The Great Clarification: Exodus 34:6-7

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ Exod 19:5-6 (p. 59)

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Exod 34:6-7 (p. 68, 3rd par.)

Big Idea: My vision of God will transform my world.

Five Movements of The Story.

To prepare for this week you have hopefully been reading from chapter 5, “ New Commands and a “New Covenant.” This part of the Story is also from Exodus, and it includes readings from 8 chapters in Exodus, selected from chapters 19-40.

As a reminder, we are digging deep into the Story through multiple strategies.

Reading the highlights of God’s Story abridged in 31 chapters.
Listening to the whole Bible in a year using the Alpha Bible App
Hearing the Story preached on Sunday Mornings.
Digging Deeper into the Story on Wednesday nights (as Youth and Adults)
Discussing the Story in our Family Groups (nine family groups).

I. What Do You Think About God?

Big Idea: My vision of God will transform my world.

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” A. W. Tozer The Knowledge of the Holy

Satan wants us to be unclear on who God is.
Key Word: Covenant.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ Exod 19:5-6 (p. 59)