Thank You for this day. God's presence, going with us, invariably conducts to rest. God's presence is rest to our heart. That’s when we come to Exodus 33:14 and God says to Moses, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” In the aftermath of that pronouncement, Moses prays that the power of God’s presence will be evident to all the people’s in the promise land as he goes with them. "Rest." THE DESTINY OF A TRUE LIFE. God's presence, His holy Spirit has been working with us here and we see the progress. So Daniel (Daniel 9.). Treat it as a matter of fact, and be filled with rest. And Moses said unto the Lord, "See, Thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and Thou has not let me know whom Thou wilt send with me." Secondly, we must recognize that the blood of Jesus Christ His Son goes on cleansing us from all sin, not only that which we judge and confess, but that also which is only seen by His pure and holy eyes. It is left for Him to choose, and to make known His choice, whilst the soul waits, exercising careful thought indeed, but concentrating its whole power in seeking to know the Divine will. It’s such a potent picture. 14 And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” panai yeleku va’hanikhoti lakh – “My face shall go, and I will give rest to you.” The face of the Lord is the Lord. II. Exodus 33:12-23By: Dr. Gregory S. NealSenior Pastor: First United Methodist Church of Commerce, TexasOctober 19, 2014 II. GOD SUPPLIES THIS WANT. THE PRESENCE OF GOD • Sermon ... then I will carry out My word with you which I spoke to David your father. 14); Moses eagerly seizes on the promise thus given him, and pleads with God to make it good. Harmonious activity is the destiny of the good; activity in harmony with all our powers, with the order of the universe, and with the will of God. "Wherein now shall it be known that I have found grace in Thy sight, I and Thy people? Then it is night, it is winter with the soul. It gives rest from the distraction felt amidst uncongenial scenes and associations. It gives rest from the cravings of an unsatisfied spirit. THE BLESSING OF GOD'S PRESENCE (vers. Click here to pray with them for more nations. Oh, how reverently, cautiously, jealously, and holily ought we to behave ourselves in the presence of God! He is the author of several books, including Radical, Radical Together, Follow Me, Counter Culture, and Something Needs to Change. He is always ready for fellowship with His people. Pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night. A rest from the fears and dangers of the way. Dear God, my Abba Father, Lord Jesus my Savior, I love You. Everything we need to secure that peace which the world cannot give is secured by the promise, "My presence shall go with thee," for that tranquil presence does not merely attend us, it enters the very soul, and sheds its benediction there. Who is there that does not pine for love? He dwells within us as a pitying, purifying friend, to kindle celestial light in our darkness, and by removing the cause of discord, and restoring the equilibrium of the soul, to give us peace at the very seat of life. III. Spurgeon (1834-1893) over the course of his ministry in London during the 19th century, transcribed from manuscripts edited by Emmett O'Donnell. Moses does not want to take one step apart from the fullness of the presence of God. He has chosen them; he has redeemed them; he has declared his love for them; can he bring himself now to cast them off? That we use it. 2. Or, the angel of my presence, Isaiah 63:9. II. We need you. The prayer of Moses suggests THE NEED OF ONE WORN BY WELL-DOING. They had come from Egypt. But at their heart these two are one. IN WHAT SENSE DOES THE PRESENCE OF GOD GIVE REST? This was the better thing that God offered Moses. his reply was, "Even so; for it is written, 'I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.'" Moses was a very lonely man. There is also the providential presence of God, by which He sees the wants, and provides for the necessities of His numerous family. THE REST. Lord, help us. 2. This, in Moses' view, is the greatest distinction of Israel, that it has God in its midst, and if this distinction is withdrawn, he cares not what else remains (ver. I. They were journeying in the wilderness. Plato seemed to have a glimpse of this glorious truth when he said, "God is more inward to us than we are to ourselves." He was able to transact all necessary business by going out to the tent. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. Without Thee, it were better for me to relinquish my task and die; but with Thee, no difficulty can baffle, no fear alarm, no obstacle deter. God promised Moses his presence. View the passage as illustrating -. Help us to stay present in Your presence. (Genesis 18:17); and Christ's words to his disciples" I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you" (John 15:15). The LORD replied, ¡§My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.¡¨ Exodus 33:14 II. 15). In the physical world we are told that in the most solid bodies the atoms do not touch; and how often, though the crowd throngs us, we are not conscious that any one has touched us. We are not like those who travel by the metal track of the railroad, on which they have been to and fro every day for years, and are able to tell exactly the names and order of the stations; but like an exploring expedition in an absolutely unknown district, and even the leader, as he leaves his hammock in the morning, does not know where it will be slung at night. 4. The earlier intercourse between the servant, faithful in all his house, and Him who had appointed him seems to have been on the mountain summit. God's Special Presence Distinguishes His Own People, The Restoration to Divine Favour Completed, God's special presence distinguishes His own people. THE PRIVILEGES OF FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD (vers. He at once saw the blessedness of this proximity of the shrine for worship and fellowship, and his ardent soul seems to have been unable to brook delay. Help us we pray to live in constant dependence on your presence and in constant communion with you in your presence.” In Jesus name we pray. The gracious presence of God is indispensable to His people to purify them, and make them ready for the heavenly Canaan. So Moses here. IN WHAT SENSE HAS GOD SAID, "MY PRESENCE SHALL GO WITH THEE"? 17. God offered something better than guidance; he promised to be their Guide. Friendship with God gives boldness of approach to him. I. A land of toil and oppression and misery. Such a summons to arise and depart is often sounding with its bugle-call in our ears. "When flesh and heart fail," etc. Do not lose it. Nothing was said as to the people. I thought, “I don’t want to move one step forward without God’s presence either. 4. 3. Based on this picture in Exodus 33 then, I want to encourage you in your life today in the same way I was encouraged when I was reading this. For help he will often "lift up his eyes unto the hills," and will take help from no lower source. God’s assurance of His presence and of “rest” were only specified for Moses, and not for the nation. 3. The best use we can make of friendship with God is to intercede for others. THE CRY OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT FOR REST. Now He avowed His intention of substituting an angel for Himself, lest He should suddenly consume the people because of their stiff-neckedness (Exodus 33:3). 2. This video was provided by our friends at Prayercast. We don’t want to do anything on our own. The people of God enjoy a comparative rest in this present world, inasmuch as they are delivered from the power and pollution of sin, and possess that kingdom of grace which consists of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. The acknowledgment of the people as being peculiarly the Lord's. 2. I. URGENT is Radical's specific work among the unreached of identifying and coming alongside indigenous believers who are making disciples and multiplying churches in ways that are biblically faithful and practically effective among the hardest to reach peoples and places in the world. Your resurrection from the grave. A rest from the toils of wilderness journeyings. This disappears in ver. The prayer of Moses expressed the need of one WEIGHTED BY THE SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY. 6. 3. You can have the promise land, it’s yours for the taking, but I will not go with you.” That’s what God said in the beginning of Exodus Chapter 33, but what Moses did is he stood in the gap before God and he said, “God, I can’t go forward. The Divine presence is rest. We may seriously question whether our faith is of the right quality if it is unable to compass more in its hand to-day than it did a year ago. By the presence of God, we are sometimes to understand His essential presence or ubiquity, which pervades all … 1. This prayer of Moses RECEIVED A GRACIOUS ANSWER. 3. IV. It is the old, old choice — worldliness, godliness — duty, pleasure — God's will, self-will — the passions and appetites of the flesh or of the mind, the convictions of conscience and the Word of God. It was the vision of God. "My presence shall go with thee." This honour have all the saints, yet all do not seem to be fully conscious of it. The fact that your presence is with us right now, so God, we pray that you would keep us abiding in your presence all day long. MY PRESENCE WILL GO WITH YOU (2) Emmanuel Kusi Yeboah. It is that which makes earthly blessings truly worth having. I have a vision of a woodland glade. The future is dim. Ignatius, from his eminent devotion, was called by his companions "The Godbearer"; and when Trajan said to him, "Dost thou then bear the Crucified One in thy heart?" 14, 15). So, "two women may be grinding at a mill"; "two men may be in the field"; one a believer, the other an unbeliever; and although the Great Spirit is near to them both, there is a sense in which He is present to the one as He is not to the other; for, in the case of the believer, the causes of estrangement have been taken away, a new relation exists, a new life has been born, and God is present as a Friend, whose love has been accepted, and whose conversation is understood with all the intelligence of a kindred nature. 1. Only let us feel it; only let us own that inward authority, and listen to that inward voice; only let us act in obedience to the suggestions of that "Power that worketh within us to will and to do of His good pleasure," and we shall find that in proportion as we are actuated by the life of God within us, shall we feel "His peace.". But he who faces all responsibility and tries to see his life as he will see it when the end of all things has come, has great need of God. And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. II. We want to walk with you in your presence all day long. Led, guided, empowered by your spirit in everything we are doing. "Best" — both now and hereafter. Efficient. For Your blessings. 5. What was to Him a beautiful speculation is to us an inspiring reality; for we are the "temples of the Holy Ghost." He had a great work to do. They have lost their way, they sob bitterly, and crowd together. Do they not contain a sigh for a comrade, a companion, a friend in whose sympathy and judgment he might confide. We are grateful for those who support Radical financially. I want to encourage us to pray accordingly. "Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.". How else will it be known that you’re And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. Thus the Lord spake with Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend; and Moses spake to his Father, who is in secret, with the freedom of a child. II. 12). Grounded in Your Word with Your full armor. If you have Jesus' presence in your life, you will experience God's divine order. The rest here mentioned has, undoubtedly, a primary reference to the land of Canaan, in which the people of Israel rested, after the toils, dangers, and fatigue of the wilderness. THE COMPANION OF A TRUE LIFE. III. To him life becomes a serious thing. THE DESIRE OF THE SPIRITUAL MIND IS THE PRESENCE OF GOD. " God personally and providentially led Moses and the nation of Israel. But when God is near it falls back on Him like a tired child on a father's strength, and is at rest. In addition to this, the hosts were soon to leave the mountain region of Sinai, with which Moses had been familiar during his shepherd life, in order to take the onward road through unknown deserts, infested by daring and experienced foes. He entreats God to consider that Israel is his own people (ver. We don’t want to do anything apart from you today, so help us God. Glorify Him all that you possibly can. THE POWER OF PERSEVERING PRAYER (vers. He urges the friendship God has shown him as a reason for granting his request - "Thou hast said, I know thee by name," etc. The LORD replied, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’ Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your ways, so that I may know you and find favor in your sight. THE PLACE WHERE THIS ASSURANCE WAS GIVEN. 2. We don’t want to speak words that don’t honor your presence. He needs to see God for himself to know that God will not abandon him, so Moses prays this. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’ Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your ways, so that I may know you and find favor in your sight. The gracious presence of God is essentially necessary to His people, in order to show them the right way and enable them to walk therein. But at times this is crushed by disappointment and failure, and the sense of its inadequacy for some great task. If your presence doesn’t go with us, then we can’t go into this land. 2. It casts out fear (1 John 4:18). He who feels little need of God has a low sense of personal responsibility. 1. But then, there is something more implied in the word than this. God must rest — rest even in working; and all that is of God and from God has the longing and the tending to rest. "MY PRESENCE SHALL GO WITH THEE." My presence shall go with thee — Hebrew, My face, I myself, my own person, as the same phrase is translated 2 Samuel 17:11. 4. God's presence is rest from anxiety. During my work, I would always continue to speak to the Lord as though He were right with me, offering Him my services and thanking Him for His assistance. The Charles Spurgeon Sermon Collection is home to over 3,000 sermons written by C.H. Away with fear and melancholy. We don’t want to make decisions that don’t honor your presence. Get Pray the Word daily by subscribing here. God's presence gives rest to our intellect. But to know God, to love God, to be loved by God, to delight in God's perpetual presence — this is rest. It tends to give rest from the terror incident to a state of condemnation. 3. Seek out those who have lost His company, and go and cheer them. 1. Note that last clause, "whom Thou wilt send with me." Indeed, he was absent for only one other period of forty days till the time of his death, some thirty-eight years afterwards (Exodus 34:28). 16 For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? It gives rest from the disquietude which results from want of human sympathy. The second “you” (“I will give yourest”) is singular, however. Communion with God. He is the founder and chairman of Radical. THE CIRCUMSTANCES BY WHICH THIS ASSURANCE WAS CALLED FORTH. 4. David Platt serves as pastor at McLean Bible Church in Washington, D.C. (a) The Character Of Companionship - My presence shall go with thee, (b) The Certainty Of Companionship - My presence shall go with thee So that this is a revocation of the sentence pronounced Exodus 33:3. The background here in Exodus Chapter 33 is so important. God replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Upon hearing this, Moses emphatically stated, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here” (Exodus 33:15). Thus, the assurance of God’s presence and … This presence was —. Not inactivity. 14 And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”15 And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. 7. Thirdly, we must claim the gracious aid of the Holy Spirit to make real that presence, which is too subtle for the eye of man, unless it be specially enlightened. 3. Not merely Divine recognition and observation, but with them to do all for them they required. Nor is this all. Your ascension to heaven and you’re sending the spirit. God's presence is rest to our judgment. Is the same true of us? THE DIVINE ASSURANCE WHICH WAS TO MOSES, AND SHOULD BE TO US, AN ALL-SUFFICIENT WARRANT TO LEAVE THE WORLD AND THE PLEASURES OF SIN AND COMMIT OURSELVES TO THE DESERT UNDER GOD'S GUIDANCE, AS THE PATH TO THE HEAVENLY REST. The rest of triumph after the conflicts of life. Supposing that I should be like a sledge abandoned in Arctic snows, or a ship abandoned by its crew in mid-ocean. Exodus 32 Exodus 34 Exodus 33:14 New International Version (NIV) 14 The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” New International Version (NIV) It is to that state of mind that the assurance of the text is given. 5. Supposing He should be compelled to leave me to myself, to withdraw His tender mercies, to shut up His compassions. Nothing can eradicate man's conviction that strife and discord have no right in the universe; that they are abnormal; that the normal condition of things and beings is harmony, and that harmony is the music of rest. He drank the cup of loneliness to its dregs. (ver. Jesus was the most lonely man that ever lived. Let me improve this subject, by inquiring whether this Church now enjoys the peculiar presence of God, as it once appeared to do? The discourse of the naturalist on his experiments, of the scholar on his books, of the mathematician who is talking with raptures on the beauties of a theorem, will bring things into the presence of initiated listeners, which are still remote from the minds of those in the very same company who have no sympathy with the theme. 13). In Jesus name I pray. It was no longer necessary for him to climb to the mountain summit, entrusted with errands on behalf of the people, or eager for advice in difficult problems. God, we don’t want to do anything in the flesh. There are moments of holy intercourse with God, rapturous, golden moments, in the lives of all His servants; when next they visit us, and we would make the most of their brief, bright, rapturous glow, let us plead, not only for ourselves, but for others, asking for them an equal blessedness. 14 And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” 15 Then he [Moses] said to Him [God], “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. 1. God has you on his heart at this very moment. Practicing the Presence. Consider too that this nation is your people.” God said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you … Sermon Notes for Exodus 33:14-15 ← Prior Section Sermon Notes for Exodus 34:5-8 Next Section → So Abraham for Sodom (Genesis 18:23-33). It gives rest from the uncertainties suggested by unbelief and doubt. It gives rest from the anguish which springs from a discordant nature. 16). And, above all, we must remember that for us, at least, that presence is localized in the man Christ Jesus. The mind of man turns sick before the trifles and frivolities with which men, for the most part, seek to satisfy its insatiable appetite, and craves eternal truth, and this alone can be found in God. In proportion as He thus withdraws from His people, they cease to view Him as a present reality; they cease to have those views, and to exercise those affections, which constitute the grand essential difference between them and other men. No, he wants a sign. Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.” ” (Exodus 33:1–23, ESV) From a careful study of the passage it would seem that a change was proposed by their Almighty Friend. Our prayer is that this sermon opens the door for the Lord to do incredible things in your life! 3. Real worship in the wilderness. 1. They are not the same to us without it as with it. God is the Sun of the soul. Will God go up with them or not? 6. 3. The longing of man's spirit amid all these strifes, discords, and confusions, is for rest. Worshiped other God’s instead of me, but I will not go with you Moses, and with them into the promise land, so you can have it. "If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence" (ver. II. As holy affections decline, sinful affections revive. Continued. HERE ARE TWO WAYS ON WHICH THE CHOICE IS TO BE EXERCISED — TWO PATHS, WHICH VERY PLAINLY DIVERGE. Is it not that Thou goest with us, so that we be separated, I and Thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth." 12, 13). God replied to Moses' prayer - his request for a sign by saying, \"My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest\" (Ex. 1. 16 For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people, unless you go … Moses met with God at the Tent of Meeting, a tent set up for anyone wishing to inquire of the Lord, and begged Him to go with them. 4. 5. Firstly, we must walk in the light, as He is in the light, for He will have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, or turn aside to go with us on any crooked path of our own choosing. And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. "He shall give you another Comforter that He may abide with you for ever." We cannot rest tossed to and fro like this, but when we can look from the mist to the face of our Guide, who goes with us, such wisdom and kindness mingle there that we are at rest. And at the end of my work, I used to examine it carefully. Moses: “See, you have said to me, ‘Bring up this people’; but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. For in the utterance of ver. That well-doing brings exhaustion and despondency and so specially needs God's aid is a fact which we sometimes forget. This regal faculty is constantly being called into play to select out of one or two paths which offer themselves that which we should follow. 13). There is in each of us a fund of natural energy, determined largely by health or temperament, or favourable circumstances. "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." March 22, 2020 - "My Presence Will Go With You" Pastor Tyler Hallenbeck preaches on Exodus 33:1-6, 12-23 as part of the sermon series “Exodus: The God Who Saves” 17:56 1. NLT The LORD replied, “I will personally go with you, Moses, and I will give you rest—everything will be fine for you.” To understand what this means, we need to look at the phrase "My Presence" and at the word "rest." Yet you have said, `I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’ Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your ways, so that I may know you and find favor in your sight. “God, we don’t want to do anything alone today. There was, first, the Divine presence; and there was, secondly, the premised rest; not the rest of Canaan, for this Moses never saw, but a deeper and more blessed inheritance, which may be the portion of all faithful souls. The earnestness of his entreaty secures for him a confirmation of the promise, this time given without reserve. Still further difficulties had lately arisen in connection with the people's transgression. These people can’t go forward without you. His face indicates His Presence. The will of the self-life, which chafes like an unquiet sea, can only come to rest in the will of God, compelled by the powerful attraction of His near presence, just as we might conceive of a body passing from the earth to the sun, increasingly losing the attraction of the planet as it feels the pull of the mighty orb of day. Visible. It was as if he said, Wilt Thou Thyself be my Comrade and Companion, my Referee in difficulty, my Adviser in perplexity, my Friend in solitude? Cf. 16, 17). He promised to accompany them, to be with them. III. That’s when we come to Exodus 33:14 and God says to Moses, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” In the aftermath of that pronouncement, Moses prays that the power of God’s presence will be evident to all the people’s in the promise land as he goes with them. WHAT ARE THE DEMANDS OF THIS PRESENCE ? What, underneath this form of expression, the heart of Moses really presses for, is, of course, the assurance that God will go with them. I. But there still remaineth a rest for them beyond the confines of the grave, in the participation of that felicity which is at the right hand of the Most High. Nought else can be compared with it (Psalm 73:25, 26). A land promised to their fathers; a land of freedom and rest, of plenty and happiness. In this respect also he was successful. II. Hitherto He had gone in the midst of them. Jesus we praise you for making that possible through your death on the cross. It is the blessing which enriches all other blessings. Each answer to its claims makes it claim more. You cannot outlive God’s mercy. We don’t want to make decisions on our own. The very contrast between his lofty enjoyment of Divine communion and the people, always set on sensual pleasure, must have lent intensity to the isolation of his spirit, which reared itself amid their sensual longings, as the peak of Susafeh above the lower ranges of Sinai. Now we are elate with building castles of light, and again we are immured in dungeons of foreboding. Whether this “you” is singular or plural thus cannot be determined. THE PRESENCE. So Christ for his disciples (John 17.). God's presence is the highest blessing. 4. 2. II. THE BLESSEDNESS WHICH THIS ASSURANCE GUARANTEED. My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. Exodus 33:14 The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (NIV ®) But Moses isn’t satisfied with God’s answer. And he said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Click here to view the full sermon for October 18, 2020 entitle, Presence. When He favours it with His presence and exerts upon it His influence, it is enlivened and enlightened, and made to glow with love, and hope, and joy, and gratitude. 12). But now it seemed likely some sensible diminution of the evidence of the Divine presence and favour was about to take place; and the fear of this stirred the soul of the great leader to its depths. It restrains from evil and inspires to good works. Perhaps more lonely in the midst of the two millions of people whom he was leading as a flock than he had been amid the solitudes of the desert tending the flock of Jethro. They had many trials and enemies. III. III. Of course the conscious presence of God with us is only possible on three conditions. 1. 33:14). III. And, therefore, Moses not only took the assurance of the Divine presence for himself, but asked that it be extended to include the people. 3. In response to the sin of God’s people in Exodus Chapter 32, God says in Exodus Chapter 33, “Okay, I’ve relented from destroying these people who have disobeyed me. Exodus 33:13–15 (NKJV) 2. II. - J.O. Amen. What is bread, what is wine, and what is the table, if the King Himself be not there? Thine angels are strong and fair and good, but none of them will suffice me, nothing short of Thyself. Aware of Your love, truths and promises. I don’t want to be living in his presence. And the LORD answered, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.".