The Veil is Torn
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Is the veil torn in your life?
Is the veil torn in your life?
Man and woman chose knowledge over connection to God. Eden
Humanity chose desires of the flesh over connection with God. The flood
Humanity chose a man to hear God for them. Moses
Humanity chose a king over connection to God.
Even when Jesus was here they wanted him to be their king to fix there problems.
Today we often do the same things.
We want a boss to fix it.
We want the right government leader to fix it for us.
We want another relationship to fix our loneliness.
We want a coach to show us how.
We still want God to come do it for us.
Jesus showed up to represent humanity fully connected to God.
Jesus then tore the vail the separated humanity from God.
51 And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many.
What did the veil protect people from?
The cloud the veil protected people from the presence of God.
Story:
There is this story in Number 12 about Aaron and Miriam talking about Moses being married to Cushite woman outside their people type.
The reason I share this story is because when we dont see Jesus face to face we look for ways to find value with our heads instead of heart connection to Him.
If in our heads we come up with things that sound God kind but it will never produce the life we hope to bring.
Head knowledge almost always causes us to make judgments about people. I think we sometimes feel if we make a right judgment we are now more valuable or closer to God.
14 But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. 15 But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; 16 but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Our minds can not lead us to the presence of God.
When we turn our heart to God the veil is lifted.
Signs of a veil in our lives:
Minds are hard
Veil over their hearts
Solution:
Turn to Father
Incline your heart to God as David says.
Even if you still think He is not good.
Even if you still dont get why He let that happen.
Even when you still think He is a horrible dad who sacrificed His own son.
Even when He let you or someone you know get hurt.
Even when you felt you had to do it alone because He would not do it for you.
Even when you think He will leave you like others have.
Even when you cant hear Him.
Signs of veil being lifted:
Liberty
No longer a slave to fear or separation from God. Not captive, Not oppressed, personal freedom… the real sign of liberty is when you still chose to live out what God commands but not because He commands it but because love motivated you to do so.
Looking in a mirror and seeing a transformation into the image of God
No shame, proudly seeing your true self, seeing Jesus in your eyes, others see Jesus in you. Seeing a continuace change into the image of Love’s kind.
Growth
Glory to glory, seeing a growth that can not be done by your own strength, seeing a growth that makes people say wow, God has to be at work there. A growth that pulls on others to want God to do that to them.
Activation:
Turn your heart to the Father.
Let there be no area of our lives where their remains a veil anymore.
Visit our image of you.
Visit our image of ourselves.
Visit our memories.
Visit our present.
Closing:
For most of humanities existence we have wanted to connect to knowledge, gifts, or people rather then to God directly. We are in a move of God where we are being invited to a direct connection to God.
Father is asking if you will come to Him on the mountain top just like Moses was.
References:
6 And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows his burial place to this day.
9 The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe in you forever.” Then Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.
11 Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
31 “You shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen; it shall be made with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman. 32 “You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks also being of gold, on four sockets of silver. 33 “You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring in the ark of the testimony there within the veil; and the veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies. 34 “You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the holy of holies. 35 “You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.
18 Hence God led the people around by the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea; and the sons of Israel went up in martial array from the land of Egypt.
1 Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman); 2 and they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us as well?” And the Lord heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth.) 4 Suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and to Miriam, “You three come out to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them came out. 5 Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the doorway of the tent, and He called Aaron and Miriam. When they had both come forward, 6 He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, shall make Myself known to him in a vision. I shall speak with him in a dream. 7 “Not so, with My servant Moses, He is faithful in all My household; 8 With him I speak mouth to mouth, Even openly, and not in dark sayings, And he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant, against Moses?” 9 So the anger of the Lord burned against them and He departed. 10 But when the cloud had withdrawn from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. As Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was leprous. 11 Then Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, I beg you, do not account this sin to us, in which we have acted foolishly and in which we have sinned. 12 “Oh, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother’s womb!” 13 Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “O God, heal her, I pray!” 14 But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut up for seven days outside the camp, and afterward she may be received again.” 15 So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again. 16 Afterward, however, the people moved out from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
Liberty
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 1657 ἐλευθερία
1657 ἐλευθερία [eleutheria /el·yoo·ther·ee·ah/] n f. From 1658; TDNT 2:487; TDNTA 224; GK 1800; 11 occurrences; AV translates as “liberty” 11 times. 1 liberty to do or to omit things having no relationship to salvation. 2 fancied liberty. 2A licence, the liberty to do as one pleases. 3 true liberty is living as we should not as we please.
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 1658 ἐλεύθερος
1658 ἐλεύθερος [eleutheros /el·yoo·ther·os/] adj. Probably from the alternate of 2064; TDNT 2:487; TDNTA 224; GK 1801; 23 occurrences; AV translates as “free” 18 times, “free woman” three times, “at liberty” once, and “free man” once. 1 freeborn. 1A in a civil sense, one who is not a slave. 1B of one who ceases to be a slave, freed, manumitted. 2 free, exempt, unrestrained, not bound by an obligation. 3 in an ethical sense: free from the yoke of the Mosaic Law.