Exo Msg 54

1. God's goal is to have an eternal day.
2. God's eternal purpose is to have a people to express Him. In order for this purpose to be fulfilled, God must impart Himself into His chosen people and work Himself into them.
3. In order for God to be one with us and for us to be one with Him, there must be love between us and God.
4. The genuine oneness between a man and his wife is wholly a matter of love.
5. We keep God's law by loving Him and His Word and by becoming one with Him.
6. In bringing them out of Egypt and giving His law to them, God was courting them, wooing them, and seeking to win their affection.
7. Ex 20 functions as an egagement paper, an engagement contract.
8. God's covenant with His people was an engagement.
9. In making the old covenant with the children of Israel, God betrothed Himself to the people and became their husband.
10. When we enter into such a love relationship with the Lord, we receive His life.
11. Just as Eve came out of Adam and possessed his life and nature, so the church comes out of Christ and possesses His life and nature.
12. When we say, "Lord Jesus, I love You," we are infused with His life.
13. Two substances that are to be grafted together must be similar in life.
14. First we are one with Him in love; then we become one with Him in life and nature; and finally we are one with Him in expression.
15. Law is an expression of what God is; if we become one with God in love, life, nature, and expression, we shall automatically keep His law.
16. Because the OT saints lived in God's creation, their memorial day was the 7th day. but because we, the NT saints, are in resurrection, our memorial is the 8th day.