Moses asked to see God’s glory. The Lord proclaims His name to Moses and describes himself with mercy and grace listed first. We are born again by the direct action of the living Jesus who is the Logos, or Divine Expression who lives and dwells with us. When Jesus through the Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts he works to help us cleanse and purify ourselves unto righteousness.
We need to purify our lives and not be joined to those who follow the doctrines of men and not God. All those still in Adam follow after their own lusts but we seek to do the will of God that we may be in Christ.
The time is coming when death will be defeated. Death will be no more and God will dwell with us. We can now be free of the fear of death by faith in the promises of God.
Exo 33:18-23 KJV
(18) And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
(19) And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
(20) And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
(21) And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
(22) And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
(23) And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
Moses asked to see God’s glory.
Exo 34:5-7 KJV
(5) And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
(6) And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
(7) Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
The Lord proclaims His name to Moses and describes himself with mercy and grace listed first.
1Pe 1:17-25 RV
(17) And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:
(18) knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;
(19) but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, even the blood of Christ:
(20) who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake,
(21) who through him are believers in God, which raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
(22) Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:
(23) having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word [Logos] of God, which liveth and abideth.
(24) For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:
(25) But the word [rhema] of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word [rhema] of good tidings which was preached unto you.
Word; G3056
Logos; log’-os
From G3004; something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (that is, Christ): – account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say (-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.
Total KJV occurrences: 330
Word; G4487
rhēma; hray’-mah
From G4483; an utterance (individually, collectively or specifically); by implication a matter or topic (especially of narration, command or dispute); with a negative naught whatever: – + evil, + nothing, saying, word.
Total KJV occurrences: 70
Mal 3:1-6 RV
(1) Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in, behold, he cometh, saith the LORD of hosts.
(2) But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
(3) and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver; and they shall offer unto the LORD offerings in righteousness.
(4) Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.
(5) And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
(6) For I the LORD change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
2Co 6:14-18 RV
(14) Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
(15) And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?
(16) And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(17) Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
(18) And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
We need to purify our lives and not be joined to those who follow the doctrines of men and not God.
2Co 7:1 RV
- Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
1Jn 2:15-17 RV
(15) Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
(16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
(17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
1Co 15:53-58 RV
(53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
(54) But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
(55) O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?
(56) The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
(57) but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
(58) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
The time is coming when death will be defeated.
Isa 25:6-8 RV
(6) And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
(7) And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that is cast over all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
(8) He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Rev 21:3-4 RV
(3) And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God:
(4) and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.
Death will be no more and God will dwell with us.
Heb 2:14-15 RV
(14) Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
(15) and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
We can now be free of the fear of death by faith in the promises of God.
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