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Exodus 25:8
God wants to dwell with us and us to dwell with Him.
Jesus is named Immanuel, God with us in Matthew 1.
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Seeing & Responding to Christ’s Ministry Portrayed in God’s Tabernacle
Seeing & Responding to Christ’s Ministry
Portrayed in God’s Tabernacle
Isaiah 6:1-13
Today we are confronted with what it means to come face to face with God.
In Exodus, God sent a seismic sound and light show that shocked and awed the people of Israel.
Meeting the King of the Universe at the Doorway to Heaven
After God came down from Heaven to the Earth, the mountain began quaking, a cloud of fire surrounding God was burning the top of the mountain, and a pillar of smoke rose like from a blast furnace. Our God is a Consuming Fire.
The Tabernacle – God’s Doorway to Heaven for Sinners
Thirty-five hundred years ago, our God Who is a Consuming Fire, came down and spoke to Moses on a mountain in the Wilderness outside of Egypt. As we open to Exodus 19:9-20, watch with me what happens.
Sabbath Pictures – Seeing Christ Each Day – Revealing God’s Grace & Truth
Christ Jesus is the theme of every part of the Bible, God’s Word. Jesus often reminded His audiences that the Scriptures speak about Him. Going to the Scriptures is the way to encounter Jesus.
Have you thought about that? When we think of each book, whether Obadiah or Philippians, He is the central message of every book. When we think of any doctrine, He is the central truth of every doctrine.
Sabbath Reflections – Are We Reflecting Our Heavenly Citizenship by Our Time Investments & Calendar
As we open to Philippians 3, when Paul sat to write a letter inspied by God to the believers in Philippi, his letter was headed to a Roman colony. Like an island in a vast ocean, Roman colonies were settled with citizens and soldiers that had served well and were given the great benefits of citizenship in colonies of Rome.
Sabbath Purposes – Reflecting God’s Ownership of My Time & Enjoying the Simplicity of God’s Rest
Sabbath Purposes: Reflecting God’s Ownership of My Time & Enjoying the Simplicity of God’s Rest
This morning we are turning to Isaiah 58, where we see two ancient and powerful truths applied by God Himself. This passage is God applying Biblical fasting and a personal Sabbath rest.
How’s Your Hunger For God Today?
Our God – Revealed Through His Attributes, Reflected in His Law, and Illustrated by His Ceremonies
Today we are looking at the backbone of God’s Word the Bible. That backbone is the Law. God explains His Law as being the teaching, or rules, or directions of the Divine Teacher.
What is God’s Law & What Parts are Still Binding on New Testament Believers – None, Some or All
Today our goal is to understand one simple question, but that question connects everything we read in this book called the Bible.
Here is the simple question: What is God’s Law & What Parts are Still Binding on New Testament Believers: None, Some or All?
Sabbath Bondage & Knowing The Joys Of Christ’s Rest Of This Side Of The Cross
How did the 7th day of Creation become the Sabbath Day and the central focus of so much of the legalistic, spiritual bondage religion of the Phariseesand Saduccees in New Testament Judaism? What is the plan God had for Saturday in the Creation Week, and the Sabbath regulations given by God to Moses for the nation of Israel?
Understanding the Sabbath Day, God’s Sabbath Rest and Finding Quietness in Ultra Busy Lives
Today we begin a study of the Sabbath Day that can impact the way we live for the rest of our lives.
Living the Way God Wants Us to Live – Embracing a Biblical Worldview in a Fallen World
Living The Way God Wants Us to Live: Embracing A Biblical Worldview in a Fallen World Isaiah 58:6-12 Each of us today has an operating system we use to go through life. This operating system is called our worldview. Our worldview is how we determine reality and make decisions like: What is good and what is evil. What is real and what is false. What is worthwhile and what is worthless.
Reflecting the Purpose that God Chose for Fasting by Cultivating Christ’s Compassion for Our Neighbors
Hungering for God Series, Part-5: Reflecting The Purpose that God Chose for Fasting By Cultivating Christ’s Compassion For Our Neighbors Isaiah 58:1-14 Our Almighty God is not prejudiced, He is not unjust, nor is He oppressive. Our Great God has immense compassion for the poor, the orphans, the widows, the oppressed, the afflicted, and the outcasts. GOD UNCHANGING SOCIAL COMPASSION God’s unchanging concern for His people to reflect, support, and seek a just social treatment of fellow humans is a constant theme in the Scriptures. From the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) to the Prophets (the last 17 books of the Bible), and everywhere in between: God speaks with a consistent voice about the desire He has for justice, mercy, and compassion.
How Does God Want Biblical Fasting to Impact Our Lives?
How Does God Want Biblical Fasting to Impact Our Lives? Isaiah 58:1-14 How do you reach a godless culture, moving away from God? With Christlike Compassion. Our study from God’s Word today may be one of the most relevant to the culture we currently live in, than any other topic we could study. As we open our Bibles to Isaiah 1, let me ask each of you a series of five questions, that explains how God describes the moral and spiritual collapse that precedes: THE DEATH OF A NATION 1. What happens when a nation with a long and deep Biblical Heritage turns its back on God? How about a group of formerly devout followers of the Lord who mostly have abandoned genuine worship, and godly behavior?
Hungering For God – What Did Fasting Look Like In Biblical Times
Hungering for God: A Life of Prayer & Fasting Matthew 6:11 Do you remember a teacher, or coach, that was so special and encouraging to you? Do you member how much they meant to you? Do you remember how you rose to their expectations of you as they coached or taught you?
Hungering For God – A Life Of Prayer & Fasting
Hungering for God: A Life of Prayer & Fasting Matthew 6:16-18 Do you remember a teacher, or coach, that was so special and encouraging to you? Do you member how much they meant to you? Do you remember how you rose to their expectations of you as they coached or taught you?
Fasting – Hungering For God, Longing For Christ, Denying Our Flesh & Experiencing God’s Grace
As we open to Mark 2:18-22 we are examining the Biblical topic of:
Fasting: Hungering for God, Longing for Christ, Denying Our Flesh & Experiencing God’s Grace.
This is our study because we all need to ask ourselves an honest question. By doing a personal inventory we can see whether we are paddling against the current of our culture or just floating along with the flow of everyone around us in life.
What’s the question? Simply this:
How’s Your Hunger For God Today?
How To Live As Reflections Of Christ
Today, sitting here: we are gathered as the Body of Christ. So the first truth for us to consider today is this:
We are the Body of Christ
The Body of Christ: that is what we are called, and that is what we are by God’s grace to be.
We are to represent Christ alive in us, as we are living, and going through life in the world. That is what it means that our body is the temple of God. He lives is us; and He wants to radiate out of us in our words, attitudes, and actions.
Applying a Biblical Worldview of Love & Compassion
At salvation each of us were designed by God to impact the world around us.
The way God describes our choices to fulfill our duty was simply stated in Acts about how David lived. David accomplished God’s will by doing what God desired for him to do.
Acts 13:36 (ESV) For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
Acts 13:36 (NKJV) “For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption;
God wants us to serve those people He puts around us during our lifetime.