"If you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession," Exodus 19:5.
(The Good Book says that the former scriptures are for our instruction. So we learn.) God had said the words above to ancient Israel. He had just borne them out of Egyptian slavery on eagles' wings to his holy mountain. God said to them: You shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation; and he would be their God. All Israel agreed to the covenant. But Israel abandoned him for other gods. So God then said: You will soon utterly perish from the land; you will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed in it. 'Soon' meant about 900 years in human years. We learn God's love is hot and serious.
We meet today with a brother or sister in deep reverence for our God. And together we give him thanks that Jesus paid the price for our sin.
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