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The presence of God is God being with us. God is everywhere, meaning He is with us. But the manifest presence of God, it means we are with Him.

The issue, the whole problem of us human beings is this point, are we with Him or not? That's what everything hangs on. God is with you, but if God is with you and you're not going to help you, not going to help you at all until you be with Him. So now my beloveds, look at this.

We read in Genesis 5 24 and it says, and Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him. And Enoch walked with God and what? And he was not, for God took him to himself. In other words, my beloveds, when God is with me and I'm not with Him, even God, the source of life, being with me, I will still die.

But the moment I become with Him, there will be no mention of death. Enoch, the Holy Bible did not say that Enoch died. Adam died.

All the other people died. Why? Because God was with them, but they were not with God. That's why they all died.

Enoch walked with God. So Enoch was with God. That's why there was no mention that Enoch died.

The Bible says God took him to himself, meaning Enoch never died. When you are like Enoch, you are now in the kingdom of God. When will God's kingdom be present? When it rules over you.

If it's not ruling over you, God is present with you, but His kingdom isn't. And until His kingdom is not ruling over you, God is not ruling over your life. So if God is not ruling over your life, there is another kingdom that will 100% rule over your life, called the kingdom of the world, which is ruled by Satan.

And if Satan rules over you, since you are in his kingdom, then the end result will be death. For this is the nature of the kingdom of the world. Are you with me? There are two kingdoms, no more, no less.

One of them must rule. God never created us to be our own kings, our own rulers over our life. This life is not ours, it is God's.

So God created us for Him to rule over our life. And the only way for God to rule over our life, we must be in His kingdom, meaning we must be obedient to Him. We must be under His law, under His rulership, under His reign.

And when we walk with God, God's kingdom comes upon us. When God's kingdom comes upon us, then God being the king to this kingdom, He will automatically, naturally rule over your life. When God rules over your life, the end result or the nature of His kingdom is life.

You will live when Christ is ruling. But if God is with you and you're not with Him, you will still die. It's not going to help you.

This is why a lot of people, especially including Christians, this is why Christians say, well, why is this happening? Like, where is God? No, wrong question. Where are you in relation to God? You need to ask the question to yourself, not to God. God is with you, but are you with Him? So don't say where is God when you have walked away from God.

You can't expect God to rule over your life if you are not allowing His kingdom to come in your life and reign and rule over your life. God cannot do anything until you walk with Him, until you listen to Him, until you are obedient to Him, my beloved. Are you with me so far? Don't fall asleep.

Now we come to this question, how can we be with God? How can we be with God? Here we go. The manifest presence of God, we are still in this. How can we be with God? In salvation.

In salvation is the only way to be with God. What do I mean by that? Well, in John 3 16, it says, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. That is the core and the center of the entire Bible in both its branches, Old and New Testament put together.

For God so loved the whole world, He gave His only begotten Son. His Son was nailed on the cross. So the only way to be with God is through God's salvation to the human race.

And what was God's salvific plan to the entire human race? The cross. Jesus Christ hanging on the cross. This is the only way to be with God.

That's the only way. There is no other way but the cross. There is no other way.

We continue. Look at Saint Paul, 1 Corinthians 1 18. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.

The message of the cross to those who are perishing is foolishness, but to those who are saved like me, Saint Paul, it is the power of God. In the cross, through the cross, by the cross, with the cross, I am with God. There is no other way.

Now, what did the Holy Cross do for all those who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior? What did the Holy Cross do? Three things. Salvation, i.e. the Holy Cross, comes to us in three fundamental dimensions of time. Number one, past.

What did the cross do to our past? We were saved from the penalty of sin. When it comes to the past, the Holy Cross dealt with the penalty of our sin. Present, we are being saved from the power of sin.

In the present time, we are being saved from the power of sin. Third, future. We shall be saved from the presence of sin.

So the Holy Cross dealt with us in three ways. Our past saved us from the penalty of sin. The present time we live, it is saving us from the power of sin.

In the future, it will save us from the presence of sin. Penalty of sin, past. Power of sin, present.

And then the presence of sin in the future. Now, look at this. The Holy Cross paid the debt and saved us from the penalty of sin of our past.

It paid the penalty of our sin of the past. To what? To enable us to live the present with God and be saved from the power of sin. In order to bring us into the kingdom of God in the future and be saved from the presence of sin.

For in the kingdom of God, there will be no more sin.