Week 9

Our lecture topic this week was Old Testament Overview.  The speaker was super fun she made learning about the Old Testament entertaining by how excited she was about it! I loved this week... it was great and it really made me want to learn more about the Old Testament and how it falls into history.

Old Testament Overview

Old Testament reveals God in a Big Drama

Covenants in The Old Testament

Abrahamic

Land

Descendants

Blessing

Mosaic

Love God

Love others

Blessing for obedience

Curse for disobedience

David

Secure homeland

House (Dynasty

Son on throne forever

House (Temple) father/son

We need to Raise our Expectations on what God can do because he can do everything!

We need to keep sowing seeds because then we will have a MASSIVE Harvest!!!!

Always expect God to show up today!

How faithful we are with the little God gives up will effect how much we get eternally.

The Israelites thought of themselves as grasshoppers and were afraid to concur the land God promised them. God sees low self-esteem as a sin. STOP!

Don’t offend God by saying the Cross isn’t good enough to save us.

When the people lived under the Mosaic Covenant they would go in a cycle of... 

Blesses-Complacence-Sin-Cursed-Repents

Our minds are the battle ground

Gods word NEVER changes!!!

Jesus got revelation of His calling through reading The Old Testament!

Mosaic covenant

All those curses were nailed to the cross so it’s illegal for us to apply them to ourselves now!

If the people in Jesus’s time knew who He was, they would have wanted to put Him on the throne instead of the cross and that wasn’t Gods plan!

Outreach

As we were finishing up our outreach this week when I got back to the group I found out one of my leaders was trying to communicate to someone who was deaf! I got really excited and walked over to see if I would be able to communicate with them at all through ASL. It didn’t work super great because our signs are so different but I found out he was from Latvia and I got his email address and am hoping to be able to minister to him some more.

Summary

This week started a new fire in me to dive into the Old Testament and try and understand what it means. The September DTS came back and we got to hear their testimonies about what happened on outreach which was great! I also had a great long weekend in London and I tried to pray for a man there but he didn’t want me to so I prayed for him in my head as I walked away.

LONDON!!!!