God's Favorite Kind of House: Four Sticks and a Blanket
In the verses to the right, James didn't use the tabernacle of Moses in his reference as we are no longer looking for a sacrificial lamb and we don't need fancy furniture. He didn't reference the Temple of Solomon as we don't need to visit the Wailing Wall for him to hear our prayers and we don't need a gold-covered building to take our breath away. We don't need the building to be the main attraction!
He was building the tabernacle of David as our sacrificial lamb has already come. As John said, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." James referenced a simple house made of four sticks and a blanket, that is open to all who wish to enter and accept Jesus! A place where God is the main attraction.
That is what we strive to be here at Warner First Assembly of God. A house simply made of four sticks and a blanket that is open to all humanity where God is the main attraction and where anyone can come find Jesus.
Listen to Pastor Josh below as he explains the gospel uniting the Jews and Gentiles and delves more into our mission to be house made of four sticks and a blanket.
We invite you to join us!
He was building the tabernacle of David as our sacrificial lamb has already come. As John said, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." James referenced a simple house made of four sticks and a blanket, that is open to all who wish to enter and accept Jesus! A place where God is the main attraction.
That is what we strive to be here at Warner First Assembly of God. A house simply made of four sticks and a blanket that is open to all humanity where God is the main attraction and where anyone can come find Jesus.
Listen to Pastor Josh below as he explains the gospel uniting the Jews and Gentiles and delves more into our mission to be house made of four sticks and a blanket.
We invite you to join us!
Acts
6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16 After this I will return, And will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; And I will build again the ruins thereof, And I will set it up:
17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, And all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, Saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20 but that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16 After this I will return, And will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; And I will build again the ruins thereof, And I will set it up:
17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, And all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, Saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20 but that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.