Entering into His Presence

Entering into His Presence

Nehemiah 9:5b-6 (NIV) “Stand up and praise the Lord your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting.” “Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise. You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you."

Intro

Janelle story

Goal for you.

Full throttle only way.

My goal has always been to equip young people to be healthy members of the body of Christ for the rest of their lives. 

Not about religion.  I have never cared about a lot of stuff that religious people care about. 

I dress in shorts

I use words like “crap” and “sucks” which gives them heart attacks. 

It is absolutely more about what is going on inside of people rather than outside. 

OT laid out patterns that were to be examples to us.

One could definitely make the argument that outward actions do matter though.  God has not called us to live personal introspective lives unto Him.  He calls us out.  He commands us to step out, to connect with others, to live in harmony and worship in concert with others.

Esther 4:10-11 (NKJV) "Then Esther (sent a message to) Mordecai: “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days.”"

Most Holy Place (Holy of Holies)

The high priest

To enter only at certain times.

Lev 16:2 and the Lord said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

The only one to enter, once a year.

Heb 9:7 But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people’s sins committed in ignorance;

There are certain allowances given those who are new, or are uninformed. 

For example those who teach will be judged more strictly. 

We will never go forward until we learn…

Hebrews 5:12-14 (NKJV) "For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."