We look at our Father in faith

Posted : 23 Oct, 2011 05:25 AM

We must pray with faith. And if we lack faith, then we are to follow the example of the man who said to Jesus, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24). That prayer works. We don't need to have super faith, but we do need to have some faith�and we need to apply that faith in prayer and our daily life.



Faith sees what could be. Faith sees what God sees. Faith is the TRUST in what God tells us. Faith is a confidence in God. Faith is not just intellectual assent, it is action. It is a consent of the will to the assent of the understanding. Faith sees what could be, and thus, a believer sees invisible things. In fact, a believer sees invisible things. Do you remember how God walked with Israelites in the wilderness after their exodus from Egypt? He came to Moses to the

Tabernacle in the pillar of cloud to listen to him and answer to his prayers.

God had given food to Israelites for 40 years in the wilderness and He NEVER abandoned Israel there. Let�s read about it:



Exodus 33

The Command to Leave Sinai

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, �Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, �To your descendants I will give it.� 2 And I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. 3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.�

4 And when the people heard this bad news, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. 5 For the LORD had said to Moses, �Say to the children of Israel, �You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do to you.�� 6 So the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

Moses Meets with the LORD

7 Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the LORD went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp. 8 So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle. 9 And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses. 10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door. 11 So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.

The Promise of God�s Presence

12 Then Moses said to the LORD, �See, You say to me, �Bring up this people.� But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, �I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.� 13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.�

14 And He said, �My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.�

15 Then he said to Him, �If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. 16 For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.�

17 So the LORD said to Moses, �I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.�

18 And he said, �Please, show me Your glory.�

19 Then He said, �I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.� 20 But He said, �You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.� 21 And the LORD said, �Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. 22 So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. 23 Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.�



Exodus 34

Moses Makes New Tablets

1 And the LORD said to Moses, �Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke. 2 So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain. 3 And no man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.�

4 So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

5 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, �The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children�s children to the third and the fourth generation.�

8 So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. 9 Then he said, �If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.�

The Covenant Renewed

10 And He said: �Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD. For it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. 11 Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. 12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. 13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images 14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

17 �You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.

18 �The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.

19 �All that open the womb are Mine, and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or sheep. 20 But the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem.

�And none shall appear before Me empty-handed.

21 �Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

22 �And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year�s end.

23 �Three times in the year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the LORD God of Israel. 24 For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.

25 �You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.

26 �The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother�s milk.�

27 Then the LORD said to Moses, �Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.� 28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

The Shining Face of Moses

29 Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses� hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him. 30 So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them. 32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them as commandments all that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. 34 But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded. 35 And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses� face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.



Brothers, do you remember we have discussed it before that Moses talked to Angel �Messenger� Jesus in the tabernacle or in prototype of the Jewish Temple. Moses talked to Jesus face to face.

�So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.� Exodus 33:11

But when Moses wanted to see God the Father, he got such response:

� But He said, �You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.� Exodus 33:20

People could not see the Father and live.

Why?

You can see the Father only in His Kingdom.

He is holy and the Holy God can dwell only among the holy people. God the Father could kill by His presence all people who were sinners.

�Say to the children of Israel, �You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you.�

But Moses asked God to go with Israel to the Promised Land and help them to conquer this land called later as Israel. God said:

�My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.� Exodus 33:14



What is faith we all need to posses?

The Bible defines faith as "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1).



Brothers remember: "The just shall live by faith." (Galatians 3:11)

We need to be just, righteous holy and live by faith seeing the �unseen� what we need for our life. It doesn't say they will live by feeling. Nor does it say they will live by circumstances. The just will live by faith. And faith can make the difference between something happening and not happening. Faith can show us what we need to see and even our God. Then we will not kill and OBEY the God who always loved Israel and walked before Israel in the wilderness n the pillar of cloud and fire, saving Jewish people from their slavery.

This God gave to Moses a HOLY law:

�You shall not kill.�

The same God gave to descendants of Moses- Israelites- the Promised Land/Canaan which you call today as Israel and Palestine.

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