Day 2206– What Does God Want? – God Pursues His Human Family – Daily Wisdom

Welcome to Day 2206 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom What Does God Want – God Pursues His Human Family – Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message – 02/19/2023 What Does God Want? -  God Pursues His Human Family Last week, we continued our series with the overall theme, which is to answer the question: What does God want? The answer we discovered over this past month was that God wants you and everyone who will ever live. In other words, God wanted a human family. God wants co-workers to take care of His creation. God wants you to know/ who you are/ and why your life has value to him. /He loves you /and desires that you also love Him. Last week’s message showed that God Joined His Human Family. When God Joined His Human Family, All Covenants Were Fulfilled, All Rebellions Were Overcome, and All Death Was Extinguished. Because of the Resurrection, our distance from God was bridged. Today, we will explore how “God Pursues His Family.” There is a lot of scripture in today’s message, making me think of this beautiful basket. OT & NT weaved together to see how the kingdom of God is being weaved together. As I noted in the last message, the coming of the Holy Spirit fulfilled the new covenant described by Jeremiah and Ezekiel (Jer 31:31-34; Ezek 36:22-28). Let me read the verses of Ezekiel 36:25-27. “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.[a] 27 And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations. The Spirit’s ministry in each believer makes victory over depravity possible. Think of it as a slap in the face to the fallen sons of God. But it’s an even more direct assault on another set of supernatural villains. The Spirit’s arrival launched an infiltration campaign against the sons of God to whom God assigned the nations he divorced at Babel (Deut 32:8). When the Most High assigned lands to the nations, when he divided up the human race, he established the boundaries of the peoples according to the number in his heavenly court.[sons of God] the supernatural beings who defected from serving God and became corrupt, abusing the people under their dominion (Psalm 82). Jesus knew all that. We habitually miss this point in reading the New Testament books that come after the resurrection (i.e., Acts through Revelation). The Beginning of the End Jesus’s departure put the coming of the Spirit into motion (John 14:26; 26 But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you...