This is a very powerful scripture. As we examine it today, I believe we will learn some very wonderful things about the nature of God and His plans for us, individually and as a Church. I want to remind you of JER.29:11. The realization that God loves us enough to think and make plans for us is so amazing. When I was studying the book of Heb. I was amazed that God would invest so much time and energy into a relationship with us because the book of Heb. taught me that the Old Testament was God revealing His plan to redeem each of us through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus and bring us into relationship with Him. He sort of preached the gospel to us in 3D as he established the old covenant. We can look back and see God's incredible love and plan for our redemption. They say hindsight is 2020. We're going to look back and learn some big things this morning. Looking at this, we see that God not only led the children of Israel out of Egypt, which was a type of the world, but that He wanted as His children to lead them to something. A great land full of promise, freedom and victory. It's the same for us. As God's children, God doesn't just want us to survive in this struggling world, barely managing to lift our heads from time to time. No, He has a plan and a purpose for each of us. Say: God has a plan for me. We see that God had a plan for Israel. He wanted them to be different from the rest of the world. He does not want us to live with the same bonds and limitations as the world. 2COR.6:14-18. What God showed us in our writing in Deut. and this is the relationship He created us for. In the old covenant, he built the temple so that he could be in the middle, in the new covenant, we are the temple individually and corporately..