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Hey, guys, welcome back to Everyday Truth. We're in Psalm 15 today. If you want to follow along

in your own copy of the Word of God, a short song today, just five verses long, but there is so much in these five verses. So we've got to jump right

into it. It is a Psalm of David, as the introduction tells us, but watch how David begins this

Psalm. Interesting. He begins the Psalm with a question. And I think that's important because questions

make us think. Questions make us introspect, make us to consider ourselves. And watch the question

that David begins this Psalm with. Lord, so it's a prayer. Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle, who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

So we know that the tabernacle was the tent, the tent of meeting, that temporary structure that was given by God to Moses and the people in the wilderness as a means of housing the Ark of the Covenant, ultimately.

I mean, there were various compartments, but ultimately, it was the place where God met man, the tabernacle.

And wherever that tabernacle went, the people were to go.

Stay close to God. Stay centered around God. Even the camp itself of Israel was strategically detailed around the tabernacle so that everybody would be facing the tabernacle and the tabernacle would be the central part of the camp. And so it is that God ought to be the

central part of my life. And we ought to gather around him. He ought to be the hub, the hub around

which the spokes of life and the spokes of the church and the spokes of family emanate or come

from. We know this, that when Joshua ultimately took over the land,

one of the very first priorities was that the tabernacle would be installed. And remember,

the tabernacle was installed at a place called Shiloh. And there at Shiloh, various priests oversaw the sacrificial system and the

feast at times where the children of Israel would regather and refocus every year for those feast times.

And for 369 years, that tabernacle, that tent of meeting, was there at Shiloh, until ultimately the

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