The Glory of God.
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A man was praying with his pastor at the altar. He prayed a prayer the pastor had heard many times before. “Lord, take the cobwebs out of my life.” Just as he said this the pastor interrupted, “Kill the spider, Lord.”
Many times we ask the Lord to forgive us of some sin, yet we leave the source of temptation in our life.
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Great Controversy Chapter 28—Facing Life’s Record
The subject of the sanctuary and the investigative judgment should be clearly understood by the people of God. All need a knowledge for themselves of the position and work of their great High Priest.
Evangelism The Foundation of Our Faith
The correct understanding of the ministration in the heavenly sanctuary is the foundation of our faith.
God instructed:
And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.
God wanted to
dwell among them.
What else do we learn
from the sanctuary?
Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary;
Who is so great a God as our God?
Sanctuary teaches God’s way
path
jouney
truth
It explains
way of Salvation
In the sanctuary
two main services.
These two services
explain way of salvation.
Whole Gospel
Partial vs. Whole Gospel
First service,
daily service
talked about it last time.
Lets review...
Courtyard
Courtyard
Represents Jesus’ earthly experience
Altar of Burnt Offering
Altar of Burnt Offering
Laver
Laver
Holy Place
Holy Place
Represents Jesus ministry
between resurrection and Judgment
Table of Show Bread
Table of Show Bread
Candlestick
Candlestick
Altar of Incense
Altar of Incense
Curtain
Curtain
Then there is the yearly service.
Partial vs. Whole Gospel
Day of Atonement
Most Holy Place
Most Holy Place
Represents
Jesus ministry between
Judgment and 2nd Coming
Day of Atonement
Take Bull, Ram, 2 Goats
Cast lots for goats
Sacrifice Bull and Ram
Sacrifice Lord’s Goat
take blood into MHP
but on Mercy seat
Ark
Ark
Take Scapegoat
put hand on head
confess sins over it
send into wilderness
Represents Satan
Millenium
· What did the people do on that day?
“This shall be a statute forever for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether a native of your own country or a stranger who dwells among you. For on that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.
· What did the people do?
afflict their souls
· What was actually being cleansed?
The sanctuary?
The People!
· How do they cooperate with the cleansing?
By afflicting their souls..
How?
· What if you refuse to afflict your soul?
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the Lord. And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people. And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people. You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath.”
· What happens if they don’t do their part?
They are cut off...
How?
Killed
Cast Out?
NO.
Eternally cut off.
· How would anyone know?
· How did they inspect?
· Who decided this?
What is really happening
On the day of atonement
That did not already
Happen in the courtyard?
There is more than one phase
to the atonement.
Jesus was not done
at the Cross!!
What happened in
Daily Service?
courtyard?
Holy Place?
Yearly Service?
Most Holy Place?
Bigger question...
What is forgiveness?
Jesus is trying to teach...
There are really two phases
in the process of dealing
with our sins.
Two Phase:
Covering of Sin
Blotting Out of Sin
Why does it take two phases?
Lets look at the first phase...
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
· First stage:
Covering
What happens?
Admits
confesses
not hiding sin
God covers the sin
and forgives
Blotting Out
Second Phase
How can I have the
Most Holy Place experience?
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
What is the condition?
Repentance
Context
Known sin,
confessed
put in sanctuary
Gary Richmond gained an interesting perspective on snakes while working with a snake handler in a zoo. Richmond and four others milked the venom of a King Cobra. This was an extremely dangerous task as the King Cobra has enough venom to kill one thousand adults.
An entire roll of paper towels was pushed into the cobra’s open mouth which then promptly closed. Once the paper towels were saturated with the lethal venom and they were ready to release the snake, the curator gave an important warning: “More people are bitten trying to let go of snakes than when they grab them.” If the cobra was not released properly, it could turn and bite its captors.
Many people claim to repent of sin, but they do not forsake it. That is like letting go of the cobra’s head but not its tail.
David explains how to have
sins blotted out.
Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.
We learn a few things
from this passage.
Blotting out sins
is connected with
cleansing the person’s heart.
Those who do not
have their sins blotted out
(who don’t afflict their souls)
(who are cut off)
Have Holy Spirit Taken Away.
When the HS is
take away from person.
They are abandoned in
their sins.
Unpardonable sin...
they are lost.
A questions about our sins.
We have confessed them.
But...
Have they really been dealt with
in our hearts?
A soap manufacturer and a pastor were walking together down a street in a large city. The soap manufacturer casually said, “The Gospel you preach hasn’t done much good has it? Just observe. There is still a lot of wickedness in the world, and a lot of wicked people, too!”
The pastor made no reply until they passed a dirty little child making mud pies in the gutter. Seizing the opportunity, the pastor said, “I see that soap hasn’t done much good in the world either; for there is much dirt, and many dirty people around.”
The soap man said, “Oh, well, soap is only useful when it is applied.”
And the pastor said, “Exactly, so it is with the Gospel.”
Jesus promises,
there is going to be
“a blotting out”
one way,
or another.
The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
Either,
we will have our
sins blotted out.
Or,
we will have our
names blotted out...
Once again,
there is a condition.
How can we make sure,
we are not blotted out?
We must be overcomers
by God’s grace...
What does that look like in our lives?
Speak to me...
How can we cooperate
with our Great High Priest
in the cleansing
of the sanctuary?
We need to be
overcomers.
People who
by God’s grace
are repentant.
Not living in the
same exact sins
and praying the same
prayers of forgiveness.
In 1981, a Minnesota radio station reported a story about a stolen car in California. Police were staging an intense search for the vehicle and the driver, even to the point of placing announcements on local radio stations to contact the thief. On the front seat of the stolen car sat a box of crackers that, unknown to the thief, were laced with poison. The car owner had intended to use the crackers as rat bait.
Now the police and the owner of the Volkswagen Bug were more interested in apprehending the thief to save his life than to recover the car. Often when we run from God, we feel it is to escape His punishment. But what we are actually doing is eluding His rescue.
God is chasing us down
trying to save us
from ourselves.
Let’s turn around
and let God
save us
from ourselves.