- Movement 1: Prologue Genesis 1-11 The story begins Panorama of the Bible - Movement 2: Patriarchs Genesis 12-50 God chooses Abraham and makes a covenant with him and his descendants - Movement 3: Redemption & Wandering Exodus-Deuteronomy God delivers a people and prepares them to become a nation
- God leads them out of Egypt. The Journey of Exodus - God leads them to His mountain. - God starts to lead them to the Promised Land.
How can we move forward from failure?
Perspective
Exodus 34:6-7 ESV Perspective: See God as He really is The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and 7 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.
The LORD - Yahweh: - Merciful and gracious Perspective: See God as He really is - Slow to anger - Abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness - Keeping steadfast love - Forgiving iniquity, transgression, sin - Will not clear the guilty
The LORD - Yahweh: - Merciful and gracious Who God Is: What God Does: - Slow to anger - Abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness - Keeping steadfast love - Forgiving iniquity, transgression, sin - Will not clear the guilty
All that God does flows out of who He is.
Perspective: See Ourselves as God sees us Exodus 34:9 ESV And [Moses] said, If now I have found favor in your sight, O LORD, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.
Perspective: See Ourselves as God sees us Found favor we have been graced by His grace Pardoned our guilt has been taken away, transferred to Jesus Inheritance a treasured possession of God
Response
Response: Submission Exodus 34:8, 32 ESV And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth 32 and worshiped Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that the LORD had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.
Exodus 34:11-14 ESV Response: Boundaries Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, 12 the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to 13 which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst. You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut 14 down their Asherim (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God)
Relationships
Exodus 40:34-38 ESV Relationships Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of 35 the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and 36 the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over 37 the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out. But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day 38 that it was taken up. For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.
Relationships Moses: Show me your glory God with ME My life is guided by and centered on my relationship with God.
Relationships Moses: Show me your glory God with ME My life is guided by and centered on my relationship with God. Israel: The glory of the LORD filled the Tabernacle God with US We are connected to a community of people who are following God.
How can we move forward from failure?
How can we move forward from failure? Perspective Response Relationships