All right I want you to turn to Ezekiel if you know where that is in the Bible

Ezekiel chapter 14 and we're in a series called Living in His Presence and my burden for this series has been that we would not just

enter God's presence once a week at church, but that we would live in his

presence all during the week. And so this message is going to be a little

tougher than some of the other messages because we're going to talk about what is it

that pulls us away from the presence of God. And if you remember

back in Genesis chapter 3, we'll be in Ezekiel 14 a minute. Genesis chapter 3, just once you notice after Adam and Eve sinned, how clear this is,

verse 8 says, and they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool

of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence

of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. They hid from the presence of God.

So obviously what pulls us out of God's presence it's sin. But I don't want to just think about it in the way that we all make mistakes. I want to really talk about how Satan will begin to form a

stronghold in our life and us serving that stronghold is what takes us out of God's presence.

So in Ezekiel 14, we're going to read a lot of verses here,

but you'll like it, all right?

It's really good, but just watch Ezekiel 14, verse one.

Now, some of the elders came to me and sat before me,

and the word of the Lord came to me saying,

Son a man, these men, now watch carefully, have set up their idols in their hearts.

They've set up their idols instead of wooden images, they've set up their idols in their

hearts. And put before them that which causes

them to stumble into iniquity.

Should I let myself be inquired of at all by them? Therefore speak to them and say to them thus

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