Today I want us to look at the
summary of all three parts of the Temple, as well as the meaning of
the entrance and then I want us to come to a conclusion when we
understand all of it.
Firstly let's have a look at the
outer court. The outer court as we saw last week symbolizes that
God wants us to sacrifice all that we are. In fact we shouldn't be
living anymore, but His Son should be living through us. We should
wash ourselves clean from this world, and then put on the robe of
righteousness given to us by Christ as a gift. The whole outer
court wants us to realize that this world shouldn't be that
important to us anymore. Christ is all that matters, His Kingdom
and His glory. While in the outer court we should realize that all
He wants us to do is to enter into the Temple, into His
presence.
Secondly we saw that the entrance
revealed that God is saying that we need to walk with Him in
agreement in the New Covenant that He has established for us. Alone
we are completely deficient, but together with Him we can walk in
full dominion. He will look after us and will give us access into
His Promised Land where there is prosperity and a wonderful life to
be enjoyed.
Thirdly we come to the Holy Place.
Here we learned that we are in the presence of the Holy Spirit. We
can fellowship with God, taking Jesus in as our bread of Life. We
can be intimate with God and stand tall in the victory that He has
bought for us. We can pray with boldness, with power and victory,
knowing that we can enter into the Holy Place because of what Jesus
did for us.
Fourthly we enter into the Most
Holy Place. We saw that the Most Holy Place represents the New
Covenant; it represents our right standing with God because of the
blood of Jesus. In the Most Holy Place we are safe. In His presence
no evil can befall us. There is true life and life in
abundance.
Therefore we can conclude that the
whole Temple is telling us the following. We should sacrifice all
that we are and wash ourselves clean from this world. We should put
on the robe of righteousness given freely to us by Christ and enter
into the Temple. As we enter in we are reminded of the New Covenant
entered into with us. On our own we cannot accomplish much, but
with Him by our side we can walk in full dominion. Inside the
Temple we are surrounded by the presence of the Holy Spirit, we can
be intimate with God and experience Jesus as our bread of life. We
can pray with boldness, with power and victory as we enter into the
Most Holy Place. There we are safe, totally stripped of this world
and completely surrounded by Him and all that He is. There is life
and life more abundantly.
Jesus came to give us life in
abundance, it is there for the taking, and we simply need to enter
in, to push forward and take what is rightfully ours. He wants to
bless us with so much; we simply need to reach out.
So make a conscious decision today
to stop living in the outer court, and to move in deeper to claim
the life that God wants to bless you with. The time to flirt with
this worldly system has come to an end. The time to fly higher has
come. God has infinitely more for you. Are you ready?
Father we glorify Your Name! We
praise You on high! You are such an amazing God and King! Thank you
for all the good plans that You have for us. We are sorry that the
worldly system became so important to us; we rather want to live a
life close to You! Thank you for showing us the way of life. We
love You. Amen