His People...Your God

Deuteronomy 29:10-13 – All of you are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God—your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel, together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water. You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, a covenant the Lord is making with you this day and sealing with an oath, to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Genesis 6:18 – But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

Exodus 19:5-6 – Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

Genesis 17:7 – I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Zechariah 8:8 – I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem; they will be my people, and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.”

Application:

• ·         God extends His loving concern to the whole family of righteous Noah—a consistent pattern in God’s dealings with His people, underscoring the moral and responsible relationship of parents to their children.
• ·         God’s people, both individually and collectively, are to be “set apart” to do His will.
• ·         God’s commitment to His covenant was forever, but descendants of Abraham could break it. To be your God was the heart of God’s covenant promise, repeated over and over in the Old Testament. This is God’s pledge to be the protector of His people and the One who provides for their well-being and guarantees their future blessing.
• ·         “They will be my people, and I will be…their God” was covenant terminology, pertaining to intimate fellowship in the covenant relationship between God and His people. Judah’s restoration to covenant favor and blessing rested on the faithfulness and righteousness of God.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV