Stop and Think

When a lifeguard rescues someone drowning, the potential drowning victim is saved from becoming a drowning victim. There is an instant when the lifeguard becomes the saviour and the victim becomes saved. From that point on, the relationship between the lifeguard and person may be significantly different.

There is an instant in time when we became 'born again'; when we became a 'believer'; when we became saved. Jesus was our saviour and we were saved. From that point forward, our relationship with Jesus is significantly different.

The number 4 reason that study of the tabernacle should not be neglected is because Jesus as our high priest is not emphasised enough. I am not saying that Jesus as saviour and/or Lord is emphasised too much, just that Jesus as High Priest is not emphasised enough.

Reading quickly through the book of Hebrews, here is a list of what Jesus is doing right now as our High Priest:

• He offers both gifts and sacrifices for sins: - Heb. 5:1, 8:3
• He has compassion on the ignorant - 5:2
• He offers up prayers and supplications - 5:7
• He entereth into that within the veil; - 6:19
• His priesthood is continual. - 7:3
• He makes a surety of a better testament. - 7:22
• He ever liveth to make intercession for us - 7: 25
• He is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens - 8:1
• He is mediator of a better covenant, - 8:6

Now, knowing He is currently serving as your high priest, in addition to being your saviour, does this make any impact on you? On the way you live? On the way you approach God? Maybe it doesn't change things for you, but it sure makes me stop and think...

The Shadow Knows

Know the Shadow

The number four reason for not studying the tabernacle is that He takes away the first that he may establish the second (Heb. 10:9). God Himself says that He replaced tabernacle/temple worship, so, why study it?

The tabernacle was a shadow of things to come…If the tabernacle was a shadow and we now have the real thing and the real thing is more excellent (Heb. 8:6), why study the shadow?

For one thing, if we are familiar with the shadow, we will recognize the real thing, and, recognize the counterfeit.

Know the shadow.