God's Possession
Robert Dawson
Exodus 19.1-6
One of the challenges we face at every stage of life is finding out who we are, discovering our identity. We spend most of our childhood and adolescence in a mad dash to discover ourselves, to define ourselves and find our place, our position our niche in the world around us. Once we feel as if we have discovered it life changes. We enter college or the working world and that poses new challenges and beyond that marriage and parenthood force us to continually discover who we are at each stage of life ----
Who we understand and believe ourselves to be at the very core of our being will ultimately determine how we relate to other people, how we relate to the world around us and how we act in every phase of life.
The children of Israel faced an identity crisis after their departure from Egypt. They were a people, at that moment without a land, a nation without a country. They were about to face a new challenge and have a new opportunity placed before them. They were also going to be faced with great temptation and pressure -the temptation and pressure to live as every other nation - to live as a nation without God - they would be faced with the temptation to do what each man deemed right in his eyes.
Here in this passage of Scripture we find that God prepares them to enter the land - one of the ways He does this is by instilling in them their new identity - their God given identity. What he says to them and about them is true of us today.
SCRIPTURE
WHAT WE ARE AND HAVE WE OWE TO GOD
In the beginning of God's message we find Him referring to the people as the House of Jacob and the children of Israel. This dual designation serves as a way of reminding them of their humble beginnings, how their nation began with nothing more than the promises of God to one man and one family.
- They were not significant among the other peoples. They were small. They had not done anything great. They had no major acco ...
Robert Dawson
Exodus 19.1-6
One of the challenges we face at every stage of life is finding out who we are, discovering our identity. We spend most of our childhood and adolescence in a mad dash to discover ourselves, to define ourselves and find our place, our position our niche in the world around us. Once we feel as if we have discovered it life changes. We enter college or the working world and that poses new challenges and beyond that marriage and parenthood force us to continually discover who we are at each stage of life ----
Who we understand and believe ourselves to be at the very core of our being will ultimately determine how we relate to other people, how we relate to the world around us and how we act in every phase of life.
The children of Israel faced an identity crisis after their departure from Egypt. They were a people, at that moment without a land, a nation without a country. They were about to face a new challenge and have a new opportunity placed before them. They were also going to be faced with great temptation and pressure -the temptation and pressure to live as every other nation - to live as a nation without God - they would be faced with the temptation to do what each man deemed right in his eyes.
Here in this passage of Scripture we find that God prepares them to enter the land - one of the ways He does this is by instilling in them their new identity - their God given identity. What he says to them and about them is true of us today.
SCRIPTURE
WHAT WE ARE AND HAVE WE OWE TO GOD
In the beginning of God's message we find Him referring to the people as the House of Jacob and the children of Israel. This dual designation serves as a way of reminding them of their humble beginnings, how their nation began with nothing more than the promises of God to one man and one family.
- They were not significant among the other peoples. They were small. They had not done anything great. They had no major acco ...
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