Dwelling Place for God

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Dwelling Place for God

• Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool.
  Where is the house that you will build Me? But
  on this one will I look On him who is poor and
  of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My
  word. Isaiah 611-2

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Gods Ways Keeping Gods Presence

• If I have found grace in Your sight, show me now
  Your way, that I may know You and that I may find
  grace in Your sight. If Your Presence does not
  go with us, do not bring us up from here. Exodus
  3313-15

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Gods waysKeeping his Presence

• Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do
  not take Your Holy Spirit from me. The sacrifices
  of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a
  contrite heart--These, O God, You will not
  despise. Psalms 5111-17

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Gods WaysKeeping his presence

• Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept
  over it, saying, If you had known.. in this your
  day, the things that make for your peace! But now
  they are hidden from your eyes. For days will
  come upon you when your enemies will level you
  to the ground because you did not know the
  time of your visitation. Luke 1941-44

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Quenching the Spirit

• Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise
  prophecies. Test all things hold fast what is
  good. Abstain from every form of evil. 1Thes
  519-22
• Sources
• Fear of Gods presence
• Cant see if its God/fear getting involved in
  evil

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Quenching the SpiritSolutions

• Embrace His Presence - Long for it
• Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for
  righteousness, For they shall be filled. Matthew
  56

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Quenching the SpiritSolutions

• Be pure in heart to see God
• Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see
  God. Matthew 58
• Can anything good come out of Nazareth?
  Jesus said, Behold, an Israelite, in whom is no
  deceit! Nathaniel said, How do You know me?

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Quenching the SpiritSolutions

• Jesus answered, Before Philip called you I saw
  you. Nathaniel answered, Rabbi, You are the Son
  of God! Jesus said, Because I said to you, I
  saw you under the fig tree, do you believe?
  John 146-50

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Quenching the SpiritSolutions

• Fear of receiving a wrong spirit
• If a son asks for bread from any father among
  you, will he give him a stone? If you then,
  being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
  children, how much more will your heavenly Father
  give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!
  Luke 1111-13

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Resisting the Spirit

• Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the
  wilderness, (then) David asked to find a
  dwelling for the God of Jacob However, the
  Most High does not dwell in temples made with
  hands, as the prophet says Heaven is My
  throne, And earth is My footstool. What house
  will you build for Me? says the LORD, Or what is
  the place of My rest?

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Resisting the Holy Spirit

• You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and
  ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit as your
  fathers did. Which of the prophets did your
  fathers not persecute? And they killed those who
  foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you
  now have become the betrayers and murderers, who
  have received the law by the direction of angels
  and have not kept it. Acts 744-53

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Resisting the SpiritProblems

• Stiff-necked stubborn, obstinate
• Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey for
  I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume
  you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked
  people.Exodus 333
• Uncircumcised heart hardness of heart

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Overcoming Resistance

• What does the LORD require of you, but to fear
  the LORD, to walk in all His ways and to love
  Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your
  heart and with all your soul, and to keep the
  commandments? The LORD delighted only in
  your fathers, and chose you above all peoples.
  Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart,
  and be stiff-necked no longer. Deut 1012-14

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Testing the Spirit

• All who were possessors of lands or houses sold
  them, and brought the proceeds, laid them at the
  apostles feet and they distributed to each as
  anyone had need. Barnabus having land, sold it,
  and brought the money and laid it at the
  apostles feet.

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Testing the Spirit

• But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira
  his wife, sold a possession. And he kept back
  part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware
  of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at
  the apostles feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why
  has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy
  Spirit and keep back part of the price of the
  land for yourself?

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Testing the Spirit

• While it remained, was it not your own? And
  after it was sold, was it not in your own
  control? Why have you conceived this thing in
  your heart? You have not lied to men but to
  God. Then Peter said to her, How is it that
  you have agreed together to test the Spirit of
  the Lord? Acts 434-59

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Grieving the Spirit

• Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was
  great in the earth, and that every intent of the
  thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on
  the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. Gen
  65-6

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Grieving the Spirit

• How often they provoked and grieved Him in the
  desert! Yes, again and again they tempted God,
  And limited the Holy One of Israel. They did not
  remember His power. Psalms 7840-42

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Grieving the Spirit

• When your fathers tested Me They tried Me,
  though they saw My work. For forty years I was
  grieved with that generation, And said, It is a
  people who go astray in their hearts, And they do
  not know My ways. So I swore in My wrath, They
  shall not enter My rest. Psalms 959-11

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Grieving the Spirit

• But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit So
  He turned Himself against them as an enemy, And
  He fought against them. Isaiah 6310

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Grieving the Spirit

• Then He said to them, Is it lawful on the
  Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or
  to kill? But they kept silent. And when He had
  looked around at them with anger, being grieved
  by the hardness of their hearts. Mark 34-5

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Grieving the Spirit

• Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth,
  but what is for edification, that it may impart
  grace to the hearers. And do not grieve the Holy
  Spirit of God Let all bitterness, wrath, anger,
  clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you,
  with all malice. And be kind to one another,
  tenderhearted, forgiving Eph 429-32

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Sources of grieving

• Intent of the heart is only evil
• Tempted God by not believing his power
• Rebellion dont know Gods ways
• Hard hearted
• Treating each other unkindly

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Results of Grieving

• Destruction in Noahs day
• Not entering rest
• Limiting what God wants to do
• God fights against us

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Grieving the SpiritSolutions

• Deal with the rebellion and evil in our hearts
• Deal with our unbelief
• Dont be hard hearted to change
• Treat others in a godly way

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Being filled with the Spirit

• Early church cried out for it
• And when they had prayed, the place where they
  were assembled together was shaken and they were
  all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke
  the word of God with boldness. Acts 431

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Being filled with the Spirit

• Pauls instructions
• Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one
  another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
  singing and making melody in your heart to the
  Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God
  the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  submitting to one another in the fear of God.
  Eph 518-21

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Walking with God

• Amos 33 Can two walk together, unless they are
  agreed?
• Galatians 525 If we live in the Spirit, let us
  also walk in the Spirit.