#1,133 – God is Always with Us (Ezekiel 10:18)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 15 September 2020

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God's presence will never leave us. Because of Jesus, we can commune with God at any moment.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.
0:04.0	Ezekiel chapter 10 verse 18.
0:07.6	Then the glory of the Lord went out from the threshold of the house
0:12.2	and stood over the cherubum.
0:15.6	Did you hear that phrase?
0:18.0	It's one of the most significant phrases in the book of Ezekiel, really, when you think about it in all of the Old Testament
0:25.8	the story of the Old Testament. Verse 18 says the glory of the
0:35.0	place place in the old the place in the place in the old testament
0:40.0	that God had set up among his people for his glory to dwell among them, his presence to
0:48.8	dwell among them. Obviously we know God is omnipresent, he is present everywhere, but the tabernacle first and the temple
0:57.9	in the Old Testament was a place designed orchestrated by God to be a display of his glory in the middle of his people,
1:07.8	the promise of his presence in the middle of his people.
1:11.3	And what Ezekiel is envisioning here is the glory of the Lord
1:17.2	leaving the temple like vacating the temple.
1:30.4	God's glory no longer up among his people in this way because of their sin and their idolatry and God giving them over to themselves and removing his glory, his presence from among them.
1:40.4	Like this is quite a picture in the Old Testament and when we get into the pages of
1:46.5	the New Testament we just start to realize the seriousness of this verse and the wonder of this verse in a whole new way in light of what we read in the New Testament.
1:57.7	So think about how the New Testament opens. Think John specifically, the Gospel of John chapter one talks about Jesus as the word of God made
2:07.8	Flesh and the language that's used there is God tabernackling among us. Basically, and we see this in John Chapter 2,
2:17.0	Jesus is the temple coming to us. He is the glory of God in the flesh who's come to us to save us from our sins.
2:27.0	This is the mammoth reality of the New Testament of all of Christianity that God has not left us alone in our sin, that God has come to us
2:36.9	in the person of Jesus. In Jesus we behold the glory of God in the flesh and Jesus has lived a perfect life. He has died on a
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