ME: AN EARTHLY TABERNACLE

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ME AN EARTHLY TABERNACLE?
1 Cor. 39-17
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Introduction

• Parallel between the Tabernacle and
• our body

• Both were used to worship God.

• They were temporary in nature.

• God was present in both.

• Feast of Tabernacle was one of the
• major festivals of the Israelites.

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• Men were required to attend
• (Deut. 1616).

• During this time celebrants lived
• in tents (tabernacles) so as to
• commemorate the period of
• wandering in the wilderness
• (Lev. 2340-42).

• Our sojourn here is but a brief
• stay and should remind us of
• temporary nature here for
• worship with God present in us.

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THE TABERNACLE OF LIFE

• Unless the Lord builds the house,
• They labor in vain who build it
• Unless the Lord guards the city,
• The watchman stays awake in vain
• (Ps. 1271).

• There has got to be
• a place for God in
• our building a life.

• There is a time to build and a time
• to break down now is the time to
• build (Ecc. 33). Pitch vs. strike.

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• Remember now the Creator in
• the days of thy youth (Ecc. 121).

• We are to be careful so that we will
• not build upon some other mans
• foundation (Rom. 1520).

• Trying to slide by on someone
• elses righteousness.

• The burden of proof for being
• saved is placed upon the
• individual (Phil 212).

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• Paul quoted Isaiah to instill in them
• individual responsibility as being a
• tabernacle to the glory of God (Rom.
• 1520-21)

To whom He was not announced, they
shall see And those who have not heard
shall understand.
(Isa. 5215).
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• Paul gave warnings about giving
• heed to the building process
• (1 Cor. 311-17).

• We need to avoid building on
• improper footing.

• For no other foundation can
• anyone lay than that which is
• laid, which is Jesus Christ
• (1 Cor. 311).

• Cannot be on uncertainties as
• Wood, hay, stubble (1 Cor. 312).

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THE TABERNACLE OF DEATH

• Yes, I think it is right, as long as I
• am in this tent, to stir you up by
• reminding you, knowing shortly I
• must put off my tent, just as our Lord
• Jesus showed me (2 Pet. 113-14).

• This tent is to be put off in death.

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• We transition to a permanent
• dwelling where mortal puts
• on immortality (1 Cor. 15).

• Emphasis to those remaining
• behind was to remember what
• they had been taught to make
• their calling and election sure
• (2 Pet. 110).

THE TABERNACLE AS A NETWORK

• We are as living stones (1 Pet. 25),
• built upon Jesus, the chief corner-
• stone (Eph. 220 1 Pet. 26-7).

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• The foundation includes the
• apostles, prophets, and Jesus
• being the chief cornerstone
• (Eph. 220).

• These men represent the solidness
• of truth which they taught.

• It was upon this truth which the
• church made up of living stones
• was to be built (Matt. 1618).

• Our lives here are earthly tents
• for heavenly occupation!

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We are a Holy Temple in the Lord, and built
together for a dwelling place of God in the
Spirit
Eph. 221-22