What if the name of your city, your home, your inner life could be rewritten with one promise: The Lord is there? In this closing session of our Names of God study, we step into Ezekiel’s world—exile, rubble, and everything in between—to discover why Jehovah Shammah still lands like hope for people navigating wilderness seasons of their own.
We trace Ezekiel’s startling prophetic sign-acts and sweeping visions: the chariot-throne where God’s glory lifts from a corrupted temple, the valley where dry bones rattle back into living community, and the new sanctuary from which a river flows outward, deepening and healing the land as it goes. These scenes expose the sobering reason God’s presence once departed—idols dragged into holy courts—and they reveal the fierce mercy that follows: restoration, renewal, and a people shaped again by grace. This isn’t dusty ancient history; it’s a blueprint for understanding how God rebuilds what exile and idolatry have broken.
Then comes the turn that reframes everything. Paul declares that we are now the temple of the living God. His presence is not confined behind curtains or limited to geography; it indwells ordinary people who welcome the Spirit. Together we explore what that means for daily choices, how to identify the subtle idols that quietly occupy the heart, and how to live as carriers of a river that brings life to dry places. From Daniel in the lions’ den to Stephen before the council, from the upper room to your morning commute, Jehovah Shammah means you are not abandoned, not unseen, and not powerless.
Throughout the session, we work through practical reflection prompts and cross-Scripture connections designed to help you host God’s presence with integrity, repentance, and joy. The promise that “the Lord is there” becomes not just a title for a future city but a present-tense reality for believers learning to walk with God in the ordinary and the overwhelming.
If you’ve felt spiritually displaced, stuck in a long night, or unsure where God has gone in the middle of your own story, this teaching invites you to pay attention again—to the God who restores, who returns, and who dwells with His people. Come see what it means to bear the name Jehovah Shammah over your life, your home, and your community.
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Episode Transcript
My name is Josh.
Privilege be honored to speaktonight.
Um going through our revealseries that we've been going
through.
Many of you know we've beengoing through for the past seven
weeks or so.
How many of you have been toany of these sessions so far?
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Awesome.
Wow.
Bunch of you.
All of them?
Any anyone been come on.
That's incredible.
That's incredible.
I love that.
All of them.
That's amazing.
I love that.
For those of you that haven'tmade it to all of them, I'm just
gonna go ahead and give just aquick brief recap.
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We've been in a series calledRevealed, which revealed the
names of God revealed to usthrough the Old Testament.
We started session one withJehovah Jirah, the Lord our
provider.
That's found in Genesis 22, 14.
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Miss Patty Clemens led us thatnight, and it was just an
awesome, awesome word brought byMiss Patty.
Session two is Jehovah Rapha,the Lord our healer.
And that's found in Exodus 15,26, brought to us that night by
Evan Assyema.
I know he couldn't make ittonight, but also an amazing
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word.
And I just want to I want to goahead and say that for those of
you that haven't been able tomake it every night, myself
included, it's on the podcast.
TCC has a podcast, YouTube, andyou can go back and listen to
all of these.
That's what I had to do becauseI wasn't able to make it.
And I will tell you, I didlisten to all of these and
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they've been phenomenal.
Session three, Jehovah Nisi,the Lord our banner, found in
Exodus 17, 15.
And that night was taught byMiss Hannah Silverberg.
It was an awesome, awesomesession that night.
Session four, Jehovah Rohi, theLord our shepherd, found in
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Psalm 23.1.
Mr.
Brian Durfey gave us a verypassionate, awesome, awesome
session.
Session five, Jehovah Shalom,the Lord our peace, found in
Judges chapter 6, verse 24,brought to us by Rob Rupno.
And uh man, that was just sucha good one explaining how shalom
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is more than just a word, agreeting, a sweet little
gesture, but the Lord our peace.
It just means so much.
Nothing missing, nothing brokenwas the main point he drove
home.
Um session six, excuse me,Jehovah M.
Kadesh.
Jehovah M.
Kadesh, the Lord oursanctifier.
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That's found in Leviticuschapter 20, verses 7 through 8.
And uh Matthew actually broughtus the word.
That was uh just an awesomelesson on sanctification, what
sanctification is, what itmeans, and of course, who it
comes from.
Only the Lord, right?
Session seven, Jehovah Sitkenu.
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Did I say that right, PastorNeil?
Okay.
The Lord our righteousness,found in Jeremiah 23, verses 5
through 6.
And that was brought to us byNoah's Scipel, and Noah brought
us an awesome word.
He he gave us the history,walked through many scriptures,
and it was just it was soawesome.
And tonight, tonight, we'regonna wrap up this series,
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session eight, Jehovah Shamma.
Jehovah Shammah.
Does anybody know what JehovahHashamah means?
That's funny because I didn'teither.
I had no idea.
I had no idea until this waspresented before us, like some
of the others before me thatspoke said the same thing.
I never heard of that.
So I had to really dig deep.
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I had to do some studying.
I had to really learn whatJehovah Hashamah meant.
And what that means is the Lordis there.
The Lord is there.
And we're going to be speakingtonight out of Ezekiel chapter
48, verse 35.
It's the very last chapter ofEzekiel, it's the very last
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verse.
In fact, it's the very lastsentence of that book.
The Lord is there.
And before we go any further,I'd like to pray.
Heavenly Father, God, you areso good.
You are so worthy.
You are so holy.
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You are so righteous.
And I pray, Lord, that youwould just have your way
tonight.
I pray that your Holy Spiritwould just take over.
We set this time aside for you.
I pray for open hearts and openears in Jesus' name.
And Lord, I ask that you wouldhelp me.
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God, as I speak, I pray that Iwould bring you glory.
I pray that the words that comeout of my mouth would be from
your heart, from your word, thatthey would be accurate and just
lift your name up.
Because that's that's what thisis all about.
It's all about you.
And God, I thank you that youare here.
I thank you that you areJehovah's Shamma.
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And Lord, you're the only onethat truly matters.
The only one in this room thattruly, it's all about you.
And so we just give this timeto you right now, in Jesus'
mighty name.
Amen.
Awesome.
So Ezekiel, I want to give abrief little history, little
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background of the prophetEzekiel.
For those of you, I'm sureprobably just about everybody in
this room knows about theprophet Ezekiel.
So this will just be a recap.
But Ezekiel obviously was apriest, a prophet, during a very
interesting time, a crazy timefor the Israelites, for the
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people, for God's people.
In fact, they were a largegroup of the Israelites living
in exile.
They were taken from Jerusalemand brought to Babylon.
And so Ezekiel was one ofthose, one of those living in
exile.
And he was given a veryspecific task from the Lord,
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actually, too, if you will, asfar as the prophetic ministry
goes.
It was first a word of judgmentover God's people.
It was a word, it was very,very tough.
And then it flips, and it's aword of encouragement, of hope,
of restoration.
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And we'll get through there.
And now Ezekiel, God givesEzekiel many, many different
ways of communicating themessage that God is trying to
say to his people.
And it's a very unique, verydramatic way.
Ezekiel gets many visions.
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He gets many visions, powerful,dramatic, very detailed
visions.
He gets told to do some kind ofoutlandish things, honestly.
For example, the first thing hegets told to do is build a city
out of bricks, like a modelcity, and to represent the siege
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that was going to happen fromthe surrounding enemy cities of
Jerusalem, that they were goingto come in and destroy Jerusalem
and capture God's people.
He was told to lay on his sidefor 390 days.
390 days.
And then again on the otherside for 40.
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And this represents the amountof years, the time frame of
God's people and theirdisobedience and time stepping
away from the Lord.
He was told that he was goingto have to make his bread out of
a mixture, a combination ofdifferent grains and things that
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wouldn't have tasted good, andeat in very small rations.
And this represented the typesof food that the Israelites were
going to be eating in exilefrom these enemy cities.
And then also the smallportions represented the famine
that was going to be comingduring this time of exile, the
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time where the Israelites werein Babylon.
And he was told to cook hisfood a certain way.
Some of you are chucklingbecause you know exactly what
I'm talking about.
God told Ezekiel, I want you tomake your food, I want you to
cook it over human dung.
Hold the phone.
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Human feces.
Okay.
And he's like, okay, tie me up.
I gotta lay on my side.
That's fine.
No big deal.
Make a model city, no big deal,that's fine.
And then when he said, You'regonna make your food over human
feces, Ezekiel says, Hold thephone, God.
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He actually speaks up here.
All the other stuff, he staysquiet.
He speaks up.
And he's like, wait a minute.
Now I haven't defiled myselfever.
Anything and everything that'sever gone into me has been
clean.
I've kept your word, I've keptyour law.
Why do you got to do this tome?
And God says, okay, fine.
We'll make it cow dung.
You know, I mean, I guessthat's better, right?
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Okay.
So anyway, so he's got to cookthis over cow dung, right?
Another thing that God toldEzekiel that he was going to
have to do was shave his head.
And rem remember, Ezekiel's apriest, a prophet at this time.
Prophets didn't, priests didn'tshave.
That was a no-no.
And God's telling him, You'regonna you're gonna shave your
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head.
And I want you to take a thirdof your hair, and I want you to
chop it up with a sword.
And you're gonna take anotherthird and it's gonna be thrown
into the fire.
And I want you to take anotherthird and let it be scattered in
the wind.
And I want you to take thefinal third and I want you to
put it in your belt.
And that was to represent thata third being chopped up, that
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some of God's people were gonnadie by the sword.
And some were gonna die by thefire.
And some were just gonna bescattered.
But the some that you're kindof talking about, that's a
remnant.
Those are my people.
After all the destruction,after all the chaos, after all
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the crazy, I'm still, they'restill gonna be my people.
And of course, Ezekiel had tonsof visions, right?
These were physical acts.
These were almost like, if youwill, I don't want to degrade
this because this came from Godto Ezekiel, what he was supposed
to do, but it's almost likestreet theater, right?
These are the things that hehad him literally act out.
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And there's there's many more.
And I want to encourage you toget into the book of Ezekiel
yourself and read this.
It's really good becausefrankly, we just don't have time
to go through every littlething tonight.
But some of the visions, thevery first, right off the bat in
chapter one, it starts off witha vision that God gives
Ezekiel, and it's the temple inJerusalem.
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And in fact, it's this amazing,beautiful image, and Ezekiel
describes it so beautifully, andit's like a human-like figure,
not a human, but human-like, andjust beautiful, gleaming with
like a belt of fire.
And he's sitting on a throne,and the throne is held up by
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these magnificent creatures.
I mean, just there's four ofthem, four angels, okay?
And they've got several sets ofwings, two stretching out,
touching each other, two tocover their body.
And they had four faces, onelike a human, one like a lion,
one like an eagle, and then anox.
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And there were wheels on thesides of these angels.
And I'm just so you know, I'mparaphrasing, this is this is
like this book condensed, justso you I'm sure you all know
that already.
But again, there's thesewheels, and and Ezekiel explains
these wheels as wheels withinwheels, and on the wheels there
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were eyes, and wherever thespirit went, they went.
And this was some would saylike a chariot, okay?
So we've got these four wheels,these four figures carrying
this throne, and Ezekiel sees itleaving the temple, leaving
Jerusalem.
And that was obviously God'spresence leaving Jerusalem.
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Leaving.
God had had enough ofJerusalem, of his people turning
their back on him.
He had had enough of theidolatry, he had had enough
again of them just blatantlyturning their back.
And Ezekiel, we can break thisdown into three parts, as I
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already began.
The first part, judgment onIsrael, and that's chapters four
through twenty four.
And then the second part isjudgment on the surrounding
nations.
That's chapters 25 through 32.
And then finally, the thirdpart is hope and restoration.
Hope and restoration.
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This is heavy, it starts offheavy, but it gets better.
I promise.
I promise.
So Ezekiel has these visionsand they're powerful, and
there's more to it again.
I'm just I'm just paraphrasing.
But he has these visions and hesees God leaving.
And at first he's kind ofconfused, but then it comes to
him later that okay, God hasleft.
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His presence, his glory hasleft the temple.
So what now?
The people of Israel living inexile, God is telling Ezekiel, I
need you to tell them thesethings.
I need you to tell them aboutthe doom that's coming, about
the judgment that's coming,about my wrath, because I'm
thoroughly ticked off.
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Thoroughly.
And I need you to tell them,and guess what?
They're not gonna listen toyou.
It's kind of like the call wehave as parents.
Hey, you got these littlehumans, and I need you to tell
them things, and guess what?
They're not gonna listen toyou.
Anyways, sorry, bad joke.
But I love my kids, I reallydo, they're amazing.
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But regardless, they're notgonna listen to you, Ezekiel,
because they didn't listen tome.
And they haven't for quite sometime now.
And it's time, it's time forjudgment.
It's time for judgment.
And so, Ezekiel, of course, hegoes and he does all of these
things.
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He's obedient, he follows theLord's instructions, he does
exactly verbatim what the Lordtells him to do, and of course,
of course, Israel doesn'tlisten.
While there are some living inBabylon, there were still some
Israelites living in Jerusalem.
And during the time that theywere there, they were continuing
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to live in sin.
Continue, they brought idolsinto the temple courthouse, into
the courtyard.
They brought it as far as intothe temple itself.
I mean, what a mockery.
God won't be mocked.
The Bible tells us that theybrought these idols in to God's
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holy place, his temple, where hechose to set up and dwell, to
tabernacle with his people.
And they brought in theseforeign gods, these foreign
idols.
So God had had enough.
But again, like I said, that'sthat's not where it ends.
That's not where it ends.
It doesn't end in just doom andgloom and judgment.
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Now, about 25 years into theexile, sure enough, the
Babylonians come back, theyattack the city, and they
destroy the temple.
The temple is completelydecimated, brought, just
leveled, done, no more temple.
And you could just imagine howGod's people felt completely
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alone, forsaken, broken.
God gives Ezekiel a vision.
He takes him to this valley,and it's a bunch of dry bones,
just a dry, desolate place,desert-like, and nothing but
bones, just scattered.
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And he says, Ezekiel, can thesebones live?
I love Ezekiel's answer becausehe's you know God.
Because you say no, God's gonnabe like, oh yeah?
Or if you say yes, he'll belike, oh yeah.
So he just says, You know, youknow God.
You know the answer.
Why you know?
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It's like Ezekiel, I want youto speak to these bones.
I want you to speak to thesedry bones.
And sure enough, Ezekiel speaksthe words of the Lord over
those bones, and they start tomove, and they start to shake,
and they start to assemble.
And God told him, You're gonnasee muscle, and you're gonna see
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skin, and you're gonna seeflesh, and you're gonna see
those dry bones come back tolife.
And so Ezekiel is obedient andhe speaks, and those bones start
to come back to life.
But now they're just kind ofstanding there, these almost
zombie-like, just just bag ofbones, just flesh and bones,
standing there.
And God says, I need you tospeak to them.
The breath, that same breaththat I breathed into Adam and
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Eve in the garden, that breathof life.
Speak that over them.
And so he does, and sureenough, what was once dead, dry,
desolate bones is now an army,ready for battle.
And that's just a beautiful,beautiful picture of what God is
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doing this this whole time.
It's these people who hadturned their back on the Lord.
Mind you, they turned theirback, he never turned his.
I think that's super importantthat we we grasp that.
They turned their back, henever, he never turned his back
on them.
And he gave them warning afterwarning after warning, and they
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paid no attention.
And so God did what he said hewas gonna do, he followed
through.
But again, there's hope.
There's always hope.
The end of this story.
The third part, hope andrestoration, from chapters 33 to
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38.
Ezekiel has another vision, andthis time, this time, it's of a
new temple, and it's beautiful,and it's built, and he sees
that same vision of that image,that person, that human-like
thing on a throne coming backthis time to the temple.
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And he comes back and he makeshis home and he dwells there in
the temple.
And it goes on to say there'sso many details to this.
Again, we just can't get intoit too much, but one I want to
point out is that it talks abouta river flowing from the temple
in this vision.
When God was seated back in hisplace, back in his throne,
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there was a river that startedup water just flowing, and it
got deeper and it got deeper,and it got wider, and it got
Longer and on the sides of theriver, life started springing up
where it was once a desert anda desolated place, just
completely ruined, brought toruin, is now thriving and coming
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to life.
Yet again, because our Godtakes what we think is dead, he
takes what we think is gone, andhe speaks or he breathes over
it, and it can come back tolife.
And that's what he does for hispeople.
That's what he did in Ezekiel.
And in Ezekiel chapters, excuseme, Ezekiel chapter 48, verse
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35.
The second sentence, becauseagain, there's so many details.
And there it there's a lotthere, and it's very important.
I don't want to just skip overit as if it's not, but for
time's sake, the very lastsentence, and the name of the
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city from that time on shall bethe Lord is there.
So in a time where Israel,God's people, thought that God
had forsaken them, thought thatGod was nowhere to be seen, he
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was there.
He always has been.
And the whole point ofJehovah's Shamma, the Lord is
there.
The whole point, it's the wholepoint of the gospel, really.
It's about relationship.
It's about relationship betweenthis creator God and his
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creation.
This righteous ruling king andhis subjects.
This amazing father and hischildren.
It always has been from thevery beginning, from the garden
with Adam and Eve, where it allstarted.
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God walked with Adam and Eve.
He walked with them.
He was with them.
The Lord was there.
The Lord was with his peoplewhen they were fleeing from
Egypt.
And the temple then, thetabernacle then was mobile.
It was a tent.
But the Lord was there.
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He was with them.
He was with them in the desert.
He was with them in the goodtimes.
He was with them in the badtimes.
He was with Abraham.
He was with Isaac, he was withJacob.
He was with David.
When David was just a littleshepherd boy out in the field,
the Lord was there.
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When he was running for hislife from King Saul in the
caves, the Lord was there.
When he was finally sitting onhis throne, the Lord was there
with him.
The Lord was with Daniel in theden with those lions.
He was there.
He was with those three in thefurnace.
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He was there.
He was with all the other kingsand all the other prophets and
all the other judges all throughthe Old Testament.
He was there.
The Lord was there.
And then in the New Testament,when Jesus steps on the scene,
the word became flesh and dweltamong us.
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God incarnate in his son as aman dwelt with us.
He was there.
He was with his disciples.
He was there in the upper room.
The Lord was there when thespirit fell.
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And he told everyone, he said,I'm going to leave you, but I'm
going to give you my spirit.
And the Lord's there.
And he was with Stephen, thefirst martyr, as Stephen was
being stoned to death, and helooked up and the heavens opened
up.
The Lord was there.
He was with Saul on the road toDamascus, where that amazing
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transformation happened.
Where Saul became Paul.
The Lord was there.
And you see where I'm goingwith this?
The Lord was there in thebeginning.
He'll be there at the end.
And he's here now.
And he's with you now.
You see, in 1 Corinthians, ifyou have your Bibles, you can go
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ahead and turn there.
I'll give you a second, becausehonestly, I need a second.
1 Corinthians 3.16 helps totell you exactly where, right?
1 Corinthians 3.16.
Do you not know that you areGod's temple and that God's
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Spirit dwells in you?
If anyone destroys God'stemple, God will destroy him.
For God's temple is holy, andyou are that temple.
Paul's talking to the church inCorinth, right?
This is Paul's letter to theCorinthians.
And I believe in this context,he's talking to the church as a
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whole.
He's saying, You church, youare now the temple.
You're where I dwell now.
It's no longer a physicalbuilding, it's you.
Because when Jesus stepped onthe scene, he was the final
sacrifice.
We know this.
He was it.
There was no need for thatanymore.
Now you're it.
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In 2 Corinthians chapter 6,verse 16.
Again, Paul writing to theCorinthians.
Actually, sorry, I'm going tostart in verse 14.
Do not be unequally yoked withunbelievers, for that
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partnership has righteousness,or excuse me, for what
partnership has righteousnesswith lawlessness?
Or what fellowship has lightwith darkness?
What accord has Christ withBelil?
Or what portion does a believershare with an unbeliever?
What agreement has the templeof God with idols?
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For we are the temple of theliving God.
As God said, I will make mydwelling place among them, and I
will walk among them, and Iwill be their God, and they
shall be my people.
Therefore go out from theirmidst and separate from them,
says the Lord, and touch nounclean thing.
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Then I will welcome you, and Iwill be a father to you, and you
shall be sons and daughters tome, says the Lord Almighty.
It's powerful.
That's powerful.
We, church, we are that temple.
We are now the dwelling placewhere God can live and walk
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among.
That if if we are that temple,do we act like it?
Do we act like the King ofKings and Lord of Lords, Creator
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God, is is here on the daily?
Do we live like that?
Does the world see us as that?
What idols have we brought into this temple?
What idols have we brought intothe courts and into the temple
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ourselves?
What needs to be rid?
Gone.
Destroyed.
Something to think about.
And if you're not sure, ask theLord.
Ask the Holy Spirit.
He'll tell you.
He'll reveal it to you.
He'll show you what idols havegotten in the way of our
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relationship with Him.
But don't forget, JehovahShama, the Lord is there.
He's with you.
He's with us.
That's powerful.
That's powerful.
I'm going to end with this,with this prayer.
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Heavenly Father, Lord, I justthank you.
I thank you that you're there.
God, I thank you that you areour provider.
You are our peace.
You are our healer.
Our righteousness, oursanctification.
And God, you are there.
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You are with us.
From the very beginning to thevery end, in everything in
between, you desire to be withus.
And that we are so gratefulfor, Lord.
And Lord, I pray that we wouldact as your temple.
That you would search ourhearts, Lord.
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Search us, know us.
Reveal to us what needs toleave.
And help us, Lord.
Help us be the light, be thesoul that you've called us to
be.
Lord, we love you and we thankyou.
And we thank you for your word.
God, I pray that we wouldcontinue to just dive into it,
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know it more.
In Jesus' name.
We thank you and we love you.
Amen.
Are you?
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The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.