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Let's turn our attention now, and
if you can remain standing, please do
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to second chronicles chapter three. In
second chronicles chapter three and in the following
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chapter, Chapter Four, we have
this description of God's Temple, This temple
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that Solomon is going to build.
He's accumulated all of this material, his
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father has in pasted it down to
him, there are workers, everyone is
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ready, and now he builds it
and we have this great description of it
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in these two chapters. What I'm
going to do for the sake of clarity,
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is read verse three. We went. I'll read one through three and
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then I'm going to skip to chapter
four and read eleven to the end.
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The rest of the material all read
in the sermon itself. So you'll you'll
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understand why in a moment. So
second chronicles three, verse one here to
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get US started. Let's hear God's
word. Then Solomon began to build the
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House of Jehovah in Jerusalem, on
Mount Moriah, where Jehovah had a peer
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at to David, his father,
at the place that David had appointed on
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the threshing floor of or an end, the Jebu site. He began to
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build in the second month of the
fourth year of his reign. These are
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Solomon's measurements for the building, for
building the House of God. The length
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in cubits of the old standard was
sixty cubits and the breadth twenty cubits.
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From this point on in the text
it goes on to describe more in detail
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of the temple and then skipping to
chapter four, verse eleven, we have
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a summary and a few other details
on which I'll read now. For Chapter
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Eleven to the end of that chapter, Hiram also made the pots, the
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shovels and the basins. So Hiram
finish the work that he did for King
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Solomon on the House of God,
the two pillars, the bowls and the
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two capitals on the top of the
pillars and the two lattice works to cover
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the two bowls of the capitals that
were on the top of the pillars and
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the four hundred pomegranates from the too
lattice works, two rows of pomegranates for
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each lattice work to cover the two
bowls of the capitals that were on the
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pillars. He made the stands also, and the basins on the sands and
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the one sea and the twelve oxen
underneath it, the pots, the shovels,
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the forks and all the equipment for
these who, am Abbi, made
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the burnished bronze for, I'm sorry, made of burnished bronze for King Solomon,
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for the House of Jehovah in the
plane of the Jordan. The king
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asked them, in the clay ground
between souk off and Zerada. Solom and
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all the Solomon made all these things
in great quantities, for the weight of
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the bronze was not sought. So
Solomon made all the vessels that were in
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the House of God, the Golden
Altar, the tables for the bread of
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the presence, the lamb stands and
their lamps of pure gold to burn before
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the Inter Sanctuary, as prescribed,
the flowers, the lamps and the tongues
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of purest gold, the snuffers,
basins, dishes for incense and fire pans
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of pure gold, and the sockets
of the temple, for the inner doors
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to the most holy place and for
the doors of the nave of the temple,
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where gold. Thus all the work
that Solomon did for the House of
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Jehovah was finished, and Solomon brought
in these things that David, his father,
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had dedicated and stored the silver and
the gold and all the vessels and
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the treasuries of the House of God. You may be seated. I once
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had the opportunity, playing the cello, to play a wedding at one of
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a home that Frank Lloyd Wright designed. This is a beautiful home on top
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of Camelback Mountain and the Phoenix Mountain
preserves. There's this long driveway going up
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the sort of circular structure you you
were you walk in the front and once
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you've got inside, the thing that
impressed me the most was was, first
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the view. You're looking out over
Phoenix from on top of this mountain.
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Not exactly three hundred and sixty degrees, but pretty close. These huge windows
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looking out this is gorgeous. The
other thing that impressed me is the details.
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Again, Frankloyd right, very famous
architect, American architect, very famous
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style. What impressed me about the
details is how consistent at all was.
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Every corner, every window, every
pillar and even the furniture seemed to be
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a custom designed to match the architecture
of the House. It all fit together
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in this really impressive way. People's
homes and on the people that build them.
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Either way you look at it.
They tend to communicate something and all
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kinds of different things. When you
hear this, you might feel either proud
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or ashamed of your own home.
You there are books, toys, some
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people have gardens, some people put
up family pictures, others works of art.
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Some there are big spaces for meeting
together, others nooks and crannies to
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hide in or do work. Their
homes are a very personal thing and they
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tell us something about the people that
designed them, about the people that live
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in them. Well, the House
of the Lord with the Temple of God,
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we have both these things together.
He is the designer and the dweller
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he and in that he communicates very
purposefully things about himself. It would be
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very easy to do a very long, long, months long survey of the
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temple, going through each particular element
there and talking about its meaning, it's
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significance, the communicative power that each
of these things has. But what I'd
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like to do this evening, and
I admit this is a little bit of
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a challenge, but I'd like us
all to put on our imagination hats,
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whether you're five years old or eighty
five years old, and we're all going
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to see if we can picture this
house. It's a little bit hard to
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picture, I think, when you
just read straight through, and especially in
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one reading. It helps to read
it multiple times and think through it all
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really carefully, and that's why I'm
going to be breaking it up some and
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reading as we go along. And
I want us all to really be able
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to picture this house, to have
in our mind's eye what this place looked
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like, and we have a description
of it to help us do that here
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in second chronicles three and and more
fully in Sec in First Kings Chapter Seven.
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I'm going to stick primarily here to
the description and second chronicles, but
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I do think I will probably slip
in a few details here and there from
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kings. So let's start. The
goal here is to be able to imagine
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this house so that we might understand
what God is revealing to us, what
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he's showing to us, what he's
communicating about himself. Well, the first
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thing you need to do is set
in your mind's eye your cardinal directions,
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because we're going to be using these. So sort of face yourself north,
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okay, on your right is east, on your left is west and south
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is behind you. As you're facing
north, you are going to turn,
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and you're going to turn so that
now you're kind of heading west, and
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what you're going to do is you're
going to come in through the eastern doors
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of this house. The House,
like a lot of well designed houses,
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runs along and east west access.
So that means the law longest walls of
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the temple are the northern wall and
the southern wall. This all is has
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theological importance, but it's also good
for just other design reasons. Anyway,
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there you're standing the entrance to this
house. Now, if you've ever been
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in realty or looking for a house, you've probably heard this phrase. It's
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going to sound really silly in this
context, but curb appeal. Right,
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it's this phrase that indicates when you
walk up to a house or when a
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somebody drives by, what is that
first impression they have? And realtors will
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tell you if you're selling your house, you need a good first impression.
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Right. So a front door that's
really nice, really fancy, that's a
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bonus, they'll tell you. That's
a bonus for curb appeal. Well,
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here you are, standing at the
House of God and you have a description
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of it in verse. For the
vestibule, the kind of entrance which is
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in front of the nave. All
describe that in a moment of the house.
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The vestibule was twenty cubits long,
equal to the width of the House,
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and his height was a hundred and
twenty cubits. He overlaid it on
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the inside with pure gold. So
you're standing in this entrance way. There
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is about thirty feet going across this. I did a rough measurement before we
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started here. This chancel here is
called is about twenty three feet. So,
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madge, about seven more feet than
that. You're standing in the entrance
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of this thing and it's about that
big, very tall, hundred fifty feet,
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something like that tall, thirty feet
wide. And they're in front of
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you. Are Doors. All around
you is gold, gold overlaid everywhere.
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You see gold. Gold on the
top, gold on the sides, gold
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doors. You can't buy a gold
door at home depot. You can get
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fiberglass, you can get wood,
but you cannot buy a gold door.
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And this is what God has done. These wooden doors overlaid with golden.
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These doors don't just have six panels
and maybe a few windows. They have
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designs all over them, some of
which were described earlier, and so you're
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standing there at this amazing entry way. Until your right and left are two
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giant pillars, which will think about
in a moment. But go ahead and
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walk through that door. And now
you're standing in the nave. The Nave
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is like this room, a sort
of long, narrow room. It was
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very tall to like this room,
but instead of windows along the bottom like
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we have here, of the windows
were up on top these kind of Celesterry,
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I believe I'm pronouncing that right,
windows in which you know, light
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would would come in. You're standing
in this nave and it's described here in
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verse five. The Nave he lined
with Cypress and covered it with fine gold.
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You remember earlier that that Cypress was
imported through a contract with a king.
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He covered it with fine gold and
made palms and chains on it.
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He adorned the House with settings of
precious stones. The gold was gold of
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Para Em. So he lined the
house with gold, it's beams, it's
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thresholds, its walls and its doors, and he carved chair a beam on
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the walls. These various terms you
may not be familiar with. If you're
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if you're a little threshold beams,
doors the thing you want or remember is
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just everything's covered with gold. Everything's
covered with gold. Just everywhere you look
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is this rich, rich metal.
Our homes are not covered with gold.
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Just to keep the contrast clear in
your mind, we use dry wall mostly.
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Maybe you'll put some paneling up,
wood paneling or fake wood paneling.
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Maybe you'll cover it with some kind
of material or wall paper. Right,
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you'll, you'll cover it with paper, but does anyone of us have any
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place in our home that's overlaid with
gold? Now imagine a room like this
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covered, the walls covered, and
not just gold paneling but intricate designs.
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Chair a beam are angels, angels
carved into the walls, pomegranates, palm
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trees. Essentially you're standing in something
that is as close to heaven itself here
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on Earth. The fine metals,
the precious jewels surrounded by angels everywhere that
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you look. These windows would let
in a certain amount of light. I
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guess it would depend on what time
of year how much light was let in.
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If it was summertime, you'd have
a fair amount of light coming in,
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especially through the south. It would
be lit up fairly brightly, but
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still, I think, perhaps a
little bit dark. Always the lights coming
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up and up from up above,
but down below where you're walking through this
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building. On your left you have
five golden lamp stands. Those are described
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in verse seven of Chapter Four.
He made ten golden lamp stands, as
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prescribed, and set them in the
temple, five on the south side and
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five on the north. Next to
these lamp stands were tables. Chapter Four,
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Verse Eight. He made ten tables
and placed them in the temple,
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five on the south side, five
on the north. It also describes a
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hundred basins of gold being made that
would be used for the various tables and
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and things that were going on there. So you walk in and there are
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these tables in which the bread of
presents would be set each day, the
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lamps lining the walls, five on
one side, five on the other,
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each with seven lights on it,
seventy lights total, little candles lighting up
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the bottom of this great hall,
this this Nave, is a beautiful place
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and as you moved further down and
into the temple, you would come to
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a very beautiful thing, a curtain, a veil that came down. The
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holy place is described in versus eight
through fourteen, or sorry, the most
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holy place. So let's go ahead
and keep reading. This is now chapter
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three, verse eight. So you've
moved through the nave and now you arrive
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at the most holy place. He
made the most holy place. Its length,
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corresponding to the breadth of the House, was twenty cubits, which is
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to say it's the same size.
The breath was twenty cubits. That makes
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this room a square. He covered
it with six hundred talents of fine gold.
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The weight of gold for the nails
was fifty shekels, and he overlaid
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the upper chambers with gold. In
the most holy place in this room,
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he made two Cherubeam of wood and
overlaid them with gold. Now these two
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Cherubeam angels are big. You walk
into the room and you see them looking
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at you in the face. The
wings of the Cherub beam together extended twenty
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cubits. One wing of the one
of five cubits, touched the wall of
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the house and the other wing,
of five cubits touched the wing of the
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other Cherub. And of this Cherub, one wing of five cubits touched the
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wall of the house and of the
other wing, also five cubits, was
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joined to the wing of the first
Cherub the wings. This is the summary
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here, explaining verse thirteen, the
wings of this Cherubeam. Of these Cherubeam
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extended twenty cubits, the chairbeam stood, the on their feet facing the nave.
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So you imagine here these two giant
statues covered in gold, these two
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angels looking out on you as you
walk in. They're on their feet,
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they're poised, they're ready, they're
protective and they're huge. This thirty foot
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long room has these two things,
these two angels, one on one side
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with its wings spread out, one
on the other side with its wings spread
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out, and together these wings,
you know, one, two, three,
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four, encompass the whole thing.
What we'll find out later is that
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the arc of the Covenant is placed
right under there, this place that we've
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the ARC which we've described again and
again in second chronicles, the footstool of
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God, the Great Throne. There
he is, just like in the visions
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that we have of the prophets or
God is surrounded on his throne by these
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terrifying creatures. That's what's pictured here
in the most holy place. But you
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don't just walk into this room.
In fact no one walks into this room
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unless you happen to be a high
priest, and even that just once a
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year. It was blocked by something, two things actually, a veil and
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a set of doors. The veil
is described in verse fourteen, and he
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made the veil of blue and purple
and Crimson Fabrics and fine linen and he
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worked, you guessed, at Chery
beam on it. So you imagine yourself.
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You open the doors. Let's say
you're the high priest. It's time
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to go. It's that one time
of the year to go into the most
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holy place. You Walk in,
you open these doors and as you're walking
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along, these golden lampstands flickering in
the light and their lights shining off this
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darkened curtain. It would look a
little bit perhaps like a night sky,
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and you would go through that curtain. You would go through another set of
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doors, which were also intricately detailed, until you arrived in this room that
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nobody goes in except you just once, and you better do it right,
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because they are standing in the face
are these two giant angels and the presence
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of the Lord. That takes us
through the temple. There in versus on
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three through fourteen. Then he describes
also we thought about it a little bit
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in chapter four, but some of
the other elements surrounding. So I want
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you to walk back out of the
Temple, walk back through the Nave,
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back through the vestibule, and they'll
look at the two pillars on either side
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of you. They're described in verse
fifteen and seventeen, sixteen seventeen and the
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front. He made two pillars thirty
five cubits high. These is over fifty
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feet, with a capital of five
cubits on the top of each. He
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made chains like a necklace and put
them on the tops of the pillars and
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he made a hundred promegrantants and put
them on the chains. He set up
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the pillars in the front of the
temple, one on the south and the
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other on the north. That on
the south he called Jay Chen, which
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means he establishes, and on the
north, the northern pillar, which would
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be on your left, he called
it Bowas, which means in him his
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strength. So when you walk in
and out of this temple, he establishes
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and in his strength are the on
either side of you, these two pillars
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which remind you everything's reminding you of
the Covenant God has made with you and
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your people. It's a strong symbol, a powerful symbol. Everything here speaks
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to the glory of the Heavenly God. But this place is not something that
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you just walk in and out of
casually. In fact, very few people
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walk in and out. The builders
were probably some of the last people that
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saw it before the except for the
priests who had access to it. But
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nevertheless, on the outside you would
see as a sort of every day Israelite
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things which told you how it is
that you, as a people, had
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access to the presence of God.
As you walk out of that temple,
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as you walk past those two pillars
and into the courtyard, on your left
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would be a giant altar, thirty
feet by thirty feet up on a big
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raised platform. Imagine the biggest fire
pits you've ever seen, huge and glorious
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made out of bronze, the smells
of the animals being burned. there.
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A requirement for holiness always was sacrifice. There was no way of accessing this
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temple, no way of enjoying the
presence of God, of knowing him,
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of dwelling him him, without this
sacrifice. And there on your left is
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the altar. It's described in verse
one of Chapter Four. He made an
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altar of bronze, twenty cubits long
and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
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On your right is something else.
So on the north, on your
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left, is this great altar.
On on your right is something I love
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to imagine, this great pool of
water that's so big it's described as a
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sea. Verse Two. Then he
made the see of cast metal. It
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was round, ten cubits from Brim
to Brim, five cubits high, and
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a line of thirty cubits measured its
circumference. Under it were figures of Gourds
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for ten cubits compassing the sea all
around. The gourds were in two rows
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cast with it when it was cast. And then this whole sea, this
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giant basin, was placed on the
back of these animals. It's described in
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verse four. It stood on twelve
oxen, three facing north, three facing
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west, three facing south and three
facing east. The Sea was on them
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and all their rear parts were inward. It's thickness was a handbreadth and it's
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brim was made like the brim of
a cup, like the flower of a
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lily. So, though huge,
on the back of these giant oxen,
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and it has this kind of delicate
and beautiful aspect to it. It held
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three thousand baths and he also made
ten basins in wish to walk in,
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which to wash and set, five
on the south side and five on the
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north side. So what this means
is, as you walk out and you
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turn right and you look at this
giant basin, sort of going back with
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it, heading back behind you are
these various basins, and those, likewise,
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are elaborate. There are these squares
that held this big amount of water,
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I think it was something like a
hundred and twenty, two hundred and
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forty gallons, where you would wash
your various parts of the sacrifice in,
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five on the north, five on
the south. You can imagine various priests
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swirling around all the various implements being
used described there at the end of second
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chronicles, for the sniffers and the
bowls and the tongues. There's a lot
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of work involved here. And you
know what all those are made of?
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You guessed it gold. This place
is amazing, it's it's impressive. It's
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magnificent every point, every aspect,
every way you look at it, whether
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you look at it from the big
picture or you get down on your hands
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and knees, and look at the
fine craftsmanship that Hiram did on a very
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particular or pomegranate. Everything would speak
of the glory and beauty of God.
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All of it, however, requiring
a great sacrifice, many sacrifices, thousands
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and thousands and thousands over the years, of sacrifices that people might dwell with
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God. Well, as amazing is
this temple is, we've pointed out various
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times in second chronicles, the Bible
tells us it's just a shadow, just
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a shadow, of the reality of
the temple that God places in heaven.
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We read this last time I was
with you, and revelation twenty one,
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these big gates made out of Pearls, fine jewels and embedded in creating the
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walls. Everywhere you look, gold, purest gold. Even the streets of
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this city of God, the new
Jerusalem, were paved in gold. The
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temple here on Earth, another words, speaks of the heavenly dwelling place of
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God. It tells us what it
is we have to anticipate. But there
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are important differences between these things.
For one, the temple that's described in
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revelation twenty one isn't really described as
a temple or it's not called that.
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It has all of the aspects of
a temple. It sounds very much like
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what we have here in second chronicles, except it's called a city and Verse
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Twenty Two of Revelation Twenty one even
says that there is no temple. John
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Notices this. He looks around,
when he sees all these temple elements and
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yet no temple, it explains that
the temple is God himself. In fact,
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he sees that God is not dwelling
in this particular place around which the
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city lives and around which the people
live. The whole thing kind of merges
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together in John's vision, this vision
that God gives him to him of the
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new Jerusalem. You could think of
it as the temple kind of expanding out,
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becoming not just this place, this
symbolic place where God dwells with his
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people, but everywhere present. It
might help you to think of what happened
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when Jesus died. You remember there
was something that happened in the Temple of
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God at the Crucifixion. Do you
remember what it was? Had to do
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with the veil, right, it
ripped into it, tore into this separation
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between the nave, that holy place
and the most holy place separated. All
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of a sudden there was access in
Jesus's death that wasn't there before. Revelation
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twenty one says that it's even bigger
than that, that the whole temple becomes
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the dwelling place of God. And
you know what else the New Testament says?
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It says we are that temple,
that the spirit of God dwells in
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us, just as he dwelled in
that temple. In this kind of mind
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boggling way, revelation twenty one says
that not only is this the city,
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but this is the people, the
bride of Christ. What this means is
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that when we consider Solomon's Temple,
when we consider how amazing it was,
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how beautiful it was, what we're
really getting a picture of is the new
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heavens in the new earth and our
place in it. We're getting a picture
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of ourselves and God who dwells with
us. This is what Jesus does when
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he comes as the new David,
as David's great son, as the better
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Solomon, and everyone's expecting him to
go into the temple and clear it out,
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which he does, but when he
starts saying things like I'm going,
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this temple will be destroyed and in
three days it will all raise it again,
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and one saying, what are you
talking about? This thing is massive,
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it's huge, it's beautiful. How
can you destroy it in three days
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when it's taken all these years to
build? How will you raise it up
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again in three days? Of course, as the Bible says, he was
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talking about his body, he was
talking about something greater. God came to
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dwell among us, and not in
a physical building, but in his son
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and in him. We also dwell
to understand some of the implications of that.
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I like you to turn in your
hymnals to three hundred and forty five
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him, three hundred forty five,
which will sing as we conclude here.
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This is somewhat of a complicated him, a very wonderful hymn, but a
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complicated one, which I want to
do a quick, if you'll forgive me
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more, exposition of, because I
want you to see the connection between these
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two things and what it means when
we sing these kinds of things. Versus
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one through three in this hymn,
speak to the temple. Now that might
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sound kind of weird. Why would
we talk to an object. Well,
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you do this. Let's say you
get a new chair, new desk chair.
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Your old one's been hurt in your
back and it's torn and it's ripped
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up. You're tired of it.
You get a new chair, you go
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you buy a new one, you
put in your desk, you sit down
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it and you go, I love
you, chair. You know. Yeah,
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it's a way. You're not talking
to the chair, but you're expressing,
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perhaps even to God himself, your
thankfulness for the things that he's given
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you. It's in a similar way
here that we when we sing this,
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we speak to the city of God, the city that's described in revelation twenty
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one. It's not directly to the
city, but it's indirectly speaking to God.
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So what it? What is it? We say? Glorious things of
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thee are spoken. Zion, city
of our God. He whose word cannot
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be broken, formed thee for his
own abode. This is exactly what we've
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been talking about right. Abode,
kids, is a place of dwelling,
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a home. God has formed this
place, Zion, the new Jerusalem,
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for him to live in. Then
it describes how it's founded on the rock
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of ages. It's a name for
Jesus founded. What can shake thy sure
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repose? With Salvation's wall surroundest,
Thou mayst smilest at all THY foes.
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It's saying that this city is established
not on weak and shifting sand, but
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on a rock, on something strong. Who is this rock? His name
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is Jesus. He's called the cornerstone
of the temple. He's the one on
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whom the city of God has founded, the one in whom we dwell and
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live. WHO CAN SHAKE THY sure
repose? A repose kids is resting.
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You repose yourself on a couch,
you put your head, or you repose
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on a on a cushion or a
pillow. This city is at peace,
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it's resting. It's like waking up
and lying down on a couch. It's
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comfortable. You're not worried about things, you're not fraid for your life,
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and that comes up in the last
sentence. Here, with salvation's walls surrounded,
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thou may smilest at all, thy
foes, you kind of look how
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you go. You guys aren't bothering
me. I'm safe, I'm secure.
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I'm going to bed see verse,
to see the streams of living water springing
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from eternal love, when you think
about the temple as we described it in
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second chronicles three, there's a lot
of water involved there, with the size
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of that basin and all those baths. Again, the people of the city
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needed to be fed water. We
live in a desert. We know what
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this is about water. It's important. Well, here it's described in this
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way. See the streams of living
waters springing from eternal love. That's the
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source of our strength, that's the
thing that keeps us alive, the thing
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that we need every day. Drink
eight glasses of water and drink from the
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springs of God's love. Well,
supply thy sons and daughters and all the
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fear of want. Remove. Who
can faint while such a river ever flows?
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Their thirst a swage. A swage
means quench. You're not thirsty anymore.
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Grace which, like the Lord the
Giver, Never Fails From Age to
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age. There's no drafts in heaven, no waiting, no wondering, God's
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love always, ever, supplying our
every need. Now remember we're not just
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talking about a temple anymore. We're
talking about a city. So you have
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to imagine these various dwelling places.
I can't say exactly what will be white.
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But Jesus says something, and John
About going to I'm leaving you to
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prepare a place for you. Verse
Three, round each habitation, hovering,
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see the clouder cloud and fire appear, that glory cloud which descends on the
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temple, the glory cloud which leads
the people of Israel through the Wilderness here
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pictured in heaven. See The cloud
and fire appear for a glory and a
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covering showing that the Lord is near, thus deriving from their banner light by
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night and Shade by day. Safe
they feed upon the Manna which he gives
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them when they pray here. John
Newton. Now the rider conjures up all
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this wilderness imagery that we have in
the Old Testament, but he says we're
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not in the wilderness anymore. In
the new heavens and the new earth and
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the new Jerusalem, were totally supplied
everything we could ever want and need.
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And now, in verse four,
instead of speaking indirectly to God, we
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speak directly to him. Savior,
if of Zion City I, through grace,
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a member am let the world deride
or pity, I will glory in
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Thy name. It's that smiling at
all the foes. It's saying, you
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know what, world, knowing who
I am and knowing the city, the
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place in which God has placed me, the one in whom I dwell,
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you can laugh at me, you
can mock me, you can deride me,
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or you can pity me and say, Oh, what a poor person
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he is living in the new Jerusalem. Whatever right, let the world deride
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our pity. I Will Glory in
Thy name, because fading is the worldlings
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pleasure, all his boasted pomp and
show, solid choice and lasting treasure.
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None but Zion's children know there is
a Great Division that happens in Zion,
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a great division that happens with those
who dwell with God. There are those
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who are safe and secure, those
who participate and enjoy his glory, who
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are glorified by him and redound that
glory back to him, and there are
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those who don't. They mock,
they deride, they laugh, but there
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are on a fool's errand and in
the day all the boasted pomp and show
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fades away, the houses that they
built, with all their gardens and toys
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and books, it all goes away. But they are those who belong to
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Zion, and we do even now. If we belong to Jesus Christ.
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We don't need to worry, because
we belong to him. We're founded on
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the rock of ages, we belong
to the city of our God. So
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when we think of Solomon's Temple and
we picture ourselves walking through it, pass
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the pillars, through the doors,
into the nave, even to that most
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holy place, let your eyes lift
up to something even greater, the heavenly
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dwelling place of God, where you, if you believe in the one on
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whom this place is founded, the
one who gave his life as a sacrifice
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for your sin, where you will
live forever and ever and ever, living
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off of God's love and His grace. Let's pray
