The Way of the Cross

     If we are to go into the Holy of Holies to meet with the Savior, we will go through the way of the cross.  We are to take up our cross and follow Him.  We all like a fuzzy warm loving gospel that is easy and the way is lovely to Heaven.  The true gospel leads to the cross a prepared cross that Jesus has designed for us to carry.  We don't work our way to Heaven, but we are to die to self.  Our will, our way, what we want and take up the way of the Master.  He went before us and bore a cross to pay for our sins, that is not our cross.  We take up our cross to be conformed to be like Him.  We need to die to our flesh, the desires that are wrong, to live for others and not ourselves.

   

  Paul saw the cross before he was saved and kicked against it, but after He embraced Jesus, He took up His cross and followed Him.  Our cross is a specially designed one just for us.  It is tailored made.  Peter and the disciples saw the cross, when Jesus was being crucified and ran in horror from it.  Jonah saw it and knew he would have to love the unlovely.  The people that has killed and so horribly came against his people.  He got a ticket on a boat going another way.  Unless, we love Jesus and have His power working in us the cross will scare us away.  After the power of Pennecost the disciples died for Christ. 

    Hannah was praying in the Temple.  She was caught up in the Spirit and she saw her cross was to leave her very young son at the doorstep of Eli.  He had not raised his children well.  She would have to have faith and pray that he would raise Samuel in the right way.  Our cross will always have to include faith.  If we don't have faith that God will work, we will shrink from it.  The easy way is not the best way.  He will walk with us and carry the heaviest part.  His way is not burdensome if we walk and are one with Him.  If we go alone, it will destroy us.

     God give us faith to believe that your way is best.  

Every believer that came through Tabernacle find the security of eternal life

     The door of the Tabernacle opens to the brazen altar.  By faith the believer finds in the brazen altar everything ever need, for complete salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ.  The pins that held the Tabernacle  were driven deep into the sand of the desert.  The blood of Jesus is all over the Christian and Jesus sees His blood driven deep by love into each of His children.  We enter into Jesus and by His Word beholding His glory.  The seven pieces of furniture help us to behold His glory and what we have in Christ.

      Seven pieces of furniture that is lined up to picture the cross without it, there would be no salvation.  Two pieces in the court yard of the gentiles, three pieces in Holy Place, and two in the Holy of Holies.

      We go to the altar picture of the cross, then we go to the laver of separation from sin and the world.  Leave our old nature behind and everything that would hinder our walk with Christ.  Friends, relatives, and anyone that is not Christ like.  We have fellowship with the body of believers to feed on Christ and to become a part of the body and began to become His hands and feet on the earth.

     We go to the light of the Candlestick and being in His presence causes us to shine the light of Christ to a dark world.  We become the light of the world Matthew 5:14. 

     Next to the Altar of Incense, where we are to pray without ceasing to God for a world lost in sin.  We like Esther, we approach the King with petitions we bring to turn death into life, darkness into light, and day of mourning into a day of rejoicing.  We go before our great King so bring big petitions to Him.  We can change our world through prayer.  More things are wrought by prayer then this world ever dreamed of.  Lord Tennyson. 

     Last we enter through the veil to the Holy of Holies.  We surrender all to Jesus.  The wings of the King of Kings  shelters us the blood sprinkled on the altar keeps us, we find peace, protection, and rest in the arms of Jesus.

     

God's Wash Basin for sin

     The priest came through the door to the Tabernacle to worship and serve Almighty God. He first came to the altar of burnt offering, this was a picture or type of Jesus substitute death for us. A picture of Calvary to go get our sins washed away.  Since Christ is our Tabernacle we are now in Christ.  The priest is a type of the believer.  The believer takes the next step to the laver or the wash basin.  They go back to this laver many times during the day to be washed from the defilement of the world.  We need to stay close to Jesus to keep ourselves clean and ready for Jesus when He comes.  The new believer goes deeper into Christ until he has complete victory and is resting in the or underneath the shekinah glory in the holy of holies  

      We are to walk everyday carefully through this world so the light of Jesus will be seen amidst the darkness of this world to draw people to the cross to be forever changed.  The glory of God will set us apart and draw people to Jesus.  Let your light shine brightly every day