 Welcome everybody once again. Good to see you all. Hope everybody's doing well Let's pray and we'll get started like Lord we Come to you. We look to you right now Jesus we thank you that your mercies and you every morning Lord that we get to wake up every day each day Because of your mercy Lord we breathe because you allow us to breathe And so we are grateful and we say thank you father For the gift of life that you've given to each and every one of us And also father we submit the rest of the time into your hands even as we learn from your word Holy Spirit, I pray that we will we will understand your word beyond just knowledge I pray that there will be a revelation of your wisdom I would that would be a revelation a new perspective of who you are Thank you father Jesus name I pray Amen Welcome guys welcome once again. Hi, John. Hi, Super Shesh I hope you guys are all doing well. It started in just a second. There's something that I want to read before we Just you'll be looking to our class notes lecture notes for today Just Try and listen with me as I read This is from a book called a seven days behind the veil seven days behind the veil of all Jackson Also hear it out When we have a true God experience Our tiny view of him bends Depending on the level of the encounter sometimes it completely shatters To compare a very human experience with a divine encounter It is like being on an airplane and looking down toward the ground on a cloudy day We see nothing But a white gray mass For some studying the clouds is enough It can take years to learn everything known about them and many more years to make our own discoveries of the clouds But one of the awesome mind twisting things about God is this Even when the clouds part what we see is still just a glimpse No matter how glorious how huge how amazing How deep or how intricate and how impossibly beautiful the encounter is It is still only a glimpse of him and yet in the midst of all this glory It is his pleasure to touch us All this power all this truth and fragrance and passion everything he is and It is his Pleasure his desire To spend his time with us We are the focal point of his heart Amen We are the focal point of his heart you and I are the focal point of his heart I hope you were able to just His grasp a little bit of what the book had to say Yeah, so with having read that with that in mind let's just continue from where we left off, right? We concluded chapter 7 which talks about entering the presence of God Entering the presence of God, you know We started off by talking about the varying manifestations of his presence. We are in page 26 just in case If you need reference chapter 7 page 26 So started off by talking about the varying manifestations of the presence of God and how one is he is God is omnipresent He's everywhere. He's with you right now. He's with me right now He's everywhere But then there are times where he manifests himself and which is known as the manifest presence of God And we see that happening in one of the examples scriptures is from second Chronicles 5 You know, he manifests himself multiple times in the book of Exodus right from the burning bush to the mountain being on fire of because of his presence and Leading the people of Israel with a cloud by day with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night All of that is his manifest presence You know and it is the presence of that being we are talking about how we approach and And so two things we saw was that we approach this presence of God Through praise that's one and through worship Right, there's no my way or your way There's only God's way and how we approach it and we this has to be approached with the reverence and utmost respect man And then we concluded by looking at the sacrifice of praise from Hebrews 13 15 to first Peter chapter 2 5 And I hope you got a chance to go back home and read the rest of the scriptures that talks about the sacrifice of praise But we didn't end there Right, we ended even before the first sacrifice was made What was expected of us as mankind was obedience Right, and that's what expected, you know, we see that in the book of Genesis 2 and 3 the Lord says the Lord commanded Adam and Eve not to eat from from the particular fruit of the particular tree and Then we see the God asking him did you eat that fruit that I commanded you not to And then we concluded by seeing Exodus chapter 40 the last chapter of Exodus Where you know it says the Lord commanded Moses to do the Lord commanded Moses the Lord commanded Moses the Lord commanded Moses and then we see time and time again in that chapter It says Moses did as the Lord commanded Moses did as the Lord commanded Moses did as the Lord commanded and Then after Moses had done everything that the Lord had commanded Then the cloud the glory of the Lord fills the tabernacle that Moses himself could not stand Amen You know so Moses encounters this God as a burning bush in the beginning he obeys He goes to Egypt. He brings Israel back and then the second time he encounters God He is no longer a burning bush the whole mountain is on fire and the same person Moses Spends 40 days and 40 nights in the very presence of God getting the blueprint for the tabernacle and commandments and whatnot and It is this same person who spent time who stood in the very presence of God Is no longer able to stand in the presence or enter the presence Because he obeyed and so one of the points that I've made previously is every time you obey him God shows a bigger than he showed himself Previously and that's exactly what the book also said from what I just read is no matter how How beautiful and how amazing our encounter is It is still only a glimpse of who God really is Right you guys with me So that's that is what we concluded The chapter 7 with entering and talking about the presence of this beautiful this amazing God that we serve Amen Let's continue. Let's go to chapter 8 and Page 27 chapter 8 page 27 it continues to talk about Entering the presence of God but on a different subject on the subject of personal and corporate worship Okay, personal and corporate worship. So it's still touching on the same subject of and Entering the presence of God encountering his presence But with the difference of topic Okay So in this chapter, we're going to look at the tabernacle of Moses, right? So before we continue You know when we when you hear about the tabernacle of Moses What are what is one of the first things that comes to your mind? classic question is What what? What do you think of when you think of the tabernacle of Moses? It's okay, you've have not studied about the tabernacle of Moses And if you don't know anything about it, and if you don't know anything about it, just say you don't know anything about it It's no pressure, right? Okay, most holy one. All right It was the dwelling place of God in the Old Testament All right. Yeah, dwelling place of God in the Old Testament. Thank you, Jimmy Yeah, okay. What else is the tent? Yeah, the tent of meeting Okay. Okay. What else guys? What comes to your mind when you hear the tabernacle of Moses where the presence of God and the stone tablets it Okay. Yeah. Thank you, Priya Or I am reading your comments in the chat section All right, Lyndon Subashish. What do you think? Come on guys. Aradna, Sid, Georgia, the tent of meeting, right? What else? The model of the same in heaven. Yes All right. Just one more one more. Alice Anybody else? Okay, place of offering and sacrifice Place of offering and sacrifice. Yes. Thank you Right. So, uh place of worship dwelling place of God on earth. Yeah. Thank you, Zalatoli. Thank you Isaac The presence of God, okay right So, uh in the notes, uh, you know, let's just briefly look at it quickly. It says We see in God's word that in addition To worship being our recognition of God reverence of God communion with God And our response to an encounter with God Worship is also offering up Of our sacrifice to God Right worships also Offering up of our sacrifice to God. Okay, so We read about the sacrifice aspect of worship in the tabernacle that God instructed Moses to build in exodus On chapter 25 all the way to 40 and you can read about all of that and all the sacrificial offerings in the Leviticus But we will not go in detail about it But just to give us a brief background of the tabernacle, right? No, you all said, uh, you know What what comes to your mind the first time you you hear about the tabernacle of moses? Which is uh, and every and all the answers are absolutely correct like spot on right but If we if I would if you were to just look at the importance and the significance of it Okay, what again just going back to the book of Genesis and what happened? uh In the book of Genesis at the fall Uh, right when when adam and eve sinned Their eyes were opened, right? So what that did is before the sin entered they would walk with him in the cool of the garden Right god walked with adam and eve. They spent time with them. He there was a fellowship There was communion that was happening God dwelled with them But what sin did is it separated Our spirit from the spirit of god And that's why god asks adam. Where are you? Have to make it some more king james. He says adam. Where are thou? Again, it's not because god did not know where adam was physically It was almost like a parent looking for his son, you know his son or daughter It's like I can't find you. I can't find your spirit I don't see you in the same place where I left you. Where are you adam? you know, it's almost like It's like a question of you know birthed in pain. Why is your spirit separated? You know, why did this happen? It's it's you know And From that point on Right from somewhere in Genesis chapter three from you know From the time sin entered And to somewhere in the In exodus chapter 25 There's almost a gap of 2,500 years 2,500 years For almost approximately give or take a little few For almost that period There was no dwelling place For god But every time when you read, you know after that, you know when you talk when you read about noah and abraham You know jake jake up having these visions of habits. It would talk about there will be visitations of god Right abraham encountering. Uh, there's a christophany happening there. Uh, so there is this temporary visitations Right of god, but there was no resting place For 2,500 years There was no dwelling place and And that's why it's so significant. Uh, you know, if you look at uh, if if you're with me and if you don't mind If you go to exodus chapter 25 If we read, uh, if you if you're there exodus chapter 25 Uh, it starts off by saying the lord said to moses tell the israelites to bring me an offering You are to receive the offering for me from each man whose heart prompts him to give These are the offerings you are to receive from them gold silver and bronze blue purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen Goat hair ram skins dyed red and hides of sea cows Acacia wood olive oil for the light spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense And onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breast peace Okay, let's just pause there before we continue Okay Now god is making the same people who gave their their precious dwellers everything that they had to build that golden calf Right and he's like, okay, if they gave what is precious to them to build an idol Uh, i'm gonna make them give To me as well the same people Then it says in verse eight then have them make a sanctuary for me Sanctuary, okay, um, it's it comes from uh this latin word A partial latin word sanctus which again means consecrated or holy Right and so sanctuary me simply means the holy place, right? And I will dwell Among them I will Dwell among them and uh, we need to understand the the And I hope we do The gravity of that statement The intensity of that statement and who is making that statement, right? And once again to remind us God was longing He wanted to dwell With his people His heart yearned for that I I don't think People's heart really yearned For a dwelling place and it is god saying build me a sanctuary and I will come and dwell Among you, okay, so the tabernacle of moses was It was a bridge, right? It's a it was a bridge between heaven and earth it was It was the meeting place where the divinity Would meet with humanity right? It was the it was the most beautiful and the most awesome place on earth Right, uh, some people some of you all if you know if you're in the coastal area uh My cousins would always take me to a place where the sea would meet the river And it was it it would be awesome and terrifying at the same time It was it would be beautiful and very very scary at the same time, right? The currents will be super strong Right, it's something like that, you know the tabernacle was just Comparing something very small, but but you get the picture, isn't it? And so it was a big big deal All right And then if we go all the way to verse 22 All the way down to verse 22 when exodus 25 it says Exodus 25 verse 22 there Above the cover Between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony I will meet with you And give you all my commands for israelites Okay, as I was saying we need to think about and ponder about the statement I will dwell amongst you And can you imagine the any vvip's of you know Coming in staying at your place or any Man of god or celebrities that you look up to who's your favorite or whatever it is, right? Or the president of your nation or a very well-known person Comes and dwells in your house We can't quite wrap our head around it, isn't it whoever it is that you look up to right and here we have saying I will dwell Among you I will pitch my tent. That's what he's saying I will pitch my tent within you among you And now let's just quickly You know turn our attention to john chapter one. Let's go all the way to john chapter one I hope you guys are with me John chapter one. We all know this. Let's Go through it It says in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god He was he was with god in the beginning Was 14 The word became flesh and made his dwelling among us But he pitched his tent he tabernacled with us. That's what it means The word became flesh That means it it the word took action And made his dwelling amongst us and we have seen his glory the glory of the one and only Amen So this is the significance of you know, or the background of the tabernacle of moses So even before we all understand what happened, we you know, yes, it was the dwelling place of god and all of that But just so we understand that Why was it so important to the people of israel? And we have to one more thing remember is that for 400 years 430 You know, but 400 in oppression The people of israel lived in the land of goshen next to egypt They were only exposed to the worship of the egyptians the culture of the egyptians You know, extra extra to the gods and statues of the egyptians 400 years is i've mentioned this before is 10 generations right 10 generations and you could lose a lot of Church or spiritual aspect in 10 generations and that is why This the tabernacle of moses is so significant for us to understand You know worship as well. Okay, so now that we've understood, you know Very quick background of what it is In your notes, if you look at it, it says the tabernacle is a picture of a journey of repentance consecration prayer And worship leading to the very presence of god The tabernacle is a picture of a journey of repentance consecration prayer and worship leading to the very presence of god Okay, uh, let me see if I can quickly share the image with us Maybe we've all seen the picture of the tabernacle, but uh, this is of course just imagined Obviously It's beautiful, isn't it? you see that a white colored curtains what would cover on all sides and the the glory of the lord Would always be there would be seen and from all sides it's You know, there was no entrance from people couldn't enter from any side they wanted There was just one entrance just just one entrance and And we learn learned more deeper about this in the third year As we learn about the tabernacle more deeply. Okay, but just to give us a gist that Jesus is the only way we enter Through the finished work of the cross of what Jesus did for us and of his blood So this is just a picture of a glance of the tabernacle of moses. Uh, it's And uh, let me see if I can share another image Thanks guys. I hope you're Bearing with me Here's another picture, right? So The gate the entrance that was always facing the east And then as you enter you have the outer courts This is called the holy place Or the inner courts and this The place where the ark of the covenant is kept It's called the most holy place or the holy of holies Right, so in the outer courts you have two pieces of furniture You have the altar of burnt offerings or the brazen altar And then you have the brazen laver where the water It was like a base where the priests would wash their hands and their feet So before they performed a sacrifice, they will wash their hands and their feet They go back here perform the sacrifice and they come back here wash their hands and their feet and then enter The holy place if they did not wash their hands and their feet and if they just enter they will die Okay Sorry, I made it sound too Simple but yeah, it was pretty scary and then in the holy place You have three pieces of furniture is the table of shoe bread This is also known as the table of the face The presence or then you have the golden lampstand the altar of incense Right and then finally in the most holy place. This is one furniture And that is the ark of the covenant That symbolizes the presence of god who's thrown on Right beautiful, isn't it? So I'm just gonna leave that picture there Actually, I was wondering if I could show another image But no, I'll just let that go, okay But now with this image that we can see let's look at our notes So there were three sections to the tabernacle that Moses built the outer court the inner court also called the holy place And the holy of holies called the most holy place So the outer court had the altar of sacrifice and a bronze laver of water The priest would wash his hands and feet with water from the bronze laver before entering the tabernacle of meeting Or nearing the altar of sacrifice The altar of sacrifice was a place where different kinds of sacrifices were offered There were burnt offerings for atonement for sin Grain offerings as memorials to the lord peace offerings for Thanksgiving sin offerings and trespass offerings The blood of the sacrifice would be sprinkled around the altar from here the priest would then move into the inner court Okay It is very crucial guys outer courts, you know, what what would happen here. It's almost an image of the cross here, right? And so every time a person gave an offering of sacrifice For example, let's take sin offering if anybody committed a sin And they wanted to you know, come and give an offering. They just couldn't come and give the lamb and go away They they would have to come give that lamb to the priest and Be there to see that innocent animal die take this place just as a reminder that they should have been on that altar But an innocent Creature is taking their place in innocent lamb Again a beautiful picture of the cross how Jesus is the innocent lamb of God that took our place on the cross Why we should have been up there, right? So that's what's happening in the outer courts. And then we We go into the inner courts now As most Christians, uh, not all but most of us most of us We enter the gates No, we we love we we love to sing that song some hundred and we say I will enter his gates with thanksgiving I will enter his coats with praise I will say this is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice for he has made me glad Right. So we come through the gate. We sing we dance we rejoice Uh, and we encounter Jesus at the cross and we stop there We don't want to progress. We don't want to advance. We don't want to go into The holy place or the inner courts But the invitation is open It says in Hebrews come Come boldly to the throne Right, um So Most most Christians, uh, unfortunately, they just stop at the outer courts and go back home While there is an invitation for us to go deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper Like we again read any encounter that you have with the Lord and no matter how awesome and wonderful it is It is only a glimpse And your heart need to be needs to be hungry for more of a glimpses Of who he is right and that's what happens as we advance into the inner court the holy place It had the table of shoe bread Our showbread which represents God meeting our natural needs by divine provision The meeting of our spiritual needs through the word our daily word and also healing and deliverance, etc And the lamp stand with the oil and the flame producing light represents the elimination and revelation that the holy spirit brings into our lives Right and also when Psalm 119 was 105 it says Thy word is a lamp into my feet and a light unto my path Was a place of revelation. I had a different perspective a different glimpse Um of who God is and then finally you have the altar of incense represents the prayers And an intercession right, so these three furnitures in the holy place But again, we don't stop there Then you have the holy of holies Or known as the most holy place Right in today's day and age, uh, you know, that doesn't seem like a A major appeal, isn't it? What we hear at least is that is The most expensive Resort that is the most expensive watch. It's the most expensive car. It's the most expensive apartment It's the most expensive villa. It's the most expensive airplane or It's the most expensive glasses It's the most expensive guitar. It's the most expensive equipment. It's you know, so Everything that's associated with the most expensive most today is very glamorous It seems, you know, it's pleasing to the eye. It's it's like it gets your attention and but And somehow to our generation The most holy Doesn't seem to have any appeal While it should The most holy place It's a place where god would dwell in between the cherubim's Right now. Another thing is Let's just read what is in the north center See, okay So the most holy place was separated from the inner cord by a curtain And had the ark of the covenant. Okay that curtain that you see here guys this line Okay, the curtain between the holy place and the most holy place. It was at least six inches thick It was a very thick curtain Okay, that separated the holy place from the most holy place This was the place where god would meet with the high priest and speak to him There was nothing more for the priest to do It was all of god It was the place to be still And know him and abide in his presence It is a place as it says in Psalm 46 verse 10 be still And know that I am god Right, but just look at this progression In the outer courts, we praise we praise god, right? I will enter his gauge with thanksgiving his courts with praise, right? So here there's a there's a lot of space For a crowd in the outer courts, isn't it? So you can praise god with a crowd. Okay, you can jump dance and rejoice shout for joy with the crowd And then as you enter the holy play at the holy place or the inner courts The space is reduced. It's now There's only space for say 12 people And so in the outer courts, you can praise him with a crowd In the inner courts, you can serve him with a group with a handful of people You can serve him But in the holy of holies You worship him face to face alone You see the progression From with the crowd of people with the corporate with the congregation To serving with a team But nothing replaces that With worshiping him alone face to face coming face to face before the holy one of israelis Psalm 22 verse 3 says yet. He is enthroned He's enthroned on the praises of his people right guys I are you guys with me so far All right, so Stop sharing that image then All right, so we will go a much much deeper about the tabernacle of moses in your final years So you praise god with the group with the with the crowd of people you serve him with a group of people But you worship him only face to face Okay, that's where the personal encounter is happening in the most holy place in the holy of holies Okay, and then uh, let's just progress uh move to page 28 And all of that we see uh, you know where the sacrifice the sacrifice would uh would happen But then we go on to see that how jesus christ is a perfect sacrifice as we just read in john chapter one was 14 The word became flesh And he dwelled among us he tabernacle among us Right, and so we see in this section. We will see how jesus christ is our perfect sacrifice East uh, you know, we we seen hebrew chapter nine verse nine that it was A symbolic of the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience But christ came as high priest of the good things to come With the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is not of this creation Not with the blood of goats and calves But with his own blood he entered the most holy place once for all Having obtained eternal redemption Now if you read up I would encourage you to read, uh, you know the book of hebrews fully But then if you read chapter eight and nine and ten and eleven You'll see that there is this heavenly tabernacle and now in this heavenly tabernacle all of a sudden that there is no veil Between the inner course and the holy place There is no veil like it was there in the tabernacle of moses because of what jesus did the veil has been torn Right remember that what happened when jesus is there on the cross right the veil was torn from top to bottom Right, uh, it doesn't say it was torn from bottom to top. What's the significance? You know some say that okay if it had mentioned that it was torn from bottom to top It is possible to say that a man tried this, you know try and Cut it. It's Would be very hard even for a man to do that because the that veil was thick But it was torn from top to bottom and only god could do that Right, so that means the separation is gone Again, uh, you know shows how god came and dwelt he he fellowshiped with his people, right? Um, so that's what's happening. Uh, that's what's saying in hebrews nine verse nine and eleven and twelve And then hebrews chapter 10 verse 11 and 12 says and every priest's Priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never take away sins But this man after he had offered one sacrifice For sins forever sat down at the right hand of god All right And one of the most important thing to note there is that jesus was not only our high priest He was also our sacrifice He was not only our offering He was also our offerer Right. Are you guys with me? right, so, you know it in the uh in the section above it says right hebrews chapter Nine was 11 Christ came as a high priest But then he offered himself as a sacrifice. So, uh, it's very clear that he was our high priest And he was also our sacrifice He was our offering and he was also the offerer Okay, what's the significance? um There are two different perspectives One is the perspective of an offering And the other is the perspective of the offerer Okay, so me if say for example, I am the one who sinned And I'm offering this innocent lamb that did nothing The first imagine the perspective of the offering Imagine the perspective of what what this innocent creature is thinking is going through is like, what did I do? What have I done? And there's a different perspective of the offerer that's me is Okay, I should be upon that place upon that altar uh You guys get what I'm saying, right the perspective is completely different what you are feeling is completely different And so when we say that Jesus was our offering and the offerer, it's not just a cool statement uh It's something more than that right, um So Jesus was our high priest and also the sacrifice the offering and the offerer point to As the royal priesthood Because of the sacrifice and the blood of Jesus. We have unlimited access To the holy of holies the very presence of God Amen We just take 10 seconds and say Father, thank you for your blood Just pause and say in the class right now and say Jesus. Thank you For your blood Thank you for making a way for me Let's read that scripture says Hebrews 10 90 to 22 therefore brethren Having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus By a new and living way which he consecrated for us through the veil That is his flesh And having a high priest over the house of God, let us draw near Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscious and our bodies washed With pure water Okay, um, so I want to end this session But just leaving us with this point Is hey, there's an invitation. Don't just stay in the outer courts And then don't just stop at the inner courts serving with the ministry serving with the team But I want to know you more personally Come in all the way to the holy of holies In other words, the song of song says come into the chambers of my of love It says he takes me my beloved takes me to the chambers of love Amen Yeah, everything. Okay I'm clear. All right. Thanks guys. Um, right. So what we do is go ahead and stop the recording for now