Pastor Chris Enoch - May 28, 2017
Scriptures:
Deuteronomy
26:1-11
When you have entered the land the Lord your God is
giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it,
take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land
the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place
the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name and say to the priest
in office at the time, “I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come
to the land the Lord swore to our forefathers to give us.” The priest shall
take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the Lord
your God. Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a
wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived
there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous. But the Egyptians
mistreated us and made us suffer, putting us to hard labor. Then we cried out
to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our
misery, toil and oppression. So the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty
hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with miraculous signs and
wonders. He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with
milk and honey; and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, O Lord,
have given me.” Place the basket before the Lord your God and bow down before
him. And you and the Levites and the aliens among you shall rejoice in all the
good things the Lord your God has given to you and your household.
1Peter
1:3,4
In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living
hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an
inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you….
Joshua 4:7
These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel
forever.