Stand Alone Message 08/06/17 - FMC

God's Relationship With Us

In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the covenant. Then the Israelites set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai 

Numbers 10:11-12a (NRSV)

What does God do for me?

1.  God ______________me.

Then Moses went up to God; the LORD called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the Israelites: You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.”

Exodus 19:3-4 (NRSV)

2.  God ______________me.

Now therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant… 

Exodus 19:5a (NRSV)

3.  God ______________me.

“You shall be my treasured possession out of all the peoples. Indeed, the whole earth is mine, 6 but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.”

Exodus 19:5b-6 (NRSV)

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 2:9 (NRSV)

“I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me,

I was in prison and you visited me.”

Matthew 25:36 (NRSV)

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.”

Matthew 13:44-46(NRSV)