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Discover the significance of the Tabernacle in biblical worship and understand its relevance in our lives today. Learn how to offer the sacrifice of praise, become a holy priesthood, and experience true worship.
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The Tabernacle – A Blueprint for praise and worship
The Tabernacle Now if you obey Me fully and keep My covenant, then out of all nations you will be My treasured possession. Although the whole earth is Mine, you will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ Exodus 19:5-6 NIV
The Tabernacle Let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. Hebrews 13:15 NKJV
The Tabernacle • You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. • 1 Peter 2:5 NIV
The Tabernacle • But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light. • 1 Peter 2:9 NIV
The Tabernacle • They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” • Hebrews 8:5 NIV
The Tabernacle • ProskuneogkThe Greek New Testament word for Worship • Derived from two words – pros (towards) and kyneo(to kiss) • It came to mean - I go down on my knees to, do obeisance to, worship.
The Tabernacle The blood of the substitute paves the way to God for the sinner and opens the entrance to the Holy of Holies for the worshipper.
The Tabernacle • Sir, if these people are now sinning against their God, even unknowingly, and if we can be sure that they are guilty of some offense, we can successfully attack them. But if they have not disobeyed the law of their God, then you should leave them alone, or He will defend them, and we will be disgraced before the whole world. • Judith 5:20-21
The Tabernacle • Mishkan“Dwelling Place” • OhelMo’ed “Tent of Meeting” used 145 times in the Bible.
The Tabernacle So Christ, through his better sacrifice, provides better cleansing, better Holiness, and better access to the presence of God, thus providing better worship, fellowship, encounter, and life with God. J. Daniel Hays
The Tabernacle • The Outer Court - A day to day lifestyle of worship, seeking to glorify God as living sacrifices in service to the King. • The Holy Place - Our prayer, praise and worship, rising like incense, where we become aware of Gods presence. • The Holy of Holies - That intimate private place where we encounter God in His glory and all we can do is bow down in awe and wonder.
The Tabernacle Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. John 4:23