Rest In God’s Holy Name (Second and Third Commandments) - Exodus 34:1-5

Hello! Our midweek devotions are focusing on Scripture lessons that explain and expand on the Ten Commandments. Today we're looking at Commandments 2 and 3 and their explanations in Luther’s Small Catechism, recited in the first part of the recording.

This sermon was based on Exodus 34:1-7-

The New Stone Tablets

34 The Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2 Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. 3 No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain.”

4 So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the Lord had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands. 5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, 7 maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”

The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ex 34:1–7.