What if you got a message written by God with His finger? S29e24 Dt9:6

How many days have you rebelled from God?  For the Israelites, it was 14,600 days in a row. For a good friend of mine, it was 26242.

God writes a message to mankind on two tablets with HIS VERY FINGER. It is one of the  first direct contacts with heaven.  Later Jesus comes down to make even more contact with our world.  So, no matter how many days it has been for you, please listen. Maybe it is time to stop rebelling and receive Him. 

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What if you got a message written by God with His finger? S29e24 Dt9:6

Moses is summarizing the 40 year “journey”

Dt is kind of the cliff notes of the first 4 books of the bible

On this journey—they really didn’t go anywhere, so it wasn’t a physical journey, it was a spiritual journey

         He recounts aspects of the character of the PEOPLE and 

                  The aspects of the character of GOD

Yesterday you are facing nations greater, people greater and tall

Lord is going before you as a consuming fire; recently with hornets…why?

Because you are more righteous? No. More upright of heart? No. shinier?

Because of the wickedness of them

That He might confirm the promise the Lord made.

         He is not a promise breaker. Because The Lord only speaks truth:

He cannot be a promise breaker

So we now pick up the story Dt 9:6

6 “Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people. 7 Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. 8 Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you. Not because of your righteousness

In fact, you have been a stubborn people. 

You have provoked the Lord to righteous, holy, and appropriate wrath

You have provoked the Lord to righteous, holy and appropriate Anger

Got so bad He was ready to destroy you.

For 40 years of days 14600 days you have been rebellious 

That is a lot of rebellion

9 When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lordmade with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10 And the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the Lord had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. 11 And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 12 Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.’ 

The rebellion continues with the story of the 10 commandments

Given to a people of a special covenant

Given in a place of special holiness—mt. of Sinai

Given to a leader, Moses, during a time of special sustainence no food/w 40 days—even during this special season

The rebellion continues, intensifies:acted corruptly,they have gone to ruin

         Turned aside quickly

         Made a metal image—golden calf—come back tomorrow      

What if there is a message to humans written with His very finger

         Ex 31:18 confirms that when God finished speaking with Moses on Mt. Sinai, He gave him two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God. 

         I love the detailstwo tablets written by God Himself—baby incarnation

         He takes the stone from our world, and The Finger from His, CONTACT

                  To write these words that tell us so much about Himself: He’s holy, He’s just, He invented the family, He cares what you do with your zipper, He cares what you do with your worship, He cares what you do with your time, He cares what you do with your desires

         He also reveals, in these prohibitions, our inclinations, our sinfulness and our desperate need of Him.

Or what if He contacts our world with MORE THAN a finger…ie in JESUS

How many days of rebellion have you had?

FOR SOME LISTENERS, it will be MORE THAN 14600 days 40 years. For a friend 26242 days of rebellion.

         He barely made it before he died. What a blessing. 

         How many days have you enjoyed the fruit of NON-rebellion.

         What we have before us from the Israelites is not far from us

         Perfectly understandable. Perfect examples

We can turn aside quickly.  We can mis-prioritize stuff and make idols:

         Anything more important than God

So today, let us yield better than the knuckleheads of the OT

         Careful: they are not the only knuckleheads this account reveals

         You may be one of them, we all have been there or are there.

         Either way you’ll soberly put your hand over your mouth

And appreciate this: it is not because of my shininess that the Lord called me but because of HIS shininess. He’s maker. He draws. He calls. He gives rights, FAMILY rights, to those even outside of His family. 

Let’s respond whether it is just with His FINGER, or His whole self in Jesus.