God’s Sanctuary #562

Psalm 100:4 exhorts us to draw near to God. "Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise." The gates open into the place of worship. The courts are the rooms of the tabernacle, a tent erected for worship. God promised to dwell, to tabernacle, among His people in the sanctuary they would build. "Let them construct a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell among them" (Exodus 25:8).

In the holy place, one of the courts or rooms of the tabernacle, the people sacrificed various animals on a golden altar. When they entered the holy place, they were to "enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise."

Christians are living stones being built into a modern dwelling place for God. "You also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit" (Ephesians 2:22). God uses feeble human beings. By fitting them together He builds a spiritual house, His church. "You also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 2:5).

When God’s people gather, they "offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name" (Hebrews 13:15). They "enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise."

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