FINDING CHRIST IN THE TABERNACLE, PART TWO

Finding Christ in the Tabernacle, Part two.

“For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” John 1:17.
The Door to the Outer Court (Exodus 27:16-17)

Here is a new picture for you this week.

I remember a story Mr Moore told many, many years ago, it goes like this: All the animals of the jungle came across a wall in their way; all had an idea how to deal with the wall.
The kangaroo = wanted to jump over the wall.
The rhino = wanted to run and knock down the wall.
The lion = wanted to roar the wall down.
The elephant = wanted to pull the wall down.
The gorilla = wanted to swing over the wall.
The tiger = wanted to tear the wall down.
The giraffe = wanted to look over the wall.
The cheetah = wanted to run around the wall.
The parrot = wanted to fly over the wall.
Then the monkey said, “Let us find the doorway through the wall!”

Well last time we walked all around the outer curtain. Today we can do what the animals wanted to do, or we can enter today through the door way into the tabernacle.
Remember the curtain was 75feet x 150 feet, and the height of the curtain is 81/2 feet high, so we cannot see what is inside the curtain until we enter in.

This is the fact of the Gospel of salvation, unless you enter in through the grace and mercy of God’s grace, you cannot see God’s glory, and you cannot have eternal life. Our door way is the “Cross of Calvary” when Jesus the son of God, paid the price for our sin, H e died that we could live. Jesus said, said “I am the Door; if any man enters through Me he shall be saved” John 10:9.

Let us find now the door way! The way into the court of the tabernacle was beautiful and wide. The rest of the court curtain was pure white linen, plain and unadorned; but the entrance was hung with curtains that where lovely to behold, and marvellous in their working. The white linen all around spoke of God’s righteousness, but the curtains at the gate spoke of grace and mercy, for they spoke of Christ Himself.

The width of the entrance was over thirty feet wide; there was ample way for all to walk through! Notice it was a door way with out steps, there is no labour or work for mankind to do to enter this door way, it is by grace alone.
Had this door way been narrow, some would say it is only for the few or the elect, no this door way was wide for all that would enter in.

The curtain and the door way where the last thing to be built when the tabernacle was moved, it is like the king’s wedding supper in Luke 14:17 “And sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.” Read Exodus 40:33 “And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the screen of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.” When it was build, Moses said “IT IS FINISHED.”

You see when the gate was hanged last; Moses was able to say “It is finished!” Where will we hear those words again? At Calvary when Jesus was hung on a cross, and He spoke them, “IT IS FINISHED!” This way of access to God clearing proclaimed a finished work. Salvation is a finished work; redemption for sinners is a completed redemption.

The Door of the Outer Court was a large curtain, made of fine linen, coloured in blue, purple, red and white. The curtain was supported by wooden pillars that were based in brass sockets.
With silver capitals, just like the other pillars of the Outer Court curtain. The door curtain was fastened to the pillars with gold hooks.

Each of the colours has a meaning:
Purple indicates kingship: “Behold your King” Zechariah 9:9, pointing to Matthew's gospel, where Jesus, the descendant of King David (Matthew 1:1), declares after rising from the dead: “All authority in heaven and on earth is given to Me” Matthew 28:18.

Red indicates blood: “Behold My servant” Isaiah 52:13; 53:5, pointing to Mark's gospel, where Jesus says He “came to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many” Mark 10:45.

White indicates purity and a right humanity: “Behold the man” Zechariah 6:12, pointing to Luke's gospel, where Pilate says of Jesus “Behold, I have found not one fault in this man” Luke 23:4, 14.

Blue indicates heavenly and godly: “Behold your God” Isaiah 40:9, pointing to John's gospel, where doubting Thomas eventually says to Jesus “My Lord and my God” John 20:28.
These four colours are woven together to become the complete Door, just as the four gospels combine to give a complete picture of Jesus. Jesus Christ is pure and righteous, kingly and godly, and this is how He as a man can be our ransom, the Door for us to enter into God's presence in the Tabernacle.

Jesus said “I am the Door; if any man enters through Me he shall be saved” John 10:9 and “I am the way, the truth and the life; no man comes to (God) the Father except through Me” John 14:6. This claim by Jesus is unique and limited, but just look at Jesus' life and His conduct: Simon Peter (one of His closest disciples) could later say of Him “He did no sin, neither was there any deceit found in His mouth” I Peter 2:22.

Spend time to look at the Door. Read the gospel accounts of Jesus and discover for yourself His character, His compassion, His carefulness, His teaching, His power. The Door of the Outer Court is the only way in, inviting and attractive. The Door speaks of both the compassion and the kingship of Jesus, His nature as God and a genuine man, Son of God and son of man. Jesus said “I am the Door; if any man enters through Me he shall be saved” John 10:9.
Do take a good look at the Door; then enter in through the Door. Once you are inside the Tabernacle, you will discover so much about what Jesus meant by “be saved” and how this can come about in your experience, beginning at the Burnt Offering Altar and the Laver.

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WHEN JESUS ENTERS IN!

WHEN JESUS ENTERS IN.

When Jesus entered the temple area things began to happen! Jesus cleaned the house, along with other things. And when Jesus enters another temple, things begin to happen. WHAT TEMPLE? The temple that God gave each one of us, our bodies and lives. When Jesus enters into a person’s life, things begin to happen, to change, and to change for the better! Has Jesus entered YOUR LIFE yet?

WHEN JESUS ENTERS IN, HE DRIVES OUT EVIL.

Matthew 21:12 “Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.”

When Jesus enters anywhere, a temple area, a human heart, YOUR LIFE, evil cannot stay. Jesus drives out the evil! The Devil is just like a roaring lion, once he has taken a bite of you, he is a hanger-on! He never wants to let you go.

And so it is with evil (The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice) and sin (An act that is regarded as a transgression of God's will) in our lives. Evil does not want to give up easily. It continues to claw its way into our lives in order to deceive, gain control and kill. But when Jesus enters in, things can change! Things will change!

Billy Sunday, the evangelist, spoke out against evil! He preached Christ as the only answer to man’s needs until his death in 1935. He said, “I am against sin. I will kick it as long as I have got a foot, and I will fight it as long as I have got a fist. I will butt it as long as I have got a head. I will bite it as long as I have got a tooth. When I am old and fist less and footless and toothless, I will gum it till I go home to Glory and it goes to hell.”

That is the spirit! But it can only happen with the Lord’s help, when His Holy Spirit is working within us. WE need to prayer: “Lord, deliver us from the evil one and from our own evil.” Only the Lord can do that. We must lean on Him. In time, we can become cleaner and better people. If Jesus is at work in your life you WILL NOT stay where you are. WHEN JESUS ENTERS IN, HE CALLS FOR PRAYER.Matthew 21:13 “And He said to them, “It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of thieves.'”

Our house should be a “house of prayer” but often it is a house of doubt and union with the world.
1. Doubt, because we allow the rush of the day to invade us to the point where God is pushed out and we have no time to talk to God, we ROB God of our time.
2. Union with the world, because we are conformed to the things around us instead of drawing aside to have some quiet time with God. We ROB God of fellowship, but God want us to be a people of prayer.

Prayer should be one of the most natural things we do every day, every hour of the day. Not simple, surface prayers, but prayers that penetrate our own hearts and the heart of God. It is literally, verbally, constantly talking to God about anything and everything. I Thessalonians 5:17 “Pray continually.”

As someone said: “Prayer is not an easy way of getting what we want, but the only way of becoming what God wants us to be.”

WHEN JESUS ENTERS IN, HE BRINGS HEALING.

Matthew 21:14 “Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.”

When we go to see the doctor, we expect him/ her to give us the treatment that will heal us, by pills, medicine or operation.
More so, it should be when we come to God, we must expect HEALING BY FAITH! Healing of both the soul (Salvation) and of the body (Sickness). It is BY FAITH that we must come to God in our sickness of body. Do you have that faith tonight to receive YOUR healing from God?

All of us will know that our ultimate healing will come in heaven. But I would rather receive it NOW! Do you? Step out in FAITH tonight!

CONCLUSION:

Let Jesus enter YOUR LIFE. Let Him guide, direct and bless you. Let Him cleanse you, and make you into a person of prayer, praise, and healed!

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