Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God. Exodus 24: 13 Do you believe God is who He says He is? Do you have any doubts? Dear friends, some of us are just starting this journey with God, while some of us have been on this journey for a while. No matter our length of time of being a follower of Christ, we have the rest of our lives to be increasingly intentional about our unbelief and confessing them to Christ. Grant it we don’t know the number of days we will live here on earth. However, we can lean into Christ…
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The Steadfast Love Of God
But it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord had brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keeps his commandments, to a thousand generations, Deuteronomy 7:8-9 As we know, the Israelites are God’s chosen people. He was motivated by love for them. God keeps his promises to those chosen people – from generation after generation.…
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Why The Law
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through Angels by and intermediary. Galatians 3:19 Nomos is the Greek word for law and in Hebrew it is Torah. The meaning for law is teaching or direction. The law can refer to the 10 commandments for the Pentateuch which is the first five books of the Old Testament or it could be any command in the Old Testament. But what Paul is pointing out here about the wall would include the sacrificial system that was part of God‘s ultimate covenant with…
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I Will Be With You
And the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land fo which I shall tell you, sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father. I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all the lands. And in your offspring, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.…
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Walk Before Me
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.” Genesis 17:1-2 Past the age of bearing children for Sarai and Abram being old, God makes a covenant with Abram. God declares himself as God Almighty to Abram meaning that He is all powerful. There is nothing impossible with God. God Almighty can fulfill his promises even when there seems to be no way to fulfill them. This is how God brings Abram’s promised son into the world. With this though,…