Now for the third Sunday I want to open with John.
Chapter 15. Greater love has no one than
this. Then he lay down his life for
his friends. You are my friends if you do
whatever I command you. No longer do I call you
servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing.
But I have called you friends for all things that I heard from
my father, I have made known to you, and I put over this a
growing relationship. How you know, we're called to
have a growing relationship with God.
Christianity is not just merely believing the right thing so
that you can go to heaven or just be in right standing with
God. We should understand that God
literally wants to have a relationship with us where we
know him and he knows us. And that's such a wonderful
thing to think about that God has that for us and to also to
hear the invitation that he would have for us to grow in our
relationship with him. Few weeks back we celebrated
Easter, Good Friday, the death burial, and also on Sunday the
resurrection of Jesus Christ. He is alive.
And yet as this chapter is unfolding, it's Jesus talking to
his disciples before he goes to the cross.
And one of the things he wants them to understand about the
cross is that this is about his relationship with them, in this
case a growing relationship. He, as he says, well, greater
love has no one than this. Then he would lay down his life
for his friends and he said to them, and I want to call you
friends. And I think that would be such
an amazing thing. Never remember, they were his
disciples. He taught them very well how
important it was that they would be his servants.
And then he also taught them how important it was for them to
grow in their stewardship. And I talked about how that we
have a relationship with God that basically just like when
we're raising children, we start out in the servant stage if he
would because, well, you have to tell the children what to do
because you're protected, protecting them.
And slowly you're training them and developing them.
And what we would call from a spiritual or scriptural point of
view, stewardship, and that is being responsible for life.
But then on this third level, he's saying, OK, now it's time
for us to really have a deep relationship.
Now it's time for you to be my friends.
And I want you to know the price I'm willing to pay for that
friendship, says the Lord. I really believe with everything
within me that God is saying to the body of Christ today, it's
time for us to have a new relationship with him.
The firmer things have come to pass.
It's a new day, says the Lord. Amen, church.
And God wants you to know this is your new day.
This is your new season, this is your new time.
And God's saying I'm inviting you into a new relationship.
Just let me bring you in, says the Lord, to a greater dimension
of experience with me. This past week I went and saw a
movie. It was called a Great Awakening.
And as you know, I talk a lot about the awakenings that have
been a part of the history of the United States of America,
because America has been used in a very special way in history.
And this year we'll be celebrating 250 years since the
Declaration of Independence. And we've had an amazing history
as a nation. It is definitely a blessed
history. And I've always brought out how
important it is for us to realize that's because of the
church and the Christians and our participation in the greater
society. It's important for us to
understand this because even secular historians in the past
have talked about the fact that America's had three, most say,
some say even four major awakenings.
And that was something happened in the church.
The church became more alive and through that it impacted the
greater society. And I believe with everything
within me, we need the same thing.
Well, George Whitfield was a part of that first Great
Awakening. And that was when in the early
days of American history, actually before the Declaration
of Independence, there were a lot of people who came here
often times for religious freedom, but mostly they came
for economic freedom and opportunities that coming to a
new land would afford them. But God had moved upon George
Whitfield and John Wesley, and they had this very special
relationship with God in England.
They had what they called the Holy Club, and they were people
that just sold out for God. John Wesley came to the United
States and had a great influence.
Methodist Church is part of that beginning that he did here in
the United States of America. But George Whitfield was an
amazing preacher. And when he came, they say that
he's had like 30,000 sermons in his life.
And I don't know who added all these things up, but there's
different numbers based on whether you called it a sermon,
if he spoke to a small group or not.
But he was a person who just preached everywhere and any
opportunity had. And so he'd preach in a city,
get on a horse and go to another city.
And he was trained as an actor, but he had this special
anointing from God where he could literally speak to
thousands of people. And they say literally that it
impacted all the 13 colonies, preparing the way for the Great
awakening that changed the nation, leading to the
Declaration of Independence. This particular film that talks
about his relationship with Benjamin Franklin.
So it's very interesting. I'm going to try to get it here
at the church. If I don't see more
availability. It's been kind of hard to track
down where it's at and the opportunities you can go see it.
But I'd encourage you, if you haven't, to take that
opportunity because this is a time when God's doing something
new. I believe this is a time for a
new awakening for us to declare and her participate in.
And we need to have the faith that we can change a nation.
Can anybody say Amen to that? How do you know we can change a
nation? And part of the changing of the
nation requires a change in US. And so that's why it's important
for us to recognize that. And today, going in John chapter
16, this is Jesus again as he's getting ready to leave, his
disciples said, I still have many things to say to you, but
you cannot bear them now. However, when he, the spirit of
truth has come, he will guide you into all truth.
For He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He
hears, He will speak, and He will tell you things to come.
He will glorify Me. For He will take what is a mine
and declare it to you. All things that the Father has
are mine. Therefore I said that He will
take of mine and declare it to you.
Now in this reference, and this is the Scripture I've been using
time and again because I love the fact that it talks about God
saying to us how important it is for us to realize He is a God of
appointed times. There's some things that we're
not ready for at this time, but when we are ready, that's when
God begins to move. And I believe that God has made
us ready for this time. Amen.
Well, Jesus Christ is talking about His departure and saying
to them, well, you're not going to be an orphan when I leave.
You're not going to be left alone.
He said matter of fact, I'm leaving, but my heart's desire
is that wherever I am, you may be, and it's important for you
to know I want to be where you are.
Now, some people take that scripture only to think that
Jesus can't wait till we get to heaven, but that's not what he
was talking about. He was talking about the fact
that there is a present tense reality in the presence of God
that we can have. Amen.
Well, the first Great Awakening was really about people being
born again. And like I said, that was a
different concept for most of those colonial people who had
come from countries where they had a state religion.
People were born into their church and they basically had
the religion of their country or the kindred, whatever.
But George Whitefield and later on Wesley as well, told people,
no, you need to be born again. And so that brought an amazing
awakening. There was a second awakening
where people began to see how important it was for people to
have a changed life and have social change as a part of that.
And then all the sudden people began to see something from the
Lord about a second work of grace called the baptism of the
Holy Spirit. In the early days it was what
was called the holiness movement, later became the
Pentecostal movement, later became the Charismatic movement,
but the emphasis was upon the move of the Holy Spirit and the
experience that we can have in the Holy Spirit.
Now I believe this is important for us to see and This is why
I'm sharing this word today because there is a change of
mindset that we've to have in our approach to understanding
both the Holy Spirit and how we relate to God in order for us to
fully participate in all that God has for us.
So in thinking about the Holy Spirit, I want you to notice
that when Jesus was talking about the Holy Spirit, He was
talking about the Holy Spirit coming and it being all about
Him. When the Holy Spirit comes, the
Holy Spirit will lead you into all truth.
The Holy Spirit will bring to remembrance the things that I
said. The Holy Spirit will lead you
and guide you, and the Holy Spirit will speak to you about
all the things that I had for you.
And He'll begin to show you really who I am.
Now the purpose of this is to understand that the Holy Spirit
comes not to speak of itself, but to speak of Jesus Christ.
And this is a part of this transition that we need to
understand that God is doing today in the church because he
wants us to have this mindset about it all being about Jesus
Christ being the person of God that we are to relate to, to
understand. Now in thinking about the Holy
Spirit, I was a part of what was called the Jesus People
movement, the charismatic movement.
And often times in speaking about the Holy Spirit, people
want to make the Holy Spirit more personal people.
So sometimes people were saying things about the Holy Spirit
that we're really not based upon the scripture.
And I want to talk to you a little bit about that today.
One guy actually wrote a book called Good Morning Holy Spirit,
and he was encouraging people, when you wake up in the morning,
just start talking to the Holy Spirit.
Now the problem with that is not, it's not biblical and the
Bible, no one talked to the Holy Spirit.
People talk to the Father in the name of the Son.
It's important for us to understand patterns.
Not like God's up in heaven saying, Nope, you're praying
wrong. Can't listen to that.
But the most important reason we have to know these things is the
mindset it gives us in our relationship with God and how
important that is. I grew up on the King James
Version Bible and mentioned that last week and one of the changes
that came over time was in the King James Version and speaking
about the Holy Spirit. It would use the term it or
itself because when they were translating the Bible from the
Greek language, which is what the New Testament was, the word
spirit is a word that's neuter. It doesn't have a gender, male
or female. So as a pronoun, we have he,
she, or it. Obviously when talking about
female gender, when talking about the male gender.
But there's the word it that talks about no gender.
Now, when you think about this and you think about being called
an it, it made sense. A lot of people are saying we
can't call the Holy Spirit an it and that scripture says itself.
So they came up with newer translations.
I, for one, started reading from the new King James Version.
But we have to understand that based on that thinking, we,
we're really trying to interpret God from our understanding to
using our feelings to explain God.
And I want to explain that to you because it's important for
us to see how the Holy Spirit works.
Now it makes sense If somebody called you an it, how many know
they don't sound too good? You it that just don't sound
right, does it? As a kid, there used to be a
show called Adams Family and they had this strange relative
called it anybody else to remember it from the Adams
family? So of course it makes sense.
You don't want to call somebody in it.
But the point of it from a pronoun perspective is simply
this is saying that there is no gender related to this.
And now we need to understand why that's important for us
again, so that we can see how does this relate to how I relate
to God? Well, it's important to see here
that when Jesus is talking about the Holy Spirit, when we have an
experience in the Holy Spirit, the Spirit is not an end within
itself. The Spirit is the agency, if you
would, or God's presence, that what brings us to Christ.
It's the agent by which when we come into a service like this,
we have the sense of Christ. How do you know when we worship
and praise? You can have a sense that God is
in our midst. And how do you know that?
That's because the Bible says that when we come with the right
understanding, we should know Jesus is singing in the
worshipping congregation, and the agency that makes us aware
of that is the Holy Spirit. When we participate in the
sacraments of the church in different aspects of what we do,
we should realize it is about having an encounter with Jesus,
and the agency by which that's possible is the Holy Spirit.
Let me explain how it works in this particular scripture
because Jesus, in talking about the need to be born again, says
this. Most of the sure life say to
you, unless one is born with the water and of the Spirit, he
cannot enter the Kingdom of God. That which is born of flesh is
flesh. That which is born of spirit is
spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you
must be born again, but the wind blows where it wishes.
You hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from
and where it goes. So is everyone who has been born
of the Spirit. How many out there can say I've
been born again? How many know we should see it
as an amazing experience And that's what literally
transformed the colonies and made a foundation for America to
become a great nation. Now, how does Jesus say that
works? Well, the Holy Spirit's at work
and it's kind of like wind. I mean, when the wind's blowing,
if you're just sensitive without watching The Weather Channel,
you just feel something and you might see the effect of it
moving the trees or in a storm, literally blowing over the
trees. But the Spirit represents that
which is unseen and not tangible.
If you would. But in speaking about being born
again, how are you born again? Well, you start out by saying,
well, somebody might say you need to receive Jesus in your
heart. OK, I want to receive Jesus in
my heart. Or Jesus Christ died on the
cross. So if you confess your sins,
he'll forgive you and you can be born again.
And so there's many different ways people will talk about it,
but how you know the new birth has to do with opening up your
heart to Jesus. But what does the Holy Spirit
do? Well, the Holy Spirit is the
agent by which you sense that. That's why I remember growing up
in church and people saying, you know, you can be, you can know
that you're born again because something happens inside of you.
You just know and you're nowhere that you're born again.
Amen. That's the work of the Holy
Spirit. But the point is, is it's
focused on Christ, his work, what he's done, and what you
want him to do in your life. That's why I put up here in the
Scripture said you must be born of water and of the Spirit.
I put those two words up there and put equal sacrament.
A sacrament is not a common term often used in Protestant
churches, but we use it because it is the word that has been
traditionally spoken of. And we actually believe that
whatever we do in church, we should experience something,
just like I said, in worship and praise when we had our water
baptism today. The Bible says in Romans chapter
6 that when we are baptized, we're buried with Christ in
baptism. That just as we are buried in
his death, we can also experience his what
resurrection. However, you know, that means
something happens and that's what sacrament means.
It means that God lay something out.
He says do this, and if you do that, this is what I'm going to
do. So we need to have that old
nature washed away if you would. When we take the Lord's Supper,
which we'll do at the close of the service.
The Bible says that when Jesus instituted that, he said taking
the bread, this is my body. When he took the cup, he said
this is the cup of the new covenant.
And so we see the elements. There's something visible, but
that visible represents Christ to us.
Amen. So although it's not Christ in
the sense that physically it's him, it is a representation of
him. And yet it is the Holy Spirit
that's going to do that work, whether we're taking communion
or whether we're being baptized. But again, the focus is on Jesus
Christ and the effect comes through the working of the Holy
Spirit. But the thing that we have to
understand is in coming from the Holy Spirit movement,
charismatic movement, to this next phase that God has for us,
we have to shift our focus even more so than in the past to
think, well, this is about Jesus Christ.
This is about focusing on a person because that's the
tangible expression that God has given to us.
Look what the Scripture said, Jesus said to him, Have I been
so long time yet? You do not know me.
He who has seen me has seen the Father.
So how can you say? Show us the Father a little
while longer and the world will see me no more.
But you see me. Why?
Because I live. You will live also at that day
you will know that I'm in my father, you and me and I and
you. He who has my commandments and
keeps them. It is he who loves me, and he
who loves me will be loved by my father, and I will love him.
And what will I do? Manifest myself to him.
Now this scripture of the setting of this is again, Jesus
Christ is getting ready to leave his disciples.
And in this case Phillip is like, OK, show us the Father.
You're going to the Father. Won't you show us the Father?
What's Jesus say? Don't you know, Philip, have I
been this long time with you that you don't realize that when
you see me, you've seen the Father, that the Father's in me
and I in him, and ultimately we want to be in you.
It's important for us to see that Jesus Christ is making the
declaration that the Scripture does.
That is, He is the visible image of the invisible God.
So when he came here, even as he addressed the Father, it's
important for us to understand that his life, his attitudes,
the way he lived his life were also the attitudes of the Father
as well. Why is that important?
Well, some people look at the Old Testament God and they
think, well, he was the meanie, so he sent his Son, Jesus
Christ. That's God the Nice makes it
possible for us to be forgiven, and even though we're still bad
people, we'll hide under the covering of Jesus Christ.
No, no, no. He wants us to understand the
plan of God has been consistent from the beginning, that God has
always been there and God has always loved us.
He's always loved humanity. We're his creation.
Amen. And he didn't just create us, He
created us with a purpose. He didn't just create planet
earth. The Bible says in the prophecy
of Isaiah, He didn't create the earth for it to be empty and
void. He created it for people.
He created for a purpose. And guess who's going to fulfill
that purpose? You and I, but focusing on Jesus
Christ as the visible image, it also gives us something that we
can see that we can relate to because he is the first born
among many brothers. So let me know.
It's good for us to see what he's like.
I mean, to focus on that personal side is vitally
important, but also recognize that it's through that we will
obtain all the things that God has for us.
Now I want to pose something very important from the
Scripture and that is. To ask the question, will we
sense him after that the Holy Ghost has come, or will we see
him? Jesus said, I'm going to leave,
but I'm going to come back. Isn't that what that scripture
said? And he said, and when I come
back, the world's not going to see me, but you're going to see
me. And then he said something more
important than that. And you will also know me.
So in the Holy Spirit we can sense God's presence.
And I love to sense the presence of God and what that can do for
me. But He tells me that He wants us
also to see Him. And how is that possible?
Well, I will come and manifest myself to Him.
Now, this is something that God has been speaking me in recent
days. I've shared with you from time
to time how God's been speaking to me and saying I want to
expand your understanding and want you to see me in a way
you've never seen me before. And so I've been allowing God to
just open my understanding to a greater dimension because I want
God to manifest himself to me. Amen.
And what He says is you can see me.
Now, that doesn't mean I'm going to physically see him, but in
the situation that I'm in, I'm going to see him.
You see, as a part of what God was speaking to me in this
season as He's been preparing me for this time, as I began to see
God sitting on the throne, as the one who sits on the throne.
And the Bible says he rules in the affairs of men as well as in
the affairs of heaven. He is God all the time.
Amen. And so when I'm watching the
news and I'm hearing this person say they're going to do this and
this person say they going to do that, I understand everybody has
an opinion about what they're going to do.
And help me know there's a whole lot of programming you can watch
them. It has more opinions about it,
so you can listen to them. Usually you can hear the slant
that they're trying to get you to know.
But when I watch anything, I might be trying to certain what
exactly is the truth in the matter.
But I always know this. God sits on the throne, Amen.
Give the Lord of praise. And what I also do is I say,
Lord, I want to see what you're doing because, Lord, I know that
whatever's happening in the world, you're doing something.
And some people will say, well, I know what God's doing.
I have these Bible prophecies. And they'll go back and they'll
say, well, this is what's going to happen.
This is what's going to happen. And some of these people have
been saying the same thing now for 100 years, and it hasn't
happened. That tells me people haven't
been where they can see it yet. But God says to his church, you
can see what I'm doing. In our own individual lives,
sometimes we're in the midst of a crisis.
And when you're in the midst of a crisis, how many you know you
don't feel God as much. I know there's times when you
do, you go through a desperate, oh, I'm so glad I sense God.
Well, when you first get that bad news and all the strength
goes out of you, you're like not feeling it.
Or maybe it's a situation that you thought God was going to do
something and it turned out differently.
Or you've been standing on a promise.
It doesn't seem to be working out.
Sometimes you can feel well, you feel like you're not even a
Christian some days I'm you know, you don't always feel the
same everyday and I've learned this as you get older.
You don't always feel the same as you're used to when you were
younger. So our feeling can be very
deceiving, but what we see will never be deceiving.
And God says, I want to bring you to a place where you can
begin to see me if you would. And being aware of me built on
the person of Jesus Christ. But again, practicing it in
church, where you see him in the baptism, you see him in the
communion, you see him in the worship and praise, you see him
here, you see him there. And then leaving the House of
God and saying, I can still see him.
My God is at work in my family. God is at work in my business.
God is at work in my job. God's at work in all things.
Amen. And I really believe that we're
in a time of great change. People in the world will tell
you the same thing. Some are calling it the 4th
turning. Other people are just talking
about how AI is transforming the world.
And who knows what's going to happen?
Whose jobs are going to still be there?
Well, there's all kinds of information out there, but I can
tell you this much. I'm going to be looking for God
to be in the midst of everything that's in our lives because I
believe what God can do. Now that brings me to Moses.
And it says it came to pass when Moses entered the Tabernacle,
that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of
the Tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
All the people saw the pillar called standing at the
Tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshipped each
man in his tent door. So the Lord spoke to Moses face
to face as a man speaks to his friend, and he would return to
the camp. But his servant Joshua the son
of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the Tabernacle.
And again the setting here. I read it to you in the opening
is the children of Israel are wandering in the wilderness.
The Lord has given Moses a pattern to build a Tabernacle.
It was called the Tabernacle of meeting and it was a place where
they could meet God. And Moses had this very face to
face encounter with God. And literally when he went to
the Tabernacle of meeting, you could see the pillar of fire or
the pillar of a cloud, some visible demonstration that would
be before Moses. And that's why the Bible says he
spoke to God face to face as a man does his friend.
And all the people would watch and say when Moses goes to
church, we got to keep our eyes on it is something great is
going to happen when Moses goes to the Tabernacle of meeting
church. How many came today to a
Tabernacle of meeting? Amen.
I love that song today. Inviting Jesus in the room is
what it's all about. But the Bible says he had a face
to face experience with God. Moses was the friend of God.
He spoke to God face to face as a man does his friend.
Now this next verse of Scripture will tell you how much he loved
the presence of God. It says that he said to God, if
your presence does not go with us, do not bring us from here.
Or how then will it be known that your people and I have
found grace in your sight, except you go with us?
So we shall be separate. Your people and I from all the
people are upon the face of the earth.
So the Lord said to Moses, I will also do this thing that you
have spoken for. You have found grace in my sight
and what I know you by name. Wow, that's powerful, isn't it?
But see in chapter 32, the children of Israel had been bad.
How many know they had a lot of days where they were bad.
In this particular case, they had made a golden calf and
worshipped it and said that was the God that brought him out of
Egypt, Got Moses a little upset, got mad, a little bit upset.
So in this chapter, Moses is like, now God, you're still
going to go with us, aren't you? Because if you're not going with
me, I'm not going to the promised land.
And that's one of the things I've shared over the years over
and over again. I love Moses because he loved
the presence more than the promise.
As charismatic Christians, we believe not only in salvation,
but we believe in the benefits of the cross.
He was wounded for our transgression, just bruised for
our iniquities, just chastised for our peace.
Yes, and by his choice we were healed.
Yes, I believe all those things. But no matter what promise the
Word of God gives to me, I have to be like Moses and say it's
the presence more than the promise that I'm looking for.
But I also think it's so beautiful here how God said, now
Moses, you know I'm going to go with you because Moses, I know
you. I think that's so amazing that
God knows me. How about you?
I watch news articles and look at things that are happening.
I'd like to see science. And so when you talk about
science and what's going on, they have these satellites and
they have these ways of traveling to the planets out
there, farther past the moon than ever before.
And when they talk about the Galaxy, they talk about
universes, more universes, galaxies, more galaxies, how we
know everything out there is getting bigger and bigger.
They're always looking for life because they can't believe that
there's something unique or special about planet Earth.
But there is as far as you can go and as far as you can see.
They want to believe there's life somewhere else.
I'm sure there's people that are going to believe there's life
someplace else. I do know that the heaven is his
throne, so something's up there. Amen.
But I want you to understand something.
It's so important to know that the Earth has been created for a
very special purpose. And as big as all of that is,
and even as big as planet Earth is, even though it looks quite
small in the major scheme of things, looking down on planet
Earth, God knows you. That blows my mind.
I think you know me. Little old me.
Yeah, I know you. Lauren Cobrubius and you can
throw in your name there because he knows you isn't that amazing
and at the same time he's in but I want you to know me more than
you ever known me before. Now this is interesting because
Moses is all excited about the fact that he's in the presence
of God says, oh God, please show me your glory.
Then he said I will make my goodness pass before you.
I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you.
I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and I will have
compassion and whom I will have compassion.
But he said you cannot see my face, for no man shall see me
and live. Wait a minute.
He just said he saw God face to face.
But God saying you can't see my face.
But what God was saying is most of us should see my face.
We have this personal connection, right?
But there's a certain thing about what I am you cannot see.
Just like with the Ark of the Covenant I showed you a picture
of last week. You know, if you touch the Ark
of the Covenant, you could die. And there's something about God
that's so awesome He could kill you.
That's amazing thought, isn't it?
But the point of all that is that God is saying, now, Moses,
you have to understand something.
It's not what you're seeing of me that's going to matter.
It's who you see in me that's going to matter.
Amen. And so, Moses, I want you to
understand something. And so I'm going to give you a
little glimpse of what you want to see, but you have to
understand something that my goodness, my mercy, my
graciousness, what's going to pass before him?
Everything that God was, that was demonstrated in the life of
Jesus Christ, that's what he would experience.
And this is something important to understand because sometimes
in our quest for more of God and what he is, we forget the fact
that God says no, remember, let's make this personal.
And that's why I say keep it about the person of Jesus
Christ. And that's why when we think
about sacraments or church service, everything is make it
personal because that's when you can really touch what God has
for you. Now, it's important to
understand that. So we want to see something
about what God is. And that's the key factor here.
Now I used the scripture a couple weeks ago as well,
looking at from a little different perspective today.
So I catch we need to catch the change of what I'm trying to say
here because he said hear now my words.
If there's a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to
him and division. I speak to him in to ring.
Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house.
I speak with him face to face, even plainly and not in dark
sayings, and he sees what the form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
And as I've explained in Numbers chapter 12, marrying an Aaron,
who are the brother and sister of Moses.
They're mad at him. They're even talking about him
and fighting with him. And God speaks from heaven.
How many know that's a good argument to have for Moses?
I really believe that God wants to do awesome things for his
people. He said those who know they're
God, they're going to do exploits in the anointing of the
Holy Spirit. We're going to hear the voice of
heaven like never before. Church.
It's going to be powerful. But what God was saying about
Moses as he sees me face to face and he says he sees my form.
I wasn't talking about the fact that Moses saw a burning Bush or
pillar fire. Pillar of a cloud isn't that.
He saw a mountain that was thundering and lightning and
shaking with like an earthquake. It was like through each and
every one of his experiences, Moses saw who God was.
He saw something about God in a personal sense, and that's why
for him it was such an important experience every step of the
way, because Moses saw the form of God, and God is saying to us
today that he wants us to see that form.
And again, it's not talking about the visible in that sense,
but it's talking about seeing God in every situation, seeing
where God is in your life at this moment in time.
Because church, there's never been a time like this time.
That's why I love this scripture.
It says, beloved, we are children of God.
And in this case written a couple thousand years ago, he
says, and it does not yet been revealed what we shall be, but
we know that when he's Speaking of Jesus Christ is revealed, we
shall be what like him. Why?
For we shall see him as he is, and everyone who has this hope
in him purifies himself, just as I am here.
Can we all bow our heads for just a moment?
Because this such an essential thing to witness, the moment
God's been telling you. It's a new time, hasn't he?
You know, there's something new going on, something fresh in the
air. He's wanting us to sense and
know with confidence. He knows you and what you know
of him. He's in, but you're going to
know more. You're going to know more.
Father, we just thank you for this amazing time and believe
that we will see you in our lives in every circumstance and
situation. We'll see your form.
This is Pastor Lauren Coverbius from Mount Zion Church.
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