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Samuel 7:23 – And who is like your
people Israel—the one nation on
earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name for
himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by
driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed from
Egypt?
Deuteronomy 4:35,37-38 – You were shown
these things so that you might know that the Lord is
God; besides him there is no other…Because he loved your ancestors and
chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence
and his great strength, to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you
and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.
Deuteronomy 7:6 – For you are a
people holy to the Lord your
God. The Lord your
God has chosen you out of all the
peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
Ezekiel 36:22-23,26-27,31 – “Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am
going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone. I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them.
Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares
the Sovereign Lord, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes…I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your
heart of stone and give
you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you
to follow my decrees and be
careful to keep my laws…Then you will remember your
evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and
detestable practices.
Daniel 9:18 – Give ear, our
God, and hear; open your eyes and see the
desolation of the city that bears your Name. We
do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great
mercy.
Application:
- · Moses insisted that there is only one God.
- · God loves for His people. His people should love Him.
- · Holy means separated from all corrupting people or things and consecrated totally to the Lord.
- · “For the sake of my holy Name” was the reason given for the withholding of divine punishment as well as the reason for divine restoration.
- · The ultimate purpose of God’s plans with Israel is that the whole world may know the true God.
- · God declares that He will bring about change. He calls on His people to effect the change. What He requires of His people He always provides.
- · God bestows His Spirit to enable the human spirit to do His will.
- · God’s undeserved grace leads to recollection and repentance.
- · God answers prayer because of His grace, not because of our works.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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