{"id":1761,"date":"2015-04-19T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2015-04-19T16:46:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T20:46:30","slug":"glorious-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=1761","title":{"rendered":"Glorious Contradiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Message by Eric Colson<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rec0419-113304.mp3\">rec0419-113304<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Exodus 33-34<\/b><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">God is Glorious<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"ind\"><span class=\"ind\"><strong>Exodus 33:12-23 (ESV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">12 <\/span><\/sup><span class=\"ind\">\u00a0Moses said to the LORD, \u201cSee, you say to me, \u201d\u02dcBring up this people,\u201d\u2122 but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, \u201d\u02dcI know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.\u201d\u2122<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">13 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.\u201d<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">14 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And he said, \u201cMy presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.\u201d<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">15 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And he said to him, \u201cIf your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">16 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?\u201d <span class=\"ind\"><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">17 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And the LORD said to Moses, \u201cThis very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.\u201d<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">18 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Moses said, \u201cPlease show me your glory.\u201d<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">19 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And he said, \u201cI will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name \u201d\u02dcThe LORD.\u201d\u2122 And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But,\u201d he said, \u201cyou cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.\u201d<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">21 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And the LORD said, \u201cBehold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">22 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">23 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.\u201d <\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"ind\"><span class=\"ind\"><br \/>\n<strong>Exodus 34:5-7 (ESV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, \u201cThe LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children\u201d\u2122s children, to the third and the fourth generation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">God is Glorious<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>1. God is Glorious because He is All Powerful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2. God is Glorious because He is Graceful and Merciful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Romans 15:5-9 (ESV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8 <\/span><\/sup><span class=\"ind\">\u00a0For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God\u201d\u2122s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, <span class=\"poetry1\">\u201cTherefore I will praise you among the Gentiles,<\/span> <span class=\"poetry2\">and sing to your name.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"ind\"><span class=\"poetry2\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ind\"><strong>3. God is Glorious because He is Holy and Just.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ind\"><strong>4. The Glory of God Demands a Response.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>worship\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; Moves us to <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>obey\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8211; Leads to <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>action\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exodus 34:8 (ESV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n5. God\u201d\u2122s Glory is Seen Most Clearly At the Cross.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Life Well Lived is a Life Lived in Awe of the Glory of God.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Message by Eric Colson rec0419-113304 Exodus 33-34 God is Glorious Exodus 33:12-23 (ESV) 12 \u00a0Moses said to the LORD, \u201cSee, you say to me, \u201d\u02dcBring up this people,\u201d\u2122 but you have not let me know whom you will send &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=1761\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}