The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary, by Joseph Exell, William Jones, George Barlow, W. Frank Scott, and others, was published in 37 volumes as a sermon preparation and study resource. You know, that would be such a glorious thing if you had a religious nation. Next, from the latter part ofExodus 27:1-21; Exodus 27:1-21 we have a change evident, and of more weight. WebExodus 34:5-7 In Exodus 33:18, Moses requests God to display His glory. How I thank God for it more and more, especially as I see people who-my heart goes out to them, they've never had a chance to know what a real loving home is all about, a real godly home is all about. With this, people have a great difficulty with God because of His orders to wipe them out, to exterminate them. God's holy angels are ministering servants sent forth to render service to And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." The sanctification here in question then applies from the start of an effectual inward work even before a soul knows pardon and peace, but there is also room for the practical power of the Holy Ghost in subsequent work in heart and conscience severing us more and more by the truth to the Lord. It is in vain to argue that the fruit of the teaching of Peter or of James had the same power with it as the fruit of Paul not very long after, or of John latest of all. (381) Should ye be utterly unpunished? Art thou he, that shall altogether go unpunished? A. V. (382) Poole on Jeremiah 49:12, after quoting C.s translation, impune feres? adds, Since, however, this phrase is explained very differently by others, both Exodus 34:7, and Jeremiah 25:29, as well as these words, may be thus rendered: Thou therefore thyself shalt be utterly cut off., (383) The translation of V. is, Nullusque apud to per se innocens est.. Published in 1892, its 19,000+ pages, 37 volume commentary covered the entire Bible with passage homiletics from several authors; historical, cultural, and geographical information; verse by verse exposition; point by point sermons with cross-reference aids in developing Bible studies and sermons. And so it always is No doubt there was large and rich blessing and of the most unexpected kind when God sent down the Holy Spirit here below, and His church was first seen. Perhaps he has not peace at once, but at any rate he is thoroughly arrested; he desires earnestly to know the gospel from the very first. The utmost alacrity in answer to the call for material, useful and ornamental, common or costly, is shown by all. When God the Father shall have accomplished His present purpose here below, then will be caught up to meet the Lord those among whom the Spirit is thus making known God; and after that the ordinary dealings of God will resume their course through this world. If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. I cannot understand it, don't ask me to explain it.Here is the place where I, as a devout Jew, though I am not a Jew, but as a devout Jew who's just comes to that place where he bows his head and says nothing, when I think of how God has placed such a high value on my life. WebThe eyes of the Lord are forever on those that hope in His unfailing love, and God dispatches ministering angels to protect His children who trust in His name. Exodus 40:17), with all its parts and vessels in due order; secondly, the obedience of Moses according to all that Jehovah commanded him. God ordered their idols to be cut, to be destroyed, their groves to be cut down. Thus it will always be found in the long run. Is it not His grace shown in man, even in the man Christ Jesus? O God, how beautiful the thought,How merciful the blessd decree,That grace can eer be found when sought,And naught shut out the soul from Thee!, Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary. They still have that veil over their face as God seeks to speak to them today, and they cannot see that Jesus Christ is indeed the Messiah that God had promised to the nation Israel. Unbelievers fight shy of it, and take certain doings or commands wrested from their context, and without examination as to the reason why. Moses, man just got down on his face and began to worship God.] Simonides the philosopher, being requested to describe God, asked a week to think of it. We know His tender mercy in the smallest matters; but in that which so nearly concerns His honour, it is indeed a truly merciful provision that the Great High Priest bears the iniquity of holy things, where other wise defilement would be fatal. "Thousands "; "Lovingkindness for thousands " Thousands of what? Now that God is about to publish a second edition of the law he prefaces it with this proclamation; for it is God's grace or goodness that gives the law, especially the remedial law. He visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children. The angel of the Lord has arrived to call and commission Gideon to serve as the instrument through which the Lord will deliver his people from the Midianites. Astonishing is the boldness of faith; but then its pleading is grounded on the known grace of God Himself. They have something in common, though, besides being residents of Nebraska. Exodus 36:1-38 shows us the chosen workmen engaged in their allotted tasks, and even begging Moses to check the over-abounding supplies of Israel's liberality. Their conduct proved that His grace had not at all entered into their hearts. By the law he died to the law that he might live to God. Countless and ceaseless as are the benefits which are imparted to us by the bright orb of day, the human eye cannot look upon his undimmed noonday face, without being blinded. Again, in these various figures or institutions of good things to come, the Sabbath re-appears. WebMatthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 34:7 Commentary on Exodus 34:5-9 (Read Exodus 34:5-9) The Lord descended by some open token of his presence and manifestation of his glory in a cloud, and thence proclaimed his NAME; that is, the perfections and character which are denoted by the name JEHOVAH. Even the force of the silver redemption-money he thinks disproved by the fact that the sockets of the door were made of brass. True, God is revealed there (Romans 1:20); but the key is wanted to decipher the hieroglyphics, and that key is the Scriptures which are given by inspiration of God.. He loved sin so well that God had to interdict it. A few words on this subject may not be amiss for any souls that have not adequately considered the matter, as there is hardly anything on which men are so much at fault as this question. But, secondly, the law is a test morally and individually. Jehovah loves to surrender to Moses, as of old to Jacob with far feebler forces. These consequently were to form and regulate them as a people under His special government, God suiting them to their condition and in no way revealing His own nature as He afterwards did personally in the Word made flesh in the New Testament as a full display of His mind, and in the Christian individually or the church corporately as responsible to represent Christ, like Israel in relation to the tables of stone. To the afflicted. People who seem to think that the God of the New Testament is all love and forgiveness, and the abrogating of the capital punishment and all of this, had better read the book of Revelation, and they'll find out that He is also a God of judgment, and a God of wrath that shall come and be visited. So the veil still over their eyes, not being able to behold the truth of Jesus Christ. The Summit Meeting on Mount Sinai. Which, though it sends forth thousand streams, tis neer. He felt that such evil must at all cost be rooted out, and banished from amongst them. It may be ever so minute, but there is habitually a dealing of Christ between the touch that stays the issue and the word which declares with no less authority than love, "Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace." (2 Corinthians 3:1-18) Hence we can understand the earthly, external, and temporal character of the legal economy. (Exodus 21:1-36; Exodus 22:1-31; Exodus 23:1-33) These points do not call for particular remarks. As the sun abounds in sparkling rays, the sea in drops, the sky in glittering orbs; so God is one vast treasure-house of mercy. Exodus 29:5-6). 2. Keeping mercy for thousands. On the list of blessings that God has given to me, I'll tell you that's the-near the top of the list that godly home that I had. This, one may be permitted to question. Thus he who rejected every overture for his own advancement at the expense of the people now arms the Levites against their brethren. Next (versesExodus 26:15-30; Exodus 26:15-30) follows the account of the acacia boards with their tenons and bolts, the sockets of silver and the rings of gold. There is no doubt that it is the goodness and mercy of God; but it is to a people still under the government of the law. All these, I have no doubt, have their own proper significance, as manifesting the character of Christ here below. We are born of God, and not merely adopted as if we were strangers to Him. 2 Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. It simply proves that he who expounds unwittingly sets aside the gospel. * Dr. P. Fairbairn's Typology, ii. WebExodus 12:1-4 (5-10) 11-14 You may not have heard of Amber Gralheer or Merri Kaye Bradley. That is so absolutely sick I can't even think of it. Is it not known that for a righteous man (which assuredly the believer is) law is not in force, but for lawless and insubordinate, the ungodly and sinful. They have something in common, though, besides being residents of Nebraska. 34:1-35. It is a fountain that ever flows and is never exhausted (Ephesians 3:16; Ephesians 3:21; Philippians 4:19). In the greater part of the ten commandments, in short, it was not "Thou shalt," but "Thou shalt not." Oh how glorious it is that we can come to Jesus Christ and receive that beautiful work of His Holy Spirit and He can absolutely cleanse, and clear. Afterwards He proclaims the greatness of His mercy and truth, and on these two supports the confidence of the pious is based, whilst they embrace the mercy offered to them, and securely repose on the faithfulness and certainty of the promises. WebExo 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. The orders given concerning the altar of incense are, 1. WebExodus 34:5-7. I grant you this that, looked at as a whole, distressing failure was setting in just as it was here; yet as here the very failure isolated the truehearted, but isolated them not in want of love but in the strongest possible manifestation of divine charity and sense of God's glory. That as His goodness is based upon His power man must not presume. This is all the more striking too, because even after the redemption of the people from Egypt there are grievous faults, unbelief, complaints, and murmurs; nevertheless, not a blow, not a single answer on God's part save in tender mercy towards a poor and failing people. WebBenson Commentary Exodus 34:6-7. Let him come unto me." On this, being so thoroughly familiar to all, I of course do not enlarge. But these are not the only things. The legal ordinances and institutes were but shadows; still they were types distinctly constituted; and we should learn by them all. Read full chapter Exodus 33 Exodus 35 King James Version (KJV) Public Domain It is no less a misfortune for the Christian, because what those in Christ are called to is neither law, nor the mingled system of law interspersed with the gracious care of those under it (who must have been consumed had law reigned alone), but pure grace in Christ without the law. God was able to sustain him without food, without water. 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