Quite a bit of my 17-hour day is spent commuting between home, the hospital and the office.
And what better way to make use of that time than to feed on the rhema word of Christ.
I have loaded my PDA phone with lots of sermons so that I can listen to them while I am driving or riding on the train and bus.
The only thing is that while I could laugh out loud or cry uncontrollably whenever Ps Prince cracks a joke or when he shares something that stirs my spirit man while I was listening in the car, I need to be more discreet when doing so in the train or bus.
Just last week, I was listening to the 8-sermon series that Ps Prince preached in 2001 on the "The Secret of Moses' 40 days" which brother Stanley passed to me some time last month. This is based on what is recorded in Exodus 25 through 33.Contrary to the impression that I had previously, which was that Moses only received the Ten Commandments at Mt Sinai, we read in Ex 24:18 that "Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights."
During that 40-day period, God gave instructions to Moses about the various furniture in the tabernacle, the priestly garments and duties, atonement money and how anointing oil and incense were to be made.
What is so amazing is that all these are types and shadows that are substantiated and accomplished by Jesus Christ and His finished work!
For example, in Ex 26, God told Moses about how the tabernacle's frames were to be made of acacia wood overlaid with pure gold and placed in sockets of silver.
Knowing now that gold represents divinity, wood represents humanity and silver represents redemption, the frames were a shadow to depict what Jesus' work on the cross has accomplished for us. We are the wood that stand on silver overlaid with gold. We have been redeemed (the silver) by Jesus, so that when God sees us, He does not see us in our humanity (the wood) but He sees the gold!
As another example, God also told Moses in Ex 26 to make the tabernacle curtains using blue, purple, scarlet and white linen.
Knowing now that blue represents diety, purple represents royalty, scarlet represents servanthood and white represents manhood, this speaks of Jesus as depicted in the four gospels as Son of God in John, King of the Jews in Matthew, Suffering Servant in Mark and Son of Man in Luke.
As yet another example, God told Moses in Ex 30 how to make the holy anointing oil from myrrh, cinnamon, calamus, cassia and olive oil. These ingredients are made by either cutting or crushing, speaking once again about Jesus' work on the cross. The five ingredients depict the suffering love, zeal, uprightness, worthiness and the Spirit of Christ.
As a result of these progressive revelations, sections of the Bible that used to be very dry or make no sense suddenly come alive and become rich in meaning because our Lord Jesus Christ is being unveiled.
Prov 25:2 reads "It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter." God had chosen to store some of His mysteries in the Old Testament, and it is our privilege as kings and priests to search them out. Amen?
