Welcome to the podcast of Brookside Church. Check each week for the latest message to help you live like Jesus! Brookside Church is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Welcome to the podcast of Brookside Church. Check each week for the latest message to help you live like Jesus! Brookside Church is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
“That is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers – has appeared to you.”
“The Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians.”
“Tell the people: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagle’s wings and brought you to myself.’”
“Tell the people, ‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.’”
1Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.
2 A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place.
3 Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place, 4 which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
5 Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.
6 When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry.
7 But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
8 The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning.
9 This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper.
10 They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.
11 But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation.
12 He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.
13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean.
14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?”
“For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: ‘I will dwell in them and walk among them.”
