#561 – Communion with God (Genesis 28:16–17)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 21 February 2019
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Christ dying on the cross in our place has given us access to God. We constantly have communion with God.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Genesis chapter 28 verses 16 and 17 |
| 0:10.3 | then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, |
| 0:13.0 | Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it. |
| 0:18.0 | And he was afraid and said, how awesome is this place? |
| 0:20.7 | This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven. Now these two |
| 0:27.0 | verses come right after a dream, a pretty awesome dream in which God met with Jacob made promises to him much like |
| 0:38.8 | we've seen his promises to Abraham and to Isaac to bless Jacob to cause his offspring to so we see this theme again of multiplying fill the earth that just comes up over and over and over again |
| 0:55.6 | But what I love is the conclusion right after that |
| 0:58.3 | Jacob wakes up and and wow, like God is here, God is here, |
| 1:05.8 | how awesome is this place? |
| 1:07.4 | This is the house of God. |
| 1:08.7 | I just met with God. |
| 1:10.9 | This is like the gate of heaven. Now, this is like the gate of heaven. |
| 1:13.0 | Now, this picture in the Old Testament is awesome. |
| 1:18.0 | This picture of Jacob meeting with God, |
| 1:21.0 | but do we realize that this is the privilege that is no less |
| 1:29.6 | awesome but that is available to you and me every day all day long because of the work of |
| 1:39.6 | Jesus on the cross. Like because Jesus died on the cross, rose from the grave, made a way for you and I to be |
| 1:50.6 | forgiven of our sins and reconciled to a relationship with God. |
| 1:55.8 | You and I have the privilege of communion with God. |
| 2:01.0 | Like meeting with God, anytime all day long. |
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