The Great Glory and the Greater Glory, p.1

Will grab your Bibles and go to first Timothy but were going to skip on over to chapter 3, first Timothy chapter 3 when I was preparing my two sessions for the true church conference. I was very aware as I was preparing them that I was going to preach this to you guys because this song scratches where we each.

This really is another statement of the foundation of what were about and what were committed to your grace, like church or any truly biblical church so so few of you were here for the morning sessions and understand that you work doing the things and plus I had to rush some in those sessions. I want to plow through this again and unpack it for us and charge you and challenge you to grasp what God is telling us in the end that no matter what happens, good times and bad times, prosperity, despair, whatever happens, these truths hold us and it's enough for us to be about God's purposes for God's glory.

I've simply entitled this God's great glory in God's greater glory God's great glory. And God's greater glory. Now if you looked up the word glory in and dictionary is strictly dealing with the biblical etymology of the word whether Hebrew Aramaic or Greek for the New Testament, usually a lot of facets and a lot of aspects it's it's a very dynamic word glory are to glorify at the multifaceted GM but some for our purposes. All that you think this thought to glorify is to deem it from your heart. One is worthy of honor and praise is to sense it, to be convinced of it.

To have a seven resolve.

Yes, he is worthy of honor and praise. Now in back of that being said, if you consider one worthy of your honor and praise when you consider that one worthy of your service and devotion, and obedience all of those are part of our worship.

We do worship together in here together we worship as we sing together and we worship as we preach the word and somberly and attentively received the word of God and as we heard in our conference this past week, we take ourselves. Lord, what would you have me to do you have a worship here.

Grace, like church on Sunday, unless during the preaching. You constantly said yourself, Lord, what would you have me to do is something I need to repent of something I need to rejoice over some behavior or attitude I need to change. Lord, what would you help me to do.

That's worship because you can't say I blame him worthy of all honor and praise and insight, but not handling my last got up to me that's worshiping you is not worshiping you now. So as we think about giving God glory our worship we think about deeming him worthy of all honor and all praise know what you look at first Timothy chapter 3 verses 15 and 16.

Paul writing to Timothy about Timothy's work of ordering, structuring, structuring and fashioning the church in Ephesus.

Is this verse 15 first Timothy three, but in case I am delayed I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth in this interesting verse, verse 16 and and for reversing think it's a it's amazing to me how many scholars take verse 16 and just run off with it and play with it by itself like a child take their toys and run off and play by themselves. You can't take verse 16 away from verse 1514 13 and all the way back to the beginning of first Timothy, it has a purpose for being in the flow of what he's trying to get across. Verse 16 by common confession great is the mystery of godliness.

He who was revealed in the flesh was vindicated in the spirit seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world taken up in glory not just looking at verse 16 notices is hereby common confession. The phrase common confession means there's no real controversy here. There's no real argument of those of us who come to faith in Jesus Christ, which means we receive the new birth and we are spiritually regenerate all of us agree that great is the mystery of godliness. What does that mean we all agree on it. What is it made well.

Great is the mystery. The word ministry there simply mean something that was hidden but is now revealed and that is that salvation and all of God's purposes are in his son Jesus Christ.

That was before hand bailed at least to an extent Christ is revealed in the Old Testament but not as clearly. Of course, as in the note. So, in the old he was concealed in the new he's revealed in the old he's contained in the new he's explained and so he says here great is this mystery that everything is encompassed in Jesus Christ. No one really saw this but not those of us who say get it completely is not about Jesus plus the law of Moses is not about Jesus plus circumcision is not about Jesus plus baptism is not about Jesus plus the sacraments of the church is not about Jesus plus ethically and morally cleaning up your life know the mystery is Christ does it all. And salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone for the glory of God alone. That's something that's now been unfolded, and we see it and we grasp it now. The phrase their wishes by common confession. Of course we all agree on this great is this mystery we just didn't see it unfolding like this is always centered in Jesus Christ great is the mystery of godliness to the work.

Godliness is an interesting term that might affect the Greek scholars pretty will universally say godliness is probably not the best death translation. It means piety or devoutness great is the mystery of true piety is what it means great is the mystery of a truly devout one. Great is the mystery of a truly godly one.

Here's the point. There's only been one truly devout one.

There's only been one truly pious one. There's only one truly godly one in his name is Jesus. So we we just didn't say all of that and now the only way you and I are any human being will ever be considered a truly devout one are truly pious one are truly godly one before God is to come through Jesus Christ. You don't come through works. You don't come through church membership, you don't come to some sort of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps and going in the direction of ethical market moral purity. None of that matters. As part your standing before God. It all comes to Jesus. So the point is, as the Jews of the old a covenant if you will labor were striving, and keeping laws and developing all of these minute laws on top of the given laws. All the ceremonies all the practices all the rituals, hoping this may limit devout one. Those who know Jesus Christ know it's been a great mystery, but we finally figured out the only way God considers you truly upfront, truly devout, truly pious or truly God is if you come through Jesus Christ we have faith in him.

That's a great great mystery all centers in the him now. Two sides of the same coin. If God's going to look at you. And if God's going to consider you and upright want to godly one pious one at about 12 AC views this number one positionally positionally God looks at you and said if you believe, though, my son, then use stand as one who is justified.

You stand before me as a truly devout one nobody else does, but only those who love love my son only those who put faith in him will stay and have a standing of pious this or devoutness or truth in godliness before me know. There's a practical side of it there that were supposed to be down here but we have the standing were supposed to be living serving and striving to live out as a pious one to live out our lives is a truly devout one to live out our lives as well as a godly want and here's the point. We go to verse 15 and what is he talking about in what context are we to be living out this pious this living out this true godliness. The case on delay. Verse 15 I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church.

The Greek word there's effortlessly at his called out with everyone who's a member of a local church should only be those whom God's called out of the world to himself that his gospel church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

The point is you live out true piety you live out your true devoutness in the context of your local church family, the church is is is the pillar and support of the church truth. The church of the how is the household of God is the church, the called out ones of the true and living on this as it did religion.

This is a living and true and wonderful things God is doing so everything Paul's writing to Timothy courses about the local church and so are is this section, it goes right into the practical aspect of I were to be devoted to serving our God, i.e. bringing him glory by serving him faithfully as his word prescribes in our local churches, God hasn't left you orphaned us to wonder what's my ministry out there. He may give you wonderful ways to spread the gospel. He may give you wonderful ways to in in influence others and edify others out in the world wherever the Lord's providence may put you, but you know for certain that the foundation stone is to serve him in your local churches now then there's this unveiling thing is you get to verse 16. You get past the common confession which as we all agree on this truth. What truth we agree on the. The mysteries been unveiled to us now that true pious. This is obtained only in Jesus Christ. And then you go to verse 16 to these phrases.

He who was revealed in the flesh course that Jesus was vindicated in the spirit I think is pointing primarily to the spirit bringing in the life and raising him from the dead, seen by angels, that's a powerful truth. The angels themselves were learning of God's great mystery.

As Jesus became incarnate, and grew up, and begin his ministry and died on the cross was very Rose again ascended to heaven their angels were learning but at the same time we were watching and learning.

So I said this is a glorious thing for the Angels to observe as God unfolds it. I don't know how much they knew before he came but it's evident in the web of the passages we can look at to prove this. The angels themselves are astonished at the wisdom and the power of God to unfold.

This plan of salvation, the way he has proclaimed among me and that's with the apostles began to do preaching Jesus everywhere believed on in the world. That means those who are believing on Christ becoming part of local churches all over the globe than the course as he ascended, he was taken up in glory.

So the point is, this is an unveiling Christ was veiled. We couldn't see we didn't understand how is God going to do this of the best of man's understanding when all this happened was we just have these rules in these laws and these rituals and we try to jump 36 and keep these laws and hopefully we become a devout one gotchas know you got it wrong. I'm going to reveal something I'm going unveiled my son. He's coming to earth, born of the Virgin Mary to live a sinless life, he will go to the cross, and take the sins of the children there and through his unveiling in his work.

I can make you truly pious ones. I will make you truly devout once I will make you truly godly ones through him and through his unveiling the air. All of this is about God's glory because God is doing things in a way that men couldn't fathom our grass. If you had a million years to contemplate it.

It was a great mystery that some marvel beyond all marbles of the wonder beyond all wonders in the church glorious over this that this is one unveiling with theirs coming another unveiling is coming a time at the end of time when he will be unveiled before all as he dissents from heaven you come on a white charger.

The Bible says King of Kings and Lord of lords will be written across his chest and what's gonna happen at that unveiling in the first unveiling he justified us and began sanctifying us. Are you with think we convert the first time he died on the cross.

He inspired holy men to write the finished had a script for the New Testament. He sent the Spirit of God to accompany the preaching of the gospel that he not save us justify justify justify.and the moment you believe justified before God. You state his righteousness on become a truly devout one at that point you become a truly pious one at that point. That's when is his first unveiling accomplish that and then were to be living our lives now in the communities of local churches sharpening equipping encouraging upholding showing compassion for one another and holding each other accountable exercising church discipline. All the things the Bible says were to do for one another in all this helps sanctifies to live more like the truly pious ones. He sees us as are you with me positional sanctification. But progressive thing to forget he got all that done in his first unveiling is come in the next unveiling and when that would happen sees not just on justifies a sanctifies he's gonna you know the word glorifies glorifies hate Jesus, you know what I like about Jesus.

He never fails. He's just not going to quit until every single solitary member of this church has his glory all over him. These will resurrect those whose bodies lay in the grave he's gone bring with him those who've already departed their souls in spirit are with him and then he's gonna bring us all together will all be cleansed and perfected and wonderfully glorified. Here's what don't you get. Whether it was the first unveiling when he went to the cross for us and he justified us on the final unveiling at the end of the time when he appears in the heavens and calls us to meet him in the air and were all glorified with him. All of it is for his glory and for his churches good listener. In both cases he talks to us as a collectivity didn't talk to you as an individual right here. He says you're the household of God, you're the called out assembly in the end the times will all come together.

All of us. Individual assemblies race like church the shows and all the rest of them.

They will all come together as one great big great whole bride of Christ all glorified.

Whether it's the first unveiling centered in the cross that barely resurrection on the second unveiling when we meet him in the air. It's all about him being glorified in his church, benefiting greatly. What a great mystery. This is that God's unfolded and is accomplishing it all through Jesus and Jesus being unveiled and brought to us now. Let's go back behind and let's see the big picture something of how all this has unfolded through the ages now begin with the great glory of God. What I call I. The preliminaries God's great glory through Israel and even hurt those so all through the narratives of the Old Testament dispensation God is bringing himself great glory through Israel and even through Israel's enemies, because you know it's all about the glory of God is all about people deeming him worthy of honor and price. This was all about.

That's why you breathe so that he might be deemed worthy of honor and praise. That's what you got a mind that you are contemplate him and think I followed many things, but when I think of the things the Bible tells me about God. Only he is worthy of all honor and praise. I've got feet and I will use them to serve him in my local church because only he is worthy of honor per it's all about the glory of God. I told you this for you know God loves big God. He just loves being God and he he deems that he himself is worthy of all honor and praise Melissa. So if we do any less than what he thinks is right were sinful because he can't do wrong.

He can't choose to to be crazy about. To be enamored with anything less than was truly worthy of being crazy about her.

Been enamored over so we should be enamored with him, but here's a catcher you need to learn about his purposes. Learn what the Bible says about him as a person, learn about him with the bounces about his wisdom, learn about him at the Bible says about his works and his acts so that as you learn these things, the spirit of God illumines your understanding and you go, man. I've never seen anything like this. He is worthy of honor and praise.

Let's go back and see how God has unfolded these things so were building on the preliminaries. God's great glory through Israel and her folds.

I said it like this in the conference.

There is one fully logical, fully appropriate, fully perfect, fully righteous desire in all the universe covering both time and eternity and that is God's desire to glorify himself. It's axiomatic you can't be the one true God, and not want to glorify yourself. It's self evident that he should be the only one deemed worthy of honor and praise.

He's the one true God thrice holy, immutable, invisible, invincible.

Here's the want of an estimable wisdom and beauty and power, he must be glorified.

He is being glorified and he will be glorified both in time and in eternity because he's decreed it to be. Don't you think somehow God's missing. I know we use the phrase in the not saying it's wrong because we have difficulty putting words with the truce of how God works, but you would say that we from God out of our country and we thrown God out of our schools and yes that's true in the sense but God had been thrown anywhere. God didn't disappear from anywhere that he don't leave on his own voluntary free will. If God is no longer in our countries because he said I don't know I don't want any longer to be in your country. He does what he decrease he's decreed to be glorified.

It is an interesting passage of Scripture are our Lord said this before his death, and he's contemplating his coming death on the cross. In John 12 versus 27, 28. What a powerful truth. This is to me. Jesus says now my soul has become troubled.

He speaking as a man, always a sinless Mammon is not as immortal as such muscles become troubled. What shall I say father, save me from this hour, not I'm not looking forward. And I cannot. I don't mean I don't be too speculative about what was in the mind of Christ as we don't know what all is in the mind of Christ were not God but is facing the cross and will want to send that the greatest apprehension in Christ hard is when I go to the cross, the father will forsake me, and turned his back on me and not relishing father. You know what am I gonna say about this because you know he and the father planned this before the foundation work date. Jesus didn't come to the earth to good works product to help us understand how to cure social justice and then all of a sudden he died on the cross to show how unselfish he was absolutely blasphemy every second of everything he did every day while he was in his incarnate state on the earth was foreordained by him and his father before the worlds began.

The ambulance are rather the cross is not an ambulance into the scene of an accident cross was foreordained by God, so he saying this is the purpose and that what he says here verse 27, but for this purpose I came to this hour. So it's almost like Jesus grabbed himself up close Sampson setback in the divine.

The purpose that he and his father ordained and said all right let's get on with what were about what we about father, glorify your name for what I'm about to do. Father going to the cross matters father is that you be doing worthy of honor and praise that if people as people begin to grasp. As this mystery is unfolding that I'm going to make men righteous uncle to make me an truly pious one. I will make them truly godly once I will make them become truly devout once by my death for them and they can't do it themselves they can achieve it in their own works and energies for them and father is one of our God to you again.

Why were doing this so that when mankind and even the angels watch this unfold, but I will say only hideous worthy about glorify remains glorify your name.

Name course means the character of a person father were going to unfold. Something about the greatness of our love, our grace, our forgiveness, our mercy would unfold.

Something about the character of who we are before people through this death. I'm going to die for the church and people are going to see more of who we are in the gonna the most worthy of honor and praise.

Then the father interest back to Jesus the son, then a voice came out of heaven said, I have both glorified it, and I will glorified again in an anthropomorphic package here as is were seeing Jesus and the father described as if they were humans.

They're not humans but it's an anthropomorphic. This description of a black humans would talk the son says I know our team for this purpose or father that you would be glorified through it in the father since all don't you worry about glorification. I'm all about glorify myself. I have been glorified and I'm going to glorified some more because that's what God's all about the folks in this is the this is the point here you sit on the church pews. What in the world are you doing here what are you doing here, the Bentley one the Bentley want to answer.

Are you listen. Your past is the Bentley one answer.

I'm sitting on this if you and Grace left her to the shows Poseidon commence on the basis of scriptural truth, and the leadership of the Holy Spirit.

I'm to be in this church family serving the Lord that my Lord might give glory. That's why Marion is in that state.

So you can be a tool for God's hand to serve in this church but God's glory.

I'm sorry after the word us. I thought for a moment I was at the deer camp David Young.

Sometimes it takes strong words when you hang out with a young you get my point. Are you listen your pastor this morning. I can't pamper in pit and prodding support and stroke your flesh and make Christianity easy enough so you can pursue all your lust for the world and be a Christian to you got the here because you will see your God glorified and this is his ordained means to do it. My job is to lash myself to this book and delete our elders in this church so that we are thoroughly biblical so that as you give yourself here you not involved in some counterfeit faddish flash in the pan thing but a real true biblical eternal ministry that bring glory to God cannot just as a side note this morning say that I'm so glad so so glad that God uses imperfect vessels, you know the times as your pastor I've had to repent, change course so that that one quite right.

Let's get it over here and that would probably better get over here and enter your credit you've you've loved me and followed me through it but don't get to practice on me you done much repenting to on the journey and changing course God good to get over here in this ditch are getting the edge of the Yanks is back again week we overreact to our un-biblical excess over there we run over here about getting this position God yanks us back again and let's us grow and mature enough together so hopefully by this time instead of going to the ditch. We just can't go that way and then we go that way and then we go that way we don't get all the way over.

I believe that's where God has for us like church, we still repenting were still growing will still learning not going way over there and way over there.

We got people in this church right now who were here this are tired of going to congregations that are chasing one excessive un-biblical fad after the next, are you here for the glory of God. That's the only thing keeps me going and I love you and your special because you are special.

You're good to your pastor and God will honor you and bless you for that. But you're not worth it. Just not worth it. God's glorious see. I will love you because he loves you that glorifies well Jesus it father.

I'm headed to the cross and this is the purpose we've ordained in and as I had to the cross. But you lose what I'm about to do, be deemed by so many people is worthy of honor and praise and father said, oh don't worry about son. I have been glorified and I'm going to go for through this turn of events were going to bring great honor and praise to our name not in the Old Testament, it's interesting. I think Pharaoh in Egypt and in Israel as they were enslaved to Pharaoh in Egypt and finally delivered that whole narrative shows us something about God's great passion for his own in Exodus 14 verse four.

God says thus I will harden Pharaoh's heart and he will chase after them and I will be on nerd through Pharaoh and all of his army and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord God says I just decided I've had enough of the Egyptians worshiping the from God and all the pagan gods that they been able to dream up as they've dreamed up some pagan idols that serve their flesh. I got it.

I've had enough of them dating these idols are all body and worthy of honor and praise God says I will harden Pharaoh's heart so they'll do a bunch of stuff and doing this stuff it will be proven to Pharaoh and the Egyptians that the one true God, Jehovah, and the only one worthy of honor, praise, so you know how it unfolds. Plague comes upon Egypt plague comes because Pharaoh would not let the children of Israel go free, and a plague would come and Pharaoh said okay timeout Moses timeout, you go get Moses I got talked to my friend of these frogs everywhere in the snatch everywhere are Moses you can go do what God told you to do then Pharaoh would think about a little bit God would harden his heart and said no I'm not let you go.

I'm going to hang on to Exodus 11 verse nine then the Lord said to Moses, Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders will be multiplied in the land of ancient Pharaoh knows the things of the come upon him came from a God other than the idols he served in Egypt and I will keep sending these things on Pharaoh and on the Egyptians so they'll know that the God of Moses, Jehovah is worthy and deemed worthy of honor and praise.

Not there idols. I think God played the Pharaoh will in all the Egyptians like a master conductor leads an orchestra, all to the end of his own glory, honor and praise.

Now here's Israel within Egypt and and God told Moses some very specific things that he says Moses I have a prescribed way I want my people to worship me and bring me glory. Here's with your to do your to leave Egypt three days journey your take the man and the little ones and all your livestock and will sacrifice to be out there in the wilderness, that's kind of peculiar to me, is it not to you why three days journey, why not for 100 1/2. What part of the livestock or maybe not all the lives that when I leave the little ones in the women back in yellow. There's a lot of things in this way the churches today we begin to think through God's commands and think were smarter than God is a lesson here for church of God to Moses three days journey take the men in the little ones which included the women take all the livestock and sacrificed that's well want you to worship me and glorify me well some plagues came and you know what Pharaoh did.

Pharaoh said, okay, I'm gonna let you go but only the men can go little ones in the lives they can't know the livestock kingdom of the wrestlers in all this and it and I'm giving you some Jeff knob with amplification Bible right now. This didn't really happen. It wouldn't sit this way.

But in effect, Moses says Pharaoh you don't understand something God ordains how we worship him. God ordains how we serve him.

I don't get the right Pharaoh to devise a plan that makes the culture happy. God said go three days journey, God said, take the men and the women and the little ones. God said take all the livestock that's only way we do do that where not all, but wasn't willing to go God, since the more plagues Pharaoh's humble but then God hardened his heart and so he decides okay, here's what you can do you can take the million.

You can take the little ones which can't take any of the livestock.

Moses, in effect, says Pharaoh you know since God has no plan B. God's ago three days journey take the men in the little ones which would include the ladies take all the livestock. Pharaoh said you not going. Finally we have the final plague the final plague, the death Angel comes to Egypt in the night and the death Angel visits every household in Egypt and the firstborn in every household is killed by the death Angel but God told told the children usually take the blood of the spotless lamb and put it on the doorpost in the little and every house where the blood was applied. One picture Jesus every house where the blood was applied. The death Angel passed over didn't visit that home of the Israelite children were not killed. After that play, then Pharaoh finally said okay Moses you can go. The men can go the little ones condone all the laughter go get out of here so they go, God hardened his heart again and wonder after they're already out there.

He thought, you know what I've lost a lot of free labor and a lot of wealth and livestock.

I just can't afford loosely so he sends his army after them.

You know how the story goes, Moses lifted up his rod by the Red Sea. The waters part of the Red Sea of attribute or a pastoral dryland and then ask after they pass through the Egyptian army chased after them, the waters closed up over the whole Egyptian army in drowned them all the liberal scholars say when it wouldn't really the Red Sea.

It was called a sea of region. It would really how water just like a little marshy place in the wind kind of blew the marsh marshy waters back and let them fill dryland hound heaven saying to God drowned the whole Egyptian army little marsh anyone after God delivered Israel to the Red Sea after he killed all the Egyptian army then Moses got together and Moses began to sing a song, and he led the truth of Israel in this song and one of the verses. Exodus 1511 is who is like the among the gods, O Lord, who is like the majestic in holiness, awesome, and praises working wonders. In other words, you alone are worthy of honor and praise God's getting glory so he gets glory through Egypt gets glory through his children of Israel, but in all ways God's getting the glory then God gives the law they get settled out there and they're trying to set up their life as a new nation, and God sends Moses up on Mount Sinai, and God gives him the lawful Mount Sinai angle of the law was given to Israel from one primary purpose to bless them. Yes, but that the people of the other nations could see how they walk in God's law and I can see that it superior to their loss. It's more ethical.

It's more up right it's holy and has a righteousness to a lot like sacrificing children to molest. That was very common in this day and many of the pagan nations worship the idle mode lick and they would sacrifice their babies to this idol but God for bid and and Revelation let Lavinia are living in the umbilicus.

Rather, chapter 20 God prohibited Israel for performing such child sacrifices marketed because you serve a God.

This ethical you serve a God that's morally upright and people will see the superiority of your God. When you do not act as they yet you act according to my law's so God says I'm going to get great glory through my children Israel and I'm even going to get great glory through her enemies and her foes now II will talk this thing off in just a moment finish next week. The great glory pointed to the greater glory of Christ in his church. All that was happening to Israel and all that was happening to the Egyptians that would cause me in pagans, and the Israelites to save only he is worthy of honor and great when we see his wisdom. We see something of his beauty when we see something of this power only he's worthy of honor for all that was pointing to the greater glory God was going to bring to himself through his son Jesus Christ coming to the earth unveiling revealing himself on earth and saving his church in Mark 9527.

The Bible says and Peter answered and said to Jesus, Rabbi, it's good for us to be here and let us make three tabernacles one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah. Other on the Mount of Transfiguration. It was a terrifying event, the glory of God. Just envelop the whole scene and and and and and and Peter and the disciples are just terrified Peter reminds me of me a little bit spoke up trying to say something… Build three tablets at the three special things Moses has appeared here supernatural is built one for Moses, Elijah's appear supernatural is built one from Elijah and and and and let's build one for you. Jesus verse six.

He did not know what the answer for they became terrified that a cloud formed, overshadowing them in a voice came out of the cloud. This is my beloved son, listen to him Moses phone for me, but he's not my beloved son Moses is on this level right here. I want you to listen to the one that makes Moses the vile. I want you to listen one that makes Moses a truly pious one I want you to listen to the Lord who makes Moses a true godly one.

That's my son, Jesus Christ, his only different level he's gone I glorify myself, through Moses, I glorify myself, Elijah, but I will glorify my sister, my son in greater ways than you will ever fathom.

Listen to him. John 145 Philip found Nathaniel and said to him, we have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. He sing everything that happened in the five that the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament and all the profit writings pointed to this one. The one of greatest glory Jesus Christ. John 546 for if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me is everything. Moses, for it was important to me. While they will purchase it one day. Forgot free to talk to got to hymnbook. They all grabbed their music himin the norming about it's all about him, from Genesis 11 to then Revelation is all about Jesus. It's it's the hymnbook that's what is with that Jesus is saying everything. The Old Testament pointed to me.

Hebrews 334.

He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses Stinson. That's a powerful statement for it. You, nothing was greater than Moses who gave us the law itself, the one who created Moses except the one who was God incarnate, he would die and pay for the sins of Moses he's been counted worthy of more glory than Moses by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. Moses was a part of the house. Jesus is the builder of the house.

So as we pause here is where trading ended with where you were over here and were dealing with Egypt and Israel of old and we were and bout knee-deep water but that's a fitting illustration for the day that we're about knee-deep water. He says now I'm about to unveiling unfold something I'm doing through my son, my beloved son and it's not knee-deep is not even waist deep is not to steep is not seeing that you just got diving and swimming. This water it's greater than all the other young lady listen to me this morning young man listen to me this morning. Single adult middle-age singer listen to me this morning you came here this morning to come to church and I've given you Jesus. What you'll do with have you embraced him. Do you know your truly pious one because you know that you know I put all my confidence and hope in Jesus Christ, you better not go to heaven one day artist limits with this you cannot face God one day and said I did what brother Jeff told me to do. I jump through this hooping that had I not tend to jump the. I'm telling you turn to Jesus turned to Jesus in faith from your heart embraced Jesus Christ piece greater access cash in your counterfeit church membership and embrace Jesus cast in that hollow trust in baptism and trust Jesus.

Cassie and clinging to our squad cleaned up while I try to get tired of it and take Jesus. He's the mystery of God's he's the one that makes you truly godly in the eyes of God, will take Jesus take Jesus take Jesus. Jesus and he is mighty to save. If you turn to him. He will in no wise To cast you out.

The Bible says if you believe in him. The Bible promises you will not be disappointed if you believe in bed. This methods you will be disappointed if you believe an Episcopalian method, you will be disappointed if you believe in Methodist method you be disappointed if you put your trust in Jesus.

If you're leaving and what about that now. That's not all bad, but that can't get you to heaven that just get you down here the steps that will burn in the judgment, there's no magic spot down here that get you to Jesus it come from your heart. Believing in Jesus. Only Jesus only Jesus.

He is better than Moses everything. He is the mystery of godliness. He makes you righteous in the eyes that, here's what you bring to Jesus filth wrought wretched file, worthless sins, and total moral bankruptcy. That's the only money he takes. You want your silly self-righteousness. You just come him bankrupt as a center. So Jesus, would you take me. Yes, I've been trying to get you to realize you're the only kind I do take when you see yourself as a wretched unworthy center come, you sinners seek his grace whose wrath you cannot bear flee to the shelter of the cross, and find salvation. There may be your visiting today. I don't know you think let us go to church this morning and you ran into me you not sure what the train look like the different overview but I can tell you this. I love you and I care for you. If somehow the Holy Spirit of God, can you up your life that you say that I need Christ that it's worth every fiber of my being to see you get there