" . . . So Moses brought back the words of the people to the
LORD. . . . So Moses told the words of the people to the LORD."
We might be thinking, "Why did God have Moses do this? The Lord could hear what the people said--nothing escapes Him; He knows all things." True, but The LORD is a covenant God. In other words, He op-
erates with His people through a Mediator (ultimately Jesus). When God deals with the rest of the world, He does not employ a Mediator; but when He communes with His church, He does.
We have no access to God without Jesus. No one comes to God "direct-
ly." He may *only* be approached through a Perfect Intercessor (Jesus). Moses (here in Ex. 19) is a "type" of Christ. Outside of our Lord Jesus Christ there is virtually no way to the True God.
[Puritan quote of the day: "This [true] God is joy in sadness, light in darkness, life in death, heaven in hell." --Thomas Shepard, in, "The Sincere Convert"]
