Do we ever get to meet God in person while we’re alive?
by Glen on 2002-10-26 00:05:17
Do we ever get to meet God in person while we’re alive?
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De 23:14 – Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to save you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, that he may not see anything indecent among you, and turn away from you.
Ge 3:8 – They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Ge 28:10-15 10 – Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran. 11 He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place. 12 And he dreamed that there was a ladder F93 set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 And the Lord stood beside him F94 and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring; 14 and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed F95 in you and in your offspring. 15 Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
WALK(ED) WITH GOD
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2Co 6:16 – What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Mic 6:8 – He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Ge 5:22 – Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
Ge 5:24 – Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him.
Ge 6:9 – These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
TALKING WITH GOD
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Ex 34:29 – Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.
FACE TO FACE
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Ge 32:30 – So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.”
Ex 33:11 – Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then he would return to the camp; but his young assistant, Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the tent.
Nu 12:8 – With him I speak face to face–clearly, not in riddles; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
Nu 14:14 – and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people; for you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go in front of them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
De 5:4 – The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the fire.
De 34:10 – Never since has there arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.
In the future
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1Co 13:12 – For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.
How did Jesus communicate with God?
He’s God – why!?
Who do we pray to? Father, Son, or Holy Spirit (Mt 6:9)
In whose name do we ask God for things? When is this most appropriate?
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Mr 9:39 – But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.
Mr 16:17 – And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
Joh 14:13 – I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Joh 14:14 – If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.
Joh 14:26 – But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.
Joh 15:16 – You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.
PRAY
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Mt 5:44 – But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Mt 6:5 – “And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Mt 6:6 – But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:9 – “Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Mt 14:23 – And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,
Mt 19:13 – Then little children were being brought to him in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples spoke sternly to those who brought them;
Mt 24:20 – Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a sabbath.
Mt 26:36 – Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”
Mt 26:41 – Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Mr 6:46 – After saying farewell to them, he went up on the mountain to pray.
Mr 13:18 – Pray that it may not be in winter.
Mr 14:32 – They went to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”
Mr 14:38 – Keep awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Lu 5:16 – But he would withdraw to deserted places and pray.
Lu 5:33 – Then they said to him, “John’s disciples, like the disciples of the Pharisees, frequently fast and pray, but your disciples eat and drink.”
Lu 6:12 – Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God.
Lu 6:28 – bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Lu 9:28 – Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.
Lu 11:1 – He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”
Lu 11:2 – He said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come.
Lu 18:1 – Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.
Lu 18:10 – “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Lu 22:40 – When he reached the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not come into the time of trial.”
Lu 22:46 – and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not come into the time of trial.”
PRAYED
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Mt 26:39 – And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not what I want but what you want.”
Mt 26:42 – Again he went away for the second time and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”
Mt 26:44 – So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words.
Mr 1:35 – In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.
Mr 14:35 – And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
Mr 14:39 – And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words.
Lu 22:32 – but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
Lu 22:41 – Then he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed,
Lu 22:44 – In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.]
PRAYER
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Mt 21:13 – He said to them, “It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a den of robbers.”
Mt 21:22 – Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive.”
Mr 9:29 – He said to them, “This kind can come out only through prayer.”
Mr 11:17 – He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
Mr 11:24 – So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Lu 1:13 – But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John.
Lu 2:37 – then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day.
Lu 6:12 – Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God.
Lu 19:46 – and he said, “It is written, “My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.”
Lu 22:45 – When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping because of grief,
Has the relationship improved with the coming of the Holy Spirit?