26:9,10
26:9 expresses God’s desire for mankind. He wants us to be fruitful and to increase in numbers. This is the same purpose as expressed in Gen 1:28. Despite the fall, God’s plans have not changed. And God will keep His covenant with us. God’s plans are for abundance. He also desires to dwell with us. God does abhor sinful man, but this is not the way He wants things to be. Man’s solution to this is that God should stop being bothered about sin! God’s solution was to send His Son to pay the price for our sins.
26:11-13
26:12 expresses the oft repeated purpose, “I will be your God and you will be my people”. This crops up again and again in the Old Testament, and God will fulfil this purpose. God’s desire is to be with His people, to live in fellowship with us. God had set them free from slavery in Egypt. He broke the yoke of slavery and set them free so that they could “walk with heads held high”. This is what God does with every sinner He frees. He sets us free from the things that bind us, and the things that have brought shame upon us.
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