Before Giving Commands About Exodus 19 “Before the 10 Commandments” * God Reveals Who He Is Before Giving Commands About What He Requires of those who Follow Him.

Nature has always brought out of us a sense of awe & wonder. A God SO BIG that you can’t exaggerate Him!

have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.” Isaiah 6:5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”

God is so perfect, beautiful, and holy that sin cannot be welcomed into His Presence and is repulsive to Him.

Exodus 19: 4-5 4 “You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.”

Hebrews 2: 14-15 14 “Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.”

“We will do everything the LORD has said.” Israel’s Response: They Trembled They Believed “We will do everything the LORD has said.”

After seeing God for who He was, in all of His awesomeness and all of His beauty the people WANTED to obey Him.

The laws given in Exodus 20 give us the “how” to change our lives, but the vision of God in Exodus 19 gives us the desire to go there.

a transforming vision of God’s beauty and grace is needed for us If having such a transforming vision of God’s beauty and grace is needed for us to really change…. How do we find it in today’s world?

The mountain in Exodus 19, as glorious as it was, was just a dim shadow of another mountain where God’s saving power would be revealed to all mankind.

1,200 years after Mount Sinai; Jesus would climb Mount Calvary to display God’s glory: Darkness covered the land - The “lightning” of God’s wrath struck Jesus

We had violated the boundaries set by God, and Jesus paid for those ‘transgressions.’ The fire of God’s wrath burned through Jesus until it consumed him. Jesus trumpeted with his last words: “It is finished!”

At the cross, Jesus willingly took the cup of God’s Wrath towards our sinfulness and drank it all the way to the bottom, turned it over and declared: “It is finished!”

Our fascination with idols is snapped. When we view Jesus as He is and stand in awe of what He has done for us: Our desire for sin is broken. Our fascination with idols is snapped.

The Problem isn’t that our desire for sin is so strong. The Problem is that our desire for God is so weak.

When His Presence is so beautiful to us, When His Love When His Glory is so large to us, When His Presence is so beautiful to us, When His Love is so precious to us, We will desire Him more than anything.

Hebrews 12: 2-3 2 “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.”

2 Corinthians 4:18 “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

The “eyes” of your heart may be enlightened Ephesians 1: 17-19 Praying to receive: The Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation The “eyes” of your heart may be enlightened

2 Corinthians 3:18 “And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”

Ephesians 3: 17-19 17 … “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge —that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”