The handwriting of God
Key Passage: Exodus 32
Date: June 7, 2024
Exodus chapter 32. Exodus chapter 32.
Remember that before that they got a little impatient. Moses was up there 40 days, 40 nights, at least. And they just, just up, errant, and made us gods and all that. And now God was telling Moses about it. And the Bible says His wrath waxed hot. The Lord wasn’t happy about it and said, “Tell you what, Moses, let’s just—we haven’t even given them the Ten Commandments, and we’re already breaking them. Let’s just start over. I’ll make you another nation.”
That would have been Moses’ opportunity if he was all about himself. Moses said, “No, Lord, please, You can’t do that to Your people. What about Your reputation, Your testimony, and all those things?” Wonderful, wonderful example of intercessory prayer. I hope you pray for other people. None of us are perfect about it, but I hope you pray for your neighbors, your coworkers, whoever may be, your children and grandchildren, and God hears those prayers.
And now tonight we are getting to where they are going down. Moses is going down, him and Joshua. Joshua seemed like he had been up on the mount, he had been up in the mount somewhat with him, but it seemed like God called Moses a little bit farther up. He is coming now; Joshua is with him, but they are coming back down to the camp. That is where we are picking it up tonight, when they are getting back down to the camp.
Anyone been stuck in traffic here lately?
Good deal. Christmas traffic has been wonderful, hasn’t it? Good deal, good deal. How many has made Christmas cookies already? Anybody? Good, good. Has anybody eaten Christmas cookies already? Wow, a lot more eating them than made them, that’s for sure, you know. Anybody ate more than they should already on Christmas cookies? Yeah, good deal. Amen. Amen, that’s great. Good, good, good. Have you bought a Christmas gift yet?
That’s a vast majority. Thought about buying a Christmas gift. All right, we got some of those. Good, good deal. Good deal. Amen. Amen.
We are going to read a couple verses. Then we are just going to pray. We will go back verse by verse through these verses. So we are starting in verse number 15. Exodus 32. We are in verse number 15.
“And Moses turned and went down from the Mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand, and the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was written of God, graven upon the tables.”
“And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, ‘There is a noise of war in the camp.’”
“And he said, ‘It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that sing do I hear.’”
“And it came to pass as soon as he came nigh to the camp that he saw the calf and the dancing.”
And Moses’ anger waxed hot. Isn’t it interesting? Last week, the Lord’s wrath waxed hot. He knew what was going on. Moses didn’t see it. Now Moses is seeing it, and his wrath is waxing hot. And he cast the tables out of his hands and broke them beneath the mount. And he took the calf, which they had made, and burned it in the fire. I am not sure if he melted it or not, but he burned it into fire and ground it to powder and sprinkled it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Would you pray with me that the Lord would speak to hearts? And maybe something new or just encourage you to do something or maybe strengthen or kind of confirm our stand in some things through the Scripture tonight.
Father, we do come to You. Lord, You know how busy these people are better than I do, Lord. And, Father, they have taken time out to be in Your house on a Wednesday night. So, Lord, would You give them something? Father, first of all, just give them joy for being in Your house. Lord, give them a hunger for Your word. Father, help us to divide and kind of dissect these verses. Would You bring truths out and write them upon the table of the hearts of these people, Father? And Lord, we will praise You, brag on You for what You do. Father, we ask for these things in the name of Jesus. We pray, amen.
We are going back to verse number 15. We are just kind of going verse by verse very quickly here tonight. Look in verse number 15 right there. We will read it again. “And Moses turned and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand. The tables were written on both their sides, on the one side, and on the other were they written.”
Look over in Deuteronomy. Keep your finger there. Look over in Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy is a lot of just remembering and kind of reminiscing what had happened in Moses’ life. He is reminiscing here, retelling this story a little bit, in Deuteronomy 9, verse number 15. Just a thought—this is not really a spiritual point. I thought I would just kind of mention it. I would not be dogmatic about it. If you want to argue about it, meet out back; you can argue all day long about it. I will go get some food while you are arguing, you know.
But just a thought. Look over in Deuteronomy 9. Look at Deuteronomy 9, verse number 15. “So I turned and came down from the mount, and the Mount burned with fire, and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.” That could be either way. How many of you have seen Charlton Heston, you know, The Ten Commandments, you know? That is a lot of how we get our mindset, but a lot of times we think it is just one tablet, kind of with a line in the middle type thing, and, you know, I tend to think it was two different tablets. I would not argue over it. Deuteronomy says in both hands, and Exodus says in one hand. But it does say it is in both hands there. And that could be holding both up together. But it does, to me, seem like it would be written on two. It does often call it two tables of stone. And so just a thought for you there, just a vision, not a spiritual application. You will still go to heaven if you think it is on one table.
You know, just a thought here as we are covered. I thought we would just kind of mention it. We are back up here next to Exodus 32. All right. Let’s keep going. We are just sharing a thought there. You have studied it out later on.
Verse number 16 right there. “And the tables”—that is interesting—“were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God.” I mentioned this several times here recently, but just the writing of God graven upon the tables. Look at chapter 31, chapter 31, and verse number 18. Just a chapter over, chapter 31, 18.
“And He gave unto Moses, when He had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, to Moses two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.” And it is just the handwriting of God. I would like to see His handwriting.
I always mention Ms. Steele. She was a teacher, a little bit of Christian school, about 20 students in the old school. And she told me, when I was six, seventh grade, she said, “You make a good preacher one.” I never dreamed about that. And God used her in my life greatly. But she was the one, man, she was always on me about my handwriting. And I still could have somebody on me big time about my handwriting. It did not work. She tried real hard; not her fault, just her student, you know, but my handwriting.
But can you imagine the handwriting of God? That is just amazing. And it is amazing how the Bible really just mentions the finger of God. It is interesting in tables of stone—I mean, the flint sometimes is just so hard of rock that it breaks. So I would think it would be very, very hard rock, like a flint or something that would break fairly easy. Typically, the harder it is, the easier it breaks. But the finger of God, on the hardest objects we have, just the finger of God could write on that. I would love to see the handwriting. Maybe we get to see Him when we get to heaven, you know.
I am not sure exactly what language. I take it it was the language of the Jewish people at that time, maybe Hebrew. Maybe some of them did not read and write Hebrew. Maybe some Egyptian, that we do not know, because they came out; they have been in Egypt for 430 years. So I am not sure. Probably Hebrew. But just imagine the finger of God and the handwriting of that. And so powerful is His finger that He gets right in the hardest of rock. It is pretty amazing.
Now, you say, preacher, you know, we do not have things like that in our day and time. Well, we do in a lot of ways. Not exactly the same, but if you look over in 2 Corinthians chapter number three, God still writes in stone, not the stone like that, but I want you to see what is going on here. And I think it is really a comparison or parallel, if you will, Scripture. Second Corinthians chapter 3. And look in verse number 3. This is, of course, God speaking through Paul to the Corinthian Church. And I want you to see what He says. Second Corinthians 3:3. Once you are there, would you say amen?
Good deal. Second Corinthians 3:3: “Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ, ministered by us; written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God.” He still writes. Not in tables of stone like He did in the Old Testament when He gave the law, but now the Spirit of God—that is God, nonetheless, the finger of God. He does not write, the Holy Spirit does not write in stone, but the Spirit of God, via the Holy Spirit, it writes in the tables of the heart.
There is a lot there. One Sunday morning years ago, I think we preached a whole message on it, but just a couple of thoughts on it. Number one, it is so important what is going on in the heart. You know, the Bible is for more than just—someone said it is not just for your information; it is for your transformation. There are a lot of people that have a lot of Bible knowledge and facts, maybe more than us or anybody here, but they are not living it at all. And it is in their head, but it is not their heart. That is why it is very important when we are ministering and try to work on people. Yes, knowledge is important, but 10,000 times more important than that is something getting into the heart. A whole lot of professors have a whole lot of knowledge and are about as liberal and as heathen as can be. Amen. The heart is the key. The heart.
And He says there again, oh, God does not write on the tables of stone anymore, but the Holy Spirit of God is still writing, not with ink, but with the finger of God, via the Holy Spirit, in hearts. Here is another thought: You know, every heart is getting written on some way, somehow—sometimes by sin, sometimes by their world, sometimes by their self, sometimes by the people that are around them. And it is a very sad thing, or they are getting written by the Holy Spirit.
And here is another thought in this saying: If God is going to use us to speak to hearts and God is going to do a work in a heart, it is not going to be by our ability; it is going to be by the Spirit of God. If something really deep down inside their heart is going to be written on where God is doing something there, it is not going to be my great preaching or intellect or all the rest of that or my knowledge, my little angle on it. It is going to be the Spirit of God.
What does the Bible say? He told about temples over there in Zechariah. He said, “Not by might, nor by power, but what?” By the Spirit. Yeah, the Spirit of the living God. And souls are going to be written on life in their heart by God’s Spirit. That is so key. But God is still writing on hearts, and His finger of God is still writing today. He is using people, but the Holy Spirit flows through people. And our body is this temple. He wants to flow through someone.
By the way, it is so very, very important that we are filled. Preacher, I am going to meet with family at Christmas holiday. They are going to be around then. And I like to make an influence on the line: Be filled with the Spirit. That is the key. Because it is not going to be me that gets the job done. You say they are the hardest, stony hearts? Yeah, but God’s finger can write on real stony hearts, just like in the Old Testament. He wrote on the hard rock. The Spirit of God does that. He is the one that is still writing on stones even today.
Let us keep going. We are in verse number 17. Let us just keep going. We are just going verse by verse. Verse number 17: “And when Joshua”—they are coming down the mountain, Joshua and Moses now—“and when Joshua heard, what’s this? The noise. Wow. The noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, ‘There is a noise of war in the camp.’”
“And he said, ‘It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that shout, them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that sing do I hear.’”
This phrase is interesting. Just think about how the Bible describes this music. They are coming down off the mountain in the camp of Israel; there is some music going on, some singing, music, all that. Notice the description of what you just—we have already kind of hit it a little bit—but just first of all, he calls it noise. That is pretty interesting. And he does not say, “Boy, I hear some beautiful music.” He says, “That is noise down there.” You know, my dad would call that, “That is racket down there, boy. There is a bunch of racket going on down there.” First thing.
Then the second thing he describes this music by is shouting. They are just shouting or yelling down there. Now, the Bible does occasionally mention singing with volume a couple times. Let me read for you the one time in particular that I am mentioning. Psalm 33:3: “Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud voice.” Now, they say loud voice, but notice before He kind of clarified: skillfully with a loud voice. Well, the first thing He says is noise, and it says it is shouting.
Then the third thing He says about this music: He says it is the noise of war. It was warlike sounds coming. It was not melodious, if you will; it was not enjoyable to hear, if you will. Well, maybe not probably, because everybody has their own appetite. You create appetite, you know, by what you listen to. But he says it is noise of war. It is not like there is a war going on down there.
And another thing about it: You could not tell what they were saying. Notice what he said there in that verse number 18. Notice, notice, you really could not make out. And he said it is not the voice of them that shout for mastery. They did not just win a battle and they are saying, “Boy, they won the battle.” God is living there, like the song of Moses we have already read over there after the Red Sea. And he said, “But it is not that.”
And he said, “It is not the voice of them that shout for being overcome.” I said, “I cannot make this thing out. Hard to understand.” It is not like they just got beaten in battle and they are crying. I just cannot really tell. It is hard to make out, you know, is this a noise of war, whether or not shouting for mastery or not shouting for the delusion of the battle? Kind of just hard to make out what is going on. You understand what is going on here?
Then that last little phrase, we mentioned it, but it is an interesting little phrase: “the noise of them that sing.” And that is interesting. You would think, you know, someone is singing is good, but he said, “the noise of them that sing.” Now, we have not read it; we read it earlier, you know, before we prayed, but actually this music was used in the worshipping of false gods—a golden calf, which they probably got from Egypt, you know, very demonic. So you have demonic music going on, the worshipping of false or demon gods. And in all this noise, it sounds like the music of war. And you really cannot—it is hard to make out what they are saying, whether there is war, they won or they lost, what is going on here? And the noise of them that sing.
You say, does that go on in our day and time? Yeah, it is called rock and roll music, hip-hop, pop, a lot of different names. They are the same music going on in our day and time. Same thing. Very demonic. Come on now. Same thing. Same thing going on in our day and time. Is this music where they are coming down and they are just worshipping this false God and they are just having a sinful party, if you will, and they are listening to wicked, sinful music? Same thing goes on in 2023.
And, God, it is never good when God’s people listen to the devil’s music, friend. Never a good thing. That is exactly what is going on right here. Friend, you and I, we ought to have music that is distinctively Christian. I like that terminology, distinctively Christian. Psalm 96:1 says, “O sing unto the Lord a new song.” I get saved; my song ought to change, amen. “Sing unto the Lord all the earth.” Hey, praise the Lord! When they get saved, I am living for the Lord Jesus Christ, I ought to leave behind the world’s music. And I have a new song. It does not sound like a bunch of noise or noise of war. It is hard to tell what they are singing or saying over there, and it is just a bunch of noise of people. You ought not to have that kind of music, amen. We ought to have a new song in our ears and our hearts and our minds. Amen.
You are quiet over here. Y’all on board over here? Do we need to go check your CDs and all the rest? Well, people do not use CDs anymore, do they, you know? We went to get some Christmas music for our Sunday school class, and I was shocked. They do not—you know, they do not. Everybody has Spotify and everything else, you know. And, uh, well, I have music there, amen. Amen. We are quiet over here. Y’all quiet over here? Here we go. Here we go. Let us help out here. Come on over here. Amen, preacher. That is good preaching. Amen. Come on now. You have to do it sometimes yourself, you know. What are you going to do?
Hey, isn’t it a shame? You have been to a restaurant or somewhere, and there is music playing, and it is kind of noise, and they are yelling, and it is hard to make out what they are saying, and the noise of them singing, and then all of a sudden you think, “Wow, that is Christian music.” Anybody ever been there? What a shame, friend. Hey, we ought to have a new song. Amen? It ought to be distinctively Christian. It ought to sound different.
You say, “Well, the words are good.” I understand, but now we are taking the world’s music and putting God’s words to it, and friend, that is kind of like saying Christian beer. Do not go together. Come on now. By the way, you know, years ago, Central Florida, they had a Christian nightclub. Yeah. Same thing, just different music. No, it ought to be different.
Well, music is just amoral. Well, you know, somebody would say, “Well, you know, the alphabet is immoral. There is not a right or wrong.” Well, I understand what you are saying, but you can take the alphabet and arrange it where it spells curse words, and there is something wrong with that. Understand. It all important. It all matters.
No, we do not want to mix the world’s music, the devil’s music, with Christian words. We do not want that. We want something distinctively Christian. Everybody knows—if you had your windows down in the car, everybody knows. You just, you ride by it, boom, real quick: That is Christian music. By what? We do not want music where they are like, “Are they singing to the Lord? Is that a boyfriend and girlfriend singing to each other?” You understand what I mean? I want distinctively Christian. Everybody knows this is Christian stuff going on. I like it. Somebody walking down to church. You ought to know, whether it is just prelude or whatever, “Hey, it is a Christian.” They are playing Christian music there. I will be like that. Everybody knows that.
By the way, here is a sad thing: So many times, so many times, if someone does not grow past CCM music, Christian Contemporary Christian music, and they just stay there over the years and years, so often they will either go back to the old music or they will do both: Contemporary Christian music and secular music. But they just have a hard time unless they just kind of cut it all off and grow to the next level. Y’all with me out there?
It is amazing how God describes you here. Let us keep going. Let us keep going. Look in verse number 19. We talked for just a bit about Moses coming down and he had those tables of stone, God’s writing right on stone. Then we are talking about the music they heard when they got down. And now look at this, verse number 19, verse number 19 right here: “And it came to pass as soon as he came nigh to the camp that he saw the calf and the dancing.” By the way, I forgot to mention that; it was music, you know, dancing to it.
“And Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands and broke them beneath the mount.” Here is the thing: Moses had been at least 40 days and 40 nights; he had been walking with God. And, by the way, if you spend a lot of time with God, after a while, He begins to rub off on you. And you become godly, Christ-like. And when you get godly and Christ-like, you begin to love the things God loves, and you begin to hate the things God hates.
Now, isn’t it interesting? Last Wednesday night, we were talking about the Lord; His wrath waxed hot. Moses was up on the mount at least 40 days and 40 nights, and now Moses is doing the same thing. And friend, if I walk with God, I ought not have just a love affair with the world. You know, it is proper for a Christian not to hate the people in the world, but I have a hatred towards the sin.
Look over in Psalm 15. This is a great Psalm. If you would like to be close to the Lord and walk with God and have His presence and know He is there with you and feel His presence from time to time, this is a wonderful, wonderful Psalm about that. And it tells you who is going to be close to the Lord in here in Psalm 15. Great Psalm, Psalm 15. And I want to notice one of the little bitty phrases as I read this thing here. And it describes who is going to be close to God. All right, Psalm 15.
Look at verse number one, would you please? You are there tonight, amen. Good deal, good deal. You are wonderful staying up and even staying awake. What about that? Amen for that, you know. Psalm 15, look at verse number one: “Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill?” Watch it. He describes who is going to abide. That is the tabernacle; that is where God’s presence is there in the tabernacle. You are going to dwell in His holy hill. You can walk with God, be close to Him. He goes through these series of things: “He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.” In whose eyes? Here is what also: In whose eyes a vile person is condemned.
You see, the guy that is going to walk close to God—I am not saying he hates people, no, not at all—but he is not going to make the sinful people out to be his hero, the vile person. No, not that he hates, but he is just contempt. It bothers him a little bit. Not that we look down our nose, and not that we think we are better than anybody; we are trying to love them to the Lord Jesus Christ, but what their lifestyle bothers us.
I thought about that, 1 John 2:15: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” It ought to bother us when we see all the sin of the world. It ought to just kind of rub us the wrong way. That is right. And a godly person has it. Here is what I fear: When I am not walking with God and I do not have God’s influence in my life, I will be attracted to the world. See? But if I am walking with God, I am close to God.
By the way, it is pretty tough. He had been up here; He had such a wonderful meeting with God and been close to God. And it is tough when you have those times. I do not have them like I want to, like I ought to. But when you have those times, then you have got to come down and deal with the sin of the world. Pretty tough sometimes to change. That is what Moses is going through. He has had such a sacred time of God, walked with God, intercessory prayer. He had walked and talked with Him. And now he is leaving that, leaving up there on the mountain. He is coming down and dealing with the sin of the world. Sometimes that is tough to do.
And, you know, it is interesting. Moses took those tablets and just threw them down and they broke. You know, as far as I know, God never really punished Moses for that. Never chastised him for it. Maybe you can show it to me somewhere. Now, I am not saying it is everything God wanted. I do not know. But God did not chastise him for it.
By the way, maybe a little bit of it was Moses just angry. They have already broken the Ten Commandments. What is the first thing? First Ten Commandments: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Second: “Thou shalt not have any graven images.” They already broke the first of them. Maybe it was like Moses, “You already broke these commandments,” you know, and just—I do not know. But he did so much resemble the Lord up on the mount when the Lord waxed hot, and now Moses is waxing hot. And, you know, the Bible talks about righteous indignation, not that we think we are better, but sin ought to bother you.
And I fear sometimes we just want to be popular and kind of, you know, cool Christians, and we kind of just become just like the world if we are not careful. But if I get close to God, I will have contempt. I do not want all that. I do not want to follow that. I want to follow the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, let us keep going. We are hurling along tonight. Look in verse number 20, verse number 20 right here. Verse number 20: “And he took the calf, which they had made, and burned it in the fire.” I have already mentioned, I do not know if he melted it or not. I take it maybe he melted it down. We are not sure. I am not sure. “And ground it to powder and sprinkled it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink thereof.”
That is so interesting. Deuteronomy describes—we will not take time to read it—but describes a little bit more as a stream coming out of the mountain. That is where he put the water, and they would drink from that. They drank it. But a couple of thoughts about this thing here: Moses was making—he was burning the bridge so they could not go back and worship this calf. He is burning it, maybe melted it down, he is grinding it to powder, he is putting it in the water, they drank it. You cannot remake that golden calf. He is gone. He burnt the bridge. Well, if I am away next time, I am going to have that gold. They might get some more gold out of the earrings somewhere or whatnot. I do not know. I am not going to have that gold anymore. It is gone, you know.
Look, if you will, over in Romans 13. Romans 13, and verse number 14. Romans 13:14. I think, I feel like you are just a little tired. Is everybody tired tonight? I feel—I feel just a little tired. I think maybe the holidays got us all worn out, you know. I tell you what now: Pray the Lord, you are still in church, though, even though you are tired. Amen. I appreciate that. That is great.
Romans 13, great principle here in verse number 14. Romans 13:14: “But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.” Well, we do not want that. That gold is valuable. That is a whole lot of money there. Moses says, “I don’t care. We are not making any provision for the flesh.” You understand in our day’s economy, that was probably millions of men, maybe billion dollars, I do not know how much. That is a whole lot of money he just took and made them drink it.
And, boy, it is so good. I have told you about this, but I think about two different men over the years that at two different times they brought just trash—the big old—not the kitchen size, I do not know what those are, 30 gallon or whatever it is, but the big ones, the big, you know, 55 gallon, whatever it is—and trash bags full of sinful music and sinful movies. And they said, “Pastor, I do not know, just get rid of it.” One of them is in heaven; that man passed since then. The other one is in the ministry today. And I wonder if he had not have brought that in when he was just getting his life cleaned up right with the Lord. And he said, “Look, I do not want it anymore.”
By the way, I think at least one of them mentioned, “I thought about selling it because that is a lot of money in that bag.” And I thought, “Well, what about those people that are listening and watching it, you know?” And praise the Lord, he said, “I do not care. I am just going to get rid of it.” So me and Miss Tammy sold it on Facebook Marketplace that time. No, he did not do that. I thought about that.
Make no provision for the flesh. You know the best thing you can do when you go to a new job? Witness. First day of school, witness. First day of everything, witness. You know what? Because then everybody knows you are a Christian, and you have no provision for the flesh. You have to stand. It is a little bit hard to do, but it is the best thing you do because the pressure is on. Such a good thing. It is so very, very important.
I thought about a man I think two times over the years in a service—I do not know, Sunday morning, one of them I think was Sunday morning, maybe—said that I do not know, the other one I am not sure. I cannot remember. But one with cigarettes and the other was chewing tobacco, I believe it was. They said, “Pastor, I want to give this up today. I just—” and they said, “I do not want to hang on to it any longer, and I just want to get rid of it.” And I like it. They were trying to make no provision for the flesh, just trying to give it up.
I have told you about the one of them, the one that gave the cigarettes. I think it was out. You know, people coming by and shaking hands, and he said, “I want to get rid of these cigarettes.” And I just, you know, everybody’s around, so I just stuck it in my suit coat pocket real quick, just to get it out of there, out of sight, you know. And I did not forget; I forgot all about it. And went home later on that night, you know how you go home and you are emptying your pockets out, you know? And I never forgot. So Tammy said, “Tammy, you will never believe what is in here in our bedroom.” She said, “What?” “Cigarettes are in here,” you know. And that man was giving them up. And just burn the bridge so you cannot go back to the world. That is what Moses was doing.
Here is another thought. We are going to be done here. Here is another thought: Isn’t it amazing? Moses is up on the mount, and he is up there on the mount walking with God, and the million and a half, two million people out here, they have fallen to sin. They got Aaron to make this golden calf. They are out there dancing with this rock and roll music, music of war, and cannot make out what in the world they are saying. They are just shouting, yelling, all kind of crazy things, and just demonic. They are worshipping this false God, this demon God, all that is going on.
And Joshua was with Moses, but for the most part, just one man. Just one man that had been walking with God came down. And he did not follow the world. Unfortunately, Aaron did. But Moses—Moses was not a thermometer; he was a thermostat, you know. And Moses just—just feel of the power of God. The difference one person can make in millions of people’s lives, maybe two million people plus, and just one person. It makes you think about over in Ezekiel. He said, “I’m about to bring destruction, and I sought for a man among them to make up the hedge and stand before them before the people, that I should not destroy them.” Just one. I wonder what one person can make a difference in your school class, your workplace, your family, your relatives. Just one person.
By the way, what an example. Moses had been walking with God, and he came down, and—well, what a difference. I mean, from a bunch of, you know, demonic music and dancing and everything else going on to, “Wow,” the people, they got right. By the way, we will get into it later on. Just one person. I am afraid. I hope that is encouraging. Just one person.
A great, great preacher, L.R. Scarborough, years gone by, a great preacher. He said there was a college student, senior. He was a very intelligent man, and he said he had heard all my sermons on the deity of Christ, the inspiration of Scripture, the efficacy of the atoning blood. He said he had heard all of that. He said, but a few weeks ago his mom died. And, by the way, he heard all that, and he had logic and answers in his mind for all those things, but he said his mom’s life—just a mom that lived for the Lord, and though maybe, as one said, she did not have a whole lot, but he said, “I just cannot answer the argument and logic of her life.” And that young man said, “I want what she had.” And that young man got saved, and God worked in his life greatly.
And I say that just to say: one life. God likes to use your life. I do not know how and where and all, but God likes to use your life to make a difference. And just Moses, just walking with God, just following God’s plan—well, God used him so greatly to make a difference. And yes, he came down and took care of business, and we will read next Wednesday or the Father a little bit on later on. Oh, wow. These millions of people got right with God, just the power of one life.
Would you bow your heads and close your eyes tonight? Heads bowed, eyes closed. I do not know what God spoke to your heart about, if anything, but maybe music. Oh, friend, is your music right? It is either going to propel you to higher heights with the Lord Jesus Christ, or it is going to put a ceiling over you, your music. I beg you to get your music right. Are you walking with God? Moses is up on the mount; he is walking with God. Are you doing that? Friend, you just follow God’s plan for your life and how He can use you to make a difference.
The Holy Spirit, He is the one that writes in the hearts. Oh, Holy Spirit, I want to be in tune. I want to be filled. I want to be right with You. I want to walk in the Spirit. He is the one that writes in the hearts.
Maybe just tonight you need to come pray with somebody or for someone, I should say. Would you just spend some time with the Lord? I am going to ask, would you please stand? Would you please stand? We are going to have a word of prayer. And would you just be obedient as the Lord leads and guides? Would you do that? And you spend some time with the Lord.
Father, thank You for Moses, Lord, and the great example here. Lord, help us to learn from it. Father, help me to walk in the Spirit. And Lord, help us not to be just follow the crowd, but be a thermostat. And Lord, help them use it to be right. And bless these people tonight. Lord, please just meet with us in a special way in the next few minutes. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
Would you be obedient as the Lord leads you? Just maybe need to pray for someone. You do that. Have the Lord lead you as our instruments play. Would you just come just spend some time? Lord, would You do that as they play?
Let me just say a word about music. You know, sometimes as the Lord leads, I try to preach against the wrong kind of music, but boy, you need good music. And it is not like you turn all the music off; you replace it with good music. That is just key. Get some good music in there. And there are all kinds of methods and ways, you know, a way to get good music today with online. Just, just you can get it, and get some good music. Replace it with good music. You need good music. And it can really just propel you and just take you to a higher height for the Lord—good music. It is so important, so very, very important. Glad you are here on a Wednesday night. And, hey, Christmas is coming. And let us just, let us do our best. How about anybody out there? You have been like, man, but you kind of get so busy, it is hard to get in the Christmas spirit. Anybody kind of battling that this year?
Yeah, let us work at it. I am trying to work at it. I really am. And my wife has been good about this year. And just work it. I mean, you know, with all the lights out, go and set the living room with the Christmas tree lights on and just—thank you for coming. And go look at some Christmas lights or something. Get some good Christmas—just helping us get the Christmas spirit. It is awesome. I love the Christmas spirit. It is a wonderful one thing. Let us enjoy it, amen. Glad you are here tonight. Thank you for being faithful in the House of the Lord, and I appreciate you being here.
Original File: Pastor Paul Chisgar - The handwriting of God - Wednesday PM 12132023