Infinitude: Omnipresent
The last topic in the Infinitude preaching series is Omnipresent.
God created everything but is apart from His creation. He sustains everything by His word.
Jeremiah 23:23-24
"Am I only a God nearby,"
declares the LORD,
"and not a God far away?
Can anyone hide in secret places
so that I cannot see him?"
declares the LORD.
"Do not I fill heaven and earth?"
declares the LORD.
In the Old Testament, God instructed the Israelites to create the tabernacle where God can physically dwell with the people. The people rebelled by worshiping idols so God withdrew His presence from them. But Moses implored for God to remain with them as they journey to the promised land.
Exodus 33:15-17
Then Moses said to him, "If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?"
And the LORD said to Moses, "I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name."
God still wants to make His presence known (manifest presence).
Colossians 1:18-20
And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Ephesians 2:21-22
In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
Preached by Bishop Manny Carlos
Victory Makati, September 12, 2010 10AM
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