Nuggets In Book
Pg. 1
We live in a world racing towards lawlessness perpetrated by falsehood believed about God, people, and even the devil. We wrestle with greed, fear and selfishness, and suffer their dire consequences.
While many external circumstances are beyond our control, the truth is that we can choose to change our way of responding to these adversities. Moreover, truth is the foundation for building love and trust in our relationships.
Hence, let’s start the journey to peace, freedom and significance by seeking out the truth, unravelled by the Hebrew Sanctuary Master Plan which God, in His graciousness, lays out before us. It outlines His divine prescription for an extraordinarily happy, healthy, and purposeful life. Based on principles of love, truth and freedom, it equips us to be the ‘fit person’ God created us to be.
Pg. 2
The God of heaven has made ample provision for our salvation (healing) through the path symbolized by the Sanctuary and its contents and services (see Psa 77:13). “That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations” (Psa 67:2 KJV). The Sanctuary Master Plan traces the root cause of human misery and death to the cosmic spiritual war between good and evil, truth and deception, genuine and counterfeit. If you find it hard to believe that such a cosmic conflict exists—DON’T GIVE UP JUST YET!
Pg. 3
“Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite” (Psa 147:5 NKJV). He declares, “And there is no other God besides Me, A just God and a Savior; There is none besides Me. Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other” (Isa 45:21,22 NKJV). This infinite God offers us, for free, all the resources of heaven so that we can gain victory over sin.
Pg. 11
God the Father gave His only Son, Jesus Christ, who stepped down from the glorious heaven to our world, took on our human form to communicate with us directly, wore our sinful condition, bore the shame of our actions towards Him, and gave Himself to free us from the bondage of Satan’s lies about God and from our selfish nature (see Mar 10:45; 1Ti 2:6).
Pg. 12
So, God put in place the Sanctuary to teach them the healing plan. “This is the way; walk in it” (Isa 30:21 NIV), He encouraged, and Jesus continues His bidding: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (Joh 14:6 NKJV). The ‘way,’ because Jesus is the bridge leading us back to God—to His healing love and His original design for humanity; the ‘truth,’ because by dispelling Satan’s lies, He reveals the truth about God’s character of love and restores our trust in God; the ‘life,’ because when we stay in harmony with God’s principles for life, we become healed and thus pass from death to life (see 1Jn 3:14). These principles also apply to us today. Let us enjoy the walk!
Pg. 15
The Sanctuary building is a ‘lesson book in symbols’ and can be best interpreted using the key of the everlasting Gospel—‘God Is Love.’ The three sections of the Sanctuary Map represented the three stages of Christian spiritual growth (God’s Plan of Salvation)…
Pg. 16
The Sanctuary was clearly a metaphor—a theater with a grand stage, ‘actors,’ costumes, detailed play scripts and unique props—teaching a much larger reality, on which we will focus our attention.
The rescue plan to save the human race involved a colossal sacrifice. The Remedy to sin was to be obtained for a great price and offered freely to all who would participate in the prescribed treatment plan. It involved God (in the person of the Son of God, Jesus Christ) giving Himself to suffer and die at the hands of sinful humanity. “Christ … suffered terribly and died once in order to cure sinfulness—to provide a Remedy for all humanity and restore us to unity with God. In Christ, love vanquished selfishness, and righteousness overcame unrighteousness. He allowed the sin-sick to kill him, and in giving himself freely, he triumphed over the infection of selfishness and fear, and was renewed to life by the Spirit of love and truth” (1Pe 3:18 Rem).
Pg. 17
Through the Sanctuary Master Plan, God demonstrated that all He desires is “to win us back to trust and friendship with himself” (Rom 5:10 Rem), not by compelling force or inducing fear. If only He could win us back to complete trust in Him, then He, as our Creator, could heal the damage sin has caused within us.
Pg. 31
While “love is the fulfillment of the law” (Rom 13:8 NKJV), sin “is the transgression of the law” (1Jn 3:4 KJV). Sin involves putting self above God, which is breaking God’s law. The essence of sin is not primarily about breaking rules; instead, it is a heart issue that enslaves us physically, mentally, spiritually, and socially. Making mistakes is not a sin. Sin results from a distorted, defective moral nature that misses the mark of understanding who God truly is. The truth is that sin is revolting to God, because it destroys His creation (see Rom 6:23).
Pg. 32
As our Remedy, Jesus yearns to make us whole—to heal our entire being: body, soul, and spirit (see 1Th 5:23). He longs to cure not just our physical infirmities, but more so, our character defects and mental and spiritual strongholds that enslave us.
Pg. 37
God wants us to know, love and trust Him, because He alone is trustworthy (see Rev 4:11). Therefore, knowing “the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom [He] hast sent” (Joh 17:3 KJV), is the only way to a life of love, truth, and freedom.
Pg. 176
Health, life and happiness result from obedience to God’s design laws governing our body, mind, and spirit. All His special friends who trust, love, and want to be with Him, God invites to His paradise home to live with Him for eternity!
Pg. 184
By His example of preaching, healing and teaching, Jesus, as God-Man “full of grace and truth” (Joh 1:14 KJV), demonstrated that we too can live in harmony with God’s law of love. His words and deeds showed that love, grace, truth and freedom are the foundation of the gospel—the Good News about God’s very character (see Mat ch.5 and 6).
By overcoming the fear of death and temptation to preserve self, He upheld the law of love by freely surrendering His own life to save the human race. Millions are moved by Christ’s self-sacrificial love as His Spirit rekindles the fire of love and melts their stony hearts.
Pg. 257
The “fit man” (Lev 16:21 KJV) represented the last community of righteous living, who have experienced oneness with God. They follow Jesus all the way through the Sanctuary pathway, internalizing and demonstrating the principles of the Master Plan.
Their spiritual fitness vindicates God’s trustworthiness before the universe and dispels Satan’s lies that God’s law could not be obeyed. God’s covenant promise, “I will put My laws in their minds and write them on their hearts” (Heb 8:10-13 NIV), has been fulfilled and demonstrated in His people — His “treasured possession” (Deu 14:2 NIV). Thereby the Sanctuary’s Most Holy Place (our heart of hearts) is completely cleansed.
Pg. 276
The Sanctuary Master Plan maps out the complete pathway of the love relationship God desires His people to experience. The 10 principles, when internalized, empower us to be the “Fit” persons, “heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ” (Rom 8:17 KJV). The walk starts with courtship in the Outer Court, engagement in the Holy Place, and ends with marriage in the Most Holy Place.
