Experiencing God: Assurance, Transformation, and Intimacy
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I love the confidence with which we are invited to approach the throne of Almighty God because of Jesus. Scripture says we can draw near in full assurance of faith. I don't know if you know what that looks like. Full assurance of faith. So when we come into this place, we can come in in full assurance of faith that we can approach God's throne of grace and we can just lay aside all the distractions and all the noise and we can just run to the Father. [00:34:36] (56 seconds)
And I don't know what that does in you, but for me, that just stirs up worship. It stirs up gratitude. It stirs up this, Jesus, there is none like you. There's none beside you. Come on, let's just let that echo out. As we just come to this revelation that we can approach God in full assurance of faith, let worship spring up from within you, not like a song in the middle of a worship service kind of worship. [00:35:58] (24 seconds)
And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. What he was saying was, when you turn from the past that you used to live in, then there's also a public declaration of your faith that says, I don't live that anymore. And that's what baptism is. When I go down under the water, I'm identifying with the death and burial of Jesus Christ. But when I come back out of the water, it's this declaration that I'm spiritually made new. [00:38:56] (23 seconds)
Not slightly better, not an improvement on the old self, but spiritually speaking, I've been made brand new. And of course, we understand we're not going to be perfect until you stand face to face with God. That's the point is not that you've attained perfection. The point is that my pursuit is to be more and more like Jesus every single day. And I live and I stand in the confidence that he is constantly making me new. [00:40:00] (23 seconds)
We sort of began it last week actually in setting aside a service that was pretty much worship from beginning to end, creating an atmosphere of faith for people to linger in a little bit longer. I believe there's something to that when worship isn't always just 20 minutes in your life and then on to the next thing that something happens when you create a time and a space to linger a little bit longer. [00:40:01] (23 seconds)
It says, Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Verse 9 says, When Moses would enter this tent, the pillar of cloud, which was a picture of the presence of God, would descend and stand at the entrance to the tent, and the Lord, God, would speak to Moses. Verse 11 then says, The Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, like a man speaks to his friend. [00:41:41] (29 seconds)
What a beautiful imagery. Think about how you talk to a friend. Think about how when you see that friend, maybe you've had a friend that lives long distance, you haven't seen them in a bed, and then one of you steps off the plane, and you run, and you embrace, and you're like, I can't wait to chat. And then you spend days together just talking through all that's been going on. [00:42:56] (17 seconds)
Joshua had that understanding of, I'm going to linger a little bit longer. Hey, I want to stay here in this tent in the presence of God. So let me set up where we're going today with a little bit of a story from this past week. This last week, of course, being daylight savings time. I mean, God bless all of you. You made it. I mean, they say it affects us more than we know, right? [00:44:23] (20 seconds)
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And I don't know what that does in you, but for me, that just stirs up worship. It stirs up gratitude. It stirs up this, Jesus, there is none like you. There's none beside you. Come on, let's just let that echo out. As we just come to this revelation that we can approach God in full assurance of faith, let worship spring up from within you, not like a song in the middle of a worship service kind of worship. [00:35:58] (24 seconds)
And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. What he was saying was, when you turn from the past that you used to live in, then there's also a public declaration of your faith that says, I don't live that anymore. And that's what baptism is. When I go down under the water, I'm identifying with the death and burial of Jesus Christ. But when I come back out of the water, it's this declaration that I'm spiritually made new. [00:38:56] (23 seconds)
Not slightly better, not an improvement on the old self, but spiritually speaking, I've been made brand new. And of course, we understand we're not going to be perfect until you stand face to face with God. That's the point is not that you've attained perfection. The point is that my pursuit is to be more and more like Jesus every single day. And I live and I stand in the confidence that he is constantly making me new. [00:40:00] (23 seconds)
We sort of began it last week actually in setting aside a service that was pretty much worship from beginning to end, creating an atmosphere of faith for people to linger in a little bit longer. I believe there's something to that when worship isn't always just 20 minutes in your life and then on to the next thing that something happens when you create a time and a space to linger a little bit longer. [00:40:01] (23 seconds)
It says, Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Verse 9 says, When Moses would enter this tent, the pillar of cloud, which was a picture of the presence of God, would descend and stand at the entrance to the tent, and the Lord, God, would speak to Moses. Verse 11 then says, The Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, like a man speaks to his friend. [00:41:41] (29 seconds)
What a beautiful imagery. Think about how you talk to a friend. Think about how when you see that friend, maybe you've had a friend that lives long distance, you haven't seen them in a bed, and then one of you steps off the plane, and you run, and you embrace, and you're like, I can't wait to chat. And then you spend days together just talking through all that's been going on. [00:42:56] (17 seconds)
Joshua had that understanding of, I'm going to linger a little bit longer. Hey, I want to stay here in this tent in the presence of God. So let me set up where we're going today with a little bit of a story from this past week. This last week, of course, being daylight savings time. I mean, God bless all of you. You made it. I mean, they say it affects us more than we know, right? [00:44:23] (20 seconds)
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