Amen.
Alright, we're there in Exodus 2.
Last week we covered the parallel between Exodus and the book of Acts, and today we're
just going to cover the life of Moses fairly quickly, but we're really going to see the
parallel between Moses and Jesus Christ.
The title of the sermon this evening or afternoon is Moses, Four Shadows Christ.
And you guys can try to keep up with me. I'm actually going to cover a lot of scripture
We're going to go through this. I have 10 points for you today
But the reason I wanted to get these two out of the way is because I'm going to be tempted as we go through the overview
Of Exodus to just keep coming back to that and even though I make references
I just don't want to get off on a rabbit trail because the book of Exodus on its own
Just without going through all the parallelism is a great book, right?
You know, you have all these great stories and miracles and plagues and just
Events, I mean, there's a lot to uncover there and I think just on its own
It's it's worthy of just its own type of sermons
But within it you have these great foreshadowings that stick out, right and the book of Exodus even has some bigger
foreshadowings, in my opinion, then even like the book of Genesis in some ways,
because that's where we see the blood, that's where we see the Passover, we start to see a much
more clear picture of Jesus Christ. And so, just as a way of introduction, you know, Moses is
literally, I mean, he's one of the clearest Old Testament types of Christ.
His life, his mission, his mediatory or intercessory role foreshadows Jesus in many ways.
As a matter of fact, Moses, we're going to see this, but one of the things that really
stands out that I would, regardless of the points, is Moses really loved the people.
I mean, he was willing to be blotted out of the book of life.
I mean, how many of us can actually say that we would be willing to intercede for our congregation
or our brothers and sisters in Christ to the point where we request from God to be removed
from the book of life in order to spare the anguish and punishment of the people that
hate God?
I mean, that's how benevolent and loving of a leader, Moses is, he really encapsulates
what Jesus would become, right?
I mean, Jesus not only was willing, he did die for our sins, right?
He was willing.
I mean, obviously Jesus would never be blotted out, but he went through the entire same similar
motion of being blotted out, except he conquered death, right?
He's the one that died and rose on the third day.
So that's the big, one of the big differences.
I'm gonna give you some fancy theological terms, but they mean it's very simple typology just means in
Christian theology, it's a biblical exegesis. And that word exegesis is just a fancy word for saying just
extrapolating the Word of God and explaining it to people. It's a doctrine or theory concerning the relationship of the Old Testament to the
New Testament. Events, persons, or statements in the Old Testament are seen as types
prefiguring or supersede by
anti-types, even aspects of Christ or was revelation described in the New Testament. For example,
Jonah may be seen as a type of Christ and that he emerged from the fish's belly and thus appeared to rise from the dead.
So, the first point for you today, I got 10 quick points for you.
The first point is that both Moses and Jesus were born under oppression and faced in phantasy.
So we start to see the pattern.
I mean, really, Moses is like this major theme.
Besides the fact that when we get to the overview of Exodus, I want to spend more time on Moses'
character.
You know, there's just a lot of things.
You know, he had some great sense of leadership, but he also wasn't perfect.
I mean, there Jesus got himself was angry at Moses at one point for
requesting or praying incorrectly and that that's coming in another time.
But in Exodus one, you actually got guys are there.
So let's just go there and in Exodus one in verse 16, the Bible says, and he said,
when you do the office of the midwives to the Hebrew women and see them upon the
stools, this is Pharaoh telling the midwives, he said,
If it be a son that you shall kill him, but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
But the midwives feared God and did not, as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men,
children alive. And the king of Egypt called for the midwives and sent them to them.
Why have you done this thing and have saved the men, children alive?
And the midwives sent to Pharaoh because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women,
for they are lively and are delivered air. The midwives come into the unto them.
and the people multiplied and waxed very mildly and it came to pass because the midwives fear God
that he made them houses and Pharaoh charged all his people saying every son that is born he shall
cast into the river and every daughter he shall save. So Pharaoh's threatened by the male children
obviously in this sense he's threatened because he doesn't want an army to rise up whereas Herod
in Matthew 2 if you want to go there really quick in Matthew 2 Herod is threatened because he thinks
But he doesn't realize also that he's under the influence of what Satan and Satan obviously has always been threatened by God Almighty, because he wants to be like the Almighty.
As a matter of fact, what's interesting, I've never had this happen out so many.
Number one, actually there's two things that happen today that haven't happened in a long time. One happens, but one has never happened.
The first one is we had a big group of soul winners and we got no souls one
So that's usually a rare thing usually when you have such a big group somebody will come out on top
But that's okay. That happens. It's not a big deal
But the second one was weird
Then Moe was with me. We were given the gospel this guy. We you can tell we woke him up
Probably from a drunken and drug-induced stupor. I mean you just tell use these tatted up all over the place
I don't understand by the way the new culture worth it. They everybody's just had it up
It doesn't make any sense to me, but
And what's interesting is he had this tattoo here of 666 right under his chin
The reason I say that and I mentioned is because we're going through the gospel
He's actually being in my opinion. He's being receptive like I'm going through like what's the sinner and he's actually reading the verses with me
Like when I'm showing them to him and then when I get to the part about you know
How Jesus saves us from our sin and it's not because of works
And he's like, so what you're saying is,
and this is a very normal response.
He's like, so you're saying that just, you know,
if I'm just a bad guy or whatever,
but I believe in Jesus, then I'm gonna go to heaven.
I'm like, yeah, that's basically what I'm saying.
He's like, well, then why doesn't God forgive Satan?
I'm like, what?
What do you mean?
And he, I thought maybe it was just like a one-off, right?
I'm like, okay, well, God doesn't forgive Satan.
Well, first of all, Satan's not a human.
He's a created being.
He's an angel.
He's like, yeah, but.
Why does God have to be so angry with Satan that he won't just forgive Satan?
And I was like, never mind.
I'm just going to, I've never had anybody in the flesh advocate for the devil.
On his behalf like the guy was sincere. He wasn't even like fighting
He was sincere that he thought God should forgive Satan and I'm like Satan's rejected him
You know Satan hates God. He wants to be like the Almighty. Anyways, I didn't spend too much time after that
So, you know, here's our card and you know, thank you. We're gonna be on our way
But I have never had anybody lawyer up on the behalf of Satan. I mean it was just
But that's what Satan does, right?
I mean, this is what we see,
and Satan always is gonna find people to influence
and to advocate for him and to fight for evil.
But go over to Matthew 2. I'll read for you really quick in Hosea 11 verse 1 the Bible says when Israel was a child
Then I loved him and called my son out of Egypt and obviously we just know that's a prophetic verse of Jesus coming out of
Egypt after Herod decided that he was gonna infanticide a bunch of children
But Matthew 13 I mean to verse 13 the Bible says and when they were departed behold the angel the Lord appeared to Joseph
In a dream saying a rise and take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt
and be thou there until I bring thee word, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night and departed in Egypt,
and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled when he was spoken of the
Lord by the prophets saying, out of Egypt have I called my son. Then Herod, when he saw that he
was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding Roth, and sent forth and slew the children that were in
Bethlehem, and all the coast thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which
Then was fulfilled, that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, in Ramah,
Was there a voice heard lamentation and weeping and great mourning Rachel weeping for her children?
And would not be comforted because they are not and so they they both from from birth faced a lot of
Oppression right obviously they're not necessarily dealing with it
But the people that are taking care of them were willing to stand for them
You know obviously Joseph obeyed the the angel, but in in Moses's case
Moses' mom got God-wise to the thing and she ended up indirectly having them raised by Pharaoh's daughter
and when they went to go seek for the midwife to raise Moses, guess who it was? It was his own mom.
You know, that is the providential hand of Jesus Christ, right?
Point number two is they were both sent as deliverers.
Moses is the clear picture of deliverance in the Old Testament that foreshadows Christ.
We touched on it last week, but what is it? It's the deliverance from what? From the spiritual death
Right. I mean, obviously there's a physical aspect to what they did in the book of Exodus
But it all comes back to the spiritual. I mean you could spend I could just on this point alone spent
Probably not just an hour, but I could spend hours going through the New Testament
and it just keeps pointing back to the fact that they were heart-necked and that they were
stubborn and that they murmured and they complained and they never got it, right?
What did Israel never get? That the deliverance was in a physical one. It was a spiritual one.
That Jesus was the one, it was all about the eternal glory.
Right. It wasn't about the conquering a land full of flowing with milk and honey. No, it was a spiritual thing
And the only one who seemed to get it through this whole ordeal most than anybody was Moses
even Aaron
Faulted a little bit, right?
And then later on obviously Joshua and Caleb, but an Exodus 3 verse 10
The Bible says you guys can turn over to Exodus 7
But an Exodus 3 verse 10 the Bible says come now therefore and I will send thee unto Pharaoh
That thou might as bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt
That's literally what Moses was chosen for his whole life purpose was to deliver an entire people out of bondage
But it was literally a picture of salvation, and Moses knew that.
Maybe that's why Moses, you know Moses at one point
I don't know if I have the verses here, but as I was doing him a steady here like Moses literally at one point calls out God
He's like he's like I need your help when they're when they're asking for bread
You know, they're tired of the manna
He's like you've given me this huge burden of people to carry and it's a picture of what what did Jesus have to do?
He had to carry our sins on the cross like that's why we go out and preach the gospel because think about it
I mean the burden of the entire
Sins of the entire world were on Jesus Christ to deliver us out of what out of hell
In John 8 verse 36, but the Bible says if the Son therefore shall make you free
He shall be free indeed and then in Luke 4 18
The Bible says the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he had anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor
This is Jesus speaking. He had sent me to heal the brokenhearted to preach deliverance
to the captives and recovering sight to the blind and to set at liberty them that are bruised.
And the reason I included that John 8 right in the middle is because in both instances in Exodus
and in the New Testament, who is actually doing the deliverance? God.
God is the one guiding Moses and giving Moses the power to
impose the ten plagues to lead them out to part the Red Sea and
Literally in the New Testament Jesus is God in the flesh
And he's working with God the Father and the Holy Ghost to do what to deliver us to set us free to
Deliver us from bondage from our captivity of sin
third point
so, you know, we looked at the fact that
We have oh, let me sorry. I'm I
hate when my just so you guys know when
When my thing doesn't print it's everything goes wrong and now I'm on on the on the tablet
But you know we looked at the fact that both were born under oppression and faced in fantaside
Both were sent as deliverers, but both Moses and Jesus
Did signs and miracles?
And that's a, you know, that's an important thing. Also, I, uh, I heard someone say the, the, you know, the humanity of Christ.
I was listening. Actually, there was Pastor Anderson. I was listening to a sermon in his about the humanity of Christ.
And one of the things he pointed out, which is evident by when you read this is that.
You know, all the miracles done by Moses or even the apostles or even Jesus when he was in the flesh
are by what? By the power of God. You know, right? It's God who does that.
And one of the things that stands out in Exodus is that even though the, I guess the magicians
or the wise men that are on Pharaoh's side are able to replicate
The same things, you know when when Moses turns into a serpent, they're able to do the same thing number one
Obviously God's power over takes them, but number two
They're never able to undo the thing that they do right so like Moses is able to turn them into
Assert the staff into serpent and then undo that
Whereas the the magicians they turn the serpents and then they're like not able to undo it
They just make things worse right or they're also able to turn water into blood, but not undo the thing
Whereas God can do or undo the thing, which is that's an interesting point.
But go over to Exodus seven.
I had you turn there, but just in case you're not there, the Bible says there in Exodus seven
in verse 19, it says in the Lord's bake unto Moses.
Say unto Aaron, take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon the rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood, and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both vessels of wood and vessels of stone.
And Moses, and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded, and he lifted up the rod and smote the waters that were in the river, in the side of Pharaoh, and in the side of his servants, and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
So Moses was able and we know he did other miracles
This one stands out to me because anytime that we're talking about the blood, you know
That's literally one of the main themes of the book of Exodus
If you go to John 7, I mean John 2 and verse 7 in the beginning of Jesus' ministry, literally
the beginning of miracles was what? Turning water into wine, right? Which is a very similar
picture of the blood, right? Of what Moses did. Jesus saith unto them, fill the water pots with
water and they filled them up to the brim and he said unto them, draw out now and bear unto the
governor of the feast and they bear it. When the ruler of the feet had tasted the water that was made
and you not once it was, but the servants which drew out the water into you,
the governor of the feasts called the bridegroom, and said unto him,
every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine, and when men have well drunk,
that which is worse, but thou hast kept the good wine until now, this beginning of miracles
that Jesus and King of Galilee and manifested forth glory in all his disciples believed on him."
By the way, just a side point.
Wine, you know, there was no, no, uh, word for alcohol, like heart, liquor, beer, wine
is, uh, both alcoholic wine or fruit juice.
And when he says, Hey, you brought out the good stuff first, you know why it was the
good stuff?
Cause it's not fermented, right?
It doesn't taste nasty because back then they didn't have distilleries like we have now.
But you notice he's like it doesn't taste as good. They got they like the effects of it
But it just doesn't taste as good as and if anybody by the way if you're young and you've never tasted alcohol never taste alcohol
But I will tell you the one experience that most people tell you about alcohol is ask anybody who's ever drank alcohol
If they liked it the first time they tested it and I guarantee you
99.9999999% of people will always say it was disgusting
Right, because it's fermented.
It's like drinking apple cider vinegar.
Who here likes drinking apple cider, not the Christmas drink, but like the apple cider
vinegar that you buy for health reasons.
One person.
One person likes drinking apple cider vinegar.
That's it.
Two people.
Any other takers?
I mean, we might, no, I'm just kidding.
I've, I've done the apple cider vinegar, you know, for health reasons, but that stuff's disgusting.
Like it upsets your stomach. It just tastes bad. It's just, you know, I, if, if I was at a party
and they brought that out, I wouldn't drink it. I'd want just apple juice, not apple cider vinegar.
Same concept, right? But you don't have to turn there, but in the same thing, in exit is 1421,
the Bible says, and Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the Lord cost the sea to go back
all that night and made the sea dry land and the land and the waters were divided.
You know, we see that Moses split the Red Sea and in Matthew 1425 Jesus walks on water says,
but the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with the waves.
for the wind was contrary and in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them walking on the
sea now i like how they they it's a foreshadow but in a way Jesus's miracles are kind of cooler right
because one turns water into blood nobody wants to drink what uh blood Jesus turns water into wine
like good wine and they were like man we want some more of that
And then Moses splits the Red Sea, which is actually pretty cool.
And they walk on a dry land, but God's like, Jesus shows up.
He's like, I don't even need to split the sea.
I just, I can just walk on it.
I remember Peter's like, Hey, I want to go out and he walks and then he flails.
But that's a whole other sermon.
But these are some of the things that foreshadow Christ.
Another thing and point number four is that both were mediators of the covenant.
And this is important because that's the whole purpose of the Old Testament.
And you say, you know, I know I keep saying this, but a lot of people would think these
are very basic sermons.
But you know, today there's a group of people called the Jews who love the Torah, but not for any of these reasons.
That's what they call it, right? The first five books of the Bible.
And none of it has to do with Jesus.
What they like is all the laws, all the dietary laws, the Levitical laws, all the different things.
But they don't like the fact that, you know, Jesus is the main centerpiece, that He's the cornerstone.
He's the one that makes everything work.
And by the way, just if you don't want to be jumping around, stay in the book of Exodus,
but in Exodus 19 and verse 5, the Bible says,
Now, therefore, this is speaking of the old covenant says,
If you obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant,
Then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people for all the earth is mine
And you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation
These are the words with that which thou shall speak unto the children of Israel and Moses came and called the elders of the
People and laid before their faces all the words which the Lord commanded and we were to continue reading he gets the Ten Commandments
And this is what I mean by they missed it, right?
Moses is literally talking about
Jesus Christ. Moses is talking about salvation by faith and we know this because I'm not going to touch on it today
but in Hebrews 11 and in other places we see that but what they they got all what they got out of it was like
Oh, we need to eat better and we need to sacrifice this and we need to do all these things and circumcise on the eighth day
That was not the covenant that Christ was talking about
Right if we were to go to Luke 2 verse 22 verse 20 the Bible says likewise also the cup after supper
Saying, this cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
Jesus is the New Testament, right?
He's the testator, the Bible says.
In Exodus 24-8, we see this says, and Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people
and said, Behold, the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you, covering
all these words.
Again, he's doing these things, and what they see is a bunch of motions, like the Catholics
That's why the Catholics like Moses and what Moses is saying is,
Hey, this is a picture of what's to come.
And isn't that what church is really like?
I mean, literally you have two types of people in church.
You get those people that are coming to church and they're growing.
And every time the preacher says something, they're like, oh, that's good.
And actually, if you're growing, sometimes the preacher might not be that good,
or he might not be as known.
And then the preacher's preaching, you're like, oh, wait, wait a minute.
That doesn't make any sense.
But the reason is because you're growing in Christ.
And then you got the other type of Christian who sits there and they're like,
I checked off Sunday morning, checked off Sunday evening, I did my tithes, and they
think it's all their works.
Right, they think that they just need to go through the motions.
They think that that, or you get the, in that same compartmentalization, you have a subsection.
They might not be checking off like Sunday morning, Sunday evening or tithe, but they
might be checking off like, Oh, well, you know, I'm cleaning my life.
Oh, I don't do this and I don't do that and look at so-and-so.
They're such a bad Christian.
I don't even know why they show up to church.
you know, type of thing, where they constantly are missing the point.
Go over to Matthew 5 really quick, go to Matthew 5
in the same vein of them being mediators, but in Hebrews 8, verse 6, the Bible says,
but now he had to obtain a more excellent ministry
by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant.
Which he which was established upon better promises for of that first covenant had been faultless
Then should no place have been sought for the second covenant
In other words if Moses was that good we wouldn't need Jesus
But Moses was literally a picture of Jesus. He wasn't Jesus
The Bible clears that up for us in Matthew 5 or 17 says
Jesus says, think not that I've come to destroy the law or the prophets, I've come to destroy,
but I have not come to destroy, but to fulfill, for verily I stand to you, till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled.
You know, God didn't send Jesus to destroy the law or the prophets, but the problem
There's a very big difference, right?
God's law is always morally and spiritually superior.
It's not works-based.
If God wanted us to sacrifice to goats,
we'd have a whole farm of goats right next door.
We have a big...
As a matter of fact, our church is already an advantage
if we wanted to go old school Jewish.
We just put a little fence.
We could have a bunch of goats and cows and, you know,
we have a big piece of land where some other churches don't.
But that's not what we do.
But what we will do is we will continue to emphasize the things that are necessary for
spiritual edification.
What are those, you know, the, the, the fruits of the spirit, right?
Like love, joy, peace, long suffering, not fornicating, not committing adultery, not
being a drunkard, not railing, not talking bad about, I mean, these are the things that
God wants us to clean up.
Who cares if you tithe?
Honestly, our church will grow more if you just clean up your life instead of you worrying about tithing.
Now, don't get your pastor wrong. I mean, you should tithe. They'll keep things going.
But if you don't tithe, I don't care because God's currency, like I said this morning, is based on the spiritual.
God will always provide for our church as long as you guys are cleaning up your life.
As long as you guys are trying to do better for Christ as long as I'm doing the duty that God's asked me to do
As long as we're doing the reasonable service
Moses was blessed not because he was a great guy
But he was blessed because you he loved the Lord Jesus Christ and he was saved and he was willing to constantly do better
I mean Moses messed up quite a bit, but he always admitted his faults
Right Jesus in the obviously Jesus didn't sin, but what did Jesus do Jesus was tempted and didn't take temptation, right?
He committed no sin Jesus
You know suffered and it says, you know if this cut if it be possible let this cut pass over me
Meaning like the fact that he just had the burden of the world, but he was still obedient
Regardless of how much Moses messed up. You can't take that thing away from him. Moses was obedient
You know, he let the people out of Egypt, he messed up and he wasn't able to go to Egypt,
and he's just like, hey, God, I know I can't go in, but can I at least take a look?
You know, he didn't throw a tantrum.
I mean, he threw a tantrum to his people, but he didn't throw a tantrum to God.
He knew he was dealing with.
The Bible says that, you know, I didn't touch those here, I'm just paraphrasing, but the
Bible says that Moses trembled at the sight of the Lord.
He was really scared of the Lord. You know, we it would do us some good if we were all really scared of the Lord
Seriously, you like we need to have a little bit more fear like you should see some of the stories that are happening and then be like, you know what Lord?
I'm sorry
Remember when you were a little kid, you know, like maybe young kid or maybe early teenager you messed up really bad for the first time
You did something really stupid that cost maybe a little bit more than it should have or it got you a little bit bigger
Trouble and then by the time it was all over you're like, I am never gonna do that again
I promise if I could just get out of this
I will never ever ever ever again do that. We should have some of that fear in us
Of course, don't be dumb. We're adults. We know that we're gonna sin
But Lord help me through this don't don't make vows or promises that you're not gonna keep because the Lord doesn't want you to
Vow our promise. He wants you to just obey but
But it is important that we clean up our lives
Where was I?
Okay
Point number five
Both were rejected by their own people. I mean Moses. I mean he was up against it the whole time
For all kinds of reasons they were making it. I mean even even the wife
He's chose wasn't good enough for the people of Israel. They're just complaining about him all the time
In Exodus 2.14, you guys go to Acts 7, but in Exodus 2.14, the Bible says,
And he said, Who made the prince and the judge over us?
We just read it.
Intends it's thou to kill me?
Is thou killest the Egyptian?
And Moses feared and said, Surely this thing is known.
I mean, Moses is coming to help.
And immediately they blame him.
They're like, We don't want to hear you.
Who do you think you are?
In Exodus 32, verse 1, the Bible says, And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount,
the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron
and said unto him,
up, make us gods, we shall go before us
for this Moses, for us for this Moses,
the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
we what not, what has become of him?
So quickly they were just able to discard Moses
and his leadership.
John 1 verse 10 the Bible says he that was he was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him
Not he came unto his own and his own received him not. I
Mean literally it's the same thing
Moses went into his people and his people didn't want to have anything to do with him
Jesus went to his people and they really hated him. I mean they crucified him. These Moses just didn't go into the promise lap
In Acts 7 verse 35
When Stephen is given his great sermon before his death it says this Moses
Whom they refused saying who made the a ruler and a judge
The same did God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush
And then in verse 51 he reminds him. He's like he makes the comparison. So I'm not that off with this Bible overview
It says there in verse 52 says which of the prophets
I mean in verse 51, ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the
Holy Ghost.
Who's he, who's he even talking to?
the Pharisees and the Sadducees remember there's a group of Grecians and
You know, it was a bunch of guys like a bunch of different like many sects of
Religions they were following them and they're they're attacking him and he says as your father's did all
Yes, your father's did so do ye and then verse 54 says which of the prophets
Have not your father's persecuted
and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the just one of whom ye
have been now the betrayers and murderers." That's what, and then what happened in verse 53,
for the second time I didn't throw that in there, but if you're in Acts 53, you can read it for
yourself. It cut them to the heart, right, and they were ready to kill them and they stoned them.
This is where they kill them.
They killed him because they're like we love Moses and they're like no, not you don't love Moses you rejected him
Let me just remind you let's go back to Exodus and then when they get to we get to Jesus
He's like just like Jesus the just one who you guys rejected and murdered and to this day
I mean there's literally been bills at the US
House of I don't know if it's Congress or the Senate, but it's been presented at one of them
I think it's Congress
where
They they're trying to basically
Sensor the use of the King James Bible or the Bible itself because it says that the Jews killed Jesus
That I'm not even that's been around for a long time. I
Mean, this is not even like in recent time every few years somebody will
Propose a bill like that
You know what one day they're gonna pass that bill
And we're gonna have to come to church on a Sunday and we're gonna have to tell people that the Jews
Crucified Jesus Christ and then they're probably gonna turn us into the
The cops or something because the world hated Jesus
Son do you mind gave me a cup of a bottle of water a small one and I don't need you I know I hate a little one
Just one just one. Thank you
Both that in point number six
Moses and Jesus both provided deliverance through what how did how did Moses deliver the people out of the land of Egypt?
through the blood
How did Jesus deliver us through the shedding of blood right in Exodus 12?
This is a really quick point, but in Exodus 12 verse 13 the Bible says in the blood shall be for you a token
Upon the houses where you are
And when I see the blood, I will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land
For this is my blood of the New Testament. I'm sorry. I started reading in Matthew 26 verse 28
But it actually it's cool right how it could it says there for this is the blood of the New Testament
Which is shed for many for the remission of sins
I've done a sermon. I mean, it's it probably is time to do another sermon on the blood
But I've done a sermon on the power of the blood and the blood is actually an amazing
element or a liquid
for so many reasons
not just the spiritual, but even the biological reasons, but
There's power in the blood. I always tell people to me. It's always interesting, right?
We all breathe the same air. You guys are breathing oxygen right now, and I'm breathing oxygen right now
But when I die the oxygen doesn't cease. It's just God removes our spirit from us
I mean you can pump air into dead bodies as much as you want
It's not gonna breathe if God doesn't want to breathe right, but what carries the oxygen the blood
It's literally the life. That's why we call it. It's the life blood, right? We need blood in order to live
and we need blood in order to have eternal life.
It's the same thing.
The oxygen eternally is Jesus Christ.
He is that, that, uh...
That transportation to heaven just like oxygen transport. I mean blood transports oxygen to every part of
If you do a study, it's kind of nuts
I know you're a nurse my wife's nurse, right?
Like the blood goes into like the smallest tiniest crevices of your entire body to oxygenate you
That's why when when something goes wrong in your body you get that like necrosis because you're not getting oxygen
It looks all weird. That's because there's no oxygen getting there
It's not just that blood is getting there. The blood's not carrying anything. It's just like void of all that stuff
But go over to Hebrews 3 real quick. I'll give you time to go there
Go over to Hebrews 3 and point number 7 is that they both spoke with God
face to face
Now let me build this point out because obviously nobody had seen God and
lived
But they both spoke to God face to face and the Bible actually says that
But in Exodus 3311, the Bible says in the Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend and he turned again into the camp but the servant Joshua the son of none a young man departed now not out of the tabernacle.
Now the problem with most people when they read something like this is especially people who don't believe in Jesus Christ.
They want to point to just one God like a like like the Muslims point to God like a law or something
But here what they forget is in other parts of the Old Testament
Remember Moses was allowed to see the backside of God because if you would have seen God face-to-face
He would have what died because he was dealing with
Different aspects of the Trinity God the Father nobody can see unless we die
But Jesus we can see face-to-face
I mean, we know that because he was seeing of witnesses 500 after he rose from the dead and even before that
But who so so what's cool about this verse is who is Moses talking to face-to-face as a friend?
Well, what did Jesus call us in the New Testament? He says we're his friends
literally Moses talked to Jesus or a pre-incarnate form of Jesus, right?
Because there's no way he could have talked to God the father because God the father's like
All you get to see is my backside because if you see my you see me face-to-face you're gonna die
Right if we go to John 1 verse 18 says no man hath seen God at any time
The only begun son, which is of the bosom of the father he hath declared him
We know both of them spoke because Jesus always spoke to God, right?
He not only he did he pray, but I mean he is God
So Jesus has always spoken God face-to-face other than when he was here on earth. He prayed him
But in Hebrews 3 verse 1 the Bible says wherefore holy brethren
partakers of the heavenly calling consider the apostles and high priest of our profession Christ Jesus
Who was faithful to him that appointed him as also Moses was faithful in all his house
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses and as much as he who had built at the house has more honor than the house
For every house is builded by some man, but he that built all things is God
Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things
Which were be which were to be spoken after
But Christ as a son over his own house whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope
Firm unto the end so this is you know
This is a necessary sermon because the Bible actually points to the fact that Moses and Jesus are interlinked
It says Moses was good, but Jesus was better
When I don't understand that Jesus was better. We had that first understand that Moses was good, right?
That's what the Bible literally telling us here says. Hey Moses was faithful
But there was one that was more faithful Jesus Christ
It is important because today you would have people that think that Moses is better
Then the Jews say boys and Moses are fought. We are Abraham our father or Moses our father
They followed Moses they followed Abraham, but they never followed Jesus
Sorry, I'm making a mess over here. Just remind me to pick that up. I don't know it's in my way
Point number eight both interceded for the people they both made intercession, right?
And the point that I really want to point out here, or the thing that I want to emphasize in this point, is if Moses, being fallen, was waddling to intervene for us.
How much more Jesus, right? I think that's a really thing a really important thing that stood out to me
You know because if you know, I believe that if we see this side of Moses it only proves
Jesus in variable this what do I mean by that?
Well the fact that we you know that a that a human being could be willing to intercede
For somebody else the Bible says that you know greater love had no man for another than that if he would die for someone, right?
but
If I die for someone, let's say someone came in shooting right now and you know, I died for one of you guys
I just took a bullet it would be admirable, but that would be the end of it
It would be for that moment, right?
They somebody else could come in and kill you and it all my efforts would have been in vain
I would have taken the bullet and died for you to eventually die like it's not gonna
Save you from the ultimate death, right? It's just gonna delay that a little bit, but when Jesus died for us
Not only did he pay for our sins, but also he continues to intercede for us
and I think it's a really important point because
You know in life
Sometimes things are hard right and we we don't know what to pray
We don't know what to think and it's not if it wasn't for Jesus interceding for us things wouldn't get done
You know things wouldn't get accomplished if we go to Exodus 32
We go to Exodus 32 we have two instances in Exodus
where Moses is willing to intercede, right?
In Exodus 32, verse 11,
the Bible says,
And Moses besought the Lord his God and said,
Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people?
Which thou has brought forth out of the land of Egypt
with great power and with a mighty hand.
Wherefore should the Egyptian speak
and say for mischief did he bring 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 Isaac, Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants to whom thou swearest by thy own self,
and set us unto them. I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven,
and all this land that I have spoken of I will give unto your seed,
and they shall inherit it forever, and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto this people."
So in this first instance, Moses is just like making a plea, reminding God,
You're the one that gave us this promise, and I know the people have made you angry,
but don't let them, you know, get you off track.
Now, we know God wouldn't, but it's interesting that Moses was bold enough to come to Jesus Christ,
to come to God and say, hey, don't do this thing. And what does the Bible say?
It says that the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto the people. He listened.
Right a couple of things to stand out. We can intercede for others
We can pray for other people in our church. We can pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ and be
Intercessory in a plea for something that they might be in trouble for or some blessing that they need in their life
That's why we do congregational prayer. That's why we ask you to pray for things. It's not just the list
This is real like you guys have the power to do so because Moses wasn't any better than you
Now, he's cool in the annals of history, but he was just a man just like you and I.
He was a sinner just like you and I.
Tonight, you can go home, get on your knees, and pray for someone for some great thing
to not be done, or some great evil to not come to someone, and God may listen to you.
Literally Job's miserable comforters were like spared the wrath of God because of Job.
Joe prayed for them, and they were spared.
But verse 32, just one verse in the same chapter,
he says,
Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin,
and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book,
which thou has written.
And I didn't include it here, but if you're there,
an exit is 32.
I always, this is one of my favorite parts of scripture.
The next is 32, verse 32, verse 33.
I love verse 33 because I love the Lord's response. You know, sometimes I think people explain the Lord wrong
Right. They're like, oh God would never do this or God would never say that or you shouldn't talk to God like this
Well, first of all, Moses comes and he's like a little bit not a holier than that, but he's just like a
little bit
Extreme in his request. I guess is the thing right? He's like Lord blot me out
You know, sometimes we're in so much anguish, we can be a little extreme in our request, right?
Elijah comes out after Jezebel chases them and he says, Lord, I'm the only one!
There is nobody else that's serving you and Lord's like, hey, hold on a second.
There's like seven thousand that haven't bowed the knee to Baal. Just take it easy.
Sometimes we can be, what? Childish. That's what I call it, because aren't children childish like that?
You know, when they're when they're exaggerated, you know, if you ever get on to them, especially when you have multiple children,
sometimes one feels like they're the ones that are outed more than the others.
They're like, you never treat so-and-so like this. You never talk to them like this.
You know, when I was growing up, you never let me do this and you let them get away with this, you know, like that.
In verse 33, though, the Lord responds and he says, and the Lord said unto Moses,
Whosoever sinned against me him will I blot out of my book? I love God
You know God's responses a lot of times in the Old Testament
He says like as a matter of fact like I'm not gonna listen to your petulant request or to your
Exaggerating request or to your you know anguished request. I'm just gonna tell you how it is
Moses, thank you for what you said, but let me just remind you. I don't need your help
You know, like when I like kids, right?
Sometimes I'll get onto one of my children
and then the other child chimes in, right?
I'll be like, you know, Enrique, don't do this.
And then all of a sudden, you know, like Lucy'll be like,
yeah, Bobby, you shouldn't, and I'm like,
I don't need your help.
I don't need assistance in this thing that I'm doing.
Thank you for your offer.
No, no, thanks, right?
It's the same way with God,
but I love that God doesn't just like slap Moses
upside the head, but he's just like, look,
don't worry about it.
I got this thing.
All right, that's just a side note. I just really love that. I really love verse 33
I just love the way the Lord responses like hey, whoever whoever messes with me. That's why I'm blotting out
I don't need you to step in for me. I got this
Go to raw. I'm sorry go to John 14
But in Romans 8 verse 34 the Bible says who is he that condemneth?
It is Christ the died, ye rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
maketh intercession for us.
We need to pray for each other and we need to also remind ourselves when we don't know how to pray for somebody then just ask God
just ask Jesus Christ to intercede for us, because it says he's making intercession.
Hebrew 725 says, wherefore, he is able also to save them to the other most that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth
to make intercession for them.
Literally he ever liveth to make intercession for us
John first John 2 verse 1 says my little children these things right on I unto you that ye sin not and if any man sin
We have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous
That's why it threw me off right when I'm talking to that guy
I've never seen anybody advocate for the other the other way like Jesus advocates for us. He'll never advocate for the devil
But I barely, you know, there's people out there who had advocating for the devil
I wish I would have gotten the guy's name because at least I could have used it
I think he did tell me his name, but I don't remember but
Go to John 14 we're going to wrap this thing up
But the ninth thing or the ninth thing that that really the parallels or the foreshadowing is they both let the people
to the promised land
Now we know that coming out of Exodus into the promised land is a picture of what heaven
But they both did it, right? And Deuteronomy 34 verse 4, the Bible says, and the Lord said unto him,
This is the language I swear unto Abraham, and unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying,
I will give it unto thy seed. I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shall now go
over thither. But in John 14 verse 1, the Bible says, Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God.
Believe also in me and by the way, we need the King James more than ever today. I was listening to some idiot
I literally had to turn it off. He's like, oh when God says here mentions he doesn't mean mentions
He means rewards because in the Old Testament and the old blah blah blah. I'm like dude. I turned it off like shut up
When God says, look, don't be little God. This is this is another set of scripture that I just love
I like to think my God is big enough to have a house so big that he's got mansions in it for us
Right. I mean, isn't that what we isn't that what we like?
We like power and and dominion isn't that what people like are drawn to why are we drawn to some of these weird characters?
Do you think Elon Musk would have the fame and the coolness he has if it wasn't for the
billions of dollars attached to the end of his check?
The guy is a social, like he's socially awkward, right?
If we met him here and we knew he was just a regular Joe Blow, we'd be like, dude, that
guy's weird.
Right?
I'm not, didn't they show like that video where he's playing with the forks in the dinner?
Like a little child?
You know, why do they give him a pass?
Except with God, God's not awkward.
You know, when God says, let not your heart be trouble,
you believe in God, believe also in me,
in my Father's house are many mentions.
If it were not so, I would have told you,
I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go to prepare a place for you,
I will come again and receive you unto myself
that where I am, there you may be also.
He didn't just die for our sins.
And then that's it.
We've got a nice mansion hook.
I've always wanted a mansion.
I probably will never own a mansion.
I'm being dead serious.
I just, I will probably never own a mansion.
But I already got one reserved for me.
You know, when I get to heaven,
I don't know if there's a ticketing system
or there's going to be a line
or I don't know what's going to happen.
But when we get there, you know,
I'll just get my keys
and I'll just go hang out in my mansion.
That's cool, right? That's I mean, that's the way I look at it. I just think that's great
I don't know if it's gonna be furnished or I know it's gonna have gold because you know
God is in charge of all that and I don't you know, it's interesting
I actually like silver more than gold, but the way it looks I I'm more of a silver guy
But that's a personal thing, but you can get white gold, you know, so maybe
Don't know let me not play God. Whatever God gives me is gonna be better than anything. I envision here
So, you know, I'm gonna shut up now and then the last thing let's just start
Let's close this out go to John four or you're already in John 14. Just stay there. I'll read for you numbers 27
But in John 14
They both had their successors
What I like about
What Jesus did versus Moses is that Joshua's great. Don't get me wrong. I love Joshua
He's he's one of the great successors of the Bible like literally if somebody could have a right-hand guy
We all wish we had a Joshua
Right, we all want to train up the next generation like even myself like my my
Prayer my wish or my vision is that one day just like Pastor Cove did that I could pass the torch to someone and they could continue
This ministry right and that they would be a good right hand for a long time
And then one day they just take the you know take reigns and then they go out there and fight the spiritual battle
Isn't that what Moses did with Abraham Elijah with Elijah?
But with with Christ he left us what the comforter the Holy Spirit, right?
Let me just read for you real quick numbers 27 you're there in John 14
That's the last place we'll turn
But in number 27 verse 18 says in the Lord said unto Moses take thee Joshua the son of none a man in whom is the Spirit and lay
Thine hand upon him and set him before a liaison of the priest and before all the congregation and give him a charge in their sight
Now what's cool about it is
a charge is what an order or a power or ordaining or command to go and do that like he was past the torch
But look, you don't need to be a pastor of a church. You don't need to preach behind the pulpit
You don't need to be like a deacon or some preven
prominent like
Social media figure or celebrity in the Christian world to do great things for God because in John 14 verse 15
The Bible says verily. I mean in verse 12 it says verily verily
I say unto you he that believeth on me the works that I shall
That I do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do because I go unto my father
Jesus passed the torch the minute he made salvation available
And what do I mean by that?
Obviously the Old Testament things were saved by Christ,
but they still were living out some
of the Old Testament covenant laws, right?
They were still doing some of the ceremonial.
When Jesus got rid of that,
when the veil was rent and twain,
all he removed all the clutter from our lives
where all we have to do is focus on what?
The work of the Lord.
I mean, how many of you get up in the morning and, you know, go look at the cows and then,
you know, Liberty, you don't send Moe out there and be like, all right, well, bring
me some blood, slit the throat of a goat, burn the ashes, you know, go and start a fire
so we can sacrifice for your sins and for the sins of all my children.
None of us are doing that.
We're not, oh, I don't have a cow, so go get me some doves, go downtown and feed them
some popcorn, give me a few doves from City Hall, so we can sacred.
No, none of us are doing that, right?
He says here, and I love this, verse 13 says, and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that
will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If you shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.
If you love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father, and He shall give
you another Comforter that He may abide with you forever.
The torch is the Comforter, the Holy Spirit.
We just have to activate it, right?
It says, even the Spirit of Truth.
Whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you."
That's why the Bible says, fret not, right? It's a sin to be in anxiety, it's a sin to be stressed out, or to be worrisome, because Christ left us the comforter.
The problem is we don't activate the comfort.
The problem is we have self-defeating thoughts, right?
We get up in the morning and instead of doing the things
the Lord asks, we just let all the things of the world
that are impeding us from doing great things
to be the stumbling block.
Oh, you know, I wasn't born into a rich family.
I'm not a trust-fund baby.
My job sucks.
You know, my wife's the worst or my husband's the worst.
You know, people talk like that.
I wish I was making that stuff up.
I literally, a couple of months ago,
Saw a friend of mine from college. I every few every few months. I'll bump into him down in the valley and
We went to lunch and we were having a great time and he was being like really nice
Nice, so then you never been before and we're talking. He's like, yeah, my wife. She quit her job and you know now
I'm the breadwinner and and but she's not even helping me and blah blah blah. He's like, I don't know if we're gonna make it
I'm like
Yikes, but you know why because he's not saved
And she's she's not saved they're Catholics. They don't have the Holy Spirit living in them. It's hard to see
Pass the the imperfections. It's hard to see past all the hearts of without Christ
Right because it's our natural tendency
To want to just focus on the negative it is right. It's our natural tendency to want to just nitpick
I don't even like giving announcements like the one I gave earlier where I'm like,
Hey, have your children clean up because I don't like to focus on the negative because the negative is always there
Right because because that's not what life's about
You know, I mean, honestly, we could go through here. That's why, you know, maybe inspectors are hated
Right because that's their only job is to inspect all the bad things and everything
Don't be an inspector. You know be a be someone who who's planting seeds who's being fruitful
I mean, you look at Moses' life, Moses was surrounded by negativity and what did Moses
say?
Hey, if you need to blot me out to forgive them their sins, do so.
I'm just going to be honest with you.
I want to have that attitude.
I love you guys.
I pray for you.
I'm excited that you're here.
I'm glad we're going out in droves, soul winning, maybe it's not happening every Sunday in big
crowds like we did.
You know those are the things that that I don't know that I would ask God to block me out
I'm just telling you I want to be in heaven
That's the selfish side of me right Moses. That's why we like Moses
Now I will sacrifice a lot for you guys
I will pray the Lord and be like Lord help me serve
You know help me be humble help me be the greatest servant those things and I think you should pray those things too
but that's a
That's a little bit on the extreme side
Right. I mean Isaac
Willing to sacrifice your son Abraham. I mean, I'm sorry Abraham willing to sacrifice his son Isaac. Those are some extreme things
You know what the Bible is telling us we need to be that extreme. I mean, I just told you that this morning
We need to look at everything in life and be like what are what are the lessons that are being taught here?
The lessons is that the the greatest rewards go to the most extreme
And by the way, don't butcher that word, don't destroy that word by the way Americans have
destroyed it, right?
Oh, you're such an extremist.
Being an extremist is not a negative thing, right?
The most successful people in the world are extreme.
Why do you like Trump?
I'm not saying you guys like Trump, but why does America like Trump?
Because he's extreme.
Why do people like Elon Musk?
I know I keep picking on him, but I really do not like Elon Musk, but anyways.
Why do people like us like Jesus because Jesus was I mean, it's
How is it wrong to be extreme Jesus was extreme? I mean if you look at all the points he literally
Sacrifices himself for us the blood was shed for us. He died for all our sins
He was willing to suffer all the anguish that we should never suffer for our sins. That's an extreme thing
He thought it or no reputation he would to be equal to God
He thought it not Robert to be equal to God, right and he made himself of no reputation
To come down to earth for us. That's extreme
It's extreme. Why wouldn't we do the same thing?
You know, why wouldn't we do that? So in conclusion the reason Moses is a great foreshadow of Christ is because he was just as extreme
Now Moses was human. We can always nitpick all the negative, but I want to focus on the positive Moses was a great
Guy he was a great leader. He was one of the the Bible says he was super like really meek
And for that, the Lord protected him, even when people attacked him like he was God's
anointed, they suffered.
You know, I want to have God's hand on me so much that if someone attacks me, the Lord
opens up the earth and swallows him up whole.
How cool is it to have God to have your back so much that literally just takes people out
for you.
You ever see remember those I will I'll close with this remember those cartoons where all of a sudden like you know
You had the like this little wimpy kid or something
And he wasn't very brave and then all of a sudden he decided he was gonna stand up to the enemy
And he like stands up to the enemy and the enemy was like growling or whatever
This this is a very common theme and in cartoons and then all of a sudden the enemy
Their countenance changes and they cower and fear they walk away
and the little wimpy kid or the wimpy character is like,
what happened? He feels all brave and what happened was like somebody bigger came up behind him and
that's what the enemy saw. That's the attitude we need to have. We just need to get a little bravery
knowing that the Lion of Judah, right? From the tribe of Judah,
God Almighty, Jesus Christ is behind us and he'll open up the earth and knock him out.
But what do we need to do? We need to be extreme in that sense.
We read it earlier today, you know, if you hate your brother and your sister and your
mother and your father and even yourselves, you take up your cross and follow me daily.
Right?
I mean, the work you guys did today, that's extreme.
How many people in the world are going out soul winning?
I know it's not the middle of summer yet, but it's pretty hot.
It was, it was warm out there, right?
How many people are doing that?
Now don't let it go to your head, but just remind yourself, nobody's that extreme.
That is an extreme work.
That is worthy of the Lord Jesus Christ. He'll take care of you.
Keep doing the work.
Anyways, let's close in a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today.
Thank you for the lessons in the Bible.
Thank you for the foreshadowing of Moses to Jesus Christ.
Thank you that we can extrapolate so much.
Honestly, even a sermon like this, I sometimes shy away from these because you just don't ever do it justice.
There's just so many more parallelisms and
similarities that we could draw from, so many more prophetic things that we missed,
but let it be our goal or that we would just continue to learn and draw more from the deep waters of
the Bible and that we could continue to grow to do even greater works like you said we would.
so that we would just prepare to go get our mansion in heaven.
Thank you for all those in attendance.
Thank you for all your hard work, Lord.
And just bless them throughout the week.
And Lord, just give us a good week.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.