Exodus 20 verses 1 and 2 says, And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. This is how the Ten Commandments begin. We've shown on numerous editions of this About Jesus devotional that God is a trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. And when this triune God appears in visible form to communicate with mankind, it is the second person of the triune Godhead taking visible form. the Son. And this is important to understand. When we see the Lord speaking and giving us the Ten Commandments here in Exodus 20, we're told in Scripture who this is. And if Scripture tells us, then it's important to learn and understand it. If God didn't want us to understand and know this, he wouldn't have told us.
Jesus said in John 4 24 that God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. The corrupt new versions pervert Jesus' words here by dropping the article A and changing the capital S on spirit to a lowercase s. The NIV, the ESV, other perverted Bibles say God is spirit. That's a pantheistic perversion. God is a spirit distinct from all other spirits. And for that reason, he is said to be invisible in 1 Timothy 1.17, as Paul wrote, now unto the king eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God be honor and glory forever and ever, amen.
So God took physical form when speaking to Moses. Our triune God is a spirit. He is invisible. But Moses saw a bodily representative of the Trinity, as Paul wrote in Hebrews 11.27, by faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. And who did Moses see when he saw the invisible God taking on a human form? Jesus. As again, Paul says in Colossians 1.15, who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. God from heaven shows up on earth in human form and it is Jesus.
Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15.47, speaking of Adam as the first man and Jesus the second man saying, the first man is of the earth, earthy, the second man is the Lord from heaven. Now, in case you're concerned that God the Father might be jealous of our attention to Jesus as we identify Jesus as the Lord revealed from heaven in the Old Testament, don't worry. Jesus assures us that there's no jealousy between the Father and the Son in the Trinity. As a matter of fact, the whole point of sending Jesus to earth was that the Father would be glorified in His Son. In other words, when we glorify the Son, the Father is glorified. It's like when a son accomplishes something great and his dad says, that's my son. Only this is much greater in scope, obviously. It affects every saved man and woman. Jesus, the Savior, saves sinners, and God the Father is glorified in the Son. This is what Jesus explained even as Judas left the Last Supper to go and betray him, which resulted in the crucifixion of Jesus.
John 13, 31, and 32 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. The same is true with the Holy Spirit. He isn't jealous of Jesus. The whole purpose of the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Son, which in turn then glorifies the Father. John 16, 13 and 14, Jesus is speaking. He says, how be it when He, the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth. For he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. And that's basically referring to the rest of the New Testament, the Bible as a whole.
So when we receive the truth of the Word of God given by the Holy Spirit about Jesus, the Savior, the Son of God, then God the Father is pleased and the triune God in all three persons is glorified.