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9. Christ dwelling in
our hearts through the Holy Spirit foreshadowed
by the tabernacle in Israel |
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 during
the wilderness wandering the Spirit of God dwelled in the tabernacle
in the center of Israel's camp, and Israel's daily life revolved
around the tabernacle. |
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the
Spirit of God dwelling in the heart of Israel made possible
by atonement through the ceremonial law was a foreshadow...
now the Spirit of God dwells in the hearts of people through
the atonement of Christ! |
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parallels
between the tabernacle in the middle of Israel and the tabernacle
of the heart: |
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tabernacle
in the heart of Israel >> your heart
anywhere |
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high
priests >> Christ in heaven now |
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daily
sacrifices for atonement >> Christ's
death 2000 years ago |
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Jesus
spoke of this profound change (upgrade in spiritual technology,
so to speak) with the Samaritan woman at the well... |
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Samaritans
were half-Jews who rebelled against Israel's traditions and
replaced Jerusalem with Mt. Gerizim as the ordained location
of the temple (the permanent structure that replaced the wilderness
tabernacle). |
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In
John ch. 4 a Samaritan woman started talking to Jesus about
this, and Jesus replied: "Woman, believe Me, the hour is
coming when you will neither on this mountain [Mt Gerizim],
nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father ... But the hour is coming,
and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father
in spirit and truth [anywhere in the world through the temple
of the heart]; for the Father is seeking such to worship
Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in
spirit and truth." (John 4:21- 24) |
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the
providential destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD
by the Roman army is like an historical exclamation point to
the fact that God is seeking people to worship Him "neither
on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem... [but anywhere]
in spirit and truth..." (John 4:21-24) |
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in
Luke 21:5-6 Jesus spoke prophetically about the temple being
destroyed: "Some of his disciples were remarking about
how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts
dedicated to God. But Jesus said, "As for what you see
here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on
another; every one of them will be thrown down." |
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the
prophecy was literally fulfilled when the Roman army took apart
the temple stone by stone in order to extract all the gold that
melted in the fire when the temple was destroyed. |
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10. salvation
by faith alone apart from the law illustrated
by the life of Moses |
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Moses
represented the law... |
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John
1:17: "For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth
came through Jesus Christ." |
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Luke
24:44: "Then He said to them, 'These are the words which
I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must
be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses [in
the following passage the Law is referred to as simply "Moses"]
and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.'" |
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Luke
24:27: "And beginning at Moses [here the law is referred
to as "Moses"] and all the Prophets, He expounded
to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." |
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Through
all the years of Israel's wilderness wandering Moses proved
to be a man of exemplary character and faith, yet just one mistake
prevented him from entering the promise land. |
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The
disqualification of Moses is a picture of all of mankinds predicament
under God's standard of perfect righteousness... we could be
99.9% perfect with only one small mistake and we would still
be disqualified from entering heaven! |
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The
only way around God's standard of perfect righteousness is qualification
through
Christ – by His righteousness being credited to our account! |
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Colossians
1:12-14: "...giving thanks to the Father who has
qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of
the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power
of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His
love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness
of sins. |
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Romans
3:21-22: "But now the righteousness of God apart
from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law
and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through
faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe." |
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Romans
4:22-25: "This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness."
[speaking of Abraham's faith being credited to him as righteousness]
23 The words "it was credited to him" were written
not for him alone, 24 but also for us, to whom God will
credit righteousness-for us who believe in him who
raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 He was delivered over
to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification." |
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