Entering into a covenant with God is

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• Entering into a covenant with God is
• - Filled with blessings
• Exodus 194-6

People of the Covenant
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• Entering into a covenant with God is
• - Sacred

• Exodus 258-9
• And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may
  dwell among them. According to all that I show
  you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and
  the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you
  shall make it.

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• Entering into a covenant with God is
• - Serious, deadly serious
• Exodus 1912
• 321, 5-6
• 7-10

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• The true essence of God is seen in a covenant
  relationship with Him
• - Gods wrath

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• The true essence of God is seen in a covenant
  relationship with Him
• - Gods mercy
• Exodus 3230
• 3318-19
• 345-7

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• This is what it means to get close to God and be
  in fellowship with Him
• Our weakness and sinfulness
  is exposed
• Yet, we also see how gracious, merciful, and
  forgiving God is

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Exodus 349 Then he said, "If now I have found
grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray,
go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked
people and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and
take us as Your inheritance."
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• Once you become the people of the covenant,
  fellowship with God is everything
• - Israels longing for what it lost
• Exodus 334, 8-10
• 354-5
• 363-7

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• Once you become the people of the covenant,
  fellowship with God is everything

- A mediator and advocate is necessary Ex
odus 3231-32 3312-16
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Romans 834 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ
who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is
even at the right hand of God, who also makes
intercession for us.
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I John 21 My little children, these things I
write to you, so that you may not sin. And if
anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous.
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Exodus 346 And the Lord passed before him and
proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and
gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in
goodness and truth,
John 114 And the Word became flesh and dwelt
among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as
of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and truth.
Exodus 3320 But He said, "You cannot see My
face for no man shall see Me, and live."
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