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Intimacy With God
RELATIONSHIP: INTIMACY

Gospel call is relational
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. John 17:3 NIV

THE BLESSING IN RELATIONSHIP

Hearing
John 10:27 NIV
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

Closeness
John 17:22-23 NLT “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.

Walking out life
1 John 2:6 NLT Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.

Walking with God means that you are actively being transformed into Godʼs image.

1 John 1:6-7 NLT So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

RIGHTEOUSNESS: THE COST OF INTIMACY
Two types of righteousness:
1. Who you are in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2. What you are called to walk in with your free will. (How much do you want?)

What damages your relationship with God?
Walking in darkness:
Ezekiel 16:15-16 NLT “But you thought your fame and beauty were your own. So you gave yourself as a prostitute to every man who came along. Your beauty was theirs for the asking. You used the lovely things I gave you to make shrines for idols, where you played the prostitute. Unbelievable! How could such a thing ever happen?

Jesus paid for it, we must choose to walk in it.

1 Peter 2:24 NLT He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed.

Sin separates, but righteousness connects.
Matthew 5:8 NIV Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

The call of Godʼs righteousness can only be accomplished through intimacy, in which God gives His grace.

HOW TO WALK IN RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
Surrender: God wants nothing less then your FULL LIFE!

Jesus needs to be number one in your life.

Pursuit:As a Christian,you are called to walk the way Jesus walked. We are able to walk like Him by spending time with Him daily.

Obedience: Whatever this Book calls you to, go and God will give you the grace to do it. Ask for grace, and radically obey. We love Jesus back by our obedience to Him.