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Hello, teachers. We find ourselves in session number 10 in our study of the book of Exodus

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and Leviticus. This week is kind of among the last in Exodus and then next week we go

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into Leviticus. And we go into the part of the story where Moses is building the tabernacle

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and God is...we kind of talked about that last week. We're moving more into that this

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week. We find ourselves in Exodus chapter number 40, verses 16 through 21 and then the

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34 through 38, all in chapter 40. The objective statement that we wrote was this, that we

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can be motivated to properly worship God when we see three steps in how God related to his

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people through the tabernacle. We're going to see this over the next couple of weeks

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as we talk about the tabernacle, about the offerings and all that happened there. And

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it's a pretty incredible thing. So the first way that God relates to his people in worship,

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again, through this tabernacle is that he expects obedience. So the first step that

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we see is obedience and we see that by Moses. It's Exodus chapter 40, verse 16. It says,

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this, dusted Moses according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he. And it came

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to pass in the first month and the second year on the first day of the month that the

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tabernacle was reared up. And Moses reared up the temple, tabernacle, fastened his sockets,

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set up the boards there, put in the bars thereof, reared up his pillars, and he spread

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abroad the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent above it. And as

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the Lord had commanded Moses, I'll pause there for a second. There's a lot of detail

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that's going on showing what Moses did in putting up the tabernacle. He had asked for

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an offering from the people. God said last in the lesson last week that God asked for

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Moses to ask an offering of the people and people were to willingly have their own heart

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gift towards that. He had given him the leaders that he had prepared to be able to be skilled

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and preparing all that needed to be done artistically and from an artisan perspective and putting

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that together, the actual tabernacle. Now it's all been put together. Sorry, now it's

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all been crafted. Now it's time to put it together and to set it up. This tabernacle

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is like a series of tents. There's curtains and rods, and that's what it's describing

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here. But I think the key phrase that we see in this particular first point in the text

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of this first point is in that phrase, as the Lord commanded Moses there in verse number

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19, verse 16, right at the beginning, dusted Moses according to all that God commanded

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him. So did he. So it's very kind of clear. It's not kind of clear. It's very clear that

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God had given Moses specific instruction exactly as God told Moses to do it. That's how he

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did it as God commanded him. Verse 20, he took and put the testimony into the Ark says

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the stable on the Ark and put the mercy seat above the Ark. This is talking about the Ark

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of the Covenant. He's literally doing that as God commanded him. And he brought the Ark

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into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the covering, the cover to the Ark of the

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testimony as Lord commanded Moses. There's that phrase again, as the Lord had commanded

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Moses. This is describing God putting, this describing Moses putting the Ark where God

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had told him to put it. He moved it the way God told him to move it. He put the commandments

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in the Ark like he was commanded to do. And this is exactly all according to what God

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commanded. And so you see this narrative is just telling you what happened, but it's

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awesome. But what happened was Moses being obedient and this is on their way to God's

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presence showing up in and among the people residing with the people resting in the tabernacle.

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We're going to see that in the next point. What were the prerequisites was that God gave

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instruction on what that would look like and Moses followed it. And here in this matter,

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he followed it to a T. The application is pretty seems pretty important that God has

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a will about how and where and what constitutes proper worship. And when God says to do something,

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we got to do it. We are not worshiping God when God tells us to do something and then

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we don't do it. And so we see this first kind of principle, this first step is Moses being

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obedient. Then we move on to God's presence. We see that as part of the factors of what's

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going on here. Verse 34, then a cloud covered the 10 of the congregation and the glory of

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the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter into the temple, 10

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of the congregation because a cloud upon a boat there on and the glory of the Lord filled

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the temple. God's glory is a very incredible thing. It's a weighty matter. It's substantive.

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A lot of times as glory is described in terms of light, we know that this glory of the Lord

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in other places is called Shekinah glory was something that was so immense and so terrifying

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and so just awe inspiring that and you see it here too. God's presence meant and God

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in his glory meant that men could not be in and men could not approach him. It says literally

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here that Moses could not go into the tabernacle because of God's glory filling the tabernacle.

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God's presence is an amazing thing. And that makes us kind of consider what God said even

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to the woman at the well where she goes, Hey, some people say we ought to worship God in

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Jerusalem and some say that we ought to worship him in these mountains and Jesus tells her

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is coming a day where neither in these mountains or in the temple will someone worship God.

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Those who worship God will worship him in spirit and in truth. We're told in Hebrews

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that we become the temple of God and that God resides in us. And so this is an amazing

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idea that God's glory, God's presence would show up in worship. That is something that

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we're looking for and he is manifesting his presence in this moment. That leads to a third

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point that we want to look at. And that's this idea of guidance. We see that part of

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God's presence in the tabernacle and his in response to the obedience of Moses and others

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to build the temple. God now continues to give them direction in and around that tabernacle.

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You look at verse number 36, it says this, and when the cloud was taken up from the over

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the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys. But if the cloud

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were not taken up, then the journey, then they journey not till the, till that the day

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that it was taken up for the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day and fire was

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upon it by night. And then the sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.

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You see here this presence of God responding in this worship that needed to happen up at

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the tabernacle, being what literally moved the people of God through the desert. When

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it stayed, they stayed. When it left, they left. And it was the visible manifestation

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of his presence that was guiding them. This is a, I think there is a principle here that's

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important that when we're obedient to God and when we're right with God, the Bible calls

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even the Holy Spirit, being obedient to the Holy Spirit, being filled with the Holy Spirit.

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When we are letting the word of God dwell in us richly and all wisdom, it's in those

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moments that he guides us. And I'm not, I'm not calling for some kind of a supernatural

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new revelation, that kind of a thing. But the Bible says, for instance, that the God's

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word is a lamp into our feet and a light unto our path. He gives us direction. And so I

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think we ought to be directed by our worship. And what I mean by worship, sometimes people,

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when they think about worship, they automatically think about music, but I'm using worship in

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a much broader sense. For sure it could be expressed in our worship corporately together

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on a Sunday morning. I'm also referring to the idea that we put God in his proper place

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in our life to know God is ought to be to worship him, to understand who he is compared

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to us and to, to know him as someone to be worshiped. Someone who is in authority, someone

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to obeyed is to follow him when he directs, when he directs through his word, when he,

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when, when we pray, our prayers ought to be thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth

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that is as it is in heaven. God guide me, direct me to exactly what you want me to do

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today. So worship is way more than just what happens in a service. It should be the pattern

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of our lives as we're obedient to God, as we're longing for his presence to guide us

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to where he wants us to be. I hope this helped you. I hope this lesson was something that

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you can apply to yourself and then you can apply it to your class. Have a great day.