Worship Preparation - November 12, 2023
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Read the sermon text: Exodus 19:1-25
Read the sermon summary: This Sunday, Pastor Tracy will finish the sermon from last week, focusing on Moses as a mediator for the people of Israel. In Exodus 19, the author portrays the growing distance between God and the people. Although God was willing to meet with Israel and make them his special priesthood, the people were unholy and unwilling to meet with God on the mountaintop. Instead, the author portrays Moses speaking the Ten Commandments to the people to show Moses as the giver of the law and the mediator between God and the people. In Exodus 20 the people state that they are afraid and do not want to hear God speak with them anymore. Again, the author tells us that the people are standing at a distance from God. As the author continues his book, he speaks of a coming day, when a prophet, like Moses from among the brothers of Israel would meet with God face-to-face and would be a lawgiver who enables obedience from the peoples.
Read the following song lyrics in relation to the sermon:
Before The Throne Of God Above
Before the throne of God above
I have a strong and perfect plea
A great High Priest whose name is Love
Who ever lives and pleads for me
My name is graven on His hands
My name is written on His heart
I know that while in heav'n He stands
No tongue can bid me thence depart
No tongue can bid me thence depart
When Satan tempts me to despair
And tells me of the guilt within
Upward I look and see Him there
Who made an end to all my sin
Because the sinless Saviour died
My sinful soul is counted free
For God the Just is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me
To look on Him and pardon me
Behold Him there the risen Lamb
My perfect spotless righteousness
The great unchangeable I Am
The King of glory and of grace
One with Himself I cannot die
My soul is purchased with His blood
My life is hid with Christ on high
With Christ my Saviour and my God
With Christ my Saviour and my God
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Charitie Lees Bancroft | Vikki Cook
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