Imagine you are Moses.

You're the leader of an entire people group, a couple million people who up till now have

been living the brutal existence as slaves.

You've been marginalized and mistreated as you build someone else's empire.

But God calls you, Moses, to stand up to the oppressors and to negotiate your freedom.

God works through you powerfully.

Your will and God's will have merged.

You're the one human who is able to meet with God and also do His work.

And God rescues everyone through you.

You are no longer slaves, but now you're wanderers.

Teaching for a new garden home that God has promised.

And on the way, you stop and ascend a mountain to meet with God.

And there, God meets you and gives you the terms for a relationship that He wants to have

with you and all the people.

It's like wedding vows.

You will be faithful to Him and He will be faithful to you.

God inscribes these terms of this covenant on stone tablets.

And the first and most important commitment is that you will not worship any other God,

but Him.

Before you leave, God tells you that down at the base of the mountain, the rest of the

people have already re-biled and God wants out.

But you beg God on behalf of your people, don't give up on us.

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