A Land Where Glory Dwells
November 21, 2021      |     By: Jonathan Brickley      |      Category: Sermons      |      Location: El Dorado
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Luke 17:32-33 (NIV)
32 Remember Lot’s wife!
33 Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.

Our desires determine our direction

Two Examples of Turning Back
1) Galatians 4:8-11 (The Law - desire for justification apart from Christ)
Galatians 4:8-11 (NIV)
8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
9 But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
10 You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
11 I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.

2) 2 Peter 2:17-22 (Lustful Desires of Flesh)
2 Peter 2:17-22 (NIV)
17 These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
18 For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.
19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”
20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.
22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”

“Don’t be ignorant of the fact …”
- ALL under cloud
- ALL passed through sea
- ALL baptized into Moses in Cloud & Sea
- ALL ate the same spiritual food
- ALL drank the same spiritual drink (from the Rock of Christ)

Nevertheless / Yet - “God was not pleased with most of them and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness”

Psalm 85 (NIV)
1 You, Lord, showed favor to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob.
2 You forgave the iniquity of your people and covered all their sins.
3 You set aside all your wrath and turned from your fierce anger.
4 Restore us again, God our Savior, and put away your displeasure toward us.
5 Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger through all generations?
6 Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
7 Show us your unfailing love, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
8 I will listen to what God the Lord says; he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants—but let them not turn to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that his glory may dwell in our land.
10 Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
11 Faithfulness springs forth from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.
12 The Lord will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest.
13 Righteousness goes before him and prepares the way for his steps.

- REMINDER
- REQUEST
- REQUIREMENT
- RESULT

Corporate - not individual

Goal = 9b
Psalm 85:9b (NIV)
9b …that his glory may dwell in our land.

(v1-3) REMINDER
Forgiveness, Atonement, Propitiation
God’s wrath is pacified and satisfied
We are purified

(v4-7) REQUEST
Restore & Revive
- Revival is given by God
- During times of darkness
- Starts in the church, not the world

(v8-9) REQUIREMENTS
Listening with expectant hope
Terms of "Shalom”
  - No turning back to folly
Terms of “Glory Dwelling in Land”
  - Respect / Fear / Honoring Him
He sees in the unseen

(v10-13) RESULTS
His Presence / Goodness Shining Forth
He is displayed here!
“It is obvious God is among you”

Love / Mercy + Truth/ Faithfulness - Meet
Righteousness / Justice + Shalom - Kiss
Location = In Christ, the good land!

Truth & Righteousness no longer prevent Love & Peace from reaching us

Truth / Faithfulness - God’s promises (like seeds) spring forth from the soil!

Righteousness - like the sun - shines down & nourishes growth
Righteousness - Like a Forerunner - leads the way
Makes God’s footsteps into a way in which WE can walk