The Tabernacle of God - Pt 3

Episode 5 - The Tabernacle of God - Part 3

Christopher: So I want to try to tie all of these pieces together with what, you know, why I wanted to do a teaching on the tabernacle. And there is the scriptures in John 1:14. And it talks about Season, uh, Season being the word of God. So I'm going to read. "God Tabernacled among Us - source:   click here" When a person makes his home among people, he moves in with them. He identifies with them. The incarnation is the moving in of the eternal word so that he, uh, utterly identifies with us in every way. He took the whole nature of a human being fully and totally, identifying it with all that it means for us to be human, including that which psychologists tell us is the most traumatic event of human life. Birth. A well loved Christmas Carol contains the line, he abhors not the virgin's womb. This should cause a bit of wonder. In awe. The eternal God of all the universe did not, did not abhor a virgin's womb. How messy. I assisted with the delivery of two of our children. A few minutes before Christopher, our first child, was born. Barbara's obstetrician said, do you want to do this? I said, sure. He said, wash up. And I did. I delivered Christopher, and two years later I delivered Carrie. I thought I might drop her since she was so slippery. Birth is messy. What a wonder that the eternal word of God did not shun being born. It did. It had to happen this way. Only in the complete identification with our flesh could Christ be the second Adam, the perfect man that Adam was not. Adam sinned and died as a man. Only as a man could Season do what Adam failed to do and be the mediator between God and man. Why? Because only flesh can can die. The same truth is amplified in the next phrase of John 1:14. The word dwelt among us, literally tabernacled among us, which means he pitched a tent among us. The Old Testament tabernacle is where God moved in and lived with his people. This tabernacle had no meaning apart from Season Christ. Its whole purpose in the wilderness was to point people forward to the true tabernacle, who was to come, the Son of God. For in him all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form. Colossians 2:9. Think about Season as the tabernacle. The tabernacle was for use in the wilderness. Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness. The tabernacle was outwardly humble and unattractive. He has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon him, nor appearance that we should be attracted to him. Isaiah 53. 2. The tabernacle was where God met with Men, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me. The tabernacle was the center of Israel's camp, a gathering place for God's people. And if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself. The tabernacle was where sacrifices for the sins of God's people were made. But he, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God. Hebrews 10:12. The tabernacle was a place of worship. My Lord and my God. John 20:28. We do not understand the teaching, uh, of the Old Testament in all of its fullness unless we read it through Season Christ, his incarnation, life, death, and resurrection. The tabernacle has absolutely no meaning apart from Season. Thousands of years before Season, God purposed that there be a tabernacle in order that there would be one who would fulfill the meaning of that tabernacle, who would be the true tabernacle for us. Just as the tabernacle in the wilderness contained and displayed God's glory. Exodus 40:30, 34, 35. Even more do we behold the glory of God. Here it is in the face of Christ. 2nd Corinthians 4:6.

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Christopher: Moses sought to look upon the glory of God, and he was warned by God himself not to look. Exodus 33, 18, 20. But we have the privilege of looking upon the face of the word of God, upon Jesus by faith, through his Word. Later, one day, by sight, we will see the face of Season, who will be the full revelation of God and, uh, manifestation of his glory. Every time we are looking at the Scriptures, we are looking at the tabernacle of God. We are looking at Season Christ come in the flesh. When we take those words, and we honor those words, and we read them, we put them inside of our hearing, we put them inside of our soul, and it goes into our heart, and it goes to our spirit man. And those things have life inside of them. The more that we speak the Word of God, the more that we interact with the Word of God. The Book of Psalms is a book of scriptures. They would sing the, those psalms, they would set those psalms to music. The m. Actual living word of God. We've been talking about the glory and trying to get an understanding of where the churches dipped off into, into the air of seeking the glory, but not seeking God. And when we started talking about this in, in our private discussions, it's come up that there's no scripture that says we are to seek the glory. The scripture says we're supposed to seek Him. We're supposed to seek the presence of God. How do we do that? We get into the tabernacle that he created. The tabernacle is his word. So Second Corinthians 3 is subtitled Christ's, uh, Epistle. Do we begin again? I'm gonna read the whole chapter, because every bit of it's good. Epistle is a writing is a letter. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of condemnation to you, or letters of condemnation from you? You are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read by all men. Clearly you are an epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but The Spirit gives life. 7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was so glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect because of the glory that excels. For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. So all of that I believe Paul wrote the, uh, um, Second Corinthians. First and Second Corinthians. All of this that Paul is trying to teach and show is talking about the importance of being in the face of God. And we just saw here that he talks about the face of God being the Spirit of God, which is Christ. And Christ is the Epistle. Christ is the letter that was written from God's heart to us, uh, to explain who God is. And as we behold that letter, we're

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Christopher: going to be changed into Christ's image. 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, 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. But even to this day, when Moses is red, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless, when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 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 by the Spirit of the Lord. Again, this puts an emphasis upon the Word of God. Putting that word of God before your face, placing it inside of your spirit man, so that you can be changed and transformed and to see the likeness of Christ. But the simplicity is John 1. The word was made flesh and dwelt among us. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God in the beginning.

Kathryn: He made all things and through him.

Christopher: Okay, so when you're looking at the tabernacle, you cannot escape that God came down and got inside of that tabernacle. Right in the Old Testament, right? The physical structure, right in the New Testament, the tabernacle is us. So if there's no teaching of the Word of God, there's no preaching of the Word of God. How is the Spirit of God there? So I'm gonna go back and read 2nd Corinthians 3, 17 and 18 again because I think this is the, this is the key to what's going on the American church now. The Lord is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 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 by the Spirit of the Lord. So what image are, uh, the churches in America looking at? If they're not looking at the Word of God, what m image are they reproducing? Because they're not beholding Him? And this is, this is a big problem because it's opening the door for a great wave of deception to come into the American church and cause people to be led astray, to be carried away with these strange doctrines, these strange teachings, these strange non teaching teachings that are going on. John 5, verse 16, subtitle is honor the Father and the Son. For this reason, the Jews persecuted Season and sought to kill him because he had done these things on the Sabbath. But Season answered them. My Father has been working until now, and I have been working. Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. Verse 19. Then Season answered And said to them, most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do for whatever he does, the Son also does in like manner. That's the key part. That's a key understanding. If the church isn't looking at Season, who is looking at the Father? What is the church doing? What is the American church doing? If we're looking at ourselves comparing ourselves to ourselves, comparing ourselves to other churches, comparing ourselves to other ministries, other forerunners, uh, that are out there, you're not getting close to God. The Spirit of God is not directing

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Christopher: every one of your footsteps. And you've gotten off course and you don't know it. Uh, because you're. Instead of looking over here in the direction that you should be looking at on Jesus and following that, you're over here going in a whole totally different path that has nothing to do with God whatsoever and is never going to reconnect to Season. Because wherever you're looking at is where you're going. If you're not looking at Season, if you're not looking at the Word, if you're not putting the Word inside of your spirit, man, people barely pray today. There is, there is absolutely very little prayer that goes on. So if, if you're not looking at the Word and you're not praying, what is music doing for you?

Kathryn: It's a, it's a form of hope. So to stay connected to the Lord. But it's a, it's.

Christopher: But if the music doesn't talk about Season, if the music doesn't talk about the word of God, what hope do you have?

Kathryn: M.

Christopher: There isn't one ounce of scripture in some of these songs that's out.

Kathryn: There.

Christopher: And the songs that do happen to mention Jesus is very, very little. There's no tie. Some of the songs that are being written, they are not scripturally based. They're based upon a feeling. They're based upon common, um, philosophies that are going around within the church. They're based upon common prophetic lies that are going around in the church. And instead of spreading something that's solid that people can stand on and live on, you got these falsehoods that are being out there. Verse 20. For the Father loves the Son. Go ahead.

Kathryn: I'm just thinking, I don't know if the music is being written because the way that the generation has been led astray, meaning, how can I say it? Basically there I feel, and I could be completely wrong, what you're saying is right, but I feel that Some of the music that is written is written to a specific group of people that's going to catch their attention to seek God, uh, and maybe further go deeper into the truths of God.

Christopher: So who is that group of people?

Kathryn: The people who are lost or the people who belong to God that don't know.

Christopher: So if, if what you're saying is true, and I'm just, I'm just playing devil's advocate with you, if what you're saying is true, it's only written to a certain group of people, how is the other people who are in the church going to be sustained? M. If their whole goal, their whole focus is to just be looking for these other people, how will they be uplifted?

Kathryn: So here's what we've been taught. Those type of people should already have everything. The Word, the spirit of God and all that stuff. So when these group of people that are coming in, come in, we should be ready to help them in the foundation and principles of the Lord.

Christopher: Twenty years ago you could say that today you can't. And, and today you can't. Because the people that are coming in, that are being promoted as leaders and put up as leaders have not been tested, have not been tried, have not had enough of the word of God inside of them that when a trial or tribulation hits, they're not quitting the church because they are quitting the church. God isn't God. He isn't real or he would not allow these things to happen to me. He would not allow my child to be sick. He would not allow my child to die. All of the things that people say and normal life happens to them. When you're in a situation where

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Christopher: they are supposed to be in leadership and teaching other people, they themselves are not disciples of God because they don't know what it is to be a disciple because no one taught them. Twenty years ago, you could say that people was being taught. There was a Sunday school lesson, there was a standardized, uh, train of thought of, you need to know this, this, this, this, this, and this. Today you can walk into any one of these churches in America and nobody knows how to lead a person into salvation. They're running, looking for the pastor, and the pastor don't know themselves because they don't know the Basics of John 3:16. Twenty years ago, everybody knew John 3:16. Can quote it backwards and forwards because it was the word. It was the normal thing that was taught. It's not being taught today. You don't even get Season Christ loves me anymore. We're in trouble. The. The American church is in trouble. Verse 20 of John 5. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all things that He Himself does. And he will show him greater works than these that you may marvel. Here we go. The churches, the prophetic church in America is talking about. We're going to be doing the greater works. How you gonna be doing the greater works if you're not looking at the Father to show you what those greater works are? You're not gonna see it. You're not even gonna know when he does it. You're not even gonna know when the cloud has moved away and went in a totally different direction because you're not in touch with the Spirit. Spirit of God. Verse 21. For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom he will. For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. There's a lot in that, that John 5, chapter 23. If you're not honoring the Son who is the Word of God, you are not honoring God himself. I, uh, don't care what anybody says.

Kathryn: That's true.

Christopher: So you're saying we don't need the Word. You're saying we don't need the Father. So what Father are you praying to?

Kathryn: It definitely is a voice that.

Christopher: Yeah, what father are you worshiping? Because the Father demands that you honor the Son.

Kathryn: Yes.

Christopher: And you cannot honor the Son without acknowledging that he is the Word that was made flesh and dwelt among us, that tabernacled with us. You can't get rid of that. You can make up a story in your mind to make you get rid of it and cause you to be, uh, out there doing dumb stuff. You're prophetic. It's tied to the Word. If you don't know the Word of God, if you're not reading the Word of God, your prophetic is going to be messed up because you're going to be prophesying out of your flesh. You're going to be prophesying out of the things that you have head knowledge of versus the Spirit of God speaking to you and telling you this is what's going on in somebody's life. I remember when I first started getting into the prophetic in the former church that I was in. And it was always taught, you don't prophesy out of your head knowledge. You don't Go. Listening at, uh, conversations. You don't go, you know, you don't let people run off at the lips and say a whole bunch of stuff to you before you prophesy over them. Because if you did, there's a part of you that could listen to that mess that they just said and have that be a prophetic word that comes out and destroys the person's life. It's. It's off.

Kathryn: Thank God. God's restoring the truth. Thank God. God restoring truth. I think a lot of people that are coming out on social media,

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Kathryn: who is fighting for the truth? The Christians that have the mindset like me do. I think God's going to use them to bring the truth and the knowledge and understanding of the deeper things.

Christopher: It has to be the. The an awakening has to occur. A revolution has to occur.

Kathryn: People are tired. A lot of, A lot of the church, people who have the heart of God, who really want the truth, they're tired.

Christopher: Yep.

Kathryn: Tired. They. And they're not. They know they can't give up, but they know something has to change.

Christopher: Yeah.

Kathryn: And I think God's going to give them the authority to, to move forward because this is God's perfect will. Like, you just can't get away from the Word.

Christopher: It has to be, uh, every. Everything is tied directly to the Word. Even your worship is tied to the word.

Kathryn: Right.

Christopher: John 5:24. Most assuredly I say to you, he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has everlasting life and shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death into life. Most assuredly I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God. And those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself and has given him authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son of man. Do not marvel at this. For the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come forth. Those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation. I can of myself do nothing as I hear. I judge, and my judgment is righteous because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

Kathryn: Come on. Come on.

Christopher: This is Season.

Kathryn: Because I do not seek my own will.

Christopher: Yep. It's not my glory that I want, it's the glory of the Father.

Kathryn: Yes.

Christopher: And because I'm looking at Him, I'm, uh, watching Him. I'm not going to do anything until I see him do it. I'm not going to say anything until I hear him say it. Then when I do, because Season is the Spirit. The spirit of prophecy is Season, and Season is the spirit of prophecy. A lot of people in the American church who are prophesying, who aren't looking at Season, and they're prophesying things out of their flesh that mean absolutely nothing and will never, ever come to pass. Those things will never come to pass. So Exodus 27 is still. We're still talking about the tabernacle. And these are some things that Moses was dictating to the body of Christ in his day. And this is titled, uh, the Altar of Burnt Offering. You shall make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits. You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze. And you shall also make its pans to receive its ashes. In its shovels and its basins and its forks and its fire pans, you shall make all its utensils of bronze. You shall make a great thread, a network of bronze. On the network you shall make four bronze rings. At its four corners. You shall put it under the rim of the altar. Beneath that the network may be midway up the altar. And you shall make poles for the altar poles of acacia wood and overlay them with bronze. The poles shall be put into rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar to bear it. You shall make it hollow with boards, as was shown, um, with you on the mountain. So they shall make it the court of the tabernacle. Verse 9. You shall also make the court of the tabernacle for the south side there shall be hangings for the court made of fine woven linen, 100 cubits long for one side, and its 20 pillars and their 20 sockets shall be bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be silver. Likewise, along the length of the north side there shall be hangings 100 cubits long, with its 20 pillars

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Christopher: and their 20 sockets of bronze, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. And along the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of 50 cubits with their 10 pillars and their 10 sockets. The width of the court on the east side shall be 50 cubits. The hangings on one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets, and on the other side shall be hangings of 15 cubits with their three pillars, and in their three sockets. For the gate of the court there shall be a screen 20 cubits long, woven of blue, purple and scarlet thread and fine woven linen made by a weaver. It shall have four pillars and four sockets. All the pillars around the court shall have bands of silver. Their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of bronze. The length of the court shall be 100 cubits, the width 50 throughout, and the height 5 cubits, made of fine woven linen, and its sockets of bronze. All the utensils of the tabernacle, for all its service, all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court shall be of bronze. Verse 20. And you shall command the children of Israel that they bring ye pure oil of, uh, pressed olives for the light to cause the lamp to burn continually. And in the tabernacle of meeting outside the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend to it from evening until morning before the Lord. It shall be a statute forever to their generations on behalf of the children of Israel. And that was Exodus 20:7. So Revelations 1:17 talks about us beholding him. But I'm going to go to Revelations 1:12. And this is written by John. Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands. And in the midst of the seven lamp stands one like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and girded about the chest with a golden band. His head and hair were like. Were white, like wool, as white as snow. And his eyes like a flame of fire. His. His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace. And his voice as the sound of many waters. He had in his right hand seven stars. Out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sword, and his countenance was like the sun, shining in its strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying to me, do not be afraid. I am the first and the last. I am he who lives and was dead. And behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of, uh, Hades and death. Write the things which you have seen and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this. The mystery of the seven stars which you saw on my right hand, and the seven golden, uh, lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the. The seven churches. And the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches so verse 17, it was talking about John and John, when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying to me, do not be afraid. I am the first and the last. You know, in relation to John was the disciple that Season loved. He, because of his love, I'm going to say this, was able to take the deeper things of God and translate them to God's people.

Kathryn: Yes, I believe that.

Christopher: And a lot of people miss that about John.

Kathryn: And you know why they're looking. All right, so, uh, in Scripture, it says John, the one that Season loved, I think. But people look at it again like it's a friendship.

Christopher: Yeah. That love is more respect than anything.

Kathryn: Yeah.

Christopher: All.

Kathryn: Yes, I know. I've been telling them, I said, the Word is only. Not the word. Music is only going to take you so far.

Christopher: Yep.

Kathryn: I've experienced that.

Christopher: Yep. So I used to tell you that in the very beginning when you, oh, I got to have my music. I, uh, I have my music. And I was like, yeah, you do. But you need the Word.

Kathryn: Yes. Yes.

Christopher: You need the work.

Kathryn: And right now, the way that everything is going in the world and in the church.

Christopher: And you got to. You got to say this, too. The musicians ain't saved. They ain't saved. If they are saved, they writing songs naked on their pianos so people can listen

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Christopher: to them, you know, because. Because they're in the flesh. They're not in the spirit when they're writing these songs, the. These musicians. And. And it's. It's not funny anymore. But the pastors are calling them out. You know, when they go up to preach, they're leaving, and they're like, hey, you can sit here and listen to the Word too. Your. Your part. You. You yourself as a musician need to be saved.

Kathryn: Yes. Just if anything, you are supposed to hear the word of, uh, God.

Christopher: Yeah.

Kathryn: In a deep way, so it can touch the people.

Christopher: How do you have a relationship with God? And we're coming to find out now that these musicians don't. They're drinking, they're drugging, they're partying. They're doing things that they shouldn't be doing because. Because all they were in this for was the musicianship. I'm a musician. And that, uh, you know, this is a part of worship. The. The musicianing is a part of worship. No, your worship comes from your love for God. And your ability to play your music should come from your love for God. And if you don't have that, where is your talent coming from?

Kathryn: Correct.

Christopher: Where is your gifting coming from?

Kathryn: Correct.

Christopher: Uh, because Satan played music in heaven too. And Satan fell. Satan was in the very presence of God, singing a song, playing music. But he fell. He fell so hard he's never able to, to come back. Right. He fell so hard that he took one third of the angels with him. Being in the presence of God.

Kathryn: Right.

Christopher: Music is not it. Sorry, sue me.

Kathryn: I, I remember saying something to. Oh, it was Michelle where we had that talk before the meeting that we went to too early. I said, michelle, God has not changed.

Christopher: Nope.

Kathryn: I said, the church has changed. And I said, God is not going to come down here and change his holiness. Because I was telling her about holy. I told her how all these, the word holy was in the atmosphere and it went back to God. It like, it was in a way where I knew it was right, referencing God, not necessarily the people. And I was like, okay, what is God trying to say? And it, to me, what I felt was God, uh, was going, God wants to return. God wants to show himself in a way where it's, uh, it's hard to explain, but it was, I knew this was separate from his people is what I'm saying. It was just focused on the holy holiness of God. It was all about him and how that eventually is supposed to fall down on the people. But the way it was, the way I just picked it up in my spirit, it was just like God, uh, wanted us to focus on, hit on him. And this season.

Christopher: Yep.

Kathryn: That'S the best thing I could say. So I said to her, I said, the church has changed, but God has not. And she was like, I love it. I love Al. I know that. Some people just know, like me. I finally caught on. I was like, no, we need the word. We need the Word. And we just, we know that we don't need the Word, but we don't understand the deepness of it, of why still that surface level, it's like, okay, music is just being played over here and I know I'm missing something. Um, yeah. It is the word. It's the Word. It's the Word. And I know we need the Word.

Christopher: It's how God dwells with us.

Kathryn: Yes.

Christopher: It's living, it's alive, it's sharper, it's active than a two edged sword.

Kathryn: Jeremiah.

Christopher: It goes in, it cuts to the division of the soul and the spirit and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And if you don't have that word going inside of you saying, hey dummy, don't go in this direction.

Kathryn: Yeah.

Christopher: Don't do it.

Kathryn: Yeah.

Christopher: And it's soon as you start shutting off that voice. No, I don't need that. I don't need that. I don't need that. You're out there.

Kathryn: Yeah.

Christopher: Because God doesn't have to come back to you.

Kathryn: No.

Christopher: He doesn't have to keep tapping you on the shoulder saying, don't do that.

Kathryn: You know, that's what we talked about

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Kathryn: Jeremiah, the high. How God spoke, Jeremiah said, is not my word. Something like a fire or something. Something with fire. Because that's what made me start reading, getting hyped up about Jeremiah and the word. God does so much.

Christopher: Yeah.

Kathryn: Does so much. It starts a fire.

Christopher: Yeah.

Kathryn: And side of you, if you don't know, you don't know. And this is where I don't

remember what God. I don't remember what I spoke last week, but I remember saying something about people are perishing because they don't know.

Christopher: Well, this is all that we have for, uh, this session, talking about the tabernacle.

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Episode 5 - The Tabernacle of God - Part 3