I love the sermon preparation almost as much as I do preaching it. As you know, I am studying and preparing a message for a local church where I will have the privilege of filling in for a dear pastor who will be away over the weekend. I’m developing a message on the topic of “Remembering.” I don’t know about you, but for me, it is very easy to forget things. Apparently I am not alone.

The word “remember” is found 148 times in 144 verses in the Bible. In the book of Deuteronomy, the word “remember” is found 14 times. On the Sunday that I will fill in for my pastor friend, the message will be entitled “Remembering and Rejoicing.” The message has four points to it. Over the last few days, I shared one the points of the outline and took you to four wonderful passages in this book of Remembering, Deuteronomy.

Here is the outline we have covered so far.
1. Remember God’s grace (Deuteronomy 5:15).
2. Remember God’s greatness (Deuteronomy 7:17-18, 21).
3. Remember God’s guidance (Deuteronomy 8:2).

Today we come to the final point in the message.

4. Remember God’s glory. “Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry enough with you to have destroyed you” (9:7-8).

You might be wondering where we find God’s glory in these verses. He is the LORD our God. That is glory. But also, He spoke about Horeb. This is another name for Mt. Sinai where the Lord in all of His incredible, majestic, powerful glory met with the children of Israel.

From Exodus 19 we learn that the children of Israel were to take three days to prepare for the meeting before the Lord. They were to wash their clothes, refrain from intimacy for three days, and by all means they were to stay back away from the mountain. And then, “there were thunders and lightnings, a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled” (19:16).

His glory descended upon the Mount. How can we begin to describe His glory? It is the shining brightness and manifestation of His absolute holy perfections I have another wonderful verse about His glory. But I will share it with you tomorrow.

For right now today: What I want to remember sounds simple and yet profound. Here it is. He is God. I am not. He is the God of glory. That, my friends, is simply profound.