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How does God relate to us?
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Genesis 9:8-17
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Genesis 9:8-17
Genesis 15:7-18
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Genesis 9:8-17
Genesis 15:7-18
Genesis 17:1-7
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During that long period, the king of Egypt died.
The Israelites groaned in their slavery and
cried out, and their cry for help because of
their slavery went up to God. God heard their
groaning and he remembered his covenant
with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. So
God looked on the Israelites and was
concerned about them.
Exodus 2:23-25
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God also said to Moses, "I am the LORD. I
appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as
God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not
make myself known to them. I also established
my covenant with them to give them the land of
Canaan, where they lived as aliens. Moreover, I
have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom
the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have
remembered my covenant.
Exodus 6:2-5
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Then he [Moses] took the Book of the Covenant
and read it to the people. They responded, "We
will do everything the LORD has said; we will
obey." Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it
on the people and said, "This is the blood of the
covenant that the LORD has made with you in
accordance with all these words.”
Exodus 24:7-8
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"'Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you.
Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death;
whoever does any work on that day must be cut off
from his people. For six days, work is to be done,
but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the
LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day
must be put to death. The Israelites are to observe
the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to
come as a lasting covenant.
Exodus 31:14-16
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Moses was there with the LORD forty days and
forty nights without eating bread or drinking
water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of
the covenant-- the Ten Commandments.
Exodus 34:28
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The king [Josiah] stood by the pillar and
renewed the covenant in the presence of the
LORD-- to follow the LORD and keep his
commands, regulations and decrees with all his
heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words
of the covenant written in this book. Then all
the people pledged themselves to the covenant.
2 Kings 23:3
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God has a covenantal relationship with his people
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If you love me, you will obey what I
command.
John 14:15
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Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he
is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be
loved by my Father, and I too will love him and
show myself to him." Then Judas (not Judas
Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to
show yourself to us and not to the world?" Jesus
replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my
teaching. My Father will love him, and we will
come to him and make our home with him.
John 14:21-23
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If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.
This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much
fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. "As the
Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now
remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you
will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my
Father's commands and remain in his love.
John 15:7-10
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We know that we have come to know him if we
obey his commands. The man who says, "I know
him," but does not do what he commands is a
liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone
obeys his word, God's love is truly made
complete in him. This is how we know we are in
him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as
Jesus did.
1 John 2:3-6
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If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in
this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of
Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in
his Father's glory with the holy angels.
Mark 8:38
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There is a judge for the one who rejects me and
does not accept my words; that very word
which I spoke will condemn him at the last day.
For I did not speak of my own accord, but the
Father who sent me commanded me what to
say and how to say it. I know that his command
leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just
what the Father has told me to say.
John 12:48-50
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Jesus calls us to keep his commands
if we claim to love him
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Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our
likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the
birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over
all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created
man in his own image, in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them. God blessed them and said
to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth
and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of
the air and over every living creature that moves on the
ground."
Genesis 1:26-28
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By the word of the LORD were the heavens
made, their starry host by the breath of his
mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea into
jars; he puts the deep into storehouses. Let all
the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the
world revere him. For he spoke, and it came to
be; he commanded, and it stood firm.
Psalm 33:6-9
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Through him all things were made; without him
nothing was made that has been made.
John 1:3
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He sends his command to the earth; his word
runs swiftly. He spreads the snow like wool and
scatters the frost like ashes. He hurls down his
hail like pebbles. Who can withstand his icy
blast? He sends his word and melts them; he
stirs up his breezes, and the waters flow.
Psalm 147:15-18
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The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the
exact representation of his being, sustaining all
things by his powerful word. After he had
provided purification for sins, he sat down at
the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
Hebrews 1:3
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He humbled you, causing you to hunger and
then feeding you with manna, which neither
you nor your fathers had known, to teach you
that man does not live on bread alone but on
every word that comes from the mouth of the
LORD.
Deuteronomy 8:3
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The word of God is necessary because by it,
God creates and sustains all things
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God called the light "day," and the darkness he
called "night." And there was evening, and there
was morning-- the first day.
Genesis 1:5
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God called the expanse "sky." And there was
evening, and there was morning-- the second
day. And God said, "Let the water under the sky
be gathered to one place, and let dry ground
appear." And it was so. God called the dry
ground "land," and the gathered waters he
called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:8-10
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Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground
all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air.
He brought them to the man to see what he would
name them; and whatever the man called each
living creature, that was its name. So the man gave
names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and
all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable
helper was found.
Genesis 2:19-20
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The man said, "This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called
'woman, 'for she was taken out of man.”
Genesis 2:23
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The word of God is necessary because
man is created in the image of God
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As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are
my ways higher than your ways and my
thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:9
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And so I will show my greatness and my
holiness, and I will make myself known in the
sight of many nations. Then they will know that
I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 38:23
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He said, "Listen to my words: "When a prophet
of the LORD is among you, I reveal myself to him
in visions, I speak to him in dreams. But this is
not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all
my house.
Numbers 12:6-7
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The word of God is necessary because
natural revelation does not show us
enough of God