Thou shalt make an altar, to burn the
incense upon.
Of acacia wood shalt thou make it.
And it's to be eighteen by eighteen and
forty-five inches high.
This is the little altar that was set
in the holy place before the veil that
separated the holy place from the holy of
holies.
Overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof
and the sides round about, and the horns
thereof.
And so it's a little altar only of
gold, and it's to burn incense, a sweet
-smelling savor again before God.
And the rings in it so that they
can carry it with the golden staves that
are through it.
And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every
morning.
When he dresses the lamps, he shall burn
incense upon it.
And when Aaron lights the lamps in the
evening, he shall burn incense upon it, a
perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generation.
So along with the putting of the oil
in the lampstands to keep them burning morning
and evening, there was also the putting of
the incense on this little altar.
So in this holy of holies, there was
always the sweet smell of incense burning and
the lamps that were burning.
It was just unto the Lord there perpetually.
And ye shall offer no strange incense thereon,
nor burnt sacrifice or meat offerings, neither shall
you pour drink offerings thereon.
It was just a little incense altar and
nothing else on it.
And Aaron shall make an atonement or a
covering upon the horns of it once a
year with the blood of the sin offering
of atonements.
Once in the year shall he make atonement
upon it, Yom Kippur actually, the day of
atonement.
Throughout your generations it is the most holy
unto the Lord.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, When
you take the census of the children of
Israel after their number, then shall you give
every man a ransom for his soul unto
the Lord, when you numbering them, that there
may be no plague among them when you
number them.
This they shall give every one that passes
among them that are numbered, a half a
shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, a
shekel is twenty geras, and a half shekel
shall be the offering of the Lord.
And every one that passes among them that
are numbered from twenty years old and above
shall give an offering unto the Lord.
The rich shall not give more, the poor
shall not give less than a half a
shekel when they give an offering to the
Lord that shall make a covering for your
souls.
And thou shalt take the atonement or covering
money of the children of Israel and shall
appoint it for the service of the tabernacle
of the congregation that it may be a
memorial unto the children of Israel before the
Lord to make a covering for your souls.
So they did not actually take a census
as such.
They were forbidden by God to number the
people.
But once a year every man above twenty
years old had to give a half shekel.
So they'd count the half shekels and they'd
know how many people there were.
But no census because that was forbidden.
But this was the way of taking the
census actually.
Every man gave a half of a shekel
which was to actually purchase the lands and
the offerings and to keep, you know, things
functioning there.
The rich were not to give more, the
poor were not to give less.
It was a half shekel for everybody.
No favoritism because a person was rich.
Just everyone giving the same amount.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, Thou
shalt also make a labor of brass and
his foot also of brass to wash.
And thou shalt put it between the tabernacle
of the congregation and the altar and thou
shalt put water in it.
So this big bathtub, a brass tub for
the washing of the priest.
And that was before the, as they would
come in to the gate of this little
enclosure.
The first thing was this brass tub to
wash in.
And then next the brass altar.
And then the tabernacle itself where they would
go in.
For Aaron his son shall wash their hands
and their feet.
And when they go into the tabernacle of
the congregation they shall wash with water that
they die not.
Or when they come near the altar to
minister to burn offering made by fire to
the Lord.
So here is again an occupational hazard.
They forget to wash before they go in.
They get wiped out.
Now this could be what happened to Aaron's
sons.
It could be that they just got excited
when they saw the fire of God and
ran in there without washing.
And got wiped out.
Or it could be that they've been drinking
some wine and were under false stimulant.
Because later on after they died God said
to Moses tell Aaron that neither he nor
his sons are to drink any wine or
strong drink when they offer the Lord lest
they die.
So very hazardous job being a priest in
those days.
So they shall wash their hands and their
feet that they die not.
And it shall be a statute forever.
Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses saying and
now this is the anointing oil and how
they were to make it.
Thou shall also take these principal spices myrrh
500 shekels sweet cinnamon 250 shekels and sweet
calamus 250 shekels cassia 500 shekels after the
shekel of the sanctuary and of oil and
hen and hen is about six quarts and
the shekel is about 65 cents worth.
So 65 cents worth of myrrh and 65
times 500 65 cents times 500 Thou shall
make it an oil of holy ointment an
ointment compounded after the art of the apothecary
the druggist it shall be a holy anointing
oil and thou shall anoint the tabernacle of
the congregation with it and the ark of
testimony and the table and all the vessels
the candlesticks and all the vessels the altar
of incense the altar of burnt offering the
vessels and the labor with this foot and
thou shall sanctify them that they may be
most holy and whatsoever touches them shall be
holy and thou shall anoint Aaron and his
sons and consecrate them that they may minister
unto me in the priest's office and thou
shall speak to the children of Israel saying
this shall be a holy anointing oil unto
me throughout all your generations among man's flesh
shall it not be poured neither shall you
make any other like it after the composition
of it it is holy and it shall
be holy unto you whosoever will compound anything
like it or whosoever puts any of it
upon a stranger shall even be cut off
from his people Now as I was first
reading through the Bible and I was reading
of this oil and all I thought oh
that would be interesting to go ahead and
put together these spices and make some of
this oil until I got down to the
verse 32 and then I decided not to
do it and the Lord said unto Moses
take unto these sweet spices I'm not going
to even try their names and make a
perfume after the art of the apothecary tempered
together pure and holy and thou shalt beat
some of it very small and put it
in before the testimony of the tabernacle and
the congregation where I will meet with thee
and it shall be unto you most holy
as for the perfume which thou shalt make
ye shall not make it to yourselves according
to the composition thereof it shall be unto
thee holy for the Lord so a separate
oil a separate perfume only to be used
for God whosoever shall make anything like unto
the smell of it shall be cut off
from his people The Lord spake unto Moses
saying see I have called by name Basiliel
the son of Uriah the son of her
of the tribe of Judah I have filled
him with the spirit of God in wisdom
and understanding and in knowledge and in all
manner of workmanship to devise cunning works to
work in gold and in silver and in
brass so now God has anointed Basiliel and
given him certain talents and abilities it is
marvelous to see people who have just innate
abilities and talents that have been given to
them by God it's just in them it's
encoded I think in their gene structures there
are some people that just have natural music
ability and I don't care how hard you
study music you can never achieve what they
have achieved just through natural innate ability there
are people who are natural linguists languages just
come naturally to them one of the translators
of King James and I'm going to bring
you some lessons on the King James translations
one of these days and show you why
I am opposed to anything other than the
King James translation why I believe that it
was inspired of God like no other translation
has been since there is an endeavor to
put down the scholarship of the King James
translation but I'm going to show you some
interesting facts of history of what really happened
to translations and I'm going to show you
the error of the reasoning of Westcott and
Hort who created the text from which all
modern translations are taken basing what they said
the most ancient manuscripts would be the more
correct manuscripts I'm going to show you the
fallacy of their reasoning a conspiracy of Satan
to rob us from the true Word of
God and I'll be showing you the errors
of a lot of these modern translations because
they were taken from Westcott and Hort people
say oh but the King James is so
hard to read listen there's nothing like it
now they are coming out with a new
King James the New Testament is now out
they've gone back to Textus Receptus this is
one of the best things that has happened
in translation because I believe that the Textus
Receptus is closer to the original text than
anything else I think that the Westcott and
Hort text is a gigantic perversion of Satan
to rob from the deity of Jesus Christ
because of the Aryan influence in the early
church and of the 50 copies that were
made in Alexandria in which they deliberately perverted
and changed the scriptures that had to do
with the deity of Jesus Christ from which
came the Codex Sinaiticus, the Codex and also
the Vulgate for Jerome used it in his
translation and I'll show you where the true
translations came from the church of Antioch which
was interested in keeping the purity of the
scriptures quite a bit there to learn and
to know don't let anybody put down your
King James there are some 1128 changes in
the revised standard that are horrible they are
doing away with the deity of Christ I
do not respect or admire the so called
scholarship of Westcott and Hort, I think they
were a couple of big plants they put
down the scholarship of King James and this
is where I was started one of the
translators of King James could read and write
Hebrew when he was 5 years old a
natural linguist could converse in 45 different languages
now some people are just born with that
ability some people are born with mathematic ability
some people are born with electronic abilities some
people are born with artistic abilities there are
certain innate abilities that men have now these
innate abilities actually come as a gift from
God what you do with them is up
to you, but it's tragic when a person
takes an ability given to him by God
and prostitutes it for his own profit or
gain whatever God has given to us, He
has given to us to use for His
glory languages were the hardest thing in the
world for me I struggle with languages it
didn't come easy at all and yet some
people just have no problem with language and
the study of foreign languages just comes so
easy for them it's just an inward gift
it's just something that is there I've been
looking for what God has gifted me with
for a long time one of these days
I hope to find it but I'm just
Mr. Plain Normal but I love to see
people who have been gifted of God I
love to see an artist really gifted artist
as they're drawing or as they're working, it
to me is just fascinating, I love to
watch a gifted carpenter people who have just
been given that innate ability to do things,
now God said I put my spirit on
Basilio for skillful, cunning work this fellow was
just anointed of God to be the superintendent
and to oversee to make sure it was
all done right and that to me is
glorious that God has so gifted people in
various areas now that's where the body is
neat because as we are here in the
body, we have every kind of gift imaginable
here within the body there's really probably nothing
that we can't do collectively we announced the
problem with the brakes on the truck up
at camp fellow came out and said well
I drive a truck and I'll take my
toolbox and he went up and fixed the
brakes that's neat if I had gone up
there to look at the brakes I wouldn't
have known where to start looking and so
it's glorious that God has brought together collectively
and all of us probably the abilities and
the talents for just about anything the whole
body concept is beautiful because as we pool
the resources together oh so much can be
accomplished for God with the pooling of our
combined abilities and talents and that's what God
intends is that we each put our part
in and the body is composed of many
parts and not all parts do the same
thing your hands can't do what your feet
were designed to do, your feet can't do
what your hands were designed to do but
each part is important to the functioning of
the body so here we are the body
of Christ and God has you here for
a plan and for a purpose your place
within the body to fill that place and
when the need arises in which God has
given you those special talents and abilities you
can step in and say well hey I
can do that, you know there's none of
that oh yes there is something to that
if you don't know anything about it if
you haven't been talented by God in that
area so the collective pooling of the resources,
our talents as we anoint, give them to
God and let them be anointed this way
because always, always your talent will find its
greatest release when anointed of God's spirit and
doing the work of God and anything less
will always be a little unsatisfactory, you won't
have a total sense of fulfillment until you've
consecrated to God let Him anoint it and
let Him use it and then oh the
glory that comes from consecrating my talent to
God and letting Him use it for His
glory it's really great so Basilio a man
anointed to devise the cunning works to work
in gold, silver, brass, he's just a natural
at it, in cutting of stones, carving the
timber in the work in all kinds of
workmanship, a guy just skilled with his hands,
now I've given with him a holy egg
from the tribe of Dan and in the
hearts of all that are wise hearted I
have put wisdom that they may make all
that I have commanded thee, the tabernacle of
the congregation, the ark of the testimony, the
mercy seat, the furniture of the tabernacle, the
table and all of these things God just
gave these fellows these abilities and wisdom the
Lord's begging to Moses saying speak thou also
unto the children of Israel saying, verily my
sabbaths shall ye keep for it is a
sign between me and you throughout your generations
that you may know that I am the
Lord that doth sanctify you, ye shall keep
the sabbaths therefore it is holy unto you
everyone that defiles it shall surely be put
to death for whosoever doeth any work therein
that soul shall be cut off from among
his people six days may work be done
but in the seventh is the sabbath of
rest holy to the Lord, whosoever doeth any
work on the sabbath day he shall surely
be put to death, capital punishment wherefore the
children of Israel shall keep the sabbath to
observe the sabbath throughout their generations for a
perpetual covenant, it is a sign between me
and the children of Israel forever for in
six days the Lord made the heaven and
the earth in the seventh day he rested
and was refreshed and so he gave unto
Moses and he made an end to the
communion with him on mount Sinai gave him
the two tables of testimony the tables of
stone written with the finger of God, now
notice on the sabbath day that it is
a definite covenant between God and the nation
Israel for their generations between me and Israel
forever, the sabbath was not a law made
for the gentile and nowhere in the scripture
except where a gentile would move into Israel
was he to observe the sabbath but the
gentile church was never placed under the sabbath
law in the scriptures and in the early
church when there was an endeavor to put
the gentile church under the law a council
was called in Jerusalem in which it was
determined that they should not try to put
the gentiles under the law which Peter called
a yoke of bondage which neither we nor
our fathers were able to keep, why should
we tie it on the necks of the
gentiles and so when they wrote to them
the gentile church of Antioch concerning its relationship
to the law of Moses they said keep
yourself from fornication and from things that are
strangled and if you do this you do
well, God bless you but nothing about the
observance of the sabbath day and thus Paul
the apostle said in Romans 14 one man
esteems one day above another, another man esteems
every day alike, let everyone be wholly persuaded
in his own mind in Colossians he said
therefore let no man judge you in respect
to sabbath days, new moons, holy days which
were all a shadow of things to come,
the real substances of Christ, now what was
the Jewish sabbath signifying signifying that God wanted
his people to rest in him but they
never did rest in him even though they
did nothing on the sabbath day now Christ
is the fulfillment of the sabbath day for
Christ is our rest and we who are
in Christ have entered into his rest, so
we have a perpetual sabbath I have ceased
from my own labors I have entered into
the finished work of Jesus Christ and even
as God is now resting in the finished
work of Jesus Christ as far as my
salvation I must rest where God is resting
and realize that there is no work that
I can offer to God of my hands
that can save me the only thing that
can possibly save me is Jesus Christ and
his sacrifice for my sins and I rest
in that sacrifice, that finished work of Jesus
Christ as far as my salvation is concerned
I am resting that Christ is going to
take care of it through his sacrifice of
his blood upon the cross I am resting
and thus I have entered into the true
sabbath that which the Jews haven't yet discovered
though they light their candles and say their
prayers and stay in bed on Saturday how
glorious it is to know the true rest
of God the true sabbath of God even
Jesus Christ now when the people saw that
Moses had delayed coming down from the mountain
they gathered to Aaron and they said get
up and make us gods that shall go
before us for as for Moses we don't
know what's happened to him he brought us
out of the land of Egypt but what's
become of him we don't know he's been
gone now for almost forty days and Aaron
said unto them break off the golden earrings
which are in the ears of your wives
your sons and your daughters and bring them
unto me and all of the people broke
off the golden earrings which were in their
ears and brought them to Aaron and he
received them at their hands and fashioned with
a graving tool after he had made it
a molten cap so he melded down the
gold and then he fashioned it with a
graving tool a little golden cap notice that
carefully because you're going to find that Aaron's
a classic liar he took this graving tool
and carved out this little golden cap and
remember he's the high priest which might be
a warning unto you that not all who
are in the ministry of the gospel are
totally honest in all of their dealings you
might get some computerized letters that are filled
with hypocrisy deceit and lies I could get
going again so the people broke off their
golden earrings he took a graving tool he
carved out this little molten cap and he
said these be thy gods oh Israel which
brought you up out of the land of
Egypt oh how quickly these people forget you
know to me the constant constant burden of
my heart is the fact that there are
some people that just migrate towards every stupid
doctrine every wind of doctrine every concept that
comes along people just trailing on after it
I wish that the true doctrines sound doctrines
could spread as rapidly as false doctrines the
man these false doctrines seem to have wings
and they spread so rapidly the latest one
being this prosperity cult that God wants all
of his children to be prosperous and healthy
if you're not prosperous and healthy there's something
wrong with your relationship with God God help
us what a cruel corrupt doctrine oh how
it is spread sad the people so quickly
Paul wrote to the Galatians and he said
oh foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you that
you should so soon turn away from the
truth having begun in the spirit are you
now going to be made perfect in the
flesh foolish Galatians you turn from the truth
so quickly foolish Israelites you turn from the
truth so quickly God is drawing you to
himself to worship the holy living true God
and now here you are as a little
gold and idol before you and this is
your God that brought you out of Egypt
and the people demanding make us a God
we might worship this is the result and
when Aaron saw it he built an altar
before it and Aaron made proclamation and said
tomorrow is a feast to the Lord and
they rose up early on the morrow and
offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings and
the people sat down to eat and to
drink and they rose up to play and
the Lord said to Moses get down for
your thy people which you brought out of
the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves notice
this the Lord isn't even claiming them at
this point thy people which you brought out
of the land of Egypt corrupted themselves and
they have turned aside quickly out of the
way which I commanded them and they have
made them a molten calf and are worshiping
it and have sacrificed unto it and they
have said these are the gods oh Israel
which have brought you out of the land
of Egypt the Lord said unto Moses I
have seen the people behold they are stiff
necked now therefore let me alone that my
wrath may wax hot against them that I
may consume them and I will make thee
a great nation I'll wipe them out and
I'll make a great nation out of you
Moses we'll start over again and Moses besought
the Lord his God and said Lord why
does your wrath wax hot against thy people
not mine Lord and don't put them on
me which thou has brought forth out of
the land of Egypt with great power and
a mighty hand nobody wants to claim them
at this point why should the Egyptians speak
and say for mischief he brought them out
to slay them in the mountains and to
consume them from the face of the earth
turn from thy fierce wrath and repent of
this evil against thy people remember Abraham Isaac
and Israel thy servants to whom thou swearest
by thine own self and said unto them
I will multiply your seed as the stars
of heaven and all this land that I
have spoken of I will give to your
seed and they shall inherit forever and the
Lord repented of the evil which he thought
to do unto his people now face for
the problem for in Numbers 23 19 we
read that God is not a man that
he should repent or not God is not
a man that he should lie nor the
son of man that he should repent hath
he not spoken shall he not do it
what does it mean the Lord repented the
obvious reading of this scripture looks like God
is angry ready to destroy the children of
Israel and Moses uses some good logic and
reasons with God the reasons to spare him
look if you wipe them out the Egyptians
are going to say look you just brought
them out of land or you might destroy
them here and they're going to speak evil
against you why should they speak evil against
you God Lord now turn from your fierce
anger don't do this and God is just
angry ready to wipe them out and Moses
is a cool head and he's holding God
off now remember Moses wrote this but our
problem our problem is that we have to
describe God's actions in human terms and there
in lies the problem the actions of an
infinite God cannot adequately be described in human
language but we have to describe in human
terms the activities of God so we use
the word God repented but in reality God
does not and has no need to change
or to repent which it means to change
or to turn from but from the human
standpoint how can I describe the fact that
the judgment of God is do these people
but the judgment of God doesn't come upon
these people well God changed no he didn't
change again we see Moses standing there and
interceding on holding God off but who put
it in the heart of Moses to intercede
who put it in the heart of Moses
to pray who put a love for these
people in the heart of Moses it was
God's work in the life of Moses to
begin with the inspiration of Moses prayer came
from God himself all true prayer begins with
God and thus God was the inspiration behind
the prayer now God knows all things from
the beginning he knew that the children of
Israel were going to mess things up he
knew they were going to be worshipping this
calf in fact he knew it before they
ever did and God is speaking to Moses
about their sin need of judgment Moses is
now inspired of God to plead for their
salvation but it's difficult to describe the activity
it's impossible to describe the activities of God
in human terms but we have nothing else
to describe them and thus we have to
have human terms to describe what are apparent
activities of God yet the human terms fall
short and cannot adequately describe God's actions here
let it be said if God had determined
to destroy them he would have destroyed them
and nothing Moses could have said could have
changed it the fact that they weren't destroyed
only indicates that God had no intention to
destroy them in the beginning but Moses is
having to describe the anger of God against
these people and the deserving justice that was
coming to them in the human terms and
yet the justice of God doesn't fall upon
them and thus I have to describe that
also in human terms and give some sort
of an explanation why these people were able
to survive this great sacrilege against God and
I only have human terms to do it
but I'm dealing in those mysterious divine inner
counsels of God of which I have no
clear understanding at all God said my ways
are not your ways my ways are beyond
your finding out but yet I only have
human terms to describe the activities of God
and thus I have to use terms that
do not adequately describe what God has done
but only describes the effect of the actions
in human terms God is not a man
that he should lie nor the son of
man that he should repent but yet we
read over and over in the Old Testament
where God repented but that's only describing the
activity of God with the human term which
is a poor term to say the best
but yet we have nothing else so there's
the limitations always of seeking to describe the
things of God with human language it always
falls short Paul the apostle when he was
in heaven when he came back he said
it would be against the law it would
be a crime if I tried to describe
to you in human terms the things that
I heard he just can't do it he
didn't even try there's no language that man
understands or knows no words have yet been
formed or created or devised that could adequately
describe the glory the beauty the majesty of
that heavenly realm it's just so far beyond
anything we've ever experienced or known or seen
or whatever that it's just ridiculous to try
to use human language because anything you would
say would be less than it really is
so far less that it would be a
crime to use human language to try to
describe it and yet we must describe the
activities of God we only have human vocabulary
to do it and thus we have to
use terms that we understand as human beings
to describe the supposed actions of God but
in reality what God has purposed he will
fulfill and had God purposed the extermination and
wiping them out he would have done it
God did use Moses intercession as the excuse
not to do it because God delights in
mercy so Moses turned and he went down
from the mountain with the two tables of
testimony in his hands the tables were written
on both of their sides and the tables
were the work of God the writing was
the writing of God graven upon the tables
oh wouldn't it be exciting to see those
two tables that God actually inscribed with his
finger the commandments upon wouldn't it be priceless
just look at those two tables of stone
now when Joshua who was the servant of
Moses who was with Moses heard the noise
of the people as they shouted he said
to Moses there must be a war in
the camp and Moses said it's not the
voice of those that shout for mastery neither
the voice of those that are crying because
they're overcome but I hear the noise of
singing and it came to pass as soon
as they came close to the camp that
he saw the calf and the dancing and
Moses anger waxed hot and he cast the
tables out of his hands and broke them
beneath the mount and he took the calf
which they had made he burned it in
the fire he ground it into powder and
he put the powder in water and he
made them drink the water there drink your
God and Moses said unto Aaron what did
this people unto thee that thou hast brought
so great a sin upon them and Aaron
said let not the anger of my lord
wax hot you know the people that they
are set on mischief for they said unto
me make us gods which shall go before
us for as for this Moses the man
that brought us out of the land of
Egypt we don't know what's become of him
and I said unto them whosoever has any
gold let him break it off so they
gave it to me and I cast it
into the fire and they came out this
calf hocus pocus dominocus Aaron shame
on you and when Moses saw the people
were naked for Aaron had made them naked
to their shame among their enemies then Moses
stood in the gate of the camp and
said who is on the Lord's side let
him come unto me and all the sons
of Levi gathered themselves together unto him and
he said unto them thus saith the Lord
God of Israel put every man his sword
by his side and go in and out
from the gate to gate throughout the camp
and slay every man his brother and every
man his companion and every man his neighbor
that is those who were leading in this
blasphemous sacrilege and the children of Levi did
according to the word of Moses and there
fell of the people that day about three
thousand men for Moses had said consecrate yourselves
today to the Lord even every man upon
his son and upon his brother that he
may bestow a blessing this day and it
came to pass on the morrow that Moses
said to the people you have sinned a
great sin and now I will go up
unto the Lord per adventure I shall make
a covering for your sin and Moses returned
to the Lord and he said oh this
people have sinned a great sin and have
made them gods of gold now we see
Moses in the position of an intercessor offering
intercessory prayer before God intercessory prayer is that
form of prayer that reaches out beyond me
and my own needs to bring a guilty
world before God that God might work in
it prayer has three forms basic forms variations
within each the first is worship praise adoration
acknowledging God for who he is is something
that goes on constantly in my heart day
by day my awareness of God my consciousness
of God my worship of God for his
goodness for his blessings for his mercies for
his love for all that he is to
me and all that he means to me
for the beauties of the world the beauties
of his presence and grace in my life
that continual thanksgiving within my heart because God
loves me but then prayer has a second
form of petition where I bring before God
my needs my request I need strength I
need guidance I need help I need wisdom
I need so many things and I come
before God that he might supply my needs
then prayer moves into the realm of intercession
where I bring before God your needs I
bring before God the needs of the community
I bring before God the needs of this
nation the needs of the world intercessory prayer
and no prayer is really complete except it
enter into the area of intercession and we
really need real intercessors if you want a
book to really understand intercessory prayer Reese Howells
book intercessors fantastic just a beautiful prayer book
on intercessory prayer Reese Howells the intercessor I
believe that one of the greatest needs today
really is for people to really have the
ministry and exercise the ministry of intercessory prayer
more things are brought through prayer than the
world will ever know the real power behind
the scenes how I thank God for the
130 men in the church who are engaged
in the intercessory prayer all night long each
night of the week God bless these men
what a power they are for good in
this whole community as they intercede in their
ministry of intercessory prayer no wonder God is
working so marvelously because of the intercession that
is going on day and night continually Moses
is in intercessory prayer the first thing is
the confession of the sins of the people
confession of sin is so important because without
confession there can be no forgiveness unless you
confess your sins to God there is no
way God can forgive your sins if you
try to hide your sins there is no
forgiveness if you try to cover your sins
there is no forgiveness whoso seeks to cover
his sins shall not prosper but whoso shall
confess his sins the same shall be forgiven
many times we are trying to cover our
guilt we are trying to make ourselves look
not quite so guilty we are trying to
sort of gloss over the sin the guilt
in our lives that it doesn't look as
bad as it really is and as long
as we are seeking to do a snow
job on God we are never going to
get anywhere it is only when you are
honest and open with God and you openly
confess your sin and your guilt before God
that now you open the door for God
to work now can God forgive because you
have been open and you confessed your sins
and if you confess your sins he is
faithful and just to forgive you your sin
and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness but
it is not until there has been that
open confession of sin that God can work
and do it be open with God be
honest with God confessing Moses confessed the sin
of the people and then Moses said yet
now if thou wilt forgive their sin notice
that line the dash with the semicolon that
dash with the semicolon indicates a passing of
time how much time we don't know but
an interim of time passed as Moses was
waiting for God to answer and he waited
and he waited and there was no voice
from heaven there was no voice of grace
or mercy there was no voice declaring I
will forgive I will cleanse I will pardon
and Moses waited and it seemed like the
silence was a refusal by God if thou
wilt forgive their sin no answer maybe God
won't forgive maybe there is a refusal so
Moses goes on to say if not blot
me I pray thee out of thy book
which thou hast written Jesus speaks to the
church of Sardis declaring he that overcomes I
will not blot his name out of the
book of life Moses is asking for his
name to be blotted out of the book
that God has written the book of life
if God will not forgive the sins of
the people this certainly shows to
us a depth of love that very few
of us can really comprehend or understand where
Moses for the sake of the people could
wish himself blotted out if God won't forgive
them then forget me where Moses is willing
to take the place with the guilty people
and to stand with the guilty people but
again where did this love come from it
wasn't natural with Moses when God spoke to
Moses out of the burning bush and told
him to go and lead these people out
of Egypt he had he really wanted nothing
to do with it and nothing to do
with them he was satisfied where he was
they had already given him a bad time
and he wanted nothing to do with it
and so he began to offer to God
all kinds of excuses why he could not
go and lead them out of Egypt and
God answered every one of his excuses I
can't speak alright Aaron can be your mouthpiece
they won't believe me alright take the rod
and I'll work miracles with it and after
God answered every one of his excuses Moses
said God please send someone else I don't
want to go Moses really didn't have any
desire to go and get involved but God
put it in his heart and the compassion
and the love that Moses had for these
people was something that God had placed in
his heart that is why it is sheer
folly for us to try to generate compassion
it's got to come from God that kind
of compassion you can't generate you can't say
oh I'm just going to love everybody you're
going to find more hatred in your heart
than you've ever known was there the moment
you start out from the door with a
determination in your mind I'm going to love
everybody today just going to be a picture
of love today going to love everybody man
I'll tell you you'll not get three blocks
from your house until somebody will swerve in
front of you and cut you off and
you'll be you come back here where'd you
get your driver's license you know and where's
the love you know this kind of compassion
can only come from God the work of
God so don't exalt Moses exalt God who
gave him this great compassion Paul said much
the same thing I could wish myself a
curse from Christ for my brethren my kinsmen
according to the flesh hard for me I
cannot I cannot say that I do not
have that kind of compassion I pray God
give me more compassion for the lost I
have sort of an attitude hey man if
you want to be stupid and go to
hell that's your business because I know that
I can't turn you or save you or
do anything about it I mean if you're
determined you know what can I do but
I desire a greater compassion I think that
that's one of the needs of the church
today is a greater compassion for the lost
we just couldn't sit by complacently and see
the terrible condition of the lost around us
without being more moved without being touched without
being burdened without being driven to a greater
witness unto them oh God give me a
heart like thine a compassion for those that
are lost the compassion of John Knox oh
God give me Scotland or I'll die oh
God give me the United States or I'll
die a real burden for soul we don't
have it we don't possess it may God
give it to us a great burden for
lost souls that we too might become intercessors
because that is the secret behind all intercession
is that great love and burden for the
lost that's always the underlying factor of a
great intercessor it begins with a compassion begins
with a love it's expressed in intercession now
Moses request was a foolish request blot my
name out of your book of amendments Moses
that's foolish that's off the wall the Lord
said unto Moses Moses that's off the wall
whosoever has sinned against me him will I
blot out of my book don't ask me
to blot your name out that's ridiculous I'll
blot out the names of those who have
sinned against me there was a time when
the Lord spoke to me somewhat the same
way as he spoke to Moses when my
mother was dying I went into her bedroom
and I sat there for a while looking
at her as she was suffering trying to
understand in my heart crying out to God
I looked at those neat hands those beautiful
hands and I thought of all the pies
and the cookies and the rolls and all
that those hands had baked for my pleasure
I thought of all the times that those
hands had wiped my forehead when it was
hot and sweaty with a fever I thought
of all of the ministry of those hands
for me and my benefit the clothes that
were washed with those hands and hung out
and brought in and folded all of the
beds that those hands had made for me
and I just sat there weeping such a
beautiful person one of the dearest persons I've
ever known and to see her suffering was
more than I could take to know that
night and day she could not sleep because
of the pain and I went over to
the foot of the bed and I fell
on my face before God and I said
Lord I'm no hero and I'm not demanding
that you heal her she's yours her life
is yours she belongs to you but God
I can't stand to see her suffer anymore
and though I'm not a hero Lord would
you please take her pain and put it
on me for today and I'll be glad
to bear the pain all day for her
so that she can have relief today I'm
not asking for it forever but Lord for
today let me bear it for her so
she can have one day's relief and Jesus
came to me and he stood right by
my side he said Chuck that's off the
wall he said I already bore her pain
for her there's no need for you to
do it and I said Lord forgive me
for such a off the wall statement I
know you bore her pain I thank you
for bearing her pain for her and
in that very moment my mother sort of
sighed and she said oh the pain is
gone and she never experienced a moment's pain
after that for all of a sudden I
saw the greatness of God and the power
of Jesus Christ rather than the ugliness of
the cancer and I realized what are a
few maligned cells against the mighty creative force
and power of God and Jesus but we
are human and we are prone to sometimes
make statements to God that are off the
wall as Moses Lord blot my name God
said oh come on Moses whoever sins against
me those are the names I'm going to
blot out yet the expression behind it surely
the compassion that was there the willingness of
Moses has to be admired we can admire
the work that God is able to do
in changing a man from a cold calloused
position the children of Israel let them suffer
in Egypt I could care less let me
alone I'm happy and content here in the
wilderness from that not wanting to get involved
to such a compassion that he'll say Lord
forgive their sins and if not then blot
I pray thee my name out of your
book I'll tell you that kind of compassion
it only can come from God and a
work of God but I admire the work
that God is able to do in each
of our lives in transforming us and changing
us and taking us from a non-committal
kind of a don't care let's not get
involved to just a complete involvement in the
needs of the world around us as we
intercede and pray for God's help for this
sick people and this sick nation therefore now
go and lead the people into the place
which I have spoken unto thee behold my
angel shall go before thee nevertheless in the
day when I visit I will visit their
sin upon them and the Lord plagued the
people because they had made the calf which
erred me now the Lord said alright now
go and lead them and I'm going to
send my angel before you now Moses is
going to respond to this and this will
be our message next Sunday morning Moses responds
to God saying I'm going to send my
angel before you as he realizes and recognizes
the necessity of the presence of God so
next Sunday you've already got a clue on
the Sunday morning sermon as you find Moses
response to God saying I'm going to send
my angel go ahead get out there and
lead them now and I'll send my angel
Moses response to that so next week the
Lord will finish the book of Exodus the
latter part gets a little redundant because then
they go ahead and make the thing just
like he said so we're going to be
skipping a lot of that because it'll just
be redundant we've already looked at the blueprints
and so now they are just going to
follow the blueprints that God has given and
we don't need to follow them through the
making of it as we get into the
blueprints so next week finish the book of
Exodus and may the Lord bless you and
give you wisdom and understanding as you realize
that Christ is now our tabernacle he is
the place where we meet God you cannot
meet God apart from Jesus Christ the place
of meeting and now this is the place
where God will meet you even Jesus Christ
silver the metal that was used in the
sockets is the metal of redemption in the
scriptures gold is the metal of heaven deity
and brass is the metal of judgment so
as you get into these metals you'll see
the place of the silver and redemption the
place of gold the place of God's presence
and the place of brass the place of
God's judgment against sin and it all has
beautiful symbolism the colors also have their symbolisms
which we'll get into more next week shall
we stand now may the Lord be with
you and guide and bless your life and
keep you in the love of Jesus Christ
and may he increase your burden for the
lost may the anointing of God rest upon
your life that you might hear his voice
that you might do his work that you
might walk in his path in Jesus name