Exo Msg 169

1. Without the death of Christ, it would be impossible for us to go to God.
2. Fat signifies that Christ lived a life that was absolutely for God. Weeping signifies Christ wept for those who were not for God.
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Exo Msg 168

1. The four items used for the composition of the incense signify humanity.
2. Christ's resurrection is signified by frankincense.
3. Our going to God requires salt in place of oil because the source is full of uncleanness.
4. Our going to God requires the cross.

Exo Msg 167

1. The anointing oil is Christ as God coming to us from God, and the incense is Christ going from us to God.
2. God's coming to us is a matter of the anointing, and our going to God is a matter of prayer.
3. According to the Bible, prayer is not an offering; it is an incense that ascends to God.
4. The bronze altar is for burning offerings, sacrifices. The incense altar is for burning incense to God.
5. God comes to us through Christ, and we go to God in Christ and through Christ.
6. The bronze altar in the outer court supplied the priests two needs. The blood washed them of their sins, and the meat nourished them.
7. The life supply on the showbread table brought the priests to the lampstand, where they received light.
8. The light received at the lampstand guides us to the ark. At the ark, God's presence leads us to the golden altar of incense.
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Exo Msg 166

1. To deny that Jesus is the Christ is to deny the Father and the Son.
2. Eternal life is Jesus, Christ, the Son, and the Father.
3. Because He is the Spirit, the air, He can be in us, we can be in Him.
4. The Father is the source of life, the Son is life expressed, and the Spirit is life flowing.
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Exo Msg 165

1. It is wrong to systematize the Trinity. Actually, we cannot divide Jesus Christ, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit because They all are one.
2. We have a compound of Jesus Christ, the Father, the Son, and eternal life.
3. All things refer to Jesus Christ, the Father, the Son, and the eternal life.
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Exo Msg 164

1. The crucifixion is carried out by the Spirit from whom is the fruit of the Spirit.
2. There is no need for us to try to kill ourselves or the germs within us. We simply need to take the antibiotic.
3. The fulfillment of the mingling of divinity with humanity in the NT is the mingling of the divine Spirit with our regenerated human spirit.
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Exo Msg 163

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Exo Msg 162

1. Apart from the Spirit of reality, in our experience we cannot have divinity, the Trinity, or the holy nature of God.
2. What God cares for is the fact, rather than the accomplishment of the fact in time.
3. The Spirit of glory is the indwelling Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of grace becoming the glory shining upon the believers.
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Exo Msg 161

1. The spirit of a certain substance is the extract of the substance.
2. The verb to be is the basic verb. Everything else depends on this.
3. Whenever God came to contact people in the OT, He was the Spirit of Jehovah with the element of the Trinity.
4. The Holy Spirit was first used with respect to Christ's incarnation, to the time when the Spirit came to Mary to conceive the Lord Jesus.
5. The Spirit of grace enables us to taste the Triune God as our enjoyment.
6. The Lord Spirit with the elements of ascension and lordship.
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Exo Msg 160

1. The description of the ointment shows God's dwelling place and God's serving ones.
2. Even without the tabernacle and the priesthood, they could have the enjoyment of the lamb, the manna, and the living water.
3. If our enjoyment of Christ is before the tabernacle and the priesthood, we cannot have any share in the compound ointment.
4. The numbers three and five together signify the Triune God in resurrection bearing responsibility for His people.
5. Why did the Spirit of God need to be compounded?
6. In the NT, two matters are crucial: the blood that sanctifies us and the Spirit of grace that supplies us with the Triune God.
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Exo Msg 159

1. The Spirit is for the building up of a spiritual house and for the holy priesthood.
2. The title Christ includes incarnation, human living, death, resurrection, and ascension.
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Exo Msg 158

1. Myrrh signifies the precious death of Christ.
2. Cinnamon signifies the effectiveness of His death.
3. Calamus signifies the precious resurrection of Christ.
4. Cassia signifies the power of Christ's resurrection.
5. The holy anointing oil is to sanctify the things of God and men of God.
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Exo Msg 157

1. The ointment signifies God, who is triune, after a long process becoming the all-inclusive compound Spirit to reach His chosen and redeemed people to be one with them.
2. The ointment reveals how God comes to reach us in Christ and with Christ. The incense signifies how we go back to God in Christ and with Christ.
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Exo Msg 156

1. The ark and the tabernacle Christ and the church, move by means of the army.
2. The propitiation silver was for the building of God's dwelling place.
3. In the outer court there were the altar and the laver; in the Holy Place, the table, the lampstand, and the incense altar; in the Holy of Holies, the ark.
4. The Bible speaks of two kinds of defilement: the defilement that comes from sin and the defilement that comes by the earthly touch.
5. The propitiation silver is for God's move, and the laver is for the operation of God's dwelling place.
6. The bronze on the altar signifies judgment, but the bronze on the laver signifies the result, the issue, of God's judgment.
7. The more we walk in the Spirit and live in the mingled spirit, the more we shall be washed.
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Exo Msg 155

1. The tax was used by God to accomplish two things. First, it's for the building up of the tabernacle. Second, God used this tax to accomplish the formation of an army.
2. The half-shekel of silver signifies the ascended Christ experienced by us and paid by us as the poll tax.
3. If the leading ones pay too much, they will kill the meetings.

Exo Msg 154

1. The incense altar is for God's move, that God's move requires an army that can fight for His interests, and that for the formation of His army a census is necessary.
2. The natural man surely is not qualified to be drafted into the army.
3. The ransom silver was related to redemption as it applied to those who were qualified to be formed into God's army.
4. The more intercession there is at the incense altar, the greater will be the urgency for God's people to grow.
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Exo Msg 153

1. Christ's life has three basic elements: the animal life (Lamb), the vegetable life (wheat), and the minerals (gold, silver, and precious stones).
2. The propitiation silver is only for males twenty years old and upward.
3. The number of males for which the ransom price was paid was the number of those who could be soldiers to form an army.
4. In order to express God, we need to fight against His enemy.
5. The answer to this intercessory prayer requires the formation of an army.
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Exo Msg 152

1. The tour begins at the altar in the outer court, passes through the table, the lampstand, and the ark, and stops at the incense altar.
2. You need to ask how much the things you pray for have to do with Christ.
3. Anything that has not been dealt with by the cross and yet motivates us to pray is strange fire.
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Exo Msg 151

1. To pray to God is one thing, but to pray in God is deeper.
2. With the sin offerings we can see three things: the blood, the ashes, and the sweet savor ascending to God.
3. Our conduct is vs. Christ as life. Our sight is vs. Christ as our light. Our virtue is vs. Christ as our incense to God.
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Exo Msg 150

1. God's kingdom is the church, which is Christ.
2. God's righteousness is Christ expressed through the church.
3. Concerning our prayer life, Christ is the tabernacle, Christ is the food offered, and Christ is also the incense.
4. The burning on the offering altar was a burning of judgment, but the burning on the incense altar was a burning of acceptance.
5. By the anointing, the blood, and the fire, the two altars are connected.
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Exo Msg 149

1. Christ is the incarnated god into whom we may enter, and He is also the offerings that are good for us to eat.
2. We enter into Him as the tabernacle and He comes into us as the food.
3. First, be in the tabernacle. Second, be satisfied by the hold food. Third, offer incense to God. Forth, pray with Christ as the incense.

Exo Msg 148

1. In order for people to be motivated to experience Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension, His intercession is necessary.
2. The incense altar signifies Christ as the Intercessor to maintain the relationship between god and His people.
3. The horns indicate Christ's intercession is powerful toward the four corners of the earth.
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Exo Msg 147

1. The incense altar comes in only after the tabernacle with all the rest of its furniture has been revealed.
2. The OT indicated already that the incense altar belonged to the Holy of Holies.
3. Christ's interceding life, His prayer life, is the center of God's administration.
4. Ch1., the altar, Ch3., the laver, Ch. 6, the bread, Ch. 8, the lampstand, Ch. 14-16, the ark., Ch. 17, the incense altar.
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Exo Msg 146

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Exo Msg 145

1. Bull for a sin offering, two lambs for burnt offerings, a meal offering, and a drink offering.
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Exo Msg 144

1. Wheat and barley are types of Christ as our life supply.
2. We have Christ as the bull for a sin offering, as the lamb for a burnt offering, and as the grain that produces life and supplies life.
3. Christ Himself is the bull, the lamb, the flour, the olive tree producing oil, and the wine.
4. To produce oil is to live by Christ, and to produce wine is to die for Him.
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