Tuesday, October 9, 2007

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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Sunday, October 7, 2007

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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