History Changing Events: God Chooses Israel

Outline of Service 23^rd February 2020

History Changing Events: God Chooses Israel  Exod 19:5

Hymn 104:  God is Our Refuge

The Lord’s Prayer from Luke 11:2-4

Psalm 104:1, 31-35 – God’s Majesty

Bible Readings:

·     God’s Covenant with Israel:  Exodus 19:1-9

·     Israel’s Response:  Deuteronomy 5:22-33

·     Jesus Chooses His Disciples:  Luke 6:12-16; 9:1-6, 28-36  

·     Additional Helpers:  John 10:1-6, 17-20

Hymn 96:  The Great Shepherd

·     God chose Israel to be His peculiar treasure, and to show how a relationship with God would bring peace and prosperity even in this life

·     This Covenant was a conditional Covenant – “if…..then…” 

·     God set out a lifestyle, which was beneficial for people to follow anyhow, and expected that they would obey His instructions 

·     Today God is looking for people who will have Faith in Him and then seek to Him to keep the commandments in them through the Power of His Spirit 

·     God’s true Israel in the Last Days will be recognised because they will live a life of obedience to His Laws and Commandments

·     The Covenant of life of spirit and soul and body will be fulfilled in a remnant of the descendants of God’s Israel at the return of Jesus Christ to this earth.

Hymn 59:  The Time for Fulfillment

Doxology

History Changing Events: The Calling of Abraham

Outline of Service 9^th February 2020

History Changing Events: The Calling of Abraham  Gen 12:3

Hymn 102:  A Place for Everyone

The Lord’s Prayer from Luke 11:2-4

Psalm 105:1, 6-12, 42-45 – God’s Covenant

Bible Readings:

·     God Calls Abraham:  Genesis 12:1-3; 15:1-6; 17:1-7

·     Multiple Promises:  Genesis 16:1-4; 17:20-22; 25:1-2, 5-9

·     Seed and Children:  John 8:31-39

·     All the Earth to be Blessed:  Romans 4:13-18

Hymn 28:  Blessings for All

·     God called Abram to come out from his family and worship Him, and established a line of faithful believers through Abraham

·     God promised that all the World would be blessed through Abraham’s seed  - through Jesus - and also that Isaac’s seed would receive great blessing

·     Our human tendency might be to see the different blessings as prioritised gifts, but we should see them as an order within God’s Plan  

·     All people will be blessed through the sacrifice of Jesus, and have assurance of life in the World to come

·     The blessing to a remnant through Isaac will be to return to the Promised Land – which is their physical bodies – and they will be preserved in spirit and soul and body and be changed, without death, from mortal to immortal beings at the return of Jesus Christ.

Hymn 49:  The Promised Blessing

Doxology