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