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Well, this is to be the grand finale.

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I hope you're all comfortable because I'm not

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sure whether we'll finish just before midnight and

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just after midnight.

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But I'll try and do my best to

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finish a little after half past eight.

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So this evening we're going to turn our

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attention to the board, the bars, and the

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foundation, and we're going to follow our reading

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of this morning, the book of Exodus, and

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reading in chapter twenty-six.

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Exodus, chapter twenty-six.

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One or two remarks as we are reading.

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Reading from verse fifteen.

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Exodus twenty-six, verse fifteen.

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And thou shalt make boards.

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Now, notice, please, he says, make boards.

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I want you to notice that because these

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boards were very big boards.

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And I don't think...

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Exodus, chapter twenty-six, verse fifteen.

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They were very large boards, and so I

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don't think they could have formed these boards.

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I think they probably made them as we

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make these laminated boards today.

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And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle

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or the case you would standing up.

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Ten cubit shall be the length of a

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board, and a cubit and a half shall

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be the breadth of one board.

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That means they would be about fifteen feet

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long and two feet three inches at least

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in width.

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Now, that's a very large board.

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Verse seventeen.

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Two tenons shall there be in one board,

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set in order one against another.

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Thus shalt thou make for all the boards

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of the tabernacle.

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Now, reading about these two tenons in each

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board, I've got a model board here, or

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you can see it enough, and it has

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got these two tenons.

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You see, there is the board with the

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rings, and there are the two tenons.

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Each board having two tenons.

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Verse eighteen.

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And thou shalt make the boards for the

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tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

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That's on the side where I'm standing.

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And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver

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under the twenty boards.

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Two sockets under one board for his two

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tenons, and two sockets under another board for

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his two tenons.

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And for the second side of the tabernacle

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on the north side, that's the far side

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from where I am standing, there shall be

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twenty boards, and there forty sockets of silver,

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two sockets under one board and two sockets

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under another board.

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And for the sides of the tabernacle westward,

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thou shalt make six boards.

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Now, what he means to say is, you've

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got two sides, you've got the north side

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and the south side, and as you go

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to the far end of those two sides,

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you come to the back of the tabernacle.

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And that's what he means for the sides

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of the tabernacle westward, coming on to the

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back part.

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Thou shalt make six boards, and two boards

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shalt thou make for the corners of the

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tabernacle in the two sides.

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And they shall be coupled or twinned together

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beneath, and they shall be coupled or twinned

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together above the head, above the head of

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it, unto one ring.

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Thus shall it be for them both.

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They shall be for the two corners.

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Now, I've got a specimen board again here

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which you may be able to see.

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There's the corner board, the same amount of

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board as there is in the ordinary board,

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and there are the two tenons, which would

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make it easy if you set up the

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corners, then you can put in position your

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ordinary boards.

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Now, a moment or two later I'm going

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to give you just a short demonstration.

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I'm going to put these boards together so

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you'll see how they are fitted together.

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I used to have a complete tabernacle, and

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I would build it up for people to

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see, but it took a lot of time,

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and we didn't get very much out of

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it.

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So, I now have just one section that

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you will be able to see.

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So, now he says, verse 25, and they

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shall be eight boards, and their sockets of

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silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets under one board,

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and two sockets under another board.

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And thou shalt make vats of acacia wood,

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and five vats for the boards of the

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one side of the tabernacle, and five vats

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for the boards of the other side of

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the tabernacle, and five vats for the boards

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of the side of the tabernacle for the

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two sides westward.

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That's at the back.

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And the middle bar in the midst of

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the board shall reach from end to end.

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And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold,

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and make their rings of gold for places

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for the bars, and thou shalt overlay the

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bars with gold.

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And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according

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to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee

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in the manse."

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Remember, I said, there in the manse, he

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must have seen it.

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And so here it is, thou shalt rear

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up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof

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which was shewed thee in the manse.

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Now we want to read a little more

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about those sockets of silver, so turn please

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to chapter 30.

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Chapter 30, to read about these sockets of

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silver.

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Now this is where they obtained the silver.

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Chapter 30, verse 11.

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And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, When

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thou takest the sum of the children of

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Israel after their number, then shall they give

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every man a ransom for his soul unto

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the Lord, when thou numberest them, that there

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be no plague among them when thou numberest

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them.

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This they shall give every one that passeth

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among them that are numbered half a shekel

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after the shekel of the sanctuary.

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A shekel is twenty geras, and half shekel

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shall be the offering of the Lord.

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Every one that passeth among them that are

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numbered from twenty years old and above shall

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give an offering unto the Lord.

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The rich shall not give more, and the

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poor shall not give less than half a

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shekel.

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When they give an offering unto the Lord

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to make an atonement for your souls.

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And thou shalt take the atonement money of

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the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it

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for the service of the tabernacle of the

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congregation, that it may be a memorial unto

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the children of Israel before the Lord to

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make an atonement for your souls.

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So the silver for the sockets of the

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board came from the ransom money of the

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children of Israel.

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Now let us see how much silver they

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obtained as ransom money.

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Turn to chapter 38.

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Chapter 38.

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I'm reading from verse 25.

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And the silver of them that were numbered

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of the congregation was an hundred talents, and

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a thousand and seven hundred and threescore and

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fifteen shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary.

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A bitter for every man that is half

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a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary

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for every one that went to be numbered

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from twenty years old and upward for six

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hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred

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and fifty men.

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And of the hundred talents of silver were

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cast the sockets of the sanctuary and the

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sockets of the veil.

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And hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a

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talent for a socket.

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And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy

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and five shekels that were left over he

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made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their

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chapters and filleted them.

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Well now that is our reading for this

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evening and it is bringing before us the

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boards, the bars, and the foundation.

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Now this morning we were looking at the

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sanctuary and we saw how that this sanctuary

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is again bringing before us our Lord Jesus

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Christ.

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As we have been going on night by

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night we have seen how God designed it

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all so that it would bring before us

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the person, the work of his beloved son.

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And so we got to the sanctuary and

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this we looked at these curtains, tents, and

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coverings and we saw something of Christ personally.

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That outward covering of seal skin bringing before

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us the Lord Jesus Christ, what he was

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to man, his reputation.

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And then that inner covering of ramskins dyed

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red, what he was to God, his consecration.

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And then the tent made of goat's hair,

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reminding us of that great day of atonement,

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what he was both to God and to

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man, his expiation.

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And then we saw the inner curtains, the

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tabernacle itself, curtains, these brought before us our

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Lord Jesus Christ, what he is going to

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be in the day yet to come.

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He's going to be the center of all

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that God shall gather together.

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He's going to be the head, a wonderful

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Christ that we have.

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So thinking of Christ personally and the curtains,

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the tent, the coverings, we turn our attention

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now to the structure, to the boards, the

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bars, and the foundation.

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And I said this morning that we would

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be seeing something of Christ corporately.

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In the curtains, Christ personally.

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In the boards, bars, foundation, Christ corporately.

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That might not be very clear at the

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moment, but it will become clear as we

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move on.

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Now first of all, let us remember that

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God said they were to make this foundation

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of silver.

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The structure itself was to rest upon these

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silver stockings.

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And we have seen where the silver came

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from.

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It came from the ransom money of the

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children of Israel.

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And there was no difference there.

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The poor were not to bring less.

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The rich were not to bring more.

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Each one was to bring just that half

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shekel, that half weight of silver.

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And then all that silver was put together,

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and it was made into talents of silver,

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and each of those talents would weigh about

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114 pounds.

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And so as there were two sockets under

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each board for the two tenants, then we

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have 228 pounds weight of silver under each

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board.

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And that would mean that in the whole

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foundation of the tabernacle, there would be about

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five tons or more of silver.

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So it was a very weighty foundation.

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But also it was rather a costly foundation,

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because I suppose in present day currency, a

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talent of silver would be worth about $1

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,500.

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So that two talents of silver would be

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$3,000.

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And as we think of all this, we

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shall find that in those hundred talents, there

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would be about $150,000 worth of silver.

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So it was a foundation, and it was

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a costly foundation.

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But we have to remember this, that whilst

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the children of Israel brought silver, and that

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silver was put into the foundation, and it

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was a memorial, they themselves were represented there.

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In that ransom silver that was made into

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the sockets of silver, they are represented there.

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We remember that we are not redeemed, as

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Peter says, with silver and gold, because at

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one time they brought gold for ransom.

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We are not redeemed by such corruptible things

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as silver and gold, but with the precious

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blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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So the foundation of the tabernacle was in

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silver, bringing before us the fact that the

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foundation of this dwelling place of God, which

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is Christ corporately, rests upon silver, rests upon

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the precious blood of Christ.

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A weighty foundation, a costly foundation.

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Some years ago when I was in England,

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I was going round the village from house

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to house, speaking to the people and inviting

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them to come to the meetings, and I

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came to two very large gates set in

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a wall, a very old cockscomb wall, and

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these wooden gates were carved.

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And then at the side I saw a

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smaller gate, and I stood there looking at

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these gates, and I thought, well these must

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be of good age, I don't know how

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long this place has been here, and I

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don't know what's at the back of it,

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but I'd like to know, being a bit

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nosy, I thought, well I'd like to know

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what's the back of these big gates.

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And so I went to the little gate,

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and I opened it, and I peeked inside,

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and as I looked inside I saw beautiful

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gardens there, and I saw a nicely made

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path wending its way in and out, and

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it came up to a very big house,

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a lovely house.

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So I said to myself, well there must

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be some high and mighty people living in

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there, so I don't think that they would

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be interested in my preaching of the gospel.

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And then I said to myself, well I

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don't know, may not be interested, but then

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you have a responsibility, not only to preach

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the gospel to the ordinary folk, but to

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these folk too, if you can reach them.

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And so I thought, well perhaps I ought

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to go up there, you see, to this

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big house, this wonderful place, and invite the

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people to come along to these humble little

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meetings we're having.

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And then I said to myself, ah, you'd

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be better to leave them, leave them alone,

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leave them where they are, because they won't

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be interested.

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I thought, well no, why should I leave

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them out?

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So I found myself walking up the path,

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and I kept saying to myself, well you

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know, you may be going to make a

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bit of a fool of yourself by going

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up to these people, but I kept going.

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And when I came to the house, I

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stood there, and I thought, well, now if

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you've got any sense, you go back, you

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know, through the gate, and get on talking

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to the ordinary folk.

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I thought, why should I?

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So I stood there looking at, and there

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was a sort of a bell pull, you

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know, not a bell push, but a rod

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going up, and I thought, well I don't

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know what's at the end of that.

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So I took hold of it, and I

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hesitated for a minute, and I said to

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myself, you know, you'd be better if you

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go back and get through that gate there.

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And why should I?

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So I pulled it, and it was clang,

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clang, clang, clang, I expected a bell, but

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it was clang, clang, and I felt like

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running.

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I said, well, I'm going to stand my

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ground now, and the door opened immediately, and

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there was a maid there with a little

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lace cap on, a lace apron, and she

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said, morning sir.

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So I said, good morning.

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She said, what is your business?

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Well, I said, we were preaching the gospel

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in this hall in the village, you know,

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and, oh just a moment, she said, and

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I'll tell the general.

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General?

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Oh, I said, stop, just a minute, stop,

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but she'd gone.

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General?

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I don't want to talk to the general.

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But she'd gone, and she was back in

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a few moments, and she said, sir, the

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general would be very pleased to see you.

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Come this way.

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And I said, oh dear, why didn't I

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go back through that gate?

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I walked into the hall, and it was

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just like going into a museum, you know,

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a wonderful collection of all kinds of things

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gathered from all over the world.

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And I looked at these, and I said,

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oh dear, why did I ever come to

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this place?

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This way, and yes, through a doorway, and

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it was a great big room there, and

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sitting in the middle of the room, there

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was a man with his feet up on

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a chair, and as I came through the

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door, he said, come in!

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I thought to myself, well, now I've got

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somewhere.

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So I went in, and I thought, general,

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who general and I was straightening myself up,

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you know, and I was going through left,

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right, left, right, and I came up in

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front of him, and he said, sit down!

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So I sat down, and I thought, dear

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me, why did I come here?

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What's all this about, he said, preaching the

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gospel.

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I said, well, that's right, we've got a

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little place over there, and we're preaching the

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gospel, and I've been around inviting the people,

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and I thought, yes, he said, you're preaching

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the gospel, eh?

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Simply by believing on the Son of God,

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everlasting life is free.

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Is that it?

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I said, yes, that's it, sir.

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Yes, he said, lazy lot you are.

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He says, anything for free, and you are

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there.

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He says, I believe in working for it.

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I believe in doing something for it, he

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said.

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You lazy lot.

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Anything for nothing, he said.

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You want it, don't you?

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I believe in working for it, he said.

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I worked my way from the rank to

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become General Sir Reginald Hoskins.

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He said, where were you during the war?

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I said, I was in the army.

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Where were you in the army?

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I said, I was out east.

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Out east where?

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I said, I was out in East Africa.

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Then you were under my command.

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Do you remember me?

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General Sir Reginald Hoskins.

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Yes, sir.

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Oh, yes, you were under my command, he

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said.

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Now, he said, what's all this about the

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gospel, he says, and everlasting life being free?

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Well, I said, that's what we are preaching.

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Yes, he said.

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It's too cheap for me.

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I said, work my way up, he said.

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And I believe in working for everlasting life.

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Too cheap, he said.

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And then I thought, the Lord is helping

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me now.

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I said, excuse me, sir, when I was

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in South Africa, I wanted to get away

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right up into the Congo, about 3,000

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miles by train.

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So I went along to the railway station,

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I said, how far is it to Lubumbati

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in the Congo?

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And they said, oh, about 3,000 miles.

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I said, what's the rail fare?

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And they said, oh, about $35.

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Oh, I said, that's cheap enough.

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So, $35.

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Yes, and they said, if you're a missionary,

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well, we'll deduct $5 off you, see, it'll

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be just $30.

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So the General says, oh, that's good.

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He says, I was in South Africa, I

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would like to have settled there.

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He says, wonderful country.

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Yes, he said.

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What'd you say, $30?

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He said, yes.

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3,000 miles?

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Oh, he said, that's cheap, isn't it?

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I said, yes, sir, this is cheap, yes.

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I said, just for $30, I went from

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one end to the other of that railway.

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Cheap, he said.

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I said, yes, but have you any idea

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how much he cost them to build the

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railway?

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Oh, he said, I haven't got the foggiest

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idea.

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Well, I said, I believe he cost them

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more than a thousand pounds a foot.

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Well, he said, sir, 3,000 miles?

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I said, yes.

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He said, the cost must have been colossal.

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I said, it was.

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But I went from one end to the

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other for $30.

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Everlasting life is free.

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Do you know what it costs God?

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Do you know what it costs Christ?

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I said, well, for me, it's free.

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Jolly good, jolly good.

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He comes to me again, do you?

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And I went and I saw him again

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several times, and in the end he said,

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I believe, I believe that the Lord Jesus

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Christ died on that cross for me.

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Thank God for that.

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And I remember the day when he had

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his funeral.

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Well, there it is, it's a costly foundation,

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it's a weighty foundation, it's in silver.

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We have got the precious blood of our

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Lord Jesus Christ.

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Now, I'm persuaded that when they set up

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that building, they would first of all mark

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out the place for the sockets of silver,

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and they would put those sockets in position,

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and then they would begin to set up

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the boards and bond them all together.

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And so, I want to come down, if

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I can manage it, and just give you

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this little demonstration of how these boards and

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bars were fitted together.

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Now, this represents these sockets of silver, as

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you can see there.

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Each board, with its two tenons, goes down

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into two sockets, you see.

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And then here is a corner board, you

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see, with its two tenons.

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That is in position.

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And here is the other corner board.

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So that would be the back part of

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the tabernacle.

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Now, when they put those sockets in position

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and set the boards up, they probably put

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one of the bars through these boards, you

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see.

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There is a bar going through from that

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end.

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And then they would take another bar, and

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they would set it through from this end,

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you see.

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And those two bars would meet there in

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the middle, you see, two bars.

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And then there would be another bar slipped

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through from the top, as you see there,

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from that side, and then the other bar

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would go from this side, and these two

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bars would meet in the middle, as you

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see there.

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So now you've got two bars below, two

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bars above.

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Then the middle bar would reach from end

538
00:23:43,330 --> 00:23:46,250
to end, and so there is the middle

539
00:23:46,250 --> 00:23:48,850
bar going right through, you see.

540
00:23:49,450 --> 00:23:53,210
So what they did with the back part,

541
00:23:53,490 --> 00:23:54,630
they did with the side.

542
00:23:55,110 --> 00:23:57,270
Put up so many boards, and put the

543
00:23:57,270 --> 00:23:58,830
bar through the top, the bar through the

544
00:23:58,830 --> 00:24:00,650
bottom, set up the other set of boards,

545
00:24:00,790 --> 00:24:02,150
the bar through the top, the bar through

546
00:24:02,150 --> 00:24:04,410
the bottom, and then the middle bar goes

547
00:24:04,410 --> 00:24:06,710
right away through from end to end.

548
00:24:07,890 --> 00:24:09,350
Now, there are people who've got a different

549
00:24:09,350 --> 00:24:13,110
idea, but I couldn't accept it.

550
00:24:13,450 --> 00:24:18,150
And that is that they have, as you

551
00:24:18,150 --> 00:24:21,570
see there, I've got two boards, and there

552
00:24:21,570 --> 00:24:24,130
are four bars, you see, two above and

553
00:24:24,130 --> 00:24:24,710
two below.

554
00:24:25,210 --> 00:24:28,550
But there is a fifth bar, but you

555
00:24:28,550 --> 00:24:29,430
can't see it, can you?

556
00:24:30,750 --> 00:24:31,950
And you say, well, where is the fifth

557
00:24:31,950 --> 00:24:32,310
bar?

558
00:24:32,870 --> 00:24:34,110
Well, it's there, you see.

559
00:24:34,930 --> 00:24:37,150
So if you divide the boards, you've got

560
00:24:37,150 --> 00:24:38,670
a bar which is going right through the

561
00:24:38,670 --> 00:24:41,250
centre there, so there's two bars above, two

562
00:24:41,250 --> 00:24:43,350
bars, and the middle bar shall shoot through

563
00:24:43,350 --> 00:24:44,530
the midst of the boards.

564
00:24:44,630 --> 00:24:46,330
They think that it means through the middle

565
00:24:46,330 --> 00:24:47,330
of the boards that way.

566
00:24:48,270 --> 00:24:53,230
Now, remember that this bar would be almost

567
00:24:53,230 --> 00:24:56,490
the length from the front seat to the

568
00:24:56,490 --> 00:24:57,150
back seat.

569
00:24:57,970 --> 00:25:00,010
So it would need to be quite a

570
00:25:00,010 --> 00:25:03,030
thickness, maybe four to five inches, in order

571
00:25:03,030 --> 00:25:04,430
to be able to handle it.

572
00:25:05,550 --> 00:25:09,570
And if they're going to put a hole

573
00:25:09,570 --> 00:25:13,090
through the board, and yet not weaken the

574
00:25:13,090 --> 00:25:17,570
board, remember the weight of those curtains, the

575
00:25:17,570 --> 00:25:19,390
weight would be such that if you hadn't

576
00:25:19,390 --> 00:25:22,590
got sufficient thickness, all the boards would crack

577
00:25:22,590 --> 00:25:25,090
across the middle and it would fall in.

578
00:25:26,490 --> 00:25:28,630
Now, in order to put a bar through

579
00:25:28,630 --> 00:25:31,370
there, you would not be able to do

580
00:25:31,370 --> 00:25:34,990
it with boards, you would need logs in

581
00:25:34,990 --> 00:25:35,930
order to do that.

582
00:25:36,870 --> 00:25:40,570
So I couldn't accept this, this is impossible.

583
00:25:40,950 --> 00:25:42,810
And then again, of course, the thought is

584
00:25:42,810 --> 00:25:46,530
we have these bars outside which are visible,

585
00:25:46,970 --> 00:25:48,970
but the bar that goes through the midst

586
00:25:48,970 --> 00:25:51,730
is not visible, and so it brings before

587
00:25:51,730 --> 00:25:54,930
us the Spirit of God as that uniting

588
00:25:54,930 --> 00:25:56,050
bond of His people.

589
00:25:56,330 --> 00:25:58,570
But remember, all the bars were made of

590
00:25:58,570 --> 00:26:02,850
acacia wood, and they were all overlaid with

591
00:26:02,850 --> 00:26:03,290
gold.

592
00:26:04,030 --> 00:26:05,990
And you never get the Spirit brought before

593
00:26:05,990 --> 00:26:11,430
you with regard to acacia wood, which speaks

594
00:26:11,430 --> 00:26:13,310
of the perfect humanity of Christ.

595
00:26:14,270 --> 00:26:17,350
So I'm afraid that doesn't fit very well.

596
00:26:17,670 --> 00:26:20,290
So anyway, that's just giving you an idea

597
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,730
of these boards, how they were fitted together.

598
00:26:24,350 --> 00:26:26,210
So now we can carry on with our

599
00:26:26,210 --> 00:26:26,750
talk.

600
00:26:27,390 --> 00:26:31,890
These boards all fitted and framed together.

601
00:26:32,270 --> 00:26:34,810
Now you may remember that the Apostle Paul,

602
00:26:35,830 --> 00:26:38,130
when he was writing his epistle to the

603
00:26:38,130 --> 00:26:42,850
Ephesians, he uses that word together, together, together.

604
00:26:43,630 --> 00:26:47,270
He has in mind a building, probably this

605
00:26:47,270 --> 00:26:52,610
building, because he speaks of those who believe

606
00:26:52,610 --> 00:26:55,670
as being fitly framed together.

607
00:26:56,610 --> 00:27:01,730
These boards, many boards, were all fitly framed

608
00:27:01,730 --> 00:27:04,490
together, and the bars passed through the rings

609
00:27:04,490 --> 00:27:06,130
bonding them together.

610
00:27:06,530 --> 00:27:09,990
So he speaks of being builded together, of

611
00:27:09,990 --> 00:27:15,350
being bonded together, of being united together.

612
00:27:16,470 --> 00:27:18,990
He speaks of being quickened together, of being

613
00:27:18,990 --> 00:27:22,810
raised up together, of being seated together.

614
00:27:23,350 --> 00:27:23,650
You see?

615
00:27:24,310 --> 00:27:26,290
Together, together, all the time.

616
00:27:26,750 --> 00:27:29,430
And so thinking of the building, fitly framed

617
00:27:29,430 --> 00:27:33,990
together, built together to be a habitation of

618
00:27:33,990 --> 00:27:35,530
God through the Spirit.

619
00:27:36,210 --> 00:27:39,450
Now here it was, God's dwelling place, bringing

620
00:27:39,450 --> 00:27:41,170
before us the person of Christ.

621
00:27:41,690 --> 00:27:45,490
And we're looking at these boards, 48 boards,

622
00:27:45,890 --> 00:27:49,470
all fitly framed together, all resting in those

623
00:27:49,470 --> 00:27:53,230
sockets of silver, a building.

624
00:27:54,110 --> 00:28:01,430
Many boards, fitly framed together, but only one

625
00:28:01,430 --> 00:28:02,190
dwelling place.

626
00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:07,320
Now whilst the Apostle is talking about a

627
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,640
building, he also has in mind something else.

628
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,800
So there he has the thought of the

629
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:19,760
building, all fitly framed together, built together, bonded

630
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,600
together, but he's got something else.

631
00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:24,560
He's thinking about a body.

632
00:28:25,940 --> 00:28:30,220
And he says, there's one body, it's the

633
00:28:30,220 --> 00:28:31,100
body of Christ.

634
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,720
There are many members of that body, but

635
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:41,140
all the members form one body, the body

636
00:28:41,140 --> 00:28:41,740
of Christ.

637
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:47,620
Not Christ's body personally, I know, but this

638
00:28:47,620 --> 00:28:49,600
is Christ corporately.

639
00:28:50,020 --> 00:28:50,520
You see?

640
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,940
Just as you have in this dwelling place,

641
00:28:53,300 --> 00:28:58,160
many boards, fitly framed together, built together to

642
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,500
be one dwelling place, so the Lord Jesus

643
00:29:01,500 --> 00:29:02,260
Christ.

644
00:29:03,860 --> 00:29:11,100
Corporately, all Christians are bonded together, fitly framed

645
00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:14,880
together, they're all brought in as members of

646
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,460
the body of Christ, not the personal body.

647
00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:23,060
Remember that he went to the cross, he

648
00:29:23,060 --> 00:29:25,680
took a body that God prepared for him,

649
00:29:26,180 --> 00:29:27,760
he went to the cross and in that

650
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,680
body suffered, shed his blood and died.

651
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,000
Raised the third day from a bonded egg,

652
00:29:33,220 --> 00:29:35,100
he was received up and he sat down

653
00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:37,020
there at the right hand of God.

654
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,240
On the day of Pentecost, all that believed

655
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:40,940
were together.

656
00:29:41,750 --> 00:29:42,460
You see?

657
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,280
They were together.

658
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,780
And then there came that sound of a

659
00:29:47,780 --> 00:29:50,900
mighty rushing wind, those cloven tongs of fire

660
00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:53,540
rested upon each one of them and they

661
00:29:53,540 --> 00:29:56,400
were baptized into one body.

662
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:02,180
They all became members of one body.

663
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,820
Now usually our thought seems to be that

664
00:30:05,820 --> 00:30:09,240
on the day of Pentecost, those who believed

665
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,960
were together and the Spirit came and entered

666
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,560
into them, and from that time onwards they

667
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,940
endured with this power from on high, they

668
00:30:17,940 --> 00:30:19,740
went out to preach the gospel.

669
00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:23,820
But I rather look at it like this,

670
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,340
that the Lord Jesus Christ suffered, died, shed

671
00:30:27,340 --> 00:30:30,240
his blood, was buried, raised again, received up,

672
00:30:30,780 --> 00:30:34,440
and on the day of Pentecost, he himself

673
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,600
came in the power of the Spirit and

674
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,920
he took up his abode in another body.

675
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,120
In that body which he had, that human

676
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,920
body, he was handicapped and he could not

677
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,680
do the greater work that he wanted to

678
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:49,000
do.

679
00:30:49,820 --> 00:30:54,540
And so that body, suffering, dying, being buried,

680
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,100
raised, received up, he's there at the right

681
00:30:58,100 --> 00:30:58,700
hand of God.

682
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,280
But on the day of Pentecost, he comes.

683
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,720
He comes in the power of the Spirit.

684
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,620
And all those that were together, they were

685
00:31:06,620 --> 00:31:08,340
baptized into one body.

686
00:31:08,740 --> 00:31:11,060
He is now in that body in the

687
00:31:11,060 --> 00:31:11,960
power of the Spirit.

688
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:18,700
Many Christians made up to be one man,

689
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,780
the corporate man, the Christ.

690
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,700
So that's Christ personally up at the right

691
00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:27,320
hand of God.

692
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,300
He is Christ corporately.

693
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:34,100
Every member of the body, every true believer,

694
00:31:34,380 --> 00:31:37,300
everyone who's been truly born again is a

695
00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:39,580
member of that body.

696
00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:43,720
No matter what denomination or church or group

697
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,420
they belong to, if they are truly born

698
00:31:46,420 --> 00:31:49,740
again, they belong to that body, they are

699
00:31:49,740 --> 00:31:51,160
members of that body.

700
00:31:51,380 --> 00:31:53,420
We have to get that settled once and

701
00:31:53,420 --> 00:31:53,960
for all.

702
00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:55,400
But that's not saying everything.

703
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,260
And I want you to remember what I'm

704
00:31:58,260 --> 00:32:02,380
talking to you about now is nothing denominational.

705
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,380
Neither is it anything interdenominational.

706
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,060
And it might surprise you when I tell

707
00:32:10,060 --> 00:32:12,400
you it's not even something undenominational.

708
00:32:16,350 --> 00:32:17,450
We've got to be very careful.

709
00:32:18,470 --> 00:32:22,670
So now we are thinking of this corporate

710
00:32:22,670 --> 00:32:23,210
man.

711
00:32:23,370 --> 00:32:24,270
It's the Christ.

712
00:32:25,050 --> 00:32:26,190
I want you to follow me.

713
00:32:27,050 --> 00:32:28,670
I want you to think back with me.

714
00:32:29,050 --> 00:32:30,390
Think back to eternity.

715
00:32:30,870 --> 00:32:32,790
And a way back there in eternity is

716
00:32:32,790 --> 00:32:33,290
God.

717
00:32:33,830 --> 00:32:35,370
And God is thinking.

718
00:32:36,890 --> 00:32:38,170
God is planning.

719
00:32:38,970 --> 00:32:40,250
God is purposing.

720
00:32:41,330 --> 00:32:43,590
There is God himself a way back in

721
00:32:43,590 --> 00:32:44,070
eternity.

722
00:32:44,490 --> 00:32:48,810
And as God looks, he can see a

723
00:32:48,810 --> 00:32:49,230
man.

724
00:32:50,510 --> 00:32:54,890
And he can see there the shadow of

725
00:32:54,890 --> 00:32:55,370
a man.

726
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,120
Adam, the man that was brought in, was

727
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,080
a figure of him that was to come.

728
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:05,640
He was a shadow.

729
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,820
A way back in eternity, the eternal light

730
00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:10,600
was shining upon a person.

731
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:15,380
That person was God's beloved son, the Lord

732
00:33:15,380 --> 00:33:16,120
Jesus Christ.

733
00:33:16,460 --> 00:33:17,880
And it was a shadow cast.

734
00:33:18,860 --> 00:33:21,780
And that was the first man, Adam.

735
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:24,580
So now in God's thought, a way back

736
00:33:24,580 --> 00:33:26,640
in eternity, there is the thought of a

737
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:26,940
man.

738
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,520
He's going to have a man.

739
00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:33,080
And when God started to remake this world,

740
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,040
to bring out of chaos, cosmos, an ordered

741
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,500
state, he was doing it for the man.

742
00:33:41,620 --> 00:33:45,580
He wasn't making the man for this world.

743
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,760
He made the world for the man.

744
00:33:48,220 --> 00:33:50,760
A way back in eternity, God has before

745
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:51,800
him a man.

746
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,680
But not just a man personally, but a

747
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,140
man corporately.

748
00:33:58,140 --> 00:34:01,760
God had in his mind bringing in a

749
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:06,620
race of people, many men as one man.

750
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,219
God was going to bring in a man

751
00:34:09,219 --> 00:34:10,820
and a woman, and they were going to

752
00:34:10,820 --> 00:34:14,280
multiply and fill full here, and then God

753
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,920
was going to secure in this race of

754
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,739
people, he was going to secure that progressive

755
00:34:19,739 --> 00:34:21,900
and ever-developing expression of himself.

756
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,120
Way back in eternity, this is what he

757
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:25,000
decided to do.

758
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,860
A corporate man, many men as one man.

759
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,520
But sin came in, and that was all

760
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,520
frustrated for the time being.

761
00:34:35,900 --> 00:34:37,739
And the man that God was seeking to

762
00:34:37,739 --> 00:34:40,239
have for himself, the devil acquired that man.

763
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:41,880
He became the devil's man.

764
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,440
And if in the first place, God intended

765
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,500
to secure in that corporate man, that progressive

766
00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:50,080
and ever-developing expression of himself, well, now

767
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:51,860
that the devil has secured the man, he

768
00:34:51,860 --> 00:34:53,480
is going to seek in the man that

769
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,220
progressive and ever-developing expression of himself.

770
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,200
That man is going to become more and

771
00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:59,060
more devilish.

772
00:35:01,300 --> 00:35:02,820
Well, then does God leave it at that?

773
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,600
Has the devil secured the man, and now

774
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,500
God is frustrated once and for all?

775
00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:07,920
No, no.

776
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,560
God moves on, and he moves on so

777
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,000
that he will have his man.

778
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,160
But he must meet this state of emergency.

779
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,060
This sin has come in, and God must

780
00:35:19,060 --> 00:35:20,500
deal with the sin, and we've been looking

781
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:21,660
at this in the tabernacle.

782
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,480
And we have seen how the only possible

783
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,320
way of being able to make one's way

784
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,440
into the presence of God is by way

785
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,020
of that shedding of blood.

786
00:35:32,140 --> 00:35:33,660
Without the shedding of blood, there could be

787
00:35:33,660 --> 00:35:35,320
no remission for sin.

788
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,920
And so God is meeting this state of

789
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,120
emergency, and he shows it in type, in

790
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,380
figure, in shadow, all through the ages, all

791
00:35:43,380 --> 00:35:46,940
pointing on to that cross where the Lord

792
00:35:46,940 --> 00:35:48,860
Jesus Christ was made to be sin and

793
00:35:48,860 --> 00:35:49,920
made to be a sin offering.

794
00:35:50,300 --> 00:35:52,060
And there God is meeting this state of

795
00:35:52,060 --> 00:35:52,660
emergency.

796
00:35:53,220 --> 00:35:55,100
And when we are brought unto the sound

797
00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:56,820
of the gospel, and we believe on the

798
00:35:56,820 --> 00:35:59,160
Lord Jesus Christ, we are born again.

799
00:36:00,420 --> 00:36:02,340
We are begotten of God.

800
00:36:04,830 --> 00:36:06,670
We belong to a race of people.

801
00:36:08,830 --> 00:36:13,850
We are many, but we are builded together,

802
00:36:14,270 --> 00:36:17,770
fitly framed together, bonded together to be a

803
00:36:17,770 --> 00:36:19,030
habitation of God.

804
00:36:19,210 --> 00:36:20,710
This is the corporate man.

805
00:36:20,930 --> 00:36:22,050
This is the Christ.

806
00:36:22,650 --> 00:36:26,190
Way back in eternity, God intended to have

807
00:36:26,190 --> 00:36:28,030
this corporate man.

808
00:36:28,830 --> 00:36:30,270
And so we are thinking of the boat,

809
00:36:30,370 --> 00:36:35,870
and they are bringing before us Christ corporately.

810
00:36:37,210 --> 00:36:39,950
We are all brought into that oneness, into

811
00:36:39,950 --> 00:36:42,550
that unity, into that togetherness.

812
00:36:43,710 --> 00:36:45,570
Now that's something, of course, as I say,

813
00:36:45,730 --> 00:36:47,450
we've got to get settled once and for

814
00:36:47,450 --> 00:36:47,870
all.

815
00:36:48,310 --> 00:36:50,870
But then, whilst this is perfectly true, and

816
00:36:50,870 --> 00:36:52,610
as seen by God, it's all of a

817
00:36:52,610 --> 00:36:55,750
piece, it could not be so down here.

818
00:36:57,230 --> 00:37:00,870
All Christians throughout the world could not be

819
00:37:00,870 --> 00:37:03,870
together to manifest that oneness.

820
00:37:04,530 --> 00:37:07,290
And so God, it pleased him to have

821
00:37:07,290 --> 00:37:11,370
it so that in any given locality, there

822
00:37:11,370 --> 00:37:13,730
would be a number of those who had

823
00:37:13,730 --> 00:37:16,890
been saved and born again, and brought into

824
00:37:16,890 --> 00:37:17,870
that togetherness.

825
00:37:18,150 --> 00:37:20,250
They would continue to be together.

826
00:37:21,190 --> 00:37:23,710
And whilst they could not be the body

827
00:37:23,710 --> 00:37:26,990
of Christ, they could only be a part

828
00:37:26,990 --> 00:37:32,630
of it, nevertheless, wherever they were, in whatever

829
00:37:32,630 --> 00:37:35,790
locality they were in, they were to be

830
00:37:35,790 --> 00:37:39,470
that body of Christ in implication.

831
00:37:40,490 --> 00:37:42,670
They were to be that body of Christ

832
00:37:42,670 --> 00:37:43,710
in representation.

833
00:37:45,390 --> 00:37:46,170
Have you got that?

834
00:37:47,870 --> 00:37:49,810
See, the body of Christ is one.

835
00:37:50,350 --> 00:37:52,770
All those who believe, all those who are

836
00:37:52,770 --> 00:37:55,390
born again, are members of that body.

837
00:37:55,550 --> 00:37:57,550
There's a oneness, there's a unity, there's a

838
00:37:57,550 --> 00:37:58,710
togetherness there.

839
00:37:59,410 --> 00:38:02,450
But we can't all be together in that

840
00:38:02,450 --> 00:38:03,350
way, practically.

841
00:38:03,870 --> 00:38:06,810
So, in every locality there may be a

842
00:38:06,810 --> 00:38:09,490
company, a number of those members of the

843
00:38:09,490 --> 00:38:09,790
body.

844
00:38:10,130 --> 00:38:12,810
So they could not be the body, but

845
00:38:12,810 --> 00:38:15,570
they can be that which represents it.

846
00:38:15,850 --> 00:38:18,770
They can be the body in implication, meaning

847
00:38:18,770 --> 00:38:21,350
that wherever there is a company of those

848
00:38:21,350 --> 00:38:23,330
who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ come

849
00:38:23,330 --> 00:38:30,130
together, then they should manifest the same truth

850
00:38:30,130 --> 00:38:32,610
concerning the body of Christ.

851
00:38:35,530 --> 00:38:37,070
Now, we've got to be very careful about

852
00:38:37,070 --> 00:38:40,750
this, because so much is done these days

853
00:38:40,750 --> 00:38:45,690
to make churches, to bring into being what

854
00:38:45,690 --> 00:38:49,490
would be called these parts of the body

855
00:38:49,490 --> 00:38:49,990
of Christ.

856
00:38:50,550 --> 00:38:52,930
Local churches of one kind and another.

857
00:38:54,550 --> 00:38:57,430
But this is largely the effort on the

858
00:38:57,430 --> 00:38:58,250
part of man.

859
00:38:59,130 --> 00:39:01,670
And he works in such a way as

860
00:39:01,670 --> 00:39:06,650
to produce an organisation, you see, whereas God

861
00:39:06,650 --> 00:39:08,190
never works along those lines.

862
00:39:09,230 --> 00:39:11,630
What God is out to have is not

863
00:39:11,630 --> 00:39:14,490
organisation, but an organism.

864
00:39:16,050 --> 00:39:19,090
It's altogether a question of life where God

865
00:39:19,090 --> 00:39:21,870
is concerned, not organisation.

866
00:39:22,530 --> 00:39:24,270
So you may be able to get people

867
00:39:24,270 --> 00:39:27,370
together, you may put them together, you may

868
00:39:27,370 --> 00:39:31,110
make them go together, and you may say

869
00:39:31,110 --> 00:39:34,490
that that is a local representation of the

870
00:39:34,490 --> 00:39:38,410
Church of God, a local representation of the

871
00:39:38,410 --> 00:39:39,250
body of Christ.

872
00:39:39,250 --> 00:39:41,490
You may say that, but is it?

873
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,320
The question is a question of life.

874
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,180
Now, my wife is very fond of flowers.

875
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,380
And often in England, at any rate, when

876
00:39:54,380 --> 00:39:56,720
I've been out in different places taking meetings,

877
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,740
people have said to me, you're going straight

878
00:39:58,740 --> 00:40:00,560
home from here, Mr Brown, I say yes.

879
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,440
Would you like to take some flowers from

880
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:03,000
Mrs Brown?

881
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:04,120
Sure, I would.

882
00:40:04,340 --> 00:40:05,220
She loves flowers.

883
00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:06,760
So they give me a big bunch of

884
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:07,040
flowers.

885
00:40:07,780 --> 00:40:09,420
And away I go home, you know, I

886
00:40:09,420 --> 00:40:10,200
make myself some flowers.

887
00:40:10,460 --> 00:40:12,180
And she knows about the time I'm going

888
00:40:12,180 --> 00:40:15,300
to arrive, and she knows the familiar knock

889
00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:15,820
at the door.

890
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,420
And so I arrive with my big bunch

891
00:40:18,420 --> 00:40:20,060
of flowers, knock at the door, she opens

892
00:40:20,060 --> 00:40:20,280
it.

893
00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:22,000
And when she opens the door, she looks

894
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,820
at me and she says, oh, what a

895
00:40:23,820 --> 00:40:24,760
lovely bunch of flowers.

896
00:40:25,020 --> 00:40:25,900
Give them to me.

897
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,580
You see, I get a bit teethed, you

898
00:40:27,580 --> 00:40:27,700
know.

899
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:29,160
Now, what did she say?

900
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:30,880
Oh, what a lovely husband, you see.

901
00:40:31,260 --> 00:40:31,620
Flowers!

902
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,040
Oh, what a lovely bunch of flowers.

903
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:35,900
Give them to me.

904
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:37,100
I say, what about me?

905
00:40:37,540 --> 00:40:38,740
Oh, you're all right.

906
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,100
Give me those flowers.

907
00:40:40,340 --> 00:40:42,240
And she begins to sort them out, puts

908
00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:43,520
them in the vase, you see, and she

909
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,200
smiles at them and she admires them.

910
00:40:45,340 --> 00:40:46,580
Oh, it's lovely, yes.

911
00:40:47,220 --> 00:40:48,760
Oh, well, it's no doubt about it, she

912
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:49,400
loves flowers.

913
00:40:49,660 --> 00:40:51,460
And so whenever I can, I bring them,

914
00:40:51,540 --> 00:40:51,800
you know.

915
00:40:52,100 --> 00:40:53,660
And then coming home one day, I said

916
00:40:53,660 --> 00:40:55,420
to myself, well, no flowers today.

917
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,360
Doesn't seem to be the season for flowers.

918
00:40:57,500 --> 00:40:58,280
Very few about.

919
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,700
I'm passing the shop, oh, they got some.

920
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:02,060
Well, they got lots of them.

921
00:41:02,220 --> 00:41:03,640
So I went inside and I bought a

922
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:04,780
big bunch of flowers.

923
00:41:04,780 --> 00:41:06,820
And home I go again, knock at the

924
00:41:06,820 --> 00:41:09,140
door, she's there, and she says, oh, oh,

925
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:09,340
yes.

926
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:10,260
Give me.

927
00:41:10,620 --> 00:41:11,860
She takes them, puts them down on the

928
00:41:11,860 --> 00:41:12,400
table, you see.

929
00:41:12,900 --> 00:41:14,860
So I say, you like them?

930
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:15,760
Yes, they're all right.

931
00:41:17,380 --> 00:41:18,300
You're going to leave them there?

932
00:41:18,580 --> 00:41:19,440
Oh, yes, they're all right.

933
00:41:21,380 --> 00:41:24,800
Before, you know, she would set them out

934
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:25,540
here and there.

935
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:27,700
But now, it's all right.

936
00:41:29,100 --> 00:41:30,160
How have you been getting on?

937
00:41:30,620 --> 00:41:32,620
Tell us, what about these flowers?

938
00:41:32,740 --> 00:41:33,680
Oh, yes, that's all right.

939
00:41:34,780 --> 00:41:37,720
You see, there's something different about them.

940
00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:40,280
They were artificial.

941
00:41:44,790 --> 00:41:46,270
I couldn't get the real thing.

942
00:41:48,490 --> 00:41:50,250
So I brought artificial flowers.

943
00:41:52,570 --> 00:41:54,330
I know she says they're very nice, yes,

944
00:41:54,370 --> 00:41:55,510
but she put them down there.

945
00:41:55,710 --> 00:41:56,750
Didn't have to, you know.

946
00:41:57,050 --> 00:41:58,530
If they had been the real life thing,

947
00:41:58,530 --> 00:41:59,930
she'd have been setting them out and smelling

948
00:41:59,930 --> 00:42:01,010
at them and admiring them.

949
00:42:01,190 --> 00:42:04,070
But artificial flowers.

950
00:42:05,230 --> 00:42:06,150
Yes, all right.

951
00:42:06,430 --> 00:42:09,670
Well, the people that made those flowers, they

952
00:42:09,670 --> 00:42:11,930
gave them all that form and all that

953
00:42:11,930 --> 00:42:14,630
colour and all that organisation and even put

954
00:42:14,630 --> 00:42:15,170
scent in them.

955
00:42:15,210 --> 00:42:16,050
He could smell it.

956
00:42:17,570 --> 00:42:18,890
But there was something he hadn't got.

957
00:42:22,030 --> 00:42:23,130
He hadn't got life.

958
00:42:24,250 --> 00:42:25,710
That made all the difference.

959
00:42:27,130 --> 00:42:29,790
And today you can have churches put together

960
00:42:29,790 --> 00:42:32,310
by man, firmly framed together.

961
00:42:32,690 --> 00:42:33,750
Bonded together.

962
00:42:34,650 --> 00:42:35,370
There's something wrong.

963
00:42:36,750 --> 00:42:37,510
There's no life.

964
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,600
Tragedy is that in those places you may

965
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:47,440
have men who are truly born again, and

966
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,900
yet they're in the midst of so much

967
00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:49,800
which is artificial.

968
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,140
We've got to watch out for this.

969
00:42:55,580 --> 00:42:57,820
I remember having three ladies coming along to

970
00:42:57,820 --> 00:43:03,200
my meetings, a German lady and her daughter

971
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:04,380
and a friend of theirs.

972
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,480
And they belonged to the Lutheran church.

973
00:43:07,020 --> 00:43:09,440
And they came to my meetings and they

974
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:10,740
enjoyed the meetings so much.

975
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:12,240
They came to me every night and thanked

976
00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:13,840
me because this was wonderful.

977
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:15,860
The word Christ was magnified.

978
00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:18,260
And I said, well, you're very welcome to

979
00:43:18,260 --> 00:43:19,360
come to all the meetings.

980
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:20,020
And they came.

981
00:43:20,140 --> 00:43:21,420
And then one night they said, Mr Brown,

982
00:43:21,740 --> 00:43:24,420
can we have a talk with you?

983
00:43:24,500 --> 00:43:25,320
I said, yes.

984
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,520
Well, we're going along to a friend's house

985
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:28,660
to have a cup of tea and a

986
00:43:28,660 --> 00:43:28,940
talk.

987
00:43:29,020 --> 00:43:30,560
So you come along and then you can

988
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,580
ask any questions you want to ask.

989
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:33,640
So they came along.

990
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:35,220
And then when we'd had a cup of

991
00:43:35,220 --> 00:43:36,500
tea, I said, well, now, what did you

992
00:43:36,500 --> 00:43:37,540
want to ask me?

993
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,420
Well, Mr Brown, you see, we belong to

994
00:43:41,420 --> 00:43:42,760
the Lutheran church.

995
00:43:43,780 --> 00:43:45,100
We're truly Christian.

996
00:43:45,220 --> 00:43:46,340
We've been born again.

997
00:43:46,460 --> 00:43:48,680
The Lord Jesus Christ is very precious to

998
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:48,800
us.

999
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,080
And that ministry that we've been having all,

1000
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,440
we've been wanting that for years and years,

1001
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:54,900
but we never got it, you know, not

1002
00:43:54,900 --> 00:43:55,920
in the Lutheran church.

1003
00:43:56,140 --> 00:43:58,980
And they said, now we want you to

1004
00:43:58,980 --> 00:43:59,520
help us.

1005
00:44:00,580 --> 00:44:02,360
They said, that church is dead.

1006
00:44:03,340 --> 00:44:05,000
There's no life in it, Mr Brown.

1007
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:06,900
And the minister is dead.

1008
00:44:08,580 --> 00:44:10,300
So I said, well, I'm sorry to hear

1009
00:44:10,300 --> 00:44:10,600
this.

1010
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,440
Well, they said, now, we want you to

1011
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:14,000
help us.

1012
00:44:14,420 --> 00:44:17,120
Now, will you, Mr Brown, please arrange for

1013
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,980
us to join this church where you are

1014
00:44:19,980 --> 00:44:20,960
having these meetings?

1015
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,920
We want to resign from that Lutheran church

1016
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:26,480
and we want to join this one.

1017
00:44:26,580 --> 00:44:29,620
Mr Brown, will you please arrange that for

1018
00:44:29,620 --> 00:44:29,800
us?

1019
00:44:29,820 --> 00:44:32,440
I said, sorry, I just could not do

1020
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:32,740
it.

1021
00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:35,680
Oh, Mr Brown, surely you could.

1022
00:44:36,100 --> 00:44:38,420
No, I said, I'm sorry, I couldn't arrange

1023
00:44:38,420 --> 00:44:38,980
for that.

1024
00:44:39,140 --> 00:44:41,000
I couldn't arrange for you to join that,

1025
00:44:41,100 --> 00:44:41,340
no.

1026
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:43,320
Oh, please.

1027
00:44:43,740 --> 00:44:45,960
No, I said, sorry, couldn't do it.

1028
00:44:46,620 --> 00:44:48,180
Mr Brown, you're not going to send us

1029
00:44:48,180 --> 00:44:50,260
back to that dead church, are you, and

1030
00:44:50,260 --> 00:44:51,100
that dead minister?

1031
00:44:51,340 --> 00:44:52,800
I said, no, I'm not sending you back

1032
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:53,100
there.

1033
00:44:53,940 --> 00:44:56,120
Well, then, will you arrange for us to

1034
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:57,060
join this church?

1035
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:58,880
I said, sorry, I can't arrange for you

1036
00:44:58,880 --> 00:44:59,720
to join it.

1037
00:45:00,860 --> 00:45:02,960
There isn't anything here for you to join.

1038
00:45:05,290 --> 00:45:07,810
Mr Brown, will you please explain?

1039
00:45:09,050 --> 00:45:12,530
I said, listen, if you are truly born

1040
00:45:12,530 --> 00:45:16,350
again, you are members of the body of

1041
00:45:16,350 --> 00:45:16,890
Christ.

1042
00:45:21,410 --> 00:45:27,050
And here is that which represents the body

1043
00:45:27,050 --> 00:45:27,690
of Christ.

1044
00:45:28,290 --> 00:45:30,770
It is the body of Christ in implication,

1045
00:45:31,230 --> 00:45:32,130
these people here.

1046
00:45:34,580 --> 00:45:36,240
That's why you should have been long time

1047
00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:36,520
ago.

1048
00:45:38,180 --> 00:45:39,520
You can't join it.

1049
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:41,580
You already belong to it.

1050
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,400
Oh, I said, now isn't that wonderful?

1051
00:45:45,140 --> 00:45:46,680
Yes, it is wonderful, isn't it?

1052
00:45:47,140 --> 00:45:47,600
Yes.

1053
00:45:48,060 --> 00:45:49,500
Oh, no, I said, you can't join it.

1054
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:49,980
No.

1055
00:45:50,300 --> 00:45:51,980
If you're truly a child of God, you're

1056
00:45:51,980 --> 00:45:54,040
a member of that body of Christ, you

1057
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:54,260
see?

1058
00:45:54,860 --> 00:45:57,400
And wherever there is that local company of

1059
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,600
Christians who are following the scripture, where there

1060
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,580
is life, no artificiality about it, not an

1061
00:46:04,580 --> 00:46:08,380
organization, they're an organism, they've each one been

1062
00:46:08,380 --> 00:46:11,100
born again, each one partaking of the very

1063
00:46:11,100 --> 00:46:12,900
life of Christ, that's it.

1064
00:46:13,580 --> 00:46:14,920
You belong, as far as the Lord is

1065
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:16,540
concerned, that's your place.

1066
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:18,080
You can't join it.

1067
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,540
You're already a part of it, but you'd

1068
00:46:20,540 --> 00:46:21,280
be somewhere else.

1069
00:46:22,220 --> 00:46:23,140
Oh, I said, now.

1070
00:46:23,580 --> 00:46:27,340
So, they came along, and they were welcomed,

1071
00:46:27,540 --> 00:46:29,860
and ever since then they've been going on,

1072
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,500
they've served the Lord, they're just on fire,

1073
00:46:32,620 --> 00:46:32,920
you know?

1074
00:46:33,140 --> 00:46:35,220
They're going round talking to others and winning

1075
00:46:35,220 --> 00:46:36,020
others for Christ.

1076
00:46:36,060 --> 00:46:38,360
It's amazing what these women have done since

1077
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:38,660
then.

1078
00:46:39,060 --> 00:46:41,080
So then, can we get this clear then?

1079
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,880
There we have the sanctuary itself, bringing before

1080
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:49,120
us Christ personally, bringing before us Christ corporately.

1081
00:46:50,460 --> 00:46:54,000
Well now, having dealt with that, I think

1082
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:55,640
it would be good if we could just,

1083
00:46:55,740 --> 00:46:58,320
for a few moments, run through what we've

1084
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,300
already had, because I don't think I'll be

1085
00:47:01,300 --> 00:47:02,580
coming here again, you know?

1086
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,300
There's so much on ahead there that I

1087
00:47:06,300 --> 00:47:07,720
don't know how long we're going to be

1088
00:47:07,720 --> 00:47:09,440
over here, or whenever we're going to get

1089
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:10,120
back to Africa.

1090
00:47:10,660 --> 00:47:12,040
The way people are talking, and we've got

1091
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,380
this here for keeps, I think.

1092
00:47:14,060 --> 00:47:15,320
And I do want you to remember this.

1093
00:47:15,380 --> 00:47:16,660
Don't get this wrong now.

1094
00:47:17,060 --> 00:47:19,200
This isn't my life's work.

1095
00:47:20,700 --> 00:47:23,340
We have been doing missionary work for 48

1096
00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:24,040
years.

1097
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:29,420
Not going round the country, giving talks on

1098
00:47:29,420 --> 00:47:30,160
Tabernacle.

1099
00:47:30,900 --> 00:47:33,140
We're away in Africa, and sometimes this lies

1100
00:47:33,140 --> 00:47:35,240
in boxes for as much as 15 years,

1101
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:36,400
never even look at it.

1102
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,920
We've been serving the Lord, preaching the Gospel

1103
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:45,780
among the Africans, establishing these local representations of

1104
00:47:45,780 --> 00:47:48,040
the Church, of the Body of Christ.

1105
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:49,780
That's been our work, up in the Congo

1106
00:47:49,780 --> 00:47:51,020
and in Zambia.

1107
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,620
And they're still going on for the Lord,

1108
00:47:53,700 --> 00:47:54,980
and managing their own affairs.

1109
00:47:55,060 --> 00:47:56,620
And we can go up there, and we

1110
00:47:56,620 --> 00:47:58,760
can give them a little more ministry, and

1111
00:47:58,760 --> 00:47:59,900
we can have fellowship with them.

1112
00:47:59,940 --> 00:48:01,140
It's grand, you know, to do it.

1113
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:02,660
But every now and again, we feel we

1114
00:48:02,660 --> 00:48:03,780
have to go on furlough.

1115
00:48:03,780 --> 00:48:05,000
We go on leave.

1116
00:48:05,100 --> 00:48:06,900
And when I do, they say, if you're

1117
00:48:06,900 --> 00:48:08,360
coming over, you'd better bring the model of

1118
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:09,420
the Tabernacle with you.

1119
00:48:10,060 --> 00:48:12,440
So when I come over on furlough, on

1120
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,040
leave, I start in on this.

1121
00:48:14,300 --> 00:48:15,380
This is my furlough.

1122
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:16,920
This is my leave.

1123
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:18,420
This is how I spend it, you see,

1124
00:48:18,700 --> 00:48:20,360
moving about from place to place.

1125
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,900
So do remember, this isn't my...

1126
00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:24,580
Some people say, oh, you must be a

1127
00:48:24,580 --> 00:48:27,160
specialist, you know, on the Tabernacle teaching.

1128
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,060
No, I don't like that, because they're telling

1129
00:48:29,060 --> 00:48:31,200
me the specialist is one who gets to

1130
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,680
know more and more about less and less.

1131
00:48:38,380 --> 00:48:39,980
That doesn't make me happy at all.

1132
00:48:41,180 --> 00:48:44,020
Well, now then, briefly, I've tried to get

1133
00:48:44,020 --> 00:48:47,400
before you how that God Himself designed it,

1134
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,080
and brought it in, and brought it in

1135
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:51,680
in such a way that would be a

1136
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:53,000
help and a blessing to us.

1137
00:48:53,380 --> 00:48:55,800
And we saw that He began with His

1138
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:56,680
own very throne.

1139
00:48:56,780 --> 00:48:59,440
Right there in the holiest, there's the ark,

1140
00:48:59,620 --> 00:49:01,540
the mercy seat, the cherubim of one piece.

1141
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,240
And He came out, and we want to

1142
00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:05,380
watch Him coming out.

1143
00:49:05,720 --> 00:49:07,720
And He speaks about the table, and then

1144
00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:10,820
about that lampstand, not about the altar of

1145
00:49:10,820 --> 00:49:12,560
incense that should be there in front of

1146
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:12,980
the veil.

1147
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:14,760
Then He comes out, looks back at the

1148
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,020
building, speaks about these curtains, tent coverings that

1149
00:49:18,020 --> 00:49:20,340
we talked about this morning, and the boards

1150
00:49:20,340 --> 00:49:22,860
and the bars and the foundation, passes the

1151
00:49:22,860 --> 00:49:24,880
labour, not a word about it, comes down

1152
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:26,880
to that altar of burnt offerings and deals

1153
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:27,360
with it.

1154
00:49:27,540 --> 00:49:29,340
And then He looks around at this court,

1155
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,940
and this gate with its blue-purple scarlet,

1156
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,120
and then He decides to bring in the

1157
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:34,720
priesthood.

1158
00:49:35,220 --> 00:49:37,160
And we've seen that this is also typical,

1159
00:49:37,580 --> 00:49:39,700
Aaron the high priest, the type of Christ,

1160
00:49:39,780 --> 00:49:40,840
our great high priest.

1161
00:49:41,140 --> 00:49:44,560
Aaron's son's the priest, type of Christian, because

1162
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,240
every Christian is a priest.

1163
00:49:46,820 --> 00:49:48,400
And now in bringing in the priesthood, you

1164
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,300
remember, there were these three offerings taken, sin

1165
00:49:51,300 --> 00:49:55,280
offering, burnt offering, offering of consecration, and they

1166
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,680
are bathed and cleaned in their priestly garments.

1167
00:49:58,260 --> 00:50:00,060
And then we find the sin offering, they

1168
00:50:00,060 --> 00:50:02,820
put their hands upon it, they're identified with

1169
00:50:02,820 --> 00:50:06,160
it, and then we find that Moses attends

1170
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:10,080
to that sacrifice, that sin offering, removes from

1171
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:11,960
it the fat, the kidneys, burns them in

1172
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,320
the altar, and then the sin offering itself

1173
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,200
is carried through the gate, through the camp,

1174
00:50:16,300 --> 00:50:18,660
and burned in that clean place outside the

1175
00:50:18,660 --> 00:50:18,900
camp.

1176
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,440
That's a picture to us of God coming

1177
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,860
out from yonder glory, comes out in the

1178
00:50:23,860 --> 00:50:26,980
person of Christ, God was manifest in flesh,

1179
00:50:27,220 --> 00:50:29,300
returned to the cross, there is Christ on

1180
00:50:29,300 --> 00:50:31,800
the cross, made sin, made to be a

1181
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:35,220
sin offering, and God was in Christ, reconciling

1182
00:50:35,220 --> 00:50:36,460
the world unto Himself.

1183
00:50:36,780 --> 00:50:39,220
God comes out to where we are, in

1184
00:50:39,220 --> 00:50:41,680
the place of sin, to make provision for

1185
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:42,940
us in a sin offering.

1186
00:50:43,740 --> 00:50:45,240
And then having dealt with the sin offering,

1187
00:50:45,340 --> 00:50:47,000
He comes into the burnt offering, the offering

1188
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,900
of consecration, and then He moves back into

1189
00:50:49,900 --> 00:50:52,080
the sanctuary, to the altar of incense, and

1190
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:53,100
then out to the labor.

1191
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,560
Plainly saying, I'm coming right out to where

1192
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,260
you are, in the place of sin, to

1193
00:50:58,260 --> 00:51:00,760
make provision for you in that sin offering.

1194
00:51:01,020 --> 00:51:04,620
If you avail yourself of that sin offering

1195
00:51:04,620 --> 00:51:07,100
that I've provided for you, it opens your

1196
00:51:07,100 --> 00:51:07,620
way.

1197
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,320
You take in that burnt offering, that offering

1198
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:11,600
of consecration.

1199
00:51:11,900 --> 00:51:14,780
You're brought now into a priesthood, you're established,

1200
00:51:15,260 --> 00:51:18,040
you're able now to offer up spiritual sacrifices

1201
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:19,420
acceptable to me.

1202
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,400
You can enter now into the sanctuary, you

1203
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,580
can have that communion, you can have to

1204
00:51:24,580 --> 00:51:26,040
do with what is in there.

1205
00:51:26,220 --> 00:51:28,740
So they were brought in in this wonderful

1206
00:51:28,740 --> 00:51:29,160
way.

1207
00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:31,440
And then we saw that all that was

1208
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,360
down here was not something in itself.

1209
00:51:34,100 --> 00:51:36,620
God brought all this in as a means

1210
00:51:36,620 --> 00:51:37,620
to something else.

1211
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:39,280
It had to do with what was in

1212
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:39,880
the sanctuary.

1213
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:42,220
And we notice the difference down in the

1214
00:51:42,220 --> 00:51:45,040
court, that glittering blade doing its deadly work,

1215
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,580
day in and day out, their suffering, agony,

1216
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,500
blood shedding and death going on all the

1217
00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:49,940
time.

1218
00:51:50,780 --> 00:51:52,400
And when we stepped in the holy place,

1219
00:51:52,740 --> 00:51:54,320
we leave that all behind us.

1220
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:58,340
Inside all is quiet, all is calm, all

1221
00:51:58,340 --> 00:51:59,000
is glory.

1222
00:51:59,620 --> 00:52:04,480
Down here, suffering, agony, blood shedding, death, Christ

1223
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:05,100
on the cross.

1224
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,960
Inside there, Christ up in the glory.

1225
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,620
So the moment we find we are in

1226
00:52:11,620 --> 00:52:15,120
the priesthood, we realize that we can enter

1227
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:19,000
into that sanctuary, we can stand before that

1228
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,780
altar of incense which is Christ, we can

1229
00:52:21,780 --> 00:52:24,240
bring out our cloud of sweet perfume, we

1230
00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:24,780
can worship.

1231
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:27,660
We realize that in doing it, there was

1232
00:52:27,660 --> 00:52:30,620
a labor when the priest went into the

1233
00:52:30,620 --> 00:52:33,160
sanctuary, they must wash hands and feet thereat,

1234
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,240
so God has provided for us a labor.

1235
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:37,720
Should we sin?

1236
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,820
If we sin, then we can confess our

1237
00:52:40,820 --> 00:52:42,520
sin, he be faithful and just to forgive

1238
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:45,240
and to cleanse from all unrighteousness and restore

1239
00:52:45,240 --> 00:52:46,900
us to that fellowship with himself.

1240
00:52:47,660 --> 00:52:49,720
And now as we have access into his

1241
00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:51,860
presence and can stand before the altar of

1242
00:52:51,860 --> 00:52:54,040
incense, he wants us to take in the

1243
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,120
table and the showbread and the lampstand and

1244
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:58,540
the seven lamps upon it.

1245
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:01,060
Do you remember that that table brought before

1246
00:53:01,060 --> 00:53:01,360
us?

1247
00:53:01,940 --> 00:53:04,760
This fact again, that all we who have

1248
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:06,900
been brought in through faith in the Lord

1249
00:53:06,900 --> 00:53:09,780
Jesus Christ, we are at the table.

1250
00:53:10,260 --> 00:53:12,720
Born again, we're at his table.

1251
00:53:13,500 --> 00:53:15,480
That's our place of fellowship and communion.

1252
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,120
So the altar of incense is Christ up

1253
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:19,340
there in the presence of God.

1254
00:53:19,620 --> 00:53:21,600
So the table is Christ up there in

1255
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:23,660
the presence of God, maintaining us in that

1256
00:53:23,660 --> 00:53:25,300
place of fellowship and communion.

1257
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,160
Then the bread handed over to the priest

1258
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:31,780
after seven days and it became their food,

1259
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:33,760
their nourishment, their sustenance.

1260
00:53:33,980 --> 00:53:37,640
So we too, having been made partakers of

1261
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:42,140
that divine, spiritual, divine, eternal life, that life

1262
00:53:42,140 --> 00:53:44,320
needs support, it needs nourishment.

1263
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,740
We try to get clear before us that

1264
00:53:47,740 --> 00:53:50,780
the fact that we have eternal life doesn't

1265
00:53:50,780 --> 00:53:53,520
mean that we are living natural life now

1266
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:56,500
and that eventually we will begin to live

1267
00:53:56,500 --> 00:53:57,500
the eternal life.

1268
00:53:57,680 --> 00:53:59,520
That when this natural life comes to an

1269
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:01,780
end, we begin to live the life that

1270
00:54:01,780 --> 00:54:03,040
goes on forever and ever.

1271
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:05,140
But rather that from the moment we are

1272
00:54:05,140 --> 00:54:08,580
born again, we are made partakers of eternal

1273
00:54:08,580 --> 00:54:11,100
life, spiritual, divine, eternal life.

1274
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,040
And we don't stress the fact of its

1275
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,840
duration, we are stressing the fact that it's

1276
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,100
a different kind of life, that it's the

1277
00:54:18,100 --> 00:54:19,520
very life of Christ.

1278
00:54:19,980 --> 00:54:21,720
And to live the life of Christ, we

1279
00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:22,600
need nourishment.

1280
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,340
And the only nourishment to enable us to

1281
00:54:25,340 --> 00:54:26,860
live Christ is Christ himself.

1282
00:54:27,380 --> 00:54:29,040
So there is the bread, Christ.

1283
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:30,740
And then the lampstand, do you remember?

1284
00:54:31,240 --> 00:54:33,780
One thought I tried to get clear, and

1285
00:54:33,780 --> 00:54:36,540
that was that the lampstand itself, beaten out

1286
00:54:36,540 --> 00:54:38,340
of a talent of pure gold, was bringing

1287
00:54:38,340 --> 00:54:40,960
before us Christ, the glory of God in

1288
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:42,360
the face of Jesus Christ.

1289
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,780
You remember that the seven lamps put upon

1290
00:54:44,780 --> 00:54:47,660
the lampstand brought before us the Spirit, and

1291
00:54:47,660 --> 00:54:50,580
the lamps were throwing their light onto that

1292
00:54:50,580 --> 00:54:54,500
lampstand, lighting up its lovely workmanship, reminding us

1293
00:54:54,500 --> 00:54:56,420
that the Spirit takes to the things of

1294
00:54:56,420 --> 00:54:58,500
Christ and reveals them to us, that we

1295
00:54:58,500 --> 00:55:00,520
may be changed into the same image from

1296
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:01,540
glory to glory.

1297
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:03,840
Our sanctification.

1298
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,540
Christ has gone up to be our sanctification.

1299
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,800
He's a pattern and a power of sanctification

1300
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:11,520
in you and me.

1301
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:15,120
He, our sanctification, perfect and complete.

1302
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:16,800
We down here, not so.

1303
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:20,600
So practical sanctification must go on from day

1304
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:21,020
to day.

1305
00:55:21,300 --> 00:55:23,420
And we can only become more like him

1306
00:55:23,420 --> 00:55:26,260
as we have time for the Spirit of

1307
00:55:26,260 --> 00:55:28,020
God to take of the things of Christ

1308
00:55:28,020 --> 00:55:29,460
and reveal them to us.

1309
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:31,920
And where do we find the time?

1310
00:55:32,980 --> 00:55:34,280
That's the problem, isn't it?

1311
00:55:34,700 --> 00:55:36,220
And then we realised there was a veil

1312
00:55:36,220 --> 00:55:37,800
there, and the veil said no way in.

1313
00:55:38,020 --> 00:55:39,840
And we turned our attention to these people

1314
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:41,780
to realise that they were on probation.

1315
00:55:42,180 --> 00:55:44,840
And whilst on probation to produce a righteousness

1316
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,620
that God could accept and they could be

1317
00:55:47,620 --> 00:55:50,460
priests and enter his presence, then God said,

1318
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:51,480
I am veiled.

1319
00:55:52,140 --> 00:55:53,740
Moses put the veil there.

1320
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,020
There's no way in until they produced that

1321
00:55:57,020 --> 00:55:57,600
righteousness.

1322
00:55:58,040 --> 00:55:59,480
And they never could produce it.

1323
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,400
God made the arrangements for them, but they

1324
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:03,040
couldn't do it.

1325
00:56:03,780 --> 00:56:05,740
And so eventually God stepped in.

1326
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,860
And in Christ on that cross, he produced

1327
00:56:08,860 --> 00:56:09,580
a righteousness.

1328
00:56:11,220 --> 00:56:13,880
And that righteousness could be imputed to these

1329
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:14,200
people.

1330
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:15,960
It could be imputed to you and me.

1331
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:18,220
It can be reckoned to us.

1332
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:20,960
And when that righteousness is reckoned to us,

1333
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:22,900
we have access into the presence of God.

1334
00:56:23,220 --> 00:56:25,080
So when the Lord Jesus Christ was on

1335
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:28,060
that cross, meeting the demands of a holy

1336
00:56:28,060 --> 00:56:31,080
God, and coming out of that able to

1337
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:34,280
say, it is finished, he came out in

1338
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:35,440
a state of being right.

1339
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,240
And God is willing to reckon that same

1340
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state of being right, that same righteousness to

1341
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you and me, the moment we believe.

1342
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You see?

1343
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And the moment God produced that righteousness in

1344
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:49,540
Christ, the veil of the temple was rent

1345
00:56:49,540 --> 00:56:52,640
from the top to the bottom, declaring a

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00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:55,380
new and a living way into the very

1347
00:56:55,380 --> 00:56:56,220
presence of God.

1348
00:56:56,340 --> 00:56:58,220
Through the veil, that is to say, his

1349
00:56:58,220 --> 00:57:00,560
flesh, the sufferings and death of Christ.

1350
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The veil.

1351
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,420
Through the veil we have access by the

1352
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blood of Jesus.

1353
00:57:06,860 --> 00:57:09,440
So all this we have tried to take

1354
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:09,780
in.

1355
00:57:10,060 --> 00:57:13,140
God coming out to where we are, making

1356
00:57:13,140 --> 00:57:14,360
provision for us.

1357
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We availing ourselves of what he's provided, and

1358
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then moving on step by step, taking in

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all that we find, all typical.

1360
00:57:23,740 --> 00:57:25,840
Look into the New Testament and find so

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00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:29,140
much there which we are able to see

1362
00:57:29,140 --> 00:57:30,260
in these types.

1363
00:57:31,060 --> 00:57:33,560
So we go on and in, and we

1364
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:36,420
have to do with Christ up there at

1365
00:57:36,420 --> 00:57:37,860
the right hand of God.

1366
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The great thing being, all this was a

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00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:42,340
means to that.

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00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:45,120
And all that we find in Christ and

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00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:47,420
him crucified was not something in itself.

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00:57:47,740 --> 00:57:49,860
It was a means to that.

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00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,900
It was a means to our going on

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00:57:52,900 --> 00:57:55,560
to know Christ in a deeper and a

1373
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:56,360
mightier way.

1374
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So many people feel all you have to

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00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:01,080
do is to get men and women to

1376
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:01,660
the cross.

1377
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,200
Get them there to the cross, to believe

1378
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:06,420
on the Lord Jesus Christ, to know their

1379
00:58:06,420 --> 00:58:08,300
sins are forgiven, and that's it.

1380
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,140
And they make the cross to be something

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in itself.

1382
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:14,340
God doesn't do that.

1383
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,320
As far as people are concerned, they think

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that the moment you come to the cross

1385
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,520
and you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,

1386
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you're a Christian.

1387
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:23,980
Are you?

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00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:28,400
That cross is making possible you being a

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00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:28,800
Christian.

1390
00:58:29,300 --> 00:58:33,080
Because being a Christian implies spiritual growth.

1391
00:58:33,420 --> 00:58:35,240
It implies a going on.

1392
00:58:35,980 --> 00:58:37,820
That cross is making that possible.

1393
00:58:38,300 --> 00:58:40,140
And that going on means that we're going

1394
00:58:40,140 --> 00:58:41,780
on to know Christ in a deeper and

1395
00:58:41,780 --> 00:58:42,520
a mightier way.

1396
00:58:42,740 --> 00:58:45,400
We're going on, and God is going to

1397
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:51,300
secure in us that progressive and ever-developing

1398
00:58:51,300 --> 00:58:52,580
expression of himself.

1399
00:58:52,740 --> 00:58:53,420
He can do it.

1400
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:58,080
He's got the corporate man, the Christ.

1401
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:02,460
And through Christ, the Spirit revealing to us

1402
00:59:02,460 --> 00:59:06,800
the things of Christ, God is securing that

1403
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:10,340
progressive and ever-developing expression of himself.

1404
00:59:10,780 --> 00:59:12,820
He met that stage of emergency in the

1405
00:59:12,820 --> 00:59:15,520
cross, and now he has what he wants.

1406
00:59:16,380 --> 00:59:18,320
Well, we can bless and praise God for

1407
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:18,500
it.

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I hope that every one of us here

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tonight