Genesis 15:5

He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

From Background Notes [BN] for Apr 30th & May 1st written by Pastor Bob Brown:

On that day when God made his covenant with Abram, He was embarking on the mission of bringing back his lost creation.

And He intended to use His covenant people as the instruments for accomplishing this. When He "sent" them into Canaan to drive out the pagan nations, He did so in order to raise up in the earth a "people for His name". By giving them His Torah, He would instruct them in His ways and shape them into His image once more. Through the sacrificial system and the priesthood, He would forgive their sins and show Himself to be the merciful God. In Israel, Yahweh intended to show Himself glorious to all the other nations. As long as Israel obeyed the word of God, she experienced His blessing, and the nations witnessed "how great is our God". The holy life, as we examined in our previous study, was really the life of God Himself lived out for the world to see. [BN,3]

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* Saturday 6:00pm
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