Secrets Unsealed

What Jesus Said

Stephen Bohr

1. The Word of God

2. The Unconditional Love of God

3. How Jesus Understood His Self Identity

4. Good and Evil

5. Moses and Jesus

6. Overcoming Life’s Mistakes

7. How to Pray

8. Family Values

9. Relief From Stress

10. History’s Greatest Hoax

11. Holy Spirit Baptism

12. Life and Death

13. Peace in the Middle East

14. The Rapture of the Saints

15. The Final Judgment

16. The End of Evil

17. The Secrets of Health and Wealth

18. The Return of Elijah

19. Religion and Politics

20. The Abomination of Desolation

21. The Unpardonable Sin

22. Prophets and Psychics

The very interesting parallel between Moses and Jesus.

In fact, as we read the Bible, we discover that Jesus is the fulfillment of what Moses prefigured.

In other words, we might say that Jesus was a new Moses because Jesus did the same things on a larger scale than Moses.

Allow me just to mention some of the parallels so that we can see the relationship that existed between the Old Testament Moses and Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of what Moses represented.

Both Moses and Jesus delivered slaves from bondage.

Moses delivered literal Israel from slavery to the literal Egyptians.

Jesus delivered us from slavery to Satan and to sin.

Both Moses and Jesus went through a very severe trial when they were born.

Remember all of the babies were killed with the hopes of killing the deliverer?

Well, the same thing happened with Jesus as happened with Moses, and it was a pagan king that pronounced the death sentence in both cases.

Both Moses and Jesus were protected in Egypt, interestingly enough.

In fact, God called Israel out of Egypt along with Moses and the prophecy of Hosea chapter 11 says, out of Egypt I called my son.

God called Jesus out of Egypt for Jesus to perform his mission.

Both Moses and Jesus dealt with groups of 12.

Moses with the 12 tribes and Jesus with the 12 apostles.

Both Moses and Jesus called 70 to extend their work.

Both Moses and Jesus were severely criticized by the people that they were sent to.

Moses, we could say brought manna from heaven, but Jesus said, I am the living manna that came from heaven.

Moses, when he struck the rock, brought water from the rock.

Jesus said, I am the rock, and I am the water that comes forth from the rock.

Moses instituted, we might say, the Passover in Israel.

Jesus, according to the Apostle Paul, is our Passover.

Interestingly enough, both Moses and Jesus led a people out from bondage to the promised land.

Moses to the physical land of Canaan, Jesus to the heavenly Canaan.

Interestingly enough, Jesus spent 40 days on the mount being tempted and Moses also spent 40 days on a mountain.

And after spending 40 days on the mountain, Moses came down and delivered the law unto Israel.

Jesus, after spending 40 days in the wilderness, came out and he sat also on a mount to deliver the law of his new kingdom.

Let's read that as it's found in Matthew 5 and verses 1 and 2.

And incidentally, both Moses and Jesus were baptized before they gave the law from the mountain.

Well, in 1 Corinthians chapter 10, the Bible tells us that Israel and Moses were baptized in the sea.

And of course Jesus was baptized in the River Jordan.

And so there are a whole series of parallels between Moses and Jesus.

Jesus is the fulfillment of what Moses indicated.

Now the particular point that I want us to take a look at as we begin our study this evening is that both Moses and Jesus delivered a law to God's people from a mountain.

I don't think I have to tell you that Moses in the Old Testament went up to Mount Sinai and God gave him the law on Mount Sinai and then Moses came down and he delivered the law unto the people.

Well the fact is that Jesus after his baptism after spending 40 days in the mountain being tempted he also came down and delivered a law to his people.

Notice Matthew chapter 5 and verses 1 and 2.

And seeing the multitudes he went up on a mountain, And when he was seated his disciples came to him, then he opened his mouth and taught them saying, to whom is Jesus speaking here?

That's right, And they're both delivering a law.

Now let me share with you the way some Christians look at the relationship between Moses and Jesus.

They say that Moses was an individual who gave a law which was pure justice and punishment to Israel.

Whereas Jesus, from the mount of the Beatitudes, he gave a law of love and grace and mercy.

And so they place a contradiction or they place a division, we might say, between Moses and between Jesus.

Moses gave a law that was justice, a law that was punishment, if you violated it, but now Jesus when he sits on the Mount of Beatitudes to speak to his people, he gives a law of mercy, of love, and of grace.

Is this the way that the Lord Jesus looked at law?

Is it true that Jesus, as the new Moses, now presents a law that is pure love, whereas Moses presented a law which is pure justice and pure punishment?

Many individuals believe that that is the relationship between Moses and Jesus and the 2 laws that they gave.

Now let's take a look at this in our study tonight.

In order to understand what we're going to study from the Gospels we need some Old Testament background.

And I'm not going to read all these passages, I'm just going to make reference to them.

And hopefully in our minds we'll be able to understand the context in which Moses gave the law.

And then we're going to study the context in which Jesus gave the law.

Exodus chapter 1 through chapter 18 describes how Israel was in bondage and they were delivered from bondage by God.

They were delivered by grace if you read the story.

They didn't do anything to deliver themselves, to free themselves.

God simply heard their cries and God delivered them from bondage because he loved them.

So Exodus chapter 1 through 18 speaks about the bondage of Israel and God's miraculous intervention to deliver them from bondage to the Egyptians.

And on Mount Sinai God is now going to give his law to Israel.

In fact let's notice Exodus chapter 20 and verses 1 & 2.

And I want you to notice that in the Old Testament we have law but we also have grace.

You see God delivered Israel from Egypt by his grace because they cried out.

God simply heard their cries and he delivered them.

Now I want you to notice how the 10 Commandments begin.

They don't begin by saying, thou shalt have no other gods before me.

And God spoke all these words saying, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

That is the prologue to the 10 Commandments.

God is saying, I delivered you from bondage to the Egyptians.

And then in the next verse, in verse 2, we have the beginning of the 10 Commandments.

God is saying, I delivered you from service to Pharaoh.

Now, because you love me, I want you to do what?

Now I want you to notice what it says in Deuteronomy 4 and verse 13 about these 10 commandments.

Very interesting what the commandments are called.

It says there in verse 13, So he declared to you his what?

So it says, so he declared to you his covenant which he commanded you to perform, that is the 10 Commandments, and he wrote them on 2 tablets of stone.

God delivered Israel free, because they cried out to him.

Now God says, I want you to respond to me.

Now how did Israel react when God wanted to make this covenant with them?

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What Jesus Said

5. Moses and Jesus

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