{"id":2241,"date":"2018-09-15T20:38:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T03:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2018-09-15T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T03:38:44","slug":"how-to-tell-if-someone-lives-in-gods-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2018\/how-to-tell-if-someone-lives-in-gods-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Tell If Someone Lives in God’s Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote a heavy-duty, five-page document. My audience is a group so small I don’t need all my toes to count them. Not only that, the document’s focus is so sharp I don’t need all my cranial holes to count who’s in it.<\/p>\n

This heavy document weighs on me…heavily. And this morning I ask myself a weighty question:<\/p>\n

Will the recipients
\nbe able to tell
\nI live in God’s presence?<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Psalm 15, how can observers tell who lives in the presence of God? <\/p>\n

\n
    \n
  1. LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?<\/li>\n
  2. He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.<\/li>\n
  3. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.<\/li>\n
  4. In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.<\/li>\n
  5. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    How can such any person be that way!<\/p>\n

    Then there’s James 3:17…<\/p>\n

    But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    And so I ask again: How can such person be that way!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    He lives in God’s presence! The character of God “rubs off” on those who walk with Him. Jesus lives His life through those who follow Him (Galatians 2:20):<\/p>\n

    I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    This post, mostly written early this morning, conveys some of what I want for me. And for each disciple of Jesus, also known as Christians<\/em>, you know.<\/p>\n

    \"He<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How can you discern who lives in the presence of God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,39,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-2241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psalms","7":"tag-discipleship","8":"tag-encouragement","9":"tag-live-right","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-A9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}