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Approaching Your Year(2023-4)-1
Contributed by Byron Sherman on Jan 2, 2024 (message contributor)
Summary: 1 of 5. God established a novel way for Israel to approach their calendar year. God’s people should have a particular approach toward understanding their calendar year. But, How are we to approach our new year? A proper approach toward your year is found in...
APPROACHING YOUR YEAR-I— Exodus 12:1-13
•For the subject at hand—The New Year—God’s people must approach it within an exclusive worldview.
Need:
The coming new year, should & can be approached with confidence!
God established a novel way for Israel to approach their calendar year.
God’s people should have a particular approach toward understanding their calendar year.
How are we to approach our new year?
5 paths/trajectories for approaching the new year.
Rom. 14:7-8—“For none of us lives to himself, & no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord; & if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.”
1—A proper approach toward your year is found in...
Your GOD(:1)
Explanation:(:1)
:1—“Now the LORD spoke to Moses & Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,”
“Now the LORD spoke...”
Ex. 3:13-15—“Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel & say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ & they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, & the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, & this is My memorial to all generations.’”
The God of the Bible, being the God of reality, is the Trinitarian God. He has ‘revealed’ Himself to mankind thru His acts of creation. He has revealed Himself to mankind thru many ages, & thru many people, & thru many actions.
YHWH is the God who “speaks” to His people, AND to those who are NOT His people.
He speaks to His people thru his Holy Spirit who indwells those who trust Him with their lives.
?Is your God YHWH—The Father, Son(Christ), & Holy Spirit?—the God of the Bible?
Argumentation:
Ex. 6:6-7—“Therefore say to the children of Israel: ‘I am the LORD; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, & I will redeem you with an outstretched arm & with great judgments. I will take you as My people, & I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.”
Isa. 44:6—““Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: ‘I am the First & I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God.”
Rev. 1:8—“I am the Alpha & the Omega, the Beginning & the End,” says the Lord, “who is & who was & who is to come, the Almighty.”
Rev. 21:3, 7-8—“And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, & He will dwell with them, & they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them & be their God.”.... ““He who overcomes shall inherit all things, & I will be his God & he shall be My son. “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, & all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire & brimstone, which is the second death.””
Rom. 9:25-26—“As He says also in Hosea: “I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved. ““And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ There they shall be called sons of the living God.”
Jn. 14:6—“Jesus said to him[Thomas], “I am the way, the truth, & the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Acts 4:12—“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.”
Col. 3:2-3—“Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, & your life is hidden with Christ in God.”
2Cor. 6:16-18—“And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.”[Lev. 26:12]. Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord.[Isa. 52:11] Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you”[Num. 16:26]. “I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons & daughters, Says the LORD Almighty.”[Lev. 26:12; Ex. 6:7].
