Living a God Centered Life

3 Lessons from the Tribes Arrangement…

1. The of a God-centered life

“The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting” –Numbers 2:2 (NIV)

“If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?” –Ex.33:15,16

2. The of sin and grace

“Reuben, my first son, you are my strength. Your birth showed I could be a father. You have the highest position among my sons, and you are the most powerful. ⁴ But you are uncontrolled like water, so you will no longer lead your brothers. This is because you got into your father’s bed and shamed me by having sexual relations with my slave girl. -Genesis 49:3,4 (NCV)

“Simeon and Levi are brothers who used their swords to do violence. ⁶ I will not join their secret talks, and I will not meet with them to plan evil. They killed men because they were angry, and they crippled oxen just for fun. ⁷ May their anger be cursed, because it is too violent. May their violence be cursed, because it is too cruel. I will divide them up among the tribes of Jacob and scatter them through all the tribes of Israel.” -Genesis 49:5-7 (NCV)

See Exodus 20:5

3. The IMPACT of a Holy God.