This message was recorded at Vision Baptist Church in Alpharetta, Georgia. It is our prayer that you'll be blessed by the preaching of God's Word. Take your Bibles and go to Exodus 21. This is a great chapter. Of course, they're all great chapters, aren't they? That we were riding in today, and Brother Kevin and I were talking, and Kevin said, you know, when you preach to the Bible, it's like it was just made to be preached. And I said, yeah, sounds like somebody else preached it, doesn't it? It's the good stuff. And this is just one of those chapters. And if you write notes down, write this down. Worship based on His words. worship based on his words and I want you to read with me Exodus chapter 24 and We are gonna we're gonna go through some beautiful things The Bible says and he said unto Moses come and come up unto the Lord thou Aaron and Nadab and Abihu and the seventy of the elders and worship ye afar off and Moses alone shall come near the Lord, but they shall not come nigh neither shall the people go up with him and And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments. And all the people answered one voice and said, all the words which the Lord hath said will we do. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord and rose up early in the morning. And he built an altar up on the hill and 12 pillars according to the 12 tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Israel. And they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord. And Moses took half of the blood and put it in the basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and he read in the audience of the people, and they said, All that the Lord has said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. Skip down if you would with me to verse 12. And the Lord said unto Moses, come up to me in the mount and be there and I will give thee the tables of stone and a law and the commandments which I have written that thou mayest teach them. I love that phrase. I wish you'd write it like that. I wrote them, you teach them. How about that? I wrote them, you teach them. That's what he said. I have written that thou mayest teach And Moses took with him his minister Joshua up into the mountain. Father, I pray now that you would take these words and help them come alive in the hearts of your children, your people that love you and seek you. They're here tonight because they love you. They're here tonight because they honor you and they want to worship and obey you. And I thank you for your word and I thank you for how clear it is and how beautiful it is. And I just pray that you'd be magnified and glorified as we go through this time of studying your word Help me to speak clearly, and then God, I pray you touch the hearts of your people. In Jesus' name, amen. The first thing is private worship. Look, if you would, God calls the leadership to private worship. Chapter 24, verse 1, God calls for all 70 elders, or 74 or 75 of them, because Joshua's name isn't mentioned here. Moses goes up, and Aaron, and Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 elders of Israel, and they go up. Those were the spiritual leaders in the ministry of Israel. They were all respected leaders. And they were the priestly leaders were Aaron and Nadab and Abihu. And Moses was the one that God had put in charge to lead through the others. However, they all will worship from a distance. If you have your Bibles there, you'll mark these verses. In verse 2, it says, Moses alone shall come near the Lord. However, they'll all worship from a distance. They'll go up, but they would worship from a distance. Worship can feel distant to us sometimes. We should count ourselves blessed that we get to worship. We're invited to worship Him. We should never take it lightly. So our only Moses got to go up really close in verse two. Moses alone. Won't you circle that? Moses alone. I hope a great truth will come to you before we're through with this. Moses is the go-between. He stood between the people and God. Today, Jesus stands there. In Jesus, we all get to go near to worship. Back then, 75 guys get caught up in the mountain. And I'd have been sitting down there, and you'd have been sitting down there, and we'd have either been saying, I'm scared, I'm glad I don't have to go, or we'd have been saying, man, I wish I could have gone up. I wish I could have been close. I wish I could have heard. But today, in Jesus, we get to go up to Him. The way's been opened, the veil's been torn, and we are allowed to come in. God honored the large leadership group with having them come before Him and participate in a special worship service. Even in the Old Testament, God wasn't excluding everyone from his presence. The leadership should be the most faithful in the presence of God. So they all went up. They're in the presence of God. But God gave Moses a very special place alone with him. God did have Moses in that place. God seemed to be marking the leadership in a special way. He called Moses up. He called the 70 up. The other four guys are called up. And they said, you stand way over there. And he said, Moses, You come close. And in verse 13, he took Joshua with him, who was his minister, who's going to be the next guy, who's going to be the next guy. We don't know that yet in the passage where we are, but we know that after he finished Deuteronomy, the very next book will be Joshua. And he took him with him. Moses was marked very specially. Look at verse 18. And Moses went into the midst of the cloud and he gat him up into the mountain. And Moses was in the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. Tonight, By God's grace and Jesus' sacrifice, we're all brought near. Though God met with Moses in a very special way, He meets with you in the same way today. You don't get new revelation, but He will teach you and understand the revelation that He has already given. The great privilege just makes us much more responsible. You realize it was a very special day. They caught many. Can you imagine that? God said, hey, all you millions of people stand over there. Send me the 75 guys up here into the mountain with me. The rest of you stand over there. Moses, you come up here. Moses, you're my man. He talks to Moses. Moses gets the word. Moses goes back and preaches. Now, if I wanted to be a typical pastor, I'd say to you, I'm Moses in this story. And you guys need to realize I'm the special guy. But the truth is Jesus is the special guy. He's the one that made the way open. He's the one that gets the door open. And you and I all get to go through Jesus into that special place. If you take notes, I wish you'd write down, the priesthood of the believer. That's something you ought to write down. That's a strong Baptistic doctrine, priesthood of the believer. Which means this, that every one of us have the privilege through Jesus Christ to go directly to God in prayer. You don't have to come to the pastor. You don't have to go through Moses. You don't have to go through any priest. You don't need anybody else. God deals directly with you. That's a great truth. Say amen. You are a man of God. You have a special place. You're a woman of God for you women. But we have a very special place and a very special relationship. And we have liberty. We have individual soul liberty. You can write that one down. We can study the Word of God and learn for ourselves you don't need always the other guy. Second thing I want you to look at, go with me to verse 3. And I wish you'd underline all the words in the verse. Just underline the word, all the words. Don't underline all the words, just underline the words, all the words. Okay? But look at verse 3, it says, And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord. So Moses' job was to go get all the words. Then Moses came and he told the people all the words. So in verse 3 it says, All the words, all the words. Two times, I hope you underline that. Moses got the words from God himself. Moses didn't get them. Moses didn't write them. God gave the words. The people responded correctly when they said, we promise to obey the words. Now, would you look here just a second? I'd like to explain something to you about our church. It's a little bit unusual. This is a different kind of church because, honestly, I just preach next verse, next verse, next verse. And we do expositional preaching. But I think this passage of Scripture kind of says to you, this is what we're supposed to do. So it takes out the element of me saying what I want to say, me being the special guy, me getting some kind of special revelation from God about what to say to you. I think it takes it out. So it says here, it says here, verse 3, Moses came and told the people all the words, not some of them, not the ones he wanted to emphasize, but all the words. And they said, we'll obey all the words. Moses, the preacher, us, we are to expound the words. Explain the words, make sure we understand the words. The other is the commitment to obey the words as we understand what God is saying. So typically what we're supposed to do when we're preaching in our church, I'm supposed to come out and say, here's all the words, and we're working our way through all the words. And it's what all the words say. And I'm supposed to say, I'll obey all the words. And you're supposed to say, I'll obey all the words. And we want the word of God to make a difference in our life. Can you say amen right there? That's what we're trying to do when we preach. It's not about learning more, but living more. It's not about learning more, but living more. It's not about saying, man, I've got my head full. It's about living it. It's not about filling your head up, but affecting your entire life. I love verse 12. I hope you go down to Mark verse 12. God would write down the commandments so that Moses would teach them. The Lord said unto Moses, come up to me in the mountain, be there, and I will give you the tables of stone and a law and commandments And I love this, I hope you mark it, which I have written, which I have written that you can teach them. I have written that you may teach them. Notice these are the words, the commandments, the laws that God Himself has written. By the way, these are the laws, the commandments and the words that God has written. You hold them in your hand. between some piece of the leather or piece of the paper or on an electronic device, but you hold in your hands the words that came from God. Moses' job was simply to teach the people what God had said. That was Moses' job. It wasn't his job to come up with anything new. The job of a preacher or a teacher today is not to have innovative ideas. It's not to be creative. We're simply to tell God's people what God said. That's pretty wild, isn't it? Just tell God's people what God said. We're to study it and learn it so we can say it. This is what God said. The entire ministry of God's people today is based on all the words. You'll find that in here. All the words still. We're to read and study all the words. We should go to church and hear them explained, expounded. We should be teaching them to our children. We should be hungry for learning and sharing all the words. Our church should be a place that teaches the Bible. all the words. That's why we are going through the Bible. That's why we've already finished Genesis. We're a little over halfway through with Exodus. We've already done Leviticus. We'll jump to Deuteronomy. That's why we're in the book of Matthew. That's why we're working our way through Bible books because He gave the words. Our job is to teach the words and not be creative. Third thing, look at the altar and the blood. The altar and the blood. Go to verse 4 with me. The altar and the blood. There's two words or two things that are exciting to me. in the passage. One is, I think you'd have fun if you did this kind of stuff, but the word book and words is in this chapter. Book and words. Go through it. Book, the book of the covenant, and the words. That's what God gave him. The book and the words. The book and the words. And then another word that keeps jumping off the page is blood. Blood, blood, blood. And if you know anything about the Bible, you know anything about the New Testament, the blood is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us, and that's what's in this passage. Look at verse 4. Moses wrote all the words, there it is, of the Lord. And he rose up early in the morning and he built an altar under the hill and 12 pillars according to the 12 tribes of Israel. Moses was careful to keep the words that God had given. He brought the words. He got up early and he wrote down the words. He wrote all the words. He rose up early in the morning and he built an altar. Moses, having met with God, was anxious and ready to obey, so he got up early. I can only imagine. He just came from the very presence of God and somebody gets out of there and he's overwriting furiously. Somebody says, what are you doing? He said, man, God said a whole lot. I've got to write it down. Well, I've got it fresh. I've got to get the words of God written down. And then apparently he didn't sleep or he got up really early and built an altar. But if you'd met with God, you'd seen God, you'd probably be saying, I think we'd better get us an altar built. Amen? He's just met with God. He's got the Word of God. He's building an altar. And he puts the 12 pillars for the 12 tribes. Hearing God's Word should always inspire us to worship. Man, we hear the Word of God and we say, whoa, God's talking to us here. God's Word says this. How will this apply to us? We should want to humble ourselves. We should want to humble ourselves. We should want to respond in thanksgiving and praise. We want to respond in thanksgiving and praise. We want to confess our failures and seek to draw nearer. The Word drives us to worship. The Word drives us to worship. And when they worshipped, they gave offerings and sacrifice. Look, if you would, in Exodus chapter 24 and verse 5. And He sent the young men of the children of Israel which burnt offerings and sacrificed the pieces of the oxen unto the Lord. So underline the words there. The young men are offering burnt offerings. and they're sacrificing peace offerings. And why are young men doing that? Because calves weigh a bunch. If you tell me to pick up a 500-pound calf after we've gutted him, he's 1,000 pounds, you gut him and tell me to pick him up, I won't be down in the back for a month. So we're calling all the teenagers, get up here, calling all the young men, the 30-year-olds who are saying, hey, get up here. And they picked up that offering and they made it. It was hard work. But everybody's heart was united in the offering. Everyone would share. and the expenses. The sacrifices were about blood. Blood. Look at verse 6. And Moses took half the blood and he put it in basins and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar. You should mark the word blood two times there. Now you can't be a New Testament Christian and not know that we talk a lot about blood. We talk about the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross of Calvary. We talk about the blood that forgives our sins. We talk about the blood. The animals were killed and their blood was placed on the altar. Jesus was being represented because we cannot worship God without Jesus opening the door for us. Moses has gone up. Moses has met with God. Moses has got the words of God. Moses comes out and writes down the words of God. Moses builds an altar. Moses calls him and says, bring me some sacrifices. Let's offer some sacrifices. Because when we meet with God, something's got to fix things between us because we're not worthy to meet with God. They heard the word, but they weren't good enough to come to God on their own merit. A sacrifice had to be made for peace. You need to go back up and look at verse 5 with me and underline the word peace. A peace offering. Blood was shed to bring them into the presence of God. And all of their worship was based on the book. Look at verse 7. And he took the book. Boy, I hope you circle that word. And he took the book. He took the book. It's like he took the book of the covenant and he read in the audience of the people and they said, all that the Lord has said we will do and be obedient. Moses had been up on the mount. Moses has talked to God. God has given Moses the words. Moses has come down off the mount. Moses has written the words. Moses has gotten up early. Moses has built an altar. He's got 12 pillars there. He sent the young guys to go get animals to sacrifice. They brought the animals to sacrifice. The young men had been working killing the animals and shedding the blood. But all the things they were doing was because it was in the book. That's why we do what we do. We're following the book. We are people of the book. I hope that's really your heart. We are people of the book. They knew what was expected of them because of the book. The covenant was a promise from God to them. The covenant was how they could respond to God's great offer. You go up there and underline the word covenant in that verse. In verse 7, the word covenant, the promise, the pact, the agreement between them. God said, I made you my people. This is what I want out of you. This is what I expect out of you. But it was a one-sided thing as far as them being his people. God did it. God brought it to them, but they were offering that offering because they were to offer it. They read the book to the people. The people responded saying they would obey the book. The only answer for them was blood. The blood was the basis of the covenant. Look at verse 8. And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. Before I go on, you ever take the Lord's Supper and hear that? This is the blood of the covenant. When we take the Lord's Supper, we're taking the blood of the covenant. He's made a promise to us. The promise that my sins are forgiven is the blood of Jesus. Shed to pay my sin debt, not because I got baptized, not because I joined the church, not because of something I did, but because of what Jesus did on the cross. We take the Lord's supper, and that little bitty cup has got that red grape juice in it. We take that juice knowing we're remembering his blood that was shed for us, taught all through your Old Testament. They met with God. They got God's word. They read the book. They met at the altar, and the blood is mentioned. The altar and the blood should motivate several things in our lives. We should be very interested in all the words he's given us. You should be hungry to know this book. If this is the book of God, if God gave us this book, if God wrote this book, you should be hungry to know this book and to know it's the word of God. You should be hungry to know what's inside of it. Be interested. We should get up early worshiping. Moses got up early, he built an altar, and Moses did what God wanted to do. The word of God ought to be more than a book to learn about, but a truth to live out. Could I just stop and say to you, I don't know how to say this without just saying it, and you ought to be people of the book. You need to set aside time every day and say, God wrote a book. And the book was from Him to me. And I'm going to spend some time in the book. When you come to church, you need to bring the book in your hand. You need to bring an ink pen. You need to open the book. You need to read the book. You need to mark the book. Because this is the book from God. This is the book from God. I mean, if we were there in Moses' day and we watched Moses go up empty-handed and come back down with something in his hands, we'd say, what you got there, Moses? He said, I got a book. It came from God. We'd say, whoa, read it to us. We got a book. that came from God. Can you say amen? Do you take time to read the Bible? Do you ever spend time teaching your children the Bible? Do you memorize verses out of this book? It's not just a book, it's a book from God. By the way, they were amazingly ready to sacrifice and to give to our worthy God. Moses went up Got the words, came down, wrote the words, got up early, built an altar, called the guys to bring the sacrifice, kill the animals, put the animals on there. All the people are gathered around. The people said, we hear the words, we'll obey the words. We build the altar, we make the sacrifice. You and I ought to be ready to sacrifice. We ought to be like, hey, we don't deserve any of this. I couldn't get to God. I have no right to be with God. I have no right to be in His presence if it wasn't that Jesus paid my sin debt so that I could be saved. We should always remember that all we have is due to the shed blood of Jesus Christ. I think probably the most humbling thing in the world is this, I will never ever be good enough for God to like me. I'll never ever be good enough for God to love me. What made me who I am is he loved me and he paid my sin debt and who I am and what I am is based on one thing, Jesus died. for me. Jesus forgave my sins because he shed blood. God forgave my sins because Jesus' blood was shed on the cross of Calvary. We are people of the book. We are people of the book. Can I emphasize to you enough? We're people of the book. We have in our hands the word of God. You come to church tonight not because we're good singers. You come to church not because I'm a good speaker. You come to church not because we love the great God of heaven and we got the book. We got the book. Open the book, preacher. Read the book to us, preacher. Talk to us about the book. Hey, Sunday school teacher, talk to us about the book. Hey, disciple, talk to us about the book. Hey, dad, show us the book. We want to hear about the book. God wrote a book. I'd like to hear about the book God wrote. I'd like to hear about the book God wrote. We seek out His promise. We seek to live out what He has put in us. We want to know Him. Here's the beautiful thing that happens in the verse. They saw God. They saw God. Go with me if you would to verse 9. God had invited them to come up and worship. They went to worship and God revealed Himself to them. Now you've got to understand, this is the God who created the earth. We're in the book of Exodus, just back in the book of Genesis, God created the earth. This is not only the God who created the earth, this is the God that destroyed the earth with a flood. It's not only that God, it's the God who got them out of Egypt and worked all those great miracles to get them out of Egypt. It's also the God that the ground shook when He spoke, and lightning and thunder and all these things were happening. They knew He was God. They were scared to death. This is not just some religious service we're having. This isn't Austin talking to us. This is the God of Heaven. And in this passage of Scripture, those guys go up in that mountain. All the leadership of that group goes up in that mountain. And here's what they're going to say when they get back. We saw Him. I'm going to show it to you. We saw Him. We saw Him. Check out that very thought. We saw Him. Look, if you will, with me in your Bible, Exodus 24, verse 9. Moses went up. And Aaron, and Nadab, and Abihu, and the 70 elders. We also know Joshua was there with them. Verse 10, you should underline this. And they saw the God of Israel. They saw the God of Israel. They saw the one that made the mountains shake, the thunder and all that. They saw that God. And there was under His feet, as it were, a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were, the body of heaven in His clearness. They saw the God of Israel. They saw the God of Israel. Verse 11, the elders found out that God was not going to hurt them. They found out God wasn't going to hurt them. You understand, they're terrified. They watched him kill all the firstborn. They watched him work all the plagues. They watched all the horrible stuff that happened in Egypt. They watched the Red Sea be split. They watched all the people get drowned in the Red Sea. They watched as the thunder in the mountains shook. They knew God was a great and awesome and powerful God. They weren't too sure what was going to happen. Look at chapters 24 and verse 11. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel, He laid not His hand. So, man, God didn't hurt us. We didn't know what He was going to do to us, but He didn't hurt us. And also, they saw God. And they ate and drank. They saw God. They went up there. They were up there, the 70 elders, the leaders. the spiritual leaders of the nation of Israel, and Moses, and the priest, and Joshua, the servant, and they saw God. Underline that in verse 11. It said it in verse 10. Now it says it in verse 11. They saw God. And He didn't put His hand on them. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain, the eyes of the children of Israel. He's an awesome God. He's a scary God. He's a great God. He shakes the earth. He could split the sea. He could kill the enemy soldiers. He could take out the firstborn. But we went up there and we saw him and he didn't hurt us. We saw God. We saw God. Verse 14, if you would. Maybe I didn't make my verses clear there. So let me, because Betty always tells me I mess up. So go back, that was verse 11. They saw God in verse 11. And hey, you ought to have Betty correcting you all the time. You'd be nervous too. And verse 17, in the sight of the glory of the Lord. Betty says, you mess up all the time. If it weren't for them guys in the back rescuing you, so we know what verse we're supposed to be on. Thank you guys for all that help. Verse 17, the sight of the glory of the Lord is like the devouring fire. I want you to notice in verse 14 what happened. The congregation was organized in such a way God's man could be alone with God. So many times, not at this church by the grace of God, not at this church, but so many times the pastor is the guy running here and running there and doing everything else and has very little time to study his Bible. In the book of Acts chapter 6, if you recall, the men of God were having to take care of the arguments between the widows, the Greek widows and the Hebrew widows were fighting and fussing and they were in the middle of that mess and finally they said, we need time for God and prayer. And we need somebody else to watch over this mess. That happens right here in chapter 24 verse 14. And he said unto the elders, tarry ye here for us until we come again unto you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. If any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. That congregation was so organized. They got Moses. They got Joshua helping Moses. They got these priestly guys doing their work. They got 70 guys in charge. All of them go up in the mountain. And there's two guys still left to take care of things. And we do know this. So every one of us need to remember, oh, Aaron's going to mess up one of these trips, right? He's going to mess up and build a golden calf. So you and I, you know, it's not just Austin carrying the spiritual leadership here. There's deacons carrying the spiritual leadership here. There's pastors carrying the spiritual leadership here. There's other men on our church staff and church work carrying the leadership of the church. But they were able to get done what they needed to do because Aaron and Hur were there. It's a good lesson for us. Go to verse 15 with me. Moses was alone with God. Moses was alone with God. In verse 15, Moses went up into the mountain and a cloud covered the mountain. And the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai. And the cloud covered it six days. On the seventh day, he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. To me, that's a really wild verse. You'd have to be thinking about you being Moses. It'd be pretty scary to go up to the very presence of God. I mean, this is the God who's done all those things I've told you about as we've been coming through this. And now God says, Moses, you come. Come by yourself, buddy. Leave everybody else over. Me and you are going to have a talk. Then he goes alone. The cloud comes down and covers everything. And it'll be six days. Moses just enters and says, OK, Lord, you said come. I'm here just waiting on you. But you know, the important person can come late. The important person gets to come when they want to come. The peon needs to show up on time. And God finally comes on the seventh day and he talks to him. Several lessons for us. Your walk with God is often a lonely walk. Ministry can often be very lonely. Ministry can be very lonely. We're an unusual people. We walk with God. We spend time alone with God. And sometimes you might spend six days waiting on God to speak to you. That's what happened to old Moses here. God hadn't said anything until the seventh day. Moses is alone with God. People might not have understood Moses because of this. When you walk with God and you spend time with God, you spend time in the Bible, it starts changing the way you think and changing the way you act. I'm assuming that Moses was kind of nervous, fearful. He wanted and needed to hear from God. It was a pretty scary thing to be alone six whole days waiting on God to speak. We too see and know God. As we understand that, He calls for worship. Worship means humbling yourself before Him. We come to serve, not receive. There's not one mention of this whole situation in chapter 24 where Moses and the 70 and the other gods that are with him go up there and say, God, we're here with our list. We've been making a list. These are the things we're going to be needing. If you don't mind, we need some new tents, we'd like some new shoes and we've got a food list here." That's not what goes on in the list at all. They went up there and said, you're God and we're not and what do you want? Talk to us. They come back down the hill, write the words down, build an altar and offer sacrifices to Him because He is God. Worship is humbling yourself. It makes our church different also. You come in here and we read the Bible and you say, we don't even work at trying to get you stirred up emotionally. I don't even work at that. There's not one thing going on here where I say to them, pump the crowd, work the crowd, get everybody excited, because we're not really here for you, we're here for Him. We're not really here to meet your needs, we're really here for you and me to talk to Him, for Him to talk to us, so He can tell us what to do. We're here to worship Him. We've come to serve, not receive. It is His Word that will guide everything we do, and not what we desire. We come to him and say, here we are to worship you. Here we are to worship you. Without the shed blood of Jesus, we'd have no opportunity. That it is God himself that made the covenant. And our worship includes our giving our everything to him. So here's the chapter in a nutshell for you, if you could get it with me. Chapter starts off with God saying, hey, I want to talk to you. Bring all your leadership and come on up in the mountain. And they go up in the mountain and God says, hey, some of you guys hang over there and stay there. Moses, you come up here. Moses gets alone with God and God gives him his word. Now, we don't get alone with God to get his word. We already got his word. We get alone with God to understand his word because we already have his word. I'm not Moses and you aren't Moses. You're not going to be able to come up with new words, but you got his word. Can you say amen right there? You got his word. So they went alone and they spent time to hear from God. By the way, when they got his word, they built an altar. When they got his word, they wrote it down, and they built an altar. They came down, and Moses got an altar built, and he represented everybody in the group, all 12 tribes. There's a pillar for all 12 tribes. And he calls all the people together and says, it's time to worship. Tells the young guys, go start killing the animals and put them on the altar. So people are giving up their animals to be offered on the sacrifice. And Moses said, here's the words from our God. Listen to the words from our God. And they said, we'll obey the words. You just read them to us. You just tell us what they are. So when you come to church here at Vision, I hope you come saying this. We want to hear the words. We want to hear the words. We want you to read us the words. So you need a Bible with you when you come. You need it open when you come. You need to read it. You need to write it down. You need to mark it. You need to read it all week long. You need to spend time all week long saying, I want to know more about the book that he gave us. I want to know more about the book that he gave us. I want to walk with him. You need to be sharing it with your children. You need to be sharing it with your family. You need to spend time in the book. And you never forget the blood. That's the words that are mentioned in the chapter. Because the only way I have any right to be in the presence of God is the blood. I'll give you one more thing. I said it already, but I wanted to get it to you again. There's no Moses in this room that gets to go up to God in a special way by himself. He's the guy that gets to go. As much as I'd like to tell you I'm that Moses, I'm not. We all go up in Jesus. We all go up. You have free access to Him. If you're a born-again man or woman, you have access through Jesus, by Jesus, to get into the very presence of God. How can we take that flippantly? How can we take that lightly and say, I know I could go in there, but I'm not that interested? How could we say, how could, you know, if we had a thundering, powerful preacher that came up on a, you know, they had a pedestal that lifted me up, and smoke and mirrors up here to show you I was a big shot, you might be impressed. If you wouldn't, by the way, they filled plenty of auditoriums up with that stuff. But you and I have a place to go to Him now. To Him. We're people of the book. We're people of the book. So we worship based on His words. I challenge you to get in the book. I challenge you to get under the blood if you're not. I challenge you to say, we will worship based on what He said in his book. Father, I love you and I praise you and I magnify you and I pray that you'd help us to worship you and magnify you and believe in you and look to you and I'll give you praise for it. God, I thank you so very much for your kindness. I thank you so very much for your word. I thank you so very much for what you're doing and I just beg you to help us be more and more a people of your book. To not be satisfied with cute, creative sermons preached by preachers playing a game. But just take your book and get into it and find out what it says and I'll give you praise and honor and glory for what you do. We love you and thank you. This message was recorded at Vision Baptist Church in Alfred, Georgia. For more information, log on to www.visionbaptist.com where you can find our service times, location, contact information, and more audio and video recordings.