GOD WITH US

MY GOAL IS TO MAKE THE BIBLICAL CASE THAT GOD’S PASSIONATE DESIRE IS TO HAVE A PEOPLE THAT ARE HIS AND THAT, LIKEWISE, HE BE THEIRS, AND THAT HE HIS WHOLE PURPOSE IS HAVING A PEOPLE HE CAN DWELL WITH. AND THAT THIS ISN’T A FUTURE GLORY BUT PRESENT REALITY.

ONE DAY WE WILL SEE HIM FACE TO FACE, BUT EVEN NOW WE CAN EXPERIENCE HIM TANGIBLY AS WE PURSUE HIM IN FAITH, BELIEVING THAT NOT ONLY HE CAN BE EXPERIENCED, BUT THAT HE WANTSUS TO EXPERIENCE HIM.

THIS IS SOMETHING WE MUST BELIEVE.

“DWELL” – SETTLE, ABIDE, BE ENTHRONED (HE IS ENTHRONED BW THE CHERUBIM – WE ARE THAT NOW – LIVING ARKS)

I. ADAM AND EVE – THE GARDEN SCENE

A. Genesis 3:8 – He came to search for them, sin broke relationship

II. ABRAHAM – RESTORING A PEOPLE

A. Genesis 17:7-8 – the promise to be his God and the God of his offspring

III. ISRAEL – THE TABERNACLE AND TEMPLE

A. SINAI & WILDERNESS & TABERNACLE

i. Exodus 25:8 – “…that I may dwell among them.”

ii. Exodus 29:42-46

iii. LEV 26:45

B. TEMPLE PERIOD

i. 1 Kings 6:13

ii. 1 CHRONICLES 6:11, 13-14 – GLORY COMES

iii. PSALM 99:1 / ISAIAH 37:16 – HE’S ENTHRONED BW THE CHERUBIM

C. PROMISES TO INDWELL – LOOKING TO JESUS AND THE NT

i. Jeremiah 24:7

ii. JER 31:33 / HEBREWS 8:10

iii. EZEK 11:18-20

iv. EZEK 37:23 – CLEANSING

v. EZEK 37:27 – HE WILL BE THEIR DWELLING PLACE

vi. ZECH 8:8

IV. JESUS – GOD WITH US

A. John 1:14

B. 1 John 1:1-2: That which Moses could not see…the disciples saw, heard, touched

C. Romans 5 / Curtain Torn: The Cross gives us access to God through faith – not hypothetical, but actual – He reconciled everything in heaven and earth (Colossians 1)

i. He waits for us. We must believe it.

V. THE CHURCH – INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE LIVING TEMPLES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

A. 1 Corinthians 3:16

B. Ephesians 3:17-22

C. 1 Peter 2:4-5

VI. HEAVEN: PICTURES OF ETERNAL GLORY

A. REVELATION 4-5

B. Revelation 7:15

VII. THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH – ETERNAL DWELLING

A. Revelation 21:3