Today, we are continuing our series called The Story. If you are visiting with us today, basically The Story is a 31-week overview of the Bible. The goal is helping you connect the different stories of the Bible together and ultimately to see how your story connects up to God’s story. Last week, the part of the story that we looked at was the story of the Exodus, the deliverance, and how God used Moses to deliver the people from the hand of the Pharaoh of Egypt. They had been captive for 430 years and God used Moses to deliver the people to set them free from his hand. Later on, God used Moses to help him part the Red Sea. The walls of water went up on both sides and the people were able to go through those waters to the other side of land while the Egyptians were swept under and drowned.
Today, we pick up the story on the other side of the Red Sea. We pick it up in the Sinai Desert. It is likely when the people got the other side of the Red Sea they were really excited with the whole idea of crossing through. But we know what often happens is the excitement doesn’t last for long. People begin to complain about things. That is really what happened in this situation here. They were excited and all of a sudden they began to shift into complaining mode. They got out in the desert and began to find that there was a shortage of food. Basically, they say to Moses “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt. There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.” Here again the Israelites are in complaining mode. For some reason, God chooses to accommodate their complaints mainly to remind them that it was by his hand that they were delivered out of Egypt. As the story goes, he decides he is going to rain down quail upon the camps and he is also going to rain down this thing called manna, this bread-like substance. That is what he did. They were satisfied for the next few weeks or whatever. They moved along through the desert and then there was a shortage of water. In a paraphrase they said something to Moses like you brought us all the way out into the desert just so our children and our livestock can die of thirst. What is up with that? If we had time, we would look in the early part of the story and we would see that that initial journey into the desert had a very rocky start. Plus, along the way, they ran into a group called the Amalekites that they had to fight with. They survived it but pretty much that first three months was a really rocky start. After three months, almost three months to the day, they were brought near the mountain of Sinai. It is at that mountain where God called Moses up and told Moses to say these words to the people. He said “You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how I carried you on eagle’s wings and brought you to myself. Now, if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.” Isn’t that a beautiful imagery, how I carried you on eagle’s wings? What God is reminding the people here is that he has not forgotten the original covenant with Abraham. He told Abraham you would be blessed. You would be a great nation. You would be blessed so that you can bless other nations. This is the reminder of that. So he says these words to Moses and Moses goes down and tells the people. Moses goes back up to the mountain and tells God what the people had said. Then God tells Moses this is what I want you to do. In three days, I am going to appear to the entire Hebrew community. I want you to go down and tell the people to get ready for this event. I want you to tell them to wash their bodies, put on clean clothes, prepare their hearts, and purify themselves, and after three days to come to the mountain. That is where I am going to make my appearance to them. That is what happened. They got all cleaned up and started coming to the mountain. Moses is leading them there. Just as they begin to get close they see this very dense, dark cloud up in the sky. They don’t know what to think of it. It gets darker and darker. Before long there is thunder and lighting. All of a sudden they hear a real loud sound of a trumpet. Then out of the cloud this fire begins to come down on the mountain. The whole mountain is consumed by smoke. The mountain begins to tremble. The people are terrified. I suspect that even Aaron and Moses were terrified. It is about that time that God calls Moses and his brother Aaron up to the mountain where is going to verbally begin to give them what is known as the Ten Commandments.
I suspect if you have been in church for a while, you are familiar with the Ten Commandments. I thought we would take a minute or two and turn to your neighbor and share the Ten Commandments with them. Go ahead. How are you doing? Anybody get all ten? It is tough to remember. I thought what we would do as a refresher is go through them together. What is the first commandment? Thou shall not have other gods before me. What is the second commandment? You shall not make for yourself an idol. The third? You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God. The fourth one? Keep the Sabbath. We stop here and remember that these first four commandments have to do with the vertical relationship. They have to do with the people’s relationship with God. The next ones are easy. The next six are easy because they have to do with the relationship with other people. What is number five? Honor your father and your mother. Number six? Thou shall not murder. Number seven? Thou shall not commit adultery. Number eight? Thou shall not steal. Number nine? You shall not give false testimony which means do not lie. The last one? Keep your hands to yourself basically. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or wife. Those are the Ten Commandments. To be honest, we know about them, but few people have them memorized except your children downstairs. So you better learn them because they may ask you one day. But whatever the case, today we look at those commandments and we say they are nice. They make good sense. They are still somewhat applicable today.
But back then, these were new to the people. I suspect when the people first heard these Ten Commandments, they were probably thinking what is with these rules. We just spent 430 years in slavery to Pharaoh where we had all sorts of rules. We experienced this freedom. You are heading us toward the Promised Land, to the land of Milk and Honey, and the first thing you want to do is give us ten rules to follow. What is up with that God? What is going on here? To make matters worse, it wasn’t just these Ten Commandments. If we had time, we would look through the passage and we would see that there are all sorts of sub-commandments that came under these that helped the people to be able to apply these commandments in various social contexts. The idea of keeping certain dietary laws or keeping yourself clean or laws related to the damage of property or personal injury. There was a whole slew of laws that they were expected to know just like that. They were expected to know it. From their perspective, it may have looked like God you are being pretty restrictive. What is going on here? I don’t like this thou shall not stuff. It just doesn’t feel comfortable. What we have to remember though is that God wasn’t trying to restrict them. He was trying to bless them. He was trying to give them love. These commandments were basically a gift of love for God to his people. We should inherently understand that especially as parents because we tell our kids don’t do something. They see it as an act of restriction or confinement and we see it as an act of love. Someday when you get older you will figure it out and you will place the same laws on your kids and expect them to do it. Those are acts of love. God was trying to prepare them to enter into the Promised Land which was really a new form of paradise. It had been several thousand years since Adam and Eve had gotten kicked out of paradise and a lot of things had happened since then. The fall, the flood, and all that kind of stuff, and the call of Abraham. All these things happened and then eventually into slavery. These people were not equipped to enter into this new Promised Land. They were still living as slaves. They didn’t know how to live in this new place that God was preparing for them. What God was trying to do with these laws was prepare them to enter into this Promised Land and they would be able to understand what it means to have a relationship with God and a relationship with others. That is really the purpose of what is going on there. It was an act of love.
We know that it is probably something they needed because while Moses was up there getting the Ten Commandments written down on the stone tablets, we find out there is something going on down the mountain that is not quite right. Something called idol worship. As the story goes, while Moses was up there with God and God was writing on those tablets, the very finger of God it says, down below the people were getting impatient. It had been 40 days since they had seen Moses. They are getting antsy. Let’s get this show on the road. They turn to Aaron and say “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.” Aaron, who is Moses’ brother, the same brother who was there in the Pharaoh’s court with the staff and everything else, now he is accommodating this request. He asked the people to donate their jewelry and takes all this gold and melts it down in the fire and creates some sort of a crude-looking calf. It basically turns into an idol. The people wake up the next day and they go worship this god. They start saying that is the god who delivered us out of Egypt. That is the one who we should worship. To make matters worse, they begin to engage in all sorts of sexual immorality around that. It was crazy. About that time, God says to Moses up on the mountain you need to get down there because your people are going crazy. They are nuts. Moses goes down there and he begins to see what is going on. He is spitting mad. So mad that he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire. Then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the Israelites drink it. Some of you think that I am tough. How would you like to have Moses up here on stage, and catch you texting on that cell phone? He would likely take it, throw it in the fire, grind it up, turn it into powder, put it in some coffee, and say drink this. That is what Moses would do. These laws were necessary. This was a necessary thing for them to have because they didn’t know how to act. They had amnesia. They just didn’t know how to respond.
It wasn’t just about giving them laws to enter them into the Promised Land. What he wanted to do was help prepare their hearts for worship. In the garden, it says God walked with Adam in the cool of the day. They were tight. Then the sin thing happened and everything else and God was pretty much nowhere to be found except from a distance. At this point, what he is saying is I want to reestablish a relationship with you. I want to get that intimacy back. In order to do that, he tells Moses “Have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.” God is going to dwell in this thing called the tabernacle. We are not that familiar with the tabernacle but the tabernacle is really simply a mobile type of church. Except it is a church without pews. There was no sitting down. It is a church without the technology and all the lights. It is a church without the bulletin and Café Connect and the free Cheetos. It didn’t exist in that church. Basically, it was a worship center for the Jewish people. That is what it was. It was to be the center of worship. In addition to the Ten Commandments and all the other laws that went with it, God says I want you to create this sanctuary and I want you to fill with all sorts of elaborate furnishings and utensils that facilitate worship and when you get done it is going to look something like this. This is a picture of a mock-up of the tabernacle. Technically speaking, the tabernacle is this part right here, also known as the temple. This is called the outer court. This is where the people would bring in their offerings. Basically, this was pretty much off limits. This is the tabernacle. The tabernacle was broken down into two sections. You had what is called the Holy Place and then the Most Holy Place. The Holy Place and the Most Holy Place was divided by this thick veil or curtain. They say it was one-foot thick. It was limited. No one could go into the Holy Place because what was there was called the Ark of the Covenant. Anybody seen Raiders of the Lost Ark? Some of you probably didn’t know what the Ark was. It wasn’t Noah’s Ark. It was the Ark of the Covenant that was believed to contain the tablets of the Ten Commandments, Aaron’s staff, and I think some manna. That was where it was believed that God’s spirit would dwell. No one could get behind that veil except once a year and that would be the High Priest that would be able to go in there and make an offering.
God lays out this elaborate plan to build this mobile church called the Tabernacle. Then he lays out the instructions for the priests to follow, including what they have to wear when they are doing their duties. If we had time, we would break into the book of Leviticus. I know you all love to read Leviticus. It basically gets its name from the Levis and the Levis were the priestly people from the tribe of Levi. They were the ones that basically were the priests. Leviticus is all about their duties and responsibilities. More than that, if you read Leviticus, you see it is a book about holiness. It is a book about purity and the importance of every individual to maintain their purity. One passage in Leviticus kind of sums up the whole book. Leviticus 19:2 says “Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.” That is the theme of Leviticus. That is the central theme of Leviticus. Be holy because I am holy says the Lord. That is what is going on here. What happens if you are not holy? Which in most cases they weren’t. Then what he did was prescribe all these different sacrifices and offerings that could be made to close that gap between his holiness and your un-holiness. He made it possible for you at least to move closer and to atone for your sins. It involved a lot of sacrifices. We don’t have time to go through it, but it sacrifices everything from a pigeon to a dove to a ram to a lamb and all the way up to a bull. All these sacrifices. The people were expected to know which sacrifice they were supposed to do based on the sin they committed. They may have committed a sin like I got angry with my neighbor so look it up on the chart and that means they need to take a dove in. Or they stole from somebody so that needs I need to take a lamb without defect in. They would take these animals into the area where the tabernacle was and they would give it to the lay person in charge and then they would slit the animal’s throat and that was the sacrifice. You say that is yucky and crude and a mean thing to do. What is the alternative? God would tell the High Priest to slit the person’s throat. I don’t say that to be funny. That would be the next best thing but the worst thing for the people. God in his grace provided a substitute animal. The people would lay their hands on the animal before the animal was slaughtered signifying that now they are taking their sin and passing it on to the animal. The animal is becoming the sacrifice. You had this sacrificial system going on 365 days a year. It wasn’t all animal sacrifice. People would bring a whole cornucopia of things. They would bring things like oil and flower and grain and wafers and those types of things. Those would be offerings to God. Thanksgiving offerings. Offerings of devotion. Offerings of praise. You had all this stuff going on. That was a very, very busy place 365 days a year.
As efficient as it was, it really wasn’t that effective. It could never eliminate sin. It could never completely close the gap. The people could only come so far. They could only come into the outer court. In some cases they couldn’t come into the outer court. A limited few people could go in, including the High Priest, which in the early years would have been Aaron because he was a Levite. He would go in and gain access to the inner room. The Holy of Holies. He would be able to go beyond the curtain. I don’t know where I read it, it might be somewhere in the Bible, but it talks about when they went behind there once a year they were terrified because this is where God was going to be. The God who spits out fire and smoke and blows trumpets. Going into that room the poor guy was terrified. What they would often do is tie a rope to the person’s ankle so if he goes behind there and he faints or has a heart attack, the other guys can grab on the rope instead of them having to go in there and risk getting zapped by God too. That is how it was. There weren’t people that were able to come into that inner sanctuary to get really that close to God, the place where he dwelled. In a nutshell, we are talking about laws related to the Ten Commandments. We are talking about laws related to the tabernacle and sacrifice. Collectively, these laws would be referred to as the Mosaic Law or the Law of Moses because Moses was the one who basically instituted them. There are other things that would be added to it, but that was basically it. The Mosaic Law would be all those things; law, sacrifice, and tabernacle.
Some of you are probably thinking okay, Chuck, that is cool. That is a nice bit of history. What does it matter today? These ancient practices. This crude church. These outdated commandments especially the sacrifices. What do they mean to me today? They mean a whole lot to you or they should mean a whole lot to you if you are a Christian because it explains much of where you get your spirituality. It explains much of your relationship with God. Your Christianity. Your worldview. Especially when you consider that when Christ came down, he basically took that old system and morphed it into something totally brand new. The evidence that most of you are familiar with is the crucifixion because Christ died for our sins. He was the one-time sacrifice. This is spelled out very clearly in Hebrews. I can’t go into all the passages but the writer of Hebrews is talking about this. He says “Day after day, every priest stands and performs his religious duties. Again and again, he offers the same sacrifice which can never take away sins.” Do you have that? He is basically saying this is what was going on in that temple system. Then he continues and says “But when this perfect priest (Jesus) had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.” Who are those that are being made perfect? You are. Turn to your neighbor and say I’m perfect. No matter what your parents say, you are perfect. People like to say I am not perfect. According to this, you are perfect. Isn’t that nice to hear? You are perfect, although it is not by your own doing. It is simply because of what Christ has done for you. Christ, through that one sacrifice, pretty much closed the door to the old sacrificial system. That is why we don’t have to sacrifice animals today. It really is. Why no one does. It was shut down in like A.D. 70. The sacrificial system turned into the cross of Christ and that gave us freedom.
What about the tabernacle? The tabernacle was pretty much a church on wheels. As they got into Jerusalem, this church on wheels turned into this massive temple. First built by King Solomon and later rebuilt by Herod. It was this massive temple that basically was the same as the tabernacle except it was a permanent location. When Christ came into the picture, especially when Christ ascended back up, he sent his spirit down. The spirit had to go somewhere. The temple was gone. The tabernacle was gone. Where did he send it? He sent it into the body of Christ, also known as the church. Not the physical church. Not the church structure but the people. The body of Christ. Every believer is part of the body of Christ. If every believer is part of the body of Christ and the body of Christ has the spirit of God, then what does that mean for every believer? Every believer has the spirit of God living inside of him or her. I am not making this stuff up. Paul says it here “Don’t you know that yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s spirit lives in you.” You are a temple of the Holy Ghost. Turn to your brother or sister and say I am a temple of the Holy Ghost. Glory! What is cool about this temple is it is 24/7. It never shuts down. Not only that, you are not restricted to the outer court. You are not even restricted to the Holy Place. You can go all the way in to the Most Holy Place. Because when Christ was crucified and took his last breath, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. That one-foot curtain. Could you imagine a one-foot curtain tearing? The sound would have been amazing. Torn in two. What it is symbolizing is the fact that now every believer who puts their faith in Jesus Christ, or what I would call every John 3:5 Nicodemus type believer that is born of the water and born of the spirit, has access and is able to go behind that veil and through that veil and have access into the inner sanctuary, the place where the spirit of God resides 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Is that good news or what? This is exciting stuff. This is part of the good news. You have the spirit of God living within you. The tabernacle that was on wheels that turned into this huge structure turned back into this mobile thing and that is you. You are basically a church on wheels. You have the ability to worship anyplace, anytime. You have that in you. You have the spirit of God in you.
What about this idea of law? Some people say we are New Testament Christians so do we have to follow the Ten Commandments or what. My answer is yes and possibly no. I am not sure about that because Christ came and we know the gospel says that Jesus really butted heads with the Pharisees because they had twisted the law. They had taken those Ten Commandments and everything else that was designed to give life and liberty and excitement, they had taken it and twisted it so badly that they created this heavy burden on the people. It was no longer life-giving. It became a legalistic system to where they were being crushed by it. Jesus was coming to overthrow that. Even though he did not like what the Pharisees were doing to the law, he did not come to get rid of the law. It says in Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” All the law was fulfilled in Christ. Why? Because he was the perfect human. He passed the exam. He was able to fulfill the law in himself so we don’t have to fulfill the requirements of the law. Yet at the same sense, he expanded the law. The sixth commandment was thou shall not murder. He says you just heard it said not to murder. I say when you get angry with your brother or sister you have basically violated that law. What is the tenth commandment? Do not go after your neighbor’s wife or stuff. But he says if you look at your neighbor’s wife or a woman lustfully, you have already sin. You violated. He abolished the law. He expands the law. Then it gets really interesting because he shrinks the law. If somebody came up to Jesus and asked him what is the greatest law? His answer is “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it; love your neighbor as yourself.” The first four commands are about love of God. From five on is all about love of neighbor. He says just get this and you will be fine. You don’t have to think about this. Then he did something that was amazing just so we wouldn’t forget it. He took what was written on the tablets of stone and goes on to say that he is going to impress those laws smack into our heart and our mind. He says “This is the covenant I will make with them. After that time, says the Lord, I will put my laws in their heart and I will write them on their minds.” If you are a Christian, you have no excuses to say I didn’t know that was a sin. If you are a Christian, those laws have been impressed in your heart and impressed in your mind. You know when you are sinning. I challenge anybody to say they don’t know when they are sinning. You know because you have the spirit of God in you that is helping you remember the things that are in your heart and mind.
As we begin to wind this down, we see how the sacrifice system turned over to the cross of Christ. We see how the tabernacle and the temple turned into the temple in you. We see how the law went from something on stone to something in your heart. Are you starting to see how your Christianity might have a little bit of connection all the way back to Exodus and those archaic laws and those archaic systems? Once you get that, it actually may help you when you are struggling with your faith. I have a feeling that a lot of people wrestle with their faith all the time. They really struggle with the whole concept because they have a distorted view. They look through the lenses of their faith through the Old Testament. They look through the Mosaic Law. Somebody becomes a Christian and they come, metaphorically speaking, through the Red Sea through the waters of baptism or whatever you want to call it. They get to the other side and things don’t turn out the way they should. Their family doesn’t respond. They are not excited. Anybody experience that? You go home and say I just got baptized and they say so what? You were baptized as a catholic. But now it is different and I am excited. So what? You start hitting health issues or financial issues. I had a sense that when I became a Christian everything was going to be fixed. You start to grumble like the people out there in the desert. You begin to think it would have been easier to stay in Egypt. I should have just stayed in Egypt. At least I knew what I had. I had food and water. I had all these things. A lot of it has to do with how they are reading the law. A lot of people understand it is a faith decision when you become a Christian. Faith in Jesus Christ. He died on the cross. You believe in his resurrection. Then they come in to Christianity and they immediately revert back to law. They see Christianity as this long list of dos and don’ts and of thou shall and thou shall not. They see it as a list, a behavioral thing. What happens is you follow that long list. You follow the Ten Commandments. You try. You follow all the other things that are found throughout the Bible. If you are only human, sometimes you are going to fail. What happens is the people that are basing their relationship with God on the old covenant, when they fail they feel guilty and so they keep thinking they have to do something to get back to God. What happens is they become miserable Christians. They have miserable lives and they make everybody around them miserable. They are not a witness to anybody because they are still living under the old Mosaic Law. Do you follow that? They have forgotten the very words that you spoke to your neighbor before. I am perfect. I am perfect by the blood of Christ. There is a fancy theologian phrase they like to call this. It is called imputed righteousness, which refers to the righteousness of Christ being transferred to those who believe on him for salvation. It is God taking the holiness and the perfection of Jesus at your born-again experience, whatever you want to call it, when you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that you were in a relationship with Jesus Christ and you accepted him, and he is putting the perfection of Christ in you that enables you to live those commandments that are in your heart not out of a sense of obligation or to get you into heaven but as a response to the grace that God has given you. It is opposite of what most people think. If I am only good enough, God will like me. What it should be is God likes me so I am going to try to be good. That is the most important thing. I hate to say it but a lot of people that come from Catholicism don’t get that. I came from Catholicism and I didn’t get it. I can pick on the Catholics because I was a Catholic. Again, I think they are starting to get it. I think they are starting to understand it is not a works-based righteousness.
Then you have people on the other extreme. The born-again believers that say I am in Christ and I don’t have to follow any of the rules. I am a free man in Christ. I can do whatever I want because I have been forgiven. That is wrong too. Metaphorically they have walked through the Red Sea but spiritually they are back in Egypt. We talked last week about people not letting go of their pharaohs. Letting go of the things that keep them enslaved. They think they are free. They think they are living as a Christian, but they choose to continue the behaviors of their past, which some people choose to do just like nothing happened. There was no transformation. I am going to continue to live the life that I lived in my past. That is not right. That is wrong. You have been set free from that so why would want to go back to slavery. Like Paul says, why would you want to do something like that? Then they begin to wonder. I just don’t have a great relationship with God. We are just not close. I just don’t get it. I am not growing in my faith. All the while they have all this junk inside of them, the choices that they continue to make, that should have been left back in Egypt. That is what is going on.
What is the answer? The answer is sacrifice but not in the sense of animal sacrifice. The animal sacrifice is done by the coming of the one pure lamb, Jesus Christ. That is finished. But yet we have to enter into a new type of sacrifice. We have to enter into a place where we are willing to sacrifice our desires, our demands, our lust, whatever it is, to give it over to God as he tells us, and as he reveals it to us within our soul, within our heart and our mind. When he says this is a sin, you say you are right. I am not going to do it anymore. By that, what happens is we become transformed. We become changed. The sins that we struggled with in the past, soon they are a thing of the past. We find that every time we resist it, it gets easier and easier and easier. As that gets easier and easier, we are making it closer to God’s dwelling. We are making it deeper into the temple of God. We are going from the outer court to the Holy Place and eventually when we continue to chase after God, we enter the Most Holy Place. When you are in that Most Holy Place, and I can say I have only been there a few times, it is when God will give you revelations that will blow your mind. When God gives you an iota of truth, I guarantee it is going to be like a mountaintop experience, flames and everything else, and you are going to never be the same. You can only get there if you are willing to leave the things from Egypt back in Egypt and begin to walk in holiness. As it says in Leviticus, Be holy because I am holy. Live that sacrificial life. The passage I was going to look at is Romans 12:1. It says “Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. This is your spiritual act of worship.” That is the passage we looked at last summer. In other words, you are a living sacrifice. Which means that you are all responsible for your own tabernacle. There is a passage that comes out of 1 Peter 2:5. It says “You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” A Christian is a priest. We are in charge of the tabernacle, which means I am not in charge of your tabernacle. Debbie is not. Ramsey is not. Sandy is not. We are not in charge of your tabernacle. We are in charge of this tabernacle and my own tabernacle. You are all in charge of your own tabernacle. So if you are not growing in your faith, it is your fault. Don’t blame it on the church for not offering classes. Don’t blame it on the church for not telling you what to do. You are to be a God chaser. You have everything in you to be equipped to enter into that place. You are the priest that is in charge. The priest decided how far you would go into that sanctuary based on the offering you are willing to give. Are you willing to give a dove? Are you willing to give a bull? The dove isn’t going to get you into the inner sanctuary. The bull is going to get you into the sanctuary. You have to burn that bull, whatever it is. When you do that you will begin to experience God in a way that you have never experienced before. I guarantee it. In summary, law, sacrifice, tabernacle. Three things that are at the heart of God’s story. Three things that should be at the heart of every one of your stories. Let us pray.
