Insights
💔 You cannot be given to the world until you’ve been taken by the master, blessed by God, broken by life, and then given to the world.
💪 God chooses fragile and broken individuals to showcase His strength and glory, using them as instruments to fulfill His purpose.
🌟 Jesus embodies everything that the tabernacle represents, being triune in his being and serving as the ultimate connection between humanity and divinity.
🏰 “He preps us for thousands of years because the tabernacle is a shadow of Jesus and he’s trying to get us ready for his entrance.”
🏛️ “God has so fixed himself that no particular people can restrict any other group of people from being able to access him.”
🍞 The Last Supper was not just a change, but a paradigm shift, as Jesus transformed the Passover into communion, collapsing the law onto grace and bringing together different dispensations.
🙏 The true essence of Jesus cannot be fully understood or learned from the pulpit, but rather through the intimate connection and communion experienced at the table.
🍽️ The disciples truly learned and understood Jesus’ message when they sat at the table with him on the road to Emmaus, emphasizing the importance of intimate fellowship and communion.
Summary
TLDR: God chooses broken and limited people to fulfill His purpose, working through them to showcase His strength and glory, and multiplying their impact through the process of being taken, blessed, broken, and given to the world.
- 🔑 You must go through a process of being taken, blessed, broken, and given to the world in order to fulfill your purpose, as the speaker recalls how he initially ran away from his calling to be a prophet, engaging in reckless behavior to avoid becoming a preacher.
1.1 You must go through a process of being taken, blessed, broken, and given to the world in order to fulfill your purpose.
1.2 The speaker recalls how he initially ran away from his calling to be a prophet, engaging in reckless behavior to avoid becoming a preacher.
- 🔍 Despite past mistakes and feelings of inadequacy, the speaker reflects on how God chose him and emphasizes the importance of seeking divine intervention to answer life’s complex questions and problems.
2.1 The speaker reflects on his past mistakes and running away from his purpose, realizing that God chose him despite his flaws and upbringing, and he wonders why.
2.2 Feeling inadequate is a sign of humility and drives us to seek divine intervention, as relying on ourselves is insufficient to answer the complex questions and problems of the world.
- 👉 God chooses broken and limited people to showcase His strength and glory, working through them to accomplish His will and purpose, regardless of their flaws or limitations.
- 📜 Israel endured the wilderness to reach the promised land, finding solace in the tabernacle which represents the cohabitation of Jesus as both divine and human, symbolizing the triune nature of God.
4.1 Israel had to endure the harsh conditions of the wilderness to reach the promised land, relying on God’s presence for protection and finding solace in the tabernacle.
4.2 The tabernacle is a place where divinity and humanity meet, representing the cohabitation of Jesus as the embodiment of both, and it serves as a representation of the triune nature of God.
- 🙏 God prepared for thousands of years to dwell among us through Jesus, emphasizing his divine and human nature while loving, healing, and fulfilling the commandments.
5.1 God wants to be with us so much that he prepared us for thousands of years, and when Jesus was born, he dwelled among us.
5.2 God designed the tabernacle so that every tribe had equal access to him, and he went to great lengths to come down from glory to earth and dwell among us in the form of Jesus.
5.3 Jesus declares that he is God dwelling among his people, loving them, healing them, and fulfilling the commandments, emphasizing his divine and human nature.
- 📚 The Last Supper transformed the Passover into communion, symbolizing a paradigm shift and emphasizing the unity of the body of Christ, allowing individuals to connect and discover the true essence of Jesus.
6.1 Jesus transformed the traditional Passover into communion, symbolizing a paradigm shift from the lamb to himself, and the Last Supper stands alone as a unique event where the physical body of Jesus serves the memorial body of Christ to the church.
6.2 The speaker emphasizes the importance of the body of Christ being united and reveals that the bread and wine in communion represent the new testament and the unity of believers.
6.3 The unity of the church is important as it allows individuals to come together and connect, becoming one body, and the true essence of Jesus can be discovered through communion at the table.
- 📚 Sitting down with Jesus and sharing a meal is a profound experience where miracles happen, as seen in the Last Supper.
7.1 Jesus used the seven-mile walk with two disciples to teach them about himself through the Old Testament, and they learned the most when they sat at the table with him.
7.2 Sitting down with Jesus and sharing a meal is a profound experience where miracles happen, as seen in the Last Supper.
- 🙏 God takes, blesses, breaks, and gives you to the world, multiplying you through the breaking, so that you can meet the needs you couldn’t before.
