And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
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There's a lot of church services just like that right there. And he was afraid, and he said, how awesome is this place. This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven. All right? So back in verse 11, 12, 13, we've got a ladder. He dreams. And there's an open heaven. There's the voice of the Father. There's angels ascending and descending. All right? You got that? Open heaven, voice of the Father, angels ascending and descending. And he comes to the conclusion, this is the house of God, the gate of heaven. this is the house of God, the gate of heaven. Gates are interesting. I've got a wonderful garden that we built for my wife. We've got two gates there. We've got a gate from our backyard to our driveway. We have a gate actually at the front of our property to come on and off the property. A gate is where you go through, you go through, you go from one reality through a gate to another reality. …
That Greek word literally means your expectation. Hebrews chapter 11, when it says that faith is the substance of things hoped for, that phrase, things hoped for, is the Greek word expectation. So faith is the substance of your expectation. Expectation is everything. And expectation comes by the word. When God gives you a word, he's not trying to tickle your fancy. He's trying to give you an expectation because expectation postures you to see right. Are we tracking? Okay. So expectation is the knowledge of what is available to you. I don't know about you. You call me greedy, whatever you want to call me. I want everything that's available to me. I am greedy for God. Everything that God says is available to me. I'm eating it all. I want the salad. I want every course of the meal that is assigned to my life and dessert. And I'm going to eat all of it and lick the plate when I'm finished. You ain't got to wash these dishes. …
… sleep, he thought, Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it. He was afraid and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven. Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz. Then Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father's household, then the Lord will be my God, and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that you give me, I will give you a tenth. Say amen for the word of God. Go back to verse 14 for a moment. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out. We've got dust and expansion in the same sentence. …
… Thank you. And he was afraid, and he said, how awesome is this place. This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven. All right? So back in verse 11, 12, 13, we've got a ladder. He dreams. And there's an open heaven. There's the voice of the Father. There's angels ascending and descending. All right? You got that? Open heaven, voice of the Father, angels ascending and descending. And he comes to the conclusion, this is the house of God, the gate of heaven. this is the house of God, the gate of heaven. Gates are interesting. I've got a wonderful garden that we built for my wife. We've got two gates there. We've got a gate from our backyard to our driveway. We have a gate actually at the front of our property to come on and off the property. A gate is where you go through, you go through, you go from one reality through a gate to another reality. It may be from your front yard to the public sidewalk. …