LEARNING TO TRUST GOD
Exodus 24:12-18
BACKGROUND
Let’s review the situation of
this text.
The Israelites had been
delivery our of slavery from
For three months.
They knew about God but did
not know or trust God. All of their
complaints were against
Moses.
Getting to know God is a
process. God showed them His power and
authority using the 10
plagues and the destruction of the Egyptian
army in the
God led them out of
a God of directions.
God protected them in the
desert with a cloud doing the day and
fire at night. They learned
that God is a protector.
God provided food and water
in the desert for all their needs.
They leaned that God is a
provider.
God led them in a war against
the Amalekites. They learned that
God is their victory.
They had not learn to trust
God, because every time they were in need,
they companied to Moses,
They heard the voice of God
when He spoke to them from a cloud.
They learned that God speaks
to them.
God establish a covenant with
them in which they all agreed to follow
His commands. Moses read to
them God’s commands. The job of a
Preacher is the teaching of
God’s Word.
Trusting and relying on God
takes time.
The only one who trusted and
relied on God at this point was Moses.
Moses Had forty years of
experience with God in Midian through
His father in law Jethro the
priest of Midian.
COME CLOSE TO GOD
V:12 The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the
mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law
and commands I have written for their instruction."
A. To get close to God, you
have to spend time with God.
1. The more you spend time studying your
Bible, the more He will reveal
to you.
2. The first thing you have to do is lift
God to the highest place in your
mind.
3. When you humble yourself before God, He
can work with you.
B. The Word was put in print
as an instruction manual from God on
How to live a righteous an a successful
life.
1.
Notice God wrote His Word on a stone tablet.
2. Let me suggest that the stone represents
the permanent quality of the
Word.
3. Word is unchangeable.
Heaven and earth will pass away but my
word is forever.
B. In order to fully understand
God’s Word, you have to meditate on it
and committed it to memory.
1. Writing God’s Word down on paper is a
way to commit it
to memory.
2. This was the second time God called
Moses to record His Word.
3. God could have written all His Word,
but He used Moses
write all the details.
4. Christians work in partnership with
God.
5. God does not need our help, but He uses
us to encourage and
teach others about Him.
6. Without the teaching of the Word, it
would stay on a shelf
covered with dust.
Matt
"Therefore every teacher of the law
who has been instructed about the
kingdom of heaven is like the owner of
a house who brings out of his
storeroom new treasures as well as
old."
RESPOND TO THE CALL OF GOD
V:13 Then Moses set out with
Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the
A. Joshua was first introduced as the leader of a group
of Israelites
formed to fight the Amalekites.
1. Joshua proved himself reliable and
became a aide to Moses.
2. As leaders we must train our
replacements.
3. It would be forty years in the desert
after Moses died, before
Joshua took charge.
4. We are all being trained by God for the
next assignment.
B. Moses set up levels of
civil government while he went to
the Mountain top with God.
1. He set the priest in charge of the 70
elders.
2. The 70 elders were probably in charge of
the
nation.
3. Any problems were to be solved through
this group.
4. We all have the responsibility of what God
has gifted us with.
C. We have to learn to wait
on the Lord.
1. Perhaps Moses knew in advance that he
would be on the mountain
with God a long period of time.
2.
Sometimes our assignment is to hear the Word of God.
3. Sometime our assignment is to serve God
by serving others.
4. Sometimes our assignment is to be in
prayer while waiting.
5. We lead by studying the Word.
7. We can lead by instructing others.
8. We can lead by encouraging other in
prayer.
9. You Got an assignment, the question is,
will you serve.
WAIT PATIENTLY ON THE LORD
V:15 When Moses went up on
the mountain, the cloud covered it, 16 and the glory of the Lord settled on
A. When God calls, He may not
speak immediately.
1. You and I have been called to meet God
in a high place.
2. We have to wait anticipating His voice.
3. Moses was called to the mountain and he
saw the glory of
God, but he had to wait in God’s glory
for seven days.
4. It is a blessing to be in God’s glory,
even if you don’t hear
His voice.
5. We are always in God’s glory.
a. When I see the different shades of
green in my yard, that God’s
glory.
b. When I feel the wind blowing,
that’s God’s glory.
c. When I see the sun shining, that God’s
glory.
d. When I awoke this morning, I was in
God’s glory.
B. There are times when I am studying the Word
and have
nothing to write concerning the
lesson. If I wait awhile,
God will give me words to write.
1. There are times when I look at the
Word and see only what
I have taught before. But If I wait awhile, God
will show me
something different.
2. Sometimes God calls when I have laid
my pencil down
and gone to bed. He will enlighten
me with a new insight
I will have to get up and write
again.
3. Moses waited for seven days after his
call before God spoke.
4. When studying the Word, never lean on
your own understand.
5. You got to learn to wait on the Holy
Spirit enlightenment.
SEEK THE GLORY OF THE LORD
V:17 To the Israelites the
glory of the Lord looked like a
consuming fire on top of the mountain. 18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he
went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty
nights.
1. If you are looking for
God, you will see His glory.
2. To one it might look like
a consuming fire.
3. To another if might look
like bright light from the sun.
4. To another, God’s glory
might look like a streaming light across
sky at night.
2 Chronicles 15:2-3
The Lord
is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be
found by you, but if you forsake him, he
will forsake you. 3
1 Chronicles
Glory in his holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek the
Lord rejoice.
5. Any time you are studying
God’s Word, you are in His Glory.
6. Don’t be too quick to
leave the study of God’s Word.
7. Anytime you are studying
God’s Word you are productive.
8. It never fails, every time
I study the same scripture, the Holy
Spirit will show me something different
about the Lord.
THANK GOD FOR HIS DIRECTIONS
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater
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