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“Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed.

For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.

Habakkuk 1:5

“You don't make the timeline, the virus makes the

timeline.“

Dr. Anthony Fauci

To all perfection I see a limit, but your commands are boundless.

Psalm 119:96

Exodus 24-31 Community Formation

Inside Out

If we are to be the church that the world needs us to be, we must be willing to let God shape our community and our worship from the INSIDE OUT.

“I am the LORD [YHWH] your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

“You shall have no other gods before me.

Exodus 20:2-3

“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God

Exodus 20:4-5

Pompey and Romans storm the Holy of Holies circa 63BC

Then he took the Book of the Covenant [Exodus 20:22 – 23:33]and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey.”

Exodus 24:7

“Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.  However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate.

Exodus 21:12

Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God

Romans 11:22

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.

Exodus 21:28-29

“If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death … But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible. If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death.

Exodus 21:28-29

“Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.

Exodus 23:2-3

“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.

Exodus 23:9

“Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook a young goat [the kid] in its mother’s milk.

Exodus 23:19

“I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.  I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

Exodus 23:27-28

I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you. Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you.”

Exodus 23:31-33

The LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart prompts them to give …. “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you”

Exodus 24:7

“Have them make an ark of acacia wood …. Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other. Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it. The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed. Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you.

Exodus 24:7

…. David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the LORD … When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.  The LORD’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God.

2 Samuel 6:1-7

“For the generations to come … there I will meet you and speak to you; there also I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by my glory …. Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. They will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.

Exodus 29:42-46

Then the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills …. Moreover, I have appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, to help him.

Exodus 31.1-6

I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue. Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.

1 Corinthians 14:18-20

Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers … But if an unbeliever [unchurch] or an inquirer [seeker] comes in while everyone is prophesying, they are convicted of sin and are brought under judgment by all, as the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”

1 Corinthians 14:22-25