Brother Gary Sunday Morning 5/24/15

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 5/24/15

Heb 8:5  Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

God told Moses to make all things according to the pattern.  If you study the Old Testament, God was very clear and exact as to how He wanted everything done.  God likes things done right for Himself and God wants things done right for His people and for His church. 

The outer court was about 50 feet by 150 feet.  The tabernacle itself was about 15 feet wide and 45 feet long.  The last 15 by 15 feet was the Holiest of Holies. 

The oxen or lamb was taken alive, slaughtered, the blood was retained, and the beast itself was burned by fire in the outer court.  This was done every day twice as a continual sacrifice.  It was done in the morning, a sacrifice for sin, and it was done in the evening, a sacrifice for sins. 

The effect of the sacrifice:  an ox was slain and offered and it did give forgiveness for sin.  It was much to be appreciated, but it did not give a changed life where they could live victorious.  So that they could have a relationship with God of being able to commune with Him.

Heb 8:1  Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

This is speaking of Jesus Christ.

Heb 8:2  A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

Heb 8:3  For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

Heb 8:4  For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

Heb 8:5  Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

You seamstresses probably understand patterns.  If you have tried to build anything you would need a pattern.  A pattern is not the substance itself. When you look at the blueprint of a house, it is just to show what the finished product would be. 

It is the same way, God wanted Moses to make all things according to the pattern so that it would be exactly as God had shown him.  It was to be a pattern of all that Jesus Christ would be so that He could accomplish what He desired in our lives.

I have grandchildren, and I have a heavy burden for children.  God has a definite pattern for their lives.  Children, however young you would be, however old you are, God has a definite pattern for your life. 

You might say, “I didn’t become interested in God until whatever season in life.”  God still has a pattern for you today.  God has a pattern for every one of us in our exact season of our life.

If children can grasp that there is an eternal God and His greatness… we are taught in the Word of God that God is great, “Ascribe greatness to God.”  Jesus came to set up His kingdom which is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. 

It is wonderful that when we come to a place where our body will no longer endure, we have a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.

Paul’s testimony was, “I was the chief of sinners.  I was injurious…”  He did his best to hinder the saints of God.  God in His mercy brought him to bible salvation and give a pattern of what God is able to do for sinners.

Heb 8:6  But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

Isn’t it wonderful that we don’t have to wait for the morning or evening sacrifice to be forgiven from our sins?  We can live right and act right and do right throughout the day and have that pattern lived out in our life.

Jesus became the supreme offering that we could have our conscience purged.  Sin is a continuing thing.  People that start lying as a child, unless they get saved, the only change that takes place is that they go from being a little liar to a big liar.  If a thief, then they go from being a little thief to a big thief.

Jesus was offered as the perfect sacrifice as a lamb without spot or blemish.  Once and forever a new covenant was put into place.

The first covenant did not save men from sin, they kept offering sacrifices because they kept sinning.

Heb 8:7  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

Heb 8:8  For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

Heb 8:9  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

Heb 8:10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

It is a wonderful, marvelous thing.  We need to ascribe greatness to God that He made a plan available to us so that we are not just religious, not just a nice person, not just an individual that wants to do good.  He puts His law into our mind and writes it in our heart.

“I will be their God.”  God was given to detail, very close detail.  I was reading that in the holiest of Holies the ark was to be made in a certain way and of a certain size and there was to be gold inlayed on the outside and on the inside. 

God has a definite pattern for our lives, so that you can know beyond a shadow of a doubt that your sins are forgiven.  It is wonderful to know our sins are forgiven and we are right with God.

 Not only does He forgive sin, but He puts His law on our heart and in our mind.  It is wonderful, because no matter the temptation, your heart says, “I want to serve God.”  And your mind says, “No matter what the world offers, it is better to serve God.”

God deals with mankind everywhere, even if they don’t have the bible.  He deals with their hearts and minds “this is right, this is wrong.”  When they realize that they have disobeyed God and need to ask forgiveness, God has witnessed to their need and is ready to forgive.

Heb 8:11  And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

Heb 8:12  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Heb 8:13  In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

Any that would have the thought, “I don’t want to accept Jesus; I want to remain under the old covenant of sacrificing animals.”  Jesus did away with that.  The pattern of Moses can never give redemption.  The only thing that can give redemption is the blood of Jesus Christ.

Redemption means to redeem the soul back.  All of us when we came to the age of accountability: “I know this is right and I have disobeyed.”  Every individual knows when they reach that age that they are accountable before God.  Once they reach that age, they are responsible to God and they need to be responsible to their parents, and to the pastor. 

They don’t have to go down the road very far and they realize, “I am doing things that I never thought I would do.  I am finding myself entertaining sin, taking pleasure in things that I never thought I would do.”  Often that is known as condemnation.  With that Jesus comes with conviction. 

There is a vast difference between condemnation and conviction.  Condemnation is something that we do to ourselves.  With condemnation comes hopelessness.  We know people that are bound, whether by alcohol, cheating, lying, drugs, etc.  Under condemnation they don’t feel they can ever change, “This thing has me.”

Ascribe greatness to God.  When His Spirit comes, it convicts men and women of sin.  Godly sorrow works repentance.  Godly sorrow is conviction. 

Repent means to confess to God and to turn away.  It is not saying, “God I am sorry and I plan to do it again.”  It is saying, “God I failed; God I sinned.”  Godly sorrow causes people to turn from their own way to God.

The reason that people are bound by sin is because they yield to sin and not because of their dad or their nationality.  Condemnation leads you deeper into the awful pit.  When conviction comes it says, “Repent.”

Godly sorrow brings us to the place of saying, “I want to get saved and I want to quit that sin business.”

Redeemed:  say you were drowning and there was no way of you getting to shore and someone realized, “that individual is in trouble,” and got a rope to you and pulled you into the boat.  This is why Jesus came, to redeem us out of the drowning condition.

Heb 9:12  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

The blood of bulls and goats served its purpose prior to when Jesus came.  When Jesus came and went to the cross and shed His blood.  The blood of bulls and goats was done away with in the thought that there is no salvation through offering a sacrifice, but through Jesus alone.

Heb 9:13  For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

Heb 9:14  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

All of us were born as a child with a conscience.  We are sad that we educated our conscience and did that which was wrong for way too long.  That blood that forgives from sin, the power of the blood casts our sin as far as the east is from the west, the power of the blood wrote our name in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and it purged our conscience.

All that are parents and have tender children, when you correct them you see the little tears come into their eyes.  They have a tender conscience. 

Everyone that is saved in this audience, keep your conscience tender.  My conscience bothers me extremely whenever I misspeak or say or do anything that displeases God.  I want it that way. 

You say, “There are somethings that don’t matter.”  God is given to detail.  If you will keep your conscience tender, keep a tender conscience husbands and wives.  Being the head of the house is more taking responsibility than being the boss. 

The blood of Christ purges our conscience.  That conscience between us and God, “God I want everything right.”  The conscience between us and the saints of God, between us and whoever we work for, having integrity when they give you back too much change at the store.

This is the book of patterns.  There is only one pattern for salvation.  This Word of God has a pattern for the widow lady that will not work for my wife, she has a husband.  There is a definite pattern for young ladies and young men, know the pattern.

There is a pattern for the older sisters and for the older brothers.  God has a pattern for each one of our lives.  You may have wasted a lot of your life in sin.  You may feel really bad.  All the training you missed from your teenage years to when you got saved, don’t spend much time there or a lot of things could begin to work.  The thought is, “I want to find the pattern for me today.”

“Is your all on the Altar?”  That is the way to find the pattern.  In the world people are opinionated.  Usually they are the most opinionated about what others ought to do.  The pattern shows us what we ought to do, how to have fulfillment in life, and really enjoy life.

It is important to know the pattern.  If you are old, you are not useless, find the pattern.  You will always be unhappy and discontented unless you say, “God show me the pattern from the Word of God.  Show me how I can measure.”  You must be all on the altar.

God has a pattern for His church.  We are a long ways from AD 33.  I doubt they had Daily Vacation Bible School at that time, but they were busy teaching the gospel.  We have reached 2015, the same God is a God of exploits.  He has challenges for us; God show us the pattern.

There is a right way to treat each other, there is a right way to greet each other.  The pattern is the Word of God.  We look into the pattern of the Word of God.  You sisters that know how to sow or knit, Brother Rick that knows how to buy a board and make a guitar out of it.  The board is not the pattern. 

You might get by with doing things your own way in cooking, but it is a disaster in life.  God told Moses to make all things according to the pattern.  They worked and built the tent tabernacle according to the pattern. 

If you feel, “I don’t know if my life has a pattern, I go this way and that, I wonder about God and I wonder about religion.”  Yes but when you come face to face with yourself and say, “God I want to make everything in my life according to the pattern.”  He says, “Ok, I will give you the blueprint.”

Often before a message is ever preached, God puts the pattern on an individual’s mind, heart, soul, and spirit.  They realize, “I am looking for something.”  Then God sends the pattern.