The Tabernacle of God With Us — Joshua Daniel

God's Light and Truth Lead Us to His Tabernacle

You know, it's always very helpful to remember From whence God has lifted us. You know people imagine that Climbing the economic ladder Is the height of achievement now When we come to the Word of God there are Certain benchmarks Which we must pay heed to.

If you would please turn to Psalm 43 and Let us read the first three verses. Judge me O God and Plead my cause Against an ungodly nation. Now, this is the great King David. Pray Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

For thou art the God of my strength Why does thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy. Oh Send out your light and your truth and Let them lead me let them bring me unto thy Holy Hill and To die tabernacles.

Truth, Light, and Peace in the Home

Send out your light And your truth, you know friends welcoming Light,. I don't know how much you'll love the gloom of Michigan. You'll see you we have some very sunless days here and Long seasons of such days.

Put people into the blues. They Seem to be All getting a short fuse, you know, they can't be happy Disgruntled and so on but light is something Which Kinds of stimulates us light. You can't behave as you like When you have God's light around you.

Send your light Light in our tabernacles. I do not know how many unhappy Family gatherings have just taken place. Somehow happiness is something which people Don't bring with them to the table. When food is on the table, there's somebody grumbling about something or somebody saying some Unhelpful Comment which Puts everybody out of humor, you know coming to our tabernacles.

Just Imagine if you never had light in your house What kind of house would that be? No as One man said to me my wife Gets so fearful. She runs from room to room. I have a nice house but She is so tormented.

She runs from room to room. Well Send your light and your truth, you know. When we don't know the truth about ourselves. Then we enter into a realm of much Miscalculation, you know people don't want to know the truth about themselves folks.

How can I correct myself tell me How can I be a better man if I don't want truth? If I say oh, I want to be comfortable. I want to be happy But I don't want truth. Tell me what kind of Paradise is that but a fool's paradise.

That's all living in a fool's paradise. You know, we thought Money is going to make us happy. Now show me any man who is happy because of his money. I want to see I Haven't seen such people but show me one man Somewhere Who is happy contented Rejoicing Because of his money.

Not one after all. Today, we might almost call on the nation a nation of grumblers something to grumble about something to blame somebody about. Nobody seems to say well. If all of us gave our taxes correctly Then we won't be in such an economic soup.

If all of us had the work ethic and produced Quality goods and we did not have the greed we have. Then this nation would be in a better Financial position or at least it would be out of the woods. Nobody wants to acknowledge that The truth.

Moral and Spiritual Debt

The truth is resented, you know when The sucks the succeeding Generations are In the red already when the unborn children are in the red already. What what do they inherit. They inherit a big debt. Is that all that we pass on to them?

Oh Yes, indeed. That is more than an economic debt. It is a moral debt. It's a spiritual debt. It is a horrible debt. Instead of giving them a reservoir of blessing. With all the churches we have and all the preachers we have with all the supposed Christians we have if we can produce a reservoir of Spiritual understanding And truth and blessing.

We are defaulting. Aren't we very badly. Let's not talk about others. Let's talk about ourselves you know in the Word of God 118 some and the 15th verse says the voice of rejoicing and salvation Is in the tabernacles of the righteous.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation Is in the tabernacles of the righteous now Joy seems to be missing. There are a lot of things cluttering the place and now Somebody said to me today I have missed the sales.

Well, well I Do trust some of you also have been fortunate enough to miss the sales. But you know To miss the sales Seems like a tragic thing. Okay, but All this Abundance of material wealth or things.

Does it fill our homes with rejoicing. No, but Let me tell you this I told that same family that mentioned the Missing of the sales of today. I told that same family You know, my wife and I have been married for 50 years.

That is provided the Lord Extends our life by a month or so 50 years we have had no fight No argument about money. Nothing of the sort now to me that is wealth the peace the love there is rejoicing and salvation in the tabernacles of the righteous.

That is wealth, you know. It made me very sad to hear somebody say At the table. Since my childhood. I have never sat at a table like this. It made me very. But that is the story of Many people in this country.

They don't have joy. Daddy is not there. Our mother is not there and the ma and mother is asking you to call a stranger daddy and you know He is not your daddy and your daddy is asking you to ask to call a strange woman mommy.

And you know, she is not your mommy. What an imposition Of an unbearable burden because of lust and Lovelessness and truth. What an imposition. No nation can thrive under such a Burden and the present experiment in Western civilization To produce a tabernacle full of things Glittering glamorous things devoid of salvation and peace and love is Nothing, but a very tragic experiment in Futility, it's a futile experiment now.

The Glory of God in the Tabernacle

When we talk about the tabernacles of God Let us turn to Exodus chapter 40 you know when God wanted a tabernacle to be reared up and gave Moses some of the specifications. Exodus 40, please and If you look at 34 and 35 You know, it was a very simple structure really and the people who were You know Leaving the slavery of 430 year 430 years I Feel there is no slavery like the slavery of Harboring or espousing Untruth there's no slavery worse than that.

But Physical slavery and these people were given ten commandments and those ten commandments Embodies so much truth Which is really the undergirding of our Justice of all the systems of true justice. As someone said there cannot be the Concept that all men are born equal Without the Ten Commandments.

You can't have that and today there are those who don't have the Ten Commandments Who can't see people as their equals they can't With all their education. They can't see others as their equals. All Men are born Equal the Creator you see that it is embodied in The early Constitution of the United States.

But of course it took as it was pointed out almost a hundred years before That could be implemented but you see here we see when the Tabernacle was set up 34th verse then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.

We are so taken up with the Embellishments the trimmings and the trappings the externals. We are so caught up with that but What is the essence? The glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses the next verse says Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation Because The cloud of the glory abode upon that Tent the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

So there you are. We may have a beautiful place of worship this that and the other but Is the glory of the Lord there is the reality of the Lord there? If that is not there, it's all an empty show. And now as far as I am concerned, I don't want to engage in a theatrical But I notice that Religion is a tradition Religion is a convention.

Religion is a Way of life Which is devoid of God for the most part. I am shocked at this you know in Afghanistan which has been a lawless nation For I'm in a tribal a set of tribes Consisting of a set of tribes and Warlords down their history they have just been a People who oppressed One another or killed one another or any stranger that dared to enter their land and Now in a space of 10 years, it may take a decade it seems To get the corruption away my What an undertaking to remove Corruption in spite of all the religious Fanaticism, can you imagine that on the one hand?

Religious fanaticism on the other hand the whole land full of Corruption and even people at the ministerial level Just wanting to be unaccountable. What do you expect? And that is a religious country, okay but When we come to the tabernacles of God It is the Lord the righteousness of Jesus at the center now when you take away that righteousness and Mix it up with the kind of politics That we have mixed it up with.

I think it is a very unfortunate thing That the present president Had so much of his cooling In the politics of Chicago and all the freewheeling and dealing I tell you my dear friends Such an atmosphere either creates a Fighter for the truth Or a person who says Okay, let's bend over backwards to please as Many people as possible.

That's all. But When the Lord and the righteousness of Jesus is there there will be also a conflict a heavy conflict and You will first experience that conflict in your own heart Because of the idolatry of the heart you will say Oh, I didn't know myself.

I Didn't know Where I was really coming from, you know folks Recognizing the perversion the deep perversion of the human heart That's only possible at the cross of Jesus. Otherwise, this is all a nice moral talk nice kind of stuff.

There's no truth at all in it, but When we come to the Word of God It makes a spiritual Warrior out of you. You stand for the truth. Well, if you have to give a million dollars as tax You say okay. I owe this to the government.

I am going to pay this to the government. I think there are too many people around today who are tax thieves too many people now friends. So when we see that the glory of the Lord is the essence and the 38th verse please for the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day and Fire was on it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel.

Standing for Truth Brings Conflict

So the presence of God the evidence of the presence of God was there. You know When you come combat Untruth and Oppression it gets you into a big battle now when with when William Bentech the Viceroy of India Outlawed The ancient custom of Of Sati That is a Widow being burned on the funeral fire Along with her husband you see when he outlawed it then It came into force.

One prince Wrote to one of the rulers one of the governors Sir my mother Should be burnt on the funeral pyre of my dad. I feel religiously and Conscientiously bound to do it now. William Carey Had noted 6 ,000 such deaths of the burning of the widows in a very short period in Bengal alone and The governor or the resident said to this prince or this nobleman if your if your conscience obliges you To burn your mother Along with the body of your dead dad.

Immediately after You have lighted the fire. My conscience Obliges me to arrest you and hang you. For murder, it was pure murder. What a hue and cry there was From some of the pundits Against that basic law.

What a hue and cry so When you obey the truth When you fight for righteousness Righteousness it is going to get you into conflict with many. Does that mean that truth will fail? No truth can never fail so friends righteousness in our Dwellings.

God Dwelling With His People

You know if you turn to Leviticus the third book of The Bible the 26th chapter you will find In the 11th and 12th verses these words I will set my tabernacle among you and My soul shall not abhor you.

I Will walk among you. No, my dear friends this idea of making God a distant person Just a figurative person is not What we are taught in the scriptures see Once in a way go to a retreat and Draw a little close to God and Then for the rest of the time you do your own thing.

No, that's not it. My tabernacle will be among you. I'll dwell with you. I Will walk among you. You see that's true religion. God With us Emmanuel that's why we talk about Jesus not God Who is undefinable?

Who is somewhere in space but the God who walks with us. The God who talks to us. You see that should be our tag. That should be our dwelling place. Words of unfaith. I don't like words of unfaith. You see my whole life has consisted of a Series of battles.

So that I know Battles have to be faced. When an advance has got to be made anywhere in any realm. When truth has to be proclaimed. And the borders of China Tibet or Pakistan. There is going to be conflict or Burma within Burma.

There's going to be conflict but Greater is he our Savior tells us the Word of God tells us That God strengthens us for the battle by being with us. You see folks know that consciousness should come to every one of you.

God with us the Lord is with me. I'm dwelling in his presence. His tabernacle is with me. That consciousness. Whatever the battle and however fears it is. So the 13th verse I Want you to notice? I am the Lord that brought you out out of the land of Egypt.

Freedom From Bondage and Upright Living

That you should not be their bondmen. I have broken the bands of your yoke and Made you go Upright look at that. I Have made you go upright. We can't stoop. We can't bend. God makes us to be upright. All right, if it may cost prison.

So be it if it costs more so be it. But God has brought us out of bondage. So that we might bring others out of bondage. You know when people don't have that kind of outlook after Listening to me for years.

I Blame myself. I say what am I doing? I'm not producing Christians. I Am producing a bunch of prosperous people Who know how to make a little money? But not those That count in the battle for the truth.

That you should be upright. That you should not be bondmen. Anymore my dear friends. So in the 15th and 16th verses If you shall despise my statutes or if your soul abhor my judgments. So that you will not do all my commandments.

But that you break my covenant. It's a covenant. It's a promise. I also will do this unto you. I Will even a point over you terror Consumption as he we are told all the time, isn't it? That we are engaged in a war upon terror war upon terror.

The Consequences of Breaking God's Commandments

Here the Bible says I appoint over you terror Consumption. You know just withering away. You know the number of banks that have been collapsing lately. How terrible can can you imagine people losing? All their savings their pensions the tragedy of it and the kind of Diseases.

You know, we heard of the bird flu and now it's the swine flu and I don't know when they're going to talk about the cat flu or the dog flu or some other flu but You know folks when you have to go through an airport and First of all, they want to make sure You are not bringing one of these horrible sicknesses with you.

And so you see a bunch of people screening you right away. What is this sick world a world which is sick in spite of all our? Advanced medicine but God says when you break my Commandments You will have all these things.

They just come upon you. I understand that syphilis is on the increase one of those all diseases along with 26 other sexually transmitted diseases world what a sick world a Dangerous world why Breaking the when you break my commandments.

These things will come upon you burning fevers that shall consume the eyes and Cause sorrow of heart and ye shall sow your seed in vain. They that hate you shall reign over you and you shall flee when none Pursuant my dear friends at such a time as this God wants us Not only to overcome in our personal lives our families.

But we have got to take this victory this peace this Overcoming Spirit to others. And our people who are just weeping over themselves Or weeping for this and weeping for that They just don't make the grade today.

They are just deadwood. They count for nothing. They may be religious fanatics or whatever but They don't count for anything. But dear friends here is the secret when you go to the cross of Jesus That's where something happens a deep brokenness comes into you you see Where the seat of the trouble is.

Brokenness and Humility at the Cross

I know if you have been able to deal with pride and Overcome that Ego and that pride in you and people make some remark. Okay. They spat in the face of Jesus. Why should they not spit in my face? What does it matter.

Why can't I be humble? My dear friends that Light comes to you at the cross Sinless But Condemned with the worst kind of public execution and Not complaining about it Father Forgive them that spirit. It's a different spirit.

You see it's not there in us. Don't let us pretend that a little education in a college or University gives us That kind of spirit. No, it doesn't. Somebody riles you a little He insults you a little how cross you get that pride Which is so native to your nature is stirred up, but at the cross That is broken.

And then you begin to walk humbly with your God when You humble yourself. Let us pray. Let us tell God that our own Little tabernacles our little families Should become different places where pride is not flaunted and Proud words hurled at one another.

Seeking God's Tabernacle in Our Homes and Hearts

Oh gracious Savior. Is it? Indeed Possible that Holy God a loving Savior Can have his abode with us. Oh my father You have told us that you will walk with us. Your tabernacle Will be amongst us. Do it Lord do it.

We can't go out and say hey, I'm the greatest. I'm the latest. No. We are a faltering failing people. We need to humble ourselves. We've done so little For the nation and the nations at large. We've done so little and father.

Can it be that we can't be truly humble. Won't some of that Humbleness that took you to the cross Be given to us also. Can't we be humble to acknowledge Wherever we have been remiss Where we have missed the mark.

Oh Please come to us and Give us that deep brokenness of spirit and We want the tabernacle of God amongst us. We don't want to merely sing of it or talk of it. We want it to be real God with us God Dwelling in us and making us to love.

Not ourselves But those around us so help us we pray in Jesus Almighty name. Amen.