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TODAY, I WANT TO CONSIDER THE WORD VALIDATION. VALIDATION: DICTIONARY - TO CONFIRM; GIVE APPROVAL TO THESAURUS - ACCEPTANCE, ENDORSEMENT, PROOF, RECOGNITION A CURRENT PHRASE WOULD BE… I SEE YOU. I HEAR YOU. I VALUE YOU. I SUPPORT YOU. • THE MAIN IDEA BEING… LET’S PUT WORDS TO DESCRIBE OUR ACTIONS LET’S TAKE ACTION AND PUT WORDS TO DESCRIBE THEM! FROM A SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE… • JOHN 3:17 GOD SENT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD NOT TO JUDGE THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD THROUGH HIM. • MATTHEW 3:8 PROVE BY THE WAY YOU LIVE THAT YOU HAVE REPENTED OF YOUR SINS AND TURNED TO GOD. • JOHN 1:14 [MSG] THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND BLOOD AND MOVED INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. WE SAW THE GLORY WITH OUR OWN EYES, THE ONE-OF-A-KIND GLORY, LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, GENEROUS INSIDE AND OUT, TRUE FROM START TO FINISH. • EPH. 2:10 FOR WE ARE GOD’S MASTERPIECE. HE HAS CREATED US ANEW IN CHRIST JESUS, SO WE CAN DO THE GOOD THINGS HE PLANNED FOR US LONG AGO. JESUS WANTS TO FREE US FROM SIN SO WE CAN PRODUCE GOOD WORKS THAT GLORIFY HIM •

SOME PEOPLE FAIL TO EXPERIENCE GOD’S PROMISE OF REST –

HEBREWS 3:19 SO, WE SEE THAT BECAUSE OF THEIR UNBELIEF THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO ENTER HIS REST. • THE REST THAT IS PROMISED TO THOSE WHO DID NOT HARDEN THEIR HEARTS BUT WHO INSTEAD, HAVE PLACED THEIR TRUST IN JESUS AND WHO OBEY HIS TRUTHS. • SOME PEOPLE FAIL TO RECEIVE GOD’S APPROVAL ON THEIR LIFE, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT FOLLOW HIM, THEY DO NOT TRUST HIM, THEY DO NOT OBEY HIM. • BUT I BELIEVE, THIS IS BECAUSE ------ THEY DID NOT FULLY SEE HIM AND HEAR HIM – IN OTHER WORDS, THEY ONLY HEARD AND SAW WHAT THEY WANTED TO. HEBREWS 4:1-3A GOD’S PROMISE OF ENTERING HIS REST STILL STANDS, SO WE OUGHT TO TREMBLE WITH FEAR THAT SOME MIGHT FAIL TO EXPERIENCE IT. FOR THIS GOOD NEWS – THAT GOD HAS PREPARED THIS REST – HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED TO US JUST AS IT WAS TO THEM. BUT IT DID THEM NO GOOD BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T SHARE THE FAITH OF THOSE WHO LISTENED TO GOD. FOR ONLY WE WHO BELIEVE CAN ENTER HIS REST…

DEUTERONOMY 4:10-12 12. AND THE LORD SPOKE TO YOU FROM THE HEART OF THE FIRE. YOU HEARD THE SOUND OF HIS WORDS BUT DIDN’T SEE HIS FORM; THERE WAS ONLY A VOICE. • THE LORD REVEALED HIS GLORY TO THE ISRAELITES, BUT THEY SAW NO VISUAL IMAGE OTHER THAN DARKNESS AND FIRE. • SOME SAW HOLINESS, MAJESTIC BEAUTY, AND TRANSCENDENCE • OTHERS SAW THAT GOD WAS UNAPPROACHABLE, OR MAYBE THEY SAW THEIR SIN WHICH WOULD DESERVE PUNISHMENT OR JUDGMENT BY A HOLY GOD. Q: HOW DO YOU SEE AND KNOW GOD? • I BELIEVE IT IMPACTS OR INFLUENCES THE WAY WE SEE AND KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS. EXODUS 20:18-20 WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THE THUNDER AND THE LOUD BLAST OF THE RAM’S HORN, AND WHEN THEY SAW THE FLASHES OF LIGHTNING AND THE SMOKE BILLOWING FROM THE MOUNTAIN, THEY STOOD AT A DISTANCE, TREMBLING WITH FEAR. AND THEY SAID TO MOSES, “YOU SPEAK TO US, AND WE WILL LISTEN. BUT DON’T LET GOD SPEAK DIRECTLY TO US, OR WE WILL DIE!” MOSES ANSWERED THEM, ‘DON’T BE AFRAID – FOR GOD HAS COME IN THIS WAY TO TEST YOU, AND SO THAT YOUR FEAR OF HIM WILL KEEP YOU FROM SINNING!’ Q: HOW SHOULD WE SEE GOD? • AS SOMEONE WHO LOVES EACH ONE OF US - AS HIS OWN SPECIAL TREASURE GAL. 3:28-29 THERE IS NO LONGER JEW OR GENTILE, SLAVE OR FREE, MALE AND FEMALE. FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS. AND NOW THAT YOU BELONG TO CHRIST, YOU ARE THE TRUE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM. YOU ARE HIS HEIRS, AND GOD’S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM BELONGS TO YOU. DEUT. 4:20 REMEMBER THAT THE LORD RESCUED YOU FROM THE IRON-SMELTING FURNACE OF EGYPT IN ORDER TO MAKE YOU HIS VERY OWN PEOPLE AND HIS SPECIAL POSSESSION… AND IF WE TRULY SEE GOD, THEN LET’S BEGIN TO SEE THAT GOD IS WORKING IN EACH OF US • WE MIGHT NOT KNOW SOMEONE ELSE’S STRUGGLE – BUT WE SHOULD KNOW GOD • WE SHOULD KNOW THAT WHAT GOD DOES FOR US – HE WANTS TO DO FOR OTHERS. Q: WILL YOU ALLOW GOD TO USE YOUR LIFE - SO THAT SOMEONE ELSE MAY EXPERIENCE FREEDOM? • LET US APPROACH GOD TODAY. • SO THAT HIS BEAUTY CAN BE SEEN. AND HIS VOICE HEARD. • SO THAT WE CAN FIND RELIEF FROM THE CARES OF THIS WORLD AND BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS GOD HAS FREELY GIVEN US.