Through a Glass Darkly

SERMON: 2015-11-08--s1015--through-a-glass-darkly SOURCE DURATION: 00:48:19.000 PROPOSED CUTS: 1 CONFIDENCE: 0.95 APPROVED: false REASON: The opening segment begins the main expository theme of the sermon. The closing segment is a concluding prayer and benediction, which are integral parts of the sermon structure. ACOUSTIC EVIDENCE: available ACOUSTIC MUSIC INTERVALS: none ACOUSTIC SPEECH OVERLAP: no ACOUSTIC BOUNDARIES APPLIED: none Inline CUT markers identify each proposed audio boundary after the relevant word. --- ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT WITH PROPOSED CUTS MARKED --- Why is it that sometimes we're so sure that we hear from the Lord and it proves to be wrong? Or why is it that sometimes we think we understand the scriptures and our understanding of the scriptures turns out to be wrong? Well again, it has to do with the fact that we see through a glass darkly, we see a pale reflection of what is to come. And as we talk about that this morning I want to begin by looking again at the floor plan of the tabernacle. A number of weeks ago you will recall we looked at the tabernacle for a bit and you will recall from the Old Testament that the tabernacle was a portable shrine that God commanded Moses to build as soon as the Lord had entered into covenant with Israel at Mount Sinai. Its purpose was to house the presence of God and its purpose was to make it possible for a holy God to live with an unholy people. And I want to come back to it this morning because it will help us understand, I think, not only why one day spiritual gifts will cease, they will be unnecessary, but why in the meantime sometimes we just really get it wrong. We think we understand, we'd like to understand, but sometimes we don't. So here's the floor plan again of the tabernacle and notice again that it automatically divides into three broad areas. There's the outer courtyard, there is what's known as the holy place, and there is what is known as the holy of holies. Each of these areas has its own furniture, the courtyard has the altar of burnt offering and the laver, the holy place has the menorah or the golden candlestick, it has the table of showbread and it has the altar of incense, and then in the holy of holies there is only the ark of the covenant. And you will know from the New Testament that all of the structure of the tabernacle has been fulfilled in the person of Jesus and each piece of the furniture is part of the redemptive process that Jesus has brought about. If we can have that slide back up, take a look at this. This represents the forgiveness of sins by the death of Jesus on the cross, the laver represents the cleansing that the Lord Jesus provides for us as we confess our sins daily, the candlestick represents the illumination, the light of Christ, the table of showbread represents the bread of Christ, this is the fruit of the redemption that we have in Christ, it represents praise and worship and of course the holy of holies or the ark of the covenant represents the very throne of God among his people. And as I said, all of this has been fulfilled in the person of Jesus who entered into the holy of holies to present his blood to Jesus, the curtain on the temple split in two when he died on the cross so that you and I through the presence of the holy spirit have access to the throne of God. Here is how Paul describes it in Hebrews chapter 10 verse 19, he says, "Since we have confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood of Jesus, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water." Throughout scripture, the big challenge is how can a holy God and an unholy people coexist? The answer is always because of Jesus, his death and his resurrection. Now here is what I want us to note again and I've pointed this out before but it bears repeating, as we look at the floor plan of the tabernacle, notice that each of these areas has a different level of illumination. This is really important. The outer courtyard is lit up by what? By natural daylight, the light of the sun and the moon. This represents, I believe, natural revelation or what theologians call general revelation. The teaching of scripture is that everybody born into this world simply by studying nature and by studying the universe should know two basic things about God, namely that he exists and that he is extremely powerful. Paul, as you know, talks about that in Romans chapter 1 verse 20, "Since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made so that men are without excuse." The argument Paul develops in Romans chapter 1 is that because the power and the divine nature of God are clear in nature, that is enough light for people to seek after God so that they can find him. And the only reason people don't is because by their wickedness they suppress the truth. I've said this before, to keep light out, whether in the natural or in your heart, you have to work at it. So the outer courtyard represents natural revelation. And if you live in the outer courtyard, then you will understand the things about this life. And if you hear a message about finances or relationships or your daily work, you'll be able to gravitate towards it because this is where you do your living. But that's the outer courtyard. Now let's look at the next phase, which represents the holy place. Notice that the only illumination in the holy place is the candelabra or the menorah, the seven branches of the candlestick. And this represents the illumination of the Holy Spirit. As a believer, comes to Christ, learns to live in daily repentance, and is therefore allowed entry into the holy place, God gives us the Holy Spirit. And the purpose of the Holy Spirit, as we have so often seen, is to impart to us what we have in Christ Jesus. How do you know if you're living in the holy place? The eyes of your heart will be enlightened. There will be moments when you read scripture and scripture comes alive. There will be moments when you hear some song that speaks of some spiritual truth and it will penetrate to the core of your being. You'll actually get it. You will discover the preciousness of Jesus. You will understand as you mature increasingly what it is to be in Christ as opposed to what it is to be in Adam. And as you eat the bread of life and receive the strength of the Lord Jesus in this place, your capacity to love God and to worship him, your capacity to pray, your capacity to relate to God and to relate to people increases because that's life in the holy place. The holy place is also the place of spiritual gifts. And spiritual gifts are, if we can put that back up, spiritual gifts are what the book of Hebrews calls a participation and experience of powers of the age to come. And in 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 14, Paul talks about what's often known as the manifestational gifts, the gift of faith. The gift of faith there is not just faith in Jesus, but it's the kind of faith that can move mountains. It's the kind of faith that says, I don't care how big this obstacle is, my God is bigger and in the name of Jesus I command this mountain to move. That's the gift of faith. In the holy place you also have the gift of prophecy, which is the ability to hear from God and then to speak the word of God into a situation or into somebody's life in such a way that it lays bare what lives in hearts and transforms and changes people's lives. The gift of discernment, the gift of tongues, other spiritual gifts are all part of this life in the holy place. Let me say again, this is the place where you participate in the powers of the age to come. That's hard to get our head around. Let me give you one quick illustration from the book of Acts that will try to drive it home. Not that we necessarily understand this experience, but back in Acts chapter 8 you have the story of Philip the Evangelist and the Holy Spirit sends him on the road that leads to Gaza, the desert road, and there he meets up with the Ethiopian eunuch, shares the gospel with the Ethiopian eunuch out of Isaiah 53, the only place by the way, as I recall in the book of Acts, where there is a reference to Isaiah 53, the Ethiopian eunuch comes to faith, gets baptized, and now what happens to Philip who remembers? What happens to Philip? He's all of a sudden he disappears. We read in Acts 8 verse 39, "When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again. But he went on his way rejoicing. Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about preaching the gospel in all of the towns." That's powers of the age to come. That's comic book reality. That is super man reality. All of those stories, you see, tie into a deep core longing in the human heart to overcome the limitations of time and space. In the age to come, life will be very different from what it is today. And in the Holy of Holies, in the spiritual gifts, we have a foretaste of the powers of the age to come. Now hold that thought, hold that thought because we're going to come back to it. In the meantime, we're going to look at the Holy of Holies. The Holy of Holies, as you know, is the dwelling place of God among his people. It represents his throne, because the tabernacle is actually a copy of God's throne in heaven. It's a very interesting thing. Moses was told to make the tabernacle exactly according to the image of what God showed him to be. It also, now this is really important, it represents the final abode of God's people. Because the tabernacle, because the Holy of Holies is duplicated in the New Testament in the holy city, the New Jerusalem. Listen to how the book of Revelation puts it here in Revelation 21 verse 3. "I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.'" That's the whole point of history. God created the human race so that he could have relationship with us. The Bible begins with God and Adam and Eve in union in the garden. Then we have the whole problem caused by sin. But the Bible ends with God and the human race back in union in the New Jerusalem, which is the dwelling place of God for all eternity. Most people think we're going to spend eternity somewhere out in heaven strumming harps. The reality is that God makes his dwelling on earth among men. The New Jerusalem, the city of God, becomes the dwelling place of God. Now, you're still with me here. You'll see where this is going in a moment because it's really quite interesting. At least I think it's interesting you left it aside for yourself whether or not that is the case. Two things about the dwelling place of God, both in the tabernacle and in the New Jerusalem, that we clearly need to understand. The first is this. It is both structures are perfect cubes. Did you know that? The dimensions of the holy of holies is 10 cubits by 10 cubits by 10 cubits, 15 feet cubed. The dimensions of the holy city in the book of Revelation are 22,000 stadia cubed, which is about 2,200 kilometers. And the point is not that we're going to live in a multi-story building in the new creation, I suspect. It's hard to figure out how that's going to work, but because a cube is the perfect figure for the dwelling place of God. So the holy city is a duplication of the holy of holies, but it gets even more interesting and more pertinent to what we're discussing, and that is the fact that both the holy of holies neither structure has natural or artificial light. The holy place, the holy of holies is lit up by the Shekinah glory of God, and the holy city is lit up similarly by the glory of God. Listen to how the book of Revelation puts it, "I did not see a temple in this city because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives its light, and the Lamb is the Lamb." And by now you're saying to yourself, what in the world is the significance of all this? Well, it's very profound. Think back. Where did the light come from in the courtyard? It was the sun and the moon. Where did the light in the holy place come from? It came from the golden candlestick which was fed by oil. Where does the light in the holy of holies come from? It comes directly from God. And here is the very profound lesson that we need to learn from that and understand in the age to come when the dwelling place of God is with people. Every intermediary hindrance to Revelation will be totally removed. We will be literally in the full presence of God. And in the full presence of God, we will have full understanding of who God is. That's what Paul means when he says in verse 12 of 13, "Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror. Then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part. Then I shall know fully even as I am fully known." And if we could just back up two slides, I'm going to show you that Paul had an experience of that in his own walk with God where he was caught up into heaven. 2 Corinthians 12, 2, 3 and 4 he talks about it. I know a man in Christ, speaking of himself, who 14 years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body, I do not know. God knows. And I know that this man was caught up to paradise. He heard inexpressible things, things that man is not permitted to tell. So here you have Paul. He has this momentary experience. He doesn't know if it's in the body or if it's out of the body, but he gets a glimpse of God's glory in the age that is to come. That's what eternity holds. An immediate revelation of the presence of God. Theologians call it the beatific vision of God. It is where every question gets answered. It's where the full brunt of God's glory can be born because sin will have been removed. All right, you'll see where this is going in just a moment because now let's go back to the holy place. Remember the holy place is where spiritual gifts operate. If we can put that up, in the holy place where the spiritual gifts operate, how does Paul describe the present age? Well, he describes it as seeing through a glass darkly or the NIV version of it. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror. We see a poor reflection as in a mirror. Literally in Greek, and this will really be helpful for you, it says through a glass in obscurity. Through a glass in obscurity, and the Greek word there hasn't come through, but the Greek word is the word enigmati, A-I-N-I-G-M-A-T-I. It's too bad it's not showing up, but English, where do we get from that? Enigma. Now we see through a glass in enigma. What's an enigma? Enigma is a puzzle. Enigma is defined in the dictionary as something that is inexplicable. It is a saying, it is a question, or a picture containing a hidden meaning or a riddle. And now we get to the crux of the matter of what Paul is talking about here. Have you ever noticed, and I'm sure you have, that throughout history and throughout scripture, God often speaks in riddles? At least he could speak a lot more plainly if he was so inclined, because it would help us understand things a lot better. I talk about that in one of the chapters in my book, When Dreams Come Through the Story of Joseph, and quoting John and Paula Sanford, I mention the fact that throughout scripture, historically, God speaks through five different methods. He speaks through dreams, he speaks through visions, he speaks through dark speech, direct speech, and he speaks through circumstances. Very seldom does he speak very clearly, directly, because even when he speaks in direct speech, words have their limitations. What I think I say, what I do say, and what you hear me say can readily be three different things. So here's the big question. Why does God not speak more plainly? Why does he speak in riddles? In other words, why does he speak with enigma? Well there's a multitude of reasons, but I'll tell you one reason, is you and I can't bear it, because it would blow us out of the water. Think of somebody hooking up the wrong wires to your house, and instead of feeding in 220, you know they're feeding in 440, or 680, or even more. What do you think is going to happen to your appliances hooked up to that power? Blow it out of the water, just like that. So great is God's glory that God has to limit himself in dealing with us, lest he overpower us and blow us out of the water. If you consider this, you know what we know today about the universe, how big it is, and how puny the earth is compared to everything else that is out there. God's glory is greater than the collective glory of all the universe. You try looking at the sun without sunglasses or sun shades once and see what happens to the retina of your eyes. God protects us from his glory, because we cannot possibly bear it as we are. Quick illustration from the Old Testament that really brings this story home, and that is the story of Moses. Now of all the prophets in the Old Testament, there was nobody greater than Moses, because the Bible says concerning Moses that God actually spoke with him face to face. And here is a conversation in Numbers 12 that God has with Miriam and Aaron, the sister of Moses and the brother of Moses. If you know that story, you may remember they were getting a little big for their breaches and were annoyed with Moses for being the prophet when they also had received prophetic gifts, and they were challenging his leadership. And so God steps into the picture, and here is what God says to the two of them. He says, "Listen to my words. When a prophet of the Lord is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions. I speak to him in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly, not in riddles." Here you have that word again, not in riddles. "He sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?" So of all the people in the Old Testament, there was nobody in more intimate relationship with God than was Moses. And you get the impression here that they're just talking face to face. But you see, even here the glory of God is being tempered because listen to the conversation that took place earlier in Exodus chapter 33. Moses and the Lord are having this conversation. Moses doesn't want to keep leading these people unless the Lord is really there. He wants to know that God is with him. So he says, "Show me your glory." And the Lord said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence." But he said, "Now get this. You cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live. When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will remove my hand, and you will see my back. But my face must not be seen." Interesting, isn't it? Don't ever underestimate the glory of God or what God has to stoop to, to reveal himself to us. Ultimately, of course, in the person of Jesus, in human form, so that we could actually handle that revelation. But throughout scripture therefore, God speaks enigmatically. He speaks in riddles. He filters his glory so that we will not be blown out of the water with his self-revelation. And now we really come to the crux of the matter of what Paul means when he says, "We see through a glass darkly." The result is that we often have to interpret what God is saying. And when we interpret what God is saying, we do it through our culture. We do it through our experience. We do it through our language. And because of that, we are very likely to get it wrong. Two examples. You know how many books have been written about end-time stories, right? I mean, if I think back to all the theories that I have read about, about how the world is going to end, there's almost no end to the making of books. And they're all based on scripture, and they're all based on interpretations of particularly apocalyptic visions in the book of Daniel or in the book of Revelation, where you read about beasts and, you know, bears and all kinds of monster-like images, right? Why does God use those? Because he's trying to communicate to us on our level the power that these empires represent. But when we try to apply that to historical settings, we read it through our own experiences. And that's why I have so many people coming up with very vastly different interpretations of scripture. I have so often thought, "Lord, why don't you make it clear and plain so we don't have all these divisions in the body of Christ about this truth or that truth?" But same thing applies on an individual level. Because when we're in Christ and are filled with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit will lead us, and he will speak to us, make himself known. And more of us have experienced that than we are inclined to think. We just don't always recognize it as the voice of God. But when we come to a place of commitment and where our lives are surrendered to Jesus and the Holy Spirit is at work within our lives, then he will direct us, and there will be times he says, "I want you to pray for this," or "I want you to go here," or "I want you to do that." And part of being the body of Christ is that we learn to listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. The problem is the promptings of the Holy Spirit are subject to our own interpretation, and sometimes we really get it wrong. I'll give you an example from my own life. I've told you this story before. I'm not proud of it, but it was a very early lesson in learning how to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit. I was in college, living in a dorm, and towards the end of the year felt the Lord wanted me to apply for the position of a dorm advisor the next year. The position came with certain responsibilities and certain privileges. I had just recommitted my life to the Lord. He was more powerfully present in my life than I had ever experienced before, and I really knew that this is what he wanted me to do. So I did. Stepped out in faith. In fact, so much in faith that I did not make provisions for housing for the next year, because I figured that would be like going to a prayer meeting for rain without an umbrella. So I really wanted to step out in faith. Imagine my perplexity when the results of all these interviews came out, and long story short, I did not get the position. And that really threw me for a loop, not because I was so set on having that position I could do without that, but because it was the first test of whether I was really hearing God or not. I don't know if you can identify with that. I really thought I had heard God, and if this didn't pan out, then it raised questions for me. Can I trust the voice of God? And do I really want to surrender my life to a voice that is leading me into limbo? Anybody here identify with that? Some of you did earlier. It took me two years to figure out what happened. And about two years later, and there were years of struggle and perplexity in terms of "Lord, how do I work out this relationship with you if I cannot trust you or feel like I cannot trust you?" Two years later, the Lord sort of dropped it into my heart that the Lord had never told me that I would get the position. He had told me to apply for the position. I assumed that if I was going to apply for a position, He also meant to give it to me, which clearly was not His plan at all. And it was a profound lesson in humility, because it is so easy to become arrogant in the things of God. Think that you've got it all together when, in fact, you don't. God speaks enigmatically. He speaks sometimes in riddles. And you and I, we tend to add our own interpretation to it, and then when it doesn't pan out, we're greatly troubled and profoundly disturbed. Laura Story's theology was that if she sought the Lord for healing for her husband, He would heal her. She couldn't at the time look beyond that into the fact that sometimes blessings are not what you think they are, but they are much further down the line and of much greater and lasting significance. All right, very quickly, what do we learn from what Paul talks about here when he says we see through a glass darkly? Very quickly, four lessons. Number one, we are to earnestly desire spiritual gifts despite the possibility of heartache and confusion. 1 Corinthians 14 verse 1, follow the way of love, eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy. Why desire spiritual gifts? They're the power tools of the kingdom. You need them to bless other people around you, and it's better to take a chance and be wrong than to bury your treasure and say this is simply too risky. We are to desire spiritual gifts, and number two, it's very helpful to understand that it is not only possible to be wrong, but it is okay to be wrong. It is not only possible to be wrong, it is okay to be wrong. That's why Paul talks in verse 11, "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me." There are people who will never step out in faith unless they are absolutely sure they are not going to make any mistakes, will not look stupid, and will not have to embarrass themselves when they bury their treasure. Well, if a child never started to speak until he or she could formulate the words perfectly, or if a child never started to walk, if they were never going to fall down, they will never speak and they will never walk, I can guarantee it. God calls us forth as his children, and when he gives us spiritual gifts, whatever they are, he wants us to start using them, even though we may well be wrong in the exercise of it, because in the context of Christian community, we are to help each other grow up in spiritual gifts. So if you have a spiritual gift, and you know the Lord is nudging you in some particular place, then don't just sit on it, don't just bury it. If you don't know what to do with it, find somebody in Christ who is mature enough to give you some level of discernment, but exercise your gifts. God would rather you make a mistake and look foolish if you have to than for you just to sit on your behind, because we cannot grow up without extending grace to ourselves and extending grace to other people. Nobody is going to do it 100% right the first time around. Number three, humility becomes us. There's a real danger in the spiritual life when we have powerful spiritual experiences. That's what the Corinthians went through. Remember, they were gifted beyond anything that you could think of, but they were incredibly mature. And so in their immaturity, they abused the giftings that God gave them. And I can tell you that many a revival historically has gone off track because people became so convinced that God was speaking to them that every so often they were led off into confusion. And it's very important to always maintain an attitude of humility and never be so arrogant as to say, "I know this is God." It's okay to have confidence. It's okay to bounce it off other people. But it's much wiser to say, "I think this is what the Lord is saying." So that there is room for correction. Sometimes you'll have people pull on you what I call the God card. And they'll make a certain decision and then they'll say, "Well, God told me to do this." And God may have told them to do that. But the problem with that is that all discussion ceases. Because what if it wasn't God? Or what if they brought their own interpretation to it? I like the way Paul puts it in Colossians 2 verse 18. He says, "Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize." Such a person goes into great detail about what he has seen and his unspiritual mind puffs him up with idle notions. Humility becomes us. Always safe to say, "I think this is the Lord. I believe this is the Lord. But can you confirm with me and for me that this is indeed the Lord and not the pizza from the night before or not my own resolved conflicts that I'm reading into this situation?" And then finally this, "One day we will fully understand. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror. Then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part. Then I shall know fully even as I am fully known." I believe the more you walk with God and the more closely you walk with God, the more times you will encounter the enigmas of God. You will feel led to pray for somebody and you will have faith that that person will be healed and lo and behold they die. And you're spun out because you don't know what's going on. Some of you know the story of John Wimber. He was called to begin the vineyard family of churches years ago, received significant revelation about the power of prayer and God's desire to heal, stepped out in faith, started praying for sick people and the first 12 people that he prayed for all died. I don't know that I'd want to be number 13. But eventually they broke through. Or you sense God's direction in terms of applying for a job or stepping out in faith someplace and you really want to live by revelation. You really want to live by what the Lord is telling you. And you expect it to go well and it bombs on you. And you say what in the world was that about? Or you believe God for something new, maybe healing, maybe a restored relationship and it goes from bad to worse until it becomes very evident it's never going to be. Now understand these are not a problem generally for people who live outside of the courtyard who live by natural light and natural revelation because they're just going by what they understand. But when you start living in the presence of God and you start taking his word seriously and you begin stepping out in faith and you want to believe who he is and what he is calling you to do and then the rug gets pulled out from underneath you it really sends you for a spin. And that is when a lot of people throw in the towel and they say this whole Christian life and this whole exercise of spiritual gifts is futile. But here's what Paul says. Here we see through a glass dark clay. We don't see the whole picture today. Just because it isn't panning out doesn't mean God hasn't spoken. It may just be that there's a lot of mystery that you don't know about and that part of the challenge for you is to trust God and to operate in faith. But he says too one day we will see clearly face to face now I know in part and then I shall know fully even as I have fully been known. I tell you there's coming a day when every question that we've ever had any confusion that we've ever faced any perplexity that we have ever encountered everything will disappear in the presence of God because everything will make sense we understand why so and so died when they did why my prayers didn't get answered why my life unfolded the way that it did every enigma every puzzle every perplexity face to face I will know fully even as I have been fully known. Lord there isn't a one of us here who sometimes isn't confused by what life throws at us and sometimes Lord what that does is it closes off our hearts it can make us bitter it can cause us to question you or it can even cause us to question our own walk and our own relationship with you help us to understand that we live in the already but the not yet we live in the age of the Holy Spirit or by faith in Jesus we have access to your throne of grace and where sometimes you allow us to experience the powers of the age to come make us good stewards Lord of that power and may we use our gifts in love to build up the body of Christ and when sometimes we encounter your enigmas and we're tempted to throw in the towel help us then to humble ourselves before you like children knowing that you do indeed know best we don't know everything but we do know that your heart is good and that because your heart is good we can trust you and help us to believe Lord that when the time is right you will give us revelation you will give us wisdom you will give us insight so that we can continue to serve you sometimes that insight will come in the here and now perhaps many years later but for sure in the life that is to come thank you that one day we will see you face to face we will experience the full completion of everything we have ever longed for everything we have ever known and we pray this morning that by the Holy Spirit you will give us a foretaste and a longing for that day so that together with all of God's people we may look forward to the day when we dance on the streets that are golden where every heartache will have been cured every tear wiped away and [PROPOSED CUT 1 START at 00:48:13.040; remove through 00:48:19.000] every joy be fully realized for all eternity even so Maranatha come Lord Jesus. 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