Sermon Tone Analysis

Heavenly Father.

We thank you so much for this time that we get to come together as a people.

As a people who have a common understanding that we are in need.

We are in need of you.

We are in need that.

Our hearts long for you.

We have a a god sized hole in our lives and in our hearts.

And we pray that you will grant us faith in you today to continue to believe to continue to live out that Faith to continue to walk by faith and not by sight to care more about the true reality that you tell us than the screaming realities of our culture.

We pray, you will help us to live within wisdom and intention of the two.

Are you help us to be a light to a watching World in Jesus name?

Amen?

I really like a couple of martial arts movies.

I've seen, I know a lot of movie references recently, but but this isn't isn't specific.

And then I actually haven't watched that many martial arts movies that much more time.

Practicing, martial arts.

Then I have watching, but it seems to be a truism of a lot of these movies.

At least a few that I've seen where it always starts out with old guy in all the talking about like my favorite is an old guy with a cane and he's moving like this, right?

And and you just have this sense that something in his DNA, something in his identity.

Something in his self perception that he wants the world to see has changed.

There's something mysterious happening in the first like four steps, as a man walks forward, with his Cane.

And you think man, or guy can't even move.

You know, until the Damsel in Distress, or the child put at risk or, or whatever comes to light and suddenly, you realize that Kane comes up and becomes a weapon and before, you know, what the bad guys are on the ground.

The old man, having moved lightning-fast and then going back to his

pain walking.

I was kind of like that cuz you're like and now the good part we see how this old guy becomes a superhero now that actually, but, but it occurs to me that many of us have lost our identities along the way, especially as we age that sometimes the pressures of this world, the so to speak literal or metaphorical knee.

Pain or joint pain causes us to forget in body in mind and spirit that which we know to be true.

Did we lose part of who we are?

At least we think we do.

It took thousands of years for to be solidified that the nation of Israel had lost who they were.

It was crystal clear initially.

It was it was bailed.

It was hidden, but still clear.

Many of us when asked about the Old Testament.

We have some things to say about the Jewish Nation who they were, whose they were and how they were to live.

But few of us would say that the Jewish Nation had existed.

Be Vangelis.

Let's put the New Testament Concept in her mind that that that the people of God, existed to reach out to, and to claim so to speak more people for God to have a missional identity.

In most of our minds that kind of happens and acts almost like an accidental Discovery, an extension of what Jesus taught but that it hadn't been the plan from the beginning in the same way that we're trying to get back to the Garden as though it wasn't God's initial plan to have Adam and Eve Fall Into Darkness in sin and then to draw him back to himself.

It's like let's let's do the whole send them out of the garden thing.

The night fails.

Right, Clancy, let's read the world as though that wasn't God's plan from the very beginning.

What does stablish of people for ourselves, call them out to ourselves, to be the people of God.

And then what happens, They Don't Really succeed in.

So God says plan, like f by this time.

Let's let's send Jesus.

As though that wasn't the plan from the beginning.

But it was.

We lose perspective in the majority of pages of the Bible between, especially Genesis 11.

An axe one, we lose perspective.

That in the very beginning of the text of scripture.

We have all nations of the world.

The Bible starts out with Adam and Eve as the first people that is not just Abraham Isaac and Jacob ancestors, according to the text.

That is every one of our ancestors.

In case, we aren't sure about that.

We have all of the ancestors that are present in a live at the time listed.

In Genesis 11.

There were seventy Nations listed.

We could read a couple of them and Genesis 11:10 and following.

These are the generations of Shem when she was 100 years old.

He fathered two years Shem.

Lived that we have another, we have another, we have Shayla.

We have Ivar.

We have pay leg, and then it goes on and it lists.

All of The Descendants, all of the nations of the world.

The plan was for the nation from day one.

They won all of the Nations included.

Someone's going to say day6.

Okay, I get it included, Adam and Eve from the very beginning.

The idea was not just a people, but to have the people on the Earth, be God's people to be a blessing to Every Nation, every family on the planet.

Until then we have the abrahamic Covenant.

Let's go ahead and and start reading the text in Exodus 19.

We could go ahead and stand for the reading of God's.

We're going to flip back and forth as we've been doing the last few weeks, but let's go ahead and stand for this.

Exodus 19 4 through 6.

You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore on you in Eagle's Wings and brought you to myself.

Now therefore if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my Covenant, you shall be my treasured possession.

Among all peoples for all the Earth is mine and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

These are the word that you shall speak to the people of Israel.

This is God's word.

I'd like you to go ahead and take your seat and will continue to to go through the texts.

You should be my treasured possession.

The identity of Israel quickly became, we are the treasured possession.

The chosen people of God.

And as we read through the Old Testament, I think that's what tends to ring through.

Our ears is that these are the special people of God for God to God for the Israelites to God, for God to the Israelites for the Israelites.

But what does that text say?

Did you see it?

A Moana.

What are the next few words?

All.

The.

People's all the peoples, not, some of the people, not the Jewish people, all the people among all the peoples to get this idea.

Okay, you're called out from among, but there's no from there.

You shall be my treasured possessions among all the peoples implying that there's a continual dwelling of the Israelites of God's people among the people.

For all the Earth is mine.

That's a claim that the Declaration.

We send somebody to the Moon.

You stake your claim is a we got there first.

It's ours got a single whole earth is mine.

Not just Mesopotamia.