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The Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation
A RENTED HEART
Somehow we have come to believe
that the veil torn to allow us entry into the Most Holy place is only that of
which constitute the temple. Studying
the details of the temple reveals to us astonishing revelations all that
pertains to our blessed Messiah. We see Him in the washing of the water, the menorah,
shew bread and so much more. All three
sections of the outer court, the inner court and Most Holy were veiled.
The purpose of this rented veil
of Christ, His flesh, is that we may commune with God there at the mercy
seat. There He will speak to us. A timeless and eternal provision. The instructions Moses received were to make
an exact replica of that which is in heaven.
However, no longer are we required to enter into that which is earthly,
but that which is heavenly. He has made
a way.
We can only enter by faith. The truth is that it took the death of the
cross to rent that veil so that we may enter.
And yet, some of us find ourselves still in the outer court or inner
court. Have you given it any thought
that we are found in the heavenly tabernacle of God when we enter the tent of
meeting? There where we go to find mercy
and grace to help in the time of need.
Even though we are stuck in our stuffy rooms surrounded with crying kids
and demands that require our attention, we have actually entered into that
realm that transcends time. No wonder it
takes faith. If you are prone to see
things only from a now perspective, that which is earthly and bound to time,
you will miss that which is spiritual, transcends time and eternal. Our
bodies, our very entrapments in our sin, holds us still on earth, but the
spirit meets with God there in the eternal.
Did He not say that the Kingdom of God is within us?
Instead of us literally coming to
Him, He has made a way for heaven to come down to us, even in us. Oh the mysteries of God!! The tabernacle being triune is in fact the
image of man, being body, soul and spirit. The body representing the veil of the flesh
still having to be torn in some of our lives.
All that which still lusts and beastly.
The soul which comprises of the intellect, the understanding and human
wisdom and knowledge, seems to be an even thicker more tenacious veil,
still set in place like an iron curtain.
And then our spirit which is our heart - the very essence of who we are.
Not only our personality, but even that who we were before the
foundation of the earth. As He said to
Jeremiah, “Before you were born, I knew you.”
The truth of the matter is that He meets us
where we are at. If we are still to be
found outside of the outer court, He pursues us by His Spirit to repent and
come into the “fold”. The moment we do we find ourselves having to wash ourselves first before entering the inner court, it is there
that He as the prodigal Father embrace us and kiss us fervently, along the
way. Once we have entered the inner court,
He communes with us on a daily basis to confront and convict us of our wayward
thoughts and unrenewed mind. He enters
into our state wherever that may be. He
enters into our hearts, our very being by His Spirit, there in the Most Holy
place of our lives. All of these divine
encounters is God with us. It is a mercy
and a grace. He has entered in, but have
we?
What would the tabernacle represent
in light of us being a triune being and being the earthly pattern of that which is
heavenly? Made in His likeness. Which is to say triune. For just as there is protocol to enter into
an earthly King’s courts, so it is in heaven.
We see this preparation in the type and shadow of the priests who served
in the outer and inner courts. Even more so in the type and shadow of the High
Priests, the type and shadow of our High Priest, Jesus Christ. Sin was still present in those who served in
the outer and inner court. How do we
know this? Because a mercy was shown to
them that was not shown to the High Priests who entered with fear and trembling
into the Most Holy Place. We are not
told how many of the High Priests throughout history were struck dead, only to
be pulled out by the rope they were bound to.
But what we do know is that no flesh could come into His presence and
live. Why? Was His presence then not in all the
different sections of the tabernacle?
The truth is that His presence was, but not His glory.
David refers to His soul as his
glory. That is to say not that which
constitute his intellect and reasoning, but his essence, his being.
Psalms 108:1
“(A
Song or Psalm of David.) O God,
my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.”
This glory is H3519 in the Strong's Concordance which is the
word Kabod. The meaning is weight. When
we speak of God’s presence, we speak of the weightiness of His presence. That glory that fills the temple with its weight so that the very air becomes thick. David is saying he will praise Him with his kabod.
His heaviness, which is to say his whole being.
Something transpired in heaven
before it was manifested on earth, on the cross. The Son had to leave the
heavenly and enter into our earthly. He
had to enter into our weakness, our temptations, pain and sorrow. He had to enter into the anguish of fighting
against sin and the onslaught of the enemy.
He had to enter into the realm of hatred and murder from that place of
perfect peace and love. It meant
entering into our humanity, that which requires us to relieve ourselves in our
bodily functions. Entering into our
dependency on a mother’s breast and the guidance of a fallen earthly
father. He had to enter into the heart
of what it means to be man. He became
the Son of Man. It is not only what He
left behind, but also what He entered into that we need to consider.
And the word says the following
of His earthly struggles and agony:
Hebrew 5: 7 - 10
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him
from death, and was heard in that he feared;
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which
he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation
unto all them that obey him;
10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
In this we see how He rented His soul in anguished prayer. But there on the cross, He rented His heart
as well as His flesh. There where His
glory resides. And as it was done in heaven, so it was done on earth when God
rented His heart for a broken and lost world.
The veil before the Most Holy Place was torn from top to bottom so that we may enter into the Most Holy Place…that
is to say not just into the type and shadow as seen in the earthly tabernacle,
but into the rented heart of God, as He has entered into ours. A real felt eternal place in Him. In this place we are called to abide in Him
as He abides in us. To remain and not
just visit. Not just once a year, but
forever. My question is, have we truly entered
into the rented heart of God?
The way into His rented heart has unfortunately been
cheapened by the hyper grace deception
where His holiness and a rightful fear of God has been replaced by an
unbalanced view of God as only a loving Father ready to allow all into His
glory. The truth is He did make a way
and what a grace it is! Jesus is the Way
into the heart of God, the Most Holy Place.
He took upon Him our sin so that we may be the righteousness of
God. But He was being made perfect to
become the author of eternal salvation unto all them that OBEY Him.
Hebrews 5: 8 - 9
8Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which
he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation
unto all them that obey him;
This obedience is an ultimate obedience, just as He as the Patterned
Son had to do in order to be made perfect.
In Matthew 5 Jesus says the following:
Matthew 5: 48
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in
heaven is perfect.
He makes it abundantly
clear in John 15 that if we love Him we will do His commandments and abide in
His love. And love is the fulfillment of
the law. Walking in obedience as He did
is the very act of love towards Him and others.
For it asks of us an ultimate obedience to love as He did, and therefore to be perfect as our heavenly Father.
In Hebrews 4 we read
that the Israelites could not enter into His rest due to their unbelief. This
unbelief is described as a hardened heart.
Countless times they were found to be adulterous, compromising and murmuring,
desiring to go back to the fleshpots of Egypt.
But God was not mocked by their sin and refused that they should enter
into His rest.
The rented heart of
God is a very real place that He has made a way through His Son that we may
enter in. This eternal place is where
the spirit of man and God, the Eternal Spirit become one. Paul says we have the mind of Christ and know
all things. It is a place of knowing,
the transcended place Jesus prayed in His High Priestly prayer in John 17. In this place He reveals His rented heart to
those who have come through the Way, that is to say, through the cross. There He reveals His grieving for the lost
damned for eternity without any hope. It
is filled with an indescribable love for His own. It is a suffering love, a humble love, and
eternal transcended love. It is a sacred
place of holy hush and awe where we are undone…it is His glory.
Let us not cheapen His
grace by thinking we can enter boldly without considering the cost and
therefore think we have entered when in fact we still find ourselves in the
outer or inner court. Those who will
enter, enter by unspeakable grace and therefore should not for one moment think that we can deserve it by our obedience. Rather, the obedience is unto the perfection of the saints, so that we may enter. We do
not allow just anybody into our hearts. This
is wisdom. Why should He? Once you have entered, you will come out like
Moses from the mount with glory shining on his face, but we will be unveiled
because the veil our hearts have been torn and now we see. We see because we have entered into the
rented heart of God.
Let us then therefore endeavor
to enter into the Most Holy, renting our own hearts and allowing Him to
discipline us. For there is also a
joy set before us to endure our own cross.
Let us therefore enter. I would like to say that I have entered, but if I am honest, I have not. I am not yet glorious. He has extended the invitation to me over and over this week. I have run from Him because I know in the depth of my being, that when I do, there is no turning back. He is not inviting me to enter into a place where I am still in control. He is inviting me into His kabod. His rented heart, where two hearts beat as one. And so, by this devotional, He is inviting you to enter in.
Please Read:
Hebrews
12
1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is
set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as
unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint
when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son
whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for
what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then
are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us,
and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the
Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own
pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but
grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be
turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any
root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for
one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the
blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he
sought it carefully with tears.
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that
burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice
they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so
much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with
a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear
and quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are
written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men
made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not
who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn
away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised,
saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those
things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which
cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us
have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
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