Isa Msg 36

Truth:
1. Isaiah 8:14-15 reveals that Christ is a sanctuary to the positive ones. he is also seen as a stone to the strike against, a rock of stumbling, a trap, and a snare to the negative ones.
2. The tabernacle and the temple were not only the dwelling place of God but also the dwelling place of His serving ones, the priests.
3. In John 1 He is God's tabernacle; in John 2 He is God's temple.
4. Christ as the Head and we as the members of His Body are the temple of God. Eventually, this temple will consummate in the New Jerusalem, the enlarged, extended sanctuary of God.
5. The church life is a life in which we take our God, our Lord, our Christ as our sanctuary and as our roommate.
6. The New Jerusalem is the aggregate of God and man living together. For eternity God will love man, man will love God, and God and man will live together as roommates.
7. The One, who is Jehovah's Shoot to branch out Jehovah, in His divinity, into humanity, would be the sanctuary of all His chosen ones.
8. The Pharisees and the Jewish leaders struck against Christ as a stone, and the unbelieving ones stumbled at Christ as a rock.
9. To the negative ones, He is a stone to strike against, a rock of stumbling, a trap, and a snare.


Life experience/Application:
1. We enjoy God as our sunshine, our drinking water, our food, and our air when we dwell in Him as our sanctuary, our dwelling place.
2. The only way that we can enjoy God in every way is to live in Him, taking Him as our sanctuary and living with Him as our roommate.