The Sermon Hold To The Truth by David McGee
Jul 22, 2012
Hold To The Truth (37:38)
Referenced Scriptures: Hebrews 10:19-25; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:1-13; 2 Corinthians 6:16-18; John 15:16-27
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Hebrews 10:19-25
19) Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
20) by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21) and having a great priest over the house of God;
22) let us draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
23) let us hold fast the confession of our hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful.
24) Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
25) not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
Genesis 2:17
17) but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
Genesis 3:1-13
1) Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?‘"
2) The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
3) but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.‘"
4) The serpent said to the woman, "You won‘t surely die,
5) for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be as God, knowing good and evil."
6) When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
7) Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
8) They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
9) Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
10) The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
11) God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
12) The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
13) Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
2 Corinthians 6:16-18
16) What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
17) Therefore, "‘Come out from among them, And be separate,‘ says the Lord, ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
18) I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,‘ says the Lord Almighty."
John 15:16-27
16) You didn‘t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17) I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
18) If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
19) If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
20) Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.‘ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
21) But all these things will they do to you for my name‘s sake, because they don‘t know him who sent me.
22) If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23) He who hates me, hates my Father also.
24) If I hadn‘t done among them the works which none other did, they wouldn‘t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
25) But that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.‘
26) When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
27) You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
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Him Jackson, Ray: and Marissa Marissa Marissa at slow runs. These are neat runs, needs his liberal these days. He's very little from going on twenty one or something fourteen: twenty one so what is going on like to speak about Hebrews chapter ten versus nineteen twenty five. Hold to the truth and the these Scripture are heading for this section is, don't throw it all away, but I wanted to try to turn that around and and look at this and say hold to the truth. And as we read the Scriptures. Here in Hebrews chapter ten. He says so friends, we can now without hesitation walk right into God right up to God. Into the holy place, Jesus has cleared the way by the blood of his sacrifice, acting as our priest before God. The curtain into God 's presence is his body, so what's going on here and especially for the bid. The Hebrew individuals Jewish individuals that the writers speaking of here he's telling them that they were used to the Temple and the Temple had what was called the holies of holdings and there was a holy place and then there was the holies and holies inside of the tabernacle and the holy Place was separated on the holies of holies, where God 's presence was by Kurt and so only once a year. Could the priests go behind the curtain into the holy of holies with a blood offering a blood sacrifice for the people of Israel and for the nation. So what happens here is the writer to the Hebrews is saying that why was going on in the Old Testament with the separation between the holy place and the holy of holies. If this separation is worn when Jesus Christ died upon the cross that mail was torn and access to the holy of holy God 's presence was made available in the Old Testament. If someone entered into that holy of holies with that was in the praise or if the priest went in with sin in his life didn't go through the ceremonial cleansing was struck down, and the priest would wear these would be like a bell and Kleiner know about the client was inside the belt was decided was woven into the bottom of his garments, and he also had a rope tied around his life. So when he went into the holies of holies. They could tell he was still alive because of the reigning and if the ringing stopped and pulled them out because you could not have access to that holy of holies was sending your life. There was no way you could enter into that place and if the priest wasn't right with God, and didn't follow through with all the ceremonial cleansing, he was struck that so and if he was drunk that he didn't go in and get him to pull them out. So what the writer to the Hebrews is saying we can now without hesitation, meaning believers now because of the death of Jesus Christ can without hesitation walked right up to God. Into the holy place, so he saying that there is no distinction is no separation for believers entering into the presence of God that we can walk right also, every time we pray we are entering into the presence of God, that whenever we are thinking about gnome. We also know that we become the temple of the Holy Spirit. When you talk about that little bit, but we are the dwelling place of God. So we have this access into God writer that is holy place and the way by the blood of sacrifice. This was made clear or made open to us by the death of Jesus Christ Hezbollah being shat upon the cross we, having that law to apply to our lives. Forgiveness we enter into that very holy place. That's why the death of Jesus Christ on the cross was so important to us and so important to believers and then verses twenty two to twenty five. He says. So let's do it full ability. What do what ignorant of God 's presence. Let's do it fully believe confident that we're presentable inside and out. See the priest was not a didn't yell you can imagine if you were the high priest and you know if you did not perform the ceremonial cleansing and you didn't complete it correctly, you were dead. So if there were things that he had done the priests of God and walked in the presence of God. It was all over. Now it's saying it twice. Blood has been applied to our lives that we are forgiven and washed by the blood of the Lamb. We are what we are presentable inside and out. So let's keep a firm grip on the promises they keep us going. So we are now right with God, and we have the promises of God that he is with us. He forgives us. He walks with us and never leave me nor forsake me, so we had the correct promises to give ongoing, and then we also recognize he always keeps his word. So let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out. So let's see now how encouraging we can be in loving and helping out what is our concept of God. He is encouraging healthy, never leaving off for staking is not in the guilt ridden business these in the forgiveness bringing us into a right relationship. Knowing that his hand is upon us and we keep these promises in mind, we keep them in mind as we keep on going. So not avoiding worshiping not avoiding worshiping together. Some do but, spurring each other on. We have a relation we have a responsibility to be and worship and to encourage other people to be here also, so don't give up on your worship don't give up on your relationship with God. Don't give up on the promises of God, but allow those promises to be part of our life, and especially as we see the big day approaching, meaning that Jesus Christ is going to return and that we have a responsibility to God into the body of Christ to receive what God wants to do in our life and then to keep on giving it to other people. So when we said this morning about. We are vessel and God feels our vessel, and we splashed all over us. We wanted to the splash all over people and bless them and encourage them so that we can have this right relationship with God now we hold these truths we hold these truths we hold these truths that we don't understand I don't understand I think people in today's paper. The massacre in Colorado and had where they found an individual and had a baby unborn child, and flushed it down the toilet. It was stuck in the sewage system in Johnstown and then there was a man who was robbed and tied up and set afire in that's all in the newspaper yesterday morning, so we go again. We talked about entering into God 's presence and that we are to continue to be in there and there and then we come out and what do we find as we go about our daily lives we find out that our world around us is on a downward slide that the world around us has what put a distance between some sense of morality in some sense of understanding of what is right and wrong that our world around us has no governing basis as to what's going on around you see Marissa just went down downstairs yesterday she was on the computer and choose you know she has these will think their black-and-white and says, I love pink and I can't understand. But anyhow, there's this pink story and out and she was looking at that pink site in a and I was. She was looking at and I was watching these pink things Filipino bookcases and stuff like that and write on the side of the computer was one of pop-up things in the pop-up thing. Read their last was had in my mind and went away the pop-up thingy says there is a new God in the world and it is you so here is a fourteen -year-old twelve -year-old whatever. What is the computer looking at a site that talks about pink is a pink store them all like that and how long this is for girls. I guess I haven't been in it. I wanted a place for yesterday and now I really enjoyed it immensely. My wife my wife is no way. Now the witness is not an insult here is this pop up mail. There's this little thing it says there's a new God in the world and it is you and and so it was a small key was a G version of God in this world describes you know, again, we look at this and we say it just seems like a simple thing that pop-up is in this moment it is you okay start putting it together with falling away of values falling away of people not allowing God to be part of their lives, and we see that one man's. It all takes for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. So what do we do what we do to confront this type of evil in our society. What do they do to confront the wrongs in our society. We get out banners and we get out the public demonstrations, and now I'm what and and how the waves. It is, is it in that type of publicity and that type of stance that really makes a difference in people 's lives, and generally find out that it's not necessarily in the stands that people read on the sign, but it's in the stance that we have in our hearts in our lives by due the right things for the right reasons and that's why so important for us to go into the presence of God freely to walk into God 's presence, as if we belong there and to allow God to touch our lives in such a way that we affect the people around us and that we touched their lives with the presence of God, even though they knew we don't have to preach to them, but our say. Now you need the right with God, but that are in life, says that there's something about us that makes us different. There's something about our relationship with God that gives hope to people who don't have hope. And where do individuals who find themselves plotting to kill random people or finding themselves not wanting a child or just horrendous act of setting another person on fire. Where do these people who robs their life who influences them who challenges those those behaviors. Those fantasies. You see, when people don't house have boundaries and that's what wild world are our society is pushing the fact that want to push back the boundaries and the Church of Jesus Christ UNI. The body of Christ is the boundary. We are the boundary on sin and send once no boundaries send once no boundaries because the law was one, the Antichrist, Satan, evil once phrased way over individuals lives so I have no boundaries, and God is telling us that we have boundaries because they are the boundaries keep us on the path of righteousness, that the boundaries give us a sense of direction and a sense of purpose that we belong to our God who created the universe. We haven't made ourselves to God. There is a new God in the universe in the world and it is you and what people have that mentality that they alone are God. Then they set the rules they set the boundaries, but we, and we are a five eleven the spiritual principles. The Spirit of God in human I is that boundaries. It is there that even people can't see it becoming Yelena call up for sale enough, perhaps in the society sci-fi realm that there is a force field know there was a person, and his name is Jesus the Holy Spirit that abides within you, changes, and creates this. This this boundary that keeps people in check to the world. In fact, because when Jesus Christ returns the church will be taken. The church will be taken right after Cochran to heaven. Paul said that in Christ shall rise first, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up to meet them in the air, and when the church is gone. That's when the antichrist and all hell will break loose on our world, because the presence of restrictions is gone. The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit in you and I Sarah is a separation from God. Sin is separation from God, and it does not appear to be much. You know, we don't, we'll think of that separation is being too now live. Their people, their centers. But we don't see the full effectiveness until we see the atrocities of murder and human trafficking, and all the sins simple activity start with thoughts and actions, plans, and the budget seen for Christians, we can walk into the very presence of God, because we belonged there. We are his child. Now, doesn't mean that were perfect doesn't mean that we don't do without mistakes are we having same dark things like that but we have an advocate. We have one price for us to intercede for us and we have this right relationship with God. She would belong to God in Genesis chapter two verse seventeen is a God commanded the man, you can eat now this is what God says you can eat from any tree in the garden except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil don't even for the moment you eat from it you work at your death, then you die and go to Genesis chapter three verse one. The shock that was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had made. He spoke to the woman do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden. Now what did God say to you said don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What did Satan repeat to leave. Do I understand God told you to not eat any tree in this closing. See you will have the way on this closing the truth misquoting truth burst through in three one seven suffered not at all. McKinney from the trees in the garden. It's only about the tree in the middle of the garden that God says no instrument and don't even touch it or you will die now is in Wisconsin. He said don't eat Eve made the commandment more than what was she said, when a lot touching to see and so we this is why it is important that we enter into God 's presence and walk with God as a friend with friend so that we understand his and what the what the intent of the law is there lots of people reporting everybody and Hal and selling element that you got it. It is raining. I do that way if you don't do this. My get out a lot of well-intentioned people, but sometimes people are full of good intentions, but wrong, but the woman here and says, going to touch about the distortion of the truth verse four and five. The serpent told the woman you won't die. God knows that the moment you eat from the tree. You'll see what's really going on. You'll be just like God, there's a new God in the world. There's a new God and the world and it is you. It's the same old trick here is in Genesis and hair was on the computer. Just yesterday, it's the same deceptive thought you say what's really going on. Nobody just like God, knowing everything ranging all the way from good to evil. I know what all you see there is the evil intent is that you are going to miss out on something. That's why we are tempted to sin. That's why were tempted to CEO. People who are non-Christians in and against the church. It's like the charge of presenting boundaries and saying things to keep us from something. The church has all these laws and regulations and make it other than just a bunch of young, confused individuals. That's what people outside the church away from God saying, and it's exactly what is going on. Think the important thing is don't forsake the assembling of yourselves together for we read in Hebrews and that don't keep away. Don't throw away your relationship with God. Don't throw away the greatest thing the greatest part of who you are and that's the ability to enter into God 's presence not, but if we do it by time. Be with me now. I'm in God 's presence. I'm bringing it to my attention. I'm bringing it to my attention. That's my prayer, and I'm reminding myself. God has promised to never leave me nor for Satan to God is with me now, and every moment of every day when you stop and things are getting pushy and Charmian and whatever and conflict is going on and you hear about these murders and and and only then all the garbage in our world, God reminds me, I'm in your presence, and in this place where I am, you are I am glad to be in the presence even when bad things happen good. You're still with me. I'm in your presence, the devil tries to get us to misunderstand misinterpret totally turn our back on something that we know is true. What I saw there three temptations here lust of the eyes, lest the flesh, and the pride of life looks good, feels good to make me more than what I am when the woman saw that the tree looked like looked like good eating and realized that she would watch, she would get out of it. Pride and lust of the flesh feel good. What you would get out of it. She knew and that she would know everything pride of life to make me more than what I am. I will know everything. She took and ate the fruit and gave some to her husband and EA now in creation. This is a joke. Okay, one you had a time when you laugh on the state of their own in creation, God put Adam is it Adam. I will make you a perfect mate. She will love you. She will clean for you. She will cook for you, she will do everything without complaint. She will be your right arm your left arm. She will wait upon you hand and foot, she will do everything for you. But if the cost you an arm and a life that is his will. What can I do for rent is those jolting, John Stanislav F the delegate for rib eye, so will jump him, we say that we say that God is with us, and that in an inherently have had an even longer out of a need during for this. This temptation they were God would come in the cool of the day and they would walk with God as friend with friend. That's what they were supposed to do. And here we are in favor of the life of one of the writer of Hebrews say hey let's enter into God 's presence is that you belong there. Hello, we do we belong in the presence of God. So when I heard the sound of God strolling in the garden within the evening birthday bananas life and in the trades of the garden hid from God. That's why you are never hide from God never run away from his spirit because his spirit is always beckoning calling wanting us to enter into his presence. God doesn't want us to be separated. If we feel like running God didn't put the thought in our minds. If we feel like we're no good or not good enough. God did not put that thought. If we feel that we have said and committed some unpardonable thing and that was Donald never forgive us, God did not give you that flock at least will sustain. I like both who regards can while .com finances. Where are you now this is really kind of foolish question, like Jesus, asking the blind man. What can I do for you, God says that anime where are you being like God couldn't find them I wanted him to respond. God calls us mean he doesn't know. Yes, he knows you. He wants to want us to respond he calls us by name. He calls us by mischaracterizing our life. He calls to us what God wants us to enter into his present God wants us to make arrangements presents he wants to be our friend. He wants to be our constant companion and wants to be there to bless and to remind us of his word and to encourage our hearts and that week that he has a plan and a purpose far live, so he was come into his presence anywhere are you glad you got. He wants me to respond is that he doesn't know when I pray, is it that God doesn't know my needs. Now he wants me to respond. Take my needs to him in prayer. David what's going on in your life mean he doesn't know Corsi notes he wants me to take my needs and bring them to him because he longs to hear our voice and I my mom would talk about my brother that died, she would say. Sometimes I just love I just like to hear his voice one more time, but now she can hear you, and I think of a mother wanting to hear the voice of her child. That is a dim reflection of God, wanting to hear our voice belongs to hear your voice was to hear your voice and that is said in verse ten, Hera, I hear your thesis, I hear you're the garden was afraid because I was naked and I had verse eleven, God said, who told you that you were naked. Did you eat from that tree. I told you not to eat from his seat whenever we feel like we should be away from God. Those are the very times we should confront those thoughts and go through God and receive his blessing don't be what the next verses. The man said it's not my fault got if that's your fault. Because you gave me that woman is the one sad is not my fault body cheerful thought you created that that circuit is on modified hairs is a if it's how we look at things and how we begin to see how we fit, and that's why the challenge is that we can't blame, we can't blame our society. Once the society 's fault that there's a mass murdering fellow, for and in the Colorado while somehow some way. Perhaps it's the church 's fault that we haven't been the witness that we should be because don't we kind of look at people and pass judgment on them. They're too smart there too rich. They will not understand they won't this that they make excuses for not presenting ourselves with Christ presenting Christ with ourselves as an open book God is not straightening up and then coming in is about coming in and then straightening up, because if we could straighten up our life without God we would need. We need to come to God and allow God to help us become that person. There is anyone unless he doesn't need to grow on in our relationship with Christ and so we begin where we arrived and we can begin by coming into God 's presence in our wheel are we perfect, now have I said yes. Why continue to well I said probably. I hope when I want. I will and I need to ask God to help me. My weaknesses. You see the value of life is in the relationships of these people that they interviewed the individual that the interviewed in Colorado that survive some were wounded and some got out of there with her life and not sought. They were talking about how important their families, their friends, their children, valuing those relationships valuing who we are and the people that we talked to the people that touch us. That's where we have the greatest value in our life. And that's the things of the going to last forever, and the relationship we have with Jesus Christ. By what by entering by walking right into God right after God in hit in the holy place. I walked right up to God in the holy place Raul I belonged there, but because of who I am because of what God has done in the is forgiveness. Second Corinthians, what agreement hath the temple of God with idols for you are the temple of the living God as God says, I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Verse eighteen. I will be a father unto you, and you my son and daughter say, the Lord Almighty, I'm I'm I want to be your father. I once was his anger. Why agreements we have. We don't have any agreement with the things that are anti- God. We are in a world no, I'm not remember something that I remember well putting off. I remember whenever I was growing up in the church and in everything you will begin on of the world and and I would also think will I go to school is back in high school, I got out of school and I belong to Christ, that above the world by South Dakota schools. I understand that while what it meant was, I don't have an agreement with the people who are against God. The world that which is anti- God. I don't agree with them. I know that I don't walk in agreement with them, but I'm still there as a witness as God 's presence among them, and I don't have to wear you know there's a guy who came up alone with jungle hospital is numbered years ago and he would walk in and he would just start preaching you tell everybody. They're going to hell, you tell them all are going out of their descendents. Any dysthymic call me if you don't go get him. David's younger talk to this guy get a model hospital and he was just an offensive individual and he would just know point fingers and images like in his mind, if you really think you're winning people to Christ by your stance and of course it wasn't. But when Jesus Christ returns when Jesus Christ returns. This building will be left behind the not God 's dwelling place. This is you are and when Christ returns, we're going to go spend an eternity with him, and in eternity with God begins now because we walked into his presence, so that I'll close with this. I know those been speaking and lighting on twenty minutes at Philip Talley. Already they forget it's a long Sunday morning preachers back. But first, a first John the first on the John chapter fifteen, verse sixteen, yet not chosen me, but I have chosen you. Why did God choose us, Hebrews, chapter ten, so friends, we can now without hesitation walked right up to God. Into the holy place, God chose us to walk into his presence and being his friend. I choose you, Jesus says I choose you to be my child's now we must make a choice God I choose to follow you. I choose to accept you as my Savior. Forgive me of my sins. I choose to be part of your body. I choose to read we need to read the Scriptures, even if it's just a daily devotional learned back. You don't have one pick it up. We've got extra. There a daily devotional something if you don't put something different in and not get anything different now. We've got to read the Scripture got to read things that are good because sometimes people get caught up in the fantasies which are distorted* God gives us hope and our hope is not a fantasy. It is an expectation of the blessing of God upon our life in his ability to keep us in the most difficult times and the most gracious in the greatest of times to bless us with many full blessing. If my people were called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, what will happen. He will bless us feel our last forgive us of our cents for blessing and wildlife, and then hang less than Shelley, so as we choose, we choose to enter into God 's presence. Remember if you think you're not worthy God can give you that thought. If you think you committed some sins that God won't forget love that is not God 's thought. He longs to hear your voice. He longs to walk with you because it shows you as his child, and then you believe that then splash somebody with God 's presence. Amen, I grantedHim Jackson, Ray: and Marissa Marissa Marissa at slow runs. These are neat runs, needs his liberal these days. He's very little from going on twenty one or something fourteen: twenty one so what is going on like to speak about Hebrews chapter ten versus nineteen twenty five. Hold to the truth and the these Scripture are heading for this section is, don't throw it all away, but I wanted to try to turn that around and and look at this and say hold to the truth. And as we read the Scriptures. Here in Hebrews chapter ten. He says so friends, we can now without hesitation walk right into God right up to God. Into the holy place, Jesus has cleared the way by the blood of his sacrifice, acting as our priest before God. The curtain into God 's presence is his body, so what's going on here and especially for the bid. The Hebrew individuals Jewish individuals that the writers speaking of here he's telling them that they were used to the Temple and the Temple had what was called the holies of holdings and there was a holy place and then there was the holies and holies inside of the tabernacle and the holy Place was separated on the holies of holies, where God 's presence was by Kurt and so only once a year. Could the priests go behind the curtain into the holy of holies with a blood offering a blood sacrifice for the people of Israel and for the nation. So what happens here is the writer to the Hebrews is saying that why was going on in the Old Testament with the separation between the holy place and the holy of holies. If this separation is worn when Jesus Christ died upon the cross that mail was torn and access to the holy of holy God 's presence was made available in the Old Testament. If someone entered into that holy of holies with that was in the praise or if the priest went in with sin in his life didn't go through the ceremonial cleansing was struck down, and the priest would wear these would be like a bell and Kleiner know about the client was inside the belt was decided was woven into the bottom of his garments, and he also had a rope tied around his life. So when he went into the holies of holies. They could tell he was still alive because of the reigning and if the ringing stopped and pulled them out because you could not have access to that holy of holies was sending your life. There was no way you could enter into that place and if the priest wasn't right with God, and didn't follow through with all the ceremonial cleansing, he was struck that so and if he was drunk that he didn't go in and get him to pull them out. So what the writer to the Hebrews is saying we can now without hesitation, meaning believers now because of the death of Jesus Christ can without hesitation walked right up to God. Into the holy place, so he saying that there is no distinction is no separation for believers entering into the presence of God that we can walk right also, every time we pray we are entering into the presence of God, that whenever we are thinking about gnome. We also know that we become the temple of the Holy Spirit. When you talk about that little bit, but we are the dwelling place of God. So we have this access into God writer that is holy place and the way by the blood of sacrifice. This was made clear or made open to us by the death of Jesus Christ Hezbollah being shat upon the cross we, having that law to apply to our lives. Forgiveness we enter into that very holy place. That's why the death of Jesus Christ on the cross was so important to us and so important to believers and then verses twenty two to twenty five. He says. So let's do it full ability. What do what ignorant of God 's presence. Let's do it fully believe confident that we're presentable inside and out. See the priest was not a didn't yell you can imagine if you were the high priest and you know if you did not perform the ceremonial cleansing and you didn't complete it correctly, you were dead. So if there were things that he had done the priests of God and walked in the presence of God. It was all over. Now it's saying it twice. Blood has been applied to our lives that we are forgiven and washed by the blood of the Lamb. We are what we are presentable inside and out. So let's keep a firm grip on the promises they keep us going. So we are now right with God, and we have the promises of God that he is with us. He forgives us. He walks with us and never leave me nor forsake me, so we had the correct promises to give ongoing, and then we also recognize he always keeps his word. So let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out. So let's see now how encouraging we can be in loving and helping out what is our concept of God. He is encouraging healthy, never leaving off for staking is not in the guilt ridden business these in the forgiveness bringing us into a right relationship. Knowing that his hand is upon us and we keep these promises in mind, we keep them in mind as we keep on going. So not avoiding worshiping not avoiding worshiping together. Some do but, spurring each other on. We have a relation we have a responsibility to be and worship and to encourage other people to be here also, so don't give up on your worship don't give up on your relationship with God. Don't give up on the promises of God, but allow those promises to be part of our life, and especially as we see the big day approaching, meaning that Jesus Christ is going to return and that we have a responsibility to God into the body of Christ to receive what God wants to do in our life and then to keep on giving it to other people. So when we said this morning about. We are vessel and God feels our vessel, and we splashed all over us. We wanted to the splash all over people and bless them and encourage them so that we can have this right relationship with God now we hold these truths we hold these truths we hold these truths that we don't understand I don't understand I think people in today's paper. The massacre in Colorado and had where they found an individual and had a baby unborn child, and flushed it down the toilet. It was stuck in the sewage system in Johnstown and then there was a man who was robbed and tied up and set afire in that's all in the newspaper yesterday morning, so we go again. We talked about entering into God 's presence and that we are to continue to be in there and there and then we come out and what do we find as we go about our daily lives we find out that our world around us is on a downward slide that the world around us has what put a distance between some sense of morality in some sense of understanding of what is right and wrong that our world around us has no governing basis as to what's going on around you see Marissa just went down downstairs yesterday she was on the computer and choose you know she has these will think their black-and-white and says, I love pink and I can't understand. But anyhow, there's this pink story and out and she was looking at that pink site in a and I was. She was looking at and I was watching these pink things Filipino bookcases and stuff like that and write on the side of the computer was one of pop-up things in the pop-up thing. Read their last was had in my mind and went away the pop-up thingy says there is a new God in the world and it is you so here is a fourteen -year-old twelve -year-old whatever. What is the computer looking at a site that talks about pink is a pink store them all like that and how long this is for girls. I guess I haven't been in it. I wanted a place for yesterday and now I really enjoyed it immensely. My wife my wife is no way. Now the witness is not an insult here is this pop up mail. There's this little thing it says there's a new God in the world and it is you and and so it was a small key was a G version of God in this world describes you know, again, we look at this and we say it just seems like a simple thing that pop-up is in this moment it is you okay start putting it together with falling away of values falling away of people not allowing God to be part of their lives, and we see that one man's. It all takes for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. So what do we do what we do to confront this type of evil in our society. What do they do to confront the wrongs in our society. We get out banners and we get out the public demonstrations, and now I'm what and and how the waves. It is, is it in that type of publicity and that type of stance that really makes a difference in people 's lives, and generally find out that it's not necessarily in the stands that people read on the sign, but it's in the stance that we have in our hearts in our lives by due the right things for the right reasons and that's why so important for us to go into the presence of God freely to walk into God 's presence, as if we belong there and to allow God to touch our lives in such a way that we affect the people around us and that we touched their lives with the presence of God, even though they knew we don't have to preach to them, but our say. Now you need the right with God, but that are in life, says that there's something about us that makes us different. There's something about our relationship with God that gives hope to people who don't have hope. And where do individuals who find themselves plotting to kill random people or finding themselves not wanting a child or just horrendous act of setting another person on fire. Where do these people who robs their life who influences them who challenges those those behaviors. Those fantasies. You see, when people don't house have boundaries and that's what wild world are our society is pushing the fact that want to push back the boundaries and the Church of Jesus Christ UNI. The body of Christ is the boundary. We are the boundary on sin and send once no boundaries send once no boundaries because the law was one, the Antichrist, Satan, evil once phrased way over individuals lives so I have no boundaries, and God is telling us that we have boundaries because they are the boundaries keep us on the path of righteousness, that the boundaries give us a sense of direction and a sense of purpose that we belong to our God who created the universe. We haven't made ourselves to God. There is a new God in the universe in the world and it is you and what people have that mentality that they alone are God. Then they set the rules they set the boundaries, but we, and we are a five eleven the spiritual principles. The Spirit of God in human I is that boundaries. It is there that even people can't see it becoming Yelena call up for sale enough, perhaps in the society sci-fi realm that there is a force field know there was a person, and his name is Jesus the Holy Spirit that abides within you, changes, and creates this. This this boundary that keeps people in check to the world. In fact, because when Jesus Christ returns the church will be taken. The church will be taken right after Cochran to heaven. Paul said that in Christ shall rise first, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up to meet them in the air, and when the church is gone. That's when the antichrist and all hell will break loose on our world, because the presence of restrictions is gone. The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit in you and I Sarah is a separation from God. Sin is separation from God, and it does not appear to be much. You know, we don't, we'll think of that separation is being too now live. Their people, their centers. But we don't see the full effectiveness until we see the atrocities of murder and human trafficking, and all the sins simple activity start with thoughts and actions, plans, and the budget seen for Christians, we can walk into the very presence of God, because we belonged there. We are his child. Now, doesn't mean that were perfect doesn't mean that we don't do without mistakes are we having same dark things like that but we have an advocate. We have one price for us to intercede for us and we have this right relationship with God. She would belong to God in Genesis chapter two verse seventeen is a God commanded the man, you can eat now this is what God says you can eat from any tree in the garden except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil don't even for the moment you eat from it you work at your death, then you die and go to Genesis chapter three verse one. The shock that was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had made. He spoke to the woman do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden. Now what did God say to you said don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What did Satan repeat to leave. Do I understand God told you to not eat any tree in this closing. See you will have the way on this closing the truth misquoting truth burst through in three one seven suffered not at all. McKinney from the trees in the garden. It's only about the tree in the middle of the garden that God says no instrument and don't even touch it or you will die now is in Wisconsin. He said don't eat Eve made the commandment more than what was she said, when a lot touching to see and so we this is why it is important that we enter into God 's presence and walk with God as a friend with friend so that we understand his and what the what the intent of the law is there lots of people reporting everybody and Hal and selling element that you got it. It is raining. I do that way if you don't do this. My get out a lot of well-intentioned people, but sometimes people are full of good intentions, but wrong, but the woman here and says, going to touch about the distortion of the truth verse four and five. The serpent told the woman you won't die. God knows that the moment you eat from the tree. You'll see what's really going on. You'll be just like God, there's a new God in the world. There's a new God and the world and it is you. It's the same old trick here is in Genesis and hair was on the computer. Just yesterday, it's the same deceptive thought you say what's really going on. Nobody just like God, knowing everything ranging all the way from good to evil. I know what all you see there is the evil intent is that you are going to miss out on something. That's why we are tempted to sin. That's why were tempted to CEO. People who are non-Christians in and against the church. It's like the charge of presenting boundaries and saying things to keep us from something. The church has all these laws and regulations and make it other than just a bunch of young, confused individuals. That's what people outside the church away from God saying, and it's exactly what is going on. Think the important thing is don't forsake the assembling of yourselves together for we read in Hebrews and that don't keep away. Don't throw away your relationship with God. Don't throw away the greatest thing the greatest part of who you are and that's the ability to enter into God 's presence not, but if we do it by time. Be with me now. I'm in God 's presence. I'm bringing it to my attention. I'm bringing it to my attention. That's my prayer, and I'm reminding myself. God has promised to never leave me nor for Satan to God is with me now, and every moment of every day when you stop and things are getting pushy and Charmian and whatever and conflict is going on and you hear about these murders and and and only then all the garbage in our world, God reminds me, I'm in your presence, and in this place where I am, you are I am glad to be in the presence even when bad things happen good. You're still with me. I'm in your presence, the devil tries to get us to misunderstand misinterpret totally turn our back on something that we know is true. What I saw there three temptations here lust of the eyes, lest the flesh, and the pride of life looks good, feels good to make me more than what I am when the woman saw that the tree looked like looked like good eating and realized that she would watch, she would get out of it. Pride and lust of the flesh feel good. What you would get out of it. She knew and that she would know everything pride of life to make me more than what I am. I will know everything. She took and ate the fruit and gave some to her husband and EA now in creation. This is a joke. Okay, one you had a time when you laugh on the state of their own in creation, God put Adam is it Adam. I will make you a perfect mate. She will love you. She will clean for you. She will cook for you, she will do everything without complaint. She will be your right arm your left arm. She will wait upon you hand and foot, she will do everything for you. But if the cost you an arm and a life that is his will. What can I do for rent is those jolting, John Stanislav F the delegate for rib eye, so will jump him, we say that we say that God is with us, and that in an inherently have had an even longer out of a need during for this. This temptation they were God would come in the cool of the day and they would walk with God as friend with friend. That's what they were supposed to do. And here we are in favor of the life of one of the writer of Hebrews say hey let's enter into God 's presence is that you belong there. Hello, we do we belong in the presence of God. So when I heard the sound of God strolling in the garden within the evening birthday bananas life and in the trades of the garden hid from God. That's why you are never hide from God never run away from his spirit because his spirit is always beckoning calling wanting us to enter into his presence. God doesn't want us to be separated. If we feel like running God didn't put the thought in our minds. If we feel like we're no good or not good enough. God did not put that thought. If we feel that we have said and committed some unpardonable thing and that was Donald never forgive us, God did not give you that flock at least will sustain. I like both who regards can while .com finances. Where are you now this is really kind of foolish question, like Jesus, asking the blind man. What can I do for you, God says that anime where are you being like God couldn't find them I wanted him to respond. God calls us mean he doesn't know. Yes, he knows you. He wants to want us to respond he calls us by name. He calls us by mischaracterizing our life. He calls to us what God wants us to enter into his present God wants us to make arrangements presents he wants to be our friend. He wants to be our constant companion and wants to be there to bless and to remind us of his word and to encourage our hearts and that week that he has a plan and a purpose far live, so he was come into his presence anywhere are you glad you got. He wants me to respond is that he doesn't know when I pray, is it that God doesn't know my needs. Now he wants me to respond. Take my needs to him in prayer. David what's going on in your life mean he doesn't know Corsi notes he wants me to take my needs and bring them to him because he longs to hear our voice and I my mom would talk about my brother that died, she would say. Sometimes I just love I just like to hear his voice one more time, but now she can hear you, and I think of a mother wanting to hear the voice of her child. That is a dim reflection of God, wanting to hear our voice belongs to hear your voice was to hear your voice and that is said in verse ten, Hera, I hear your thesis, I hear you're the garden was afraid because I was naked and I had verse eleven, God said, who told you that you were naked. Did you eat from that tree. I told you not to eat from his seat whenever we feel like we should be away from God. Those are the very times we should confront those thoughts and go through God and receive his blessing don't be what the next verses. The man said it's not my fault got if that's your fault. Because you gave me that woman is the one sad is not my fault body cheerful thought you created that that circuit is on modified hairs is a if it's how we look at things and how we begin to see how we fit, and that's why the challenge is that we can't blame, we can't blame our society. Once the society 's fault that there's a mass murdering fellow, for and in the Colorado while somehow some way. Perhaps it's the church 's fault that we haven't been the witness that we should be because don't we kind of look at people and pass judgment on them. They're too smart there too rich. They will not understand they won't this that they make excuses for not presenting ourselves with Christ presenting Christ with ourselves as an open book God is not straightening up and then coming in is about coming in and then straightening up, because if we could straighten up our life without God we would need. We need to come to God and allow God to help us become that person. There is anyone unless he doesn't need to grow on in our relationship with Christ and so we begin where we arrived and we can begin by coming into God 's presence in our wheel are we perfect, now have I said yes. Why continue to well I said probably. I hope when I want. I will and I need to ask God to help me. My weaknesses. You see the value of life is in the relationships of these people that they interviewed the individual that the interviewed in Colorado that survive some were wounded and some got out of there with her life and not sought. They were talking about how important their families, their friends, their children, valuing those relationships valuing who we are and the people that we talked to the people that touch us. That's where we have the greatest value in our life. And that's the things of the going to last forever, and the relationship we have with Jesus Christ. By what by entering by walking right into God right after God in hit in the holy place. I walked right up to God in the holy place Raul I belonged there, but because of who I am because of what God has done in the is forgiveness. Second Corinthians, what agreement hath the temple of God with idols for you are the temple of the living God as God says, I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Verse eighteen. I will be a father unto you, and you my son and daughter say, the Lord Almighty, I'm I'm I want to be your father. I once was his anger. Why agreements we have. We don't have any agreement with the things that are anti- God. We are in a world no, I'm not remember something that I remember well putting off. I remember whenever I was growing up in the church and in everything you will begin on of the world and and I would also think will I go to school is back in high school, I got out of school and I belong to Christ, that above the world by South Dakota schools. I understand that while what it meant was, I don't have an agreement with the people who are against God. The world that which is anti- God. I don't agree with them. I know that I don't walk in agreement with them, but I'm still there as a witness as God 's presence among them, and I don't have to wear you know there's a guy who came up alone with jungle hospital is numbered years ago and he would walk in and he would just start preaching you tell everybody. They're going to hell, you tell them all are going out of their descendents. Any dysthymic call me if you don't go get him. David's younger talk to this guy get a model hospital and he was just an offensive individual and he would just know point fingers and images like in his mind, if you really think you're winning people to Christ by your stance and of course it wasn't. But when Jesus Christ returns when Jesus Christ returns. This building will be left behind the not God 's dwelling place. This is you are and when Christ returns, we're going to go spend an eternity with him, and in eternity with God begins now because we walked into his presence, so that I'll close with this. I know those been speaking and lighting on twenty minutes at Philip Talley. Already they forget it's a long Sunday morning preachers back. But first, a first John the first on the John chapter fifteen, verse sixteen, yet not chosen me, but I have chosen you. Why did God choose us, Hebrews, chapter ten, so friends, we can now without hesitation walked right up to God. Into the holy place, God chose us to walk into his presence and being his friend. I choose you, Jesus says I choose you to be my child's now we must make a choice God I choose to follow you. I choose to accept you as my Savior. Forgive me of my sins. I choose to be part of your body. I choose to read we need to read the Scriptures, even if it's just a daily devotional learned back. You don't have one pick it up. We've got extra. There a daily devotional something if you don't put something different in and not get anything different now. We've got to read the Scripture got to read things that are good because sometimes people get caught up in the fantasies which are distorted* God gives us hope and our hope is not a fantasy. It is an expectation of the blessing of God upon our life in his ability to keep us in the most difficult times and the most gracious in the greatest of times to bless us with many full blessing. If my people were called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, what will happen. He will bless us feel our last forgive us of our cents for blessing and wildlife, and then hang less than Shelley, so as we choose, we choose to enter into God 's presence. Remember if you think you're not worthy God can give you that thought. If you think you committed some sins that God won't forget love that is not God 's thought. He longs to hear your voice. He longs to walk with you because it shows you as his child, and then you believe that then splash somebody with God 's presence. Amen, I granted