Lesson 24

Last week we left off with the people who were unable to get close to God because of the law. 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,000 They were guilty, they were sinners, and they had to put boundaries around the mountains. 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:19,000 And we've learned that all of us have broken those Ten Commandments. 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:25,000 And that we're all guilty before God. 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:30,000 And so if you'll look now in Exodus 25, let me turn back there. 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Verse 1, it says, "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 'Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering, 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:44,000 of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart, ye shall take my offering.'" 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:50,000 In other words, I want people to bring me something. And the reason they were going to be bringing it is because God was going to do something very special with an offering. 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:59,000 If you'll look in verse 23, "And this is the offering which ye shall take of them, gold and silver and brass and blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen and goats hair, 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:08,000 and ramskins dyed red and badger skins and shiteen wood, oil for the light, spices for anointing oil and for sweet incense, 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:17,000 onyx stones and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate." 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,000 And here's our key verse in verse 8, "And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them." 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:31,000 So the law could not bring God and man together. The law showed man how guilty they were. 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:38,000 The law showed the difference between a holy God and an unholy people. 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:44,000 So we learned that God giving us a bunch of rules, have you all ever had trouble keeping rules? 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:53,000 You all, every one of us. No, nobody is. So, you know, I know for me, as I told you all last week, 00:01:53,000 --> 00:02:03,000 when I tried to obey God's rules, even though I tried the best I could, I found that no matter how hard I tried, I still came short of keeping them. 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:15,000 And even if you can keep them the best you can on the outside, still there's that part of you on the inside that rebels, even though you may not want to. 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:27,000 And so God giving us rules was like that speed limit sign that we passed when we were driving 70 and a 55 or something. 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:36,000 The speed limit, the law, does not give you the ability to obey. It only gives you the requirement to obey. 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:48,000 And that's the way it is with God's law. God's law doesn't give us the ability to obey. 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:54,000 But when we pass that law, like the speed limit sign, it shows us you're wrong as you're going by. 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:00,000 You're wrong as you're walking through life. And so how do we take God, who's up on the mountain, and man who's down here on earth, 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:11,000 man is holy, I'm sorry, man is unholy, God is holy, how do we join them together? 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000 God says, "Well, do it through a sanctuary. Let them make me a sanctuary that I, the God on the mountain, 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:24,000 who's separate from these people, can get off the mountain and come dwell among them." 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Because ultimately, God doesn't want us to be separate from him. He wants to reconcile. 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Remember, we looked at a mediator last week. He wants to reconcile the differences between us 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:47,000 and make us right and make us to where we can dwell with him. Good morning. Good to see you all this morning. 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:58,000 We're in Exodus chapter 25, if you all want to turn there, and we'll give you time to catch up. 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,000 For those online, we just had some guests come in, which we're very thankful for. 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Exodus chapter 25. 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Be the second book in your Bible. Genesis and Exodus in the 25th chapter. 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:40,000 And as you're turning there, I was telling them, just reminding them about last week, 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,000 when the children of Israel came up to Mount Sinai, God's Ten Commandments caused them to realize how unholy they were. 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:55,000 They could not approach God. They were driven from God because he was holy, they were unholy. 00:04:55,000 --> 00:05:05,000 And so the law, God's law, did not give them the ability to be holy. It simply pointed out their unholyness. 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:14,000 It simply showed them that they were sinners. 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 And so the only way that man and God could come back and be reconciled together wasn't through the law. 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:23,000 The law drove Israel away. The only way it could happen was through the work of this sanctuary. 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:29,000 We're looking now in Exodus chapter 25 verse 8. God said, "And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them." 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:37,000 And so what we're looking at today is the work of this sanctuary. 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:43,000 This sanctuary, like everything else, remember when we were looking at the animals that God slew to cover Adam and Eve in the garden, 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:53,000 that pointed to the Savior to come, when we looked at the ark that delivered Noah and his family from the flood, that pointed to the Savior to come. 00:05:53,000 --> 00:06:03,000 When we saw the ram that took Isaac's place on the mountain that pointed to the Savior to come, 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:10,000 the lamb on Pass overnight pointed to the Savior to come. Well, what do you think this sanctuary is going to be about? 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:17,000 It's going to be pointing them to the Savior to come. 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,000 The promised Savior is the theme throughout the whole Bible. 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:28,000 What man did in his sin and God's solution through a promised Savior. 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Genesis starts out telling us how we went wrong and what God promised to do to fix it. 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Revelation, the last of the Bible, tells us how it's going to come out in the end and how the Savior fixed it. 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:50,000 That's basically it. Everything in the middle, it just flows that continual story all the way to the end, 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:58,000 like a skeletal system, head to toe. And all the other doctrines are the meat, you know, and organs and everything. 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:06,000 And so he says, "Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them." 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Now look in verse 9, "According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:18,000 and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall you make it." 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Now this is very important. 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,000 "According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments, even so shall you make it." 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:33,000 So what does that tell us about this sanctuary? 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 It doesn't mean that man's going to get to come down and say, "Well, you know what? I'll get some interior designers here. 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:44,000 I'll get some of my best construction crew. And we're going to come up with a really great tabernacle. 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:54,000 And we're going to make a real nice one." 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,000 No. It's not going to be man's ideas. 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:03,000 It's not going to be how he envisions what a tabernacle should look like. 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,000 If you want to know what man envisions a tabernacle should look like, look at all the false religions in this world. 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:16,000 You're going to have man's imagination. 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,000 I don't want to follow a set of man-made ideas. 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:28,000 I want my Creator to reveal Himself to me and to show me truth. 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:36,000 And so God said, "How are you going to make this tabernacle according to all that I show you?" 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:43,000 The way I show you to make it. 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,000 We have God here. We have man here. 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:54,000 We have sin that separates God and man. 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:04,000 The law couldn't bring them together because all the law did was show man how he's broken it. 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:11,000 He couldn't make him good, and he showed him how bad he was. 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,000 There's an old saying that if you want to see how crooked a stick is, just lay a straight one down beside it. 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:24,000 And then it'll show you. That's what the law did. It showed him how crooked they were. 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Which, by the way, is what our English word "wicked" means. It means crooked. 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Which is why we say, "Well, that man's a crook." 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 It means they're bent out of the straight way that God's given. 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:41,000 So we have this sin here, and so God says a sanctuary is going to fix this problem. 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:47,000 A sanctuary is going to allow a holy God to come dwell among his people. 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:56,000 It'll take the sin issue out of the way the sanctuary will. 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:02,000 As long as that sin issue is there, then we still have God and man separated. 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:09,000 So the sanctuary's got to do it, but it's got to be according to, if you look back in verse 9, 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:15,000 after the pattern of the tabernacle, the pattern of the instrument, you'll see that word pattern. 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:21,000 God's going to give them a pattern, and they have to go by that pattern. 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:26,000 When we have the Bible, in the Bible, God gives us the pattern for what we call salvation. 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:38,000 We all have to be saved from sin. We all have to be saved from death. 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Every one of us are marching toward that grave right now. 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,000 And the only way to overcome sin and death, which results because of our sin, 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:55,000 the only way to overcome it is according to the pattern that God gives us. 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:00,000 You see, God is life. I used to, I did this in this class. 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:05,000 I would go out and when Adam and Eve sinned, and maybe I'll do that again one day, 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:13,000 I used to go out and I would break off a branch out of one of our shrubs. 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:19,000 And I'd bring it in, I'd show everybody the day that I taught on Adam and Eve sinning. 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,000 And the branch looked great. It may have little flowers on it and everything, 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,000 depending on what season it was, you know, and nice green leaves. 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,000 And I would take it and I'd tape it up here. 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:36,000 And then as we teach throughout the year, everyone will get to come in 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:41,000 and see what happens to that branch. It starts weathering, kind of like us. 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:47,000 It starts getting wrinkles, gray hair, you know, everything else. 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,000 And next thing you know, it's all dried up and brittle. 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 You say, well, when did it die? It died the moment it was cut off from its source of life. 00:11:54,000 --> 00:12:03,000 And so when Adam and Eve ate from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of God 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,000 and Eve that day, they were like that branch. They were cut off from their source of life. 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,000 They may have been green for a while. We may be green for a while. 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:15,000 But eventually, we get dried up and weathered like that branch. 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,000 And so as long as sin stays between us and our Creator, we're cut off from our source of life. 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:27,000 So instead of having everlasting life from an everlasting God, we have everlasting death without Him. 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:33,000 It's got to be overcome. And the only way to do it is to make it after the pattern God's shown, 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:38,000 as every other man-made religion will fail. 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:43,000 We'll look at that some this morning in our message, by the way. 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Now, let's go ahead and look now in verse 10, Exodus 25 verse 10. 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:53,000 It says, "And they shall make an ark of shittim wood, 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,000 and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,000 and a cubit and a half the height thereof. 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 with in and without shalt thou overlay it, 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:12,000 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 and put them in the four corners thereof, 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,000 and the two rings shall be on one side of it, 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 and the two rings on the other side of it. 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 and overlay them with gold, 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,000 and thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 that the ark may be borne with them." 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Alright, now look, since we only have so much time in here, 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:36,000 here's what we're going to do. 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,000 I'm going to start drawing a little picture. 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:45,000 This sanctuary, and you can go back and read from Exodus 25, 26, 27, 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:51,000 you can go on and read all the details, 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,000 but this sanctuary, 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:59,000 it looks something like this, 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:05,000 it's going to be a tent, a tabernacle. 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,000 It's going to be divided into two sections. 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,000 This will be holy place, 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 means special and set apart. 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 This shall be the most holy place. 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,000 It's more special and more set apart than any other place in the sanctuary. 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Or you may see in the Bible, holy and holy of holies, 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:31,000 which basically means most holy, okay? 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 In the most holy place is going to be this ark of the covenant, okay? 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Now remember, the covenant is this law that God gave on Sinai. 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:44,000 The only way that God can accept these people is if they obey His law perfectly. 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:50,000 The problem is, nobody can. 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Not because the law is bad, not because the law is too strict. 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:58,000 The law is good, but the people are not. 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:03,000 So we have an ark of the covenant. 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Now remember, an ark is like a box. 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Remember Moses was an ark of bull rushes. 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 We had an ark that had Noah and his family in it. 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,000 It's a container. 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,000 And so you're going to have this box made of shetim wood. 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,000 I'm going to make a little rectangle here. 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,000 And it's going to go in the most holy place. 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,000 And if you'll notice, it talked about rings. 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,000 It's going to have these little rings. 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 And there's going to be staves. 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 So basically, there's going to be sticks or poles that run through these rings. 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Because in this ark, there's going to be the Ten Commandments. 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:49,000 All right? 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,000 That's why it's called the ark of the covenant, the ark of the law that God gave. 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:56,000 God will meet with the people just on the top of this ark. 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:02,000 So it's super, super holy, most holy. 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,000 So the people can't touch the ark. 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:11,000 So when they carry the ark, and it's the only special people who can carry the ark, 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,000 they put poles through the rings and they touch the poles 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,000 and they transport the ark as they move toward the Promised Land. 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,000 But they can't touch the ark itself. They'll die. 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,000 So here's this ark. It's going to be made of wood. 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 It's going to be overlaid with gold. 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Let's go ahead and look here and look in verse 16. 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:36,000 "And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony," that's the law, 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,000 "which thou shalt give thee." So the law goes inside the ark. 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Let's look here in verse 17. 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,000 "And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold. 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000 and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof." 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 You see how detailed this is? 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,000 And it's got to be done exactly like God said. 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Exactly like God said. 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 You don't vary to the left or to the right, or it's not going to work. 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:09,000 So we have this mercy seat now. 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:15,000 And so when we're looking at a seat, 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,000 we're not talking about someone saying, "Oh, hop up here, have a seat." 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Okay, it's not a chair. 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 But rather, and I'll appeal to the men here especially, 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:30,000 but the ladies will understand too, 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,000 if you have a lid on something, or if you have a top on something, 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:40,000 and let's say it's got a gasket on it or something, you know, 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,000 you want to make sure that it's seated properly. 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,000 You see, that's the language we're using here with seat. 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,000 So it's not a chair, it's a lid that fits on top of a box. 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:55,000 And inside the box is God's law. 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Okay? 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,000 But the neat thing about it is, 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,000 this lid is what kind of lid? What kind of lid? 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:09,000 What kind of seat? 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Mercy seat. 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,000 Mercy seat. 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Ah! Now I tell you what, if there's one thing a sinner needs, 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:20,000 if there's one thing a guilty party needs, it's what? 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 It's mercy. 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,000 The only way that God could come off that mountain 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:31,000 and dwell among His people, 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 that a holy God can dwell among unholy people, 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,000 is on the basis of, sit with me, mercy. 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:41,000 Mercy. 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,000 So what we're going to do, 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,000 as we go through and learn about the sanctuary, 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:51,000 the sanctuary in the work of this tabernacle 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,000 is going to define for us what mercy is. 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:00,000 A lot of us would say, we would view mercy this way, 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,000 we would think, well, you know, 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Jess is guilty and let's say I'm the judge, 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:15,000 and Jess says, 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 "Judge Fulton, I just ask you to have mercy. 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:22,000 I know I broke the law. 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000 I know I stole that. 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,000 I know I broke into Chris's house 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,000 and stole his money and all that out of there, 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 but I just asked for it." 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Yeah, he got all you had though. 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000 He just needs mercy. 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,000 And so let's say that I say, 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:42,000 well, I tell you what, 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000 I'm a kind and a loving judge. 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,000 I give you mercy. 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000 And I just let them walk. 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Now, that's the thing, but that's true. 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Because if I extend mercy to the violator that way, 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:04,000 I have now offended the violated. 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:09,000 The victim now has not been made whole. 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:14,000 Unless he can restore what he took away, 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:20,000 then me extending him mercy gives him no satisfaction. 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:25,000 That's not mercy. 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,000 That's judicial corruption, you see. 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:33,000 And so our idea of mercy, 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000 of just saying, "God be merciful," 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 and God says, "Okay, I'll be merciful. 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,000 I love you all. I forgive you." 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,000 It didn't work that way. 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 That's the world's concept of mercy. 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000 I promise you it does not work that way. 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,000 If on the other hand, I the judge... 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Now, you didn't spend all this money, had you? 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000 You didn't loan it. 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Hey, y'all ever heard anyone owe you money? 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,000 And you go to... 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000 You have someone owe you money, you go to them. 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 They said, "Man, I didn't spend all that. I'm sorry. It's gone." 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,000 They couldn't pay you back. 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Oh, man, yeah. Next week never comes. 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Yeah. 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,000 Now, you didn't loan all this money. 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 You didn't spend it. 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,000 He went to Las Vegas, spent every bit of it. 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,000 It's gone. 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Now, how about this? 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 He says, "Judge, I did wrong. 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,000 I took his money. I blew it in Las Vegas. 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,000 I did something that was immoral and wrong, and I'm sorry, 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,000 and I wish so much that I could take it back, but I can't. 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:42,000 And I have no money to pay him back. I just ask for mercy." 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Now, he's watching me. He's watching me. 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,000 I'm the judge. What if this happens? 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,000 What if I say, "I give you mercy, 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:59,000 and I give you the money that he took away"? 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Now, both parties are made whole, you see. 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Now, what if we do better than that? 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:13,000 I give him mercy. He gets money. 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,000 He's been made whole. The violated is made whole. 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,000 The guilty party receives mercy. 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,000 But what if I could do better than that? 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,000 What if I could give the guilty party innocence? 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:34,000 What if instead of just not giving him punishment, 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,000 I could provide him righteousness? 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Now, both parties are made whole, 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,000 because if all I do is not give him punishment, 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,000 he still remains a guilty person, just unpunished. 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:51,000 He's happy because he has his money back. 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,000 He's unhappy because he's still a thief, you see. 00:22:54,000 --> 00:23:01,000 But if this judge can reconcile these parties 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:06,000 and make both whole, we righteously win. 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:12,000 That's what the sanctuary is going to do. 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000 God is going to provide Israel mercy. 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Who is the offender here? 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,000 Israel is the offender. The people are the offenders. 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,000 We're the offenders. We're the ones that's broken God's holy law. 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,000 God's going to give us mercy, 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,000 but the only way he's going to give us mercy, 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 who's the offended party? God is. 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,000 You think God's going to say, "That's okay. I just don't need the money." 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000 No, no, no. It doesn't work that way. 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 God is going to make sure that he gets paid back everything we took away. 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:50,000 The honor we should have given him, the obedience we should have given him, right? 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:55,000 The love we should have given him, 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,000 God's going to get every bit of that back. 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:04,000 And not only is he going to do that, 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 not only is he going to restore the offended party himself, 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:11,000 but he is going to be able to provide the guilty party innocence, righteousness, 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:17,000 and make them so they're not violators of God's law anymore. 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,000 That's the mercy God gives. 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Everything else, again, is just judicial corruption. It's a joke. 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:28,000 So people that say, "Well, God will forgive us. It'll be okay. 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,000 We'll all get to heaven. God will just forgive us." 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,000 There's only one way God forgives. 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,000 That's according to the pattern he's shown us. 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,000 And the pattern he's shown us is called the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:45,000 That's the only way that the Ten Commandments can be perfectly fulfilled. 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Notice now, the mercy seat is on top of the Ten Commandments. 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,000 It's all in the same box. 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Mercy and obedience are in the same box. 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:05,000 You can't have mercy without full obedience to God's law. 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:10,000 You see? 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,000 So this sanctuary is going to provide some way 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:16,000 where the guilty can fully obey God's law 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:21,000 and at the same time receive mercy because they haven't. 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Isn't that amazing? 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 So we'll have to go through this and see how it works. 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Look now in verse 18, 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:36,000 "And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work, 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,000 shalt thou make them in the two ends of the mercy seat. 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,000 And make one cherub on the one end, 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 and the other cherub on the other end, 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,000 even of the mercy seat shall you make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:50,000 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000 covering the mercy seat with their wings, 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 and their faces shall look one to the other toward the mercy seat, 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000 shall the faces of the cherubims be." 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,000 Wow. 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 So here's what happened. 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Remember who can tell me what it-- 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,000 and Jonathan don't say anything. 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Who can tell me what a cherubim is? 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,000 An angel? 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,000 That's exactly right. 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,000 How many kinds of angels were there? 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,000 Two. 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,000 What were they? 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Cherubim, what's the other? 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Seraphim is. 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,000 That's it. 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,000 Seraphim, man, very, man, you're hitting on all cylinders. 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,000 Not two genders. 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,000 They're all male. 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000 You see a female angel, it's not biblical. 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,000 They're all male. 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,000 But there are two different types. 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,000 There's cherubim, there's seraphim. 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,000 There's going to be these cherubim. 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Now remember, cherubim are the guardian angels, 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,000 are the ones that stood and kept the way of the tree of life 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000 and wouldn't let man come back in. 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000 We're going to have one on each side here. 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,000 And their wings are going to be overspreading, 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,000 and they're going to be looking down at that mercy seat. 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,000 And the idea is this. 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,000 This concept of God's mercy, of the law not being broken, 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:02,000 of mercy being given to the people who broke it, 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,000 is such a holy, special thing. 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,000 You dare not tamper with it. 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,000 You dare not alter it. 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,000 You dare not pollute it. 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000 And those guardian angels, they've got their wings covered. 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,000 You know how a chicken will cover their little chicks? 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,000 They're protecting it, and they're looking, 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000 and they're both staring down at that mercy seat 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,000 as it is something most holy and most special 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:35,000 we're going to guard with everything. 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,000 Don't tamper with it. 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Now, look here in verse 23. 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,000 So the mercy seat goes here in the most holy place. 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,000 Let's look here now. 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Verse 23, "Thou shalt also make a table of shetim wood, 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,000 two cubits shall be the length thereof, 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,000 and a cubit the breadth thereof, 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000 and a cubit and a half the height thereof, 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,000 and thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,000 and make there to a crown or a rim of gold round about, 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:06,000 and thou shalt make unto it a border 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,000 of a handbreadth round about, 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,000 and thou shalt make a golden crown 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,000 to the border of round about, 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,000 and thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:19,000 just like the mercy seat, 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,000 or just like the Ark of the Covenant, excuse me, 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,000 and put the rings in the four corners 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,000 that are on the four feet thereof. 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,000 Over against the border shall the rings be 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000 for the places of the staves to bear the table, 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,000 and thou shalt make the staves of shetim wood, 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,000 and overlay them with gold, 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,000 that the table may be borne or carried with them. 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,000 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,000 and the spoons thereof, and the covers thereof, 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000 and the bowls thereof, to cover with all, 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 and a pure gold shalt thou make them." 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000 What's this table for? 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,000 We're going to see the next verse. 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,000 "And thou shalt set upon the table, 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,000 showbread before me always." 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,000 Man, I get tingles thinking about this, all right? 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,000 Now look. 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,000 Remember, watch this now. 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,000 God said this has to be done according to a particular, 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,000 specific pattern that God gives. 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:18,000 And so making it according to the pattern, 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,000 the tabernacle then becomes a pattern of the Savior to come. 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:28,000 So if the Savior to come doesn't-- 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000 if someone professes to be the Savior to come 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,000 and they don't fit this pattern, 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,000 they're not the Savior God provided. 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,000 But if the person God provided fits this pattern here, 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,000 we know we have the promised Savior. 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,000 Now watch what happens. 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000 You're going to take a table, 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:53,000 and you're going to put what kind of bread? 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Shh. 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000 Showbread. 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,000 Showbread. 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,000 Now his mama works with him, 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,000 but he's been through the one like this for children. 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,000 So a lot of folks haven't been through this before, 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,000 so we don't want him to answer. 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,000 He's like a steel trap. 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,000 He retains all the information. 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,000 Very proud of him. 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,000 Showbread. 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000 How many of you all have showbread at the house? 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,000 How many of you all have bread at the house? 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,000 I do have. 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,000 You have--can I use that as an illustration? 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,000 I don't want to. 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,000 I will give it back. 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,000 I promise I'll give it back. 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,000 All right. 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,000 Folks, this is a homemade loaf of bread made by Jonathan, 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:47,000 made in a bread machine. 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,000 It's pretty neat. 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,000 He brings these up here every now and then gives them to people. 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,000 Now, this is bread in my hand. 00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:00,000 What's the difference between bread and showbread? 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:05,000 It's exactly right. 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,000 This is bread. 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,000 This is showbread. 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,000 I'm showing you my bread. 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000 All right. 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,000 Yeah. 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000 I'm showing you my bread. 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Showbread is bread that's set out on display to be shown. 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:26,000 And who's this bread being shown to? 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,000 Who's the bread being shown to? 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,000 The Lord is God. 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000 How do we know? 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,000 Look back in the text. 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,000 That's every time I'm always going to drive you right back to the Scriptures. 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,000 Look back in verse 30. 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,000 Look in verse 30. 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,000 "And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before me." 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,000 You're showing the bread to God. 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:54,000 Very interesting. 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,000 Now, remember, 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,000 in watch how the Bible falls into place like little puzzle pieces. 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,000 I told you when we first started this class months ago, 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,000 it'd be like putting little puzzle pieces into place. 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,000 Remember what we learned about the manna in the desert. 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:17,000 The manna was a picture of what? 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:22,000 Huh? 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000 That's right. 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000 The coming Savior. 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,000 Remember, Jesus in John 6 said, 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000 "I am the living bread that came down from heaven to give life into the world." 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,000 I'm the true manna. 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000 John chapter 6, he explains that he is the true manna. 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:41,000 What else we learned about bread through Joseph. 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:48,000 Joseph was a picture of whom? 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:53,000 What he said. 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000 Say it louder. 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,000 The coming Savior, Jesus. 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,000 The world needed bread to live, 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000 and only Joseph had bread to give. 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,000 Remember? 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,000 And so all the world had to come to Egypt to get bread from Joseph. 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:11,000 Jesus says in John chapter 6, 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,000 "I am that living bread that came down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die. 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:22,000 And the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world." 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:28,000 Now look. 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:36,000 If I'm hungry and I'm dying, 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:40,000 and I eat this bread, 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000 I receive life and I live off this bread that I ate. 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:47,000 In a spiritual sense, if Jesus is my bread of life, 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:54,000 and he dies on the cross for my sins, 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,000 if I eat that truth of what he's done for me, 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,000 as I live physically from this bread, 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000 I live spiritually and eternally from that bread. 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,000 Does that make sense? 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000 Now watch. 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000 We don't have time to get into all of this because this is a cursory lesson throughout the Bible. 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:22,000 But here's the thing. 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:27,000 The priests ate the bread that's put on the table. 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:36,000 And every day they had to put fresh bread on the table. 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,000 Every day they ate bread and they showed God the bread. 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:44,000 God looked at the bread, they ate the bread. 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,000 Why is that important? 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:53,000 Why does God accept me? 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:58,000 I live because I've eaten the bread. 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,000 God accepts me because instead of looking at me, he looks at Jesus, the bread I've eaten. 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:08,000 Does that make sense? 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000 Instead of seeing me in my sin, he sees him in his righteousness, 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,000 his obedience to those Ten Commandments. 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,000 The only way we can get credit for obeying those Ten Commandments, 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,000 we the guilty party can get credit for obeying those Ten Commandments 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,000 as if the promised Savior keeps them unbroken in our place. 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:32,000 So we have bread here. 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:37,000 We don't have time to read all of it. 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,000 But over here there's going to be a candlestick. 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:47,000 We'll put light here. 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,000 On this side there's going to be a candlestick. 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,000 And the candlestick, and you all can go back and read through these chapters here 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:56,000 and learn more about it. 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,000 But there's going to be candlestick, there's going to be oil for the light, 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000 and this candlestick is going to shine all the time. 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,000 What's it going to shine on? 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,000 You got it. 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,000 It's going to shine on the bread. 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,000 Shine on the bread so that people can see to eat the bread 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,000 so God can see the bread and they be accepted. 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:21,000 Every time. 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000 Do you know what I'm doing right now? 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000 By teaching you about Jesus and what he did for you on the cross? 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:30,000 I'm shining a lot on the bread so he can be eaten. 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,000 This whole tabernacle is a picture of the coming gospel. 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:39,000 See how this works? 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,000 Man, we're running out of time. 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000 So next week we're going to have the tabernacle part 2 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:50,000 and show you some of the other components of this tabernacle. 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,000 And it is vitally important that you understand how this tabernacle functions. 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:59,000 And then when the promised Savior comes, 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,000 instead of being like the Jews that rejected him, 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,000 you'll be like, "Yep, there's our Savior alright." 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:11,000 And you understand how salvation works 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,000 because you understand how the pattern works that God has given us. 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:22,000 This is a picture, but when the Savior comes, 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,000 all this is done for real in one person for you. 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,000 But that will go ahead and stop. 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,000