 411 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,320 And I still have to pay attention. 412 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,760 That is not giving God all of my attention. 413 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:18,240 I need to set aside a time where it's just me and God. 414 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:24,680 And when God speaks, I let him know, Lord, I just want to hear from 415 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:25,040 you. 416 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:30,420 Do you ever pray silently and. 417 00:20:30,970 --> 00:20:33,370 Or whenever you pray, Is it always you talking? 418 00:20:34,890 --> 00:20:37,930 Do you know that prayer is a dialogue? 419 00:20:38,970 --> 00:20:40,330 It's not a monologue? 420 00:20:41,050 --> 00:20:44,450 We tend to come to God like this. 421 00:20:44,450 --> 00:20:46,170 Okay, this is what I would like. 422 00:20:46,489 --> 00:20:47,450 This is our problem. 423 00:20:47,450 --> 00:20:48,570 This is what we need. 424 00:20:48,890 --> 00:20:49,930 Those are fine. 425 00:20:49,930 --> 00:20:54,730 But there's a time where you stop and you listen and you allow 426 00:20:54,730 --> 00:20:57,890 the spirit of God to work in your heart like nothing else in this 427 00:20:57,890 --> 00:20:58,490 world can. 428 00:20:59,050 --> 00:21:00,650 And that's where God speaks. 429 00:21:01,610 --> 00:21:03,210 That's where great Things happen. 430 00:21:03,530 --> 00:21:07,690 That's where spiritual things start to flow out and you bump into 431 00:21:07,690 --> 00:21:08,090 somebody. 432 00:21:08,090 --> 00:21:12,010 You might spill a little bit of God's goodness of your life on 433 00:21:12,010 --> 00:21:14,730 them instead of backhanding them. 434 00:21:15,130 --> 00:21:16,010 You don't do that. 435 00:21:16,010 --> 00:21:16,650 You don't do. 436 00:21:16,890 --> 00:21:17,290 No. 437 00:21:18,890 --> 00:21:22,570 In Matthew, chapter six, the Bible talks about going in. 438 00:21:22,650 --> 00:21:23,610 I'm going to go there. 439 00:21:23,610 --> 00:21:24,930 I want you to listen to this. 440 00:21:24,930 --> 00:21:27,540 If you'd like to turn with me, feel free. 441 00:21:27,540 --> 00:21:30,220 It's Matthew 6, 6. 442 00:21:38,620 --> 00:21:42,219 It says, but thou, when thou prayest, entered into thy closet, 443 00:21:42,219 --> 00:21:46,180 and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy Father, which is 444 00:21:46,180 --> 00:21:49,980 in secret, and the Father which is in secret, shall reward 445 00:21:49,980 --> 00:21:51,020 thee openly. 446 00:21:53,510 --> 00:21:56,070 Let me just hit these high points here. 447 00:21:56,550 --> 00:21:59,550 I want to show the significance of your alone time with 448 00:21:59,550 --> 00:21:59,910 God. 449 00:21:59,910 --> 00:22:01,590 Just listen to these men. 450 00:22:01,990 --> 00:22:06,070 Abraham was alone with God when God spoke to him and gave him 451 00:22:06,070 --> 00:22:07,270 the ten Commandments. 452 00:22:08,310 --> 00:22:11,230 Well, both times he was alone with God. 453 00:22:11,230 --> 00:22:14,390 Great things happen when you and I get alone with God. 454 00:22:14,950 --> 00:22:18,590 Daniel was alone with God when God spoke to him and gave him the 455 00:22:18,590 --> 00:22:19,990 prophecy of the end times. 456 00:22:20,090 --> 00:22:23,800 When Paul was alone with God, when God gave him the Book of Romans 457 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:24,720 and the Epistles. 458 00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:28,760 Peter was alone with God on a rooftop when he had a vision and 459 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,760 God spoke to him about Cornelius and opening the door to 460 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:34,240 the Gentiles and John. 461 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:35,520 John. 462 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,960 He was alone on the Isle of Patmos where God gave him the Book 463 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:40,880 of the Revelation. 464 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,560 Because he was alone with God, good things happened. 465 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,400 Moses and even the Lord Jesus Christ was alone with God. 466 00:22:50,670 --> 00:22:53,990 Even in the busyness of his ministry and the fruitfulness of 467 00:22:53,990 --> 00:22:56,830 his ministry, he was performing things constantly. 468 00:22:56,830 --> 00:22:58,510 And he withdrew himself to pray. 469 00:22:59,150 --> 00:23:02,030 And even Christ himself got alone with God. 470 00:23:03,070 --> 00:23:07,070 There is something special about being alone with God. 471 00:23:07,150 --> 00:23:09,310 So first is, you got to be ready. 472 00:23:09,630 --> 00:23:11,030 Then you must come alone. 473 00:23:11,030 --> 00:23:13,950 And thirdly, you must come expecting. 474 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,600 Do you really expect to get something from God? 475 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,840 When you pray, do you expect God to answer your prayers? 476 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:27,240 Do you expect God to teach you, to guide you, to lead you? 477 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,320 Are you expecting that? 478 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,640 Do I really want that? 479 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,480 If I do, if I pray for rain, I better show up with an umbrella. 480 00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:37,400 That's expecting. 481 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:42,460 I need to approach God with the amount of faith that not only 482 00:23:42,540 --> 00:23:45,420 can he do it, but he will. 483 00:23:46,780 --> 00:23:52,820 It's not God can do anything that he wants to, other than anything 484 00:23:52,820 --> 00:23:54,220 contrary to his nature. 485 00:23:54,220 --> 00:23:55,420 God cannot lie. 486 00:23:55,900 --> 00:23:57,020 God cannot sin. 487 00:23:59,100 --> 00:23:59,980 God is. 488 00:24:00,300 --> 00:24:03,820 He can do anything he wants to within the means of His. 489 00:24:03,900 --> 00:24:04,700 Of his. 490 00:24:04,940 --> 00:24:06,900 Of his person, of his nature. 491 00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:08,620 And he is sinless by nature. 492 00:24:09,260 --> 00:24:11,460 So God can come. 493 00:24:11,460 --> 00:24:17,980 And we need to be expecting to hear from God, we need that. 494 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:21,660 We need to come and to expect to receive something. 495 00:24:22,220 --> 00:24:27,380 So when you and I go into our quiet time, when we have our time 496 00:24:27,380 --> 00:24:30,140 alone with God, what are you bringing with you? 497 00:24:32,060 --> 00:24:33,500 How are we going to be ready? 498 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:34,740 How are we going to be alone? 499 00:24:34,740 --> 00:24:38,080 How are we going to come expecting without anything to write? 500 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:43,200 You should bring a pad of paper, bring a pen, bring a highlighter. 501 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,600 When you read through a passage, you should be able to read 502 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:48,160 through it. 503 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,040 And then we're going to start to think it out and then I'm going 504 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,040 to start to pray in it and say, lord, I need understanding of 505 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:54,240 this. 506 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:59,280 I'm not 100% sure what I'm reading or how does this apply. 507 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:02,000 So Lord, give me some understanding. 508 00:25:02,420 --> 00:25:05,740 And we can read truth, but only the Holy Spirit of God can impart 509 00:25:05,740 --> 00:25:06,340 it to you. 510 00:25:06,580 --> 00:25:10,060 You can come to church and you can hear it, but only the Holy Spirit 511 00:25:10,060 --> 00:25:13,100 of God is actually going to imprint it into your heart where 512 00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:14,180 it becomes yours. 513 00:25:15,860 --> 00:25:18,900 So we need prayer when we read, and then we should write it 514 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:19,220 down. 515 00:25:19,860 --> 00:25:23,660 After we read it, we think it, we pray it, we write it down, then 516 00:25:23,660 --> 00:25:24,740 we start to live it out. 517 00:25:24,740 --> 00:25:28,830 These promises, these truths and precepts of the Bible of God 518 00:25:28,830 --> 00:25:33,190 are not meant to be museum pieces where we hang up and just 519 00:25:33,190 --> 00:25:34,190 walk by them. 520 00:25:34,670 --> 00:25:38,270 They're not Facebook posts where we say, look at me, I love 521 00:25:38,270 --> 00:25:38,590 this. 522 00:25:38,750 --> 00:25:40,190 This is spiritual me. 523 00:25:40,830 --> 00:25:45,350 No, it's meant to come in and to affect you and to change you to 524 00:25:45,350 --> 00:25:46,430 where you live it out. 525 00:25:47,230 --> 00:25:51,310 And if we really are serious, if we take God serious, we're going 526 00:25:51,310 --> 00:25:55,710 to come to him ready, alone and expecting him to do something, 527 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,600 expecting him to answer my request, expecting him to give me 528 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:01,360 what I need. 529 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,440 Christ shall supply all of your needs according to the riches 530 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:05,120 of his glory. 531 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,080 He's going to give you what you and I need. 532 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,680 But he desires this relationship, this closeness that 533 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,400 cannot be manufactured. 534 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:22,000 I was on staff in Ohio and one of my good friends, he was the maintenance 535 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,840 man there and his name's Brother Craig. 536 00:26:24,860 --> 00:26:28,540 Brother Craig has a ministry of maintenance. 537 00:26:28,780 --> 00:26:33,180 And I just want you to know that maintenance is so vitally important 538 00:26:33,260 --> 00:26:34,060 to a church. 539 00:26:35,420 --> 00:26:37,900 The church building, is it 75? 540 00:26:39,340 --> 00:26:41,020 It's 75 years old. 541 00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:42,340 Really cool story. 542 00:26:42,340 --> 00:26:46,740 I won't get all into it, but Gerald Fleming graduated with Raymond 543 00:26:46,740 --> 00:26:50,900 Barber and at J. Frank Norris and went to Dayton, Ohio and planted 544 00:26:50,900 --> 00:26:51,420 a church. 545 00:26:51,810 --> 00:26:55,690 And that's a church that we were privileged to attend. 546 00:26:55,690 --> 00:26:58,610 And we had great roots and memories there. 547 00:27:00,130 --> 00:27:05,930 But there, Brother Craig, they have a four story building with a 548 00:27:05,930 --> 00:27:10,250 basement, a three story elementary With a basement and a 549 00:27:10,250 --> 00:27:11,810 two story high school building. 550 00:27:12,130 --> 00:27:13,170 And it's old. 551 00:27:14,050 --> 00:27:18,640 They're old buildings, things running on, boilers and all kinds 552 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:19,000 of things. 553 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,680 And brother Craig had that building down. 554 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,200 He knew what needed to be done. 555 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,080 And he had so many things. 556 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,120 And I say, how do you remember all this? 557 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,760 He pulls out this sheet of paper, all these. 558 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,760 And he says, because of this. 559 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:35,760 He said, this is my brain. 560 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:38,800 And I said, huh? 561 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:44,360 He told me, he said, the faintest ink is better than the strongest 562 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:44,800 memory. 563 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,960 You think when you hear from God that you're going to remember 564 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:48,320 everything? 565 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:50,480 I forget things. 566 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:52,640 We need to write it down. 567 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,680 When you write something down, I have my kids, when they have memory 568 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:56,720 verses to learn. 569 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,480 When I have memory verses to learn in Bible school, we'd have 570 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:00,800 to memorize a whole chapter. 571 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:02,720 I would have to write it down. 572 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,680 I can hear it, I can see it, I can. 573 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,200 I'm physically doing it. 574 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,080 It becomes more real when I take it serious. 575 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,090 And we're talking about the Creator God here. 576 00:28:13,570 --> 00:28:14,930 He's talking to you. 577 00:28:14,930 --> 00:28:16,930 Do you not want to remember what he says? 578 00:28:17,650 --> 00:28:18,610 No, we do. 579 00:28:18,610 --> 00:28:19,570 We want to. 580 00:28:19,890 --> 00:28:23,770 And just as a reminder, this is the ounce of prevention is better 581 00:28:23,770 --> 00:28:25,250 than a pound of cure here. 582 00:28:25,650 --> 00:28:28,890 We all just need to be reminded that when we approach God, 583 00:28:28,890 --> 00:28:32,170 we need to come to him with the, with the utmost seriousness 584 00:28:32,170 --> 00:28:35,770 that we are desiring, that we need him, that we want him, that 585 00:28:35,770 --> 00:28:37,330 there's nothing else that matters. 586 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:41,140 And then we need to say, God, when you speak, I'm going to listen, 587 00:28:41,140 --> 00:28:43,420 I'm going to do it and I'm going to remember it. 588 00:28:44,620 --> 00:28:46,500 I just want to show you what he says here. 589 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:50,620 It says, and hew the two tables of stone like unto the first. 590 00:28:51,020 --> 00:28:54,300 So he came prepared, Moses came prepared like. 591 00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:57,620 And it says, and Moses rode up early in the morning and went up 592 00:28:57,620 --> 00:29:02,020 to Mount Sinai as the Lord commanded him and took his hand, 593 00:29:02,020 --> 00:29:03,500 the two tablets of stone. 594 00:29:03,750 --> 00:29:05,510 In his hand, the two tablets of stone. 595 00:29:06,310 --> 00:29:08,790 Moses said, hey, I did what you said. 596 00:29:08,790 --> 00:29:11,430 I showed up when you said, I came by myself. 597 00:29:11,590 --> 00:29:13,190 I'm prepared, I'm ready. 598 00:29:13,270 --> 00:29:14,470 And here are the tablets. 599 00:29:14,470 --> 00:29:16,310 I'm expecting you to give me something. 600 00:29:17,190 --> 00:29:18,030 And God did. 601 00:29:18,030 --> 00:29:20,590 God wrote them again and spent more time with them. 602 00:29:20,590 --> 00:29:23,070 And for the sake of time. 603 00:29:23,070 --> 00:29:26,310 There is so much packed into this chapter, we don't have time 604 00:29:26,310 --> 00:29:28,590 to go through all of it. 605 00:29:28,590 --> 00:29:32,110 But I. I'm going to finish with these last two points quickly. 606 00:29:32,430 --> 00:29:33,590 Let's look at verse five. 607 00:29:33,590 --> 00:29:35,990 And it says, and the Lord descended in the cloud and stood 608 00:29:35,990 --> 00:29:39,070 with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 609 00:29:39,630 --> 00:29:44,110 Now Moses is getting a personal revelation, a manifestation 610 00:29:45,870 --> 00:29:50,270 of God personally, intimately. 611 00:29:50,670 --> 00:29:54,910 This is real as anyone could possibly imagine. 612 00:29:55,230 --> 00:30:01,120 God standing next to a man named Moses and he starts speaking 613 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:01,800 about himself. 614 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,760 Listen to what God has to say about himself. 615 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,240 And the Lord passed by before him. 616 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,800 And the Lord proclaimed the Lord. 617 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:15,040 The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffering and abundant 618 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:20,120 in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity 619 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,680 and transgression and sin. 620 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,240 And that will by no means clear the guilty. 621 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,680 Visiting the iniquity of the fathers, upon the children and upon 622 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:33,240 the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. 623 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:42,200 And Moses made haste and bowed his head towards the earth and worshiped. 624 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,000 Do you see what happens when we hear from God? 625 00:30:48,050 --> 00:30:52,330 Do you see what happens when we take God as serious as he takes 626 00:30:52,330 --> 00:30:52,610 us? 627 00:30:53,570 --> 00:30:57,410 One, I am just pleased and thankful that God even cares, that 628 00:30:57,570 --> 00:31:01,170 he even wants to meet with me personally. 629 00:31:01,330 --> 00:31:03,330 Don't you have other things going on, God? 630 00:31:03,810 --> 00:31:05,410 And you want to talk to me? 631 00:31:06,210 --> 00:31:08,930 Well, I'm going to be ready and I'm going to come alone. 632 00:31:08,930 --> 00:31:10,410 It's just going to be you and me, God. 633 00:31:10,410 --> 00:31:13,850 And I want you to give me something that I can take back with 634 00:31:13,850 --> 00:31:14,130 me. 635 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,440 That's what Moses got. 636 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,160 Moses got a glimpse of glory. 637 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:25,120 There's certain times in scriptures where God describes himself. 638 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,960 Most of the time men are describing God based off of their 639 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,080 circumstance, based off of their experience of dealing with 640 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:32,480 God. 641 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,440 But God is speaking, and he is speaking very clearly about himself. 642 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:42,210 He is revealing to Moses something that you and I, who weren't 643 00:31:42,210 --> 00:31:47,410 prepared, who didn't take this serious, who wasn't alone, who never 644 00:31:47,410 --> 00:31:51,970 took time to make preparation, you would have missed it. 645 00:31:52,130 --> 00:31:53,330 You wouldn't have got this. 646 00:31:54,050 --> 00:31:56,370 But this is where worship comes from. 647 00:31:56,770 --> 00:31:59,170 Hearing from God produces worship. 648 00:31:59,490 --> 00:32:04,970 And this is ultimately what it comes down to, is that we need the 649 00:32:04,970 --> 00:32:07,970 more and I the more time that we spend with God. 650 00:32:10,660 --> 00:32:14,500 We can truly worship him in spirit and in truth. 651 00:32:15,540 --> 00:32:19,700 Worship, real worship, is based upon the revealed word of God. 652 00:32:20,260 --> 00:32:23,340 When we come to God and we think that we know it all, when we 653 00:32:23,340 --> 00:32:25,700 come to a passage and we're like, yep, I got that one figured 654 00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:26,020 out. 655 00:32:26,340 --> 00:32:27,540 I know what happens there. 656 00:32:28,340 --> 00:32:30,980 God can't teach someone who already knows. 657 00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:32,860 God is wanting you. 658 00:32:32,860 --> 00:32:37,260 You can be sir, ma', am, you can be too big for God, but you can 659 00:32:37,260 --> 00:32:38,580 never be too small for Him. 660 00:32:39,060 --> 00:32:42,660 And if you and I have an open heart and we truly want what he has, 661 00:32:43,060 --> 00:32:44,100 we will have that. 662 00:32:44,260 --> 00:32:45,540 We'll prepare ourselves. 663 00:32:47,780 --> 00:32:53,620 Knowing who God is is the basis of our worship. 664 00:32:53,940 --> 00:32:57,900 And God gave Moses this incredible, concise revelation of 665 00:32:57,900 --> 00:32:59,460 his character and his nature. 666 00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:02,980 And then I want to show you, flip over and we're done. 667 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,000 Flip all the way to the back. 668 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,806 It is verse 34, chapter 34. 669 00:33:07,914 --> 00:33:12,440 34, it says, but when Moses went in before the Lord to speak 670 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,880 with him, he took the veil off until he came out. 671 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:21,320 And he came out and spake unto the children of Israel that which 672 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:22,400 he commanded. 673 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:27,760 Moses prepared. 674 00:33:28,890 --> 00:33:30,170 Moses got things ready. 675 00:33:30,730 --> 00:33:31,690 He came alone. 676 00:33:32,090 --> 00:33:39,290 He came expecting, it produced worship, and now he's sharing it. 677 00:33:40,410 --> 00:33:41,850 That's the full circle. 678 00:33:42,890 --> 00:33:47,170 When you and I desire to hear from God to the point where there's 679 00:33:47,170 --> 00:33:48,410 nothing else that matters. 680 00:33:48,410 --> 00:33:53,130 When we take God seriously, God speaks to us in ways that we 681 00:33:53,450 --> 00:33:56,010 would not know if we didn't do it. 682 00:33:57,590 --> 00:33:58,830 You and I are missing out. 683 00:33:58,830 --> 00:34:03,150 If we don't have this type of devotional time or we're not taking 684 00:34:03,150 --> 00:34:04,870 God as serious as we should. 685 00:34:05,030 --> 00:34:06,950 We're missing out on his goodness. 686 00:34:07,350 --> 00:34:10,710 We're missing out on him revealing himself to us after he 687 00:34:10,710 --> 00:34:14,270 reveals himself, after he shows forth who and what he is to 688 00:34:14,270 --> 00:34:14,550 us. 689 00:34:14,550 --> 00:34:16,310 And we begin to apply that. 690 00:34:16,550 --> 00:34:24,860 Moses is saying, just for a second, God is saying, the Lord God, 691 00:34:24,860 --> 00:34:28,340 merciful and gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness 692 00:34:28,340 --> 00:34:32,420 and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and 693 00:34:32,420 --> 00:34:33,220 transgressions. 694 00:34:33,460 --> 00:34:35,460 Do you know what that means for Moses? 695 00:34:36,420 --> 00:34:41,940 That is not just a verse that we just casually pass by, you and 696 00:34:41,940 --> 00:34:42,100 I. 697 00:34:42,100 --> 00:34:49,349 When we hear the truths about God, we are to consume them, we are 698 00:34:49,349 --> 00:34:54,109 to take them, and it is now to be a part of us to where when we 699 00:34:54,109 --> 00:34:58,589 start to worry, when we start to wonder, we can remind ourselves 700 00:34:58,589 --> 00:35:03,349 of the goodness of God, of the character where he says, the Lord 701 00:35:03,349 --> 00:35:06,949 is merciful and gracious and long suffering and abundant in goodness. 702 00:35:06,949 --> 00:35:10,669 And in truth, we can tell ourselves, even though our circumstances 703 00:35:10,669 --> 00:35:13,549 tell us that we're in a bad spot, tell us that we're struggling, 704 00:35:13,549 --> 00:35:16,949 tell us that the trials are real and that life is hard and all 705 00:35:16,949 --> 00:35:17,489 this stuff and. 706 00:35:17,959 --> 00:35:20,279 But God is gracious. 707 00:35:20,279 --> 00:35:22,199 He's full of mercy, he's full of grace. 708 00:35:22,759 --> 00:35:25,199 And that is what brings us through. 709 00:35:25,199 --> 00:35:26,599 That's how we get through. 710 00:35:26,679 --> 00:35:30,039 If you want faith that'll go through the fire, you've got to go 711 00:35:30,039 --> 00:35:31,479 through the fire with your faith. 712 00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:35,719 You've got to go through it, because that will prove to you. 713 00:35:36,439 --> 00:35:38,359 You will have the proof on the inside. 714 00:35:38,439 --> 00:35:42,319 And someone can come around to you and say, I don't believe in apple 715 00:35:42,319 --> 00:35:42,679 pie. 716 00:35:42,679 --> 00:35:45,159 You can say, I don't care if you believe in apple pie. 717 00:35:45,159 --> 00:35:47,159 I'VE got the evidence on the inside. 718 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:48,760 Had apple pie. 719 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:49,320 It's real. 720 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:49,920 It's good. 721 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,280 No, see, people try to tell us, no, that's not how God is. 722 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:54,320 No, I'm sorry. 723 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,720 I've got the evidence on the inside. 724 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,240 God has spoken to me. 725 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:03,520 So then after worship, now you come and you share it. 726 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:08,040 And I can tell you having opportunities to teach and to preach 727 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,200 and to be able to share the truths of God's word. 728 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,400 I think I get more out of this than you do. 729 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:21,580 Because when you actually sit down and you want to be able to deliver 730 00:36:21,740 --> 00:36:24,820 something to God, I can't deliver anything that hasn't affected 731 00:36:24,820 --> 00:36:25,180 me. 732 00:36:25,660 --> 00:36:26,620 It's not real. 733 00:36:27,820 --> 00:36:29,780 So I'm thankful for these times. 734 00:36:29,780 --> 00:36:33,260 I'm thankful for the truths and the time together with God. 735 00:36:34,140 --> 00:36:36,900 This last verse, it talks about that he was shining, that he 736 00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:37,820 took the veil off. 737 00:36:38,780 --> 00:36:43,440 You know, God, or Moses spent so much time with God that he began 738 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,760 to glow, physically shine. 739 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,000 His face shined. 740 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:53,000 God reveals himself as light and so bright, brighter than the 741 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:59,880 noondayne sun, to the point where now Moses is physically altered 742 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,280 by being around God. 743 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,560 He's got to wear a veil to calm it down a little bit. 744 00:37:08,210 --> 00:37:11,330 In Ohio, we have cold, we have winters. 745 00:37:11,330 --> 00:37:12,610 You all know what winters are? 746 00:37:12,610 --> 00:37:13,010 No. 747 00:37:15,170 --> 00:37:16,050 It's cold. 748 00:37:16,450 --> 00:37:17,170 And we would. 749 00:37:17,170 --> 00:37:18,850 We would have a fireplace. 750 00:37:18,850 --> 00:37:19,970 We would burn wood. 751 00:37:20,690 --> 00:37:24,530 And on the fireplace we had a little spot to sit and. 752 00:37:24,850 --> 00:37:29,730 And we got a little stand with a little shovel, little broom, little 753 00:37:30,130 --> 00:37:31,170 tweezer things. 754 00:37:31,170 --> 00:37:32,850 Or, you know, you grab the. 755 00:37:32,930 --> 00:37:34,090 I call them tweezers. 756 00:37:34,090 --> 00:37:35,450 But what I. I ply. 757 00:37:35,450 --> 00:37:36,570 I don't know, they're grabbers. 758 00:37:36,570 --> 00:37:39,050 You grab a hot log and then you got a poker. 759 00:37:39,610 --> 00:37:43,290 And sometimes I would just sit there and I'd take that poker and 760 00:37:43,610 --> 00:37:44,490 I'm just playing. 761 00:37:44,810 --> 00:37:46,730 I'm just messing around the fire. 762 00:37:46,970 --> 00:37:48,170 My wife's like, quit. 763 00:37:48,490 --> 00:37:49,810 You're a bad influence. 764 00:37:49,810 --> 00:37:51,490 No, she's like, the boys are going to do that. 765 00:37:51,490 --> 00:37:54,050 And I'm like, no, I'm going to tell them not to. 766 00:37:54,050 --> 00:37:55,370 But I just playing around. 767 00:37:55,370 --> 00:38:00,970 But sometimes I would leave that poker in the fire and I'd pull 768 00:38:00,970 --> 00:38:02,670 it out in that sucker's rock, red hot. 769 00:38:03,390 --> 00:38:05,070 And then I would, no, I'm just joking. 770 00:38:06,830 --> 00:38:13,790 So that poker spent time in the fire to the point so long that 771 00:38:13,790 --> 00:38:15,230 that poker was in the fire. 772 00:38:16,270 --> 00:38:21,550 Now the fire's in the poker, it's glowing. 773 00:38:21,870 --> 00:38:24,110 The fire is now in the poker. 774 00:38:25,070 --> 00:38:26,670 That's what God wants to do with you. 775 00:38:27,150 --> 00:38:31,820 He wants you and I to spend enough time with him that you spend 776 00:38:31,820 --> 00:38:32,540 time with him. 777 00:38:32,780 --> 00:38:34,860 And then he becomes inside of you. 778 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:46,620 Come prepared, be ready, come alone, be expecting. 779 00:38:47,580 --> 00:38:49,020 It produces worship. 780 00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:51,260 And then we need to share it. 781 00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:55,060 When Moses went around, he people say, hey, what. 782 00:38:55,060 --> 00:38:56,140 What happened to you? 783 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,200 Oh, I just spent time with God. 784 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,480 It's going to spill out when you bump into him. 785 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:03,480 That's what we need. 786 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,800 Would you stand with me for a time of invitation? 787 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,359 Lord, thank you so much for this passage in scripture, Lord, 788 00:39:12,359 --> 00:39:16,720 of the truth of your word and the real impact it can have in our 789 00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:17,000 lives. 790 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:22,280 Lord, thank you for loving us enough to tell us about these things, 791 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,280 to show us forth who you are. 792 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,640 Lord, thank you for helping us in our time of need. 793 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,960 And thank you for being who we need you to be. 794 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:37,080 Lord, I pray that something was said tonight would stir our hearts 795 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:41,520 to put a deep hunger for your word and for your presence, Lord, 796 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,720 that there would be nothing that matters outside of hearing from 797 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:45,040 you. 798 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:50,080 That we would not worry about work, about relationships, about 799 00:39:50,970 --> 00:39:55,450 family, about our spouses, Lord, but we would be fixated on 800 00:39:55,450 --> 00:39:58,890 you, hearing from you, guided and led. 801 00:40:00,730 --> 00:40:05,570 Lord, I ask this in a way that would be tangible tonight, Lord, 802 00:40:05,570 --> 00:40:08,010 that you would see fruit as a result. 803 00:40:09,130 --> 00:40:12,330 Lord, I pray this in Jesus name, Amen.