We can now " come boldly into the presence of God " where once only the high priest could but only once a year . But not without blood .
While we have that perfect liberty of children of God to enter His presence that does not mean without care or thought .
But we have all been guilty of rushing into prayer and " making our requests known" but with little or no thought as to who it is we are coming to .
But when Jesus taught his disciples how to pray he did not give them a formula but a pattern and before anything else it was the recognition and acknowledgement of Him who we are addressing .
He did not say 'my father' but OUR Father "
Not His Father but also ours . That OUR has also the embracing of the ONE body .For what is a brother or sister if not someone of the same household and of the same father . Then what is our " neighbour"? If not someone ,anyone of another household and of a different father .The church is not a ' community' it's a House a temple a body filly joined together into a Holy habitation of God .a local church is an embassy of the Kingdom of God and every true born child of God an ambassador for Christ .
Who seeks first before and above all the interests of the Kingdom of God and of Him who has sent us into this world but not of it even as He was sent by the Father and " was not of this world" .
Our Father ,now there is a thought inexhaustible in its ramifications .
Who art in heaven .
We need to stop and think . The approach to the Holy of Holies while straightforward still needed the right aproach .
We are on earth and Our Father is in heaven .
In the outer court we have the light of the sun and we see things by sight .
The Holy place has no ' natural' light . But that if the 7 branch oil lamp representing the Holy Spirit and the bread speaking of the Word of God .
In the outer court we walked by sight . In the Holy place we walk by faith and in constant prayer . Here we learn not to lean upon our own understanding.
While we have that perfect liberty of children of God to enter His presence that does not mean without care or thought .
But we have all been guilty of rushing into prayer and " making our requests known" but with little or no thought as to who it is we are coming to .
But when Jesus taught his disciples how to pray he did not give them a formula but a pattern and before anything else it was the recognition and acknowledgement of Him who we are addressing .
He did not say 'my father' but OUR Father "
Not His Father but also ours . That OUR has also the embracing of the ONE body .For what is a brother or sister if not someone of the same household and of the same father . Then what is our " neighbour"? If not someone ,anyone of another household and of a different father .The church is not a ' community' it's a House a temple a body filly joined together into a Holy habitation of God .a local church is an embassy of the Kingdom of God and every true born child of God an ambassador for Christ .
Who seeks first before and above all the interests of the Kingdom of God and of Him who has sent us into this world but not of it even as He was sent by the Father and " was not of this world" .
Our Father ,now there is a thought inexhaustible in its ramifications .
Who art in heaven .
We need to stop and think . The approach to the Holy of Holies while straightforward still needed the right aproach .
We are on earth and Our Father is in heaven .
In the outer court we have the light of the sun and we see things by sight .
The Holy place has no ' natural' light . But that if the 7 branch oil lamp representing the Holy Spirit and the bread speaking of the Word of God .
In the outer court we walked by sight . In the Holy place we walk by faith and in constant prayer . Here we learn not to lean upon our own understanding.
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