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The Tabernacle: A Picture of Christ 0:00 Okay. Welcome in, everyone, to the deep dive bible study. We're gonna do a countdown for about 30 seconds so that people can log on. And as you log on, let me know where you are coming from. Love0:12 to see who's watching. Let's0:24 go.0:47 Good evening, everybody. Welcome into the deep dive bible study. We are in part 17 of our traveling through Torah, and we are continuing our mini series on the tabernacle today.0:59 Today, we make our way out of the holy of holies. Last week, we had talked about the ark of the covenant. The whole episode was devoted to that 1 piece of furniture in the holy of holies. And today, we've got 3 pieces1:11 of furniture outside the holy of holies or what the Jews called the holy place. This would be the place where the priest would minister and serve the people on their behalf. And all of it points,1:23 of course, to Jesus Christ. So I can't wait to get into this content. You're in for a treat tonight. Some powerful, powerful truths are about to be revealed through God's word in Exodus 251:36 about the table, the golden lamp stand, and the incense altar. Let's do it.1:43 The deeper dive season 7 presents, Toa, the law of life.1:54 Okay. Good evening once again. Click the buttons, all those buttons there on the device in front of you. Like, subscribe, notification bell, get notified every time we go live, and welcome to our2:06 pray dot com audience. Our prayer for you is that this content blesses your life. Going through Torah, 5 books of the Bible, it's a gargantuan task. We can't cover2:18 everything, but we are looking at right now the worship center of ancient Israel, the tabernacle, this structure where God would dwell amongst his people in the middle of the 12 tribes,2:30 3 to the north, 3 to the south, 3 to the east, 3 to the west, temple or tabernacle. This very humble, very diminutive tent that would2:41 travel with Israel through their wanderings and then would dwell with them in the promised land. We've said this from the beginning of this mini series is pointing to Christ. And today, we get to2:53 part 3, the Tabernacle of Israel, a picture of Christ. Real quick reminders from last time we were together. 3 sections to the tabernacle. You have3:05 the, outer court where all the worshipers could come. You have the inner court where the priest would minister and then you have the holy of holies where 1 day, 1 time a year, the high priest would offer the atoning3:17 sacrifice for sins. Again, talked about that last week. So let's move out of that tabernacle, sorry, the inner Holy of Holies. Let's move outside of this curtain here on the screen that I just circled and3:29 we're gonna go into the holy place. Now if you look closely, you can see there are 3 pieces of furniture. 3 pieces of furniture. I don't know if you can make it out there, but there is to3:40 the south side of the tabernacle inner court, the golden lampstand. To the north side opposite of that lampstand was the golden table for the showbread. And3:52 then to the west was the altar of incense standing right in front of the veil that separated the inner court from the holy of holies. So we're gonna talk about all this furniture4:04 today remembering that we discussed the Ark of the Covenant last week as a picture of Christ atoning sacrifice. He is the 1 who shed his blood in the heavenly4:16 temple not not in the heavenly temple. Shed his blood here on Earth, but then brought it to the heavenly temple and made perfect atonement for all who would believe mercy triumphs over4:27 judgment, mercy triumphs over the con the condemnation of the law and we are now made right with God. So moving on to the furnishings of4:39 the holy place. And I would remind you, why are we moving from the inside out? Because this is how we're supposed to work out our faith, from the inside out. Old Testament saints would come inside from the outside in.4:50 New Testament saints would come from the inside out. Our our discipleship as Christians is not trying to attain, the presence of God, trying to attain access to God.5:02 No. Paul and Peter and John write about this constantly. We have been given access to God. We have been brought near. We are now at5:14 1 with God. 1 we have fellowship with God through Jesus Christ his son. We have been made holy. We have been fully justified. Our sins are completely forgiven. There is5:25 no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. We could go on and on and on, in the new testament text as to how our forefathers in the faith, the apostles, spoke of this new covenant.5:38 And so when we look at the furnishings of the tabernacle, we're starting from the inside and we're working our way out and we're gonna find beautiful pictures again of the ministry of Christ. Remember this, that Christ5:50 is our true king. Okay. He is the son of David. He is descended of the royal the royal line of Israel and he is our true prophet. He is the 1 that Moses foretold.6:02 There would come 1 from among your brother whom whom the Lord would raise up. He is the true Samuel if you will. He is the true Isaiah. He is the true, Zechariah. All the Old Testament prophets pointing to Christ.6:14 And then third, and I don't know if you know this third 1, he is king, he is prophet, and he is what? Does anyone know? He is priest. Priests were the ministers of the old covenant.6:26 They mediated between God, the holy place, and the people. So right between the holy place where God dwelled and the outer court where the people dwelled was the inner court where the priest dwelled. And today, we're6:35 gonna look at Christ our priest. Christ our priest through 3 particular furnishings. On the screen, I have a list of all the furnishings in the tabernacle. We will get to the altar burnt offering in bronze basin next6:47 week. But this week, altered incense, table of showbread, golden lampstand. We've already discussed the ark of the covenant. So let's begin. Shall we? Are you ready? Raise your hand in the chat if you are6:59 ready. I am so excited for this content. I can't tell you. And it's gonna get better and better the further we get closer to that, inner curtain. The the inner veil that separates the holy place from the holy of holies.7:10 Okay. Let's get to first the table of showbread. It is described after the ark because it is next in holiness for a particular reason7:23 that points to our reality in Christ Jesus. So this was a table. I'm gonna call it the table of showbread. It's basically what they called it in the Old Testament, the Old Covenant, and there's a reason why it's that7:32 name. So let's take a look at the text. Exodus 25 23. You shall make a table of acacia wood, 2 cubits high or I'm sorry. 2 cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a7:44 half its height. You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it, and you shall make a rim around it, a hand breadth wide and a molding of gold around the rim. And you shall make for it 4 rings7:56 of gold and fasten the rings to the 4 corners at its 4 legs close to the frame of the rings sorry. Close to the frame, the rings shall lie as holders for the poles to carry the table. You shall make8:07 the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these, and you shall make his plates and dishes for incense and his flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings. You shall8:18 make them of pure gold and you shall set the bread of the presents on the table before me regularly. Okay. God's house is a house of bread.8:30 Remember that phrase in just a moment. God wanted his people and his priests well fed. This would be the bread table. Now it was carried by poles8:42 because it was sacred. It was a holy place. It was a holy table. It was the place where the priest would lay 2, piles or if you would, stacks8:55 of 6 loaves of bread each. So 2 times 6 is 12. We find this out in Leviticus chapter 24 verse 5, another semi long passage. Let me read it9:07 for you. You shall take fine flour and bake 12 loaves from it. 2 tenths of Nephi shall be in each loaf, and you shall set them in 2 piles, 6 in a pile, on the table of pure gold before the Lord, and you shall put pure9:17 frankincense on each pile that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord. Every Sabbath day, Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly. It is from the people of Israel9:29 as a covenant forever and it shall be for who? Notice this phrase. It shall be for Aaron, the high priest and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy9:42 place since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord's food offerings, a perpetual due. Think of this. This is what God is saying. I want my priests to always9:53 have food in my house. Now we, in the new covenant, are a royal priesthood. We are, brought near to minister, between God and man to this day. Every Christian,10:05 you might not believe this about yourself, but this is true, you're a priest. You're a royal priest, a holy nation. You are a people that God has set apart for himself. Good news, he will always feed10:17 you. He will always protect you and provide for you. Now, the 12 loaves in 2 piles is important because it was symbolizing and I have a picture actually here of the on the10:29 screen of the table of showbread. Symbolizing that Israel was 1 people. They were a community. They were brought near to God as the10:41 as God's first fruit amongst men if you will. Now, here's also some interesting contextual information. In other ancient cultures, nations would put food in front10:53 of their idols in their temples to quote unquote feed the gods. I say that with air quotes because, some manner of nefarious practices demanded that someone come11:05 in and remove the food, you know, secretly at night so it looked like this lifeless statue had eaten the food. That's how the ancient cultures, you know, would trick their worshipers. Oh, look. Dagon ate his food today11:16 or, you know, Baal ate his food today and somebody would come in and steal the food and all that stuff. When I was in Israel, they talked about some of the nefarious practices of the, pagan rituals, how they would11:25 manipulate fire through the secret tunnels under the ground. We discussed this in the Kings of Compromise series when we talked about Elijah calling down fire from heaven is why he actually soaked the altar with water so11:36 that all of those channels that they would light the fire through would be completely, wiped out. There would be no fire to be manipulated through this offering. Anyway, ancient practices would of course practice11:47 these these deceitful tactics to trick the worshipers that their God was real. Not God. God stipulated that this food was not for himself. Yes, it was a holy offering to the11:59 Lord, but it was for his priests. It was God's food for them. By the way, practically as well, the priests would get their food from the ministry or the offerings of the people. So the12:11 people would offer 2 teszef and efah and all those things so that they could bake the bread and the bread and feed the priests. This is also a practical text that you can apply to modern day pastors and leaders in the12:21 church who are fed. They are nourished. They are taken care of by the offerings of the people. But nonetheless, back to the showbread, the food was for the people not for God. Why? Because God does not need food.12:33 And secondly, it was outside where God's presence throughout the holy of holies and there were 12 of these loaves because there were 12 tribes of Israel. Second thing I want you to show I wanna show you here is the12:43 diminutive nature of this table. I I challenge you, not now, but maybe after this, video, go somewhere in your house and measure out a 36 inch wide table. Look. It's 36 inches wide by12:55 18 inches deep by 27 inches high. This is not a big table, and it's going to be smaller than you think. Go and find yourself a table like this and you will see it is not big at all. And you say, why is this so small?13:07 Because God does not need pretense. He does not need to show off. He comes to us humble, meek, mild, Jesus riding the the the the foal of a13:18 donkey. He he had no appearance that we should be attracted to him, Isaiah says. So he comes as a a day laborer, a carpenter. This is the and yet he is the bread of life and yet13:30 he is the 1 who feeds us spiritually. God does not need our food. We need God's food. So ancient cultures would feed their gods. Israel flips the script in13:42 ancient times, we're talking about 3500 years ago and says no, no, no. The God of heaven and earth feeds us. Isaiah, Psalm 50 verse 12 says, if I were hungry, I would not tell you for the world and its fullness are mine.13:54 Or Leviticus 24 verse 9, it shall be for Aaron and his sons, they shall eat it in a holy place since it is for him a most holy portion of the Lord's food offerings a perpetual due. So this is our food and God's house is14:05 a place of food. 1 of some of my earliest memories of being in a very small family oriented, you know, community oriented church church where everybody kinda knew each other. If you're on if you're in a church that's14:17 under a hundred and 50 people, you can probably know everybody in that church. And my the formation of my childhood was centered on that house of worship. We knew everybody. Everybody knew us. We had friends. We did life14:29 together. We had Super Bowl parties together. We had birthday parties together. We had picnics and and and potlucks. How many? How many remember your potluck crowd out there? I came from that generation of church. It14:41 formed me for the house. There was always food and half of my family was Italian. There was a lot of food. So it was a lot of good food. God wants you to understand something about his house. It's a place of feeding.14:52 It's a place where you will be nourished. It's a place where you will enjoy. You will receive. You will partake of the goodness of God. David said taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed are all who find refuge15:04 in him. That's the first, furnishing in the holy place that we mentioned. It is to the north of the, tabernacle because15:16 Christ is our true north star. When we come to Christ and eat the bread of life, we have received from him directional navigational information,15:28 if you will. He leads us. He is the way, the truth, and the life. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Pointing to Christ already. We will get there in just a moment about all 3 of these instruments. Just stay with me. The15:40 golden lampstand is number 2. Exodus 30, 25 31. You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work, its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its15:52 flower shall be of 1 piece with it. And there shall be 6 branches going out of its sides, 3 branches of the lampstand out of 1 side of it and 3 branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it, 3 cups made16:03 like almond blossoms. Notice that little phrase right there. It looks like an almond tree. Each with a calyx and flower on 1 branch and 3 cups like almond blossoms each with a calyx and flower on the other branch.16:15 So for the 6 branches going out of the lampstand, verse 34 continuing on, and on the lampstand itself, there shall be 4 cups made like almond blossoms with their calyxes and flowers16:27 and a calyx of 1 piece with it under each pair of the 6 branches going out from the lampstand. Their calyxes and their branches shall be a 1 piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold.16:37 You shall make 7 lamps for it, and the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it. Notice this. Its tongs and their tray shall be of pure gold. It shall be made with all16:49 the utensil all these utensils out of a talent of pure gold and see that you make them after the pattern for them which is being shown you on the mountain. So this is the place where the17:01 inner tabernacle or the inner court would get its light from the lampstand. So we've already said that the inner court was a place of food. It's also a place of light. Here's the thing. Think about this.17:12 There were 4 coverings over the inner place in a over the inner court and the holy polities. There were 4 coverings. We talked about that in part 1 of this mini series. That created darkness. You needed light. So17:24 within the holy place, the priest could not function, could not find their way around without light. I I don't know if anybody does this, but whenever I have to go to the bathroom late at night sometimes to not wake up17:36 the wife, I take my phone and I put my light on. And just that little light and how many know sometimes you don't even need the light that's on the back of the phone. You just need the screen to light up and that's just17:46 enough light to find out where you need to go. I I do that so that I don't wake up anybody who's sleeping next to me, I e my wife. Light in a dark place makes a huge difference. So this light, this lampstand would17:57 provide light to the inner court. And I thought about this, and this just makes sense. You couldn't find the food if you didn't have the light. What is a calyx, by the way? Let me just answer18:09 that. That is a bud. It's just a blossom, if you will. Later in Exodus, we find that the or or here in Exodus, we find that the lampstand18:21 is opposite the bread. So the lampstand was to give light to the bread. The lamp lights our path to the bread, and it will light our path also to the holy place. All of this will18:33 come together in short order. Here's 1 key element of that lampstand. The light was to be burning continually. This was not like your fragrant candle that you get from oh, I don't know. Where do you get candles from now?18:45 Crate and barrel? Where where do you get your candle from? Let me know in the chat. This was to be lit and continually lit before God's presence at all times. Exodus 27 20. You shall command the people of Israel that18:56 they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light that a lamp may be regularly set up to burn in the tent of meeting outside the veil that is before the testimony. Aaron and his son shall tend it from evening to19:05 morning before the Lord. It shall be a statue forever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel. Now, there's a couple of pictures that I want you to see here. We showed you the lamps we showed19:16 you the table of showbread. Let me show you the lampstand. This is what it looks like, and you can see the almond blossoms. There are 22 almond blossoms. There are 7 lights. Now, just19:28 as a way of distinction, this is not the Hanukkah menorah. Hanukkah is referring to an intertestamental moment of of time between Malachi and19:40 Matthew where the Jews were delivered through the Maccabean revolt. This is not that menorah. Some of you see that menorah on around Hanukkah. It's not that. This is a it while this is called a menorah, the19:52 Hebrew word for lampstand is menorah. This is a 7 light, lampstand or menorah. The Hanukkah light is a 9 light menorah. So 7, of course, is20:04 God's number for perfection or fullness. The fullness of light was to be in the inner tank inner court in the inner sanctuary. Then we take take a look at almond blossoms back on the screen here. These are almond20:16 blossoms, 22 of them like I said. What did we say last week about almond blossoms? Jeremiah saw the picture of the olive tree and God said, yes. I'm watching over my word to perform it. This is a picture that God is20:27 watching. God is looking over for over us, watching out for us. This light is a light of watching God sees us. We are not alone. We are not left to our own desires.20:39 It was also similarly like an olive tree, and an olive tree is where you would get olive oil, and then they would also have to put the oil in the tree to produce the light. So you also have to understand something about20:50 almond trees, very interesting little agricultural or ornamental ornamental factoid about, ancient Israel. The almond tree was the first to blossom in the spring in Israel.21:02 So the almond tree was as if it was saying, I'm first. Your first light is God. You don't see life properly until God shines21:14 his light on you. You need God's light to see anything at all. Some of you are following the lights of other things and other ideas. And what does light do? It really just illuminates. It shows you where you should go.21:24 It protects you. It guides you. God must be your first light. He must be your first, voice, if you will, in the morning. I I challenge you21:36 before you turn on a social media account, before you check the daily news, before you turn on the television and watch some morning television show, before you even talk to your children or your spouse, talk to21:48 God. Let him be your first voice. I don't care how you have to do it. Do it. Get a hold of a bible app that will read it back to you and put some earphones in and get alone with22:00 the Lord. Let him be the first blossom of illumination into your day. That's what this tabernacle is showing us. Life with God. He wants to be first in your life. He doesn't22:12 want to be the person that you turn to after you've, you know, struck out with several other different options and advise advisors. No. He wants to be your first advisor, your primary advisor, and he will lead you22:24 to the bread of nourishment. He will lead you to where you will be strengthened in your body, in your spirit, and in your life. Now, just think about this as well. When you talk22:36 about the whole of the Pentateuch, we are in Exodus 25 and this is the picture that God says I am going to have a light at the top of a tree. I will I will have22:47 a burning tree continually before me. Okay. Right away in Exodus, thoughts should come back to your head. Thoughts should come in your head.22:59 How does this whole story of God delivering age, Israel out of Egypt start? God appears where? In a burning what? Bush. You could call it a burning tree if you will. The23:11 bush burned. It was on fire, but it was not consumed. And when Moses meets that burning bush, God speaks. God tells Moses, this is what I want you to do. You are going to23:23 go into Egypt. You are going to tell Pharaoh to let my people go. You are going to deliver them out of slavery. And now, setting up the tabernacle, the priests were to23:35 live forever in the presence of that same illumination, that same directive of God leading God's people wherever they went. And I say this for some of you because you23:47 think you only hear God when you first get saved. He just gets you saved and then you gotta learn how to, you know, work your way around. No. No. God wants to speak to you now. As he called you, so he23:59 wants to continue to speak to you and change you and direct you. God wants to teach you all things. That's what the Holy Spirit does. Holy Spirit pictured as oil in the old testament which is supposed to be in you to24:10 fight to to provide to to I'm sorry. To provide the fuel for the light inside of you that you might have the wisdom of God, the knowledge of God, the direction of God, the leading of God and you will be preserved,24:21 protected, guided and blessed by almighty God. That's what God wants for you. Okay. Now I bet you're asking a question. Actually, you're probably not asking this question but I thought maybe there would be somebody who24:31 would ask this question. You know, I see those pictures of the menorah and and the, table and the ark. How do we know that they really looked like that? I mean, there are some there are some artistic licenses right24:43 there. Right? Not necessarily. Way back in AD 81, there was an ark that was erected in Rome in honor of the emperor24:55 who destroyed the temple in AD 70, and he carried off all the instruments and all the furnishings of the temple in Herod's temple. It would be the second temple. On that ark, they engraved this image of25:07 the Romans plundering the temple of Israel. There's the menorah. This is perhaps the table of showbread over here to the right, a a seriously important25:19 remnant, if you will, of the Roman Empire that that shows us what these furnishings looked like. Anyway, the light was to be burning continually as well25:31 as the bread would be continually rebaked and placed on the table of showbread. Leviticus 24 1, the Lord spoke to Moses saying, command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil beaten from Israel and that it may be25:43 kept burning regularly outside the veil of testimony in the tent of meeting. Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before Lord regularly. It shall be a statue forever throughout your generations. He shall25:53 arrange the lamps on the lamp stand of pure gold before the Lord regularly. So 2 things, regular bread, regular food continually offered to the priest, regular light26:05 continually burning in the, inner court right before you enter in the presence of God. This is God's house. This is what God wants in your life. He doesn't want you in darkness. He doesn't want you26:16 confused. He doesn't want you tripping over life's many traps, many difficulties and challenges, and he wants you strengthened, nourished, healthy, and strong.26:28 Always. Now it doesn't mean you're always going to be those things. It doesn't mean that you're never gonna kind of have like slack in your faith and in your life. No. It doesn't mean that. There's no Christian that's26:39 always strong, perpetually enlightened, and never stumbling. What it means though is that when you come back to God in Christ Jesus who is our true tabernacle, you do receive those things. So are you feeling26:50 weak? Get back to Jesus Christ. Are you feeling malnourished? You have no spiritual strength in yourself? Get back to Christ Jesus. Are you feeling confused? Are you feeling dazed? Are you feeling, you27:02 know, ignorant of what's going on around you? Get back to Jesus Christ. In him is hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, the Bible says. So we have in Christ Jesus this picture of the tabernacle,27:14 showing us what he offers us. Okay. Third and final piece piece of furniture that we're going to talk about today is the altar of incense. Exodus 30. We have to skip all the way ahead to Exodus 30 to look at this27:26 text about the altar of incense. You shall make an altar on which to burn incense. You shall make it of acacia wood. A cubit shall be its length and a cubit is breadth. Again, very small. It shall be square, and 2 cubits27:37 shall be its height. Its horn shall be a 1 piece with it. You shall overlay it with gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it, and you shall make 2 golden rings for27:47 it under its molding on 2 opposite sides of it. You shall make them and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold and you shall put it in27:57 front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is above the testimony where I will meet with you. So this is very strategic of God. He says, I want the28:09 table of bread walking into the temple. You're walking toward the west and it says, the table of bread to the north, the lampstand to the south, and right before the veil,28:21 wherein is the ark of the covenant, wherein is God's holy presence, the mercy seat. You see right before that, the altar of incense. Do not miss that. I have a picture for you later on that, but we will,28:33 get there eventually. Let's go on in Exodus chapter 30 verse 7. And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn it. And when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he28:45 shall burn it, a regular incense offering before the lord throughout your generations. You shall not offer unauthorized incense on it or a burnt offering or a grain offering, and you shall not pour a drink offering on28:56 it. This is so important. Couple of things. He shall burn or set up when he when he sets the lamps up at twilight, he shall burn it. Every other incense. He shall burn29:07 it every morning. So you have morning and evening. Don't miss this. You have morning and evening burning of the fragrant incense at the29:19 right at the entrance, right in front of the veil that leads to the Holy of Holies. Okay. This is going to get really good in just a moment. I do have a picture of this too too by the way. That's the altar of incense.29:31 So again, not not big, not overpowering, diminutive, but beautiful ornate gold. In the ancient world, this would have been groundbreaking in terms of its beauty. There was29:43 also a stipulation as to the, incense. The incense, and this is going to be huge in just a moment, had a recipe, a very specific and holy29:55 recipe. This recipe could not be, used anywhere else. Let me show you from Exodus chapter 30 verse 34. The Lord said to Moses, take sweet spices, stakti and ancha and galbanum,30:07 sweet spices with pure frankincense, of each shall there be an equal part and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. And then look at this. God stipulates that this recipe was30:19 not to be used for any other purpose. Verse 36, you shall beat some of it very small and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you. It shall be most holy for you and the30:30 incense that you shall make according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves. That's interesting, isn't it? Why wouldn't God want them to have this very unique and holy incense?30:42 Wouldn't that be a wonderful treat for everybody to participate in? Mm-mm. There is a reason for it. We're gonna have to wait until we get to the end of this, this teaching30:55 to talk about it. You shall not make it for yourselves. It shall be for you holy to the Lord. Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people. Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is 1 of those31:04 texts where you say, why why does God get so nasty sometimes with the people of Israel? He's not being nasty. He is not being nasty. When he stipulates that this recipe31:16 is holy to the Lord and no 1 else should use it, he is demanding that we lean in here as new covenant people and pay attention because that means whenever God's simply, this is only for31:28 me or this is only for the temple, it is a picture of Christ because Christ is the only way. Christ is the only mediator. Christ is the only holy son of the31:40 most high God who has made it possible for us to come into the presence of the father. Any other way let's go back to this text. Any other way,31:52 and we are cut off. You cannot you cannot get to God on your own terms. You cannot get to God through your own prayers. And you say, wait a second. I thought32:04 we pray and we come to God. We only can come to God through our prayers, hear this, because of Jesus's prayers. And he is the true intercessor for our faith. And I am going to share32:16 some stuff with you about this in just a moment I can't wait to get to. All that we've been saying again, we have to back this up every time we talk about the tabernacle. The new covenant realities are hidden in these32:27 types and shadows. Colossians 2 17, these are shadows of the things to come. The substance belongs to Christ. Hebrews 8 verse 5, they serve as a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. So let's talk about this room of32:39 food. Let's talk about it in 3 movements if you will. Hunger. Hunger is a part of the human condition as almost anything else. Now you can go32:51 about about, 3 minutes without air. You can go 3 days without water. You can go about, what, 40 days without food before you die. So food is that third most essential ingredient to life. 3 movements. Number33:02 1, hunger got us into the bondage of sin. Right? That's exactly what happens when Eve is tempted by the serpent. She sees that it was good for food and in her hunger for33:14 the forbidden fruit, if you will, she satisfied an inner craving, and that inner craving birthed in us an eternal craving that nothing in this world can33:25 fill. Ever since Eve followed Satan's lead and Adam with her followed Satan's lead in eating and satisfying a a a sinful urge,33:38 we have been given this never ending spiritual urge for something to fill us. That is that is phase 2. So there was hunger which led us into sin. Now we have this eternal itch, don't we? We have this33:50 eternal desire. Why can't I satisfy my life? People will make billions of dollars. People will accomplish great things and they will still feel unsatisfied because that spiritual34:02 hunger has been given to us through the hunger that was satisfied in Eve and Adam in listening to the devil. Now how do we come out of that34:13 eternal quest for our for satisfaction? How do we come out of it? We come out of it through Jesus Christ who is the only 1 who can be true bread.34:25 So as the tabernacle inter court had bread for the priest, so too Jesus Christ is our bread who satisfies our eternal hunger. John chapter 6 35, Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me34:37 shall not hunger. Whoever believes in me shall never thirst. Verse 52 of the same chapter, the Jews then disputed among themselves saying how can this man give us his flesh to eat? So So Jesus said to the said to them,34:49 truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 3 verses or 2 verses later, for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my35:00 flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him. 3 things that Jesus says about his food. Number 1, he is the only 1 that satisfies the hunger that is in us due to35:12 sin. Number 2, in that hunger being satisfied, we, have life. We have salvation through feeding on Jesus Christ. And number 3, not only do we35:23 have satisfaction in life, but we have what do we have? We have abiding in him. We have fellowship with him. You think about this idea about God's temple, the tabernacle being a35:35 place of food. You only get to really know somebody when you eat with them. If a man, desires to get to know a young lady, what does he do? He asks her out to eat. If a couple wants35:47 to get to know another couple, they go out for a dinner together. Fellowship around food. That's what creates fellowship actually. Food. Food feeds community. Jesus35:59 is the true food. And who does he eat with? Yeah. All you gotta do is go to Luke chapter 15 and he's eating with tax collectors. He's eating with sinners. He's getting excoriated by the religious leaders and the elite36:11 scribes of his day and they can't understand why would this man fellowship with sinners and the reason why is because he is a friend of sinners. He wants fellowship with you the same way he wanted fellowship with his36:21 people Israel in the ancient times. He wants fellowship with you. I don't know if you ever heard this. You might be tuning into this YouTube video, this this video somewhere somehow by accident. I'm here to tell you God36:31 wants to have fellowship with you. He wants to have relationship with you. And Jesus is the true bread that satisfies the true hunger of your heart. Number 2, not only is Jesus the true bread but he is the36:43 true light. And John again picks up on all this imagery. John is the heavenly gospel, the fourth gospel in the New Testament, but he he gives us these realities of Christ fulfilling the old testament36:55 realities right off the front page of his gospel. Jesus is the true light. John chapter 1 verse 4, in him was life and the life was the light of men. John 1 verse 9, the true light which gives light to everyone was37:06 coming into the world. John 12 46, I have come into the world as a light so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. So you have again, how how was Israel, supposed to37:18 find their messiah? Well, they were supposed to look at the tabernacle and see these elements and see these furnishings and say, okay. We need we we need somebody who's gonna satisfy our inner spiritual need. We need37:27 somebody who's going to light our way to the satisfying bread that we can feed on. And Christ comes and announces, that's who I am. I'm the light of life. I'm the bread of life. I am the 1 who has come37:39 to bring you to the father. So he is the true light that shines our way to God. So think37:51 about this idea too. Remember, there was the tree that led Moses, the burning tree. There's the burning tree in the lamp stand in the temple. Well, go all the way back. There was a tree in the Garden of38:02 Eden and the tree was the tree of life, and they were cut off from it after sin. Jesus is sacrificed for our sins on a38:14 tree, And through his sacrifice on the tree, he, by the way, illuminates on the cross. Jesus said, I will be glorifying the father on the cross. He would be glorified on the cross.38:26 That's I know it doesn't look glorifying because it was very gory and bloody and painful and awful, but he glorified God at in the work of the cross. He shined on the cross.38:38 The Bible tells us this in Luke chapter 23. Check this passage out. It was, verse 44 of Luke 23. It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninthShow more In this video 0:00 The Tabernacle: A Picture of Christ
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