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Tomorrow is Valentine’s day.
A day originally established to remember a man, Saint Valentine, who tradition says, so believed in the importance of marriage that he risked death to perform weddings.
That is he believed in the Biblical view of marriage which is one man united to one woman for life.
The view expressed in:
Hebrews 13:4 (NLT) Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage.
God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
But that Biblical emphasis has been abandoned and Valentine’s Day has been corrupted into a soppy Hollywood romance that bears no resemblance to real life.
A day to buy stuff.
For those who are married, I encourage you to use the day to reaffirm your commitment to marriage.
To those vows you made on your wedding day.
To be faithful for better, for worse,
for richer, for poorer,
in sickness and in health,
to love and to cherish, till death do us part.
Seek God’s presence in your marriage, in your family.
Which will not be an easy thing.
The devil does not want you to have a sense of God’s presence.
In our marriage, in our families, in our churches, on our jobs and certainly not in the public square.
I think that when he saw Adam and Eve walking and talking with the Lord in the cool of the day, he determined to stop it, the end that communion with God.
So he came to Eve and sabotaged her and Adam’s relation ship with God by tempting them to sin — to think, to speak, to act contrary to God’s commands.
No, the devil doesn’t want us to experience God’s presence and he will do everything he can to prevent it.
Why do you think he does everything he can to distract you from God.
On Sunday mornings why is it such a battle to get to church?
And if you do get here, to have gone through such a battle that keeps you from being able to worship, to pray.
He doesn’t want any of us to experience God’s Presence.
Because he knows that in God’s Presence:
We find salvation
A renewed understanding of God’s call on our lives
Peace, joy, love
In God’s Presence is:
Healing
Provision
comfort
In 2 weeks we will begin 4 days of special services where we will believe God every day for a greater outpouring of His presence, power and anointing.
But don’t doubt that the devil will do everything he can to keep us from God’s Presence.
But if we can learn a few lessons from our text this morning, we will experience all God wants to pour into our lives.
Text: Exodus 19:10-25
We’ve Been Delivered
One of the important things to know is that before we can experience God’s presence, we need to remember we were once slaves to sin.
But by the grace of God, we like ancient Israel, have been delivered.
We need to remember we have been redeemed by Jesus.
That He died on a cross.
That He shed His blood.
We need to remember and be thankful.
We’ve Been Protected and Provided For
We need to remember that not only have we been delivered by God’s mighty hand, but that God has protected us and provided for us along the way.
God protected Israel from the Pharoah and his army by granting a miraculous deliverance through the Red Sea — the same Red Sea that God used to destroy the Egyptian army.
But that wasn’t the end of God’s watch-care over His people.
He provided food and water all along their way — all throughout their journey.
God has and will do the same thing for us.
Battles Come
Before this encounter with God’s Presence that we read about here in Exodus 19, we read about a battle that Israel fought against Amelek in Ex. 17:8-16.
Before experiencing God’s Presence Israel faced a battle.
The same thing happens to us.
It may not be a physical battle with physical weapons and the shedding of blood — but it is just as real.
I know that I have been fighting a battle lately.
Have you?
I have battled Confusion, Chaos, Fear and Deception
But the devil does not want us to experience God in a spectacular way, so he is doing everything he can to sabotage this service and the special services we have coming up.
He does that by stirring up confusion.
Tonight I hope to dispel some confusion about some things that have occured lately.
But the reality is that there is a constant temptation to be confused about many things in life and in church.
The answer to that confusion is to pray.
To ask God for clarity.
He may not give you every detail — the Holy Spirit may just give you peace in the storm of confusion.
The devil also sabotages a move of God’s presence with a battle against chaos and fear.
We are NOT in a position to receive God’s presence if we are not walking in the Peace of Jesus.
Chaos is opposed to the Peace Jesus gives.
If we walk in fear, we are NOT in a position to receive God’s presence.
For 2 years the devil has been stoking fear.
Fear leads us to want to remove its anxiety from our lives — we are desperate for a solution, a plan for removing fear.
Escape from fear comes from putting our trust in Jesus.
Trusting Him completely.
But the devil wants us to look to an alternative escape from the fear HE, the devil, has put in our lives —
He wants us surrender control to those agencies he controls — to trust the government, political figures, the media, a vaccine, therapeutic medicine, hospitals, doctors anything but God.
But the main release from fear is looking to Jesus.
It seems so many have been doing everything BUT looking to Jesus
And, not least of all, the devil distracts us from a desire for His presence anointing and power with deception.
We live in times when people are easily deceived — in our modern society there are so many ways to do so!
The devil is deceiving people about what is important.
It is important that Jesus is coming again — we need to be ready.
Matthew 24:44–46 (NASB95) “For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.
45 “Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time?
46 “Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.
But the exact date, time and way Jesus is coming lives in the realm of speculation and argument.
The devil wants to deceive us into majoring on the minors.
The major thing is be ready, be obedient to DO what God is telling you right now.
Leave speculations and arguments behind — live an obedient, faithful, trusting life for Jesus right now.
May God help us to fight the battles necessary to enter His Presence and find everything we need!
Final Preparations
Not only do we fight battles to enter God’s Presence, but we must also make preparation to enter God’s Presence.
As I said, chaos hinders our being able to enter God’s Presence.
In Exodus 18, just before our text, chaos threatened Israel.
But God sent Moses, the leader of Israel a man to help him.
Probably Moses didn’t expect to hear wisdom from his maybe 100 year-old father-in-law.
But God sent Jethro to show Moses how he needed to set the nation in order — to get other capable, God-provided leaders in place.
And then, in our text we see further preparations:
Washing clothes
Pursuing holiness in all areas of their lives
Setting boundaries.
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