Downtown Church: Memphis, Tn

D.T.R. = Defining the Relationship Big Idea: God's special relationship with his people is a result of His love, which should motivate us to worship and obey him. Point 1 God initiates our relationship with His redeeming love (v.4) ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. Deuteronomy 7:6-8 6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Point #2 God strengthens our relationship through His presence and wo