WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:04.719 Welcome to this week's message from the Church at Chelsea Westover. 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:10.800 Our core values are vibrant worship, intimate fellowship, fulfilling service, and clear biblical truth. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.359 We pray that this message changes your life. 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.760 Let's tune in to today's message and see what God has in store for you. 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:29.440 Well, I'll tell you what, as uh Danny mentioned, Pastor Love mentioned here, this uh study on the tabernacle is not about information, it's more about inspiration. 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:35.759 Because I've studied the information of the Passover, or excuse me, the uh tabernacle, and it's incredibly rich. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:51.840 Took me six months to rebuild the tabernacle in a scale model about the size of this table, and we just put every pin and every hoop and every jot and every tittle that was there, every color and all the sizes and the lengths and everything, all representing various things. 00:00:52.159 --> 00:01:01.439 But when I started doing a study of the tabernacle in the in the emphasis of reaching God, I thought to myself, what was the purpose of the tabernacle? 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:02.960 Well, it was to get to God. 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:10.079 It was to be able to find God, to be able to find a connection with the sovereign, and to go into the holiest of holies. 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:24.480 And I'm thinking to myself, if God loved us so much that he was willing to provide a way that we could get to him, a way that he could get to us, so that he could talk to us and we could talk to him, that's about prayer. 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:27.120 And that's something that we really struggle with. 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:29.200 I'll be honest with you, of all the things. 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:40.000 I mean, I I can go out soul winning, I can preach the word, I can I can I can baptize, I can have weddings and funerals, and I can build churches and plant churches and revitalize churches. 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:52.879 But man, when it comes down to that face-to-face walk with God praying for an hour, hour and a half, I had to I have to have a system, I have to have a method in order to keep my attention because my mind wanders so quickly. 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:59.040 I mean, I could be off chasing rabbits in about 10 to 30 seconds when I come in and getting on my knees in prayer. 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:04.879 And uh, I wanted a system, I wanted a means whereby I could I could systematically walk to God. 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:11.599 And this tabernacle series began to open to me some inspiration on how to build my prayer life. 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:12.960 And that's what it's all about. 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:23.439 I don't expect hundreds and hundreds of people uh to be able to be interested in this because I'm gonna tell you what, it's the very few sometimes that really have a heart after God. 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:26.800 I can't force that on anybody, I can't make anybody do it. 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:31.360 But when we presented this at Calvary Baptist Church, and some people came very skeptical. 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:34.560 When I started preaching about it, they started saying, What are you taking us back to? 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:42.159 The Old Testament in the wilderness, and and what are you doing taking us back into this antiquated stuff called tabernacle? 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:43.120 We're away from that. 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:45.280 We're in Jesus now, we're in the New Testament. 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:51.280 And I said, Oh, just hang on, because the Bible has Jesus in it all the way from Genesis to Revelation. 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:55.439 And if you want to find out, if you're gonna find Jesus, go back into the Old Testament. 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:56.479 He's everywhere. 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:59.199 I find my Lord in the Bible whenever I chance to look. 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:02.400 He's the theme of the scripture, the centered heart of the book. 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:05.680 And uh, he's the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valley fair. 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:08.719 When I open up the Bible, I see Jesus everywhere. 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.120 He in the book of Genesis gave the uh earth its form. 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:22.159 He gave he's the art, he's he brought uh, well, excuse me, the sound is getting a little bit in the wow, yeah. 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:24.479 We're getting some of that holy trumpet sound. 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:26.479 And I'm gonna get to that in just a moment here. 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:30.319 And uh he's he's in the book of Genesis, gave the earth its form. 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:33.120 And uh he he he's in uh Exodus. 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:45.439 We find him everywhere through the book of Exodus, writing the symbolism and giving the giving the type uh the typology, and then God is found uh all through the scriptures pointing to Jesus, uh pointing to the blood. 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:48.560 The bloodline runs all the way from Genesis to Revelation. 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:49.759 It's a book of red. 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:57.599 And I praise God that uh this book represents Jesus in such a profound way, and the whole tabernacle points to Jesus. 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:09.039 Well, this tabernacle and all the details of it, all the various uh ins and outs of the tabernacle leads us on a walk to go into the holiest of holies, where God the Father dwells. 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:15.280 Now, let me just kind of fill you in on a little bit here, because we talked about the three sections, and it's very important we understand this. 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:25.279 God's symbol symbol symbology, symbol, symbolical representation here of having the outer court, then we have the inner court, which is inside here. 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:34.160 There's the outer court, we got the inner court in here where they serve, and then we go into the holiest of holies, and that's in the in the holy place, that's the spirit of God. 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:38.720 So we got we got uh uh Jesus out here in the outer court. 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:45.600 He became he dwelt among us, he took on himself the form of God, he he became God, God in flesh, Emmanuel. 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:50.480 And when we think about God, we we think about the physical Jesus, he's the outer court. 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:52.240 And here's what we're gonna be talking about. 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:56.959 Here's at the brazen altar here, and then we have the labor, all talking about Jesus. 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:04.240 He washed our sins away, he became the sacrificial lamb, he died for us as a sacrifice to pay the price. 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:05.680 So he's the outer court. 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:12.079 Then we go to the inner court, which is where the Holy Spirit dwells, the seven spirits of God represented by the lampstand. 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:23.279 Then we find over here the table of showbread, the blood of Jesus, the the word of God, that the that the Holy Spirit opens our minds and illuminates our minds and helps us to understand the scriptures. 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:35.040 That's where the Holy Spirit dwells, that's where his ministry is, then the golden altar where the Bible says the Holy Spirit's there to make intercession for us, praying our prayers, taking with groanings which we cannot utter to the Father. 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:36.160 That's his ministry. 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:39.199 He's the high priest walking around that inner court. 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:42.399 And then we go into the Holies of Holies where the Father dwells. 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:47.360 We can't see sometimes we we we we miss the Trinity and getting to the Father. 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:51.920 We want to rush right into the presence of the Father, but God has provided a process. 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:53.519 God has provided a plan. 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:56.160 The process is come first by way of Jesus. 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:59.600 You don't go any further till you come by Jesus, the outer court. 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:02.399 Then you go into the inner court, then you come into the Holy Spirit. 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:05.680 The Holy Spirit starts opening your mind, starts turning on the light. 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:06.959 The Bible makes sense. 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:10.079 He teaches us and reveals truth to us. 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:16.240 And then, thirdly, we find that the Holy Spirit is praying for us and he's interceding for us. 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:20.000 He's going to the Father saying, Oh, accept this one by the blood of Jesus. 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:22.160 Listen to him, receive him, accept him. 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:28.399 So the Holy Spirit's going into the inner sanctum, the holiest of holies, saying to the Father, Take this one. 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:29.600 He's a child of God. 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:34.560 He's been blood washed in the blood of Jesus, and uh I present him to you. 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.000 So we then come into the very presence of God. 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:50.000 Uh and then this tabernacle that we talked about this morning, this physical or uh sign of the tabernacle in the wilderness now is represented as God moved from the tabernacle in the wilderness. 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:50.879 Where does he move? 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:53.199 He moved into our hearts, into our lives. 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:55.519 And we also have three compartments. 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:03.839 And man, when we start worshiping God and we start praying the way God wants us to pray, we understand it's praying in the body. 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:09.360 See, sometimes when we get mixed up and we get sidetracked, we don't get into the spirit of prayer. 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:22.560 We get hung up on the body, the body gets weary and the flesh gets weak and our mind starts wandering, or we get hung up in the soulish part, the intellect, emotion, and will, and we never move from that into the holiest of holies, into the spirit. 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:33.519 And that's what God wants us to, He wants us to pray in body, soul, and spirit, so that we can connect with this Trinity of God in this in this uh relationship that God has given to us. 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:45.360 So we have the Trinity, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Father, and then we have inside of us that uh body, outward shelf, Jesus, the physical part of us that everyone can see. 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.839 Then we go to the soul, the intellect, emotion, and will. 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:52.160 We understand, we know, we feel, we can cry, we get connected in prayer. 00:07:52.319 --> 00:08:00.480 Then all of a sudden, when we make that path, we come into the very thresh room, uh the threshold and into the very throne room of God. 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:04.160 Well, we're gonna talk about the gate, and also I'm gonna blow the trumpet here. 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:05.920 Notice, notice here what we got. 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:13.120 We got these walls around here, and we don't walls say, walls say, do not enter. 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:15.120 That's what walls are for. 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:18.959 Walls tell us two things a wall does. 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:25.199 A wall keeps what's in here from getting out and keep what out here from getting in. 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:32.399 So when there's walls around this tabernacle, it's just basically God saying, No trespassing, unless you come my way. 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:37.039 You have to you say, Oh, oh, that's just a bunch of fabric here. 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:40.559 We can sneak under the wall, or we can climb over that thing. 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:54.399 But I'm gonna tell you what, you're walking on dangerous territory when you try to get through God's wall, because I'll tell you what, there's a barrier around that that uh you cannot penetrate other than coming the way that God has ordained for us to come to Him. 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:56.799 And that's the process of this whole thing. 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:59.360 God, God is here in the Holies of Holies. 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:07.440 He's put this big old fence around 150 feet this way, 75 feet this way, but right here in the midst of this is a gate. 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:09.200 And you know what a gate says? 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:11.039 A gate says, Come. 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.639 A gate says there's a way, there's an entrance. 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:22.720 And praise God, those walls may be only seven feet high, but when God says you can't go over them or you can't go under them, I'm telling you, those walls are high. 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:24.799 We're hearing a lot about walls today, aren't we? 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:29.039 I'm gonna build, build a I'm gonna build a wall. 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:36.000 And that wall's gonna be so high, and that wall is gonna be so big, it's gonna be unbelievable. 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:38.879 And Mexico's gonna pay for it, you know. 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:42.559 Uh what we find, that's not a political statement, by the way. 00:09:42.799 --> 00:10:01.679 Uh God said, Heaven's gonna have some walls, and God says, I'm gonna build it so high, and I'm gonna build it so wide and so thick and so impenetrable that no one's, and I'll tell you what, I'm gonna have, and the devil's gonna pay for it, is what God said. 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:04.559 I'm gonna build it to where no one can get through. 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:05.440 Amen. 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:23.840 No one's gonna penetrate the wall because in heaven there is a wall that God says you try to get there through your works or your membership or your or given your body to be burned or given all your resources, you cannot get into heaven other than by my prescribed way. 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:25.759 And we're gonna talk about that gate. 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:28.720 But when we come to that gate, no wonder they celebrate it. 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:35.440 They blasted the horn, and they they but man, the horns, when they blew, went for miles, they could hear them. 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:41.440 And it scared the enemy because that, oh, they're getting into the place where God dwells again. 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:46.879 I'll tell you, Philistines and the other armies around there saw the power of God. 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:47.279 Yeah. 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:51.039 And when they saw the walls of Jericho fall down, it got their attention. 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:51.279 Yeah. 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:54.799 That this God is not someone to be uh uh messing with. 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:59.279 This God is in control, and this God is mighty, and this God is powerful. 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:09.279 And when they blew the trumpets and they heard uh that uh the Israel was gathering to go into the temple, uh there was a fear that came upon the land. 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:13.679 And it was also while there was fear in the land, there was celebration in the heart of the believer. 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:14.399 That's right. 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:19.200 Man, they came with see the Bible says, enter into its gates with thanksgiving and praise. 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:20.879 Let me give you a little thought here. 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:22.879 On uh Friday night when we come in. 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:27.600 If I can do this now, on Friday night, we're gonna have that's the outer court. 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:29.039 Kind of kind of picture it now. 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:34.799 When you step in the door in the foyer area, if we can, I'd like to make that the outer court on Friday. 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:40.399 So we come in the outer court, and when we come in, I want you to be I want you to be celebrating, okay? 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:44.159 Take some time on Friday to get all the junk out of the way. 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:47.600 Take some time on Friday to come in where you're celebrating. 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:53.840 Don't come in all burdened down and grievousing, and don't be fighting with your kids and your wife on the way here, you know. 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:56.240 Get that all taken care of Friday morning, you know. 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:02.240 Come in, come in with a good spirit, come in with a smile on your face, come in ready to enter into the presence of God. 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:04.399 And when you come in, we're gonna have music playing out. 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:05.279 I don't know what we may have. 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.840 We may have someone leading guitar, we may have a piano or keyboard, or we may have just had some recorded music. 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:13.360 I don't know, but we're gonna have some singing out there and celebrating. 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:15.919 And then when you walk in, it's gonna be dark in here. 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:19.279 Because I'm gonna tell you what, there was only one light in that place. 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:27.519 There was only one light, and that was a lampstand, and that was put with oil in it that never was to go out. 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:29.919 And also, right here was a light. 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.360 This fire here was ignited by God Himself. 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:35.279 He wouldn't let them build a fire. 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:44.639 He said, You put the altar out there uh in the outer court, and he said, When you get all the conditions right, I'm gonna send the fire down. 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:51.039 And God sent the fire down to light that brazen altar, and he said to the priest, don't ever let it go out. 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:53.600 Don't ever try to kindle that fire yourself. 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:56.399 I think it was uh Nadab and Abayu that came in. 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:07.840 They wanted to try to uh try to uh light the fire because it was going out, and and what, but man, I'll tell you what, they hit the wrath of God because they were trying to offer strange fire on the altar of God. 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:10.480 God says, There's only one person where you're gonna bring fire. 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:14.639 Fire doesn't come through Randy Spencer, fire doesn't come through Pastor Danny Lovett. 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:16.080 Fire only comes from God. 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:22.399 And I recognize that if anything's gonna happen in your life or in my life, it's gonna be God that ignites the fire. 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:23.759 We can't work up revival. 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:25.200 I didn't bring it in a suitcase. 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:30.000 I don't think that because we've built this tabernacle that all of a sudden I can expect God to show up. 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:32.559 It's God that's gonna send this send the fire. 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:34.639 And that was the the light's gonna be burning. 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:40.240 When you come in and you see the brazen altar back there, there's gonna be lights and there's gonna be not physical fire. 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:41.679 You're not gonna smell smoke when you come in. 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:43.120 We're not burning the church down. 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:47.519 Uh we will have, but we will have some resemblance of fire in the altar. 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:49.440 And there will be smoke, I guarantee. 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.000 You'll you'll I'm I better not give it all away. 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:54.799 You'll you you're gonna there's gonna be some smoke, okay? 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:58.480 And when you stand around that, you're gonna be reminded of the sacrifice of Jesus. 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:05.919 And then you're gonna uh then you when you go into inner court, you're gonna go to the only place there's light would be the lampstand. 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:08.159 And the lampstand is the Holy Spirit. 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:13.279 He's the light of the world, he is the light that brings light into darkness. 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:21.039 And they were to take the oil and constantly make sure the oil was in the lampstand, burning continually day and night. 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:22.559 You say, What'd the priest do in there? 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:31.679 I'm gonna tell you what, you keep the fires going and you keep the lamps lit, and you keep uh the olive oil or the oil in the lamps, but keep give me oil and my lamp, keep keep me burning. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:32.320 Remember that? 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:33.360 Remember that song? 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:35.600 Uh give me oil and my lamp, I pray. 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:38.639 That was their ministry, keeping the light going. 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:41.279 And here's a here's a sad, sad note. 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:49.840 You go back to Samuel, and you find out there was a time in Samuel's history when the light was going out in the temple. 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:56.080 And Samuel was being called of God, and it says, Ere the lamp of God went out in the house of God. 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:04.480 And the thing that bothers me and disturbs me as I go from church to church and place to place is I don't see churches where the fire of God is falling anymore. 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:07.919 I don't see the flame any longer in the church. 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:13.200 I see churches that are struggling and churches that are dying and churches where there's no power of prayer. 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:30.159 Matter of fact, the survey was taken not too long ago by uh, what the fuck is that? 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:48.879 This is I want the presence of God every time I walk into the house of God. 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:50.879 I want to be able to feel that God is there. 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:55.360 I want to be able to know that this isn't some little ritual or some little program that we put together. 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:57.120 It's not going by some bulletin. 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.440 I want to be able to I want to be able to feel God. 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:00.639 I want to be able to see God. 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:02.159 I want to be able to hunger for God. 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:09.279 And I want people when they come to the to the church to be able to come hungry and thirsty, to be touched of God and ministered to by the Lord. 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:12.799 We want to come into the house of God celebrating. 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:16.399 Well, I said I'd gotta blow the horn. 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:20.720 This is, I'll tell you what, it's not gonna sound pretty. 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:23.039 It's not gonna sound pretty. 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:26.799 And if y'all can think you can do it better, you're welcome to come up and try. 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:29.440 Okay, but here's the best I can do. 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:32.639 It may take me a few shots to get her down here, you know. 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:40.799 But the old priest would stand out at the gate, and the man, when they heard that, when they heard that, I actually heard a Jewish rabbi. 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:42.639 You say, You gonna blow that thing or not? 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:44.320 Yeah, I'm getting to it. 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:51.039 Uh I actually had a Jewish rabbi, Neil Saraski, come to our church, and I and I had one of these, and I said, Could you blow this thing? 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:53.440 And he says, Man, I grew up blowing that thing. 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:58.720 He grabbed that thing in front of our church and he re ripped up, he was a uh converted Jew. 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:04.960 And man, I'm gonna tell you what, he put he he blasted that thing, and you could feel the glory of God coming down. 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:06.160 I'm telling you what. 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:11.519 Uh matter of fact, when he took off with it, one lady in the back cleared the seat about this far. 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:17.119 I mean, she just bounced straight up in the air and uh uh it scared the life out of her. 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:19.359 She thought Jesus was coming back and she wasn't ready. 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:19.920 Amen. 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.160 When the Bible says Jesus is coming back, I think he's coming back with one of these. 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:30.880 Because the sound of the last trumpet, I don't think it's gonna be the brass trumpet. 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:32.720 I think it's gonna be a ram's horn, man. 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:37.839 And I'm gonna tell you what, he knows how to play it, but he knows how to blow that horn. 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:49.599 How do you like that? 00:17:55.279 --> 00:18:09.839 Man, when they heard that ringing through the hills, all of Israel, all everyone in the camps, everyone in the tents started flooding to the to the tabernacle to be able to be there, having their sins taken care of, the intercession for their sins. 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:13.279 And praise God, what a celebration in the house of God. 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:16.559 Well, let's talk a little bit about the gate. 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:22.000 First of all, let me remind you that the tabernacle again, it's oika in the Greek. 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:23.279 Oikos. 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:32.319 And it was Paul the Apostle that said, We, if this earthly house of this tabernacle, the tabernacle, oikos just simply means dwelling. 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:35.519 It's just simply a place to live. 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:45.119 And then also when the word became flesh and dwelt among us, it just simply says that we are tabernacled by God. 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:49.200 Jesus was tabernacled by the Father. 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:52.400 In him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:55.599 He was a express image of the Father. 00:18:55.839 --> 00:19:01.200 And you know, when the Bible tells us that God tabernacles us, you know what we're supposed to be? 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:03.279 An express image of the Father. 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:04.480 And that's what I pray. 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:13.039 I say, dear God, if you live inside of me, make your nature, make your character, make you make make your make your love known through me. 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:15.759 May I exemplify everything that you are. 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:22.240 God, help me to get so close to you that I can know you, I can feel you, I can breathe upon me. 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:24.640 And and help me to understand who you are. 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:28.640 And as I become closer and closer to God, I become more like him. 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:32.640 I begin to imitate him because he dwells inside of me. 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:34.240 And here's a neat thing. 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:45.119 One of the most one of the most uh highest praise that anyone can give to you is someone that wants to imitate you. 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:47.279 You hear what I said? 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:59.920 From the time you know, I'm not talking about imitating and mocking you, there's enough of that going around, but I'm talking about one of the greatest delights at Liberty was have those young guys want to imitate me. 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:04.799 And I'll tell you another one that they really wanted to imitate was that pastor sitting right there. 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:09.279 They loved this man, and those young preachers would do anything. 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:15.839 They could get the Jesus is awesome down so good, and they could preach like Danny, they could stomp like Danny and snort like Danny. 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:24.480 And I'll tell you what, that that was the greatest praise to that man to see a young pastor say, I want to imitate him. 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:30.240 When my when my son Rob was growing up and he wanted to imitate me, and he's still doing it today. 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:30.480 That's right. 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:36.000 Everybody sees my son preaching, they say, Man, he's just an express image of his daddy. 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:42.960 I know where he learned, I know where he got his preaching skill, I know where he learned to walk with God, I know where he got his heart after God. 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:46.799 And I'm gonna tell you, that's the greatest praise anyone could give to me as a father. 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:51.279 And the greatest thing that you could do for our heavenly fathers is to imitate him. 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:55.759 But you have to know him in order to imitate him, you have to know his nature. 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:04.240 So when God comes to dwell within us, it means bring your full nature, and that's what God wanted to do in the tabernacle. 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:10.640 He wanted to bring his full nature, character, and attributes in the presence of the people of God. 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:12.960 So let's let's talk about it for just a moment. 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:17.519 This this word tabernacle in uh the Hebrew it's it's uh Mishkan. 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:22.960 Mishkan simply means, as I said, to dwell or to tent or to live among. 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:29.039 And the Shekinah glory that we talked about this morning was just a representation of God's cause to be with his people. 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:30.400 He loved us so much. 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:31.680 Where does God dwell? 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:40.799 Well, first of all, he dwelt in heaven, he was tabernacled in heaven, but he he wanted to make mankind, so he left heaven, and where did he come? 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:46.480 He came down to earth to be in the garden, to be with Adam and Eve, because he wanted to tabernacle with them. 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:51.039 So he lived in the garden with them because he wanted to be with the ones that he created. 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:59.839 Then all of a sudden, sin came into the world, and God cannot tw tabernacle and God cannot live in the presence of sin because of his righteousness. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:00.640 Holiness. 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:01.920 So it separated them. 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:02.880 So where did he go? 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:08.319 He he sin not only drove the man out of the garden, it drove God out of the garden. 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:10.480 Because God couldn't live in a sinful world. 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:12.880 He went back and was tabernacled in heaven. 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:20.000 And then all of a sudden, as he began to call out his own children, children of Israel, he thought to himself, I need to get back with them. 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:20.799 I love them. 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:21.759 I want to be with them. 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:24.079 I want to talk to them and walk with them and be with them. 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:29.440 So he devised a plan called a tabernacle, God's dwelling place among Israel. 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:35.519 So he came down and he set this tabernacle up and he said, If I can live with you, I could be with you and dwell. 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:44.400 And I said this morning, it blows my mind that God would leave the splendor of heaven and come and live in a box behind fabric curtains. 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:46.319 That's how much he loved you. 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:52.400 He left all of heaven's glory to come and try to provide a way to have a relationship with us. 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:55.039 He wants to talk with us and wants us to talk to him. 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:58.079 So he comes down and he lives in this tabernacle. 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:03.039 And then man come off with this ideal, Solomon and David that come off with the ideal. 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:04.000 Let's build a bigger. 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:06.799 See, the tabernacle is something that moved around. 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:10.240 You'll see on every piece of furniture it came with poles. 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:13.200 Because God says, I'm not just going to come and stay in one place. 00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:16.400 Y'all are pilgrims and you're traveling, so I'm going to move with you. 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:17.279 Praise God. 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:19.039 We have a transporting God. 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:24.720 He said, everywhere you go, you can't go higher, you can't go too low, you can't go anywhere. 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:27.519 There's no height or depth that will separate you from my love. 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:32.000 He said, I'll chase you to the ends of the earth because I want to have a relationship with you. 00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:40.559 Everywhere that Israel went for 40 years in the wilderness, God was tracking them there and tailing them there, going with them just because he loved them. 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:44.160 Well, Solomon and David come up with this idea now that they're in the promised land. 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:46.880 Let's build this temple. 00:23:47.359 --> 00:23:50.000 I don't think the temple was God's idea. 00:23:50.640 --> 00:23:53.759 I think God was saying, don't waste your money. 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:59.359 You're going to put all this time and all this effort into this great big elaborate thing, and then you know what's going to happen? 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:00.960 I'm going to destroy it. 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:05.599 I don't want to live in a big palace on earth because God had a better plan. 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:10.799 He said, When I'm done traveling in the tents, I'm going to live in my son Jesus. 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:16.480 And I'm going to send the real tabernacle down here, my son, and I'm going to be in him. 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:19.200 All the fullness of God is going to be in my son. 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:25.680 Because there's no sense building a temple because I'm going to make sure in 70 AD under the leadership of Titus that it's going to be destroyed. 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:26.640 And it was destroyed. 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:28.000 My goodness, they tore it up. 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:30.000 They literally tore the stones up. 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:30.880 And you know something? 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:34.640 It has never been built, never been reconstructed. 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:34.960 Why? 00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:37.200 Because God says, don't put that thing up. 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:42.240 I'm not going to allow it to be put up because I don't want to live in mortar and brick and behind fabric. 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:46.240 I lived there one time, but I want to live, I've got another plan now. 00:24:46.400 --> 00:25:02.640 I live through my son Jesus, and Jesus came and he provided another tabernacle, a means where it started right there at that brazen altar, and he walked all the way through it and said, I'll usher you into the presence and the fullness of God, into the Holiest of Holies. 00:25:02.799 --> 00:25:05.200 He was tabern, but it didn't stop there. 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:09.279 Because when Jesus went up into heaven, there was a day called Pentecost. 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:16.000 And God says, I'm bringing my tabernacle home, but I'm coming down and I'm building another tabernacle. 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:22.000 I'm telling you what, man, I could get, man, I'll tell you what, I could get excited. 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:31.920 He said, I'm going to come down and I'm going to, I lived in my son, I tabernacled in him, but now I'm going to dwell in my people. 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:34.319 We have a heart for God. 00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:36.319 God's going to come right into the core of us. 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:37.680 God's going to come into our heart. 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:41.759 He's going to take over and control our physical outer court, the body. 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:48.480 He's going to control the intellect, the emotion, and the will of the inner court inside the holy place. 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:52.720 And he said, I'm going to also come and dwell in your spirit. 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:56.240 When we get saved, we ask Jesus into what? 00:25:57.440 --> 00:25:58.319 Our heart. 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:02.559 And when you have Jesus in the heart, he takes control over the whole house. 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:05.279 He takes over the whole house. 00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:15.200 And when we pray, we pray through the outer courts with hands lifted up, with knees bent, with tongues that are singing praising God, with bodies that are worshiping the Lord. 00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:19.599 Don't be ashamed to praise God and pray to God with your physical bodies. 00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:21.279 Praise Him in the outer court. 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:26.000 But then also inside, in that holy place, pray in the Spirit. 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:28.960 You know, sometimes we get that word mixed up, praying in the Spirit. 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:29.680 What's that mean? 00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:34.480 It means simply let the Holy Spirit pray through you with groanings that you cannot utter. 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:35.519 You don't know how to pray. 00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:40.640 We just simply pray in the Spirit, in an intellect, fully understanding, inner emotion. 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:41.920 Nothing wrong with crying. 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:42.960 There's nothing wrong with getting. 00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:45.119 I'll tell you what, I've read the Baptist manual. 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:47.519 It doesn't say anything in there about not being happy. 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:49.839 We can be happy. 00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:51.039 We can be joyful. 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:56.240 Because God put the when you can't help but be happy when Jesus lives inside of you. 00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:57.759 So there's emotion involved. 00:26:57.920 --> 00:26:59.759 How do you love something without emotion? 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:04.400 You know, and I and I went I went to a Bible college that said, don't get too emotional. 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:05.599 You live by faith. 00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:07.279 You don't live by feeling. 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:09.599 How do you love without a feeling? 00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:10.160 You know? 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:11.920 The Bible's full of love. 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:13.920 It's from Genesis to Revelation. 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:15.680 That's all it is about relationship. 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:16.640 It's about love. 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:20.000 How do you love and how do you have a relationship without feeling anything? 00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:24.160 I don't know about anyone else, but I feel my salvation. 00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:25.680 I feel it. 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:27.039 And I love it. 00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:30.319 Intellect, I understand what I can of the word of God. 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:31.920 I get into the Bible and I want to know it. 00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:33.680 Intellect, emotion, I feel it. 00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:35.279 And then uh the will. 00:27:35.519 --> 00:27:36.880 It's my choice. 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:38.319 I willfully serve. 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:39.680 God didn't want to make robots. 00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:41.119 He wants you to willfully serve him. 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:45.680 So we worship him in body, soul, and then we worship him in spirit. 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:52.000 When we come into the path of God, we work our way into this place called the Holy St of Holies. 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:53.440 Well, there's a gate. 00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:55.839 Praise God for the gate. 00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.319 In Matthew chapter 7, verse 13, it says, Enter in by the narrow gate. 00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:05.119 There's a wall in heaven, but praise God for the gate. 00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:07.359 Every great city has a gate. 00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:10.640 Berlin, Germany has a great gate. 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:14.559 Jerusalem has the Jaffa gate. 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:19.839 London has a great gate to the city, the Downing Gate. 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:30.319 And they're especially important back years ago when they were what were what were the gates and what were the walls to protect the outside from coming in and to protect the inside from going out. 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:40.240 And God says, You enter in, if you want to come in, you come in by the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many that go in thereby. 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:46.720 But narrow is the gate and difficult is the way that leads to life, and there are few that find it. 00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:51.279 Try to get any any other way, but there, praise God, is a gate. 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:53.279 That gate is 30 foot wide. 00:28:53.440 --> 00:29:03.759 And the Bible says in heaven there's a wall, it's uh it's uh uh exclusiveness, you exclusively for those who know Jesus. 00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:06.640 Uh but there's a way. 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:09.920 And uh the Bible calls it the pearly gates. 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:14.880 And when the when you enter into the gates of the tabernacle, they were shouting and celebrating. 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:23.599 I'm gonna tell you what, this old Baptist, when I walk through the old pearly gates, I don't care what the Baptist manual says, I don't care what the what the preachers say. 00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:26.799 When I come through the pearly gates, man, this man's coming in with shouting. 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:29.279 And I know what's gonna happen when Danny comes in the gates. 00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:30.400 He's gonna say what? 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:31.920 Jesus says what? 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:38.559 Awesome! There's gonna be shouting on the hills of glory when we enter the gates. 00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:51.039 And that's what God said when you come into the tabernacle, come shout in the glory of God, because God has made a way, God has made an entrance, and it's through his Son Jesus we can walk into that precious place where God dwells. 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:53.440 Awesome. 00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:55.359 I want to ask you something here. 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:56.960 Actually, I want to tell you something. 00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:02.640