Sermon 1596 - Four Classes of Fear - 1st Message…..(Tue pm 11/4/97)

IN MEXICO

(Mexico Convention) At the beginning of this message, a brief review was given of the Parable of the Sower and the different classes of soil in the human heart. There is way-side soil, hard ground, thorny ground, and good ground. Even the good ground produces different degrees of fruitfulness, some bringing forth thirtyfold, some sixtyfold, and some a hundredfold. These three degrees of fruitfulness are pictured by the three divisions in the Mosaic Tabernacle: the Courtyard, the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies.

Ephesians 4:11-13 admonishes believers to grow unto the Measure of the Stature of the Fullness of Christ. The Hebrew word for Measure (Shaw-ar) also means Gate and Hundredfold. There were four colours in the hangings of the twenty-cubit-wide Gate of the Tabernacle and also in the twenty-cubit-wide curtain between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies in Solomon’s Temple. These four colours picture the four classes of reverential fear or respect we must have for God the Father if we want to be in the Bride of Christ. Exodus 34:6,7 declares thirteen Names — the Name of the Unbegotten LORD, the Father, and the twelve Names of His only Begotten Son. The Father is the One Who draws us to the Son; no one comes to the Son except the Father draw him. The Stature of the Son was pictured by the seven pieces of furniture in the Mosaic Tabernacle, and the LORD, the Father, is over the Gate. So, every person who walks through the Gate to meet the Son has the Power of the Father, the hundredfold Power of the Shaw-ar Gate, to go all the way to the top in the Measure of the Stature of Jesus Christ. Thus, the Father already has given us the hundredfold Gate to unveil His Son to us.