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To Mountain Baptist Church, take your songbooks and turn to song 159. Song 159 in your songbooks. We'll sing Blessed Be in the Name if you would stand. We'll sing song 159. All praise to Him who reigns above, and majesty supreme, Who gave His Son for man to die, that He might man redeem. Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord. His name shall, above all names, shall stand, exalted more and more, at God the Father's own right hand, where angels host adore. Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord. Redeemer, Savior, friend of man, once ruined by the fall, Thou hast devised salvation's plan, for Thou hast died for all. Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord. His name shall be the Counselor, the mighty Prince of Peace, of all Earth's kingdoms conqueror, whose reign shall never cease. Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, Lord, we just want to thank you, God, for another night that you've given us to be out at church and hear your word preached. I pray, Lord, that you would just help us to learn something tonight, be with our pastor, fill him with your power and spirit, for it's in Jesus' name I ask all, but amen. Amen. Or you may be seated and turn in your songbooks to song 130. Song 130. We'll sing Yesterday, Today, Forever, song 130. Oh, how sweet the glorious message simple faith may claim. Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. Still he loves to save the sinful, heal the sick and lame. Cheer the mourner, still the tempest, glory to his name. Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. All may change, but Jesus never, glory to his name. Glory to his name, glory to his name. All may change, but Jesus never, glory to his name. He who parted, erring, Peter, never, thist thou fear. He that came to faithless Thomas, all thy doubt will clear. He who led the love disciple on his bosom rest, biz thee still with love as tender lean upon his breast. Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. All may change, but Jesus never, glory to his name. Glory to his name, glory to his name. All may change, but Jesus never, glory to his name. He who made the raging billows, walked upon the sea. Still can hush our wildest tempest as on Galilee. He who wept and prayed in anguish in Gethsemane drinks with us each cup of trembling in our agony. Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. All may change, but Jesus never, glory to his name. All may change, but Jesus never, glory to his name. As of old he walked, who made us with them to abide. So through all the years, he has been with us, with them to abide. So through all life's way, he walketh ever near our side. Soon again shall we behold him at hasten, Lord, the day. But we'll still be the same Jesus as he went away. Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. All may change, but Jesus never, glory to his name. Glory to his name, glory to his name. All may change, but Jesus never, glory to his name. Amen. Well, welcome to Mountain Baptist Church on this Wednesday evening and just some general church announcements here before we get started. So all the church services should be normal this week. So we have our Sunday morning and afternoon service this coming Sunday, and then we'll have our soul winning time and all that as normal. And then, but upcoming events, so on Friday we had the men's prayer meeting, and then we had the women's prayer meeting that morning, and then that evening is when we had the firework showing there, and we're going to have food and everything there tentatively at 7 p.m. So yeah, so we're going to have hot dogs, burgers, stuff for s'mores. We have chips and drinks. And if you want to bring anything else, I think that's pretty much what we got. Yeah, so yeah, you don't have to bring anything but yourself. And we'll put on the WhatsApp the address there to get out there. If you put that in your GPS, it will get you out there. And so it should be a fun time there. Just a reminder with, obviously we're not going to let the kids set off the big fireworks or anything like that, but you know, sparklers, we'll have those snaps and all that stuff. We have the adult snaps, the bacon snaps, that'll scare people. But just be obviously watching over your kids, making sure they're not burning each other with the sparklers, poking them into each other's eyes, you know, all that stuff that we don't want to see happen. And so just definitely adult supervision over all that. And then just be careful too, just know this, that my brother's house and around his house is not child friendly. His house isn't child friendly. Nothing around there is child friendly. So just know that, okay? So you don't want to just be like, all right, kids, just run around. And then there's like a hole going off to nowhere. So I'm being, you know, a little more cautious than that. But there is basically where this barn is being built. He's going to put up a fence around the part that would just be a drop off. So I don't want kids like getting up on deck and then there's no railing and all that. So just want to be, just know that that's going on there. So and the Bible memory, we have Psalm 16 for a couple more days. So today and tomorrow. And then we'll get a different chapter going this Sunday. And then Ecclesiastes 10, one is our memory verse for the week. And we got the birthdays, anniversaries, pregnancies. Again, we're congratulating the Racine family and the Hiles family on their babies being born. And then we're, we're praying for Ms. Joyce with their pregnancy, with her pregnancy, but the Murphy family obviously as a whole there. That's about all I got for announcements. If you have any questions about what's going on this weekend, let me know. Out of here, bugs. You might want to bring bug spray or like what, what did we have last year? We had those little bracelet things or something like that. Anyway, you know what's up when it's dark, summertime, you know, bugs are out. But that's all I got for announcements. Offering boxes back, mother baby rooms for the mothers babies only. And who's reading tonight? I know brother Joseph was going to try to, but I know he's going to be late. You got it. Exodus 24. And brother Dave's going to sing one more song and then we'll get into the Bible study. All right. Take your song books and turn to song number 93. Song number 93 in your song books. We'll sing art thou weary, art thou languid. Song number 93. Art thou weary, art thou languid, art thou sore distressed. Come to me, saith one, and come ye, be at rest. Hath he marks to lead me to him, if he be my guide. And his feet and hands are wound prints and his side. Is there diadem as modern that his brow adorns. Yea, a crown and very surety, but of thorns. If I ask him to receive me, will he say me nay. Not until, not until heaven pass away, finding, following, keep me strong. I'm not sure we, we, let's start that one already. Finding, following, keeping, struggling. Is he sure to bless, saints, apostles, prophets, martyrs, answer yes. All right. Take your Bibles and turn to Exodus chapter number 24. Exodus chapter number 24. And we'll have brother Anthony read that for us. Exodus chapter 24. God reads, and he said unto Moses, come up unto the Lord, thou and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel, and worship ye afar off. And Moses alone shall come near the Lord, but they shall not come nigh, come, come nigh, neither shall the people go up with him. And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments, and all the people answered with one voice and, and said, all the words which the Lord hath said, we will, we do. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord and rose up early in the morning and builded an altar under the hill and 12 pillars, according to the 12 tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord. And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the people. And they said, all that the Lord hath said, will we do and be obedient. 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 concerning all these words. Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel. And they saw the God of Israel and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of Sapphire stone. And as it were the body of heaven in his clearness and upon the nobles of the children of Israel, he laid not his hand. Also, they saw God and did eat and drink. And the Lord said unto Moses, come up to me into the Mount and be there. And I will give the tables of stone and the law and commandments, which I have written that thou mayest teach them. And Moses rose up and his minister and his minister, Joshua, and Moses went up into the Mount of God. And he said unto the elders, tarry ye here for us until we come again unto you. And behold, Aaron and her are with you. If any man have any matters to do, let them come unto them. And Moses went up into the Mount and a cloud covered the Mount and the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai and a cloud covered it six days. And the seventh day he called on to Moses out of the midst of the cloud in the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the Mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. And Moses went into the midst of the cloud and got him up into the Mount. And Moses was in the Mount 40 days and 40 nights. Let's pray. Dear Lord, thank you for this night where we can gather, continue to learn from your Bible. Lord, I pray that you would be with our pastor, fill in with the Holy Spirit and help us all to learn. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. So you're there in Exodus chapter 24, and we are continuing our study through the book of Exodus. And here we see actually where there's kind of a, I guess, a little interlude, if you will, between where God is speaking to Moses about the commandments and the judgments and what's happening here with him and Israel. And, and then basically how he goes back up into the Mount and he's going to get the tables of stone, but he's also going to get basically all the, the basic, the images, if you will, or the figures of the temple or the tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant and all these different vessels that is going to get into when you get into chapter 25 and going on. And so this is kind of a, where we see a story taking place. From this point, what we're going to be dealing with here is that this was from, if you remember, they, they hear God, all of Israel hears God out of the Mount when they hear the 10 commandments, but then they were afraid and didn't want to hear God himself speak, but he just wanted to hear it from Moses. From the end of chapter 20, there's a little portion of the end of chapter 20, all the way to the end of chapter 23 is what God is speaking to Moses. And then Moses relays that message to Israel. Okay. And then it picks up right here where he's telling it to Israel. Okay. So kind of like all those chapters that we were reading through there, chapter 21, chapter 22, chapter 23, God was speaking that to Moses and then Moses relayed the message. Okay. And that's what it says here in verse one. It says, and he said in the Moses, come up unto the Lord, thou and Aaron and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel and worship ye afar off. And Moses alone shall come near near the Lord, but they shall not come nigh, neither shall the people go up with him. And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, all the words which the Lord hath said will we do. So if you remember, you had the commandments, like the 10 commandments and the judgments that came after that were really taking the 10 commandments and showing you, okay, here's how these things apply. Right. It's kind of like, you know, stealing, lying, murder. Like, how does that apply? And it's kind of expounding on that as far as how you judge these cases based off the law. Okay. And verse 20, go to chapter 20, just so you can see where God stops. He's not talking to the people directly, but he's just going to be talking to Moses. We just get done with the 10 commandments being stated. Right. Verse 19 of chapter 20, it says, and they said unto Moses, speak thou with us and we will hear, but let not God speak with us lest we die. And Moses said unto the people, fear not for God has come to prove you that his fear may be before your faces that you sin not. And the people stood afar off and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. Okay. So that's where you get into, okay, then you start talking about the altar and stuff like that, building an altar at the end of chapter 20, and it just leads into chapter 21, 22, 23. Okay. When you get into chapter 24 here, he comes down, he comes out of that cloud, right. Comes in and he's telling the elders, he's telling Israel and expounding on the judgments. Right. So they heard the 10 commandments, but they didn't hear all the judgments that were given in the mount. Okay. So go to verse 4 there. Verse 4 of Exodus chapter 24. Notice what it says here in verse 4. It says, and Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning and builded an altar under the hill in 12 pillars according to the 12 tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord. So as soon as he gets down and he's showing them, he's telling them these things, he writes it down. Okay. And there's a reason why it's called the law of Moses or the book of Moses. Okay. As I'm going to show you some verses on that. But this isn't the only time that it says that he wrote things down. Okay. Go to Exodus chapter 17. So before you even get to Mount Sinai where he's speaking unto the children of Israel, but we'll see Moses is supposed to be writing down stuff that's going on before this. Okay. Go to Exodus chapter 17 and verse 13. This is where they're fighting Amalek, Joshua. This is the story of Aaron and her, but where they prevail. In verse 13 it says, Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. And the Lord said to Moses, write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the years of Joshua, for I will utterly put away the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah-Nissi for he said, because the Lord has sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. So what's interesting about this is that it's kind of the same thing, right, that we saw in chapter 24. He writes it down and then he builds an altar and does a sacrifice, right. And this is before chapter 20 where he says how to build the altar. Now meaning this is that the covenant, remember when did the covenant start? When they came out of the land of Egypt. When they killed the Passover, and the day that they came out of the land of Egypt, it says the covenant that I made with them in the day when I brought them out, took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, okay. So the Passover marks, the killing of the Passover marks when that covenant started, meaning that all the things that he's stating here as far as what you're supposed to be doing, keeping the Sabbath, you know, doing sacrifices and all this stuff unto him, unto him, these things are already going to be there. But when you get through like what we're going to be reading and getting into Leviticus and these different laws, they're just being written down. They're being explained and written down in books. And obviously you're going to have the five books of Moses, if you will. Go to Deuteronomy chapter 31. Deuteronomy chapter 31. So we see before Mount Sinai, when you had the Ten Commandments being stated, Moses is already writing down what's going on. He's writing down these events of Joshua taking out Amalek. You see him writing down after the Mount Sinai where God's speaking the Ten Commandments, and when he's giving all these judgments, he said, write it down. Write it in a book. In Deuteronomy 31, which there's 34 chapters in Deuteronomy, just so you know, we're coming to the end of the books of Moses here. Notice what it says, and it came to pass when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book until they were finished. Okay, so obviously I don't believe he wrote the part where it says and Moses died, you know, being 120 years old, right? Obviously, I believe someone else wrote that portion of it. He wrote that, you know, in third person before he died. No. I obviously believe that someone else wrote that, okay? But I believe that Moses wrote even Genesis. He wrote down Genesis. Now, that doesn't mean that those stories weren't written somewhere else or it wasn't written anywhere before that, but I believe that Genesis is included in that. One big reason I believe Genesis is included in that is because the term Jehovah is used throughout Genesis, even though it says that he was not known by the name of Jehovah until in Exodus, right, in Exodus 6. So that being said is that that proves that Genesis was written in Moses' day, okay? And so I believe Genesis is within those books as well. But you would definitely say Exodus to Deuteronomy, right? I mean, I don't think anybody would deny that that was written by Moses, okay? Obviously, the stuff about him knowing what happened when he was born, obviously, is under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, that he knew what happened when, you know, he was a baby, and stuff that happened before that. And obviously, Genesis wasn't an eyewitness account for him. But it doesn't mean that he can't pen it down and that God can't use him to write it down. So there's many verses on the fact that it's called, you know, that these books are called the Law of Moses or the Book of Moses. Go to Luke chapter 24, Luke chapter 24, Luke chapter 24. So it makes sense. Obviously, the New Testament is stating that, so I'm going to believe it because it says it, but it also just states that he's the one that wrote it down. And in the end, it doesn't really matter who wrote it down, right? Because holy men of God spake as they are moved by the Holy Ghost. So I'm not saying, like, it has to be Moses that wrote it down. It's just simply telling us that it's Moses who wrote it down, okay? Because Moses was the eyewitness account in the mount that actually heard the words of God, okay? So it makes sense that he'd be the one to write it down. I mean, he'd at least have to relay the message, okay? If he's not the one that personally wrote it down, that's not what I'm talking about. Like, he could have had a scribe write it down for him. But he's the one that's saying, hey, here's what to write when it comes to that. And it says he wrote it. So I'm going to take that for what it is. It doesn't say that he had a scribe. But in Luke chapter 24 and verse 44, I don't want to belabor this point because it's all over the place. The book of Moses, the law of Moses. I just want to show you some places where it says it. And how it kind of distinguishes the Old Testament in different pieces, okay? Notice what it says here in verse 44. It says, and he said unto them, these are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms concerning me. So notice how he's putting the Bible into different categories, right? Now we would kind of look at that too. It's like, you know, you have the book of Moses. Then you have like the historical books, right? And then you have the poetic books like Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon. Then you have the prophets, right? The major prophets and minor prophets. And so you can definitely see how they're kind of put into groups there. And how you have the law of Moses, the prophets and psalms there. But notice, you know, I just want to tag this on here in verse, and you go to Mark chapter 12. But in Acts chapter 13 verse 38 it says, be it known unto you therefore men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. Okay, so when we're going through the law of Moses, and all these commandments, and all these different things, that's not how you're justified. Okay, that's not how they were justified. It's not how we're justified today. By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in the sight. It says that the law is the knowledge of sin. It's our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. And it's always been that way. Okay, and I'm not here to preach on like the purpose of the law, or the purpose of the first testament. But the thing is, is that just so you know, when we're talking about the law of Moses, you know, that's not how anybody's justified. Okay, the first covenant was a covenant of condemnation. And it just showed that men can't do it. Men can't bring salvation. They can't actually keep the law. Okay, Mark chapter 12 verse 26 here. Notice that even back where, you know, back to the burning bush there, it's called the book of Moses. Okay, it says in Mark chapter 12 and verse 26, it says, and as touching the dead that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, but the God of the living. Ye therefore do greatly err. So we see that obviously that would encompass, but it calls it the book of Moses, not just the law of Moses, it's just the book of Moses. And so just so you see what we're talking about here, that he wrote it, he wrote, he's writing these things for memorial in a book. He wrote down all the words. Later on we're going to see that it talks about the book of the covenant. Okay, so obviously the book of the covenant, you're going to be dealing with Exodus number, or Leviticus number, Deuteronomy, dealing with the covenant, right? But I don't think that it's wrong to say that Genesis is in the book of, is the book of Moses, just because like I said, for Jehovah to be mentioned, that name to be used, you know, that had to have been after in Moses' day. Okay, at least at Moses' time or after that. Okay, that it was written down. Okay, now go to verse six here. If I was going to put a title on this chapter, I would put, you know, basically it's a dedication with blood. Okay, that the first covenant was dedicated with blood. Okay, so this is kind of the main point that I want to get to here, is that this chapter is going to be talking about how the covenant was dedicated. It's not when it started, okay, it's when it was dedicated. In verse six here, notice what it says. It says that Moses took half of the blood. So they did the sacrifice, right? I kind of read that verse already, but they did a burnt offering, a peace offering upon this altar of earth. And they did the 12 pillars and stuff like that. If you remember in Exodus 20, it said that you're not supposed to basically hewn any rock. It has to just basically, whatever rocks you find, you stack those things up and they make this altar. But he basically did these sacrifices. He had these young men do these sacrifices, but he took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar. Okay, so get the picture. You have all this blood from the oxen and what they're doing there. So oxen would be more than one, obviously. But it basically states that he takes half that blood, puts it in basins, half the blood he sprinkles on the altar. So a lot of that blood is just sprinkled on the altar, okay. And then it goes on to say in verse seven, and he took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the people, and they said all that the Lord has said we will do and be obedient. So what is he reading to them? Probably what he just wrote down, right. You know, you think about the 10 commandments, but then you think of all the judgments that God just told him, and he's reading it to all the people so that they know what God said, okay. And it says, and they said, all that the Lord has said we will do and be obedient. Verse eight, and Moses took the blood. What blood? I believe the other half, right, that were in basins, right. And it says that and sprinkled it on the people and said, behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. So this is a dedication. If you don't believe me, the Bible is actually going to state that, okay. Hebrew chapter nine is actually going to give us a little more information about what was going on here. Go to Hebrew chapter nine, Hebrew chapter nine, Hebrew chapter nine, verse 18. This is going to be a very simple sermon. It might actually be short, who knows. I only have three pages. I'm already like halfway down page two, unless I go rogue over here. But this is the point I'm trying to get across here, is that the first covenant was dedicated with blood. And I'm going to get to the fact that the second covenant was dedicated with blood. And people are, you know, you have such a bloody religion. Amen to that. So, but notice what it says here in verse 18. So remember, what did he do? He took half the blood of the sacrifices, put it in the basins, half of it got sprinkled upon the altar. And here it's going to explain a little bit as far as why that is and give you a little more information about what happened when this was going on. Notice what it says in verse 18. Whereupon, neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. So we're, I'm going to get to the point where we're talking about the blood of Christ, but he's kind of pointing back like, hey, by the way, the first testament was dedicated with blood as well. And it's basically pointing back here to Exodus chapter 24. And other places in Exodus as well. Okay. I don't believe this is the only place that blood is used to dedicate things. And I'm going to get to that in a second. Verse 19, it says, for when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book and all the people. So notice that, you remember it was in basins. So how did he sprinkle it? It says with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, right. So if you think about how did he put the blood on the doorpost, right, with hyssop. Now it's interesting that it mixes in water with that and what that would represent. Because remember Jesus came not by water, not by water only, but by water and blood, right. And that's a whole other sermon for another day as far as what that represents, okay. But he basically uses kind of the same instruments, if you will, that he was doing to put the blood on the doorpost. And it even talks about the blood of sprinkling, how Moses by faith kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, talking about how they put it on the doorpost and on the lintel, okay. But it's saying that not only the people. So in Exodus, remember it says that he sprinkled the people with blood, okay. But the book as well. So the book is a blood sprinkled book, meaning it's been dedicated. And that the blood of, you know, the sacrifices that are upon that book is being dedicated. So the book's being dedicated, the people are being dedicated with blood. And notice this in verse 20 because this is interesting because what it says here says, I'm sorry, it's actually in verse 21. I meant to read verse 20. Saying this is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoyed unto you, enjoined unto you. So what did he say to them? Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. Now in the book of Hebrews, it's very clear that covenant and testament are the same exact thing. Because it says that he's the mediator of a better covenant, a better testament. And he uses those interchangeably, okay. So if you're like new covenant, what's the difference between new covenant and new testament? Nothing, okay. It's the same thing, okay. But sometimes you may understand testament as far as like a last will and testament. But a covenant, you think of like an agreement. They both mean the same thing. You're making a covenant. You're making a testament of something that's going to happen here. Now, but it states here that he's stating that God hath enjoined you unto this testament with blood, okay. Now in verse 21 here, it says, Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry, and almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission. So what's interesting about this is moreover, right. So at this point, there's no vessels or tabernacle. He hasn't even gotten the images of those yet. Does that make sense? Like this, at the end of this chapter is when he's taking his journey up to the mount for the 40 days and 40 nights to where God is going to show him. So when we get into chapter 25 up to 31, that's where you're going to see the tabernacle, the brazen altar, the, you know, the candlestick, the showbread, you know, like all these different things, the Ark of the Covenant, all this stuff is going to be given to him. And I know you're excited about it. Actually, you should be excited about it because all this stuff is picturing what's in heaven. So you say, well, you know, does it really apply to us? It's in heaven. These are just pictures of the true. Okay. So it's interesting to me because when I'm reading, when we read through all this stuff, that's what you'll see in the tabernacle that's in heaven. That's what you see in the temple, that that's actually there. So it's going to be interesting stuff to see, but that means is that this moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of ministry, that's going to happen later when they actually make them and all that. Okay. And then they're going to dedicate those. And obviously without shedding of blood is no remission. So John MacArthur, you can put that in your pipe and smoke it. Meaning this is that the blood doesn't just represent the death. Okay. Obviously the shedding of blood is happening, you know, that's, you know, it is talking about the death of the animal, right? The animal did die and they took the blood from that animal to dedicate this covenant here. But the same thing with Jesus, we're talking about actual blood because you don't sprinkle death on people. Okay. They didn't sprinkle death on the book. They didn't sprinkle death on people and they didn't sprinkle death on all this other stuff. And the same thing, because what does the blood represent? The life of the flesh, right? It actually represents life. And the shedding of blood would obviously show that the life was shed, right? The life was taken. Okay. So there's obviously a spiritual aspect and a symbolism of death there, but we're talking about literal blood. I mean, later on, you're talking about the priest being dedicated where they put the blood on the ear, on the thumb and on the big toe. Now, why that is, I haven't studied that out yet. We haven't gotten that far, okay? But we'll get there. Okay. So when you hear that sermon, you'll be like, well, pastor definitely didn't know what that was about a few weeks back. Okay. I know it says that. I know that's what they did. I may find a reason when I get to that sermon, okay? But there's some things where I'm just maybe not going to know the exact reason why it was done that way, okay? But there is a reason. But go to Hebrew chapter 9 and verse 11 here. Now, what's interesting about this is that wasn't there a space between the Passover when it was killed and when they dedicated the covenant? The same thing actually is true in the fact that there is a little bit of space of time between when Jesus died and he shed his blood and when the testament was dedicated. But that doesn't mean the testament didn't start yet. Okay. What I'm going to show you is that the testament started when Jesus died, okay? But it was dedicated three days later with blood, okay? And that follows obviously not to the T as far as three days later that they killed the Passover and then dedicated. But also, in this instance, the people in the book were dedicated, but the tabernacle and the vessels haven't been dedicated yet. But they will be, okay? But you do see a gap between when the covenant starts and when it's being dedicated. So in Hebrew chapter 9 and verse 11, it says, But Christ, being common high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. So what he's stating here is that Christ isn't high priest, but it's not according to this tabernacle that's made with hands, which is a figure of the true. And he didn't take the blood of bulls and goats or calves. He took his own blood into the holy place that's not made with hands. So we're talking about into heaven itself. And it says in verse 13, For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of an heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctified to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. So notice, what were these sacrifices? What were they purging? The flesh, right? The sanctifying of the flesh, not the soul, not the conscience. And it's stating here that obviously the blood of Christ, though, reaches to that. And it says, because in chapter 10, it says, For by the blood of bulls and goats shall never take away sins. So we know that the blood of animals, it's not going to cleanse your soul. It's not going to actually take away your sins. But it can purify the flesh, get you in good fellowship with God. And obviously, keeping the commandments today keeps you in good fellowship with God. But we don't have to do animal sacrifices. We just come to the Savior, and it says that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We go to the high priest himself. We don't have to do all these sacrifices. He is the sacrifice even for the purifying of the flesh as well. Now keep reading there in verse 14. It says, I'm sorry, in verse 15, it says, And for this cause He is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. So notice, I want to point this out too, is that He's given redemption for the transgressions that were under the first testament. It's not like, well, you know, those that were under the first testament, that's how they got saved. That's how they went to heaven. No, Jesus died for all the transgressions that were under the first testament as well. He is the sacrifice. All the blood of bulls and of goats, that was only through the purifying flesh. That didn't purify the conscience. That didn't purify your soul. It's by the blood of Christ that your soul is purified. And notice what it says as we keep reading here in verse 16. Very important. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is a force after men are dead. Otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. You know what that means is that the New Testament didn't start until Jesus died. So once he died, the testament was in force. Now the testament could be being set up, right? It's kind of like, you know, upon this rock I will build my church, and obviously he's teaching and, you know, about the New Testament, about how things are going to be in the New Testament, but it didn't start until he died. And you can think about this as a last will and testament. If I make a last will and testament, is it of any force while I'm alive? It doesn't matter, you know. You can have all kinds of beneficiaries. You can have all kinds of things that are going to be delegated to other people, but until I die, it doesn't take force. Okay, so that's how you can kind of understand that as far as the modern vernacular of how we think of a testament. And the same thing applies with Jesus is that when he died, it took force. So when the Passover lamb was killed, that's when the first testament took force, the death of the testator, right? Meaning that the testator obviously was the lamb, the Passover lamb, right? But that was an animal sacrifice. Now what did they dedicate all the people in the book and all the stuff in the tabernacle with? Animal sacrifices, right? Blood of animals, right? But that's not how it's dedicated in the New Testament. Go to verse 23, verse 23. Now I've preached on this before, the blood of sprinkling and the significance here as far as what this played for salvation. In verse 23 here. So if you understand how Hebrew is working here, verse 11 to 17 is stating that how much better Jesus' blood is, that we're talking about him going into the true tabernacle and that it's by his death that the New Testament's in force. And then it's kind of kicking back, you know, when you get to verse 18 and it's stating just know, it's almost like just know this, that the first testament was, you know, it was dedicated with blood as well. It's not like this is out in left field. This is how the first covenant was dedicated, but it was dedicated with the blood of bulls and of goats and calves, you know, and it was dedicated with blood of animals, not by the blood of Christ. And in verse 23, it's picking back up here and saying, it was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, with what? The blood of bulls and of goats and of calves and the sprinkling of their ashes up in the heifer, right? You're dealing with, you know, that's the sprinkling, you know, the idea of the blood of sprinkling of animal blood. It's saying it's necessary. That's the way it should have been. But it says, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. What's the better sacrifice? The Lord Jesus, right? The lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Verse 24, it says, for Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true. Okay, so he's saying he's not going into these places that are built here on earth. They're just the figures of the true. But you remember when he died, the veil in the temple ramped from the top to the bottom. So that temple, the moment he died was null and void, meaning that's not regarded anymore. And when he took his blood in there, it wasn't into those, into the temple that was there. It was into heaven itself. It says in verse 24, for Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. Nor yet that he should offer himself often as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others. For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world. But now once in the end of the world he hath appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And this is a theme throughout chapter 9 and chapter 10 of once for all, and it's not like he's doing this many times. He did it once for all, he's done, he sat at the right hand. When he's sitting down at the right hand of the father, it's proving it's done. When he had by himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. Now what is this representing as far as his blood is sprinkling? And let me just give you one other verse here. In 1 Peter, you can turn there if you want, 1 Peter chapter 1. 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse 1, it says, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, is a stranger scattered throughout Paul, into this Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, grace unto you and peace be multiplied. So what is this talking about, this blood of sprinkling, that Jesus sprinkled the mercy seat that's in heaven? So the vessels, one of the vessels is the Ark of the Covenant. And what's on the Ark of the Covenant? The mercy seat. So Jesus went through the veil in heaven and sprinkled his own blood. It says not by the blood of others, but with his own blood. And in Hebrew chapter 9, it says, by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place. One time, took his own blood and sprinkled it upon the mercy seat. And listen, by the way, us as well, right? I mean, think about it, what was the blood sprinkled upon? It sprinkled on the book, and it was sprinkled on the people, and it was sprinkled on the tabernacle and all the vessels thereof, right? So we have, and the Bible even talks about how we're washed with the blood, right? And so this is a very important point here that I think just makes a lot of sense, as far as how it's explaining, you had the death of the sacrifice or the testator, but then you had the dedication of blood that takes place after that, okay? And kind of showing that process of like, okay, the testament started when Jesus died, but that wasn't the end of it. That's not how, if you think about the death, mental resurrection, if he didn't go into the holy place and dedicate it with blood, you know, that had to happen as well. Like all these pieces and parts that had to happen. Jesus had to be born of the Virgin Mary. Jesus had to live a sinless life. Jesus had to do all these things and fulfill all righteousness, and he had to die on the cross, take the sin upon him. His soul was in hell for three days and three nights. He rose again the third day. And if you remember, Mary Magdalene was the first person to see him, and he even states that, that she was the first to see him. And he says, touch me not, for I have not yet ascended unto the Father. Later on, they're all like grabbing his feet and embracing him, okay? So that day that he rose from the dead, he took his blood up to the mercy seat and sprinkled it. And once that was done, it was done. And this shows you that, hey, the shedding of blood, there is no remission without shedding of blood. And it was like that in the Old Testament as far as for you to get in good fellowship and to purify the flesh, right? The physical sins that you commit that where you're trying to get right with God. But the blood of Christ is the only that purifies the conscience, that purifies the soul. And that's been true since the beginning, okay? The blood of Christ from the very beginning is what cleansed Adam. It's what cleansed Noah. It's what cleansed Abraham, David, down the line. And it's what will cleanse anybody that's going to go to heaven or anybody that's going to get eternal life. And so I love this correlation here. And Hebrews 9 just sheds a lot of light on what's going on in this chapter. And go back to the Exodus chapter 24 and verse 9. So there's a certain group of people that are allowed to basically kind of come near to this mountain. But Moses is really the only one, and Joshua I think is a little closer, but Moses is the only one that's going to speak mouth to mouth with the Lord, okay? And talks about how he speaks mouth to mouth as a friend. And he's the one that goes into the cloud. He's the one that hears the commandments and all that. And if you think about it, when he tells them every precept, it says that he spoke to them every precept. I mean, think about it. From here to chapter 31, we're going to be getting not precepts as much as we're getting like, here's how you make this. Here's how you make these items, the priest's garments, all these different things. Chapter 32 is where they make a golden calf. Chapter 33, he's making an intercession for them so they don't die. Chapter 34, he's going back up into the mountain to get the tablets that he broke, okay? And after that, they're making all that stuff, right? So the rest of the book is really more so just dealing with, okay, here's what you saw. Here's what I showed you in the mouth. Here's where you're actually making it. So if you think about it, chapter 20, 21, 22, 23, that's the law and the precepts, right? And obviously, there's going to be others like in Leviticus and numbers of different things as far as like dietary laws and different things like that. But that's the moral law, right? I mean, think about it. When you're dealing with the basic moral law that is given in Exodus, and you know, just kind of understanding what's going on here. In the timeline of what's going on here in Exodus. So in Exodus 24, verse 9 here, it says, Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. And they saw the God of Israel, and there was under his feet, as it were, a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were, the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel, he laid not his hand. Also they saw God, and did eat and drink. Now first, the Bible says no man has seen God at any time. Okay, so it says in the New Testament, and that's true. What we're talking about here is they saw him, but what part of him did they see, right? You know, how did they see him, right? Because think about those, you could say, well, I saw God, and Jesus standing at his right hand, right? You'll see like Stephen stating that, other people stating that, that they'll see God on his throne. But if you saw a big ball of light, right, sitting on the throne, you could say, I saw God, but did you see his similitude? Do you see his shape, right? What part of him did you see, okay? The thing that I see here is the only thing that I see that they probably saw was his feet. I mean, think about what they're seeing here is what he's standing on. And he's standing on this, as it would appear, a sapphire stone, which is basically, sapphires are like a shade of blue, which kind of makes sense. I mean, if it's going to look like it's like and done to heaven and clearness, so it's kind of like this blue stone that's almost transparent, but it's kind of like how you think of the sky, right? So that kind of makes a lot of sense, especially since heaven is his throne, and earth is his footstool, that literally he's standing upon the earth, right? But it's kind of showing that. Now, this isn't to bolster any type of flatter thing. See, heaven has a seal to it, and it's a sapphire stone. And, you know, it's firm, you know, firm moment. And no, it's just stating that obviously God is standing upon this. This is what they're visualizing, right? This is what they're seeing. And I believe they see his feet, if anything, because if you saw any part of somebody be like, I saw that person, but you don't have to see their whole body. In Exodus chapter 33, Moses is going to see his back parts, but it says this in Exodus chapter 33 in verse 20. And it says, he said, thou canst not see my face, for there shall no man see me and live. So when it says no man shall see me and live, what's he talking about? His face, okay? So that's what we're talking about. And actually, I don't believe anybody's going to see the Father's face. We're talking about God the Father, because obviously people have seen Jesus' face. But no one's going to see God the Father's face until actually the new heaven and new earth. So even people that die or that have died and gone to heaven that are in Christ, right now I do not believe they've seen the Father's face yet. I think Jesus obviously has. But it says no man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. You know what that means? Is that Jesus has seen his face, right? And he's declaring him. Now, Jesus is the expressed image of his person. So if you see Jesus' face, I believe it would be like seeing the Father's face. But just as much as if I had a twin brother and you said, well, I've seen his face, and it's very, you know, let's say you were the identical twins, you could state, well, then I've kind of seen Jason's face, right? But at the same time, you haven't really seen my face yet. Does that make sense? So here, I don't believe this negates the fact that no man has seen God at any time. When it's stating that, it's specifically talking about the Father's face. And I don't believe they saw his face here. If anything, they saw his feet. I think that would make sense. They saw his feet and Moses actually got to see more than his feet. He actually got to see his back part. So like his back, you know, who knows, right? But obviously he didn't see his face or he would have died. Now, go to Exodus chapter 24 and verse 12. Exodus chapter 24 and verse 12. So here, we see that we have Moses, Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and 70 elders of Israel. Now, Aaron obviously is the high priest. He's, you know, the priesthood of Aaron, right? Nadab and Abihu are his two firstborn. Now, if you know the story, these guys don't make it. They offer up strange fire in Leviticus, and the priest is going to then go to Eleazar and Ithamar. So he has two other sons. And so you see Nadab and Abihu here, but I can't help but reading this and be like, you guys aren't going to, you're going to die, right? I know what happens to you. And so it's kind of like they got to be at this event. They were kind of like in the upper echelon, if you will, of Israel, and they died. So, but just so you know, like we're dealing with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu because they'd be the priesthood there. And then you'd have obviously the 70 elders of Israel dealing with the tribes of Israel and the leaders of the tribes there. But it says in verse 10 there, I'm sorry, where was I at? Actually, I was supposed to read verse 12. Recapping, that's who's there, okay? But verse 12, it says, Notice that I have written, okay? So it's not that I don't believe it's stating like I'm giving you new commandments here. I believe he's stating I'm going to give you tables of stone where I have written them, okay? And I'm going to show you a verse where it literally states he's the one that wrote them. And notice what it says here in verse 13, And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua. And Moses went up into the mount of God, and he said unto the elders, Tear ye here for us, until we come again unto you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. If any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. So they're kind of splitting off here, and he's basically stating, you have Aaron and Hur, they're basically the leaders now that we're going up to his mount. But it's very clear that Joshua goes with him, okay? Now obviously we know that Joshua is actually going to be the next in line to lead Israel, and he's going to be the one that actually brings them into the promised land. But right now he's the servant of Moses, and he's going up there with them. And so they're kind of breaking off here. But notice this, and you know, this is why it's great to go through these studies, because I feel like I learned so much from just kind of slowing down, and looking at the verses, and seeing this, because I never noticed this before, okay? And you can say, you've never noticed this, and you're a pastor? Listen, everybody's going to come. It'd be foolish of me to think that I just know every little thing about the book of Exodus, or Leviticus, or Numbers, or Deuteronomy. And it's not that I haven't read it. It's just that you don't really sit down and think about it, and kind of slow down, and just look at the details, okay? Notice what it says here in verse 15. And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount, and the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And in the seventh day, he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. So before he goes into this cloud, into the mount, six days pass. He separates from the elders, and it's just him and Joshua for six days, before Moses goes up into the mount for 40 days and 40 nights. And I just think that's interesting, right? It's just kind of like the six days where you're just kind of waiting, waiting, and there's this thick cloud. Remember that it talks about this darkness, how he goes into the darkness where God, this thick darkness where God was, where God is, and they're waiting. There's six days. On the seventh day, you know, God is calling to Moses out of the midst of the cloud, and it says, and the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. So to them, what they're seeing on top of the mount, it just looks like just fire. I want you to imagine this picture here, and don't overlook this, okay? So verse 18, and Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and got him up into the mount, and Moses went in, was in the mount 40 days and 40 nights. I want you to picture, you're on top of this mountain, and it looks like it's just literally on fire, and it's literally this thick dark cloud, and then just being like walking into it, and just going into that, right? Do you realize how much faith that takes to be like, I'm not going to die going into this? The children of Israel, I want, think about this, and don't overlook this. The children of Israel were afraid to even hear God speak when they were down at the bottom of the mountain behind the barriers, when they're looking at this mount that's at a quake, and it's like on fire, and it's this darkness over this. I mean, look up some pictures of like a volcano with a dark cloud over top of it, and think about like how you've ever seen like storms where it's just this dark ominous type of cloud. This is not a bright sunny day where birds are chirping, he's like, I'm going up into the mountain to hear what the Lord has to say. I mean, we're talking like a scary sight, and he's just walking into the darkness, walking into this thick cloud to go in there, and he's in there for 40 days and 40 nights. Now, we know that it says that he doesn't ease, so he fasts for 40 days and 40 nights, and you can obviously see how this would parallel with Jesus going into the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights, but don't overlook that. You know, and the fact that the faith that Moses has, and I believe that Joshua didn't go in. I believe he's probably waiting there for him to come out, but he had Joshua there for six days waiting for basically God to call him in there, and he's got his friend there with him, his servant, and but I want you to think about this too. Think about Joshua and seeing the man of God, seeing that cloud, that thick dark cloud, and him just walking into it, and then think about why Joshua was the way he is, why he's the leader that he is, because he had a leader. He was serving a leader that just had so great faith, and not only that, but he was the meekest man that was upon the earth, so you have this guy that just has this mountain moving faith, if you will, to just like go into this dark cloud where everybody else is just afraid to even hear God speak, from a distance, from afar, and he's going to go where God's at. He's going to speak mouth to mouth as a friend in this cloud of darkness, and he's going to be there for 40 days and 40 nights while this is going on, and think about how what Joshua, I'm sure, was thinking when he saw this, and then, you know, obviously came out. Now he's going to have to do it again. That gets into after the golden calf, and he breaks the tables of stone. We'll get to that in another sermon, but in Exodus chapter 31, I just want to show you here that after the 40 days and 40 nights, he's communing with him, and during that time, it's not like nothing's going on. I mean, he's obviously telling him. I believe it is what he showed him in the mount, right? So if you think about it, he wrote down like what the tabernacle was going to look like. He wrote it down, and he wrote down what the Ark of the Covenant was going to look like, but Moses actually saw it, right? So you can imagine if you're giving someone blueprints, you're spelling it out to him, this is what you're going to do. He'd be like, no, it looks like this, because I saw it with my own eyes, right? And so in that 40 days and 40 nights, that's what's going on, but in verse 18 of chapter 31, so if you understand that at the end of the chapter here of chapter 24, 25 through the end of 31, we're dealing with God communing with Moses in the mount, in that thick darkness. Think about that while we read through these chapters, that's where he's at, okay? Everybody else, you know what they see? The mountains of smoke, it's on fire, and that's why later on they'll be like, we don't know what has become of him. I mean, they're probably thinking like he's probably just devoured by the fire in there. He maybe died, you know, maybe he got angry or whatever. Who knows what they're thinking? Obviously, they're wrong. Obviously, it doesn't give them an excuse to make a golden calf, but you can understand that he's not just like going up and he's just, oh, he's just enjoying the scenery. But notice what it says here, it says, and he gave unto Moses when he had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, table of stone, written with the finger of God. And so we see here that it's, and obviously we saw in other places that the Ten Commandments is what's written on this, okay? I don't believe that he wrote all of chapter 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31 on there, okay? I believe Moses, after he got down off the mountain, he wrote those things down, right? He wrote it down and he showed them what to do. And, but with the finger of God, that's why he says, basically when he says that you're going to come up to the mount, and it says, I will give thee tables of stone and a law and commandments which I have written. So he wrote it with his own finger on these stones, the Ten Commandments. And obviously that's the covenant that they're supposed to be keeping for that first covenant. And just something, you know, I just never noticed that six-day period where he's just waiting there to go in. I mean, have you ever done something where it's kind of like, maybe a little scary? I'll give you an example, like an amusement park or something like that, where you're going on like some big high roller coaster. Now I used to love roller coasters. I have a feeling I'm going to be like Papa Bear on the Berenstain Bears where he's like, man, you're going to love this roller coaster and then he's going to freak out when he gets on it because he's old and he's afraid of heights and he's not a kid anymore. Okay. Every time I read that book, I'm like, it's probably going to be me. You know, because I loved roller coasters. I mean, brother Dave and I, how long ago was that that we went to Cedar Point? At least, right? Yeah, it's probably 10 years, right? And we loved it. We had a good time. I was like 27. Now I'm 37. And I have a feeling that it's not going to be the same. But the point I'm getting across here is that if you're afraid of roller coasters and you've got this ominous roller coaster that you're about to get on, and then you've got to wait in line for an hour, I remember the first roller coaster I ever rode was at Kennywood. And first steel roller coaster, I'll say this, one that flipped you upside down, right? And I remember being terrified. It was like a school trip, field trip. And I was with like this student teacher who was like this really cool guy. And so we all wanted to hang out with him. But he's like, he's like, you're going to be fine. You know, it's not going to, you know, it's not going to die. And, you know, all the kids are like, see that? There was like a broken down one on the ground there. Like that one, you know, that's what happened. People died last week there. And that's the rent. So, you know, they're like playing it up. I was like in fifth grade or something like that or fourth grade. And they're playing it up. And I'm just like nervous as all get out. But the wait was the hardest part of that, right? You're just like waiting for it. The thinking about it. Like thinking about am I going to die? Like is this the end? And then you get on it and you're like, that was awesome. Let's go do it again. And but all I'm saying there is sometimes the anticipation of getting into something that may be fearful or whatever is worse than actually going into it. If it actually happened. Like once he gets in there, I'm sure it was like communing with God and he wasn't just like fearful the whole time that he's communing with God. But that lead up, to me when I'm looking at this, I'm like six days just think there about like going into this dark ominous cloud and knowing that God could just take you out like that. I mean the whole mountain's on a smoke. There's like a burning fire. And you just think about having to go in there. And I just think about how that lead up there. And then obviously Joshua kind of being there with him. Like man, thinking about it but then seeing the man of God do it. And that's a point that I've just never really thought about. Never really, you kind of read it and you're like oh okay you know he went in there for 40 days, 40 nights. But you just don't really think about like what was leading up to that. And the idea of Joshua being there with him alone while that little period of time was going on there. I mean that's not nothing. That's almost a week of time. It's pretty much a week of time because on the seven days when he was actually able to go in. So that's Exodus chapter 24. Like I said, it's kind of showing you the dedication of the first covenant. But it's also leading up to him going up into the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights. And like I said, chapter 25 through 31 is what's going on. What God is speaking to him and showing him in the mount for those 40 days and 40 nights. So at this point he hasn't been in the mount for 40 years and 40 nights. Actually I believe it's probably just one day that that took place, right. We're in the same day, at this point we're in the same day that they hear the 10 commandments and then and then he goes into the cloud, speaks to him and then he's relaying the message to them and now it's time to go into the mount for 40 days and 40 nights. And I think it's just it's good for you to kind of know how Exodus is kind of broken up into little parts here as far as what's going on. Where is he at? Where are the people at? What are they doing? And this will obviously lead into them and their great sin of the golden calf after these 40 days, right. So that's Exodus chapter 24. Let's end with a word of prayer. The only father we thank for today. Thank you for your word and thank you for the book of Exodus and just pray to you to help me to preach it correctly, help me to to find all the the truths that that we can see out of it, at least some of them anyway as we go through the the book. And I know there's just so much stuff that we can always learn and just thank you for you know just these chapters that we can read and apply to our lives. Lord we love you. Pray also in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Brother Dave will come and sing one more song and that will be dismissed. All right song 377 in your song books. Song 377. We'll sing Rescue the Perishing if you would stand. We'll sing song 377. Rescue the perishing care for the dying snatch them from pity from sin and the grave we bore the erring ones lift up the fallen tell them of Jesus the mighty to save rescue the perishing care for the dying Jesus is merciful Jesus will save though they are