Access
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2 Chronicles 26:11-15
2Chronicles 29:27-29
2 Chronicles 30:1,5 Passover
2 Chronicles 31:5,6,7 tithes
2 Chronicles 32:2,3,5-8 prepared for war
**2 Chronicles 32:20-22 prayer**
Matthew 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Hebrews 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Most of us here tonight understand the idea that the veil was torn so that we can experience God’s presence in an intimate way. There are so many benefits, to having access to the presence of the Lord:
Psalms 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
James 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded—we have access to his presence
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty
From what you’ve learned so far in your walk with God, has everything been given to you all at once, or have you found, like the song says, “the more I seek you, the more I find you”?
Knowing that the veil is torn, Have you even entered in?
Romans 5:1-4
Peace with God Through Faith
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
So we have been granted access. We have been given peace. The veil is torn, and he says: when you seek me with all of your heart, you will find me Jeremiah 29, 13–14
So access is a major aspect of the work of the cross!
1. Through the cross and our being made right in the eyes of God, we can seek him and enter His presence—do we?
2. When we get in there, do we ask Him to search our hearts and try our reins?
3. When we do that what does he show us?
Do you want God‘s will for your life. For your children’s lives, your family, your church? do you want God to move through you? Through us as a body? More importantly, do you want your heart to be right before him?
Matthew 7:22 on that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’Jesus said there comes a day when those that worship God must worship him in spirit and in truth
Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.
Psalm 119:105. Your word is a lamp into my feet and a light into my path.
If we have his word in our heart and have allowed him to turn the lamp on, why would we not change? Why do we stay the same?
How do you reckon the Lord works the cross into all of this? How do you reckon the Lord is going to crucify our flesh man or woman of God? If we do not allow him to search us and when we do and when He does, what do we hear? The cross works in multiple ways: once we avail ourselves to the access…
I. Results of access
Access/presence—Isaiah 6 – don’t tell me you’re OK, or that we all don’t have something new that He’s working on in us.
Grace- grace to forgive/grace to change—a divine influence on the heart and it’s reflection in the life
Revelation – because we are made right, we have access to the spirit to be our teacher John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. KJV calls Him comforter—Strong’s “one who brings aid”
II. Revelation results in truth
You shall know the truth and it will make you free (John 8:32)
Truth about God through the life of Jesus
1. His character
2. How he handles business
a) He is humble – if a brother has ought, we should go to our brother (Matthew 5:23-24).
b).He prefers others over himself (MK 10;45)
c).prays for people that harm him (LK 23;34)
d). He prays for them and corrects them privately
(MT 18:15)
e). He helps people and doesn’t get a megaphone so that the whole world knows about it – he looks to the heavenly reward (MT 6:1-5)
f). He doesn’t let other people’s opinions change his mind, “I rebuke you, Satan“—Peter (MT 16:22)
e). He likes to play in the dirt – you without sin cast the first stone (JN 8:7)
f). He doesn’t want to receive praise from men, because he knows what is in the heart of man (JN 2:24-25;MT 23)—He told the religious, “you are like a bunch of whitewashed tombs filled with Dead Man’s Bones.”(MT23:27)
In the end self is supposed to die, and Christ arises in us. Why doesn’t it work more quickly? Is it the:
drugs
alcohol
ongoing other acts of sin of any flavor of disobedience, that we pretend isn’t disobedience. But the Lord already showed us in the past it was, and we ignored him, so now we are living in sin and disobedience, because he who knows to do right, but doesn’t do it to him, it is… [SIN].
or is it our response to what he tells us. I honestly believe there are people in churches who, when they hear a message, think about someone else, Yep, that right there is for Bill, that is for Brennan or Matt’s mom. Or when They pray, and the Lord does speak. All right, I will tell Pastor about what you showed me about him Lord:
– you who just said amen in your head. Like (yeah, there are people like that. They just won’t listen to what the Lord is trying to tell him, you may be the one he’s preaching to right now!“
He was obedient to the point of death!
Have we become obedient to the point of death? Has the death of Christ entered our members to produce sanctification or has it remained a theory on the page? Until we yield to this great truth, it remains that— a great truth!
truth to be trusted
a truth of hope.
a truth of God
but it’s not ours yet.
* it’s paid for
* he willed it to us— it’s our inheritance
But until it comes alive for that sin or that situation, it lies dormant on the page.
What will make it come alive— Jeremiah 29:12,13 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes….
**2 Chronicles 32:20-22
2 Chronicles 26:11-15 Uzziah- the strength of a warrior— soldiers, war machines that throw arrows and stones
Hezekiah 2 Ch 29:27-29 commanded that the burnt offering be burned and offered praise at the same time
2 Ch 30:1-5 sent letters to keep the Passover
2 Ch 31:5,6,7 they brought their tithes
2 Chronicles 32:2,3,5-8 Hezekiah worked hard to do the practical things for war and preparation, prevented the flow of water, great military tactic, armies need water, he rallied the troops and told them the truth that God was able to give them the victory
2 Chronicles 32:20-22 when it was all said and done it was when Isaiah and Hezekiah prayed that the Lord sent an angel and brought the victory
Vision of prayer and bombs hitting a beachhead and then a fortified city.