IF YOU DON’T GO (1): YOUR PRESENCE

IF YOU DON’T GO: YOUR PRESENCE

Pastor Blake Hanson | 4.19.26 | Exodus 33

Exodus 33:15–16 (NLT)

15 Then Moses said,“If you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place.

16 How will anyone know that you look favorably on me—on me and on your people—if you don’t go with us? For your presence among us sets your people and me apart from all other people on the earth.”

THE GREATEST BLESSING IN YOUR LIFE IS NOT WHAT GOD YOU BUT THAT GOD IS YOU.

Exodus 33:1–3 (NLT)

1 The Lord said to Moses,“Get going, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt. Go up to the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I told them, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.’

2 And I will send an angel before you to drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites,Hivites, and Jebusites.

3 Go up to this land that flows with milk and honey. But I will not travel among you, for you are a stubborn and rebellious people. If I did, I would surely destroy you along the way.”

WE ARE IN DANGER WHEN WE WANT GOD’S MORE THAN GOD’S PRESENCE.

Psalm 106:13–15 (NLT)

13 Yet how quickly they forgot what he had done! They wouldn’t wait for his counsel!

14 In the wilderness their desires ran wild, testing God’s patience in that dry wasteland.

15 So he gave them what they asked for, but he sent a plague along with it.

GOD’S PRESENCE IS FOUND AMONGST THE .

Exodus 33:4–6 (NLT)

4 When the people heard these stern words, they went into mourning and stopped wearing their jewelry and fine clothes.

5 For the Lord had told Moses to tell them, “You are a stubborn and rebellious people. If I were to travel with you for even a moment, I would destroy you. Remove your jewelry and fine clothes while I decide what to do with you.”

6 So from the time they left Mount Sinai, the Israelites wore no more jewelry or fine clothes.

Understanding Humility

1.  Humility moves God, not away from Him.

Isaiah 66:2 (NLT)

2 My hands have made both heaven and earth; they and everything in them are mine. I, the Lord, have spoken! “I will bless those who have humble and contrite hearts, who tremble at my word.

Exodus 33:7 (NLT)

7It was Moses’ practice to take the Tent of Meeting and set it up some distance from the camp. Everyone who wanted to make a request of the Lord would go to the Tent of Meeting outside the camp.

2.  Humility makes room for .

Exodus 33:8 (NLT)

8Whenever Moses went out to the Tent of Meeting, all the people would get up and stand in the entrances of their own tents. They would all watch Moses until he disappeared inside. 

3.  Humility is .

Exodus 33:5 (NLT)

5For the Lord had told Moses to tell them, “You are a stubborn and rebellious people. If I were to travel with you for even a moment, I would destroy you. Remove your jewelry and fine clothes while I decide what to do with you.”

Exodus 33:9–10 (NLT)

9 As he went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and hover at its entrance while the Lord spoke with Moses.

10 When the people saw the cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, they would stand and bow down in front of their own tents.

CONFIDENCE FOR THE FUTURE GROWS FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN THE .

Exodus 33:11 (NLT)

11 Inside the Tent of Meeting, the Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Afterward Moses would return to the camp, but the young man who assisted him, Joshua son of Nun, would remain behind in the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 27:18–19 (NLT)

18 The Lord replied, him. lead the people. “Take Joshua son of Nun, who has the Spirit in him, and lay your hands on him. 

19 Present him to Eleazar the priest before the whole community, and publicly commission him to lead the people. 

Numbers 27:22–23 (NLT)

22 So Moses did as the Lord commanded. He presented Joshua to Eleazar the priest and the whole community.

23 Moses laid his hands on him and commissioned him to lead the people, just as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

Joshua 1:6–7 (NLT)

6 “Be strong and courageous, for you are the one who will lead these people to possess all the land I swore to their ancestors I would give them.

7 Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything you do.

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