20 October 2014

Gracious words

Gracious words
Text: Exodus 33:1-4

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

Message Notes

20 October 2014

PRAYER MEETING
Text: Exodus 33:1-4

GRACIOUS WORDS

1. Leaving Sinai    Exodus 33:1

2. Going forward to the Promised Land    Exodus 33:1

3. Sending of “My Angel” to go with them    Exodus 33:2

4. Driving out the inhabitants of Canaan

a) The Canaanite

b) The Amorite

c) The Hittite

d) The Perizzite

e) The Hivite

f) The Jebusite

A SAD AND SOLEMN WORD

1. I will not go up in your midst    Exodus 33:3

2. Lest I consume you along the way    Exodus 33:3

3. Israel: A stiff-necked people    Exodus 33:3

RESPONSE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL

1. This was “bad news”    Exodus 33:4

2. They mourned    Exodus 33:4

3. They put off their ornaments Exodus 33:4-5

THE TENT OF MOSES

1. Pitched outside the Camp    Exodus 33:7

2. Temporary Tabernacle till the actual Tabernacle was built

3. God’s relationship with Moses particularly close    Exodus 33:9-11

a) God talked with Moses

b) He spoke to him face to face, as a man speaks to his friend    Exodus 33:11

4. Joshua

a) He looked after Moses

b) Stayed with him throughout    Exodus 33:11

MOSES’ INTERCESSION (PART I)

1. Remembering what God had said to Moses    Exodus 33:12

a) Mission of Moses
Bring up this people    Exodus 33:12

b) Word to Moses
I know you by name    Exodus 33:12

c) Grace bestowed
You have found grace in My sight    Exodus 33:12

d) Yet to be revealed
But you have not let me know whom You will send with me    Exodus 33:12

2. Special Plea

a) If I have found grace in Your sight    Exodus 33:13

b) Show me now Your way    Exodus 33:13

c) That I may know You    Exodus 33:13

d) That I may find grace in Your sight    Exodus 33:13

e) Consider that the nation is Your people    Exodus 33:13

GOD’S RESPONSE

1. My Presence will go with you    Exodus 33:14

2. I will give you rest    Exodus 33:14