4 Keys Abridged Edition - Session 10

Main Ideas

The speaker presents the Old Testament tabernacle as a spiritual “road map” for approaching God and listening for God’s voice. Drawing on Hebrews 8, he describes the tabernacle as a pattern or shadow of heavenly realities and connects its furnishings to stages of personal preparation and prayer.

The Tabernacle as a “Tuning Dial”

The speaker suggests moving through these steps when preparing to listen:

1. Enter with praise. Begin by thanking and praising God, turning your attention toward God.
2. Surrender your will. Treat the altar as a reminder to lay down your preferred outcome and remain open to God’s direction.
3. Be cleansed by Scripture. The laver represents washing with the Word. Read, meditate on, and memorize Scripture.
4. Maintain fellowship. The table of showbread represents fellowship with other Christians. The speaker says resentment, bitterness, and insisting on your own way can hinder listening.
5. Welcome the Holy Spirit’s illumination. The lampstand represents the Spirit’s help in understanding Scripture and receiving insight.
6. Worship. The altar of incense represents ongoing worship and gratitude rather than grumbling.
7. Wait quietly with your attention fixed on Jesus. The Ark of the Covenant represents entering God’s presence. The speaker describes quietly waiting with Jesus in mind as a way to become receptive.

He calls these questions a practical “tuning dial” for diagnosing why someone may feel stuck. He connects this preparation with the previously taught “four keys” from Habakkuk: becoming quiet, focusing on Jesus, tuning to spontaneity, and receiving a flow of impressions to journal.

A “Fine-Tuning Dial” from Hebrews 10

If the tabernacle steps and the four keys do not help someone get unstuck, the speaker recommends checking four further conditions, based on Hebrews 10:19–22:

• A sincere or true heart: Ask whether the practice is genuine rather than merely a religious routine.
• Full assurance of faith: Believe that God can communicate and that the inner “river” the speaker describes can flow.
• A conscience cleansed from sin: If guilt or a sense of wrongdoing is troubling the conscience, acknowledge and repent of it rather than deny or rationalize it.
• A life responsive to what God has already said: The speaker links being “washed with pure water” to the washing of the Word and says people should act on prior guidance rather than ignore it.

He teaches that these checks, together with the tabernacle sequence and the four keys, can help a person become receptive to journaling.

Practice and Learning Over Time

The speaker emphasizes that hearing God’s voice is a skill to develop through sustained practice, not brief exposure. His recommendations include:

• Choose an area for focused learning and practice over an extended period.
• For this subject, spend at least three months reviewing the principles, journaling regularly, and sharing journal entries in a group.
• Help one another when someone feels “stuck,” and keep practicing until the approach feels familiar.
• Repeat teaching materials as needed; the speaker says people may notice new things on later reviews.
• Consider teaching the material to others so that the practice spreads.

He also recounts using extended periods of study to improve his health, illustrating his broader approach of focusing on one area for a year or more. He briefly argues that individuals and churches, rather than government, should take responsibility for health care. This is a personal view expressed in the talk.

Closing Prayer

The speaker closes by praying for listeners to receive faith, anointing, and the ability to hear God’s voice and see visions. He invites the group to repeat affirmations about wanting to hear and see, believing they can, and receiving this ability. This is presented as an impartation prayer within his Christian teaching.

Speakers and Sources Featured

• Mark Virkler: The primary speaker and leader of the closing prayer.
• Group participants/viewers: Invited to repeat short affirmations; no other individual speaker is clearly identifiable in the subtitles.
• Biblical sources cited or referenced: Hebrews 8:5; Hebrews 10:19–22; Ephesians 5:26; Habakkuk, in connection with the previously taught four keys; and biblical imagery concerning the tabernacle, praise, worship, and Jesus.