Rivers of Renewal: Our Collective Hope and Vision | Jeremiah Lepasana | "Temple: The River's Source" Ezekiel 47.1

This past Sunday we started a sermon series entitled Rivers of Renewal based on Ezekiel 47. In this chapter, we see a picture of a trickle of water that widens into a full-blown river, healing and restoring everything it touches. We opened the series by focusing on "the River's source," which is the Temple. We did that to see how through the Temple God invited ordinary people into a dynamic relationship. And, we started there, because our hope in this series is that it would increase our collective vision of who God uniquely is. In Ezekiel, we see God's people squander the unique privilege of having God's presence in their midst (Ezekiel 8-11), yet the hope of our passage is that God returns and rests his presence on an unworthy people (Ezekiel 40-48). And, this here is the good news. This is what God does. He loves persistently.Last, in John 2, we see Jesus proclaiming that He is the True Temple. He is the true place where Heaven and Earth meet. Therefore, if we want to know what God is like, we can look at his face! :)I hope you sense his smile over you this week!