Book of The Living vs Lambs Book of Life

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Verse 30, now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, you have committed a great sin.

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So now I will go up to the Lord. Perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.

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Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, oh, these people have committed a great sin and have made for themselves a

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God of gold. Yet now, if you will forgive their sin, he said, but if not,

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I pray blot me out of your book, which you have written. I mean, that really tells you how much

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Moses, he loved God, he loved God's promises. He really did care for the people.

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That's what makes a good leader, that they actually care for the people and they're willing to die for the people, not manipulate the people to somehow serve their interests.

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Now, what about this book? We'll close with this idea of the book. He says,

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I pray blot me out of your book. Well, in the

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New Testament, you might remember in the book of Revelation that it mentions the Lamb's book of life.

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Some people might assume that that's what it's talking about. I don't believe that's what it's talking about at all.

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I believe this is almost certainly a reference to the book of the living. Yes. That's mentioned in Proverbs or excuse me,

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Psalm 69, 28. So in the New Testament, the Lamb's book of life, as I understand it, deals with eternal life.

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So if you're saved, if you have eternal life, you are in the Lamb's book of life. That's the book in the New Testament.

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This Old Testament, the book of the living is just whether or not you're alive or dead. I think it's

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God's tally sheet. Yeah, so what's Moses saying?

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Blot me out, send me to hell for all eternity. I don't think that's what he had in mind. He's saying,

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Lord, kill me. Because he mentions atonement a few verses earlier.

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So here he is as the type of Christ willing to die on behalf of God's covenant people.

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So I am willing to lay down my life for them.

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And then the chapter ends with verse 35. So the Lord plagued the people because of what they did with the calf, which