Spiritual Patterns part 2

INTRODUCTION

Good evening, we are in this series Spiritual Patterns, Last week we end the service talking about the Foundation, and that the sockets which was a half of shekel of silver for the atonement.

Atonement— At-one- ment, strong concordance: To afford protection or security; to hide from sight or knowledge; to cover over as with a lid.

The foundation of the tabernacle is atonement.

Those sockets were made from the half-shekel silver which was the atonement.

  All who have reached their twentieth birthday must give this sacred offering to the LORD. 

  When this offering is given to the LORD to purify your lives, making you right with him, the rich must not give more than the specified amount, and the poor must not give less. 

  Receive this ransom money from the Israelites, and use it for the care of the Tabernacle. It will bring the Israelites to the LORD’s attention, and it will purify your lives.” 

So as we talked last week the sockets were the foundation which represented the atonement.

Peter said this:

  For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value. 

  It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.

So tonight we want to continue laying out the Tabernacle.

We have the foundation and now let’s talk about:

a. The Boards

The boards are resting on and fixed in the foundation. So we want to show you how the boards represent the difference type of believer’s relationship to Christ and to one another.

And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

Each board was 15 foot long and 27 inches wide and it had tenon by which it would hook on to the silver sockets.

Those tenon in Hebrews means hand.

The history of these boards serve to illustrate the experience of many soul.

Cut Down

Saul had this experience while on his way to Damascus cut off from his old ways and works.

2. Dried up

The old sap of selfishness and carnality must be dried up before much good work can be by us or in us.

King David knew about his when he cried>

  Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat.