Creation

What does it risk if they fail to hear from me?

We’re reading the Bible wrong. The greatest challenge to interpretation is missing the whole for the parts.

We’re conservationists. We have to work hard to preserve the beauty of the forest.

What am I proposing?

Moses gives us this amazing identity of people who dwell with God, who then share in his rule of the world.

God is teeming with life and he doesn’t keep all that life and goodness to himself. He loves to share it with his people.

Four Ways to Describe a Temple

God’s Spirit is his presence

Moses communicated like a missionary

Gudea built the building of the temple in the first three days in the next three days put all the ornamental trappings of the temple. Built the structure then they filled it.

Image of God- last step in temple construction

Inhabiting a resting place in the ANE is the equivalent to being enthroned.

Three ways you were made to rule

Served the gods by doing the work the gods didn’t want to do.

Only kings were in the image of God

Pharoah slide

God shares power.

How do we dwell? How should we rule, by hearing his Word!!

What are the barriers?

Are you saying I can’t read the Bible?

Why haven’t I heard this anywhere else?

Next Steps

Do you hear his voice or are you left with your own voice echoing in your Head?

If the Bible never challenges you, you may not be worshipping the God of the Bible.

In just a minute we are going to take communion. We are going to eat from the fruit of a tree. This tree though is a cross.