Sermon 1587 - Tabernacle and Temple…..(Sun am 10/26/97)

TABERNACLE AND TEMPLE......(SUN AM 10/26/97)

As believers, we have two hearts. We have an old heart, which we inherited from Adam the First, and we have a New Heart or New Man, which is created in the Image of Jesus Christ. Through spiritual education, our New Heart or New Man grows in the Son’s Spiritual Stature, which was pictured by the Old Testament Tabernacle. When our Spiritual Stature is mature in the Son, He puts us in touch with the Father Who, then, in our moral development, builds a Temple of Righteous Works in our body and our spirit, which are God’s possession.

Before the Temple was built, Israel worshipped the LORD with singing and dancing and praises in the Tabernacle which, then, was at Gibeon. At that time, the Father’s Ark of the Covenant, the Ber-eeth Covenant, was in a tent in Jerusalem, and the people also worshipped the LORD there with singing and dancing and praises. Thus, there was a double portion of praises — at the Tabernacle and at the Temple. Now that the LORD is building a Temple in our moral development, we are to worship Him with a double portion of singing, dancing, and praise.