It's Just Land, Without the Promise | Bro. Alex Mason

Amen. He's good all the time.

He is good. Amen.

Thank you for your faithfulness to the House of the Lord

tonight. It is good to.

Be here. It is I, I have not personally

been sick, but it is good to be healthy and I'm sure those that

have been sick and say Amen. Those that have not been sick

and say Amen. Very thankful, very thankful.

If you could stand for the reading of the word Exodus 33

and 12 where I'm going to be starting here.

Want to give honor to pastor and sister McGee as they they're out

of town. But I love and appreciate them

and hope not only that they were a blessing, but that they were

ministered to their their dear friends with the King.

So I'm sure they had they had a great time.

A lot of laughs, I'm certain. Love and appreciate our Bishop

and his wife, my grandparents. I am partial, but they are they

are just it. They are it.

Love and appreciate my parents, their support, my wife and I,

and our ministry and our life. And nothing does me does me any

better than to see the joy that they have to to be grandparents.

I'm very excited. I'm excited for them.

If you see how they are with our dogs, I know that our grand our

kids will be perfectly fine, but love them and I love my

beautiful wife. I am.

I'm so grateful for her. Every day I just fall more in

love with her and she is precious to me and she she is a

trooper and I, I just couldn't do.

I couldn't do life without. Her and I'm so glad I don't have

to. I'm so glad I do not have to.

And so we are absolutely ecstatic.

We are so. Glad we are able to just.

Say it because we were done. I know she was in particular,

but I was also done with having who does know who doesn't know

is the whole monkey bar situation of making sure we

don't we don't slip it out or make sure that no one no one

people that are unawares before we were able to make the

announcements. So thank you for your love

already and I know that this church will love our our child

and and I'm I'm so grateful to know that even.

Beforehand I I've. I've seen it first hand and I

know that our kid will also get that same love and I am, I'm

grateful, grateful unto you, church body for that tonight.

Starting in Exodus 33 and verse. Verse #12.

Says And Moses said unto the Lord, See thou sayest.

Unto me bring up this people, and thou has not let.

Me know whom? Thou will sit with me, yet thou

hast said. I know thee by name.

And thou hast also found grace in my sight.

Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in Thy sight,

show me not. Show me now Thy way, that I may

know thee, that I may find. Grace in thy sight, and consider

that this. Nation is thy people, and he

said my presence shall. Go with thee, and I will give

thee rest. And he said unto.

Him if thy presence go not with me.

Say go, not with me. Carry us, not a Pence.

For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have

found? Grace in thy sight.

Is it not that in in that thou goest with us, so shall we be

separated I and thy people from all the people that are upon the

face of the earth and the. Lord said unto Moses, I will do

this thing also, that thou has spoken, for thou has found grace

in my sight, and I know thee by name.

Amen. Reflecting on verse 15, he said

unto him, If thy. Presence go.

Not with me, carry us, not a Pence.

I have a thought tonight and I feel like we've been, we've been

hitting up against something tonight and we haven't quite

pushed through it but. A thought the title It's just

land without the promise. It's just land without the

promise. Wonder if you can set.

Your Bibles down, lift your hands.

Help me pray tonight. God, I ask you just to.

Move to this place. Lord, let your will be done.

Your spirit is present. In this place.

Help us know. That we would entertain.

You God, your will would be done.

Lord anoint my lips of play, and then I when he will be spoken to

people today, or prepare hearts and minds Lord is planting

around with. The word that you.

Will not turn before, but you can just have your way in this

place and they won't fail to give you the honor and the glory

and the power in Jesus mighty name.

We pray and everyone said in Jesus name, you may be seated

tonight. Where we start out in our

reading there needs to. Be a little bit of.

Context before we got to this moment in.

Exodus 33 we have to understand. Why?

God told Moses slightly earlier in chapter 33 He would not go

with the people to the Promised Land.

While Moses was on Mount Sinai, he was receiving the 10

commandments in the instructions for the Tabernacle the first

time, and the Israelites grew impatient.

They thought Moses had been gone too long, so they demanded that

Aaron make them a God that they could worship.

In Exodus 32 and four it even says.

And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a

graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf.

And they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought

thee up out of the. Land of Egypt.

They worshipped a golden calf by substituting it for God, even to

the sense of saying which they have brought us out of the land

of Egypt, giving it glory instead.

Of the deliverer who was. God declaring it their

deliverer. They sacrificed to it, they

danced around it, they gave glory to an idol instead of the

one who actually freed them. God's response quite quickly in

just three verses. Later in verse 7 says, And the

Lord said unto Moses, Go get thee down.

For thy people which thou brought us out of the land of

Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded

them. They have made them a molten

calf and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and

have said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee

up out of the land of Egypt. God was so angry that he

threatened to destroy them entirely and start over with

Moses. Sounds pretty familiar, but

Moses interceded on their behalf.

He pleaded with God to spare them.

However, even after Moses's intercession, God declared in

verse 3 of chapter 33. He said unto a land flowing with

milk and honey. For I will not go up in the

midst of thee, for thou art a stiff necked people, lest I

consume thee in the way other other translations would even

stay. Consume thee in the way, destroy

thee in the way again. He, he, he was so, so

aggravated, so mad that these people that he just done this

great thing for bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

And he's giving Moses their, their leader on earth a command,

the commandments and for the Tabernacle and all these

different things. And they had no patience and

they decided that they would make their own idol and their

own goddess. God was essentially saying, I

will keep my promise. You can still have the land, but

my presence will not go with you If if I go, if I go with you, I

I'm liable to destroy you with how angry I am at you for your

rebellion. For some, this might have seemed

like a fair deal. It may have seemed like a fair

deal. They'd still get the land.

They still get the land that they were promised milk and

honey and blessing. But Moses knew better.

Moses understood that the land without God was meaningless.

That is why he declared in verse in chapter 33, verse 15, If thy

presence go not with me, carry us not a pence, carry us not a

pencil. This is where we have to pause

and ask ourselves, are we content with just receiving

God's blessings or do we desire His presence more than the

blessings? Throughout Scripture we see

examples of people who settled for the land without the

presence, without the promise of God, and it has always led to

destruction. Moses understood that without

God, the land that was meaningless.

But not everyone in Scripture understood this truth that Moses

understood. Time and time again we see

people who chose land. They chose success or comfort

without realizing that God was not in it.

They were walking into destruction.

One such man to reflect on would be in Genesis is Lot.

Abraham gave him a choice as his leader.

He gave him a choice, hoping that Lot would make the right

decision of which land to go to. Lot was given this opportunity

to choose where he would dwell, but instead of seeking God's

direction, he chose what looked best.

He even said it in Genesis 13 and verse 10 it says.

And Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan,

and that it was well watered everywhere before the Lord

destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Even as the garden of the Lord,

like the land of Egypt, as thou comest into Zoar.

Then Lot chose him, all the plain of Jordan.

And Lot journeyed east, and they separated themselves one from

the other. This doesn't this, this

scripture passage does not start off and say that Lot prayed unto

God. And then he lifted up his eyes.

No, he was given a choice and he decided carnally to look up and

just look around and see what looks good.

He did not advise God. He didn't even advise his man of

God in his life. He decided that looks good and

that's what I'm going to do. Lot's decision would seem

logical. It could seem logical.

He chose prosperity. He he chose fertile land.

He he chose security. But there was one problem.

Genesis 1313 says. But the men of Sodom were wicked

and sinners before the Lord, exceedingly Moses.

Moses in our passage refused to take the Promised Land without

God's presence. But Lot did the exact opposite.

He chose what looked good without even consulting God.

Moses said if your presence doesn't go with Miss, we're not

going. Lot said this land looks good

enough, I'll go on my own. Lot chose the land without the

promise, and as a result he lost everything.

He lost his home, he lost his wife, and his daughters were

corrupted by the influence of Sodom.

Moses's wisdom in this passage of Exodus teaches us that what

Lots failure confirms, we should never pursue something, no

matter how good it looks, if God is not in it.

Lot wasn't the wasn't the only one to to choose what looked

good over what was right. The first king of Israel, Saul,

gives a good example of that. But instead of prioritizing

God's presence, he chose his own way.

Saul was given a Kingdom, he was given power, he was given

authority. But because of his partial

obedience, he lost the presence of God.

First Samuel 15 and 22 says, And Samuel said, half the Lord has

great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying

the voice of the Lord. Behold, to obey is better than

sacrifice into hearken than the fact of Rams.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.

Stubbornness is as iniquity in idolatry.

Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also

rejected thee from being king. Now, right then and there Saul

technically was still king, but he was not king in God's eyes.

He kept his earthly title, but he lost his godly anointing.

It even goes further in in chapter 16 and verse 14 it says,

but the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and the evil

spirit from the Lord troubled him and evil spirit troubled

him. Moses understood that without

God even victory is empty. Saul, however, thought that as

long as he had his title, he had his army, he had his throne, he

was fine. Even when God's presence left

him. He wasn't convicted when

whenever he started to be threatened by David, he was

threatened by David because he knew that he didn't have the

anointing anymore. Moses's plea for God's presence.

He pleaded for God's presence and Saul ignored the fact that

it had even left him. You can have position, you can

have success, or you can have calling, but if you lose God's

presence, you have nothing. So Lot lost his home.

He lost everything. Saul lost his anointing.

But a a tragic moment in in Israel's history regarding the

presence of God, you have to look no further than the Ark of

the Covenant. The Ark of the Covenant was one

of the most sacred objects in Israel, representing the very

presence of God among his people.

Wherever the Ark went, victory and blessing followed.

But during the time of Eli the priest, Israel was in a

spiritual decline. The people were living in sin

and Elis sons were corrupt priests who defiled the House of

God. And one day Israel went to war

with the Philistines and suffered a terrible, terrible

defeat. And so they had this bright idea

then, instead of repenting, instead of seeking God for the

answer, instead of seeking God to to do something on their

behalf, that Israel decided to manipulate his power by bringing

the Ark onto the battlefield. They treated the Ark of the

Covenant like a lucky charm, if you will, thinking that as long

as they had the Ark on the battlefield with them, that

magically meant that they were going to win.

First Samuel 4 and three says, Let us fetch the Ark of the

Covenant of the Lord out of the Shiloh unto us, that when it

cometh among us it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.

They were so ignorant that they thought that as long as the

Ark's with us, we'll win. But they wanted victory without

seeking His presence. They just wanted His presence

there. They weren't seeking it.

They just thought, well, if this thing is here, we're going to

win. Obviously.

Obviously the Ark of the Covenant was not a magic weapon.

It was. It was a sign of God's presence.

The people of Israel wanted the symbol of God's power, but not

God himself. They treated, they treated the

land like a guarantee instead of walking in obedience with God's

presence. The the Philistines and by

consequence the Philistines ended up capturing the Ark of

the Covenant. And Eli's sons were killed in

battle. And when Eli heard the news, he

fell backward and he died. And Eli's pregnant

daughter-in-law went into labor, and she named her son Ichabod,

meaning the glory has departed. First Samuel 4 and 21 says.

And she named the child Ichabod, saying the glory is departed

from Israel because the ark of God was taken.

Israel still had the land, but they no longer had the presence

of God. Moses said, If you don't go with

us, we're not going. Israel, on the other hand, went

into battle assuming that they could force God's power to work

on their behalf without them. Seeking him without them

actually going into his presence and desiring his presence.

They just thought we can manipulate this for our our own

purposes. Moses refused to treat God's

presence like a guarantee. It was never a guarantee to

Moses. It was.

It was a privilege to Moses. Israel assumed that they could

carry that ark and automatically win.

A church and a ministry or a life without God's presence is

empty. You can still have everything

externally intact if you will, but if God has left, then there

is no substance, there is nothing there.

Losing the ark was that devastating moment in Israel's

history. And, and even after they

recovered it, the problem still remained.

They, they wanted the land, they wanted the success over, over

the history of Israel. You see the pattern of Israel

and, and they wanted all of these things and they wanted

the, the identity as God's people, but they didn't always

want him. I think of that as as we are

today, that we always want to be identified as God's people and

we want to, we want to have the success in the land and the

promises and the blessings of, of being God's people, but we

don't want him. We just want the after effect of

the byproduct of him. The same pattern showed up in

the New Testament. The Pharisees were one of the

most religiously devoted groups in Israel.

And then they knew the law, they knew it, They memorized

scriptures. They as as young children, they

grew up, they they learn the Torah and they upheld the temple

system. But when Jesus came, the very

presence of God in the flesh, they rejected him because they

did not have the presence. They had the system.

The Pharisees valued tradition over relationship.

They were more focused on religious status than they were

actually walking with God. They had they had the temple,

but they did not have God. They looked totally on the

outside, but on the inside they were spiritually dead.

Jesus exposed their hypocrisy in in Matthew 23 and 27.

It says Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, For ye

are likened to widest sepulchers, which indeed appear

beautiful outward, but with but are within full of dead men's

bones. The Pharisees had all the

religious symbols, they had everything just right out all

the things, everything was dusted just right and and it was

all clean, and it all, you know, they polished it and it all

looked beautiful, and they made sure they followed every single

law to the letter and all these different things.

But at the end of the day, there was no presence in the temple.

That consequence of that was that in 70 AD the temple was

destroyed and it had never been rebuilt for many, many, many,

many, many, many years. The Pharisees had built an

entire system of religion without God, and it fell apart.

How will people know we are different if you don't go with

us? That's that's in essence what

Moses was saying in that encounter.

Also, he was, you know, how would people know where your

people if you don't go with us? We're it's it, we're acting.

By that point, the Pharisees were supposed to be God's.

Representatives, but they. Cared more about religion than

they actually did about being close to him.

Moses wanted intimacy with God. The Pharisees wanted an image of

godliness without true relationship.

And just like Moses knew the land, it meant nothing without

God. Jesus warned that religion means

nothing without true, true relationship.

The Pharisees. Had everything except the

presence. They had everything except the

most important thing. The danger of.

Living without God's presence didn't stop with just them.

Revelation. Three Verse 17 Because thou

sayest I am rich and increased with goods and I have need of

nothing and know it's not that thou art wretched and miserable

and poor and blind and naked. This is this isn't this is an

aspect of talking about the lady OC in church.

It would they were wealthy, they were comfortable, they were

successful. They believed that they had

everything that they needed, but the devastating part is they did

not have Jesus. It even stated later in verse

20. It says, behold, I stand at the

door and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door.

See we we always hear my voice. Hallelujah.

But there was action attached to that.

There was, there was the. And in there.

And open the door. I will come into him, and I will

Sup with him, and he with me. The Church of Lady Osea had it.

They were lukewarm, they had it all wrong.

They had it all wrong. And Moses refused to move

forward if God wasn't with them. But Lady Osea Church believe

that they were fine without him. We have come to a point in the

church today where we are comfortable with being

comfortable. We are comfortable with being

lukewarm. It does not convict us anymore

to be lukewarm, does not convict us to come in in this church

building time after time and leave time after time and be

unchanged. It does not convict us anymore

for us to not pray and read our Bible.

It does not convict us anymore to to not repent every day and

die daily. Does not convict.

We do not care. So it would seem.

On the outside looking in. Just as.

Moses talked about How does anyone know that we are God's

people? How does anyone know that we

have him? When we, when we come and we go,

we go through the motions and we go through the schedule and we

know that all of these different things are going to happen for a

service. And, and we go through that and

we know, OK, well, the, the man of God's going to come up to the

pulpit pretty soon. And then they'll, they'll go

anywhere from, from from 25 to 45 minutes or an hour or

whatever. And then we'll go home and, and

all these different things. And I won't actually listen to

what's being sung. I won't actually listen to

what's being preached. I'll just come to say that I

came. Because what happens?

In the bad times, what happens in the bad times is we want the

land, we want the promise, we want the, we, we want the

blessing, but we don't want the presence.

We don't want the promise. We just want, we want to make

sure that, that we're healthy. We want to make sure that we

have prosperity. We want to make sure and all

that, that great stuff. And so we come and we make sure

that we, we keep up appearances and everything like that.

That's not what it is about. That is that is a lukewarm

mentality. That is not what God is

desiring. The lukewarm mentality, if you

will, is, is another aspect of not going deeper with God is not

desiring anything beyond the the checkbox of salvation.

And I have, I have gotten somehow like Willy Wonka and the

Chocolate Factory, my golden ticket to heaven.

And I don't have to do anything else.

I don't have to serve. I do not have to give of my

time, of my love, of my desire. I do not have to stand up, I do

not have to do be exuberant. And I'm not saying everyone has

to, but I'm telling you there is a difference between lukewarm

and on fire. And if you cannot tell the

difference then I'd ask you to seek Him.

We want. The land, But we do not want the

promise. I think.

I think of lukewarmness in this day and age as the church, and I

think of what the writer of Hebrews was talking about and

saying that they were as babes on spiritual milk.

And in the sense what he's trying to say, because what

happens, right, what happens when we're lukewarm is we forget

the basics. And so we have to always go back

to the basics. We have to OK, now this is what

you do. This is this is one God, this is

salvation. This is all these different

things. We have to always go back to the

basics. And the writer of Hebrews was

saying, we have done this for many, many years.

We have, we have you have been saved, you have been redeemed,

you have the Holy Ghost. We should not be back to the

basics and having to repeat it over and over to you again.

It was Hebrews was a plea from almost a pass master to a

congregation saying please go deeper.

At Lukewarm Church, we are fine with staying on schedule.

We are. Fine with staying in the groove

and not getting up and getting out of our scene and being

uncomfortable. Again, we are fine with being

comfortable, even if that means being Luke warm.

We're fine with it. I tell you this much, if if you

want to think that oh you go to conferences and everything like

that, everything goes perfectly as planned and everyone follows

schedule, I will. I will argue that point.

We just had Wicca couple weeks ago and we were supposed to have

a service after a breakout session.

We did not have that service. We continued on.

The whole breakout session was two hours.

Do not tell me that we cannot flow with the Spirit of God.

It just, it just cares. It matters whether or not

there's enough people to welcome Him.

He is here, but is He welcomed? If we're if we're Luke warm and

we're going to sit like bumps on a log, then more than likely

there's going to be those that are getting touched and getting

blessed. And maybe sometimes it feels

like it's just up here, but that's because we're

interacting. We're welcoming him.

Moses. Begged God not to leave them.

Have we even got to that point yet where we are begging God not

to leave us? Or are we just OK?

Or are we? Like Saul, we don't even realize

it. We realize that the anointing

has left us. We must not be so focused on the

the day-to-day, the the schedule, the success, the

success, the comfort that we fail to notice that Jesus has

been missing. Come on.

I would, I would be elated. I'll be elated if if we came

here and we had a blowout and, and I have to, I have to, I have

to, you know, sleep forever because I'm I'm exhausted from

us being being crazy for a service or two or however many

it goes on. So we get so.

Caught up in in the the usuals. I think of.

I think of of the mentality of just, we have screens and I love

them and and I'm the one that installed them and not we

planned it and I was like, yes, we got them.

But I think of. It and I'm looking at it and I'm

and we used to have him look. So it's about the same.

It's about the lyrics, but we we do it and we read.

We read it, but we don't entertain it.

It's up there, but. What are we singing about

tonight? Even tonight praising for the

victory. I don't know about.

You. But when someone praises for the

victory, I don't think it looks like praising for the victory.

Come on. Come on.

Now Lord help me. Lord help me.

Oh Jesus, are we, are we losing? Are we losing him so much that

we cannot entertain what is happening, what is going on?

We are we feeling him? Are we feeling him enter this

place? Are we?

Welcoming him into this place. Have we even noticed when Jesus

is missing and he he's here? It's not that he's missing from

here, but is he missing from you?

Have you welcomed him for you? Moses's.

Response to God in Exodus 33 is is one of the most I believe of

such a powerful expression of of spiritual hunger and intimacy in

the Bible When when faced with this possibility of receiving

the promised land without God's presence, Moses did something

that set him apart. He refused to move forward

without God. First off 1st I have to pause

there even and state for us to to be in that type of

relationship with God that we tell God I refuse.

Anyone. Right now.

Want to dare? Come on, come.

On but he. Refused, he said.

God, I will not. He wanted more.

Than just God's blessing he wanted God breaking down Moses's

response and seeing why it's a good a good model for us today

is after Israel's sin with the golden calf.

God told Moses in verse 3 and he said he said again, you are

stiff necked people, lest I consume thee in the way if I if

I go, I might destroy you. But he's, he's saying he's

offering them land, he's offering them victory, he's

offering them blessing, just without his presence.

For most people, this would have been a good deal.

Like I said earlier, he they got the land of promise, they would

have got the milk and honey, they would have had victory over

their enemies. And if it was anyone different

of the Israelites that we're talking to God at this moment

and not Moses, that's probably what would have happened, but

not Moses. Moses knew something that Israel

did not understand, that without God the promise of the land was

meaningless. God with them was the promise.

That is why he declared, If thy presence is not go with me,

carry us not a pence He. I do not want the blessing

without the one who blesses. I don't want the promise without

the presence. I would rather stay in the

wilderness with you than enter the promised land without you.

If we only seek God for what He can do for us, but not for who

He is, then we have missed the point that this whole Bible is

trying to teach us. Moses didn't.

Just ask for God's presence. He he pressed in for more than

that. He didn't ask just that God

would go with them. He said, Lord, as long as you

send me. He didn't say as Lord, as long

as you send an Angel, which that was what God was suggesting,

I'll send an Angel. He wasn't saying, well, as long

as that happens and we'll be fine.

Instead he pleaded to God and verse 16, he says, for wherein

shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace

in thy sight? Is it not in that that go is

with us, so shall we be separated and I and my people

from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?

Moses understood. What made Israel different

wasn't the land, it was God. Egyptians had land, they just

came from there. They had plenty of land.

Canaanites had riches. It wasn't it wasn't something

special that Israel would have. The other nations had kings and

they had armies, but only Israel had the presence of the Living

God. Only the Church of the

Apostolics have the presence of the Living God.

The truth of the Book of Acts doctrine.

Only us have the truth. What?

Separates us is not what we own or what we accomplish in this

life, but it is the presence of God in our lives.

So it wasn't. It wasn't even good enough for

Moses just to just to say your presence go with us.

It wasn't good enough. Moses could have stopped after

securing God's presence to come with them, but he did not stop.

He he didn't. He wanted to go deeper.

After. God said that he would go with

him. Moses made an even bolder

request in verse 18. And he said, I beseech thee,

show me thy glory. Moses had already experienced

the burning Bush. He experienced the Red Sea

parting. He experienced look witnessing

the plagues. He experienced manna from

heaven, water from the rock, fire and smoke of Mount Sinai.

And yet, after all of this, he still wanted more of God.

And sometimes, after we have gone through the salvation plan

of Acts 238, we feel as though we have seen it all.

And that's all we need. Moses didn't even.

Get to experience that's 238 message.

But if you go through all of these different things that

Moses has experienced, those are grandiose, those are crazy.

And if we had experienced our faith, our faith meter would be

off the radar. And he had faith, but he had so

much faith that he asked God boldly show me your glory.

He wanted, he was not satisfied with just enough of God.

God responded to Moses in verse 19, it says, And he said, I will

make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the

name of the Lord before thee. And he said, Thou canst not see

my face, for there shall no man see me and live.

Instead of showing Moses his full glory because he would not

live, God placed him in the cleft of a rock and allowed him

to see his back and as he passed by.

The deeper we pursue God, the deeper we decide to go, the more

He will reveal Himself to us. How much of God have you really

seen? You cannot blame.

God on Him not revealing himself to you.

You only have yourself to blame because you have not decided to

seek Him revealing. He has not revealed.

Himself to you, because you have not desired of it.

After this. Encounter Moses had been

changed, verse 29 says, and it came to pass when Moses came

down. Exodus 3429.

Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony

in Moses's hand, and he came down from the mount that Moses

was not. The skin of his face shone while

he talked with him. Moses didn't realize it, but his

face was glowing because he had been in God's presence.

Been. In the presence of the Lord, so

long that His face shown, people were afraid to look at Him.

He had to wear a veil when speaking to them.

When you decide to go deeper with God, there may be people

that are afraid to look at you. They may be afraid because it's

something that's not familiar to them.

They may be afraid because it convicts them.

Whatever. The case Why would you not want

to exude His glory? Why would you not want to

reflect the Almighty? He.

Carried. He carried God's presence with

him externally. When you truly encounter God's

presence, it changes you. You will begin to reflect His

glory. You will.

You will no longer look like the world.

People will see God's presence on you.

There's something different about them.

There's something, there's something they have such a sweet

presence about them. It's not your presence, it's

God's presence. We can begin to stand and music

can make their way. Moses.

Teaches us an important lesson here.

Do not settle for just the land. Seek Him.

Seek Him for him, not for something else.

Don't be satisfied with with just the blessing.

Seek the one, the only one who blesses, the only one who saves.

Don't. Don't experience, just

experience God. Don't let it be a one and done

thing. Let His presence transform you.

The. Reason God revealed himself more

to Moses was because there was relationship there.

How deep is our relationship go that we would actually be able

to experience something just as Moses had experienced as well.

Don't just experience him, let it transform you.

So the question as these altars are open and they they begin to

play is are you content with just God's gifts?

Are you satisfied with just receiving or can you be

satisfied with him? With with.

Seeking just him. There may be blessing on the

after the app outside of that and on the other side of things

and and all that great, that great stuff.

But are you are you satisfied with just his gifts or do you

want him? I think about that and I think

of of. I know I've probably sung it may

way too many times, but song of of nothing else, I just want

you. I think of that.

Because it it's a whole song about going deeper.

It's a whole song about not anything else.

I'm not here for blessing. It even says.

You don't owe. Me anything.

You know the reason he doesn't owe you anything because he

already paid it all. We we go through.

This, this life and we, we think that, well, we need this, we

need this and God, you, you need to do this and all these

different things. And we act like God owes us

something when we forget that he paid it all, gave his life as a

living perfect sacrifice, and we just want to be in comfort.

Are you? Seeking His hand or are you

seeking His face? Are you bold enough to pray like

Moses and ask God to show you His glory?

Are you afraid of what would happen or are you afraid of the

answer? Does the answer eludes you?

Does it? Does it maybe feel like if you

ask God to show you his glory, he would say something like Who

are you? If we do not.

Decide soon to go deeper. From lukewarmness we may come to

a day where he looks at us and says, depart from me.

I never knew you. If we decide that we are

comfortable with being comfortable, we may get to a day

where God looks us in the face and says, Who are you?

I ask you, Do you know him? Do you?

Sup with him. Do.

You rely and trust in him not for what he does, but because

he's faithful, because he is constant, because he's alpha and

Omega, because he's beginning and end, because he is the great

I am. Not because of anything that he

has done except if you want to worship him for giving it all.

Because he didn't owe you anything and he still decide to

give you everything. Moses had everything that he

could have needed, and he still had a relationship with God, but

he still asked, Show me your glory.

I wonder if we. Could come to these altars

tonight and ask, plead with God. Lord, I desire to go deeper.

I desire to go deeper. Lukewarm mentality is not enough

for me anymore. God, I desire you to move.

God, if there's anything within myself that is not, it is not in

alignment. It is not something that would

bring glory into you or it would bring a a hedger or something in

between the two of us. That I cannot have a

relationship to go deeper with you.

God, correct me, convict me. If I have gone so far down the

path that I can't even be convicted anymore, God, bring me

back not to conviction. Bring me back to an altar of

repentance. God help me that I would change

my heart. I would change my mind.

Oh, we must not settle for the land without the promise.

The question is, what do we want?

What do we want? Are we willing to seek Moses,

seek God after like Moses did? Are we willing to long for him?

More than just blessed sings. Are we bold enough to say, Lord,

show me your glory, God, I don't want the land without you.

I don't want the promise without your presence.

Lord, show me, show me. Without you it's just land.

Without you it's just land. Hallelujah.