What truly sets God’s people apart?
In this message from our Behold Our God series, we look at Jesus as the True and Better Moses and discover that what distinguishes God’s people is not success, security, or answered prayers—but God’s presence.
Israel was rescued from slavery, yet when God felt distant, they grew impatient and turned to something they could see and control. Their story sounds uncomfortably familiar. We often want God to fix our circumstances more than we want to be close to Him.
In Exodus 33, Moses pleads with God, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.” Moses knew that without God’s presence, God’s people would collapse. But Moses could not make that presence permanent.
Jesus came to do what Moses could not.
Jesus is Immanuel—God with us. Through Him, God’s presence is no longer distant or temporary but personal and permanent. In Christ, we are brought into union with God, where His presence no longer destroys us—it restores us.
This message invites us to examine what we are really asking God for, and to choose presence over control, relationship over relief, and Jesus over every substitute savior
