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Have you ever been somewhere you didn’t belong?
You walk in and immediately realize you shouldn’t be there?
If you’ve ever accidentally walked into the wrong restroom or gone to the wrong class on your first day of school you know the feeling.
What about somewhere fancy?
I like to look at historical landmarks and old churches and so when I go on vacation I typically try to find time to go and explore those kinds of places.
This summer Tiff and I went down to San Antonio on vacation and we explored some of the old missions that were down there.
They are really cool.
They are essentially enclosed communities that people would live in, and one of the ones we visited had a really nice chapel cathedral type thing.
I walk in to look at the different art that they had inside and as I walked in with my shorts and t-shirt I realized they were having a morning mass.
Here I am sweaty and wearing a fanny pack in a place that was very formal and ornate.
David finds himself in this predicament as he writes Psalm 15.
He asks the question that we should all ask, “How can mankind be in community with God? How do we live in His presence?
Lord, who can dwell in your tent?
Who can live on your holy mountain?
Why do you think David talks about the Lord’s tent and mountain?
David is sparking some Old Testament imagery here with these two locations.
The tent is a reference to the Tabernacle.
This was Israel’s place of worship from the time they came to Mt. Sinai to the time Solomon built the Temple a little after 1000 BC.
The Tabernacle was where the presence of God dwelt among the people of Israel.
It was a holy place.
Within the Tabernacle was the Holy of Holies.
It was a place where atonement would be made on behalf of the people and it would be a place that housed the Ark of the Covenant.
The Holy of Holies was a place no one could enter.
It would only be entered once a year by the High Priest and even he would only enter in on Yom Kippur in order to make a sacrifice on behalf of the people.
People that walked into the Holy of Holies needed to take the honor seriously.
Aaron was required to wear bells and later traditions talk of High Priests tying a rope around their waist in case they dropped dead the other priests could drag them out.
The mountain is reference to another holy place in Israel’s history: Mt.
Sinai.
This mountain was where Israel was brought to after they escaped Egypt by crossing the Red Sea.
It was where Moses spoke to the Lord and recieved the Ten Commandments.
Nobody traveled to the top of the mountain except Moses.
On one of these occasions the presence of God passed by Moses while he was hiding in a cleft of the mountain and God’s presence was so powerful and magnificent in passing that it made Moses’ hair glow white.
Both of these terms, Tabernacle and Holy Mountain also tend to be used as metaphors for heaven.
What does the presence of God look like in heaven?
Isaiah realized that he was not qualified to be in the presence of God.
The question we should ask ourselves as we study the Psalms is what qualifies me to be in the presence of God?
What is worship?
Worship is an encounter with God.
God’s people ushered into His presence through the elements of Scripture, praise, music, prayer, offering, sermon, and invitation.
Worship is living your life as living sacrifice to the Lord
If worship is an encounter with God and an ushering into His presence but is also a life lived in sacrifice that means our lives are lived in the presence of God.
Take a step back.
Have you lived today as if you were in the presence of God? Have you lived today as if you were in His Holy of Holies or at the top of Mt.
Sinai.
Have you lived as if you were standing before His throne like Isaiah was?
Jesus tells us in John chapter 4 that for us in the New Testament our worship is not limited to a specific place.
Our worship will not be limited to a mountain or to a temple but will be wherever we go in Spirit and in truth
Paul reinforces this idea that our lives are lived in the presence of God as an act of worship in 1 Corinthians chapter 6
Where the Holy spirit once lived on the mountain, or in the Tabernacle, or in the Temple, it now lives in us.
What qualifies us to have the Holy of Holies inside of us?
Lord, who can dwell in your tent?
Who can live on your holy mountain?
The one who lives blamelessly, practices righteousness, and acknowledges the truth in his heart—
After Saul was rejected as king, the Lord called Samuel to fill up his horn with oil and go to Bethlehem to anoint Israel’s new king.
This one being a man after God’s own heart.
God does not look at the outside but on the inside
I don’t think that it is a coincidence that we have come to this passage three days before we spend the entire weekend talking about identity.
The world we live in spends a lot of time focused on the outward appearance.
We want to look nice we want people to like us.
We focus on physical appearance and feel the pressure to have people think we are attractive or good looking.
We want people to see us as cool and funny.
We carefully craft our social media appearance so that people find us worth following or liking.
Maybe we want people to think we have it all together and we are super devout and religious.
Whatever it is there is this pressure to maintain an outward appearance.
We see the effects of this pressure, higher rates of depression, higher rates of suicide, feelings of isolation, stress, anxiety.
Yet, here amidst the pressure to perform, to look worthy of affection, to appear in control, God looks beyond the outward appearance and looks at our heart.
Where does the Lord find your heart tonight?
Broken?
Hurting?
Struggling with sin?
The presence of God is not just a place for our hearts to worship, its also a place for our hearts to find healing and comfort.
To have peace from all the anxiety and stress.
So here is Samuel looking for a king amongst Jesse’s sons.
Here is David, the youngest of his brothers, from the smallest town in Judah, working in the field as a shepherd.
In a single moment he is brought from the lowest of social statuses and is made the king of Israel.
David did nothing to accomplish or achieve his kingship.
This is a demonstration of God’s grace and favor.
David is before Samuel and Samuel pours out his horn of oil over David’s head as a symbol of what God was doing in David.
As a confirmation of David as king of Israel.
When I was in college I had a professor that would say history doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme.
And with Scripture especially there are these narrative moments that rhyme with each other.
In Matthew 3 we see Jesus come before John the Baptist to be baptized.
Here is Jesus, carpenter from a backwoods town in Galilee, emptied of His glory, fully God yet fully man.
Jesus, of the tribe of Judah, born in the same town as king David, has come to John the Baptist, his cousin from the tribe of Levi and descendent of Samuel.
So just as Samuel anointed David as king, his descendant is anointing Jesus as king through baptism.
Just as God established David, God the Father and God the Holy Spirit confirm Jesus as God the Son come to make right the broken hearts of mankind.
You see God doesn’t look at the outward appearance, He looks at the heart.
And He has looked at the hearts of mankind and found them broken and suffering from the effects of sin.
Our hearts were not blameless, our hearts were not righteous, our hearts did not seek the truth.
Who can dwell in His tent?
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