I invite you to turn with me
back again to Exodus chapter 3. Last week we looked at the beginning
of these verses at this miracle, at this wonder that Moses turned
aside to see, the burning bush. Moses was led of God, it says,
to the backside of the desert where he stood before the mountain
of God. Isn't that exactly where God
brings us? Standing in the desert, in the
desolate place, place that promises no life, bears no fruit, just
thorns and thistles and reptiles and dry, hot, thirsty land. No view in that land. I got to
thinking about the differences in that. There's no view in that
desert. It's flat. You just see out there a little
ways and that's it. That mountain promises a great view. You stand on that mountain, you
can see that whole desert and on past. You can see all things
from up there. And that mountain promises life.
It contains springs of waters and fruit bearing trees and all
this type of thing. This mountain is a picture of
God and this desert is a picture of man and this world. That's
where God brings us when he brings us to him. We discover that God
is as a mountain. Isn't that what David said in
one of his psalms? He said, God is in his holy mountain,
a barrier. You can't get around it. You
can't see over it. You can't climb to the top of
it. It's just a great mountain, and you stand there, and you
look at it in awe and wonder. You can't take it all in. You
can't take it all in. I'll never forget, I'd been,
was living in Kentucky, and I'd go back and forth to Florida
every now and then, and you had to go across those Blue Ridge
Mountains. But I'd been around the foothills to those mountains
for years, and they just looked a little bigger than the foothills
to me. I didn't really see anything worthy of being called a mountain.
I don't really know what you have to do to be called a mountain,
but they just didn't appear like mountains that I had in my mind.
You know, there was trees growing on top, all this type of thing. And then I went to Canada and
I drove all the way across Canada to Banff, Alberta, just outside
of Calgary. And we went through Calgary and
we started out that way and the road kind of set down inside
the land like you were driving in a ditch. And we were circling
around there and circling around and All of a sudden, we come
up out of that thing, and boom, there's those great Rocky Mountains.
And they're no bigger anywhere than they are right there. I'm
telling you, those things just, I pulled a car off the road.
It took my breath. I mean, you can't, I don't care
how many pictures you look at, you just can't imagine what it
is to stand and see those things for the first time. It just takes
your breath. I think that's where Moses was,
and I know that's where I was the first time I encountered
God. I was just so filled with wonder
and awe. I just had never heard or seen
anything like that. He's just majestic. He's by himself. I'm God, he said, and beside
me there is none other. There's nothing to compare him
to. There's nothing. I can't go out here and start
comparing things to God. And so God reveals Himself in
all kinds of ways, and here it's in a mountain. Sometimes it's
in the whirlwind. God speaks out of the whirlwind.
And sometimes it's in a still, small voice. God reveals Himself
in all these ways because there's nothing to compare Himself to.
And He just gives us little tidbits here and there, and we see Him.
But nowhere is He revealed like He is in Christ Jesus. And so
here's Moses standing here in this desolate place on the backside
of the desert, whatever that is. And he's standing before
this great mountain. And all of a sudden he looks
and between him and that mountain is a bush. And this bush is burning,
but it's not consumed. It's a bush. And all that I could
find on it by all the means that I have, all my concordances and
and Hebrew lexicons and all that kind of stuff, and reading the
old writers and all that, and they all say the same thing.
It was a thorny bush that should have consumed like a piece of
dry paper. It should have just went up. We were out in San Diego here
not too long ago, and I asked him, I said, I just don't see
around here what there's nothing around here to burn I said we
got trees and all and stuff I just don't understand what what is
it that burns here and he said it's just stuff here called chaparral
little thorny looking stuff but it's the nature of it is full
of petroleum it's a petroleum base it's sap highly flammable
in this little bush about that big it can shoot flames up 30
feet in the air And now since we've been building houses, this
stuff gets big, and when it goes up, it just consumes everything. Well, just try to get that picture
in your mind. This was a bush. This was a bush
just like all the other dry bushes in that desert, and it should
have just been consumed in an instant, but it wasn't. It burned
and burned and burned, but the bush remained. And he could see
the bush and he could see the fire, but there was nothing being
consumed. Now that's the Lord Jesus Christ.
He reveals that fire of God. He reveals that God is like a
fire. We can't approach unto Him. If
you approach Him in sin, it would be like a moth flying into a
bonfire. You'd be gone. I read in Isaiah
where Satan just said in his mind, he just thought, he just
thought about it. Here's what I'm going to do.
And the prophet said, I saw him fall from heaven like lightning.
And two or three times throughout the Scriptures, maybe more, but
I'm aware of two or three places where he said, our God is a consuming
fire. That's what he said. God settled
down on Mount Sinai and that thing began to quake and smoke
And fire and not even a beast would so much as touch that mountain.
And Israel stood back from that mountain which symbolized God
and His holy justice and His holy law. And they said, we ain't
going up there. Moses, you go talk to Him. Well,
we're not going up there. And Moses said, you're forbidden
to go up there. You so much as touch that mountain. Our God is a consuming fire.
But in Christ, that fire does not consume. We see in Christ
the sinner and the fire of God on him, that holiness in him,
that perfection of law and obedience and all those things. And yet
he is not consumed. He survives. And yet the fire
doesn't go away either. The fire is still there. Everything
is there. It is all in harmony in him.
And this is the first time God reveals himself in this way to
one of his prophets as he does to Moses. That mountain and that wilderness. And this is the angel of the
covenant, Christ, giving Moses his first glimpse at the glory
of God, revealing himself to him to declare his intention
to save and deliver His people. And so He declares to Moses that
He's heard the cry of the people. He's seen their affliction in
Egypt. He's come down to deliver them. And to keep the covenant
that He said, I'm the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. Now He made a covenant with them.
That's the significance of this. He said, I'm here to keep the
covenant. I'm here. It was My covenant,
and I made it with your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and confirmed
it in Jacob. And so it is to this day, and
it stands with you." And he said, I'm here to fulfill it. I'm here
to keep it. That's why I'm here. And in keeping
it, I'll deliver you out of Egypt. And then in the light of these
things, he now reveals to his servant Moses his will in the
matter and how that Moses is going to be involved in the work.
And that's what I want to talk to you about tonight, Moses and
this deliverance of God and how he stands as a type of Christ.
The name Moses, I don't know if you know this. If you study
the scriptures very much, you know this, that in the New Testament,
the law Moses is sometimes substituted for the word law. Instead of
saying law, he just says Moses. It's synonymous, in fact, in
the teachings of the Jews that name Moses in the law. It was
synonymous with the law. And it's often used to sum up
the ceremonial and sacrificial practices of the Jews and sometimes
substituted for the word itself, law, in the scriptures. I'll
give you a couple examples if you want Look at them later on
tonight. I'll give you the chapters and
verse if you're taking notes. But in Acts chapter 6, Stephen
was accused of speaking blasphemous words against Moses. And they
were referring to his preaching of Christ, and they're seeing
it contrary to the law. They said they accused him of
speaking blasphemous words against Moses. In Acts chapter 15, certain things
were discussed and decided to be abstained from so the gospel
could have free course. And things strangled. You remember reading that in
the book of Acts and from blood and this type of thing. And there's
nothing forbidden. All things were cleansed in Christ.
But what he's saying was in order that the gospel had free course
among these churches, you're to abstain from these things.
abstain from these things. And so they all decided that
that was good and Paul and Silas agreed to it so that the gospel
could have pre-course. And then in Acts 15, 21 he says,
Because Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach
him being read in the synagogue every Sabbath day. You see how
that name is substituted for for not only for the word law,
but for the whole teaching of the Jews concerning the law.
And they substituted the word Moses. But Moses was also a type
of Christ. Now turn with me this time to
Acts chapter 3. Moses is also a type of Christ. And he's often set in distinction
with Christ as he was in John chapter 1, saying the law came
by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. While he's
not contrary or not opposed in any way with Christ, he's sometimes
spoken of that way because of the perversion and blindness
of those Jews. And they said, we had Moses to
our father. You remember the place in John
where they said that? We have Moses to our father.
And listen to what he tells them. He said, if Moses were your father,
you'd believe me, for he wrote of me. The thing that set Moses
apart, Moses' writings, what made those, what sanctified those
writings and what made those writings worth preserving was
not the law. What made those writings worth,
is he spoke of Christ. That's what Christ said. If you
believed Him, if you understood what He said, you believed Me
because He wrote of Me. Now let's read a few verses here
in Acts chapter 3. Acts chapter 3 verse 13. The
God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our
fathers, hath glorified His Son Jesus, whom you delivered up
and denied him in the presence of Pilate when he was determined
to let him go. This is about that lame man in
front of the temple, Peter Heal. He's called out on the block
for it. This is what he's telling. He
said, but you denied the Holy One and the just and desired
a murderer to be granted unto you and killed the Prince of
Life whom God hath raised from the dead whereof we are all witnesses. And his name, through faith in
his name, hath made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yea, the faith which is by him
hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. And
now, brethren, I want that through ignorance you did it, as did
also your rulers. But those things which God before
had showed by the mouth of his prophets that Christ should suffer,
he hath so fulfilled. Repent ye therefore, and be converted,
that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing
shall come from the presence of the Lord. And he shall send
Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you, whom the heavens
must receive until the times of restitution of all things,
which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since
the world began." Now listen to this, "'For Moses truly said
unto the Father, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto
you of your brethren. Now listen, like unto me. Now you see the importance of
preaching Moses as a type of Christ in the Exodus. Because
after Moses stands before the people, he tells them. And this
is a quote of what he told them. Prophets, shall the Lord your
God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me. Him shall
you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you." Talking
about Christ. Now Moses was the first in a
long line of prophets who would typify the Lord Jesus Christ.
And if you go through the book of Acts, you'll find over and
over and over where he talks about David. Remember that? He talks about David. and his
soul not being left in hell. And he tells him he's not talking
about David. He's talking about the Son of
David. He's talking about the coming Redeemer. David was just
a type. And David was a type of Christ
in his kingly office where Moses was a type of Christ in his prophetic
office. And you go through there and
you'll find out, and especially in Acts chapter 7 where Stephen
begins to preach to them, he told them their whole history.
He went back to Abraham. He started with Abraham, and
Isaac, and Jacob, and Joseph, and he just riled down a line,
and David, and Solomon. He just kept bringing all these
people up. And they preached these Old Testament
saints as types of Christ. And here's what he told them
at the end of this when Stephen had recounted all these things. He'd stop about every third one,
and he'd say, now here's how that related to him. And then
he'd go on a little bit, and he'd come back to it. And finally,
he gets down to the end of his message, and he said, you stiff-necked
and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the
Holy Ghost. You resist his teaching, because
he teaches nothing other than Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
And they resisted that. They wouldn't have that. And
he said, as your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets
have not your fathers persecuted, and they have slain them which
showed before the coming of the just one? So in order to accomplish
the work that God gave him to do, Christ was given three distinct
offices, prophet, priest, and king. A prophet to teach and
reveal, a priest to represent us and intercede for us, and
a king to rule over us and protect us and preserve us from our enemies.
And Moses is a type of Christ in his office as a prophet. He's
a prophet to manifest and declare the will of God in the deliverance
of his people. That's what he told him. And
he said, I'm going to tell you what to do. And I'm going to
send you. He said, and you're going to
go. And I'm going to tell you what to do. And I'm going to
tell you what you're going to do. And when you do it, what's
going to happen when you do it? He's going to do all of these
things. He's going to do it in Moses as a prophet. prophet to
shepherd his sheep and lead them out by the Word of God alone,
out of that bondage and through the wilderness and through the
sea into the promised rest of Canaan. And as a prophet whose
life is a living sacrifice, Moses gave himself to the office of
prophet. And that's what it says in Hebrews,
Moses was faithful in all his hours. This task that God gave
him to do, he was faithful. He was faithful. Well, I've got
four things tonight for you to consider as Moses appears and
God sends him down into Egypt concerning his office as a prophet. The first thing I want you to
see is that Moses is identified with Christ in that he was taken
from the throne of glory to fulfill the calling of God. Moses was
second in line to be Pharaoh. He was the very next one in line.
He was raised in Pharaoh's house. He was the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
the adopted son. And he ran around in Egypt as
a prince. But God stripped him of that
glory, didn't He? He stripped him of it. And He
put him into a wilderness. He was a prince in Egypt and
an heir to the throne. I was talking to my friend up
in Kentucky about the Savior the other day, and I said, I
know that God was in Christ and that His divinity is what made
His sufferings and His death effectual. And I know that His
holy, spotless, unreprovable life is the very character of
God and the image of God in Him. And I know those things, and
I rejoice in those things. For I find the difficulty when
I look to Christ is seeing His humanity. Don't you have a problem
with that? He's a man. I have to just keep
telling myself that. He's a man. This is a man. He
become the Word was made flesh. Thomas said, I just don't believe
it. He said, well, come here. He said, stick your finger in
that hole. Here's my side. He pulled that garment up. He
said, here's the hole in my side. Thrust your arm in there. You
got any fish? Yeah, we got some fish. Go give
me some." He ate the fish, drank the wine, sat with them, embraced
them, preached to them. He was a man. A man. Oh. God stripped him of the throne. He took the throne from him.
And he did it willingly. I'm not trying to say that this
was forced on him. He did these things willingly.
But his willingness had to do with the will of God and God
who sent him. He actually become a man in every
sense of the word. I read this scripture to you
this past Sunday in Philippians chapter 2, where it said, Let
this man be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who being in
the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God,
but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of
the servant, and was made in the likeness of men. Now listen
to this verse. and being found in fashion as
a man." Wow. The Son of God. Think about it
in a human body. I can't conceive of that. In
Him, Paul said, dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Ever with God and yet ever with
man. In order for us to learn the
truth of God, the Word was made flesh. This had to do with His
prophetic office, God revealing Himself to men. He was made flesh. The justice of God is revealed
in a man. You don't learn it anywhere else
on the cross. The holiness of God is revealed
in a man. Great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. That's the only place you're
going to see godliness. The love of God is manifest in a man. Herein is love, not that we love
God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation
for our sins. It says in John chapter 1, grace
and truth came by Jesus Christ. And this name that He declares
to Moses where He says, I am. You go tell them, I am hath sent
thee. When Christ came into the world
in the book of John alone, listen, these are just ones I could recall
from memory. He said, I am the resurrection
and the life. I am the true vine. I am the
way of truth. I am the truth, the life. the way, the truth, and the life.
I am the good shepherd. I am the bread that came down
from heaven. I am the light of the world.
I am the door to the sheepfold. I am hath sent they. I am that
I am. Listen to this. He said when
Messiah, that lady at the well, you remember, she was getting
frustrated talking to Christ. And she said, well, when Messiah
comes, He'll tell us all things. He said, I that speak unto thee
am He. I am. I am. He said, no man has seen God
at any time. The only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him. He says again, He whom God has
sent speaketh the words of God, for God giveth not the Spirit
by measure unto Him. A man, a man, I'm going to hit
on this a little later, so I don't want to dwell on this too long,
but a Hebrew dressed in the garments of the Prince of Egypt could
not affect any kind of deliverance to the people or reconcile the
Hebrew. There's no way. Standing there
in those princely robes and trying to straighten all their beards,
all they did was look at him and despised him. They just despised
him. His throne must disappear, and
his princely garments replaced with those of a shepherd to communicate
God's message to his people. God is all wise, and he's our
creator. And he has no trouble identifying
with us. But as our God is so far above
us, he's higher than the heavens, Job said. What can you know?
Deeper than hell. Can a man by searching find out
God? Because our God, He's so far
above us that it would be impossible for us to identify with Him.
But I can identify with Christ. I can identify with Him. So God
comes to Israel through a prophet. He tells us in Hebrews chapter
1, before he says anything of all of these Old Testament types
that we're going to be studying here in Exodus, that whole book
of Hebrews is written on that subject. And before he tells
us anything about them, he said, he's spoken unto us in these
last days by his Son. That's how God speaks. That's
the office he has. Moses is a type of Christ in
that he was taken from the throne and made a shepherd to lead his
people out of bondage. And then secondly, Moses was
a type of Christ in that he appeared in the fullness of time. In Exodus
chapter 2 and verse 23, it says, And it came to pass in the process
of time. It always does. It always does. In the process of time. The old
king of Egypt died. Children of Israel sighed by
reason of the bondage, and they cried. You know, time is not
an undiscovered closet, but it's a process. It's called that over
and over in the Scripture. He said, there's a time for all
things. That's what Solomon said. A shut door containing all these
secrets and all of these things. An undiscovered closet that with
surprises is going to jump out. And you ever just open the door
up looking for something frustrating? Jerk opened the door and forgot
to put the bowling ball and all this stuff. And it all comes
rolling out of the closet on you. You're bawling down and
all this kind of thing. That's not what time is. Time
is a process. It appears sometimes that way
to us. We don't have any other way. You know, a car pulls out
and another car comes around a blind corner and pow, hits
him and down they go. We call that an accident. There
are no accidents with God. That's right. He has foreordained the instruments
of our death. Did you know that? And the scriptures
tell us that. He foreordained the instruments.
There's no need to run and hide when the tornado comes up. He
can use a bug to take you out and me out. He don't need a tornado,
just a bug. A little old spider germ. Time is a process. It's what
God decrees. In Acts 17 verse 26, Paul told
the wise men of Athens that the God they did not know, the unknown
God, made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the
face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and
set the bounds of their habitation." None of their gods could do that.
He said, I'm going to tell you about the God you don't know.
He does all things after the counsel of His own will. When the fullness of time was
come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the
law to redeem them that were under the law. And the prophet,
whether it be Moses or Christ or some preacher of the gospel,
is sent of God in God's own time and for the purpose for which
he's sent. There's a time. And there's a
time when there's not another time. There's a time. He talks
about that in Proverbs. I read it to you last Sunday.
That's right. He said, I stretched forth my
hand and you wouldn't regard it. I called and you wouldn't
respond. You didn't hear. You just stopped
your ears and went the other way. That was the last time. He said, now, now, when your
calamity comes and your fear cometh, he said, I'm off. You
cry to me, and He said, I won't listen. I won't hear you. I won't
hear you. There's a time. There's not just
a time for salvation, but there's a time when the gospel comes
no longer in grace to that man. There's a time. God will turn
him over to Himself. He wants to play games and run
up and down the aisle and shake his hands and speak in tongues
and all that kind of Tommy rock. There comes a time when God says,
all right, I'm just going to let you do that until you die.
And turns his back on him and goes away. We're going to get
into that in this book of Exodus because he told Moses, he said,
I know for sure he ain't going to listen. But you're going to
go tell him that he ain't going to listen. And I'll take care
of him. I'll take care of him. I'm telling you, this thing of
time is in God's hand. It ain't in mine. It ain't in
yours. It's in His. We better count every time when
we hear the truth, we better count that as a precious time.
Count it as a precious time. It might just be the last. Next
thing you might have to hear is Him. I tell you, I just don't think
we're all cock-sure as we, huh? You sure for heaven as if you's
already there? I don't think I can say that.
I've got a good hope. Oh, His presence will either
harden your heart or it'll break it. His message will either open
the door of freedom or shut it tight. Thirdly, Moses was a type of
Christ in his office as a prophet of God in that he was despised
and rejected if they couldn't stand him. His own people couldn't
stand him. The Egyptians couldn't stand
him. Run him out. None of them liked him. He was hated by both. Old Pharaoh sought to kill him
and the Hebrews saw him as a pretender to the office. The true prophet
of God goes with God's approval and God's authority alone. And
he says to those he preaches to, let God be true and every
man a liar. I wrote that article here the
other day on Christ made sin. And he misrepresented that article
and fired back a letter at me and yelled at Don for promoting
it, putting it in his bulletin. Boy, he was upset. He was just
upset. And that's pretty much what I
told him. He said, I was just hoping this whole thing was going
to blow away. He said, somebody's going to have to step aside or
back up or something. There's going to be some divisions.
And I told him how he perceived my article was not the way I
wrote it. I'm not trying to draw lines
in the sand. I'm not trying to cause divisions among people.
But that being said, I ain't backing up, sitting down, or
blowing away with the wind. I'm going to tell you what I
believe the Lord has told me and teach you that truth. And
some of that truth we can't have divisions over, and others of
it we can. We can. When the prophet of God speaks
and everybody likes him, he cannot be the prophet of God. It can't
be. Listen to this. This is 1 Corinthians
11, 19. For there must be heresies among
you that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
There has to be. There has to be. A false prophet
cannot exist. Walk in the grace of faith. His
foot will slip in due time. I can eat liver and onions. I didn't like it when I was little.
But every now and then I can eat it. But I don't want to eat
it every day. People that love Christ, they
can eat the gospel every day. They can eat it six times, seven
times, eight times. Think about tomorrow and be hungry
about what you might be going to hear tomorrow. They're hungry
to hear it. But the unbeliever, he can stand it every now and
then. But he can't tolerate a steady diet of it. And his foot's going
to slip in due time. Sooner or later, he's going to
blow up. He's like a teakettle. He just builds that steam up.
Pretty soon, he has to say something. He can't stand it anymore. Moses was a man. He stands as a type of Christ
in his office as a prophet This is the fourth thing that I want
you to see. He stands in that as a type of Christ in his office
as a prophet in that he was sent to effect a deliverance by a
God who could not be seen. Well, I tell you, religion wants
more than anything to see their God. Now, that's what crosses
and stained glass and pipe organ, what in the world do you need
a pipe organ for? That's what all that's about.
The candlelight and what they call them, the little altar boys
in their gowns and all that. That's all that is. All them
big fancy cathedrals. They want to see their God. This
is their God. God can't be seen. Moses went
down into Egypt and faced the most powerful king on the face
of the earth up until that time, Pharaoh. stood on his front porch
with the favor and approval of an invisible God. And God blessed
what he told Moses to do. Moses put everything he had to
say, rested in God's hands. What could he do? Huh? What could he do? Listen to this. Come now, therefore,
and I send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth
my people. This is Exodus 3, verse 10. Out of Egypt. I'm going to send
you, he said. God came down to deliver him,
he said, but he said to Moses, I'm going to send you. And Moses
said unto God, who am I? That's what I'm trying to answer
for you tonight. Moses was a type of Christ. He
was chosen as a type, as a picture, as a figure of Christ. And He's
going to go down here in picture and deliver the people of God.
And that's what this book is about. If all you see in this
book is plagues and all these supernatural things, well, you've
missed it. You've missed Christ. He's demonstrating
the gospel here in a picture, in a beautiful picture and figure.
He said, who am I? He said, Moses, surely I go with
you. You didn't think I was just going
to send you. You don't think I was going to send you. You
done tucked out and run a long time ago. I wasn't going to send
you. I'm going with you. I'm going with you. The Lord
Jesus Christ, in order to accomplish his representative and substitutionary
work, must do so as a man. Like Moses, he was born into
a world whose ruler was wont to destroy him. He tried every
way in the world to destroy him. He had to be protected and preserved
by God's special providence. Like Moses, he was stripped of
all his reputation until the day of God's unveiling. Like
Moses, he was forced to work a menial job to support himself. Like Moses, he must go among
the enemies of Israel. to make known the will of God
in their deliverance. Brethren, assurance comes. We
talk about assurance. Assurance comes from seeing the
divinity of Christ. It's seeing God in Him affecting
the work. But connecting ourselves to Him,
seeing ourselves in Him, represented in Him, I've got to enter into
some understanding of His humanity. Because that's another reason
why he become a man. That he might be a faithful high
priest for men in things pertaining to God. As God, his sacrifice must be
acceptable, his work must be irresistible, and his work must
be absolutely 100% successful. But until we enter into some
understanding of his humanity, we'll just struggle to identify
ourselves with and find a connection with the work he accomplished.
And what he accomplished in his obedience, suffering, and death,
he accomplished as a man. There's one mediator between
God and men. Now listen, the man. The Holy
Ghost don't put words in here to fill up space. He's teaching
us something here. There's one Mediator. He's going
to mediate the will of God. He's going to come and tell you
the will of God. He's going to show to us the
will of God in our deliverance. How's He going to do it? In a
man. Man. One Mediator between God and
me and the man, Christ Jesus. And as the prophet of God, the
Lord Jesus Christ is the only source of revelation we have. That's it. You will find everything
you're ever going to know about God, you're going to discover
in Christ Jesus the Lord. Anywhere else you look, you're
going to see it wrong. See it wrong. He become as one of no reputation,
I read to you in Philippians. And by his obedience unto death
achieved a name above every name. So that in the end, I see the
invisible God in him accomplishing what no man could ever do. All
his mighty works in this world are said to be in the first few
chapters of Acts, are said to be that which God did by him
in our midst. He could do anything he wanted
to do, but he wouldn't as a man. Everything he did as a man, God
did through him. And so it says all the way through
that. He told them, they complained
and charged him about saying that he, by calling God his father,
he made himself equal with God. You know what the Lord told him?
He said, the son of himself can do nothing. We're talking about
the Son of God, the second person of the God. He had made flesh
standing here, but in his office there's a representative. He
said, I can do nothing. He told them of that day. He
said, no man knoweth the day or the hour. Anybody who says
he knows it is a liar. God says no man knows it. And
Christ said, not even the sun. I can't understand that, Glenn,
but I know it so. He did these things as a man.
He did those things so that you and I, when we come to Him, we
can understand that He's a man. He knows what it feels to be
hurt. He knows what pain is. He knows
what sorrow is. He knows what these things is.
And when we bow ourselves to Him in prayer, we can be assured
that He understands these things and He's sympathetic with these
things. And He learned these things. Go figure how God can
learn. But He did. In Christ, it tells
us that. He learned these things. He learned
as a man. He learned in his own experience.
And you cry out to Him, He can be sympathetic to you. He can
enter into what you're saying. And us and our... Don't you struggle
with prayer? Don't you have problems? I can't
even find a word sometimes when I want to pray. But it says the
Holy Spirit, He takes it up. He takes those groanings. And
He makes them understandable. And Christ sympathizes with it,
represents us, intercedes for us before the Father. He's a
prophet. Everything we're going to learn
from God, this effectual deliverance, all it has to do with this thing
of being a prophet. And that's why preaching becomes
so important. That's why He demonstrates that
first in Moses. This prophet goes down, what's
he do? He preaches. He tells them the will of God.
And God affects that deliverance because God was with him.