Sunday 26th November 2017 - Week 9: ONE STEP AWAY..... FROM THE FULLNESS OF THE LORD - Exodus 40:34-38- Preacher:- Richard S. Leader:- Duncan M

Coming Home - Week 9:

ONE STEP AWAY..... FROM THE FULLNESS OF THE LORD .

Exodus 40:34-38

REFLECTION:

God comes down in fullness and inhabits the tabernacle. Here we have the full revelation of God’s glory. The Shekinah is the manifest presence of God in fullness in the Tabernacle and later in the Temple in Jerusalem. Moses receives instructions and builds a tabernacle according to the exact standards of heaven. Estimated at today’s monetary value, the Tabernacle would be valued at around £20 billion! Moses blesses it and it is filled with the presence of God - a dwelling place and the dwelling of God. In the New Testament the word Shekinah doesn’t appear, However, the concept certainly is there and we see it first with Jesus, who the Apostle John says was the word made flesh and dwelt amongst us. 

• In John 1 the Greek could be translated ‘tabernacled’ or “presenced” amongst us. 
• The Word, God, lived in a tent of human skin and we beheld His glory. 
• Jesus Christ is THE picture of Shekinah glory - the dwelling place of Him who dwells!

NEW TESTAMENT CROSS REFERENCES

• Filled with all the Fullness – (Ephesians 3:19)
• In Him all Fullness dwells – (Colossians 2:19)
• His Fullness we have all received - (John 1:16)
• Having come to Fullness – (Colossians 2:10)
• Fullness of the Spirit – (Ephesians 5:18)
• Fullness of Life – (John 10:10)