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All right, welcome to Mountain Baptist Church, featuring in your song books, the song number 156. Song number 156, if you'd stand, we'll sing all three verses of song number 156. Love to hear, but never has there been a name so dear, To this heart of mine, as the name divine, The precious, precious name of Jesus. Jesus is the sweetest name I know, And He's just the same as His lovely name, And that's the reason why I love Him so. Oh, Jesus is the sweetest name I know, There is no name in earth or heaven above, But we should give such honor and such love, As the blessed name, let us all acclaim, That wondrous, glorious name of Jesus. Jesus is the sweetest name I know, And He's just the same as His lovely name, And that's the reason why I love Him so. Oh, Jesus is the sweetest name I know, And someday I shall see Him face to face, To thank and praise Him for His wondrous grace, Which He gave to me when He made me free, The blessed Son of God called Jesus. Jesus is the sweetest name I know, And He's just the same as His lovely name, And that's the reason why I love Him so. Oh, Jesus is the sweetest name I know. Let's pray. God, thank You for tonight. God, thank You for our Wednesday night service. God, where we can come and hear Your Word preached. God, I pray that You would be with the pastor as he preaches. I pray that we would be able to learn something, And let everything that we say and do be glorious in Your name, And pray these things in Jesus' name, Amen. If you turn in your songbooks to song number 118. Song number 118, we'll sing Near to the Heart of God. All three verses of song number 118. There is a place of quiet rest Near to the heart of God A place where sin cannot molest Near to the heart of God Oh, Jesus blessed Redeemer Sent from the heart of God Hold us who wait before Thee Near to the heart of God There is a place of comfort sweet Near to the heart of God A place where we our Savior meet Near to the heart of God Oh, Jesus blessed Redeemer Sent from the heart of God Hold us who wait before Thee Near to the heart of God There is a place of full release Near to the heart of God A place where all is joy and peace Near to the heart of God Oh, Jesus blessed Redeemer Sent from the heart of God Hold us who wait before Thee Near to the heart of God Amen. So welcome to Mountain Baptist Church on this Wednesday evening. And just some announcements here real quick. So Brother Dave, well, at least Henry wasn't feeling good at all. And so I told him to stay back. Keep that play stayed. So he's unclean without the camp tonight. But so about being prayer for the Gandy family, they were here. But but unfortunately, at least I know Henry is not feeling well. But by being prayer just in general, because, you know, this stuff's going around and, you know, just different sicknesses and all that. But as far as service times, everything's normal this week or this Sunday. It should be all normal. As far as that goes, the soul winning time at 1 p.m. We do have our men's prayer meeting this Friday. So at 7 p.m., be in your places if you can make it out. And then the women's prayer meeting will be the next Saturday. And so hopefully everybody can make it out to these prayer meetings. And as far as our Bible memory, First Thessalonians chapter one, this Sunday, we'll go ahead and switch that to chapter two, because we'll be on I think Monday is the thirty first. And then after that, we're into November. So it's time for Christmas music. That's what I have to say. Actually, in all seriousness, we are going to start the kids choir, the Christmas choir stuff this coming Sunday. So but but yeah, I say we go ahead and bust out those Christmas books and, you know, start it off. So and then our memory verse for the week is Matthew 14, verse 25. And we got the birthdays, anniversaries, all that. My parents are having a good time out in Austria, Czech Republic and all that stuff. So so my dad always likes German chocolate cake for his birthday because today's his birthday. And he's like the first year he's not going to get his German chocolate cake. I'm like, you were literally in Germany. Like, you got to make this happen. You know, like if there's a place to have German chocolate cake and I mean, obviously, he's in Austria. But listen, Hitler, Hitler was from Austria. Right. There's got to be some connection there. Right. So. Anyway, I didn't say any of that to them, so. But if they're watching, there's got to be German chocolate over there in Austria. Right. So but anyway, just being just pray that they obviously have a safe trip back. I believe they're coming back this weekend or at least start to travel back this weekend. And then on the pregnancy list, they're being prayer for Holly and the baby. And everything's looking good with the ultrasounds and everything. But at the moment, he is not head down. So we don't want to breach birth. So obviously, hopefully he turns himself around, does a backflip, whatever he's got to do so that we have a normal birth there. But so being prayer there for the pregnancy delivery, all that, that we don't have another baby in the truck. So that was fun last year. But let's just let that be a one time deal. I don't want to do that again if I don't have to. So but as far as everything else, the offering boxes in the back there, mother, baby's rooms for the mothers and babies only. I think the 31st, there's going to be a game night here. I don't think we nailed down a day for the Harvest Party Fellowship soup pie party, whatever we're calling it. But once we get that nailed down, we'll hopefully get that nailed down. So we'll have it on the list for Sunday as far as when we're doing that. But and then I think what day? What day, brother Jim? Were you, brother Jim, what what day or what Saturday were you planning on going up to Pittsburgh for a soloing marathon? The 26th? Okay, so the 26th, brother Jim's going to be kind of heading up a marathon or soloing marathon up near the Pittsburgh area. And so so just giving you a heads up there on that upcoming event. I think that's about it for announcements. But Dave is going to be reading Exodus chapter 36 for us tonight after we sing one more song. And we're going to continue our study through the book of Exodus. And so if brother Levi will come, we'll get that started. All right, if you turn in your song books, the song number 164. Sing praise him, praise him, and all three verses of song number 164. Praise him, praise him, Jesus our blessed redeemer, sing, O earth, his wonderful love proclaim. Hail him, hail him, highest archangels in glory. Strength and honor give to his holy name. Like a shepherd, Jesus will guard his children in his arms. He carries them all day long. Praise him, praise him, tell of his excellent greatness. Praise him, praise him, ever in joyful song. Praise him, praise him, Jesus our blessed redeemer. For our sins he suffered and bled and died. He our rock, our hope of eternal salvation. Hail him, hail him, Jesus the crucified. Sound his praises, Jesus who bore our sorrows. Love unbounded, wonderful, deep and strong. Praise him, praise him, tell of his excellent greatness. Praise him, praise him, ever in joyful song. Praise him, praise him, Jesus our blessed redeemer. Heavenly portals loud with hosannas ring. Jesus, savior reigneth forever and ever. Crown him, crown him, prophet and priest and king. Christ is coming over the world victorious. Power and glory unto the Lord belong. Praise him, praise him, tell of his excellent greatness. Praise him, praise him, ever in joyful song. Turn your Bibles to Exodus chapter 36. Exodus 36, if you're there, say amen. And the Bible reads, then brought Bezalel and Aholiab and every wisehearted man in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary according to all that the Lord had commanded. And Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab and every wisehearted man in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stayed him up to come into the work to do it. And they received of Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary to make it withal and they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning. And all the wise men that wrought all the work of the sanctuary came every man from his work which they made and they spake unto Moses saying, the people being much more than enough for the service of the work which the Lord commanded to make. And Moses gave commandment and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp saying, let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary so the people were restrained from bringing. For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it and too much. And every wisehearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine-tine linen and blue and purple a scarlet with cherry beams of cunning work made he them. The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits and the breadth of one curtain four cubits the curtains were all of one size and he coupled the five curtains one unto another and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another and he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvage and the coupling likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain in the coupling of the second. Fifty loops mady in one curtain and fifty loops mady in the edge of the curtain, which was in the coupling of the second. The loops held one curtain together to another and he made fifty tashes of gold, and coupled the curtains one into another with the taches, so it became one tabernacle. And he made curtains of good hair for the tent over the tabernacle, eleven curtains he made them. The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain, the eleven curtains were of one size. And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops maybe upon the edge of the curtain, which coughed with a second. And he made fifty tatches of brass to couple the tent together, then it might be one. And he made a covering for the tent, of ramskins dyed red, and a covering of badgerskins above that. And he made birds for the tabernacle, a set of wood, standing up. The length of a bird was ten cubits, and a breadth of a bird one cubit and a half. One bird had two tenons, equally distant one from another, thus did he make for all the birds of the tabernacle. And he made birds for the tabernacle, twenty birds for the south-side southward, and forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty birds, two sockets under one bird for his two tenons, and two sockets under another bird for his two tenons. And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty birds, and for forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one bird, and two sockets under another bird. And for the size of the tabernacle restorate, he made six birds, and two birds made he for the corners of the tabernacle and the two sides, and they were coupled beneath and coupled together at the head thereof to one ring, thus he did to both of them in both corners. And there were eight birds, and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, and to every bird two sockets. And he made bars of setumwood, five for the birds of the one side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the birds of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the birds of the tabernacle with the sides of the tabernacle restorate. And he made the middle bar to suit through the birds from the one end to the other, and he overlaid the birds with gold, and he made the rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold. And he made a veil of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and fine-trained linen, with cherubims made he it of cunning rick. And he made them into four pillars of setumwood, and overlaid them with gold, the herks were of gold, and he cast to them four sockets of silver. And he made of hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine-trained linen, and of needle hook, and the five pillars of it with the hooks, he overlaid the trapeters, and the phyllis with gold, with the five sockets of red brass. Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, I thank you for the opportunity to come back. Church, Lord, I pray that you be with Pastor, and pray that you fill him with the Spirit. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. So you're there in Exodus chapter 36, and if you remember, starting there in chapter 35, we see that Moses is telling the congregation everything that God told him in the mount, or showed him in the mount, and so we've already seen a lot of this stuff already, because we were technically up there in the mount with Moses, and hearing what he heard, and so a lot of this stuff is, we've heard it, and really, honestly, when it comes to this chapter dealing with the tabernacle, or the construction of the tabernacle, if you really want to get into the details about the dimensions, and how all this stuff was put together, you really need to go back to my earlier sermon on this, dealing with all those dimensions and all that. So this, I'm gonna be more so getting into what does it represent, and look there in verse one, first of all, though, first thing we see before we even get into the building of the tabernacle, and all the different pieces to the tabernacle, is the fact that basically the people brought the offering, and the thing that's interesting is that they brought too much, so they had to basically say stop giving, stop giving too much, we don't need all that, right? So I just think that's very interesting on the overabundance and all that, but look what it says in verse one there, it says, Then brought Bezalel and a holy ab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding, to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded, and Moses called Bezalel and a holy ab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it, and they received the Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it with all, and they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning. So remember we were talking about how this is a free will, you know, it was a voluntary offering, it was of their own free will, and so here it just says it's a free offering, so it just shows you over and over again that this is something that wasn't put on them as being like a tax or a tribute, if you will. This was of their own volition, own voluntary will to bring this forward. In verse 4 there it says, Make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary, so the people were to restrain from bringing, for the stuff they had had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much. Okay, and so, you know, what can we learn from this is that, well, God blesses us above and beyond what we need, and as far as to give, I was talking, you know, about this in the past sermons, is the fact that He doesn't expect us to give of that which we don't have, that we're supposed to give of our abundance, and it really just shows you how blessed, or how much the children of Israel had that they basically were giving of their abundance, and there was way more than they even needed to give to the building of the house of the Lord, and so it's just really showing you that the Lord has really blessed them with all the materials that they have, all the gold and silver and brass and all that, and if you remember, you say, well, they were slaves, how in the world did they have all that? Well, if you remember, they spoiled the Egyptians, and so they didn't leave Egypt empty-handed, okay, and so that was something that was, besides just getting freed from Egypt, they were given a bunch of riches as well, okay. Now, when it comes to this, I'm not going to be going through every little detail as far as the sockets and the boards and the bars and all these different things, okay. Like I said, we already kind of hit on that. I was reading through Ezekiel, and I was trying to think about, actually, I wasn't reading through Ezekiel thinking about this, I was just, when I was thinking about these sermons as we come through these these chapters, we've already kind of, we're treading on ground that we already kind of know, is how does this spiritually, you know, what does this spiritually represent? And when I was reading through Ezekiel, this this passage is kind of stuck out to me. Go to Ezekiel chapter 16. Ezekiel chapter 16. Ezekiel chapter 16. Go down to verse 10 there. Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 10. I mean, when you're really wanting to find some nuggets of truth, you got to go to my boy Ezekiel. Like, he's, there's always, there's always something in there, you know, but Ezekiel, if you ever think that you know something about the Bible, just remember Ezekiel exists, okay. So Ezekiel 16, verse 10 says, I clothe thee also with broided work. So talking about Israel here, okay, so just to kind of give you some context, it says, I clothe thee also with broided work and shod thee with badger skin. Now that should automatically kind of think, what in the world, there's the badgers again, you know, like the one thing as far as the covering of this, of this tabernacle that just sticks out is like all these badger skins that they had, but it says, shod thee with badger skin, and I girded thee with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk, okay. So he's talking about the people of Israel, and obviously at this point the northern kingdom of Israel is gone, okay. So when he's talking about Israel, he's talking about that southern kingdom, that's all that's left, okay. And at this point they're in the captivity, and he's hitting on the fact they're gonna be completely annihilated, right. So when Ezekiel starts, the book of Ezekiel starts, they're kind of in the fifth year of captivity, I believe, and the eleventh year of captivity is when Zedekiah is taken out, and basically they burn everything to the ground, you know, Nebuchadnezzar comes back and burns everything, okay. But in here it's kind of talking to them, and talking about how God has blessed them, and decked them, and arrayed them, and notice the similarities in what's being said here. We have the badger skins, we have the broided work, do you remember the broided coat that Aaron was wearing, and obviously the the priests also had their coats as well. Verse 11, it says, I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck, and I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. Thou wast, I'm sorry, thus wast thou decked with gold and silver, and thy arraignment was of fine linen, and silk it broidered work. Thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil, and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom, and thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty, for it was perfect through my comeliness which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God. Now this can also go into the priest's garments as well because you remember what the priest garments represented beauty and glory, right? And you can get into the mitre upon the head, but even the priest would wear bonnets and all that. But this idea of what is all this, you know, the tabernacle being decked with gold and fine twine linen, badger skins, like all these different things, what does it represent? Well, one, know this is that what I'm gonna be getting into I believe does represent it, but it doesn't mean it's the only thing that that tabernacle represents. What I'm gonna be getting into is that this represents our bodies, the temple of the Holy Ghost, the tabernacle of the Holy Ghost in the New Testament, okay? So what that tabernacle represents obviously what's in heaven, but especially specifically that the tent of the tabernacle, this tabernacle that was in the wilderness that was meant to be moved from one place to another, where you have these coverings of badger skins and you have all these different embroidered work and all the stuff that's going on with this this tabernacle in the wilderness, I believe is representing or foreshadowing how the Holy Ghost is going to indwell the believer, indwell the body, and that the body is gonna be the temple of the Holy Ghost, and that's why it's likening all these different things that you see in the tabernacle to clothing or things that a person would be arrayed with, okay? So one, let me show you that the Bible uses the term tabernacle to talk about your body, okay? Go to 2 Corinthians chapter 5, 2 Corinthians chapter 5, and verse 1, 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 1. Now I'm not gonna go through every detail about the tabernacle and tell you, okay, here's the spiritual meaning for this, here's the spiritual meaning for how many bars there are, here's the spiritual meaning for the dimensions, here's the spiritual meaning for all this different stuff. I'm gonna give you some things that kind of stick out to me as far as how this would represent the believer and the Holy Ghost indwelling us, but you can read it and I'm sure pick out things that you say, well, okay, I can see how this represents something with a believer, but there's obviously other representations of the, you know, the tabernacle is picturing other things as well, okay? But I definitely believe it's picturing, it's foreshadowing the New Testament and the fact that, you know, we're gonna be indwelled with the Holy Ghost, and 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 1 here, so the first thing I want to show you is that the term tabernacle is used for our bodies, okay? So if we understand that we're talking about the tabernacle in the wilderness, well tabernacle is a term that's used for our bodies, and verse 1 here says, for we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God and house not made with hands eternal in the heavens, okay? And you may say, well, how do you know that's talking about your body, right? Well, let's keep reading. It says, for in this we groan earnestly, desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. So we're being clothed upon, okay? So we're not talking about just a physical building here, we're talking about something that we're physically going to be clothed upon with, okay? Keep reading there. It says in verse 3, if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are, for we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not for that that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now when I talk about groan, this really reminds me of the redemption of the body, in that the creature groaneth, right? For the manifestation of the sons of God, and in Romans chapter 8, all over there when you see that. But keep reading there in verse 5, it says, now he that hath wrought us for the same self-safe thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the what? Body, we are absent from the Lord. We walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and be present with the Lord. So when it's talking about while we were at home in the body, what's being synonymous with that? The tabernacle, right? This tabernacle. And if that, if you don't think that's talking about the body, go to 2 Peter chapter 1, 2 Peter chapter 1. 2 Peter chapter 1. So Paul is basically stating, you know, that we're in this tabernacle, in this this house if you will, but the idea is that, you know, that's going to basically, we're gonna be unclothed eventually from that. He's stating it's not that we want to be unclothed, but that we want to be clothed upon, and that's talking about the spiritual body, right? So there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body, and so the idea is that we have this physical tabernacle, this physical body, but we're looking for that spiritual body, you know, that immortal body, okay, that will never die, doesn't have sin, it's completely cleansed, and all that, okay? So in 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 13 it says, yea, I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle, okay, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. Now he's not talking about, like, we're in a tabernacle right now, like, I'm in this building, he's talking about his body. Keep reading there in verse 14. Knowing that surely I must put off this my tabernacle, okay, so now he's like, I'm gonna put off this my tabernacle. Now what's he mean by putting off this tabernacle, right? Well keep reading, it says, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me, moreover I will endeavor that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. So is there any doubt that when he's talking about putting off this my tabernacle is talking about how he's going to die, okay? And he's even talking about how the Lord showed me, right, because in John chapter, you know, 21, if you remember, Jesus told him how he was going to die, and that's when that whole discussion came with about the disciples of Jesus' love, that he wasn't gonna die, but Jesus didn't say he wasn't gonna die, he just says, you know, if I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? And that whole storyline there. So I hope it's very clear that when we're talking about a tabernacle, it could very well be representing our tabernacle, okay? So now I'll say this, in the New Testament, the church is the house of the living God, okay? So don't get me wrong with that. The church is the house of the living God, and it's, you know, every local church represents the house of God, okay? The congregation. But what we'll see in the New Testament, it also states that our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, okay? But I want you to think about this with how Ezekiel talked about these, this basically being clothed upon with his broidered work, being clothed upon with badger skins and fine linen, and when you're reading through, you know, these chapters about the tabernacle, the thing that always sticks out is the badger skins dyed red and the fine twine linen, right? I mean those are the things that when you're reading through, you're like, all right, I know there's fine twine linen, I know there's badger skins. Like, I don't know about you, but those things stick out, you know, and obviously gold and silver and brass, and you're getting down the line as far as all the different things, but those things just always stick out, and when you're talking about clothing, what does the clothing represent, right? I mean, you think about, okay, obviously they put all this stuff on the tabernacle, but if the tabernacle, you know, is talking about our body, what is the clothing, you know, what does that stuff even represent, right? Well, let me give you just one that has always kind of stuck out to me when it comes to something that they were supposed to wear, okay, that everybody, you know, that the children of Israel were supposed to wear, and go to Numbers chapter 15. Numbers chapter 15 verse 37. Numbers chapter 15 and verse 37. Do you remember them talking about in, you know, in the law basically where they would have to wear blue fringes on their garments? Now, I remember this because I love the color blue, and I'm just like, that seems like that would look cool, you know, having blue fringes on my garments, I mean, cool, you know, because blue is my favorite color, but I kind of want to just, you know, talk about this real quick as far as Numbers chapter 15 verse 37, because you may ask yourself, you know, what about blue, you know, why blue? I'm not gonna really get into the reason of why blue, but I want you to see a correlation here with what it states here about what they're supposed to wear on their garments, and also compare that to the tabernacle, but I believe this passage will kind of give you insight as far as what that represented on the tabernacle, okay, because in Numbers chapter 15 verse 37 it says, and the Lord spake on the Moses saying, speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they may make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, that they put upon the fringes of the borders a ribbon of blue. Okay, so we think about the borders, the fringes, you know, you think about the fringes of, like, you can think about, like, the fringes of your garments as far as, like, the outer portion of it, right, the border of it, you're basically lacing it with blue, okay, like a blue ribbon, and it says in verse 39, and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that, okay, so that means why, you know, it's kind of like, this is the reasoning, you know, why you're doing this, okay, that you may look upon it, okay, so basically you're wearing this, so did you look upon it, or you're looking upon it for some reason, and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them. So what does that fringe represent, basically what's it for, so that you look at that fringe and say, I need to remember the commandments of the Lord, I need to do them, that that's why I'm wearing that, that's why I had that on, right, it says, and that you seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to go whoring, that you may remember and do all my commandments and be holy unto your God. I am the Lord your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God, I am the Lord your God, okay, so these blue fringes, and you say, well, why is it blue, why is it on the fringe, you know, why is it on the end? Well, here's the thing, you know, before you just start going too deep with that, just understand this, this is why they had it on there, right, so that what they would see it, right, they would see the fringe on their garments and they'd be reminded, I need to keep the commandments of the Lord, you know, I need to serve him, you know, I need to remember to serve him and not go after other gods or anything like that, that I need to follow the Lord and not seek after my own heart, right, trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding, that's the idea here as far as why they have these fringes on there, okay, well go back to Exodus chapter 36, Exodus chapter 36, and you're gonna see that blue is used in a lot of the tabernacle, okay, but Exodus chapter 36 and verse 8 there, it says, and every wise-hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twine linen and blue and purple and scarlet with cherry beams of cunning work made he them, okay, so he's making these curtains, okay, and he's making them a fine twine linen and here's the colors, blue, purple, scarlet, okay, so blue is in that, but look at verse 10 there, okay, he's making these curtains and if you remember he's making all these curtains but they have to be attached to each other, okay, notice what it says here in verse 10, and he coupled the five curtains one unto another and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another, okay, so he's coupling all these together, okay, and he made loops of what, blue, on the what, edge of one curtain from the salvage in the coupling, likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain in the coupling of the second, fifty loops made he in one curtain and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second, the loops held one curtain to another, so if you, every single curtain that was, that was, that was attached, you remember the tatches, they had the tatches within that were of gold I believe and then the outside were brass and if I got that wrong, I know the outside one for brass, but I'm pretty sure it was gold that they made these these couplings or I'm sorry the the tatches that would hold the couple together, but if you imagine there's loops that are on the edge of these curtains that they would make, the loops were of blue and the edges were of blue, okay, what were the edges of the garments of the children of Israel supposed to be? Blue. So what does that represent? That represents so that you'll look upon it and know that you need to keep the commandments of the Lord. You need to know the commandments, you need to keep them, right, because in Numbers, what does it say? That you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them. And why? That you seek not after your own heart and your own eyes and go a whoring after other gods, you know, basically in Numbers they've already won. In Numbers 15, I mean not only have they already done the golden calf has been done, but they've wandered in the wilderness for 40, I'm sorry, they haven't wandered in the wilderness. At this point they're going to wander in the wilderness for 40 years because they go in to spy out the land, they bring back back the bad report, they don't go in and basically they're going to wander in the wilderness for 40 years, okay, until the generation that was going to go in dies, okay. So when you're dealing with, you know, this tabernacle, you know, you think about a garment that children of Israel had, that what did all that represent? Because a lot of people don't understand when they look at the Old Testament they're saying, well, you know, you're not supposed to wear a garment that's made of linen and wool and therefore you're an abomination because you're up there wearing a suit that has wool and linen and all this stuff, you know, and what they'll say is mixed fabrics, which is not what the Bible says, right. It's very specific that we're talking about a plant-based product and an animal-based product, so the difference between linen and wool and obviously what that represents, okay. So when you're dealing with the fact they're supposed to wear these blue fringes, obviously in the New Testament we don't have to have blue fringes on all our garments, okay. It's not, it's not something we have to keep now, but what did it represent? What did it represent when it says that you're not supposed to sow diverse seeds in your field and wear garments that are of two different types of fabric, right, not being unequal to yoke, that's what it's talking about, right. I mean, so there's a lot of different things that these physical items that they did would represent. Also, go to Exodus chapter 36, Exodus chapter 36 and verse 35, the veil in the tabernacle was made of blue as well. Now, when it comes to the tabernacle and the veil, I'm really just getting into what does this veil represent, you know, and the New Testament does talk about this, so, and how that represents our bodies being the temple of the Holy Ghost, okay. So this whole sermon is really kind of hinging on the fact that, hey, we're talking about in the New Testament the body and how that represents the tabernacle, okay, and how the tabernacle was clothed with these curtains that had fringes of blue. The children of Israel were supposed to be wearing garments that had fringes of blue, but spiritually speaking, what does that mean, right, is the fact that we need to know His commandments, we need to keep them, right. That's what He wants us to do, that we don't lean on our own understanding, that we trust in the Lord, trust in His Word, right, and it'll get a little more clear too as far as the commandments, and that's what I kind of want to really point out is that knowing His commandments, that we may, it says that we may remember all the commandments. I want that to really stick out, okay, and maybe I'm getting a little deep tonight, but so be it. Remembering all His commandments, I want that to stick in your mind, remembering all His commandments, so that's what that blue is representing, that's what that blue fringe, if you will, that's all their garments is representing, but in Exodus chapter 36 and verse 35 it says, and he made a veil of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twine linen with cherry bins made He it of cunning work, and if you remember that thing was attached at the top and it had loops of blue, okay, so you have all these things that are attached with these fringes of blue, but the veil in particular is going to be something that the New Testament is going to bring up, but even the door of the tabernacle was made of blue as well, okay, notice what it says in verse 37, it says, and he made it hanging for the tabernacle door of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twine linen of needlework, okay, and that was also, I mean, everything had these loops of blue, right, loops of blue, and then they were attached with patches, and depending on if it was inside or outside, depending on the type of patch that it had, okay, now go to Hebrew chapter 10, Hebrew chapter 10, you say are you going to read every verse in chapter 36, you know, because it doesn't seem like we're going to get very far here, actually, like I said, I didn't want to go through every little piece here, I really just kind of want to get the holistic kind of spiritual meaning of what this is talking about, because I don't want it to just be like, well, I'm going through every verse, you know, we're in chapter 36, I'm going through every verse, every line, listen, I do believe that there's a reason why it's repeated, and I'm not against that, and when you're reading through your Bible, you don't read chapter 25 through 31, and you're just like, well, I've already read that, I'm not going to read 35 through 39, you know what I mean, like you're, you understand that, hey, there's a reason it's repeated, and there is other information in these chapters as well, there's things that are expounded upon or clarified in those chapters as well, but when we go to Hebrew chapter 10 and verse 15 here, dealing with the New Testament, okay, so in chapter 8, it gives the prophecy, really kind of the long version of the prophecy that's in Jeremiah 31 about this new covenant, okay, but in chapter 10 here, it puts an element in here that is talking about something that's very significant about the new covenant is the Holy Ghost, okay, now the Holy Ghost spake by the mouth of David, okay, so it's not like the Holy Ghost wasn't there in the Old Testament, I mean the Spirit of God moved upon the waters at the very beginning when he's created in heaven and Europe, okay, so it's not like the Spirit of God wasn't there or anything like that, so don't think that that's true for a second, but there's something specific that's about the Holy Ghost, or that there's a significance to the Holy Ghost in the New Testament more so than in the Old Testament, and in verse 15 it says, wherefore the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us, for after that he had said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days said the Lord, okay, but this is the key right here, I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Do you remember the thing about the Holy Ghost that's very significant, when you think about the comforter that's gonna come, right, Jesus is talking about the comforter is gonna come and what's he going to do, he's gonna bring to remembrance all the things which I have spoken unto you, bring to remembrance all the things that I've spoken unto you, that that's the job of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost, the anointing which you have received of him abideth in you and you need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie and even as it had taught you he shall abide in him and in chapter 8 of Hebrews it gets into the fact that it'll say no man shall know say know the Lord for all shall know me from the least of the greatest, why, because every believer from the least of the greatest has the Holy Ghost abiding in them to teach them all things, to bring remembrance all that which Jesus spoke, okay, so when you're dealing with these blue fringes, if you will, on your garments the idea is that you remember all the commandments, okay, well who's the best person to remind you of all the commandments? The Holy Ghost! That is his major job in the New Testament is to remind us to bring to remembrance all the commandments of the Lord and go to Hebrew chapter 9, but there's something significant that happens when Jesus, when the New Testament starts, there's something significant that happens specifically with the veil, okay, the veil in the temple, okay, one I just want to show you how the Holy Ghost, the veil has a very specific meaning dealing with the Holy Ghost, okay, so let me show you that, okay, Hebrew chapter 9 and verse 1, okay, it says then, verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary, okay, which is obviously what we're talking about, right, that first covenant, that old covenant, if you will, it had a worldly sanctuary, for there was a tabernacle made, the first, wherein was the candlestick and the table and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary, so that's that first area, right, before the veil of where you had those three items, right, and after that, after the second veil, okay, so remember there's the door of the tabernacle that has the blue and the patches and all that stuff, but then after the second veil, that's the veil between the first tabernacle and notice what it says, the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all, okay, that's where the Ark of the Covenant is at, okay, so keep reading there in Hebrew chapter 9 and verse 4, it says, which had the golden censer and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid roundabout with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna and Aaron's rod that budded in the tables of the covenant, so inside the Ark at one point or another, those things were in the Ark, verse 5, and over that the cherry bins of glory shadowing the mercy seat, of which we cannot now speak particularly, now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle according to the service of God, so he's basically saying, the priests went into the first tabernacle, but in verse 7, but into the second went the high priest alone once every year, okay, so only the high priest could go past that veil, but it was only once a year, okay, and it says, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the heirs of the people, so basically when he went back there, he had to bring blood with him, okay, meaning that he didn't go back there without blood, he had to have it. Notice in verse 8, the Holy Ghost this signifying, so do you see the very clear correlation with this veil and being able to go past that veil until the Holiest, this is signifying the Holy Ghost, okay, and it says the Holy Ghost this signifying that that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing, so at that point in the Old Testament, you know what that meant, you know what that that veil represents? The Holy Ghost was not indwelling believers at that time, okay, this is a, if you want to know, okay, what's the difference between the Old Testament and New Testament? You say, well I thought it was people, you were saved by the law in the Old Testament, wrong, covered that, no, what's the difference though? Obviously salvation has always been the same, right, but the big difference between the Old Testament and New Testament is the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, that the Holy Ghost is literally living inside of our bodies in the New Testament, okay, and you may say, you know, is that that big of a deal? It is a huge deal, you know, and time would fail me to talk about how amazing it is that we have the Comforter and that we have the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, and really you don't know the difference, right, because we weren't back then when before they had the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, but if you were, if you were, if you were probably in that first century AD where you had the Apostles that were literally with Jesus and, you know, before the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, and then he breathed on them and they received the Holy Ghost, they could tell you the difference, right, they could tell you, because at that point, you remember what was happening? Their eyes were being opened to all the scriptures and like they're understanding all these different things, right, and, you know, we can vaguely kind of look at that and be like, okay, I kind of see that big difference there. They could probably really tell you the difference, okay, but where was I at in verse 9? So the Holy Ghost is signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest. In verse 9, it says, which was a figure for the time then present? I mean, what's out of shadow doubt? I mean, that was a figure, meaning that it represented something for a time then present, meaning at that time it was just a figure of something, right? And another way that the Bible uses this is as a shadow of good things to come, right? It's the figures of the true but not the very image, right? The idea there is that it represents it. It says, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience. Notice this in verse 10, which stood only in meats and drinks and divers washings, notice this, and cardinal ordinances imposed on them until the time of Reformation. So these cardinal ordinances, I mean, you can think of the meats and the drinks and the divers washings as far as all these sacrifices and the meats and the drinks as far as like what they can't eat and what they can, you know, all that, but the cardinal ordinances, I mean, how about that they have to wear garments that are bordered with blue, right? They can't wear garments that have different types of like linen or wool in the same garment, right? That there is, they can't mingle seed within the field, that there's these dietary laws, all these different things, right? There's the Sabbath day, you know, observing the Sabbath day was a cardinal ordinance imposed on them until the time of Reformation, but what was the Sabbath day? A sign unto the children of Israel for that covenant, right? And that same covenant had these cardinal ordinances that were what? Figures for a time then present, okay? So when it comes to this, the time of Reformation, when was that? When Christ died on the cross, okay? This isn't when John Calvin or John Knox and, you know, you know, the Reformation with Martin Luther and he nailed the 90, you know, what, the 93-99 thesis, who cares, right? When they reformed from the Catholic Church. No, the time of Reformation is the Reformation of the Old Testament, the New Testament. That's the true Reformation, okay? What does Reformation mean? Reforming, right? Reforming, because the priesthood being changed, there is a necessity, therefore, and a change of the law, okay? So there's a reforming of the law, if you will, meaning that now we don't have to be circumcised, now we don't have to keep the Sabbath day, now we don't have all these dietary laws and all that, these cardinal ordinances imposed on them until the time of Reformation, okay? So that means after the time of Reformation, it's not imposed on you anymore, okay? But they did represent something, okay? So that's why we can look back and look at this and say, well, why are we looking at it? We're past that Reformation by 2,000 years almost, right? Well, we obviously look back to it because it does represent something spiritual, and that veil specifically represents something spiritual, and that is signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest. Now look at Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 19, Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 19, Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 19. By the way, I love the book of Hebrews. Like, obviously, I love the Bible, right? But the book of Hebrews, I mean, just understanding, and maybe I just, maybe I love the book of Hebrews so much because growing up as a Christian, you know, when I got saved and everything, the idea of the difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament was just not explained to me, and it was like this foggy type of doctrine, if you will, where I was like looking through it darkly, and I felt like I kind of know what's going on there, but I just couldn't grasp it. But when you really understand the book of Hebrews, it just explains everything, and just really, just line on line, just tells you exactly what it was. You know, the Old Testament, the sacrificing the animals was for the purifying flesh. Boom. That's what it was for, right? I mean, the Sabbath day, it was a sign. It was a sign to show something spiritual. You know, circumcision represents the circumcision of the heart that happens spiritually, right? And you see all these different things, and Hebrews just nails it on the head, and just puts no doubt about what we're talking about. So the veil, what did it represent? The Holy Ghost is signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, okay? Notice what it says in Hebrew chapter 10 verse 19, "...having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus..." Okay, so now it's different, right? Now we can go. Now it is manifest. We can go past that. Why? By the blood of Jesus. Notice what it says in verse 20, "...by a new and living way which he had consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh." What did that veil represent? The broken body of Jesus, right? Because some people say, well, you know, Jesus said that his body needed to be broken. Yeah, his flesh was rent, his body was broken, and that is how we have access into the holiest of all, right? We don't come to any worldly high priest and bring an animal and confess our sins upon this animal to get right with God. No, we come boldly into the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help him time of need. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness, we go straight to the high priest himself. Does he ever liveth to make intercession for us? And we have such a great high priest that, you know, the Lord Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father. Now when it comes to this veil, okay, so through the veil that is to say his flesh. So meaning this is that what did the veil represent? His flesh, his body being broken, right? Obviously no bone was broken, okay? So when it's talking about body, he's talking about the flesh, okay? Notice what it says, go to Matthew chapter 27, when did this exactly happen, okay? And this is something good to know as well. When did the New Testament start, okay? Well, when did the Old Testament start? Well, in Hebrew chapter 8 it says that he's gonna make a new covenant with them, not according to the covenant that he made with them in the day when he brought them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, okay? So the Bible defines the beginning of that first covenant, the day that he brought them out. So that makes sense, you had the Passover lamb, right, that they put the blood on the doorpost and on the lentil, and that marks when that covenant started, okay? And obviously throughout those months and years they're getting all the information, you know, when it comes to that. Just kind of like the New Testament too, right? You got all the books of the New Testament being written and all that. Now, when it comes to when did the Old Testament end, right? Well, we know according to 2 Corinthians chapter 3 that it is abolished. It is finished, so we know that back in Paul's day it was done, but when did it, when was it done? And I submit to you that if he taketh away the first and he may establish the second, that means the first has to be done before the second can be established, okay, before that one can start, okay? So they can't overlap. So in Matthew chapter 27 verse 50, this is where Jesus is gonna die on the cross, okay? So we kind of fast-forward through all the different, you know, stuff that he went through, but here's where he's literally giving up the ghost. Verse 50, Jesus went, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And behold, the veil of the temple was rent and twain from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent. So what did that veil represent? Well, it one, represented that the way into the Holiest, that the Holy Ghost is signifying that the way into the Holiest was not yet made manifest. And when it's talking about the New Testament, it even talks about that the Holy Ghost bears witness, you know, about this. The Holy Ghost is what's really, the Comforter coming, the indwelling, but the veil, that is to say, his flesh, right? At this point, his body was broken, right? I mean, he died. I mean, at this point, this is, I mean, when you think about his flesh being rent, right, it talks about through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, and the veil being rent. I mean, at that point, that's when it's done, right? He died. He gives up the ghost. The physical veil is rent. Okay, so I don't believe this is just spiritual here, talking about his flesh. This is talking about the actual veil in the temple was rent from the top to the bottom. Well, this is when the Old Testament stopped, okay? So when you're reading through the Gospels, and you see, well, Jesus heals this leper, and he says, well, go show yourselves unto the priest for a witness, you know, and I'm gonna miss it. Basically, he's saying a witness for God and all that, but in the Old Testament, if you had leprosy, you had to go to the priest, and he would declare you clean or unclean, right? And in other places, it says, you know, take your gift unto the altar, and he would talk about going up to the altar and taking your gift unto the altar and all this, and you say, well, I thought this is the New Testament. Why are they doing all this? Because it's not the New Testament yet. The New Testament starts when Jesus dies. The Old Testament stopped when Jesus dies. As much as the lamb, when the lamb was was slain in, you know, the Passover lamb, and the blood was put on the doorpost, that's when that first covenant started. When Jesus was slain, his blood was shed, that's when the New Testament started. But that Old Testament stopped at that point. Go to Hebrew chapter 9, and let me just prove that further to you, that the New Testament was not in force yet. The New Testament was not in force until Jesus died. Okay, now granted, it wasn't until his resurrection that the Holy Ghost was given, okay, because he had to be glorified, and that's when he breathed on his disciples, and they received the Holy Ghost, right? And being in dwell with the Holy Ghost is different than the baptism of the Holy Ghost, okay? Because they received the Holy Ghost, and then he's basically stating that you need to tarry here, and you're gonna receive power from on high. So, you know, when it's talking about the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that's more so talking about being filled, and the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and giving you power, but receiving the Holy Ghost happened after he was risen. Now, Hebrew chapter 9, verse 16, it says, For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator, okay? So if you have a testament, there has to be the death of the testator, okay? That's why. It says, for the testament is of force after men are dead. Otherwise, it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. So when Jesus was alive, you know what that's saying? The New Testament was of no strength at all as far as, you know, canceling out the old and bringing in the new. Does that make sense? Now, you say, well, you know, the New Testament, that's how we're saved, and, you know, you're saying it's no force at all. Well, obviously, he's the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. So obviously, to God, he's outside of time. He recognizes that before it ever happens, right? But in our timeline, as far as, you know, how we're to get right with God and, you know, physically get right with God, that didn't stop as far as the Old Testament until Jesus died, okay? But after Jesus died, listen, if you're bringing out an animal sacrifice, that's blasphemous, okay? There's another sermon for another day, and I've already preached on that about how Paul was being forced into doing that, James was telling him to do that, and it was wrong. They should not be doing any animal sacrifices. They're dealing with that tabernacle at all when it comes to the New Testament, okay? So, when you're dealing with, you know, this veil, this rant, now we have access into the holiest of all, okay? Why? Well, go to 1st Corinthians, chapter 3. 1st Corinthians, chapter 3. 1st Corinthians, chapter 3. Like I said, I was just kind of hitting on, one, the Bible does show a lot of correlations to being clothed upon with these same elements that tabernacle is basically being arrayed with, and you could go down deep and stay down long and go into all the different avenues, but I really just want to kind of hit on that that blue fringe, the blue fringes and what that represents as far as keeping the commandments, but if you think about it, when that veil's rent is made of blue and obviously purple and scarlet, the blue, what does the blue represent, you know, as far as keeping the commandments? When the Holy Ghost is come, what is he going to do? What's the big thing about the New Testament is that he's going to write his laws upon our heart and upon our minds. You know, the idea of bringing to remembrance or remembering the commandments and how that represents the spiritual as far as the foreshadowing of what's going to come. So in 1st Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 16, Anash, it says, Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Okay, so I don't think you can get around the fact that it's saying that we are the temple of God. Now we've already seen that the body is like you've done to a tabernacle, right? And sometimes tabernacle and temple are used interchangeably, okay. For example, the tabernacle, before the temple was ever built by Solomon, the tabernacle was called the temple in 1st Samuel dealing with Eli and talks about the temple, whereas at that point they didn't have a physical building that was built until Solomon, okay. So temple, tabernacle, don't get caught up and be like, well it says tabernacle, I didn't say temple. Well, first of all, it says our body's a tabernacle, here it's saying we're the temple of the Holy Ghost, so yeah. I mean, your body is the temple of God. Go to 1st Corinthians chapter 6, 1st Corinthians chapter 6. You're like, well it doesn't say our body, it just says ye are. I think that's talking about your soul, your spirit, okay. Well, in 1st Corinthians chapter 6 verse 18, it says flee fornication, every sin that a man doeth is without the body, but he that committed fornication sent it against his own body. I think we're talking about the body. It says what? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, and you have of God and you're not your own? For you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. So yeah, when we're talking about the temple of the Holy Ghost, we're talking about that body. And this is where it really gets into the fact of grieving the Holy Ghost, okay. Grieve not the Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption, because He's indwelling us. And so when you sin in the body, you're grieving that Holy Ghost, because the Holy Ghost isn't going anywhere. Now we can't blast seeing the Holy Ghost like unbelievers, but we can grieve them. Now go to 2 Corinthians chapter 6, 2 Corinthians chapter 6, and the last thing I'll show you here really, and then I might give you some things to think about as far as some other, you know, things that tabernacles arrayed with and how that could correlate, but I'll just give you that as some homework, something to think about. But in 2 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 14, it says be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness, and what communion hath a light with darkness. Now what in the Old Testament, we're working backwards here, usually I'm going from the Old Testament and saying what it represents spiritually, but what in the Old Testament would represent being unequally yoked? And you could think of like probably a lot of different things, right, that are just cardinal ordinances where you're like, okay, that's what this is talking about, like that's what this represented. Like I said, the whole wearing different types of fabrics, if you will, sewing seed, diverse seeds within the same, you know, you know, vineyard or whatever, you know, those type of things, that's what we're representing, okay. But keep reading there verse 15, it says, and what concord hath Christ with Belial, or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel. So just for those like children out there that maybe don't know, Belial is another name for the devil, so it's basically saying what concord hath Christ Belial, meaning that they're polar opposites, right. God, you know, Jesus, the devil. But then it also says, you know what, believer with an infidel. Infidel means a non-believer, okay. So just a very simple here, believer, non-believer, okay. And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God. As God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. You know where that's quoted? Well, one is quoted in Leviticus, and it's also quoted in Ezekiel. My boy Ezekiel, you know, Ezekiel's got so much in there. But anyway, when you're dealing with this, you know, the temple of the Holy Ghost, the living God, you know, the idea here is that in the New Testament we have a great blessing, because we have the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. But with that blessing comes, could come great consequences, because to whom much is given, of Him shall much be required, right. So the New Testament, and it even talks about this in Hebrew chapter 10, that if we sin willfully, you know, after we received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversary. Because it says, he that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. How much sore punishment shall he be thought, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the Covenant, wherewith he has sanctified an unholy thing, you know. I think it's unclean or unholy thing. The idea here is like, you know, people died without mercy and like they had punishments in the Old Testament, but how much more when you're sanctified by the Spirit of Grace, I think is what it says actually, that you're sanctified by the Spirit of Grace and you're counting that an unclean thing, meaning that you're just sinning willfully, right, grieving that Holy Ghost that's inside of you, that you're sealed into the day of redemption, and the idea there is that yeah, it's a great blessing to have the Holy Ghost, but you also think about the consequences because it says we're the temple of the Holy Ghost, right, and it says in 1st Corinthians chapter 3, it says, if any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are, and specifically in those passages, it's talking about fornication, right, but there's other sins also that you can grieve the Holy Ghost with and have that type of condemnation on you, right? Obviously you're not going to go to hell, you know, if you commit fornication or if you do any of these different sins, but in the body it says he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, and there are consequences in the body because of that, but so just to give you some ones to think about here, and we'll close, is that the Bible talks about gold and silver. Gold and silver is like something that's used a lot inside the tabernacle, if you will. You have the silver is more of the foundation, like the sockets, and then the gold-plated boards and all that. One thing to think about with that is the fact that when it comes to what in the New Testament are we supposed to be arrayed with, right? When you think about like being clothed, right, is the whole armor of God, okay? And this is just some homework you look into and see how it would correlate with the tabernacle, right? But I'll just give you, you know, a couple, okay? The shield of faith, okay? You're supposed to have the shield of faith. Well, in 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse 6, it says this, it says, Wherein ye greatly in joystone, now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations, that the trying of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. How about another, so when I think about the whole armor of God, obviously all of it's important, the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Psalm 12 says, The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried and affirmed were purified seven times. And, you know, how, you know, and you think, well, you know, there's so many you can go down and, and don't get me wrong, sometimes you could be reaching, you know, for like different ones, but one that always just sticks out to me is, a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold and pitchers of silver, and just that idea of like a word fitly spoken, but how, how more could a word be fitly spoken when it's the Word of God, right? I mean, when you want a word that's powerful, you want a statement that's powerful and that's fitly spoken, the Word of God's always gonna, anything that I've ever said, you know, whether it's talking about changing the cost of tea in China or being as lost as a goose in the caboose in a snowstorm, like none of that is fitly spoken like the Word of God, right? And when it comes to having the sword of the Spirit, which is like silver and gold, the Word of God, or having the shield of faith, you know, that's like the trying of your faith, it's, it's like, you know, basically gold that parishes, but it's refined, right? Your faith is being refined like gold, and you can see all these different representations of, you know, why is the tabernacle made of all these different things, especially when it represents, you know, in one aspect at least, represents our bodies, believers, right? The temple of the Holy Ghost, that veil has been done away with, now we're in dwell with the Holy Ghost, what does all that stuff represent? I think it's interesting, and we're gonna leave it at that, so you can go at home and read that passage and see. Maybe there's other correlations that you see that, you know, I haven't thought of, or didn't bring up, or whatever, but whenever you think that these passages are boring, or you know, what am I gonna learn from these passages, just know this, is that those chapters are in there for a reason, okay? Every word of God is pure, and the Bible talks about how all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and it's profitable, okay? It's profitable, so even 1st Chronicles chapter 1, when you're going down this, this genealogy, it's profitable, okay? And so read it all, don't skip over these passages, read it, because stuff's gonna stick out to you when you're reading other passages in the Bible, okay? Let's end with a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you today, thank you for your word, thank you for the book of Exodus, and Lord just pray to you to help me to preach it and teach it rightly as we come closer to the end of the book here, but Lord we just thank you for these passages, and I pray that we don't take for granted the Holy Ghost that's dwelling inside of us, and that we would read as much as we can, memorize as much as we can, and Lord I pray that you'd help and teach us as much knowledge as we can receive. Lord we love you, I pray you'll be with us throughout the rest of this week, in Jesus Christ's name, Amen. So Brother Levi will come and sing one more song, and then we'll be dismissed. All right, turn your song books to song number 154. Song number 154, if you stand, we'll sing Let's Be the Tie that Binds, all four verses. our father's throne we pour our art and prayers our fears our hopes our aims are one our comforts