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God Tell Us The Way

We live in a world that is full of patterns, designs.

These designs or patterns can range from functional to artistic.

Definitions of a Pattern is:

1: a form or model proposed for imitation

1: a form or model proposed for imitation: EXEMPLAR

2: something designed or used as a model for making things 〈a dressmaker’s pattern〉

Merriam-Webster, I. (2003).

Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary.

(Eleventh ed.).

Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc.

2: something designed or used as a model for making things 〈a dressmaker’s pattern〉

Definitions of Design is:

1: to create, fashion, execute, or construct according to plan: DEVISE, CONTRIVE

2 a: to conceive and plan out in the mind 〈he designed the perfect crime〉

Functional designs can be found in things like blue prints for a building.

Although it may be an outwardly pleasing building to our sight, it still has to be safe for use and practical.

We also find designs for cars, ships, planes.

These all have a practical purpose for their use although they may be “artistically” pleasing to our eyes.

There are patterns for career and employment.

When we want to become a doctor of medicine, we follow the pattern, the education model set by the university in order for them to issue us our degree and eventually get our license to practice medicine, once we have complied with the complete PATTERN.

When we want to get our drivers license, we have to follow the pattern of education and training established by our state of residence, and pass a test, in order to be granted a license to drive.

There are patterns for suits and dresses

There are patterns for games such as bop it, or connect four, that we have to follow if we want to win.

There are patterns for plays that sports players, such as football, have to follow in order for the quarterback to know where to look when he wants to get the ball down field and ultimately to the end zone.

We find patterns or designs all across our world in every culture, amongst every ethnicity.

Patterns and designs give order to our lives, we call these routines.

They can help us to know what is normal or abnormal, such as in a regular or irregular heartbeat.

There are patterns of behavior that we call habits or disciplines depending on the context.

These also help to know if something is healthy or unhealthy such as good or bad habits behaviorally or good or bad habits of eating.

We do something consistently that is good or bad, or we eat certain types of foods on a consistent basis that are either good or bad for our physical well being.

Patterns are EVERYWHERE!

Now as our Pastor recently spoke on, this is either by chance or by DESIGN.

On our end, as humans, we make patterns by design typically, we make them on purpose for a reason.

Our worldview is based on our beliefs, which is based on what we have been taught and experienced, good or bad.

For this world and this life to have happened by chance and to believe that is to be taking a big gamble as well as to not take note of natural patterns such as birth, flowers, animal migrations, constellations, mass bird flight patterns, even down to DNA.

All these patterns in our world naturally would be highly improbable, like 70 to the hundredth power.

For us as mankind to have an affinity for design and patterns, alongside the natural occuring patterns in nature, accidentally, is a REAL miracle in itself.

On the other hand, if all these patterns and designs were done on purpose, then it speaks of a DESIGNER, just as much as we have fashion designers.

As Christians, Bible believing disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, we KNOW that our DESIGNER is real.

His Revelation of Himself and of creation, which we call The Bible or The Word of God, informs us of His designing of creation and from where the patterns in nature originate.

They were placed there on purpose, to express our Creators creativity and delight in consistency and beauty.

He is a God of order, not of chaos.

Genesis 1:26-

We are informed that our Created us in His IMAGE and LIKENESS

There was intentionality in our creation, we were designed the way we are purposefully.

We were created, fashioned, patterned, designed, to be like our Creator.

What He Is over all creation, care taker, director, steward, provider, nurturer, etc., mankind was to be on the earth.

Throughout the Word of God, what our Creator has revealed to us concerning Himself, mankind, the supernatural beings, and the interactions between us all, we find many patterns.

Mankind’s rebellion against our Creator created a necessity of patterns that were not meant to originally exist.

From the Front to the Back of The Bible, Genesis to Revelation, we discover these patterns repeated.

Some good, some horrible.

We find patterns for salvation, or deliverance from God’s Just judgment on a wicked and rebellious, sinful, mankind.

We find patterns given by our Creator of how to much full, experiential, contact with Him.

We find patterns of mankind’s eventual fall back into wickedness following the pattern of our Creator trying to elevate us back to our original condition of spiritual and physical wholeness.

The two alway play on each other.

There are patterns for victory, and patterns of behavior that lead mankind into defeat and bondage.

We want to discuss the patterns of rebellion, grace, salvation, and making contact with our Creator.

Before we get to the main body of the lesson, we want to discover who our Creator Is, in Character.

This will help us to understand the patterns that we are going to see.

In the first few chapters of Genesis we can only discern so much of God’s character only by His actions.

It is later, in the Book of Exodus, after God has rejected the world at larger for it’s continued rejection of Him and delivering one nation, Yisra’el, from slavery, that He describes Himself, His Character, so as to be understood by His people.

Exodus 33:

When we really want to get to know our Creator, He will reveal Himself to you, but we have to position ourselves the way He says to in order to make contact with Him because of His Nature vs. ours.

Exodus 34:

Our Creator is

Merciful

Gracious ( above all else, merciful and abounding in compassion),

longsuffering (patient),

abounding in goodness ( A masculine noun indicating kindness, lovingkindness, mercy, goodness, faithfulness, love, acts of kindness)

A masculine noun indicating kindness, lovingkindness, mercy, goodness, faithfulness, love, acts of kindness), truth.

above all else, merciful and abounding in compassion

Truth- It was the barometer for measuring both one’s word and actions

Baker, W., & Carpenter, E. E. (2003).

The complete word study dictionary: Old Testament (p.

360).

Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers.

truth.

In the Garden of Eden we find the patterns for grace, mercy, obedience, warning, rebellion, and judgment set.

We also find another aspect of His Nature.

It is the attribute of Holiness and required His people to pattern themselves after His Nature of Holiness.

Leviticus 11:

This word is often used to refer to God as being inherently holy, sacred, and set apart and as being free from the attributes of fallen humanity.

In the Garden of Eden we find the patterns for grace, mercy, obedience, warning, rebellion, and judgment set.

This word is often used to refer to God as being inherently holy, sacred, and set apart and as being free from the attributes of fallen humanity.

Due to this aspect of His Nature, in order for mankind to have contact with Him, they had to follow His instructions to place themselves in a state in which He could manifest Himself, make Himself visible and felt, unto them.

They had to cleanse themselves of everything that resulted from the effects of sin in the world as a whole.

So back to the Garden

In the Garden of Eden we find the patterns for grace, mercy, obedience, warning, rebellion, and judgment set.

God sets the pattern for warning first and outcome of judgment for rebellion.

He gives Adam, the head or leader of all mankind under God Himself, a commandment and a warning with the consequences of the rebellion in order to deter him.

Warning someone of danger is an act of love and concern.

The serpent, who was a fallen angel named Lucifer, later called satan, entices mankind to not believe what their Creator said was beneficial and not to be satisfied with God have given them.

Action follows the seed planted and the rebellion within mankind has taken hold.

This prototype for the pattern of rebellion is now set.

We then see following the rebellion the pattern for Grace and Mercy and Judgment

Genesis 3:16-

Although they did not immediately die, the death process did begin, like taking a piece of fruit from it’s source.

There were consequences for their actions, but God covered their nakedness and spared their lives.

It took lives to spare their lives and physical nakedness.

As one makes their way through The History of God and mankind, we find these patterns over and over.