Message Notes

(I) THE REVELATION OF GOD

1. To different people

a) To the Patriarchs of Israel (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob)

i) “God Most High” (Hebrew: El Elyon)             Genesis 14:19a, 22

ii) Added description “Possessor of Heaven and Earth” Genesis 14:19b

iii) “The-LORD-will-provide”  (Hebrew: YHWH Yireh)      Genesis 22:14

b) To Hagar

“You-are-the-God-who-sees” (Hebrew: El Roi)            Genesis 16:13

2. In Stages

a) To the Patriarchs

b) To Moses

3. Significance of the Revelation of the names of God

a) Revelatory knowledge

b) Relational significance

c) Exhortative value

(II) THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

“And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed,
‘The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious,
Longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
By no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children’s children to the third and fourth generation”   Exodus 34:6-7

1. Many attributes of God

2. Complexity of thoughts concerning the Divine Attributes

3. Clear comprehension needed

(III) HEARTWARMING DIVINE ATTRIBUTES

1. Merciful

2. Gracious

3. Longsuffering

4. Abounding in goodness and truth

5. Keeping mercy for thousands,

6. Forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin

(IV) AN IMPORTANT BACKDROP TO BEAR IN MIND

1. The iniquities of man

2. The transgressions of man

3. The sinfulness of man

4. The guilt of man

5. The Prerogative of God to judge unrepentant sinners

(V) APPLICATION OF THE REVELATION OF GOD’S DIVINE ATTRIBUTES

(Exodus 34)

1. Basis for Intercession

2. Assurance of Full forgiveness

3. Strengthening of faith and hope in God

POEM

THE EFFORT

Approach, my soul, the mercy seat,

Where Jesus answers prayer;

There humbly fall before His feet,

For none can perish there.

Thy promise is my only plea,

With this I venture nigh;

Thou callest burdened souls to Thee

And such, O Lord, am I.

Bowed down before a load of sin,

By Satan sorely pressed;

By war without, and fears within,

I come to Thee for rest.

‘Poor tempest-tossed soul, be still,

My promised grace receive’

‘Tis Jesus speaks- I must, I will,

I can, I do believe.

– John Newton (Adapted) –