a) You say to me, “Bring up this people”
But You have not let me know whom You would send with me (Exodus 33:12)
b) Yet You have said, “I know you by name.
And you have also found grace in My sight” (Exodus 33:12)
3. Pleading grace
a) Now therefore I pray,
If I have found grace in Your sight, show me now
Your way, that I may know You and that
I may find grace in Your sight. (Exodus 33:13)
b) And consider that this nation is Your people (Exodus 33:13)
GOD RESPONDS TO MOSES
1. My presence will go with you
2. And I will give you rest (Exodus 33:14)
MOSES FURTHER REQUEST
1. The Presence of God
If Your presence does not go with us, do not Bring us up from here (Exodus 33:15)
2. Appreciating the Presence of God
For how then will it be known that Your people and I Have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? (Exodus 33:16)
3. Separated to the Lord
So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people Who are upon the face of the earth. (Exodus 33:16)
GOD’S RESPONSE TO MOSES
1. I will also do this thing that you have spoken; (Exodus 33:17)
2. For you have found grace in My sight (Exodus 33:17)
3. And I know you by name (Exodus 33:17)
A SPECIAL REQUEST BY MOSES
Please show me Your glory (Exodus 33:18)
GOD’S RESPONSE TO MOSES
1. I will make all My goodness pass before you
2. And I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you
3. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious
4. And I will have compassion upon whom
I will have compassion
BUT
5. You cannot see My face
6. For no one shall see Me and live (Exodus 33:19-20)
IN PREPARATION
1. Here is a place by Me
2. And you shall stand on the rock
3. So it shall be while My glory passes by, that I will
Put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you
By My hand.
4. And you shall see My back;
5. But My face you shall not see (Exodus 33:21-23)