Exodus 19, 8 says, And all the
people answered together and said, All that the Lord hath
spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words
of the people unto the Lord. During the life of Moses, we
see him play the role of mediator between God and men, the men
of Israel specifically, most of the time, but even when dealing
with Pharaoh. We read in Exodus 6, 29 that
the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I am the Lord. Speak thou unto
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, all that I say unto thee. And when it
came to the children of Israel, people specifically chosen by
God above all other people on the earth, God then chose one
man to then be a mediator between God and his chosen, Israel. And that man was Moses, as we
read in our text. And all the people answered together
and said, all that the Lord hath spoken, we will do. And Moses
returned the words of the people unto the Lord. He was the mediator. But in the very next verse, we
see the Lord speaking to Moses and laying out this role of mediation
for Moses in unmistakable terms, as we read in Exodus 19, 9. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear
when I speak with thee and believe thee forever. And Moses told
the words of the people unto the Lord. So the Lord sealed
his special relationship with Moses by allowing the Israelites
to hear them speaking one-on-one so that when Moses then would
deliver the message, they knew it came from the Lord. And there
was no doubt that it wasn't just the word of Moses but Moses was
delivering the word of God. But Moses couldn't be Messiah,
and he was never declared to be Messiah. For one thing, Messiah
would come through the tribe of Judah, as told before Moses
was even born in Jacob's prophecy that we read in Genesis 49, eight
through 11. And Moses was of the tribe of
Levi. So he couldn't be Messiah, but Messiah would also be a savior. Messiah must die and rise again. That was the message in Genesis
22, as Abraham offered Isaac on Mount Moriah, where Jesus
would eventually be crucified on a Mount called Golgotha and
Calvary, but which was a part of a region called Mount Moriah.
And in order to die for the sins of the world, the Messiah had
to be sinless. And his death had to be of infinite
value because our sins are against an infinite God. Messiah had
to be a man, but more than just a man. Messiah had to be a God
manifest in the flesh. THE God manifest in the flesh,
as 1 Timothy 3.16 refers to Jesus, unless you're using a corrupt
new version, which removes that reference to Jesus being God.
But you may recall in Genesis 22.8, and Abraham said, my son,
God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So they
went both of them together. He literally provided himself
the Lamb of God, as John the Baptist referred to Jesus in
John 1.29 and John 1.36. Moses was a great man, but he
was also a sinner who needed a Savior just like the rest of
us. The Lord explained to Moses that he would die without entering
the promised land in Deuteronomy 32.51, because ye trespassed
against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah
Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. Moses would later show up with
Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration along with Elijah. You can see
that in Matthew 17, 1-3. So we know that Moses is with
Jesus, but Jesus is the Messiah and Savior. Moses was mediator
on earth for this lifetime, but Jesus is the one and only mediator
between God and man forever. That's spelled out in 1 Timothy
2, 5, and 6, for there is one God and one mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for
all to be testified in due time. Jesus stands as mediator, ready
to connect repentant sinners to our forgiving Heavenly Father
by faith in His shed blood and death and the power of His bodily
resurrection, and that access to the Father through the blood
of Jesus is eternal, as Ephesians 2, 18 and 19 says, for through
Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.