New Commands and a New Covenant
After the people of Israel were delivered out of slavery in Egypt, they
came to the Sinai Desert. In Exodus 19:4-6, God reminds them of what He has
done, and He asks them to obey Him and keep a covenant with Him in return
for His continued provision. God is saying to His people, I want to advance
my plan to get you back. I want to give you some guidelines to live by, and
I want to come down and dwell with you again. Chapter 5 is a huge
transition in the story. God is not going to just interact with certain
individuals or families; He will share life with all of His people for the
first time since the Garden of Eden. But God says, in effect, “For me to do
this, there are some things that have to be worked out." And the throng of
Israelites says in one voice, "Everything the Lord has said we will do"
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- Mar 22, 2015New Commands and a New CovenantNew Commands and a New CovenantAfter the people of Israel were delivered out of slavery in Egypt, they
came to the Sinai Desert. In Exodus 19:4-6, God reminds them of what He has
done, and He asks them to obey Him and keep a covenant with Him in return
for His continued provision. God is saying to His people, I want to advance
my plan to get you back. I want to give you some guidelines to live by, and
I want to come down and dwell with you again. Chapter 5 is a huge
transition in the story. God is not going to just interact with certain
individuals or families; He will share life with all of His people for the
first time since the Garden of Eden. But God says, in effect, “For me to do
this, there are some things that have to be worked out." And the throng of
Israelites says in one voice, "Everything the Lord has said we will do"
(Exodus 19:8; 24:3).
- Mar 15, 2015DeliveranceDeliveranceWe have seen that God uses an unlikely cast of characters to tell His
story, and this week is no different. God will showcase His power through
the weakness of a man named Moses. If you know Moses' story, you know that
he's fortunate to be alive. He grew up in Egypt when Pharaoh ordered that
all Hebrew boys be killed, but by his mother's ingenuity and God's
sovereignty, he survived (Ex. 2:3-6). Moses discovers that he has Jewish
roots, and eventually he ends up fleeing Egypt because he came to the aid
of an Israelite slave (Ex. 2:15). But then one day—in miraculous
fashion—the Lord speaks to Moses and uses Him to deliver His people.
- Mar 8, 2015Joseph: From Slave to Deputy PharaohJoseph: From Slave to Deputy PharaohAll of us start off thinking our story will be written a certain way, but
it never quite goes how we had planned. We start off with dreams, but at
some point reality wakes us up. Joseph takes up a lot of real estate in the
Old Testament. His story is covered from Genesis 37 through the rest of the
book. Joseph is the son of Jacob, the grandson of Isaac, and the great
grandson of Abraham. Here’s what we are going to see in Joseph’s story: he
starts off with a dream but then experiences incredible disappointment.
- Mar 1, 2015God Builds a NationGod Builds a NationIt wasn’t Abraham’s credentials or qualifications that got Gods attention,
but there is something about Abraham that explains why God used him to
build a nation. Abraham’s story was a story of faith. His life takes up
about 13 chapters in Genesis, and we learn what faith is from reading his
story. It’s because of Abraham’s faith that God chose to use Abraham as
such an integral part of the story.
- Feb 22, 2015The Beginning of Life As We Know ItThe Beginning of Life As We Know ItThe Story is a book of selections from the Bible, arranged chronologically,
that reads like a novel. During this 31-week experience, we will discover
how our story is found in God’s story! There are some big themes to cover
in Chapter 1 of The Story—events and concepts that have been studied for
centuries and dissected for decades appear in this chapter. We are going to
see a cycle that will repeat itself in each story that we encounter
throughout this entire series. It could be expressed as: An earthly dilemma
which begs for a heavenly solution…