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  RON BAILEY - PART 6
  by Ron Bailey
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Summary: This sermon reflects on God's remembrance of His people,
particularly the restoration of the covenant with Israel after their
disobedience and sin. It highlights the concept of 'covered love' where
Israel's love for God was not based on what they could gain. The sermon
emphasizes God's forgiveness and recommissioning of Moses and the people
of Israel, leading to a period of restoration and dedication to God,
culminating in the building of the Temple and offerings made to God.

Duration: 4:16

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This sermon reflects on God's remembrance of His people, particularly
the restoration of the covenant with Israel after their disobedience and
sin. It highlights the concept of 'covered love' where Israel's love for
God was not based on what they could gain. The sermon emphasizes God's
forgiveness and recommissioning of Moses and the people of Israel,
leading to a period of restoration and dedication to God, culminating in
the building of the Temple and offerings made to God.

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CONTENT
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Moreover, the Buddha-Lord came to me saying, Go cry for the healing of
Jerusalem, saying, Thus says God, I remember you. Yes, I remember you.
Jeremiah was a fast 600 BC.

Sinai was brought in about 1300 BC. 700 years ago, God was referring to.
And he says to the people of Israel, I remember you.

I remember you. Listen to a broken clock of gold. I remember you.

The calmness of your youth. The love of your children. When you went
after Jesus, in the wilderness, in a land of what must serve.

Israel was colonized at the moment. And the first fruits of his
increase. I remember you, he says to God.

I remember you when you went after me. Not just for the promised land
that you would get as a result of following me. But when you went after
me.

There's a phrase we use in English. We talk about covered love. Covered
love is when you love someone for what you can get out of.

Israel, at this point in their life, were not loving God for what they
could get out of. You went after me, he said. Now if you remember the
history, my memory is quite fixed on it.

I can remember the people of Israel being like this. I can remember
moaning constantly. I can remember sinning constantly.

Disobeying God. I can remember all that. But there's a point in time in
the story of Israel when God effectively restored the covenant to them.

Moses had broken the covenant by the covenant law. But they had broken
by their sin and effectively tore up the legal document. But God said,
get me two tablets of stone.

So he writes it down again and he comes back. And then something
happens. He says, forgive me.

And if not, then drop me out. He says, if possible, do it this way. And
God says, effectively, it's not possible to do that with you, Moses.

There's another media to later on. Do you follow that? There's another
media to later on who will not take my lifetime. Let me pay the price
for this.

But for Moses, God recommissioned Moses. He recommissioned the people of
Israel. And then for a period of a whole year, they spent a whole year
preparing a crusade.

That's an old language word. This is all of their freedom, period. You
never know what they were called, Jewish young men.

They weren't supposed to engage in any business that took them away from
their house. They weren't supposed to go away for war, for a whole year.
They were supposed to stay at home and cheer up the wife.

But what it means is that they were able to give themselves to one
another, without any other distraction, for a whole year. And actually,
for a whole year, Israel, that had sinned and broken God's heart, was
restored. And for a whole year, they gave themselves to God.

And they built the Temple. And they began to take this offering. And
every morning, they brought that.

And every day, they put another lot. And every day, they put another
lot. And Moses would kind of distribute it to the people who were
building different parts of the Temple.

And in the end, they came back to Moses and said, Stop! It is a unique
financial appeal.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/jd8mDjnx4wo.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/ron-bailey/ron-bailey-part-6/
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