Pesach - After the Pattern

This is a image of Mount Sinai. Back once going to tie myself, to make sure I only go four times again, just kidding. so, These seem like a lot of ideas all lumped into one thing and the 8th grade. I got a curious award as a paper plate award by the teacher, she gave out Awards to almost all the students and my award was Sue Bob Wilson because they knew me is Bob back then rather than Rob and it was to the student with the most ideas and the least able to express himself.

I just saw it this week and I was reflecting on the kids up here dancing. When kids start to come up the worship and praise during the service, they do not have any Grace. What they teach each other? Grace, it's a miracle to watch kids. Teach each other Grace. How do kids teach each other Grace?

The oldest girl says Bowl, this is how it's going to be right. Does that ever work? The oldest voices. Listen to me. I've got the plan. Is that how it works? How does it work?

They demonstrate Grace. We learn by example and so that's a lesson to us we need to be the examples.

We need to be practicing these things that Jesus. and the Holy Spirit and the Bible are teaching us So these are four different. No, they're not the one idea. In the, in the Torah reading, we're learning that Moses was taught by God to make the Tabernacle after the pattern that is being shown to you on the mountain. This week. We're celebrating the stator. And we're supposed to celebrate it as if we were there. That's a a key functional idea about the celebrations. When we come forward for communion, we're supposed to be celebrating it as if we were their third thing image and likeness knots. That's his looting back to Creation. God made us in His image and after his likeness, I'll talk about that in a little bit. It's related to all the others before it and progressive revelation the revelation of God continues to expand in our lives is suspended in history and its expanding in our lives. And this is something that's very real. In the readings this week schedule. So, if you want to get a schedule, they're back on the kiosk. We, we called it Passover. The readings are for Passover and next week, therefore, Resurrection, we thought about that. We discussed it. We kind of argued it back and forth and we decided No, we really do need to have Resurrection readings on Resurrection weekend. Rather than Passover. Greetings, only on Resurrection week of the do they still apply? Absolutely they apply. But we wanted to put Passover readings before Passover or at the right at the beginning of Passover and emphasize a resurrection next week. So that's what we're doing. So, I've got different versus than They were shown on the schedule with. No apology. And so all those four things creation Blood on the doorpost Tabernacle and communion are related in these four ideas. This is going to be an interesting, powerful, powerful week tomorrow is Palm Sunday.

Whenever I come to Palm Sunday, I remember this, considering the heart of God. What does God want? And what does he see in us? We should The examples to each other. Let him know that we're trying to do what he wants us to do. We're going to have a Seder. We should celebrate the Seder as if we were there in Egypt and here at the Lord's Last Supper. During the week. Jesus, and the disciples went to the Garden of Gethsemane and John gave one of the most powerful, the most powerful prayer, I think I've ever heard in my life. It's the end of the end of this reading in John, 14, 15, somewhere in there. 16, it's a beautiful. You should read that prayer this week. It's Jesus prayer for us and Jesus, prayer for you. And it's an important prayer to read sometime during this week as he was on his way. So the next things that would happen, which was betrayal. Judas betrayed him with a kiss.

Behold the man. Actually homo in Latin.

Crucifixion.

Resurrection.

It's filled filled week and when I look at this week and I look at the topic of the sermon, I say to myself, do they have anything in common? And I remember the teacher giving me that award and I think they do. I hope I'll be able to communicate that idea better than I did in the 8th grade.

Remember what we're doing after the pattern as if we were their image and likeness progressive revelation. After the pattern being shown, make them after the pattern which is being shown to you on the mountain. Now some people remember this as was shown on the mountain, it's actually a participial, it's a hopeful participle, it's a causative thing, God is causing him to be shown the pattern on the mountain and

It's continuing. So after the pattern being shown, if that applies to us in any way, we're still being shown the pattern of something.

For our lives, everything about the Tabernacle. If you go into a very in-depth study, you'll learn has incredibly applicable applications to your life.

Hey man. I'll give you a simple. Simple analogy.

What kind of metals are used in the Tabernacle?

Gold, silver bronze. Lots of things different levels of Value right. Which of the metals closest to God. The most expensive which of the ones that get put on the ground. The least expensive. The Tabernacle curtain that goes around the whole big thing or held up by kind of like a rope. And the Rope is being held up by these posts and these posts are being supported by these pedestals. And so what do you represent? You represent the curtain which is protecting the inner Court from the outer courts. Are you defending the inner Court of God's life in your God's involvement, in your life against the outer Court that's going on all around you. I hope so then you're the curtain. Are you the rope that holds up the curtain? You might not be the curtain. But you're the thing that's holding up the thing, that's keeping them separate, or you might be the, the piece of bronze, I think it is. It's underneath these posts, is it important for someone to hold up the post that hold up? The rope that hold up the curtain that separate the holy from the mundane? Yes. These are great things to do. These are great things that the Tabernacle teaches us. And I could go on for days. Actually, I think After the pattern God said, let us make man in our image selim. And after our likeness, I'll give you that a little bit more later and then you'd say it you'd have of his purpose, the Lord's purpose for all of this, the Tabernacle and for our creation is he wants to dwell in our midst, at our very core in our Center, at the center of our being, he wants to dwell there.

and we asked him to,

and we are in some way that

pesach in as if we were there. So motyka talked about the four questions. I'm not going to do those. I'm going to talk about the four Sons, their four Sons. Alluded to in scripture. One of them is wise. One of them is I'm not going to go into all that what disease testimonies statutes and rules. You'd have off. He commanded. You mean, this is the smartest son because he knows their testimony statutes and rules. There's lots of things, Gods commanded. Then they're different. That's different aspects. What do they mean? What, what did he command you? What do these things mean? That he gave to you. And the father is supposed to reply. According to the Bible, we son, we're Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, Bob. They brought you and me together. And our families out with a mighty hand. What's the service mean to you? Is the disrespectful son and not me, I'm not part of this. What's it mean to you? Dad and the dad supposed to say, We know he's supposed to say Passover in Passover. God struck the Egyptians and he spared us. You were spared from Death, son. Deal with it. What's this? This is the son. Who's not really not cognizant of what's going on because I don't understand what's going on around here man. How do you reply to him? He brought us out of slavery and one son. Just sits there. He doesn't even know what to ask and for that sun according to Exodus 13 is supposed to say. It's because of what you'd have I paid did for me, this is important to me, sign the parent Lee, that's son is more moved by the father's devotion than anything else. Passover, as if we were there, these connections have been given to help us experience, Grace and significance. We could talk about that a long time. To community is an opportunity to experience Grace and significance. The Passover seder has to help us to experience, Grace, and significance. Creation. Image and likeness, I told you I was going to talk more about it. God made humankind in our image. God said in our image, the word used here is Salim He could have used a lot of other words, but he used the word solemn. If you do word study on the Hebrew word selam, it's most commonly translated Idol.

Not God made us in his Idol. Does that make sense?

It kind of does if you know a little bit more about it. So what did the people in the Old Testament? Do they worshipped God? What else did they worship? Idols. Right? Okay, this is Idle. It's empty vessels. Not now it's got water in it cuz I've got a sore throat but if this were empty and empty vessel you make an empty vessel. and if you're worshipping an idol, you're praying to this empty vessel, hoping that the god that you're praying to will inhabit it so that there can be communication between you and the god that's in, Aberdeen the empty vessel

That's why it's LM is used. He created us like an empty vessel with the intent in my best opinion that he wants to inhabit us. So that we can communicate better with him.

Questions. Does that seem clear? Yeah, it's hard to comprehend. Maybe that eighth grade teacher was, right? And after our likeness,

That word the moot is not used in any reference in the Bible, referring to an Idle. No, where in the Bible does God use the word. The Bible know, where in the Bible is the word. The moot likeness used to refer to an idle, only sell them. So God made us an empty vessel so we could be like him and that that's very clear. If you think about it, we're supposed to be like God. Try to be pretend to be. Try your best to be.

He made us to be inhabited by him. A few verses prove this point God's Temple were supposed to be God's Temple. Where his Spirit dwells? We know that we abide in him and he a nut he and we in him, you are living stones as a group here, individually in corporately. We're being built up into a spiritual house, like the Tabernacle, or the temple. Where two or three are gathered together. Jesus says, in my name, there am I and their missed at the core of their being. When you see the word midst and reference to versus like this or at their Center or anything, that means at the scent at the central, most core part of their being, it's important that Jesus wants to be in the midst. Of our being that we need to try to allow him to do that.

Progressive revelation of it. I thought about what progressive revelation might mean in this generation. If you're a progressive, have you received progressive revelation,

I thought, I don't know. It's on the planet at all.

Not at all. I'm not I'm up, I'm leaving progressive revelation. But I'm not going to say anything more than that. God's revelation over history has unfolded gradually through scripture. Is self disclosure and salvation plan are revealed incrementally with ladder, Revelations, building upon and expanding earlier ones. When taken together with the help. From God's holy spirit, the New Testament, and the Old Testament provide a more complete understanding. Now, sometimes you'll read this and it says a complete understanding and I have to say no not in this lifetime. I won't have a complete understanding until I'm with the Lord and I might even still be learning then. I look forward to learning then. It's going to be glorious learning then. One of my questions. Do you have any questions? You're going to ask God when you get there. Quote unquote, get there. Yeah I have three. One, where's the house of study? I want to go there. Where's the choir meet? What instrument do I get to play?

Do I have other questions? Not really.

Building on an experiencing the earlier ones taken together. They can play provide a more complete understanding. It's always important to realize that early Revelations are not obsolete. We often say, oh, that's an old 2 gold know, they're none of them are obsolete. They build upon each other, that should be interpreted. In terms of the ladder, Revelations the more Revelations you have about God, the more, all those things should make sense and build on on each other. Amen. So I'm quoting

origin, origin wrote and about 325 to 25 ad and that's a picture of what's called his hexapla

it's a This is one of the greatest Scholars of the third century.

Revered throughout the world. As a great, great scholar. And he, he codified. What you might call the first parallel Bible. He took the Hebrew text and five or six or seven Greek texts that were popular at the time and and correlated between them and you could read across and see what the different text say. And and in this image and likeness in this God was giving Moses teaching Moses the pattern after what she should make the Tabernacle origin. from all of this study concluded that according to the not pattern but he use the words according to the form and likeness

Well, that sounds like creation. Are we created in the form and likeness? I think so. So back to the for ideas at the beginning of the sermon they connect and this origin guy, Heath doesn't seem that important cuz I don't really know his name that well, I don't know much about him. He he was a great great, A Gifted scholar and Saint. His father was killed by the Romans because he was a Christian at the time that was a popular thing to do. Origin wasn't killed because he wasn't a Roman citizen. His father was and the emperor was killing the Roman citizens but he didn't kill origin and later on. It was the persecution in origin had to flee Alexandria and he went to Cesery and he was funded by Ambrose of caesarea who had apparently lots of money and he paid for Secretaries to write down everything. The origin wanted them to write down. So he wrote something like twelve thousand different books That's pretty hard to do unless you have some really good secretaries, so he had some great help. So this is a diagram showing all the ancient Old Testament versions 400 BCE to 600 CE and there's the hexapla in the middle and you can see the a b and Alpha off of it. The alpha is the sign that has which is the preeminent early text that we use as a proof text for the Bible that we read. The second one is the vaticanus which is almost as important as sign Atticus and then other ones. So he he contributed to the Bible your reading today. Origin.

Very important early Christian. He believed that the pattern of the Tabernacle was after the form and likeness and I think he's alluding to the idea that were created after the form and like this. Progressive revelation. These are some major covenants or you could say. There are many many more You could argue the Creations, not one of them but but was there a covenant in place when God created the heavens and the Earth?

Yes. And no trick question Rob. Did God have a covenant with Adam? I think so you're here. Everything's cool. Let's get along. Did God have a covenant with Adam after he send after he send, I think so. So creation is considered one of the major covenants, Noah, Abraham Sinai coming with David in the New Covenant, the New Covenant being the most complete revelation of the Covenant that God has with us. You'd hey, Bob, hey, declares the days are coming when I make a new covenant, this word breach, hi. Shah every week you see at the Seder readings bhh and you go what's that mean? T might be in Tora h means half through a maze. My m stands for me is more song, bhh greet the New Covenant reading. So when you cbhh on the Seder slide, that means the New Testament readings. With the houses of Israel and Judah, I'll make a New Covenant. I'll put my law within them, and I'll write it on their hearts. I'll be their God. And he'll be my people, they'll all know me from the least of them to the greatest declares you. Dave, Ave, I'll forgive their iniquity. And remember, there's send no more Jeremiah 31:31, easy-to-remember 3131. Jeremiah how to draw? That's a referee referring to us and to the New Testament readings. The New Covenant readings.

A Passover, Covenant meal.

The Lord's Last Supper Passover, I received from the Lord, what a deliver it to you. The Lord Jesus Took Bread and Wine. This is my body. This is my blood do this. In remembrance of me. And they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching fellowship. The breaking of bread, arguably, has something to do with that and prayers.

The Bible off and say this is the greatest picture book of all time. You can't read the Bible or you can you can just read the text but you're not really understanding what the Bible's doing there. It's it's a picture book, there's no picture book, this greater when you're reading the Bible and studying and thinking about How does it apply to me? You look at the different characters in The Bible and you say, which one am I? What am I closest to? And the more you study the realize you realize I'm all of them. I'm in all of these movies. Now, the thing about Bible stories, they're not, they are snapshots. They got thousands of snapshots, but it's mainly movies. Greatest picture book of all time and it's teaching after the pattern Creation The Tabernacle and us as if we were there, we need to celebrate the Bible. As if we were, there were created in the image and likeness and we're progressively learning what it means to be believers. Living according to the instruction of God. After the pattern. Okay, what's it look like that inside box building is made out of

Kansas.

What?

It looks like gold. It is gold. What kind of gold? The purest gold 24 karat gold. And the 24-karat gold. You're not going to build something that's solid and carried around the desert. You're not going to be able to move it. It's built on wooden frames. It's hung and rapped on these wooden frames, it's held together by these. Opinions and sockets and all that stuff. And it's it's in these sockets. But it's gold, it's extremely precious, extremely costly. God said, make me a tent. That's one way to understand it. The first time I heard that he lived in a tent in the wilderness, I was a kid and I pictured, a pup tent. I mean, I had just bought one from the Army Navy Surplus Store. Didn't cost much as a kid. I could afford it back then Army Navy Surplus was pretty cheap. So this is very expensive. And if they had to haul it around, now, we, we, we picture them rolling up attend, just carrying it along with him, right? No way read about it. You'll read about these these carts and these oxen, we're going to haul these carts. It's all in the Bible. The dimensions of the carts aren't given, but we know the dimensions of the parts that go in the carts, so we can theorize the size of these. I'll just call him ancient semi trucks. They're pretty big. And this is how they hold the Tabernacle around in the wilderness.

Wow.

Not as simple. As I thought it was. How many times did they move it numerous times?

The column with lift up and go out and then go. Okay, guys, pack up the stuff and you can imagine them disassembling this. And packing it up and putting it on the carts and then beginning to move. What went out in front of them?

The most, holy things went out in front of the Ark in the very front. So you can pick those up pretty quick. And carry them off. They, they also waited time, I mean a lot that wait a lot.

it's, it's said that the ark was too heavy for Foreman to carry and it's also said that the ark would have been so heavy that it wouldn't have would have broken the wooden beams that They carried it with But it's also said that when the men went to pick up the arc knowing its weight or estimating, its weight God pick them up. That they were lifted up. It's like, you're not really doing the work. He is. Do your part and he'll do the work. That's a fundamental principle. How much did it cost? Every time I give anything like this sermon I have to go. I don't know what it costs today. Sorry. I looked up the value of gold in the value of silver and different things. And I came up with including labor, the the little tent that God have them a build cost about a quarter of a billion dollars in today's money. Not a small thing. Is it important for God to have a costly place to dwell?

It's not, we could just put up a pup tent.

same principle very costly is this as costly as Heaven itself, which is it a copy of No, not even close. It's a small hint. At the costliness of his presence. How about us? How costly is this Temple? What did he invest in this Temple? For him to dwell in it.

His life.

Is that more costly than a quarter of a billion dollars?

Today, I'd say absolutely. Anytime I'd say absolutely. But the meaning of money today is taken on a whole new weirdness.

Do I have lots of money or no money? Well, Wait till tomorrow, I don't know. We'll see. It was very costly. That's the main point. I'm trying to make here. So as if we were there this is a a picture put out by the temple Institute on on the events of the Passover seder. And there he's painting the door on the inside. Verse Exodus 12:13. I will be a sign to you. So that when the death Angels sees it when I see it, I'll pass over your houses. So Some scholars believe that they must have painted it on both sides, the blood on both sides on the outside because they know that when God sees it the deathly in your passes over he sees it in that house is not destroyed and they painted it on the inside for it to be a sign unto them. The verse is, the reason for the argument, I'm not going to get into it. I'm just saying and that's why this is painted that way.

As if we were there. As you're celebrating the say to this week, please try as much as you can to recall the Lord's. Last Supper, try to imagine yourself being at the Lord's Last Supper, read about the Lord's. Last Supper, before you go to celebrate the Seder, read about this Passover, as well and Egypt, but, but I think, I think particularly this week, You need to consider.

As if we were there, as if you were there.

I can go into the seating arrangement but I'm not going to We were made in His image and likeness. I thought I should have a picture of an individual human being there and I can fluid it. No, no we individually and corporately because we are the body of Christ together. We have been created in His image and likeness in order that we would abide in him. And he and us, if you take away, this corporate aspect of this, you're missing a very important component. We are here together as his image and likeness. At least. That's my prayer and hopefully yours is well. Amen. Recommendations prepare. Pray remember and consider, pray. We receive the Lord and his instruction recall, passion week. The Passover, The Exodus etcetera. Consider what God has spent for our relationship.

Invested in his Dwelling Place, which is us.

Don't minimize the importance of what he's done. Celebrate Passover, Good Friday. Holy Saturday and Resurrection Sunday at cetera as if you were there practice. Jesus precepts. So I made a little hand out. I've listed your shoe is precepts of talked about these in the last few sermons. I've given I wasn't going to go over them again. But I printed them out and they're on the kiosk back there. If you're interested. Also on the back side, this is something that Melanie liked real. Well, it's something I've handed out, I think twice in the 30 years of been with this congregation, these are called the one another commands. There's a Greek word, call Dale loan. And then I'll lay low, we should do this to one another. We should not do this to one another positive and negative commands. It's an excellent. Excellent thing to read this week along with the precepts. I please pick up one of you. I can hand out on my way back if you want. Demonstrate an attitude of love. If you got anything else going on in your life, try this week, especially this week, I would say that every week but this week, especially try to demonstrate an attitude of love. Appreciate God's extreme love for you and his extreme love for your families. Recognize the value of his costly gift.

Except him receive him, and allow him to instruct you at your core share. That love that Grace. And then mercy, any questions on any of this. Brian has one or five.

Is the Passover a memorial?

Who would say, yes. Terry says, yes.

Is it a sign to you or to the god?

What's our sign back to God? Figuratively.

To keep and to do the pass over to do the pass, over the specific events of the Passover.

I have a lot to say about that but not today. I have Jewish friends who accuse me of violating what God was teaching me to do by celebrating a Passover seder. And I sit at the, what do you mean? And so we've had extensive conversations back and forth and I've been sent detailed articles proving that Christian should celebrate the Passover. Mainly emphasizing the idea that what most Messianic Believers are celebrating today is not, any does not have anything to do with Jesus, Passover meal, it has to do with medieval ideas that were put forward and so when I celebrate the Passover, I try my very best To remember more than the Egyptian Passover, Jesus Passover, which remembers Egyptian Passover. So it's not a simple thing to do but I don't want to dishonor. My Jewish Friends by only doing medieval Jewish customs. Does that help? and I've written the Passover seder based on the Lord's last supper, if you're interested in seeing it,

let me know. Did that answer your question? Was there? Another question?

I don't recommend any painting Blood on the doorposts.

I will I will say this though. This is, this is kind of interesting. If I painted Blood on the doorposts and say, the doorpost is right here, I'm going to put it on the doorpost and the lentil and the doorpost, right? What Hebrew letter?

Is it a hat? or hey,

it's a hat.

Ahead means means that. This door post is painted solid with that door. Post is all right.

Okay, if it's a hat.

Which is sin and God breaks it. It's a hey. So, I always say it's sin broken.

Huh.

That's fine.

Head for high with his life. And also send, and he wants to break it, so we can be in US. That's me, anything else? Yes.

It's it's it's it's written that it is. It's it's written, it's written that it is, it. It's we could discuss that a long time that you put it on the doorpost because it has to do with door post. Also, does the Commandment that puts her, all these words on your door post, which is a, you could say they're connected. They are, but that's a separate sermon. Anyone else? Yes.

The night of the Gathering of the lamp or the knife that is, in the details of the calendar of Passover events. I'm not that Keen on getting into those discussions because I've been in the involved in more arguments on these matters than you can imagine.

Oh no, it doesn't know ya. No, I don't want to get into those arguments, so I say this is what we're doing. It's in this season.

And when the calendar shifts, and when we try to shift our schedule around to accommodate the calendar, and we get into these arguments. It's, it's, it's not, it's not, it's not always profitable. Death Peter.

No.

A simple answer.

Okay, anyone else? Michael again.

The other arcs. Were they using for? How do they use them? I don't have. I don't I don't have a good proof text on that. I know the theories. Anyone else?

Okay.

Florida this week.

We ask your blessing, please be with us guide. Islitas instruct us, teach us. Help us to be healed from her wounds, many of which are deep help those who've not been able to attend today. Also to be healed Many, many needs. In the way of healing physical emotional. Familial Etc. Lord, we pray for healing. You Are the Healer. You're the one who can bring healing. So we pray your presents. Your instruction. We pray that we'll be able to receive your instruction for our good, for the good of our families. For the good of this body, for the good of the, the body of Christ for the good of the kingdom kingdom of heaven. We ask this in Jesus name. Amen. And then