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Dwell means to settle, or to wed as in marriage. Many think that if they get married and it doesn’t work then they can just get out of it, a trial run if you will. It doesn’t work this way with God. Once you’re His then you’re His forever more.

 

The secret place. Being saved means that your relationship is in secret. No one knows the relationship between Him and you. His secret place is bountiful and full of His grace and love. The only way to get there is to go through Christ. The world is driving people mad because they think they can’t escape the chaos.

 

Abide means to stay permanently. We start by dwelling and then move into abiding. It’s like a drop of water in the ocean. The drop is part of the ocean and the ocean is part of the drop. One can’t separate the two once put together. 2 Corinthians 5, once one is Born Again then they are made a new creature.

 

The secret place is a protective place. The things of the world might come against you just as a storm blows through but His secret place is a place of protection. Under the roof of God! The perfect example of grace. God doesn’t make one come in out of the storm. We have a choice whether to stay in the storm or seek shelter under His wings.

 

A fortress, a walled area of protection. We may have to live in it or work around it, but we don’t have to be a part of it. He protects us while we go out into the world.

 

Habitation means a dwelling place. For people, our habitation is our home, where we live. For a saved person our habitation is the Lord. He bids us to come into His protection because He wants to help and keep us. 

 

There is only one way to get to God, Jesus Christ. He is the only one with the key to God’s secret place.

Leviticus 1:1-5

A Study of Leviticus.

Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10:4-6

Regardless of anything that is going on in your life, God is good.

The miracles that Jesus performed are an example of His deity and compassion.

Compassion & purpose

John 4; is the story about the woman at the well that Jesus met. Jesus made it on purpose to visit the well during a time when no one else would be there except this woman. Everyone else had already visited the well early in the morning when it was cool in the day.

John 5; a pool of water that once a year it was troubled by an angel and whomever stepped in it would be made whole. Jesus met a man there who had waited for 38 years to be healed. All He asked the man was do you want to be made whole, healed? Imagine this man waiting for 38 years and each time someone cut in front of him. We get upset when someone jumps in front of us at the grocery store one time.

John 9; the people asked Jesus who sinned and if it was his parents. The problem was that it wasn’t his parents that sinned and caused the man to be blind but it was Adam and Eve, the first sin.

The woman at the well, the man at the pool, the multitude that was hungry, the blind man, all who were sinners that Jesus healed or helped. Why did He do these things? Because to prove who He was and His compassion.

Why do we need to suffer? Because we need to. Laid up in the bed with a hurt back, sick with the flu, etc. If you have no needs then you will not appreciate the compassion of God. God is not our idea of good but His idea of good.

John 11 is a perfect example of purpose and compassion. We are not hurting for no reason. We are not sick for no reason. We don’t struggle with depression, anxiety, emotions, or anything else for no reason. The purpose for us we don’t know but God’s purpose is for Him to get glory. His compassion is perfect and so is His purpose.

His purpose seems at times to be imperfect. Job is a man that we often look up to and think we can’t be like him. What is the purpose of Job’s life? Job is not a chess piece in God’s life. What is the devil's purpose in Job’s life? The devil's purpose was to trick him. The devil doesn’t care about those that are already his, he wants to turn the ones that want to work for God away from God.

Most want to give an excuse instead of owning up to it. At the time of your death, there will be no more excuses. If you chose to be lost then at your death you will say amen to your own condemnation.

 

Thousands and thousands of witnesses to Jesus’ miracles that He performed. They were all done publicly for people to believe. If done in secret then no one would have known. There is no excuse for not knowing who Jesus Christ is. One can certainly tell another they were never told about Jesus but that would be a lie. Romans 1:19-20. Thankfully, there are still churches out there today that still believe and preach that Jesus Christ is still alive. 

 

You know that Jesus Christ is the son of God. What is it that holds you back from being saved? You pass multiple churches on your way to work each day and God speaks to you each time. The many crosses are placed along the side of the road as a memorial but that cross brings to memory the one that was sacrificed on it. His crucifixion was a public display. The tomb is still there and people still visit it, and it’s still empty just like it was on the 3rd and appointed day after His death. People are sitting next to you that are there because Jesus Christ is real.

Why do you follow God? You can’t see Him. You can’t feel Him.

Jesus began His journey way before He came to Earth as a child. Throughout the entire Bible, even though the naysayers say it contradicts itself, it does not. In a saved person's life, there are so many miracles that have taken place that no man could ever do. A lost person gets their information from man and man is evil and doesn’t want God in their lives. The lost say about the Christian is that they are narrow-minded, yet the Bible states that narrow is the gate to Heaven and wide is the gate to Hell. When trouble comes, who do you call on? A lost person has no one to turn to in their time of trouble. A born-again Christian has God to turn to any time, anywhere and He is always there.

One thing that is true is death. One can not defeat death. We were all alive and we will all die at our appointed time. At death, we will be judged. There is no confusion about what God said, no person can get to God but through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the only way to God.

God is looking for people to take His Word out and into the world of the lost and tell them what He’s done for them. A Christian has a story and more than likely many stories of what God has done for them. Tell the lost your stories of God’s blessings. Every person has someone that follows them or looks up to them. What are you showing or teaching the person who follows you?