09 February 2015

GOD’s response

GOD’s response
Text: Exodus 34:10-28

Speaker:
Rev Dr Charles Tan
Series:
Bethany IV Prayer Circle

Message Notes

9 February 2015

PRAYER MEETING
Text: Exodus 34:10-28

GOD’S RESPONSE

1. A Covenant offered
Behold, I make a covenant…    Exodus 34:10

a) An awesome work

b) Marvels

c) Never done before    Exodus 34:10

d) Driving out of the people in the Promised Land    Exodus 34:11, 24

2. Strong admonition

a) No covenant with the inhabitants of the land    Exodus 34:12, 15

b) No worship of idols    Exodus 34:13-15, 17

c) No marriage (covenant) with the inhabitants of the land    Exodus 34:16

3. Religious observances

a) The weekly Sabbath    Exodus 34:21

b) The Feast of the Passover    Exodus 34:25

c) The Feast of the Unleavened Bread    Exodus 34:18, 25

4. Three special efforts to be made to appear before the Lord

a) The Feast of Weeks    Exodus 34:22
Also called Pentecost

b) Firstfruits of the wheat harvest    Exodus 34:22, 26

c) The Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end    Exodus 34:22
Also called Tabernacles/ Booths

d) None to appear before the Lord empty-handed    Exodus 34:19

5. Redemption of the firstborn male    Exodus 34:19

a) Livestock

b) Sons

6. Sensitivity
You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk    Exodus 34:26

SUMMARY OF THESE COMMANDMENTS

1. The Ten Commandments    Exodus 34:28

2. The tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel    Exodus 34:27

FORTY DAYS AND NIGHTS

1. The length of time Moses spent with the Lord Exodus 34:28

2. What transpired?

a) Prayer/ Communion

b) Teaching/Learning

c) Understanding/Writing