So much but he loved the Lord even more and he knew that America would only be great if we would walk in and honor God's ways as you go through your day to day remember to walk in the light of Jesus for love worth finding I'm Chris favoring. Welcome to friendship with gun with our Bible teacher Tom canter Today's message and previous messages can be listened to or downloaded for free at Friendship with God done oh argy friendship with God done oh r.j. You can also obtain free resources from time Cantar and view our online bookstore at Friendship with God dot o.-r. G. Or call us at 802473051802473051 Tom Cantor also has a daily devotional verse that comes out each day by email and on Facebook to receive a small daily devotional verse the time Cantor puts out you can sign up a friendship with God done origin friendship with God done orgy for fun Tom Cantor on Facebook by searching for Tom Cantor and friendship with God Now here is our Bible teacher Tom Cantor. For he said Surely they are my people children that will not lie so he was there savior in all their affliction he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them in his love and in this pity he deemed them and he bare them and carried them all the days of old but they rebuild and vexed his Holy Spirit Now these are some of the most wonderful verses in the Bible about God's love for the Jewish people these verses speak of God's loving kindness is of His mercies of his great goodness to the Jewish people they speak of how God became the savior of the Jewish people and then it says in all their afflictions God was afflicted then God tells why the Jewish people have not been consumed the angel of his presence saved them and it was the. Because of the presence of God in the fire in the middle of the bush that kept the Bush from being consumed it was because of the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in the middle of the Jewish people that have kept them from being consumed by their enemies God by His presence in the midst of the Jewish people in the midst of the Jewish people who have rebelled against him in the midst of the Jewish people who have vexed him has nevertheless God has nevertheless preserve the Jewish people as a nation from being destroyed and even though the Jewish people they rebelled against the Lord Jesus Christ He has not he never will forsake them because of his great love for them throughout history this always see he has marvelously saved them over and over again from their enemies now in verse 3 and Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the Bush is not burnt so now we see Moses talking to himself Well it's no wonder if we were that wonder for us to see Moses talk to themselves other wrong with that it's out there is out there is no one else to talk to you may forget how to have conversation to go on as in the backside of the desert the sheep don't talk some of those wants to have a conversation so what does he do is speak for themself Moses tells himself that he has decided now to turn aside he wants to see what Moses cause a great site a great site and the great site is that the Bush is not burned so Moses was so impressed with the bush that it didn't get burnt up you know it's interesting in all of the Old Testament the word Bush only occurs here in these 3 verses verses 23 and 4 and one other place that's all you never find this word Bush any place in the Old Testament except here and the and in Deuteronomy and it's each pristine how the verse in Deuteronomy when he speaks about the bush and it goes back to this Bush how it refers to it it says in Deuteronomy 3316 and for the press . Just things of the earth and fullness thereof and for the good will of the him that dwelt in the bush let the blessings come upon Joseph in the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren in this passage Moses is explaining how God bless the sons of Jacob goes one by one and here Moses comes to Joseph and he speaks about and he refers to the one in the bush here as the one having the good will and he says the good will of Him The dwelt in the bush now what happened in other words what Moses was saying here is what happened at the bush was a display of the good will of God and when Moses spoke of God in the bush he said that God dwells in the bush and that's a very important Hebrew word dwelt that's the word shotgun for the use for that wealth and that word is used in the Bible also for the tabernacle the word tabernacle is mish Khan and Mr Khan comes from a shotgun to dwell so what God emphasized about the tabernacle was the goal of the tabernacle or the purpose God's purpose for the tabernacle which he stated when he gave his introduction to Moses that he wanted to make a cat tabernacle and Nexus 258 when God said to Moses left and make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them make me a mission got a tabernacle that I may share Conn may dwell among them so the purpose of the tabernacle was for God to dwell among his people and that concept of God welling with man in the tabernacle was used as a basis for how the rabbis described the fire or the glory that was seen over the tabernacle the rabbi's not the Bible but the rabbis called that check enough the Chicago glory. Again it comes from the word shock con to dwell Now this is the word that would Welsh a con that Moses used to describe what he saw in the burning bush he saw God welling in the bush in other words God was totally at home in the bush like the word well implies God had commie and packed his bags and he's going to reside there he's going to stay there he's at home he's comfortable in the bush and this amazed Moses and so he talks about it was the good will of Him The dwelt in the bush and what amazed most about all this was that the Bush was not consumed and Moses described God as dwelling in the bush and he had a good will in the bush was not consumed and so when he referred to him in the bush as the good will of Him the 12th in the bush the question for us is how was the good will of God seen in the burning bush and Moses said it was the good will of him the 12 the bush so it's a good question for I was that good will seen of God in the burning bush Well the answer is what impressed Moses about the bush he says why the Bush is not burned that's what he said in x. This 33 why the Bush is not burned in other words why the Bush was not consumed Why was Moses impressed with the fact that God was in the bush that God had a good will and that the Bush was not consumed fire in the Bible always speaks of judgment as a matter of fact Moses told later in Deuteronomy 23324 he told Israel these words take heed on to yourselves that's the forget the covenant of the Lord your God which he made with you and make you it graven image or the likeness of anything which the Lord thy God hath forbidden I forbid in the now verse there $24.00 for the Lord die God is a consuming fire even a jealous God So now Moses warns Israel that God judges sin. And he describes God in this judging sin mode as a consuming fire so again we ask the question if God is a consuming fire then why was not the bush consumed and the answer is the bush was not consume because of the good will of God You and I and every one of us has sinned we all should be consumed by the fire of God's judgment God is a consuming fire in his judgment we should all be consumed by the fire of God's judgment but like the bush we are not consumed by the fire why because the fire should have consumed us because of our sins but that fire fell on the Lord Jesus Christ that's what Isaiah 53 is saying all over and over and over again in Isaiah 53 for when he says Surely he has borne our greets and carried our sorrows and Isaiah 535 where he says he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities in Isaiah 536 word says the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all and Isaiah 538 for the transgression of my people was he stricken Isaiah 5312 he bear the sin of many over and over and over and over again the truth is being stated which is summarized in 1st Corinthians 153 Christ died for our sins and that means the fire the judgment that was due us it fell on him and it's expressed so well in this Him Christ what burdens bowed by head all Christ what burdens Valdai head our load was laid on these thou students in the sinners stead didst bear all ill for me a victim lad die blood which. Shed now there's no load for me death and the curse were in our cup Christ was full for the but down has drained the last dark drop to empty now for me that bitter cup lot drank it up now but less things left for me John Hoeven lifted up his rod all Christ it fell on these that I was sore stricken of by God There's not one stroke for me the tears that I've blood beneath it flowed the bruising healing me were like the bush the consuming fire of God's wrath does not consume us because it fell on the Lord Jesus Christ that's why Moses referred to the bush in Deuteronomy 3316 as the one who had the good will the good will of Him that wealth in the bush now in verse 4 we read that and when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called on to him out of the midst of the bush and said Moses Moses and he said here among Now we see that when Moses stopped and turned aside to look at the bush that out of the middle of the Bush God calls to Him So God calls out the name of Moses that must have been really a surprise for him oh this deer is named coming out of a bush with the fire and Moses knew that this was God because He knew his name Moses knew something about God and he had heard God now for the 1st time call him by his name and most a spoke about this he spoke about this incident in Exodus later on Exodus 33 percent 19 where he says and the Lord said unto Moses I will do this thing that thou spoken for the has found grace in my sight I know the by name God said to Moses I know the by name is that wonderful Winchell is that a great thought of the God saying I. I know you by name and when Moses heard God call his name Moses knew that he had found Grace with God as what he said for that was found grace in my sight and I know the by name and when Moses heard God call his name Moses knew that God cared for Moses Moses knew that God loved Moses you know God told another person I'm not Jewish Cyrus the king of the Persian was a Persian and he had called him by his name he talked about that and Isaiah 453 were God said to Cyrus and I will give the the treasures of darkness and hidden treasures of secret places that valley MEUs know that I the Lord which call the by the name am the God of Israel in that verse God is one of the many many encouragements for the Jewish people and that is Speaking of names that God has chosen to name himself using the name of the father of the Jewish people Jacob or Israel or new using the name of the Jewish people when he said I the Lord and the God of Israel that's amazing Now Nathaniel was a man in the New Testament he didn't know the Lord Jesus Christ he never had met the Lord Jesus Christ when he was approaching the Lord Jesus Christ for the 1st time for his 1st encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ it's written the council is written in John 147 through 49 and it reads like this Jesus saw in the Faneuil coming to him and say of him he hold in Israel light indeed in whom is no guile Nathanial say a thing to him when snow as me Jesus answered and said to him before that Philip called the when da was under the fig tree I saw the Nathaniel answered and say I am rabbi. Vallarta Son of God dark to king of Israel so here was the Lord Jesus who had made the 1st statement the 1st words on this encounter come from him and he says to him Behold Here's an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile when he said that Nathaniel then speaks next and he asked the question from where do you know me and then when the thin you knew that the Lord Jesus saw him when he was alone all alone under that think tree and yet he saw him and he knew that he wasn't physically there in the fen you all knew that the Lord Jesus knew him he knew him as good as he knew his name and because a Lord Jesus knew him Nathaniel worship the Lord Jesus and he called him 1st rabbi as an teacher he called him 2nd the Son of God or God the Son as in gone and 3rd he called him the king of Israel that's what really broke the back of Nathaniel's doubt and any good thing come out of Israel he told his friend out of a Nazareth He told his friends speaking of the Lord Jesus but when he understood that the Lord Jesus knew him as good as knowing his name and could see him and all the tape is see him in his secret place there when he knew that then that broke the back of unbelief in the Faneuil and he confessed and worship Him as God And when we realized that he knows us that the Lord Jesus Christ knows us that broke the back he knows our name it might have been a church service for example were all of a sudden we think that the pastor knows us and he's speaking right to us and we realize. It's God that's using that pastor is speaking of the pastor to speak to me why he knows my name God does or it might have been as it was with me by reading the Bible and all of a sudden there's a passage that just that jumps out and that passage is so striking it's just a little too close to home to just be coincidence and we realize as I did god knows me he knows my name that's how God calls individuals personally he calls souls to himself as he said in Isaiah 2712 years she'll be gathered one by one or you children of Israel he calls us to Himself one by one name by name and the Lord Jesus calls each one of us to himself and what does it say when he calls us to himself he says Matthew 112-8329 common to me all you that labor and are heavy laden I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn of me fry and meek and lowly in heart and you shall find rest on to your soul and what we learn of Him When we come to him as that he's the one with the good will of the woods dwelling in the bush now was God going to say to Moses was very important how do we know it's important because he called them's name twice Moses Moses by calling his name twice God was saying to Moses Moses is very important what I have to say to you very important might even think it's a warning and maybe think your is old danger here and so Moses immediately straightens up and he says here are my inner literally behold Me So what was so important for Moses to know what was the great danger verse 5 and he said Draw not nigh hither put off by shoes from off by feet for the ground were on the stand as is holy ground Moses needed to take his shoes off. Well why do you have to take issue of Us Well that was the custom in those days of showing great respect the Egyptians did that whenever they went into their temples and God was saying to Moses that because God was in that place where Moses was standing that that place was now special ground it was holy ground and now the 1st important message that God wanted to communicate to Moses was who he was so he says the next in verse 6 Moreover he said I am the God of die Father the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob and Moses hid his face for his afraid to look upon God So just as shocked as Moses was who was to hear is name called out by God Now no Moses hears God identify himself with names of people he knows and he hears God called himself the God of His Father the God of Abraham the God of Isaac the God of Jacob those who are not just to stare a list of historical people there from Moses each one of those names elicited a real picture of a life in the mind of Moses when Moses heard God say that he was the God of his father most the start of his father and the faith that his father and mother had when they saw that God was going to use Moses in a special way they trusted God as they hid Moses and God help them to keep Moses from being found they trusted God as they set Moses in that little boat in the Nile and God helped to keep Moses from being killed in the Nile so when Moses heard God say that he was the God of His Father Moses knew God was speaking to him and he was saying that he was the one who kept him alive as a baby in Egypt when Moses heard God say that he was the God of Abraham Moses thought of how Abraham was saved many times 1st he was saved from the Dollar Tree in his own city of her when God called him to leave then Moses thought of how God saved Abraham from being killed by a bimah lack and also another time by Pharaoh because they wanted to take his beautiful wife Sarah then go. Moses realized the God who was speaking to him is the one who saved Abraham and when Moses her neighbor God say that he was the God of Isaac then b. He understood that he was saying to him I am the one who substituted the ram for a sacrifice so that Isaac would dot be killed he understood that he was saying I am the one who saved him and Isaac from the Philistines who stopped as wells and wanted to kill him and when Moses heard God say that he was the God of Jacob Moses thought of how God saved Jacob many times he saved them from his own brother Esau who wanted to kill him he thought of how his own Uncle Jacob's uncle Laban wanted to kill him and God save them from him he thought of how his sons had made him hated among the people and he was afraid that they would kill him when Simeon and Levi went and killed all the men of shock and so Moses knew that when God identified himself as the god of those men God was saying I am God that's in this bush here I am the saving God I am the saving God But most important of all that caused Moses to Marvel was when Moses thought in Moses now 80 years old of how his father must be dead and Moses thought of how Abraham Isaac and Jacob had died over 400 years ago and Moses taught my father Abraham he's just mentioned Isaac Jacob he's talked about they've all died they're all dead they've all died and yet it was the tense of the verb that God used the verb to be that God used the tense of the verb to be that caused Moses to Marvel Marvel Marvel he just sat there he marveled as he said to himself God did not say to me I was the got of your father he said I am the God of your father and Moses sat there and said God did not say to me I was the God of Abraham He said I am the god . Of Abraham and he said God did not say to me I was the God of Isaac he said I am the God of eyes of Isaiah he didn't say to me I was the God of Jacob he said I am the God of Jacob he said I am he said I am the God of your father Abraham Isaac and Jacob he did not say I was the god of your father Abraham Isaac and Jacob God just said to me I am still the God of your father Abraham Isaac and Jacob as if God was saying to Moses They're here with me right now your father is here with me Abraham is here with me Isaac's here with me Jacob's here with me I am their God present tense right now and Moses realized when he heard that God is the God of Living God is the God of life this life is temporary death is coming yes but those who trust in God will be with him forever be as my father is and Abraham Isaac and Jacob because they trusted in him Moses knew him as Jehovah we know him as the Lord Jesus Christ Jehovah Jesus that's exactly what the Lord Jesus Christ said in Mark chapter 12 versus 26 or 27 where he said and as touching the dead that they rise Have you not read in the Book of Moses how in the bush God spake unto him saying I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob he is not the God of the dead but the God of the living. That's a wonderful thought for us he is not the God of the dead but of the living at that point when Moses heard those words he realized the truth that the Lord Jesus Christ said in John 1125 Jesus said unto her I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live