Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine.
Don’t let any smooth talking preacher, soothsayer or bling televangelist tell you otherwise, for God does not cut a deal with us as mortals, where we come to the negotiating table with our own set of ideas, and preferences, the way deals are made when countries are negotiating tariffs. Instead, in His capacity as God, He sets the terms and conditions, and He bids us choose to obey Him with our free will, and if we so choose, He sends us His Holy Spirit to empower our choices.
That is the only type of discipleship or Christianity that God recognizes…. Exodus 19: 3 And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4 You have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 6 And you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Exodus 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, all that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord…. Hebrews 8: 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!