The Soul Man: The Presence

GLORY/ PRESENCE

Ex 24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

Exodus 24:16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days

Grieved, angry, make a deal, unauthorized entry through marriage—covenant

Last week we observed the tactics… of the enemy, and his relentless pursuit to enter the temple, house, rooms…You can’t make a deal with the devil. He will tell you anything he thinks you want to hear— he wants to stay in the house. The answer is the Word of God— when they read the LAW, it was revealed that an Ammonite wasn’t supposed to be in the house of God— why? God said so, why is he here? Nehemiah threw his stuff out on the lawn— this is your eviction notice devil. That’s the right way— GET OUT!

We see in that OT story the craft of our enemy  Ephesians 4:11μεθοδεία/ wiles: deceit, trickery 2 cor 11:3 subtlety: cunning craftiness, skill beguiled: to seduce/deceive: to influence by trickery, flattery, mislead; delude. 2 cor 2:11 devices: intellect, mind. Again, In the Nehemiah story, we learned the right approach once we realize someone is in the house that doesn’t belong— tell the enemy to get out, and in Christ, we have authority to tell Satan to get off, get out, go devil. This morning we will see what could happens if we let him hang around.

I. Main thought: presence of God, desperately we need it. The presence is everything. It leads and guides, heals and makes whole, changes the atmosphere, deliverance, salvation, hope, turns bitter waters sweet.

4 scriptures on presence

In the story we will read, you will see that Cherubim— celestial beings directly associated with the presence of God. Interestingly,  Ezekiel 28:14,15– Satan is a fallen cherub. His ministry before his fall, connected to the presence, connected music: we know about music and the presence. He was expelled from the presence, so it makes perfect sense, that his desire is to cause humans, more specifically, God’s people to also be expelled from the presence.

            He is working real hard for us

3 Scriptures connecting Satan/cherub/man banished from presence/God’s plan to bring it back

cherubim associated with pushing man away from the presence and scripture showing God’s plan to restore the presence associated with cherubim

soul diagram and explaining how it’s not just blatant sin that can begin the process of separating us from His presence.

The enemy works on our self, our self, our mind, our thoughts, our will— the presence is the voice of God and He wants to speak and influence our lives, our thinking, our decisions, our members, but what happens when our thoughts get in the way? You do understand that self has to die daily, I mean the power of sin died at the cross, but there is a whole lot of you and me that has dying left to do, and our unwillingness to let self die, results in disobedience. Let’s be true to the scriptures here. Every thing is not a demon in a believer, much of this is our refusal to die, our self’s desire to live, resulting in disobedience and persistent disobedience decreases the sensitivity of hearing, leading to more rebellion and possibly a departure of the presence.

The scriptures Ezekiel 8 ❤️