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Exodus 19:1-9 The Mosaic Covenant Sunday 1 Feb 2015 Celebration Service 1/4/2015 1 © SSMC

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Exodus 19:1-9

The Mosaic Covenant

Sunday1 Feb 2015

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Exodus 19:1-9

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Exodus 19:1 On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt—on that very day—they came to the Desert of Sinai. 2 After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.

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3 Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: 4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.

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5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, 6you[a] will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

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7 So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all the words the Lord had commanded him to speak. 8 The people all responded together, “We will do everything the Lord has said.” So Moses brought their answer back to the Lord.

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9 The Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.” Then Moses told the Lord what the people had said.

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The laws especially the 10 commandments – are a reflection of who God is and also how Israelites are to live or what kind of people they are to be.

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1. Noahic Covenant.2. Abrahamic Covenant.3. Mosaic Covenant.4. Davidic Covenant.5. New (Christ) Covenant.

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1. Noahic Covenant.2. Abrahamic Covenant.3. Davidic Covenant.4. New (Christ) Covenant

Mosaic Covenant

Unconditional

Conditional

Unilateral

Bilateral

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The Mosaic Covenant is a conditional covenant made between God and the nation of Israel at Mount Sinai

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At the time of the covenant, God reminded the people of their obligation to be obedient to His law (Exodus 19:5), and the people agreed to the covenant when they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do!” (Exodus 19:8).

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The Mosaic Covenant was centered around God's giving His divine law to Moses on Mount Sinai. Further elaborated in the Torah -Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deutronomy.

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The blessings that God promises are directly related to Israel’s obedience to the Mosaic Law.

If Israel is obedient, then God will bless them, but if they disobey, then God will punish them.

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This covenant would serve to set the nation of Israel apart from all other nations as God’s chosen people.

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The Mosaic Covenant is especially significant because in it God promises to make Israel “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” (Exodus 19:6). Israel was to be God’s light to the dark world around them. They were to be a separate and called-out nation so that everyone around them would know that they worshiped Yahweh, the covenant-keeping God.

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Isaiah 58:1 “Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins. 2 For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.

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3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?’ “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. 4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.

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5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?

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6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

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8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. 9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

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10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.

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11 The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. 12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

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Significantly, the Mosaic Law that was to be a schoolmaster/guardian pointing the way towards the coming of Christ (Galatians 3:24-25).

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The Mosaic Law would reveal to people their sinfulness and their need for a Savior, and it is the Mosaic Law that Christ Himself said that He did not come to abolish but to fulfill.

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Romans 5:20 The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Romans 8:3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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Therefore, the Mosaic Covenant itself, with all its detailed laws, could not save people

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The Mosaic Covenant is also referred to as the Old Covenant

(2 Corinthians 3:14; Hebrews 8:6, 13)

and was replaced by the New Covenant in Christ

(Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Hebrews 8:8; 8:13;

9:15; 12:24).

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Hebrews 87 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8 But God found fault with the people and said: “The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.

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9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.

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10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord.

I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.

I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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11 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”13 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

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Me and the (Mosaic) law• Self-righteousness, proud and legalistic

Religious policing gone awry

Wan Saiful Wan Jan is chief executive of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (www.ideas.org.my)

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Condemned – Romans7:10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death

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Mark 2:17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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ConclusionThe Mosaic covenant tells us that God wants to relate to us – more than that He wants us to be different, to be distinct, to be the called-out ones (be holy) and to His Kingdom of Priests – His light in the midst of darkness.

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The Law is good and perfect but it cannot save us. In fact, the Bible tells us that we all have sinned and fall short of His glory.The Law tells us that the consequence of our sins is death.

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Today we are not under Mosaic laws or the Mosaic covenant – spiritually or otherwise. We are under the New Covenant.Do not live by the law – don’t be self-righteousness, proud and legalistic.Do not feel condemned – if know Christ, you have been saved and had been set free. If you have sinned, get right and reconnect with Him.

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Does that mean we can break the laws?So how?Apply the love principle.If you love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself, you will fulfill all the law. Galatians 5 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

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Walk by the Spirit, Live by the Spirit, Keep in step with the Spirit (Galatians 5).Romans 8 tells us that we have received the Spirit of sonship –therefore, live as a child of God –God is our Father.The Holy Spirit is in you – listen to Him and live accordingly.

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