When we look
into the Old Testament Tabernacle every article has meaning and many spiritual
lessons and revelation of Jesus type. All the 3 compartments of the Tabernacle
of Moses taught us to move from our self consciousness to God consciousness.
The first two are the Outer court and the Holy Place.
The articles in the Outer Court of the Tabernacle we have the brazen altar and the brazen laver where the animal sacrifices were made and the washing of sins. God wants us to move on to the Holy Place and into the Holy of Holies. The Outer Court speaks of judgment upon sin and there is a constant reminder of sins. The believer who dwells in this realm will not able to go forward far in their spiritual lives because they will be constantly burden with guilt and caught by being sin consciousness or self consciousness.
The articles in the Outer Court of the Tabernacle we have the brazen altar and the brazen laver where the animal sacrifices were made and the washing of sins. God wants us to move on to the Holy Place and into the Holy of Holies. The Outer Court speaks of judgment upon sin and there is a constant reminder of sins. The believer who dwells in this realm will not able to go forward far in their spiritual lives because they will be constantly burden with guilt and caught by being sin consciousness or self consciousness.
A) Sin Consciousness Realm or Self Consciousness
The opposite,
of course, of a righteousness conscience is a sin-consciousness. The state of
being where you feel separated from God. You do not sense your oneness with
God, but you are very aware of your sin. You are very aware of your lack. You
are very aware of your inability to do that which you want to do.
Sin-consciousness is that state where you could want with all your heart to
please God, and yet you find within your members that sin-consciousness, the
sense of being separated, the sense of failure, the sense of fear. "Oh I would love to be able to pray in
a meeting, but I feel so inferior." That is sin consciousness, and
that will rob from you and steal from you everything that God wants you to
have. Sin-consciousness destroys faith.
Sin
consciousness makes us feel unworthy.
How many Christians ever come to a meeting, and feel worthy to have the joy of
God come upon them and flow from within them? Very few Christians ever meet
together on Sunday morning, or any other time, with a sense of worthiness. It’s
always a sense of unworthiness. "I’ve failed God so miserably. I’ve missed
God so many times this week, and I have a sense of unworthiness." So when
we come together, there is no real joy. There is no real expression. There is
no real release of the spirit. There is just a sense of unworthiness.
Sin-consciousness is the biggest enemy that the church of the living God has
today.
Sin-consciousness
makes your prayers ineffectual. The
scripture says, "The effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man avails much." But if you do not have
that consciousness, if you do not know that you are a righteous man, if you
have the sense of unworthiness and weakness and failure, your prayers will not
avail much. God only answers the prayer that is prayed with the consciousness of
His righteousness. So COME OUT OF SIN CONSCIOUSNESS! The Answer!
Hebrew 10:1,2 - Christ's
Sacrifice Once for All
1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.…
1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.…
Hebrews 10:11, 12 - Day after day every priest stands and performs his
religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which
can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest (Jesus) had offered for all time
one sacrifice for sins, he sat
down at the right hand of God,
Heb. 10:17, 18 Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”c
18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice
for sin is no longer necessary.
God will no
longer conscious of our sins –
why we are so conscious of our sins.
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