LW Baptist
The Bible never hides the sins and weaknesses of God’s people, nor God’s wrath against disobedience, as the Book of Numbers makes evident during Israel’s wilderness wanderings and the Book of Jeremiah at the time of the first temple’s destruction and the Babylonian exile. Yet Jeremiah testifies to God’s almighty, changeless love, quoting the Lord, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” LW Baptist’s Sunday service on April 22 dwells upon this love in Numbers 23-24, at 10 a.m. in Clubhouse 4.
The scripture provides divine pronouncement after pronouncement of blessing upon God’s people, climaxing with the star and scepter prophecy of Israel’s King-Messiah. The words expound the Abrahamic covenant proclaimed nearly 700 years earlier. It explains that the blessing given to Abraham comes to the Gentiles through faith in Christ Jesus.
Jesus drank the cup of wrath his people deserve on the cross so that they might learn to drink the cup of blessing he has for them. Jesus spoke of this when he said to his followers, “Other sheep I have who are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they shall hear my voice and become one flock with one shepherd.” Isaiah prophesied: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach earth’s ends.”
For more information or to recieve the church’s schedule, call 562-430-8598.
Rolland Coburn
