"A TEMPLE AFTER THE PATTERN"

MAY 30, 1999 pm
MF Blume

Exod 25:8-9  And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, [after] the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make [it].

Psal 2:1-7  Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying], Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou [art] my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

Psal 118:22-24  The stone [which] the builders refused is become the head [stone] of the corner. This is the LORD'S doing; it [is] marvellous in our eyes. This [is] the day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.



We read of these in the New Testament and find an interpretation to Psalm 2:7. We find WHEN and WHAT DAY the Son was begotten of the Father. The answer may surprise you.
 
Acts 13:32  And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
The day Jesus rose from the grave was the day that He was begotten of the Father.

Psalm 118 mentioned the DAY the Lord made when He set the rejected cornerstone as head of the corner. What DAY was that?

Acts 4:10-12  Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
The day Jesus rose from the dead was the day the cornerstone was laid as head of the corner of a building to be built.


God made Adam from the dust of the ground.

We are told the following:
1Cor 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Jesus Christ was made the first of a new creation. His name is the last universal Name. He became Head of a new race of people who were changed and made new creatures when He rose again. Adam was a cornerstone that should have been the beginning of a temple for God to dwell in.

But Jesus came, filled with God's Life.

In Heaven there is a temple. When Moses came down from the mountain, His face shone like the sun. The New Testament says that we are the temple of the Holy Ghost. Moses face shone while on the mountain seeing the pattern for the tabernacle.

Like Moses went on a mountain, Peter and John saw Jesus on a mountain.

We are being conformed into His image. Peter and James and John saw Jesus transfigure on the mountain. Adam was made in God's image. We are the HOUSE OF GOD. The reason God wanted to make Israel a nation of priests was because all the world was His.


We are the SPIRITUAL TEMPLE.

Moses went upon a mountain and received instructions to build a tabernacle for God to dwell in, built after a pattern he saw up there. It was the WORD of God that created all things. God wanted to fill the earth with His glory. This is the same terminology used to speak of PEOPLE receiving the Spirit -- FILLED (Acts 2:4).

Don't make the mistake Peter made and think that this is a physical house.


God's glory filled the house and then flowed out like a river.

Haba 2:14  For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
How? Let's get filled with the Holy Ghost! May we all be pasrt of this TRUE TEMPLE built after the PATERN of Jesus Christ.