Read these first six verses. Moreover thou shalt make the
tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue
and purple and scarlet with cherubims of cunning work. It says in the
margin with the work of a cunning workman or embroiderer With cherubims
of cunning work, a great workman who is graded in broidering,
shalt thou make them. The length of one curtain shall
be eight and twenty cubits. Now, twenty cubits would be thirty,
thirty-six foot, eighteen inches is a cubit. Thirty-six and eight
would be forty-eight, I believe. That's how long is that, forty-eight. and the breadth of one cubit,
four cubits. So that would be 18 and 18, 36 inches, three foot. And every one of the curtains
shall have one measure, all of them be exactly the same. The
five curtains shall be coupled together one to another. Another five curtains shall be
coupled one to another. And thou shalt make loops of
blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge into
coupling. And likewise shalt thou make
in the uttermost edge of another curtain in the coupling of the
second. Fifty loops shalt thou make in
one curtain, fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the
curtain that is in the coupling of the second, and the loops
may take hold one of another. And thou shalt make fifty tachets
of gold, and couple the curtains together with the tachets, and
it shall be one tabernacle. You know the outside of the tabernacle
was made of badger skins. Then under that were the ram
skins that died red. Then there was goat skins under
that. I didn't deal with them because it was like the ram skin.
The goat skins was a sin offering, a sacrifice of our Lord Jesus
Christ. But the last thing there was
linen white linen that was put underneath of them that could
be seen inside the tabernacle. Now these things, when they put
them together, they would make a line of blue on each side of
them. A line of blue. And they put holes in them. So
that when they put them together, they had little gold clasps.
It's like you ladies putting up curtains, you know. You got
the curtain rods, you got the little clasps that holds them
together. Well, that's what they done. They made these things
real long and a blue on the, right on the edge of each one
of them. And they had loops in them. And they would take gold
and they would hook those together. And when they'd lay them there,
they'd hook them together and hook them together and hook them
together. ten of them and they hooked them
together where there'd just be one. And there was five curtains of
each and they would cover the whole tabernacle. There's two
parts to the tabernacle under that badger skin. There's the
outer court or the outer, the holy place which was 30 by 15
and the holiest of holies were the veil behind the veil was
15 by 15 so they had these curtains on the inside there and they
formed the ceiling there's what you'd see like if you looked
up right now and I tell you what they were they just barely covered
it just covered the That's all you could see and
it barely went down to the boards, top of the boards that was in
there. And when you looked at these things, you'd look when you walked in
there, when that white linen was hanging down there at the
top of the boards, you'd see gold boards and white linen. That's all you'd see. The boards
on the outsides, gold. Boards on this side, gold. And
this white linen in the top. And the cherubim was embroidered
in all of those. In blue, scarlet, and purple. They were embroidered in those
things. So when you looked up, you see these cherubims with
the wings on them, just like the cherubims over the mercy
seat. There'd be cherubims up there, and their wings would
be out, and they would be in purple, and blue, and scarlet. And they were put in there with
the best needlework. God made men able to do the most
beautiful needlework that you ever saw. But now let's talk
about this linen and how it shows our Lord Jesus Christ in so many
different ways. First of all, linen's made from
flax. Linen's made from flax. And that's
a plant out of the earth. That's a plant out of the earth.
So that linen represents and symbolizes the sinless humanity
of our Lord Jesus Christ. These curtains were pure white.
They were spotless. And I tell you what, and that's
the way our Lord Jesus Christ was. His character was perfect,
sinless. The Scripture said He is holy,
harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, higher than the
heavens. So our Lord Jesus Christ, this
shows His sinless, perfect humanity. And then these three colors,
these three colors speak of our Lord Jesus Christ and something
about everything about Him. When you see blue, I've went
through this before, when you think of blue, you think of the
sky. The blue sky. Our Lord Jesus
Christ came down from heaven. He said, I'm from above, you're
from beneath. I came down from heaven. And
one thing about our Lord, in John chapter 3, it says that
he was in heaven and on earth at the same time. That's what
he says, that he dwelt in heaven and he's on earth at the same
time. And I tell you, so when we talk
about our Lord Jesus Christ, blue is the color of heaven.
And our Lord Jesus Christ is that heavenly man, our heavenly
God, our God come down from heaven. And scarlet, scarlet is the color
of earth and also called the color of sin. Though thy sins
be as red as scarlet, I'll make them whiter than snow when we
talk about scarlet we talk about sin And I'll tell you what and
also scarlet's the color of the earth And and and that's the
color that the earthly kings of this world They robed themselves
in scarlet and they loved their big beautiful robes But they
was of the earth earthy, but our lord jesus christ when we're
talking about scarlet We're talking about him being of the earth.
He's not only a sinless man come from heaven but he is also of
this earth. He was a man made like unto his
brethren. And then purple, purple is the
blending and mixing of blue and scarlet. And you know when our
Lord Jesus Christ was on the earth over in Matthew and Luke
both, and in John it talked about they put on him a scarlet robe
or a purple robe and to mock him being king they done it just
to mock his being king and then what for a crown that they put
on him they put a crown of thorns instead of golden crown but you
read in Revelation the scripture said now on his head are many
crowns many crowns and in every crown that we get I tell you
what we're going to do We're going to take them and throw
them at His feet. Ain't that what we're going to do with them?
But our Lord Jesus Christ here, and they put that purple, and
that's our Lord in His equal blending of heaven and earth. Perfect man and perfect God from
above and also come through the womb of a virgin. Perfect blend
of man and God. He's sinless humanity and God
Almighty. And these two natures as just
distinct as blue and scarlet. And I tell you these two natures.
This is the mystery of the Godhead. These two natures. These two
natures in our Lord Jesus Christ was united into one personality. And as though He was a man, He
was still God. And though He was God, He was
also man. And they was in one person. And
they, beloved, their natures united. And you couldn't tell
where one left off and the other was. Now, it's easy to figure
out what I am, but when it comes to the Lord Jesus Christ, it's
a different thing. And I tell you what, He's the
God-man. And whenever you see purple, whenever you see purple,
let it say to you, and let it speak to you and say this, the
Lord Jesus Christ is the union of God and man in one eternal
person. And I tell you, so that linen
made from flax, our Lord Jesus Christ. And then the cherubim. Talks about those cherubims being
woven, woven into those linen clothes and those linen sealing. This is the sealing now. And
I tell you, they were in these pure white linen and they were
in these three colors. And when you find them in the
scriptures, they're living creatures. You find them in Isaiah 6, and
I tell you, you know where the first place we're confronted
with a cherubim? The very first place. Look over
in Genesis 3.24. First place we hear about a cherubim.
Until we get here to Exodus. The first place we hear about
a cherubim. And they're always, you know,
the cherubims. is some creature that was used
of God in a wondrous way. But look what it says here about
the first mention of cherubims. So he drove out the man and he
placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, not one, but
cherubims. and a flaming sword which turned
every way to keep the way to the tree of life. Our Lord used
cherubims to do several things. Here He's used them to execute
judgment and justice. Now when He said He turned every
way to keep the way to the tree of life, what He's telling us
is He's not keeping the way from us getting to the tree of life,
but He's keeping the way toward that you can't get there, but
one way. He won't let you know when you
try to go some other way you'll pull that sword over here you
try to go this way you'll pull that sword over there and that's
he just keeps working that sword until you got nowhere to go but
to the Lord Jesus Christ Ain't that right and that cross that
cross that's our tree of life That's where our life come from
through that blessed cross of our Lord Jesus Christ Now I want
you to keep I want you to look over here with me in Ezekiel
chapter 1 Let's look at these cherubims. I was reading Ezekiel. I mean, Robert Hawkard about
this. And I'll tell you, it's an amazing
thing. In Ezekiel chapter 1. These cherubims. They're living creatures. You
know, they were alive and they were called seraphims. Cherubims
and seraphims. In Isaiah 6. And they, they done
something, they honored God and they glorified God and they did
God's work for them in a way that angels didn't do it. Though
some people say they were angels. But it don't say anything about,
you know, cherubims are cherubims and angels are angels, in my
estimation. But look what it said here, first
of all in verse 5. And he looked, and out of a whirlwind,
out of the midst thereof, came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance.
They had the likeness of a man. They had the likeness of a man.
They looked like a man. For some way, they looked like
a man. And then look what he says down here in verse 10. And as for the likeness of their
faces, and you know these fellas, you know to read, let's go back
up here and read about them. And every one of them had four
faces and every one had four wings. That means, beloved, they
go north, south, east, and west. Their faces could look in every
direction. And our Lord Jesus Christ is everywhere, all the
time, and He can see in every direction. And their feet were
straight feet. Straight feet. I mean their feet
had one direction. And the sole of their foot was
like the sole of a calf's foot. And they sparkled like the color
of burnished brass. And they had the hands of a man
under their wings. Under their wings. You know their
wings stretched out to them. They had the hands of a man. And they had four faces and their
wings. And their wings were on their
four sides. And their wings were joined one
to another. I mean, each cherubim was touching
one to the other. And what's this? And they turned
not when they went. They didn't go in here. They
went straight. They were ever once straight
forward. I mean they had one direction.
That was doing the will of God, that was carrying out the judgments
of God, carrying out the will of God. And look at this, as
for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man, the
face of a lion on the right side, and they had four, and they had
four, and they four had the face of an ox on the left side, and
they four also had the face of an eagle. And so that's what
these cherubims look like. And I tell you what, when you
talk about these living creatures, that's what Ezekiel said. He
said, I saw these living creatures. These people are living creatures.
They're sent by God. Everything about him is like
our Lord Jesus Christ. Symbolizes our Lord Jesus Christ. Now let's look at those four
faces. First of all, he had the face of a man. And you know when
you look at the face of a man, a man speaks of having an intellect,
wisdom, power, knowledge, having a personality. having wisdom,
having sense, having direction, having the power of a mind, great
mind. And then that lion, That face
of a lion. Our Lord's called the Lion of
the tribe of Judah. And when you look at that lion,
he's called the King. He's the King. And I'll tell
you what, this represents kingly dignity, kingly power, kingly
glory. And our Lord Jesus Christ was
the Lion of the tribe of Judah. And then you look at that ox.
You know what? When you think about an ox, big
ol' ox, And I tell you, put that yoke on that yaks, and he's got
strength, he's got power, he can work, and he can pull, and
he can carry a great load, and he's got great strength for service. And then that eagle, that eagle,
he goes And he can fly around and you know he said he got an
eye like an eagle that means that eagle can see things that
other people can't see he can look down see all of his prey
he can look down and see everything that's going on and all of those
things all of those things speak of our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh,
what a mind, what an intellect, what wisdom, what power, what
glory did our Lord Jesus Christ possess. How kingly was He, how
glorious was He, the King in His beauty. And oh, how great,
what was His strength and His ability as He came as the servant
of Jehovah. And oh, as that eagle, I tell
you, like he's so far above all of us and he can see everything
there is to see about us and perceives everything that goes
on. And then these cherubims, These cherubims, the word cherub
and its meaning is strength and might. Strength and might. And these cherubims, when we
read about them, they're almost limitless in power. God gave
them such power. I mean they the ones when you
look in Revelations and you look what I showed you there and when
you find it and it tells us that God dwells in the tabernacle
between the cherubim. But when you Find the cherubims
and find them working in the book of Revelation and other
places. I mean, beloved, they are the
ones that execute God's judgment. They put one foot on the sea
and one foot on the earth. And when they say to the wind,
it's going to blow. When they say an earthquake is
going to come, an earthquake is going to come. When he said
that the sea is going to come up great and high and mighty,
he said it's going to happen. And so our Lord Jesus Christ,
He gave these cherubims an unlimited power. I mean, He gave them power
over nature and all the forces of nature. And I'll tell you
what, we saw there in Genesis 23, 3-24, how He's used to execute
judgment. Execute judgment. And our Lord
Jesus Christ, when this thing winds up, you know who He's going
to use? to execute judgment, when He destroys this world system,
go use cherubims. And I tell you what, they're
messengers. They're ones. When you look at
them in Isaiah 6, you see them there. They're before the Lord
day and night. Day and night. Day and night.
And they're subject to our Lord Himself. Look over here. Now
look with me in Revelations chapter 7. They're subject to our Lord
Jesus Christ. They're subject to our glorified
Master. Look over here in Revelations
chapter 7. Look what it says here about
them. Look there in verse 2. And I saw another angel, you know, they had control, they
stood on the four winds of the earth, on the earth, the sea,
or any tree, and I saw another angel ascending from the east.
Now listen to this, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice
to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and
the sea. Now watch what he says. Hurt not the earth, neither the
sea, nor the trees, what he says now, till we have sealed the
servants of our God in their foreheads. That's what them cherubim was
doing, keeping away the tree of life. And I tell you, this
is the difference. Old Spurgeon said one time, he
said, since you believe in election so much, why don't you just preach
to the elected? He said, if God had elected right
across their forehead, I would preach to nobody but them. But
they don't have that. But God's got on every one of
their foreheads, he said, don't you hurt nothing until I put
the seal of the living God on their foreheads. And this, you
know, Timothy said this, knowing the seal, you know, having this
assurance that they, well, let me quote it right. The Lord knows
them that are His, having this seal, having this seal, and God put
a seal on us. I can't see it, you can't see
it. But it don't make no difference, we see it as long as he sees
it. I don't see no seal on any of
y'all, do you? Look on your forehead, you can't. But I tell you what,
if I can get in your mind, you get in mine. We can see that
that's where He puts that seal right there. Because that's where
the seat of our affections are, here and here. And our mind and
our hearts are all fixed on Him. Our faces look toward Him. Our
eyes look toward Him. Our faith looks toward Him. And
then look over here in 1 Peter 3.22. Just go back to your left
a little and see what He says about this. about our Lord Jesus
Christ. All these are subject to Him. This talks about Christ who has
gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God. Angels and
authorities and powers being made subject unto Him. So these cherubims embroidered
in that white linen That ceiling that was in the tabernacle represents
our Lord's sovereignty and supreme power over all powers in heaven
and earth. We see in these cherubims the
omnipotence, the omnipotence of our Lord Jesus Christ, His
power set forth in that blessed man. You walk with me if you can.
You imagine that priest when he goes into the, goes behind
that first veil and he goes into the tabernacle, goes into that
holy place and he's walking beneath those curtains and everywhere
he looks he sees white linen and these cherubims up there
on that ceiling in blue and scarlet and purple and the eyes of a
man looking And I tell you all these faces looking, looking,
looking. And he looked up and seen these outspread wings and
these wings are touching one another. And that face of a man
looking straight down on him. And I tell you what, he looked
up and saw all that and he said, oh, what supreme power, what
glory, what majesty, how precious, how glorious, how mighty, how
wondrous must be our God that he's represented this way. And
everywhere he looked, He saw that face of that man. Saw them
glorious wings. And you know in the scriptures
tells, and somebody read it tonight, that man that dwells under the
shadow of the Almighty. We dwell under the wings of the
shadow of the Almighty. God said, I'll bear you up on
his own eagle's wings. And everywhere he looked, he
saw that figure of a man as supreme, as very God Himself. And the
psalmist speaks of it in so many places about us living under
the wings of God. God protected us by His wings.
And our Lord Himself even said, as a hen does gather her chicks
under her wings, how often would I have gathered you? How often
would I have gathered you? And so you must walk with that
priest under there, and he looks up and sees these cherubims,
and what a light, and what a sight we saw when you go in there.
When you go in there, that lampshade, that lamp's blind, that lamp's
shining from that golden lampstand. And it reflects off of them golden
walls. And that golden table over here,
golden table got all that bread on it. And then there's that
golden altar. And it's got that ascending fragrance
going up in it. The intercession of our Lord
Jesus Christ. And then that beautiful veil.
Beautiful veil with all those colors. And the cherubim's in
them. And I tell you what, that Ark
of the Covenant and that solid, solid gold mercy seat with those
two cherubims above them and their wings touching one another.
And then there, there's a supernatural Shekinah glory of our Lord Jesus
Christ there. And then when you looked above,
when you looked above, that brilliant, brilliant solid white linen,
beautiful in it with the cherubims in blue and scarlet and purple
and everywhere he is looking the eyes of a man looking looking
and following every movement of that priest God sees me God's
watching me God's watching me and he's following every movement
of that priest And everywhere were extended those wings out
over them. And everywhere was the sense
of mystery, glory, God in man, God in man and God for man, symbolized
everywhere they looked in that tabernacle. I don't think when
anybody got there, they wanted to sit down and have a little
talk with Jesus. Do you? I remember one time over at Tim
James, one of his conferences, somebody said, let's sing, let's
have a little talk with Jesus. Tim said, no, no, let's don't. Let's don't. Let's don't sing
that. Let's not sing that. But talking about these cherubims
and them being in the presence of God and prefiguring and symbolizing
our Lord Jesus Christ. I got a message from Paul Mahan. I'm sure he sent it to other
preachers. And the message was from Robert Mary Machane. And
it was a charge to preachers. And he said, the first thing
you need to understand is, is that you're before God and before
the Lord Jesus Christ when you stand. You're before God and
the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, you're standing in front
of me, but first of all, you're in the presence of God. And in
the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the second thing
is, is that not only are you before Him, but you're before
Him as a sinner saved, like everybody else. A sinner saved. And that's what it is. When we
get in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, like those priests
were. like those priests were. I'm sure every time they walked
in there, they could not grasp the glory and the majesty and
the purity and the holiness and the righteousness and the glory
of the Lord Jesus Christ manifested everywhere you looked. And I
tell you, you know, and then the thing is, when you looked
on the outside of it, it didn't look like nothing. Didn't look
like nothing. And we come by this church up
here, and they got people standing outside. Standing outside, all
dressed up. Got a real baby out there and
everything, all dressed up, having a living nativity scene. I don't see any glory in that,
do you? You think they're glorifying Christ? You think if they saw
Christ that they would actually do that? I know before I saw
Christ, I would have done the same thing. Before I know the
Lord Jesus Christ, I would have done it and probably did do it. But oh my, people will look by
and see just an old drab badger skin. But boy, when you got inside
that, And oh, you saw the wonder. You saw the gold. You saw the
majesty. You saw the bread. You saw the
walls. You saw the ceiling. And you
could not go in there without seeing the beauty and the glory
of that tabernacle representing our Lord Jesus Christ. But oh
my, when you see Him, you know what you do? You do like Isaiah
did. You said, oh, woe is me. And
you know what them cherubims will do? They'll come with a
live coal off the altar and they'll come and they'll touch you. With
that live coal off the altar and they'll touch you. Life comes. And I tell you, beloved, And
we enter into the holiest of all by the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And God makes us to know Christ
in you, Christ in you is the hope of glory. They had Christ
outside, Christ in us is the hope of glory. Amen? Amen. Our Father, oh blessed Master,
Thank you for the day. Oh, Lord, you bless us with such
wonderful days. Days of rest and peace, comfort
and assurance. You bless us to open your word.
And you've blessed me so abundantly and so graciously with A group
of people so loving, so kind, so generous, so gracious, so
compassionate, so understanding, that look beyond. You see something? Lord, I thank
you and praise you for them. God bless them. Lord, bless every
home, bless every heart, bless their families. their children,
their grandchildren. And God, may we all go through
this life until the day we leave here, rejoicing in You, resting
in You, trusting in You, committing everything to You. God, we need
You, we desire You, and we submit to You. In Christ's holy name,
Amen. Turn your eyes upon Jesus Look
full in his wonderful face And the things of earth And you know it really does when
we get in here and start hearing the gospel. Everything else just
fades away while we're here. And ain't that a blessing? Ain't
that a blessing? I love all of you. Thank you
for the wonderful gift this morning. I was shocked how blessed I was
through you all and I appreciate you. No services the next two
Wednesday nights and Cody Henson will be preaching