--FIRE IN THE DESERT / GRACE UPON GRACE~~

~~"I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."
--[Exodus 3:10] --

--As Moses was tending sheep in a Middle Eastern desert, he saw an odd sight that grabbed his attention--a flaming bush that didn't burn up (Exodus 3:2). When God Himself spoke form the bush, Moses realized he had come to something far grander than it had first appeared. He told Moses, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham" (v.6). God was about to lead an enslaved people to freedom and show them their true identity as His children. (v.10)

More than six hundred years earlier, God had made this promise to Abraham: "All peoples on earth will be blessed through you" (Genesis 12:3). The flight of the Israelites from Egypt was but one step in that blessing--God's plan to rescue His creation through the Messiah, Abraham's descendant.

Today we can enjoy the benefits of that blessing, for God offers this rescue to everyone. Christ came to die for the sins of the whole world. By faith in Him, we too become children of the living God. It is totally only by His grace that we are allowed to come into His presence. ~~

--ODB/TG~

--"By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
Not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."
--[Ephesians 2:8-10]
--"Grace Upon Grace" - (lyrics/video) Matthew West //<https://youtu.be/jqxO1qVSpTo>
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