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iRelate…….to the world
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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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