God Loves Rocks

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God Loves Rocks

• The Story of Redemption Through the Image of
  Stones

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My Dads Rock
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My Rock
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Grand Canyon
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Grand Canyon
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Grand Canyon
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1. Rock of Help

• Ebenezer (Stone of Help) shows that
  God is our help in times of need. Nothing we need
  is beyond His ability!
• The Stone of Help is shown in ritual stones of
  the Old Testament transformed in the New
  Testament.
• Altars (1 Kings 1830-33 Exod 2025)
• The Law or Torah (Exod 2412 341 Jer 3131-34,
  cf. 2 Cor 33)
• The Temple (Exod 315 1 Kings 636)
• Memorials (Josh 41-7 Gen 2822 3145)

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2. Rock of Provision

• God is our only Provider.
• One of His names is Jehovah Jireh because He
  provides for us.
• Our provision does not come through human beings
  or our own resources.
• Sometimes God must take us to the end of our rope
  to learn to come to Him for our needs.
• Jesus is our first provision, the spiritual need
  of every human being before any other need, and
  God took care of that need first!

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3. Rock of Strength

• God is our Refuge and our
  Fortress. He fights the battles that we cannot.
• God is our Stronghold to whom we run when we need
  Him to defend us.
• God is the stronghold, the mighty tower that
  protects and defends us from our enemies.
• God is the foundational rock that establishes us
  by His Word and by His Spirit.

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4. Rock of Salvation

• Jesus is the all-knowing rock
  of wisdom (Zech 36-10)
• The Messiah will have perfect counsel. Any time
  we need wisdom, Jesus gives the best!
• Jesus is the Stone that the builders rejected (1
  Peter 26-8)
• Ignoring Jesus only compounds our problems in
  life.

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5. Rock of Holiness

• God builds His holy dwelling out
  of our transformed holiness
• All believers are individual stones, used as
  material to glorify God in His great dwelling,
  the temple of the believers body, and the temple
  of the Church corporate.
• God sees His believers as precious while they
  live holy lifestyles
• The true gem to God is the believer who draws
  near to God at all times.
• God thinks youre pretty (or handsome)!