Shew me now thy way

Q: What does the Bible say about knowing God's way?

Knowing God's way involves seeking His guidance to understand His character and purposes in our lives. In Exodus 33:13, Moses prays to God, imploring Him to show His way so that he may know Him and find grace. This reflects a deep desire for divine guidance, emphasizing that knowing God's way is about understanding His character and intentions. As Moses intercedes for Israel, he reveals that the journey to the promised land is not just a physical transition but a spiritual necessity to know God intimately. God's guidance helps His people learn about His mercy, love, and the nature of their relationship with Him.

Q: How do we know God’s promise to be with His people is true?

God's promise to be with His people is affirmed through Moses' intercession and His response in Exodus 33:14. In Exodus 33:14, God assures Moses, 'My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.' This promise reflects God's covenant faithfulness to His people, indicating that despite their rebellious nature, He is willing to guide and accompany them. The promise is fulfilled through countless instances in Scripture where God remains with His people, emphasizing His desire for relationship and communion. Just as Moses would not settle for mere angelic guidance, we, too, are encouraged to seek God's presence in our journeys, affirming that His commitment to us is unwavering.

Q: Why is knowing God's way important for Christians?

Knowing God's way is vital for Christians as it leads to growth in faith and helps us understand God's will in our lives. For Christians, knowing God's way is essential for spiritual growth and fulfillment of His will. Moses' earnest prayer, 'Show me now thy way,' is not just a plea for direction, but a yearning for a deeper relationship with God. As we navigate life's complexities, understanding God's way helps us align our paths with His purposes, ultimately leading us closer to Him. This journey not only guides our decisions but enriches our experiences of His grace and mercy, illustrating that it's not merely about reaching our destination but learning about God through the process.

Q: What can we learn from Moses' intercession for Israel?

Moses' intercession teaches us the importance of advocating for others and relying on God's grace in difficult situations. Moses' intercession for Israel demonstrates profound compassion and the calling to mediate on behalf of others, reflecting Christ's role as our ultimate intercessor. When faced with the rebellion of the Israelites, Moses pleads with God to spare them, showcasing his commitment to the people God entrusted to him. This act of mediation illustrates the significance of community and the need for believers to support one another through prayer and advocacy. Moreover, it highlights God's willingness to forgive and guide His people, affirming our dependence on His grace even in times of failure.

Q: How does the way of the cross relate to knowing God's way?

The way of the cross is central to knowing God's way, as it reveals God's plan for reconciliation and relationship with humanity. Recognizing that the way of the cross is fundamental to understanding God's way allows believers to appreciate the depth of His love and redemption plan. Just as Moses prayed for guidance, the cross represents the ultimate revelation of God's character and His method of bringing sinners to Himself. In Exodus, the Israelites' journey towards the promised land symbolizes the spiritual journey towards eternal life through Christ’s sacrifice. Understanding that Christ is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6) reaffirms that knowing God's way intrinsically involves embracing the cross and all that it signifies for our salvation and relationship with Him.

The Lord may graciously help me. I'll turn your prayerful attention to the chapter that we read in Exodus, Exodus 33, and reading verse 13 for our text. Exodus 33, verse 13. This is a prayer of Moses. 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 my people. And particularly those words, show me now thy way, that I may know thee and find grace in thy sight. Here we're picking up the account of Moses where Israel had come to a difficult place.

God had given them the law. He'd shown them how the tabernacle should be built, all the furniture of the tabernacle, all the worship of God. He'd told how Aaron should be anointed to be the high priest. That's all that, And Moses was instructed up the mount for those 40 days. Then Moses comes down the mount and God tells him that Israel has sinned and he sees them dancing before this golden calf, doing the exact opposite of what they should have been doing.

They said all the commandments of the Lord we will do, but they hadn't. And the 10 commandments that Moses was holding were broken, a picture of the broken law. And the very person who was organizing this golden calf was Aaron, who was the one that was going to be the high priest. A complete perversion of what it should have been. a terrible movement away from the right way. And Moses was so upset. It was a tremendous sadness to Moses.

And he intercedes for Israel. God says he's going to destroy all of Israel, but he intercedes. Moses, a picture here of the Lord Jesus, the intercedes between an angry God and a sinful people. and he prays on their behalf. And God says that he would not destroy them at that point for that.

But then we have this chapter 33, which just takes place after this. 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. And then in verse two, and I will send an angel before thee. And in verse three, for I will not go up in the midst of thee. So God says that you're gonna still go up to the promised land, but I'm gonna send an angel with you, but I'm not going with you.

The people were very upset about this. But Moses then comes, and this is the prayer that we're looking at, really Moses interceding with God. that what he said he would do here, that he would not go up with them, that God would, as it were, go back on that. You see, there are times when God tests his people. Was Moses happy just to go to the promised land with an angel? Or did he want God to go with him? How important was God's presence to Moses? God tests his people sometimes. You think of the two on the road to Emmaus. They had that time of their heart burnt within them while he talked with them by the way.

And yet when they came to the Emmaus, he made as if he were to go further. And they could have said, yes, well, you go your way, we go our way. And they could have just let him go. But they constrained him. And they said, abide with us. For it is toward evening, the day is far spent. And you see, they constrained him. He made as if he was gonna go further, but they constrained him. And here, the Lord says, I will not go up in the midst of thee, and yet, with Moses' prevailing prayer, God then says that he will go with them.

And you see, God tests us sometimes as to what, how precious God is to us. Will we say, well, yeah, that's as long as we get to a land of milk and honey, that's good enough for us? Or do we want the presence of God? Well, Moses was that one that the presence of God was so important to him.

And so we come to this prayer. Now, therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way. This prayer of Moses, he begs the Lord that God would show him the way that they should go. He doesn't want to go on his own with just an angel, he wants God himself.

He wants God's presence with them. Show me now thy way, a way that will reveal Christ. You see, how this, These people that have sinned so greatly, how are they going to continue? How can God dwell with such a people? Moses prays, show me now thy way.

We think of that, we've sung at the beginning of this service of that, guide me, O thou great Jehovah. We need to be guided in our daily lives. It's good, you children and young people, to pray for guidance in our lives, in our friendships, in our work, in our pathway, to pray for guidance. That's a good thing. But what is the purpose of the guidance? Guide for what purpose? Well, Moses says it here very preciously, show me now. thy way, God's way. And it's interesting that he doesn't stop there. He says that, I may know thee. So God's way of showing us, his way is that we may come to know him.

That's the great end of it. Not just to get from A to B. If you think about it, Israel could have got from Egypt to Canaan so much quicker, it didn't need to take them 40 years at all. God led them about, he instructed them, he was showing them his way, and leading them in a way that would prepare them for the promised land. And so God does with us, he leads his people. Show me now thy way.

We read in Psalm 103, These words, Psalm 103 verse 7, he made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. Bringing them, we think of the Passover, we think of the Red Sea, opening the Red Sea. We think of the manna, the daily manna that they received. We think of the water coming out of the rock.

All these things, God was showing them the way and it was teaching them about himself so that they would learn of him. And so when we, in our little lives, I beseech that I may know thee. Show me now thy way. Moses wanted God's way, the way of life. We looked at this morning. those of you here this morning, and lead me in the way everlasting in Psalm 139, that the way everlasting. We looked at that fact that the way, Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life. So show me now thy way. Moses wanted God's way.

How were these rebels going to be brought into the promised land? How could it be? Well, it was through putting their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. There was going to be those sacrifices. All the Leviticus shows of all the sacrifices that they were going to do, how they could approach God, the temple, was going to be, the tabernacle was going to be built. The presence of God was going to be with them in the midst of the camp. Show me now thy way, God's way.

And you see, this was such a different way than Moses had expected. He didn't see how these things could be brought together. You see earlier, if you look in chapter 32, Just look at Moses pleading in chapter 32, verse 30. And it came to pass on the morrow that Moses said unto the people, ye have sinned a great sin.

That was with this golden calf. And now I will go up unto the Lord. Peradventure, I shall make an atonement for you. Moses was going to seek to make an atonement for Israel, for God. Well, Moses here is a shadow of one who was a greater than Moses, the Lord Jesus Christ, who didn't say, I will peradventure make an atonement for your sin. He came with this purpose. Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. No peradventure.

Moses, you see, a type, a glorious type, and yet he pointed to one much greater. Moses himself was a sinner. Moses himself needed one to intercede at one to forgive him. And then Moses says, and Moses returned unto the Lord and said, oh, these people have sinned a great sin and have made them gods of gold.

Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin, there's a dash. And if not, blot me out, I pray thee. What a picture of Christ. Christ taking the handwriting that was written against his people, and taking it himself. He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin.

Well, Moses prays that, show me now thy way. And in our lives, in the decisions that we need to make, should we live here? Should we live there? Where should we preach? Where should we go? What would the Lord have us to do? May this be our prayer. Show me now thy way. And what's our aim? What's our objective in knowing God's way? Is it so that therefore I will just be very much more prosperous, a very much more easy life?

Well, these things are important in their place, but Moses goes for what is the really most important thing, that I may know thee. In other words, the pathway that Moses was being led by God and the children of Israel being led were so that they might learn about God. They might know God. The things that they walked through would be used and sanctified to teach them about the way of God. You see, if you think of the children of Israel and the way they were brought out of Egyptian slavery into the Promised Land, it was a picture of God's way.

God's way of working, that God leads his people out of the slavery of sin. He brings them under the blood. He brings them through the Red Sea. He brings them to, he feeds them with that bread of life, that daily manna, that bread from heaven, which was himself. And he's bringing them into the promised land.

Show me now thy way. And in our lives, in the decisions that we make, need to know, and we need to know God's will in things. And it's right that we should ask God's guidance. The divine guidance, very important. But what is the end of the guidance? What is the purpose of it? What is the end goal? Moses' end goal wasn't just so that they would be able to enjoy the land flowing with milk and honey. That was not the end goal.

You see, Moses says later on, if thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. In other words, he said, if God is not going with us, we're not leaving this Mount Horeb. We're not leaving the Mount of Sinai. We're going to stay here. We would rather stay in the wilderness than go into the promised land without God's presence. How important is God's presence in your estimation? Is it everything to know that God is with you and guiding you and helping you and leading you and showing you of himself? Because that's the great things.

You see, we need to learn of him. Jesus said, take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart. and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Show me now thy way, that way of life, that way that leads to life, that way that ultimately centers in Christ.

You see, this is very similar to the New Testament, Saul of Tarsus, who then came to know the Lord on that Damascus road, and the times after that, he writes, in Philippians 3, verse 10, that I may know him. That's the desire of the Apostle Paul, that I may know him.

And you see Moses here, some thousands of years before, prays this very similar prayer. Show me now thy way that I may know thee. Is that your prayer? Are you concerned to know God? So that the things that you pass through, the places that you live, the things that you do, the transactions you're involved with, the workplaces you go to, the relationships you enter into, show me now thy way that those things may be sanctified, that I may come to know God. and have that communion with God himself. This is what Moses desired, that I may know thee. And you see, what is God's way? God's way is such a different way. Moses was a type of Christ in many ways. He was that mediator between a holy God and a sinful people.

It was only Moses that was able to go up that mountain If any of the other Israelites had gone up, they would have been killed. But Moses was able. A picture of one that is able to be a mediator. And of course, Moses was but a shadow. He wasn't the real final one. He was pointed to the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our mediator. There is one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. He's the one that is able to make peace with God. He's able to go up the mount. He's able to have fellowship with God and with his people through Christ. He sees the mediator, that I may know thee, show me now thy way, God's way, God's way of mediation, God's way of reconciliation.

Oh, it was a different way than the disciples thought, wasn't it? Show me now thy way. Peter, James, and John, they didn't recognize that this was the way. When Jesus said, if you look in Matthew's gospel, chapter 16, we're told that then Matthew 16, verse 21, from that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem. and suffer many things of the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, be it far from thee, Lord. This shall not be unto thee. Moses' prayer, show me now thy way. This was God's way. It wasn't the idea of the disciples. Peter thought it was the wrong way. Peter thought it was a bad way. Peter didn't want Jesus to do this, but Moses prays, show me now thy way that I may know thee.

You see, this was the way of the cross. This was the way of substitution. This was the way of reconciliation between a holy God and unholy people. This was God's way, and this is the way, the only way, that there can be fellowship between us as sinners and a holy God.

Moses says, show me now thy way. Oh, we have our own thoughts about our way, but show me now thy way, this way that leads ultimately to the promised land, that leads to God. There is no other way to God. Jesus is the way to God. Jesus is the way to bliss. In this way, the church has trod down from Adam's day to this. Jesus is the way. And so Moses prays to God, show me now thy way. And that I may know thee, not just the way for the purpose of it, just to get from A to B, but that in going that way, in traveling through the wilderness, in going through those trials, as Joseph went into the dungeon and the prison and was falsely accused, show me now thy way. Oh, this was God's way.

The way to the crown was through the cross. The way to be that great usefulness that Joseph had was first through affliction. It's the cross before the crown. The Apostle Paul, who prayed that this thorn in the flesh would be removed, show me now thy way. The thorn was necessary so that there would be, my grace is sufficient for thee. My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Show me now thy way, that I may know thee. You see, if God gave us sufficient strength in and of ourselves, that we'd have our own strength, our own ability, our own way, we would go our own way, we'd be independent, we wouldn't learn of God. But Moses didn't want that. Show me now thy way, that I may know thee.

This was the great end, to know God, that I may know him. and the power of his resurrection in this death of Christ was going to be the glory, the centerpiece of glory. If you go to see the scenes of heaven, the lamb as it had been slain is the centerpiece of glory. But Peter didn't want it. Peter said that this was not what he wanted. This shall not be unto thee. Show me now thy way.

And that's what's lovely about the, in the gospels, you see Peter resisting this, and yet then you come to the epistle of Peter, and he's of a completely different spirit about it now. Peter, in those epistles, he speaks so lovingly and preciously of the things of God. If you look in 1 Peter and chapter one, Verse 18, for as much, this is the same man that said, this shall not be unto thee, for as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things of silver and gold from your vain conversation, received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ. As of a lamb without blemish and without spot, He was verily foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.

This is the same man. And the Lord, you see, had led him. Show me now thy way. Oh, Peter's idea of the way was very different, but he had to learn and so do we. And this is how God teaches his people to learn. Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. Learn, Peter, that you can't stand on your own strength. Peter said, though all men would forsake me, yet will not I. Peter had to learn. Show me now thy way.

What was God's way? Oh, he had prayed for Peter that his faith would fail not, that he would be brought through that trial, and he would go through that bitter weeping, and he would learn of Christ. And that's what we pray for you here this evening, that the Lord would lead you in those paths that make Christ precious.

You see, if you just go through your life and you don't need Christ, you get on with your lives, you're self-sufficient, you don't need him, then you won't learn of him, will you? But Moses didn't want that. Moses, When God said, I will send an angel before thee, he pleased with God, no, we don't want an angel. We want the presence of God.

Now, therefore, I pray thee, if I found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way. I want my pathway to be one that leads me to Christ. Because here below, you see, we're learning of him. And it is to be the occupation throughout a never-ending eternity to praise him. But we need to learn it. We need to learn his ways and see his ways and love him. That I may find grace in thy sight and consider this nation is thy people.

In verse 14, and he said, my presence shall go with thee and I will give thee rest. What a change. God had said earlier, I will not go up with thee. I will not go up in the midst of thee because they are a stiff necked people. But show me now thy way.

And God did go with them. He brought them up, you see, and he was going to teach them his way. How was this rebellious people and a holy God? How is there going to be reconciliation? Well, it was going to be through the cross. It was going to be through the sacrifice, through substitution, through that love of Christ. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.

This was going to be the way. Show me now thy way in our lives as we come to a junction. Which should we go, this way or that? Which is the right way? Lord, what will thou have me to do as Saul of Tarsus prayed after the Damascus road? What will Thou have me to do? It's a good prayer. Show me now Thy way, that I may know Thee. Oh, that's the great end, that's the great goal.

If we go through life just very prosperously perhaps, with many outward privileges, but we don't know God. We don't learn of him. We don't learn of his ways. We don't learn of his mercy, of his love, of his forbearance. Show me now thy way, the way of Christ dealing with our souls. Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth.

Oh, you say, well, surely we'd be better off without the chastening. Oh, I mentioned in prayer, the Psalmist Asaph, Psalm 73, he thought that the wicked who weren't chastened, they could sin against God and they could do it day in, day out. And it didn't seem they had any trouble as a result of it. They carried on in their prosperity. And he was envious of them. He was envious of them. They said, they can sin and they can get away with it, it seemed. But you see, really, It was a very solemn end that they were heading to. They were carrying on, and their lives were, God had left them.

You see, whom the Lord loveth, he chastened. He doesn't allow his children to live like that. You see, the psalmist said this in verse 14 of Psalm 73, for all the day long have I been plagued and chastened every morning. But they do all these sins with a high hand, and they're not chastened for it. because they're going to destruction.

Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end. Surely thou did set them in slippery places. Thou castest them down into destruction. How they brought into desolation, as in a moment they are utterly consumed with terrors. Show me now thy way. Don't leave me to go this way. This is the way of the world. This is the way that leads to death. This is the way that seems so promising but ends in disaster.

How they are brought into desolation as in a moment they are utterly consumed with terrors. This is the end of the wicked, the end of those that fear not God, the end of those who have not fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before them in the gospel. Those are them, those looking at no need of Christ in their own thoughts.

But then you see the Psalmist comes to himself. Nevertheless, I am continually with thee." Oh, he recognized the privilege. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel and afterwards receive me to glory. Suddenly he realized that the guidance he was receiving, the daily correction that he was receiving, the daily chastening that God was giving him when he fell short was an absolute blessing.

Show me now thy way. Don't leave me to go my own way. For the end of that, the end of our way is destruction. The end of God's way is bringing us into communion with his only begotten son. That I may know him, not just know about him, but I may know him.

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. the beginning of the chapter, God said to Moses, depart and go up hence, thou and the people which thou has brought up out of Egypt. And Moses doesn't want to be considered to be his people, they want them to be God's people. And you see, and consider that this nation is thy people. Moses wanted to be leading God's people, not his own people.

And he said, my presence shall go with thee and I will give thee rest. What a gracious answer Moses received. There's an encouragement here, you see. There's a prayer of Moses, but there's a gracious answer. Moses was not content with just an angel. And Moses prayed, show me now thy way. And God said, my presence shall go with thee. Well, Moses, that great intercessor. But Moses doesn't, you might say, well, Moses, you've obtained your end now. You've got what you need.

Well, Here you see, and then he prays again, for wherein shall it be known that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? Is it not that thou goest with us? So if God is not with us, then that's the only mark that we are God's people, is that God is with us. So shall we be separated 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. Thou shalt find grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. Well, you might think at the end of verse 17 that Moses would have finished and thought, well, I've gained my end. God's presence is going with us, and that's enough. But Moses then pushes forward further. What does he pray for next? Verse 18.

And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. Moses wanted to know God's way, that he may know him, but he wanted to see God's glory, the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Paul describes that. For God who shined out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. in the face of Jesus Christ, the glory of God. Have you seen the glory of God? Have you seen the glory in what Christ did at Calvary?

How that he took upon him the sins of all his church, stood in their place, despised, rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, or it didn't look like a scene of glory at all, it looked like a scene of tragic overcoming. When these scribes and the Pharisees were jeering at him, mocking at him, rather like Samson, a picture of Samson when he was standing before all those lords of the Philistines with his eyes put out.

They were all there gathering to mock him and to laugh at him and to ridicule him and to gloat over him. Somewhat of a shadow of Calvary. Little did they realize that that one that they were gloating over and ridiculing was about to perform that greatest victory. And as Samson pushed those two pillars and the whole house came crashing down, that one that they thought that they had gained the victory over, they thought they were mastered over, he gained the victory over them. And how Christ, the greater than Samson, he was led captivity captive He was bringing in an everlasting salvation and the glory of what he achieved then. God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of Christ.

You see Moses, you see Moses, this man of God, you say, Moses, you've seen God's glory. You've seen the manna. You've seen the Red Sea opening. You've seen the rocks smitten and the water gushing out. You've seen so many blessings, Moses. What are you saying? And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory.

Oh, you see, the living soul wants to know more of the glories of Christ. This would be an occupation throughout a never ending eternity. to behold the glories of the Lamb, the glory of Christ. Moses, this man who had seen so much, you go to the Apostle Paul, Paul, don't you know him? That I may know him, Paul, don't you know him? Ah, that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, being conformed unto his death, having fellowship with his sufferings, and know that resurrection. The nature of these things is that we grow.

The Lord's people don't say, I have seen enough of God's glory. Yes, I've beheld something of his glory and I've seen enough. Well, I don't think you've seen it at all then. If you've seen enough of his glory, you haven't seen it at all. I beseech thee, show me thy glory. The nature of living faith is it wants more. It desires to see more. It desires to see more of Christ. And then that prayer you see of Moses, show me now thy way that I may know thee. Lead me in a path that teaches me about God, his ways, his wonderful acts, his covenant love. his mercy, his justice, that meet together at the cross. Show me now thy way.

This is the way that God deals with sin. He doesn't minimize sin. He doesn't say sin doesn't matter. But he makes a substitute. He gave himself as that substitute to stand in his people's place, that he could be just and the justifier of the ungodly. Show me now thy way. Show me the way of the cross. The way that it was necessary.

Peter didn't think it was necessary. And you and I, perhaps left to ourselves, don't think it's necessary. We don't need this cross. We don't need the death of a savior. They wanted a messiah. Yes, they wanted a messiah to come, but they didn't need a suffering messiah. They didn't need a messiah to die, as they thought.

But that was the two on the road to Emmaus. In their confusion, we thought that it had been he that should have redeemed Israel. They couldn't understand it. But the Lord Jesus showed them, beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. This idea of a suffering Messiah, a sire that would be a substitute.

Isaiah 53 says it's so beautiful. He was smitten for for our iniquities. Let me just read it. Isaiah 53, so beautiful, speaking of the sufferings. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. You see, now you see it puts a different light on it.

Peter, don't you need a suffering Messiah? Who's going to pay for your sin then? Peter, who's going to pay for your sin? If you haven't got a suffering Messiah, who is going to pay for it? But he was wounded for our transgressions. A realization that Christ needed to go this way and this was the only way that we would be liberated. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. And with his stripes we're healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way.

And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all, show me now thy way, show me this way, lead me in this way, lead me in this way that leads to everlasting life, this way of feeding on Christ, this way of realizing that I need such a Christ and realizing that I'm a hell deserving sinner, but there is a way open for sin and for uncleanness in the gospel.

You see, this is what Moses, this man of God, and of course Moses was that one that was on the Mount of Transfiguration, wasn't he? Mount of Transfiguration, and he was there and they spoke together, Christ, Elias, and Moses, of his decease, or that word is exodus, his exodus, his decease, that he would accomplish. at Jerusalem. Show me now thy way. This is in the book of Exodus.

The Exodus from Egypt into the wilderness, into the promised land. This was a picture of a different Exodus. An Exodus of liberation from the powers of sin. That Christ would be the Exodus of his people. The Exodus that he would accomplish at Jerusalem. Oh Moses, in that Mount of Transfiguration, he was He was interested in the same things as he was here. Show me now thy way. This exodus that he would accomplish.

He would bring his people out of the slavery and under the power of Satan. Satan, you see, that one that is judged for his sin. And he then says, well, these people that have sinned, these human beings that have sinned like I have, as the devil, then they have to be with me. And that's his claim. In a sense he's right. We deserve the punishment for our sin. And yet you see the Lord Jesus comes and stands in the place. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. They're set free and they're no longer. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.

And therefore Satan has lost his claim. This one that was gloating over his prisoners. He had to let them go. He's lost his strength. The strength that they were sinners and they were broken of the law. They'd broken the law while Christ had fulfilled the law. He'd set them free and therefore they are now liberated. The pharaoh, as it were, that picture of Satan and his tyranny and his bondage, it was gone. The slavery couldn't hold them, could it? and the slavery of Satan and his hellish hoes cannot hold God's people.

Moses says, show me now thy way. This is the way I need to know. This is the way that leads to life. These are the vital things to learn here below. Oh, there's so many life skills that you need to know here below, but this is the vital one. This is eternal life skill, to know the Lord Jesus Christ, to know his way.

His way of reconciliation, His way of satisfying justice, His way of bringing together justice and mercy at the cross of Christ. Show me thy way, that I may know thee, the person of Christ, communion with Christ. But then, show me thy glory. Oh, show me thy glory. When we see God's glory, we worship, don't we? Worship comes when we see God's glory, we worship. We are to worship in this service, to worship in spirit and in truth. Show me now thy way that I may see thy glory. And the response of a soul seeing God's glory is worship. It's the only response, worship. To worship him.

And that will of course be the occupation See, that's why if we don't know anything of worship here below, before we die, we have no real evidence, no assurance that we will be going to heaven. Because heaven is gonna be a place where we will worship God continually. So here below, yes, We don't worship here below in the same glorious perfection as we will be above.

One of the hymn writers picks up then, when this poor lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave, then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing his power to save. But that lisping, stammering tongue sings something of it here below. And as we've sung it here below, with lisping, stammering tongues, it's a foretaste that we will sing it throughout an ever-ended eternity. Worthy is the Lamb. I beseech thee, show me thy glory. Oh, this is the glory of the Lamb. And they sung a new song saying, thou art worthy. to take the book and to open the seals thereof.

For thou was slain. Peter, this shall not be unto thee. Show me now thy way. For thou was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation and has made us unto our God, kings and priests. And we shall reign on the earth.

This blessing of being in Christ. saying with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb. The lamb that had been slain, show me now thy way. How an unholy people can be brought back to God. It's the death of the lamb. It's the shed blood. It's the application of that blood to God's people. Revelation 7 picks that up. in verse 13, and one of the elders answered me saying, what are these which are arrayed in white robes?

And whence came they? And he said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said unto me, these are they which came out of great tribulation. Show me now thy way. Don't lead me in a plain path or a path that's the way of the world. Lead me in the way everlasting. These are they that came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. This is God's way. This is the way that leads to life. Moses prayed it. Divine guidance that I may know thee.

Therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple. And he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. You see, this is for the lamb. which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. This is the end of the way. This is the end.

Show me now thy way that I may know thee, a way of salvation, a way of reconciliation, a way of worship, a way of beheld his glory. John the Baptist, or John, in his gospel says these beautiful words, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Well, Moses' prayer, show me now thy way that I may know thee and show me thy glory. May the Lord have his blessing.

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How do we know God’s promise to be with His people is true?

Why is knowing God's way important for Christians?

What can we learn from Moses' intercession for Israel?

How does the way of the cross relate to knowing God's way?

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What does the Bible say about knowing God's way?

How do we know God’s promise to be with His people is true?

Why is knowing God's way important for Christians?

What can we learn from Moses' intercession for Israel?

How does the way of the cross relate to knowing God's way?

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