Seeing God - Part 2 [42:20m]:
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Exodus 34:1-9 [+/-]Exodus 34:1-9
[34:1]The LORD said to Moses, "Cut for yourself two
tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the
tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you
broke. [2]Be ready by the morning, and come up in the
morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on
the top of the mountain. [3]No one shall come up with you,
and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no
flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain." [4]So Moses
cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early
in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the LORD had
commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone.
[5]The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him
there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. [6]The LORD
passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a
God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in
steadfast love and faithfulness, [7]keeping steadfast love
for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and
sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the
children's children, to the third and the fourth
generation." [8]And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the
earth and worshiped. [9]And he said, "If now I have found
favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the
midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon
our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your
inheritance." (ESV)
Everything that we know of God is the result of God making Himself known to us. We do not climb up to where He is using the steps of reason and logic; He comes to where we are through the revelation of Himself in His Word the center and culmination of which is His Son. We are told in Psalm 138:3 [+/-]Psalm 138:3
[3]On the day I called, you answered me;
my strength of soul you increased.
, “You have exalted above all things Your Name and Your Word.†God makes Himself known to us most particularly and most powerfully in His Holy Word the center of which is the revelation of His Name in all the fullness that we can know it, the name of Jesus. Jesus, there is something about that Name. Philip Graham Ryken says that no matter how far we reach toward God with our reason and our logic, God still has to stoop to reach us.
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