Someone once said the Old Testament
is the New Testament concealed, and the New Testament is the
Old Testament revealed. That's a pretty good description
of what the Old Testament and the New Testament are intended
to be. The Old Testament comes alive
and is meaningful. When we see the types and pictures
that are set forth in the scriptures of old, fulfilled and brought
to life by the explanation of the new. Some of you knew Brother
Farrell Griswold. I used to love to hear Farrell
preach from the Old Testament types. He seemed to have a tremendous
God-given ability to make them just dance in front of you. I'd
sit and listen to him preach. I remember hearing him preach
six or seven sermons on the book of Ruth. It was almost like he
took videotape and put it in a VCR and just push the play
button. You can see the whole story come
to life. I pray that God will graciously grant that gift to
me tonight and cause you to see the living things revealed in
the book of Exodus. Exodus means going out. The book is called Exodus because
it reveals God's great work of grace in bringing his covenant
people out of Egyptian bondage. It covers a time frame of 140
to maybe 160 years. It covers that period of time
from the death of Joseph to the erection of the tabernacle. The
whole book is a message of divine deliverance. Now that's the message
of Exodus, divine deliverance. As such, it portrays God's great
work of grace in bringing us out from the bondage of sin and
death into what the Apostle Paul described as the glorious liberty
of the sons of God. Let's take for our text chapter
20 and verse 2. Chapter 20 and verse 2. Even
as God gave his law and ten commandments to the children of Israel, he
told them that his intention in doing so, in dealing with
them in all these ways, was that they might ever be reminded of
this fact, that he is God our Savior. Okay. I am the Lord thy
God, which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage. Oh, thank God for his grace. We who were in a bondage far
more severe than that that the children of Israel knew in Egypt
We who were in darkness and in terror he has delivered and set
free. The first six books of the Bible,
Genesis through Joshua, display God's works in the lives of his
people. His wondrous method of grace
is always the same in your life and in mine. It was the same
in the lives of Adam and Abraham and all those saints of old as
well. And this is what's portrayed here. Genesis concludes, turn
back to Genesis chapter 50, look at it. Genesis concludes, the
very last thing written in the book, with a very significant
statement. We read in the very last statement
of the book that Joseph was put in a coffin in Egypt. That's
just about as helpless and needy as you can get. Joseph was put
in a coffin, he was embalmed after he died and there he was
buried in a coffin in Egypt. And Exodus shows us how that
God brings us out of our time and place and position of horrible
need. He brings us into liberty by
the work of his mighty grace. Now the whole book of Exodus
revolves around these six events. First it speaks of the birth
of Moses. And then, secondly, of the Passover. Then the crossing
of the Red Sea, the giving of God's law at Sinai, the making
of the tabernacle, and I'll hold the sixth one to last. It might
just be the best of all. All right. Now, you say, Pastor,
how do you know that all these things that we're looking at
were intended for our spiritual instruction? How do you know
that these things were not just for the children of Israel? Not
only am I suggesting that they were not just for the children
of Israel, I'm telling you plainly, they were never intended to be
just for the children of Israel. All that happened to the children
of Israel happened to the children of Israel for our learning, for
our instruction, for our comfort, for our consolation in the knowledge
of Jesus Christ our Savior. Now let's look at the book of
God and see if that's not what God says. Let's look at three
texts in this regard. Acts chapter 10. Acts 10, verse
43. To him give all the prophets
witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall
receive remission of sin. There we are told plainly by
divine inspiration that all the prophets give witness to Christ
that whosoever believes in him shall receive the redemption
of sins. Look in Romans 15. It is the intent, it was the
design, the purpose of God that every event that came to pass
in the Old Testament Everything recorded in Old Testament scripture,
all the facts revealed there, teach us spiritual truths concerning
Christ Jesus the Lord. Romans 15, verse 4. For whatsoever
things were written aforetime, that's talking about everything
written before I wrote this, Paul says. Whatsoever things
were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through
patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. So what God
wrote in the book of Exodus, he wrote that you and I, through
patience and comfort of the book of Exodus, might have hope. You
mean, Pastor, there's things written in the book of Exodus
to give us patience while we live in this world? The book
of Exodus was written to comfort us? The book of Exodus, the giving
of God's law, was written in order to give us hope? That's
what he says. Now look at 1 Corinthians 10. Now all these things happened
to Israel for examples. They were all brought to pass
by the hand of God as an example. And they are written for our
admonition, for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the world
are come. Now let's go back to Exodus and
let me give you these six great events around which the book
of Exodus revolves. The book of Exodus begins with
Israel in bondage in the land of Egypt. They had been in bondage
for 400 years. But now the time of deliverance
has come, and God raised up a deliverer. The Lord God told Abraham that
he would send his children into a stranger's land, and that there
they would be afflicted for 400 years. But after they were afflicted
in that stranger's land for 400 years, he would bring them out.
And now the time of deliverance was at hand, so the book of Exodus
opens with the birth of Moses. This man Moses, without question,
he was typical of the law. Moses throughout the scriptures
represents the law. His name is used many times as
a synonym for the law. There's no question concerning
that. But look in Deuteronomy 18. Not only was Moses typical
of the law, he was also typical of the Lord Jesus Christ. He
was typical of Christ both as our prophet and as our mediator
between God and man. In Deuteronomy 18, Moses speaks
of himself and declares himself to be one who was but a type
of the Lord Jesus Christ, our prophet, our true teacher. Deuteronomy
18.15. The Lord thy God will raise up
unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren,
like unto me. Unto him thou shalt hearken according
to all that thou desirest of the Lord thy God in Horeb in
the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice
of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more,
that I die not.' And the Lord said unto me, They have well
spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a prophet
from among their brethren like unto thee, and I will put my
words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall
command them. As it was with the incarnation
and birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom Moses then is a type,
so it was with the works of the Lord God in raising up Moses.
The hand of God is remarkably and undeniably manifest in the
raising up of this man Moses and in his life and ministry.
Let me call your attention to a few things. First, Moses appeared
in the fullness of time. as did the Son of God, our Redeemer. When the time had arrived that
Israel should be delivered, Moses was brought into the world. This
time of Moses' birth, like the time of our Savior's incarnation
and birth, was a time of horrible darkness horrible bondage, horrible
iniquity, and horrible desolation. The children of Israel were brought
to the point of utter despair. And when there was no hope anywhere,
no help anywhere, God Almighty raised up a Deliverer. When he
was born, Pharaoh sought to kill him, even as Herod sought to
kill the Lord Jesus Christ, the King. Moses was miraculously
preserved until the time of his appearing and God's deliverance
was brought to pass. Not only that, observe this.
God often, oh how wisely, how graciously, how sovereignly,
God often uses Satan's devices to accomplish his purposes for
the good of his people. Sometimes I read the scriptures
And as I read Exodus this week, and I can hardly refrain from
laughing. Just laughing. Have you ever
seen folks, or experienced in your own lives, folks try to
do things to harm or hurt you, and God just turned it upside
down? And you look at it and say, why did that bother me? The Lord takes care of things.
He takes care of things. Would to God we could learn that.
In this passage of scripture, the book of Exodus, the Lord
demonstrates, I believe clearly, that he must have a tremendous
sense of humor. You read what Pharaoh had tried
to do, what he had tried to accomplish, and the way he tried to do it.
You see how he tried to oppose God's people, tried to oppose
God's purpose, tried to oppose the freedom of God's people,
tried to do them nothing but harm, and all the while he did
them nothing but good. Psalm 76.10 is clearly displayed. You see, Pharaoh ordered the
midwives to take and kill all the male children born among
the Israelites. But the midwives feared God,
and they wouldn't do it. So he ordered that the male children
be slain as soon as they were born. But Pharaoh's purposes
were foiled. Moses' mother and father took
him, seeing that he was a fair child, seeing that he was the
object of God's purpose, seeing that he was the deliverer God
promised to raise up. And they hid him in an ark in
the bulrushes. And Pharaoh's daughter went out
one day to bathe herself, and she heard a baby. And she went
over there and found this child, Moses. And God takes Moses, who
would be the instrument of Pharaoh's overthrow and destruction. and
makes him to be the adopted grandson of Pharaoh, raised in Pharaoh's
house, with all the learning and wisdom of Egypt, had the
best university degree a fellow could get in the world in that
day. Had all the rights and privileges, all the advantages of being raised
as Pharaoh's son in Pharaoh's house. And when he was grown,
when he became a man, and God revealed to him what he had already
shown to his parents. that he was indeed the chosen
deliverer of Israel. He was the one ordained of God
to bring Israel out of bondage. Then Moses went out one day,
and he saw an Egyptian and an Israelite fighting. And Moses,
unconfident, went out against that Egyptian, beginning to do
what God had sent him to do. And he killed that Egyptian.
He killed that Egyptian. But he wasn't yet prepared to
deliver Israel, and the precise time of deliverance hadn't yet
arrived, and Moses had a few things to learn. So as a result
of killing the Egyptian, Moses fled from Egypt. He fled from
the wrath of Pharaoh, and he spent the next 40 years in the
wilderness tending sheep. Now here is a grown man, an old
man. He knows he's been called of
God, ordained of God, sent of God to deliver Israel, but God
hasn't sent him yet. He was attempting to run before
he was sent. And now, 40 years later, the
Lord God came to Moses and he called him by his grace. Sent
him to his people and equipped him with everything necessary
to do the work for which he had called him. If God calls a man to do anything,
gospel preaching or anything else, if God's in it, now listen
to me, you won't have to volunteer. God can find you in the backside
of the desert and he'll make a volunteer out of you. If God
has a work for you to do, the work's success will not in any
way depend upon your ability, or your skill, or your knowledge,
or your training, but God will equip you with everything needed. Everything needed. You look at
this man preaching to you, the ones who preach to you Sunday,
you look at the work of this assembly. Utterly impossible. that we could
do what we do. It can't be done. It can't be
done. Not by us. But we've been doing
it a while. And I suspect we'll continue.
How come? Because God's in this thing.
You see it here in Moses. Moses was called and sent of
God and used of God as his servant in a specific way. But Moses
himself was totally unfit for the task He knew it, and he acknowledged
it. Look in chapter 3. He couldn't
deliver Israel, but God could. Moses thought, Lord, you sent
me to deliver them. He said, I can't do this. And
the Lord tells him plainly in verse 8, he said, I didn't send
you to deliver them, I came down to deliver them. You're just
going to talk for me. You're just going to speak. And
Moses knew that he wasn't able to articulate things. He couldn't
speak as he ought to, as God's mouthpiece to Pharaoh or to the
children of Israel. Moses said, Lord, I'm not eloquent
of speech. How can I talk? And the Lord
didn't say anything to rebuke him. There's nothing wrong with
that. There's nothing wrong with the fact that Moses acknowledges
his inability. That was an acknowledgment and
a commendable acknowledgment of true inability expressing
his humility before the work to which God had called him.
You see, God never uses anybody who thinks he's fit for the job.
Never. Never. Men may think he's used,
he may have the applause and approval of men, but God Almighty
never uses any human instrument for anything who thinks he's
fit for the job. Never. You see your calling brethren? Know what Paul said in 1 Corinthians
1? God takes nothings and nobodies, and uses nothings and nobodies
to do his work in this world among men, so that he alone gets
the praise. But Moses did something else. Moses in chapter 4, verse 14,
Moses said in the first part of chapter 4, he said, Lord,
can't you get somebody else to do this work? And then in verse 14 we read,
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses. That's
a different story. Now Moses expresses an unwillingness
to go against Pharaoh. You see, faith is never perfect
in men. Never. And the Lord God spoke
severely to Moses, and Moses still had a few things to learn
before he could go. He must recognize that he must
surrender all things at all times to the will and the glory and
the purpose of God Almighty. So God met him in an inn on his
way back to Egypt. And the Lord met him in the inn
and said, Now Moses, you're either going to circumcise your boys
or I'm going to kill you right here. And they said, Well, that
couldn't That couldn't have been a real threat. Why don't you
ask Moses about that? But God's purpose would have
been overturned. God, in his sovereign purpose, ordains every
means as well as the end. And Moses will either circumcise
his boys right here this night before he goes to Egypt, or God
will kill him right there. And so Moses, at the anger and
fury of his unbelieving wife, had her circumcise those boys,
and she cast a foreskin at his feet and said, You're a bloody
man to me. And I'll tell you what she said
to him. She said, You're a damned man
to me. I hate you for it. I hate you for
it. I hate you for it. But Moses
obeyed God. Everything, father, gotta be
surrendered. And it's not a one-time thing.
It's constant. Everything. Now, Moses goes off. He went back to Egypt with nothing. He sent Zipporah and the two
boys back home to daddy. He goes down to Egypt by himself. He and his mouthpiece Aaron with
nothing but the rod of God. That's all. How are you going
to tackle Pharaoh? Here it is. How are you going
to take on the armies of Egypt? How are you going to accomplish
this great work? You don't even have a sword in
your hand. Oh yes I do. I've got the rod of God in my
hand. And Moses goes back to Egypt. Immediately he ran into
trouble. He meets up with Pharaoh. And
man, if there were ever two loggerheads that met one another, it was
Pharaoh and Moses. Satan and God Almighty. There had never been a drama
written by men so intense, so full of tension, so just pulled with intensity as the
story here in the book of Exodus. Moses came and said, God said. And God said, no, he's not going
to hear you. And the scripture tells us that Pharaoh hardened
his heart and refused to let the people go. And God hardened
his heart and he refused to let the people go. The Lord sent
nine plagues. against the children of Egypt.
Nine plagues. Sometime I'll maybe preach through
them. Those nine plagues, God used those things which were
the symbols of the gods that the Egyptians worshipped. All
nine of them. He used the symbols of their
gods with which he inflicted judgment and wrath and punishment
upon the children of Egypt. The children of Egypt would not
bow to him. Pharaoh would not bow. The word of God shows us plainly
how God sent these terrible afflictions and he did so, so as to display
two things. Number one, these imaginary gods
that men make are impotent and useless. And number two, high
alone am God, almighty, omnipotent, majestic, solitary, alone, and
you will obey me. You will obey me. All right? Here's the second thing. The
second great event in the book of Exodus is the Passover recorded
in chapters 11 and 12, which was, of course, typical of our
redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ. This is so obvious that
no one that I know of, who even claims to believe the Bible,
even suggests that it represents anything other than redemption
by Christ. Few understand the teachings of these two chapters,
but almost everyone says it's talking about the redemptive
work of Christ. Let me just give you the highlights. The Passover,
like our redemption, was an act of God's free, sovereign covenant
mercy, and that alone. In chapter 11, in verse 7, We
are told that it was God who put the difference between Israel
and Egypt. Who maketh you to differ? In chapter 11 verse 1,
we are told that this message, this message of deliverance,
this message of redemption, this message of a lamb to be slain
was to be spoken only to the ears of the children of Israel.
Don't tell anybody else about it. Just speak in the ear of
the people. That's talking about God's distinctive
call of his people. God Almighty promised an effectual,
glorious work by which all Egyptians and Israelites, by which all,
all the world would know that he is God. The Lord God said,
when I get done, not only are you going out of Egypt, but when
I get done with Pharaoh, the Egyptians are going to say, get
out. And they're going to say, what
will it take to get you out? and they will give you everything
you need for your journey and I will provide all your needs
and I will bring you out with a high hand gloriously. Israel
was made to be under the special protection of divine providence
because these and these alone are the objects of redemption.
I love what we read in the first part of chapter 11 verse 7. Listen
to this. Against the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue
against man or beast." The Lord says, now listen, I'm going to
bring you out of here. I'm going to bring you out with
a high hand and a mighty arm, and nobody is going to hurt you
or yours. Nobody. Nothing. The Lord God
raised up Pharaoh, and he hardened his heart. And he says specifically
in verse 9 that my wonders might be multiplied in the land of
Egypt. Even for this same purpose have
I raised thee up, that everybody will know who I am. God said
I've done this so that the world will know who I am. And nobody
will fail to understand it. The message of the Passover,
like our redemption, was a display of how God saves sinners by blood
atonement. At God's appointed time, the
Passover was to be kept. It was called the beginning of
months. All things are made new when Christ Jesus dies as our
substitute. Amen, being Christ is a new creature,
old things are passed away, behold, all things become new. The Passover
was accomplished by the death of an innocent lamb. pure, without
spot, without blemish, without wrinkle, without infirmity, with
nothing in him, but one who was altogether representative of
the spotless Lamb of God, Christ, our Passover, who sacrificed
for us. But the Passover comes with blood
being sprinkled at the doorpost. The lintel, talking about the
blood of Christ, must be applied to you. The Spirit of God comes
in effectual calling and sprinkles your heart with the blood of
His Son and He brings you into the knowledge of redemption.
And when He sprinkles your heart with the blood, you eat the lamb
with the bitter herbs, all of it. And that's a picture of faith.
We take Christ. That's what faith is, it's just
taking Him. Taking Him. Taking Him. So look, I don't
know whether I can do that or not. If you ever want him, you
can. If you ever want him, you can. I promise you. The reason
you don't take him is because you don't want him. I promise
you. If you ever get thirsty, you'll drink. If you ever get
hungry, you'll eat. And nobody will have to tell you how. You just... Well, I don't know whether that
was poured for me or not. I don't care whether it was or not. If
I'm thirsty and I have water, I'm going to drink it. And you know
what? I believe it was meant for me. quenches my thirst." Well, that
was for me. That was for me. I don't know
if it was for anybody else or not, but it was sure enough for
me, because my thirst was quenched. Take Christ and eat him. This
Passover, not only had to be eaten, but all for whom the lamb
was slain went out of Egypt. I'll say more about it in just
a minute. He's talking about particular and effectual redemption.
And the Egyptians were spoiled by the Israelites. The Lord God
spoiled them. Now that means this. When one
king goes against another, one nation against another, the conquering
king or the conquering nation takes everything he wants out
of the land. He takes all the wealth and all
the good of the land. He goes in with the diamonds
and silver and gold. He gathers it out. And I suspect
that he's got good sense. If there's thorns and briers
and thistles, he leaves them there. But all the good of the
land he takes. Everything he wants. Everything
he needs. And God Almighty gives us, by
the redeeming work of his darling Son, all the good of his creation
forever. Both now and tomorrow and forever. Then beginning in chapter 13,
we see the crossing of the Red Sea. Now really these two things
can't be separated. They go hand in hand. The Passover
is a picture of redemption. The crossing of the Red Sea is
a picture of conversion. And if there was no crossing
of the Red Sea, the door post and the lentil being smeared
with blood, the lamb being slain and eaten would be altogether
meaningless. It would be useless. It would
be insignificant. Israel could not cross the Red
Sea, except first the Passover be sacrificed. And the Passover
being sacrificed, Israel crosses the Red Sea. Now listen carefully,
listen carefully. It would be utterly meaningless
for Jesus Christ to die. His death would be vain and useless
and insignificant if those for whom he died did not cross the
Red Sea by God's converting grace. Understand that? And the crossing
of the Red Sea, conversion, would be impossible without his sacrifice. We're told in chapter 13 and
verse 21 that the Lord went before them. Before ever, Don Fortner drew
the first breath of life in Bladen County, North Carolina. God Almighty
had gone before me and marked the way. And the Lord God led
them through the wilderness of the Red Sea, we're told in verse
18. He led his people every step
of the way. Israel was brought at last. into terror and fear. How do I state what I want to
say here, what I know needs to be said? A legal conviction alone, being
afraid to go to hell means it will never convert anybody. It won't do it. Legal conviction
alone will not save, but there's no salvation without it. Only when the law comes, it stirs
up greater rebellion and exposes what's in us. Here's Israel. They've come out of Egypt. And
now they've come to the edge of the Red Sea. They've come
right up to the brink of deliverance, crossing over the Red Sea. And
they followed Moses and followed God up to this point. But now,
terror strikes them, because Pharaoh and his armies are hot
on their heels. And they start whining and murmuring
and complaining. They said, would God, we had
stayed right where we were in Egypt. And then Moses spoke. Oh, Moses spoke. Look what it
said in chapter 14, verse 13. Fear ye not. How are we going
to get out of this mess? Don't do anything. How are we going to get across
this sea? Don't do anything. How are we going to overcome
Pharaoh? You said we were going to conquer him. How are we going
to do it? Don't do a thing. How are we going to escape this
terror and this fear? How are we going to escape Pharaoh's
sword? Don't do a thing. Fear ye not. Stand still and
see. the salvation of the Lord. Look
unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth for I am God.
Beside me there is none else. Behold the Lamb of God. That's
how you cross over this sea. That's how you escape this enemy. And then he says in verse 14,
you don't have to do anything because this is God's work. The
Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace. Hear me my friends, oh God help
you to hear me. As soon as ever you quit doing
anything and look away to Christ Jesus the Lord, you'll start
to bite your tongue. You'll hold your peace. Oh, this
is it. This is God's salvation. Salvation
is his work. It really is, altogether it is. And then Israel comes up to the
sea. And God's going to part the sea.
And they're going to walk through that sea as if they were walking
on air-dried concrete. with a wall of water over here
and a wall of water over there and they're walking across there
by the millions. By the millions walking across
there. Well how on earth is that water
going to part and bring them out of judgment into liberty? Moses takes his rod and puts
it in the water. And the holy law of God says,
let them go. Let them go. Let them go. And
that same law engulfs all our enemies and none shall condemn
us. For we are made free in Christ
Jesus the Lord. And then looking back, standing on the shores of sweet
deliverance, Israel sees all her enemies forever
buried beneath the sea of God's holy justice, forever put away,
forever silenced, and Pharaoh never terrifies them again. Israel saw the great work which
the Lord God did upon the Egyptians, and the people feared the Lord
and believed the Lord and his servant Moses. And they began
to worship God. Then sang Moses and the children
of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will
sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. The horse
and his rider he has thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength
and my song. He has become my salvation. He
is my God. I will prepare him an habitation.
My Father is God. I will exalt to him. The Lord
is a man of war. The Lord is his name. Notice this too. Immediately
after the crossing of the Red Sea, in chapter 15, verses 23-26, they came into the place, the
bitter waters of Mara. They were so thirsty, so weary,
and they had nothing to drink. And they spotted some waters,
and they were bitter, they couldn't drink them. As soon as they began
their journey, they ran into conflict with themselves and
with the world around them. And Moses turned to the Lord,
and the Lord said, Look over yonder at that tree. Take that
tree and cast it into the waters. And Moses went and took the tree,
cast it into the waters, and the bitter was made sweet. That tree, of course, representing
what Jesus Christ, the Son of God, accomplished on our behalf
upon the cursed tree. Oh, children of God, ever, ever,
ever, ever, focus your heart and your mind and the eyes of
your soul upon Jesus Christ crucified, his sacrifice for you, and hear
him declare, I am the Lord that healeth thee, and it will make
your bitter water sweet. And while they walked through
their years in this world, headed toward Canaan, God fed them with
manna from heaven. Every day, every day, every day,
manna was freshly provided. Oh, certainly it's talking about
the provision of our daily bread by the hand of our God, but there's
more than that. That manna layer is Jesus Christ
the Lord, and every day, every day, he's freshly provided for
his own. He is the water out of the smitten
rock. by which our souls are refreshed,
following us through this wilderness. And then fourthly, God gave his
law at Sinai. I've got to hurry. The law is
that by which God taught his people the need of a mediator.
In the giving of the law, he said, you come worship me this
way. Israel said, Moses, you speak to God, come tell us what
he said. Don't let God speak to us. And that's what we've
got to have. Someone to represent us before
God and God to us. Someone who can lay hold of us
and lay hold of God without compromising the character of God and without
any way contaminating Himself with our corruption and that
mediator is Christ Jesus the Lord. And now we come to God
and we offer up His making with no steps by which we ascend,
with no work of our hands lifted up upon it, and we worship Him
on the throne of His grace. From chapters 25 through the
end of the book, chapter 40, God gave Israel instruction on
the erection of the tabernacle. He taught them, he said, now
here are your priests, and here are the clothes they are to wear.
Here are the sacrifices they are to make. Here is the way
you build my altar. Here is the way you come to me.
Build me a tabernacle. Right here is how you're going
to do it. Right here. Build it just like this. Just like this.
Right here. Build me a tabernacle. And God commanded and the work
was done. And now, God Almighty has established
a place where he says, I'll meet you between the cherubs. on the mercy seat in the tabernacle
in the Holy of Holies and there I'll make myself known to you
that tabernacle read Hebrews is Jesus Christ the Lord our
Redeemer and now God and man come together and the Lord God
says everything's all right. I accept you, and we're accepted
in the beloved." Now, I told you the very last thing might
be the best. It is, if you can hear it. Get down to chapter 40, beginning
by verse 31, and listen to this. We're told in verse 33 that Moses
finished the work. That's the end of Moses' work.
Moses, the law, has done everything he can do when he brings you
to the tabernacle of Christ Jesus, the Lord.