Worship (Exodus 35)
Through worship, we really have to experience the Holy Spirit because of Jesus Christ. We pray, then God will fulfill the Word for us, and if God gives you a joyful heart, then there’s the true end of it.
Speaker Pastor Dusun Park | Interpreter Esther Han
Holding onto Genesis 3:15, God called one person, Abraham, and Genesis 12:1-3 go to the land I’ll tell you and anyone who curses you, I will curse, and I will bless those who bless you. The powerful one is one who listens to God’s word and follows after it because God uses the one who holds onto His covenant. God gave two stone tablets so the words cannot be erased, so this is the idea that God is the one who is controlling us and comes down to rule over us. He gave them the word to build the Tabernacle and we shared over the several weeks the word of the nature of the Tabernacle, and within the Tabernacle, within the holy place was the place called the Holiest Place, and then even then within the Holy of Holies was the Ark of the Covenant that God commanded us today.
Within this was God’s promise, His word, the Ten Commandments. if you just say they are stone tablets then you are going to have a headache with it because God said he will rule over this world with His word but just remember these three things. Up until at this point the two stone tablets, Aaron’s budded staff, and a jar of manna were inside, and then on top of that there’s the sacrifices and two angels on top, and on top of that it’s God, If you do not understand this, the real walk of faith is going to be very difficult because if you do not understand this you’re going to keep talking about manna your entire life but if you do not and we are ruled over by God.
What this word and this core of the Word is the love of God and to love man, but if you cannot love man then you just love God, then you would turn out not loving man. But if you do not understand because focus on the man, it’s the same thing. This is the understanding that you’re going to focus on only physical possessions when you die, so what? Where is this Tabernacle? Where’s the location so the Israelites were actually creating their tent from the North, South, East and West directions, and at the center of that was the tabernacle. This means that within the middle of the Israelites, Gods will be with them, Immanuel.
But what does that mean it means the Ark of the covenant will rule over them? Anybody who blesses you will be blessed because they’re blessing God, and those who curse them, He said and He will curse because He’s in the middle of the Israelites. If you do not believe God is with you right now, you have no choice to live in suffering, but if you do believe this, there’s nothing you can mess up, because what is for me is for God. That’s why those who bless me are blessing God, and that is why the Tabernacle is always in the middle of the Israelites.
The only thing that left is going into the land of Canaan. In the wilderness two of the promises of God are being fulfilled from chapter 35 to the end, and that is why we always turn into God’s Word. For people who crumble, that was the same problem of the Israelites’ worship. No matter how much of God’s Word is being given, no matter if you have all these other things, if it’s not God’s Word, then it’s going to lead you into curses and disasters. For this is the moment Moses relayed God’s Word specifically related to God’s Sabbath, because God moves according to the center of this Word. But what happens if you go astray of this word? You will not able to mess up God’s word, so before He gives instructions to Tabernacle He gives up a more serious command, and He says do not light a fire in your dwelling on the Sabbath day. It means to only eat manna because God is saying on the Sabbath to come and receive spiritual strength from Him and physical strength because this is the day for you.
In worship you have to gather all strength because all otherwise you will continue to crumble. “Oh but my business won’t go well if I don’t worship! All my grades are keep going down if I don’t worship.” But that person who doesn’t know he’s a spiritual being. That might be true, even non-believers who don’t believe in God can do well, but in the Old Testament when it says that those who do not honor the Sabbath Day will be killed. That’s not the Word that goes away. There’s no alteration or change of God’s Word. It’s not that just the Old Testament that is relevant to us. The New Testament is relevant, because of Jesus Christ, the Old Testament became fulfilled.
What happens in the end for those who do not believe is that you only suffer, and even if you do work well, there’s no choice but to go into mental suffering. No matter how you hard to try to do your work well, your life is in suffering, and that is why even believers commit suicide, because they’re not satisfied. That’s why people drink and do drugs. But when God’s Word comes upon us on Sunday, We have to receive the power of prayer. Then that means, just like Mary, we have to be someone who knows where she is.
I’ve been doing regional churches and giving the message and a newcomer said to me, “Because you are always going to post the message online, there’s no reason to go worship on Sundays.” You don’t know what worship and rest mean, that’s what you’re going to say that if it’s on YouTube anyways, can we just listen to it whenever. It’s just someone who rejects God. What is worship? This is the time from God because at that time, God will give us this word and at that time, God will work. What do I have to do? I have to let go all my own time, all the things that belong to me. That means I completely deny myself because it means your time is not your time.
What does it mean? My positions are not my positions, and I’m saying that my thoughts mean nothing. My circumstances means nothing to me. If I just have God’s Word, everything is finished and that is why you were able to stake your lives and worship. To say that God just died for us, it means we too have died in the cross with him. From now on my thoughts are not my thoughts but God’s thoughts. You’re thinking about these individual things, but you’re not listening to God and you keep words about advancement. Every week there is a word that God is trying to give to you. You have to listen to that word.
Through worship, we really have to experience the Holy Spirit because of Jesus Christ. We will pray, then God will fulfill it for us, but if God gives you a joyful heart, then there’s the true end of it. Because otherwise there’s just no reason to be happy in this world. A long time ago you might have done anything to drink with other people, but now because of the corona virus, you can’t even eat outside and stuff like that. Even when you’re home, you drink by yourself and have no one by your side, but God’s people has received joyful hearts that start with God. Before they do anything, God actually gives me the blessing first, and that’s why from Exodus 40 it is talking about the beginning of the Ark of the Covenant.
From Exodus 40:33, it says the Tabernacle is also the meaning place and God’s glory filled up the Tabernacle inside the Holy of Holies, and on top of the Ark of the Covenant, the spirit of the almighty God is going upon you to establish the Kingdom. God’s kingdom is not something that will move by man. God gives us the Word, not just for the strong or those who are weak. What is strong or weak of God? If the Lord gives today’s word and you pray, then it will be fulfilled. “Oh but I did not receive enough prayers.” if you are praying about something else then you have to realize something else, and you have to quickly diagnose yourself. You have to recognize that we actually thinking about worship instead of consulting the Word. Really stake your life on it and live your life according to it. If your business collapses and you come to me, I will tell you there’s no such thing as failure, because why would God allow that? You need to receive strength and wisdom
If you don’t know this then you yourself won’t receive this answer. You’re not going to able to do your ministries, you’re just going to just have a floating spirit because even though the word comes upon you, it won’t be fulfilled. You have to come back to the important message. There are the people who don’t know what worship is, and there are other people who say, “I just listen to the pastor why would I listen to other people?” Those are the people who do not understand the meaning of the Gospel because those are the people who listen to other people. They do not receive salvation.
If you stake your life on worship, do you know God will give you life to the full? You have to be able to devote and stake your life for the covenant. When I stake my life, it is relevant to the covenant, and there’s the word. So we ended Exodus today. Make the Tabernacle to be able to go out to the field to receive the fulfillment of the Word. May our business go in the direction of going to the 237 nations, starting today. Right now is the time schedule.