Bryce Crawford

A couple things are going on up there.

Number one, Moses gets the commandments up there.

Moses receives the commandments on Mount Sinai.

But secondly, in this instance, he is actively receiving the commandments for Israel and for you and I. But secondly, you know what else he's doing?

He's getting the instructions to build the Ark of the Covenant.

Now, that may sound like, oh, yeah, he's building the Ark of the Covenant.

Yeah, it's a thing that happened in the Bible, whatever.

No, no, no.

This is monumental.

The news that he's getting delivered because the Ark of the Covenant was the next way that God desired to get close to mankind.

So here's the timeline.

God designed mankind to be in active relationship with him.

That's how he's originally designed you and I. God has designed you and I to be in relationship with him.

That's what the garden was.

It was walking in relationship with him.

Sin created a separation, a gap between man and God.

So the first thing God does is he wants to get closer to humanity, so he delivers the law.

He delivers the commandments to Moses.

So you have the law, right?

This is what righteousness looks like according to the Old Testament.