To read the near-transcription from Paige’s plenary, just click “Replay” below:
Here is a picture of Paige teaching this session:
The actual LiveBlog replay above has over 11,600 words in it, so I won’t even attempt to restate the entirety of this teaching. However, here are just a few points that will hopefully whet your appetite and encourage you to read the entire entry.
Paige Benton Brown: In The Temple
- God says, “I will be Your God, you will be my people.” But we want to know … how “in” is He? …
- 1 Kings 8 … The temple is not an aspect of God’s omnipresence. This is his personal presence manifest …
- All of this godly extravagance points to God’s glory but the actual glory is even more awesome; even then, God is holding back. The cloud reveals and conceals …
- The cloud is about the covenant; the uniqueness. The glory of Israel is that relationship. In the midst of God’s omniscience, God says, “I know everything, but only you have I known” …
- But they cannot keep the commandments. So how can we meet God? Those tablets are covered with the mercy seat. We cannot meet God at the ark; we must meet him at the altar. God provides a mercy seat, a covering, for the ark …
- Do you steal and do abominations and then stand in God’s house and say, “We are delivered”? …
- Jesus is very closely associated with this temple; presented at 40 days; age 12 reasoning; paying temple tax … always acknowledging it is his father’s house. But also: He was its superior. Tear this temple down and I will rebuild it in three days. Not one stone will be left upon another …
- What do you do with the people who will come to the temple but will not run to the outstretched arms of God? …
- God does not forgive sin. He can’t. He forgives sinners—but it has to be paid for. This is what our sins cost.
