Embracing Our Journey: The Feast of Tabernacles

The business of preaching is to bring men and women face to face with the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the primary function and task of the church. That is what these gospels do; they just bring us face to face with him because it is the whole contention of the Christian message, the New Testament in particular, that the only hope for men and women is in this person. [00:01:05]

He used the whole occasion as was his custom always in order to bring men and women face to face with the truth of God. He was able to expound the meaning of Feasts in a way that nobody else could. That's why these authorities were so surprised. He was able, as we see in The Sermon on the Mount, to expound the law in a way that they'd never heard before. [00:07:19]

The first object of the Feast of Tabernacles was to remind these people that you can't settle down in this world. It's only temporary. We are here today; we are gone tomorrow. We are all Journeymen; we are sers, pilgrims, and strangers. You know, this is the message of the whole book. This is the great fundamental theme of The Bible. [00:15:00]

The moment we realize our smallness, our frailty, and the precarious nature of the life which we live, we then begin to think of our relationship to God, the one who commanded the feast, the one who gave the detailed instructions as to how it should be kept. My dear friend, my business here is not to give my opinions on current affairs or on these topical matters. [00:21:10]

God is to be worshiped because he's God, because he is who and what he is. He says, I am the Lord your God. The business of the feast was to remind men and women that God has made them and not they themselves, that we are all the products of his work and activity, that all we haven't hold are under his hands. [00:25:12]

We are traveling through a Wilderness, and nothing is so vitally important and urgent for us as that we should realize our dependence upon God. Forget your insurances, forget your plans and schemes. They won't save you. They won't save you from death; they won't save you from judgment; they won't save you from meeting God. [00:32:24]

He came and tabernacled Among Us in order that he might Deliver Us From The Bondage of sin. He came to Deliver Us from the accusations of the law, the temple Commandments, the moral law, the Holiness of God. We are all condemned by it. There is none righteous, no not one. All have sinned and have come short of the glory of God. [00:41:39]

The word was made flesh and tabernacled Among Us. Do you know why we're in this Chapel tonight? I'll tell you. It is because the Lord Of Glory, the Son of God, the second person in the Blessed Holy Trinity, left heaven and its glory and its security and its eternity and came on Earth and dwelt in a tent of Flesh, tabernacled Among Us. [00:39:14]

He came down into the Wilderness, the chaos of life, to men and women whom he had seen from the glory in the bondage and the shekel and the Captivity of sin and Satan. He came down and tabernacled among us because he saw people like you and me, slaves of the world and the Flesh and the devil, slaves as much as the Israelites were in Egypt. [00:45:01]

He came to do for us something infinitely bigger and greater even than that which was done for the children of Israel in their captivity and bondage in Egypt. He came and tabernacled Among Us in order that he might Deliver Us From The Bondage of sin. He came to Deliver Us from the accusations of the law, the temple Commandments, the moral law, the Holiness of God. [00:41:39]

He will take us by the hand and introduce us into the Heavenly Canaan of our Everlasting home. He will present us faultless before the presence of God's glory with exceeding Joy. The Liberation, the reconciliation, the Blessed hope that can never fade away. My dear friend, do you realize the meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles? [00:45:01]

Have you realized the nature of the life you're living in this world? Had you realized before that your tent is moving hourly nearer this end and this judgment? Had you realized that the Son of God so loved you that he left Eternal Bliss and glory and tabernacled in this world that you might be delivered and might be saved? [00:45:01]