00:00Hello, everyone. My name is William Chambers, and today we're going to talk about the God
00:03who never walks away, but gets pushed out. Our God never walks away from us. Oh,
00:11he loves us so much, but oftentimes we push him out of our lives. He's a gentleman. He
00:17will not stay where he's not wanted. Oh, help us, God. We're talking about the presence
00:22of God, and our prayer is that we never, ever push God's presence out of our lives.
00:28We're going to talk about a portion in the Word of God where the glory of God had
00:32departed Israel. It departed only because they had pushed God out. Then the glory of the Lord
00:40departed from off the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim. And the cherubim
00:45lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the wheels
00:50also were beside them, and everyone stood at the door of the gate of the Lord's house. And the glory
00:56of God of Israel was over them above. Now, in Ezekiel 4, we've seen that the glory of the Lord
01:04had moved from the holiest of holies to the door of the temple. The glory, the presence of God
01:10was leaving Israel. Oh, it is stood at the door waiting for Israel to repent. Just waiting. The mercy
01:22and compassion of God. He really didn't want to go. He reluctantly was pushed out. Oh, he did not want
01:27to leave, but their sins drove him out. The Lord had a chariot throne that was going to take them
01:34away. So, the chariot throne that came before the threshold of the door, and the Lord was entering
01:41into the chariot throne. And he stood at the chariot throne, giving Israel another opportunity, just
01:49wanting them to turn to him to repent, and so he could be reconciled because he really did not want
01:56to go. He didn't want to leave Israel. He wanted his presence to sit in the temple. He did not
02:01want
02:01to leave the temple, thus leaving his temple forsaken. The people needed God's presence. So, the Bible says,
02:10Then the glory of the Lord departed off the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim.
02:15The Lord is on his chariot throne, giving him one more opportunity to repent. And the cherubim lifted
02:22their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. Ezekiel was spiritual enough that he got to
02:28see this. The people did not even see that the Lord was departing in his chariot throne. They had seen
02:32the cloud in Ezekiel 4.10. They had seen the presence of the brightness of his radiance, but they did
02:38not
02:38see the chariot throne that was about to take the Lord away. Ezekiel saw this. Help us, Lord, to be
02:45spiritual enough to know when you're departing. Help us to be spiritual enough to sense what's going
02:52on. We need to sense the movements of God. Ah, because we need to be crying out, Lord, don't leave.
03:00Do not
03:00leave this place. Don't leave my life, oh God. Oh, we should be repenting so the Lord can stay. His
03:07presence
03:07can stay and abide on us. Oh God, please don't leave. God didn't vanish away like, no, no, no, no,
03:15no.
03:15The glory of God moved so slowly, so reluctantly. He was still waiting, still hoping, still giving Judah
03:26a time to repent. And that's what God does to us. He moves ever so slow. He does not want
03:32to depart us.
03:33God never walked away. He was pushed out. They pushed God out because they did not have space
03:40for him. Is it possible that you don't have space for God in your life? Help us. The people had
03:47filled the temple. God's dwelling place with idols, pride, violence, and hypocrisy. They wanted God's
03:56protection. But they didn't want the presence of God. And God, where God's presence was no longer
04:03welcome, God had to leave. Our God is a gentleman. This story is a story of divine sorrow because God
04:11sorrowfully left. Sin drives out the glory of God. The presence of God. He was pushed out by hardened
04:22hearts, unrepentant sin. Leaders who shut God out. They shut his voice out. People who wanted his
04:31blessing, but not his lordship. And that's the same way we do it today. When we don't have repentant
04:37hearts before God, when we have unrepentant sin, and we're shutting out his voice, and we only want
04:43his protection, and not his lordship, these are ways we drive him away. The Lord was brokenhearted,
04:53and it was a necessary departure. But he departed slowly, pausing. He paused more than once,
05:01reluctantly. He rose up, and he waited above the cherubim, standing ready to return at the sight
05:10of any repentance. And that's the way he is in our life. He's waiting, standing ready at any sight
05:19that we will turn. Turning means turning from our sin and turning unto God. At any sight, we will turn
05:27from our sin and return to him. God is waiting because God really does not want to take his presence
05:34out of our life. These people didn't value the presence of the Lord at all. They drove him out.
05:40Lord, help us not to drive out your presence. In Jesus' name we pray and say. Amen.
05:54Hello everyone. Is there anything that God highlighted to you that was spoken in this message?
06:00Please let me know. Sometimes one thing speaks so much to our hearts. If anything is spoken to you,
06:08please leave your comments in the comments. God bless.
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