1 00:00:24,780 --> 00:00:28,380 Now then, for the final time, we glean 2 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:32,820 in dichotomy, and perhaps it's good that the 3 00:00:32,820 --> 00:00:37,360 last study in the series for the time 4 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:44,020 being, leads us into a contrast between the 5 00:00:44,020 --> 00:00:47,440 Lord Jesus Christ and Moses. 6 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,340 You know that in studying the Old Testament, 7 00:00:52,340 --> 00:00:56,100 there are certain characters who, if you examine 8 00:00:56,100 --> 00:01:00,120 their life and their witness in some detail, 9 00:01:00,940 --> 00:01:06,620 they configure, they give some indication as to 10 00:01:06,620 --> 00:01:10,040 the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. 11 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:14,500 Obviously, they can't in any way absolutely illustrate 12 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:18,180 for us all that the Saviour will reveal 13 00:01:18,180 --> 00:01:21,760 in his personality and in his teaching, for 14 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,320 they turn into insignificance, really, in the light 15 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:27,840 of the glory of the knowledge of God, 16 00:01:28,180 --> 00:01:30,860 which is to be discerned in Jesus Christ. 17 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,940 But as you engage in the study of 18 00:01:33,940 --> 00:01:37,380 the Old Testament, it's sometimes facetable, particularly when 19 00:01:37,380 --> 00:01:40,700 you're thinking of Bible characters, to see what 20 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:47,120 manner they point forward to the Lord Jesus 21 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,660 Christ in, how much they have to tell 22 00:01:49,660 --> 00:01:51,720 us of the Saviour. 23 00:01:52,180 --> 00:01:55,580 Now, particularly in this chapter that we're looking 24 00:01:55,580 --> 00:02:00,000 at, the 18th of the book of Deuteronomy, 25 00:02:00,660 --> 00:02:02,600 it's good for us to be able to 26 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,680 run a parallel between the Lord Jesus and 27 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,759 Moses, because it's something that is contained halfway 28 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:11,480 through that passage of Scripture. 29 00:02:12,180 --> 00:02:14,240 But let's just get the whole into context 30 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:15,920 for a moment or so, shall we? 31 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:18,000 Here is Moses, you remember. 32 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,360 He's got all the Israelites in front of 33 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,760 him, an old man just about to take 34 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:24,560 his leave of them. 35 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,380 This is his swan song in preaching, really. 36 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:29,920 He won't be with them much longer. 37 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,680 He will soon be in the glory. 38 00:02:33,140 --> 00:02:34,820 God will bury him. 39 00:02:35,580 --> 00:02:40,080 But he wants to put down certain rules 40 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,900 and offer certain pieces of advice by which 41 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:47,640 the Hebrews shall order their lives when they 42 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:50,440 move into the land of Canaan. 43 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,740 And in this 18th chapter, once more we 44 00:02:53,740 --> 00:02:56,760 find him very concerned about the treatment of 45 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,340 the priests and the Levites, the sort of 46 00:02:59,340 --> 00:03:03,780 ministry, the professional ministry, if you like, in 47 00:03:03,780 --> 00:03:04,400 those days. 48 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,900 He's very concerned that these men were set 49 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:10,680 apart from the spiritual ministry, shall be looked 50 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,540 after materially, their well-being shall be guaranteed 51 00:03:14,540 --> 00:03:17,900 by the rest of the Hebrew people. 52 00:03:18,420 --> 00:03:20,580 And so, as you would have read, if 53 00:03:20,580 --> 00:03:23,780 you were looking carefully, he puts down these 54 00:03:23,780 --> 00:03:28,460 instructions as to how these men are to 55 00:03:28,460 --> 00:03:33,480 be cared for by the Hebrew community, how 56 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,340 they are to be looked after for the 57 00:03:37,340 --> 00:03:41,120 honor and for the glory of the Lord. 58 00:03:41,940 --> 00:03:45,540 And then you discover, as I mentioned a 59 00:03:45,540 --> 00:03:49,620 moment or so ago, that Moses lays down 60 00:03:49,620 --> 00:03:50,700 certain prohibitions. 61 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,480 Not only are the people to enhance the 62 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,680 work of the two clergies, but if there 63 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,280 comes some amongst the congregation of the Hebrews 64 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:09,220 who prophesy, who enter into seances, who practice 65 00:04:09,220 --> 00:04:14,460 magical arts, then far from supporting such people, 66 00:04:15,380 --> 00:04:19,339 they and their ministry are to be rejected 67 00:04:19,339 --> 00:04:20,700 by the Hebrews. 68 00:04:21,580 --> 00:04:24,660 So here is Moses concerned to sustain a 69 00:04:24,660 --> 00:04:28,240 good ministry amongst the Hebrews, and concerned that 70 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,000 they might expose people who will work for 71 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,980 them, spiritual charms, and bring about problems. 72 00:04:37,940 --> 00:04:40,500 And the basic thing that Moses is concerned 73 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:44,320 about is locked up in that fourth and 74 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:44,760 eighth verse. 75 00:04:45,620 --> 00:04:47,840 He wants the children of Israel to be 76 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:51,460 perfect with the Lord their God. 77 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,100 He wants a ministry that will be helpful, 78 00:04:54,420 --> 00:04:57,140 always to be available, so that when he 79 00:04:57,140 --> 00:04:59,520 is done, the divine words shall be communicated 80 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,500 to the Hebrews, and he wants the Israelites 81 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:06,560 to be so spiritually sensitive that any magician, 82 00:05:07,060 --> 00:05:09,880 that anyone who deals in witchcraft or the 83 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:14,180 black art shall be severely censured and their 84 00:05:14,180 --> 00:05:18,480 ministry erased from the Hebrew community. 85 00:05:18,660 --> 00:05:21,520 He wants the Hebrews to be in such 86 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,880 an environment, such a spiritual condition, that the 87 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,500 smile of God shall always be upon them. 88 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:30,380 Now let's just stop for a moment, in 89 00:05:30,380 --> 00:05:32,420 case you don't see the relevance of that 90 00:05:32,420 --> 00:05:34,460 to the 17th century, or indeed to the 91 00:05:34,460 --> 00:05:35,200 Christian era. 92 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:39,420 Why has God called you to enter into 93 00:05:39,420 --> 00:05:41,220 the family circle of the redeemed? 94 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,620 I believe that the spirit is the equivalent 95 00:05:44,620 --> 00:05:48,360 in the New Testament to Israel in the 96 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:49,140 Old Testament. 97 00:05:49,940 --> 00:05:52,460 Now why has God called the church into 98 00:05:52,460 --> 00:05:52,780 being? 99 00:05:53,660 --> 00:05:55,620 Well, so that he shall have a holy 100 00:05:55,620 --> 00:05:56,720 people for himself. 101 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,640 So it's a fisherman who writes in his 102 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,440 epistle, you remember, that the church of Jesus 103 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,580 Christ is to be a royal priesthood, a 104 00:06:05,580 --> 00:06:06,400 holy nation. 105 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,420 We are to be in such a state 106 00:06:09,420 --> 00:06:12,860 that God can always work out his purposes 107 00:06:12,860 --> 00:06:15,800 through us and by us. 108 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:18,840 So then I make that opening comment. 109 00:06:19,060 --> 00:06:22,160 It was necessary for the Hebrews to have 110 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,580 a good ministry, and for them to be 111 00:06:24,580 --> 00:06:27,160 able to see the difference between the charlatan 112 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:28,440 and the true prophet. 113 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:31,180 And it's necessary for us in the Christian 114 00:06:31,180 --> 00:06:34,260 community to be able to detect a man 115 00:06:34,260 --> 00:06:36,340 who is really speaking the word of the 116 00:06:36,340 --> 00:06:39,680 Lord, and to expose heresy, and to cut 117 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:41,760 the latter from amongst us. 118 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:45,000 Now, it's not that Moses is in any 119 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,640 way scared of the whole panorama of the 120 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:50,260 miraculous. 121 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,080 It's not that he is in any sense 122 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,140 suggesting that a man may not see into 123 00:06:57,140 --> 00:06:59,560 the mind of God, and claim to speak 124 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:00,780 for the Lord God. 125 00:07:01,540 --> 00:07:05,260 Indeed Moses says in the 15th through to 126 00:07:05,260 --> 00:07:08,500 the 20th verse, that that is how he 127 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:10,020 understands his own ministry. 128 00:07:10,820 --> 00:07:13,140 It's not often that we hear Moses referred 129 00:07:13,140 --> 00:07:15,720 to as a prophet, but indeed he was 130 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:16,180 a prophet. 131 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,800 He was a man who foretold, and also 132 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:25,940 was in foretelling the message of the Lord 133 00:07:25,940 --> 00:07:26,400 God. 134 00:07:26,900 --> 00:07:29,200 And he says that not only does he 135 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,920 engage in prophetic ministry, but God will constantly 136 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,800 give to the Hebrews, and eventually in an 137 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:41,800 absolute fashion, prophets, the prophets, who will declare 138 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:47,080 God's absolute inspired word to the community of 139 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:47,500 the Jews. 140 00:07:48,180 --> 00:07:50,920 And then in the final verses, once again 141 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,080 Moses goes back to the old warning of 142 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,840 trying to steer the people away from being 143 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:04,080 taken in by false prophets, false magicians, and 144 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:04,640 so forth. 145 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:08,660 So I want to stop really, and concentrate 146 00:08:08,660 --> 00:08:13,000 your attention on those verses from the 15th 147 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:18,740 down to the 20th, where Moses acknowledges that 148 00:08:18,740 --> 00:08:22,120 he is a prophet, and predicts that one 149 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,920 will come, who in an absolute fashion shall 150 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,680 gather up the divine word, and communicate that 151 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:30,860 to the people. 152 00:08:31,220 --> 00:08:34,080 And of course Moses is talking about none 153 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,360 other than the Lord Jesus Christ, a fact 154 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,960 which I shall establish, if you question it 155 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,860 at this moment, in a little while. 156 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,360 But allow me straight away to run this 157 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,500 parallel between Moses and the Savior, and let's 158 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:54,340 see some glorious anticipations of the ministry of 159 00:08:54,340 --> 00:08:57,260 the letter by that of the former. 160 00:08:58,220 --> 00:09:01,400 Now we're told concerning Moses and the Lord 161 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,280 Jesus, Moses in that prophet which is to 162 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,960 come, that both men shall have a similar 163 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,400 background, a similar background. 164 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:13,940 Look at the 15th verse, the Lord thy 165 00:09:13,940 --> 00:09:16,060 God will raise up unto thee a prophet 166 00:09:16,580 --> 00:09:21,220 from the midst of thee, of thy brethren. 167 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:23,700 And again that's repeated in the 18th verse, 168 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:25,980 I will raise them up a prophet from 169 00:09:25,980 --> 00:09:30,800 among their brethren like unto thee. 170 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:35,540 And there are so many comparable things about 171 00:09:35,540 --> 00:09:40,280 the background of Moses with that of the 172 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:40,880 Lord Jesus. 173 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:42,880 I mentioned one or two by no means 174 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,380 exhausting them on the notes that have been 175 00:09:45,380 --> 00:09:45,840 published. 176 00:09:46,180 --> 00:09:48,020 Here's one that's not on the notes. 177 00:09:49,180 --> 00:09:54,520 Both these remarkable men had mothers who were 178 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:55,000 godly. 179 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,260 Not much is said about the mother of 180 00:09:59,260 --> 00:10:02,580 Moses in the Pentateuch, but she must have 181 00:10:02,580 --> 00:10:04,360 been an incredible lady. 182 00:10:05,260 --> 00:10:08,240 I was reading Alexander White's books on Bible 183 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,600 characters just a little while ago, and he 184 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:14,360 says that the name of Moses' mother could 185 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:20,140 be translated God thy glory, God thy glory. 186 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,120 One wonders if he had some sort of 187 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:27,280 revelation about the birth of Moses and the 188 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:31,880 particular place in history that he was going 189 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:32,680 to occupy. 190 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:37,120 One wonders if it was from this godly 191 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,040 mother as well as from his father that 192 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,940 Moses derived some of his spiritual qualities and 193 00:10:42,940 --> 00:10:43,760 characteristics. 194 00:10:44,300 --> 00:10:45,800 For that is a thing that is going 195 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,620 to be repeated again in biblical history. 196 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:53,500 Remember how the apostle Paul in congratulating Timothy 197 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:56,900 puts down some of his spiritual success on 198 00:10:56,900 --> 00:10:59,660 the human level to his mother and to 199 00:10:59,660 --> 00:11:00,380 his grandmother? 200 00:11:01,180 --> 00:11:06,500 Well, here is Moses, born with a godly 201 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:10,680 parenting, and I hardly need to tell you 202 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:14,320 that the mother of the Lord Jesus was 203 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:19,800 a unique lady, she who was blessed with 204 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:25,580 the favour of the Lord God, used incredibly 205 00:11:25,580 --> 00:11:30,440 for the fulfilment of God's purposes, and from 206 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:34,460 her womb is born Jesus the Christ. 207 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:38,760 Well then, both of these men had remarkable 208 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:39,560 mothers. 209 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,960 And let's continue, and also draw out this 210 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:48,520 comparison, that both of these men were born 211 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,500 under the sentence of death. 212 00:11:52,060 --> 00:11:54,880 Remember how Pharaoh had decreed a policy of 213 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:55,560 genocide. 214 00:11:56,460 --> 00:11:58,760 He was so concerned that the Hebrews were 215 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:02,660 growing so profound, and all male children were 216 00:12:02,660 --> 00:12:07,380 to be drowned in the sea. 217 00:12:08,380 --> 00:12:12,500 But do you recall how Moses' mother and 218 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:16,480 father conspired that plan whereby they would preserve 219 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,020 the life of their infants? 220 00:12:19,980 --> 00:12:23,980 And the instrument of death, the river Nile, 221 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:26,880 was to become the very instrument of salvation 222 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:31,380 as they created that, made that perfect little 223 00:12:31,380 --> 00:12:35,640 cradle boat, and put Moses in it, keeping 224 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,660 his life and his ministry for a further 225 00:12:39,660 --> 00:12:42,080 period of youthfulness. 226 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,800 And similarly, the Lord Jesus Christ, born under 227 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,060 sentence of death, or head of the tyrant, 228 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,780 so jealous, having heard that someone else of 229 00:12:51,780 --> 00:12:55,300 the kingly blood had been born in his 230 00:12:55,300 --> 00:12:58,800 particular locality, decreed the death of every infant 231 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,240 under two years of age. 232 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:06,780 So, both Moses and our Saviour had remarkable 233 00:13:06,780 --> 00:13:10,560 mothers, and were born under sentence of death. 234 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,620 And Moses, you remember, had a most remarkable 235 00:13:15,620 --> 00:13:16,240 education. 236 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,280 Stephen makes reference to this in his sermon 237 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:21,280 before the high priest. 238 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:26,320 He talks about Moses and the university background 239 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:27,940 that he had in Egypt, and how he 240 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:32,500 was filled in all the knowledge of the 241 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:33,660 ancient world. 242 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,100 How he was being prepared by the Lord 243 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:40,440 God, in the best academies of his day, 244 00:13:40,820 --> 00:13:43,440 for the ministry that was to be his 245 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:44,700 in the future. 246 00:13:45,340 --> 00:13:47,820 Ah, but you say, where's the common denominator 247 00:13:47,820 --> 00:13:48,120 there? 248 00:13:48,180 --> 00:13:50,280 Because you don't read about the Lord Jesus 249 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:51,500 being a qualified man. 250 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,320 No, indeed, his opponents, those who criticized him, 251 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:56,700 said that he's a leper man. 252 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:58,280 He's not a proper rabbi. 253 00:13:58,380 --> 00:14:00,180 He's an upstart from Nazareth. 254 00:14:01,580 --> 00:14:05,200 But those who discern it, when they read 255 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,600 the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, they 256 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,900 find there a man who's skilled, with humble 257 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:15,880 knowledge, a man who has been to the 258 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,780 university of nature itself, who back in Nazareth 259 00:14:19,780 --> 00:14:22,540 was able to see the beauty of the 260 00:14:22,540 --> 00:14:25,320 lilies in the field, and come to amazing 261 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:29,840 theological conclusions about the creator of those flowers. 262 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,420 One who could see within the mustard seeds 263 00:14:33,420 --> 00:14:37,980 growing in Joseph's gardens, back gardens, some spiritual 264 00:14:37,980 --> 00:14:42,080 fruits, which later on would be passarded before 265 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:42,580 the people. 266 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,500 The Lord Jesus Christ, who had within himself 267 00:14:46,500 --> 00:14:49,620 all the treasures of the wisdom of the 268 00:14:49,620 --> 00:14:53,200 most high God, pondered and reflected not only 269 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:55,920 on the world of nature, but upon that 270 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,380 innate wisdom with which he was born, and 271 00:14:59,380 --> 00:15:03,560 eventually in maturity, as he consented men and 272 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:06,260 women with a tremendous truth of God. 273 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:09,420 He was to hear comments made about him 274 00:15:09,420 --> 00:15:12,420 that were never made about his contemporary teachers. 275 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:14,720 No man speaks like this man. 276 00:15:15,380 --> 00:15:16,360 He has authority. 277 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,020 We can understand what he's talking about. 278 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:25,360 Jesus Christ, greater than Moses, with an education 279 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:31,260 not in any specific natural university, but schooled 280 00:15:31,260 --> 00:15:34,740 by the Spirit of God, under the orbit 281 00:15:34,740 --> 00:15:40,280 of the fulminant of heaven, gaining messages from 282 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:43,760 nature itself, which eventually he shall be able 283 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:47,500 to pass on to those who will listen. 284 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:49,600 And so we could continue. 285 00:15:50,380 --> 00:15:52,460 And what about the inauguration of the ministry 286 00:15:52,460 --> 00:15:53,080 of these men? 287 00:15:53,820 --> 00:15:55,980 Here is Moses and he's been looking after 288 00:15:55,980 --> 00:15:56,980 his father Jethro. 289 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,940 His father-in-law Jethro speaks, you remember, 290 00:16:01,420 --> 00:16:02,880 on the way backwards with Midian. 291 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,240 There he sees a bush that starts to 292 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,060 burn and yet is not burnt out. 293 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,240 And as he investigates this phenomenon, he is 294 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:12,520 ordained for the ministry. 295 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:15,080 He is sent back to the Hebrews in 296 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,040 Egypt and he is to lead them out 297 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,720 of this bondage of that land. 298 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:26,120 And our Lord Jesus Christ, no experience quite 299 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,480 the same as Moses's inasmuch as he never 300 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,880 heard a bush start to burn. 301 00:16:32,620 --> 00:16:34,820 But when he was immersed in the waters 302 00:16:34,820 --> 00:16:37,280 of the Jordan, he was to hear with 303 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,660 equal clarity and with greater answer to a 304 00:16:40,660 --> 00:16:43,840 voice coming from heaven, saying, this is my 305 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:47,520 beloved son in whom I am well pleased. 306 00:16:48,580 --> 00:16:52,080 Would you like more comparisons between our Saviour 307 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,460 and Moses, more common denominators? 308 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:56,880 What about the sacrifice? 309 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,140 The sacrifice of Moses, Hebrews 11 verse 24 310 00:17:01,140 --> 00:17:02,040 brings it all out. 311 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:06,400 Here are all the listeners of Egypt at 312 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:07,319 the feet of Moses. 313 00:17:08,140 --> 00:17:12,140 Here he was as Pharaoh's daughter, or rather 314 00:17:12,140 --> 00:17:15,960 as the adopted son of Pharaoh's daughter, destined 315 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,540 for a tremendous career with much authority and 316 00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:20,099 influence. 317 00:17:20,260 --> 00:17:22,560 But he gives it all up and he 318 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:26,119 aligns himself, he associates himself with a people 319 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:27,160 who are in servitude. 320 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,600 And he chooses their bondage and their poverty 321 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:36,460 over against the freedom and the riches that 322 00:17:36,460 --> 00:17:40,280 could have been his as one who was 323 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,060 recognised as an Egyptian. 324 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,180 And the Lord Jesus, the amazing thing for 325 00:17:48,180 --> 00:17:52,600 us Christian people as we run this parallel 326 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:57,540 to its inevitable conclusion is that the Saviour 327 00:17:57,540 --> 00:18:02,840 had so much in heaven in the way 328 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,780 of prestige and influence. 329 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,180 All the riches of the universe belonged to 330 00:18:10,180 --> 00:18:12,900 him, yet he pushed it all on one 331 00:18:12,900 --> 00:18:13,260 side. 332 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,760 To use the language of Paul, the daring 333 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,220 language of the Apostle and Philippians, he answered 334 00:18:18,220 --> 00:18:23,020 himself of all these things and he became 335 00:18:23,020 --> 00:18:27,440 a man like you, like me, but without 336 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:27,780 sin. 337 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,780 And the Apostle brings a whole of this 338 00:18:33,780 --> 00:18:37,900 remarkable renunciation of the Lord Jesus together when 339 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:39,980 writing to the Corinthians he says, you know, 340 00:18:40,940 --> 00:18:44,920 the grace, the graciousness of our Lord Jesus. 341 00:18:45,020 --> 00:18:48,400 How though he was rich, yet for your 342 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:53,880 sake he became poor, that in his poverty 343 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,100 he might make others rich. 344 00:18:57,900 --> 00:19:00,640 Now in no way am I suggesting that 345 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,580 Moses is an equal to the Lord Jesus, 346 00:19:04,100 --> 00:19:05,980 but what I am saying is that within 347 00:19:05,980 --> 00:19:08,460 his life, within his background, there are these 348 00:19:08,460 --> 00:19:14,420 pointers which direct the way to the Lord 349 00:19:14,420 --> 00:19:14,780 Jesus. 350 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:20,380 That great prophet which was still to come. 351 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:25,180 So they had backgrounds which were pretty similar. 352 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,760 And in the very exercise of their ministry 353 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:31,880 there is a common denominator. 354 00:19:33,260 --> 00:19:35,540 Going back to our text, the Lord thy 355 00:19:35,540 --> 00:19:38,000 God will raise up unto thee a prophet 356 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,620 from the midst of thee of thy brethren. 357 00:19:40,940 --> 00:19:44,680 He will be right unto me and unto 358 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:45,880 him you shall hearken. 359 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,700 In what way was the ministry of Moses 360 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:52,180 in anticipation of that of the Lord Jesus? 361 00:19:53,860 --> 00:19:57,500 Well in the 16th verse of this chapter, 362 00:19:58,020 --> 00:20:01,820 still with Deuteronomy 18, we read of the 363 00:20:01,820 --> 00:20:07,040 people's dilemma, the Hebrews' predicament when they came 364 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,640 to realize that on that smoky mountain of 365 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,560 Sinai, God was revealing himself in a special 366 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:15,280 way to their race. 367 00:20:16,220 --> 00:20:17,200 They were afraid. 368 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:19,740 They said, let me not hear again the 369 00:20:19,740 --> 00:20:22,380 voice of the Lord my God, neither let 370 00:20:22,380 --> 00:20:24,560 me see this great fire anymore that I 371 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:25,260 die now. 372 00:20:26,300 --> 00:20:26,980 They were frightened. 373 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,300 They realized that God was pure, that God 374 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:31,920 was holy, that God was powerful. 375 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:33,580 They on the other hand were impure. 376 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:39,960 They were weak and so they required more 377 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:44,860 than anything else some person who would stand 378 00:20:44,860 --> 00:20:50,520 between God and themselves and not only intercede 379 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:54,640 for them, but communicate their needs to the 380 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,080 Lord and God's revelation to themselves. 381 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:04,660 In other words, Moses becomes a mediator, the 382 00:21:04,660 --> 00:21:08,940 one who stands in the middle and communicates 383 00:21:08,940 --> 00:21:11,580 the divine message. 384 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:14,200 There's a better example, but I don't want 385 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,340 time to get to win this evening. 386 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,780 There's a better example in the six chapters 387 00:21:19,780 --> 00:21:22,520 of Deuteronomy which I leave you to look 388 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:23,760 at for yourself. 389 00:21:24,660 --> 00:21:28,420 Moses is a mediator, bringing the word of 390 00:21:28,420 --> 00:21:30,100 the Lord to the Hebrews. 391 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,080 Now how do you understand the ministry of 392 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:33,840 Jesus Christ? 393 00:21:34,660 --> 00:21:36,340 Well when you go into the New Testament 394 00:21:36,340 --> 00:21:39,000 you find that one of his titles is 395 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,600 that he is the son of man. 396 00:21:42,660 --> 00:21:45,120 But on the other hand there's another description 397 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:48,000 given to Jesus which seems to be the 398 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,280 opposite, almost seems to be a contradiction. 399 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,320 He is God the son. 400 00:21:52,620 --> 00:21:53,480 How can this be? 401 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,260 Son of man and son of God. 402 00:21:58,020 --> 00:22:00,320 Well there's no contradiction really. 403 00:22:00,540 --> 00:22:03,680 What those two titles are doing is indicating, 404 00:22:04,060 --> 00:22:07,280 underlining the office of mediator which our Lord 405 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:08,320 Jesus shall fulfill. 406 00:22:09,060 --> 00:22:11,520 He represents man for God. 407 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,100 He represents God for man. 408 00:22:15,780 --> 00:22:18,520 He stands in the middle. 409 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,980 In conclusion, there is only one mediator between 410 00:22:22,980 --> 00:22:24,760 God and man. 411 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:26,800 The man Christ Jesus. 412 00:22:28,100 --> 00:22:31,900 So as Moses stands in the gap for 413 00:22:31,900 --> 00:22:35,440 the people and communicates their requirements to the 414 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,200 Lord and the Lord's requirements to the people, 415 00:22:39,020 --> 00:22:43,160 so does the Saviour Jesus Christ. 416 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:48,320 Now closely associated with the office of mediator 417 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,860 is that of intercessor. 418 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,880 And did we not last week or the 419 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,500 last time that we gathered together spend about 420 00:22:57,500 --> 00:22:59,640 three quarters of an hour in a most 421 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:05,440 delightful occupation of inquiring into the intercessory ministry 422 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:06,520 of Moses. 423 00:23:06,940 --> 00:23:09,060 What a powerful man he was in prayer. 424 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,700 And I was so concerned that a larger 425 00:23:11,700 --> 00:23:16,360 congregation heard the ministry of Moses in that 426 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:18,740 respect that last Sunday night I took up 427 00:23:18,740 --> 00:23:21,460 the same scene and extended it and gave 428 00:23:21,460 --> 00:23:23,520 a picture or tried to present a word 429 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:27,380 picture of Moses interceding before God in prayer 430 00:23:27,380 --> 00:23:30,240 and even allowing those words to come out 431 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,940 of his mouth, that unfinished sentence in which 432 00:23:34,940 --> 00:23:38,540 he makes mention of the possibility of God 433 00:23:38,540 --> 00:23:41,740 blotting his name out of the divine book, 434 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:47,040 unless the people were forgiven for the transgressions 435 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:48,660 which they had committed. 436 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:52,500 Time and time again you find Moses going 437 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:55,920 into that pavilion, that cloudy pavilion on the 438 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,160 top of Spaniard and interceding before the Lord. 439 00:23:59,460 --> 00:24:03,120 Forty-odd days without food, sometimes also without 440 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:06,440 water, he will spend time in the presence 441 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:07,940 of the living God. 442 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:10,940 And Jesus? 443 00:24:13,660 --> 00:24:18,380 Well, Moses's testimony seems to be tremendous in 444 00:24:18,380 --> 00:24:21,660 this area, but it is clipped by the 445 00:24:21,660 --> 00:24:22,680 man from Nazareth. 446 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:28,020 Oftentimes you find a record in the Gospels 447 00:24:28,020 --> 00:24:31,640 that before the sun ever broke, before it 448 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:36,020 ever reached that position of authority in the 449 00:24:36,020 --> 00:24:39,920 Middle Eastern sky, the Savior was to be 450 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,800 found on his knees at daybreak in some 451 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:48,700 private spot, bringing before the Lord the knees 452 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:53,520 of his disciples, of the Jews, of the 453 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:53,860 world. 454 00:24:54,860 --> 00:24:59,440 Our Savior was prevailing in prayer before his 455 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:04,120 Father on many, many an occasion. 456 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:07,180 Go back to Moses for a moment. 457 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,260 Here he is saying to the Lord, blot 458 00:25:11,260 --> 00:25:16,260 my name out of your book, unless these 459 00:25:16,260 --> 00:25:18,820 people are to be forgiven for the sin 460 00:25:18,820 --> 00:25:21,360 that they have committed, that sin which just 461 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:22,840 begets real guilt and remorse. 462 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:25,840 Now hear me. 463 00:25:27,870 --> 00:25:35,430 In one way, remarkable manner, it is true 464 00:25:35,430 --> 00:25:39,050 to say that the Savior, by his example, 465 00:25:40,170 --> 00:25:44,630 if not by his actual words, prayed the 466 00:25:44,630 --> 00:25:52,980 same prayer, his name, for three days, was 467 00:25:52,980 --> 00:25:55,940 blotted out of God's book, so to speak, 468 00:25:58,700 --> 00:26:03,220 that awful time when he who knew no 469 00:26:03,220 --> 00:26:09,840 sin became sin, when the pure Son of 470 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,940 God took upon himself the responsibility of the 471 00:26:13,940 --> 00:26:19,300 sins, the law-breaking, of people like you 472 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:23,440 and me, and the sight became so repugnant 473 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:29,380 in the eyes of the Father that he 474 00:26:29,380 --> 00:26:31,100 turned his back upon the Son. 475 00:26:33,180 --> 00:26:36,440 And you remember that cry that came from 476 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,440 the lips of the Nazarenes? 477 00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:40,820 Why have you forsaken me? 478 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:50,500 Why have you blotted my name out of 479 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:50,960 your book? 480 00:26:52,780 --> 00:26:55,940 The humanity of Jesus riding on top of 481 00:26:55,940 --> 00:26:56,700 his divinity. 482 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:02,840 For a moment, as that cry left his 483 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:10,360 heart lit and a comprehension, the understanding of 484 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:16,880 that cry was found centuries ago in Moses, 485 00:27:18,140 --> 00:27:22,720 when in intercession before the Lord, he suggests 486 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:27,820 the possibility of his name being blotted out 487 00:27:27,820 --> 00:27:32,900 of God's book, and perhaps, too, making an 488 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:35,640 atonement for the sins of the Hebrews. 489 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,440 The latter suggestion is rejected. 490 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,680 It was impossible, for Moses could not have 491 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,960 the purity, he could not vouchsafe with God 492 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,180 for the spiritual well-being of his people, 493 00:27:47,380 --> 00:27:49,500 but one shall come, a greater than Moses, 494 00:27:49,820 --> 00:27:56,100 that prophet, who will offer his purity on 495 00:27:56,100 --> 00:28:02,700 the altar of Calvary, and for hours, heaven 496 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:07,580 would record a period when the name of 497 00:28:07,580 --> 00:28:13,010 Jesus was numbered with those of the transgressors, 498 00:28:14,210 --> 00:28:16,530 and when he bore the sin of man, 499 00:28:17,250 --> 00:28:23,590 to the extent that his name was blotted 500 00:28:23,590 --> 00:28:28,000 out for a period of time. 501 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:38,380 Moses, the mediator, Moses, the intercessor, predicting the 502 00:28:38,380 --> 00:28:41,240 ministry of one who even now in the 503 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,360 glory ever lives to make intercession for you 504 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,700 and for me. 505 00:28:48,860 --> 00:28:52,700 Moses, the saviour, the political saviour of Israel, 506 00:28:53,460 --> 00:28:55,600 for without Moses they would never have been 507 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,700 led out of Egypt, without Moses they would 508 00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:00,560 never have got to the border of the 509 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:01,400 promised land. 510 00:29:04,450 --> 00:29:11,140 Jesus, the captain of our salvation, the one 511 00:29:11,140 --> 00:29:15,460 who is mighty to save, filling out to 512 00:29:15,460 --> 00:29:20,540 perfection the office predicted by the ministry of 513 00:29:20,540 --> 00:29:23,340 Moses centuries before. 514 00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:27,980 And then finally, under this little heading in 515 00:29:27,980 --> 00:29:31,240 which we're working out the ritual ministries of 516 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,340 the Lord Jesus and Moses, and how they 517 00:29:33,340 --> 00:29:37,160 overlap to some degree, there is that incredible 518 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,600 thought that both men were reflective of the 519 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:40,520 divine glory. 520 00:29:41,860 --> 00:29:44,320 You can't spend time in God with prayer 521 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,700 and not be changed with personality and sometimes 522 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:48,820 visibly of faith. 523 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,000 Yes, I would underline what I've said now. 524 00:29:53,140 --> 00:29:57,180 I don't believe that what Moses experienced sometimes 525 00:29:57,180 --> 00:29:59,180 on the mount was just unique to Moses 526 00:29:59,180 --> 00:30:01,040 and one of these special people in the 527 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,100 Old and the New Testament with whom faith 528 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:06,360 and I have seen people who have had 529 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,600 a glory about them when they have spent 530 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,060 time in prayer before God. 531 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,380 Do you remember how Moses comes down, shiny 532 00:30:15,380 --> 00:30:17,560 eyes mount on one occasion and the people, 533 00:30:17,820 --> 00:30:21,040 they realize that something remarkable has happened to 534 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:21,280 Moses. 535 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:22,700 They start looking in the eyes. 536 00:30:23,980 --> 00:30:26,480 The brightness of the glory of God has 537 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:27,500 rubbed off on Moses. 538 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,460 Moses who lived for the glory of God 539 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,960 knew something of the irradiation of God's own 540 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:42,800 glory and his personality reflected in his face. 541 00:30:44,890 --> 00:30:48,310 That that was just a fragment of all 542 00:30:48,310 --> 00:30:50,710 that was to be seen in the wondrous 543 00:30:50,710 --> 00:30:52,910 personality of our Lord Jesus. 544 00:30:54,330 --> 00:30:56,010 Do you remember how on the mount of 545 00:30:56,010 --> 00:31:02,370 Transfiguration he's irradiated to change to the extent 546 00:31:02,370 --> 00:31:03,910 of the glory of God. 547 00:31:05,810 --> 00:31:10,090 It's seen by the disciples who accompanied him, 548 00:31:10,970 --> 00:31:15,590 reflective, mirrored absolutely in the sun. 549 00:31:16,910 --> 00:31:20,470 But perhaps even more wonderful though less sharp 550 00:31:20,470 --> 00:31:23,650 into human eyes was the fact that Jesus 551 00:31:23,650 --> 00:31:25,650 lived for the glory of God. 552 00:31:26,050 --> 00:31:27,790 I have finished your work. 553 00:31:27,970 --> 00:31:29,970 I have glorified you on earth. 554 00:31:30,970 --> 00:31:34,770 So was his comment in the high priestly 555 00:31:34,770 --> 00:31:35,150 prayer. 556 00:31:36,470 --> 00:31:39,370 So then we have seen these common denominators, 557 00:31:39,430 --> 00:31:42,910 if you like, concerning the recent ministers of 558 00:31:42,910 --> 00:31:43,990 Moses and the Saviour. 559 00:31:44,310 --> 00:31:50,150 Mediators, intercessors, on the human level Moses the 560 00:31:50,150 --> 00:31:52,790 Saviour, on the divine level Jesus the Saviour 561 00:31:53,490 --> 00:31:56,610 and those who reflect the glory of God, 562 00:31:56,650 --> 00:31:58,550 though Jesus in absolute fashion. 563 00:31:59,930 --> 00:32:01,490 But the final thing that I want to 564 00:32:01,490 --> 00:32:03,950 concentrate on, and logically we must do this 565 00:32:03,950 --> 00:32:07,150 from the 15th verse, is that both men 566 00:32:07,150 --> 00:32:07,730 were prophets. 567 00:32:08,530 --> 00:32:11,850 Both men were inspired by the Lord God. 568 00:32:12,710 --> 00:32:17,410 In Acts chapter 3 and verse 22 we 569 00:32:17,410 --> 00:32:22,550 find the New Testament comment identifying the Lord 570 00:32:22,550 --> 00:32:27,210 Jesus as the prophet who Moses was referring 571 00:32:27,210 --> 00:32:31,330 to in this passage of prediction from Deuteronomy. 572 00:32:32,050 --> 00:32:34,630 For Moses truly said unto the fathers of 573 00:32:34,630 --> 00:32:37,450 prophets, shall the Lord your God raise up 574 00:32:37,450 --> 00:32:40,010 unto you of your brethren like unto me. 575 00:32:40,270 --> 00:32:42,690 Him shall you hear in all things whatsoever 576 00:32:42,690 --> 00:32:44,410 he shall say unto you. 577 00:32:44,650 --> 00:32:47,650 That's Jesus speaking and he identifies those words 578 00:32:47,650 --> 00:32:50,070 with Jesus as Stephen does in the 7th 579 00:32:50,070 --> 00:32:51,290 chapter of the Acts. 580 00:32:52,510 --> 00:32:54,110 Stop there just for a moment. 581 00:32:55,090 --> 00:33:00,290 I'm reading a very wonderful book just off 582 00:33:00,290 --> 00:33:00,970 the press. 583 00:33:01,090 --> 00:33:02,470 I like to get hold of books as 584 00:33:02,470 --> 00:33:05,190 soon as they become available in the UK. 585 00:33:06,770 --> 00:33:09,310 And this book, God Has Spoken by Jim 586 00:33:09,310 --> 00:33:13,470 Packer, the author of Knowing God, makes reference 587 00:33:13,470 --> 00:33:15,310 to the term prophet. 588 00:33:16,490 --> 00:33:20,550 And Dr. Packer tells us that the Hebrew 589 00:33:20,550 --> 00:33:22,770 word prophet has two connotations. 590 00:33:22,970 --> 00:33:24,850 In fact there are two distinct terms which 591 00:33:24,850 --> 00:33:25,310 he used. 592 00:33:26,070 --> 00:33:28,330 One gives you the impression of a seer, 593 00:33:28,870 --> 00:33:31,890 that is a person who foretells the future, 594 00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:34,470 who looks into the future and tells what 595 00:33:34,470 --> 00:33:35,430 is about to happen. 596 00:33:36,270 --> 00:33:38,830 And then the other word which describes a 597 00:33:38,830 --> 00:33:42,550 prophet in the Old Testament is that of 598 00:33:42,550 --> 00:33:46,850 one who calls, like the town choir of 599 00:33:46,850 --> 00:33:50,390 medieval days in this land of ours. 600 00:33:51,530 --> 00:33:57,170 Now in both those capacities Moses finds his 601 00:33:57,170 --> 00:33:57,630 ministry. 602 00:33:58,830 --> 00:34:00,330 He is a seer. 603 00:34:01,250 --> 00:34:02,590 He looks into the future. 604 00:34:02,710 --> 00:34:04,890 We've seen him do this on several occasions. 605 00:34:05,250 --> 00:34:07,350 He's got a good idea that when the 606 00:34:07,350 --> 00:34:09,889 Israelites go into the land of Thomas there'll 607 00:34:09,889 --> 00:34:13,610 be problems, there'll be apostases, there'll be backsliding. 608 00:34:13,830 --> 00:34:15,429 So he tells them what to do when 609 00:34:15,429 --> 00:34:16,489 they come to their senses. 610 00:34:16,489 --> 00:34:18,310 He's a seer, he predicts. 611 00:34:20,580 --> 00:34:26,340 But he's also the town choir for the 612 00:34:26,340 --> 00:34:26,880 New Jerusalem. 613 00:34:28,060 --> 00:34:30,020 He speaks for the Lord. 614 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,540 His message is an inspired message. 615 00:34:35,540 --> 00:34:39,780 And so he claims authority for what he 616 00:34:39,780 --> 00:34:40,580 has to say. 617 00:34:41,380 --> 00:34:44,440 And the book of Deuteronomy is examples of 618 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:44,620 this. 619 00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:47,219 So I'll just give you one or two 620 00:34:47,219 --> 00:34:48,159 that's obvious. 621 00:34:48,460 --> 00:34:51,120 Deuteronomy 4.14, no need to turn to 622 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:51,320 it. 623 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,420 And the Lord commanded me at that time 624 00:34:54,420 --> 00:34:58,460 to teach you statute and judgment. 625 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:05,000 And again in the same chapter, the 36th 626 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,460 verse, out of heaven the Lord God made 627 00:35:07,460 --> 00:35:09,860 thee to hear his voice that he may 628 00:35:09,860 --> 00:35:13,100 instruct thee and upon earth he shall do 629 00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:15,540 his great fire. 630 00:35:16,420 --> 00:35:18,000 Moses is a seer. 631 00:35:19,180 --> 00:35:20,280 He's a crier. 632 00:35:21,260 --> 00:35:23,480 He proclaims the word of the Lord. 633 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,040 Now any prophet worth his salt will not 634 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,500 only claim inspiration for his message but also 635 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:33,500 relevant at least to the needs of the 636 00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:36,160 people in his day he will claim sufficiency. 637 00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:39,220 Nothing else to be said to the people 638 00:35:39,220 --> 00:35:40,820 in Moses' ministry. 639 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:47,020 So we read him saying in the second 640 00:35:47,020 --> 00:35:52,360 verse of the fourth chapter, you shall not 641 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,740 add unto the word which I command you, 642 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,000 neither shall you diminish or from it, that 643 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,240 you may keep the commandments of the Lord 644 00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:01,920 your God which I command you. 645 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,840 The verse is almost repeated in a later 646 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,560 reference which I give you in the notes. 647 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:07,100 That's Moses' doing. 648 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:09,780 He is saying that the word that he 649 00:36:09,780 --> 00:36:12,140 has received is an inspired word, it's a 650 00:36:12,140 --> 00:36:14,360 sufficient word, and it can't be modified, it 651 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,320 can't be manipulated, it can't be added to, 652 00:36:17,820 --> 00:36:19,320 it can't be subtracted from. 653 00:36:20,500 --> 00:36:23,420 It's a word that has come from the 654 00:36:23,420 --> 00:36:24,680 Lord God himself. 655 00:36:26,220 --> 00:36:30,600 Now Jesus does exactly the same but he 656 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,620 puts his claim to authority into a higher 657 00:36:33,620 --> 00:36:36,140 key as you will see in a moment 658 00:36:36,140 --> 00:36:37,200 or two. 659 00:36:37,820 --> 00:36:39,900 Jesus is the seer. 660 00:36:40,420 --> 00:36:41,840 He foretells. 661 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,460 He will speak of things which are yet 662 00:36:45,460 --> 00:36:47,380 to be before the dawn of the eternal 663 00:36:47,380 --> 00:36:49,360 age to which I made reference on Sunday 664 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:49,680 morning. 665 00:36:50,260 --> 00:36:52,880 He talks about the apostasy that is to 666 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:53,260 come. 667 00:36:54,100 --> 00:36:55,980 He speaks about the wars and the rumours 668 00:36:55,980 --> 00:36:57,680 of wars and the earthquakes and so on 669 00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:58,200 and so forth. 670 00:36:58,340 --> 00:37:00,700 All these things which will mark the advent 671 00:37:00,700 --> 00:37:03,440 is coming the second time. 672 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:09,600 But not only is that he foretells, he's 673 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:10,420 a foreteller. 674 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,300 He's again the palm crier, so to speak, 675 00:37:14,380 --> 00:37:15,320 of the new Jerusalem. 676 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,740 And the words which he has to proclaim, 677 00:37:17,940 --> 00:37:20,960 he says they're not his words, he says 678 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,820 they are words that God the Father has 679 00:37:23,820 --> 00:37:26,360 placed in his mouth. 680 00:37:27,340 --> 00:37:31,200 The words that I received, I have received 681 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:32,800 from my Father. 682 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,400 Now he acknowledges the authority of the Old 683 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,260 Testament revelation. 684 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,000 He doesn't say that the law seems to 685 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,960 precede us as some of our rather weak 686 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,800 brothers in evangelicalism today are suggesting. 687 00:37:51,580 --> 00:37:53,560 He does not say that in any way 688 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,380 the Ten Commandments have now been modified at 689 00:37:57,380 --> 00:37:57,660 all. 690 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:03,240 Rather he makes this pronouncement on the ministry 691 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:05,640 of Moses, think not that I am come 692 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,500 to destroy the law, I am not come 693 00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:11,860 to destroy but to fulfill. 694 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:17,620 But he'll go beyond Moses and beyond the 695 00:38:17,620 --> 00:38:19,240 authority that Moses had. 696 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,460 You see Moses can appeal to the Lord 697 00:38:22,460 --> 00:38:25,380 and say rest, rest the Lord. 698 00:38:26,340 --> 00:38:30,260 Jesus can take Moses' teaching and extend it. 699 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,300 He can amplify it, not change it, but 700 00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:36,060 amplify it and give it an even deeper 701 00:38:36,060 --> 00:38:37,460 exposition. 702 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:41,860 But when he does this, he won't appeal 703 00:38:41,860 --> 00:38:44,840 to the Lord God, he will appeal to 704 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,640 his own innate authority. 705 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,480 So for example, my eye falls on Moses' 706 00:38:50,780 --> 00:38:52,380 teaching on adultery. 707 00:38:53,300 --> 00:38:57,440 The Lord Jesus Christ said, verily, verily, I 708 00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:03,780 say unto you, and he goes on to 709 00:39:03,780 --> 00:39:06,200 say that a woman who is looked upon 710 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:10,920 with lust has had adultery committed with her 711 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,160 as far as the man is concerned. 712 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,200 I express that clumsily but you know the 713 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,680 picture that is in view. 714 00:39:20,850 --> 00:39:24,250 So what does Moses' final claim? 715 00:39:26,150 --> 00:39:30,630 That his ministry was inspired, that unless people 716 00:39:30,630 --> 00:39:32,730 listened to what he had to say then 717 00:39:32,730 --> 00:39:34,670 it would be to their spiritual detriment. 718 00:39:35,290 --> 00:39:38,190 So in the 30th chapter and the 19th 719 00:39:38,190 --> 00:39:42,270 verse he sums up almost the last piece 720 00:39:42,270 --> 00:39:43,930 of his ministering to the Hebrews. 721 00:39:44,330 --> 00:39:47,110 I call heaven and earth to record this 722 00:39:47,110 --> 00:39:49,890 day against you that I have set before 723 00:39:49,890 --> 00:39:52,630 you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore 724 00:39:52,630 --> 00:39:55,830 choose life that both thou and thy seed 725 00:39:55,830 --> 00:39:57,290 may live. 726 00:39:58,170 --> 00:40:00,590 And when he speaks about the prophet which 727 00:40:00,590 --> 00:40:02,670 is yet to come, he says in the 728 00:40:02,670 --> 00:40:05,430 19th verse of the 18th chapter, and it 729 00:40:05,430 --> 00:40:08,030 shall come to pass that whosoever will not 730 00:40:08,030 --> 00:40:12,030 hearken unto my word which that prophet shall 731 00:40:12,030 --> 00:40:16,190 speak in my name, I will require it 732 00:40:16,190 --> 00:40:17,830 at him. 733 00:40:18,890 --> 00:40:23,370 So this evening we've learned that both the 734 00:40:23,370 --> 00:40:26,170 Lord Jesus and Moses had mutual backgrounds. 735 00:40:27,630 --> 00:40:29,810 There was also a common denomination that their 736 00:40:29,810 --> 00:40:34,090 ministry was exercised for others. 737 00:40:35,270 --> 00:40:38,030 And then there is an appeal to the 738 00:40:38,030 --> 00:40:41,210 divine inspiration which both have. 739 00:40:42,210 --> 00:40:47,130 But when you consider Jesus and then Moses, 740 00:40:47,810 --> 00:40:52,270 then the latter fades into insignificance because the 741 00:40:52,270 --> 00:40:55,870 one who has all the glory and all 742 00:40:55,870 --> 00:40:59,110 the preeminence, as Moses would well discuss the 743 00:40:59,110 --> 00:41:01,070 ministry, is the Lord Jesus. 744 00:41:01,810 --> 00:41:06,670 For in certain fashions he anticipated and pointed 745 00:41:06,670 --> 00:41:09,870 the way to the greater ministry that was 746 00:41:09,870 --> 00:41:10,250 to come. 747 00:41:10,870 --> 00:41:14,450 Moses was like a bulb that shines in 748 00:41:14,450 --> 00:41:18,450 the tabernacle in the twilight of the evening. 749 00:41:19,490 --> 00:41:22,250 But on a Sunday morning when the light 750 00:41:22,250 --> 00:41:26,090 of the sunshine is outside, we can't even 751 00:41:26,090 --> 00:41:28,850 see that bulb when that has been placed 752 00:41:28,850 --> 00:41:29,150 on. 753 00:41:29,910 --> 00:41:33,690 The one becomes insignificant in the light of 754 00:41:33,690 --> 00:41:34,110 the other. 755 00:41:34,690 --> 00:41:38,490 When full light has come, the artificial light 756 00:41:39,250 --> 00:41:39,850 fades. 757 00:41:40,690 --> 00:41:45,850 So Moses was a pointer in adequate in 758 00:41:45,850 --> 00:41:46,450 many ways. 759 00:41:47,370 --> 00:41:50,330 But those who have sensitivity when they read 760 00:41:50,330 --> 00:41:52,590 the book of Deuteronomy and the rest of 761 00:41:52,590 --> 00:41:55,570 the books that tell of Moses's ministry, see 762 00:41:55,570 --> 00:42:00,950 their anticipation of that great prophet who came 763 00:42:00,950 --> 00:42:04,690 in the person of Jesus to our world. 764 00:42:05,630 --> 00:42:07,730 So may God have blessed your hearts with 765 00:42:07,730 --> 00:42:11,210 cleanings from the book of Deuteronomy. 766 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,020 Now Father we thank you for your goodness 767 00:42:23,020 --> 00:42:28,860 to us and as we commit these recent 768 00:42:28,860 --> 00:42:34,000 studies to you, so we ask that those 769 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,060 of us here who have been attending to 770 00:42:37,060 --> 00:42:41,160 this book of Deuteronomy may have been helped 771 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:45,820 and into today and live lives which bring 772 00:42:45,820 --> 00:42:47,300 honor and glory to your name. 773 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:49,680 We thank you that you took a man 774 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:53,140 like Moses and used him to your honor. 775 00:42:53,820 --> 00:42:58,440 So take us and as Moses anticipated Jesus 776 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:03,000 in certain things, so may we illustrate Jesus 777 00:43:03,740 --> 00:43:07,520 in our lives as well as dialogue for 778 00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:08,320 his sake. 779 00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:09,180 Amen.