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Pastor Jared Richard discusses God's covenant with Israel and the significance of fellowship with God as revealed in Exodus 20-24.

Drawing from Exodus 20–24, Pastor Jared Richard unfolds God's covenant with Israel through the lens of a marriage ceremony. Just as premarital counseling and wedding vows are meant to help a couple fully understand what they're committing to, God walks His people through a declaration of intent, a detailed set of expectations, a promised blessing, and a blood-sealed covenant. God's heart in all of it is not cold or distant — it is warm and pursuing. As Exodus 20:24 makes clear, God promises, "I will come to you and I will bless you." His deepest desire is fellowship with His people. Yet the weight of the law — God's call to value human life, truth and justice, holiness and purity, and God-honoring worship — reveals something sobering: we cannot hold up our end of the deal. The people of Israel declared with one voice, "All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do" (Ex. 24:3), and yet they broke that promise almost immediately. But God knew this was coming. The sacrifices, the substitute blood, the covenant meal on the mountain — all of it was pointing forward to a better sacrifice, a better blood, and a better table. Jesus Christ, the true and pure offering, is the…

People in this episode

Host: Pastor Jared Richard

Topics covered

• God's covenant
• fellowship with God
• Exodus
• sacrifice
• law
• faithfulness

Keywords

• covenant
• fellowship
• Exodus 20-24
• sacrifice
• law
• Jesus Christ
• Israel

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Books & works: Exodus

Places: Israel

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