A Clean and Happy Heart
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Scene Explanation
Altar
Table
Bread of the presence: The people were in God’s presence
Lampstand: Represents Holy Spirit
Altar of Incense: Prayers
Curtain: Dividing wall
Ark of the Covenant: God’s presence
Mercy Seat: Covered the law (penalty)
CONNECTION
By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,
TAKE HOME
Because of Jesus, I have a clean and happy heart.
When I Do Something Wrong, It Hurts Others
When I Do Something Wrong, It Hurts Others
Mixing dirty and clean water
“Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house. He shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself.
Bull offering
Censor of coals from alter
Coals & incense
Turn on fog
and put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is over the testimony, so that he does not die.
Go through the curtain
Mark 15:38 Curtain torn in two
Hebrews 10:19–22 “Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.”
Blood on mercy seat (x7)
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Reflection
(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,
How God Forgives Us
How God Forgives Us
Put on white shirt. Add stains and cover with white paper.
Cast lots
Matthew 27:17 “Barabbas, or Jesus?””
“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it over the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.
Sacrifice goat
A lot of death (1,263 animals/yr). Sin is costly.
For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,
How God forgives us
he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Hebrews 9:9 Perfect the conscience of the worshiper
Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.
Sin affects everything around us!
Reference the jar illustration
Blood on mercy seat (x7)
And he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it and consecrate it from the uncleannesses of the people of Israel.
Blood on the alter (x7)
We are still cleansing things made nasty by our sin.
When God Forgives Us
When God Forgives Us
Have another kid remove the stained shirt and give them their white shirt
for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
What happens when God forgives us.
Lay hands on goat to confess sins of the people
Send the goat away
Reflection
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Summary
Jesus helps us when we do something wrong (Heb 9:12)
When I do something wrong, it hurts others (Lev 16:16; Heb 9:23)
A Clean and Happy Heart (Heb 9:9)
