Okay, in Deuteronomy 18, you
turn over there, and I'm going to make a few comments as you
go. Remember, our Lord met a woman at a well in Samaria, that woman
that had so many husbands, and she said to him, I know that
the Messiah cometh, which is called the Christ, and when he's
come, he'll tell us all things. Jesus said unto her, I that speak
unto thee, am he. Now, he said that in John chapter
4. That's where that's found. Even the Samaritans were expecting
the Messiah to come. The years had gone by, 470 years
approximately, going back to the prophecy found in Daniel.
They were looking for a Messiah that was going to come during
the time of the Roman Empire. They were looking. And this lady
made a statement. She knew that when He came, all
the dark things would be cleared away and He would tell us all
things. He was going to make it plain.
You're just going to make it plain. And I want to speak to
you about this one who made it plain here. You know, as I speak
to you today from Deuteronomy 18, it may sound like I'm preaching
about Moses, but what I want you to see as we do this and
go through this is that Moses is a picture of the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's a picture of Christ. And you see this here. You know, in the Old Testament
times, there were three offices that were held. There were kings,
priests and prophets and nobody in the Old Testament was ever
all three of those things. David, as you know, he was a
king, he was a prophet, but he wasn't a priest. And there were
men who occupied too. But the one man that stands out
in Old Testament history as the closest man to having held all
three of those offices is this man named Moses. And in that
sense, he is a very good picture of Christ. Moses was of the tribe
of Levi. Moses was the brother of Aaron,
who was the high priest. Moses sanctified the temple and
appointed all the priests and ministered in the temple. So
there was a sense in which Moses was a priest, and there was no
doubt Moses was a prophet, and Moses was a ruler. You couldn't
call him a king, but he was the ruler of the people of God in
that Old Testament time. So he is really, in a sense,
the man who stands out as the most and the Old Testament types
like the Lord Jesus Christ. He is. And you know, when I read
these things to you, you know, when you hear people talk about
Old Testament pictures of Christ, you have a tendency to think,
well, now, maybe he's ad-libbing a little. He's getting a little
too far off. And I've heard some things said that I wondered about.
But when a man tells you in God's Word that he is a picture of
Christ, I've got every right to believe that. And that's what
you see here in Deuteronomy 18. Look at verse 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 shall you hearken." Now that's
my subject, that's the title of my message, A Prophet Like
Unto Me. Now if Moses said that about
this one who was to come, that's what we're going to look at,
how Christ and Moses were alike. And the first thing I want you
to see, let's read down through this here, 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
will put my words in his mouth. And he shall speak unto them
all that I shall command him, and it shall come to pass that
whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which he shall speak
in my name, I will require it of him. Now, this is my text. And first thing I want you to
see when you read this prophecy about a prophet, that prophet
that was to come, is that that prophet was going to be an Israelite. You know, there have been many
people who rose up over the generations and claim to be prophets of God.
Muhammad claimed to be the prophet of God. What's wrong with that?
Muhammad was not of Israel. He would come up from the midst
of thee, his brother. Buddha. I have a friend that's
a Buddhist I work with. Buddha is no prophet of God.
He's not the prophet the Lord spoke of. You can name all the
false gods. In India alone, there's a god
for every day, for just about anything. All these false gods. We're told plainly here that
he would be raised up from among the Jews and that he would be
like Moses. Now, how is he like Moses? This
one who's coming? We're going to run through the
Bible here today. Look at Hebrews chapter three. May want to mark
Deuteronomy. We're coming back. Hebrews chapter three. He was
like Moses. It's hard. When you speak of
Christ, it's hard to speak of Him as being like Moses. Moses
was like Christ, okay? But, pardon me, as I said, this
gets a little confusing because I'm preaching about Christ, and
I often refer to Moses. Look at Hebrews 3. Wherefore,
first verse, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider
the apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,
who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses
was faithful in all his house. For this man was counted worthy
of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath built the house
hath more honor than the house. For every house is built by some
man, but he that built all things is God. And Moses verily was
faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of
those things which should be spoken after, but Christ as a
son over his own house, whose house are we if we hold fast
the confidence and rejoicing of hope, firm unto the end. Now
there's a contrast here, a comparison made. Christ and Moses are faithful. Moses was faithful in all his
house. What's that mean? It means he was faithful in all
his house. He did what God Almighty told
him to do. He was made a ruler over those
people. You think about the burden of speaking and leading Millions
of ignorant people who had been slaves for years. And the burden
of taking them through a wilderness with just a few things on your
back. You know, when you left town, you had your dough wrapped
up in a blanket on your back going out the door. That man
was faithful to what he was called to do. And he was faithful in
doing what the Lord told him to do. He says, as a testimony
of those things which would be spoken after, he was faithful
in building the tabernacle that God instructed him to build exactly
the way he was told to build. Not a thing varied. And you know
why it was so important that everything in that tabernacle
be exactly the way God said? Because that tabernacle was a
picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, when he veered from
the one thing in his life that he did wrong was when he smoked
that rock when he's told to strike it, speak to it. Why was that?
Because that rock was Christ and that rock was only going
to be smitten once. And he's supposed to speak to
the rock. In anger, he smote it. Now, that was the only thing
I could call unfaithful about Moses. He was faithful in all
his house. And that man is a picture of
the Lord Jesus Christ. The great ruler. If you think
that Moses was faithful, how much the more so was the Son
of God. If a charge of a few million
Jews was a great thing to be accomplished. How much the more
so is the Son of God faithful to the Father in charge of all
His people. In charge of all His people.
So we see the faithfulness of Moses contrasted to Christ right
here. And also in Hebrews 3... Well,
let's just go on here. Moses was also like Christ in
His excellence. His excellence. What do I mean?
I mean He stands out above everybody else as a prophet in the Old
Testament. Everybody else. Look at Numbers 12. Numbers 12. Now, I'm not going to go and
read you all this, but Miriam and Aaron were a little upset
because Moses had married an Ethiopian woman and they spoke
up about it. Now, you can read that if you're
on leisure here. Verse 2, they said, Hath the
Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? Hath not he also spoken by us,
and the Lord heard it? Look here, verse 3, Now the man
Moses was very meek above all the men which were upon the face
of the earth. Now who is that a picture of?
Who is it that said, Come unto me? I am meek. and lowly. I'll give you rest.
Remember that? This man was called the meekest man. If God Almighty
says he's the meekest man on the face of the earth, he is
the meekest man on the face of the earth. And the Lord spake
suddenly to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, and come out into the
tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out. The
Lord came down on the pillar of a cloud, and stood in the
door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both
came forth, and he said, Now hear now my words. If there be
a prophet among you, I, the Lord, will make myself known unto him
in a vision, and I will speak unto him in a dream. My servant
Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house." Now, you say
that again? He was faithful in all my house. Now, here's something
else about the faithfulness. "...With him will I speak mouth
to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches, and in
the similitude of the Lord. And the similitude of the Lord
shall he behold, whereof Then were you not afraid to speak
against my servant Moses, and the anger of the Lord was kindled
against him. Moses was like Christ in that his excellence above
all of the prophets. Moses is like Christ in this
respect. The other prophets saw dreams and visions. Oftentimes,
they were just knocked out in a trance. They saw fig baskets. They saw scrolls and things.
God didn't talk to Moses that way. You don't find Him doing
that. He talked face-to-face, mouth-to-mouth. Why is that?
Moses is a picture of Christ. He's got a relationship with
God Almighty that no other prophet has. Now that's what that's talking
about here. Face-to-face. Look here in Deuteronomy 34.
I want to show you this. Deuteronomy 34. Now this verse
here we've been reading about about that profit that should
come. He's not just talking about any profit. He's talking about
a specific profit. If you look at Deuteronomy 34,
look at verse 10. These last words here are being
written in this book, are being written by Joshua. Okay? I want you to understand that.
Moses has gone up on the mount and been called away. And Joshua
finishes this book by making these statements. Look at verse
9. Verse 9 starting there, Joshua the son of Nun was full of the
spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him, and
the children of Israel hearkened unto him and did as the Lord
commanded Moses. So they listened to him. But
listen to what Joshua says here. There has arose not a prophet
since in Israel like unto Moses. What's he saying? Joshua was
given the power and spirit of God, but Joshua is saying, I'm
not that prophet. There has not arose a prophet.
in all of Israel, like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face."
You see that? He's saying, I'm not that prophet
that shall come. God Almighty knew Moses face
to face, and there's another sense in which Moses was a special,
special instrument of God, and he says that in the next verse
here. In all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do
in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all the servants, and
to all his land, and all that mighty hand, and in all that
great terror which Moses showed in the sight of all Israel."
That's the next thing. Moses and Christ are alike in
faithfulness. Moses and Christ are alike in
excellence. Moses and Christ are alike in
that their wonders and signs were done publicly. That's what
he ends with here. Publicly. There have been Old
Testament prophets that worked miracles. There were signs accompanied
with them. You know, Jonah sat down one day and a gourd grew
up over him and died. We read about that. But we read
about Moses taking rods and striking the water. You know what I'm
saying? There were public signs. He'd
go in and tell Pharaoh what was going to happen. And then you
come over to the New Testament and you see public signs and
wonders accompanying the Lord Jesus Christ and His ministry.
It was a picture. A picture. A picture. Moses had 76 miracles associated
with his ministry. If you take all the other prophets
in the Old Testament, combine all of them, there were 74. Moses
worked more miracles in his ministry than all the others put together.
But my friends, none of those compared to the work of the Lord
Jesus Christ. You think about the miracles
that took place that day when He took just a few fish and a
few loaves and break them. Fed 5,000. How many miracles
were going on there? Miracle working. Miracle working. Look at John 21. John 21. Verse 24, this is that disciple
which testifies of these things and wrote these things. And we
know that his testimony is true. And there are many, also many
other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should have
been written, every one, I suppose, that even the world itself could
not contain the books that should have been written. Look back
over at John 15. Our Lord mentions this very thing
about the publicness of his ministry. John 15, verse 22. If I had not come and spoken
unto them, they had not sinned. But now they have no cloak for
this sin. He that hateth me, hateth my father also. For if
I had not done among them the works which none other man did,
They had not had sin, but now have they both seen and hated
both me and my father. If he had not done what no other
man had done, the miracles of the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. He and Moses were alike in that
respect. Fourthly, our Lord was like Moses in that our Lord and
Moses were both law givers. Old Testament. Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, New Testament, Matthew, Mark,
Luke, John, Acts. You've got these five books.
And these things were both that the giving of the law and the
gospel was accompanied with signs and wonders. Up there on Mount
Sinai that day when the law was given, smoke, fire, the voice
of word, sound of a trumpet, on the day of Pentecost, When
the gospel went forth, what happened? Wind, shaking, a sound from heaven,
cloven tongues like as a fire. These things are both inaugural
events. You know, I hear people, I've
got, I grew up in a Pentecostal church, and everybody there wanted
to recreate Pentecost. That's what they wanted to do.
But you know, in the Old Testament, when the Jews got together in
the synagogue, they weren't trying to recreate Sinai. They weren't
called Sinocostals. Can you imagine that? All getting
together on a Sabbath day and calling themselves Pentecostals,
trying to get the smoke and the fire to come down. You know,
it's just so stupid. These things were things that
accompanied the early church and they accompanied this giving
of the gospel. Isaiah 42. I want to show you
that one. There was a law given by Moses,
but look at Isaiah 42. Chapter 42, verse 1. Behold, my servant, whom I uphold,
mine elect, and whom my soul delighteth, I put my spirit upon
him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles." Now, who could
that be? He shall not cry, nor lift up,
nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. He's a meek man,
just like Moses was the meekest man on the earth. A bruised reed
shall he not break. A smoking flat shall he not quench. He shall bring forth judgment
unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged
till he hath set judgment in all the earth and the isles,
the far off places of the world, shall wait for his what? Law.
He's a lawgiver. It's the gospel. The gospel is
a law. It's the law of Christ, the gospel.
And the world, the Gentile world, the isles, the far off, were
standing tippy-toe throughout the centuries waiting for that
gospel of grace to come. Thank God. Thank God. So Christ is like Moses in that
He's a lawgiver. Christ and Moses are alike also
in this sense. Look over at Hebrews 11. I came
across this. Hebrews 11. You know, you read the chapter
of Hebrews, and sometimes when you're reading this chapter,
you're looking at all these great statements about men of faith.
And that's there. But there's something else here
I want you to see. Luke verse 23. By faith, Moses, when he
was born, was hid three months of his parents because they saw
he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the king's
commandment. Now. These people were commanded to
destroy the children, the male children that were born. But
they refused, not fearing the king. Do you know of anyone else
who came in history that was born and they were wanting to
kill the male children? Anybody else of that skill? The
Lord Jesus Christ. And it says here, they saw that
he was a proper child. What does that mean? You know,
there's not a person in this room who's ever had a kid that
didn't think, oh, that's a proper child. Right back there, that's
a proper child. He's a proper children. There's
not a mom or a daddy in the world who didn't think their kid was
a proper child. There's something about that word proper child.
Look how that's described over in Acts chapter 7. Stephen was
preaching on this subject. Acts 7. And we're coming back
to Hebrews here in just a second. Hebrews. Acts 7 verse 20. In which time Moses was born. and was exceedingly fair and
nourished up in his father's house three months." Do you have
a side margin in your Bible? Do you see what it says for exceeding
fair? Mine says, fair to God. You see that? Fair to God. Some
of the texts say, fair in the sight of God, dear to God. was a proper child. He was dear
to God. He was fair to God. Who is that
a picture of? That's a picture of the Lord
Jesus Christ. This One who would come. All
born of a virgin. That's right. Promised. He is holy. Now look back over
here in Hebrews 11. Listen to this about Moses. He
was born, and verse 24, by faith Moses, when he was come to years,
He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. That's
another thing I want you to see about Moses. Moses, a man of
great power and influence, declined the glory and stepped away from
it. Put a contrast in your mind about
this man who had been raised in Pharaoh's house. You know,
back in Exodus 1, verse 12, those Jews, you know what they were
building? They were slaves to build. You can look at it a little
bit later. They were building two cities of treasures. They
had so much wealth there that Pharaoh was building cities just
to put his treasures in. Pharaoh, he's in that house. Moses is in that house. He's got it made. And yet, when
he came of age, What does that mean? That means he was perfectly
cognizant of what he was doing. He was perfectly willing to do
what he was doing. He is a picture of the Lord Jesus
Christ who declined the glory and came down here. Who, being
in the form of God, thought it not a robbery to be equal with
God, but he came down here and made himself no reputation. robed himself in flesh, like
you and me, not sinful flesh, but in the likeness of sinful
flesh. He came down here, like Moses here, who declined the
glory, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing
rather to suffer affliction with the people of God. He became
one with the people of God. You see that? Their affliction
shall be my affliction. Rather than enjoy the pleasure
of sin for a season, he esteemed the reproach of Christ, greater
riches and all the treasures of Egypt." What's the reproach
of Christ? Coming down here. You see what I'm saying? That's the reproach of Christ.
Coming down here to bear the sins of his people. Moses is
making himself one with those detestable Jews over here. These
people who, when he tried to help them early on, He killed
an Egyptian. And the next day, there were
two of these Jews arguing, and he pulled them over to the side
in kind words, and he said to them, now, you guys get along
here. They turned around and said to
him, who made you a prince and ruler over us? You see that? That's a picture of my Lord who's
refused and rejected, came unto His own, and His own received
Him not. That's a picture of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Well, I'll tell you who made Him a prince and
ruler over them. God Almighty did. And that happened. That
man was sent to deliver those people. He became one with those
people, stepped down to deliver those people. And I'm telling
you, that's a picture of my Lord. Bearing the reproach, leaving
it all for the elect's sake. Now, you can talk about what
Moses gave up. What he gave up. How do you compare
that with what the Lord Jesus Christ gave up? But greater love
hath no man than this. Now you search history and see
if you can find anybody else that's a prophet like unto Moses.
You just search it. I love what old Phillip said
to Nathanael. We have found him of whom Moses
and the law and the prophets did write. Jesus of Nazareth,
son of Joseph. That's what he said. We found
him. This is the one. Now back here in the text, I
want to show you. Turn back here in Deuteronomy 18. There's a
prophet coming. You're going to have to hearken
to him. And you listen. Verse 16, it's
according to all you desired of the Lord thy God at Horeb
in the day of the assembly. What was that? He said, Let us
not hear the voice of the Lord again, neither let me see this
great fire anymore, that I die not. The Lord said, Boy, you've
spoken well at which you've spoken. Now, what's this talking about? Turn back in Deuteronomy, chapter
five, and we'll read this. This is when the law was given.
The Ten Commandments. The law of God was given. Chapter five, Deuteronomy, verse
one. Moses called all Israel and said
unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which
I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them and keep
them and do them. For the Lord our God made a covenant
with us in Horeb, and the Lord made not this covenant with our
fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive
today. And the Lord talked with you
face to face in the mount, in the midst of the fire. And I
stood between the Lord and you at that time, to show you the
word of the Lord, for you were afraid by reason of the fire,
and went not up unto the mount, saying..." Turn on down to verse
22 in this text rather than read all these commandments. These
words of the Lord spake unto all the assembly in the mount,
out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, the thick darkness,
the great voice, and He added no more, and He wrote them in
two tables of stone and delivered them unto Me. And it came to
pass when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness,
for the mountain did burn with fire, that you came near to me,
even all the heads of your tribes and your elders, and you said,
Behold, the Lord our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness.
We have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire, and we
have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will
consume us. If we hear the voice of the Lord
our God any more, then we shall die. For who is there of all
flesh that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out
of the midst of the fire, as we have and lived? So go thou
near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say, and speak
thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee,
and we will hear it and do it. And the Lord heard the voice
of your words when you spake unto me. And the Lord said unto
me, I have heard the voice of the words of the people which
they have spoken unto thee. They have well said all that
they have spoken. a commendation from God Almighty.
Can you imagine that? These people have actually said
something that's right. They've said something that's
right. They have said, we've seen something of your holiness. And we don't ever want to hear
that voice again. Moses, go mediate. Go be a mediator. You go hear
what God says, and you come tell us. You're well-spoken. You ever
get to that place, you're well-spoken. That's not the God I'm hearing
about today. Everybody I know, I saw a television show the other
day, somebody said something about they believed in God, and
he said, well, I'm a fisherman, and Jesus and the apostles were
fishermen, so me and God are mates. That's what he said. No,
we ain't. There's no fear of God before
the eyes of this generation. And these people had some vision.
They got a glimpse of that holiness of that God. And they said, I've
got to have a mediator. And God said, that's right. And
that's what he's saying about that prophet. That prophet that's
coming in Deuteronomy 18 shall be according to that thou said.
That's what he's saying. I will raise up a prophet from
among thy brethren like unto thee, verse 19, put my words
in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all, and I shall command
him. This one who is coming is going to be a mediator like Moses. Stand there and preach what God
Almighty has to say. I like that. You know, those
folks were filled with fear. More importantly, they wanted
a mediator. And that's what our Lord is speaking
about here. God Himself said, I'm going to do that and I'm
going to put My words in the mouth of this one that shall
come. John 14, verse 10. John 14. If you keep My commandment, that's
15, excuse me, verse 14, 10. Believest thou not that I am
in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak
unto you I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth
in me, he doeth the works. My works are his works, my words
are his words." That's what he said here. You know, when the
Jews ask for this, God gave them what they were asking for. Look
at John 7. Look at a few verses here. John
7. Verse 16, how often the Lord says this,
Jesus answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but
him that sent me. If any man will do his will,
he shall know the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak
of myself. I'm not speaking of myself. They're
not speaking of myself. Look at John 17. verses 6-8. We're just going to flip through
a few pages here in John. I have manifested thy name unto
them, unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine
they were, thou gavest them me, they have kept thy word. Now
they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me
are of thee. For I have given unto them the words that thou
gavest me. and they have received them, and known surely that I
have come out from thee, and they have believed that thou
didst send me." Now look here at John 12. Just flip back another.
Look at this other verse. This is an interesting verse
to me because he actually uses the word that Moses used. He shall speak unto you the thing
that I command. You remember that? Deuteronomy,
look here at chapter 12. Look at verse 48. He that rejecteth me, receiveth
not my words, hath one that judgeth him. The word that I have spoken,
the same shall judge him in the last day." Now look at this verse,
"'For I have not spoken of myself, but the Father which sent me,
He gave me a commandment.'" You remember that word back there?
What I commanded. He gave me a commandment, what
I should say and what I should speak. "'As my Father hath taught
me, So I speak these words, you know, I'm telling you. This is
this is. This is the one spoken of in
Deuteronomy and turned back here also, as we will mention, is
the Deuteronomy 18 verse 19. It'll come to pass that whosoever
will not hearken. Unto my words, which he shall
speak in my name, I will require it of him. That's serious, that's serious. You know, I heard this old song
I used to sing when I was growing up. I've heard it sung. Every
promise in the book is mine. Remember that song? Some of you
may know that song. I don't want every promise in
the book. But there's a promise here that
says it'll come to pass. Those who don't hearken, I will
require it. I require it. You see a picture of that in
Luke 19, verse 44. Luke 19, verse 44. Our Lord was talking about the
rejection of the Jews. Verse 44, He said, And He shall
lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee,
and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another, because
thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. Back in verse
27 of that same chapter, He said, And those mine enemies, which
would not that I should reign over them, bring hither and slay
them before me." You know, historically, our Lord said the
generation that rejected Him there at Calvary would not pass
away until every one of the stones there were pulled out. And the Jews kept trying to overthrow
Rome. False Christs kept coming up
saying that they were the Christ after our Lord had died and was
resurrected. And less than 35, 40 years from
the time of our Lord's death, there was an insurrection that
started in Jerusalem. And at that time, Caesar sent
a man named Vespasian with his armies down from the north to
finally put a stop to what was going on there. And Vespasian
had a son named Titus, I believe, down in Egypt,
running all the Roman legion there. And on the way down, Vespasian
was coming down, but Caesar died. And the Senate voted him in as
the new Caesar. So he had to turn around and
go back. And he sent word to his son to come up from the south. Now that sounds like a bunch
of accidents, but the Lord said, when you see them coming through
Judah, know that the time is nigh. You've read that. The armies
had to come through Judah. They couldn't come down from
the north. If I've got to kill a Caesar to get this done, Vespasian
is going back and Titus is coming up. And they circled that city
of Jerusalem. The people who had rejected the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, they circled that city during
the Passover when hundreds of thousands of Jews were there.
And they put the siege on that town for years. The women in that city were eating
their children. People would pay big money, big
money for bird dung just to have something to eat. When Titus
finally took that city, when they went in, they had to step
over the dead carcasses on the streets. And the Jews set fire
to their own temple, thinking that the Messiah would surely
show up if the temple of God was burning down. And all the
gold in that temple melted between the stones. And when the fire
stopped, they pried the stones apart to get the gold. Just like
they said, not one stone left upon another, just like he said.
To reject the words of the Lord Jesus Christ is serious business.
And I'm here today, I'm just, who am I? Who's any man that
tries to preach? We're nobody. But to reject the
one who speaks from heaven. We read that verse. If the one who spoke on that
earth, Moses, if his law was such that it was followed How
much the more so? The law of the Lord Jesus Christ.
How shall we escape, Paul said in Hebrews 2, if we neglect so
great salvation? That's the exact question he
made. I'll tell you, John 3, look at
John 3, 35. John 3, 35. Father loveth the Son, and hath
given all things into his hand. He that believes on the Son hath
everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him." Now, you think here about Moses. When he saw that mountain shaken,
it said, The meekest man that ever lived said, I do exceedingly
fear and quake. Do you remember reading that?
You think? Not even a beast should touch
that mountain. No flesh should touch that mountain. You've got
no business there. We've got no business touching that mountain.
That's the holy mountain of God. And I tell you, I said that earlier,
if a man ever gets an idea of how holy God is and how sinful
he is, he's going to ask for this mediator that Moses was
talking about. Just like those people asked
for Moses to go up there on that hill. That proper child. That one who was fair to God.
I want that one who was the proper child, the one who's fair to
God, to go before the Father on my behalf. You understand?
That's it. That's it. That's where I've arrived. I
pray you've arrived there. You know, no man, no man has
seen God at any time, but the only begotten Son, which is in
the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him. He's like Moses.
only infinitely better. You know, he's received a more
excellent priesthood, a more excellent ministry according
to Hebrews 8. You think about the Old Testament law. The law
was given to Israel and it said, you keep this law, you get to
stay in this land. You don't keep this law, you
don't get to stay in this land. And they lost the land. But that
same law said to the son, you keep this law, You keep this law and inherit
all things. He did. And we are joint heirs
with Christ Jesus. That's right. That's the prophet
like Moses. And that's the prophet I want
to know. Well, let's dismiss in prayer. Father, I pray you bless these
words. The scripture that you've given
us With an infinite book, in it we get a small glimpse
of Thy mind, and we're so limited, we know so little. I pray, Lord,
You bless it, though, cause it to grow. Help us as we go about
our work this week, for Thy great namesake. Amen.