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This morning I am going to piggy-back off of yesterday’s message concerning Jesus as the Son of Man.  This morning I am going to answer the question, if God said no one shall see my face and live, then how then was Jesus God?  

If you turn to Exodus 33:11 you will find this scripture tells us that the Lord spoke to Moses face to face. Seems a little contradictory doesn’t it? How could Moses speak with God “face to face” if no one can see God’s face and live? 

Well  the phrase “face to face” is a figure of speech indicating God and Moses were speaking to each having a  close and in depth conversation.  The reason we know that this was just a figure of speech is because if we backtrack a bit and start reading at  Exodus 33:19 the scripture reads:

18 Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.”19 And the Lord said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”

So you see God was responding to Moses' request when he said “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live”, which confirms that the words, “face to face” was a figure of speech.

IF Moses had actually been face to face with God and seen His face, his request of God would have been different and certainly God’s response would have been different.

Our humanity leads us to crave for the physical and the visual, as it is our nature to find ease in trusting what we can see, feel and touch. 2 Cor 4:16-18 gives us a perspective as to what our minds should be fixated on as it reads:

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 

17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 

18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

What the scripture is essentially telling us is don't be so consumed with what we see because all we can see, feel and touch is temporary, but it is the unseen, which is God that is eternal.  

From the beginning of human existence, going back to the Garden of Eden, we have allowed what we can see to distract us from the very mandates of God.

We take the words, “see and sight” to be strictly physical, but God Almighty does not look at our external but he looks inward.  His measure of seeing and sight goes beyond the physical.

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