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God’s address; You.
TEMC, Jan 28, 07
Intro: There are places in life we go once and we decide we will go there again.
I have been to places where I have been and want to return to some day.
The experience was so good, I wanted to return.
Other places are just the opposite.
I go once and I don’t want to go again.
In our travels we have at times seen advertisings: “ So and so was here.”
For some reason it makes a difference in how people think of a place or the interest they express in a place simply by who used to be there.
I am a history fan, and in our travels through the states we once stopped at some caverns where Jesse James and his gang supposedly hung out.
Those places tell some interesting stories.
That is all history.
Personally I like to see places where famous people have been – to study what they did, and why.
But again, that is all history.
What about now?
Things, and places somehow tend to be valued by who was there, or who owned it.
It is amazing the value that is attached to some things simply by who had it.
I read that a piece of gum allegedly chewed by Britney Spears brought 250 dollars on ebay.
Some of the stuff that goes on is just silly.
But there is a truth to it.
Does something gain in value by who owned it?
Or by who built it?
Or by who lived there?
God too has made things, he owns things.
Does it matter to us that God made us?
Do we see ourselves in that light?
God made us, he owns us for a specific purpose.
And he wants us to live in a way that will bring him glory.
That is his goal.
Truth:
The end result of all that God wants to do in this world is to bring glory to himself through what he has created
Hebrews 3:1-6
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**Therefore fix your thoughts on Jesus.
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Why?
Review ch 2.
Because Everything will be subjected to Jesus Christ one day.
It is in our best interest to follow the one who will win in the end.
Good will prevail, and evil will lose.
Because Jesus became a humble man who went through the sufferings of life just like us, he was tempted like us.
Because Jesus was victorious and will one day rule the world.
To drive home a point, it is often helpful to use an illustration which the people will understand.
The readers of this letter had high respect for Moses.
They had grown up with his teachings, with the laws.
When someone spoke to them of Moses, they all knew who was being talked about.
The point of using Moses as an illustration here is to point out to them the significance that Jesus carries.
Moses deserves high regard – the people know that.
Well, Jesus deserves more - because of the higher position that he holds.
Moses gave them the tabernacle, the place of worship and the laws.
It was a complicated and rigorous system.
It took a lot of knowledge, and energy just to keep up with that system of laws and rituals.
But the laws didn’t save them.
They only told them what God wanted from them.
Salvation still had to come from God himself.
Jesus gave them what the laws pointed to.
The laws pointed to God and what God wanted of them.
Jesus came and in his grace gave them what the needed to meet what God required.
The laws didn’t bring them back into a relationship with God.
Jesus came and gave them that relationship as a gift to all who believed in him.
The laws gives us instructions what to do.
Jesus gave us the Spirit to do it.
In light of what God performed through Jesus, we owe it to Christ to give him attention.
Many people today are more comfortable with a system that they have control over, where it is in their power to do certain things and if they do them, then they are good.
It was a tempting thing for the Jewish Christians to go back to making rules and rituals the guideline under which they would serve Jesus.
The problem with that was that they would then go back into the old ways, and it would not be salvation by faith anymore.
It was a risk that they would go back to trying to earn God’s favour by their own works.
But the writer is telling that the law can’t save, that Jesus is greater than Moses, even though Moses was a faithful servant, he was not as great as Jesus was.
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**Jesus deserves more honour than Moses.*
The writer is again pointing to Jesus as the better way.
Moses was a good comparison to use to make Jesus all the more attractive.
Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
What did Moses do?
If we read in the book of Exodus, we find that Moses was given instructions by God to do many things.
He was first told to set the people free from slavery from the king of Egypt.
Then he was to build a meeting place for the people of Israel to meet God.
And he was also to teach them the laws of God.
The earthly, physical tabernacle that Moses was told to build, was a very carefully designed and measured thing.
There was the outside of the place, the walls.
Exact descriptions are given how high, how long and of what kind of material the walls were to be made.
I would encourage you to read Exodus 25-30.
(read a few short passages to illustrate the detail) Read it and pay careful attention to the intricate detail given in how Moses was to make everything.
We may ask; why was it so important that God himself gave the exact material description, the exact measurements, the exact details in how EVERYTHING was to be carried out?
*God is a God who leaves nothing to chance*.
He is in control of everything.
The bible tells us that not even a sparrow falls to the ground without the Father knowing.
When God commanded Moses to get the people to build the tabernacle, God wanted to communicate something to the people.
He was telling them something by what he was telling them to do.
Of all the commands, the sacrifices and all the laws they were given, they were to do mainly one thing – Communicate to the people that God is a God of glory, he deserves honour, and he deserves our respect.
The people were to give their very best, do their very best and focus on God when they built that place of worship and when the worshipped in that place.
The place was made of the most costly materials.
No expense was spared.
The people went all out with everything they had.
The place was made of the best quality materials.
No poor quality was allowed.
The things were made by skilled people – it had to look good too.
God was not about to take second place when it came to what the wanted the people of Israel to remember him by.
Later in the life of the people of Israel, they had kings.
The third king they had built a big temple in which to worship God.
This time God didn’t specify the measurements or anything.
But God still was honoured and worshipped in this place.
When Solomon finished building the temple he said in I Kings 8:27 that the world and the heavens cannot contain God, how much less the temple that he had built.
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