Download Lesson Plan: 11.23.14 Class Notes Ex 24-30

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What’s amazing to me is that the Tabernacle illustrates the GOSPEL message. When Jesus died on the cross and his substitutionary sacrifice was completed, He said, “It is finished.” At that moment, the veil was torn supernaturally so that anyone who placed their faith in Jesus would become His priest. Once we became His priest, He allowed us to have direct access to Him inside the Holy of Holies.

The New Testament picture of this is beautiful. You and I became the “temple” of the Holy Spirit:

• I Cor 3: 16-17 “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you ARE that temple.”

• I Cor 6:19 “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own

• 2 Cor 6:14-18 (v.16b) “For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will live among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

You and I have an awesome privilege as a “priest” to LIVE INSIDE THE VEIL daily. We need to ask ourselves if our temple is free of idols. Is it free of distractions? Is our temple filled with incense to burn so that we can offer sacrifices of praise, an aroma that is pleasing to Him?

I am also challenging us to evaluate the content of our prayers and reallocate the percentages between petitions, intercessory prayer, and praise and thanksgiving, such that the highest percentage of our content goes to praise and thanksgiving. Giving God praise, glory, honor, adoration and thanksgiving is the only thing we have to offer Him that doesn’t come from Him. Praise is His love language, so let’s not withhold it from Him. Let’s pray.