Exodus 19

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0:00 Okay, we're now looking at Israel at Sinai in Exodus chapter 19 starting at verse 1. On the third new moon, after the people of Israel had gone out from the land of Egypt, on that day, they came to the wilderness of Sinai. They set out from Raphodim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountains, while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountains, saying, Thus you shall say to the house of

0:34 Jacob, and tell the people of Israel, You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagles wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is mine, and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel. Got with me Miss Carol Forrest and Brian Carlson, because I like the way they think about the

1:08 Bible. Guys, what does this story make you think of? It makes me think again of God using the one singular person to speak to the whole. Yeah, he's like talking to Moses and telling Moses to talk to the rest of them. And Moses has to tell the rest of the people, which makes me think a lot of like Moses has to get up, like he has to get up and go up the mountain to hear from God, which is a big

1:45 step for him, and then he has to tell people. But then, I don't know if this is the only if do this, then this will happen. It's definitely the biggest one. It's the biggest one. Yeah. Yeah. But it seems like, yeah, if you can do this, I'm going to bless you. That seems appropriate. Like if you can. What does he say?

2:15 Do these things. Follow the rules. I'm going to bless you. You're going to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Great. Great. And it sounds good. Yeah. Hard. Hard period. Yeah. Right. I mean, yeah, like I guess in a way, it sets up a great stage for God's grace because like, I mean, right, if we did it now, it'd be fine.

2:45 If I responded perfectly to everybody, if I was patient with the guy in front of me in traffic, yeah, I mean, it sets up a spot for his grace and his judgment. Like, like this is why they get decimated. Like really Israel is like goes in as 12 tribes, millions of people and God's judgment whittles them down to like a tribe and a half. And they are decimated. They're conquered by all these people.

3:16 And the prophets say it's because Israel failed. I mean, have they failed prior to this? I forgot. Sure. They were in Egypt. They forgot God's name. But but even in 19, God doesn't say God says, I saved you. Brought you here. So he's not there. There's still Israel going back to Abram and Jacob, but this role of Israel as the priests of the world is contingent on them listening.

3:49 And when they don't listen, his judgment comes. And so it's like, it's a really interesting spot because we want to say it's all grace. And there is a lot of grace there, but there's also judgment. And I mean, that's the way the story goes. Yeah, there's need. He creates need for him. Yeah, they need him. Yeah. Yeah. Like I'm not going to use. I've done all these things and you're not getting it.

4:21 Okay. So now here's some rules. Right. Yeah. This is what it should look like. And I wonder, was anybody was anybody in that crowd like raising their hand like, hey, I think we should work out a different deal because we didn't do very good last time. We haven't, you know, we tried and no. Yeah. Yeah. There's one point where they get sad and they rip their clothes. When is that? And they, they're like, we can't do it. Well, that's because he comes back down there like, yes, we'll take the deal. He goes back up. He gets the commandments.

4:51 And while he's getting the commandments, of course, they make up their own way to follow it already. All right. Yeah. He goes down and looks at his watch. Yeah. I mean, I mean, I guess the punchline is, is a good news for us that we're not under the Sinai covenant anymore, that like the judgment has been fulfilled in the person of Christ, not in us. Right. But what this is pre that, this story, they still had to do it. Yeah. The judgment is coming for something.

5:21 Yeah. Faith is still hard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

5:51 Yeah.