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🗓️ 7 March 2024
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0:00.0 | Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. |
0:05.0 | The title of today's post is Restoring the Dream. |
0:12.0 | We've been looking at Jacob and his two encounters with God at Bethel and Penuel. |
0:19.0 | Bethel means house of God, and Penuel means face of God. |
0:24.8 | A house of God relationship allows one to know the blessings of salvation |
0:30.2 | without ever experiencing true intimacy with him. |
0:35.8 | At this level of relationship, Jesus is more of a Savior than a friend. |
0:41.3 | God is more of a distant ruler than an affectionate father. |
0:46.3 | A penuel face-to-face relationship, on the other hand, changes everything. |
0:53.3 | Jesus becomes our friend. on the other hand, changes everything. |
0:56.9 | Jesus becomes our friend. |
1:01.7 | God becomes Abba, Papa. |
1:05.6 | And Holy Spirit becomes our close helper. |
1:14.9 | Penuel comes from Pane, the Hebrew word for face, thus face of God. |
1:21.8 | It is interesting in revealing that Pane is also the word for presence. |
1:31.6 | Turning the face toward someone, as in face-to-face encounters, obviously requires being in their presence. |
1:40.1 | Thus, the word for face became the word for presence. When the scriptures speak of individuals having face-to-face in relationships with God, or that God shines his face on us, |
1:48.1 | they obviously aren't implying we're supposed to see his physical face. Rather, we're being |
1:55.4 | reminded that we can live in his presence, the intimacy of which is so personal it's akin to a face-to-face |
2:06.6 | meeting with a friend. |
2:09.6 | The circumstances leading up to Pannual, the beginning of Jacob's face-to-face walk with God are important to see. |
2:21.2 | Jacob is about to go home where he'll face his brother, Esau. |
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