"Next Level Intimacy" Exodus 32:12-17

Episode 52

 

Title: Next level Intimacy with God

Text: Exodus 33:12-17; Philippians 3:10

Theme: God’s Presence

 

Introduction:

• Who: Moses & Israel
• What: The promise that God would go with them
• Where: From Egypt (Bondage) to the promised land (Rest)
• When: 1446 BC (the Twelve Spies is 1445 BC in Numbers 12)
• Why: To have intimacy with God
• How:

1. Power of God: God’s power was revealed in the deliverance of Bondage
2. Promise of God: God promised He would deliver them from Bondage to Rest
3. Presence of God: Moses wants more, let’s read…

Exodus 33:12-17

12 And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.17 And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

You commanded me to do something and I did it. You tell me you know me personally and that I Have found favor but I want to know your ways. Do you promise to go with me? If you don’t, then don’t send us.

Questions:

1. Can you relate to Moses? 
2. Why do you think some people are content with God knowing them but they only have a limited knowledge of Him?

Outline:

Philippians 3:10 “ That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;”

1. Trust
2. Acceptance
3. Support

 

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