Exodus 19, 21 and 22 says, And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish. And let the priests also which come near to the Lord sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them. Most Christians and most anyone attending Sunday school or regular services in most churches these days have been taught many false things about Jesus. That's one of the reasons we do these About Jesus devotionals. I mean, we just love talking about Jesus and watching and pointing out all the places he shows up in the Old Testament. But we also recognize the need for biblical clarity on exactly who Jesus is. And one of the ways Jesus has been presented falsely to the masses for the past century or so is to pretend that Jesus is all about love and nothing else. And that's just flat out false. Our text is just one example of Jesus warning that he will destroy the wicked who violate his holiness. That's why every sinner must be saved. We have to be made holy in order to approach the holy God of the Bible. From the earliest ages, Jewish children have been taught that there's one Lord and that he is holy. As soon as Jewish children are able to talk, they begin to teach them to memorize what's called the Shema. It's Deuteronomy 6, 4, and 5. Here, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might. God is purity, sinlessness, righteousness, and holiness. and love. In our text, these migrating Hebrews coming out of Egypt were so influenced by that pagan culture in Egypt that they had forgotten how holy God is. Approaching God in a state of uncleanness is certain death. We're talking about Jesus in his full glory. Now, men could approach Jesus during his incarnation when he was born of a virgin as a male child and walked among men as a man because he had emptied himself of his full glory and put on a human body, kind of like a tent, covering his holiness, sort of like the tent of the tabernacle covered the most holy place in the Old Testament. And when Isaiah was visited by the Lord Jesus, we read in Isaiah 6, 5, then said I, woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. But you know what this passage in Exodus also demonstrates? The reality of the unsaved man standing before the Lord on judgment day. Again, our text says, and let the priests also which come near to the Lord sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them. To be sanctified is to be set apart in holiness, and every sinner must be sanctified, which happens initially at the moment of salvation when we're regenerated and washed of our sins. If not, we can never approach unto the holy Lord Jesus without him breaking forth in judgment upon us. And when the unsaved man or woman stands before the Holy Lord and Savior at the great white throne judgment, and it is declared that he or she is unforgiven, unclean, unholy, we're told in Revelation 20, 15, and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. In other words, that lost soul will be declared unfit and unholy. unable to be in the presence of the glorified Lord Jesus Christ. And the Lord will break forth upon each and every one of them with judgment, and that lost sinner will be cast from his presence forever to suffer consequences that they chose to suffer in a lake of fire. But the good news, those of us who have repented toward God with faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross and His victory over sin and death at the empty tomb, we are assured that Jesus will not break forth in judgment upon us. 1 Thessalonians 5, 9, and 10 promises us, for God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.