The Tabernacle of David

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Of course. All right, if you have a Bible,

let's grab it. Let's get into the Word.

I'm going to have to tighten this and go as fast as possible,

but if you'll go to first Samuel, actually why don't y'all

go to First Chronicles 13 and I'll just summarize for Samuel.

But First Chronicles chapter 13 Chronicles is in the Old

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Testament. Sometimes people get it confused

with Corinthians, which is in the New Testament.

But First Chronicles Old Testament verse or chapter 13.

As you turn there, I want to talk about today the Tabernacle

of David, the Tabernacle of David.

And I want to start by kind of giving you a quick overview from

first Samuel chapter 4, which is where I was going to have you

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turn. But in this instance, this arc

of God, which a couple weeks ago when I was talking about the

glory of God and the Tabernacle and how the ark of God was just

beyond the veil and the holy of holies, that really furnish

meant that furnish furnishing that piece of furniture which

was like a wooden box, and inside of it had all kinds of

things that God said should be in there.

But it represented the presence of God, represented the presence

of the Lord. So wherever that was, the

presence of God was, well, in first Samuel chapter 4, that was

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taken captive. They lost it, they lost it.

Israel lost the presence of God, God's chosen people, the ones

whom he said, I want to dwell with you, I want to be with you.

They've been on this whole journey coming out of Egypt and

then the promised land. They have the presence of the

Lord. God gives them their promises

and they lost it. They lost it.

Have you ever felt like you lost it?

Any Christian who has been in this for any amount of time, I'm

sorry. You may be as holy, as holy as

holy could be, but at some point you probably lost him.

And maybe it wasn't taken captive, but maybe you just

yourself got distant or somehow you found yourself in this

place. Well, the children of Israel

lost the presence of the Lord. They lost it was taken captive.

And in fact, in the middle of all of this happening, there was

a, a woman who had a child. And because she had had this

child in the middle of, of Jerusalem being ransacked and

the the ark of God being taken, she called her child Ichabod for

the glory had departed from Israel.

The ark of God had been captured.

So Fast forward quite a bit. David becomes king and and it is

hot on David's heart to get the ark back.

Why? Because it's the presence of

God. He wanted the presence of the

Lord back. He wanted the glory back.

He wanted to experience what Moses had experienced.

He wanted to experience what all the priests got to experience

when they had that that that first temple, when they had the

the Tabernacle before he, he wanted the presence of the Lord

so badly. Most of the Psalms are written

about that. His hunger for the presence of

the Lord. All that I might dwell in the

House of the Lord forever. That's David.

So in First Chronicles chapter 13, David has made major moves

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to bring the ark back. And in fact, after some time,

the ark of God was in, in a, in, in a certain part of Israel and

it kind of stayed there. Well, David wanted to bring it

back to its rightful place to Mount Zion.

And here we find that in First Chronicles chapter 13, verses

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one through 8, if you don't have your Bible, you can follow up on

the screen. This is what it says.

Then David consulted with the captains of thousands and

hundreds, and with every leader. And David said to all the

assembly of Israel, If it seems good to you, and if it is of the

Lord our God, let us send out to our brethren everywhere who are

left in all the land of Israel, and with them to the priest and

the Levites, who are in their cities and their common lands,

that they may gather together to us.

Verse 3. And let us bring the ark of our

God back to us, for we have not inquired at it since the days of

Saul. Then all the assemblies said

that they would do so. For the thing was right in the

eyes of all the people. Notice that, For the thing was

right in the eyes of all the people.

What was right that they bring this ark back, that they bring

the presence of the Lord back to them, that they could inquire of

God again? Verse 5 So David gathered all

Israel together from Shahor to Egypt, or in Egypt to as far as

the interests of Hamas, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath

Jirium. And David and all Israel went up

to Bala to Kirjath Jirium, which belonged to Judah, to bring up

from the there the ark of God, the Lord who dwells between the

cherubim, where his name is proclaimed.

And they carried the ark of God on a new cart from the House of

Abinadab and Ouza, and Ohio drove the cart.

Then David and all Israel played music before God with all their

might, singing with, on harps and on stringed instruments, on

tambourines, on cymbals and with trumpets.

So notice that David, I mean, he is so intense, he called

everybody together, We're all going to do this together.

And they're worshipping and they're singing.

So the Lord and they, they're, they're, they're, they're, they

have symbols and they have tambourines because they weren't

forbidden at that time. And those are forbidden in our

sanctuary. But you know, they had

tambourines just, unless someone was like, oh, thank you, Lord

Pastor gave me permission. Please, please, just at home.

Do it at home, do it at home. But they're doing all of this.

But verse 7 gives the real nuanced, interesting detail that

they put the ark of God on a new cart, on a new cart.

Now, if you know your Bible, you know that the ark of God was

meant to be carried on the shoulders of priests.

But David in his zeal and his his such a desire to to have the

presence of the Lord back, he built a new cart because that's

more efficient. It's a long journey from Kirjath

Jerium and I'm trying to get up to the hill.

So why don't we build a new cart for it?

Honestly, I think the American church is full of new carts,

well meaning people, well meaning.

I think of many people as zealous for the Lord as David,

but they have built new things that God said will never work,

they'll never work, they'll never work.

And you know, it's easy to point the finger at others, but what

things have you built out of efficiency?

I know some of us were real efficiency minded and there's a

lot that's in our culture right now that's trying to make things

more efficient. But just beware that some old

things are meant to still work. We call it old school now, like

the anointing oil it. I just happen to believe it

still works. I still happen to believe that

speaking in the language of the Holy Spirit still works.

I happen to believe that camp still works.

Hello. There are some things where it's

like better not change it. Don't put it on a new cart.

Don't put it on. I was thinking earlier today I'm

like, oh, do I want to wade into this today?

And y'all are in luck because I'm going to.

So I was watching a very popular churches youth conference this

week and teenagers. OK.

And I'm watching these preachers up there the 1st and I, I popped

in a couple times and honestly, I wasn't popping in to like

critique, but sometimes it's like if it looks like a duck,

quacks like a duck, smells like a duck, walks like a duck, it's

a duck. OK.

So. I look in and these are

teenagers and there's some man preaching and he's got whatever

jacket zipped down to here and he has no shirt underneath.

These are teenagers. It's gross.

No, but in a new cart world, it works.

I tuned in again a couple days later.

And then there's another guy who has basically, you all know,

like the the like the long underwear that you wear during

the winter. OK, he was wearing that kind of

shirt and it was super tight and see through and he's, he had to

be my age or maybe he could be a couple years younger, but

somewhere around that and he's teaching teenagers, trying to be

sexy to teenagers. It took everything in me not to

throw down in the chat. It took everything.

I'm Lord. I Lord, I don't know these

people, I don't know their hearts, I don't know where

they're coming from. But this is nasty.

But in a new cart world, it's working.

And by working, I mean it's rolling for a little while and

there's all the hoopla, there is the songs, there is the screens,

there is the smoke, there is all the stuff.

And it works until it doesn't. Second Samuel chapter 6, verses

2 Samuel 6:7–8

7-8. Then the anger of the Lord was

aroused against Ouza, and God struck him there for his error,

and he died there by the ark of God.

And David became angry because of the Lord's outbreak against

Ouza, and he called the name of the place, Perez Ouza to this

day. Why did Ouza die?

Because the ark, this fancy little contraption that they

made very efficient to roll the cart, didn't have to be carried

by anybody. Something happened on the road

and it began to fall, and Ouza stretched out and grabbed it and

he died because he wasn't supposed to be touching that.

He reached out and he touched it and he died.

I remember there was one time where I was on staff at church

and there was a ministry that I remember wasn't doing that

great. And I was in a leadership

meeting and I wanted to speak up about helping that ministry.

And I remember the Lord telling me don't touch that.

Don't touch that, don't touch that.

And I knew that's not for me. I knew that that one's not for

me, though I wanted to, I wanted to help.

I think it was a the right heart was like, I want to help.

But there are some things that you're not supposed to touch.

And you better be mindful of the Holy Spirit so you don't get

involved in doing stuff, building carts that you're not

supposed to build, being helpful where you're not supposed to be

helpful because it's not for you.

And the anger of the Lord was aroused and he killed a man

because of this error. God is no joke.

And that's why I watch what's happening in the United States

today. And there's like a fear of the

Lord that kind of like grabs hold of me because I'm like,

except by the grace of God, there I go.

I. Hello.

And so you're like, Lord help me to not error in any of these

things as well in haste or in a good heart or being zealous.

I need to know the difference between what does scripture say

we should approach it and what is the modern day, you know,

wisdom of man say I'm supposed to do to approach a thing.

And if you're not careful, you'll get under the sway of

this world system and all of a sudden you're building carts for

God. Lord have mercy.

Go ahead and just say that Lord have mercy.

Have mercy. Verse 9 still in second Samuel

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chapter 6, David was afraid of the Lord that day and he said,

how can the ark of the Lord come to me?

Imagine his disappointment. He had made all this hoopla.

He had gotten all of Israel together.

I mean, they're singing, they're shouting, they're tambourines,

everything is going. And then you, Can you imagine

how awkward when the dude dies, the tambourine, you know, it's

like a, it's like, it's like the, it's, Can you imagine?

There's the way like you put the tambourine and it just kind of

like just kind of shakes until you like put it away.

You're like, you know, I mean, it's just awkward.

And then poor David, he's like, how can the ark of the Lord come

to me? How am I going to approach the

presence of God if if he's like this again, he had a zeal about

him. He had the right heart, but man

did he do it wrong. And he was confused about what

was going on. Verse 10.

So David would not move the ark of the Lord with him into the

city of David. He was like, uh, uh, I ain't

touching that. The last dude who touched that

was dead. I am not moving that.

But I think more than that, he was disappointed, he's

disappointed and I've noticed that disappointing,

disappointment will keep you from the presence of the Lord.

Disappointment will cause you if you're not careful to just put

that over there. See that's what David did.

It says that he he he took it inside the House of Obed Edom

that get tight. I'm like, what did that dude do

to David where he's like you, you going to keep it because,

you know, maybe you'll touch it and die too.

I don't know what Obed Edom did to David, but he was like you,

it's going over in your house. And honestly, you think about

it, he was like, I don't want it.

You can have it over there in your house.

I'm like, what did you do Obed to David anyways?

So, but, but, but he's David basically is like, I'm just

going to put it over there, 'cause I can't, I, I don't know

what to do with that. Have you ever been through that

kind of season? I mean, if we're talking real

today, have you ever been like hot on fire for the Lord and

then disappointment strike something unexpected and you're

like, I'm just going to put that over there for now because I

don't even know what to do about this.

I'm just going to back up a little bit.

Oh, I have been there 100%, 100%.

Do I am I proud of that? No.

But have you ever felt felt like I got to sort some stuff out

first? So I'm just going to put you

over there like on a shelf. I'm just going to shelve that

for a while. But if you're not careful,

shelves, things can turn into years, they can turn into years,

they can turn into long term disappointment.

And now all of a sudden, you know, you're vulnerable,

vulnerable to the enemy. But look at this so Obed enum.

It worked out real good for him. Look at verse 11.

The ark of the Lord remained in the House of Obed Edom.

The get tight for three months and the Lord blessed Obed Edom

and all his household. Now it was told to King David

saying the Lord has blessed the House of Obed Edom and all that

belongs to him because of the ark of God.

I'm pretty sure David was surprised, Like, oh, man, I

thought that was going to kill him.

But all right, blessed him. OK.

I mean, it's funny how this worked out.

I mean, he was surprised. Otherwise, I'm fairly certain

David would have brought the Ark of God up to the City of David

right away. But says David went up and Brock

brought up the Ark of God from the House of Obed Edom to the

City of David with gladness. Can you imagine the relief?

Oh, that's what I thought it would be.

That's what I thought it would be.

You know, sometimes it takes someone else and their journey

to reveal to you what's possible with God.

Someone else's testimony oftentimes can be the thing that

will soften a hard heart. Oh, what you're experiencing is

not what I thought of God. I thought God was harsh and I

thought God was mean and I thought God wasn't wanting to be

with me. But because I see you now, it

makes me know, Oh no, he really is good.

And what I heard about him before was the truth and was

real powerful. Powerful what your story could

do for someone else, maybe undo what they thought about God.

Or powerful what someone else's story could do for you.

Remind, you know, that's who God really is.

And so it gave David gladness. And he, he goes up and he brings

Obed the ark out of Obed Edom's house.

And so it was when those bearing the ark of the Lord had gone 6

paces. So notice this.

Guess what? David went back to old school.

Those bearing the ark ain't no cart in this story.

Did you hear me? They took it off the cart.

Why? Because he saw the error.

No, don't put my ark on a cart, I'd said, put it on the

shoulders of priests. So those bearing the ark of the

Lord had gone 6 paces, and he sacrificed oxen and fatted

sheep. Then David danced before the

Lord with all his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod.

So David and all the House of Israel brought up the ark of God

with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.

What's interesting to me as I was really processing this,

because sometimes when I'm studying, I'm kind of like on a

journey, like I just stay curious and I let the Lord kind

of lead me through scriptures. And I, I, some of you would, I

don't know if you would be inspired or concerned about the

way that I study because I kind of like, I just, I just do these

rabbit trails through scripture and I just allow the Lord to

show me where they lead. And what's interesting about

this is they were shouting and dancing and singing and doing

all that the first time. What was the difference?

How they carried, how they how they carried the presence of

God, how, how we as a church arise church carry the presence

of the Lord is going to really matter.

If you're not careful, we'll think that it's the singing and

the quality and all of that stuff, which you know, I love, I

love quality. But if we're not careful, we'll

think that's the mark. Like that's what really shows.

That we're doing it right. But that's not how we carry the

presence of the Lord is important.

Well, how how do we know what to do?

The Bible tells us. The Bible tells us.

David would often say that he would he he wanted to come

before the Lord with clean hands and a pure heart.

Create in me a contrite spirit like he, he, he, he.

He knew at some point it the light bulb clicked and he

realized, oh, it's not all the shouting and the tambourines and

the cymbals and all of that. That is the marker.

The marker is clean hands, pure heart.

Clean hands, pure heart. Clean hands, pure heart.

And I'm not against a party. God loves a good party, OK?

He loves a good party. He loves the sound of joy and

shouting and Thanksgiving. But the marker could be lost in

all the noise. Verse 16 Now as the ark of the

Lord came into the city of David, Michael saw his daughter

look through a window and saw David, King David, leaping and

whirling before the Lord. And she despised him in her

heart. So they brought the ark of the

Lord and set it in. Its placed in the midst of the

temple that David had erect, or in the midst of the Tabernacle

that David had erected for it. Then David offered burnt

offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

There's another account of this in Scripture that says David

despised him. Michael despised David in her

heart. And then when he came back and

she talked to him, she said, oh, there was the king twirling

about and all of this. And the Bible said she was

barren from that day forward. And I've always thought we

better be very careful how we judge someone else's worship.

I think many churches have become barren because they

become judgmental, judgmental even.

I get I checked myself even what I said about the man with the

the type that the but you know what, all that earlier, you

know, I have to sort out like, what's me being judgmental and

what's me saying? No, that's not right, and things

that are righteously need to be said, but they bring in the ark

of the Lord. And so this is what I want you

to see, that verse 17, David erected a Tabernacle.

What does that mean? David didn't do the Tabernacle

of Moses. The Tabernacle of Moses was very

detailed. And by this time, all of those

furnishings, who knows where all of that even was?

And so all he had was the Ark of God.

So there's really no schematic for how the the Tabernacle of

David laid out. But for most accounts and most

scholars, it was an open tent and it had no veil.

So if you imagine if I put up on the platform this tent that just

kind of arced up, you know, kind of pitched right here and came

down and the face of it was open right here.

And you are all looking. And where I'm standing is the

ark of God. That's kind of how the, the,

the, the Tabernacle of David was.

It was an open tent and everybody was singing and

shouting and doing all of that on the outside of the tent, and

the presence of the Lord was there.

Inside of the Ark of David or in the Ark of the Lord and the Ark

of the Covenant, it was there. And so David was so happy

because though there wasn't a temple built yet and the full

Tabernacle wasn't done yet, though that was in his heart to

do, he was just relieved that I have the presence of the Lord.

I have the presence of the Lord. In fact, look at Psalm chapter

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132, verses four and five. It says I will not give sleep to

my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place for the

Lord, a dwelling place for the mighty one of Jacob.

Verses 13 and 14 say, for the Lord has chosen Zion, He has

desired it for his dwelling place.

This is my resting place forever.

Here I will dwell for I have desired it.

This is David. He's he knows he's like I know

where God wants to be. It's on Mount Zion.

And so David went after it. Now this I'm I'm I'm prayerful

that I'll be able to tie all this together because David had

a zeal for the Lord that I think we're all supposed to have.

Do you hear me like a hunger for that David said I won't give

sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place

for the Lord. You know, I I, I, I can relate

in a way, though I still I'm like, Lord, help me be like

this, because that's whole nother level.

But I have felt that for our church, like I know this is the

will of God for our church, for this property, but also for us

as individuals. I've known it.

So it has felt sometimes like scrimping and clawing and, and

like commando crawling through the muck and the spiritual

warfare and all that it takes. Why?

Because I'm like, I can't rest until we see it.

I can't stop until I see it, until I see it with my own eyes.

And I experienced a level of this at our church in

California. But I think there are other,

there are other levels. Glory to glory.

There's a there's more. And so it's like, you know, I

feel like this Arise conference is part of that.

It's like it's, it's taking steps, It's just being obedient.

It's just continuing to. Do what we.

Have to do and by the way, this is me commando crawling unless I

look, you know, weird to you, but I'm not going to like lay on

the ground and do it. But you know what I'm saying?

Like crawling through the muck to get to where God has for us

as a church. Psalm chapter 63, verse 2 says,

Psalms 63:2

so I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your power and

your glory. The Lord loved the Tabernacle of

David because there was something audacious about David

to think like, oh, I don't need all the other stuff.

I'm just going to set up the presence of the Lord right here

on top of Mount Zion because that's where he wants to be

anyways. And I'm just going to make it

work. And there was something about

that, though God didn't like the, the, the new cart that

wasn't good. But there was something about

David's heart for the presence of the Lord that pleased God,

that pleased God. I mean, most of us know it that

he says that talking about David, that David was a man

after his own heart. What does that mean?

David was after it, He was going after it.

He was that I won't give sleep to my eyes nor slumber to my

eyelids. It was tenacious.

And though he's he's suffered setbacks, 3 months, he let the

presence of the Lord rest over there because it's like, I'm

disappointed. But yeah, after three months,

his heart wasn't so hard that he couldn't let a testimony melt.

All that hardness, that disappointment.

And he's like, all right, I'm going to go after it again.

Do you hear me? He, he's not some superhero that

we can't identify with. I can identify with that.

I'm like, OK, I can hang, I can hang.

I can keep going after it. Dave, the Lord loved the

Tabernacle of David and there was there's something so

prophetic about about this and who who knows?

I mean, we don't have indication of did David.

I mean, David had to have seen some things to know that this

was really how God wanted to be long term, that the temple and

the Tabernacle were really set up as as one, one, one way of

approaching the presence of the Lord.

But there was something that David caught that was like, but

there's a different way. There's a different way.

And it was prophesying of of something to come.

In fact, Amos Chapter 9, verse 11 says this.

Amos 9:11

On that day, I will raise up the Tabernacle of David.

This is prophecy which has fallen down and it's and repair

its damages. I will raise up its ruins and

rebuild it as in the days of old, that they may possess the

remnant of Edom and all the Gentiles who are called by my

name, says the Lord, who who does this thing.

I will raise up not the temple of Solomon.

I will raise up the Tabernacle of David.

Now I love reading about the the the temple of Solomon.

I mean it was glorious and and so much splendor, but the

humility and the the the humble nature of the date, the

Tabernacle of David. God says I'm going to raise that

up which what was that it was the unencumbered access that

people had to the presence of the Lord that even the Gentiles

will one day the other non Jews, which is most of us in this room

will have access to that place. What we see this show up again

in Acts chapter 15. Read this Acts chapter 15.

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The same prophecy shows up. I'll start in verse 12.

Then all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas

and Paul declaring how many miracles and wonders God had

worked through them among the Gentiles, and after that they

had become silent. James answered, saying, men and

brethren, listen to me. Simon has declared how God at

the first visit of the Gentiles to take out of them a people for

his name. And with this the words of the

prophets agree, just as it is written.

After this I will return and we'll rebuild the Tabernacle of

David, which has fallen down. I will rebuild its ruins, and I

will raise it up so that the rest of mankind may seek the

Lord. Even all the Gentiles who are

called by my name says the Lord who does all these things.

This is wonderful because you know, hundreds and hundreds of

years before this was said here, before James said this, Amos had

said this. And so it's still the intent of

God that he rebuild the Tabernacle of David.

Well, what is it? What is it about this Tabernacle

of David, this Open Access where God would dwell with us?

Well, I want you to look at John chapter 1.

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And I'm going as quick as I can and I hope you're catching this

and we're going to, you're going to see it plainly in a minute.

But John chapter one verse 14 and the Word became flesh and

dwelt among us and we beheld his glory.

The glory is of the only begotten of the Father, full of

grace and truth. See, when Jesus came, it was

God, Emmanuel, God with us. So think about that wasn't the

splendor. He didn't come as a, a, a king

with the title, with the crown. He didn't come in on the White

Horse. He came in on a donkey.

He was lowly, Isaiah said. He was stricken, smitten that he

was. He was.

He wasn't anything that any of us would have noticed as a king.

And yet that's exactly how he came.

He came very similar to the Tabernacle of David.

Humble, humble, humble and open. We beheld Him, we beheld Him, we

saw Him. He moved among the people and

most people didn't recognize Him as the Son of God.

Most people didn't recognize Him as the glory of God, and yet He

was the full glory of God revealed to mankind and there

were some who saw him. What does that mean?

There were some who didn't have a veil over their eyes who

couldn't see. There were some who's that veil

was removed and they could see like Peter who said you are the

Christ, the Son of the living God.

To him it was that presence of the Lord was like right there.

It was right there. There was a there was a temple

at that time with all the things going on, going on, going on.

There was the sacrifices were going on.

The priests were going on, all of their work was going on that

the the ark of the covenant was inside the temple.

And yet here's Jesus moving in and out of the people all the

time. The presence of the Lord that he

dwelt among us. He dwelt among us.

I want you to notice that he dwelt among us.

So the presence of the Lord, the glory of God that we're talking

about, it's sometimes you may not even catch it unless the

veil is removed, unless you have eyes to see, unless you have a

hunger like David, who says I won't slumber and I will not

sleep until I see it. There's a connection here.

David saw something of how this would eventually work out, that

he was after hundreds of years before Jesus ever walked on the

earth. He was searching for that, He

was clawing for that. He was commando crawling for it,

trying to find it. And yet here John is saying, And

the word that came flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld

his glory, we beheld his glory, we beheld his glory, we beheld

his glory. Who, Jesus.

Jesus. Jesus.

Jesus Second Corinthians chapter 3, verse 9.

2 Corinthians 3:9

I'm just pumping you a scripture today.

Some of you, if you haven't read your Bible this year, I just

caught you up. You're just really, you're like,

you're right on track. Just start today.

Second Corinthians chapter 3 verse 9.

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, someone

call that the law. The ministry of righteousness

exceeds much more in glory. For I am the righteousness of

God in Christ Jesus. OK, so that exceeds much more in

glory. For even what was made glorious

had no glory in this respect because of the glory that

excels. So in other words, when you

compare the two, one seems like like no glory compared to the

glory that excels, which is to those of us who are in Christ

Jesus. I wish we could catch it.

Lord help us. There's a lot of revelation in

here. So I just pray that your eyes of

understanding be open. For if what is passing was away

was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.

In other words, when we read a couple weeks ago about the glory

of God that filled the temple with Solomon, the Bible is

telling us right now that has passed away, what remains is

much more glorious. Like what?

You and I have the ability, and I'm not saying we've all

experienced it yet, but what you have access to what you and I

have access to, what we have the ability to experience.

That kind of glory is much, much, much, much more glorious

than that glory we read about in the old temple.

That's what this is saying. They're explaining this because

they're having to peel away some from trying to go back to the

former, trying to seek after, well, what, what, what, what I

want what they had, but they're saying no, for what if, for if

what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much

more glorious. Verse 12.

Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of

speech. Unlike Moses, who put a veil

over his face so that the children of Israel could not

look steadily at the end of what was passing away.

Catch that he he put a veil over his face so the children of

Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing

away. In other words, they didn't even

see the full glory. They saw the remnants of glory

that was fading from Him when he went up the mountain to Mount

Sinai and he met with the Lord there.

When he came down, His face shone so much it scared them.

He put a veil over his face to not scare them.

Well, God's saying that was only a remnant of the glory and it

was passing away. And so he, he, he had to put a

veil over that. But verse 14 But their minds

were blinded, for until this day the same veil remains unlifted

in the reading of the Old Testament because the veil is

taken away in Christ. Notice I said the Tabernacle of

David had what? No veil?

How is that possible? Jesus, Jesus.

And So what we have access to is much more glorious than what

they experienced in the 1st and 2nd temple where the Shekinah

glory showed up, where the where the Kabat glory fell and it was

so weighty. The priest just fell on their

faces. What we have access to with

unveiled face is so much more glorious than that.

Come on, somebody say Amen, say Amen by faith, because some of

us were like, I don't even know what that means for me yet, but

I want it. You know, because the veil is is

taken away in Christ verse 15. But even to this day when Moses

is read a veil lies on their heart.

Whose they the Jews. That's true today as well.

For those that haven't made Jesus Lord of their life,

there's there's still a veil. They cannot see that Jesus was

the Messiah. Jesus is the Christ.

Verse 16. Nevertheless, when one turns to

the Lord, the veil is taken away.

Now the Lord is spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, guess

what, there is liberty. What does liberty mean?

There means there's no veil. There's no distance, there's no

separation. There's no, I'm going to put you

over there in Obed Edom's house. Now there's full fellowship.

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Now most of us have have proclaimed that and I think it's

still applicable that, you know, when God's here in this place,

there's no, there's no oppression, there's no bondage,

all of that. That's true.

I believe that. But I see this also as very

relational. Where the Spirit of the Lord is,

there is liberty to fellowship with him.

There's no distance, there's no veil, there's no blockages,

there's no filter. I'm not held back anymore

because of my sin. Why?

Because I'm now under the ministry of righteousness.

So listen, all of those of you who have made Jesus the Lord of

your life, you now have full access to the presence and the

glory of God. You're no longer on the outside

looking in. You're no longer wishful like,

oh, I wish I was a certain kind of way.

No, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation.

Behold, all things have passed away and behold, all things

become new. So now you're standing before

him, a new creation. So now you have the ability to

come to this Tabernacle of David and worship Him freely, worship

him freely. You get to worship him in the

glory of His Holiness. That's how we get to have these

moments in church that just, you can just tell we just ascended

somewhere. We just went up.

That's the best way I can say is there are times in worship where

I'm like, I'm not here anymore. I'm there.

I'm like, I ascended, I went up the there's, there's several

psalms that are called the Psalms of ascent.

And it's like there's these songs that we go up and now

you're in the presence of the Lord and you're like in that

Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of David.

And it's humble and sometimes it doesn't look glorious to man's

eyes, but yet to the Lord. Oh, His glory is so there.

It's so there. Nevertheless, when one turns to

the Lord, the veil is taken away.

And now where this now the Lord is spirit, and where the Spirit

of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But we all with unveiled face. We all, we all with unveiled

face. So in other words, who am I

relating to the unveiled? I see, I see clearly now.

I'm not blinded anymore. I was once blind, but now I see

I'm not blind anymore. I with unveiled face, beholding

as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord.

Me, I'm I'm beholding as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord.

Or being transformed into the same image.

What image? What I'm beholding, what I'm

looking at. So imagine Tabernacle of David,

imagine everyone's on the outside and they're beholding,

they're beholding the presence of the Lord for us, we don't

have this a wooden box anymore with gold in layer or anything

like that. We, we come into the presence of

the Lord and he's spirit. So now we don't see him with

flesh and blood eyes. We, his spirit just here.

OK, That's what the scripture is saying.

And so we where, there's where his spirit is, we behold him so

many times I just close my eyes and I'm like, I just behold him.

I just behold him and, and I don't have to make up imagery.

My spirit goes there. I don't have to imagine him on

the cross. My spirit goes there.

My spirit goes to a place of worship of him and beholding him

and, and loving him and, and, and, and then this says that as

you do that, you're transformed. And then all the sudden you

become like him. And all the sudden that glory,

the glory of God, that weighty presence of the Lord transfers.

And now that glory is not something His presence, not

something that's over there. His presence is something that's

right here. And that is when you're

transformed. Because when you have to still

come to this place to be in His presence, you haven't yet been

transformed. Because when you're transformed

into his glory, Tabernacle of David, when you're transformed

like that, then you realize, oh, I become his glory.

Therefore, when I walk away, He's with me.

And when I get in the car and I drive home, He's there.

And then I sense His glory in the car.

I can sense it in the cubicle. I can sense it in the delivery

truck. I can sense His glory, manifest

presence there. Why?

Because we all with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror,

His glory, the glory of the Lord.

We're being transformed into the same image from glory to glory,

just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Are you all catching what I'm saying today?

Oh, this is deep. I know it's deep.

So I know like put on your face mask and go submarine with me

today. We're going a little deep.

That's OK. John, chapter 17, verse 22.

John 17:22

And Tim, if you'll come, and in fact, if you just be Tim, not

the rest of the team, just Tim, the glory which you gave me,

this is Jesus talking. The glory which You gave me, I

have given them. The glory which You have given

me, this is Jesus talking to Father God.

The glory which You have given me, I have given them.

The glory which you have given me, I have given them.

We as with unveiled face, beholding Him, beholding Him,

beholding the glory of the Lord, we are transformed to become in

the same image. The glory you have given me.

I have given them the glory I see.

Most of us, we're not here yet. And I pray in the name of Jesus

that veils come off today so you can see.

Oh, I have been living subpar. I've been living on the outside

looking in. I've been living, appreciating

the presence of God, but not beholding to where I become

transformed, to where I become like that.

And something is transferred, something is transmitted and

then I'm transformed. I'm not, I'm not the same

person. I'm different.

I'm, I'm like Moses whose face shone.

My countenance is different because I've been in his

presence, because I've beheld him.

I've taken time to to be, to be changed.

See, honestly, we don't have enough time in Sunday morning

services for that level of transformation to take place.

This beholding has to happen on the regular.

It has to happen at home. It has to what's, what's the

time frame on it? I don't know, but it's probably

more than we're doing. And there's a beholding that God

is saying, OK, you really want my glory.

You have to behold me. You have to look at me.

You know, it's like a child if they were to come up to you and

you know, you're like doing the dishes and they're wanting your

attention. You're like, you know, I'm just.

And they kind of take you and they take your face and they

steal it and they're like. Look at me, could it be that God

is? Taking a rise church and he's

taken us by the face. And he's all Look at me.

You want my glory, look at me. Look at me, behold me, take it

in. Stop rushing.

Stop. Stop being distracted.

Stop. Building new carts.

Behold, behold me, behold me. So as I was preparing for this,

it was like our foundational scripture made a whole new made

sense in a whole new way. Arise, shine, for your light has

gone, the glory of the Lord has risen upon you, the glory of the

Lord has risen upon you. How Jesus?

And you behold him, and you look at him, and you, you worship

him. And we don't have to go to Mount

Zion anymore. We just pause and we welcome

him, and then wherever we are, he comes.

Wherever two or three are gathered together in my name, I

am there, I'm there, I'm there in the midst.

And right there in that place, the two or three gathered, you

behold Him, you worship Him. We honour Him.

So if you would close your eyes, arise, shine, for your light has

come in the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

For behold, darkness will cover the earth, in deep darkness the

people, but the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be

seen upon you. Listen to me with your eyes

closed, His glory will be seen upon you.

I prophecy that over you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

No matter how deep you feel you're in it, no matter how

discouraged it's been, the glory of God Himself will be risen

upon you. The days of oppression are over

in the name of Jesus, the name, the, the, the days of

hopelessness are over because the Lord arises over you and His

glory will be seen upon you. All he asks of you today is look

at me, look at me, look at me. That's all he asks.

He just wants you to look at him.

Behold him. His eyes are eyes like fire and

his hair is hair like wool. His clothes are white as

splendor. Thank you, Jesus.

This is the place of transformation.

This is the place where you're no longer you.

You're the Christ in me, the hope of glory.

So I'll stand to our feet and Justice, lift your hands.

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