WITH MY WHOLE HEART - A Place of Remembrance // Sunday, February 5, 2023 // Jeff Hines, Lead Pastor

Sunday — February 5, 2023

A Place of Remembrance 

Exodus 25: 8 (NLT)

    Have the people of Israel build me a holy sanctuary so I can live among them.

How would God’s people and remember Him? 

Exodus 6: 6 – 8 (NLT)

    “Therefore, say to the people of Israel: ‘I am the Lord. I will free you from your oppression and will rescue you from your slavery in Egypt. I will redeem you with a powerful arm and great acts of judgment. 7 I will claim you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God who has freed you from your oppression in Egypt. 8 I will bring you into the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as your very own possession. I am the Lord!’”

Exodus 6: 9 (NLT)

    So Moses told the people of Israel what the Lord had said, but they refused to listen anymore. They had become too discouraged by the brutality of their slavery.

Exodus 15

     11 “Who is like you among the gods, O Lord— glorious in holiness, awesome in splendor, performing great wonders? 13 “With your unfailing love you lead the people you have redeemed. In your might, you guide them to your sacred home. 17 You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain— the place, O Lord, reserved for your own dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established. 18 The Lord will reign forever and ever!”

What impact did the Hebrews newly acquired knowledge of God have on their hearts?

What picture of hope and their future relationship with God begin to emerge?

Exodus 19: 3 – 8 (NLT)

    Then Moses climbed the mountain to appear before God.

    The Lord called to him from the mountain and said,

    “Give these instructions to the family of Jacob; announce it to the descendants of Israel:  4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians.

    You know how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 

    5 Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant,

    you will be my own special treasure from among all the peoples on earth;

   for all the earth belongs to me.  6 And you will be my kingdom of priests, my holy nation.’ This is the message you must give to the people of Israel.”

    7 So Moses returned from the mountain and called together the elders of the people and told them everything the Lord had commanded him. 

    8 And all the people responded together, “We will do everything the Lord has commanded.”  So Moses brought the people’s answer back to the Lord.

Do you think the Hebrews fully understood the kind of relationship God desired to have with them?

Exodus 19: 16 – 19 (NLT)

    On the morning of the third day, thunder roared and lightning flashed, and a dense cloud came down on the mountain. There was a long,  loud blast from a ram’s horn, and all the people trembled.  17 Moses led them out from the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in the form of fire. The smoke billowed into the sky like smoke from a brick kiln, and the whole mountain shook violently. 19 As the blast of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God thundered his reply.

How do you think you would have felt standing their witnessing this event?

Do you think this experience would influence the Hebrews faith and commitment to “do everything the Lord has commanded.”?

How long do you think this experience would impact the Hebrews?

Exodus 32: 1 (NLT)

    When the people saw how long it was taking Moses to come back down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron.

   “Come on,” they said, “make us some gods who can lead us. We don’t know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt.”