1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,760 Hello, teachers. We're here again. We're studying session 9 in Exodus chapter 25. It goes through 1 2 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:18,360 through 9, and then they jump ahead to chapter 31, 1 through 6. This particular session has a 3 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:25,720 subject of worship. It's talking about honoring God with our worship. And in terms of the story of 4 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:32,120 Exodus, it's talking about when God instructed the children of Israel, instructed Moses and the 5 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:38,480 people to make a tabernacle, to make a tabernacle for him. It was a precursor of the temple that 6 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:45,920 would come and later on. And this is exactly what God's talking about. And so the big idea is this, 7 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:50,800 we will worship God in a way that honors him when we recognize three important principles that we 8 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:57,800 see reflected in God's instruction for building the tabernacle. We're going to see just a couple 9 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:03,840 things. The first thing we see about the first principle that we see about worship that we can 10 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:12,160 see reflected in this idea of the tabernacle is this number one worship costs us something. Godly 11 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:18,880 biblical worship should cost us something. It often costs us something. You're going to see that in 12 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:25,520 verse one of chapter 25, it says this, and the Lord spake unto Moses saying, speaking to the children 13 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:30,320 of Israel that they bring me an offering of every man that give it that willingly with his heart, 14 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:36,800 ye shall take my offering. And this is the offering which shall take of them. So God gives them first 15 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:44,920 some instruction. He says, we're going to take up an offering. Now it's kind of interesting. Worship is, 16 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:53,200 again, it costs us something. We're talking about offerings. Here he literally says, 17 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:59,560 of every man that give it that willingly with his heart. So this is not, I think true worship 18 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:10,040 doesn't happen out of just mere duty, subjugation. It may end up happening that way. True heartfelt 19 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:15,400 worship happens willingly of the heart. I don't want my wife to love me because I make her love 20 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:22,920 me. I want my wife to willingly love me. And in a similar way, God wants us to love him willingly. 21 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:28,920 And we want us to give to him and to worship him willingly. And he says it's to do that. We're 22 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:33,880 doing this with this offering. And he says, this is what it's going to look like. And here's where 23 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:39,880 it costs, right? Verse three, this is the offering which ye shall take of them gold and silver and 24 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:47,560 brass and blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen goats hair and ram skins dyed red and badger 25 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:54,920 skins and shittom wood oil for the light spices for anointing oil and for sweet incense onyx stones 26 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:59,880 and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate ephod there in the breastplate talking 27 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:08,440 about the the vest looking thing that ephod would be the whole thing the breastplate the whole 28 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:15,720 robe that breastplate what the priests would wear in the in the tabernacle. And so God is preparing 29 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:22,360 for to get the materials to build the tabernacle. It's going to be a place where he's going to 30 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:35,160 dwell and he does that. So and so you see here that God wanted God could have set it up a lot 31 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:43,640 of different ways. Obviously God owns everything. God wanted their worship and in wanting their 32 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:48,600 worship he wanted that to cost them something. And so he asked for an offering and he's going to 33 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:54,760 build something going to build this tabernacle with these precious materials. He's valuable 34 00:03:54,760 --> 00:04:03,240 materials and he's going to do it by them actually giving to him. This is I think there's a principle 35 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:11,480 here that that we ought to live out that our worship of God ought to be something that's not 36 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:20,280 just given frivolously that we can say we love God but then our actions, our time, our attention, 37 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:28,520 our resources ought to reflect how much we love him. You can tell me what you love but like show me 38 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:37,240 your checking account, show me your schedule and I can see what you actually value at some level. 39 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:42,600 That's true. And so worship if it's done in a way that honors God ought to cost us something and 40 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:48,600 that's what we see principle here. Number two, worship invites God's presence. That's what happens 41 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:57,320 in verse eight down here. It says, and let them make me a sanctuary. Sanctuary kind of sounds similar 42 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:04,440 to sanctification to saint. It's the idea of setting it apart. This is a place that set apart 43 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:10,520 why verse eight that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show thee after the 44 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,760 pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall you make it. 45 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:21,880 And so he says the point of this place is going to be a place where I'm going to dwell and be with 46 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:27,480 my people. I'm going to be there with them and be their God. This is a theme that you see a lot 47 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,720 through Exodus. God says, I am the Lord your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt. 48 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:38,600 You all shall know their God's before me. He's like watch, stand and watch. God's going to 49 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:46,360 deliver you. You'll know that I'm the Lord your God. He says, I want you to build a sanctuary. 50 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,520 I want you to make it this particular way because I'm going to be there and I'm going to dwell 51 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:58,200 with you as my people. We know too that God did that. We know that he manifested himself in this 52 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:04,120 moment as a pillar, a cloud by day and a fire by night. And we know that when they dedicated 53 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:11,960 this tabernacle that he showed up and his presence was manifest in this tabernacle. And so 54 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:20,440 God is present everywhere. We know that, but we know that God manifests his presence and can be 55 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:26,440 particularly in a place in that sense. And that's what he's saying about this particular 56 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:34,280 moment. Him being in the Holy of Holies, him being in this tabernacle didn't mean that he wasn't 57 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:40,920 somewhere else too. He's everywhere, but it means that he is manifesting, he is revealing his presence 58 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:46,920 and making it known in this sanctuary. And that's why he gave laws and rules and ceremonial things 59 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:53,400 all around how they were to operate within this particular tabernacle. That leads us to number 60 00:06:53,400 --> 00:07:02,280 three. So worship costs us something. It is inviting God's presence. And that's a good thing. Number 61 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:07,240 three, worship is something God equips us to do. Worship is something God equips us to do. I think 62 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:14,760 this is cool. Verse, this now goes forward to Exodus 31 and it's verses one through six. It says 63 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:22,520 this, and the Lord spake unto Moses saying, see, I have called by name Bezaliel, the son of Uri, 64 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:29,800 the son of her of the tribe of Judah. And I have filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom and 65 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:37,320 in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship to devise cutting works, 66 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:42,760 to work in gold and in silver and in brass and in cutting of stones to set them and in carving of 67 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:51,240 timber to work in all manner of workmanship. And I behold, I have given with him a holy ab, the son 68 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:57,800 of Ahasemak and the tribe of Dan, and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted, I have put wisdom 69 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:05,640 that they may make all that I have commanded thee. I love, I love this. Couple things I want to give 70 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:12,200 you. This is just practical instruction about teaching. When you're in some of these Old Testament 71 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:20,760 passages that have a bunch of names, just say the name as confidently as you can. You may say it wrong. 72 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:28,040 In fact, I'm 99% sure you are saying it wrong, but people don't know if you just confident with it. 73 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:33,480 So just struggle through. That's just a pro tip I'm giving you. So that's number one. Number two, 74 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:43,240 yeah, Dan's not hard. It's Ahasemak that's hard. But if I'm like, Ahasemak, you know, that's one. 75 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:51,800 Anyway, so pro tip. Okay. Number two, I think this is amazing. God shapes people, right? God 76 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:58,200 makes people certain ways. He does that naturally. We know it. When we get saved, we're given spiritual 77 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:04,680 gifts. We're giving spiritual gift and we know that's the case. God also makes people naturally 78 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:09,400 gifted in certain ways. God makes certain people musical. God makes certain people 79 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:17,080 really good with words. And some people are naturally very, very intelligent in terms of their 80 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:25,640 ability and capacity to understand information and to relay information. Some people are very 81 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:32,600 intelligent with their hands. They know how to make things. They know how to fix things. They 82 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:39,320 take things apart and they put it back together. God was calling Moses to lead his people to both 83 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,880 this tabernacle and in that building of the tabernacle, that putting together the tabernacle, 84 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:54,600 there had to be actual construction, actual... I like to think I'm good with words. Sometimes I 85 00:09:54,600 --> 00:10:00,200 forget them. Here's my point. The point is they needed someone that knew what they were doing 86 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,920 to in the middle of the desert, take all of this raw material and put it together to the 87 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:12,760 instruction that God gave them to make a beautiful place for the Lord. And what God's telling Moses 88 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:20,040 in this moment is, hey, I have made people and think about this. This man that God had been 89 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:25,240 thinking about this for at least this guy's whole life. We know that for sure. Obviously, God thought 90 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:33,240 about this in an eternity past, but he had been gifting these particular individuals, 91 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:44,360 Bezalil, Ahiszek, right? These different... sorry, Ahiszek. These people, God actually made them 92 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:52,600 to be good at what they're good at so that they could help fulfill this particular task. And in 93 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:59,560 a sense, obviously, they were facilitating the worship of God by the people. But in a sense, 94 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:05,480 we know that even their gifting expressed in what they were doing in building the Tabernacle. 95 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:10,520 If they were doing it as unto the Lord, and it seems like they would, that itself is worshiped to 96 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:16,520 God. And I think that's something that is encouraging to me. I know that there are people 97 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:22,280 that they worship God in the way that they fix cars. There are some people that they worship God. 98 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:26,120 If they're doing it as unto the Lord, whether they're for you to eat or drink or whatever you do, 99 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:31,160 do all to the glory of God. There are some people that the way that they worship is to write sermons. 100 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:35,640 There are some people the way they worship is to craft songs. There are some people the way they 101 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:43,240 worship is to help other people whenever they see a need. This is... God shapes people in different 102 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:52,200 ways, and he uses people for different reasons. And when it's done as unto the Lord, it really is 103 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,840 worship. It's something that God has equipped us to do. Now, that doesn't mean that the people 104 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:04,440 that, man, they're really good at fixing things, that they don't need to come and do corporate 105 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:11,640 worship and send her to the teaching of God's Word and give and sing and praise. Obviously, 106 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:18,200 that's a part, that's something all of us should and can and should do. But it doesn't mean that 107 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:23,320 worship only happens when the people of God are gathered corporately. Worship happens all the time, 108 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:30,920 and God calls us to worship Him. And what's cool is He equips us to do it. What's the ultimate way 109 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:36,920 God equipped us to worship Him? Well, we had no capacity to make God love us or to worship Him 110 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:42,840 at all. So what did He do? He's because of our sin. So what did He do? He sent His Son to die for us, 111 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:50,600 to equip us to be redeemed and to be accepted and to be one of His kids. And now we are sanctified. 112 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,880 Now, we don't go to the tabernacle of the temple of the... 113 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:59,080 Corinthian says, what do you know? Or Romans, do you not know your body is a temple of the Holy 114 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,680 Ghost, which is in you, which you have of God? You're not your own. That's actually 1 Corinthians. 115 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:07,560 You're bought with a price. Glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are gods. And so 116 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:14,120 God equips us to be able to do that through salvation, through sanctification, through the 117 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:20,280 indwelling of the Holy Spirit. God does that for us. And so worship is important. It costs... 118 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:28,360 It should cost us something. It invites God's presence. And it's something that He has equipped 119 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:37,480 us to do. I hope this... Kind of looking at the tabernacle, this study has helped you think about 120 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:58,920 your own worship and something you can apply to your class on Sunday. Thanks a lot.