Old testament
Genesis 1:26 Responsibility with God. To Rule for Good. This is what the outcome of Discipleship is Chapter 20 Your Place in this world.
Then God said let us make humankind after our likeness, so that they may have say over the fish, the birds, the cattle and all the earth, and all the creatures that move on the earth.
To have say, to be responsible.
Genesis 5:22 God with us. The Secret of the Blessed Life: God with us How to Live One Day with Jesus Chapter 23
Enoch walked with God.
Deeper experiences of God, God moves in to peoples lives, from James Gilchrists Lawsons Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians.
“The Covenant People from Abraham onward lived interactively with the God who was with them.” Chapter 28 This was the life Jesus lived as well. His oneness with the Father was unbroken. The Tabernacle was a manifestation of this oneness, this with God life.
Genesis 21:14-22
God hears the cry of Hagar’s child as she is cast out and alone.
“Don’t be afraid because I have heard”
Genesis 26:16,28
God was so manifestly with Isaac that his neighbours wanted to be away from him.
Genesis 28:11-21
He set up cam and took one of the stones and placed by his head He fell asleep and dreamed the that a stairway from heaven to earth held angels coming an going. The Lord stood there at the top, saying “I am the Lord the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac, I will give you and your descendants the ground you are on and many blessings. I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land, I won’t leave you alone, you have my word.”
Then Jacob woke and said “God is here and I did not realied it. This is the gate of heaven. This is nothing else than the house of God.” If God protects me, than the Lord will become my God.”
The angels come and go in the outpost of heaven wherever you are at.
Genesis 39:3
Josephs master observed that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made everything he was doing successful.
Genesis 39:21-23
But the Lord showed Joseph kindness and granted favour with the prison warden, and the warden trusted Joseph because whatever he did was successful because the Lord was with him.
Exodus 3:14
Spiritual Formation as a Natural Part of Salvation Chapter 26
God said to Moses “I AM that I Am.” Say this, go to the Israelites and let them know that I Am sent you.
God alone has life in himself (John 5:26) and he gives life to all things (Timothy 16:13)
Exodus 4:1-15
God is with us. This is the secret to the blessed life. Chapter 23
God is with us and will act with us. He talked with Moses, manifested power, with staff/snake, hand/leprosy, listened to Moses. Changed his mind and allowed Aaron to speak for Moses, for God.
Exodus 23:2
Living in the truth. Postmodernism and the Christian Faith Chapter 33
You must not follow the crowd into evil things, in a lawsuit don’t offer testimony that agrees with the crowd to pervert justice, and you must not show partiality in a poor man’s lawsuit.
Exodus 29:46
And they shall know that I am their Lord and shall dwell among them. That’s God’s arrangement with the tabernacle in the wilderness. A way for them to meet.
Exodus 31:3
I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill and ability and knowledge. The price and the Glory of Intellectual Excellence in the Christian University Chapter 40
Leviticus 19:18
You mustn’t take vengeance or bear a grudge on any of your people but you must love your neighbour as yourself.
How to Love your Neighbour As Yourself, Chapter 10
All of us including our neighbours are under God. The highest opportunity and standard is for a disciples to will the best for those around them. The disciple would become the kind of person through vision, intention and means that would have nothing to do with condemnation, withdrawal and attack.
Loving neighbours is primarily who you are, not what you do. Out of who you are, comes what you do.
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