S2:073 Exodus 33
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Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 19 April 2023
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How do I grow in spiritual intimacy? What was the Tent of Meeting? Emma is in the podcast studio answering these questions and more. Don't miss it!
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. |
| 0:08.8 | Thanks for joining. Today, we're reading Exodus 33. And I want to uniquely and specifically zoom in on and spend slightly more time than we usually would on just one verse. |
| 0:20.4 | Verse 11, which reads, |
| 0:22.8 | Inside the tent of meeting, the Lord would speak to Moses face to face as one speaks to a friend. |
| 0:29.6 | Afterward, Moses would return to the camp, but the young man who assisted him, Joshua, |
| 0:35.0 | son of nun, would remain behind in the tent of meeting. This verse paints a |
| 0:39.8 | picture of what it looks like to be close to God, but it also raises the question, what do we do |
| 0:45.2 | when we feel far from God? Have you ever felt far from God, or deep down, you feel like you're missing |
| 0:50.8 | out on all God has for you? Maybe you're not in the mood to get into |
| 0:54.2 | the word. It's dry. It's been weeks since you opened the Bible. Sure, you'll put on this podcast |
| 0:58.7 | or you go to events at church or on Sunday mornings, but really devoting daily. Maybe you're |
| 1:04.2 | sitting here thinking, hey, I've got four kids, Emma, you don't know what that's like. Or maybe you're single and everyone's saying you've got so much time, |
| 1:11.1 | serve, serve, and you're doing it. You're up here at Watermark three times a week, but it's just not |
| 1:15.9 | doing it for you. Do you feel far? Or maybe it's just talking to God. You're going through the |
| 1:22.7 | process and you're desperate for that reminder that God's not far, but even still, he feels it. He feels |
| 1:28.9 | really far. Today, we're talking about spiritual intimacy, nearness to God, the degree to which |
| 1:36.1 | we know God as friend. God questions has a great blurb on spiritual intimacy. It's natural for |
| 1:42.4 | Christians to long to experience the closeness of an intimate relationship |
| 1:46.1 | with God. But true intimacy with God is not simply a feeling on par with a romantic relationship. |
| 1:53.1 | It goes much deeper than emotion, down to our very souls, and is reflected by our actions, |
| 1:58.7 | they conclude. So what do they mean by that? Spiritual intimacy is more |
| 2:04.3 | than just being in love with God. It's being so in love with God that I'm moved to action. |
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