God With Us - Sunday Gathering May 8, 2022

Big Idea: The Christian Life is best lived with an appreciation and awareness that God exists WITH US.

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find
him, the greatest human achievement.”
- Saint Augustine

Emmanuel Hebrew “God is with us.”
Combination of the Hebrew expression “with us” and the word for God (El) from Elohim.

God WITH US in the garden.
Genesis 2:25

Genesis 3:8
Tabernacle: Mishkan /mish-kawn’/ Hebrew “dwelling”

Exodus 25:8

God WITH US as Jesus.
John 1:1-2

John 1:14

Matthew 1:23

John 14:8-11

God WITH US now in Spirit.
Pleroo v. /plēroō/ Greek “to make full.”

God with us: make us complete, lacking in nothing.
2 Timothy 1:14

John 16:7

John 14:12

A Life Marked by God with Us:
● Clarity/understanding (Who God is)
● Experiencing God’s power (The work that God has for me)
● Growth & Maturity (The plan God has for my life)

RESPONSE:
● God Dwells WITH YOU.
● Open your eyes to the intimacy God has called you to.
● Prayer: “God you are here, you’ve always been here, now I am here with you.”

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence
of God.
- A.W. Tozer