The Old Testament reading is Exodus 4:18-31. And this passage describes what takes place after Moses’s encounter with the Lord at the burning bush. So we’ll read from 18 to 31. And this is the inerrant, the infallible word of God.

“Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, go in peace. And the Lord said to Moses of Midian, go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead. So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey and went back to the land of Egypt.

And Moses took the staff of God in his hand. And the Lord said to Moses, when you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I’ve put in your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. Then you shall say to Pharaoh, thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son.

And I say to you, let my son go that he may serve me. If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son. At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.

So he let him alone. It was then that she said, A bridegroom of blood, because of the circumcision. The Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him to speak and all the signs that he had commanded him to do. Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel. Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people. And the people believed.

And when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads. and worshiped.”

You can keep your place there. We’ll hear now from the New Testament.

Our New Testament reading is Romans 8:12-17. And this passage speaks of one of the greatest blessings that is ours in Christ. And that is that we have been adopted as the sons, the daughters of God. And that truth of our sonship is one of the themes that we will consider this morning.

So Romans chapter 12, Romans chapter 8, Romans 8 verses 12 through 17. 

“So then brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and of children, then heirs, heirs of God, and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.”

If you noticed in the bulletin, the title that I’ve chosen for this sermon is “Holy Father”. And I hope that didn’t make anybody nervous. I’m not going to preach a sermon about the new Pope, but I took the term “Holy Father” from the high priestly prayer of Jesus in John chapter 17. In that chapter, Jesus is praying to his Father, and at one point in that prayer, our Lord addresses God, His Father, as “Holy Father”.

And this term that He uses to address God is a striking term because it combines two truths about God. On the one hand, God is a Father to His people. He is kind, He is loving, He is patient towards us who are his children and so he is our father but he is also holy. He is infinitely – he is uncompromisingly holy and righteous. He is so holy that he cannot abide with anything or anyone in his presence who is impure or unrighteous in his sight. So he is “Holy Father”. Jesus also brought these two truths together when he taught his disciples to pray, and he taught us to pray in that same way, and that is that we are to begin our prayers with “Our Father in heaven”. Our Father in heaven. 

He is our Father, and yet he dwells in the holy habitation of heaven. In this passage in Exodus chapter 4, we have here a series of loosely connected events that tell us what took place from the time that Moses left the burning bush until the time that he set out for his journey to Egypt. And there are several different lessons that we can learn from this passage, but what I want to zero in on with you today is this juxtaposition or this combination of these two truths concerning God that are brought together in this term, “Holy Father”.

First of all, God is the father of his beloved people. He calls Israel here his firstborn son. So he claims Israel as his children and himself as their father. And secondly, we see in this passage that God is a God of absolute righteousness. He is holy. And so this passage reveals to us that truth that Jesus expressed when he addressed God as “Holy Father”. So first, as we look at Exodus Chapter 4. We’ll consider what this passage teaches us about the fatherhood of God, and then we’ll consider what this passage teaches us about the sonship, or rather the holiness of God. So first, the fatherhood of God, and then secondly, The Holiness of God.

So those will be our two lessons this morning. So first of all, the fatherhood of God. When verse 18 begins, Moses has already left the burning bush. He has had this amazing encounter with the Lord there at the burning bush. And then sometime after that, we don’t know how much longer, but sometime after that, Moses goes back to Midian. Of course that’s where he lived, and he goes to visit his father-in-law Jethro, and he asks Jethro for permission to go to Egypt. And he says that he wants to go there in order to see if his relatives are still alive. Of course, Moses had a commission from God. He was commanded by God to go to Egypt, so it’s not as though he needed permission from his father-in-law to go there.

Nevertheless, Moses, in his humility, he does the courteous and the respectful thing, and he asks for his father-in-law’s permission. After all, he was not just his father-in-law, but he was his employer, he was also his friend. And in verse 18, We read what Jethro says in response to Moses’ request. He blesses him. He says, “Go in peace”. Go in peace. And with that, Moses is all set to go to Egypt to carry out this call that he received from the Lord to be the one who would bring deliverance to the people of Israel. However, apparently Moses still needed a little more encouragement from God here at the beginning of his trip. In verse 19, the Lord tells Moses that he does not need to fear his status as a fugitive from justice when he returns to Egypt. He says that that will not be a problem because all the people who were seeking his life are dead. 

And so, then with that encouragement, Moses gathers his wife and his two sons, and most importantly, he takes in his hand the staff of God. We considered that last Sunday. This is the staff, this humble shepherd’s staff that the Lord would use through Moses to perform these incredible signs and wonders that he will do in bringing salvation to his people.

At some point along the way, the Lord speaks again to Moses, and he tells Moses that these miracles that he gave him to do, the staff turning into a serpent, his hand turning leprous, the water of the Nile turning into blood, we looked at those signs last week, but the Lord tells Moses to perform those signs before Pharaoh and before the Egyptians. And that was to testify to them that Moses was sent by God in order to bring his people freedom from the Egyptians. But the Lord says in 21 that Pharaoh will not be so receptive to Moses and to his demand that the people of Israel be set free.

He says in verse 21 to Moses, “I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go”. So the Lord tells Moses what he’s going to do in Pharaoh’s heart. He’s going to harden his heart. Later, as we go on in our study of Exodus, we’ll give more consideration to what this means, that the Lord will harden the heart of Moses. We’ll consider all that that means, but for now, Just notice that the Lord will harden his heart, that this will be an act of God to increase in Pharaoh his own stubborn unbelief. Now Pharaoh, of course, he alone bore the guilt of his sin, he alone is responsible for his hardened heart. The Lord is free to do whatever He will with His creatures and He does take an active role in hardening Pharaoh’s heart. Again, we’ll go into that more deeply at some other time in the future.

But the important thing for you and me to see here for now is that this declaration of the Lord that he will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that this tells us that everything that will take place in the Exodus, everything that will happen from here as Moses is sent to Egypt, as he will do these signs before Pharaoh, as Pharaoh’s heart will be hardened. All of this is the unfolding of God’s sovereign purpose and plan to rescue his people from Egypt. In other words, God was perfectly sovereign. He ruled with absolute power and authority over all that takes place in Egypt and the salvation of the people of Israel, even the hardening of Pharaoh’s hearts. and we can of course apply that to us as Christians. We have been redeemed by God, we have been saved by Him because of His power, His sovereign rule over all things, over us and over everything that He has made. And so here is a reminder to us that our salvation is the result of God’s absolute rule over all things to accomplish for us that salvation that He has determined for us, that He has planned for us from all eternity.

And so, again, the Word of God testifies to us that as those who have been saved by Jesus Christ, our salvation is a result of God’s sovereign grace. And so we give all praise and thanks to Him. He does all things for our salvation in Christ. Now the Lord tells Moses that when Pharaoh refuses to let his people go, that Moses is to respond to Pharaoh by saying this – and this is verses 22 and 23.

“Moses is to say to Pharaoh, thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son. And I say to you, let my son go that he may serve me. If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.”

This is the very first time in the scriptures now that we encounter what is such a beautiful, fundamental truth about God’s dealings with us as his people, and that is this, that God is not just our God whom we are called to serve and to worship, but he is our Father. He is our Heavenly Father who adopts us as his children. We are his sons and daughters. And so as Christians, as those whom God has loved and adopted, we call him our father. We are his children. Again, this is a very bedrock truth that the scripture tells us about our salvation – that God has made us, he’s brought us into his family. Now there’s a sense in which it’s not untrue, at least it’s not completely false to say that all people are in a sense the offspring of God just by virtue of the fact that all human beings are created in God’s image and so we are his offspring or

we are his children in that sense and that applies to all people. However, only in this very special way can we say that we are the children of God. We are those whom God has chosen to belong to Him. We, in Christ, we are those whom God has set apart in eternity, that we should be His special people, that we should be His children.

And so it is particularly, especially those who belong to Christ that have the right to say, I am a son of God, I am a daughter of God. An unbeliever cannot say that. And just as a human father is filled with love and concern for his children, so the heart of God is filled with love and tenderness and kindness and compassion towards his children, his adopted children, his spiritual children. And in our passage, the Lord testifies to his love for his children Israel when he calls them his son. “They are my firstborn son”. The Lord is declaring here that he loves his people because they are his children. In that light, then, when we consider what Pharaoh is doing here, we can see just how heinous and wicked his sin is. He is not just preventing a people from giving worship and service to their God. He is doing that, but he’s doing so much more. He’s attempting to separate the people of God from their father in heaven who loves them. He is attempting to separate God’s people from the love that God has for them. And of course, that is impossible. That will never happen. But because Pharaoh will attempt to do this, according to God’s perfect justice, it would cost him the life of his own firstborn son. It would cost the Egyptians the lives of their firstborn. But when we view the Exodus in light of this truth that God is bringing to himself his people, his children, this cast, it gives us a different perspective of viewing all that takes place here.

One author has said that the Exodus is not just a story of liberation, but it is a repatriation. That is to say, it is a story of the reunion between God the Father and the people whom he loves and calling them out of Egypt and bringing them to himself that they may know him and serve him and worship him and love him as his people in the wilderness and ultimately in the land of Canaan. And this understanding that God is our father, this is so extremely important. This is so vitally important for us to know based on what the scripture teaches us, based on what our Lord has taught us. When he taught us to pray, the very first words out of our mouth when we pray are to be our “Father” – “Our Father”. And it’s been said that this is the mark of a true Christian, because in a time of great crises or in an emergency, the unbeliever may call out to God. Even the atheist in the foxhole will call out to God, but he’ll say, “Ooh God, save me, help me!”

But the Christian who has come to know God as his Father, instinctively, naturally, when he is in a crisis or an emergency, he calls out, “Father, help me. Oh, Father, save me!” And as Christians, we naturally call out to God as our Father, because according to what we read in Romans Chapter 8, God has given us His Spirit, the Spirit of Sonship, and it is by the Spirit of God that we cry out to Him, “Abba, Father”. And so as Christians, this is one of the glorious truths of our salvation, that we have come to know God, not only as God, as the creator of heaven and earth, as the God whom we are to worship and serve and adore, but more than that, we have come to know Him as our Father. The father who loves us, takes pity on us, is patient and compassionate towards us as our father. 

And one very practical implication of this is that if God is a father to his children, it means that if you are a father, that you as a father are called to reflect the same character of God and his divine love for his children. You are to reflect that in the way in which you love your children. You are to show forth in your love for your children as a father. You are to show forth the character of God in his dealings with his children as our Heavenly Father. The most wonderful illustration that I’ve ever come across of a human father showing forth the divine love of God for his people in the way in which this human father loved his son is what I read, a passage that I read in the autobiography by John Payton. I don’t know if you know who John Payton is, but he was a missionary from Scotland in the 19th century. He served in what was called then the New Hebrides Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It’s called now Vanuatu, it’s a nation state now. But in his autobiography, Peyton writes about the day when he, as a young man, he left his hometown or his village to go off to divinity school. And he and his father walked together to the train station until John’s father had to turn back to go back to his home.

And here’s how John Peyton describes their parting. And it’s a bit long, but well worth hearing, so this is a quote from John Payton’s autobiography. He says, 

“My dear father walked with me the first six miles of the way. His counsels and tears and heavenly conversation on that parting journey are fresh in my heart as if it had been but yesterday. And tears are on my cheeks as freely now as then, whenever memory steals me away to the scene. For the last half mile or so, we walked on together in almost unbroken silence. His lips kept moving in silent prayers for me, and his tears fell fast when our eyes met together in looks for which all speech was in vain. We halted on reaching the appointed parting place. He grasped my hand firmly for a minute in silence, and then solemnly and affectionately said, ‘God bless you, my son. Your father’s God prosper you and keep you from all evil’. 

Unable to say more, his lips kept moving in silent prayer. In tears we embraced and parted. I ran off as fast as I could, and when about to turn a corner in the road where he would lose sight of me, I looked back and saw him still standing with head uncovered where I had left him, gazing after me. Waving my hat in adieu, I rounded the corner and out of sight in an instance. But my heart was too full and sore to carry me further, so I darted into the side of the road and wept for time. Then rising up cautiously, I climbed the dike to see if he had yet stood where I had left him.

And just at that moment, I caught a glimpse of him climbing the dike and looking out for me. He did not see me, and after he gazed eagerly in my direction for a while, he got down, set his face toward home, and began to return, his head still uncovered and his heart, I felt sure, still rising in prayers for me. I watched through blinding tears till his form faded from my gaze, and then, hastening on my way, vowed deeply and oft by the help of God to live and act so as never to grieve or dishonor such a father and mother as he had given me.” 

Here’s a picture of the kind of love that a father may have for his son, that this love, this longing, the tears that he wept, what an expression that God, the love that God has for us as his children.

He loves us with this kind of love. This is the love that he had for his people Israel. And this is the same heart that God has for his people who are in Christ, for you and me as believers in Jesus. And if your faith is in Jesus Christ, this is the love with which God loves you. He is your father in heaven. He provides for you. He protects you. He cares for you. He instructs you. He leads you. He disciplines you, but always for your good. And what a tragedy it is that there are so many people in this world that, for whom the idea of God as a father is an entirely negative thought, or they cannot conceive what it means that God is a father. And that’s because so many people have not known what a father is supposed to be. Maybe they simply didn’t have a father. Maybe he was absent. Or maybe they had a father who was harsh and unkind. And I wonder how many of the social ills and the pathologies that plague our society today can be largely traced back to this one primary cause that there have been too many men who are fathers of children who have not truly been fathers to their children. But we have in God a perfect father. And even if you grew up with a father who was cold, distant, absent, or perhaps harsh, even abusive, nevertheless, by faith in Christ, you have a true father, a father who was tender, tenderhearted, who was kind, who was faithful, who was always present, who has loved you from all eternity, who loves you now, will love you forever. You have a perfect father in God by faith in Jesus Christ. 

And so just as God was a father to the Israelites, so he is your father. And just as nothing would stand in the way between God and his people, his children, not even Pharaoh and all his chariots and armies, not even Egypt and all their might could stand in the way between God and his love for his people. The Bible assures us that there is nothing in all creation that can keep God and His love from us in Jesus Christ. There is nothing that can separate the love that God has for you in Jesus Christ. 

So God is a Father to His people, but He is at the same time a holy God. And this is the second lesson that we’ll take from this passage this morning, the holiness of God. And Moses learns this lesson in the hard way. He learns it in what happens next. And what happens next, in verses 24 and 26. “These are the verses in which the Lord seeks to kill Moses. And this is one of the most perplexing passages in all of Scripture. Why does God, we’ve just been talking about, the love of God, His love for his children. He has just spoken to Moses at the burning bush. He has just sent him off to Egypt. He’s given him these signs. He will be the one who will deliver the people of Israel from Egypt. But then, all of a sudden, abruptly, out of the blue, the Lord appears to kill Moses. And so this is very strange. And as you might imagine, There have been many explanations offered to give some sense to this passage, and all of them are very debatable. But let’s look at these verses briefly and venture an explanation of what they’re saying, what the Lord is speaking to us through them.

So Moses and his family, they’re on their way out of Egypt, and then all of a sudden, with no warning at all, we are told that the Lord sought to kill Moses. He sought to put him to death. But then the wife of Moses, right after that, Zipporah, she takes out a flint and she circumcises one of their two sons. Now, there are two sons with Moses.

We don’t know which one she circumcised. It doesn’t really matter. Then Zipporah takes the foreskin from her son and she touches Moses’ feet with it. And when Zipporah does that, she says to Moses, surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me. Now, what is this all about? Well, I believe that this passage, the key to understanding this passage is to see how this passage is similar to other passages that are given us in scripture, other accounts of when the Lord puts someone to death for transgressing His commandments. For example, in Leviticus, when Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, when they offered unauthorized or strange fire before the Lord and worshiping Him, immediately they were struck down dead. Fire came from heaven and they were burned up in an instant.

Or, in the New Testament in Acts, you remember that accounts, I forget which chapter, but in the early part of Acts, when Ananias and Sapphira, part of the early church, first Christians, they lied to the apostles and the Holy Spirit about the property that they had sold. And because of that lie, they immediately were struck down dead. And what these passages have in common is that they both took place at a time at the beginning of a new era or a new phase in God’s redemptive dealings with his people. And so Nadab and Abihu, when they offered strange fire to the Lord, this was right at the time when the sacrificial system was being inaugurated.

When Ananias and Sapphire were struck down at the, when they were struck down dead by God, this was at the very beginning of the Christian church, the very beginning of the gospel. And here in our passage, we are at the very beginning of what is the Old Testament gospel. That is the Exodus, the great deliverance of the people of Israel from Egypt. And here, seemingly out of the blue, the Lord appears to put Moses to death.

And the lesson in all these accounts, including ours here in chapter four of Exodus, is that the Lord was teaching his people at this crucial juncture in redemptive history, the Lord was teaching his people that he is deadly serious about obedience to his commandments. The people of God had to understand that the Lord’s commands were not to be trifled with. Nadab and Abihu, it was the sacredness of the sacrificial system. They were not to bring to the Lord a sacrifice of their own imagination, what they thought would please Him, but they had to obey God’s command and worship Him according to His word.They didn’t and they were struck down dead. 

With Ananias and Sapphira, the early Christians had to learn that although as Christians, as those who have come to Christ by faith, their sins were forgiven, they were redeemed, they were justified, nevertheless, the God who saved them was a God who still hated sin. And dishonesty, especially lying to the Holy Spirit, was something that his people must not do. And so, as an example to them, they were struck down.

And here now in Exodus Chapter 4, the issue is circumcision. And somehow the wife of Moses, Zipporah, somehow she was able to connect this imminent death of Moses that the Lord was about to bring upon him. She was able to connect that with the fact that Moses, till now, he had failed to circumcise his son. And so she did it for him. And by touching Moses’ feet with the foreskin that she cut off from her son, she was in effect attributing to Moses that act of circumcision as though Moses had done the circumcision that he had failed to do. And that’s why she says to him, surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me. What she’s saying to Moses is, as my husband and the father of our sons, it was you who should have performed this rite of circumcising our son, this rite that involves the shedding of blood. And you’ll notice that when Zipporah touches the feet of Moses with the foreskin that she had cut from her son, that the text says, so He let him alone. So the Lord relented. He did not put Moses to death. In other words, because Zipporah circumcised their son on behalf of Moses, the Lord relented. He did not carry out his intent to kill Moses.

And so Moses’s failure to circumcise his son was such a serious sin, even though he was the servant of the Lord, even though he was the one whom the Lord was going to use to bring the Israelites out of Egypt, nevertheless, the Lord was prepared even to put Moses to death because of his transgression. And so the lesson that Moses learned here, the lesson that he learned almost at the cost of his life, was the holiness of God. That the Lord is a consuming fire, and were it not for His grace, He would immediately and justly destroy the one who sins against Him.

And that’s a lesson that you and I, even as Christians, we must take to heart. As much as we must remember and rejoice in the fact that God is loving, kind, compassionate, forgiving, we must never forget that He remains and always has been, always will be, a God who is holy, infinitely righteous, of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that we are sinners before Him in ourselves, apart from that covering of Christ’s righteousness. We are sinners. And so God is holy. 

Now, most people, and speaking of just people in general, believers, unbelievers, most people like the idea of God as a loving father. That’s a wonderful thought. God is our father. Most people will resonate with that. But the idea of God, that he is morally pure, that he is perfect in righteousness, this is much harder for most people to accept, to stomach. Because people don’t want a God who is holy. And that’s because a holy God is opposed to the sin and the evil that we embrace and that we love as unbelievers, as those apart from Christ.

And until we know Christ, we hate the idea of a righteous God who condemns the sin that we love. And as long as we love our sin, we will only want to flee from such a God who reveals himself as a God who is righteous and holy. And even for us as Christians, the holiness of God, this can be a frightful thing. We read a passage like this and it may trouble us.

What if I, one day, am going about my daily business, and because of some sin that I’ve committed, the Lord strikes me down dead on the spot? Now certainly God is holy, and if He ever wills for any reason to strike down dead someone because of sin, He’s within His rights to do that. But this passage is not meant to tell us what God ordinarily does with us. This is not how God ordinarily deals with us. But this passage is meant to illustrate the truth about the character of God, that He is holy, that He is righteous, that we always need to remember that, to keep that in mind. That when we come to Him, yes, we call out to Him as our Father in heaven, but we are coming into His presence with reverence and awe. And the truth is that as a Christian, the holiness of God should actually be an encouragement to you, even a comfort to you. As even there is that aspect of that the truth that God is perfectly righteous.

Nevertheless, there is something encouraging in that and that is this. The part of the holiness of God is that he will be faithful and true to his word. Because God is pure, because he is righteous, because he can do no wrong, he will absolutely not go back on what he has promised to us. He will fulfill every covenant promise that he makes to us in Jesus Christ. And that’s why in the Bible, we see in the Bible so often that the righteousness of God and the salvation of God often go hand in hand. For example, in Psalm 98:2, “the Lord has made known his salvation. He has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. Psalm 71:2, “In your righteousness, deliver me and rescue me, incline your ear to me and save me. In your righteousness, save me.” 

Because God is righteous, we know that he will fulfill every promise that he makes to us. Because he is holy, we know that he cannot deny himself or be untrue to himself. He cannot break his promises. And the fact that God will keep his promises to bring salvation to his people, that’s demonstrated in our passage by what happens next in the later part of our passage. Basically, all that God told Moses that would happen, happens. Aaron came to meet Moses just as God promised. Together they gathered the elders of Israel. Aaron spoke for Moses to the people just as the Lord said that he would. And then either Aaron or Moses or both of them, it’s not clear, they performed these signs that the Lord had given to Moses to do in front of the people of Israel. And just as God promised what would happen, happen, the people of Israel believed. They believed the signs that Moses had done for them. And they bowed their heads and they worshiped. And so out of his righteousness, God faithfully brought to pass all that he promised Moses. And so the holiness of God means that God will be faithful. He is true to every word that he has spoken, every promise that he’s given you in Christ.

And so we can put it this way that your salvation in Christ is assured not in spite of the holiness of God, but because of the holiness of God. So God is not just the Father to his people, but he is our Holy Father. And Moses learned these two truths in the various dealings that God had with him. And for you and me, the best way to learn these truths is to look to the cross of Jesus. It is at the cross, especially at the cross, that we see the depths of the perfect, the absolute holiness of God in the way in which He must respond to sin. Because it was at the cross that the sinless Son of God, that Jesus Christ, that there He died for you and me. And we can see in that unspeakable agony and suffering of Jesus as He bore the wrath of His Father upon the cross. We can see just how a holy and righteous God must deal with our sin, our rebellion, our unrighteousness. We see in the suffering of Jesus upon the cross how a holy God thinks of our sin. But at the same time at the cross of Jesus, we see the depths of the fatherly love that God has for us. God so loved his children. He so loved his adoptive children, that’s you and me, that he gave up his natural son, his only begotten son, to suffer the penalty that you and I deserved for our sin. What a testimony, what a revelation of the depths of the love that God has for us. He did not withhold his only beloved begotten son, but gave him up for us all, that by faith in him we might be forgiven, and welcomed into the embrace of our Heavenly Father forever.

And so just as God was to Moses and to the Israelites, so to you as well. He is your Holy Father. And just as Moses and the Israelites did, your response as the children of God is to love and to adore Him as your Heavenly Father, and also to serve and to worship Him as your Holy God. Let’s pray.

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