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Exodus chapter 24, verse 17.

Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain.

What a scene.

When you read Exodus chapter 24 or Exodus chapter 19, both chapters just depict God in this similar way as a devouring, consuming fire on Mount Sinai. You can only imagine watching that scene is one of the Israelites in the

book of Exodus seeing this mountain with this consuming fire on it depicting the

presence and the glory of God in such a way that you have to stand way back

nobody but Moses can go near. And then you just keep reading

through the Bible and you realize, whoa, Jesus is this devouring fire, the presence of God in the flesh.

And then you realize once he dies on the cross for our sin,

rises from the dead and ascends to heaven,

he sins his Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 2.

And what is resting on the people in Acts chapter 2.

And what is resting on the people in Acts chapter 2?

Tongues of fire.

And you start to realize in the big picture story of the Bible,

how different we are than the people were in Exodus chapter 24.

We don't have to stand back away from the presence of the holy glory of God. We have access to enter in. You and I through the blood of Jesus have communion with

this God. We can draw near to God, come close to him, so close to him that make the

connection, his spirit actually dwells inside of us. The Holy Spirit of God is dwelling in us.

Our body is a temple of His Holy Spirit. When we gather together as the church, 1 Corinthians chapter 3 says, we are the temple.

We are the place where this God dwells in our midst, the same God they had to stand

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