Out of my bondage, sorrow, and night,
Jesus, I come. Jesus, I come into thy freedom,
gladness, and light. Jesus, I come to thee. Out of my sin and into thyself,
Jesus, I come to thee. Out of my shameful failure and
loss, Jesus, I come, Jesus, I come into the glorious gain of thy
cross. Jesus, I come to thee. Out of the sorrows into thy balm. Out of life's storms and into
thy calm. Out of distress to jubilant song. Jesus, I come to thee. of unrest and arrogant pride. Jesus, I come. Jesus, I come into thy blessed
will to abide. Jesus, I come to thee. to dwell in thy love. Out of despair into raptures
of love. Upward for I on wings like a
dove. Jesus, I come to thee. ? Out of the fear and dread of
the tomb ? ? Jesus I come, Jesus I come ? ? Into the joy and light
of thy home ? ? Jesus, I come to thee ? Out of the depths of
ruin untold ? Enter the peace of thy sheltering home ? Ever
thy glorious face to behold Jesus, I come to thee. Number 226, my Savior. I am not skilled to understand
what God hath willed, what God hath planned. I only know that
His right hand is one who is my Savior. I take Him at His word indeed. This I read, for in my heart
I find a need of Him to be my Savior. That He should leave
His place on high and come for a sinful man to die, you count
it strange. So what's did I before I knew
my Savior? And oh, that he fulfilled, may
see, the travail of his soul in me, and with his work contented
be, as I with my dear Savior. Yea, living, dying, let me bring
my strength, my solace from this you have your bibles turned to
Exodus chapter 33 began this study will cover this
week in the next two weeks cover last week from the question that
Moses asked the Lord in verse 18 of Exodus 33. He said, I beseech
thee, show me thy glory. And God said, I will make my
goodness pass before thee. I will proclaim the name of the
Lord before thee. I will be gracious to whom I
will be gracious, and I will show mercy on whom I will show
mercy. Let us pray. Our Father in heaven,
most gracious, merciful God, we are thankful, knowing what
we are by nature and what we deserve, that you have ordained
and purposed to be gracious and merciful to some. And we are
thankful that you have counted us in that number. We praise
you for your grace. And we know when all is said
and done, when this old world is set on fire and a new world
is made, new heavens and new earth, that the thing that will
distinguish your children from those who perish will only be
your grace. And we thank you. Thank you that
you didn't leave us to ourself or count on us for anything. But in your great mercy, you
showed us favor, chose us out of a fallen race of humanity
to save us for the purpose of glorifying your grace and bringing
glory to your namesake. We thank you for the salvation
wrought by Jesus Christ on Calvary's tree. when he offered himself
the perfect sacrifice unto you, settled forever the matter of
law and justice when he died in the womb instead of his people, and made it so, wonder of wonders,
that you'll remember their sin no more, and there will never be need
of another sacrifice where sins are remitted. We bless you and
thank you. We would remember those who are
sick and going through trials, those who are in through operations
and those who face operations. We ask Lord your mercy upon them
for them. Guide the doctors. Help them
to be brought back to a reasonable measure of health. Help us tonight
as we look at your word to catch some sense for what Moses might
have experienced that day when you began to set forth your glory. We know the subject is vast,
a vast ocean of wonder, but we'll cast our tiny bark on it tonight,
knowing that you made, you said to the seas, peace be still. Give us grace to understand and
believe. We pray in Christ's name. Look at the second phrase. Our
Lord said four things here to Moses that is His glory. We know He'll not share His glory
with another. His glory is uniquely His. Glory
belongs to the one who's accomplished the deed. I made the illustration
before that in the Olympics, the gold medal winner is the
one that gets the glory. The other two, the bronze and
the silver, are consolation prizes, but they don't get the glory.
The glory belongs to the thing from which glory comes and that
glory belongs to the Lord, His glory alone. He said, I'll make
my goodness pass before you. We looked at that last week and
we saw that the Lord is good in all things. Everything about
Him is good. He has never done anything evil,
even though He created evil for His glory and uses evil men to
accomplish that which He has ordained to be accomplished.
All of that's good. And no matter what happens in
this world, no matter whether governments come or cover governments
go, no matter what goes on in this world, the vileness, the
ugliness, the greatness, and the beauty, it all, all of it,
works for the good of them that love God to the end of the call
according to His purpose. He is the God of purpose. and
this phrase that we'll look at tonight when he says the second
part of his glory is that he will proclaim the name of the
Lord before thee or before Moses. The first was that God would
make all his goodness pass before Moses and that phrase ultimately
set forth the fact that God would be revealed to Moses as he had
not been revealed to anyone before him. Since we have the gospel
We have the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ realized by revelation
that the entire Bible addresses that subject, the glory of God.
We also see that the revelation of the Gospel in the Old Testament
is a progressive thing. You know, if we didn't understand
the new creation, we cannot understand the purpose of the old creation.
We couldn't see what the old creation meant unless we understand
the new creation in Jesus Christ. the time of this dialogue between
God and Moses, the Lord declared that Moses would be privy to
more than any that preceded him. I will proclaim the name of the
Lord before you. You'll notice that the Lord is
all in uppercase, and when you see that in scripture, it represents
the Lord in a singular name. Now that name is applied in many
ways, but the name is Jehovah. you see it capitalized he's saying
proclaim the name of Jehovah before you now the word Lord
is in the uppercase and that designates that name now as I
said Jehovah has many applications you have Jehovah Tzidkenu which
means the Lord our righteousness Jehovah Shalom Jehovah Rapha
all these different ones Jehovah Shalom the Lord our peace these
are all in scripture These are all in scripture, but Jehovah
itself is a particular rendering of the Lord's name. When he created
the world, he didn't call himself Jehovah. He called himself Elohim,
the Almighty, and now he calls himself Jehovah, and this is
who he's going to talk to Moses about. it may be that how he
represented this in the Exodus chapter 6 in verse 3 when he
said this about his name. In Exodus 6 and verse 3 it says,
And I appeared to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob by the name of
God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them. was I not known to them?" Now
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob knew this name of God, but they only
knew it by a name. They didn't know what it meant.
They didn't know the depth of the character that it meant.
When Abraham stood before the Lord, on the mound and God showed
him the stars of the heavens and says, can you count them?
And the sands of the sea, can you count them? And he says,
so shall thy seed be. That word there is capitalized. It's Lord all the way across.
It's Jehovah. So we know that Abraham met the
Lord Jehovah, but he revealed to him, was revealed to him as
the Lord Almighty, as it was also with Isaac and Jacob. Both
of them saw the name in reference to the Lord CAPITALIZED in the
scriptures. However, what this means, they
did not, however, know what the EXTENT of the GLORY that was
involved in that name, and that's what Moses is going to get, because
he's asked the Lord, Show me your GLORY! Show me YOUR GLORY! That is a tremendous question
to ask, and now the Lord is going to show him His glory. Sure,
He showed Moses, Israel, His acts, but His ways, according
to Psalm 103, He showed to Moses. And here He is showing Moses
His ways. His ways. Moses saw things that
no other man saw because the Lord, Jesus Christ, spoke to
him face-to-face as a friend. He did not speak to Abraham that
way. or Isaac, or Jacob, He spoke to Moses in this particular way. The name LORD, or Jehovah, speaks
of the CONCEPT represented from Genesis Chapter 1 to Revelation
22, and that concept is the CONCEPT of SALVATION. Jehovah is the
root word for Joshua, and Jesus, and that speaks of salvation.
It's the name that will be proclaimed before Moses. He said, I'm going
to proclaim Jehovah before you. Now, the Lord's glory is to proclaim
the name of Jehovah before Moses. The word proclaim here has its
root in the word to call, or the word carries with the idea
of calling out loud, making a noise, being heard with a loud voice,
a clarion call, if you will. or a public declaration. A public
declaration. Moses, I want to publicly, openly,
loudly set forth this name Jehovah. The preaching of the gospel is
that proclamation. What do we do when we preach
the gospel? We preach what God has done. That's what the gospel is. It's
not about what you must do or what you must prove. for what
evidence you must give forward. It's about God. When we preach
the gospel, we're preaching Jehovah. We're preaching the L-O-R-D,
the capital L-O-R-D. And being a proclamation, it
is not an offer. It is not an invitation. It is
the declaration of Jehovah, of God, the great I AM. the very one who does things
after the counsel of his own will, the very one who purposes
and it shall stand, the one who cannot be frustrated, the one
who cannot fail. This is the one we talk about.
Thus the name Jehovah assures the salvation of the elect. When
Peter said, This same Jesus whom you crucified, God, has made
both Lord and Christ. He's talking about the Lord Jesus,
Jehovah Jesus. He said, That name, that name,
proclaim the name of the Lord. There is no other name under
heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. That is a proclamation
that happened at Pentecost. Any failure to accomplish what
God intends would deprive him of the name that gives him his
glory. Moses said, Show me your glory.
He said, This is my glory. I'll proclaim the name of Jehovah
before you, before you. The first gospel preacher was
the Lord Himself, the Lord Himself. Turn over to Galatians Chapter
3. Galatians chapter 3 and verse
8 says in the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen
through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying
in thee shall all nations be blessed preached the gospel to
Abraham who preached the gospel to Abraham? God did. Where did
He do it? He did it in two places when
he called him out of the earth he said in thee shall all the
nations be blessed and then in genesis chapter fifteen verse
five and six he did it representing or setting forth the lord jesus
christ and it was here that abraham was counted for righteousness
his faith was counted for righteousness nowhere else he did some wondrous
things He was called the father of the faithful. His life proved
to be a faithful man. When he was told, go to a land
you won't even ever see. He packed up his bags and left.
That's a man of faith. When God said, offer up your
son on Mount Moriah. Offer up your son Isaac. He took
Isaac and off they went. Isaac saw that he had the knife
and saw that he had the wood and saw that he had the fire.
He said, Dad, I see the wood and the fire and the knife, but
where's the sacrifice? Abraham said, God will provide
himself a lamb. And he did. A ram caught in the
thicket. But as great as that was, that
wasn't where it said he was accounted as righteous or righteousness
before God. Not there. When he told Lot,
Take whatever you want. I'll take what's left over when
the Lord gives us some trouble about his shepherds and the land
issues. Take whatever you want. I got
everything I need. That's a man of faith. When was
he counted righteous or righteousness? Look over at Genesis 15. And hold your place there at
Galatians 3. We'll be coming back there in a second. In Genesis
chapter 15. verse five says, And God brought
him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the
stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to them, So
shall thy seed be. And Abraham believed in the capital
L-O-R-D, in the Lord, Jehovah, and he counted to him for righteousness. He believed in the Lord. When?
when he believed the Lord concerning the seed. That's important to
remember. The seed in Scripture is very
important. Very important. Every woman in Israel, especially
of the tribe of Benjamin, from which David would come, thought
that there was a possibility that the Messiah would come from
her womb. And to be barren was the hardest thing they could
ever face. they all thought that maybe they'd
have that seed that was promised back in Genesis Chapter 3 when
the Lord said the seed of woman is going to bruise the serpent's
head. They all looked forward to that seed. Who is that seed? Galatians Chapter 3 and verse
16. Now to Abraham and his seed were
the promises made. He saith not, and to seeds as
of many, but as of one, and do thy seed, which is Christ." When
was his faith counted for righteousness? When he believed God concerning
Christ. When he believed God concerning Christ. The proclamation
of that name is the assurance of salvation. When we preach
Jehovah, when we preach the Lord, who is Lord of the living and
the dead, the Lord over all, the Lord Jesus Christ, who earned
the right to be Lord as a human being, though He was already
Lord, Jehovah, when He made this world. We proclaim that name, and when
we're doing it, we're saying, it's a done deal. If God puts
His hand to something, you can't turn it back. Nobody can stop
Him in what He intends to do. If God has an intention to save
His people from their sins, bank it. Put it in your pipe and smoke
it. God is going to save His people
from their sins. So the proclamation of Jehovah
is the proclamation of the finished work. The work finished on Calvary
Street. This is what was to be proclaimed
to Moses. I will proclaim the name of the
Lord. before you. That's my glory.
I'm going to put that out there. I'm going to proclaim it. It's
going to be heard. It's going to be known. It's
going to be understood. It's not going to be written
in the clouds. You're going to have to hear
it because I'm going to proclaim it with a loud voice, God said.
God breathed this book into the minds and hearts of his scribes.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for
doctrine, reproof, and correction that the man of God might be
truly furnished unto all good works. Their message, the message
of the men that wrote this book, the men that penned what God
had inspired in their heart and gave it to the disciples and
the apostles to preach the gospel, their message was a mystery.
all the way through the Old Testament, a little here and a little there,
precept upon precept, line upon line, with stammering lips and
another tongue was the doctrine taught in the Old Testament.
The mystery was shrouded. Christ was in every sacrifice.
Christ was in everything in the Old Testament. Christ was the
creation and the creator. Christ was all of it. Christ
was the temple. Christ was the tabernacle. Christ
was the high priest. Christ was all those things. He was offered up on the brazen
altar. He was the table of showbread.
He was the golden altar of incense. He was the ark of the covenant.
He was all those things. We didn't know that. They didn't
know that. Moses did, I think, because God had proclaimed the
name of the Lord before him. But the mystery was a mystery
from the ages until these last days when God opened up this
book to us. In Revelation 5, people look
off over that as sometime in the future. I don't think it's
in the future. I think it's right now. It just happened. That sealed
book is this book, sealed with seven seals, within and without.
Who can know this book? Only those who've been alive,
made alive by God. to be given faith to believe.
They could know this book, only those. The natural man receives
a thought that things of the spirit. Who can open this book?
What's the key to the knowledge of this book? What's this book
about? This book's about one person. Our Lord said to those
who studied this book and thought because they did, it gave them
eternal life. Well, I read my Bible. He says
you do search the scriptures. For in them ye think ye find
eternal life, but they are they which testify of me. And ye will
not come to me that ye might have life. In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The
same was in the beginning with God. And the Word was made flesh,
and dwelt among us, and we beheld Him as the only begotten Son
of God, full of grace and truth. But it was up to that time, up
till the time the Lord Jesus Christ came. First John the Baptist
came as a man who was kind of like the last Old Testament prophet
and the first Old Testament saint. He was a man who had his foot
in Malachi and another foot in Matthew. He was the only one
and his message was saying, Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away. the sin of the world over in
1st Corinthians chapter 2 when Paul was setting aside the wisdom
of the world as having no value whatsoever he said this about
the gospel in 1st Corinthians chapter 2
verse 7 he said but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery,
even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world
for our glory, for the glory of God's people. That's who He
ordained this for. And He goes on to say down here
in verse 12, He says, We have not received the Spirit of the
world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the
things that are freely given to us of God. How do we know
that? We know them in the gospel. We
know them when the good news is preached. The gospel is good
news. That's what the word means. The German word is Goldspiel,
a good spell, but it's good news. But in order that it be news,
it must be published for anyone to hear it. I'm sure in this
world right now there's things all over this world that would
qualify as news. if I heard about it or if you
heard about it. If you ain't heard about it,
it ain't news. The gospel is good news. It must be published in order
to be heard. Isaiah chapter 52 verse 7 Isaiah 52 and verse 7, how beautiful
upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings,
that's the gospel, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings
of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion the church,
thy God reigneth. That's good tidings of good things. that God is absolutely sovereign
in all things. Thy God reigneth. This is good news. Now Paul,
when he was talking about the preaching of the gospel over
in Romans chapter 10, quoted that passage of scripture from
Isaiah chapter 52. In chapter 10 of Romans, he says
in verse 13, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved. how then shall they call on him whom they have not believed so
you've got to believe on him in order to call on him and how
shall they believe in him of whom they've not heard so you've
got to hear of him and from him in order to believe on him in
order to call upon him now religion just got that backwards don't
it? They say you've got to call on Him so you can believe on
Him. Then you'll hear from Him. It's not that way. It's the other
way around. And they shall believe on Him. And how shall they hear
without a preacher? What? Somebody's going to stand
up on their hind legs. God's going to raise up some
poor, wretched sinner saved by grace and tell you something
about God. That's how it works. Why? Why in the world would He
use somebody like me? who worries all the time he's
going to be discovered as some kind of fraud. It goes on my
mind all the time. What a fraud I am. What a sinner
I am. How weak I am. Why would he use
me? So he can show it has to be by grace. It has to be by
grace. How shall they hear without a
preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sin? As it is
written in Isaiah 52 7. How beautiful are the feet of
them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings
of good things. But they not all obeyed the gospel,
for Isaiah said, Who hath believed our doctrine, or who hath believed
our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God. That's how it happens. Why? That's how the reigning God ordained
it. That's how the reigning God ordained it. The first to publish
the gospel was Jehovah when he said to Moses, I will proclaim
the name of the Lord before you. Every prophet sent preached the
word of God. John the Baptist preached Christ,
the kingdom that had come. The Lord was a preacher. The
early church, all they did was preach Christ, and every man
sent sent from God has a singular message, and that message is
Christ to Him crucified. Paul said in 1 Corinthians chapter
2 and verse 2, I determined. He didn't say I am determined,
though he was. But he said, I determined, this
is what I'm going to do. No matter what goes on in Corinth,
and a lot went on in Corinth, I determine that not anything
among you say Jesus Christ and Him crucified. over in 1 Corinthians
chapter 15 he sets forth this gospel in no uncertain terms
as the only way men are saved the preached gospel so can you
be saved reading the Bible well I'm not going to put God in the
corner and say it can't happen but I don't have a warrant to
tell you that because the only way God says you're saved is
through the preaching of the gospel That's the only way. God says you'll get all this
book. That's the only way you'll find. You'll not find anybody
confessing the Lord after reading anything. It won't happen. But
in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, Paul says this in verse 1, Moreover,
brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which i preached on
to you which also you have received and where in you stand by which
also you are saved if you keep in memory what i preached to
you unless you believed in vain for i delivered unto you first
of all that which i also received how that christ died for our
sins according to the scriptures and he was buried and that he
rose again the third day according to the scriptures. and that he
was seen of Cephas, that is Simon Peter, then of the twelve, and
that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once, of
whom the greater part remain unto the present, but some are
fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James,
then of all the apostles, and last of all he was seen of me
as one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles,
and am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted
the church of God. But by the grace of God I am
what I am, and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not
in vain. But I labored more abundantly
than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God in me. Therefore,
whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so you believe."
So we preach, and so you believe. Over in 2 Corinthians chapter
4. He says this in verse 5 and 6, For we preach not ourselves,
but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servant for Jesus'
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 what? Show me your glory. I will proclaim the name of the
Lord before you. Show me the knowledge of the
glory of God in the face of the Lord Jesus. preaching of the gospel is the
means by which poor sinners find out what God has done for them
they don't find out anything for them to do Paul said in Ephesians
chapter 1 verse 13 whom you believe after you heard the word of truth
what was the word of truth that you heard? the good news of your
salvation, out of your possibility of salvation, the good news that
God had saved you. When are you saved? When you
find out you've been saved. That's when you're saved, the
good news of your salvation. It's a wondrous thing that God
employs such earthen vessels to carry about and spill out
that which is His glory. That's what he said in 1 Corinthians
1 and verse 21. He said the wisdom of the world
means nothing. In fact, God has fixed it that
men will try by their own wisdom to understand God. They'll try
by their own wisdom to come up with ideas of how you can get
to God. They'll come up with all kinds of inventions, ways
that seem right unto men, but then there are the ways of death.
He says this in 1 Corinthians 1 and verse 21, that in the wisdom of God, in
other words, according to the wisdom and purpose of God, the
world, by wisdom, by its own wisdom, knew not God. That was part of God's plan.
But what happened? It pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that believe. I will proclaim the
name of the Lord before you. and 2 Corinthians 4 says we have
this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power
may be of God and not of us. Why does he put this treasure
in this dirt pot? So if anything happens it will
be his power and not mine. Show me thy glory I will proclaim
the name of the Lord before thee. Listen to what our Lord said
in this high priestly prayer in John 17 about the glory of
God. In John 17, verses 4 through
6, the Lord said, I have glorified thee on earth. I have finished
the work which thou gavest me to do. now all for the war me
with on sale which I had with the why I manifested that name
in which they were me or Why? Because that's God's glory
to proclaim the name of the Lord. Father, bless us to understand
and pray in Christ's name. Amen. All right. God bless you.