As I was praying recently, the Holy Spirit lifted me up in the Spirit of Revelation and showed me what the sanctification process of the believer is. This follows in line with our previous post on God's chosen place of worship. The Apostle Paul was exhorting the Thessalonian believers and prayed a blessing over them: And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Thessalonians 5:23
The Holy Spirit showed me that the layout of the early tabernacle of Moses typed the triune being of man – Body, Soul and Spirit = Outer Court, Inner Court and Holiest of Holies. Just as Moses was instructed to sanctify the tabernacle and all the furniture and vessels used in sacrificial service, so must the believer be sanctified completely.
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. Hebrews 9:18-23
We often think of ourselves as priests to God (which we are), however Jesus Christ is the High Priest. He is the one in charge of service. He is the One over the house of God. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Hebrews 10:19-22 And just to understand that baptism is an outward sign, but not meant to literally “wash away our sins”, Peter typed Noah and his family being saved in the ark to baptism: The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 3:21
We are God's workmanship – His master building. What? Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 He desires to live in us by the Holy Spirit. Just as our previous lesson taught us, we worship in the Spirit. No longer a literal temple or tabernacle, but “a body hast thou prepared me.” Hebrews 10:5
We worship God in the Spirit and in truth. Jesus told her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship Him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth." John 4:21-24
