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When You're Loved

February 21, 2008
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It's all the tabernacle. God's people were to enter the tabernacle and they were to see, this is a place I need to revere. It's been anointed. Verses 12-15, God anoints the priests and God's people, the message to them was clear. They were to revere the priests. These were anointed or gained men. Jesus is our tabernacle and He is our priest and so our attitude changes. We realize how much we owe to Him and we approach Him in reference. Yes, Jesus has called us His friend, John 15-15, but He is also our God, He is also our sacrifice, He is also our priest, He is also the anointed one, anointed at His baptism from John the Baptist. And so we come into the church and we approach a relationship with God with great reference. It's all that He's done for us. We have no bargaining chip with Him. We are merely recipients of His mercy. So to review, as we see the tabernacle here and Moses' reception of it, we recognize that we're sinful and that God should rightly reject us. But we also recognize that God loves you and me by Christ. He wants us to believe in His love for Him and respond to it. In our actions by being more quick to confess our sins to Him and to others in our attitudes by being reverent to Him because He has given us everything. We have earned nothing by ourselves. Let us pray. Father, it's sometimes hard to understand how great your love is for us and we understand or are coming to understand that's why Paul prayed for power for believers. For a three-year spirit in our inner being so that we might be able to have the power together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love Jesus that you have had for us in the gospel. And we need your power by your spirit to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that we might be filled to the measure of all the fullness of you. And Lord, when He spoke of being able to do immeasurably more than all, we ask or seek or imagine. You were speaking of doing this deed of granting us power that we might be able to understand your love, which is love that surpasses knowledge or surpasses our ability to understand it. Help us to see that we are more loved than we could ever imagine, cause us to freely see and to be honest with ourselves, with you and with others, our sin that we might rejoice and be relieved in the gospel. We ask in Christ's name, Amen.