Omnipresent The Key to Predictions and Promises

``The guarantees of this joyous future come because of god's promised presence. How can god promise to gather together unless he's there? How can god promise to restore unless he's there? How can god promise to save unless he's there? How can god promise to bring you in unless he's there? How can God promise to exalt you before the people unless he's there? Here's the reality. The reason God makes predictions and promises in the Bible is because he's there the day he made the promise and he's already there in the day that it's fulfilled. [00:27:47] (41 seconds)  #PromisesBecauseHeIsThere

Do you know why god can promise us heaven? Because he's there. Why can god promise us there's going to come a day when there's a new heaven and a new earth? Because he's there. Why is why can god make the promise that one day, Satan will be bound and then loosed and then cast into hell with sin and the grave. Why can he make that promise? Because he's there. By the way, why can god also tell us how creation came about? Because he's there. How could god predict that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem because he's there. So everything that we have that brings us joy and certainty in the future is based off of god's omnipresence. [00:32:12] (62 seconds)  #OmnipresenceAssurance

Here's a here's a good question. If god's already in tomorrow, what does that mean about our sin when we come to Christ? How much of your sin did God know about when you said, God, I'm a sinner? So when you prayed and and admitted that to God and asked him to forgive your sin, how much sin did he forgive? And when you prayed and gave Jesus your life and said, you lead and I'll follow, how much of your failings in that journey did he know about? And yet, what does he promise? All who call on the name of the lord shall be? Saved. Saved. [00:36:03] (52 seconds)  #ForgivenEvenWhenKnown

He was there in the day before you needed the promise. He was the day you needed the promise and he's the day the promise is gonna reach its culmination. He's there. I have I have a person I know that lives pretty close to the church that questions asked me a question one time. She says, why do you baptists have to believe that god knows everything? They've been they've been to our church, haven't they? How much does god know? Amen. When does he know it? All of that. You know why? Because he's already there. There's no risk to god. There's no risk. [00:28:28] (36 seconds)  #GodWasThereAlways

I know I'm beating this drum maybe more than so than it needs to be, but but I think so much of what we worry about and get concerned about, we worry about and get concerned about because we act like we need to inform god and get him up to speed so he can be with us when we get there. It's god who's already there saying, come on. He may not say it that way. I think he has a little bit more booming voice. Come on. [00:35:30] (29 seconds)  #GodIsAlreadyThere

Maybe you need to get his attention. By the way, anyone ever felt like that about god? You need to get his attention? Yeah. See, that's that's again, that's a lie from the enemy. And so finally, he says, hey, maybe maybe he's going to the bathroom. That really is, read the text. It's there. Maybe he's on a trip. Then, what happens when Elijah prays? God, show them who is god. And by the way, before that, they had filled the they dumped 12 jars of water over the sacrifice and not only did god consume the sacrifice, he consumed the altar and the earth under it. [00:30:12] (41 seconds)  #PowerOfPrayerFire

You know, we have lots of pictures of god in our minds. And lots of pictures of god that are described in his word. Here we've had two, king and warrior and I don't know about you but both of those speak of power, both of those think of both of the things speak of certainty, and both of those things speak of finality. that is the first part of this passage. Hey, god is to be exalted over but here's what the one I find and have always found as long as I've been a believer, shocking to me, he will exalt over you. How many of you, just be honest, how many of you have this picture of god has just constantly disappointed in you? [00:19:50] (51 seconds)  #SovereignAndStrong

That's where you go to get mercy. So, when you're pulled out of the land, you lose the temple. You also lose the ability to make yourself clean or establish a righteousness before god whereby you're acceptable to him because you've lost sacrifices. You no longer have access to the bronze altar. You no longer have access to the bronze labor to wash. You no longer have access to the holy place where the eternal presence and provision and light of god is. You no longer have access to the holy of holies and so so you no longer have access to anybody who can go into those places or have that experience. So, there's no way for you to worship because there's no way for you to be worthy of worship. [00:22:23] (38 seconds)  #ExileLostTheTemple