“The Realtiy of the Preseence of God”
TRUSTING GOD • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 31:31
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· 24 viewsPastor shares about the preseence of God. Through the scripure we see four realities about the presence of God.
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INTRODUCTION.
4 Realities
MESSAGE.
1. The reality that sin can remove you from the presence of God but not His covenant.
1. The reality that sin can remove you from the presence of God but not His covenant.
God is faithful to His covenant.
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’
God will provide the protection.
2 “I will send an angel before you and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Success in life without God’s presence.
3 “Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate people, and I might destroy you on the way.”
2. The reality that you can have a personal relationship with God.
2. The reality that you can have a personal relationship with God.
You need a specific place to meet with God.
7 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp.
You need to go and meet with God.
8 And it came about, whenever Moses went out to the tent, that all the people would arise and stand, each at the entrance of his tent, and gaze after Moses until he entered the tent.
You need to speak with God not just to God.
11 Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
3. The reality that you can trust God to be faithful to His word.
3. The reality that you can trust God to be faithful to His word.
Remind God of His Word.
12 Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people!’ But You Yourself have not let me know whom You will send with me. Moreover, You have said, ‘I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’
“I have known you by name” - God had chosen Moses.
Desire God’s presence above success.
13 “Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people.”
14 And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Moses commanding God to let him KNOW God.
Know God’s Ways
know You.
God’s CHARACTER and NATURE
Desire God’s presence above success.
15 Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.
“do not lead us up from here” - do not give success without your presence.
16 “For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?”
“found favor in Your sight - chosen by God “His special treasure”
“may be distinguished from all the other people. - Holy nation.
4. The reality that God will provide His presence you if you desire Him above all.
4. The reality that God will provide His presence you if you desire Him above all.
Seek God’s presence.
18 Then Moses said, “I pray You, show me Your glory!”
God answered Moses’s prayer.
19 And He said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.”
“all my goodness” - His character.
“I will be gracious” - His nature.
21 Then the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock;
22 and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.
“there is a place by Me”
“you shall stand there on the ROCK”
“my glory is passing by” - His Presence.
“God’s hand of protection”
23 “Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.”
“see My back” :
plural “backs”
the after effects
God is spirit has no shape.
CONCLUSION.
