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The Old Testament - Family of God = Israel
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2. ON THE AMERICAN CHURCH & THE NATION OF ISRAEL The American Church remembers its purpose, but has forgotten we are called to live as a family; The Nation of Israel remembered they were a family, but forgot their purpose (to be a light to the nations…)
9. GENESIS 12:2-3 I will make you into a great nation, & I will bless you; I will make your name great, & you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, & whoever curses you I will curse; & all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.
13. GENESIS 15:5 He took him outside & said, “ Look up at the sky & count the stars— if indeed you can count them. ” Then He said to him, “ So shall your offspring be. ”
14. GENESIS 17:4-7;15-16 As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, & kings will come from you. I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me & you…
15. GENESIS 17:4-7;15-16 …And your descendants after you, for generations to come, to be your God & the God of your descendants after you…As for Sarai, your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. I will bless her & surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mothers of nations…
17. WHAT’S IN A NAME?! Yahweh = God’s covenant name (Y H W H )
18. WHAT’S IN A NAME?! Yahweh = God’s covenant name (Y H W H ) ABRAM (“exalted father”) to ABRA H AM (“father of many nations”) SARAI (“princess”) to SARA H (“princess” whose offspring would bare the mark of Heaven’s King)
21. CORPORATE IDENTITY > INDIVIDUAL God’s promise to Abraham was…about establishing an ongoing community (through his descendants) that would heal the wound of the world by birthing the Messiah…
22. CORPORATE IDENTITY > INDIVIDUAL The question of the individual “going to heaven” wasn’t the burning issue. The issue was one’s commitment to the covenant people of God while one was alive…
24. SIGNS of THE FAMILY - CIRCUMCISION Not a public sign, but a personal reminder that their old lives were gone (literally “rolled away”)
25. SIGNS of THE FAMILY - CIRCUMCISION Not a public sign, but a personal reminder that their old lives were gone (literally “rolled away”) - THE LAW A way of publically identifying themselves as God’s unique, chosen people
26. SIGNS of THE FAMILY - THE TABERNACLE A public, portable expression of God’s presence with His people & the epicenter of their corporate worship of Him
27. SIGNS of THE FAMILY - THE TABERNACLE A public, portable expression of God’s presence with His people & the epicenter of their corporate worship of Him - THE TEMPLE A public, permanent …
29. GENESIS 22:17-18 I will surely bless you & make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky & as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, & through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed Me.
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31. WHAT’S IN A NAME?! Joseph = Zephenath-paneah (“God lives, He speaks”)
32. WHAT’S IN A NAME?! Joseph = Zephenath-paneah (“God lives, He speaks”) WHAT WAS JOSEPH’S IMPACT? Pharoah Akhenaten (crusaded against Egyptian idolatry, trying to eliminate 1,400 false gods & replace with the One God - “ no other except Him . ” )
33. ISAIAH 19:20ff …When (Egypt) cries to the Lord because of oppressors, He will send them a savior & defender, & deliver them. And the Lord will make Himself known to the Egyptians, & the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day & worship with sacrifice & offering & they will make vows to the Lord & perform them…
34. ISAIAH 19:20ff And the Lord will strike Egypt, striking & healing, & they will return to the Lord, & He will listen to their pleas for mercy & heal them…In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt & Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt My people…& Israel my inheritance.”
36. SO WHAT’S THE GOOD NEWS?! - A NEW COVENANT IS AVAILABLE The Mark of Identity Is Our Faith & Our Changed Lives
37. SO WHAT’S THE GOOD NEWS?! - A NEW COVENANT IS AVAILABLE The Mark of Identity Is Our Faith & Our Changed Lives - YOU CAN BE PART OF THE FAMILY Jew & Gentile, Male & Female, Old & Young…Any & All Who Choose To Follow Jesus
38. SO WHAT’S THE GOOD NEWS?! - YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO IT ALONE “ Solitary saints are as unbiblical as Holy adulterers… ” (Charles Wesley)
