Peter Barnes: The Blood and Book of the Covenant with Moses, Exodus 24:1-11 (Sunday 26 April 2020 Evening Service)

– about 1450 B.C. we again read the language of covenant – Ex. 19:5-6; 24:7-8.

1. Our sin means that we need a mediator.

– 24:1-2. God’s presence is holy – 19:12 , 21-25; 33:20 .

– 1 Tim.2:5; Heb.8:6. Moses points to this truth.

– Charles Spurgeon: ‘Repentance looks upon the past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.’

2. We are to obey God’s book.

– 24:3-4a, 7. Moses wrote down what God told him.

– Gal.3:15-18. George Walker, who joined the Westminster Assembly in 1643, saw the moral law as a renewal of the Adamic covenant of works, and the sacrificial laws as a renewing of the covenant of grace.

3. The covenant was sealed by blood.

– 24:4b-6, 8. There are two types of offerings there – burnt offerings and fellowship or peace offerings. Moses took half the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar. For the other half, see Heb.9:18-22; 1 Pet. 1:2. Christians used to sing Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

4. Through the blood of the covenant, we see God and eat and drink.

– 24:9-11. We see God by faith, and eat and drink with Him, and so fellowship with Him in a visible way.

26 April Sunday Evening