God's Never-Ending Love Series

Yet we know that for each of us, the story doesn’t end there. God has given his people and all the peoples of the world, another chance to honour their creator and loving father, in the sending of his Son. Jesus, in his incarnation (coming amongst us in human form) incorporated all that Israel was meant to be. ’Out of Egypt I have called my son’ says God, so that his purposes might be fulfilled: the Israelites to live by God’s rule and be a blessing to others and Jesus, through his life and death, to bring us all into the blessing of a relationship with God. Where there ought to be judgement, there’s hope, based on the distinctive nature of God. His compassion has been extended to us by the coming of the Holy One into our midst, leaving the comforts of heaven to live with us; healing us, feeding us and leading us.

Time and again, throughout salvation history, God acts out his loving nature. He continues to call people out of ’Egypt’: out of fear, out of oppression, out of loneliness, out of meaninglessness, out of bondage of every kind. He never gives us up.

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