Pastor David begins a new series of messages entitled: Sanctuary, Salvation &amp; Our Savior.

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Hillside O’Malley SDA Church

Sanctuary, Salvation & Our Savior

David Shin

Sanctuary, Salvation & Our Savior: Back to the Father’s House

Sanctuary, Salvation & Our Savior: It’s All About Jesus

Sanctuary, Salvation & Our Savior: Justified in the Courtyard

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Sanctified in the Holy Place

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Glorified in the Most Holy Place

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Burnt Offering

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Cleansed at the Laver

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Fed at the Table

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Altar of Incense

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: The Lampstand

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: The Law in the Ark

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Sabbath and Sanctuary

Father in heaven, we thank You so much for this opportunity to study the sanctuary for the next several weeks.

We pray that You would bless us in our study.

You've told us Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary.

So, we ask for the Holy Spirit to guide our thoughts and our minds this morning.

Speak to us, we pray, for we ask these things in the precious name of Jesus.

If you could ask God for anything, what would you ask Him for?

New car, new house, health perhaps, wisdom?

Well, David indicates what he would ask of God, and this is actually Psalms 27, 4, not Psalms 24, 4.

Psalms 27, 4, this is what David's request to God would be.

He says, 1 thing I have desired of the Lord, and that will I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life." In your bulletin, you should have a study guide, which is an outline with the key text from today's study.

David says, if I can have 1 thing that I asked of God, it would be to live in God's house.

To actually live in God's house, not be a neighbor, but to live in God's house.

And he says, all the days of my life, not just for a few months or days, but my whole life, I want to live in God's house.

And that's my 1 request I wish I could have of God.

If I could ask God for anything, it'd be to live in God's house.

He says, first, I would behold the beauty of the Lord.

We're talking about an actual aesthetic beauty.

I praise the Lord that it's not just about left brain analysis.

But there's an aesthetic beauty that comes from the inner beauty of who God is.

And David says, I want to live in your house forever that I can look at your beauty.

And the other thing is to inquire in His temple.

I was reading about Warren Buffett, and he has this charity that takes place every year where people bid to have lunch with Warren Buffett.

And these couple individuals won, and they had the opportunity to have lunch with Warren Buffett for $600, 000.

$600, 000 to have lunch with Warren Buffett.

And they asked afterwards, these 2 individuals, was it worth it?

And they said it was worth every penny of that half a million dollars.

Well, evidently having to ask Warren Buffett anything is worth a lot of money to some people, but can you imagine having lunch with God in His house?

What would you ask him if you can ask him of anything?

And this word here for inquire indicates that this is an intellectual inquiry.

So found in God's house is beauty and truth.

And David says, I want to live in God's house.

The Bible indicates that God's house is synonymous with his temple, and we have a scene in Revelation 11, verse 19.

We have a picture of what God's house is like, the temple.

He says the temple of God was opened in heaven and the Ark of his covenant was seen in his temple Another article of furniture in God's house in God's temple and from the throne Preceded lightnings thunderings and voices 7 lamps of fire were burning before the throne." Another piece of furniture in God's house, you have the Ark of the Covenant, you have the lampstand, this article of furniture is seen in God's house in heaven, and then you have Revelation 8, verse 3, he was given much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which is before his throne.

So this is another piece of furniture in God's house You have the lampstand and then you have this altar of incense that John saw envision in God's house Now Moses was given the blueprint to what God's house looked like, and you find it in Exodus 25, verse 8.

God told Moses, make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.

There were very specific aspects of the earthly tabernacle that Moses was to build, and it was to be specifically according to God's blueprint.

And God told him that this was to be after the pattern.

Notice it's not just the tabernacle, it's all of the furniture inside the tabernacle as well.

And you see Paul in Hebrews chapter 8, verses 1 through 5, he says, "'Now the main point of what we are saying is this, we do have a high priest who sat down at the right hand of the throne of God, of the majesty, where does it say?

In heaven, in heaven, who serves in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being.

Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this 1 also to have something to offer.

They serve as 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 that you do it according to everything, according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

So God told Moses to build a tabernacle, and this tabernacle was to be a copy or a shadow of a heavenly tabernacle.

So 1 way that you can get a picture of what God's house looks like is to look at the Old Testament sanctuary.

This is the model that was given to Moses, and he was to design it specifically as God commanded, specifically according to the dimensions that God gave, and said, look, this is a replica of what is in heaven.

So there it is, on the screen you have, on your left, the Ark of the Covenant, which John saw in heaven.

Ark of the Covenant, inside the ark was the law of God, Aaron's rod which budded, and manna.

Here you have the angels that are hovering above the Shekinah glory.

This represented the throne room of God and this compartment is known as the most holy place.

Here you have another compartment and it is the holy place.

Now remember when we just read in the book of Revelation, you saw what in heaven?

You saw the golden candlesticks before the throne of God.

You also have the altar of incense, which we also saw in Revelation before the throne of room of God as well.

And then there is the table of showbread.

Outside in the courtyard, you have the laver, and then you have the brazen altar there.

And this gives us a model of what God's house, his tabernacle, his sanctuary looked like.

Now a question that people have asked is, did the sanctuary exist before sin?

We often look at the sanctuary as being instituted at the time of Moses, but when you look at the Bible you will see that the sanctuary pre-existed Even the inception of sin.

How do we know that we read about Lucifer in Ezekiel chapter 28 verse 14?

The Bible says you were the anointed cherub who covers I Established you you were on the holy mountain of God Lucifer stood right next to God.

He was the covering angel that covered the Shekinah glory of God.

No 1 knew God more as a created being than Lucifer.

And it was from this place that sin was conceived in Lucifer's heart.

I wonder what it must have been in the presence of God to be Lucifer, to be 1 of the covering cherubs.

He was the highest among all the angels, and the Bible says that he was the covering cherub.

This is the throne room of God, And this is indicated from the Ark of the Covenant.

And notice what the Bible says about the mountain in Isaiah 14, verse 13, another passage that talks about Lucifer.

It says, I will sit enthroned on the mount of the assembly." So, God's sanctuary, God's house was a place where His created beings would assemble.

Also, The Bible indicates in Ezekiel 28, verse 13, the workmanship of your timbrels and pipes.

According to Richard Davison, the timbrels and pipes remind us of the music of the sanctuary.

According to 2 Samuel 6, verse 5, 1 Chronicles 13, verse 8, and Psalms 81, verse 2, the sanctuary of God before sin was a place of worship.

Scholars believe, and the biblical evidence supports this idea, that the house of God, the sanctuary of God, the throne of God was a place of praise and worship prior to the inception of sin.

It was also the command center of the universe and the home of God.

Richard Davidson says that it's kind of like the White House.

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Sanctuary, Salvation & Our Savior

Sanctuary, Salvation & Our Savior: Back to the Father’s House

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47m

Plenary

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Crisis at the Close

Crisis at the Close: The Trials - Part 3

49m

Sanctuary, Salvation, & Our Savior

Sanctuary, Salvation, & Our Savior - Part 2: Justified in the Courtyard

1h 7m

Don’t Miss Your Flight

45m

Part 3 - Fire From Heaven

1h 5m

The Secret of Happiness

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Lessons from the Life of Paul

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36m

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55m

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