The People of God

The People of God

1. Today’s ServiceToday’s Service Sunday, 6.4.18Sunday, 6.4.18

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7. A Prayer For The People of God
Your hand is upon your people, O God,
to guide and protect them through the ages.
Keep in your service
those you have called and anointed,
that the powers of this world
may not overwhelm us,
but that, secure in your love,
we may carry out your will
in the face of all adversity.
Amen.

8. Today’s ServiceToday’s Service Sunday, 6.4.18Sunday, 6.4.18

9. The Main Thing...
LAST WEEK
- The same Spirit Who was hovering over
creation, Who landed on Jesus, and Who
fell at Pentecost is the same Spirit
available to us today
THIS WEEK
- The Church is a continuation of the plan
God has had from the beginning: to create
a family to join God on the mission of love

10. A Walk Through The Bible...
GENESIS 1-2
- Reveals God’s plan for human vocation:
living in relationship with God as divine
image-bearing representatives
GENESIS 12
- Reveals God’s covenant promises
to Abraham and Sarah, that through
them all the nations of the world
would be blessed

11. EXODUS 1-14
- Reveals God as the deliverer and liberator
of God’s people from oppression and bondage
EXODUS 19
- Reveals God’s covenant love for Israel, and how God called
them to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation
LEVITICUS/NUMBERS/DEUTERONOMY
- Reveal the promises and expectations for
Israel as God’s covenant people in ways that
makes sense to them in their cultural context

12. JOSHUA
- Reveals God’s faithfulness to give Israel the land
on which they were to live out their covenant calling,
despite their culturally conditioned ignorance and immaturity
JUDGES
- Reveals the pattern of sin, sorrow, supplication,
and salvation amidst God’s faithfulness and
Israel’s continued unfaithfulness
SAMUEL/KINGS
- Reveals God’s willingness to further accommodate
Israel’s weakness through the Davidic kingship

13. EZRAH/NEHEMIAH
- Reveal Israel’s continued struggle to be faithful to their
covenant responsibilities after their plan for kingship
fails and sees them wrestling with the complexities of exile
RUTH/ESTHER/JOB/ECCLESIASTES
- Reveal God’s sovereign wisdom and power,
as well as God’s loving kindness for God’s people
in the midst of their questions, doubts and struggles
PSALMS/PROVERBS
- Reveal (et. al.) God as one who can handle people’s
brutal honesty, as well as God’s personified Wisdom

14. MAJOR/MINOR PROPHETS
- Reveal God’s heart for God’s people to live and extend
faithfulness, righteousness and justice wherever they live
MATTHEW/MARK/LUKE/JOHN
- Reveals Jesus as the True Human, the Faithful Israelite,
and the “YES!” to all God’s covenant promises
THE ACTS of THE APOSTLES
- Reveals the Church as a continuation of
God’s plan to bless the nations through
a covenant family on a mission of love

15. PAUL’S WRITINGS & OTHER NEW TESTAMENT LETTERS
- Reveal God’s heart for a single covenant community
crossing all previous societal dividing walls, and describe
how local expressions of that community can/should function
in light of God’s faithfulness expressed in Jesus as Messiah/Lord
THE BOOK of REVELATION
- Reveals God’s future faithfulness to liberate
God’s people and creation as a whole from the
bondage of sin and evil, and to restore all things
to their originally planned goodness and purpose
through the unimpeded Kingship of the Slain Lamb
who rules through self-sacrificial love

16. Our Lamb Has ConqueredOur Lamb Has Conquered Let Us Follow himLet Us Follow him

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18. Mark 12
Hear, O Israel:
the Lord our God, the Lord is one;
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind,
and with all your strength.’
And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
There is no other commandment
greater than these.