Title: What is the ark of the covenant? Who is the ark of the covenant? Where is the ark of the covenant?
1What is the ark of the covenant?Who is the ark
of the covenant?Where is the ark of the covenant?
2Hebrews 91-5 The three things in the ark
3Golden jar containing mannaAarons rod that
buddedTablets of the covenant
4Jesus is the Ark of the covenant
- Jesus is the bread of life. John 631-35
- Jesus is the life of the world. John 1125
- Jesus is the word of God. John 11-18
5Aarons Rod that budded
- When a dead stick comes to life it is
supernatural. (John 1125 ) - Jesus died and came back to life. He is the type
of Aarons Rod.
6Manna is our Spiritual foodExodus 1615-16
- Manna means What is it in Hebrew.
- Manna is hearing God in the morning.
- 1. Find a quite place.
- 2.Every day at a set time is good. Yesterdays
manna went stale. - 3. Pray using the word of God. Jesus is the word
of life. The Bible is his word. - 4.Be obedient to what He says to do.
- 5. Be under spiritual authority which God has
placed over you. Hebrews 1317 submit to
leaders because they watch over your souls as
those who will give an account . - John 1027My sheep hear my voice, and I know
them, and they follow me and I give eternal life
to them.
7How to hear the voice of the shepherd!
- 1. Through His word the Bible he speaks to us.
- 2.Through other people He speaks to us.
- 3. The inner voice of the Holy Spirit to our
minds. - 4.He speaks through our conscience.
- 5. Things that happen that we call circumstances
and daily events. - John 1027 my sheep hear my voice and I know
them, and they follow me.
8Is Jesus your Ark of the Covenant?
- Are you his sheep?
- Does He know that?
- Do you hear what He is saying to you?
- Do you spend time with Him?
- Are you following Him?
- Do you know that you have eternal life?
9The Hidden meaning of the Ark of the covenant
part 2
10What are the meanings of the story
- Egypt is a type of the world and Pharaoh is
Satan. - God delivers us from His control and takes us out
of the world system which is Egypt. He gives us
Christ who feeds us and takes care of us. - The goal is the promised land heaven.
- We keep wanting the life we had and the pleasure
of the world. We make idols and desire the things
of the world, which are only temporary. - We enjoy the things of God and then eat, drink
and play for ourselves and self interests. - We ignore the commands of God and the life from
Jesus on a daily bases. - We want to enjoy the world and our old life and
have God also.
11The original story
12Lets Go Back to Egypt!!!!
- Exodus 243 and Moses told the people all
Yahwehs words, they responded with one voice,
everything Yahweh said we will do. - Exodus 321 When the people saw that Moses was so
long in coming down from the mountain, they
gathered around Aaron and said, come, make us
gods who will go before us. - 4. He took what they handed him and turned it
into an idol cast in the shape of a calf,
fashioned it with a tool. - 19. When Moses approached the camp and saw the
calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he
threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them
to pieces at the foot of the mountain. And he
took the calf they had made and burned it..
13We like to make our own gods
- 1. They wanted to be like the Egyptians.
- 2. You can take the people out of Egypt, but you
cant take Egypt out of the people. What is in
the heart inner desires is what counts? - 3. They loved the gods of gold and a god that
they made themselves. This god does not tell you
how to live your life so do anything you want and
its okay. New Age thinking is like this. - 4. Gather things and play enjoy yourself.
14Gathering things does not make you happy
15Our reaction when we are wrong
- 1/vs. 22 Blame other peopleits their fault. Its
called the blame game. - 2/Make up a good story lying is only putting off
the consequences I threw it into the fire and
out came this calf. - 3/Vs 25. Aaron let them Hebrews 1317Obey your
leaders as those who will give an account. - 4/Personal accountability to God1 Peter 43-5
you did what the pagans didall will give an
account to God
16Part three Why is there evil in our world?
- The Curse and the Blessings where are we?
17The curse of idol worship
- Deuteronomy 2715 Cursed is the man who carves an
image or casts an idol-a thing detestable to
Yahweh, the work of the craftsmans hands - Deuteronomy 3019 This day I call heaven and
earth as witnesses against you that I have set
before you life and death, blessings and curses.
Now choose life, so that you and your children
may live and that you may love Yahweh your God,
listen to his voice.
18What was in the ark?The Ten Commandments
- 1) I am YAHWEH your God, who brought thee out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. - 2) Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
- 3) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy
God in vain. - 4) Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
- 5) Honor thy father and thy mother.
- 6) Thou shalt not murder.
- 7) Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- 8) Thou shalt not steal.
- 9) Thou shalt not bear false witness against they
neighbor. - 10) Thou shalt not covet anything that belongs to
thy neighbor.
19 The curse of idol worship
- People pray before statues all over the world.
20Stories contain hidden meanings
- 1 Corinthians 10 1-9 I dont want you to be
unaware, friends, that our fathers were all under
the cloud , and all passed through the sea and
all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in
the sea and all ate the same spiritual food and
all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were
drinking from a spiritual rock which followed
them and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with
most of them God was not well pleased for they
were buried in the wilderness. - Now these things happened as examples
(types)for us, that we should not desire evil
things, as they also did. - Do not be idol worshippers as some of them were
as it is written The people sat down to eat and
drink, and stood up to play. Exodus 3219-26
21Seeing things from Gods perspective
22The true church verses the false church
- The true church does not have idols or images of
any kind - I John 521 keep yourself away from
idols.Rev.920they did not stop worshipping
idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood
nor magic arts and drugs.. - People are the temple of God not a building. 2
Cor.616 we are the temple of God 1 peter 25 - We are all priests unto God.
- The sacrifice is over in Christ..Heb.1012 and
727 - I John 212 our sins are forgiven, now Jesus our
high priest intercedes for us.
- Buildings, statues and images are bowed down in
front of and venerated. Religious jewelry has
power when blessed by a priests Magic words.
This is priest craft. - Buildings reflect Old Testament symbols like
alters and special parts where ordinary people
can not go - The mass reflects a continual sacrifice of Jesus
showing an incomplete work that is not finished. - People can never know sins are forgiven and
receive the High Priests work of Christ in
Heaven.
23God does not live in houses made by men. Acts 748
24If God does not live in temples built with hands
why do men build them?
25Old Testament Pictures are done away God made
this clear by tearing the vale of the temple upon
the death of Christ on the cross and destroying
the temple
- Until the Temple was destroyed
- by the Babylonians some four hundred years
later, in 586 B.C.E., sacrifice was the
predominant mode of divine service there.
Seventy years later, a second Temple was
built on the same site, and sacrifices again
resumed. During the first century B.C.E.,
Herod greatly enlarged and expanded
this Temple. The Second Temple was destroyed by
the Romans in 70 C.E., after the
failure of the Great Revolt.
26The word Church in the Bible always means
people who are called out of the world
system.EKKLACIA , Iglesia, means people not
buildings
27 Rio de JaneiroCrime rate is critical
28Carnibal means flesh for Baal
- The miter hat is from the priest of Baal
29Nine Relationships of Pagan religions to the
Roman Catholic system
- 1. Prayer beads and pagan style recitation of
prayer. Matt. 67 Jesus is against it. - 2. Penance doing something to buy your
salvation. - 3. Prayer for the dead and to the dead.
- 4.Priest Craft believe that a person can make
objects such as holy water etc. blessed - 5. Temples being the holy places where God
lives. The steeple comes from the Hindu worship
of Shiva. -
- 6. The concept of Holy Men and Women in poverty
and avoiding sexual relationships is pagan. - 7. The making of idols and images which are bowed
down to is pagan. - 8. The idea of relics which have power to heal
and do miracles is pagan. - 9. The concept that God lives outside of time and
is therefore predestining all things rather then
working with our freewill choices is Neo
Platonic and pagan.
30Who is right? Jesus or man made religions?
31What are the seven principles of Gods true church?
- Servant leadership is by example accountable to
the local body and to God primarily. Leaders are
all equal in value different in function. We are
all priests unto God. - The way of a Christian is the way of peace and
humility in all relationships. It is actively
resisting the desire for power and control over
others. - The church has a ministry of reconciliation both
people to God and then to each other in the body
of Christ. - True ministry is an invitation to receive the
revelation of the Life from God which opens
spiritual understanding.
- Church is a group of people who have made a
personal choice to obey and follow Christ and
made the decision to do this within a group of
people called the church. - Church is a group of people who are mutually
accountable to each other for correction, love,
and restoration to personal truth as well as
corporate truth. - Gods word is given for the purpose of living it
out, Jesus words being primary and all else as
secondary. This means living the truth not
discussing truth.
32There are four conditions for water Baptism
- 1. Repent which means a desire to put God first
in our lives. Acts 238 - 2. Be a believer in who Jesus is, what he did and
act on what he said. Mark 1616 - 3. Make sure you have a clear conscience by
asking forgiveness in prayer. 1 Peter 321 - 4. Become a learner and disciple by coming into
fellowship with other Christians. Matt. 2819
33Babies can not meet the Biblical requirements for
water baptism!
- Infants cannot repent.
- Babies cannot understand what to believe.
- Infants cannot have a clear conscience before
God. - Babies cannot be discipled and therefore they
cannot be Baptized in Gods true church. - Are you in the true church?