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The Temple of God
Family Church
Explain fill in the blank sheets
Kids, get ready to answer some questions, cuz I brought my candy from across the street.
Today we are going to continue our Emmanuel series that Devin started a couple of weeks ago.
As you can see from the video I played, we are going to be talking about the temple.
Not only the temple that Solomon built, but the mini temples that the video referred to.
I could just about let you watch just the video and call it good, but I think I might get in trouble if I just showed and video and then took off.
So we are going to get into it a little bit.
What the temple meant to the Israelites and what it meant to us.
And also what it means to be a mini temple.
So if your good with that, let’s get started.
First, kids, who built the temple?
Solomon built the temple**
Solomon did, right!
This wasn’t just some little building.
It was huge and amazing.
It had to be right?
It was God’s dwelling place.
It’s funny.
I tried to put myself in the Israelites shoes.
Because this temple is a big deal for them, but it is hard for me to understand why.
Mostly because I’m so used to seeing churches and buildings everywhere.
Not that the temple was just simply a church.
Up until now, the Israelites only had the tabernacle, and they weren’t even allowed in it.
And it was just a tent.
Now it was nicer than any tent I’ve ever had but mind you, still a tent.
For them to finally have a permanent place must have been an amazing feeling.
For me it reminds me of when we first started here at the Outpost over a year ago.
We were meeting in homes kind of scattered around.
We didn’t have a place that we could call our own.
We made it work and grew during that time, but when we got this building it made us feel more permanent.
Not that we weren’t already there and doing what we should, but this place gave us a symbol in the community that they could look to and know that we were around.
Back to the temple, on top of it being a permanent place for them, and an amazing structure, they also go to witness what happened when God came down and dwelled in the temple.
Now we know that God didn’t physically hang out in the temple all the time.
It was however, a symbol of their connection to God.
They didn’t have that before.
That didn’t happen when we moved into this building, but we have got to see God fill it with all of you week after week.
But like our building showed our community that we are here, so did the temple for the Israelites and all the people surrounding them.
The temple was a symbol of God’s presence on earth.
The temple was a symbol of God’s presence on earth**
The building of this temple was not something that just happened over night.
Many people gathered to see this place.
David, Solomon’s father designed it and collected supplies for the temple for years before his death.
We know that the temple took approximately 7 years to build.
That doesn’t even account for how long it took to collect all the supplies.
Can you imagine working 7 years on the same project.
We complain about how long projects take around here now.
Some people helped start this project that would never see it completed.
David for one.
Suffice to say, that a lot of time and energy and resources went into the building of this temple.
It was important to the Israelites.
But as you know from the video, the temple is eventually destroyed.
The temple was destroyed.**
The Israelites, long before the time that the temple was destroyed, had been wandering away from God.
It is kind of a theme among the Israelites.
But don’t be too hard on them, because it is probably a theme with most people.
We get close to God, and we slowly draw away allowing sin to come between us.
Then we get our hearts right and get close to God again.
So on and so on.
Check out 2 Kings 25 for how the destruction went.
These were now a people without hope.
If they weren’t dead, they were in captivity or fled to Egypt.
Not a great time to be an Israelite.
Their temple was gone.
Their land was gone.
Their freedom was gone.
I’m thankful to have never been in this situation, but I do know the feeling of hopelessness.
The feeling of drowning in all of the things going wrong in my life.
I don’t know for sure what is going on in everyone’s life right now, but I know that most of you have been there.
Maybe your family is falling apart, you’ve lost your job, or someone close to you is dying.
Or maybe your marriage is struggling.
Maybe your stuck in a pattern of habitual sin day after day.
Or maybe its loneliness or depression.
I don’t know where you are right now.
But I’m sure you can understand the feeling of hopelessness that the Israelites felt in this moment.
But I assure you, there is hope.
That hope is in the Story of Jesus
The story of Jesus**
I’m sure that most of you know the story of Jesus, so I’m not going to spend much time there.
And if you don’t, stick around for the next few weeks because Devin is going to be talking a lot about that.
Jesus came and was born to a virgin all so that he could die on a cross for our sins.
John the Baptist is telling the people about Jesus who is coming very soon.
Jesus was going to come as a man and dwell among us.
Gave up everything in heaven to come down here, become a man, and die for us.
That is what brings us hope.
Jesus was the new temple.
Emmanuel: God with us**
We have hope because of Emmanuel, God with us.
Not just in a temple, not just in a church or because of our pastor or a priest.
But we have Hope because God is with us.
When we make that choice to repent of our sins and become a Christ follower, we have the eternal hope that God will always be with us.
Jesus wasn’t a priest, but he was the true temple and we are to be mini temples throughout the world.
Let’s look at Acts chapter 2 real quick.
That same fire that came down and filled the temple is the same fire that appeared over the apostles on the day of Pentecost.
Why tongues of fire?
Fire symbolizes God’s purifying presence, which burns away the undesirable elements of our lives and sets our hearts aflame to ignite the lives of others.
God empowered the apostles to spread the gospel, and that continues to be our responsibility as christ followers today.
That puts a lot of responsibility on us.
We are to be a symbol of God’s presence here on earth.
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