THE GLORY OF GOD'S PRESENCE Part 1 Benny Hinn

Benny Hinn ministries presents the glory of God's presence a series of three messages by pastor Benny Hinn from a training for ministry conference in Orlando Florida tonight I will begin with a teaching that I believe is of great importance to the Lord and to the church especially now for we have so little of the presence of God in many circles today and God is longing to restore to his church not only his power but his presence now please understand before I begin teaching there's a major difference between God's power and presence God's presence is what you and I need for living God's presence is what nourishes you God's presence keeps you God's presence transforms you into the image of Christ Jesus God's power is not for you it's for others through you God's power does not change you God's power does not even nourish you God's power does not maintain you God's power doesn't feed you we are going to understand in this great conference how to enter into God's presence not God's power now I want you all to listen to what I got to tell you because I speak not only from experience but I speak from entering into the Word of God and understanding it I can enter into God's power in one second I can come out in one second but I cannot enter God's presence in one second nor come out in one second God's power was seen by Israel and yet they wanted to go back to Egypt God's power was seen for 40 years and they rejected God God's power was seen with such awesome wonder the result was they said let's build an animal and call it Jehovah God's power was seen when Christ Jesus walked the earth and they said crucify him we're not talking about God's power tonight and we need God's power the world needs God's power the church need also needs God's part but that's not what keeps you alive what keeps you alive is God's presence God's presence nourishes you God's presence keeps you the Bible says in the Psalms he made known his ways unto Moses his acts on to Israel well you know what happened to Israel but when Moses saw God and experienced God and God revealed his nature to Moses in his heart to Moses and his attributes to Moses and his ways to Moses Moses was transformed their great verse in Exodus 34 20 29 and Moses wish to not his face at Shaun God's presence so transformed him he forgot all about himself God's presence will cancel you as it canceled Moses Moses said to Israel in fact the scriptures are clear on the fact that when he stood in the presence of God he did not know that God's presence was changing and transforming him he was not that his face was shining he was not and this is God's great desire for you that you might be transformed into the image of his son and so from glory to glory we are changed the scripture says as the glory of God transforms us I'm going to help you in this incredible time here to understand how to enter into what the glory is how many one that put your hands where by yeah we want to understand how do we enter into the glory I can enter into God's power with surrender and please believe me when I tell you and I'm not boasting I can surrender in one second but to enter into God's presence on that platform I go through a process I'm going to take you through here the tabernacle is the roadmap the tabernacle is the pattern that God uses now before I help you understand and is going to take me three full session to help you understand so don't expect me to all do it in one night I must help you understand first the Bible says in Psalm 100 verse 4 enter into his gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto Him and bless his name now you must understand before you can enter into the presence of God you must experience the gate we enter into his gates with Thanksgiving say Thanksgiving now whenever the Bible talks about Thanksgiving it talks about goodness it's related to God's goodness whole lot of people thank God every day but have no idea how to enter into God's presence and when we talk about the gates we talk about introduction we talk about salvation when you and I will introduce the Christ Jesus I have to go back to 1972 to help you understand what I experienced and you have to go back to the day you were saved to understand what we are going to talk about here when you were born again you came first to the gate you are introduced to Christ Jesus and you met him first as the savior of your soul you met him first as the king of glory you met him first as the man Christ and you met him first as the son of God if you had not experienced him in all four revelations you could not have been saved salvation is impossible till you understand the four offices of the master now if you look at the gate you notice four colors the white the blue the Scarlet the purple these four colors God said to Moses are to be at the gate now nobody really knows what it looked like exactly we can only guess most likely they were mingled rather than separated but these colors represent Christ in his fullness in his fullness at salvation not his fullness beyond salvation if you missed what I said I'll say it again and help you understand when when whenever we meet the Lord we meet him in completion and we think that's all there is but as we progress in that revelation of Christ we come to another image of him in completion again and then to another image of him in completion there are seven listen there are seven revelations of Christ I'm going to take you through before you can worship God seven before you can experience the presence of God I know people may not understand this but it's a fact in my life I experienced all seven in every service I've ever heard of in the world you say what do you mean I'm glad you asked I'll help you understand that but you gotta stay with me till tomorrow night and the people said the first revelation is his offices the second revelation is his cross the third his words and then we'll go beyond that till we see the seventh but let's talk about introduction say with me introduction now the minute you experience that introduction you've experienced Christ Jesus as the man you identify with you've I you've experienced Christ Jesus at Salvation and began to identify with him and this is why he was baptized for he said to John the Baptist we must fulfill all righteousness the minute Christ Jesus was baptized he identified himself with sinful humanity we identify with him as the man Christ Jesus now we go on all happening at the time of salvation the Holy Spirit reveals him then to us as the Saviour the Savior is the Scarlet the Savior is the man Christ who died on the cross and shed his blood for me and took my sin upon himself and then we experienced this precious Jesus in another revelation the Son of God the blue and there we begin to obey him and worship Him and praise him and exalt him see there are those that have only seen him as the as the man Christ Jesus and therefore their relationship doesn't last they fall away but if you have the full revelation of Christ you'll never leave him now you've experienced him as the man Savior now the Son of God but then as the king the purple God said to Moses among those four colors at the gate the minute we experienced the gate the minute we experience the fullness of Christ Jesus we then are born again and that is when Thanksgiving erupts out of our souls for His goodness his goodness therefore is related to my salvation at Salvation I met him as man son of God Savior King of glory amazingly if we want to put it in the order of the Gospels for these four four colors also represent the Gospels we have four Gospels Matthew Mark Luke John amazingly in Matthew he's represented to us as King in mark man in Luke Saviour John son of God so when you read the Gospels what do you receive you receive the revelation of who Jesus is he's the king in Matthew he's the man and Mark the Savior in Luke son of God in John so four colors four Gospels for revelations that all happens at salvation so if I say to you Matthew you must remember he's the king if I say to you mark is the man Luke my Savior John son of God now if I say Matthew you'll think about the king and the king you obey I say mark the man that I can identify with Luke he's the Savior that took my sin son of God I worship Him so these are the four revelations now I can spend much more time on this but there's no need because I believe you do understand and the people said now once you experience Jesus in these offices there will be Thanksgiving there will be Thanksgiving and you'll thank him for his goodness and His goodness is related to salvation he saved my soul now that ladies and gentlemen that blessed revelation comes at salvation and there by the Holy Spirit you meet Jesus Christ face to face and that's what the psalmist meant when he said I will enter into his gates now I'll explain something to you later further because we must still come to Jesus before we enter into God's presence every single time in my meetings around the world I won't even move till I come to Jesus I cannot begin a service till I have seen him face to face and met him I must see him before I can minister and that to me is one of the most amazing and one of the greatest revelations that every believer needs to live and live the kind of life that pleases God Almighty so I will enter into his gates with Thanksgiving into his courts with praise now the courts by the way we don't really have a whole lot of space between the gate and the altar but the courts are just between the gate and the altar so Thanksgiving praise now sadly this is as far as some people have gone in their relationship because they have misunderstood they have not yet understood the fact that praise simply gets you in praise only allows you in and you can't really praise until you've received Christ Jesus as Savior and have known him in four offices the scripture says in some a hundred verse four I will enter his gates with Thanksgiving his courts with praise now precious people listen to me whenever we praise the Lord we praise him for his greatness great is the Lord and greatly to be praised the scripture says you can read this in Psalm 95 verse 3 in Psalm 145 verse 3 now tonight though I want to help you understand worship and worship is related to the presence of God now listen carefully I can thank the Lord without a revelation because Thanksgiving is the utterance of the mouth I can praise the Lord without a revelation praises the utterance of the mouth but I cannot worship Him without a revelation so something happens something happens between the gate and the altar between the gate and the altar there comes a revelation and without that revelation nobody can get any closer holiness is a revelation you must understand goodness does not need a revelation you just see what God has done for your life he saved your soul cleansed you set you free and so forth and you thank him for his goodness that he's done in your life you praise him for the power he's displayed to set you free his greatness that doesn't need any revelation you can see it you can hear it you can taste it you've experienced it but God's holiness something different God's holiness demands a revelation by the Holy Spirit and only when I've experienced that revelation can I begin to worship Him how can I worship someone whom I have not met worship demands a revelation and this is where we miss it but how many here are ready to receive it say Amen now precious people turn with me to Isaiah 60 for a second Isaiah 60 verse 18 in fact Jim I'm gonna help I'm gonna have you help me if you'll take this microphone and I want you to read for me this amazing verse because the Word of God declares that when you begin to praise the Lord when your life has been transformed by his power and I emphasize his power when your life has been declared free violence leaves your life the Word of God declares Isaiah 60 verse 18 if you will please Jim thank you or be heard in thy land wasting nor destruction within thy borders now this is amazing because true salvation brings to true Liberty on the Sun sets free is free indeed there will be no violence the enemy of your soul will not display his power any longer in your life there will be no destruction there will be no waste dear God I pray you're listening the minute you are born again through through Christianity clearly States if you are in Christ old things are passed away if you are a true believer there will be no bondage in your soul there will be no bondage in your life that change of hell would have broken the minute you saw Christ in his four revelations but today that's not reality sadly even though that's what the Bible says you and I are to live in today precious believers come into the kingdom still with the change of yesterday around the neck but the Bible says true praise true praise happens when a man has been delivered from violence destruction and waste therefore demonic powers are something from the past not the present I have not had one day of bondage since the Holy Ghost touched my life that's a fact now I will tell you something else when I was saved in 1972 I did not know the part of God like I know it today between 72 and 73 I was in trouble I didn't walk in liberty I walked were most Christians walk today I had to go to Maxwell White and watch him set the captives free by applying on the blood the blood the blood the blood the blood the blood the blood when the power of God came on me in Catherine's meeting from that day till now I have not known one second of bondage I have not known one minute of depression oppression on any or a mission I'm free how can I give away what I have not gotten how can i minister to the captives if I'm captive how can I pray for the sick if I am bound how can I give what I don't have my friends I've experienced it whom the Sun sets free is free indeed is that what you want hello is that what you want it is not by might not by power not by preaching not by education and not by learning but by my spirit says the Lord you can't learn this stuff you can learn it you can go to school and become a Bible scholar and all you have is information information will not help you we are not after knowledge we're after Jesus I am NOT interested in knowledge knowledge knowledge I want the knowledge of him the Bible doesn't tell us to seek knowledge what will happen if you get knowledge puffed up that's all you get is a big mind big head okay get knowledge get all the knowledge you want even all you're gonna do all you're gonna do is be so educated there'll be no room for God in your life you missed it some people are so educated God can't get in they leave him no space some are so educated God cannot use them I'm not against education I want revolution not education education will destroy me revelation will transform me God's Word is a revelation of himself say revelation say it again say the knowledge of him is revelation so when I read the Bible I am NOT looking for information I am looking for Jesus I look for Jesus in Genesis and Exodus and Leviticus numbers I look for Jesus I'm looking forward for every time I read I look for Jesus and the greatest revelation God gave me years ago is that the Bible is a revelation of one person and his name is Jesus the greatest revelation I ever had as a young man living in Canada is the fact that the Bible is the revelation of one man that's it from Genesis to Revelation it reveals Jesus I'm not looking for knowledge I'm looking for the knowledge of Christ and the people said now the minute you receive this Jesus there will be freedom there will be Liberty now I know in some cases people have not experienced that but that's what I've read in this precious world and that's what our hearts cry for absolute liberty in Christ Jesus I thank him for that goodness I praise him for his greatness and that only lets me through the gate now I stand before an altar but before I talk about the altar I mentioned earlier the importance of Revelation holiness is a revelation now you can say to God your merciful that does not describe his fullness your loving still you don't describe its fullness your gracious doesn't describe his fullness your kind doesn't describe his fullness but when you say your holy holiness is his total being did you miss what I said say after me holiness is the total being of God say it again so when I say to the Lord you are holy I'm saying you are loved you are justice you are anger you are wrath you are mercy you are grace your power your eternity in that word holy is his totality that's why the Angels don't say your gracious merciful and kindly say holy holy holy because the word holy is his totality holiness is a revelation say that say it again see the Bible the scripture says clearly the scripture says clearly that God is love first John for God is justice Deuteronomy 32 amazingly God is wrath too near him one to God is mercy he's merciful psalm 51:1 god is gracious he's grace Hebrews 4:16 god is power Psalm 93 now all these things represent a portion of him we see if I miss eight a a measure of him but not his totality until we know his holiness His Holiness reveals his heart his holiness reveals him and only that revelation will produce will birth will literally bring to pass worship in your life anybody understands if you do put your hands way up high so I know I've not wasted my time now holiness precious people not only is holiness a revelation but that revelation begins amazingly there at the altar of sacrifice this is where it's Revelation begins to unfold I know tonight I'm saying things and I'm saying I'm fast and I know you're trying to catch on but it's quite simple really once you meet Jesus as Savior you through the gate at that moment a revelation must come to your life on who is this Jesus that you did you met the Bible says he's eternal the Word of God in Psalm 95 go with me please to Psalm 95 tells me something most remarkable oh this is glorious come let us sing unto the Lord let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation let us come before his presence with Thanksgiving make a joyful noise on to him with songs great the Bible says the Lord is a great God a great King above all gods and his hands are the deep places of the earth the strength of the hills are his also the Seas his he made it his hands formed the dry land amazingly all that happens before I receive the revelation of who God is all I've seen now is his power and greatness from verse one right to verse 4 and 5 the Bible is clear the Word of God states clearly you come into his presence with a joyful noise you're crying with praise and thanksgiving making a joyful noise for you've seen he's a great great kingdom of all God's you've seen in his hands or the deep places of the earth the strength of the hills are his the sea is his he made it his hands formed the dry land and there you stopped when I consider your heavens the work of your fingers the moon and the stars I cry what is man that brings me to praise but not into worship worship demands a revelation I can praise him by the things I see I can praise him by the things I hear I praise him for what he has done his goodness is greatness I can't worship him until I see who is this God and so the Bible says oh come let us worship verse 6 and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our maker he is our God we are the people of his pasture the Sheep of his hand and now something happens are you ready for this if you are say yes now precious people I want to say something here that I've gotta I've gotta make sure you hear it I've said to you earlier I can thank him I can praise him and don't need a revelation but beyond that I gotta have one to worship Him I can thank him and I can praise him and I don't hear his voice in that there is no voice in praise there is no voice even in Thanksgiving because all it's my voice not his but I cannot worship God not one time can you worship God without experiencing his voice his voice is not heard at the gate and his voice is not heard in the court his voice is heard when worship begins remember I said to you earlier Thanksgiving is the utterance of the mouth and praise utterance of the mouth but the minute worship really begins after this revelation comes to you who is this God I'm worshiping and that revelation begins at the cross this is why we have we must we must we must come to the cross if we bypass the cross will never receive the revelation of who God is the Bible says let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our maker he's our God we're is people the Sheep of his pasture now it says today if you will hear his voice this tells me that I cannot hear his voice in Thanksgiving and I cannot hear his voice in praise but I must in worship worship therefore enables me and enables you to hear the voice of the shepherd Oh hallelujah the Bible tells me very clearly that worship which begins with a revelation this worship brings not only his voice but more than that rest the Bible goes on to say harden not your heart as in the provocation day of temptation in the wilderness when your father's tempted me proved me saw my works 40 years long was I grieved with this generation said it's a people that do err in their heart they have not known my ways notice on to whom I swear in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest your attention please are you still there I said are you still there there is a rest in worship Very's rest in worship there were therefore worship is my Sabbath when I begin to experience worship this is my Sabbath this is my rest this is the place when I am delivered from work you've got to hear what I'm telling you here therefore there is a day of rest for the people of God I see in Hebrews when you read Hebrews you find something most revealing God created the world in six days on the seventh day he rested now God promised the day of rest for Israel but they could not find it for they did not believe his word they could not enter in because of unbelief unbelief kept them from entering into the Sabbath the real Sabbath now when you and I speak of Sabbath we think Saturday it's a day of the week when God says Sabbath he says rest rest means you don't have to work God will do it all rest means you stand and see his power rest you stand and let the Lord do all that must be done he's the man of war he'll fight your battles all you do is rest and let God do it but the Bible now says Israel refused that rest therefore in David he spoke again and said the remains a day another day a third day for the people of God in Adam God rested creation God rested Israel he offered them one day and they said no for why they didn't believe but God in David spoke again and said that remains another day and that day comes by faith anybody understands what I just said our life of faith brings us into that rest but precious people it is worship and only worship that gets us in so you meet Jesus Christ he becomes your Savior your Lord your master your king you're in and you thank him now you praise him for all he's done and you haven't even yet understood this amazing place called the cross the minute you come to the altar and God said to Moses build a brazen altar this brazen altar represents the sufferings of Christ Jesus God said to Moses I wanted to build this praising altar and it speaks of the blood but please listen to me this is where worship is born worship is born at the cross because at that cross something happens Jesus said in John 10:27 my sheep hear my voice we hear his voice as we begin entering into his presence and we cannot enter into his presence till we come to the cross the cross if I may say is the door to the presence of God the gate is the door into the Christian life but the cross is the door into God's presence we enter through the gate were through that place called introduction and there we thank him and there we praise him but were not really in yet we're dry and young and hen heard his voice all we know is what he's done for us and sadly there's a whole lot of people living in the courts haven't heard his voice yet and it's his voice that will transform you remember Israel rejected his voice and that's why transformation did not come their way and they said let's build the calf let's go back to Egypt they rejected his voice but when you come to that place and worship is born and worship is born as God reveals his holiness worship is born as holiness is revealed and suddenly you see him the minute you see him suddenly something happens inside of you every true believer has had such a moment when Jesus becomes all-in-all to you suddenly there's a revelation of who this precious one is and in worship something happens praise can stir the soul worship stills it praise stirs the emotions worship stills the emotions praise activates the soul worship shuts it down now there is something that happens you that is incredible now if you're ready I want to just for 60 seconds to lift your hands and pray in the Holy Ghost come on people lift your voices and pray in the spirit everyone lift your voice and pray come on worship is born come on people pray keep praying people because we want God to do something for us here this is not just a teaching we want to experience what we're talking about here now all of us have been to the to the gate we all know Jesus we've met Jesus we we we've experienced Thanksgiving we experience praise our eyes have seen our the years have hurt we've all had a revelation of who Jesus is but but now the process must begin [Music] keep rank [Music] it's your course [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we were made [Music] [Music] we were [Music] tell them tonight where your people [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] father God prepare your people's hearts now Lord in Jesus mighty name to enter in they might experience your word tonight that's being taught in the name of Jesus and God's people said take your seats Hebrews chapter 9 then very the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary for there was a tabernacle made the first wherein was the candlestick in the table of showbread which is called the sanctuary after the second Veil the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all which had the golden censer and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with gold wherein was the golden pot that had manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the tables of the Covenant and over it the shared beams of glory shadowing the mercy seat of which we cannot now speak particularly now when these things were thus ordained the priests weren't always into the first Tabernacle accomplishing the service of God but into the second went the high priest alone once every year not without blood which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people the Holy Ghost this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while as the first Tabernacle was yet standing say after me the way into the holiest lift your hands and say it again one more time now hebrews chapter eight verse four and five for if he were on earth he should not be a priest seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law who serve on to the example and shadow of heavenly things as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle for see saith he that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mound say with me the pattern say the game say it again Hebrews 9 23 24 it was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these for Christ is not entered into the holy place made with hands which are the figures of the true but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us Sam to me figures of the truth say it again say it again now precious people if you look at this Tabernacle tonight we've just read this is a road map this is a pattern this is the figure of the truth there is therefore a heavenly tabernacle and all that Moses built was simply a pattern a shadow of a true heavenly tabernacle I'm here tonight to show you through this pattern through this road map how to enter into the presence of God so now lift your hands to heaven and ask the Lord to help you because I can teach it and I can preach it but only God can reveal it and the people said now first of all we see an altar notice that this altar has four horns each horn represents an experience of the believers every one of these horns is important there are no meaningless details in the Bible these horns represent forgiveness number one please write them down then I'll explain them to you for the Bible clearly states in Romans 3:25 we are forgiven these horns represent deliverance from sin and the power of sin second Corinthians 5:21 these horns represent the death of the old life Romans 6:6 but more than that the Bible tells us in Romans 12 verse 1 and 2 that we are to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God which is our reasonable worship brethren he says I beseech you by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable to God which is your reasonable service and then he says do not be conformed to this world be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good acceptable perfect will of God now this altar represents the cross it speaks of the cross of Jesus Christ well the blood for my salvation and yours was shed more than that this speaks of my death and yours the gate speaks of Jesus and his fullness and the altra speaks of his cross his blood it also speaks of my death where I die and I surrender to his will and I surrender my life completely to him this is the place of total dedication and total death now this is one of the most important places I can bring you two precious people of God we read earlier in Hebrews chapter 9 as the writer to the Hebrews began to describe to us this pattern this road map and he introduced to us the holy place and the holy of holies he said little about the outer Court so there is the outer Court wherein is the altar of sacrifice and the labor which I'll speak about in a few minutes and then there is the holy place where instance the lampstand the table of showbread and the altar of incense and then there is the Holy of Holies where in is the Ark of the Covenant as the amazing scripture we read and maybe you missed it were the writer to the Hebrews declares in Hebrews chapter 9 that the altar of incense stood within the holy of holies yet the Old Testament doesn't tell us that I want to point that out to you please one more time Hebrews chapter 9 the Bible says verse 3 and after the second Vail the tabernacle now when we talk about the tabernacle we mean the entire structure when the Bible talks about the tabernacle it speaks of two departments only and specifically one look at me please if you will when we say tabernacle we mean the whole structure outer court holy place and Holy of Holies when the Bible talks about the tabernacle it talks about the holy place and the Holy of Holies which were totally covered with four different type of skins which are not here on the platform of course otherwise you wouldn't see what's within the outer skin was badger skin badger skin is a very ugly looking skin the world when someone stood outside he could not see beyond the gate beyond the fence all he saw his the top of the actual tabernacle and he saw the ugliness rather than the beauty of the Lord for remember when the world sees him there's no beauty in him they should desire only those who are in see the glory you can see the glory from outside now the Word of God clearly states that the tabernacle is the actual holy place and holy of holies but specifically the holy of holies now in verse 3 we have something very revealing and often we miss it in the Bible in the Old Testament it's clear that the altar of incense is in the holy place yet the book of here which tells me that the altar of incense stood inside the holy of Holy's so which is it because here it says very clearly after the second Veil the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all which had the golden censer and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid now here's what I believe really happened I believe that this scripture speaks of what happened after the veil was split in two prior to the veil being split into this altar of incense stood outside the holy of holies now that the veil was split in two because of the death of Christ most likely and most possibly this incense was carried within the veil but I'll tell you frankly it was so close to the to the veil that the veil itself was touched by the incense of the smoke the incense which I'll discover later and I'll talk about later with you that speaks of the intimacy with Christ Jesus happens just before you and I walk in but you cannot bypass the altar this altar of sacrifice is where the blood of Jesus was shed and you must understand this is where he offered his life now when you come to Christ Jesus there will come to you a revelation of the work of the cross there will come to you a revelation of the sufferings of Jesus and this is where so many of us when we hear this we turn away we are not sure if we understand we're not sure if we even want it but listen to what he said that I may know him Paul declared in Philippians 3 and verse 10 and the power of his resurrection and the Fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death there is a place where you come in Christ Jesus where you literally surrender completely to the master in that surrender you will understand his forgiveness you will understand deliverance from the power of sin you'll experience the death of the old man and you'll experience Romans 12 where you'll yield to him your members as Paul tells us to do this is such a holy place because at the moment of death something is born at the moment you and I surrender to the master something is born in our hearts what is born a revelation that revelation I talked about earlier where the holiness of God is revealed the minute you yield the minute you surrender your body a living sacrifice there will be believe me there will be a revelation at that minute of who this Jesus truly is the man of sorrows acquainted with grief this precious Redeemer will reveal himself to you and a blessed Fellowship will be born and begin now when that happens you come to that place called sanctification introduction sanctification and sanctification is the second revelation into the presence of God there has got to be a death when I stand on those platforms around the world I promise you before the god I serve first there comes to me an absolutely most amazing experience during worship and I've said this many times and I don't know whether anyone here fully comprehends this but I'm sure you do before I begin to truly worship I can sing but I tell you the truth I can't worship till this experience happens I can lead praise but the minute Jesus the Son of the Living God becomes real to me when Jesus becomes real to me I come back to the gate the process truly begins all over again but in that blessed moment I yield it's so easy to surrender when Jesus is there it's so easy to yield when the Lord is real it's so difficult to yield when you do not have that reality and that minute I yield to the Lord my complete body I heard Kathryn Kuhlman years ago talk about this experience of death and I had no clue what she was talking about when she said I die every time I minister and I had no idea what she's talking about what does she mean by dying I was so immature in those early days believe me I used to go pray Lord kill me because I had no idea what you were saying but I understand now what death really means death means you surrender you yield and you not only yield your body you yield your mind you yield your will you yield every part of you to the Lord that happens at the altar the minute I yield to the Lord something most remarkable happens and my brother it will happen in your life and my sister will happen in your life the second I yield and only when I yield i'm cleansed I'm washed I'm liberated I'm free and there is where the Word of God becomes alive I can preach this Bible and sometimes precious people we preach it because we know it but other times because we've yield it we preach it it carries the anointing with it why we've yield it the second you yield you come to the Laver now notice that the Laver looked like a cup and saucer they filled it with water the Word of God it was made from mirrors that women used to look at themselves Exodus 38 eight says that God told Moses to make it out of brass and bronze used by women to look at themselves that's why James 1:23 calls the Word of God a mirror you and I look through that mirror every time you read God's precious word now God's precious word is what washes you God's precious word is what cleanses you God's precious word is what truly purifies your being now please precious people you must understand where we're coming to because it is beyond that blessed place that we come to what is called the door and I can't really discuss this tonight because we're gonna have to wait till tomorrow morning but you must understand the place that the labor halls this slaver that speaks of God's precious word turn with me if you will let's go to the book of Ephesians Ephesians chapter 5 beginning at verse 25 because God's Word reveals our inward condition our spiritual condition and cleanses us it's God's cleansing agent at the altar of sacrifice there's redemption that sanctification but at the word there's cleansing and that cleansing is vital and we cannot bypass it so in Ephesians chapter 5 and I want to begin reading at verse 25 and 26 and 27 husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word that he might present it to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing that it should be holy and without blemish it is the word of the Living God that prepares us to enter into what is called the tabernacle at the gate we meet Jesus in all four offices and were born again at the altar of sacrifice speaks of the cross we surrender and we yield our lives and the power of forgiveness deliverance from sin deliverance from the old man yielding all to him becomes reality now we face the labor the place of cleansing well the word of God begins to wash our being completely and you read that precious Word of God literally and you can experience its cleansing power not only does it reveal your inward condition as James 1 declares more than that Ephesians says you'll be cleansed you'll be sanctified God Almighty will begin to use you as a vessel of Honor as a result have precious people tonight I began by helping understand something extremely important because the outer Court is the place where the gate the altar and the labor are revealed now before I let you go I gotta help you understand something because the tabernacle not only represents Jesus in seven revelations of which I only gave you three here tonight but this also represents your life and mind body soul and spirit because when I was born again when I met Jesus as Savior it is at that moment I was delivered from sin and then I yielded my body and my life and I was cleansed by his precious word but something happens here quite remarkable the disrobing of the flesh takes place this is where the flesh no longer holds power over your life this is where you experience Liberty from your greatest enemy look I do not fear the devil and I don't feel man I fear this flesh this flesh has got to die and it's a daily daily death now tomorrow I will take you beyond this place into the holy place in the morning what we will cover what happens beyond the door what happens beyond the flesh dying and the flesh yielding because the process of worship begins when I die the process of worship really begins when I yield my body a living sacrifice for Romans 12 says that clearly it's that place of where the worship of God begins but then after that I enter in but when I enter in something happens in the soulless realm the three pieces of furniture represent my mind my will and my emotions and that I'll explain tomorrow morning and tomorrow night the Ark of the Covenant and what it represents in your life and tomorrow night we're going to do something very special as the priests will carry the ark into this room in a spectacular moment as we begin the service now close your Bibles and please stand somebody say hallelujah [Music]

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Published: Sun Apr 07 2019