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Does God Count You Personally Important? (Does God Care About Each…

- - - - allow life
        
        constant, consistant, reliable
        
        show God is interested in mankind, not far off
  - - - Love God with whole heart, mind, soul
        
        Love your neighbor
        
        Respect and honor life
        
        Marriage is holy and lifelong committment
        
        Sex only for man & woman married to each other
      - breaking moral laws leads to life of self-centered, empty life, alienated from God, ultimately death
        
        Religious hypocrisy - worst violation of God's moral laws
        
        claiming to be godly but actually doing wrong
- - - - replaced Adam as mankinds father, bought us back from sin, lets us have a good relationship with God
  - - - Isa 1:18
  - - - understanding of His word only possible to those He allows
    - - Car has about 30,000 parts
        
        37 trillion cells
        
        100 billion neurons - 1.5 quadrillion synapses (15 with 14 zeros)
- - - - We can do the same - God's word, Jesus example and instruction, apostles example and writings
  - - - content mostly dealing with humans - helps us understand and and relate - PIC#3 Hannah, Joseph, little Israelite girl, Job, Martha
        
        choose to use imperfect humans to write down His own thoughts Moses, Jonah, Peter, David, Paul
    - - Bible perfect gives us everything we need to draw close to God
  - - - Relationship with God or affects our spirituality
    - - "not the answer I was looking for but the answer I needed"
- - - - Faithful see one thing, those without see the opposite
        
        Example of Jerusalem's destruction
        
        Romans surrounded it 66 CE, later left
        
        Faithful Christians remembered Jesus prophecy and instructions to flee and not return
        
        Those without faith stayed or returned later
        
        Roman army back in 70 CE, destroyed city, over 1 million killed, less than 100,000 survived but made slaves or killed later in arena
  - - - Bible
        
        not just laws but principles - Jehovah's thinking fulling revealed to us, how he feels, what he likes, hates, what true justice is
    - - Israel chosen - demonstration of God's principles and qualities
        
        Obedience - peace, joy, goodness abounds Disobedience brought the opposite
    - - Jesus on earth - fully tested, understands our makeup and problems
        
        Jesus carefully selected those who would rule with him in heaven- faithful to Jehovah and reflect his qualities
- - - - special place for each of us in God's purpose -- have no doubt that if you do as our opening scripture James 4:8 says, Draw close to God, He will draw close to you!