May 4, 2009

Text: Exodus 34

INDICATIONS OF "ANOTHER CHANCE"

1. Command to cut two tablets of stone similar to the ones that were broken by Moses    Exodus 34:1a

2. Consent of God to meet with Moses    Exodus 34:2

3. Commitment to re-write the Ten Commandments    Exodus 34:1b

4. Call to ascend Mt. Sinai    Exodus 34:1b

UNDERSTANDING OF THIS SECOND CHANCE

1. Compliance of Moses    Exodus 34:4

2. Continuing Saga to Intercede for Israel

REVELATION OF THE GLORY OF GOD

1. In answer to Moses' prayer    Exodus 33:18

2. As an expression of a special relationship with Moses    Exodus 33:11

3. Proclamation of God's Name    Exodus 34:6-7

a) The LORD, the LORD God

b) Merciful

c) Gracious

d) Longsuffering

e) Abounding in goodness

f) And truth

g) Keeping mercy for thousands

h) Forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin

i) By no means clearing the guilty (unrepentant)

j) Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and fourth generation

4. Wherein is the glory of God revealed?

a) In His Name

b) In the attributes that are attached to His name

c) To be appreciated only in deep wisdom

RESPONSE OF MOSES TO THE LORD'S REVELATION

1. Bowing before the Lord    Exodus 34:8a

2. Worship of the Lord    Exodus 34:8b

3. 4th Intercession for Israel    Exodus 34:9

a) No presumption of the grace given
"If now I have found grace in Your sight, O LORD"    Exodus 34:9a

b) Pleading for God's Presence
"Let my Lord, I pray, go among us..."    Exodus 34:9b

c) Admission of wretched sinfulness
"Even though we are a stiff-necked people"    Exodus 34:9c

d) Plea for pardon
"And pardon our iniquity and our sin"    Exodus 34:9d

e) Plea to be considered as God's inheritance
"And take us as Your inheritance"    Exodus 34:9e