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Exodus 19:7-9
Excerpted from: Jesus in the Feasts (Part Three): Divine King

This is the grounds, you might say, the foundation for why He comes down on the mount and gives them the Ten Commandments and the ensuing covenant that is in the next few chapters. But He is laying it out in very large parameters here.

We talked about God setting up the situation and that He wanted to formalize the relationship with the children of Israel, which, you know, in terms of the covenant, required their obedience and then His reciprocal blessing of them.

Now for our purposes today, the vital part of this exchange that we have between or among the people, Moses, and God is in verse 9, the last one that we read here. God says, "I come to you in the thick cloud." God would come to them for the people to hear His voice themselves. And what was the reaction after they heard? They would believe.

"Faith comes by hearing." Does Paul not say that in Romans? And so God was going to put an exclamation point on His instructions by giving them Himself—directly to the people. Now we know by the end of the chapter they are saying, "No, no, no! Don't let Him speak to us! You go up, Moses."

Exodus 19:7-8
Excerpted from: Counting to Pentecost: A Simple Approach

Here in five or six verses, we have a summation of Israel accepting the Old Covenant. We could say that they approved the Old Covenant by voice vote, if you will. But notice the important word in this passage is “all.” All the people certified that they would keep all of God's words, all of His instructions, all of His covenant. By doing so, by saying “Yea” to this pronouncement of the covenant, they were legally committed under God to keep the Old Covenant. All of it—down to the very last detail—all the people said that they would keep all the words. So this is pretty all-encompassing here, it covers everything. They could not say, “Oh we don’t like this particular one about not eating pigs, so we will scratch this one out. God, would you mind initialing this one here?” No, they could not do that. They had to accept the whole thing and they did. They said, “We'll keep all the words of this covenant.”

Exodus 19:1-8
Excerpted from: The Bride of Christ (Part One)

Marriage throughout the Bible is pictured as the closest of relationships, and I want to spend a few minutes at this moment focusing on the type of the bride of Christ. It appears in the Old Covenant God made with Israel.

These are fairly well known scriptures to us all, but I would like us to take a few minutes looking at this relationship that God had with a physical people, although I do not want to dwell on this other than to show that God's selection is on the part of Israel, what He is going to do with them going forward, but I just want to show what He gives us in type in Israel.

Here is the beginning of a betrothal promise between God and physical Israel. This is a type of our betrothal promise. It is a type of the eternal betrothal mutually made with Christ and spiritual Israel.

They had promised, a physical nation, a type for us, to be His holy and righteous people.

Exodus 19:4-8
Excerpted from: Government (Part One)

We have advanced to the place chronologically to where God formally proposes an agreement with them in which He will be their ruler (governor, king) if they will consent to be obedient. There is the "if." How many times have you heard the statement that "God will not save anybody He cannot rule"? If a person does not voluntarily consent to be ruled by God, then God will not be that person's Governor, King, Ruler, or Savior.

That appears right here in the Old Covenant, and these people gave their consent. Now notice the next thing that happened. Please, if you do not get anything else out of the sermon, please, get this! (And remember this, because it becomes very important to the Christian.)

Exodus 19:3-8
Excerpted from: The Holiness Code

Verse 5 seems to say that if you keep the law and the covenant, then you will be holy. But that is kind of backwards. It is really not what it says, because by making the covenant, God made them holy. He set them apart. And then the keeping of the law that they did was a response to being God's sanctified people, set apart. We do not want to get the cart before the horse here. God was the One that set them apart, sanctified them to be His holy people, and then the keeping of the law kept them in that position.

Exodus 19:7-8
Excerpted from: The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part 3)

Do you see what He is saying there? This is a "term." IF you will obey Me, THEN you will be. . . .

So these people would show, then, that they were God's possession by being obedient to Him. By entering into the covenant, they obligated themselves to meet its terms. Hang on to that word obligation. God recorded these things as a pattern so that we would understand when we make the New Covenant. When we make the New Covenant, some of the terms are different but the concepts are the same.

The Sabbath Committed to the Hebrews

Sermons
The Handwriting Is on the Wall (2021)
Radiating the Glory of God
The Doctrine of Israel (Part Two): The Old Covenant
Counting to Pentecost: A Simple Approach
Sovereignty and 'Once Saved Always Saved'
From Rubble to Utopia
Choosing to Have a Good Relationship
The Doctrine of Israel (Part Fourteen): Israel Redeemed

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