Does God rescues people just to get them out of trouble?

Or is there something bigger going on? Hey, this is Shriat Bible Project.

Last week, we explored how God rescues his people when they cry out to him.

In today's episode, we're reflecting on why.

He doesn't only free us from corruption.

He frees us for restoration, and not just for ourselves, but for the

whole world around us. Listen in.

Hey everybody, this is Tim Mackie at the Bible Project Project and if you've ever tried to read

through the Bible starting at page one you know that it's about halfway through

the second book Exodus that you really are tempted to just give up.

After all of the drama in Genesis and the exciting story of the Exodus and Ten Plegs, you reach

Mount Sinai with the Israelites and you come to the first large block of covenant laws

And then after that are all of these blueprints without any pictures of the tabernacle and and then the golden calf story, which is itself full of puzzles, and then all of those verbal blueprints about the tabernacle are repeated verbatim again.

This is a tough section of the Bible to read through, but all is not lost.

The whole Mount Sinai narrative begins with an opening paragraph in Exodus Chapter 19,

versus 1 through 6, and if you get what's going on right here at the beginning of all of these covenant laws

the rest of the biblical story comes into focus and those laws and blueprints make a lot more sense.

Exodus 19 opens with the Israelites reaching the foot of Mount Sinai where Moses had first

met God in the story of the burning bush.

And God tells the people of Israel why he rescued them out of Egypt.

You saw what I did to the Egyptians.

I bore you on eagle's wings.

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