12.8.23 | FOUR STEPS TO RESTORED GLORY

How do we enter into the Glory of the Lord? How do we re-enter the Glory of the Lord? We can learn from the dedication of the temple in the days of Solomon.

As the Glory of the Lord filled the temple of Solomon, we want His Glory to fill our temple and this temple.

His Glory can fill us because of the blood of Jesus Christ was shed upon the cross.

Billye Brim – First the blood, then the glory.

 Where the blood cleanses, the Glory can fill to overflowing.

Four Steps to restored Glory

1. Unified Praise

2 Chronicles 5:13

Indeed it came to pass, when he trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord, , and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, FOR HE IS GOOD, FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER, that the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,

2 Chronicles 5:14

So that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.

Praise invites the Manifest Presence of God.

Unified Praise invites His Presence among God’s people.

2. A Clean Heart

2 Chronicles 5:6

Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him before the ark, were sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

Hebrews 9:12

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place, once for all having obtained eternal redemption.

Proverbs 28:13

He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

I John 1:7

But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

3. A Consecrated Life

2 Chronicles 6:12

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

Solomon is dedicating the temple to the Lord.

We want to dedicate our temples (our lives) and this temple (this church) to the Lord.

Romans 12:1

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

4. Fire on the Altar

2 Chronicles 7:1

When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

The fire on the altar was to never go out.

Romans 12:11b

Be aglow and burning with the Spirit. (Amplified)