Temple to Habitation

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so to this, like, our series is overflow.

[SPEAKER_00]: So where we're talking about Easter, Easter's past, but what happens after the death and resurrection of Jesus and how is that practical for our lives?

[SPEAKER_00]: And so this series, it's meant to really help us to follow Jesus in a way that's practical for our weeks.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so today I'm gonna be talking about temple to habitation.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is the idea of God's dwelling and the narrative of what that speaks to and our relation to him.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if we open up to Second Chronicles 7, it says here, it says, as soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering in the sacrifices and the glory of the Lord feel the temple.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the priest could not enter the house of the Lord because of the glory of the Lord, feel the Lord's house.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when the people of Israel saw the fire come down, the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bow down with their faces to the ground, on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, for he is good, his steadfast love in Jerusalem forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm packed as fast as I just briefly because when we talk about temple to habitation, I want to briefly just give an overview of the temple.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to go in depth, but just the kind of basics for any person in the room here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just understand.

[SPEAKER_00]: If we go from temple to habitation, we know we need to know where we begin.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so the two things I'm going to speak about is the heart behind the rules and the narrative of God's dwelling.

[SPEAKER_00]: The first one, the heart of the rules.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so there's threefold here.

[SPEAKER_00]: The building, the priests and the sacrifices.

[SPEAKER_00]: First year, the building, the temple became the sacred and settled place of prayer for the God's presence to dwell among these people after journeying days of the Tabernacle.

[SPEAKER_00]: It stood as a sacred place where the holiness of God and the reality of human brokenness can come into contact.

[SPEAKER_00]: like almost like a bridge when heaven and earth meet between God and who we are.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yet his presence was still approached externally.

[SPEAKER_00]: So people would have to travel to this temple, travel miles from the outer regions.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was localized, set apart, and it was only entered through ceremony.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was where the holiness of God and the nature of humanity meet.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so how do this work?

[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord gave our Lord's the Moses, but in the priests, the tribe will leave eye with a priest.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they were kind of the bridge makers, the bridge builders representing the people of Israel, restoring what was broken, gaining what was sacred and guarding others the right way.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so the priests, they had this substitute role where there were the tribe of Levi where the firstborn sons were the people, the bridge makers, but the tribe of Levi was chosen later on.

[SPEAKER_00]: The priests were intercesses, so they stood between God and the people.

[SPEAKER_00]: They prayed, they gave blessings, they represented the people of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: They did a tournament, so the priest would offer sacrifices to cover sin, restore the relationship for the people of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: They guarded holiness, they set a part and handled sacred things and looked after the temple.

[SPEAKER_00]: And taught, they taught, literally, the Lord, the God's Lord, and guide them in man as a purity.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so the priest were those kind of bridge makers within the temple on behalf of the people of Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then there was the sacrifices.

[SPEAKER_00]: When these sacrifices were essential, because God actually desired to do it with these people.

[SPEAKER_00]: But in doing so, absolute holiness and our brokenness can't be met together.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see, I can use the metaphors in lack of light.

[SPEAKER_00]: So God is light and the weird people is darkness.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you enter dark room, you turn the light, the darkness has gone.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we, his holiness and our brokenness, it all goes back to the Eden when we rebelled against God.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so our brokenness can't meet with his holiness, but what God does, these sacrifices are term so that we may not be consumed when we step into the Lord's presence.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's why these sacrifices and the Old Testament were essential.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see, the sacrificial system God was God's given way for his people to step into the light without being consumed, the bridge that made possible for them to draw near to Him.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see, the temple reveals God's heart

[SPEAKER_00]: drawing me that in love and not remaining distant.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the second part here is narrative, God's pursuit.

[SPEAKER_00]: As I was kind of going through the narrative, the Old Testament, the temple's not just the beginning.

[SPEAKER_00]: We actually have to go back to Genesis 3.

[SPEAKER_00]: Genesis 3 is Eden, and as says here in the verse 8, it says, the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see, in the beginning, God's presence wasn't distant hidden.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was near, gentle, and personal.

[SPEAKER_00]: God wasn't removed from what he had made.

[SPEAKER_00]: He actually dwelt within it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He delighted in it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was present with his craftsmanship, dwelling among the creation that he loved.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so this is actually where the story begins.

[SPEAKER_00]: A God who desires to be with these people.

[SPEAKER_00]: But then we move on to the wilderness.

[SPEAKER_00]: Exodus 13, it says, the Lord God went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way.

[SPEAKER_00]: And by night in a pillar of fire to give them the light.

[SPEAKER_00]: and that they might travel by day and by night.

[SPEAKER_00]: The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people, did not depart.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see in the wilderness, even though the path was unclear and the future uncertain, God did not withdraw.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I think that's an encouragement for us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we might be in a season where you feel like you're in uncertain season, maybe the path is unclear, even God in the wilderness journey to with these people.

[SPEAKER_00]: 8,000 encouragement as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like a guiding hand, he led his people through every step day and night.

[SPEAKER_00]: His presence did not wave through the circumstances.

[SPEAKER_00]: It remained trustworthy, constant, and clear.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so when things feel unknown, God was not absent.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was leading them all the way through.

[SPEAKER_00]: So from Eden to the wilderness, and now to the Tabanacho.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Tabernacle was pre-tample, it was temporary temple, where in Exodus 25, the Lord God says to Moses, he says, let them make me a sanctuary that I might dwell in their midst.

[SPEAKER_00]: God actually says that he wants to dwell in their midst.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so this word, sanctuary is a Hebrew word.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's McDash.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's derived from the reword, which is holy, meaning consecrated, set apart, in place of God's presence, such as a Tabernacle.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so after leading people through the wilderness, God's desire didn't fade, it actually became clearer.

[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't just want to bring them to the Promised Land.

[SPEAKER_00]: He wanted to be with them in the Promised Land.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Tabernacle wasn't about containment.

[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't to confine God, but it was about connection.

[SPEAKER_00]: But a visible reminder that God was drawing near inviting his people to do the same.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because his heart has always been this, not just

[SPEAKER_00]: And so there might be some contrary beliefs in the room.

[SPEAKER_00]: There might be people who might feel that God is distant.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it might feel like God is far off, removed from everyday lives.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to tell you the story of scripture says otherwise.

[SPEAKER_00]: It shows us a God that actually continues to move closer to us.

[SPEAKER_00]: From Eden to the wilderness to the tabernacle, he draws near again and again.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is not distant, he is present and ever pursuing.

[SPEAKER_00]: There might be another one that God gave up on me.

[SPEAKER_00]: After our own failures, it might seem we've gone too far.

[SPEAKER_00]: He might be like sitting here, you know, I actually don't feel worthy of sitting in a church.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know what I've done.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know the life that I've lived.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you look at scripture and Old Testament, you can see the people have done far worse things.

[SPEAKER_00]: But every step the story reveals his commitment to restore what was lost.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then there might be a question you might ask yourself, is it possible that your failure or shortcomings

[SPEAKER_00]: but the place where God actually wants to meet you this morning.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so as we talk about the temple, you might actually ask yourself, are these practices can be sustained?

[SPEAKER_00]: Is this the way that's always meant to be?

[SPEAKER_00]: Was God's presence really limited to a place?

[SPEAKER_00]: Or was there something more than he always intended?

[SPEAKER_00]: And the answer's yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you like to join our Tony Pages to John II verse 18,

[SPEAKER_00]: This after Jesus cleanses the temple, he says in verse 18 and says, so the Jews said to him, what sign do you show us of doing these things?

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what gives you the right?

[SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus answered and destroyed this temple and in three days, I'll raise it up again.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Jews then said, it's taken 46 years to build this temple and you would like to, and you raised it up in three days.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you're speaking, John takes step back in the rates here,

[SPEAKER_00]: When therefore he was raised from the dead, he was disciples remembered that he said this in the courts.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they believe the scripture, the word that Jesus had spoken.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so this patch just takes place in the early slide, he saw the court, the Gentiles.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the out of court to the temple, there was all these people dealing with money, all these kind of making money of sacrifices, basically.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so Jesus, Tesla, all up, and he says this, that I'll raise this temple in three days.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so we move from the place as a temple and we move to the person.

[SPEAKER_00]: So God's dwelling is not just confined in the place now and moves to a person and that is Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: You say we trace God's stories with these people and we begin to see this beautiful thread woven through scripture.

[SPEAKER_00]: His desire to dwell with us.

[SPEAKER_00]: From Eden to the wilderness to the Tabernacle and then the temple.

[SPEAKER_00]: Each moment reveals God, who is not distant, but drawing Neo, step by step across generations.

[SPEAKER_00]: His sovereign plan unfolds a patient, a faithful pursuit of relationship with his people.

[SPEAKER_00]: Moving closer from something far greater than we could ever imagine.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so when Jesus be here in verse in chapter two here, it's such an understood statement, but it's really not, it's really important, because it's reaching its climax of this dwelling that God's pursuing us.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're saying the previous chapter of John 14, it says the Lord became flesh and dwelt among us.

[SPEAKER_00]: God did not remain in the place anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: He arrived as a person.

[SPEAKER_00]: He tabernackled, which is the word to well in that chapter one.

[SPEAKER_00]: He tabernackled among us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Peach in his tent amidst humanity.

[SPEAKER_00]: The presence of God was no longer confined in sacred spaces.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was walking among these people full of grace and truth, which is why people like the Pharisees were so bombarded that he couldn't be God because he was hanging out with prostitutes, he was hanging out with task collectors, he was literally hanging out with the marginalized people.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that should actually point Jesus should point God's heart for people who isn't just qualified to step into the temple, step into the presence, it actually is anyone.

[SPEAKER_00]: God's hearts to spend time with everybody, where they are at, what they're doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: So when Jesus says in Matthew 12, he says this, he goes, something greater than than temple is here.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he's not making this bold claim, he's revealing the coming fulfillment of everything that the temple was pointing toward.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so if we look back at the purpose of the temple as a meeting place between God's holiness and brokenness and the actual human brokenness, we begin that Jesus is not continuing the story.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's actually fulfilling it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm just going to unpack this quickly because we talked about the purpose of the temple and I want to bring these Jesus into this and correlate them and compare them because it's really like I was taking it back this week about the correlations that were taking place.

[SPEAKER_00]: So with the temple we talked about place, we talked about the priest, we talked about sacrifice.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so the first one's place.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is the first correlation here.

[SPEAKER_00]: The temple was where God's presence was localized, where people had the journey to meet with him.

[SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus carries that presence himself, and he comes near meeting people where they are, like I just mentioned.

[SPEAKER_00]: The temple stood as the bridge between God's glory and human brokenness, but Jesus becomes that bridge.

[SPEAKER_00]: Revealing God's glory while standing in full solidarity with us.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the temple was this many place of holiness and humanity, but Jesus is both fully human, fully gone.

[SPEAKER_00]: The place where God and His people truly meet, His body's both.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then we have priest.

[SPEAKER_00]: The priest were the intercessors who stood between God and the people praying, blessing, and representing the people of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus is the great high priest, who he distills at for us at the right hand of the Father.

[SPEAKER_00]: The priest guard holiness, they're set apart to handle the sacred things and take care of the temple, which is the holy one that guards both and bodies holiness.

[SPEAKER_00]: The priest taught that God's law and guard them in matters of purity.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is the true teacher that leads into truth and holiness.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then we come to sacrifice.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus steps in as a player, so to this, he's the substitute.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've met talked about a couple of weeks ago around the sacrifices and how the lands and then the goats, and one was the scapegoat was cast out of the city.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see, no longer a lamb or a goat was offered again, and again, Jesus becomes the one final sacrifice.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Lamb of God, the goat, the greatest of all time.

[SPEAKER_00]: John 129, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

[SPEAKER_00]: And in love, he takes one what is actually as bearing the weight, the cost, and the consequence of our sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't just offer himself.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he doesn't just offer something on our behalf.

[SPEAKER_00]: He actually offers himself the death that actually we deserved, that he willingly carries, that we actually might receive life instead.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so what this sacrificial system brought and was points for Jesus' fulfills completely.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not a temporary covering, but full final attainment.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so Jesus does not only the sacrifice, he is the place where it all happens, the true temple where forgiveness is made possible and restoration begins.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so you might ask yourself, if forgiveness wasn't something you had to earn, but something offered freely,

[SPEAKER_00]: How would that change the way you see yourself?

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you actually think you're worthy of forgiveness?

[SPEAKER_00]: Start there.

[SPEAKER_00]: The second one's the new coexistence.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is in holiness and brokenness, who's the place where that meets and so that they can now coexist.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is perfectly holy, yet he steps into our mess.

[SPEAKER_00]: At the very height of his purity, he takes on sin, our shame, and even the death that we deserve.

[SPEAKER_00]: Second Corinthians 5, 21, says, he became sin for us.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so where God's glory and human brokenness couldn't actually dwell together, Jesus makes away for both of them to meet, not without destruction, but with redemption.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so he doesn't avoid our brokenness.

[SPEAKER_00]: He enters it, carries it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He transforms it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't leave us as we are, but we're made holy with him.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're made holy with him because it's him.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's nothing we've done.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so there are reflection questions.

[SPEAKER_00]: You might even ask yourself, like, what might it look like for you to trust that your brokenness doesn't disqualify you?

[SPEAKER_00]: But it actually is the place where God wants to meet you most.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have to acknowledge that you're broken.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have to acknowledge that I'm a sinner, you're a sinner.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have to acknowledge where we are.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that actually doesn't disqualify you from where you are and where God wants to meet you're brokenness.

[SPEAKER_00]: He wants to realize you're brokenness.

[SPEAKER_00]: And what parts do you have life feel unworthy?

[SPEAKER_00]: What difficult to bring into the light?

[SPEAKER_00]: And what do you normally do with those parts?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to get a band up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus fulfills the dwelling.

[SPEAKER_00]: Go on Himself to weld among His people.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so why did Jesus do this?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because this is the very heart of God, the very crux on my message, is the pursuit of fully dwelling with His people.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is the climax of the story, like God's not just in near us, he's with us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Making a real close relationship.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you might hear this phrase of John 3, 16, you know, God forgot to love the world that He gave His one and only son.

[SPEAKER_00]: The heart behind that message is God showing a love that gives so that we might choose him.

[SPEAKER_00]: But people don't need to choose people.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes people might not choose him, and that's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: But our job is to show his love to people.

[SPEAKER_00]: John 3 16 is showing that God gives his love so that we might have the opportunity to choose him.

[SPEAKER_00]: God died on a cross.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus died on a cross, knowing that to some people who weren't choose who He is, and believe in Him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus doesn't show us God's heart, He embodies it.

[SPEAKER_00]: No longer a distant presence in a tent or an attempt.

[SPEAKER_00]: God stepping into mankind into the world to close the gap.

[SPEAKER_00]: what the rituals once pointed towards in the temple, Jesus feels.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's not removing our need for God.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually removing the distance between us and Him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Heaven and Earth begin to meet again in Him as it's always created to be in Eden.

[SPEAKER_00]: When He here got heart to be with you and not distant from you, how does that land with you?

[SPEAKER_00]: And if Jesus doesn't show you God's heart, but in bodies of it, what might that reveal about how God actually feels about you?

[SPEAKER_00]: Tim Keller summarizes this whole thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: He says, Jesus was the temple to end all temples.

[SPEAKER_00]: The priest to end all priests.

[SPEAKER_00]: The sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have about tenors in the moment, but this is finally after this is still not the end.

[SPEAKER_00]: It comes, and it's centered around us, the decentralized temple.

[SPEAKER_00]: John 167 says, Jesus says, it's better that I go to the hope on the Holy Spirit will come.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus himself says, it's better than I'll leave.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Holy Spirit's here.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's in this room, and Jesus died and rose against it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you can have access to it right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: We know we need to go to temple.

[SPEAKER_00]: We don't need to make sacrifices.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is a sacrifice.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have free access.

[SPEAKER_00]: We can pray.

[SPEAKER_00]: We can spend time with him.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a gift.

[SPEAKER_00]: One morning, the same fire from heaven filled.

[SPEAKER_00]: That filled solence temple is the same fire that rests on these people in that upper room.

[SPEAKER_00]: Acts two of us to suddenly there was a sound from heaven, a money rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting, and divided tongues as fire appeared to them and resonant each one of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not just God with us, but God in us, in us.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is the reality today, is that those who trust in Jesus receive His Spirit.

[SPEAKER_00]: not just a distance presence, but not just a physical one eye, but a living presence within us.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so Paul reminds us this, in all the episodes, he says, we are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

[SPEAKER_00]: We ourselves, we as a church, from Eden to the wilderness to the Tabernacle, to the temple to Jesus and now us.

[SPEAKER_00]: The story God's dwellings has moved closer and closer until now, and now His presence lives inside His people.

[SPEAKER_00]: And because Jesus, we have life, we have hope, we have become the place where God dwells.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have become the place where God dwells.

[SPEAKER_00]: But we are not to contain God.

[SPEAKER_00]: We are not cold to hold him.

[SPEAKER_00]: We are not pulled to store him up or keep faith to ourselves.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like zipping up a full suitcase that seems to be bursting at the seams, we are not called to hold him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Only we're called to overflow.

[SPEAKER_00]: Where people once traveled to the temple, miles and miles and miles and miles, we are now sent out.

[SPEAKER_00]: We carry his presence into the world.

[SPEAKER_00]: We are the modern decentralized temple of Ghana.

[SPEAKER_00]: But in our homes, church in friendships, church in more places, church in everyday life, not just on Sundays, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

[SPEAKER_00]: We become a living witness of his pursuit, not just telling the story, but embodying it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We are the light of the world because he is in us from temple to habitation.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so for those being baptized this morning, this is what they're stepping into.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're saying, I'm following Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: I make a public decoration that I belong to him that I now carry his presence and that I'm going to be sent into the world into my spaces as part of a living and breathing temple.

[SPEAKER_00]: God has come near, dwelt among us, and now He lives within us.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so that through us, the Holy Spirit, and with the Holy Spirit, that the world might and can't at Him as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen, amen, let me pray and I'll invite back up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus, we love you so much.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, that we can see the story unfold.

[SPEAKER_00]: The story of you pursuing us after just not choosing you and Eden Lord, you've still been faithful.

[SPEAKER_00]: You've still been showing you love in so many ways, I've pursued to dwell.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, that you die and rose again so that we might have the Holy Spirit in us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, that we have free access to you, young.

[SPEAKER_00]: or that we may pray to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me know where you may worship you.

[SPEAKER_00]: We can be in your presence without being consumed anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a gift to worship you Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord that we're created to be worshiped people.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so a lot of pray for every person here, whether they know Jesus or not.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray for the hearts.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray they might just ask that deep a question of, what is the next step?

[SPEAKER_00]: What is more to life than what it is right now?

[SPEAKER_00]: And for the believer in the room, what I just pray is encouragement to know that you live in Ask that you speak to us, that you lead us, that you love us.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Lord, we'll spend the rest of our lives trying to just love you as much back.

[SPEAKER_00]: That will be what face to face one day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Enjoy your presence for a turn in the butt.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I just thank you so much for the service.

[SPEAKER_00]: I give the rest of the service to you, Jesus' name.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.