Why the Law Was Given

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Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, Desiring God, John Piper, Preaching, Christianity, Messages, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 November 1981

⏱️ 34 minutes

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John Piper | The law is a description of the obedience of faith; it is not a job description for how to earn the wages of God's blessings.

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0:00.0	Our text this morning is found in Exodus chapter 34 verses 1 through 10. The Lord said to
0:09.5	Moses cut two tables of stone like the first and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke.
0:19.0	Be ready in the morning and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.
0:27.0	No man shall come up with you and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain.
0:32.0	Let no flocks or herds feed before that mountain.
0:37.3	So Moses cut two tables of stone like the first, and he rose early in the morning and went up
0:42.3	on Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him and took in his hand two tables of stone and the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
0:56.8	The Lord passed before him and proclaimed,
0:59.8	The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
1:09.0	keeping steadfast love for thousands, for giving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by
1:16.6	no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
1:22.0	and the children's children to the third and fourth generation.
1:27.3	And Moses made haste to bow his head toward the earth and worshipped.
1:32.4	And he said, if now I have found favor in thy side oh lord let the Lord I pray
1:38.0	thee go in the midst of us although it is a stiff-neck people and pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us for
1:46.6	thy inheritance and he said behold I make a covenant Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been
1:57.0	wrought in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord.
2:04.8	For it is a terrible thing that I will do with you.
2:08.8	One of my deep desires for our churches that we become a people who understands the law of God and fulfills it in a spirit of love.
2:28.7	The law that God gave through Moses at Mount Sinai about three months after the departure from Egypt
2:39.2	has been the victim of some very bad press over the past several hundred years. And my guess is that
2:47.7	a good deal of confusion exists in our mind when we read in the New Testament on the one hand,
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