Living By Faith 9

INTRO: We have begun looking at feelings as related to faith. We considered numerous preliminary matters and want to now look at the primary issues involved. Feelings play a very large part in any person’s life. As to the preliminaries, it is my view that God has helped us to understand the immaterial parts of man by using illustrations from the material. We saw the heart picturing man’s mental processes; the kidneys, the cleansing of the mental processes and the bowels as the seat of the emotions.
It is also my view that the tabernacle pictures man’s major components; body, soul and spirit. The tabernacle was the movable part of God’s house before Israel reached Canaan. We saw in the Gospel of John that when Jesus came to earth, it says He dwelt, literally tabernacle among us. We saw in 2 Corinthians 5, and there are other references, that our bodies are the tent, or tabernacle in which we live.
We further saw that the tabernacle had the number five stamped all around it. I think that at least one of the indications of the five bars on three sides of the temple, and the five pillars by the doorway speak of the five senses of the body. That man has five physical senses, is of course not questionable. I mentioned that the physical senses are vehicles of information from our physical surroundings. On the basis of this information, the self, the real you makes many, many decisions each day.