All right, brethren, if you will,
let's turn to Exodus chapter 4. We're going to turn a lot this morning,
but hopefully I'll be brief with you. Exodus chapter 4, the title
of my message is Moses, Paul, and Us. I think it'll be easy
for people to see a logical similarity between all the things that Moses
had take place in his life, his dealings with the Lord, and what
Paul had take place. And we can say this, that says
that, and this says this, and in the English language, those
things mean the same thing. I pray the Lord will apply this,
and this is us. I read this, I saw this as me,
what had to happen in my life, and I pray this is what you see.
I do. He has to reveal that, but I
pray so. We remember the three signs that the Lord gave Moses.
He called him. He was on holy ground. He said, you take your
shoes off. And he saw that burning bush and it was not consumed.
And that's the first time holy is mentioned in the scripture.
What's taking place with that burning bush not being consumed,
that's holy. That's holy. And the Lord opened
Moses' eyes and spoke to him. And he said, I want you to go
talk to them children of Israel. I'm going to give you three things to preach
to them. You remember what they were? The first one, he said,
what's in your hand? A rod? How'd it get there? Who
gave it to you? You should take that rod and
throw it to the ground, and he'll turn into a serpent. And you
go grab that serpent by the tail, and he'll turn back into a rod.
You go show these people that first thing. Go show. And there's
gonna be some that believe you. They'll hear what you have to
say, and they won't rebuttal you, and they won't have some
kind of contrary thing to say afterwards. They're gonna be
blessed by it. But there's gonna be a bunch of names. So I'm gonna
give you a second thing to preach to them. You take your hand and
stick it in your bosom. And when you pull it out right
there at the heart, where the problem is, heart problem, it's
gonna be leprous, completely leprous. That's what we are. That's what you are, Moses. And
that's what all the people you're talking to. Your sinner's saved
by grace and you go talk to them about that. Your sinner's too,
because you're like me, you're born Adam. And then you put it
back in there and you've been made whole. All that disease
is gone. And there's gonna be some that's
gonna hear that, and they're gonna be glad, and they're gonna
trust, and they're gonna glory in the Lord like we just looked
at. They're gonna be cheerful. That's called smiling. They're
gonna be happy. There's gonna be some that ain't. And they'll
say, well, actually, do you understand the three represents, or whatever,
I don't know, they'll find some tangent to get off on. And they
ain't gonna listen to you. Now you're gonna believe, so
you're gonna preach another message to them. Go down and take that
water out of the river, and you throw it on the ground, and it's
gonna turn to blood. Show them the blood. Show them
the water and the blood. What if we adhere? What if we
adhere? What a privilege that is, isn't
it? Moses, I'm God. I'm gonna deliver my people.
been out 430 years and you're going to be the one that's going
to take them out. I'm going to give you a job to do. I thought about this morning.
I was brushing my teeth. I've said this before. What if the
Lord gave you his cat and said, babysit it for the weekend. We
go buy the cheapest food we could get. We'd give that thing caviar,
wouldn't we? Wouldn't we say, well, it's a
little dirty, but it's all right. We'd comb it and do whatever we could.
Keep that cat happy. It's the Lord's cat. It ain't
the cat that matters. It's the Lord, right? Look what
the Lord gave Moses in his hand. Moses, I'm going to do this through
you. You got a job, buddy. Preach to my people. You can
go stand in front of Pharaoh, and I'm going to bring my people
out, and you're going to watch it. Oh, what a thing. What a thing. I'll go send me, right? What's
our first instinct? Verse 10, Exodus four, verse
10. And Moses said unto the Lord,
Oh my Lord, I'm not eloquent, neither hithertofore nor since
thou has spoken unto thy servant, but I'm slow of speech and of
a slow tongue. I have a speech impediment, Lord.
You going to have me talk to people? I'm not equipped. We bring our issues, Lord says
he's gonna do something, we start thinking about how. Well, how's
that gonna happen? It's gonna happen by his doing.
He's gonna do it, it's gonna be obvious. But we see all these,
just like in that last one, we see these enemies, don't we?
We see these hurdles, and we're doing math without calculating,
we're calculating without Christ. We're not seeing what the Lord's
done. And we're thinking as man thinks. And he says, I got a
speech impediment. Verse 11, and the Lord said unto
him, who hath made man's mouth? Or who hath made the dumb, or
the deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I the Lord? Who
made your mouth, Moses? It started raining. I was talking
to a friend of mine. He was asking about how low the
snow was gonna go. And I said, no man knows but
the Lord. You can forecast all you want to at what elevation.
But he told Job, he said, have you seen the storehouses I have?
He's putting in language as Job could understand. I got a warehouse
back there full of hail, and I can send it to turn a battle
however I want it to go, just like Washington crosses the Delaware.
You want me to freeze that thing over? Can you do that? Do you
know how much hail I have in reserve just for that? Oh, that
humbles us, wouldn't it? He asked Moses, who made your
mouth? Who made you different? Why stutter? Or I have a lateral
lisp, or whatever it was. He said, I don't speak good.
Who made you that way? I made you, Moses. Isn't that
comfort? Isn't that comfort? He said, I make the deaf and
the dumb and the seeing or the blind. It don't make a difference.
The Lord's done that. Have not I, the Lord, done that?
It's round one, isn't it? Now therefore go, verse 12, and
I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say.
You just go, I'll put my words in you. Some's gonna be happy,
some's gonna be sad. Some's gonna be glad, some's
gonna be angry. But you go, I'll put my word
in you. And he said, my Lord, verse 13,
send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. What's
that mean? Send whoever you want to, but
don't send me. or let it be anybody else. That's good advice. It's been
throughout the ages that pastors have given up-and-coming preachers. And as they say, well, you know,
should I, I'm worried about being a pastor. How do I know? And
I've gave the advice that I would give it. If you can do anything
else, do that. Go do something else. I don't
mean if you have the capability of doing that, but if the Lord
will allow it. Moses may have entered into a little bit of
what was coming. He may have considered it real quick, and he said, Lord,
send somebody I ain't equipped, and I can't do it, and I ain't
up for it. Verse 14, the anger of the Lord
was kindled against Moses, and he said, is not Aaron the Levite
thy brother? I know that he can speak well,
and also behold, he cometh forth to meet thee, and when he seeth
thee, he will be glad in his heart. And thou shalt speak unto
him, and put words in his mouth, and I will be with thy mouth,
and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. And
he shall be the spokesman unto the people, and he shall be to
thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead
of God. And thou shalt take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou
shalt do signs. Twice Moses had a rebuttal, didn't
he? He said, I can't do it. I don't
want to do it. And you know what? That didn't phase the Lord's
plans at all concerning Israel, concerning Moses, concerning
Aaron. Where was Aaron? He was already
on his way up there. Why? The Lord said, get him over
here. He willed it, didn't he? But
the Lord puts things in language so we can understand. Our thoughts
ain't his thoughts, so he has to give us words to Understand
these things it says there that the anger the Lord was kindled.
I got a touch on this just briefly This is worded so we can understand
it. Okay, the Lord's not subject to fits of passion like we are
if I get angry Like where my ears turn red. I start smiling
real big and my eyes water. I don't cry but they start welling
up It's hard telling what I'm gonna say or what I'm gonna do.
I I know y'all ain't like that. Get me good and mad and I'll
tell you what I think. And I'll cut to the bone and
I'll be vicious when I do it. I've watched me do it. The Lord's
not subject to things like that. It's not that Moses did something,
he's reacting, and he has emotions and these passions that's overcoming
him. That's not what it's speaking of. It's showing us he was displeased,
he had displeasure with Moses because of his worthless excuses. Whether he was lazy, or whatever
it was, or dumb, He was looking to himself, he
was looking to the situation, he wasn't looking to the Lord.
And the Lord was displeased with it. And you know what? The Lord's
gonna deal with it. It's so. When David, he numbered the people
of Israel. It said Satan talked him into it. 1 Chronicles 21. And God was displeased with this
thing. When David had a census, he numbered
Israel. The Lord wasn't happy about that.
He was displeased. And therefore he smoked Israel.
He smote Israel. Why? Because he was displeased
with what David had done. He was displeased so there was correction.
He wasn't surprised. He wasn't having bouts of emotions.
But he allowed this thing to happen and it did not please
him. And so he smote Israel. That's what the scriptures say
in Proverbs 13. He that spareth his rod is Proverbs 13 24. Next
time you hear somebody say that, go look it up. He that spareth
his rod, hateth his son. We say we spare the rod and spool
the child. That ain't what God says. That's
what man says. He said, you spare your rod. You don't make him
children of mine, do you? It's because you hate him. Well, I don't think that. It
don't matter what you think. That's what God said, isn't it? He that loveth
him, chasten him betimes. That means early. First thing.
As soon as they don't listen to you, make them mine right
then. First time, every time. And when they grow up, they won't
be worthless. They'll be good citizens in this country. Make
them mind you. Maybe they'll mind the Lord.
The Lord may use that as a means. Instead of this rebellious nation.
We teach our children in this nation, look on the news or last
couple years especially, to rebel against authority. Mankind's
actively teaching their children and their friends and whoever
else, don't, I wouldn't listen to them. I ain't doing that.
I don't seem like somebody that's
been made to bow to a sovereign God that's on his throne, does
it? or be with us. He has to chasten us. He will.
In Hebrews 12 it says, For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth,
and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. He makes us faithful
children, good children, makes us mind. And we do things that
ain't good. He lets that happen so he can
teach us. If you endure chastening, Lord's
dealing with you, and he chastens you, and you know it. God deal
with you as sons. For what son is he whom the father
chasteneth not? That's what goes back to Proverbs
13. That's a rhetorical question. Like, what daddy don't whip his
sons? Back then, that would have been
a rhetorical question. Now it's, I guess, up for debate. But make
him young in his mind, no matter how young they are. Because that's
what the Lord does with us. He's going to chase his children.
He's going to teach his children. That's teaching, isn't it? We
have to learn. I always think that movie, that
boy ran away to go join the Civil War and his dad caught him. He
was like 13. And dad caught him at the edge of town and put him
on his horse and was riding him back. And he said, you know what
you've done is wrong, don't you, son? He said, yeah, I know, Daddy.
He said, you know, when we get home, I'm going to whip you a
little bit. He said, yeah, Daddy, I know. I know. It's a painful thing,
but it's good for the Lord to chase us. Don't leave us to ourselves. That's what happened. It happened
twice with Moses, didn't it? Moses said, well, I can't talk
good. And he said, who cares about how you talk? I made the
mouth. He said, well, I don't want to. That was twice the Lord
told him to go, and he didn't. Same thing happened with Solomon,
the wisest man born of Adam that's walked this earth. He was brilliant,
wasn't he? And he chased every woman he
could chase. Had 700 wives and 300 concubines and all these
other things and did everything he could. And the Lord said,
don't you do that. Don't you marry them women that's outside
of this house. Don't do that because they'll
turn your heart from me. What'd Solomon do? Didn't believe.
And what'd they do? They started turning his heart
towards other gods to make sacrifices and all that. And it says in
1 Kings 11, the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart
was turned from the Lord, God of Israel, which appeared in
him twice. He said, I come to you twice and your heart's turned
from me. So what'd he do? He chastened him. He was angry
that his heart was turned to something else other than him.
And he turned him to himself. What's Moses doing? He's kicking
and screaming and yelling. Too bad you're coming. What do
we do? What about those that departed
from us for a season or whatever? Lord's children, he'll deal with
them, won't he? So the Lord stirred up adversaries
there at Solomon to make him turn back. Moses was looking
at the flesh and not the Lord. But thanks be to God, no matter
our idleness, no matter our inability, or our just flat-out rebellion,
it doesn't deter him from his will and his glory. That's comforting
to me. As my dad always said, the Lord's
blessed me in spite of myself. And I was well-grown and he was
with the Lord for a long time before I ever understood that.
In spite of myself, the Lord's been kind to me and merciful
to me and blessed me. He's faithful. He's faithful. Well, inability and sin's exposed. That's what happened to Moses.
And he admitted it. And we admit it. It says in verse
10, Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent,
neither hither to for. nor since thou hast spoken unto
thy servant. I wasn't before, and I ain't now since you've
started talking to me. But I'm slow of speech and of a slow
tongue. Turn over to 1 Corinthians 2. This is what happened with
Moses, and I couldn't help but think what was going on with
Paul. 1 Corinthians 2. He says in 2 Corinthians, he
said, but though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge. Paul is rude in speech, but not
in knowledge. He might have ripped the band-aid
off. Well, you could have said that gentler, Paul. You didn't
have to be so curt about it. Well, it was necessary. Jonah
was the peevish prophet. He was not fun to be around.
He was a hard man, and he was of like passions. He would get
spun up and angry and complain. The Lord used that man. The largest
recorded revival we read in Scripture. Millions of people the Lord brought
to himself because of that one that was so less and so rude
and so hard and seemed so unloving, did the most loving thing he
could. He preached the gospel to them. Paul said he was rude
in speech and not in knowledge. Here in 1 Corinthians 2 verse
1, And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency
of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
When I came to preach to you, I didn't have a polished orator's
voice. I didn't use $5 words, just like
Moses. I'm slow at speech. I'm slow
at tongue. I was fumbling my words, my points,
what not in there. For I determined not to know
anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I didn't
want to talk about what used to happen. I didn't want to talk
about great things dead men wrote a long time ago. I want to talk
to you about Christ." Well, that's rude, some will say. That's what
I came to do. And I was with you, verse 3,
in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. And my speech
and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom.
but in demonstration of the spirit and of the power. I didn't use
any tactics. I got contacted this week. Somebody asked me,
they said, you know, we got a new system and it's proven. We can add 30 to 50 people a
month to your pews. We can start putting 30, 50 people
in your church. Are you interested? Could we
come down and do the system for you? And I said, no, I'm not
interested. I said, we'll do it the original
way. We'll get to that next, real soon. We're gonna do it
the way the Lord does it. I ain't gonna take no tactics
up and I ain't gonna do anything that's enticing words of man's
wisdom or hand out roses on Easter. I forgot all about today being
Easter. Easter Sunday and having programs for the children and
ice cream socials and pancakes and fish fries and all that stuff.
I'm gonna preach Christ to you. That's what would be the blessing.
You can get your own pancakes. Krusty's is real cheap, get it
at Costco. I'm here to do one thing. That's the most loving,
caring thing I could do, is tell you plainly who man is and who
God is and what Christ did and where he is now. Why would I
do something like that? Look at verse five, read it with
me. If I lost your attention, stay with me now. First Corinthians
two, verse five, here's where the rub is. Here's where natural
man and all them religions, especially in Pharisees, and I like watching
them squirm. This is where the rub is. That your faith should
not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. He's
gonna get all the glory. You didn't figure him out. He
wasn't lost and you didn't find him. He found you. And it won't
be in a man, there might be a man, I remember the first message
I remember remembering, and that man that preached it, Maurice
Montgomery, I love him for it. I'm thankful for it. But I'm
thankful to the God that sent that man. He was passed through
town that weekend. Henry was there, and he said,
well, you preach. I want to listen to you preach. I didn't know I wanted
to listen to him preach after he's done preaching. And it wasn't
Maurice talking to me that day. God spoke to my heart. It was
the Lord's power. Now, I'm thankful for Maurice,
and nobody's going to talk bad about him. Nobody's going to
talk bad about Henry or my pastor now. Ain't going to happen. but
I'm thankful for the Lord that sent them. He's the root cause. That was necessary in Moses.
It was necessary in Paul, and it's necessary in each of us,
and that's the testimony of the saints of God, that it was God's
power that did that. I'll be honest, I was unable,
that's a fact, and I was unwilling. I didn't even want to. They said,
man will not come to me. Was that, did that used to be
your will? Or are you the exception to God's word? Right, so that's
true. Paul wasn't, Paul was persecuting
the church. He didn't have the ability to
preach the gospel, he didn't know it. And he was out killing
the Lord's people. And it was made evident, it was
the power of God that did it. Now that's in preaching, right?
And that's in us too, isn't it? I didn't, I've been playing church,
but I didn't want nothing to do with the God, never heard
of him. But God, he came to us in power. That's what he said
when he talked to the brethren of the first Thessalonians. He
said, Our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in
power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance. Much assurance. They knew what was happening.
There's one prayer that looked them in the eye when he was preaching
to them. That infirmity was in Moses.
That infirmity was in Paul, and that infirmity was in us. But
you know what? After the Lord saved him and sent him out and
had everything sorted, that never did leave Moses. That infirmity
never left Moses. That infirmity never left Paul. Do you know that? 2 Corinthians
12, over a couple pages to the right. 2 Corinthians 12. Moses stuttered or had a slow
tongue all the way till he died. Paul says here in 2 Corinthians
12 verse 7. and lest I should be exalted above measure through
the abundance of the revelation. Boy, did he have some revelation.
Went to the third heaven, he understood these, could you imagine
him preaching? Like here's what this means, I'm gonna show you.
I know you quoted, let me tell you the context to that. I think
I know one or two things, Buddy Paul knew it. And because of
that, the Lord used this to balance him out so he didn't get puffy
and he didn't get too self-righteous and prideful about that understanding.
He said, lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance
of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh,
the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted
above measure. For this thing I besought the
Lord thrice, that it might not depart from me, that it might
depart from me. And he said unto me, my grace
is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will
I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may
rest upon me. Moses had that, and for the rest
of his days, it's obvious I can't do this. This is God's doing
it. Paul, for the rest of his days,
and I'm so thankful they don't tell us what that thorn was,
because if you could buy it at a store, we'd all get thorns
just like it. Oh, look, I got the same thing Paul had. Whatever
it was, it stayed with him. And the Lord said, no, my grace
is sufficient with you. Now get back to preaching. Get back to
living, get back to talking to your neighbors, get back to going
grocery shopping, whatever it is for us, right? And Lord don't
save us and now all of a sudden we are a new creation. There's
a new man that dwells in us, there's an old man we're housed
in, a new man that's in us, but that old man's still here, isn't
he? Like, well, you don't live like a Christian, everybody,
we don't look like one either. You don't see inside my head,
that's just on the outside. And that infirmity stays with us.
Is that your experience? Or did you just get sugary sweet?
You're almost right for heaven now. Turn to Romans 7. This was
Paul's. This is ours too. Romans 7. Mine anyway. I think some of
yours. Verse 18. People talk about Christian warfare
and all that stuff, here's what it is. If you're along on a desert
island, that war is raging. Verse 18, for I know that in
me, that's in my flesh, so there's a spirit and there's flesh, dwelleth
in no good thing. For to will is present with me,
but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good
that I would, I do not, but the evil which I would not, that
I do. Now, if I do that, I would not.
It's no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find
then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with
me. For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man,
that new man that's in me, I love his law. Christ fulfilled it.
And it's good. Children ought to obey their
parents. Y'all don't murder nobody. And in all of it, those things
are wonderful. It's good. I see another law of my members
and that flesh and this body warring against the law of my
mind and bring me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in
my members. Oh, wretched man that I, we've touched on this
a lot. Not that I used to be. Well,
I once was, I used to be a sinner. Oh, really? I'm a sinner saved
by grace now. What was that fell on the cross
called? A thief. What was Rahab? Harlot. It don't
go away from us, does it? Oh, wretched man that I am. I
am. Who shall deliver me from this
body of death? I thank God through Christ Jesus
our Lord. So then, with the mind, I myself serve the law of God,
but with the flesh, the law of sin. Lord save me. It's his doing. I want to do these things. I
want to walk through this world as a child of God that believes
him. As a man in this world, he has
to do that too. It's all his power. So we had
an infirmity, and that infirmity don't go away. It seems to get
worse. You reckon Moses Boy, it's changed over the years.
Over 40 years of being in the desert, it's dry. It probably
got worse, didn't it? Just like in this flesh, this
sin. Sin's sin, but boy, we see more of it as we grow, don't
we? It gets worse and worse, it just
whacks greater. And it's all there, it's just
more been uncovered. What do we do? We cry out to
God to save us old Richard, man. Turn back to him, turn back to
him. How does he do that? The Lord chose Moses by Moses
confessing it. Moses wrote this, didn't he?
He was unable and he was unwilling, and the Lord left him with those
infirmities of the flesh, and he still wasn't deterred. All
right? How could this be? He immediately
set his older brother, the firstborn, and made him priest. He removed
Moses. There was no combining of being
the prophet and the priest inside of Moses, you know, priestcraft.
He was separated from that. He said, you're just gonna tell
what you know. And I'm gonna set your elder brother, the firstborn,
to be the capital P priest. You see where I'm going with
that? Said in Exodus 4, 14, the anger of the Lord was kindled
against Moses. And he said, is not Aaron the Levite thy brother?
I know he can speak well. And behold, he cometh forth to
meet thee. I know him, and here he comes."
Here he comes. Turn over to Romans 8. It was
Moses' older brother, Aaron, that was made priest, not Moses. Romans 8, verse 26. Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth
our infirmities, We need it. For we know not what we should
pray for as we ought. I don't even know all my infirmities. Lord, forgive us for what we
are. That's all I can come up with most of the time. Instead
of listing a list of sins or confessing in some weird little
box to man and it's nonsense. I don't even know what I ought
to pray for. I don't even know how truly sick I really am. We don't know what to pray for
as we ought, but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered. I ain't got enough sense to pray
for myself. Don't even know what to pray for if dead. I'm unable
and unwilling. but the Spirit, but God. Makes
intercessions, things we can't even understand, can't even be
uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts, verse 27, knoweth
what the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession
for the saints according to the will of God. God's purpose, it's
His will to do this, to make this intercession. And we know
that all things work together for good to them that love God,
to them who are thee called according to His purpose, those made righteous.
For whom He did foreknow, He loved before time. He also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son, that
he, that Christ, might be the firstborn among many brethren. People quote that and they put
it on shirts and book covers or whatever. Romans 8, 28. Those
have the text down, right? Do we get that we don't know
to pray for ourselves and Christ is going to be made the preeminence?
The firstborn among many brethren. That's a ticket to it. Well,
now all things gonna work for good. Of course it will. Why
did the Lord allow Moses to have two rebuttals? So his elder brother
could have preeminence and be made priest that intercedes. Did Aaron physically make intercession?
No, he didn't, but it's a picture of Christ in that. Showing us
him, pointing us to him. Those scriptures talked to him,
didn't they? Aaron was already older, wasn't
he? And he was already there. How long has Christ, our elder
brother, been there from eternity past? And how long will he be
priest? Aaron died. And in the last act of his life,
the Lord said, get up on that mountain and take your clothes
off, take those priest garments off and put them on your son.
And nobody had to handcuff him, nobody had to tase him, and nobody
had to talk him into it. He did it as a last act of picturing
Christ, of him taking his robes of righteousness and putting
it on us. What a privilege, what a good way to die, isn't it?
He's the firstborn. How long will Christ be priest?
Aaron died, he's a sinner saved by grace like the rest of us.
Turn over to Psalm 110. We remember reading in Genesis,
the king of Salem, king of peace, Melchizedek, he said he was God's
priest. He wasn't a priest, he wasn't
a high priest, God's priest. Psalm 110 verse one, David was
used to pin this. The Lord said unto my Lord, sit
thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion. Moses
had a rod. What was that picture? That's
rod of Jesse. Lord shall send the rod of thy
strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thine
enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.
In the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning, thou
hast the due of thy youth. The Lord hath sworn and will
not repent. Thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. Who? The Lord that spoke to my
Lord. My Lord is the priest after Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand shall
strike through the kings in the day of his wrath. That's the
one that will reign, that's the one that will judge, and he'll
be on his throne forever. Forever. He's our prophet, he's
the one that speaks to our hearts, he's the priest, he's the one
that makes intercession and sacrifice, and he's the king. He ordained
all this and rules it all. That's him. Moses was unable. The Lord set his elder brother
over him, removed him from any thoughts of that priesthood and
put Christ as that. That's what Aaron was picturing.
And all the glory goes to that firstborn. He gets all the glory
for it. He gets all the recognition.
We're going to go on to read as we go through Exodus that
Aaron had some garments he had to wear. And he had those names
of the tribes on his breastplate and all that stuff on his head. And he's the one that went into
the holiest of holies and he's the one that performed those
sacrifices. He had all that. Showing us Christ that gets all
the glory for all those things. But to us, what's that to us?
End of verse 14. Exodus 4 verse 14. Second part of that verse, verse
14 says, and also behold, he cometh forth to meet thee. And
when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. He will be
glad. Is Aaron happy to see Moses,
his little brother? Yeah, he's happy. Can you imagine
that? All that rebellion and all that
just didn't want to, didn't have the will to do it. Nonetheless,
the Lord kept Moses, and he's going to use him to save his
people, to bring them out of that. And he gave Aaron that
priesthood to picture Christ after the order of Melchizedek
to be our priest forever, our high priest. And he's the one
that's going to come to us that can't talk right, don't want
to talk right, or just want to go back to feeding sheep and
goats. He comes to meet us, and when
he sees us, he's glad in his heart. for the joy set before
him. That's how he endured that cross.
Wasn't that just unimaginable things? People want to get out
these calendars, wonder about red heifers getting bought out
of Texas and sent to Jerusalem and all this other nonsense.
The Lord's going to be happy. He did all this, and he did it
willingly. Was he able? Yes. Was he related
to us? Yeah, he was born of a virgin.
Everybody tell you that. He wanted to. It made him happy to do so. What a thought. The Lord told
Moses he said We might get that to another time. He said I'm
gonna speak to you and you speak to Aaron and Aaron's gonna do
the He's talking to two brothers two humans now, right? He said
that's where it's gonna go turn over to number six More close
number six The Lord spoke to his child Moses
told him what to tell Aaron to say, and this is to us. That's
what the Lord blesses through the preaching to our hearts,
him speaking to us. Number six, verse 22. And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, speak unto Aaron and unto his sons. saying on this
wise you shall bless the children of israel saying that's exactly
what the lord told moses is going to happen he said i'm going to
tell you you're going to tell him your brother aaron and here the
lord's come to moses he said now go tell aaron to say this
and then aaron's going to say it this is how you're going to
bless them the lord bless thee and keep thee. Who's going to
bless us? The Lord. Who's going to keep us? Only
the Lord. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious
unto thee. The Lord brighten you up. Remember
glad last hour? The Lord has to do that. The Lord lift up his countenance
upon thee and give thee peace. And they shall put my name upon
the children of Israel, and I will bless them. I will bless them. That's what happened to Moses. And then I was thinking all those
things that Paul said, and he was unable, and this war went on
with him, and the firmament didn't go away, and Paul had a high
priest, and that's what happened to me. That blessed me, and it
made me happy. I hope it does to you. All right,
brethren. Let's take our hymnals, What?