{"id":970,"date":"2007-04-24T23:44:51","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T23:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/april-let-us-draw-near-our-act-of-worship\/"},"modified":"2014-01-21T08:40:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T08:40:56","slug":"april-let-us-draw-near-our-act-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/april-let-us-draw-near-our-act-of-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Us Draw Near: Our Act Of Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"

And having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water (Heb 10:21-22).<\/span><\/p>\n

It took Sir Robert Anderson,\u00a0 Scotland Yard chief detective, to shed the following light on these verses, \u201cIt is noteworthy that the only book of the New Testament which tells of the High-priesthood of Christ never once refers explicitly to the priesthood of His people; for it is as worshippers that we are bidden to draw near.\u201d1<\/sup> That plain sense from Hebrews ought to speak to the common error of today\u2019s so-called worship wars.\u00a0 It is often proposed that in our worship, we are the officiators and God is the audience.\u00a0 I would think such a statement would sound odd to any fair-minded worshiper who has read the book of Hebrews.\u00a0 As Anderson noted, it is not as believer-priests that we draw nigh to God in the light of the heavenly tabernacle, but as thankful observers of the officiating ministry of the only true and faithful High Priest, Jesus Christ.\u00a0 It is only He who is worthy to offer that which is acceptable to God.<\/p>\n

William Newell, in similar fashion, wrote,<\/p>\n

Now, why a Priest?\u00a0 Let me ask in answer, Would you like to go into the presence of God as an independent one\u2014redeemed indeed by the blood of Christ, but set free to go on your own way forever?\u00a0 You know you would not if you are one of God\u2019s own.\u00a0 Your union with Christ forbids such a thought.\u00a0 And His priestly work draws the heart.\u00a0 Weaklings are we, passing through a world over which Satan is still the prince, and living in a age of which he is the god\u2014in a world that has not changed since it joined in the cry against Christ:\u00a0 \u201cCrucify Him!\u201d\u00a0 Do we not need help?\u00a0 Ah, we need nothing else! . . . Yes, we need a Priest, and we have a Priest, thank God, a Great Priest over the house of God (vs. 21).\u00a0 Let us mark, however, that we do not serve Him as Priest: He serves us.2<\/sup><\/p>\n

The more we begin to intrude upon the session of Christ in the heavenlies (where the rest of us are \u201cseated\u201d as observers, not standing as officiators, Eph. 2:6), the more we either turn the biblical clock back to Mosaic worship or the historical clock back to Roman worship.\u00a0 In the book I reviewed this month, David Bebbington shows how the Romantic era enhanced the coming of Liberalism in the late nineteenth century by causing evangelical churches to reinstitute liturgical practices into their services.\u00a0 The Eucharist was so beautiful and \u201cbecame more frequent, more dignified and more dramatic . . . The priest, consciously acting as an intermediary between the people and the Almighty . . . Placed lit candles on the Communion table . . . He might wear medieval vestments . . . Initially all of this alteration of practice was anathema to Evangelicals.\u00a0 It was condemned, as by Edward Garbett at the Islington Clerical conference in 1868, as \u2018a growing tendency to assimilate our worship to that of Rome.\u2019\u201d3<\/sup><\/p>\n

I have read worse things than these by today\u2019s emergent church leaders as well as others who seem to need high-church, liturgical devices in order to have a \u201cmeaningful\u201d worship service.\u00a0 No wonder we hear of so many people returning to Orthodox or even Catholic services because of their \u201crich meaning and symbolism.\u201d\u00a0 It has been my contention for a long time that today\u2019s contemporary services are doing the same with sights and sounds, trying to enhance the worship service by modern audio\/visual icons, liturgies,\u00a0 and priestly \u201cworship leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book of Hebrews constantly contrasts the earthly tabernacle\/temple with the heavenly tabernacle.\u00a0 The writer in no way encourages believers to return to the sights and sounds of the temple but rather to leave those shadows and patterns for the reality of the heavenly worship.\u00a0 It was difficult for some to leave the liturgy and rich symbolism and come to the simple congregational worship of the believers.\u00a0 But the writer cuts no deals between sight and faith, Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.\u00a0 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul (Heb. 10:38-39).<\/p>\n

It is difficult for us as well to read of the detailed tabernacle worship and not want to recreate the patterns of things in the heavens rather than have the heavenly things themselves and better sacrifices than these (9:23).\u00a0 But the point of the whole book is for the New Testament believer to walk through these truths by faith, continually understanding that our salvation depends on the service that Christ has and is performing for us.\u00a0 That is why I have said that today we do not come together to worship, we are worshipers who come together.\u00a0 Our worship doesn\u2019t start and stop on Sunday but is continual just as His intercession.\u00a0 Our congregational gatherings are in simple spirit and truth.\u00a0 Whether prayers, songs, readings, ordinances or preaching, these are only acknowledgements of a greater and more lasting service which is going on in heaven.\u00a0 By God\u2019s good grace we will one day be dismissed from this rehearsal down here and be allowed to enter the reality up there, taking our seat among the elders and praising Him Who is worthy, for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation (Rev. 5:9).<\/p>\n

Using the same types that the writer of Hebrews uses I invite you to take a walk with me through the old tabernacle, realizing that by faith we are following Christ in the reality.<\/p>\n

The altar of sacrifice.\u00a0<\/span> This is the brazen altar where tabernacle worship began, outside the door of the tent (Ex. 27:1).\u00a0 Our altar of judgment for sin (\u201cbrazen\u201d) is the cross of Calvary where our sacrifice, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood (9:12) He was once offered to bear the sins of many (9:28).\u00a0 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle (13:10).\u00a0 Modern legalists have no right to bring their contemporary liturgies to this altar!\u00a0 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach (13:13).<\/p>\n

The laver.<\/span>\u00a0 The priests had to pass by the laver and wash their hands and feet before entering the holy place (Ex. 30:18-21).\u00a0 If they did not wash they would die (Ex. 40:30-32).\u00a0 We follow Christ, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water (10:22).\u00a0 Unger called this, \u201ca type of Christ cleansing the believer-priest from the defilement of sin (John 13:2-10; Eph. 5:25-27).\u201d4<\/sup> We know this as our confession, not the washing of the whole body (Jn 13:10) but of the feet that get dirty on the road.<\/p>\n

The candlestick.<\/span>\u00a0 The lampstand stood inside the tabernacle (Ex. 25:31), or as our writer says, the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the sanctuary (9:2).\u00a0 There was no natural light inside the holy place and this seven-fold lampstand shed the only light for the priest\u2019s work.\u00a0 Our light is shed by the Holy Spirit, the Oil of God\u2019s presence within us.\u00a0 He illuminates the Word of God as Christ\u2019s Substitute and Comforter.<\/p>\n

The table of showbread.\u00a0<\/span> On the opposite side of the holy place was the table of showbread; grain which had been crushed and baked in fire to give life to the eater.\u00a0 Christ is the Bread of heaven, whether by the living Word or the written Word.\u00a0 The Word is our sustenance and food.\u00a0 It is the Word of God that is still living and powerful and more piercing than a two-edged sword.\u00a0 It searches us to the depth of our very lives (4:12-13).<\/p>\n

The altar of incense.<\/span>\u00a0 This altar was also in the holy place and marked the place of intercession as the incense rose up to God (Ex. 30:1).\u00a0 Nadab and Abihu offered \u201cstrange fire\u201d on this altar that God had forbidden and were killed for it (Lev. 10:1-11).\u00a0 Nothing can intercede for the believer but his great High Priest because He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them (7:25).\u00a0 The book of Revelation pictures this heavenly altar continually burning before God the Father with the prayers of the persecuted saints on earth coming up before Him (Rev. 8:3, 41).\u00a0 Isaiah saw this heavenly altar and its smoke filled God\u2019s temple (Isa. 6:6).<\/p>\n

After following Christ from the altar of sacrifice, our own moment of salvation, through our washing of sanctification, the reading of the Word of God and the illumination of the Holy Spirit, now we come confidently to God with a prayer life that avails much in our behalf.\u00a0 For the Tribulation saints, the prayers from this altar shake heaven and earth!<\/p>\n

The veil of the temple.<\/span>\u00a0 The veil separated human priests from the very presence of God as He abode above the cherubim in the holy of holies (Ex. 26:31).\u00a0 No man could pass this veil and live but the high priest and that once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people (9:7).\u00a0 But now we enter with boldness . . . Into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh (10:19-20).\u00a0 It was through His humanity that Christ had to pass for us, dying the awful payment for our sins on His cross.\u00a0 It is a new way.\u00a0 The word means \u201cfreshly slain\u201d and Newell says, \u201cHe is evermore freshly-slain.\u00a0 Not, mark it, slain anew, but there before God Who inhabiteth eternity, as His Lamb, provided in His infinite love, [as] just now slain!\u201d5<\/sup> And can it be that I should gain such an interest in the Savior\u2019s blood?<\/p>\n

The holy of holies.<\/span>\u00a0 This most holy place was beyond the first holy place (Ex. 25:17).\u00a0 It contained the ark of the covenant and the mercy seat (Ex. 25:17-22) of which God said, And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat (22).\u00a0 Our writer said, and over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy seat (Heb 9:5).\u00a0 Of course, \u201cmercy seat\u201d is translated from the same root as our word \u201cpropitiation.\u201d\u00a0 John wrote, And he is the propitiation for our sins (1 Jn 2:2).\u00a0 The wrath of God is removed and God is propitiated when we have applied Christ\u2019s sacrifice for our sins.\u00a0 Rather than condemnation for our sin we find communion with God.\u00a0 When our writer urges us, Let us draw near (10:22), he is inviting us to follow Jesus from the altar of sacrifice all the way through into the holy of holies and commune with God the Father who said, And I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty (2 Cor. 6:18).<\/p>\n

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And So . . . .<\/h3>\n

Our worship is not of sights and sounds or emotional highs or lows.\u00a0 The writer of Hebrews would go on to say that we are not come unto mount Sinai with its fire and blackness, the sound of a trumpet and voices (12:18); but we are come to mount Zion which is the heavenly Jerusalem and unto the company of heavenly angels and saints and, yes, our Lord Jesus Christ (12:22).\u00a0 Our worship is in spirit and in truth.\u00a0 We understand these great truths of Scripture and we live in the light of them every moment of every day.\u00a0 After all, Christ is conducting that heavenly worship service for us every moment of every day!<\/p>\n

Some years ago I cut out this story from The Sword of the Lord:<\/p>\n

A Methodist preacher in Colorado had a son named Paul.\u00a0 Paul was told that if ever he got a chance to hear D.L. Moody preach, he must do it.\u00a0 One day Paul heard that Moody was to preach in Denver where Paul lived.\u00a0 He did his best to get a ticket, but when he reached the building it was filled, and the ushers would not admit him. While he was standing outside in great disappointment, a chunky man came along and asked him if he wanted to get in. \u201cYes,\u201d said Paul, \u201cbut I can\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cTake hold of my coattail,\u201d said the man, \u201cand hang on.\u201d\u00a0 So he got in and was led clear to the front.\u00a0 He had been hanging to the coat of Moody himself!\u00a0 The young man was Paul Rader.<\/p>\n

When we attach ourselves to Christ\u2019s coattails in the heavenly tabernacle, He\u2019ll lead us all the way to the front where we\u2019ll commune with Him.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1. Sir Robert Anderson, Types in Hebrews (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Kregel, 1978) 74.<\/address>\n
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2. William Newell, Hebrews (Chicago:\u00a0 Moody Press, 1947) 348.<\/address>\n
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3. David Bebbington, The Dominance of Evangelicalism (Downer\u2019s Grove:\u00a0 IVP, 2005) 154.<\/address>\n
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4. Merrill Unger, \u201cLaver,\u201d Unger\u2019s Bible Dictionary (Chicago:\u00a0 Moody Press, 1966) 646.<\/address>\n
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5. Newell, 345.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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