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Youth Worship 21st September 2024 : The LORD passed before him and proclaimed

Text: Exodus 34:1-9
21 September 2024

YOUTH WORSHIP SERVICE 21 September 2024

Title: “The LORD passed before him and proclaimed”

Text: Exodus 34:1-9

1And the LORD said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.

2 So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain.

3 And no man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.”

4 So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

5 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,

7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

8 So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

9 Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

Exodus 34:1-9

A COMPLEX CONTEXT

1. God had given Moses the Ten Commandments in two tablets

2. But Moses had broken these two priceless tablets out of anger

3. He had prayed to the LORD to appease His anger but he had not made much progress thus far

4. Moses pleaded with God to reveal His glory

5. This plea was set aside for no one can see the face of God and live (Exodus 33)

THE COMMAND TO GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN TOP ONCE AGAIN

1. Moses was to cut two tablets of stone

2. God would write on these two tablets once again

3. He is to present himself to the LORD

4. No one is to accompany him

5. This was a very clear and strict command from the LORD

6. Moses complied with all the instructions given to him

THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LORD’S NAME

5 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,

7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Exodus 34:5-7

1. Note the following sequence

a) The LORD descended in the cloud
b) He stood with Moses
c) He proclaimed His own name

2. The name of the LORD

a) “The LORD, the LORD God”
b) Merciful and gracious
c) Longsuffering
d) And abounding in goodness and truth

3. Application of the LORD’s name

a) Keeping mercy for thousands
b) Forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin
c) By no means clearing the guilty
d) Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s
children to the third and the fourth generation

RESPONSE OF MOSES

8 So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

9 Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

Exodus 34:8-9

1. He prostrated himself before the LORD

a) In haste
b) In humility
c) In worship

2. He prayed once again for Israel

a) That the LORD would go with them
b) Confession of being “stiff-necked”
c) Plea for pardon to be given
d) Israel is to be God’s inheritance

VITAL LESSONS FOR US TO PONDER OVER

1. To understand God at a deeper level

2. To have genuine humility when we:

a) Think about God
b) Talk to God
c) Trust God

3. The challenge

a) To know God better
b) To draw closer
c) To love Him with greater understanding