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We're going to continue our study in Exodus.

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You know that a major part of Exodus

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deals with the construction of the tabernacle.

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Now, when we studied Genesis, I told you

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that from the time of Cain, there were

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these two streams that started.

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False religion and true religion.

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Cain and Abel, that finally ends up in

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Revelation in Babylon and Jerusalem.

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In Nimrod and Abraham, they followed in that

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stream.

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You find it in the Pharisees and Jesus.

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There are always these two streams, and they

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are flowing today.

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And we need to make sure that we

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get into the right stream.

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And the tabernacle is something that was the

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seed from which the temple came.

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And a picture of the ultimate Jerusalem, the

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church, the dwelling place of God.

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In John 1, verse 14, it says, The

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word was made flesh and dwelt among us.

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And the literal translation of that would be,

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Tabernacled among us.

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God tabernacled among us.

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So, the tabernacle is a picture of Jesus,

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first of all.

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And then, of His body, the church, the

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dwelling place of God.

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Because, when God gave the instructions for the

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tabernacle, He said in Exodus 25, verse 8,

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Let them construct a sanctuary for Me, that

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I may dwell among them.

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The purpose of God is that He must

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dwell in the midst of His people.

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So, the tabernacle was a sanctuary in which

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God has to dwell.

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Our home must be a sanctuary for God

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to dwell.

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Our church must be a sanctuary for God

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to dwell.

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It's not just a place for meetings and

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for evangelism.

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That's what we understand.

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I am supposed to be a sanctuary, a

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temple, for God to dwell.

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My home is to be a temple for

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God to dwell.

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My church must be a temple for God

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to dwell.

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Everything else is secondary.

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Bible teaching is secondary, evangelism is secondary, good

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works is secondary, helping the poor is secondary.

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Primary reason is, God must dwell there.

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That's the first lesson we learn from the

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tabernacle.

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And if you lose sight of this, what

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happens is, you get into so many good

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things.

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Social work is a good thing, evangelism is

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a good thing, Bible teaching is a good

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thing, special meetings is a good thing.

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God must dwell.

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Does God dwell in your church?

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Does God dwell in your home?

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Does God dwell in your life?

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That's the main thing.

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It's not you saying, I live a good

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life.

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So, please remember that right from the beginning.

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And I want you to notice another thing

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about the tabernacle.

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And that is, when God gave the instructions

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for the tabernacle.

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Now, supposing somebody were making a plan for

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building this compound here.

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He will not start with this pulpit.

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No architect will start spending a long time,

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let's start with the pulpit.

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No.

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They will start with the dimensions of the

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compound.

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And with the major buildings.

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And that's how they'd go.

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But when God gave the plan for the

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tabernacle.

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Do you know what he started with?

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He didn't tell them first the dimensions of

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Or even about the tent.

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He started with the ark.

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Exodus 25, 10.

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He said, the first thing you need to

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do is construct an ark.

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And the ark was in the most holy

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place.

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And God dwelt there.

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In other words, he started from himself.

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In the beginning, God.

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God's ways are not man's ways.

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And in every church, this is where we

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must begin.

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Not with activity.

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Not with any type of activity.

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But with God.

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With the most holy place.

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The things that are most holy in the

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Christian life.

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The ark.

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That's where we must begin.

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You see, and I'll come to the tabernacle

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in a moment.

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God begins from himself.

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And in our dealings with God.

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Like with Adam.

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We saw that in Genesis.

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First, spend one day in fellowship with God.

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Then you can go and work.

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In the garden.

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Whether you're calling his evangelism or teaching or

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social work or anything.

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Whatever it is, begin with God.

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And you see that principle in the tabernacle

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too.

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See, these are things which are there in

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scripture.

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You read them, but sometimes you don't notice

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them.

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It's the glory of God to conceal a

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matter.

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It's the glory of kings to search it

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out.

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Okay.

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When Jesus taught us to pray the Lord's

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Prayer.

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What did he teach us to begin with?

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Not even forgiveness of our sins.

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Which is such an important thing.

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He said, when you pray.

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Pray our father.

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Who art in heaven.

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Hallowed be thy name.

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Thy kingdom come.

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Thy will be done.

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This is the ark.

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In the beginning, God.

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You know, if I could show you one

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thing.

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That throughout scripture.

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God is always back to man.

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Who will put him in the beginning.

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Give him the first place in his life.

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God can do amazing things.

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That's what he wants.

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That's the place he wants to have in

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your life.

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This tabernacle is also a picture of our

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You know, our body is a trinity.

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The tabernacle has three parts.

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I'll just come to that.

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Spirit, soul and body.

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That's what man is.

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man was made in the image of God,

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who is a trinity.

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We are also a trinity.

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Each of us is a trinity.

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Spirit, soul and body.

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We are one person, but with three parts.

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The tabernacle also has three parts.

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And there's many spiritual truths we can learn

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For our body.

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God dwells in our spirit.

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If you think of our human being as

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three concentric circles.

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Outer circle is the body.

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Inside that is the spirit.

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God dwells in the innermost circle.

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And that's why the tabernacle was divided into

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three parts.

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So here we see the tabernacle.

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You see that is this thing where you

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can see the red light.

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Is the tent of the tabernacle.

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And this is the court of the tabernacle.

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So the tabernacle had three parts.

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And that is the tent.

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And the tent was divided into two parts.

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One was the holy place.

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Which is 45 feet by 15 feet.

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And the most holy place.

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Which was a square 15 feet by 15

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And the height of this was also 15

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So the most holy place was a cube.

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And it says in revelation 21 that Jerusalem

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was also a cube.

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Same length.

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That means Jerusalem is not this whole thing.

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Jerusalem is the most holy place.

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You got to get there.

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To be a part of that cube mentioned

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in revelation 21.

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You got to press on to fellowship with

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To be a part of the bride of

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So the tabernacle was surrounded by the camp

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of Israel all around.

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There was a specific place for each tribe.

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the sons of Levi.

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Who looked after the tabernacle.

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They lived closest to the tabernacle.

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You know, when the tribe of Levi was

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taken away.

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The tribe of Joseph was split up into

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So you still had 12 tribes.

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And the 13th was Levi.

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This compound was marked off by a plain

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white linen sheet.

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And white linen in scripture symbolizes simple righteousness.

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And it was a very simple way by

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which the tabernacle was separated.

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It's a picture of the righteousness of Christ.

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That separates the church from the rest of

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30 feet.

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By which you could enter.

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And it was very small compared to the

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whole camp.

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And just like the church is a very

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small place compared to the world.

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Now, I'll just show you a picture of

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the tabernacle.

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But I want to mention one thing before

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There were only two items visible.

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The laver was like a big tub of

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And the brazen altar was where all the

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sacrifices were made.

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That's what the tabernacle looked like.

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The other one you saw was a diagram.

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There's the brazen altar.

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Like a big tub.

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In which they washed themselves.

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And this was the tent.

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Covered over.

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And the back part of this tent was

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where the veil was.

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The thick veil that separated the holy place

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from the most holy place.

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And which they had in the temple also.

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Which was rent when Jesus died on the

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cross.

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And here we have a picture of how

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the tabernacle was actually constructed.

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With a number of boards.

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Vertical boards like you see here.

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You see this vertical board.

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And it had two legs underneath.

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That rested in a silver socket.

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With two holes in it.

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And this board had these four little projections

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through which a board would go through.

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To hold it in place.

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Now there are a number of spiritual lessons

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we can learn from this.

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It's a picture of the body of Christ.

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Many people closely held together.

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Without any gap between them.

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Close fellowship.

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Held together by the bonds of fellowship.

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And resting on the silver socket.

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Silver is a picture of redemption throughout the

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Old Testament.

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There are examples of that where the Lord

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said.

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You got to pay silver when you want

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to redeem some people.

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And Judas Iscariot took 30 pieces of silver

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to betray Jesus.

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Silver is a picture of redemption.

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And this board rested on silver sockets.

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And here was the front of the tent.

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Which had a little curtain.

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And at the back you can see the

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other curtain.

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And these, the tent.

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Now these two, I would say these two

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legs into the sockets.

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Speak about faith and obedience.

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Trust and obey.

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Those are the two legs we stand on.

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God's word given us.

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Promises and commandments.

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If you've got faith and obedience.

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You're a balanced Christian.

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You're stable.

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Can you imagine how that board would have

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been unstable if it had only one leg?

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Like a lot of Christians.

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There's to be no gap.

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There are many, many lessons we can learn

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from this tabernacle.

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And then I want you to see the

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coverings of the tabernacle.

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Now all this is described in between Exodus

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chapters 25 to 30.

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The outer court is described in 27, 9

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to 19.

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The tent of the tabernacle in 26, 1

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to 37.

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And here are the curtains which covered the

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tabernacle.

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There were four curtains which covered the tabernacle.

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The first one is made of fine linen

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with a lot of very intricate engraving.

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That was on the inside.

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You could not see it unless you went

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inside.

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There's a verse in Psalm 45 which says,

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The king's daughter is all glorious inside.

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The outermost covering was a dirty covering of

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badger skin.

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Full of dust.

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Ugly.

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And dark brown.

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And that's how the Christian and Jesus and

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the church are in the eyes of the

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world.

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It says about Jesus, there was no beauty

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in him that we should desire in.

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There was nothing attractive about the Lord Jesus

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outwardly.

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Oh, he was just a carpenter.

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Not very highly educated.

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They despised him.

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And that's how God has allowed the church,

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the true church is always despised.

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It's never popular.

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It's got this badger skin covering of very

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simple and not very attractive.

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And a really godly man is also not

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always attractive on the outside.

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The real glory of Jesus was inside his

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life.

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This inner curtain which you could only see

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if you went inside.

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With all that intricate work of many, many

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colors and gold could only be seen within.

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And that teaches us also that in our

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personal life, there must be more glory inside

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than outside.

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Now, a lot of Christians are not like

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that.

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There's more glory on their outside than inside.

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They got the badger skins inside and all

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this fancy design work on the outside.

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You got it wrong, brother.

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That's not the way it should be.

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The glory must be within.

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In other words, your inner life must be

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better than what other people see of you.

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There must be more prayer and fasting in

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your life that other people don't know about

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than what they know.

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There must be more sacrifice and giving in

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your inner life than what other people can

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see.

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That is the true tabernacle of God.

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But a tabernacle where all the glory is

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displayed for other people, that's not a tabernacle

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of God.

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That's the way of Babylon.

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There's a lot of difference between Babylon and

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Jerusalem.

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And one of the differences is seen here.

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Where do you put the most glorious covering?

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On the inside or the outside?

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Do you try to show that you are

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a great man of God or is it

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enough that God Almighty knows that?

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Or do you want people to know that?

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That's very important.

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So here was this first curtain of fine

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linen symbolizing the righteousness of Christ.

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It says the bride of Christ in Revelation

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19 is clothed in fine linen.

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And then next to that was a covering

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made of goat's hair.

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Probably white like you see here.

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And a goat.

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You think of the scapegoat.

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One of the offerings is a picture of

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the sin offering.

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Offered for my sin.

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The goat offered for my sin.

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A picture of Christ.

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And then you come to the ram's skin

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dyed red.

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A ram's skin dyed red.

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And red speaks of blood, substitution, the blood

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of Christ.

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That was the third covering.

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And the fourth covering was the badger skins

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speaking of the reproach of Christ.

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The ugliness of the lack of attractiveness to

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the rest of the world.

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The church is not attractive.

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We don't try to attract people to the

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church with music and money.

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We try to attract the church to people

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to the church with godliness.

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Otherwise you can attract the wrong type of

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people to the church.

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That's what I've discovered.

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Do you attract people to your church with

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a godly message?

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And with godly people?

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And godly homes?

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Or do you attract people to your church

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with a lot of fancy music?

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And a lot of fantastic building?

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And a lot of other external things which

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are great in the eyes of men?

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I'm not against music.

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I'm not against good buildings.

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I'm saying that's not the basis of attraction.

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It should be godliness.

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Inward righteousness.

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The church must be known for more glory

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inside.

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In other words, when people come to our

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church, they should be able to say, Boy,

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I didn't think much of this church when

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I first came.

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But after I came in and I saw

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the quality of life of these people, the

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quality of their families, the quality of fellowship,

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it's far more glorious than I thought.

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Like the Queen of Sheba said, Even the

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half has not been told me of what

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I first heard.

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But unfortunately, many churches are the other way

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around.

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A lot of people are attracted.

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When they come inside, they discover it's another

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story.

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It's full of politics and fighting and quarreling

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and confusion.

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It's the same with many godly men, many

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preachers, rather.

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I found that in my life as a

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younger Christian, I would be attracted to a

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person because his preaching was so wonderful.

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And then I got close to him and

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I found he was very proud.

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I couldn't get close to him.

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I found that he didn't live properly with

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his wife.

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He hadn't brought up his children properly.

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And many things like this.

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You get close and you find so many

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things.

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They lose their temper and they lord it

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over their co-workers.

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I was very disappointed in my younger days.

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And I saw this as what God wanted

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me to do.

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I studied this 37 years ago as a

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Christian.

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And I found this is what God wanted

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me to be.

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And I'm very thankful for what I saw.

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That the glory, the real glory, was seen

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only on the inside.

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Now, I want to show you about the

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two pieces of what I call furniture.

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Which is in the outer court.

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You remember the outer court?

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In the outer court, I said there was

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a brazen altar and a brazen laver.

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It was made of bronze or copper.

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The brazen altar was a hollow box in

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which the animals were put in and sacrificed.

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And it had a grating, perhaps to remove

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the ashes.

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And it had four horns on the four

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corners of the altar.

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And it was made of wood overlaid with

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bronze.

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So, we are talking here about this altar.

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It was made of wood overlaid with bronze.

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And can you imagine with all the fire

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burning inside there day and night.

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Burning, burning, burning, burning, burning.

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It doesn't do anything to the bronze.

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The bronze still shines.

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But can you imagine what happened to the

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wood inside the bronze?

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If you opened it up, what do you

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think it looked like?

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It must have been all charred and black.

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And that's a picture of Jesus Christ dying

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on the cross and His suffering.

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The wood speaks of the inner sufferings of

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Christ.

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The charred wood inside the bronze, which other

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people couldn't see.

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If you burnt an animal here, of course

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you could see all the fire and the

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bronze getting hot.

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And getting dirty.

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That's the external sufferings of Christ on Calvary.

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But inside that bronze was wood, acacia wood.

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And that was burnt much more than the

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bronze.

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And I believe that the closer we get

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to God, we learn more of the inner

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sufferings of Christ on Calvary's cross.

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Particularly His being forsaken by the Father on

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Calvary.

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To compare that suffering with the nails and

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the spitting and the crown of thorns and

565
00:22:41,460 --> 00:22:43,000
all, that's nothing.

566
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:44,840
The crown of thorns and all is absolutely

567
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,200
nothing compared to the nails.

568
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,640
I mean, compared to the break of fellowship

569
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:52,120
with the Father.

570
00:22:52,260 --> 00:22:54,720
Now, most of us don't know what break

571
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,100
of fellowship with the Father means.

572
00:22:57,100 --> 00:22:58,840
Because our fellowship with the Father is broken

573
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,280
so often and we don't even bother about

574
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:00,560
it.

575
00:23:00,940 --> 00:23:02,160
And so we sort of got used to

576
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:02,260
it.

577
00:23:02,260 --> 00:23:03,900
It's like people who live in a slum.

578
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:05,540
You know, people who live in a slum,

579
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,580
they don't know what hygienic conditions are.

580
00:23:09,500 --> 00:23:11,140
But people who have lived in houses where

581
00:23:11,140 --> 00:23:12,500
they've never seen a lizard or never seen

582
00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:14,960
a cockroach in their life, they sort of

583
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,340
shrink back when they come to situations which

584
00:23:17,340 --> 00:23:17,720
are dirty.

585
00:23:18,100 --> 00:23:19,940
And there's a little picture of how Jesus,

586
00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:23,640
from all eternity, He had fellowship with the

587
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:23,880
Father.

588
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:29,360
And then, in Gethsemane, He faced the prospect

589
00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:31,860
that in a few hours, I will hang

590
00:23:31,860 --> 00:23:32,340
on the cross.

591
00:23:32,420 --> 00:23:33,340
He was not afraid of that.

592
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,200
He was not afraid of any amount of

593
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:35,720
physical suffering.

594
00:23:35,860 --> 00:23:36,760
He would have been willing to go through

595
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,640
a hundred physical crucifixions.

596
00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:42,060
But, He said, is it Father?

597
00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:43,440
Is it true?

598
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,480
Is it there any other way?

599
00:23:45,780 --> 00:23:47,020
Do I have to drink this cup?

600
00:23:47,180 --> 00:23:47,920
What was that cup?

601
00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:50,640
That cup was not the physical suffering.

602
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,760
The cup was, does my fellowship with You

603
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,480
have to be broken for three hours?

604
00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:57,760
That's what He wanted to avoid.

605
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:00,560
Is there any other way?

606
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:02,740
And He prayed and He prayed and He

607
00:24:02,740 --> 00:24:03,000
prayed.

608
00:24:03,100 --> 00:24:04,420
And the Father said, no, there's no other

609
00:24:04,420 --> 00:24:04,640
way.

610
00:24:05,540 --> 00:24:07,380
And He said, okay Father, I'll accept it.

611
00:24:07,860 --> 00:24:09,340
And I tell you, when you get close

612
00:24:09,340 --> 00:24:11,420
to God, you discover the love of Jesus

613
00:24:11,420 --> 00:24:16,340
Christ there, in Gethsemane, more than on Calvary.

614
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,780
You tell little children about the physical sufferings

615
00:24:19,780 --> 00:24:21,980
of Christ, and when we are immature, that's

616
00:24:21,980 --> 00:24:23,040
what we think of most.

617
00:24:23,660 --> 00:24:25,920
But, the closer we get to God, we

618
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,900
are more taken up with the inner sufferings

619
00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:30,480
of Christ, which He went through throughout His

620
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:30,860
life.

621
00:24:31,580 --> 00:24:32,920
I don't have time to explain all that.

622
00:24:33,460 --> 00:24:35,620
From His childhood, He was considered an illegitimate

623
00:24:35,620 --> 00:24:35,940
child.

624
00:24:36,060 --> 00:24:38,100
People made Him, pointed at Him, and they

625
00:24:38,100 --> 00:24:39,020
said, Mary is His mother.

626
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:39,980
We don't know who the Father was.

627
00:24:40,020 --> 00:24:41,460
There were many inner sufferings that He went

628
00:24:41,460 --> 00:24:44,420
through throughout His life, which finally culminated in

629
00:24:44,420 --> 00:24:47,040
the greatest inner suffering, which was break of

630
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:47,900
fellowship with the Father.

631
00:24:48,860 --> 00:24:50,360
And there we see the depth of His

632
00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:52,520
love for us, that He was willing to

633
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,080
even let go of that, in order to

634
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,340
save us, because there was no other way.

635
00:24:56,700 --> 00:24:59,680
So that's what we see in the acacia

636
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,500
wood inside the bronze.

637
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:02,360
It's not visible.

638
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:03,440
Nobody could ever see.

639
00:25:04,060 --> 00:25:05,720
All those priests could not see the condition

640
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:06,260
of that wood.

641
00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:08,400
It was much worse than what you saw

642
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:09,660
on the outside.

643
00:25:09,660 --> 00:25:12,940
And the four horns on the corners of

644
00:25:12,940 --> 00:25:17,140
the altar, picture, you know, there's a verse

645
00:25:17,140 --> 00:25:24,080
in Psalm 118, which says about binding the

646
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:24,740
sacrifice.

647
00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:26,560
Psalm 118, verse 27.

648
00:25:27,100 --> 00:25:30,600
Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns

649
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:31,120
of the altar.

650
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,240
You know, when you bring a bullock or

651
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,680
something like that, they would tie it to

652
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,220
the horns of the altar.

653
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:39,840
Bind the sacrifice.

654
00:25:40,580 --> 00:25:44,620
And that speaks of Jesus being bound to

655
00:25:44,620 --> 00:25:46,340
go to Jerusalem, to the cross.

656
00:25:46,740 --> 00:25:49,480
It says in Luke chapter 9, He steadfastly

657
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,760
set His face to go to Jerusalem.

658
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:53,480
Nothing would deter Him.

659
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,400
And for us, the message is, that if

660
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,060
we want to follow Jesus, we also have

661
00:25:59,060 --> 00:26:02,400
to steadfastly set our face to take up

662
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,300
the cross every day.

663
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,280
That's the only way to walk with God.

664
00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:10,600
We live in a world and in a

665
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,420
Christendom where people don't take up the cross.

666
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,300
They don't understand the way of death to

667
00:26:14,300 --> 00:26:16,960
self, of humbling yourself and going down.

668
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,520
And I pray that there will be some

669
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,740
at least in our midst, or many, who

670
00:26:23,740 --> 00:26:26,120
understand what it is to steadfastly set our

671
00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:27,540
face, even if other people are not going

672
00:26:27,540 --> 00:26:28,440
that way, it doesn't matter.

673
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:29,860
I've got one goal.

674
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,220
I've got to take up the cross and

675
00:26:31,220 --> 00:26:31,660
follow Jesus.

676
00:26:31,660 --> 00:26:34,800
That's what the horns on the altar speak

677
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:35,080
about.

678
00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:40,300
Then the laver, which is this brazen laver

679
00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:47,160
on top here, that speaks of the Word

680
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,060
of God, the washing of water by the

681
00:26:49,060 --> 00:26:49,400
Word.

682
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:51,460
You know, the priests had to come and

683
00:26:51,460 --> 00:26:54,160
wash themselves, their hands and feet, before they

684
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:55,340
went into the...

685
00:26:55,340 --> 00:26:57,200
You know, immediately, this was just at the

686
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,260
entrance to the tent.

687
00:26:59,100 --> 00:27:01,060
And so you wash yourself and then go

688
00:27:01,060 --> 00:27:01,300
in.

689
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,720
And this was made out of polished brass,

690
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,240
so you could see your face in it.

691
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,240
The Bible says in James chapter 1, that

692
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,540
God's Word is like a mirror.

693
00:27:17,460 --> 00:27:20,280
And you should not forget what you see

694
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:20,960
there, it says.

695
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,640
So these people could see whether their face

696
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:24,120
was dirty.

697
00:27:24,740 --> 00:27:26,580
When they came to the laver, this polished

698
00:27:26,580 --> 00:27:28,300
brass, you could see your face in it.

699
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,660
In fact, that was, we read, what people

700
00:27:31,660 --> 00:27:33,040
used in those days as mirrors.

701
00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:36,960
The ladies in Israel used this as mirrors

702
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,620
and they contributed that for the making of

703
00:27:39,620 --> 00:27:39,980
the laver.

704
00:27:42,260 --> 00:27:44,100
So, that's a picture of the Word of

705
00:27:44,100 --> 00:27:46,820
God and Ephesians 5, 26 speaks about Jesus

706
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:52,020
washing the church by the water of the

707
00:27:52,020 --> 00:27:52,340
Word.

708
00:27:52,340 --> 00:27:56,120
It speaks of cleansing for service.

709
00:27:57,100 --> 00:27:58,920
It could also be taken as a picture

710
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:00,420
of water baptism.

711
00:28:01,100 --> 00:28:03,960
If the altar is a picture of where

712
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,660
our sins are forgiven, the next step after

713
00:28:06,660 --> 00:28:13,140
that is water baptism, which symbolizes the external

714
00:28:13,140 --> 00:28:14,820
cleansing from sin.

715
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,740
It's a symbol of external cleansing of our

716
00:28:18,740 --> 00:28:19,060
life.

717
00:28:23,550 --> 00:28:28,450
Now, we go inside the tent.

718
00:28:30,350 --> 00:28:34,050
Now, you remember I told you that there

719
00:28:34,050 --> 00:28:36,270
is this outer court.

720
00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:42,520
Let me just revise that.

721
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,820
See, here we have seen the brazen altar

722
00:28:47,820 --> 00:28:50,140
and the laver, which is in the court

723
00:28:50,140 --> 00:28:50,900
of the tabernacle.

724
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,300
And then, when you go inside, the laver

725
00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:56,680
is the entrance to the gate and you

726
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:57,940
go in through into the tent.

727
00:28:58,460 --> 00:29:00,940
There are three things here before you find

728
00:29:00,940 --> 00:29:03,160
another curtain which blocks off the Most Holy

729
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:03,520
Place.

730
00:29:03,980 --> 00:29:07,240
The three things are here on that side,

731
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,400
which is the northern side, the table of

732
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:09,900
showbread.

733
00:29:11,340 --> 00:29:14,820
In the southern side, the lamp stand.

734
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,460
And at the entrance to the Most Holy

735
00:29:21,460 --> 00:29:23,800
Place is the altar of incense.

736
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,020
Those are the three pieces of furniture inside

737
00:29:27,020 --> 00:29:30,260
the candles inside the Holy Place.

738
00:29:31,140 --> 00:29:32,320
There is just one more thing I wanted

739
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:33,660
to mention here with this diagram.

740
00:29:34,420 --> 00:29:35,660
If you see down at the bottom, you

741
00:29:35,660 --> 00:29:37,660
see where north, south, east, west is.

742
00:29:39,380 --> 00:29:43,980
The tabernacle entrance was at the eastern end.

743
00:29:45,140 --> 00:29:48,480
Every time they set up the tabernacle, it

744
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,300
had to be with the gate at the

745
00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:52,080
eastern end.

746
00:29:53,060 --> 00:29:54,500
And there is a reason for that.

747
00:29:55,860 --> 00:30:00,600
Everywhere around them were people who worshipped the

748
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:00,900
sun.

749
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,840
The sun was the God for most people,

750
00:30:04,940 --> 00:30:05,740
including Egyptians.

751
00:30:07,580 --> 00:30:11,480
And God wanted Israelites to have their back

752
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,420
to the sun when they came in to

753
00:30:15,420 --> 00:30:16,220
worship God.

754
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,660
Exactly the opposite of a lot of church

755
00:30:20,660 --> 00:30:23,200
buildings that face east and a lot of

756
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,720
people who face east today praying to the

757
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,120
sun God even today among Christians.

758
00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:33,080
It is very interesting to see that, how

759
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,060
God made the Israelites turn their back to

760
00:30:36,060 --> 00:30:40,380
the sun and face west so that they

761
00:30:40,380 --> 00:30:43,580
would deny the God of the Egyptians, the

762
00:30:43,580 --> 00:30:44,040
sun God.

763
00:30:44,140 --> 00:30:45,580
And the devil has done such a tremendous

764
00:30:45,580 --> 00:30:47,660
work of bringing a lot of so-called

765
00:30:47,660 --> 00:30:50,760
Christendom full circle back to worship the God

766
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:51,360
of the Egyptians.

767
00:30:52,340 --> 00:30:53,260
That's the sun God.

768
00:30:54,460 --> 00:30:57,020
And as they came here, they came to

769
00:30:57,020 --> 00:30:59,240
these three pieces of furniture.

770
00:31:00,580 --> 00:31:02,720
And then in the most holy place, there

771
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,980
was only one piece of furniture, that's the

772
00:31:04,980 --> 00:31:06,180
ark with the mercy seat.

773
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,640
So please keep that in mind as we

774
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:10,160
see the next few pictures.

775
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,220
So, what you see here is, first of

776
00:31:14,220 --> 00:31:19,340
all, the lamp stand with seven branches and

777
00:31:19,340 --> 00:31:21,000
the golden table of showbread.

778
00:31:21,340 --> 00:31:22,820
It was called a candlestick in the King

779
00:31:22,820 --> 00:31:23,460
James Version.

780
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,660
But they never had candles those days.

781
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,380
It means a lamp stand which was lit

782
00:31:27,380 --> 00:31:28,900
by oil.

783
00:31:29,660 --> 00:31:31,540
There were vessels kept there for oil to

784
00:31:31,540 --> 00:31:33,360
be poured into these lamps and that's how

785
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:34,160
the lamps burnt.

786
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,720
Now the lamp stand is a picture of

787
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,200
Christ as the light of the world.

788
00:31:43,060 --> 00:31:45,400
And what Jesus said to us, the church,

789
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,120
you are the light of the world.

790
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:53,260
It's a picture of our manifesting the life

791
00:31:53,260 --> 00:31:55,200
of Christ as a light.

792
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,120
In Him was life, John 1, 4, and

793
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,020
that life was the light of men.

794
00:32:03,540 --> 00:32:06,800
The table of showbread where twelve loaves of

795
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,080
bread, they had to be renewed regularly by

796
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,860
the priests, symbolized the twelve tribes of Israel

797
00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:22,340
and speaks of God's Word, of Christ as

798
00:32:22,340 --> 00:32:25,520
our food and in the Word we see

799
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:26,040
Christ.

800
00:32:26,260 --> 00:32:27,140
Everything is Christ.

801
00:32:28,020 --> 00:32:31,840
Christ as a light and Christ whom we

802
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:33,620
see in Scriptures as our food.

803
00:32:34,260 --> 00:32:35,580
Jesus Christ is our food.

804
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,120
It's not just the printed words in Scripture.

805
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,740
It's Christ that is our food.

806
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,380
Most of these things were all about just

807
00:32:43,380 --> 00:32:44,320
about three feet high.

808
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,840
The brazen altar was about four and a

809
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,540
half feet high but this was little smaller,

810
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:53,860
three feet high, small one and a half

811
00:32:53,860 --> 00:32:57,540
by one and a half the altar and

812
00:32:57,540 --> 00:33:02,180
but this was a little bigger, one and

813
00:33:02,180 --> 00:33:03,420
a quarter by two and a quarter or

814
00:33:03,420 --> 00:33:04,520
so, one and a half by two and

815
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:05,040
a quarter feet.

816
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,060
And there was another piece of furniture which

817
00:33:11,060 --> 00:33:11,940
I want to show you here.

818
00:33:13,780 --> 00:33:16,240
This was the third bit of furniture inside

819
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,760
the holy place that was the golden altar

820
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,520
of incense which is different from the bronze

821
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,000
altar in the outer court.

822
00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:27,800
This was the third item inside the holy

823
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:33,740
place where no animals were sacrificed, only incense

824
00:33:33,740 --> 00:33:36,000
and there was a sweet perfume of incense

825
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:40,020
and inside and this speaks of the high

826
00:33:40,020 --> 00:33:41,880
priestly ministry of Jesus Christ in prayer.

827
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,740
So there was the bread and the lamp

828
00:33:45,740 --> 00:33:48,940
stand and the incense speaking of God's word

829
00:33:48,940 --> 00:33:53,520
and prayer and a witness for Christ for

830
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:53,860
us.

831
00:33:54,820 --> 00:33:56,520
Inside the most holy place there was only

832
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,020
this one item of furniture, the ark.

833
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,940
And the ark as you see here, if

834
00:34:01,940 --> 00:34:03,760
you can see on top had the blood,

835
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,360
the animal's blood was put there.

836
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,480
Once a year on the day of atonement,

837
00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:10,480
the high priest would go in his white

838
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,760
dress with the blood in a vessel and

839
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:19,000
he would put it inside the, on the

840
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:19,639
mercy seat.

841
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,880
The mercy seat was just a lid but

842
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:23,480
along with the mercy seat there were these

843
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,840
two cherubims and they speak of holiness.

844
00:34:27,780 --> 00:34:30,860
You know when God drove Adam and Eve

845
00:34:30,860 --> 00:34:32,560
out of the garden, he put cherubs.

846
00:34:33,980 --> 00:34:35,639
Cherubim is the plural of cherub.

847
00:34:36,420 --> 00:34:39,699
He put these cherubs to guard the tree

848
00:34:39,699 --> 00:34:43,820
of life and those cherubs or cherubim were

849
00:34:43,820 --> 00:34:45,760
part of this mercy seat.

850
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaking of God's holiness and that was in

851
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,080
the most holy place and the high priest

852
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,060
could go in there only once a year.

853
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:58,240
And inside this ark there were three items

854
00:34:58,240 --> 00:34:58,660
kept.

855
00:34:59,540 --> 00:35:03,440
One was the two tablets of stone on

856
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,480
which the Ten Commandments were written and the

857
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:11,660
other was Aaron's rod that budded that you

858
00:35:11,660 --> 00:35:14,360
read of when there was a question about

859
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:19,080
whether Aaron was the true high priest.

860
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,840
His rod budded overnight.

861
00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:27,120
A broken rod produced fruit at night.

862
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,160
And the third was a pot of manna.

863
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:35,860
This speaks of God's word and obedience and

864
00:35:35,860 --> 00:35:40,120
this speaks of resurrection power and this speaks

865
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,940
about feeding on Christ as our manna and

866
00:35:43,940 --> 00:35:44,800
on the word of God.

867
00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:47,600
And this speaks about obedience to God's commandments.

868
00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:50,540
Now there's one interesting thing I want to

869
00:35:50,540 --> 00:35:53,180
tell you about this pot of manna which

870
00:35:53,180 --> 00:35:53,520
is kept.

871
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,460
These three things were kept inside the ark.

872
00:35:56,380 --> 00:35:58,320
Now I don't know whether you remember in

873
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,600
one particular place when David brought the ark

874
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,960
back there were certain people who were very

875
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,180
curious to find out what's inside the ark

876
00:36:06,180 --> 00:36:07,760
and they lifted the lid of the ark

877
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,220
and it says God smote a number of

878
00:36:10,220 --> 00:36:12,400
people there for being curious.

879
00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:14,080
They had no right to look inside the

880
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:14,320
ark.

881
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,860
In fact, the ark could not even be

882
00:36:16,860 --> 00:36:19,780
touched by those who were not Levites.

883
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:23,320
Uzzah once tried to touch the ark.

884
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:25,400
That was this ark.

885
00:36:25,660 --> 00:36:28,940
And God killed him on the spot.

886
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:29,980
He said you're not a Levite.

887
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,000
You've got no business to touch God's ark.

888
00:36:32,500 --> 00:36:34,340
God was very strict about these things.

889
00:36:35,420 --> 00:36:37,840
Now one thing about this pot of manna

890
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:42,360
that I spoke about is that you know

891
00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:45,520
when people kept the manna in their home

892
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,900
in 24 hours it began to stink and

893
00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:51,220
not only stink but breed worms.

894
00:36:51,220 --> 00:36:52,680
Now if you keep a loaf of bread

895
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,260
for one day it doesn't get bad so

896
00:36:55,260 --> 00:36:55,640
quickly.

897
00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:59,840
But manna got bad much quicker than even

898
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:00,340
meat.

899
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,480
Even meat may not start breeding worms in

900
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,940
24 hours but manna which was vegetarian not

901
00:37:09,940 --> 00:37:10,780
non-vegetarian.

902
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,320
It wasn't animal food at all.

903
00:37:13,180 --> 00:37:16,200
It began to breed worms and began to

904
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,700
stink in 24 hours.

905
00:37:19,620 --> 00:37:22,340
God was teaching Israel thereby you need to

906
00:37:22,340 --> 00:37:24,960
go every day out and pick it up.

907
00:37:25,260 --> 00:37:27,200
You can't pick up one day's portion for

908
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:27,740
two days.

909
00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:29,460
You've got to be in touch with God

910
00:37:29,460 --> 00:37:30,340
every day.

911
00:37:31,340 --> 00:37:35,140
But we see that when this manna was

912
00:37:35,140 --> 00:37:38,960
put inside the ark it did not stink.

913
00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:43,120
It did not breed worms for 40 years.

914
00:37:43,820 --> 00:37:46,480
And more than 40 years the ark was

915
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:51,140
there even years later 400-500 years later

916
00:37:51,140 --> 00:37:53,720
in David's time the ark was there.

917
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,920
And for 500 years that manna did not

918
00:37:58,920 --> 00:37:59,320
stink.

919
00:38:00,540 --> 00:38:02,240
Now the lesson we learned from that is

920
00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:05,640
that even though the manna fell from heaven

921
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,820
it lost its freshness.

922
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,420
You can get an anointing from heaven and

923
00:38:11,420 --> 00:38:13,000
tomorrow you've lost it.

924
00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:18,180
You can get a word from heaven and

925
00:38:18,180 --> 00:38:21,240
it blesses you today and tomorrow when you

926
00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:24,120
speak the same word is not fresh.

927
00:38:25,540 --> 00:38:30,240
You see this is the reason why a

928
00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:34,000
lot of preaching of God's word today is

929
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:34,720
so boring.

930
00:38:35,060 --> 00:38:36,240
It's not fresh.

931
00:38:36,580 --> 00:38:37,660
There's no life in it.

932
00:38:38,340 --> 00:38:39,260
Here is the answer.

933
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,280
If you can understand this you've learned the

934
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:42,620
secret.

935
00:38:42,620 --> 00:38:45,340
Why did the manna stink when it was

936
00:38:45,340 --> 00:38:47,260
kept in your home and why did the

937
00:38:47,260 --> 00:38:49,300
manna not stink when it was kept inside

938
00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:49,740
the ark?

939
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:50,880
Reason.

940
00:38:51,740 --> 00:38:55,560
Because the ark was in the most holy

941
00:38:55,560 --> 00:39:02,020
place and God's word and God's truth and

942
00:39:02,020 --> 00:39:05,880
God's anointing must be kept in God's presence.

943
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,860
Then it will always be fresh.

944
00:39:09,980 --> 00:39:12,240
In other words if I am to preach

945
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:14,440
a truth that I understood 35 years ago

946
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,080
I remember taking a study on this 37

947
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:21,580
years ago and if I am to teach

948
00:39:21,580 --> 00:39:24,820
something in a fresh way year by year

949
00:39:25,460 --> 00:39:27,400
I have to live in God's presence.

950
00:39:28,580 --> 00:39:31,580
The truths are in my head but it

951
00:39:31,580 --> 00:39:32,280
won't be fresh.

952
00:39:32,660 --> 00:39:35,760
It won't be anointed if I don't live

953
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:36,400
in God's presence.

954
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,180
That's the thing which we learn from this.

955
00:39:39,780 --> 00:39:42,680
Otherwise in one day it takes only 24

956
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,100
hours for things to begin to stink for

957
00:39:45,100 --> 00:39:46,020
freshness to go.

958
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,340
The Bible says Hebrews 3.13 says exhort

959
00:39:50,340 --> 00:39:55,080
one another daily daily otherwise you'll be hardened

960
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,440
by the deceitfulness of sin.

961
00:39:57,420 --> 00:39:59,840
Now I want to mention show one other

962
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:00,180
thing.

963
00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:03,560
You see here this is the dress of

964
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,600
Aaron when he went on the day of

965
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,240
atonement one day in his life he wore

966
00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:12,420
this dress completely white completely simple when he

967
00:40:12,420 --> 00:40:13,660
went into God's presence.

968
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,960
The rest of the time he wore this

969
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:19,320
dress.

970
00:40:19,780 --> 00:40:22,140
When he came before the people he wore

971
00:40:22,140 --> 00:40:22,720
this dress.

972
00:40:23,220 --> 00:40:25,440
When he went before God he went in

973
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:26,400
a simple white dress.

974
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:28,260
Now there are two lessons we learn from

975
00:40:28,260 --> 00:40:28,520
that.

976
00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:32,620
One is when you come before God you

977
00:40:32,620 --> 00:40:36,120
can't come with all your worldly pomp and

978
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:37,300
glory and all these things.

979
00:40:37,340 --> 00:40:38,500
You got to throw all that out.

980
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:40,940
Come before God in simplicity.

981
00:40:42,140 --> 00:40:43,960
God wants you to come just as you

982
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,480
are naked, open.

983
00:40:47,220 --> 00:40:49,540
And the other thing we learn from this

984
00:40:49,540 --> 00:40:51,660
is God said particularly you read in Ezekiel

985
00:40:51,660 --> 00:40:54,080
44 that that when you go to the

986
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,300
people the Lord said don't go with this

987
00:40:57,300 --> 00:40:59,040
holy white dress to the people.

988
00:40:59,820 --> 00:41:02,300
When you go before the people change your

989
00:41:02,300 --> 00:41:03,940
clothes and go like this.

990
00:41:05,220 --> 00:41:06,540
That's what Jesus said.

991
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:10,480
When you fast don't let anyone know about

992
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:10,780
it.

993
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:13,620
Let your holy white dress be before God.

994
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,580
When you come before people anoint your face

995
00:41:16,580 --> 00:41:20,060
and appear to men as though you are

996
00:41:20,060 --> 00:41:20,740
not fasting.

997
00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:23,380
Appear to men as though you are feasting.

998
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,260
Appear to men as though you are grandly

999
00:41:25,260 --> 00:41:25,660
dressed.

1000
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,640
I remember when I was a young Christian

1001
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,180
and I decided to leave my job to

1002
00:41:30,180 --> 00:41:31,120
serve the Lord full time.

1003
00:41:32,060 --> 00:41:34,780
I was encouraged to read something that said

1004
00:41:36,020 --> 00:41:40,980
even when you don't have any money act

1005
00:41:40,980 --> 00:41:42,320
as though you got plenty.

1006
00:41:43,300 --> 00:41:45,220
Then nobody will give you money like a

1007
00:41:45,220 --> 00:41:45,520
beggar.

1008
00:41:45,860 --> 00:41:47,700
You know a lot of people give money

1009
00:41:47,700 --> 00:41:49,300
to Christian workers just like they give to

1010
00:41:49,300 --> 00:41:50,880
beggars out of charity.

1011
00:41:51,220 --> 00:41:52,700
Oh this poor man, I see his torn

1012
00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:54,180
shirt I better give him some money.

1013
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,680
And that really helped me that my need

1014
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,340
must be known only before God.

1015
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,040
Before men I must anoint my face and

1016
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,120
appear that I am feasting.

1017
00:42:05,460 --> 00:42:08,060
This grand dress before men and a very

1018
00:42:08,060 --> 00:42:09,160
simple dress before God.

1019
00:42:09,620 --> 00:42:11,200
The number of truths we learn from this.

1020
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:16,540
Aaron had a tunic that's down there and

1021
00:42:16,540 --> 00:42:18,460
a robe on top of that, a blue

1022
00:42:18,460 --> 00:42:23,940
robe with bells and pomegranates underneath and a

1023
00:42:23,940 --> 00:42:25,540
thing called an ephod.

1024
00:42:25,780 --> 00:42:26,940
This is the ephod.

1025
00:42:27,220 --> 00:42:30,260
A dress on top of that a turban

1026
00:42:30,260 --> 00:42:34,860
on top and a shoulder two shoulder plates

1027
00:42:34,860 --> 00:42:36,460
you see here one on this shoulder, one

1028
00:42:36,460 --> 00:42:39,820
on that shoulder two stones, two precious stones

1029
00:42:39,820 --> 00:42:45,960
where symbolizing his carrying on his shoulder God's

1030
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:46,260
people.

1031
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,620
And a breastplate in front which had twelve

1032
00:42:50,620 --> 00:42:53,720
precious stones with the names of the twelve

1033
00:42:53,720 --> 00:42:56,640
tribes of Israel showing that he carried them

1034
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:58,800
not only on his shoulder he carried them

1035
00:42:58,800 --> 00:42:59,420
on his heart.

1036
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:04,140
God's servants must carry other people on their

1037
00:43:04,140 --> 00:43:08,180
shoulders lifting their burdens like you carry little

1038
00:43:08,180 --> 00:43:10,480
children on your shoulders and you also got

1039
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:11,860
to carry them on your heart.

1040
00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:15,820
That means you got to love them have

1041
00:43:15,820 --> 00:43:16,780
a concern for them.

1042
00:43:17,420 --> 00:43:18,940
I always say that if you want to

1043
00:43:18,940 --> 00:43:20,720
be a prophet you got to have two

1044
00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:21,460
things in your heart.

1045
00:43:22,220 --> 00:43:23,680
You got to have God's people in your

1046
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,600
heart and you have to have God's word

1047
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:26,360
in your heart.

1048
00:43:26,540 --> 00:43:28,760
If you have those two God can make

1049
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:29,640
you his mouthpiece.

1050
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:31,460
A lot of people have God's word in

1051
00:43:31,460 --> 00:43:33,320
their heads not in their hearts because they

1052
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:34,000
have not obeyed it.

1053
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:36,260
And some people who have God's word in

1054
00:43:36,260 --> 00:43:40,260
their heart don't have God's people in their

1055
00:43:40,260 --> 00:43:40,500
heart.

1056
00:43:41,140 --> 00:43:45,920
And then of course they cannot be God's

1057
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:46,460
mouthpieces.

1058
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,280
So there are number of lessons we learn

1059
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:50,340
from that also.

1060
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:54,360
Just one thing about this turban in the

1061
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,280
front part of the turban was a metal

1062
00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:00,560
plate where it was written Holiness unto the

1063
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:00,880
Lord.

1064
00:44:02,260 --> 00:44:05,860
And if you read Exodus 28 verse 36

1065
00:44:05,860 --> 00:44:11,160
to 38 it says there this was for

1066
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:16,680
Aaron to bear the sin in the holy

1067
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:18,720
things that Israel did.

1068
00:44:18,820 --> 00:44:20,620
Now that's an expression that comes only once

1069
00:44:20,620 --> 00:44:21,080
in scripture.

1070
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,300
The iniquity of the holy things.

1071
00:44:23,300 --> 00:44:26,160
Now we know the iniquity of sinful things.

1072
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:27,940
What is the iniquity of the holy things?

1073
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,460
You need to understand iniquity in the holy

1074
00:44:31,460 --> 00:44:31,940
things.

1075
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:36,100
Jesus carries not only our sins like dirty

1076
00:44:36,100 --> 00:44:39,480
thoughts, jealousy, anger bitterness, many many evil things

1077
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,260
he also has to carry the sin of

1078
00:44:42,260 --> 00:44:43,240
our holy things.

1079
00:44:44,020 --> 00:44:46,660
The sin of our holy things is for

1080
00:44:46,660 --> 00:44:50,140
example when I preach that's a good thing,

1081
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,500
it's a holy thing but if I preach

1082
00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:55,160
to get honor from people, there's sin there.

1083
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:57,900
If I preach to get money from people,

1084
00:44:58,340 --> 00:44:59,040
there's sin there.

1085
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,180
If I go to some place to preach

1086
00:45:01,180 --> 00:45:02,380
because I know they'll give me a good

1087
00:45:02,380 --> 00:45:04,780
offering there that's sin, that's the sin of

1088
00:45:04,780 --> 00:45:05,420
the holy things.

1089
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,160
When I pray because I want everybody to

1090
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,480
say Amen, Hallelujah and I'm also excited when

1091
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,480
they say Amen, Hallelujah and I want their

1092
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,420
appreciation and when I finish praying I think

1093
00:45:16,420 --> 00:45:18,760
I hope everybody was impressed by that prayer.

1094
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,220
That whole prayer was sinful.

1095
00:45:21,020 --> 00:45:22,840
These are the sins Jesus has to carry.

1096
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,220
Iniquity in the holy things, good things done

1097
00:45:27,220 --> 00:45:28,580
for honor.

1098
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,160
The motive is sinful.

1099
00:45:33,020 --> 00:45:36,180
Now, the builders of the tabernacle, we read

1100
00:45:36,180 --> 00:45:39,720
in I think it's Exodus 30 perhaps, it

1101
00:45:39,720 --> 00:45:42,920
says the builders of the tabernacle were chapter

1102
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,820
31 I think, first few verses Bezalel and

1103
00:45:45,820 --> 00:45:48,480
Aholiab The interesting thing is they were filled

1104
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,040
with the spirit and wisdom.

1105
00:45:51,300 --> 00:45:53,980
Those who built the tabernacle required to be

1106
00:45:53,980 --> 00:45:56,360
full of the Holy Spirit and full of

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00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:56,660
wisdom.

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A lot of so-called people who are

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00:45:59,100 --> 00:46:01,180
baptized in the Holy Spirit they're very foolish

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00:46:01,180 --> 00:46:02,900
in the way they behave and they don't

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00:46:02,900 --> 00:46:03,560
build a church.

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00:46:04,300 --> 00:46:05,720
You need to be like Stephen about whom

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00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:06,840
it says he was full of the spirit

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00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:07,440
and of wisdom.

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So, those who built the tabernacle we read

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00:46:10,740 --> 00:46:12,960
in Exodus 31 were full of the spirit

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and of wisdom.

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00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,600
Now, in conclusion I want to show one

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00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:18,060
more thing.

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00:46:21,850 --> 00:46:25,790
These three parts of the tabernacle speak of

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00:46:25,790 --> 00:46:27,170
three levels at which you can live the

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00:46:27,170 --> 00:46:27,870
Christian life.

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00:46:29,470 --> 00:46:32,810
One is the level of acceptance.

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00:46:33,590 --> 00:46:34,530
God has accepted me.

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00:46:34,970 --> 00:46:35,710
I'm a child of God.

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I'm going to heaven.

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That's the outer court life.

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The second is the level of service.

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You must serve God, people say.

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00:46:44,090 --> 00:46:45,990
Beyond acceptance it's not just that I go

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to heaven.

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00:46:46,890 --> 00:46:49,090
The priests were always busy serving here.

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00:46:49,390 --> 00:46:50,710
There were many people in the outer court

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00:46:50,710 --> 00:46:52,570
very few serving here.

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Service, service.

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00:46:54,530 --> 00:46:56,470
Saved to serve, they say.

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But, there's something still further.

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Fellowship with God.

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In the most holy place there's only one

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person.

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God.

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That's the lesson we learned in the Sabbath

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day.

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For Adam, God said fellowship first.

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The ark first.

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00:47:15,450 --> 00:47:16,150
Then service.

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The ark.

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Yes, thank God for the one gate.

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00:47:21,930 --> 00:47:23,010
There's only one way of salvation.

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00:47:23,530 --> 00:47:24,390
Thank God for Calvary.

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00:47:24,530 --> 00:47:25,530
Thank God for water baptism.

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00:47:26,090 --> 00:47:26,990
Thank God we are accepted.

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00:47:27,550 --> 00:47:28,510
Thank God we can serve.

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But the most important thing is fellowship.

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00:47:32,050 --> 00:47:38,170
Now, in the Old Testament the veil was

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00:47:38,170 --> 00:47:38,710
not rent.

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00:47:39,750 --> 00:47:42,390
You could not go into the most holy

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00:47:42,390 --> 00:47:42,830
place.

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00:47:43,130 --> 00:47:43,850
Nobody could go there.

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00:47:43,910 --> 00:47:45,750
Even the high priest once a year to

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00:47:45,750 --> 00:47:47,330
show that you couldn't go there.

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00:47:47,890 --> 00:47:49,650
But when Jesus died the veil in the

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00:47:49,650 --> 00:47:52,990
temple was rent showing that that which man

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00:47:52,990 --> 00:47:54,310
could not have till now.

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00:47:55,930 --> 00:47:56,370
Fellowship.

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00:47:56,370 --> 00:47:57,910
Here in the most holy place to be

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00:47:57,910 --> 00:47:58,830
alone with God.

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00:47:59,450 --> 00:48:00,370
To worship Him.

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00:48:01,790 --> 00:48:03,330
To give Him the glory due unto His

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00:48:03,330 --> 00:48:03,590
name.

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00:48:03,690 --> 00:48:05,290
To talk with God and walk with Him.

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00:48:06,570 --> 00:48:08,950
I say with all of my heart I

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would any day walk with God rather than

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00:48:11,110 --> 00:48:11,550
with men.

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00:48:12,590 --> 00:48:16,430
If you can't say that you can't really

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00:48:16,430 --> 00:48:17,010
serve God.

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00:48:18,050 --> 00:48:19,910
You got to walk with God before you

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00:48:19,910 --> 00:48:20,530
walk with men.

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00:48:21,230 --> 00:48:23,110
You got to live before God before you

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00:48:23,110 --> 00:48:23,810
live before men.

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00:48:24,710 --> 00:48:26,930
If you want what you say before men

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00:48:26,930 --> 00:48:30,050
to be effective live before God.

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00:48:30,170 --> 00:48:32,190
Not just in a few minutes before the

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00:48:32,190 --> 00:48:33,850
meeting but all the time.

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00:48:33,950 --> 00:48:37,670
Even when I stand here I minister to

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00:48:37,670 --> 00:48:40,330
God first and then to the people.

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00:48:41,670 --> 00:48:43,150
Always before God.

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00:48:44,070 --> 00:48:46,870
That is the message of the veil that

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00:48:46,870 --> 00:48:47,330
was rent.

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00:48:47,430 --> 00:48:50,290
When Jesus died it says Hebrews 10.20

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00:48:50,290 --> 00:48:53,310
He made a new and living way through

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00:48:53,310 --> 00:48:53,810
the veil.

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00:48:55,050 --> 00:48:58,930
His flesh was rent on Calvary's cross and

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00:48:58,930 --> 00:49:01,470
He made a way into the most holy

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00:49:01,470 --> 00:49:03,350
place and the veil was rent immediately from

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00:49:03,350 --> 00:49:06,110
top to bottom showing that God did it

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00:49:06,110 --> 00:49:08,410
and the veil was and the way was

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00:49:08,410 --> 00:49:11,850
open now for us to go inside to

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00:49:11,850 --> 00:49:12,770
fellowship with God.

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00:49:13,110 --> 00:49:16,590
That fellowship with Jesus valued so much that

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He never wanted to lose it.

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00:49:18,710 --> 00:49:20,450
We can say the outer court speaks of

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00:49:20,450 --> 00:49:21,670
those who are born of the spirit.

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00:49:22,510 --> 00:49:23,950
The holy place speaks of those who are

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00:49:23,950 --> 00:49:26,690
baptized in the Holy Spirit and the most

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00:49:26,690 --> 00:49:29,790
holy place speaks of those who are led

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00:49:29,790 --> 00:49:33,210
by the Holy Spirit which is much more

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00:49:33,210 --> 00:49:34,910
than just baptized in the Holy Spirit.

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00:49:36,610 --> 00:49:40,030
The outer court speaks of a life of

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00:49:40,030 --> 00:49:42,390
thanksgiving for all that God has done.

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00:49:43,630 --> 00:49:45,850
The holy place speaks of a life of

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00:49:45,850 --> 00:49:46,550
praise.

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00:49:46,950 --> 00:49:48,410
Praise is more than thanksgiving.

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00:49:51,060 --> 00:49:52,960
The most holy place speaks of worship.

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00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,320
Thanksgiving, praise, worship.

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00:49:58,380 --> 00:50:02,940
Most Christians never go beyond thanksgiving and praise.

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00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:04,800
A lot of what we call worship meeting

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00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:06,980
is actually only a thanksgiving and praise meeting.

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00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,100
Worship means much more than that.

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00:50:09,380 --> 00:50:12,340
To worship God in spirit and in truth.

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00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:15,720
In the outer court, you had natural light

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00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:16,480
of the sun.

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00:50:17,580 --> 00:50:19,540
In the holy place, you had the light

1224
00:50:19,540 --> 00:50:20,400
of the lamp stand.

1225
00:50:21,380 --> 00:50:22,980
In the most holy place, you had no

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00:50:22,980 --> 00:50:24,580
light except the light of God.

1227
00:50:26,220 --> 00:50:28,480
A complete dependence on God alone.

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00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,560
No dependence on the sun or the lamp

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00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:31,900
stand.

1230
00:50:32,140 --> 00:50:33,500
No dependence on anything human.

1231
00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:34,980
On God.

1232
00:50:35,220 --> 00:50:37,920
Total dependence on God for everything.

1233
00:50:39,300 --> 00:50:41,580
John says, I write unto you babes, I

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00:50:41,580 --> 00:50:42,880
write unto you young men, I write unto

1235
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:43,360
you fathers.

1236
00:50:43,580 --> 00:50:44,880
Here are the babes, outer court.

1237
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:47,260
Here are the young men, holy place.

1238
00:50:47,580 --> 00:50:49,260
Here are the fathers, most holy place.

1239
00:50:49,980 --> 00:50:51,360
Jesus said the seed is sown.

1240
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:53,940
Some produce thirtyfold, outer court.

1241
00:50:54,340 --> 00:50:56,540
Some produce sixtyfold, holy place.

1242
00:50:56,540 --> 00:50:59,960
Some produce hundredfold, most holy place.

1243
00:51:01,300 --> 00:51:03,560
Wonderful truths in the word of God.

1244
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:06,380
It's the glory of God to conceal a

1245
00:51:06,380 --> 00:51:06,600
matter.

1246
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:08,320
It's the glory of kings to search it

1247
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:08,560
out.

1248
00:51:09,460 --> 00:51:11,840
Let's pray that God will make us a

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00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,580
tabernacle in which he can dwell and be

1250
00:51:14,580 --> 00:51:14,860
happy.

1251
00:51:15,020 --> 00:51:15,460
Let's pray.

1252
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:24,440
Heavenly Father, help us to be the tabernacle

1253
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:26,760
that you want in our lives, in our

1254
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,720
homes, and in our churches.

1255
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,280
We ask in Jesus' name.

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Amen.