What Are You Reading? – Train of His Robe

well hey ladies happy monday morning i hope that you're having a great monday morning and we're just going to jump straight into it so if you want to go ahead and turn your bible to isaiah 6 turn to isaiah 6 or if you're listening to this you'll just listen and i'm going to read the scripture. But today we're kind of, I was inspired a little bit by yesterday. We had a moment of, I guess, remembrance or a celebration of remembrance really of everything that has happened in the last 15 years in God's faithfulness to Warren Baptist Church through Pastor McKinley and his faithful leadership of Warren Baptist Church. And so if you were able to participate in that. I'm sure you enjoyed it as much as I did. But in that, we had a moment, we had a video of remembrance and honoring what has been done, and it reminded me, remember and remind are the two words that we're getting settled on here. In this study with Christy McLellan that I'm doing with these ladies of the gospel on the ground, I know you're probably tired of hearing me talk about it, but she talks about a Hebrew word that, I think I'm going to butcher the pronunciation, So just bear with me. It's either Remenez or Remez. I can't remember how she says it, but it really means that the Jewish people knew the scriptures and they would always recall, you know, from as so say, like when Jesus was speaking something and he's referring to a passage of scripture, they know it because they recall or they see these things. That's one of my favorite parts of scripture. If you've heard me speak about the hyssop branch, you know that the hyssop branch is at the cross, and then it's also in Psalm 51, and you see it in Exodus 12. So these little pieces, these awesome threads that God has woven through scripture, they're little reminders of his faithfulness. Well, where I want us to turn is to Isaiah 6, and in verse 1, it's a very familiar verse, it says, In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and exalted, seated on a throne, and the train of his robe filled the temple. And that phrase, and I'll get there in a minute, I've been pondering on this phrase mainly because of a song that I heard, it was the first time I'd heard it played, I believe it's by Gateway Worship, but the first place I heard it played, was at Central Church up in Maine when we were up in Maine. And it's called Behold Him Now. I would highly recommend going and listening to it because it is a depiction of God as he enters the throne room and a depiction of his train, his robe, the train of his robe filling the temple. And that imagery gets me excited i mean just think of his majesty the train of his robe i mean you know think about um maybe if you've seen the movie sound of music you're probably your mind goes immediately to that wedding dress and the train of her veil that just went on and on and just the elegance and the um just there's something just powerful about it right but the train of god's robe fills the temple so now let's also hold that we're going to pivot that hold that in a thought and i want us to turn so that was old testament let's turn to the new testament and we're going to look at first peter and this was something that was brought up in the christy mclellan bible study the gospel on the ground and she talked about how you know we've heard about how we are the temple and we tend to think that it's just individual but it's actually you as in plural are the temple so we together as the body of Christ are the temple. And we read here in 1 Peter, 1 Peter chapter 2 verse 4, it says, as you come to him, that being the Lord, and this you is plural, so as all of us, she said y'all, but as you come to him, the living stone rejected by humans, but chosen by God and precious to him, you all, you also like living stones are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ so we are being built all of us together are being built like living stones are being built into a spiritual house so we think of a temple right so we are all living stones being built into a temple so now let's flip back to Isaiah 6 the train of his robe fills the temple I mean it's such a good imagery of how his spirit moves and works in each of us but think about if the train of his robe if we are the temple the train of his robe is filling the temple it's bringing all of us together united as part of his body and we know that through the holy spirit but just that imagery has captivated my mind this week and since this series is a what are you reading that's what I'm reading and chewing on and thinking about. And so I would highly recommend that you go and read Isaiah 6, that you go and listen to the song, Behold Him Now. I believe it's by Gateway Worship. And then just think about how, if you are a living stone, how are you engaging with the temple? Are you holding your place? That was something that Christy McLellan did challenge in our Bible study. She challenged the ladies. Are you holding your place in the temple? Because the church needs you. You are needed. And so, and no one can fill the spot that you fill. So, if Jesus himself is the cornerstone, where then are you holding your place? And so, together that we are a living temple unto the lord that we are living stones building the temple unto the lord and so i just thought that that was such a great insight and um just think about the train of god's robe and just the way the majesty of it and as we're going through this study of revelation um i think just the majesty and the power of god um has been coming to mind and um His name, El Shaddai, has been coming to mind in the Almighty. And so those are the things that have been captivating me. And I hope that you are able to just ponder his majesty, ponder his word, and truly just enjoy the majesty of God. And to really think about the train of his robe filling the temple. So that's all I have for you today. and I hope to see you back here next week. Thanks.

Originally published at warren.church.