In this
introduction I will give a short summary of what
this book on love is all about. It is obviously about love
but it is love as
you may never have seen it before. We will begin by going
back to the old Law
worship and look at God's earthly dwelling place. You may
wonder what the tabernacle
and temple have to do with Christian love but it will soon become
apparent.
Under the old covenant and its Law, God had Moses build the tabernacle as His dwelling place among His people. They were to offer their sacrifices and worship Him at that place.
God gave Moses the plan for that dwelling while He was on the mountain. It was to have two holy rooms. Those rooms were separated by an inner veil of many colors. The inner room was called the Holy of Holies. The outer room was called the holy place. God sat enthroned within the inner room as the priesthood served (daily) in the outer room.
One day each
year, the high priest
was to enter through the veil into the inner room to present atonement
blood
for God's people. The other priests could only serve in the
outer room holy
place. They were to tend the lamps and the table of
unleavened bread and offer
incense before the inner veil.
The
tabernacle
would later be replaced with the temple in
The Hebrew
writer
tells us that the Law was weak and useless (Hebrews
If the old
Law
sacrifices could never remove the sins of God’s people but the
sacrifice that
Jesus made did accomplish that, why did God ever require those old
sacrifices?
What reason would God have had for that old worship with
their sacrifices? Was
it given for our instruction?
Was not the
old
shadow copy telling me that I must do what Moses was commanded when God
said
His people were to seek Him at the place where He would choose "to
establish His name there for His dwelling"
(Deuteronomy
12:5)? God told them that was where they were to
bring their burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Is the Hebrew
writer telling us that old worship was an earthly copy of our spiritual
worship? After telling how Jesus has become our perfect High
Priest (chapter 7)
he tells us that Jesus has taken His seat by the Father in the true
tabernacle
pitched by the Lord (Hebrews 8:1-2). He then tells how those
priests served a
copy and shadow of heavenly things (verse 5).
In chapter 9, the
Hebrew writer tells us about the old tabernacle design and worship and
he ties
it to our worship. In verse 8, he tells us that the Holy
Spirit is telling how
the way in (Into the holy place) was not made known while the old still
stood.
He says that it "is
a symbol for the present
time".
The present time is the Christian age. Is
the old earthly way showing us the shadow of our spiritual worship
under our
new covenant?
He then says that “when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation” (verse 11). He says that “Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us” (verse 24).
Jesus
entered through the true holy place. If He has taken His seat
in the true
tabernacle, the old tabernacle was not the true one; it was “a
mere copy of the true one”.
The old priesthood served in a holy place that was a "mere copy" of the true holy place. Jesus has not entered through the copy. If He is now seated by the Father in the true tabernacle, He is in the true Holy of Holies. The true Holy of Holies is in heaven. He is in the presence of the Father serving as our mediator.
If Jesus is serving in the Holy of Holies of the true tabernacle, where is the outer room of the true tabernacle and who is serving there? The old copy tells us that God's priests are to serve daily in that room. Is not the church on earth the outer room holy place of God's house and are we not the priesthood serving in that outer room?
Peter tells us that we are living stones
in a spiritual
house and a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices (1 Peter 2:5)
and he
says that we are, "A royal
PRIESTHOOD" (1 Peter
2:9).
We serve before the veil of the flesh of Jesus leading to the inner room where we hope to go some day ("we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh" - Hebrews 10:19-20).
His body is the spiritual veil that leads into
the true Holy of Holies. He went through
the outer room of His flesh as He served on this earth and He has entered
through the veil of His flesh into the true Holy of Holies in heaven. He has entered through the veil into the
Father’s presence and we have “a hope both sure and steadfast and one which
enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us”
(Hebrews
As we serve in that outer room we are tending the lights (Is that not our brethren - "You are the light of the world" - Matthew 5:14?) and tending the spiritual bread of the body of Christ (Again, our brethren - 1 Corinthians 5:7) and offering spiritual incense (Our prayers - Revelation 5:8).
We are to offer our spiritual
incense and pray
for all people including our enemies but we are especially to pray for
the
saints ("be
on the alert with all perseverance and
petition for all the saints" - Ephesians
Paul tells us
more
about the true spiritual house of God of the new covenant. He
said that, "you
are a temple of God"
and
"the Spirit of God dwells in
you" and "the
temple of God is holy, and that is what you are"
(1
Corinthians 3:16-17).
He will later say, “Or do you not know that
your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not
your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
The Holy Spirit is given to those who
obey God (Acts 2:38 and
Just as that old priesthood served in the outer room tending the lamps and table of bread and the incense altar, we are to serve daily in the true outer room of the body of Christ (The church) serving one another. The outer room is holy and we must care for God's holy place. We must serve in the outer room but we must also offer our sacrifices before God's house.
Paul tells us to "present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship" (Romans 12:1). We are members, one of another, and we must give up self to serve as a part of the body. We must "Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor" (verse 10). I must respect and honor the holy place where God's Spirit dwells and lay down my life for the brethren.
Just a few days before He was to die on the
cross Jesus gave His disciples a new commandment. He told them, “A new commandment I give to
you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love
one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you
have love for one another." (John 13:34-35).
That commandment was new because it is the
command to love the brotherhood of the saints that was soon to become the body
of Christ on earth, the church. We are
to love His body, the ones upon which the Spirit of God has been poured out.
Under the old covenant, God’s Spirit was not present in the outer room,
except when it was dedicated and His glory cloud filled that room. The priests
could not serve in that room until the cloud was lifted. His Spirit has
now been poured out in the true outer room. It dwells in the room where
the priesthood now serves daily.
He loved us enough to die for us. When He
gave that new commandment to His disciples He had not yet died on the cross but He had given up
heaven to come down to earth for that purpose.
If we are to love our brothers like that we must lay down our life for
them by living for them. We are to hear
Jesus tell us to take up our cross and follow Him. When we do that we will know what love really
is.
We are saved by faith but love is greater than faith. Paul tells us about that when he writes about love and faith and spiritual gifts. He said that if he had them all (including faith) "but do not have love, I am nothing" (1 Corinthians 13:1-13). He tells us that love, "does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered". He ends with, "But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love".
Love is greater than
faith so true faith must believe in love. Faith without love is nothing
but we must know what love really is.
John tells us what love is. He tells us that,
“We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay
down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has the world's goods, and sees
his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God
abide in him? Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in
deed and truth" (1 John
John was repeating the gospel message of the
“good news” of what Christ did for us at the cross. It is the good news
that Jesus gave us in another John
In 1 John 3:16-17, John repeats the same good news message but adds what our response to that message is. Our good news is that He died for us. My response is that I must believe in Him when He speaks through John and tells me to lay down my life for the same ones that He died for.
In other
words, I am to offer my sacrifices of love at His holy place by offering my
sacrifices of love to the brethren who are in need. I am to show true love in deed and truth. That
was the new command that Christ gave to His disciples. He tells us to love one another as He has
loved us.
That old worship was a copy of our worship but it did not just happen. God made it happen when He gave instructions for that old worship to Moses as a copy of the coming spiritual worship. He did it through His Word and John tells us about that.
He tells us that the Word was in
the beginning and He (The Word) was with God and He was God. All things
came into being through Him (John 1:1-3). In verse 14 he tells us the
Word became flesh and dwelled among us.
The Word became Jesus Christ in the flesh. Through Him (Christ) all things came into
being and it includes that old Hebrew worship.
Peter tells us it was the Spirit of Christ that
spoke through the prophets to tell of His sufferings and the glories to follow
(1 Peter
Jesus once spoke of His body being a temple
that, if destroyed, He would raise it up in three days (John
God brought about that old worship as an earthly copy of our spiritual worship but Christ was doing the Father's work of making it happen. He made it happen as an earthly copy of the spiritual to come. That almost sounds like Jesus is speaking to us in a parable.
The Spirit of Christ is speaking to us in the Old Testament
scriptures. When He was on earth in the flesh, He only spoke to the
crowds in parables (Matthew
We heard the Hebrew writer tell us that the old way of how the high priest entered into the inner room was a "symbol" for the present time" (Hebrews 9:9). The Greek wording says it is a "parable" for the present time. Does God have a different definition of what a parable is?
Man’s definition of a parable says that
the earthly story is fiction. That old Hebrew worship was not a fictional
story. It really happened. Did He make that old worship happen as
an earthly copy of what applies to us, spiritually? Did it happen for our
instruction? Remember, those priests
were serving a copy and shadow of heavenly things.
Was Jesus
telling
us about that when He spoke to the woman at the well? She
asked about worship
and about the Jews requiring that worship be done in
Jesus said those words while the old was still in effect. He is the creator and He had put that old worship into effect some fifteen hundred years earlier. He knew when He put it into effect that it would be replaced with a spiritual worship. When He spoke through Moses, He made that old worship happen as a copy and shadow of what was to come with the reality.
Paul once
spoke of
our being set free from the old Law commandments and said, "do
not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh,
but through love serve one another" (Galatians
5:13). If my brother is in need of anything, I am to serve
him and minister to
him. Jesus will remember those who love His dwelling place.
Is that what Jesus
is telling us when He describes judgment?
Have you ever looked closely at how Jesus described judgment in Matthew, chapter 25? He speaks of how He will come in glory and sit on His throne to judge the nations. He will separate those before Him to the right and to the left, putting the righteous ones on the right and the evil ones on the left.
Notice what Jesus will say to those on the right with regard to the reason they are blessed of the Father and will be given eternal life. Jesus will say, "Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in - - -".
He will continue to speak of those works of love that they had done for Him and when they question having done those things for Him He will tell them, "Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me". Those on the left will be damned for not having done those works of love for Him because they did not do them for His brothers.
Again, we are to love all people, including our brothers in Christ but when Christ passes judgment on the nations, love of the brethren is the key. If we love others but fail to love His brothers we will not have loved Christ.
Can we see more about our gospel obedience requirements when we hear Paul describe judgment in 2 Thessalonians, chapter 1? Paul spoke of the day "when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus".
Paul says that Jesus will pass judgment based
on His requirement that we must know God and obey the gospel. For
those who have not met those conditions He will bring retribution to them.
Paul
says that the saving gospel is the news of the death, burial and
resurrection of Christ (1 Corinthians, chapter 15). We must obey
that gospel of His death,
burial and resurrection with our spiritual death, burial and
resurrection. We must be buried with Him through baptism into death and if we
become united with Him in the likeness of His death, “certainly we shall also
be in the likeness of His resurrection” (Romans 6:3-5).
We can't be raised up as a new body in Christ
if the old body of sin was not put to death. We must make the decision
to die to self and live for Him. That is what repentance means. We do that by living for the brethren.
We must not only obey
the gospel, we must also know God.
John tells us what it means to know God:
1 John 4
7 Beloved,
let us
love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born
of God and
knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God,
for God is
love.
Knowing God means that we must know love because God is love. Knowing Him also requires that we listen to His word as it tells us about our requirement to love one another.
In the verses that follow, John will write that love is seen in God sending His Son and "if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another" and "if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us". We can see love when we see the cross of Jesus. Because He loved us that much, we "ought" to love one another also.
Remember, true love loves others in deed and truth. God is love and we must believe in love to become a son of
our God of love.
As Jesus told a crowd of Jews,
"But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who
is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends
rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." (Matthew 5:44-45)
Remember, in 1 John 3:16, we heard John tell us that
we know love by Christ having laid down His life for us and “we ought" to lay
down our lives for the brethren.
In the above scriptures the word "ought" comes from the Greek word "opheilo". When we look up that word in Strongs Definitions, we see that it means to "be in debt for". Is Jesus telling us (Through John) that gospel obedience requires that we pay our debt of love?
Jesus paid our old debt for sin and He has
forgiven us of that
great debt (If we have made Him LORD) but we now owe the debt of love
to our
brothers. That sounds like Paul telling us to, "Owe
nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who
loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law" (Romans
13:8). We must pay our debt of love to fulfill the Law.
Remember, the old Law demanded that they offer their sacrifices at God’s house, the place that God chose for His name to dwell. I am to fulfill the Law and bring my sacrifices of love to that holy place.
I must hear Moses say,
“But you shall
seek the LORD at the place which the LORD your God will choose from all
your
tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you
shall come”(Deuteronomy
12:5). God has established His
name at His dwelling place, the church. That is where I am to
bring my
sacrifices of love.
If we obey
Him and
pay our debt of love, God abides in us and His love is perfected in
us. The one who
does not listen to His voice and love others does not know God. The
ones who do
not know God are the ones that Paul said will see His vengeance when He
comes
in flaming fire.
If we really believe in
Jesus, we will believe that
He will keep His promises. He promises to reward those who
will have obeyed Him
and offered their sacrifices of love at the place where His name
dwells. The
name of God dwells in His holy place. It dwells in my brother in
Christ. I "ought" to pay my
debt
and lay down my life at the holy place where God's name dwells.
I must love and
serve at the place where His name dwells:
Hebrews 6
10
For God is not
unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown
toward His
name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.
We show love
toward His name by ministering to the saints. I am to carry my cross
and offer
my sacrifices before the house where God has chosen for His name to
dwell and
serve my brother in Christ. If my brother is in need of
anything I am to serve
him. Jesus will remember those who love His dwelling place.
His Spirit dwells in the outer room of the church on earth. The outer room is holy and we
must love and honor
His holy place. We must offer our sacrifices before the doorway to that house.
If we obey the
gospel of love and pay our debt by helping those who are in need, God
promises
to reward us. We must pay our debt of love so as to please the Father
and not
man. Jesus tells us that when we give to the poor, we must do
it so as not to be seen of men
so
that our reward will come from the Father and not from men (Matthew
6:1-4).
Our giving to the brethren includes our support to those who carry the news to others. Paul received
support from the Philippians (Philippians
They were laying up treasure in heaven. Their gifts were “increasing” profit to their account.
Paul also told them that what they had given to him was “a fragrant aroma, an
acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God”.
Jesus said
that we will be rewarded according to what we have done (Revelation
When Paul spoke of the day when Jesus will be revealed in flaming fire, he spoke of the affliction they were enduring and said how “it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you”.
The ones on the left will
include some who will have afflicted
His brothers. Some of them will have afflicted His brothers
and others will
have just ignored them in their time of need.
Remember, the rich man ignored Lazarus and let him starve at his gate (Luke, chapter 16). He later found himself in torment. In the same way, Jesus will tell those on the left that they are condemned for not having done those works of love for Him when they did not do them for His brothers.
They will not have known God and they will not have obeyed the gospel of love because God is Love and they will not have known love. Our obedience to the gospel includes our dieing to self to live for others.
Our
first love must be for the Lord. We must show our love with our
obedience. We
must obey Him and love all people so that we may be God’s sons but we
must
especially love His brothers, His holy dwelling place.
Paul tells us that “while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith” (Galatians 6:10). We must love the brethren if we are to have eternal life.
We can know who the brethren are because it is
those who are of
faith in Jesus who have been clothed in the Firstborn Son that are the
sons of
God and that includes both male and female (Galatians
3:26-29). It includes
Christian wives and husbands.
Christian
husbands
and wives, when you look at one another, you are beholding God’s holy
place.
When two young single Christians are dating one another, they must show
respect
for each other because each is in the presence of God’s holy place.
We will
give account for how we have honored and served at God’s holy place.
We must love His brothers like Jesus loved them and lay down our lives for them. When He said that we were to take up our cross and follow Him, was He not telling us to follow Him in laying down our life for the brethren?
We "ought" to lay down
our
lives for the brethren and love them "in deed and
truth" (With our works of love).
As John said (In 1 John
Love is the way home to the Father of
love. If His love does not abide in us, we will not enter.
Paul tells us
that
we are saved by grace, through faith and not by works but he then added
that we
have been created "in
Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them"
(Ephesians 2:8-10).
We have been created in Him to do His works
of love. The price of that creation work was the cross of
Jesus. If I fail to
do the works that He created me for, will He have done His creation
work for me
in vain?
We heard Paul say that love is greater than faith and that if I have all faith without love, I am nothing. We also heard John say that we "ought" to show love for our brothers by loving them "in deed and truth".
James said something
like that in James chapter 2.
James tells us that if we
see a brother or
sister in need and do not give them "what
is
necessary for their body" what good
will it
be (verses 15-16). He says that, "Even
so faith,
if it has no works, is dead, being by itself".
He says that "faith
without works
is useless". He had previously said that
"Pure
and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father
is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep
oneself
unstained by the world" (James
We can see an
example of pure religion when we look back at the first century church
in
Acts 4:32, says, “And
the congregation
of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them
claimed
that anything belonging to him was his own, but all things were common
property
to them”.
We then read where there were
no needy
ones among them because all who had land or houses sold them and gave
the money
to the apostles so that it could be distributed to those who were in
need.
In the years
that
followed, the saints in
He tells them, “Now
concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the
churches of
We are seeing what is necessary for maintaining God’s house. God’s house is not made of bricks and mortar. It is made up of those people who are “in Christ”. Should we not consider that maintenance of God's house be near the top of our priority list when we put together our church budget? That means giving our time and money to provide food, clothing and shelter to those less fortunate saints who have very little.
While we
have brothers and
sisters in
Should we consider
using a greater
portion of our church funds for supporting gospel outreach missionaries
(Like
the early churches that supported Paul’s work) and for maintaining the
true
house of God?
We are truly saved by grace, through faith and not by works but our
faith must
be in Jesus. We must believe Jesus when He speaks through all of the inspired writers.
We must believe Him when He
tells us that we will be judged based on how we have loved and served
His
brothers. We must love them in deed and truth.
John said
that "We
know that we have passed out of death into life, because we
love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death"
(1 John
Our gospel
obedience requirement is to
believe in Jesus and Jesus is love. We must know Him and
believe in Him to have
life. We must believe Him when He tells us to offer our
sacrifices of love to
Him at the house where His name dwells.
If death was the penalty for defiling or irreverently coming near the old holy place that was a "mere copy", what does that say to us if we do not love and honor God's true holy place? We are to worship God, but we must do that at His holy place.
When
we serve the
brothers of
Jesus, we are serving Him. He will tell those on the right hand
side in judgment that to the extent they had done those works of love
to one of His brothers they did them to Him.
I must respect the holy
place where God's Spirit dwells and lay down my life for the brethren by serving them in their time of need.
Jesus is love, and
Gospel obedience requires that we believe in Jesus. We must
believe Him when He
tells us how He will pass judgment on those before Him. Read Matthew,
chapter
25, again. If our brother is hungry or if he has
any other need, we
must help him. If we fail to do those things, then we are
dead.
We can't work our way to heaven. Love is the way home. Love is the only way to His home of love. We must know love and, “We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren”.
Remember, “The one who
does not love does not know God,
for God is love”.
We must know God if we are to
become heirs with Jesus.
We
must do the
works of love that we have been created to do because Jesus will come
and deal
out vengeance to those who do not know God and who have not obeyed the
gospel
(2 Thessalonians 1:8). He,
"WILL
THEN REPAY
EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS"
(Matthew
We can’t draw near to the Father unless we serve in His holy place. We can’t enter through the veil if we have not been serving before the veil. If we have not been offering our sacrifices of love at His holy place, then our faith means nothing.
If we
obey Him and love one another as He has loved us, then we will be more
considerate and tolerant of our brother and there will be less
dissention and
division in His holy place. We must treat Him as holy in His
holy place. I "ought" to stoop to wash
my brother's feet (Spiritually).
Remember, we must believe in Jesus to have eternal life. We must believe Him when He says that He will reward those who have obeyed His gospel and offered their sacrifices of love to Him at the house where He made His sacrifice, the house where His name dwells.
If we fail to do our works of love then our faith is dead and
we have not
passed out of death into life. If we are dead then God is not
our God. He is
not the God of the dead, He is the God of the living (Matthew
I had seen the new commandment for me to love my brother and I tried to obey it. It was only recently, however, that I have begun to see just how very important it is to Him when I see that old copy and shadow worship. They only served a copy and shadow of the heavenly things.
They did the copy for fifteen hundred years to give us the earthly lesson. We are the true priesthood and we serve in the true holy place. We will give account for how we have treated His holy place.
Christ is speaking to us through that old Hebrew worship. We must hear Christ tell us to treat Him as holy and offer our sacrifices of love at His holy place (To His brothers). He has entered through the veil and is seated in that heavenly Holy of Holies. His priestly brethren are serving in the outer room of the church on earth. They are serving the brotherhood daily with their works of love.
For those who persevere until the end they will have treated Him as holy. Because
they will have been faithful until
the end they will receive the crown of life that the LORD has promised
to those who love Him (James 1:12). They will enter that
home of glory because they knew that “LOVE IS THE
WAY HOME”.
Someday, if we have obeyed the new commandment and loved the brethren as He has loved us, we will follow
Christ through the spiritual veil into that Holy of Holies home of God. We can know that because we have a hope that is “both sure and steadfast and one
which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us,
having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”
(Hebrews 6:19-20)
It all happened for our instruction. It happened to show us what is required of His new covenant worshippers. Seeing that old covenant worship lesson applied to our love for the brethren was not important, however, if we have heard Jesus as He speaks clearly from His new covenant word. More than twenty different times the New Testament scriptures tell us how we are to love one another. We are to show our love in deed and in truth.
Jesus is giving us the lesson in the Old Testament earthly copy and He is explaining it clearly in the New Testament. One way or another we need to hear the message. Having eternal life depends on how we worship at His holy place.
We
must worship God and not
man but we must
worship Him at the place where His Spirit dwells and where He has
placed His name. We must offer our sacrifices of love at His
holy
dwelling place. That would be the brotherhood of believers.
I am not from one of the schools of theology. I am a retired engineer and have been a Christian for over fifty years. For fifty years I had seen what Jesus said about judgment and what He will say regarding the reason that some will receive eternal life and some eternal damnation but it never really registered. I did not understand how it could fit with other scripture so I just ignored what He was saying.
We
can't ignore what Jesus says. We need to keep reading until
we get the message. Sometimes that can take many years.
You will
notice
that I have used the New American Standard translation for the copied
scriptures in this book. You may wish to also read the same
scriptures from the
translation that you normally use.
Johnny Rogers
Revised
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