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Overview: Exodus 19-40 1. God becomes Israel’s; Israel becomes God’s (Exod. 19-24)The covenant God makes with Israel in Exodus 19-24 fulfills a promise made to Abraham to be the God of his offspring forever (Gen. 17:7). Through this covenant, God formally binds Himself to Israel. Israel becomes His, and He …

Exodus 1-18 Part 1 of 2 In Exodus, the Israelites come to Mt. Sinai, where God invites them into a covenant relationship. He wants to make them his representatives to all the nations and come to personally live in their midst. But Israel rebels by making an idol of the …

Joel Osteen Ministries Today’s Sermon༺Being Determined to Enjoy Your Life༻ ❣JoelOsteen Podcast 2021❣ When you commit your dreams to God, He will help you bring them to pass. Because He is committed to us, we can be confident in committing our lives to Him! Your best days are still ahead, …

Bible: Jude (Overview) What’s the big idea? Jude’s purpose in his letter was twofold: he wanted to expose the false teachers that had infiltrated the Christian community, and he wanted to encourage Christians to stand firm in the faith and fight for the truth. Jude recognized that false teachers often …

Overview: John Ch. 1-12 (Bible) Chapter Summary To review methodologies and to illustrate that they can be used with any book, this chapter applies all four methods to the Gospel of John. The Gospel of John from the Perspective of Genre Criticism The Gospel of John, like the Synoptic Gospels, …

Overview: Matthew Ch. 14-28 14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: 15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have …

Matthew (Part 1) Chapter 1-13 Themes and Structure of the Book The first theme in Matthew shows Jesus as the promised Messiah from the line of King David. The second theme is that Jesus is the new, authoritative teacher of God’s people like Moses in the Old Testament (OT). It’s …

Genesis 2 Summary Nine generations of Shem’s descendants, the Semites, pass. God calls on a man named Abram, living with his father Terah and his wife Sarai in Haran, a city in upper Mesopotamia. God makes a covenant with Abram, promising to make Abram’s descendants into a great nation. Abram …

The Book of Proverbs The Book of Proverbs is divided into four main sections, with three additional sections, or appendices, included at the end. The first third of Proverbs is an extended lecture spoken by the personified voice of “Wisdom.” This section is the most conversational, narrative, and thematic portion …

The Book of Ecclesiastes The narrator of Ecclesiastes is a nameless person who calls himself a “Teacher,” and identifies himself as the current king of Israel and a son of King David. The Teacher opens with the exclamation, “Vanity of vanities . . . ! All is vanity” (1:2). He …