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God’s big picture – the edited highlights.

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Promises and Signposts.A Promise: Genesis 12 :2,3

I will make you into a great nation and bless you; I will make your name great and

you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all people on earth will be

blessed through you

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A Signpost: The Temple

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1 Kings 8:41-43As for the

foreigner……………………………………..

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1 Kings 8:41-43As for the foreigner who does not belong to

your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name – for

men will hear of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm –

when he comes and prays towards this temple, then hear from heaven your dwelling place and do whatever the

foreigner asks of you………..

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1 Kings 8:41-43…….so that all the peoples of the earth

may know your name and fear you as do your people Israel and may know that this

house I have built bears your name.

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Hebrews 9:13,14The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes

of a heifer sprinkled on those who are unclean sanctify them so that they are

outwardly clean. How much more then will the blood of Christ, who through the

eternal spirit offered himself unblemished to God,cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve

the living God.

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So, in the Old Testament the model of mission was centripetal. People from the

outside were drawn into the centre where they encountered God.

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Matthew 28:18-20“All authority in heaven and on earth has

been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with

you always, to the very end of the age.”

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What are the implications for you and me?

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What hasn’t changed between the OT system and today?

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What has changed between the OT system and today?

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1 Corinthians 3:16Don’t you know that you are God’s temple

and that God’s spirit lives in you?

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