SCRIPTURE READING
REVELATION 21:3 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them.
LIVING IN HIS PRESENCE HIS DESIRE
GOD’S DESIRE: 1. God made me from Him.
GENESIS 1:11 11 Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.
GENESIS 1:20 20 Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.”
GENESIS 1:24 24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.
GENESIS 1:26 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
JOHN 10:10 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
EPHESIANS 2:1 2 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins.
GOD’S DESIRE: 2. God made me like Him.
GENESIS 2:20 20 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.
GOD’S DESIRE: 3. God made me to love Him.
EXODUS 6:7 7 Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
LEVITICUS 26:12 12 I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.
JEREMIAH 7:23 23 But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.’
JEREMIAH 11:4 4 which I commanded your forefathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, ‘Listen to My voice, and do according to all which I command you; so you shall be My people, and I will be your God,’
JEREMIAH 24:7 7 I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.
JEREMIAH 30:22 22 ‘You shall be My people, And I will be your God.’”
EZEKIEL 11:20 20 that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.
REVELATION 21:3 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them.
WHAT IS THE THEME? “I will be their God and they will be my people.”
LIVING IN HIS PRESENCE HIS DESIRE