Deuteronomy chapter 33 is what
we've come to in this study. We're almost finished with this
book of Deuteronomy. I've really enjoyed it. It's
not been easy in some places, but it's not supposed to be easy. The Lord didn't say read my word
and study my word because it's so easy. Sometimes it's a labor,
but it's worth it. and i found out personally that
sometimes when i come to certain portions of scripture that i
have to struggle with and pray over and ask the lord to give
me some light on it that's usually the time that that passage of
scripture is a blessing to me and i usually learn more of it
than from any any other passage of scripture so let's look at
deuteronomy in thirty three and Let's just read some of it in
verse 1. And this is the blessing wherewith
Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before
his death. And he said the Lord came from
Sinai and rose up from Seir unto them. He shined forth from Mount
Paran and he came with ten thousands of his saints. This word saints
here is I think I looked it up and it was like 470 times in
the Old Testament. And every other time it's translated
as holy. So the commentator says it could
be holy angels, holy saints, holy ones, holy sanctuary. It
has to do more with the holy ones than it does maybe the saints. But He cometh with ten thousands
of His saints from His right hand when they fire a law for
them. Yea, He loved the people. all his saints are in his hand. And they sat down at his feet,
every one shall receive of his word. Moses commanded us a law,
even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. And he was king in
Jeshuron, that is another name for Israel, when the heads of
the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
Now this is the blessing beginning in verse 6 all the way down through
verse 25. Moses takes this opportunity
to call out each tribe, the tribe of Samian excepted, and he calls
them out and pronounces a blessing on them, a blessing from the
Lord. That is what we will look at maybe in our study the next
time. But he says here in verse 1,
this is the blessing, and then he goes there in verse 6 and
he tells the blessings that they are going to be blessed with.
There was a need for that because we've been studying, we studied
in chapter 32 of this song. We didn't look at it in detail,
but he taught the children of Israel this song. Shanna, would
you scoot over one way or the other? I can't see. I can't see
Darlene's face and she can't see mine. I want to see it, but
I'm sorry to bother you, Shanna, but Darlene was wanting to see
and she kept looking this way and you'd move over and she'd
look that way. Thank you. Thank you, Shanna. Thank you.
But we studied about this song in Deuteronomy 32, and boy, it
was a song of cursing. I mean, you can read it at your
leisure sometime, but look back over in chapter 31, and he tells
us here what this song was going to be in verse 28. Chapter 31,
verse 28, "...gather unto me all the elders of your tribes
and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears."
and call heaven and earth to record against them. For I know
that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and
turn aside from the way which I commanded you, and evil will
befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the
sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the works
of your hands." So Moses took that song and he sang it in their
presence. And man, it was tough. It was
a tough song. told of so many of the cursing
that was going to come upon them. And these blessings here in chapter
33 was therefore so necessary because Moses didn't want to
leave these people with this song, this cursing and cursing
and cursing. This song was a prediction of
the curses. that would come upon the nation
of Israel in general and maybe in some generations as a whole.
And as you read through the Old Testament Scriptures, you can
see how that song actually came true in their different generations
until 70 AD when Titus came in and finally destroyed that nation. I want you to take your Bible
and look whole chapter 33. But I want you to take your Bible
quickly and look over in 1 Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 12. 1 Thessalonians
chapter 2 and verse 12. I want you to see here the end,
what finally came upon this people in 1 Thessalonians chapter 2.
And look here in verse 13. You read the history
through the Old Testament. You read the history of the Jews
all the way up until 70 A.D. And about that time, Paul wrote
this epistle to the Thessalonians, and look here what he said. Look
in verse 13. He tells them in verse 12, "...to
walk worthy of God, who has called them unto His kingdom and glory.
And for this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because
when you received the word of God which you heard of us, you
received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the
word of God." which affectionately worketh also in you that believe. For you, brethren, became followers
of the churches of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus. For ye also have suffered like
things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews."
Now look at this, "...who both kill the Lord Jesus, and their
own prophets, and have persecuted us, and they please not God,
and are contrary to all men, forbidding us to speak to the
Gentiles, that they might be saved, to fill up their sins
always. For the wrath of God is come
upon them to the uttermost." It has come upon them. what Paul saw in them. God's
wrath came upon them. Finally, that's what happened.
It seems like the fulfilling of that song had reached its
climax, the cursing of God upon that nation. And from our text
here in Deuteronomy 32 and chapter 32 verse 33, until Paul wrote
this in 1 Thessalonians chapter 2, approximately 1,500 years were to pass. That's a long time, isn't it?
That's a long time. And during that time, the nation
was to experience many blessings from God. And these blessings
from God is what preserved them as a nation until the coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ to accomplish redemption there in the New Testament. And you and I can't sufficiently
appreciate this history. We can't sufficiently appreciate
the history of the Jews because we're not Jews. We didn't live
at this time. It doesn't mean much to us, but
it meant a lot to them. If Moses, under the inspiration
of the Holy Spirit, hadn't predicted these blessings, then the nation
of Israel probably would have despaired because they just read
this song and learnt this song told of their cursings And every
time they got in trouble, they would probably say, Man, that's
it for us. We've ceased to be a nation.
But beginning at verse 6 in our text, all the way down through
verse 25, he pronounces a blessing on each individual tribe. And
all of those blessings begins to come to pass in the book of
Judges. You can follow their history.
One tribe is blessed and exalted. Another tribe is blessed and
exalted just as Moses predicted here in our text in chapter 36
or chapter 33. God called Moses and He told
Moses this. He said, Moses, I'm going to
make of you a great nation and I'm going to bless them. And
Isaac was born. And then Jacob was born. And
then Jacob had 12 sons. They went down into Egypt. They
made slaves out of them. They began to increase. After
they had been down there over 400 years, God sent Moses and
said, Deliver My people out. And He brought a great nation
out of bondage. He brings them out. He brings
them here through the wilderness. And they come into the land of
Canaan. They are established as a great
nation. They begin to sin against the
Lord. God raises up judges to deliver them. And then you begin
to see these blessings manifested that we will read here sometime
maybe next week in this chapter. Now this is what it meant to
them. Without these blessings, of God, they couldn't exist as
a nation. 1,500 years? How old is our nation? I slipped this question on Remy
a while back and it scared him so he couldn't answer, but I
think it's something like 240 years or something like that,
1776. And we look back at our nation's
history and we think, man, what a long history we have as a nation.
And we love our country, don't we? We pray for it that it may
be preserved. And it's just 240 years old. What about if you was looking
way down the road 1,500 years and you'd say, can our nation
exist that long? Can we be a people that long?
Well, that's what the Jews were facing. Fifteen hundred years
as a nation. So this meant something to them. These blessings meant something
to them. I want to show you something
over in Judges. Turn to the book of Judges. If you get time sometime, read
this book of Judges because it is such a blessing and you see
so many of these blessings already being fulfilled in the book of
Judges. But look here in Judges chapter 2 and look in verse 8. Here sort of gives a history
of the whole book of Judges in chapter 2. Look in verse 8, Judges
2, 8, And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died,
being nine hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the
border of his inheritance in Timnathiris, in the Mount Ephraim,
on the north side of the hill Gash. And also all that generation
were gathered unto their fathers, and there arose another generation
after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which
he had done for Israel. And the children of Israel did
evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Balaam. And they forsook the Lord God
of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt,
and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were
around about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked
the Lord to anger. And they forsook the Lord, and
served Baal and Ashtoreth." Now, ain't that the very prediction
that song made? Moses said, as soon as I'm dead,
you're going to leave the Lord. Now, here's the question. What's
going to happen to this bunch of people? Is God going to forsake
them? Is He going to curse them and
leave them? He'd have been just in doing that, wouldn't he? Letting
them cease as a nation. But that's not what he did. Moses
said, God's going to bless you. He's going to bless you. And
that's more than just a wish, folks. You know, if we had to
stand up here and say, Moses really wished that the Lord would
bless his people, that would be almost offensive, wouldn't
it? He said this is what God is going to do. He predicted
it under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So look in verse
14. And the anger of the Lord was
hot against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of spoilers
that spoil them, and He sold them into the hands of their
enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand
before their enemies. Wheresoever they went out, the
hand of the Lord was against them for evil. and as the Lord
had said and as the Lord had sworn unto them, and they were
greatly distressed. Nevertheless, I love that song,
don't you? Gail loves that word. She wrote
a song about this one time. Nevertheless, nevertheless. I tell you, the Lord makes a
difference, doesn't He? The Lord makes a difference. The Lord
raised up judges which delivered them out of the hands of those
that spoiled them, and yet they would not hearken unto their
judges. But they went a-whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves
unto them. And they turned quickly out of
the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments
of the Lord. But they did not sow. And when
the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge
and delivered them out of the hands of their enemies all the
days of the judge. And they had worshipped the Lord
then. For it repented the Lord because of their groanings by
reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. And it came
to pass when the judge was dead that they turned and corrupted
themselves more than their fathers in following other gods to serve
them and to bow down themselves. They ceased not from their own
doings, nor from their stubborn ways. And you can read on about
that and look, it's very interesting to see the judges that the Lord
raised up and what tribes they were from. The first judge that
was raised up was the brother of, what's the fellow that went
into the land of Canaan with Joshua? Caleb. He was of the
tribe of Judah. The next judge that was raised
up was the tribe of Ephraim. Then they raised up the tribe
of Benjamin and all these other tribes would come together and
help That continued all the years of the judges, hundreds of years
with the judges. And then it come time that they
wanted a king. Remember, we want a king. The
Lord said, Samuel, I'm going to give them a king. And Samuel
wept about it. He was broken-hearted about it.
And the Lord said, Samuel, they've not rejected you. They've rejected
Me. I'm their king. So they want
a mere man. So He gave them Saul, didn't
He? Remember he was the tribe of Benjamin? He took him away
in his wrath and gave him another king. Remember who that was?
David, wasn't it? He was of the tribe of Judah
and Solomon. And then the kingdoms was divided
and you had thought to yourself, boy, they're gone as a nation.
Two little tribes left, Judah and Benjamin in the south. The
ten tribes were so ungodly in the north, but you know why they
weren't destroyed? These blessings. These blessings. God blesses and repenteth not
of His blessings. The gifts and callings of God
are without repentance. So you follow Him all through
the days of the kings. The kings of Judah, good kings
for the most part. The kings of Israel, bad kings.
You remember Ahab and Jezebel? He was an awful king. But you
know in the midst of the chaos, in the midst of the trouble,
in the midst of going into captivity and coming out of captivity,
in the midst of the cursings, you also find these blessings.
You find good kings and a revival coming, the revivals under Hezekiah
and Josiah, young Josiah. Even when the Lord was bringing
nations against them, what a blessing it was. You know we have Isaiah,
we have Jeremiah, and we have Ezekiel. You know those three
books were written during the time of chaos and threatening? And then while they were in captivity,
remember Esther? They were in captivity when Queen
Esther was raised up. She was in the Jewish captivity,
in captivity to the Persians. She was in Shushan the palace,
and they had a great revival because God blessed them and
protected them and preserved them. coming back out of the
captivity with Ezra and Nehemiah coming back to rebuild the temple
and the wall. So in all of these chaos and
all their captivity and coming out of their captivity, boy,
these blessings meant something. You and I read over them and
we say, well, that don't mean much to us, but it meant something
to them. That's what preserved them as
a nation until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Redeemer. So these blessings were important.
They were essential that God bless and preserve this nation
because Christ came out of this nation, didn't He? How important
was their preservation? We wouldn't have a Savior if
God left them. and they ceased to be because
He came out of Israel, He came out of the tribe of Judah. So
in that sense, our salvation depended upon it. These predictions,
these blessings in Deuteronomy 33 was not only for the profit
of the Jewish nation to keep them from falling, but it turned
out to be the blessing of the world in it, the blessing of
the world. Paul said this, Paul said, What
profit? is there in being a Jew? What
profit is there in being a Jew? What advantage does the Jew have?
And he said, Much. Much. Every way. Chiefly because
they had the Word of God. The nations of the world didn't
have God's Word. But he gave His Word to the children
of Israel. The priesthood, the sacrifices,
the promises, all the predictions, the prophecies, all of that was
given to them. And because they had these blessings,
boy, it was profitable to be a Jew. I've said this so much.
If I lived back in those days in the Old Testament, would you
rather be a Canaanite or a Jew? Would you rather live in Jericho
or would you rather be out there marching around Jericho with
the Jews? I'll go with the Jews, won't you? Because they had God's
blessing. This is the blessing of the Lord,
Moses said, upon these tribes. So it may not mean very much
to us. But I tell you it was essential to them and it was
essential for the blessing of the world. This is the blessing. For with Moses the man of God
blessed the children of Israel. And let's go on quite quickly
in verse 2. Look back over at our text again in Deuteronomy
33 and verse 2. This tells us two things here
in this verse. The establishment of the nation
of Israel as a nation That's the first thing we see there.
And he says here in verse 2, and he said, Now that may be
saints or it may be angels. And I think probably other places
would teach us that it was the holy angels. It could have been
saints and angels. But he tells us here of the establishment
of Israel as a nation. He was going to bring them into
the land of Canaan and what he was going to do, he was going
to put the fear of his people upon all the land of Canaan.
And not only all the land of Canaan but those on the east
side of Jordan, the Moabites, Sihon and Og, the kings of Bashan. And these mountains here, they
tell us, I've tried to get some information on this, but I've
had to go with what the commentators tell me about this, but they
tell us that this Mount Sinai and Seir and Paran are a triangle
of mountains. They look like a triangle when
you look at them, and they're They're not too close together.
They're not real far apart but not too close together. And what
he's telling us here is when God came down upon Mount Sinai
in the brightness and glory of that, that it lit up all of these
mountains. And some even suggest that the
brightness was so great the entire wilderness could have been lit
up by the very presence of the Lord upon Mount Sinai. That is
how much His glory was revealed. Listen to how David describes
this scene in Psalms chapter 68. He said this, O God, when
thou went forth before thy people, when thou didst march through
the wilderness, the earth shook, the heavens dropped at the presence
of God, even Sinai itself moved at the presence of God, at the
presence of the God of Israel. And he went on to say this, "...the
chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands and thousands
of angels, and the Lord is among them as in Sinai in the holy
place." So it gives us some information about all we knew was that this
mountain was on fire. And all of this smoke and this
shaking and the sound of a trumpet was exceeding loud. But here
we are given a little bit more information about that. There
is this innumerable host of angels that came down from heaven with
God upon that mountain. And it was so bright that perhaps
it lit up the entire wilderness where they were here. I think
Hosea gives us just a little bit of insight into this. He
makes this statement about the presence of God, Hosea chapter
3 verse 3. God came from Timon and the Holy
One from Mount Paran. That's the mountain we're looking
at. His glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of His
praises and His brightness was as the light. Brightness was
as the light. So it may have well lit up this
this whole area. It may have been seen even from
Jericho in the land of Canaan. I doubt if you could send this
brightness and this fire and burning and shaking without it
getting attention of people for several miles around. You remember
when Israel crossed over the Red Sea and here is what Moses
said in the song, the first song they ever sang and here is a
portion of that song. He is talking about what the
heathen will hear about what God is doing with Israel. He
said, "...the people shall hear and be afraid. Sorrow shall take
hold on the inhabitants of Philistina. Then the dukes of Edom shall
be amazed, the mighty men of Moab Trembling shall take hold
upon them. All the inhabitants of Canaan
shall melt away. Fear and dread shall fall upon
them. By the greatness of thy arm they
shall be steel as a stone till thy people pass over, O Lord,
till thy people which thou hast purchased pass over." Do you
remember what Ahab said? Remember Ahab the harlot? that
when she was in jericho and the two spies went to spy out the
land of canaan remember what she said about israel listen
to it she said this here's what she told the two spies she said
i know that the lord's giving you this land i know that how'd
she know that something had been happening that people had been
talking i know the lord's giving you his this land and listen
your terror has fallen upon us and that all the inhabitants
of the land of Canaan thanked because of you, for they have
heard what the Lord has done for you. And as soon as we heard
these things, our hearts did melt. And there was no more courage
remaining in any man because of you, for the Lord your God,
He is God in heaven above and in the earth beneath." So boy,
He established. Israel as a nation. When He came
down on Mount Sinai and the glory shone on all of these other mountains,
and He lit that place up, there was people talking. And people
trembled because of this nation. And why? They were afraid of
Him. Why? Because God, the glorious
God, was among them. That is what he is talking about
here in verse 2. But he does something else here
also in verse 2. We learn something else in the
last part of verse 2. We learn something about this
law. From his right hand went a fiery
law from him. From his right hand went a fiery
law for them. From his right hand. That is
always the hand of His power, His majesty. Most of us, I bet
you can dig around or look on the walls and we've got these
little plaques and it's the Ten Commandments. I bet most of us
have got them. We used to have them. You know
where those came from? You know where those Ten Commandments
came from? Those didn't come from Moses. They came through
Moses but they were given to Moses. You know where those came
from? God wrote them with His fingers. He wrote them down with
His finger. Isn't that amazing? With His
finger. He wrote the Ten Commandments.
Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is one God, and you shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind, all
your soul, and all your strength. Who said that? God said that,
didn't He? God said that to humanity. And
this law is as binding as it's ever been. Is it not? Is it not
an awful sin not to love God with all the heart, the mind
and soul and strength? That's from Him. That's what
He expects. That's what He requires out of
His humanity. And you know something? He'll
hold every man to that standard. He'll hold every man to that
standard. He wrote it. That's from heaven, isn't it?
And it's a fiery law, a fiery law. And that commandment is
just. Paul tells us it's holy and it's
good and it holds humanity responsible to so love this one glorious
God and Creator. But that's not all He wrote,
is it? He went on to write it like this, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as yourself. The Lord Jesus said on all of
these two commandments, these just two, He sums it up in two.
Thou shalt have no other God before me. Love me and have no
God before me. And the second the Lord Jesus
said was this, Love your neighbor as yourself. That came from the
very finger of the eternal God. Love your neighbor. Never mistreat
him. Never think evil of him in your
heart. Never falsely accuse him, not
even in your mind. Never steal from him. Don't covet
anything that's his. Love him as you love your own
soul and love your own body. And do this from the first breath
you take when you come into this world until you lay down your
dying head on your pelt. That was a fiery law. It was
a glorious law. And it went from the very hand
of God Himself. And you know what Moses said?
The glory of it was so great that he said, I fear and I quake. A fiery law. You know why this
generation don't like the law of God? You know why they're
putting it out of the courtyards? You know why they want it out
of every school and any prominent place they can get it out of?
You know why? I'll tell you why. I'll tell
you exactly why. It reveals the glorious character
of God. It reveals the holiness of God.
It reveals the justice of God. And they know that it holds them
responsible for not living up to God's commands. And their
conscience is afflicted by it and they hate it so bad that
they can't stand to look upon it and think of it and think
who wrote it. Now that's the truth. Why does
depraved man hate the Law of God? You know why? It hates God. It hates God. You hate God's
Law? I don't hate God's Law. Do you?
Don't you love it? And Paul said, I delight in it
after the inward man. Why would they want to tear it
down and move it and hide it and break it? Enemies of God. Now that's right,
isn't it? That's right. The enemies of
God. And until we face that, until we face that, the law that
is good and just and holy and God demands it be fulfilled,
until we face that, we will never experience the greater glory
which exceeds the glory of the law that was revealed upon another
mountain, Mount Calvary. Now there was glory in the giving
of this law, and I'm telling you there's greater glory that
you can see on Mount Calvary. I want us to turn over there
and read a few verses. Look over in 2 Corinthians chapter
3. 2 Corinthians chapter 3. This is Paul comparing the law
and the gospel. And the reason the Lord gave
the law in such a glorious way is to show that there was coming
a day when there was going to be a glory above the glory of
the law. And look here how Paul says in
2 Corinthians chapter 3. Look in verse 2. You are our
epistle. written in our hearts, known
and read of all men, forasmuch as you are manifestly declared
to be the epistles of Christ, ministered by us, written not
with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God." Boy, he not
only wrote on stones, he is writing in hearts, in hearts, not on
the tables of stones, see that? but in the fleshly tables of
the heart. And such trust have we through
Christ to God. Not that we are sufficient of
ourselves to think anything of ourselves, but our sufficiency
is of God, who has made us able ministers of the New Testament,
the New Covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter killeth, but the
Spirit gives life. But if the ministration of death
What is that? It was written and engraved in
stones. That's the law. It was glorious so that the children
of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for
the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away. How shall not the ministration
of the Spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation
be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness
exceed in glory. For even that which was made
glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory
that excelleth. For if that which is done away
was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
Seeing then that we have such a hope, we use great plainness
of speech. And not as Moses which put a
veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not
steadfastly look to the end of that which was abolished, But
their minds were blinded, for even unto this day remaineth
the same veil untaketh away in the reading of the Old Testament,
which veil is done away in Christ. For even unto this day, when
Moses is read, the veil is upon their hearts. Nevertheless, when
it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now
the Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face, beholding
as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
mercy, we faint not, but have renounced the hidden things of
dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God
deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves
to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But if our
gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, and whom the God
of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the
image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves,
but Jesus Christ the Lord, and ourselves your servant for Christ's
sake. For God who commanded the light to shine 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." There is a
glory that excelleth. The law was given and it had
such glory attached to it, but it is a killing letter, isn't
it? It's a letter that condemns us. Why? Well, we'll have to
say this with shame, won't we? All of us have sinned and come
short of the glory of God. Which of us have loved the Lord
our God with all our hearts, mind, soul, and strength continually
from our first breath until this very day? We'll have to confess
we've sinned and come short of His glory. Therefore, this law,
killeth. It is a ministration of death.
It is a ministration of condemnation. It comes and shows us our awful
sin and our shortcoming. And that brings us into this
glory, the glory of Calvary, the glory of the cross. If the
giving of the law was glorious and it revealed the glory of
the Lawmaker, how glorious is He that fulfilled that law! and
magnified it and honored it in every jot and tittle. And now
how gloriously gracious is the message that came out of that
cross for poor believing sinners. Isn't it a glorious message?
Because it honors God and it does you good. What He requires,
He gives. That's the message of the cross,
isn't it? He requires perfection. The message of the cross is believe
in Christ and He is your perfection. The law requires righteousness.
Believe in Christ and He is your righteousness. And His righteousness
fulfills the righteousness the law demands. And those sins we've
committed that's climbed up like mountains ready to fall on our
head, it's all given. It's all forgiven. It's all gone. peace with God, reconciliation,
everything God requires and everything you and I need to be accepted
before Him and a good hope of heaven at last. Now can you beat
that? You cannot beat that, can you?
And that is the glory of the Gospel, the glory of Mount Calvary,
that it satisfies the law's demands and gives to you and me everything
we need. to be accepted of God and to
walk with Him now with a new heart and a new spirit and love
Him and follow Him. Oh, the Law just demands, it
demands, it demands and justly so. But you and I did not have
a heart, did we? Oh, thank God He has given us
a heart. Oh, the Law was glorious because it revealed sin. It revealed
sin. But the gospel is more glorious.
Oh, it's more glorious because the gospel reveals that sin has
been punished. Something that reveals sin must
be glorious. But that which punishes sin and
puts it away from the face of God is more glorious. What the law demands of us Christ
gives to us, to every believing sinner. And brothers and sisters,
you just can't beat that, can you? You just can't beat that. It's glorious. Glorious. I hope that's been a blessing
to you. The blessing that God gives to the children of Israel
and their different tribes, establishing them as a nation, giving them
that fiery law that was so glorious, then sending the Master, the
Savior, to fulfill that law and give us the righteousness that
it demands. That's glorious. And you know
when time is finished and time is no more, we'll enter into
all this glory then. Now we get just little glimpses
of it. We read of it, but we get just little glimpses of it.
But someday the Bible says this, when Christ appears, He's going
to change this vile body and fashion it like unto what? His
glorious. His glorious body. The law can't
do that for you, can you? It can. But Christ will. And
for all eternity, for all eternity, we'll be involved in all this
glory, heaven and the glory of that wonderful and beautiful
place. What a good hope. What a good hope.