God Tests His Chosen Ones – Exodus E4

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Nobody likes tests. But the test is a recurring pattern in the biblical story for how God relates to his chosen ones. So are humans just lab rats in a divine experiment, or is there something else going on? Join Tim and Jon as they talk about the theme of the test and the famous account of Israel crossing the Sea of Reeds, as we dive into the second movement of the Exodus scroll.

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0:00.0	The idea of taking a test stirs anxiety in our hearts.
0:09.0	Am I prepared?
0:11.0	Am I going to pass or fail?
0:12.8	I know the word test doesn't activate positive associations for a lot of people, but that
0:17.8	is a word introduced in the biblical story for how God relates to his chosen ones.
0:23.8	Adam and Eve are offered a test.
0:25.8	Are you going to eat from the tree of life, God's own life?
0:29.0	Or are you going to eat from the tree of knowing good and bad, seizing that knowledge
0:33.2	on your own terms?
0:35.2	Adam and Eve's son, Kane, is offered a test.
0:38.8	When God doesn't favor his sacrifice.
0:42.2	Is he going to give in to his jealousy and anger and murder his brother?
0:46.0	Noah is given a test.
0:47.8	Will you trust me and build an ark?
0:50.1	Abraham is given a test.
0:51.8	Will you follow me to a new land?
0:54.0	The pattern is when God selects someone to bless them.
0:58.5	Give them as an image and a representative and gives them opportunity and blessing and
1:03.3	abundance and responsibility.
1:05.3	The opportunity becomes the test.
1:08.2	And lurking in the shadows of any test is the slanderer, the evil one, the servants.
1:15.6	And he's asking, can you really trust God?
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