Enter His PresenceEnter His Presencethrough the Tabernaclethrough the Tabernacle

God’s Blueprint of Encountering His PresenceGod’s Blueprint of Encountering His Presence

Enter His PresenceEnter His PresenceObjectives:

Understand what worship is.Experience God’s roadmap of worship to Him.

Series:31 July – Through the Tabernacle7 August – Through the Courtyard12 August – Through the Holy Place14 August – Altar of Incense (Worship Experience)

Instructions for Worship Instructions for Worship ExperienceExperienceDress appropriately.

Meet at the Reception Foyer for briefing.

Come early for the 10.00 am Service.

Service will take about 2½ hours.

Bring a sacrificial offering.

Fast during this week.

Enter His PresenceEnter His PresenceThrough the Holy PlaceThrough the Holy Place

The Tripartite ManThe Tripartite Man

SpiritSpirit

SoulSoul

BodyBody

Physiological

Psychological

Spiritual Emotions (Feeling)Emotions (Feeling)

Mind (Thinking)Mind (Thinking)

Will (Decision)Will (Decision)Relates to God

Relates to Others

Relates to Environment

Text: Exodus 25:23-39; 27:20-21Text: Exodus 25:23-39; 27:20-21Exodus 25:23-30Make a table of acacia wood – two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high. Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold moulding around it. Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold moulding on the rim. Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are. The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table. Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them. And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings. Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.

Text: Exodus 25:23-39; 27:20-21Text: Exodus 25:23-39; 27:20-21Exodus 25:31-36Make a lampstand of pure gold and hammer it out, base and shaft; its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms shall be of one piece with it. Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand – three on one side and three on the other. Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms. One bud shall be under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair – six branches in all. The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.

Text: Exodus 25:23-39; 27:20-21Text: Exodus 25:23-39; 27:20-21Exodus 25:37-39Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it. Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold. A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning.

Exodus 27:20-21In the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the Lord from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.

What God is Saying About Our WorshipWhat God is Saying About Our WorshipIn the Holy PlaceIn the Holy Place

Three Actions. Worship is...Three Actions. Worship is...

1.1.Offering Your Praises to God.Offering Your Praises to God.

2.2.Surrendering Your Will to God.Surrendering Your Will to God.

3.3.Submitting Your Mind to God.Submitting Your Mind to God.

1.1. Worship is Offering Your Praises to Worship is Offering Your Praises to GodGod

3 Items in The Holy PlaceTable of ShowbreadGolden LampstandAltar of Incense

Inside The Tabernacle TentInside The Tabernacle Tent

Altar of Incense

Golden Lampstand

Table of Showbread

4 Layers of Covering

Altar of Covenant

1.1. Worship is Offering Your Worship is Offering Your Praises to GodPraises to God

3 Items in The Holy PlaceTable of ShowbreadGolden Lamp StandAltar of Incense

Entering the Holy Place, the priest is to praise God

Worship is Uplifting God with A Worship is Uplifting God with A Sacrifice of PraiseSacrifice of PraiseWe’re to offer a Sacrifice of Praise

“Let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise – the fruit of lips that confess his name.” Hebrews 13:15

The 3 items represent submission of our will, mind and emotions in giving praise to God.

2.2. Worship is Surrendering Your Worship is Surrendering Your Will to GodWill to God

Leviticus 24:5-9“Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using 2/10 of an ephah for each loaf. Set them in two rows, six in each row, on the table of pure gold before the Lord. Along each row put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be an offering made to the Lord by fire. This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy part of their regular share of the offerings made to the Lord by fire.”

2.2. Worship is Surrendering Your Worship is Surrendering Your Will to GodWill to God

Bread is a Symbol of Strength or Our Will“…bread that sustains his heart” Psalm 104:15

Showbread or “Bread before the Face of God”Means our Will before the Face of God

God Wants Our Will to Align With God Wants Our Will to Align With His WillHis WillYour Will is the KEY in approaching God

Jesus submits His Will to His Father“I seek not mine own will, but the will of the

Father which hath sent Me.” John 5:30

Symbolism of Table of ShowbreadSymbolism of Table of Showbread

Fine Ground Flour I Will Submit

Moulded into Loaf I Will Conform

Baked In Fire I Will Be Purified

Placed In Order I Will Align

Covered With Incense I Will Worship

Fresh Bread Everyday Daily Submission

Eaten By Priests Personal Submission

3.3. Worship is Submitting Your Worship is Submitting Your Mind to GodMind to God

Lampstand made from Gold Mounted with seven cups filled with

olive oil

Lampstand lit up the Holy Place Light from Lampstand illuminates Holy

Place

God Wants Our Mind to Focus God Wants Our Mind to Focus On HimOn HimLight from Lampstand dictates what the Mind sees

Your mind cannot comprehend God’s promises except through your spirit

“For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him?” 1 Corinthians 2:11

“No eyes have seen, no ears have heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9-16

Why Your Mind Cannot Why Your Mind Cannot Understand GodUnderstand GodTwo Reasons:

Your mind has no knowledge of God’s promises

Your mind rejects the things of God“The man without the Spirit does not accept

the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14

How to Receive Things of God How to Receive Things of God through your spiritthrough your spirit Renew Your Mind in Word of God

Train your carnal mind to submit to your spirit

Pray in the Spirit Pray and interpret your tongues “For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to

men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit … For this reason anyone who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret what he says. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind … I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.” 1 Corinthians 14:2,13-15,18

What God is Saying About Our WorshipWhat God is Saying About Our WorshipIn the Holy PlaceIn the Holy Place

Three Actions. Worship is...Three Actions. Worship is...

1.1.Offering Your Praises to God.Offering Your Praises to God.

2.2.Surrendering Your Will to God.Surrendering Your Will to God.

3.3.Submitting Your Mind to God.Submitting Your Mind to God.