<TITLE>06. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 And the cedars was cut up in Lebanon. And the Lebanon cedars was the most noted cedars of all the world. Like today, there's one place that redwood's found: that's in California. And there's one place they call in Africa on Mosselbaai, there's a famous wood there that's called stinkwood. It's never found nowhere else but there. And there is different timbers that's found in different parts of the country, and cedars was founded at Lebanon, a very high, tall, cedar, hard because it's a warm country. Warmer the country, harder the timber becomes; and--and soft, colder the country, softer it becomes.
That has a spiritual application too. Cold and indifferent, soft and floating. But when it's warm, Spirit-filled, it clings together and becomes useful in the Master's hand.

L-24 Now, we find that these great cedars were hewn down by hewers and they were--had the blueprints. And they brought them together from different parts of the world. Now, if you notice, Solomon never varied one bit from the pattern that Moses saw on Mount Sinai in heaven. Moses, when he returned from his vision, pitched the tent, and made it just exactly like he saw in heaven.
And when Solomon built the temple, he made it just exactly the way he had--he seen the pattern, the type. Moses pitched a tent for a--a perpetual type, because it was moved from place to place. But Solomon, he made the--the tabernacle just exactly in the fashion that Moses had seen in heaven. It was all put together, set in order, just exactly.
What a spiritual application we could apply here: that we are never to leave the Scripture. Stay exactly with the pattern. That's the reason, I believe, that the way the first church was patterned, that's the way the next one should be patterned. That's the way every one should be patterned, just the way it was at the beginning. And I believe that God has it that way, I believe, the real church. All right.

L-25 The materials cut out in their native land brought into one place, but when they were brought together... (I'm reading now from the 16th chapter or quoting from it.) Now, when they were brought together they were so perfectly fit, that in the space of forty years that it taken to put the construction up, there wasn't one--one stone to be resawed. There wasn't a buzz of a saw, or a sound of a hammer for forty years.
Talk about masonry, architectury... Now, that showed that when we are doing anything, and doing it in the pattern that God has set for us... Now, many of those stones looked very odd, but there was a place in the temple for every odd, peculiar stone. God had a place for them.
Our ministries, which is a beautiful type there, or an antitype to it, shows that in our peculiarity, our way of worship... Yet, when the temple, the real temple that we will come to after a few minutes, comes together, there'll be a place for every odd acting person. We may look a little funny to someone else and act a little funny; but remember, it's the place there for us. God is cutting out His church. And every little stone had its place fit exactly to it.


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