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Well, good evening, everyone. Welcome to Mountain Baptist Church. Take your songbooks and turn to song number 29. Song number 29 in your songbooks will sing at the cross, and if you would stand, we'll sing song number 29. Alas, and did my Savior bleed, and did my sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred hand for such a worm as I? At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away. It was there by faith I received my sight, and now I am happy all the day. Was it for crimes that I have done? He groaned upon the tree. Amazing pity, grace unknown, and love beyond decree. At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away. It was there by faith I received my sight, and now I am happy all the day. Well might the sun in darkness hide, and shut His glories in? When Christ the mighty Maker died, for man the creature sinned. At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away. It was there by faith I received my sight, and now I am happy all the day. But drops of grief can ne'er repay the debt of love I owe. Here Lord, I give myself away all that I can do. At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away. It was there by faith I received my sight, and now I am happy all the day. And let's pray, Heavenly Father, Lord, again we just want to thank you God for our church. Thank you God for just the stand it takes on your word. Thank you God so much that we just have a pastor that preaches your word faithfully, and I pray Lord now that you would just receive all the honor and glory out of everything said and done for us. In Jesus' name we ask all of it, amen. All right, you may be seated and turn just one page back to song number 27. Song number 27 in your song books, we'll sing the old rugged cross, song number 27. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame. And I love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain. So I'll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies and last I lay down. I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it someday for a crown. Oh that old rugged cross so despised by the world has a wondrous attraction for me. For the dear Lamb of God, glory above to bear it to dark Calvary. So I'll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies and last I lay down. I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it someday for a crown. And the old rugged cross stained with blood so divine a wondrous beauty I see. For it was on that old cross Jesus suffered and died to pardon and sanctify me. So I'll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies and last I lay down. I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it someday for a crown. To the old rugged cross I will ever be true and shame and reproach gladly bear. Then He'll call me someday to my home far away where His glory forever I'll share. So I'll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies and last I lay down. I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it someday for a crown. Amen. So welcome to Mount Baptist Church on this Wednesday evening. And let me find the right announcement sheet here. Is that right? Yes, I think so. Okay so as far as I just want to welcome Brother Richie and Brother Wade back from Romania. So the garlic worked. You didn't get eaten by a vampire or turn into one yet, right? So but your beard is growing so maybe it was a werewolf. So but obviously awesome news with all the salvations out there. So good work guys. And so definitely worth the trip there. But as far as the service times this week everything should be normal. And so we'll be containing our study through the book of Exodus tonight. And then we'll have our Sunday services as well. Our Sunday soul winning time. And then this coming week everything should be normal I think as far as the regional soul winning times. As far as Brother Charles on Monday, Brother Matt on Tuesday, Brother Richie on Wednesday. And then we have our, well we have our men's prayer meeting this Friday. So don't forget about that. I know I kind of switched it to this Friday. But if you can make it out come out and pray with us. And then I know we usually do the, you know, at least give the option for preaching and stuff like that. But you might just want to hold off until we do the retreat. So we're going to have a time, speaking of which we have the retreat next week. So that will be Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And I meant to ask you Brother Dave if we have that conference room for both nights or is it just one night? So Thursday and Friday. So we'll kind of have that open to where we can do some preaching times Thursday and Friday and all that. So man if you have like a 10 minute sermon, stuff like that, I think Pastor Burzins is planning on preaching as well. If not we may be tag teaming on Sunday. I got to talk to him and see if he's going to be still here for Sunday morning or if they're heading back or what the plan is there. But I'm excited about the retreat and so if you have any questions about it, obviously you can let us know. And we are starting a new book, memorization. So we're starting in chapter 1 of 1 Thessalonians. And so, you know, I want to memorize this book so that's why I picked it. So you know, that's kind of the reasoning there. But it's a good book to have memorized. The chapters aren't super long but a lot of good verses in there and a good book to have memorized. And then 2 Peter chapter 2 and verse 6 is our memory verse for the week. And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly. I just happen to be, you know, I preached on Sodom and Gomorrah last Sunday and I was just kind of like, you know, when you're on Facebook and you kind of see like sermons that are being posted and everything. It's like Pastor Anderson was preaching on Romans chapter 1, the reprobate doctrine. I can't remember what other pastor was preaching on like Lot or something like that. What was that? Yeah, Pastor Thompson was preaching on like Lot or something like that. So it's just kind of funny how that just kind of happens because, you know, it's not like we talk to each other and be like, hey, it's time. You know. And then we're just like, yeah, I know what you mean. Anyway, that's our member verse of the week. And then birthdays, anniversaries, we've got that on Sunday. And if we ever miss your birthday, let us know. Or family, some family member, let us know if we miss someone else's birthday in the family because they don't probably want to let us know. And then pregnancies, being prayer for Holly with a pregnancy there. Excited to have another boy. And James is doing well, but we're just kind of keeping the back just in case with the fever and everything that he had. We don't want to spread it, especially right before the retreat. So but yeah, let's just obviously be in prayer for everybody's health when it comes to this season and especially when we have retreats and stuff like that. You know, as much as possible, we want to not all get sick when we're together like that. That's about all I got for announcements that I can think of. We got some more Bibles. Those come in. I saw those boxes back there. So we have some more Bibles, which have enough invitations. Yeah, offering boxes in the back, Mother Baby rooms for the mothers, babies only. And who's reading tonight, Brother David? Brother David's going to be reading Exodus chapter 33 for us tonight after we sing one more song. All right, take your song books and turn to song number 14. Song number 14 in your song books will sing the cross. Song number 14. Kneel at the cross, Christ will meet you there, come while he waits for you. List to his voice, leave with him your care and begin a life anew. Kneel at the cross, leave every care. Kneel at the cross, Jesus will meet you there. Kneel at the cross, there is room for all. Who what is glory share? Bless their ways, harm can never befall those who are anchored there. Kneel at the cross, leave every care. Kneel at the cross, Jesus will meet you there. Kneel at the cross, give your idols up, look on to realms above. Turn not away to life's sparkling cup, trust only in his love. Kneel at the cross, leave every care. Kneel at the cross, Jesus will meet you there. All right, take your Bibles and turn to Exodus chapter number 33. Exodus chapter number 33 in your Bibles and brother David will read that for us. Exodus 33, if you're there say amen. The Bible reads, and the Lord said unto Moses, depart and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I swear unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying unto thy seed will I give it. And I will send an angel before thee, and I will drive out the Canaanite, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee in the rain. And the people heard these evil tidings, they moaned, and no man did put on his ornaments. For the Lord had said unto Moses, say unto the children of Israel, ye are a stiff-necked people, I will not come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee. Therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the Mount Horeb. And Moses took the tabernacle, and pissed it 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 into the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp. And it came to pass, when Moses went out into the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stirred every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle. And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stirred at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose up, and raised up every man in his tent door. 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 Zosua the son of Nun a young man departed not out of the tabernacle. 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 thy name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. Now therefore I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, and that I may find grace in thy sight, and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry ist not a pence. For wherein shalt it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? Is it not in that thou goest with us? Show us how we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken, for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee, and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. And he said, Thou canst not see my face, for there shall no man see me, and live. And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock. And I shall come to pass while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in the cliff of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by. And I will take away my hand, and I shall see my back parts, but my face shall not be seen. Let's pray. Dear Lord, I thank you for this opportunity to come back and to show this Lord, and I pray that you be with pastor, and I pray that you fill him with your spirit, and pray all these things in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. So you're there in Exodus chapter 33, and we are continuing our study through the book of Exodus. And if you remember in chapter 32, we had the famous story of the golden calf, where they made the golden calf, and Moses comes down from the mount. He breaks the Ten Commandments, or the two tables of stone that had the Ten Commandments on it. He ground that image to powder, made him drink it. And if you remember, God wanted to destroy all of them, but Moses basically interceded there so that God wouldn't destroy all of them at once. And basically, at the end of the chapter, there was a plague. But in chapter 33, we're kind of still in this, you know, the aftermath, if you will, of this whole idol being made, and this great sin that they sinned. And in this passage, basically, Moses is still interceding, not so that basically he doesn't kill everybody, but that God's presence will go with them when they go into the promised land. Okay, so I want you to kind of get the reason why he needs to intercede, why he's pleading with God, is at the beginning of the chapter here. Notice what it says in verse 1. It says, and the Lord said unto Moses, depart and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I swear unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying unto thy seed will I give it. And I will send an angel before thee, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. Notice this, for I will not go up in the midst of thee. For thou art a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee in the way. And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned, and no man did put on his ornaments, for the Lord had said unto Moses, saying to the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people, I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee. Therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the Mount Horeb. So this kind of tells you like they're stripping themselves from ornaments, but then it kind of tells you, oh by the way, God told Moses to tell them to take off their ornaments. So that's kind of that last portion there, is kind of giving you a heads up like, oh okay, there's a reason why they're taking them off, because God told them to take them off, and they're afraid that God's going to consume them. So the kind of the subject of this passage, or the reason why Moses is going to be going into make intercession for the children of Israel again, is because he had already said he was going to send an angel before them. And there's cases in the Bible, and I know we talked about this angel maybe being the Lord Jesus, this passage right here kind of makes me think that it's not, that it's just an angel that he's sending. Or maybe the angel was the Lord Jesus, it's supposed to be the Lord Jesus, and actually was the Lord Jesus in truth, because in the end, Moses wins this intercession, or he basically God grants this to him, that instead of sending the Lord himself in, that he's basically going to send an angel. Because sometimes he'll send angels in, you know, and it does talk about how he sends angels in, and there's hornets, and there's like other things that these angels will do to basically cause the inhabitants of the land to fall, and to basically prepare the way for Israel to go in and win that battle. Okay, so that's kind of the thinking there, but in this passage he's basically saying, I'll send an angel in, you'll go in, and I'm going to give you what I promised you, but I'm not going with you. You kind of get the picture here, is that God is basically saying, my presence is going to be with you, I'm not going with you. Now let me stop there, when it says like, I won't be with you, you say, well he's God, you know, he's everywhere, and that's true. Go to Psalm 139, Psalm 139 verse 7. It is true that God is everywhere, and you know, you can't escape from the presence of the Lord, if you will, but there's a difference between God being everywhere and God being present with you in something, okay? And so it's kind of, you know, the idea of God's presence being with you and going with you is different than him just being there, right? Obviously God, it's not like he's like nowhere to be found in Canaan when they go in there, you know what I mean? Like he just doesn't exist there, okay? So I want to kind of separate the idea of his omnipresence from what it means here when it's talking about his presence, or that his presence isn't going to go. It says in Psalm 139 verse 7, it says, wither shall I go from thy spirit, and wither shall I flee from thy presence, if I send up into heaven, thou art there, if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. So you know, God is obviously everywhere, and you can't, you're never going to get any, you're never going to go anywhere where God's not at, okay? And that's why it's ridiculous, one, to think that, you know, hell is basically separation from God, like complete absence of God, because it even says here that in hell, behold, thou art there. And it also is ridiculous when people try to say, you know, 2 Thessalonians, when it says he who now leadeth will lead, you know, is talking, you know, until he be taken out of the way. That's the Holy Ghost, brother, you know, Holy Ghost is going to be completely taken out of the world. It's like he's not here anymore, you know, it's insanity to think that God is just completely absent from any place, okay? But you know, just as much as Jonah was trying to flee from the presence of the Lord, right, I mean, the whole book starts off with the fact that God wanted him to preach to Nineveh, and he fled from the presence of the Lord, and that's where you get the whole story with him being swallowed by the fish or the whale, and so on and so forth, right? But go to Numbers, chapter 14. Numbers, chapter 14. So in Numbers, chapter 13, we get the story of the fact that they go in to spy out the land and basically ten come back with a bad, you know, a bad testimony, if you will, or a bad witness of the land, and Joshua and Caleb, they are the only two witnesses that are like, yeah, let's do this, we can take him out, we have the Lord. So basically in that whole dispute there, God condemns that whole generation to say they're not going to go in, their children will go in, so they got to wander in the wilderness for 40 years. But in verse 42 here, they're just, at that point they're like grieved, they're like, oh man, let's just go up and take it now. It's like now they decide to go up. So when God tells them to go up, they're like, no, we're not going to do it, but when God says don't go up, they're like, let's do it. You know, so, but in this I want you to see something here. It says in verse 42, go not out, for the Lord is not among you, that ye be not smitten before your enemies. For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword because you're turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you. So what you have to understand is that the reason that God is not with the children of Israel, especially right here in chapter 33, is because they turned away from all the commandments of the Lord. You know, Moses made intercession enough to save them alive, right, so they're not dead. And God is still going to bring them into the Promised Land, but it's a little different than what it was going to be before, because he's basically saying, you're going to get the land, but I'm not going to be with you. And that presence isn't going to be there when I go into the land, okay? And they're obviously mourning because of this and upset because of this, rightfully so. But when it comes to the presence of the Lord, if you think about it, if God before us who could be against us, and it's talking about God being for us, being in the presence of the Lord, the Bible says in Psalm 46 and verse 1, it says, God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. A very present help, like he's present, he's there, right? And so we want God's presence, but if we're, for example, if you're walking, let's just put it on the level of the New Testament, right? Well even back in the Old Testament, they still had the old man, new man, but let's just put it on the level of just being saved and you have the flesh, you have the spirit, all that, right? Is that if you're walking in the flesh, he's not abiding in you, right? Like I preach sermons on this about the Father and Son abiding in you, and how do you get Christ to abide in you? It says, he that abideth in him sinneth not, okay? And you can't say that you're abiding in him if you're sinning. If you do, you're a liar. You're a liar if that's the case. So when we're talking about his presence, it's talking about basically God abiding with them when they're going into the land, okay? And the reason that he's not abiding with them is because they're in sin. I mean, they committed this great sin. I mean, Moses is there making intercession, you know, and obviously he's accepting Moses, but in this, Moses has to step in again to get God to basically say, hey, I'm going to be with you when I go in there, okay? You know, in the end, God does entreat Moses and does answer that plea, but I want you to think about this, okay? So God basically states, I'm not going in there with you, and then he tells them to take all their ornaments off because he's still kind of like, I'm still figuring out what I'm going to do with you guys. You know, that's basically what's going on here, and they're obviously fearful. They're taking all these ornaments off, and if you think about it, when someone is repenting in the Bible, what do they usually do? They strip, they rent their garments, they repent in sackcloth and ashes. They're not exactly getting all dolled up, and in their Sunday best, you know, if you will, when they're in mourning, okay? So that's the whole point, I believe, is why he's like, don't put on ornaments because you shouldn't be celebrating anything. You should be in mourning right now. But go to Exodus chapter 33 again in verse 7 because something else happens here, okay? So before we get the reconciliation, if you will, the fact that God's going to go with them into the Promised Land, in verse 7 here, notice what happens. It says, 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 everyone which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation which was without the camp, 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. Now I don't believe this is the tabernacle that is to be built because that doesn't happen until a couple chapters later after he goes up into the mountain again, gets the Ten Commandments again, comes back down, and all that, okay? But this tabernacle that he has there, basically this is where God is meeting with Moses, and in this passage only Moses and Joshua are in there. So I don't believe this is the tabernacle like the priests are going to be dealing with because neither one of them are priests, right? Because the priests are Aaron and his sons, and then from after this is anybody that's of the lineage of Aaron would be, you know, the sons of Aaron would be priests. So in this case when we're dealing with this tabernacle of the congregation, it's interesting because it says they called it the tabernacle of the congregation. It's kind of making a point like this tabernacle he made out there, he called it the tabernacle of the congregation, right? And notice that it's without the camp. Now where's the tabernacle supposed to be? Typically in the camp, right? And it's interesting that it's without the camp, and keep reading there, or I'm sorry, basically it's stating that Moses would go in and basically everybody would stay at their tent door and just wait until Moses went in to see basically what God has to say, okay? But I want you to think about this fact that it's without the camp and what that means, okay? Go to Deuteronomy chapter 23. Why did Moses move the tabernacle without the camp? Because it says Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it without the camp, okay? That means it was in the camp, took it out of the camp, and pitched it without the camp, okay? And again, this isn't the tabernacle that we're dealing with with the veil and the Ark of the Covenant. None of that's been made yet, okay? Now in Deuteronomy chapter 23 and verse 9, this passage that I'm going to be reading here is dealing with there being uncleanness in the camp, okay? And notice what it says here in verse 9. It says, when the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. If there be among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp. He shall not come within the camp, but it shall be when the evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water, and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again. Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad, and thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon, and it shall be when thou will ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee. Now what is he talking about here? This is a very discreet way of talking about an outhouse being outside the camp, okay? The bathroom is outside the camp, okay? And basically there's not to be someone that's unclean in the camp. There's not supposed to be uncleanness in general. So all the stuff as far as using the bathroom, that needs to be outside the camp, okay? And notice what it says in verse 14, why? For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee and to give up thine enemies before thee. Therefore shall thy camp be holy, that he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee. What's going on here? The whole camp is unclean, so God goes outside the camp. You see what's going on? They're all unclean, and God can't walk in the midst of them. So Moses literally picks up the tabernacle where he's talking with God and he converses with God, picks that thing up and goes outside the camp because that's what's unclean. It should be the other way around, right? Outside the camp should be unclean, the camp should be holy and clean. So it's kind of just showing you, like physically, they're unclean, God is not going to dwell and be in the presence of uncleanness, okay? And he doesn't even want to be in their presence right now, let alone when they go into the Promised Land, okay? So you kind of see what's going on here with that. Think about this when you think about, go to Hebrews chapter 13, Hebrews chapter 13. See Moses and Joshua went without the camp to go speak with the Lord. They took the tent outside the camp, the tabernacle went outside the camp to speak with the Lord because it was unclean within the camp. And you can think about this because what's inside the camp is real, okay? When Jesus came onto his own, his own received him not and he was rejected out of his own and they crucified him without the camp. So holistically, Israel, when Jesus was crucified, was unclean. And they were going to, you know, the kingdom of God was being taken away from them and given to the nation, bringing forth the fruits thereof and that's another sermon for another day. But notice what it says in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 10. It says, we have an altar whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle for the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered without the gate. Let us go therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach. Now I kind of touched on this on the tabernacle in general, right? When it comes to how the bodies would go outside the camp, they burn the bodies of the beast out there, right? And they would burn it out there and obviously that represents how Jesus went without the camp and he was crucified and this is part of, you know, how he paid for our sins, right? But if you think about it, we go unto him without the camp. What did Moses and Joshua do? They went unto him without the camp. And the tabernacle was set up without the camp. You could also think about how the tabernacle was within Israel. Is it within Israel anymore? No, it's given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. A tabernacle, the house of God, is now the church of the living God and every local church, whether Jew or Gentile, it's of that holy nation of Israel, the spiritual Israel, which is the nation of believers, if you will, that you have the tabernacles that are throughout the world now without the camp, okay? And they'll marvel that there's probably not even one in Israel, you know, like a true Bible-believing church. You know, if you know of one in Israel, let me know, okay? But I doubt that there's any like actual Bible-believing church in that nation. There's nations right now that don't have Bible-believing churches that believe right on salvation and that have the right Bible. It wouldn't be shocking to me if Israel didn't, okay? So just some ideas there when it comes to, you know, what that meant, why he's going without the camp is because the uncleanness that's within the camp, okay? Go back to Exodus chapter 33 and verse 9. So there's a couple things that really just stick out to me in this passage is where it talks about how Moses spoke to God face-to-face as a friend and then also how at the end of the chapter God allows him to see basically a portion of his body and just, you know, this relationship, this close relationship he has with God. And but verse 9 here, notice what it says. It says, and it came to pass, Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle and the Lord talked with Moses and all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door and all the people rose up and worshiped every man in his tent door. Okay, so I want that to be very clear. They weren't at the tent door of the tabernacle, they were at every man's tent door, right? They were like at their tents, at their door trying to see what's going on. 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. So get the picture here, basically God speaking to him and then Moses is coming back into the camp to tell everybody what's going on. Joshua is just sticking out, sticking there at the tabernacle. So Joshua obviously is Moses' right-hand man, that's why Joshua ends up taking over and basically doing what Moses ends up not being able to do which is bring them into the promised land. And you just see this young guy that's basically being trained to lead. He's with Moses when he's in the mount but he's waiting outside that cloud, right? When Moses goes in there to hear all these things about the tabernacle and get the Ten Commandments on the two tables of stone, here Joshua's there when he's speaking with him face-to-face, Moses goes out to tell people Joshua's sticking back at the tabernacle. And that's a whole other sermon for Joshua and what's going on there. But I think it's very interesting, go to 3 John and if you memorize 3 John, I just want you to think about these last couple verses here. When you think about when it says unto Moses, it says that the Lord spake unto Moses face-to-face as a man speaketh unto his friend. And I just kind of thought about this passage here at the end of 3 John and verse 13 there, it says, I had many things to write but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee. But I trust I shall shortly see thee and shall speak face-to-face, peace be to thee, our friends salute thee, greet the friends by name. Do you notice that it's talking about friends and it's talking about speaking face-to-face and just how that correlates as far as having friends and speaking face-to-face. I know that we have Facebook and they call those people on their friends, okay, but let's be honest, our friends are who we see face-to-face, okay. Because and listen, I have friends, you know, old friends that I just don't see very often but to be honest, we're not as close as we used to be just because I don't see them face-to-face. I'm going to be closer to people I see face-to-face. And that's why church is so important as far as being a part of the congregation is because we see each other face-to-face and that friendship is going to be stronger because we see each other face-to-face and it's not this, you know, connection over the internet, if you will, okay. So, you know, Facebook friends, you know, for whatever that's worth, you know, like I have like I don't know how many Facebook friends and I don't know even, I don't even know half of them. Most of them I haven't met before in my life. But even the people that I do know that I have met, that I have seen face-to-face, you know as well as I do that you're not as close to those friends when you don't see them face-to-face. It's just really hard to be close to someone that you don't see face-to-face. And so I just thought that was interesting, you know, just thinking about that aspect of, you know, Moses being as a friend because he's speaking to them face-to-face and just that interaction of friends and how, you know, if you want to have, he that has friends must show himself friendly but I'll say this too is that if you want to have friends and you want to have people that are going to be close friends, you got to interact with them, okay. You can't just be this hermit that sits in your house and doesn't talk to anybody, you know. You got to talk to people, you got to be around people, you got to speak to them face-to-face. And in the world of like technology that we have where everything is on a Zoom meeting, you know, don't let it be, listen, I know we live stream the sermons but that, you know, that's not a substitution for seeing the whites of my eyeballs, you know, when you're seeing me face-to-face and you're there and you can talk to somebody. And so I just wanted to kind of point that out. But also when it comes to this, it says that he spoke to them face-to-face as a man doth his friend and think about this right here in, go to John Chapter 15 or go to James Chapter 2 but in John Chapter 15 it says ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you. Why did Moses have this privilege, right? You can say, well man, Moses is so lucky. I want you to think about how Moses even got to where he was at. He left the riches of Egypt to get where he was, to get to this point, okay. He esteemed the reproaches of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. He had to make that choice to basically suffer the reproach of Christ and suffer, you know, persecution and all that and give up that lavish life as being basically a prince in Egypt, if you will. I mean he was the son of Pharaoh's daughter, right? I mean the Bible says that he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. So when you think about like how did he get this privilege? How did he, you know, why is he the one? And that, it's interesting because later on, which I was going to put that in my notes, but later on it talks, when Miriam and Aaron are rebuked for basically questioning why Moses is in the position he's in, you know, he basically rebukes them and like, I speak to Moses apparently face to face. And it's like why were you not afraid to say something against him? You know, and it kind of just shows you like, it's kind of like if you look at it, it's like that's like my best friend right there. Like what do you think you're doing? Like speaking, you know, talking trash about him. I mean I'm kind of putting it in modern vernacular here, but basically it's kind of like that aspect of like this is my good friend. I speak face to face with him. We don't do that. How do you think that word closer? Okay? And this also kind of shows you too that God is not in the same fellowship with everybody that's a believer. And because there's a lot of saved people, there's a lot of people that we get saved going out soul winning and stuff like that, but that level of fellowship is not there automatically and there's going to be a lot of people that are saved, they're children of God, but they just don't have that fellowship like Moses had or like Abraham had. In James chapter 2 verse 21 it says, Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which said that Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness and he was called the friend of God. The reason he was called the friend of God is because you're my friends if you do what there are to command you. And he was willing to sacrifice his own son upon the altar. That was him keeping the commandments and his faith was perfected and he was called the friend of God. Moses kept the commandments of God. He was up there trying to do what God was telling him. He was fasting for 40 days and 40 nights while everybody down there is like worshiping this golden calf. And so you can obviously see that relationship that's there. I believe Joshua also had that type of relationship with God when he took the reigns if you will. And it's not just reserved for Moses because Abraham was a friend of God. And Jesus said ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever command you. So you say well I want to be the friend of God. Then do whatsoever he commands you. Then you'll be his friend. And so that should be our goal isn't it? Because some people may ask you know like well you say that salvation is by grace and faith and you can't lose your salvation. What's the incentive to you know doing what he wants you to do? One not being an idiot is a good incentive. Right I mean that whole thing like oh you can do it you know why doesn't everybody just do whatever they want? Yeah because before I got saved I just wanted to kill everybody. I just wanted to kill, rape and pillage. I mean that was my mentality you know and the only thing that's holding me back is I got saved. So one it's just ridiculous that people think that way. But two the idea here is that I want to be close with God. I want to have a good relationship with God. I want to have good fellowship and abide with Christ. I want to be blessed and have this relationship that he has with Moses to where when you pray something he's listening to you. Just remember this that the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers. But he's against, his face is against them that do evil. The idea there is that I'm kind of getting ahead of myself because we're going to get into the intercession here. Go to Exodus chapter 33 and verse 12 is that Moses is going to intercede if you will for the children of Israel. So at this point he saved Israel from dying because Moses is like I'm going to destroy them all and I'm going to make a V a great nation. And Moses in chapter 32 is basically like what are the heathen going to say? What are they going to say if you brought them all out here? And he's kind of reasoning with them like trying to plead with them like please don't do this and giving reasons like hey the heathen are going to rejoice over this or whatever. And it's understandable because you can definitely see how the wicked would be like yeah your God went out there and just killed you. You know that would happen. But at the same time God would have been just and I kind of already covered that to destroy them and he could have these stones raise up children unto Abraham. So you say well how can all the promises be fulfilled? He could have fulfilled his promises. But in Exodus chapter 33 and verse 12 there it says, Moses said unto the Lord, see thou sayest unto me bring up this people and thou has not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou has said I know thee by name and thou has also found grace in my sight. Now therefore I pray thee if I have found grace in thy sight show 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. Okay so basically what he's saying he's saying that I don't know who you're going to send with me. Right? And notice what it says here in verse 14 and he said my presence shall go with thee. And I will give thee rest. This is why King James Bible is very important by the way. Do you see that thee there? That means he's talking to Moses particularly right? So this is important because if you didn't have that thee there could you figure it out if it said you and all these places? Sure right? But see how precise this is when you see that it's thee. I'll go with thee because Moses specifically asked who's going to go with me right? He's going to go with me and he said I'm going to go with you right? So I just kind of want that to kind of resonate that hey because it's going to really kind of make sense here as far as like why that's important. It says in verse 15 and he said unto him if thy presence go not with me carry us not up hence. So he's like yeah if you're not going with me I don't want to go right? For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? So notice how he's going from I found grace in thy sight and now he's like pulling in the people with him. Do you see what's going on here? So and because God has already said yes you have you basically you have found grace in my sight and I will go with you. My presence will be with you right? And now he's basically saying you know I pray earnestly that I'm sorry where's my spot there? In verse 16 it says for wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? Is it not and that thou goest with us? So you know just so you know like these I love going through this book you know going through this chapter or going through this whole series because there's so many details I never really just picked up on or just really took the time to just kind of really think about what's being said here because you kind of know like the story on the surface and you kind of read through it and gloss over it but you don't really think about this whole thing about like God was gonna not go with them. He's gonna put them in the Promised Land but he wasn't gonna go with them and then Moses is kind of entreating him saying you know who's gonna go with me? And God's like I'll go with you and then Moses is like who's gonna go with me and you know us right? And he's kind of just like alright you know go with all of us you know and it says so shall we be separated I and thy people. So he's basically saying if you go with me but you don't go with them there's gonna be a separation there right? It's kind of like you're blessing me and I'll be protected but what about them right? It says from all the people that are about upon the face of the earth and the Lord said unto Moses I will do this thing also that thou has spoken for thou hast found grace in my sight and I know thee by me. So when you ever think about Moses being a great guy look at this passage and think about how God regarded Moses because notice that he's Moses is saying if I have found grace in thy sight and thy people have found grace in thy sight but notice that God says I will do what you've spoken because you have found grace in my sight. Do you notice what's going on there? Like he doesn't say like the people have found grace in my sight. He's saying you have therefore I'll do I'll also do what you you've asked. I mean this is quite an intercession right here that making intercession for the people here and the fact that all those children of Israel should be very thankful that Moses loves them cares about them and wants to have the best for them because you know one they would all die. Two even though they didn't die you know like God's like I'm not going with you guys you know I'll put you in there but you're not going to be blessed by by God when you get there. It's kind of like you get the land but are you really gonna have all the blessings that go with it all the promises that go with it and all that as far as the all that goes and go to James chapter 5 James chapter 5. I mean what the God that would be said about it every one of us right that when you go to prayer and say Lord if I found grace in my sight and that he would say you have found grace in my sight and I will do this also and I know thee by name. That kind of just I don't you know the idea that if we do those things which are command we if we I'm not gonna if we have the confidence that we I'm gonna really mess that verse up but you're going to James chapter 5. I'm trying to think of a verse in first John chapter 5 and this is the confidence that we have in him and that if we ask anything according to his will he hear this and we know that we that he hear us whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him in that confidence of like knowing that like hey when I ask him something like he's there I have grace in his sight and all that and that all comes down to the fact that are you keeping his commandments are you doing things according to his will are you in that fellowship are you abiding in the Father and in the Son right and in New Testament we have the Holy Ghost that's indwelling us but are you grieving that Holy Ghost are you grieving that spirit to the point where Christ isn't abiding in you the Father isn't abiding in you and you know basically it's kind of like the idea that the Father and Sutter without the camp you know and they don't want to be anywhere near you because you're defiling the temple of God right and you know that whole aspect that's going on there but when I think of this I obviously think of James chapter 5 verse 16 with Moses you know with Elijah but kind of comparing that to Moses so then verse 16 confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that you be that you may be healed the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much notice that you're praying one for another as well you're not just praying for yourself and Moses is praying for himself and for others here the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much and it did avail much for Moses I mean think about how many hundreds of thousands of people he saved alive and think about how many hundreds of thousands of people he convinced God to still go with and his presence be there with them okay and you can obviously think here in verse 19 there's the brethren if any of you do err from the truth and one convert him let him know that he which converted the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sins so we as believers can intercede for other believers and we can basically intercede to the point where we can even save them from dying you know physically from things that they're getting into right and it doesn't even have to be like God just strikes them dead it could be things that are going to take them out like drugs or just different things like certain type of things that they're doing that are just dangerous that they're going to die from unless you think that Moses is some like god man or Elijah is some kind of god man instead of just man of God notice what it says about Elijah in verse 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are you know what that means he's just like one of us he's not like some like special being and has some supernatural abilities or you're just so high above everybody else it says Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are I mean basically he had the same kind of desires we have and all of that right it says and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months and he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit so when you think about Moses you think about Abraham you think about Elijah you think about these these guys that have that interceded and just had this great relationship with God no one that they all messed up okay I mean Elijah Elijah after you know after killing all the prophets of Baal he fled for his life and was like in sorrow saying I'm not no better than my father I'm just gonna die out here right and obviously God had to come out there and comfort him and get him up on his feet again and you know just going through the line you can go through all the different prophets and just great prophets and men of God they all have their faults right because that's why it says we should confess our faults one to another and pray one for another right because we're all human and I just kind of want to if you will humanize Moses but also lift him up because he's a great guy he's a great guy to look up to me like I want to be like him because I want to have that relationship with God that Moses has now go to Exodus chapter 33 and verse 18 Exodus chapter 33 and verse 18 so he accomplishes what he wants to accomplish okay if you think about it what's the what's the problem you know you think about this passage what's the problem okay God's basically saying I'm not going with you so much that Moses moves the tabernacle that basically he's talking with God in he moves it outside the camp to where Moses has to it will go talk to God and then he'll have to come from without the camp into the camp to tell everybody what's going on that's the state that they're in and they're like taking off all their ornaments less God like destroys them and consumes them because God's still angry and and I remember there's a plague going on so that's the state that they're in and then Moses comes to intercede forms that basically saying I found great you know show me thy way and like who's gonna go with me if I found grace in that site and he's basically saying I'll go with you I'm gonna go with you and then he's like what about thy people you know and he kind of pulls them into that and for the grace that God had on Moses he interceded and he successfully got the plea that he wanted and got the prayer that he wanted now after he's gotten that plea he asked for something else so I want you to think about that right he gets what he answered he's asking for and then he's like he wants he wants to see God essentially and blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God and you know what obviously when we think of that verse we're thinking about perceiving God right knowing God that we may know him and the power of his resurrection and in the fellowship of the sovereign being made comfortable unto his death you know that idea of knowing God perceiving God seeing God but Moses you know obviously he wants to know God but he literally wants to see him right and we're not gonna know him until we see him as he is right we're not gonna really know him until we see him as he is so it's interesting that he's like I he's a friend he's found grace in the site but he still wants to see more and that's the kind of attitude that we need to have as Christians is that we're not we're not complacent we're like I mean we know more than a lot of people don't we I mean think about it you know like I mean just to be honest I would put every one of our church members as far as the Bible knowledge that they have up against anybody in this state that's the confidence that I have in my congregation their Bible knowledge but I'm not comparing you to those in the state I'm not going to compare you to others in other churches because does it really should we be comparing ourselves among ourselves or should we be saying listen you know the Lord has given me a lot of knowledge but I want no more and we should constantly be saying I want to see God you know I'm talking to God as a friend and God has just revealed so much he's talking to me apparently right I mean the idea is that you want God to speak to you through his word apparently meaning that expressly it's just clear when you're reading it and the knowledge that he's given you but you should be saying I still want to see God I want to see his glory I want to see exactly what he looks like I want to see the face of Jesus in his word I want to know him and I just think that's interesting on like after he wins this right you could think at that point be like well I'm good you know I got what I wanted let's move on but he keeps going and saying in verse 18 and he said I beseech thee show me thy glory and he said I will make all my goodness pass before thee and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and I will show mercy on whom I will show mercy and he said thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see me and live and the Lord said behold there is a place by me and I shall stand upon a rock and it shall come to pass while my glory passes by that I will put thee in a cliff of the rock and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by and I will take away my hand and thou shalt see my back parts but my face shall not be seen okay so get the picture here he's basically saying okay and when you think of glory you think of like the brightness of them right you think about the glory of the sun the glory of the moon and obviously God is light so but basically he's stating you're going to be on this rock but I'm going to put you in this cliff of a rock so imagine like imagine that this is like I'm up on a rock but then I'm in this cliff of a rock right it's kind of like I'm back here and I can only see I think this is what's going on here anyway go with me on this journey but basically he's in this cliff of the rock and basically God is saying I'm going to pass by you and this rock is kind of protecting that you're not going to see when I'm coming and going right but I'm going to put my hand you know basically over your face I'm going to I'm going to basically put my hand there to where you can't see my face but he's going to remove it so if you imagine like God is walking by Moses is right here he kind of puts his hand right there so that he obviously can't see him because of the rock but he puts his hand there to where he can't see him but by the time he gets to the rock right here where he can't see his face he removes the hand does that make sense and he sees the back side of him walk by so I believe that's what's going on there and when it comes to this I believe that this is God the father okay now God is the spirit right and it doesn't say that he saw like flesh and bone walk by now there are cases in the Old Testament or well you know pre-Old Testament and Genesis where you'll see appearances of the Lord Jesus in the flesh right you think about and Genesis 18 where the Lord meets Abraham I believe that's the Lord Jesus right Melchizedek you know basically flesh and bone at the time it wasn't flesh and blood because he wasn't born the virgin yet but Jesus would be there physically in the flesh and you would see the Lord in the flesh but God the father you know it just says that obviously you see his back parts obviously I believe the God the father looks like a man you know like he's not just like he doesn't look like Casper or something like that where it's just like no form to him okay I mean he looks like a man but so I hopefully get the gist there but the thing that keeps gets keep if I can talk I'm not trying to speak in tongues here is the fact that we don't see his face okay and that's why I believe it's very clear that we're talking about the father now I want to point out here because there's oneness modalists out there that think that the son is the father and the father is the son is the fact that go to Proverb or go to Exodus chapter 34 first Exodus you're in 33 Exodus chapter 33 go to Exodus chapter 34 and the last thing I kind of want to hit on and we'll be done is dealing with the fact that I believe it's talking about the father and that no one has seen his face okay and that that's a specific point that's made from Old Testament the New Testament about God the father okay and in Exodus chapter 34 verse 5 when Moses is speaking to God what is he speaking to him in this cloudy pillar right I mean that's the big thing that's being mentioned in chapter 33 is this cloudy pillar descends Moses is talking to God face to face but the cloudy pillar is basically veiling God in that okay same thing when he was in the mouth you had the cloud and basically God's being veiled by that so so he's not seeing God he's hearing him and he's there but he's not seeing him because it's being blocked if you will and in verse 5 of Exodus chapter 34 it says and the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord okay so I want this to be very clear the Lord descends in the cloud he's standing there and that's why he's speaking face to face okay now I could speak face to face with you and not actually see you right but we're in the same room but you could have like a veil over your face or something like that I don't know to where I can't see your face or I can't see your body or whatever go to Proverbs chapter 30 in verse 4 here's a great verse that really just shows you I believe the eternal sonship of Jesus meaning that he's always been the son okay it's always been the father son and Holy Ghost he didn't just become the son you know at Bethlehem's major it's always been the father son Holy Ghost and I believe this is a great verse to show that okay meaning that this is going to show you present tense talking about God's son okay so God the father God the son but it says in verse 4 here Proverbs chapter 3 verse 4 is very pertinent to what I just mentioned here about him descending in the cloud who hath ascended up into heaven or descended okay so that's the question who's ascended and descended right who hath gathered the wind in his fists who hath bound the waters in the garment who hath established all the ends of the earth what is his name and what is his son's name if Al can't tell I don't know if you know this but Proverbs chapter 30 is in the Old Testament okay now this wasn't written by Solomon but at the same time is a year whatever his name is there this is Old Testament and it's saying what is his name and what is his son's name okay who hath ascended up in heaven and descended does it sound familiar John 3 13 and no man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven even the son of man which is in heaven sound familiar and I remember at modal spaces saying well the son yeah I mean that just proves our point you know because they're just going to completely negate chapter Proverbs chapter 30 it's the son that ascended and descended the father you never see the father descending wrong actually in Exodus chapter 33 is a great proof text that the father did descend okay like Proverbs 30 says because it says in Exodus chapter 34 that it's the Lord that descended into the cloud and it's the cloud you know where he was at the tabernacle and this is where the Lord shows his back cards and he can't see his face okay now go to John chapter 1 verse 18 John chapter 1 verse 18 you say why is it so important that no one has seen God the father's face because there's a verse that's here that people will say is a suppose a contradiction in the Bible because it's talking about people seeing God but then in this place it says no man has seen God okay because notice it says here Proverbs I'm sorry John chapter 1 verse 18 no man has seen God at any time the only begotten son which is in the bosom of the father he hath declared him okay and people people just somehow don't wrap their mind around this verse it's clearly stating it's not talking about Jesus not talking about the son not seeing the son because it's no man has seen God at any time the only begotten son which is in the bosom of what the father so God is being referred to as the father right who's being declared the father who's being declared God that no one no man has seen at any time and John chapter 5 go to John chapter 5 verse 37 John chapter 5 and verse 37 John chapter 5 verse 37 didn't know this was going to get into an anti-modalist sermon but it is and then I'll be done so we believe in the Trinity here and I just want to make that very clear but in John chapter 5 verse 37 it says and the father himself which has sent me had borne witness of me he had neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his shape so it's basically saying you haven't seen his shape and you haven't heard his voice because and Jesus says the words that I speak unto you aren't my words but the father's but it's Jesus that's saying it though that makes sense the voice that's saying it is Jesus the body that you see Jesus and if people would say well you know when it says no man's seen God at any time we're talking about Jesus what I think and one verse pops out to me and in Hebrews chapter 2 it says but we see Jesus it was made a little lower than the angels and crown of the glory what are you talking about right no man has seen Jesus you know they're like well you know we've seen his flesh it's like well what about the Mount Transfiguration we shall see him in his glory they saw him transfigured in his glory so that falls flat on its head but the thing that I want to get across here is go back to Exodus chapter 33 Exodus chapter 33 is that no man has seen God at any time and no man has you know the father dealing with the father right it's very clear dealing with the father we're talking about God no man no man's seen God anytime we're talking about God the father okay but specifically what we're talking about is his face okay notice how it words this in Exodus chapter 33 and verse 20 it says and he said thou canst not see my what face for there shall no man see me and live okay Moses lives and he saw his back parts so when it says no man can see me and live no no man has seen God at any time we're talking about his face okay and in verse 23 it says and I will take away my hand and thou shalt see my back parts but my face shall not be seen I believe to this day even those that are in heaven have not seen the father's face and you can say well I think it's just people down here haven't you know like when you get to heaven you see him well go to Revelation chapter 22 and then we'll be done here thinking about this or dealing with this chapter but I believe we're not going to see the father's face until the new heaven knew her that doesn't mean we're not going to see the father because I mean John saw God the father sitting on the throne right and with his hand he gave the book unto the lamb right so it's not that no one has seen like his hand or his back part but I don't believe anybody's seen his face okay and think about it if God if Jesus says that you know that God the father is greater than him and if you think about it God is light so obviously the father's light the son's light the Holy Ghost is light but there is a hierarchy and the God the father I believe is so bright that no man has seen his face obviously Jesus has right because no man's seen God at any time the only begotten son which is in the bosom of the father he had declared him so he's kind of he's showing us telling us and even when if you've seen Jesus then that's what God the father looks like okay because he's the expressed image of God okay so it's not that you can't understand or know what he looks like because when you see Jesus that's what the God the father looks like it's just that no one has seen God the father's face specifically okay so in Revelation chapter 22 verse 3 it says and there shall no more curse there shall be no more curse but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it and his servant shall serve him and they shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads so that's that's a very you know like small little verse there but if you think about going back to Exodus chapter 33 and then going into like John 1 it's like you can't see me my face and then no man has seen God at any time the only begotten son which is in the bosom of the father he had declared him and he's even saying you haven't heard his voice nor seen his shape I believe specifically talking about the shape of his face right and new heaven new earth happens in Revelation 21 and it continues on 22 and it's basically saying they're going to serve him everybody's going to serve him and reign forever and they're going to see his face and his name shall be in his forehead in their foreheads whose name on Revelation chapter 14 dealing with 144,000 it says having his father's name in their foreheads so we're talking about God the father and we're going to see his face so I know that was kind of like a tail end like anti-modalism and pro-trinity sermon that began there but I can't read this passage without thinking about understanding when it's talking about no man has seen God at any time we're talking about God the father's face you know and we're not talking about no one because then we say well then then Jesus isn't God you know because no man has seen God at any time well okay then how do you explain John 1 1 in the beginning was the word and the word was with God the word was God and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and would be held as glory the glory is the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth oh by the way no man has seen God at any time the only begotten son which is in the bosom of the father had declared him so obviously Jesus is God but obviously God the father is who we're specifically talking about when it says that so hopefully that makes sense and you know obviously this is an awesome chapter here but yeah we get into chapter 34 Lord willing next week and continue on through the book of Exodus I have no idea what book we're going into after that we'll get I'll think about that when we get closer to the end I don't think that far ahead just so you know with my sermons I don't think too much further ahead than 24 hours away from when when I preach it I'm just kidding I think about it I just don't write it down you know so but that's Exodus chapter 33 let's end with a word of prayer the only father we thank you for today thank you for your word and thank you for this this book the book of Exodus and Lord just help us to understand it help us to see details that maybe we haven't seen before and specifically things that we can use and apply to our lives specific like with Moses praying and and finding grace in your sight and having that relationship of being your friend Lord we just pray that you would help us to be your friends as much as we can and Lord we love you and pray to be with us throughout the rest of this week in Jesus Christ name Amen so brother they will come and sing one more song and then we'll be dismissed all right take your song books and turn to song number 56 song number 56 in your song books and if you would stand we'll sing when we all get to heaven song number 56 seeing the wondrous love of Jesus sing his mercy and his grace and the mansions bright and blessed he'll prepare for us a place when we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be when we all see Jesus we'll sing and shout the victory while we walk the pilgrim pathway clouds will over spread the sky but when traveling days are over not a shadow not a sigh when we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be when we all see Jesus we'll sing and shout the victory let us then be true and faithful trusting serving every day just one glimpse in glory will the toils of life repay when we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be when we all see Jesus we'll sing and shout the victory onward to the prize before us soon his beauty will behold soon the pearly gates will open we shall tread the streets of gold when we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be when we all see Jesus we'll sing and shout the victory you are dismissed.