Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Exodus 34:9.
Exodus 34:1-10
Excerpted from: Who Do You Trust? (Part Two)In that email Pat sent he cited verse 6 as it is written in the Contemporary English Version [paraphrase], because there is an absolute declaration hidden within this verse that runs the length, breadth, width, and depth of everything God does with His church now. The CEV translates Exodus 34:6 this way: “Then He passed in front of Moses and called out, “I am the LORD God. I am merciful and very patient with my people. I show great love, and I can be trusted.”
The word that is translated as "truth" in the NKJV is number 571 in Strong’s—it means stability; figuratively it means certainty; truth; trustworthiness.
It is good to keep in mind that God is literally telling us that everything He does is in accord with the way He Himself lives. And, on top of that, within the context, He is working to make His Family just like Him by His grace, with His abundant mercy and forgiveness. Everything He said and does is truth—His Word is always true, and therefore He can always, without exception, be trusted!
In summary and with reference to Exodus 34:6-10 and God’s owns declaration: By grace His covenant is assured. He is merciful, compassionate, slow to anger, and rich in His gifts to thousands of generations. By His grace He assures forgiveness of offenses, crimes, and sins, even though they may have teaching consequences for generations.
But He has just as firmly assured that He will not acquit the willful sinner, who continues to follow his own way of life and rejects God’s way of life, trampling on God’s own sacrifice to make this awesome work sure.
God’s answer to Satan in Genesis 3 is, I can be trusted in all that I say and do, as all will eventually see in My awesome work through the weakest among men!
Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Exodus 34:9:
Deuteronomy 32:1-43
Psalm 73:12-14
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