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Through the Sanctuary by Sean Brizendine

Sean Brizendine

01 Through the Sanctuary

02 At Calvary’s Altar

03 At the Laver

04 The Candlestick

05 The Table of Shewbread

06 The Altar of Incense

07 Atonement at the Ark

♪ Fresh manna fell to the ground as a gift from God while the Israelites were in the wilderness.

It was fresh from the ovens of heaven, baked by the Master Baker himself.

How the Israelites must have anticipated the taste and smell of each morning's delivery.

Just like the Israelites, you too can taste and smell fresh manna.

Today you'll be listening to Pastor Sean Grisendein, pastor of the Oaton Seventh-day Adventist Church and Assistant Pastor of the Bessemer and Greenland Seventh-day Adventist Churches.

It's a blessing to be gathered here for worship on this beautiful Sabbath morning, and I just invite you to kneel with me as we open in prayer.

Ask for the Holy Spirit to teach us as we begin a journey.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for your infinite love that you revealed to us through Christ.

And we're grateful for the opportunity we have to delve into your word and to see the plan of salvation so clearly through the sanctuary where Jesus is lifted up.

And I pray that as he is lifted up that you would hide me behind his cross, that your atoning blood will cleanse us from our sins, and that our hearts and minds will be prepared to partake also of the communion service this Sabbath.

May your spirit be our teacher and guide now in Jesus name, amen.

I had the opportunity to be in multiple states, Idaho, Georgia, California, and Oregon, and I was traveling with a full-scale model of the Mosaic Sanctuary with a ministry called Messiah's Mansion.

I remember it very distinctly because I had actually been trained to give full-scale tours, about an hour and 15 minutes each tour, and walk people through the different pieces of furniture and how they all revealed Jesus.

And so we're having the opportunity starting this Sabbath to begin a journey, a series called Through the Sanctuary.

We're going to be focusing in on the first part, and that is the gate.

And I think about how All the different pieces of furniture, all that was used and composed in this structure was to point us to Christ, the Lamb of God.

And if we understand the sanctuary, it's going to help us to understand the times in which we're living and the present truth for our time.

I remember when I was at the session that was being held in Atlanta, Georgia, they had 2 full-scale models of the Mosaic Sanctuary right across from, at the time, the General Conference session.

So I got to meet people from around the world that were coming to take 1 of these tours.

And we were actually passing out, when I say we, those who are helping with this ministry were passing out little bookmarks that had this quote on it as to why is the sanctuary important?

What does this relate to, you know, even like the communion service?

And you'll see this more clearly in this statement.

This is from the book Early Writings, page 63, paragraph 2 that says, But such subjects as the sanctuary, in connection with the 2, 300 days, the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus, are perfectly calculated to explain the past Advent movement and show what our present position is, establish the faith of the doubting, and give certainty to the glorious future.

These I have frequently seen were the principal subjects on which the messengers should dwell.

In other words, this is important for us to focus in on, and it seems fitting for us to turn to Daniel chapter 8 verse 14, which is that great Advent hope text of the culmination of the 2, 300 days, because as it relates to the Old Testament sanctuary and Jesus as our sacrifice, which the communion service is to commemorate Christ as our sacrifice, but it's much more meaningful when you realize that His sacrifice was only beginning, what He would continue to do in heaven for us.

Daniel chapter 8, we're looking at verse 14.

Daniel 8 verse 14 in the scripture tells us, and he said unto me, unto 2, 300 days, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

Now, I have to realize some of the context of this.

As the years 1843 and 1844 were rolling on and the Millerite movement, the Advent movement was really getting steam, there were a lot of people, thousands and thousands of people throughout North America and there are other places in the world that were heralding this soon coming of Jesus.

They were longing for the coming of Jesus.

And they genuinely believe that this cleansing, spoken of in Daniel 8 14, was the cleansing of the earth when Jesus would return.

You can imagine the disappointment when Jesus did not return on October 22, 1844.

The dates are right, but the event was kind of off.

Similar to what happened to the disciples when they expected Jesus to be coronated king and he died on the cross.

The disappointment was just the emotions, the pain, the suffering, and yet God had actually prophesied that this was going to happen.

Along those lines, I'd like to also bring in as we're laying the foundation for our series here, a quote from the book Great Controversy, page 423, paragraph 1.

It says, the subject of the sanctuary was the key which unlocked the mystery of the disappointment of 1844.

It opened a view, a complete system of truth connected and harmonious paragraph 1, and it says, movement and revealing present duty as it brought to light the position and work of his people.

As the disciples of Jesus, after the terrible night of their anguish and disappointment, were glad when they saw the Lord, so did those now rejoice who had looked in faith for a second coming.

They had expected him to appear in glory to give reward to his servants.

As their hopes were disappointed, they had lost sight of Jesus and with Mariet the sepulcher they cried, they have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have laid him.

Now in the Holy of Holies they again beheld Him, their compassionate High Priest, soon to appear as their King and Deliverer.

Light from the sanctuary illumined the past, the present, and the future.

They knew that God had led them by His unerring providence.

Though like the first disciples, they themselves had failed to understand the message which they bore, yet it had been in every respect correct.

In proclaiming it, they had fulfilled the purpose of God, and their labor had not been in vain in the Lord.

Begotten again unto a lively hope, they rejoiced with joy unspeakable and full of glory." Now, as we contemplate this, why is this significant as we think about the sanctuary?

Well for 1, many people when they talk about the sanctuary, they read it in the book of Exodus, which we'll be looking at, they are probably like, well that was for the Israelites, but what relevance does it have for us?

It's very relevant, and the better you understand it, the better you're prepared to not only embrace all that Christ is to you, but understand what he's doing for us now.

Notice in that quote that I just read from the Great Controversy that the sanctuary was the key.

It's interesting because if you're trying to get into a door and you don't have the right key, you're gonna try and try again and you'll seem to always be shut out.

And I would have to be very honest, if you look at the larger Christian world, there are many people that long for Jesus to return but they don't really know why he's not here yet.

They're not really clear on some of the key prophecies, but in light of the sanctuary, all this begins to be very clear.

We see that there is a specific reason as to what Jesus is doing now for us.

He's blotting out the record of sins while he prepares the people to live holy lives through the time of trouble such as never was.

So we have the privilege to not only see the meaning of this but its relevance to our lives today.

So we're beginning a journey and that journey begins with entering into his gates with praise and thanksgiving.

In Psalm 100 we begin in verse 4 we notice that Jesus through his psalmist was inviting us to enter and approach God in praise.

And it's a fitting way to start our journey.

Psalm 100 in verse 4, The invitation is given, enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise.

Now from the very beginning when Adam and Eve were in the very presence of God, if you look at the way the Eden experience was for them, That garden was their sanctuary.

But as soon as sin intercepted that communion, because we go to Isaiah 59 verse 2, why do we need this sanctuary?

Why is God given this plan for restoration?

Well, Isaiah 59 2 is very clear as to what has come between us and God.

And the sanctuary is God's divine remedy for the sin issue centered in the experience of Christ.

Isaiah 59, verse 2, But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear." God wants to hear us, God wants to be with us, but if he was to manifest his full glory to us even right now, we could not bear it.

So in mercy to us, he veils himself and he chose to do that through the sanctuary that there would be a way for us to be restored to communion with God.

That first gospel promise in Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 was a promise of supernatural power to be able to hate sin which is not natural to us.

Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 and we'll notice that through the sanctuary, the experience of those who would approach God in this way would begin to realize sin is really bad.

So Genesis 3 15, God wants to implant a supernatural power in us through the grace of God that we're able to overcome the sins that separate us from Him.

Genesis 3 15, and I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed.

It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Now this is foreshadowing the great conflict that would culminate at the cross of Christ, which is saying about that, lead me to Calvary, and really the whole plan of salvation, while it's unfolded in the sanctuary, it would not be possible if Jesus had not died for us on the cross.

As we partake of the Passover by faith, and of course the Passover was discontinued and therefore is continued now in the communion service, as we think about the symbols and the emblems and how it pointed to Christ, if it weren't for this promise to be able to put enmity in our hearts against sin, there would be no point.

Because naturally we're inclined towards our selfish ways and God says, but I know that selfishness isn't the currency of happiness in the universe.

Selflessness is what really brings joy and I want you to see that your selfish ways cause death.

Every time a sinner would come to that very entrance and learn to praise God and as he approached the priest and he brought that lamb and it was sacrificed, he would realize, yes I can praise God that he's willing to make a way for me, but also he was brought with this realizing sense that sin is expensive.

Sin causes death and it causes pain and realizing that that lamb pointed to Jesus would cause a realization of the power of God to be able to change the heart.

Because the sanctuary message, if it doesn't reach our hearts, we're missing the experience.

God wants us not to know just about what's going to happen, but to know Him.

To know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent.

So on that thought of how God wants to work in our lives, we see in Exodus 25, 8, that in order for this enmity, this hatred against sin to actually be a reality in us, where we would love God and hate sin, which is not natural, we would need to have a clearly outlaid plan.

Originally, Adam, after he'd sinned, brought a lamb and a sacrifice and we see that throughout the experience of even Abraham when he brought his son Isaac, which was pointing forward to Jesus, the son of God, and then a ram was given to spare his son, that yes, there were simple sacrifices that pointed forward, but God knew that after the Israelites had been enslaved in Egypt for so long, that their minds had become darkened.

Series

Through the Sanctuary by Sean Brizendine

01 Through the Sanctuary

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Parent Series

Parent Conference

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Through the Sanctuary by Sean Brizendine

07 Atonement at the Ark

44m

The Man And His Mission

49m

A God Worth Knowing

11 A New Birth

52m

I’ll Have a Diet Pepsi

58m

Revelation Today Crusade

17. Prophecy’s Warship

1h

Prophets: The Issue that Divides

Prophets: The Issue that Divides, Part 4: Elisha

49m

Fresh Manna By Jacob Gibbs

The Power of a Question

41m

How Jesus Treats the Untouchables

55m

Through the Sanctuary by Sean Brizendine

03 At the Laver

50m

Jesus on Prophecy

09 Revelation’s 1,000 Years and Hell

1h 3m

Certainty in Uncertain Times

10. Where Do I Find Power to Overcome?

59m

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Sanctuary

01 The House That God Built

1h 3m

Sound Doctrine