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INTRODUCTION

I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT DOING A SERIES ON THE TABERNACLE AND ITS FURNITURE

BECAUSE, I BELIEVE THAT YOU CANNOT REALY APPRECIATE WHO JESUS IS UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND THE TABERNACLE

YOU WILL KNOW BIBLE STORIES

YOU KNOW THAT JESUS WENT TO THE CROSS AND DIED FOR YOUR SINS

BUT, YOU WON’T KNOW THE IMPACT OF HIS BLOOD WAS A BUSINESS TRANSACTION THAT BOUGHT YOU OFF OF THE SLAVE TABLE OF SIN AND RELEASED YOU SO YOU WILL USE TERMS SUCH AS REDEEM BUT YOU DON’T REALLY THINK ABOUT IT

REDEEM,

IT IS ONLY AS YOU GO INTO THE TABERNACLE AND YOU SEE THE BLOOD ON THE ALTAR, THE BRAZEN ALTAR, THE PRICE THAT WAS PAID FOR YOUR REDEMPTION AND THEN YOU BEGIN TO CONSIDER THAT WHEN JESUS ASCENDED THAT HE WENT UP IN THE CLOUD THROUGH THE VEIL

INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES BY WHICH THIS IS JUST A PATTERN

THE TABERNACLE WAS ERECTED AROUND 1450 BC

IT IS ERECTED IN THE WILDERNESS EXACTLY ONE YEAR AFTER THE PASSOVER

SO, A YEAR AGO TO THE DATE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE SLAVES AND GOD HAS SENT MOSES DOWN INTO EGYPT TOP TELL PHARAOH, LET MY PEOPLE GO

HE SAYS, LET THEM GO THAT THEY WOULD WORSHIP ME

THE TABERNACLE WAS DESIGNED EXCTLY WHAT GOD MEANT BY WORSHIP

GOD REALLY DIDN’T MEAN, TAKE THEM OUT IN THE DESERT MOSES AND START DANCING, CLAPPING, AND SHOUTING

HE REALLY DIDN’T MEAN, RAISE YOUR HANDS AND SING HOSANNA

WORSHIP FOR HIM WAS COMPREHENSIVE BECAUSE THE WORD WORSHIP MEANS WORTH-SHIP

IT IS THE COMBINATION OF TWO LATIN WORDS THAT MEAN WORTH-SHIP, SHOW ME WHAT I AM WORTH

WORSHIP IN GOD’S MIND ISN’T DOING YOUR THING THE WAY THAT YOU WANT TO DO IT

GOD IS SPECIFIC ABOUT HOW HE WANTS TO BE WORSHIPED AND WITH GREAT DETAIL, DOWN TO THE CUBIT INCH WHAT HE WANTS TO BE DONE, HOW IT IS TO BE BUILT, AND WHAT HE WANTS IT TO ESTABLISH, AND WHAT HE WANTS IT TO DO

YOU MUST UNDERSTAND IN THE BOOK OF , ALL GOD EVER WANTED WAS TO BE WITH YOU

FROM GENESIS, THE BOOK OF CREATION, ALL GOD EVER WANTED WAS TO BE WITH YOU

HE CREATED THE GARDEN OF EDEN, SO YOU WOULD HAVE A PLACE TO BE WITH HIM

ALL THAT HE EVER WANTED WAS TO DWELL WITH YOU

HE CREATED YOU IN HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS THAT HE MIGHT HAVE RELATIONSHIP NOT RELIGION

MOST PEOPLE HAVE RELIGION BUT THEY DON’T HAVE RELATIONSHIP

GOD WANTS YOU TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM

WHEN HE CAME DOWN INTO THE GARDEN AND LOOKED FOR MAN, MAN WAS NOT IN THE PLACE

GOD SAID, WHERE ARE YOU......AND WE HAD ALREADY RUN OFF WITH SATAN INTO SIN

NOW THERE WERE VISITATIONS WHERE GOD WOULD MEET WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE, WITH PROPHETS ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS

BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE SEE A GREAT PLACE TO MEET WITH GOD SINCE EDEN TO THE TABERNACLE

WHERE GOD HAD SET UP A PLACE FOR US TO MEET

LITERALLY THE PLACE IS A PLACE OF MEETING

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LET’S READ

THE WHIOLE REASON THAT GOD WANTS THEM TO BUILD THE TABERNACLE IS TO HAVE A MEETING PLACE

SINCE WE CANNOT COME UP, I WILL COME DOWN AND DWELL AMONGST YOU

SINCE YOUR CAR BROKE DOWN, I WILL COME OVER AND PICK YOU UP

SINCE YOU CANNOT COME UP INTO THE HEAVENLIES, WE WILL BUILD A PATTERN OF WHAT I HAVE FOR YOU UP THERE AND I WANT TO COME DOWN TO BE WITH YOU

IF WE STOP COMING TO CHURCH AS A SOCIAL CLUB AND COME TO LEARN THE GUIDELINES OF OUR FAITH OF WHO WE ARE

WE WON’T BE TOSSED HERE AND THERE WITH EVERY STRANGE DOCTRINE

SOME CHRISTIANS ARE TALKING NOW, I PRAY TO THE UNIVERSE

WHY WOULD YOU PRAY TO THE CREATION WHEN YOU CAN PRAY TO THE CREATOR

ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT YOU LEARN ABOUT THE UNBELIEVERS IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS IS THAT THEY DIDN’T WORSHIP GOD AS GOD BUT WORSHIPED THE CREATION

AND PEOPLE ARE PRAYING TO THE UNIVERSE

GUESS WHO MADE THE UNIVERSE

HE THAT DWELLETH (REPEAT 5 X’S)

SHALL ABIDE UNDER THE SHADOW

WE ARE DELING WITH TWO DIFFERENT THINGS-BUILD ME A SANCTUARY THAT I MAY DWELL AMONG THEM

BUT IN HE IS TALKING ABOUT US

IT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR GOD TO DWELL IF YOU DON’T DWELL

IT MADE ME THINK OF , ABIDE IN ME.............

THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT YOU RECEIVE BY DWELLING THAT YOU DON’T GET BY VISITING

YOU HAVE TO GET MORE THAN JUST VISITING GOD WHEN YOU ARE IN TROUBLE

BECAUSE THE REAL BENEFITS COME FROM DWELLING

IN GOOD AND BAD TIMES, WHEN I’M STRONG AND WEAK, WHEN I AM RIGHT OR WRONG, IN ORDINARY DAYS AND SPECTACULAR DAYS, HEALTHY DAYS AND SICK DAYS....I WILL DWELL

BECAUSE YOU HAVE MADE THE LORD YOUR HABITATION AND NOT VISITATION

1,000 SHALL FALL AT THY SIDE AND 10,000 AT THY RIGHT HAND BUT IT SHALL NOT COME NEAR YOU

THIS IS NOT A PROMISE FOR VISITORS

THAT IS A PROMISE FOR DWELLERS

CONSISTENT, ALL THE TIME DWELLERS IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD

GOD DOESN’T WANT A ONE NIGHT STAND WITH YOU

STOP SAYING WELL I WENT TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY

GOD DOES NOT DO ONE NIGHT STANDS

HE WANTS MONDAY-SUNDAY

HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THESE PEOPLE THAT TRY GOD AND THEY TRY HIM FOR A WEEKEND

TRIED HIM FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND SAY, IT DOESN’T WORK FOR ME

THAT IS HOW HE DESIGNED IT, THERE IS A TRAP FOR IMPOSTERS

YOU HAVE TO DWELL WITH HIM

HE SAYS, I DON’T WANT TO SEE YOU WHEN I GET IT DONE

WILL YOU PRAISE ME BROKE, SICK, DIVORCED, SINGLE, LONELY, CRISES

HE THAT DWELLETH IN THE SECRET PLACE

TELL YOUR NEIGHBOR THERE IS A SECRET PLACE

THE BIBLE SAYS, THE SECRET OF THE LORD IS WITH THEM THAT FEAR HIM AND HE WILL SHOW THEM HIS COVENANT

THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT GOD WON’T SHOW YOU UNTIL YOU DWELL

THE WORD FEAR IS RESPECT AND HONOR

HE SAYS, IF YOU WILL HONOR ME, THEN I WILL WHISPER IN YOUR EAR

I WILL TELL YOU MY SECRETS

I’LL TELL YOU WHY YOUR DADDY WAS GONE ALL OF THE TIME, WHY YOU GREW UP WITH YOUR GRANDMA, WHY YOU HAD TO MOVE TO DIFFERENT PLACES, WHY YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH A SETBACK

THE SECRET OF THE LORD IS WITH THEM THAT FEAR HIM

TELL SOMEONE, I AM GOING TO DWELL

I MAY BE IN A BAD SEASON, BUT I AM GOING TO DWELL, GOING THROUGH A TOUGH TIM BUT GOING TO DWELL

I AM NOT GOING TO VISIT GOD, I AM GOING TO DWELL

AND IF HE WANTS TO DWELL WITH ME, I WANT TO DWELL WITH HIM

EXCEPT YE ABIDE IN THE VINE

IF YE ABIDE IN ME AND MY WORD ABODE IN YOU, YOU WILL ASK WHAT YE WILL AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO YOU

THERE ARE DEGREES OF DWELLING

THE TABERNACLE IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF ISRAEL

ISRAEL IS CAMPED ALL AROUND IT

EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, THEY ARE ALL GATHERED AROUND

WHERE IS THE TABERNACLE

IT IS IN THE MIDST OF THEM, GOD IS DWELLING AMONGST HIS PEOPLE

BEFORE THE TABERNACLE WAS EVEN BUILT, THEY WERE DWELLING UNDERNEATH THE CLOUD

THEY DID NOT MOVE UNTIL THE CLOUD MOVED

HE WAS A CLOUD DURING THE DAY, SHIELDING THEM FROM THE INTENSE HEAT

THEN, HE TURNED INTO A PILLAR OF FIRE BY NIGHT BECAUSE IT IS COLD

LOOK HOW GOD REGULATED YOUR WILDERNESS

YES, YOU WENT THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, BUT HE DID NOT LET IT GET TOO MUCH FOR YOU

GOD IS DWELLING AMONG THEM IN THE CLOUD AND PILLAR, BUT NOW HE COMES CLOSER

THROUGH THE TABERNACLE, HE COMES CLOSER