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*The Blood Catalyst*
/Exodus 24.1-18 /
Pastor Oesterwind
*Introduction:* We began studying Ex 20 by looking at each one of the Ten Commandments.
Ex 21 – 23 contain what has been deemed the Book of the Covenant, a practical fleshing out of the Ten Commandments.
Ex 24 contains a ceremony that ratified this covenant established between God and His people.
The Book of the Covenant (v.
7) is ratified by the Blood of the Covenant (v.
8).
There is much, however, for us to learn about how we should rightly relate with God.
The chapter shows a progression that all believers go through – a progression that finds its catalyst in the blood of Christ:
1.
Approaching God requires a ministry of intercession (24.1-2).
We are unable to approach Him in and of ourselves because our lives are fraught with sin.
2.
Obeying God requires perfect obedience (24.3-4a, 7).
We are unable to obey perfectly in and of ourselves because every time we try we fail.
3. Trusting God requires resting in the blood sacrifice of Christ (24.4b-6, 8).
We are able to trust only because God has provided a perfect sacrifice in His Son.
4. Seeing God requires supernatural enlightenment (24.9-11).
We are able to perceive spiritual things only because God has lifted the veil.
5.
Entering God’s glory and seeing Him face-to-face is the culmination of our life’s work.
We shall see Him because He has promised we will.
So, a five-fold progression that begins with an initial approach and ends with eternal fellowship.
Approaching, obeying, trusting, seeing, and entering.
All verbs that point to Heaven.
Let’s begin with…
*Approaching God (24.1-2)*
· God gives Moses explicit directions on how the people would approach Him in order to confirm the covenant (24.1-2).
o Aaron and his two sons, Nadab and Abihu, went up with Moses.
Nadab and Abihu were consumed by the wrath of God for offering profane fire upon the altar of God.
o The 70 elders were the men chosen to help administrate in Israel (Ex 18).
They represented the 12 tribes of Israel.
o The children of Israel stayed at the foot of the Mount Sinai.
The priests and elder went up the mountain, but were limited as to how much access they had to God.
o Moses drew near as the intercessor of Israel.
/Application:/ God had a well-defined approach in His Word.
The only way people approached God in the time of Moses was through his intercessory ministry and that of the priests.
Today, Jesus Christ is the superior mediator.
None approach God except through Christ.
*5*For /there is/ one God and one Mediator between God and men, /the/ Man Christ Jesus.
\\ */1 Timothy 2:5/*
*/Transition: Our approach is not ours at all.
We have a Mediator, but notices also in the progression…/*
*Obeying God (24.3-4a, 7)*
· Moses came and told all the people all the words of the Lord and the judgments (24.3).
The Ten Commandments (Ex 20) are the words and the judgments are the practical fleshing out of them (Ex 21-23).
· Moses wrote all the words of the Lord (24.4).
This is a reference to both the Ten Commandments and the Book of the Covenant (Ex 19-23).
Israel had the written words of God.
· Moses will read the Book of the Covenant again (24.7 a).
His first reading in v. 3 informed the people.
When they heard it, they said they would do it (24.3).
Moses read it again to clarify matters.
The people reiterated that they would obey the Lord.
/Application/: It is important to God that we read His Word.
It is very important that we do this individually and corporately (family, church, couple).
We need to read it again and again in order to be constantly confronted by truth that leads us to say, “All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient” (24.7b).
Stop making and worshipping idols!
Stop deceiving, stealing, and coveting what is not yours!
Care for others and for their property!
We say, “Yes, Lord!
We will obey!”
But do we in fact obey the Lord?
Even if we increase in our obedience, we still fall short of the standard of perfection.
Israel learned (just as we have learned) that they could not meet God’s demands.
They accepted the terms of God’s covenant because it was the right thing to do.
However, they would fail miserably.
*/Transition: Our obedience is sporadic and imperfect.
We may say that we’ll obey; but do we?
That’s why we move toward step three in the progression…/*
*Trusting God (24.4b-6, 8)*
· Moses “rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD.
And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar” (24.4b-6).
o The blood would seal the covenant between the Lord and the children of Israel.
o Moses sprinkled the blood on the people in v. 8.
He said, “This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you according to all these words.”
o Moses had read and clarified the Word of God.
The people affirmed and reaffirmed that they would keep the Word of God.
o Moses built an altar that represented the presence of God.
It was upon the altar that a blood sacrifice would be made.
Israel could only approach on the basis of that sacrifice upon the altar.
o ½ of the blood was sprinkled on the altar (representing the presence of God) and the remaining ½ was sprinkled upon the people (24.8).
§ Shedding the blood of an animal meant the certain death of the animal.
The animal would stand in the place of the people.
The wage of sin is death.
§ The blood of the animal is also the life essence of the animal.
Sprinkling that blood upon the people signified the life that they did not deserve being bestowed upon them by a merciful God.
o The animal sacrifices in Moses’ day looked forward to the sacrifice of Christ.
This is why Moses worked urgently and carefully.
God knew Israel would not keep His words.
Yet they had to or else they would die!
/Application/: We sin as well.
None of us keep the Law of God perfectly.
Yet we can draw near to God on the basis of the blood of Christ.
Christ is “set forth /as/ a propitiation by His blood, through faith” (Ro 3.25).
We have been “justified by His blood” and “we shall be saved from wrath through Him (Ro 5.9).
In Christ “we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Eph 1.7).
We “have been brought near by the blood of Christ” (Eph 2.13).
The Lord Jesus established peace between the Father and mankind “through the blood of His cross” (Col 1.20).
We have been washed “from our sins in His own blood” (Rev 1.5).
Hebrews 9 is rich with the preciousness of the blood of Christ: “Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
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