WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 –> 00:00:07.020 You’re listening to a sermon from Col. Smith of OpenTheBible. 00:00:07.020 –> 00:00:12.680 To contact us call us at 1-877-OPEN-365. 00:00:12.680 –> 00:00:15.800 Or visit our website openthebible.org. 00:00:15.800 –> 00:00:20.500 Let’s get to the message, here is Pastor Collin. 00:00:20.500 –> 00:00:25.040 You know by now if you’ve been here that these are the last words of Moses all the way through 00:00:25.040 –> 00:00:33.700 this book, but coming to Chapter 33 they really are the last recorded words of Moses before 00:00:33.700 –> 00:00:35.779 God’s people entered the promised land. 00:00:35.779 –> 00:00:38.840 Do you remember the broad sweep of the story? 00:00:38.840 –> 00:00:42.700 That moses had served these people now for forty years. 00:00:42.700 –> 00:00:47.759 He had led them out of Egypt, he was the one who had given them the law as he received 00:00:47.759 –> 00:00:54.500 it on mount Sinai, he had endured forty years leading them in the desert. 00:00:54.720 –> 00:01:01.060 But now, Moses is going to die before the people enter into the promised land and so 00:01:01.060 –> 00:01:05.660 if you have your bible open there, you’ll see that in chapter 34, the book ends with 00:01:05.660 –> 00:01:06.919 the death of Moses. 00:01:06.919 –> 00:01:14.139 Moses climbs mount Nebo, chapter 34 verse 1 and God shows him the promised land. 00:01:14.139 –> 00:01:18.639 And in verse 4 of the last chapter there, God says to him, 00:01:18.639 –> 00:01:22.620 This is the land that I promised on oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. 00:01:23.139 –> 00:01:28.720 I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it. 00:01:28.720 –> 00:01:34.959 And then chapter 34 and verse 5, we read that Moses the servant of the Lord, he died there 00:01:34.959 –> 00:01:36.760 in Moab, right there. 00:01:36.760 –> 00:01:41.099 As the Lord had said, the Lord buried him in Moab. 00:01:41.099 –> 00:01:43.360 That’s a sort of a BIble quiz question. 00:01:43.360 –> 00:01:44.980 Who buried Moses? 00:01:44.980 –> 00:01:50.180 God himself buried Moses, that’s what the scripture says, I tried to picture what that 00:01:50.180 –> 00:01:51.519 exactly was like. 00:01:52.139 –> 00:01:54.239 We’re not given any detail, God buried him. 00:01:54.239 –> 00:02:01.080 And for that reason to this day, the scripture says, no one knows where his grave is. 00:02:01.080 –> 00:02:05.440 So that’s chapter 34 is the death of Moses before God’s people going to the promised 00:02:05.440 –> 00:02:06.440 land. 00:02:06.440 –> 00:02:13.339 So chapter 33, and especially the end of chapter 33, these really are the last recorded words 00:02:13.339 –> 00:02:14.339 of Moses. 00:02:14.339 –> 00:02:19.639 Now, if you look at the beginning of the chapter, you’ll see in verse 1, that it begins there 00:02:19.699 –> 00:02:22.740 with Moses giving a blessing. 00:02:22.740 –> 00:02:27.160 This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, pronounced on the Israelites before his 00:02:27.160 –> 00:02:28.220 death. 00:02:28.220 –> 00:02:31.679 And then if you just look over the chapter as a whole, you’ll see that there are particular 00:02:31.679 –> 00:02:35.520 blessings for each of the tribes of Israel. 00:02:35.520 –> 00:02:41.559 So there’s a blessing in verse 6 for Reuben, verse 7 for the tribe of Judah, verse 8 for 00:02:41.559 –> 00:02:47.199 the tribe of Levi, verse 12 from the tribe of Benjamin and so forth and so on. 00:02:47.240 –> 00:02:52.839 And all of these blessings that run through this chapter 33, they sort of rise together 00:02:52.839 –> 00:03:01.779 in a great crescendo, that comes to its climax in verse 29, which is our focus today, where 00:03:01.779 –> 00:03:08.199 Moses almost seems to explode out of this list of blessings and he says, gathering it 00:03:09.000 –> 00:03:20.399 Blessed are you, O Israel. Who is like you? A people saved by the Lord. 00:03:20.399 –> 00:03:26.000 Now I want us to see in this last message of this series that this blessing is not only 00:03:26.000 –> 00:03:33.440 theirs, but it is yours or it can be yours through Jesus Christ. 00:03:33.440 –> 00:03:34.600 Now let’s ask this question? 00:03:34.600 –> 00:03:36.559 What does it mean to be blessed? 00:03:36.919 –> 00:03:41.339 What is this great blessing that Moses is speaking about? 00:03:41.339 –> 00:03:45.419 And remember, as Moses says these words, that this is the man who was raised in a palace 00:03:45.419 –> 00:03:47.399 in Egypt. 00:03:47.399 –> 00:03:52.639 He was surrounded by opulence and wealth in his early years. 00:03:52.639 –> 00:03:56.360 Is that what it means to be blessed? 00:03:56.360 –> 00:03:58.779 Then at age 40, everything changes for Moses. 00:03:58.779 –> 00:04:02.320 A sudden calamity means he leaves Egypt. 00:04:02.320 –> 00:04:06.600 And for the next 40 years, he scratches a living in the desert. 00:04:06.600 –> 00:04:09.399 He’s a shepherd. 00:04:09.399 –> 00:04:13.199 So for 40 years, this man has experienced life at its very best. 00:04:13.199 –> 00:04:18.119 For 40 years, this man then experienced life material in this world, at its very hardest, 00:04:18.119 –> 00:04:19.679 at its very lowest. 00:04:19.679 –> 00:04:25.480 Then everything changed again, and God called Moses, you remember, to confront Pharaoh, 00:04:25.480 –> 00:04:30.239 then to lead his people across the Red Sea, then to go up the mountain and to be in the 00:04:30.239 –> 00:04:32.000 presence of God in Sinai. 00:04:32.239 –> 00:04:39.079 And for 40 years, Moses experienced God as nobody else had known him. 00:04:39.079 –> 00:04:46.160 And so at 120 years of age, three equal periods of his life, the old man looks back over everything 00:04:46.160 –> 00:04:50.820 that he’s experienced, and this is his wisdom. 00:04:50.820 –> 00:04:56.000 He’s saying the greatest blessing you can know in life in this world, no matter how 00:04:56.000 –> 00:05:01.279 rich or how poor, and I’ve seen both, Moses could say, the greatest blessing you can know 00:05:01.279 –> 00:05:07.760 in this world is to know God himself. 00:05:07.760 –> 00:05:16.559 Whether you were born in a palace, whether you’ve eked out an existence in the desert, 00:05:16.559 –> 00:05:22.720 he says to God’s people, I’ve seen both and I tell you, nobody else has got what you’ve 00:05:22.720 –> 00:05:24.279 got. 00:05:24.279 –> 00:05:30.000 Who is like you, oh Israel, a people saved by the Lord. 00:05:30.019 –> 00:05:31.959 Let’s just pause here for a moment. 00:05:31.959 –> 00:05:34.540 He says, who’s like you, you’re a people saved. 00:05:34.540 –> 00:05:39.760 Isn’t that a wonderful Bible word, saved. 00:05:39.760 –> 00:05:44.200 Not being saved, not hoping that one day you might be saved. 00:05:44.200 –> 00:05:48.320 You are a people saved, you’re blessed. 00:05:48.320 –> 00:05:53.359 In new Testament terms, we can say we are blessed because there is no condemnation 00:05:53.359 –> 00:05:57.760 now for those who are in Christ Jesus. 00:05:57.760 –> 00:05:59.399 And then Moses says something even better. 00:05:59.399 –> 00:06:04.299 He says, not only are you saved but you’re blessed because you’re saved by the Lord. 00:06:04.299 –> 00:06:05.739 Do you say that there? 00:06:05.739 –> 00:06:08.920 It’s God who stepped into your life. 00:06:08.920 –> 00:06:14.040 It’s not that you’re saved by some sort of system or some kind of religion, some kind 00:06:14.040 –> 00:06:15.200 of mechanical process. 00:06:15.200 –> 00:06:17.040 No, here’s what has happened. 00:06:17.040 –> 00:06:21.779 God has stepped into your life, God has seen your plight, God has come down to deliver 00:06:21.779 –> 00:06:24.600 you, God has committed himself to you forever. 00:06:24.600 –> 00:06:28.459 Israel, he says, you are blessed like no one else. 00:06:28.459 –> 00:06:33.980 And when you talk about the richest or the poorest, nobody’s got what you’ve got. 00:06:33.980 –> 00:06:37.519 You are a people saved by the Lord. 00:06:37.519 –> 00:06:39.200 Now, this is his conclusion. 00:06:39.200 –> 00:06:42.859 And of course it fits exactly with what our Lord Jesus says. 00:06:42.859 –> 00:06:48.079 Do you remember in his prayer to the father in John 17 and verse three, the Lord Jesus 00:06:48.079 –> 00:06:52.320 says this, this is eternal life. 00:06:52.320 –> 00:06:54.339 You say, what’s eternal life? 00:06:54.339 –> 00:06:56.600 What’s the greatest thing I can ever know? 00:06:56.640 –> 00:07:06.940 Jesus says to know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 00:07:06.959 –> 00:07:19.679 Now, you may think knowing God sounds easy, but I tell you that by nature it is impossible. 00:07:19.679 –> 00:07:23.940 How can you know God since you cannot see him? 00:07:23.940 –> 00:07:27.679 God is invisible, God does not speak in an audible voice. 00:07:27.679 –> 00:07:28.679 God is spirit. 00:07:28.679 –> 00:07:31.839 God is eternal. 00:07:31.839 –> 00:07:37.420 Everything about God is beyond the range of our five senses. 00:07:37.420 –> 00:07:44.720 So knowing God would be absolutely, completely and utterly impossible unless God had made 00:07:44.720 –> 00:07:47.839 himself known. 00:07:47.839 –> 00:07:49.179 And that is where Moses begins. 00:07:49.220 –> 00:07:54.760 If you look back in verse 1 of chapter 33, he’s talking about the blessing that is Israel’s 00:07:54.760 –> 00:07:56.779 and here’s where he begins. 00:08:07.660 –> 00:08:12.399 See, he’s saying, understand, this is the great blessing that is uniquely yours, oh 00:08:12.399 –> 00:08:13.399 Israel. 00:08:13.399 –> 00:08:14.399 God came. 00:08:14.399 –> 00:08:18.239 This God that you could not otherwise have known. 00:08:18.720 –> 00:08:20.160 He came to you. 00:08:20.160 –> 00:08:25.640 The invisible God made himself known at Mount Sinai, he came down. 00:08:25.640 –> 00:08:29.019 And his Glory, it was revealed right there on the mountain. 00:08:29.019 –> 00:08:32.200 This God who inhabits eternity, here’s what he did. 00:08:32.200 –> 00:08:33.979 He broke into time. 00:08:33.979 –> 00:08:35.979 And he spoke! 00:08:35.979 –> 00:08:39.679 And myriads of angels, notice that phrase in verse 2. 00:08:39.679 –> 00:08:40.960 They were there in attendance. 00:08:40.960 –> 00:08:44.380 The whole event was glorious when God came down. 00:08:44.419 –> 00:08:49.340 It was unlike anything that had ever happened before. 00:08:49.340 –> 00:08:57.260 Now, as Moses begins to explain this marvellous blessing in which these people have come to 00:08:57.260 –> 00:09:01.580 know the God who saves them. 00:09:01.580 –> 00:09:07.380 Here’s something marvellous for us to grasp today, that it’s often neglected. 00:09:07.380 –> 00:09:14.260 That in order for God to make himself known to us. 00:09:15.179 –> 00:09:21.080 He speaks to us in language we can understand. 00:09:21.080 –> 00:09:26.479 Now, this is a marvellous truth and I want to take just a moment on it, and you’ll see 00:09:26.479 –> 00:09:27.479 why. 00:09:27.479 –> 00:09:32.719 Let me begin with trying to set this up for you this way. 00:09:32.719 –> 00:09:41.460 Years ago, I heard Professor Don Carson from Trinity University ask a fascinating question. 00:09:41.840 –> 00:09:52.599 He said, if you were challenged to explain to a group of Stone Age people what an electric 00:09:52.619 –> 00:09:59.239 light bulb is, and how it works, and what it does, how would you go about doing it? 00:09:59.239 –> 00:10:02.559 You begin to think about that, you know you’re transported back in time and you’ve got to 00:10:02.559 –> 00:10:04.979 explain to people in a Stone Age culture. 00:10:04.979 –> 00:10:10.659 So they don’t have metals, wires, or anything like that and your challenge is to try and 00:10:10.659 –> 00:10:15.739 explain to them an electric bulb that lights your house or lights your room. 00:10:15.739 –> 00:10:17.679 How would you go about it? 00:10:17.679 –> 00:10:21.059 They’ve never seen a light bulb? 00:10:21.059 –> 00:10:25.320 They have never seen a piece of wiring or a cable? 00:10:25.320 –> 00:10:27.479 So how would you explain this to them? 00:10:27.479 –> 00:10:29.739 Well, surely what you would do is something like this. 00:10:29.739 –> 00:10:34.380 You would look around at their world and you would see they have no cables, but they do 00:10:34.380 –> 00:10:38.840 have vines and vines have long, thin sort of trailers going there. 00:10:38.960 –> 00:10:43.979 And so you might say, well, you know, here in the world from which I come, there are… 00:10:43.979 –> 00:10:48.840 It’s like vines that come along on poles and they come into your house. 00:10:48.840 –> 00:10:54.340 Well, if you think you can do better, you tell me later. 00:10:54.340 –> 00:10:56.679 And then you’re trying to explain a light bulb. 00:10:56.679 –> 00:11:00.179 How do you explain a light bulb to people in a stone age culture? 00:11:00.179 –> 00:11:05.799 And you look around and you see the sunrise and you say, well, you know, it’s as if a 00:11:06.580 –> 00:11:14.780 we’re in your room at night so that you can see even when it is dark. 00:11:14.780 –> 00:11:18.000 The point is a very simple one. 00:11:18.000 –> 00:11:24.640 If you want to communicate to people who know nothing about the world in which you live, 00:11:24.640 –> 00:11:28.900 you have to use language that people, these people can understand. 00:11:28.900 –> 00:11:35.119 And what that means is that you have to use language that is drawn from their world because 00:11:35.340 –> 00:11:38.559 they cannot penetrate yours. 00:11:38.559 –> 00:11:42.840 Now this is precisely what God has done in the Scripture. 00:11:42.840 –> 00:11:49.840 Because we cannot know, nor begin to imagine eternity, in order that we may know Him, God 00:11:49.840 –> 00:11:56.200 describes himself in language that is taken from His own creation. 00:11:56.200 –> 00:12:03.080 So, Dr. Hermann Bavink says in the classic book that he has written on the doctrine of 00:12:03.159 –> 00:12:04.159 God. 00:12:04.159 –> 00:12:11.159 He says, if God were to speak to us in divine language, no one would understand him. 00:12:11.159 –> 00:12:15.640 And so for that reason, God speaks to us in language that we can understand. 00:12:15.640 –> 00:12:20.299 Now here’s what that means, that once you see it, your eyes will pop when you see it 00:12:20.299 –> 00:12:23.440 all over the Bible because it’s everywhere. 00:12:23.440 –> 00:12:27.760 God describes himself, therefore, in order to accommodate himself to us. 00:12:27.760 –> 00:12:32.979 And so that we can understand Him, we who have not been in eternity and cannot see Him. 00:12:33.200 –> 00:12:39.200 God describes himself in terms of the human body so that in the scripture, for example, 00:12:39.500 –> 00:12:43.099 you read about God’s face, though God is spirit. 00:12:43.099 –> 00:12:44.919 He does not have a body. 00:12:44.919 –> 00:12:48.219 But how else are we to understand anything about the God who is spirit? 00:12:48.219 –> 00:12:50.099 So the Bible accommodates to us. 00:12:50.099 –> 00:12:53.580 God uses language from our creation so that we can understand. 00:12:53.580 –> 00:12:59.140 He speaks about his face, he speaks about his eyes, he speaks about his ear. 00:12:59.140 –> 00:13:01.380 He even speaks about his nostrils. 00:13:01.400 –> 00:13:05.479 You can check that out in Exodus 15 and verse eight. 00:13:06.700 –> 00:13:12.979 Theologians call this, and here’s the big word of the day that you can ignore if you want to. 00:13:12.979 –> 00:13:16.460 Theologians call this anthropomorphism. 00:13:16.460 –> 00:13:21.440 That’s anthropos meaning man, morph, form. 00:13:21.440 –> 00:13:26.099 It is God describing himself in human form. 00:13:26.880 –> 00:13:30.719 And as you begin to think about that, you’ll quickly realize that this goes further 00:13:31.000 –> 00:13:31.900 throughout the Bible. 00:13:32.340 –> 00:13:38.659 God not only describes himself in terms of the human body, but He describes himself in terms of human emotions. 00:13:38.859 –> 00:13:44.900 So we read, for example, of God, rejoicing or God grieving or God having zeal. 00:13:44.900 –> 00:13:48.260 You remember in the Christmas reading the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. 00:13:48.460 –> 00:13:54.559 Or even you read in Deuteronomy 32 and verse six, verse 27, I’m sorry, of God dreading. 00:13:55.219 –> 00:13:58.380 This is an accommodation to human language so that we may know him. 00:13:59.239 –> 00:14:04.080 Or thirdly, God describes himself in terms of human roles or even professions. 00:14:04.419 –> 00:14:06.659 He describes himself as a husband. 00:14:06.979 –> 00:14:09.039 He describes himself as a father. 00:14:09.200 –> 00:14:11.559 He describes himself as a shepherd. 00:14:12.280 –> 00:14:18.960 And more than that, God even delves into the realm of his own created order to give us 00:14:18.960 –> 00:14:22.280 language that we can begin to discover something about him. 00:14:22.479 –> 00:14:24.280 For example, he is a rock. 00:14:24.739 –> 00:14:26.119 He is a refuge. 00:14:26.239 –> 00:14:27.940 He has a strong tower. 00:14:28.000 –> 00:14:29.460 He is a shield. 00:14:29.500 –> 00:14:31.979 He is a hiding place. 00:14:33.219 –> 00:14:36.900 Now, quickly you will realize that that this is all over the scripture. 00:14:37.059 –> 00:14:37.419 Dr. 00:14:37.419 –> 00:14:43.239 Bavink says scripture calls upon the entire creation to contribute to the description 00:14:43.239 –> 00:14:44.460 of the knowledge of God. 00:14:44.700 –> 00:14:49.359 Everything that has breath is to praise the Lord because everything that has breath in 00:14:49.359 –> 00:14:51.179 some way reflects His glory. 00:14:51.460 –> 00:14:57.739 Even the sun and the moon and the stars in Psalm 148 are invited to praise him because 00:14:57.739 –> 00:15:02.179 they are the work off his hands and in some way they reflect his glory. 00:15:02.419 –> 00:15:09.940 So that beautifully John Calvin says there is not an atom in the universe in which you 00:15:09.940 –> 00:15:15.140 cannot see at least some spark of God’s glory. 00:15:15.219 –> 00:15:15.859 Isn’t that beautiful? 00:15:15.900 –> 00:15:22.799 Not an atom in the universe Now the point here is simply that God speaks to us in 00:15:22.799 –> 00:15:25.900 language that we can understand. 00:15:27.799 –> 00:15:33.159 And so when Moses wants to communicate what the blessing of the eternal God actually 00:15:33.159 –> 00:15:44.979 looks like in your life today he uses in this chapter four wonderful anthropomorphisms 00:15:44.979 –> 00:15:52.559 and I hope you will come to love them and enjoy them as much as I do in the 00:15:52.559 –> 00:15:53.359 scriptures. 00:15:53.500 –> 00:15:57.900 Here’s the first verse three, God’s hand, God’s hand. 00:15:57.919 –> 00:15:58.640 Look at this. 00:15:59.840 –> 00:16:09.080 Verse three surely Moses says to the Lord it is you who love the people and all the 00:16:09.080 –> 00:16:13.440 Holy Ones are in your hand. 00:16:15.039 –> 00:16:17.280 Here’s what it means to be saved, folks. 00:16:17.280 –> 00:16:21.320 Here’s why when you know the Lord you are blessed like nobody else. 00:16:21.320 –> 00:16:26.239 When you know God you are in his hand. 00:16:27.799 –> 00:16:32.000 When you know him your life is not a matter of random chance. 00:16:32.400 –> 00:16:35.919 Whatever surprises, whatever disappointments are going on in your life 00:16:35.919 –> 00:16:41.159 or may come your way, you are in the hand of the living God and he cares for you. 00:16:42.159 –> 00:16:47.159 Jesus said, taking up this picture, he said, I give them eternal life and 00:16:47.159 –> 00:16:50.900 they shall never perish, he says, No one shall snatch them out of my hand. 00:16:52.320 –> 00:16:57.719 There may be many failings in your Christian life, there may be many times 00:16:57.719 –> 00:17:03.500 when your faith is running incredibly low but thank God with me today, 00:17:03.500 –> 00:17:09.239 that your salvation, your security does not rest on the strength of your 00:17:09.239 –> 00:17:13.599 hand holding onto God but it rests on the strength of God’s hand holding onto you. 00:17:13.599 –> 00:17:14.660 Isn’t that good news? 00:17:15.099 –> 00:17:19.140 That security in an uncertain world and Moses says 00:17:19.140 –> 00:17:20.420 to the people of God, 00:17:20.420 –> 00:17:22.099 You are blessed. 00:17:22.099 –> 00:17:25.719 Why, because of someone who is saved by the Lord 00:17:25.719 –> 00:17:31.400 your life is in His hand and that means you are utterly secure. 00:17:33.040 –> 00:17:37.839 Then look on in verse 3, he speaks about God’s feet 00:17:38.839 –> 00:17:40.760 and here are the references to wisdom. 00:17:40.760 –> 00:17:46.459 At your feet they all bow down 00:17:46.459 –> 00:17:51.800 and from you receive instruction. 00:17:51.800 –> 00:17:54.400 The law that Moses gave us. 00:17:55.459 –> 00:17:56.560 Now you see the point here. 00:17:56.560 –> 00:17:58.640 The people of God are coming to a great change. 00:17:58.640 –> 00:18:01.520 Moses has been with them all of their lives 00:18:01.520 –> 00:18:03.959 and he was the one who always seemed to know what to do. 00:18:03.959 –> 00:18:05.359 Moses knows what to do 00:18:05.359 –> 00:18:08.579 and now what are they going to do without Moses. 00:18:08.579 –> 00:18:10.579 The great question surely for God’s people 00:18:11.119 –> 00:18:11.939 we often ask. 00:18:11.939 –> 00:18:13.099 Where can we find wisdom? 00:18:14.180 –> 00:18:16.020 Who should we trust? 00:18:16.020 –> 00:18:19.619 How can we make good and wise decisions? 00:18:20.859 –> 00:18:23.420 And God’s people received instruction 00:18:23.420 –> 00:18:25.959 from God himself through the law, 00:18:25.959 –> 00:18:30.760 Moses says here, that had been given by Moses. 00:18:30.760 –> 00:18:31.979 Now, you see the point here. 00:18:31.979 –> 00:18:33.239 It’s very wonderful. 00:18:34.260 –> 00:18:36.920 When you read the scriptures, 00:18:37.839 –> 00:18:41.040 you are sitting at the feet of God 00:18:42.680 –> 00:18:45.459 and you are listening to his voice. 00:18:45.459 –> 00:18:47.119 People all the time are asking this question 00:18:47.119 –> 00:18:48.839 and many folks are in confusion about it. 00:18:48.839 –> 00:18:50.199 How do I hear the voice of God? 00:18:50.199 –> 00:18:51.619 how do I hear the voice of God? 00:18:51.619 –> 00:18:53.500 Here’s how you hear the voice of God. 00:18:54.599 –> 00:18:57.239 See, Moses is saying, he speaks, he gives direction. 00:18:57.239 –> 00:18:59.660 How, through the law that he’s given to Moses. 00:18:59.660 –> 00:19:03.140 When you listen to the scripture, 00:19:03.140 –> 00:19:05.579 you are hearing the voice of God 00:19:05.780 –> 00:19:10.780 for this is the word that God himself speaks. 00:19:11.680 –> 00:19:13.979 Think of that beautiful picture in the New Testament. 00:19:13.979 –> 00:19:17.719 Remember Mary, when Martha was busy in the kitchen 00:19:17.719 –> 00:19:18.619 and what was Mary doing? 00:19:18.619 –> 00:19:22.719 She’s sitting at the feet of Jesus. 00:19:22.719 –> 00:19:24.579 She’s listening to the very words of God 00:19:24.579 –> 00:19:26.380 coming from the mouth of the Savior. 00:19:27.359 –> 00:19:29.739 Listen, when you have your Bible open, 00:19:29.739 –> 00:19:32.020 when you are reading the word of God, 00:19:32.020 –> 00:19:34.920 you are sitting at the feet of God, 00:19:34.959 –> 00:19:37.239 at your feet they all bow down 00:19:37.239 –> 00:19:39.180 and from you they receive instruction. 00:19:39.180 –> 00:19:40.020 How? 00:19:40.020 –> 00:19:42.300 The law that Moses gave us. 00:19:42.300 –> 00:19:44.040 It’s beautiful, it’s wonderful. 00:19:44.040 –> 00:19:45.619 You are not left without guidance. 00:19:45.619 –> 00:19:49.099 You have a shepherd and here’s how he speaks to you. 00:19:49.099 –> 00:19:50.540 When you read the Scripture, 00:19:50.540 –> 00:19:52.560 you are sitting at the feet of the Lord 00:19:52.560 –> 00:19:57.560 and you are listening to his voice. 00:19:57.780 –> 00:19:58.859 That’s why we want the word of God 00:19:58.859 –> 00:20:00.540 to be central in our worship. 00:20:01.479 –> 00:20:06.479 So that with the Bible open you can see what God says 00:20:07.339 –> 00:20:11.359 and build our lives upon it. 00:20:11.359 –> 00:20:14.020 So you see what Moses is saying, it’s building here. 00:20:14.020 –> 00:20:16.119 Oh how blessed you are Israel, 00:20:16.119 –> 00:20:18.020 a people saved by the Lord. 00:20:18.020 –> 00:20:19.439 You’re in his hands 00:20:20.359 –> 00:20:23.319 and you’re not aimlessly drifting about in life, 00:20:23.319 –> 00:20:25.839 you’re being taught at his feet. 00:20:25.839 –> 00:20:27.060 You have his word. 00:20:27.959 –> 00:20:31.140 And then thirdly, it gets even more beautiful. 00:20:31.140 –> 00:20:32.459 God’s shoulders. 00:20:32.459 –> 00:20:35.260 Will you look with me at verse 12, I love this. 00:20:36.339 –> 00:20:41.079 “‘The beloved of the Lord will rest secure in him 00:20:41.079 –> 00:20:43.119 “‘for he shields them all day long 00:20:43.119 –> 00:20:48.119 “‘and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders.’” 00:20:50.260 –> 00:20:54.459 Boy, that is a verse to mark and highlight in your Bible, 00:20:54.459 –> 00:20:55.920 it is beautiful. 00:20:55.920 –> 00:20:57.060 You see the picture. 00:20:57.060 –> 00:21:00.099 You think about a father with his son, 00:21:00.099 –> 00:21:04.359 little boy, on his shoulders, and you can picture it. 00:21:04.359 –> 00:21:08.839 It’s been a long, exhausting day of Christmas shopping. 00:21:08.839 –> 00:21:10.239 You know what that is? 00:21:10.239 –> 00:21:12.020 And here’s this little lad, he’s been dragged 00:21:12.020 –> 00:21:15.040 around every department store that you can imagine. 00:21:15.040 –> 00:21:16.959 And it’s six o’clock in the evening, 00:21:16.959 –> 00:21:19.359 and the little lad’s absolutely exhausted, 00:21:19.359 –> 00:21:20.199 and he’s been crying. 00:21:20.199 –> 00:21:22.880 And he looks up at his dad, with that exhausted, 00:21:22.880 –> 00:21:25.839 please help me look in his eyes. 00:21:25.839 –> 00:21:27.040 And what does the father do? 00:21:27.040 –> 00:21:29.920 The father picks him up and sticks him on his shoulders. 00:21:29.920 –> 00:21:32.719 And there that little boy sits like a king 00:21:33.959 –> 00:21:35.599 on his father’s shoulders. 00:21:37.040 –> 00:21:38.619 Now you see what this is saying. 00:21:39.579 –> 00:21:44.060 God will not leave you bedraggled and exhausted. 00:21:45.280 –> 00:21:48.560 You look back even to chapter one, in verse 31. 00:21:48.560 –> 00:21:51.260 It’s so beautifully stated there, the same picture. 00:21:51.319 –> 00:21:53.619 Moses says, chapter one, verse 31. 00:21:53.619 –> 00:21:58.619 The Lord, Your God carried you as a father carries his son 00:21:59.619 –> 00:22:02.800 all the way you went until you reach this place. 00:22:02.800 –> 00:22:07.719 All these years in the desert, it was God who carried you. 00:22:09.319 –> 00:22:13.319 There’s a beautiful poem or perhaps a piece of pros 00:22:14.400 –> 00:22:15.760 that many of you will know. 00:22:15.760 –> 00:22:17.839 It’s called Footprints in the Sand. 00:22:17.839 –> 00:22:19.219 Are you familiar with this? 00:22:19.219 –> 00:22:20.280 I just read that to you 00:22:20.319 –> 00:22:24.560 because it just encapsulates the beauty of the God 00:22:24.560 –> 00:22:27.619 who carries his people on his shoulders. 00:22:28.760 –> 00:22:31.380 The author Mary Stevenson writes this. 00:22:31.380 –> 00:22:34.560 One night I dreamed that I was walking 00:22:34.560 –> 00:22:36.160 along the beach with the Lord. 00:22:36.160 –> 00:22:39.140 Many scenes of my life flashed across the sky. 00:22:40.400 –> 00:22:42.040 In each scene I noticed 00:22:42.040 –> 00:22:44.079 that there were footprints in the sand. 00:22:44.079 –> 00:22:46.640 Sometimes there were two sets of footprints. 00:22:46.640 –> 00:22:48.640 Sometimes there was only one. 00:22:49.640 –> 00:22:52.560 This bothered me because I noticed 00:22:52.560 –> 00:22:54.760 that during the low periods of my life, 00:22:54.760 –> 00:22:57.599 when I suffered from anguish and sorrow and defeat. 00:22:57.599 –> 00:23:00.420 I could only see one set of footprints. 00:23:00.420 –> 00:23:03.280 So I said to the Lord, you promised me Lord, 00:23:03.280 –> 00:23:07.619 that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. 00:23:07.619 –> 00:23:10.400 But I have noticed that during the most trying periods 00:23:10.400 –> 00:23:14.160 of my life there was only one set of footprints in the sand. 00:23:14.160 –> 00:23:16.800 Why, when I needed you most, 00:23:16.800 –> 00:23:18.739 have you not been there for me? 00:23:18.739 –> 00:23:21.099 And the Lord replied, 00:23:21.099 –> 00:23:24.939 the times when you have seen only one set of footprints 00:23:26.099 –> 00:23:27.400 is when I carried you. 00:23:29.339 –> 00:23:30.800 Now are you beginning to see 00:23:30.800 –> 00:23:32.520 what the blessing of God looks like? 00:23:32.520 –> 00:23:35.800 Why Moses would say at the end of the chapter, 00:23:35.800 –> 00:23:38.579 Oh, Israel, who’s like you? 00:23:38.579 –> 00:23:40.380 No one has this blessing. 00:23:40.380 –> 00:23:43.260 Apart from it being trusted to you. 00:23:43.260 –> 00:23:44.239 It is amazing. 00:23:44.239 –> 00:23:46.719 You are in the hands of God. 00:23:46.719 –> 00:23:49.540 And you’re being taught at the feet of God. 00:23:49.540 –> 00:23:52.819 And you’re being carried on the shoulders of God. 00:23:54.300 –> 00:23:59.300 And Moses isn’t done because there’s one more verse 27. 00:23:59.540 –> 00:24:00.939 And if you haven’t highlighted this 00:24:00.939 –> 00:24:03.979 in your Bible, oh, this is another verse to highlight. 00:24:05.859 –> 00:24:10.699 The eternal God is your refuge. 00:24:10.699 –> 00:24:14.180 And underneath says Moses are 00:24:14.180 –> 00:24:17.780 the everlasting arms. 00:24:18.719 –> 00:24:22.300 Underneath the everlasting arms. 00:24:23.699 –> 00:24:26.400 No, anyone who’s climbed a mountain knows 00:24:26.400 –> 00:24:28.959 that going up is always easier than coming down, 00:24:28.959 –> 00:24:30.560 isn’t that a principle? 00:24:30.560 –> 00:24:32.739 Going up is challenging, is wonderful, 00:24:32.739 –> 00:24:36.339 but you have a sense of achievement on the way up. 00:24:36.339 –> 00:24:37.939 Coming down is always harder, 00:24:37.939 –> 00:24:40.680 that’s when you’re more likely to slip, 00:24:40.680 –> 00:24:42.439 that’s when you’ll get discouraged. 00:24:43.339 –> 00:24:47.680 C. H. Spurgeon says that this promise in verse 27 00:24:47.680 –> 00:24:50.239 is for times when we face the challenge 00:24:50.239 –> 00:24:51.920 of the downward journey. 00:24:53.079 –> 00:24:56.579 Times in your life where you are brought low, 00:24:56.579 –> 00:24:58.119 and there are times in all of our lives 00:24:58.119 –> 00:25:00.219 where we are brought very, very low, 00:25:00.219 –> 00:25:01.479 in one way or another. 00:25:02.920 –> 00:25:05.119 Spurgeon says it might be material. 00:25:06.560 –> 00:25:07.760 Some of us know about that. 00:25:07.760 –> 00:25:09.540 Your salary was going up. 00:25:09.540 –> 00:25:10.900 Great when it’s going up. 00:25:11.439 –> 00:25:13.300 Your savings were going up. 00:25:14.300 –> 00:25:18.300 Now it’s all down and you have much less 00:25:18.300 –> 00:25:19.140 than you had before. 00:25:19.140 –> 00:25:20.000 That’s not easy. 00:25:20.979 –> 00:25:24.280 It’s going down, Spurgen says, 00:25:24.280 –> 00:25:28.040 it might not only be material, it might be mental. 00:25:29.280 –> 00:25:34.119 Is there anyone else here who has noticed memory failing 00:25:35.280 –> 00:25:36.979 or said in frustration, 00:25:36.979 –> 00:25:39.900 boy, how did that slip my mind? 00:25:41.040 –> 00:25:42.800 And you have felt that your mind is not 00:25:42.800 –> 00:25:45.619 as sharp as it used to be, it’s going down. 00:25:47.119 –> 00:25:49.959 Maybe your influence, it may be your reputation, 00:25:49.959 –> 00:25:51.180 people looked up to you, 00:25:51.180 –> 00:25:52.640 you had a certain position, 00:25:52.640 –> 00:25:54.260 but you’re not in that position now. 00:25:54.260 –> 00:25:55.540 People wanted your opinion, 00:25:55.540 –> 00:25:58.459 but nobody’s asking your opinion now. 00:25:58.459 –> 00:26:01.000 These days are gone, things have changed, 00:26:01.000 –> 00:26:02.520 you’re no longer looked up to 00:26:02.520 –> 00:26:03.959 with the kind of respect 00:26:03.959 –> 00:26:05.640 that you were accustomed to in the past. 00:26:05.640 –> 00:26:08.760 You’re going down and going down isn’t easy, 00:26:08.760 –> 00:26:10.359 so here’s the promise. 00:26:12.540 –> 00:26:15.020 However far you fall, 00:26:16.219 –> 00:26:18.380 however low you come, 00:26:20.500 –> 00:26:24.920 the loving arms of God are always underneath, 00:26:24.920 –> 00:26:26.640 that’s the great thing about this text, 00:26:26.640 –> 00:26:30.920 underneath as you’re falling, 00:26:30.920 –> 00:26:35.839 underneath are the everlasting arms. 00:26:37.359 –> 00:26:40.000 And put yourself in Moses’ shoes, 00:26:40.000 –> 00:26:41.719 because you know what’s going to happen next for him, 00:26:41.719 –> 00:26:44.500 because we’ve already looked at chapter 34. 00:26:46.079 –> 00:26:48.219 Here’s Moses, can you imagine this, 00:26:48.219 –> 00:26:51.180 after 40 years of ministry with these people 00:26:51.180 –> 00:26:53.060 and all the frustrations he’s endured 00:26:53.060 –> 00:26:56.699 and now he’s at the very verge of the promised land, 00:26:56.699 –> 00:27:01.099 and surely in his heart there must’ve been this sense, 00:27:01.099 –> 00:27:03.699 oh Lord, there’s so much more I want to do for you. 00:27:05.040 –> 00:27:07.199 The last chapter of the book says that his eyes 00:27:07.199 –> 00:27:09.839 were not dim and his strength was not gone. 00:27:09.839 –> 00:27:13.099 Lord, my eyes aren’t dim, my strength is not gone, 00:27:13.099 –> 00:27:14.739 there’s more I want to do for you, 00:27:14.739 –> 00:27:18.239 I’m so close, why don’t you let me finish what I started. 00:27:19.819 –> 00:27:22.180 Anyone here had the experience of not being allowed 00:27:22.180 –> 00:27:23.760 to finish something you started, 00:27:24.579 –> 00:27:25.660 and wishing you could? 00:27:27.660 –> 00:27:30.199 And the reality that Moses faces now is that 00:27:30.199 –> 00:27:33.719 a few hours after speaking these very words, 00:27:35.439 –> 00:27:37.300 he’s gonna descend into the grave. 00:27:39.180 –> 00:27:42.900 And he says, now I want you to know why you’re blessed 00:27:42.900 –> 00:27:45.280 as the people of God and why I’m blessed 00:27:45.280 –> 00:27:47.339 to be one of God’s people. 00:27:47.339 –> 00:27:51.420 As I go down, I’m gonna be buried 00:27:51.459 –> 00:27:56.459 underneath our, the everlasting arms. 00:27:57.719 –> 00:27:58.560 Isn’t that good? 00:28:00.900 –> 00:28:05.900 Spurgeon says, underneath dying saints 00:28:07.119 –> 00:28:08.560 is the living God. 00:28:08.560 –> 00:28:09.680 Isn’t that great? 00:28:10.599 –> 00:28:14.459 Underneath dying saints is the living God 00:28:15.680 –> 00:28:20.339 and he says, I recollect, this is Spurgeon at a funeral, 00:28:20.339 –> 00:28:23.880 when we laid the body of one of our God’s dear saints 00:28:23.880 –> 00:28:27.280 in the grave, you picture they’re at the graveside 00:28:27.280 –> 00:28:29.579 and Spurgeon says, one of my fellow ministers 00:28:29.579 –> 00:28:31.319 prayed like this and he quotes the prayer 00:28:31.319 –> 00:28:33.119 that the guy said by the graveside. 00:28:34.020 –> 00:28:38.219 Lord, we thank you that though our dear friend 00:28:38.219 –> 00:28:41.459 has come so low now as to be in his grave, 00:28:42.300 –> 00:28:44.140 he cannot go any lower 00:28:45.500 –> 00:28:48.180 for underneath are the everlasting arms 00:28:48.180 –> 00:28:51.699 and in due time you will bring him up again 00:28:51.699 –> 00:28:55.780 by these everlasting arms raised to newness 00:28:55.780 –> 00:28:58.760 of life in Jesus Christ. 00:28:58.760 –> 00:29:00.260 Isn’t that beautiful. 00:29:00.260 –> 00:29:01.420 Even in death. 00:29:02.800 –> 00:29:06.900 Underneath are the everlasting arms. 00:29:06.900 –> 00:29:09.420 So here’s the blessing that is so rich 00:29:09.420 –> 00:29:11.699 for those who are saved by the Lord. 00:29:11.699 –> 00:29:14.979 Here’s why Moses is saying, blessed are you, oh Israel. 00:29:14.979 –> 00:29:17.900 Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord 00:29:17.900 –> 00:29:20.180 because this is what it means to be saved by the Lord. 00:29:20.180 –> 00:29:22.239 This is what it means to know God. 00:29:22.239 –> 00:29:24.819 You’re in his hands and you’re at his feet 00:29:24.819 –> 00:29:26.380 and you’re between his shoulders 00:29:26.380 –> 00:29:29.900 and you’re on his arms and there is no blessing. 00:29:29.900 –> 00:29:32.180 There is no richness in this world 00:29:32.180 –> 00:29:33.819 that can come close to that. 00:29:33.819 –> 00:29:35.739 Who is like you, oh Israel? 00:29:35.739 –> 00:29:39.079 That you should have this blessing as yours. 00:29:40.339 –> 00:29:41.900 Now here’s the last thing today. 00:29:42.780 –> 00:29:45.439 This blessing of God, 00:29:46.660 –> 00:29:48.160 to be in his hands and at his feet 00:29:48.160 –> 00:29:49.339 and on his shoulders, 00:29:49.339 –> 00:29:51.359 between his shoulders and on his arms. 00:29:52.260 –> 00:29:55.859 This blessing of God was theirs then 00:29:55.859 –> 00:29:57.780 as it is ours now 00:29:57.780 –> 00:30:00.260 only through Jesus Christ. 00:30:01.239 –> 00:30:02.939 You see what Jesus Christ accomplished 00:30:02.939 –> 00:30:04.619 when he came and was born into the world 00:30:04.619 –> 00:30:07.300 and then when he died and then when he rose again. 00:30:07.300 –> 00:30:11.180 What Jesus accomplished brought the blessing of God 00:30:11.180 –> 00:30:14.219 to God’s people before him 00:30:14.219 –> 00:30:17.719 as much as to all of us who live after him. 00:30:18.839 –> 00:30:21.859 And you see that is the greater significance 00:30:21.859 –> 00:30:26.199 of why Moses died outside the Promised Land. 00:30:26.199 –> 00:30:29.020 This is of huge importance in the Bible story. 00:30:30.060 –> 00:30:32.619 Moses was the law giver. 00:30:33.660 –> 00:30:37.699 And the law gives you a glimpse of the Promised Land. 00:30:37.699 –> 00:30:40.319 The law tells you what a blessed life looks like. 00:30:40.339 –> 00:30:42.199 The problem is the law can’t bring you 00:30:42.199 –> 00:30:44.359 into living that blessed life. 00:30:45.920 –> 00:30:47.760 The law gives you a glimpse of the blessing, 00:30:47.760 –> 00:30:49.520 but it cannot take you in. 00:30:49.520 –> 00:30:51.560 It gives you a glimpse of holiness. 00:30:51.560 –> 00:30:52.579 You read God’s law and you say, 00:30:52.579 –> 00:30:54.319 oh, that’s the kind of man I want to be, 00:30:54.319 –> 00:30:55.920 but it can’t take you in. 00:30:57.699 –> 00:30:58.880 The law brought Moses. 00:30:58.880 –> 00:31:01.359 The law giver came to the edge of the Promised Land 00:31:01.359 –> 00:31:03.920 but that’s as far as the law can take you. 00:31:03.920 –> 00:31:06.079 That is why the Bible says that no one will 00:31:06.079 –> 00:31:08.140 be declared righteous in the sight of God 00:31:08.400 –> 00:31:09.500 by observing the law. 00:31:09.500 –> 00:31:12.979 We need someone better than Moses 00:31:12.979 –> 00:31:16.300 to lead us into the blessing of God. 00:31:16.300 –> 00:31:18.180 Otherwise, we will only be glimpsing it 00:31:18.180 –> 00:31:19.660 as he did from outside. 00:31:21.180 –> 00:31:24.459 And so, of course, the great question of the Bible’s story 00:31:24.459 –> 00:31:27.500 is who then can bring us where Moses could not go? 00:31:27.500 –> 00:31:29.800 Who can bring us right into this blessing? 00:31:29.800 –> 00:31:32.579 Who can make all that it means to be in his hands 00:31:32.579 –> 00:31:34.699 and at his feet and on his shoulders, 00:31:34.699 –> 00:31:36.300 between his shoulders and on his arms? 00:31:36.300 –> 00:31:39.020 Who can make all that really ours? 00:31:39.020 –> 00:31:40.660 And John puts it this way. 00:31:40.660 –> 00:31:43.180 He says, the law came by Moses, 00:31:43.180 –> 00:31:47.819 but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 00:31:49.719 –> 00:31:52.260 And I want you to see the beauty of this 00:31:52.260 –> 00:31:54.619 in God’s progressive revelation. 00:31:56.839 –> 00:32:01.839 Moses described God in human terms, 00:32:02.300 –> 00:32:05.459 hands, feet, shoulders, arms. 00:32:07.079 –> 00:32:12.079 Jesus Christ is God in the flesh, 00:32:14.060 –> 00:32:19.060 hands, feet, shoulders, arms. 00:32:20.560 –> 00:32:24.219 The blessings in other words that Moses described 00:32:24.219 –> 00:32:29.099 were theirs and are ours and can be yours 00:32:29.099 –> 00:32:33.439 through Jesus Christ who is God in the flesh. 00:32:33.479 –> 00:32:36.380 That is God coming to actually do 00:32:36.380 –> 00:32:39.680 and accomplish for us everything that Moses described. 00:32:41.500 –> 00:32:44.300 And that is why you see the Shepherds 00:32:44.300 –> 00:32:47.300 gather with Mary and Joseph at the manger 00:32:48.359 –> 00:32:52.280 and they look with wonder at these tiny hands 00:32:53.579 –> 00:32:54.699 and these tiny feet 00:32:54.699 –> 00:32:57.239 and these little shoulders and these little arms. 00:32:58.579 –> 00:33:00.060 And they bow in worship 00:33:00.099 –> 00:33:04.859 because they are looking at the hands and the feet of God. 00:33:07.000 –> 00:33:10.500 Roll the story forward, and this child has become a man, 00:33:10.500 –> 00:33:14.459 his hands are now skilled through his work as a carpenter, 00:33:14.459 –> 00:33:17.660 his feet are worn with many, many miles 00:33:17.660 –> 00:33:20.339 of walking on dusty roads. 00:33:20.339 –> 00:33:23.680 Now look at him, his shoulders are carrying 00:33:23.680 –> 00:33:26.079 a huge beam of wood. 00:33:27.040 –> 00:33:30.619 A crowd gathered and they’re jeering and mocking, 00:33:30.619 –> 00:33:33.079 and knows soldiers they’re taking nails 00:33:33.079 –> 00:33:37.079 and they are piercing the hands and the feet of God. 00:33:38.959 –> 00:33:41.300 And as they do, the arms of God 00:33:41.300 –> 00:33:44.680 are outstretched towards you. 00:33:46.640 –> 00:33:49.380 Friends, Jesus went to the cross 00:33:49.380 –> 00:33:53.099 so that the blessing of God in all its fullness 00:33:53.180 –> 00:33:56.900 that Moses described could be yours. 00:33:56.900 –> 00:33:59.619 So that your life could be in the hands of God, 00:33:59.619 –> 00:34:02.380 not as his enemy, but as his friend. 00:34:02.380 –> 00:34:04.219 So that your life could be 00:34:04.219 –> 00:34:08.520 as one who has taught at the feet of almighty God. 00:34:08.520 –> 00:34:11.000 So that you, when your own strength is gone, 00:34:11.000 –> 00:34:13.879 could be carried on the shoulders of the Almighty 00:34:13.879 –> 00:34:18.219 so that you would be forever secure in the everlasting arms 00:34:18.219 –> 00:34:20.600 no matter how far you may fall. 00:34:20.600 –> 00:34:25.500 And to all of us who belong to this Jesus Christ today, 00:34:25.500 –> 00:34:27.120 I say in the words of Moses, 00:34:27.120 –> 00:34:32.120 blessed are you O Israel, who is like you, 00:34:32.320 –> 00:34:36.280 a people saved by the Lord. 00:34:36.280 –> 00:34:41.280 And do you know, if you’ve come visiting the church today, 00:34:41.800 –> 00:34:45.500 perhaps drawn by the season, drawn by the occasion, 00:34:45.500 –> 00:34:49.080 I want to say, if you don’t yet know 00:34:49.120 –> 00:34:50.800 about this in your own experience, 00:34:50.800 –> 00:34:53.199 this blessing can be yours. 00:34:55.020 –> 00:34:57.580 Christ came into the world to make it yours. 00:34:58.679 –> 00:35:00.399 And here’s what you can do today. 00:35:01.979 –> 00:35:05.080 You can say, Lord Jesus today, 00:35:05.919 –> 00:35:09.060 I place my life into your hands. 00:35:10.239 –> 00:35:11.679 Now be my provider. 00:35:13.439 –> 00:35:17.159 Lord Jesus, today, I’m going to sit at your feet. 00:35:18.159 –> 00:35:19.739 Now be my teacher. 00:35:20.840 –> 00:35:25.739 Lord Jesus, today, I find rest in your shoulders. 00:35:27.520 –> 00:35:29.260 Now, be my strength. 00:35:31.080 –> 00:35:36.080 Lord Jesus, today, I fall into your everlasting arms. 00:35:38.719 –> 00:35:39.860 Now be my savior. 00:35:41.560 –> 00:35:43.179 Let’s pray together, shall we? 00:35:45.399 –> 00:35:46.500 Our Father in heaven, 00:35:46.699 –> 00:35:50.580 we bow before you in worship and in awe 00:35:53.040 –> 00:35:55.780 that you yourself the God, 00:35:57.139 –> 00:36:02.139 invisible, eternal and incomprehensible to tiny human minds 00:36:04.979 –> 00:36:08.340 should have made yourself known in language 00:36:08.340 –> 00:36:10.000 that we can understand 00:36:12.179 –> 00:36:15.100 and more than that, should’ve come to us. 00:36:16.939 –> 00:36:19.780 Not only describing yourself in human form, 00:36:19.780 –> 00:36:23.340 but taking our flesh 00:36:25.739 –> 00:36:27.439 in the man, Christ Jesus. 00:36:29.800 –> 00:36:30.639 We worship. 00:36:32.860 –> 00:36:33.939 We want Father, 00:36:33.939 –> 00:36:36.580 as we see the glory of these things, 00:36:37.500 –> 00:36:39.760 that our lives will be in your hands, 00:36:41.780 –> 00:36:44.080 that wisdom we will learn at your feet, 00:36:44.919 –> 00:36:47.860 strength we may find between your shoulders 00:36:50.159 –> 00:36:53.399 and that salvation will be ours in your everlasting arms 00:36:53.399 –> 00:36:57.919 through Jesus Christ, our Saviour and our Lord, 00:36:59.060 –> 00:37:01.360 in whom we rejoice 00:37:03.260 –> 00:37:06.060 and all of God’s people together said. 00:37:09.479 –> 00:37:10.719 You’ve been listening to a sermon 00:37:10.719 –> 00:37:13.300 with Pastor Colin Smith of Open the Bible. 00:37:14.139 –> 00:37:19.139 To contact us, call us at 1-877-OPEN-365 00:37:19.459 –> 00:37:22.939 or visit our website openthebible.org.