Homilist Exodus 34:2-3 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me in the top of the mount.… I. Be ready for a CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH GOD in the future. 1. As a duty. 2. As a privilege. "In Thy presence is fulness of joy." 3. As a calamity. The hell of the guilty. II. Be ready for a CONSCIOUS ISOLATION OF YOUR BEING in the future. "No man shall come up with thee." 1. There are events which will give us a profound consciousness of isolation. (1) Bereavements. (2) Personal affliction. (3) Death. 2. There are mental operations that will give us a profound consciousness of isolation. Remembranee of past sins, etc. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. |