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#10233 - Glimpses of the Gospel - Exodus 25:23-26:13 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's Word with pastor and author Ed
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Taylor, recorded live at Calvary Church in Aurora, Co.
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Here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen. Open your Bibles.
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Exodus chapter 25 is where we are.
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Exodus chapter 25 we're going to pick up where we left off last
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time. Looking at the Tabernacle and
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the furniture of the Tabernacle being built.
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I've entitled our Bible study, Glimpses of the Gospel.
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The Tabernacle was to be the central point of worship for the
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children of Israel through the wilderness.
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It was a portable tent that would be dismantled, packed up,
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taken along. When they stopped, they'd
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rebuild it and it would be the center of camp.
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When the Lord told them to stop, they would bring it out,
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assemble it, and then gather around it until God told them to
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move forward. And what God is doing in this
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nation is bringing them into a new relationship with Himself.
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He's established His covenant with them.
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They've ratified it. Now walking through it, they're
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going to learn how no longer to live as slaves, but they have a
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brand new way of life where they're going to learn to follow
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God. They're going to have a pillar
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of fire by night and a cloud by day.
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They're going to learn how to follow God.
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And remember, they're going to meet God where?
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On the lid of the Ark of the Covenant.
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We learned that last time. They're going to meet him on the
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mercy seat. He says that's where I'll meet
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with you, where the blood is spread, where sin is forgiven,
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not in the ark we studied this last time.
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He's not going to meet them in the ark, where the law of the
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commandments will be, but on it. And a careful study, even just
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through the book of Genesis, you will learn how God walks with
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his people. I'll jot them down quickly for
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you and I'll share what they say, but in Genesis chapter 3
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verse 8, it says that the sound of the Lord God was walking in
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the garden in the cool of the day.
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Genesis 522 Enoch walked with God.
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Genesis 69, Noah walked with God.
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Genesis 17 one God says I am almighty God, walk before me and
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be blameless to Abram. Genesis 4815, Abraham and Isaac
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walked, the God who has fed me all my life, God before whom my
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father's Abraham and Isaac walked.
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But now God is adding to that, that He will dwell with them.
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Remember back in verse 8 of chapter 25 from walking.
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Now they'll be dwelling in verse 8.
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Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell with them.
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And we learned that this is looking forward to Messiah.
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John chapter one, verse 14. The word became flesh and dwelt
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or tabernacled among us in our study last time we learned and
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we're reminded just how good God is that the best way in living
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our life is to be responsive to the grace of God, to know what
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he has done, to remember he's the initiator.
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We are the responders. How He has been so generous and
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so gracious to us, meeting us not in the ark, but on the ark.
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If you weren't here, you should catch up at least with that one.
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It'll bless you and encourage you and remind you.
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Now pick up with me in verse 23 as we get to the next piece of
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furniture, the table of showbread.
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You should also make a table of Acacia wood. 2 cubits shall be
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it's length, a cubit, it's width, A cubit, and a half it's
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height. You shall overlay it with pure
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gold and make a molding of gold all around.
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You shall make it for a frame, a hand breath all around, and you
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shall make a gold molding for the frame all around.
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You shall make for it four rings of gold and put the rings in the
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four corners that are at its four legs.
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The ring shall be close to the frame as holders for the poles
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to bear the table. Verse 28.
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You shall make the poles of Acacia wood, overlay them with
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gold, that the table may be carried with them.
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You shall make its dishes, its pans, its pitchers, its bowls
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for pouring. You shall make them of pure
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gold. And you shall set the showbread
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on the table before me always 36 inches by 18 inches wide, 22
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inches high. This table overlay with pure
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gold with a molding around it four rings of gold with with
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poles that are overlaid with gold dishes made of pure gold.
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And on the table would be 12 loaves of bread, changed every
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Sabbath, eaten by the priest family.
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And the bread itself reminds us of Messiah.
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Another glimpse of the Gospel because the bread reminds us of
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that teaching of Jesus where he declares himself in John 6 to be
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what? The bread of life, the
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importance of sustenance. Listen, it says in verse 32.
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Then Jesus said to them, This is John 6.
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Most assuredly I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread
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from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
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For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives
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life to the world. And of course he's referring to
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the manna here. It was such a miraculous gift of
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food and sustenance. He's like, look that that don't
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think of Moses giving you the bread from heaven.
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He says, for the bread of God is he.
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The bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life
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to the world. And they said, Well, Lord, give
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us this bread. And Jesus said, I am the bread
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of life. He who comes to me shall never
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hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.
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But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe
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as a cross, cross reference here in Leviticus chapter 24,
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beginning in around in verse 5, we're told that the bread had to
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be made a certain way that go back to or go forward to
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Leviticus. Notice with me in chapter 24,
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the bread had to be made a certain way.
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So Genesis, Exodus, the very next book is Leviticus.
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You know, the one you skip during your reading program.
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Let's come back to it. Leviticus chapter 24 A lot of
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Nuggets. Lot of great things to learn in
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Leviticus. Notice with me in verse 5 there
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is a very prescribed way that the priest were to be making
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this bread for the table of showbread.
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It says and you shall take fine flour and bake 12 cakes with it.
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2/10 of an efaw shall be in each cake.
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You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, in the pure table.
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On the pure table before the Lord.
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You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on
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the bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to the
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Lord. Every Sabbath.
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Set it in order before the Lord, continually being taken from the
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children of Israel by an everlasting covenant, and it
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shall be for Aaron and his sons, that they shall eat it in a holy
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place, for it is most holy to him from the offerings of the
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Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute.
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Fine flour. This flour was to be ground.
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Fine. And again, Speaking of the
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teachings of Jesus in John 12, verse 24.
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Most assuredly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls
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into the ground and dies, it remains alone.
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But if it dies, it produces much grain, and Jesus dying only to
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bring much fruit from his life, even as the grain to bring much
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sustenance to the priests and be an offering to the Lord, this
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dying, this grain that needs to die.
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I was reminded that this is an issue for everyone listening to
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me right now. This is an issue.
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This may be the issue in your life.
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You go, what is it, Ed? I've been waiting somebody to
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tell me what is the big issue? What's my big problem?
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Let me share with you what what most likely your big problem is.
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You ready? I don't see anybody ready to
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write this down. I don't see anybody riding on
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their wrist. But I'm going to give it to you
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because this is a big one. This is something we battle and
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grapple with, causing most of the problems in our lives.
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You ready? You guys ready?
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I can hear people online louder than you.
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Are you ready? Yes.
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Yes. Here it is.
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Dying to self. Dying to self.
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We are people that like to call to ourselves, take care of
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ourselves. We like to cling to our agendas,
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have things done our way. We want to control the
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narrative, be in control, call the shots, pull the strings, and
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in so doing, we live very little productive life.
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We produce very little in the spirit.
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Even today as I woke up and I was meditating on this thought,
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I was just thinking, you know, unfaithfulness is not something
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that the Spirit of God produces in our lives.
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And you can go on with that list.
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There's some things in your life that you could say, Oh no, no,
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unfaithfulness. This is something in my life.
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And you could say the Spirit of God did not produce that in my
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life. That is not reflective of a
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surrendered life, not reflective of a life that has given up
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their rights, not reflective of the very foundation.
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This isn't even Christianity like 2O one or three O 1.
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This isn't like a college level course Christianity.
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This this isn't. You got to be mature for 40
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years to understand this. This is step one in following
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Jesus. If anyone desires to come after
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me, Jesus said he must what? Deny himself, Take up his cross,
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then he can follow me. And it becomes one of the
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biggest battles in our lives. So much so that we don't even
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pay attention to it anymore. Now it is, well, this is my
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rights and this is what I deserve and this is what I want
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and this is what I've earned. And we're not in any way denying
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ourselves or we create our lives in such a way where we get to
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pick and choose, at least we think, where we deny ourselves
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and then call that and then we offer up to God.
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Look what I've given you, look what I've sacrificed, look what
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I've given up for you. Really, really, it was Roy
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Hessian that wrote in the book, that little book, that pick of
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the month that we mentioned from time to time, Calvary Rd.
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Listen to what he said and I quote, people imagine that dying
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to self makes one miserable, but it's just the opposite.
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It's the refusal to die to self that makes one miserable.
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The more we know of death with him, the more we shall know of
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his life in us. So the more real peace and joy,
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his life too will overflow through us to lost souls in real
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concern for their salvation, and to our fellow Christians in a
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deep desire for their blessing. For the bread to be on the
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table, the grain needed to die to produce more grain.
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The grain then that was harvested would be crushed in
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the fine flower. And I see in that such a
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beautiful picture of dying to self in Galatians chapter 5 and
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verse 24. Those who are of Christ have
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crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
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If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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Galatians chapter 6, verse 14. These will be our studies in the
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future in Galatians. But in 614.
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But God forbid that I should boast, except in the cross of
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our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to
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me and I to the world. There is to be in the Tabernacle
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a table of showbread with 12 loaves, the frankincense there,
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an offering to the Lord, pointing them and us to Jesus
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Christ, the bread of life, reminding us the value of dying
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to ourselves. I'm most effective and I'm most
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fruitful. I'm most reproductive in my
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life. If like that grain, I'm put into
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the ground, and I die, and then an abundance comes out of my
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life, notice with me. Verse 31.
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You shall make a lampstand of pure gold.
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The lampstand shall be of hammered work.
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Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs and
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flower shall be of one piece, and six branches shall come out
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of its sides. 3 branches of the lampstand out of one side, 3
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branches of the lampstand out of the other side.
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Three bowls shall be made like almond blossoms on one branch,
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with an ornamental knob and a flower, Three bowls made like
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the almond blossoms on the other branch with an ornamental knob
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and a flower. And so for the six branches that
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come out of the lampstand. On the lampstand itself, 4 bowls
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shall be made of like almond blossoms, each with its
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ornamental knob and flower. And there shall be a knob under
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the first two branches of the same, a knob under the second,
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two branches of the same, a knob under the third, two branches of
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the same. According to the six branches
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that extend from the lampstand, their knobs and their branches
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shall be of one piece. All of it shall be of 1 hammered
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piece of pure gold. And you shall make 7 lamps for
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it. And they shall arrange its lamps
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so that they give light in front of it, and it's Wick trimmers,
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and their trays shall be of pure gold.
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It shall be made of one talent of pure gold with all these
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utensils. And see to it that you make them
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according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.
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Made of pure gold, but hammered 6 branches through and each
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side, each branch would have a bowl on the lampstand. 4 bowls,
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knobs under each of the branches, all of one piece, 7
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lamps for it, all of one piece. And follow the precise pattern
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which we'll pause from now and then.
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But it's a good moment to just stop and say, now wait a minute,
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why all the knobs and why the bowls and why the why?
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And the answer is very simple. The answer is extremely simple.
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It's not as theological as you might think.
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Nothing hidden in the answer. Here's the answer.
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Why make it this way? Because God said so.
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This is what He said. This is His lampstand, not
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yours, not mine. This is His Tabernacle.
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Not only that, but it would point toward Messiah.
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Don't mess with it, we would be told later on.
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Do not add or take away from His Word.
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Why? Because it's His Word.
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What do you and I have to add to the perfection in the will of
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God? Nothing.
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Don't. Sometimes in life this may be a
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word from the Lord for someone, but sometimes in life you just
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need to do what you're told because that's what you were
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told. This is going to obey the Lord
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because that's what he said. Or perhaps somebody in authority
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overused because what he said, that's what she said.
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Precise, direct. We're not told of the exact
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dimensions here, but the weight of that gold was about £75.
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It was no doubt very beautiful and bright as it kept burning
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constantly by the oil that would be contained in the bowls.
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This would be the only source of light in the Tabernacle, even as
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Jesus is the only source of light to the world today.
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Philosophy of men do not provide light to the world.
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No guru, no religious system offers any light at all.
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No new TikTok video or some guy that pops up on YouTube provides
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light to the world, only Jesus. Turn with me to John chapter 8.
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I want you to see John chapter 8 and we'll listen to our Savior's
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teaching from His own lips in John chapter 8.
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When you get there, jump to verse 10 with me as Jesus as
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speaking and He gives insight as he speaks of this sense of the
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condemnation of a surrounding this woman caught in sin.
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Notice when Jesus has raised himself, raised himself up,
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verse 10 saw no one but the woman, He said to her, woman,
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where are those accusers of yours?
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Has no one condemned you? And she said no one Lord, and
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Jesus said to her, neither do I come in you go and condemn you
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go and send no more. And then Jesus spoke to them
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again, saying, I am the light of the world.
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He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light
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of life. Jesus providing this woman who
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was set up by the religious rulers to trip to trap Jesus.
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And his response? Hey, look, where are your
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accusers? They're gone.
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You know, I'm not condemning you either.
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This is your turning point. This is the hinge of your life.
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From this moment forward, you you, you live a different life.
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You have your encounter with me. It's really all Jesus saying you
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this encounter right here is just set you free.
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You're a new woman and those that are around.
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Whoa, how, what? How could you say that knowing
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the law, knowing the penalty of someone caught in adultery?
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What? And Jesus answer is epic.
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Hey guys, I'm the light of the world.
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You follow me. All the darkness, all the
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tripping, all the falling, all the different.
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You follow me and I'm going to give you the truth that you need
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to live in a Dark World. And the truth that we learned
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right here with this woman, which could be a Bible study in
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and of itself, is there is no condemnation for those that are
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in Christ, for those that love Him, called according to His
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purpose. This beautiful lamp with the
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branches coming out on either side reminds us of Jesus and the
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light that He provides. But not only that, turn over to
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John 15. Now notice in John 15, the
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children of Israel don't have the full picture yet.
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They're only getting glimpses. It's a lot like your Christian
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life, isn't it? When you're saved, you don't
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know everything right away, and you just get little by little by
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little. And then you look back in one
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truth and go, ah, now I get it, now I understand it.
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The children of Israel getting insights and pictures pointing
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forward. Notice in John 15 in verse 5 it
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says, I am the vine and you are the branches.
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He who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit, for without me
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you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me,
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he is cast out as a branch and is withered.
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And they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they're
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burned. But if you abide in me, verse 7,
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and my words abide in you, you'll ask what you desire, and
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it'll be done for you. This by this my Father is
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glorified that you bear much fruit.
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So you'll be my disciples branches in the vine.
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And I find it interesting that the Candlestick was made of one
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piece. That's that permanence.
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When you are in Christ, there's a permanence.
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Peter would say we are kept by the power of God.
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He keeps us by his power. The lamp would also stand as a
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reminder to the Jewish people that they were to be a light to
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the Gentiles, that they were to be a light to the Gentiles as a
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truth dating back to the garden and God's heart to reach
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everyone. But in Isaiah 42 verse one it
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says, behold my servant whom I have a hold.
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My elect, one in whom my soul delights, I will put my spirit
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upon him, and he'll bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
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That teaching is still to come. How is this possible?
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The lampstand was not in the outer court of the Tabernacle,
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but hidden inside. How is the light to shine to
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everyone? How can a light that's hidden
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shine to the world? But the lamp in the holy place
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represented a personal devotion and relationship with God.
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It would be in their personal service and sacrifice and
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worship that they would become a light to the world, their
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distinction, their difference. Jesus reminding us, I'm leaving
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you in the world, but you're not of the world.
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You are not like the world. You have been saved from the
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world. And that's truly the measure of
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our witness to our personal worship and devotion is very
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seen. It's very obvious.
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It's not that you have to quote me verses or tell me what you
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read this morning. We'll be able to see it.
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We'll be able to watch it. Out of the abundance of the
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heart, the mouth speaks. We'll begin to see through your
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behavior, what you believe in, the intimacy that you have with
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the Father, how you treat one another.
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You bosses, your employees know about your worship and devotion
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life. They know.
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And you employees, your bosses know.
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Your bosses know you may not be able to admit it, you may not be
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willing to admit where you are right now or what.
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But your bosses know. Your coworkers know.
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There is a view how we handle the issues of life.
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Parents, your kids know your devotion, life, your spouse,
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your roommate, the person that lives above you in the
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apartment, they hear you or not. We, at least Marie and I lived
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in an apartment for 10 years in the beginning of our marriage,
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and the walls were so paper thin on one side or the other.
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And certainly our neighbors scratch their heads sometimes at
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those Christians living out their life and wrestling with
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the realities of life with kids and family and such.
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It's interesting to me that as we look at the first three
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pieces of furniture in the Tabernacle, how they give us a
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glimpse of the Trinity. Again, a teaching revealed
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throughout the Scriptures, the mercy seat, the place and the
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presence of God the Father. It's where he'd meet.
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It's where he'd meet. The table of showbread speaking
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to us of Jesus, the Bread of Life, and the menorah filled
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with oil that's burning continually Speaking of the Holy
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Spirit. God has revealed Himself, Church
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as we see and pay attention to Him, open to a work of the
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Spirit. Notice verse 1 of chapter 26.
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Now the curtains. Moreover, you shall make the
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Tabernacle with 10 curtains of woven fine linen thread, blue
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and purple and scarlet yarn, artistic designs of cherubim.
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You shall weave them. The length of each curtain shall
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be 28 cubits, the width of each curtain 4 cubits, and every one
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of the curtains shall have the same measurements.
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Five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
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The other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
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And you shall make loops of blue yarn on the edge of the curtain
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on the selvage of one set, and likewise you shall do on this
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outer edge of the other curtain of the second set.
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Verse 550 Loops you shall make in one curtain, and 50 loops you
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shall make on the edge of the curtain that is on the end of
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the second set, that the loops may be collapsed to one another.
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You shall make 50 clasps of gold and couple the curtains together
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with the clap so that it may be one Tabernacle.
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You should also make curtains of goat's hair to be a tent over
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the Tabernacle. And you shall make 11 curtains.
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The length of each curtain shall be 30 cubits.
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The witch of each curtain, 4 cubits, and 11 curtains shall
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all have the same measurement. So let's begin with the inward
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curtains. The inside the linen. 10
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curtains, fine woven linen, blue, purple and scarlet thread.
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Angels woven into them. 40 feet long, 15 feet long 40 by 15.
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Five coupled together with the other five coupled together
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loops of blue on the edge. 50 loops so they clasp together. 50
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clapses of gold so it can be put together.
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So the inside the linen curtains were two huge curtains made of
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five each held together with 50 clasps of gold.
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Four colors were used, white, blue, purple, and scarlet.
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Blue speaks of the color of heaven.
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Purple speaks of royalty, scarlet speaks to us in the
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scriptures of sacrifice, and the white linen speaks of humanity.
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Remember, this is what the priest would see as he would
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come in to perform the sacrifices.
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Now as you begin to think about the gospels and how they portray
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the life of Christ, each gospel has a emphasis giving us an
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aspect of Jesus. Matthew speaks to us of Jesus as
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the King of Kings, and what color would that be?
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Purple, The King of kings. Mark speaks to us of Jesus as
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the suffering servant. Suffering servant, What color
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would that be? Scarlet?
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Speaking of suffering and sacrifice, Luke would portray to
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us Jesus in his perfect humanity, representing white.
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John describes Jesus in his powerful deity, high and lifted
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up, which could be represented by the blue.
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We see glimpses of the Gospel story woven together within the
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precise linen that the priest would see every day.
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They would be reminded of the absolute covering of God,
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including the angels woven into the curtains, 20 of them
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reminding the priests of God's care and attention.
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Of course, angels would be very active in the life of Jesus.
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They would be ministering spirits both to Him, and we
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learned this in Hebrews to us to imagine that God would use this
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supernatural created being to be used.
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They were there when Jesus was tempted in Matthew 4.
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They comforted him in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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They were available to Jesus. Remember when Jesus tells him to
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put down your sword. This isn't that time.
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Don't you know I could call legions of angels.
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They're at my beckon call. Jesus says, but that's not what
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I came for. They come into there in the the
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whole inside of the Tabernacle or speaking by prophecy, giving
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and glimpses of the Gospel glimpses of Jesus Christ.
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And then there's a second layer, these goats hair.
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We read about them beginning in verse 7.
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These curtains of goats hair, it's going to be a tent over the
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Tabernacle. There's going to be 11 curtains,
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not ten, but 11. The length.
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Verse 8 of each curtain shall be 30 cubits and 11 curtains shall
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be have all the same measurements and you shall
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couple 5 by themselves and six by themselves.
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Double over the 6th curtain at the forefront of the tent.
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You shall make 50 loops on the edge of the curtain that is the
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outermost in one set, and 50 loops on the edge of the curtain
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of the second set, and you shall make 50 bronze clasps.
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Put the clasp into the loops. Couple the tent together, that
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it may be 1 the remnant that remains.
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Verse 12 of the curtains of the tent.
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The half curtain that remains shall hang over the back of the
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Tabernacle, and a cubit on one side and a cubit on the other
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side of what remains of the length of the curtains of the
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tent shall hang over the one the sides of the Tabernacle on this
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side and on that side to cover it.
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And you shall make a covering of ramskins dyed red for the tent,
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and a covering of badger skins above that.
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So not ten, but 11. This time they're going to be a
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little bit longer. 30 cubits long coupled 5 and 6.
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The 6th is going to double over as a front for the covering.
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Make 50 loops on the edge. The class though will be made of
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bronze or brass and whatever remains hangs over to cover.
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So there's five on one side, 6 on the other made of goats hair
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which in the Middle East is black 6.
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Those that study such things the Bible tells us or they they have
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studied such things in the Bible. 6 is the number of man or
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the flesh throughout the Scriptures. 5 The number in the
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Bible representing grace. So here in this layer you have
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flesh and grace together. 11 in the Bible is often
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representative of disorder. So you have 11 curtains made-up
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the flesh and grace. And so stay with me.
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These put together with what bronze or brass clasps.
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Brass speaks to us in the Scriptures of judgement,
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judgement linking them together. And then the extra curtain would
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be used as sort of a flap so that all that was seen was the
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black curtain. And so these two speak
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powerfully of Jesus because on the inside are the angels
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beautifully demonstrating the tapestry of heaven, but over it
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is black inside. Wonderful.
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But he who knew no sin became sin for us as he hung on the
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cross, so sinful and ugly and black that God the Father turned
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away from the Son, as we recently learned, because the
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Father could not look upon what Son had become, He may be became
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sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
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And so the Tabernacle would speak of the beauty of Jesus,
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the darkness of sin, the reality of judgment that grasped
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together flesh and grace, which represents so much of our lives.
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And this would be something they'd walk by all the time.
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The priest would go in regularly.
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Which reminds me how often we take such weighty spiritual
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things and we treat them as common.
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Now, I know in one respect the Tabernacle was common, and yet
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it spoke of greater things. But in practice, the children of
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Israel would walk around the Tabernacle.
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Rock on the Tabernacle and you know as well as I do, they
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wouldn't always be so enamored by the mercy seat.
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They wouldn't be so enamored by the lampstand or what was
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demonstrated coming in out of the Tabernacle.
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They'd be going doing life. Up there's the Tabernacle, up
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there's the smoke up there's the and just living life, raising
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kids, going through and missing the significance something
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important relegated is common. I can say with absolute
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certainty, I see that in my own life of all that God has done
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for me and all that God continues to do for me and all
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that God will do for me, that even if He never did anything
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for me, I treat His blood. The blood of my Savior is common
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and I'm saved and I'm going to church.
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I own a Bible. I know a few scriptures.
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And that's where the tethering comes together of your worship
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and devotion, that personal life, not the public life, not
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even the church life, not even what you were presenting here
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today, but your personal, private life where you're
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enamored with the love of God, where you're blown away.
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Like the first time you heard it.
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Maybe it was your dad that shared the gospel with you when
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you were five, or the church you went to with your grandmother at
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six, or the church you walked into, like me into my 20s.
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And I walk into a Calvary Chapel and I hear a guy tell me that
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God loves me when it took me a long time to really believe
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that. I mean, I believed in the theory
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that God loves that that was not something I necessarily
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disagreed with, but loved me. That was a hard one because even
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in my own life, I demonstrated that I didn't even love myself.
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Now I know what the Bible says. I certainly live for myself.
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And my problem, really, according to Ephesians, is that
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I love myself too much. But you know, the reality is, is
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that in loving yourself too much, you begin to degrade
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yourself and control and you begin to make decisions that are
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not very helpful. You're very selfish,
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self-centered. And it's like a like a
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boomerang. You know, you're, you're making
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these decisions because you love yourself.
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And then you're beating yourself up because you're just living in
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shame and guilt. Even believers can live that
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way. But the truth is, is that when
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you treat even the common things like the Tabernacle is something
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great or or you treat the great things as something even
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greater, you are living what a pastor.
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What you often hear me say is, hey, get your eyes back on the
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Lord. Remember what He has done for
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you. Live according to His grace.
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I know your flesh is there and I know the grace is there, but
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it's connected by judgement. Jesus took the judgement upon
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Himself to free you from the flesh so you and I could walk in
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the spirit, in the newness of life, crucifying the flesh and
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living in the freedom and the authority that God has given to
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us. So church, be careful, be
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careful and to not be careful not to miss the obvious, but
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also not to treat what is common or what is grand is common and
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just like well and take it for granted thinking, even though I
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don't fully understand, I know God has something for me.
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I know he's going to lead me. I don't quite know the direction
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right now, but God is going to lead me.
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Why? Because he's LED me before.
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He I know God is going to speak to me because he spoke to me
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before. And I know God's going to
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deliver me because he's delivered me before.
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And I know God is going to forgive me because he already
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has. And I live under the blood of
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Jesus Christ, the sufficiency of the finished work of Jesus upon
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the cross. His life, his death, his
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resurrection has given me life even as it's given you life.
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And the Tabernacle would speak of the beauty of Jesus and the
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darkness of sin that sent him to the cross.
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It would be heaven, but covered by darkness, connected by
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judgement that was provided a way out in freedom of worship
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for you and for me. Again, the children of Israel
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wouldn't understand the full pictures of this.
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We have the advantage of looking back now, the fullness the
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gospel wants for all delivered to the Saints.
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However, even though the Israelites wouldn't understand
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all of this pointing to Messiah, even though they wouldn't see
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all the pieces put together what they did see and know they had
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to follow you and I. We need to live according to the
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light that we've been given. We're to live according to the
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knowledge. We are lived according to the
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Word. We are lived according to the
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understanding that God has given to us.
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And we're to live by faith, trusting God as much in the dark
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as we do in the light. Easier to trust God when you can
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see where you're going, isn't it?
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So much easier to see, But it's in those seasons where we don't
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see that God says, no, no, what I've revealed to you in the
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light, I want you to trust me in the dark.
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I'm going to bring you through it.
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As my pastor always say. God has brought you to it to
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bring you through it. That's the work of the Spirit.
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And so we have the advantage now of thinking, oh man, when I look
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back in the Tavern, I've never seen the Tabernacle with my own
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eyes, but I can see it now. The Lord has revealed it in his
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word. And each of the pieces was
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giving glimpses of the gospel right in the middle of the
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nation. The gospel, the salvation of
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God. They've already experienced the
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salvation of God, hadn't they? They were in Egypt not too long
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ago, just a few days, months ago.
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They were in Egypt. Delivered through what?
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The miraculous departing of the Red Sea.
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Neither the Egyptian army got them.
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Or did they have to run to the left or the right because God
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made a way where there was no way.
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They already know salvation. They already know deliverance.
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They already know God's faithfulness.
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They already have. The covenant's been given.
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The covenant's been ratified now as the Tabernacle, the place
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where God's going to meet them. Now What's next is learning how
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to live by faith. This theme has come up over and
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over recently where someone will share it happened.
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This services this last weekend, somebody last Wednesday, it's
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happened a lot where someone will come and share with me,
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Pastor, pastor, this is going on.
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This is going on. I'm very troubled.
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I'm very troubled. You know the very next phrase
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and I just don't understand. Welcome to the trap.
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Welcome to the trap. The trap has been set in your
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life because now your faith relationship with God has been
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changed, and you're stuck in a situation until you get some
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kind of understanding. That's really what you're
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saying. I don't understand.
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I don't understand. I don't understand.
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Yeah. But before that situation, how
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we were living your life by faith, But now there's a
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situation, it's overwhelming. It's hurtful.
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It's very hard to understand. I agree with that.
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Like, that's the condition of your life.
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But I'm here again to remind you you don't need to understand.
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You just need to believe. You may or may not understand.
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God might be gracious and explain it all to you.
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He may not very often, but you know he might.
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But he's saying no, no, I'm just so glad that you came to me and
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you asked me. He says, just come to me.
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I know you don't understand, son.
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I know you don't understand, daughter, but the life that I
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give to you and the life I want you to live is a life of faith,
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not just understanding. Be careful of that trap.
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Listen to your own language when you're speaking your own
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feelings. You know how you think.
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Feelings are overwhelming and they can be, but your mind is
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stronger than your feelings. You can change your mind 1000
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times a day. It's very hard to change your
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feelings. And so in your mind you want to,
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I want you to shift your thinking.
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And when you hear that word, I just don't understand.
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You can just stop and say Lord, just stop right there and say
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Lord, I don't understand why this all going on.
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I didn't want, it's not what I wanted, not what I planned.
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I don't understand, but I choose to walk by faith.
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I trust you. I'm just going to bring my
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message. I don't understand with me, but
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I'm trust you. You've been faithful in the
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past. You're faithful today.
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You'll be faithful in the future.
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Lord, we just thank you for your word.
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I get that sense that that understanding.
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I just, I know that's a big deal, is so painful not to
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understand these painful traumatic situations.
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But God, we don't want to give energy and attention to all the
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trauma, as hard as it is. We want to give energy and you
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know, our attention to your gracious faith to us.
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I don't understand how a God we better make sure God, we have
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the right God we're talking about, the one filled with mercy
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and grace who sent his own son to die for us.
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That's the God that we're trying to understand and we never will.
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You're so far beyond us. If we could understand all the
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ways of God, then we would be God and we're not.
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And so I pray comfort to those that need it today.
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I pray for wisdom. I pray God for faith.
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I know your word says you give us all measure of faith.
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So I pray that you'd fan the flames of faith.
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I pray that even as I think right now that the testimony of
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Pastor Andy and Lauren would encourage many that they do is
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see your handiwork in a in a couple that's always behind the
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scenes, but no less significant. Serving unseen, ministering to
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all these precious kids, just telling them about you or
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teaching them to be missionaries in their own life.
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Teaching them how much you love them, how much you care for them
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in a confusing world, in a world that just doesn't make sense at
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such a young age. They come into a place like this
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and, and things become clear and hope is born and callings are
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are are, you know, revealed. And that's an incubator growing,
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growing, growing until hatched into the calling and the life
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you have for these precious kids.
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Lord, we pray for your spirit to lead us and guide us tonight.
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Have your way with us in Jesus name, Amen.
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