Immanuel Lutheran High School, College, and Seminary
Eau Claire, WI

2016-11-07 ILC Chapel — The glory of God’s law…

2016 Chapels -
The glory of God’s law exposes our sins, but the glory of His gospel shows Christ’s payment for those sins.

 

Date : 2016-11-07
Speaker : Grant Naumann

Exodus 34:29–35 (Listen)

The Shining Face of Moses

29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.1 30 Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. 32 Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that the LORD had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

34 Whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, 35 the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Footnotes

[1] 34:29 Hebrew him

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2 Corinthians 3:5 (Listen)

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,

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2 Corinthians 3:7–9 (Listen)

Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.

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Hymn: TLH 292, st. 1,7,9 :
Lord Jesus Christ, With Us Abide

Hymnary.org — Organ Audio

1. Lord Jesus Christ, with us abide,
For round us falls the eventide;
Nor let Thy Word, that heavenly light,
For us be ever veiled in night.

7. And since the cause and glory, Lord,
Are Thine, not ours, to us afford
Thy help and strength and constancy.
With all our heart we trust in Thee.

9. Oh, grant that in Thy holy Word
We here may live and die, dear Lord;
And when our journey endeth here,
Receive us into glory there.