Great Faith part 3

By: TOROSBC

Moses was a man who had by faith been assured of God's promises. He knew what God could do because he had come into the tangible reality of God through faith. He had touched God and by virtue of this had heralded the way for Israel's deliverance. This was a man that knew God commanded, he was assured of God's accurate timing and knew that if God said he would meet with him, he would meet with him.

The beginning of our relationship with our Father starts here. The assurance through the knowledge of him that he will do what he has spoken. Moses knew he brought nothing to the table, which is why he like the elders who went before him offered up a sacrifice before ascending the mountain of God. The beginning of every step with the Most High is the acknowledgement of the inability on our part to accomplish his will, without his direct involvement.

And what was the basis of the meeting? How God would make himself tangible to Israel by descending and inhabiting the tabernacle in the midst of his people. How glorious. God himself desires to make himself so tangible that "I AM" overrides everything that the physical world has to offer. God is a person, he is a place, and he is a universe. The tabernacle was the way in which God would introduce himself, his abode and his universe to the people. This is what Christ in the midst of us really means. Not stale religion, but the tangible faith of God through Christ in our midst. The consciousness of God's tangibility superseding all things.

The key part of the exodus text we have read, focuses on one very small but yet still crucial part of the way God makes himself tangible to us. This is in the rudiments of the inner sanctuary, the holy place. The design and purpose of the candlestick must be clearly understood through a revelation of Christ so that we might be assured in of the faith.

Just as the tabernacle was the spiritual place of service and worship for Israel, so too the church in Christ has been taken form darkness and put into the light. We have been positioned in a place where we are seated with him in heavenly places.

The light of the heavenly place (sanctuary) is the revelation of Christ afforded to us through the Holy Spirit. He is the wonderful counselor who takes of Christ and shares with us. The candlestick represents the churches position before our great high priest. We carry the light, and in him we are the candlestick, bearers of his light because he has chosen us. Does he not state that he is the light of the world, and then again to his disciples that they are the light, not to be hidden but to be seen.

Through the continual trimming by his direct influence and the application of his oil (the Holy Spirit) we shine brighter in the heavenly (holy) place of his dwelling. Our revelation through him cannot be taken for granted for it affords us what the light and the reflection of the candlestick afforded the priest, guidance to the table of shewbread. Without the candlestick, the priest could not see the bread and could not directly partake of it.

The burning flame reflecting of the candlestick shone over and against the table. The candlestick directed those who were accepted into the holy place to tangible substance.

The revelation of Christ always leads to the substance of Christ. We are commanded to dwell within the light, because it leads us to the substance of the light, Christ, where we partake and are given stature in his presence. Without stature we cannot stand confidently in the presence of God and in the midst of his people.

The showbread was also called the bread of presence, those who partook of it, partook in the presence of the Lord. Thus the substance always bought the consciousness of God's abiding presence to the priest.

The Leviticus account begins with a powerful statement which enforces the Hebrews text discussed earlier.

The Lord said to Moses "command the Israelites". God who created everything tangible by his command nonetheless commands again the creation of that which will make himself tangible to the people. All of the tabernacle was created by the command, because all of the tabernacle was created by God. Nothing of the tabernacle involved the people's creation, for every man was endowed by grace by the Spirit of God to craft the substance that he had made.

The command carried the responsibility of the high priest to carry out certain duties which kept the lampstand burning continually before the Lord. The levitical priesthood failed to keep such a covenant under the law, and Eli contributed to this during the period of apostasy. However we are assured of the High Priest after the order of Melchisidek. He guards and protects the sanctuary and keeps the light of his word burning in his church by his stewardship of her. Our High Priest Christ maintains the revelation to the church in an age where darkness befalls the people. Praise God for his Christ.

The maintaining of the light however is the beginning, the High Priest was also required to prepare the showbread the bread of presence and ensure its continual habitation within the Holy place before the Lord. This bread was only to be given to the priests, and could only be eaten in the holy place. It belongs to Aaron and his sons.

Bless God again for his Christ, who is the bread of heaven, he teaches us in our prayer to desire the daily bread of his presence so that we might have stature in his presence. We partake of the heavenly substance through the bread of life Christ. He continually stands in the Holy Place to provide himself to us as substance if we respond to the command to dwell in the light. This command does not seek to fall on death ears, but to sons. Did he not command that it belongs to Aaron and his sons. Is not the true bread ours because we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus as sons? Hallelujah, the substance belongs to us. He commanded the place, he commanded the light to shine into our hearts and he commanded the substance to be received in us. What blessed assurance.

Thus the command of the Lord in building his habitation was the securing of a place in which men might partake of himself, not alone but in his presence. Men guided by his light to his substance. This is the awesome truth and power of God. That we have been raised and seated with Christ, and that we have through a revelation of Christ a table prepared for everlasting communion with him.

You are assured that through dwelling in his word and paying attention to his voice, with patience you will be lead to him, the tangible Christ from which full assurance of your place is set. He says, ask, seek and knock, isn't knocking tangible. A man who truly seeks Christ will be found and will touch the Christ. He states draw near to me and I will draw near to you. Not for a moment, but for eternity. The eternal dwelling of God is in his Christ, and we have been given full and unceasing access into his kingdom forever. Bless the Lord for all his benefits.

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