Exodus 38:9-20 Bible Study | Episode 644

March 28, 2024

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

Exodus 38:9-20  Bible Study | Episode #644

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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Transcript

This is Chad Harrison, and you're listening to Hope Alive, Applying God's Word to Your Daily Life.

Hi, this is Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and have been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open up his word to you and allow you to see him and to know him and to know his will, that you might glorify him and that you might walk in faith and power each and every day, especially today.

In Jesus name. Good morning. Welcome to Lake Community Church's Morning Bible Study. We're in Exodus chapter 38, and we're going to talk about the wall. It's the wall, it's the gate, it's the fence that surrounded the tabernacle, and I know when we're talking about this, you're sitting there going, why is it important?

It's important because there is a separation between the presence of God and the world. And that's really what it represents. The wall represents a separation between the presence of God and the world. And there's some aspects of it that are very important in understanding not only just the separation, but understanding.

What surrounds the presence of God, what is all around that presence and what is visible by the world. And when we go through this we need to understand how the world is seeing is seeing the presence of God, because remember, they're not seeing the inside. They're not seeing the altar.

They're not seeing the labor. And they're not seeing The the tent that's inside there. They're not seeing anything inside of that at all. They, there's no possible way because they'd have to see through two walls in order to be see that. Now, Superman might could but nobody else. And and Superman's not real.

Although Superman was made as a picture of Jesus. He's made as a picture of Jesus. And understanding that and understanding how the world sees us, how the world I guess the best way to say it is how the world looks and what they understand is important. So let's go through that.

Let's do it. It says then he made the court on the South side, the hanging of the courts. We're a fine woven linen. So obviously the tips on the north side, the court's on the south side, the court is the gathering area, the area where people would gather the where the washing laboring is, where the altar is.

The burn offering sacrifice, alter it's right there. And the court on the south side and the hand of the court were fine woven linen, 100 cubits long cubits, about 150 feet long. So you've got basically from 50 yard line to the end zone for those of you who are from the south or from the north and like pro football.

It is basically half a soccer field, half a football field. That's how long it would be the length of the roll. Notice that it is fine woven linen. Now, fine woven linen is important and linen is always a picture of the what the priesthood would wear as far as clothes.

The clothes of the priest were made of fine woven linen. Now there's a couple of things to understand about that. First of all, it was fine woven, which means it's the best, the very, very best of linen. And it's linen, which directly relates to the priesthood. What people in the world see as far as the Kingdom of God, when they actually see God at work in the world, when they actually see the presence of God at work in the world, they always see it through Priest, which we've already discussed, is us.

It's all of us, not just the pastors, not just the ministry staff, not just the workers at the church. It is the whole priesthood. When they really see the presence of God, they see it through priest. who are doing their job well. Okay. Now they may see what they think is the kingdom of God in priests that are not walking with God the way they ought to.

And most of the time they make fun of that. Most of the time they jeer that is not that, that is that, in many ways is a stain on the reputation of Christ. When we do But that being said, When they actually see the presence of God in the world, which the Bible says that they can clearly see that they can see it in his creation, but they can also see it in us when they see that in the world, they see it from priests who are doing their priesthood well, and that's the best way for me to say it.

You're functioning in your level as one of the children of God as the kingdom of God. You're doing it well, and when we do it well, when we do it rightly, when we do it the way we ought to do it we make a huge difference in the world. We change the world we live in. Alright, it says there were 20 pillars for them, meaning the walls were made of linen, which is made basically a curtain wall that would have been tied off to the to the poles or To the pillars, it calls 'em pillars, and they probably were of some thickness.

And it was the hooks of the pillars noticed that there were 20 pillars for them. With the 20 bronze sockets, meaning the thing that held the top piece and the bottom piece, tying the pillars together. The thing that helped that you put it together with the pillar was made of bronze and the hooks of the pillar.

Now, that is a critical picture here because remember throughout our study of the tabernacle, throughout our study of the tabernacle, the one thing that we have not seen is silver. It's all gold on the inside, all gold. But on the outside the hooks or the thing that tied the priesthood together is silver and silver is a picture of the blood price.

It's the cost of sin for the wages of sin is death. Silver is the gift of God through Jesus Christ, his blood price, the price of atonement that he paid for it. Silver is a picture of that. Jesus was bought by the priest the chief priest for 30 pieces of silver. He was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver.

The redemption price for sin And that we'll find in Leviticus and Deuteronomy is 30 pieces of silver. It is the price that is the atoning sacrifice price for sin. And so when the world looks at us, they see the priesthood doing well. They see the atonement of God, meaning. They realized that Jesus probably is the Christ.

There is a realization of that. There is an understanding that, this Jesus He did change the world. And I find it always Interesting and neat when you're in the world. Now that sure there's the demonic out there that is just going to say whatever, and it's going to attack Jesus as something, but really truthfully.

And honestly, if you go to India, if you go to Malaysia, if you go if you go to parts of the world especially in the Muslim world and talk about Jesus, they will not talk about Jesus. Degrading him in any way because because he's Jesus and Jesus, there is something about him there.

And we know what it is but they don't, but they do know that, you can't attack him. The ethos of modern society comes from him. The Judeo Christian ethic, the Judaism is the justice of God. We see that in the Old Testament. God is just and he's right and how he's made things is proper, but in the New Testament we see Jesus Jesus and the ethos or the ethic of love and whether you're Buddhist or Hindu or Muslim, you understand that ethic is a, is an important thing.

It's an important idea that has set the course of the world that we live in. The world that existed before that was a world of what I would call a world of winner take all survival of the fittest. It is it is ancient doism. It is an idea that you take and get what you can because your life is short and you enjoy as much of it as you can.

And if it destroys other people, it doesn't matter. That changed when Jesus came along and when his teachings began to be disseminated all over the world within the 1st and 2nd centuries, the global world ethos, the way the world operated, changed. And that's one of the other reasons why Jesus almost certainly is God.

And so when we read this, we see that they see, when they see God, when they really actually see the presence of God, they see the judgment of God. That's the bonds. We've already talked about that. That's all out in the courtyard. Everything in the courtyard is made of bonds. But when they see the presence of God, they see judgment, and that's why it sometimes is a stench to them.

That's why it is something that they don't want. But we also see the redemption of God. And we see it holding together the priesthood because God does judge sin, and he also does provide atonement through that. It says there are 20 pillars for them, and there's bronze sockets, and the hooks in the pillars and the bands were silver.

On the north side, hanging were 100 cubits long. It's about the same distance north and south. So if you were sitting at a football field, and you were sitting on the 25 yard line, it'd be from It'd be from 50 to Goldwin and it'd be about that long. And it says, and on, on the west side, they were hanging 50 cubits with 10 pillars.

So that's about that's about 75 feet, that's about 20 yards long. So it'd been very thin thin in the middle. It wouldn't have been as wide as a football field. And and then on the west side, they were hanging 50 cubits with 10 pillars and 10 sockets. And. And the hooks and the bands were made of silver again.

And the east side, the hangings were 50 cubits too. And so the hanging on one side of the gate were 15 cubits. With their three pillars and three sockets. The gate that actually enters the temple, and this is important because this is something that's seen on the outside. Notice the wall is white, but the gate is not white and in verse 16, all the hanging of the court and all around were full of white.

Fine woven linen and the sockets and the pillars were bronze and the hooks and the pillars and their bands were silver and the overlay of the capital and but there was a gate and that gate or that screen for the gate of the court was woven of blue, purple and scarlet thread and a fine woven linen.

So Jesus is a priest because it's made of linen. But notice the beauty. Of the gate. The gate has purple and blue and scarlet, which is a picture of royalty. It's a picture of the eternality of God, and that's the blue, and then the scarlet is a picture of the blood of Jesus that cleanses us of sin.

So the gate, and Jesus says later on in John, in the book of John, he says, I am the gate. And they understood what that meant. Yeah. Oftentimes we really, we don't know exactly what he's talking about, but they understood when Jesus said, I'm the gate. He's what he's saying is I'm the way from the world into the presence of God and the gate was different looking than the whole fence around it.

And by the way, there's only one gate, there's only one entry point, and that entry point is Jesus, and you can see that it pictures Jesus because the Lennon, and he's the great high priest, so he's, he, it's a perfect picture of him. He's the great high priest. So the linen is a picture of his priesthood, and then it's woven in with purple and blue and scarlet, the royalty of Christ, the eternality of Christ, meaning Jesus came as a man who was eternal.

He was beyond space and time and then you have the atoning price plate paid by his blood. And so the gate is a perfect picture of who Jesus is. And so when Jesus made the announcement that he is the gate, it makes sense. It's perfect. He is the game. He's the only way from the world, past the priesthood, past the judgment of God, past the atoning sacrifice, through the washing lavern, up to the sacrifice, and then into the presence, into the very tabernacle of God.

He's the only way to get there. He's the only way to get in. And verse 19 says, And sockets of bronze, and their hooks were silver. Notice, it holds the gate open up also. You have the silver and the bronze of Jesus, and then the overlay of their capitals and their bands were silver, so the gate has more silver on it than anything.

The entry point into the temple grounds into the, Into the tabernacle Browns, whether it's the temple or the tabernacle, the gate has a lot of silver overlaying the capitol. It's all around the capitol, meaning that the atonement of Jesus Christ pays for it all.

It's right there, it's very visible, and it says, and all the pegs of the tabernacle. And the coil around it were bronze, meaning the pegs that held up the poles, they would be the rope that would hold the pillars up and make sure they were straight and make sure they were even. They were made of bronze.

And so on the outside, you see the priesthood. You see the judgment of God. You see the atonement of God that pays for that judgment. And then all of a sudden, at one end, you see this beautiful curtain. This beautiful curtain of fine linen. A royal priest, the king of kings, the great high priest, Jesus, who pays for access into the presence of God.

Who pays for the very presence of God with his own blood and the cost of silver and the cost of his life. But he's royal because he's purple. He's eternal because he's blue. And he made it all possible because he was willing to pay the price to take on the sin of the world and atone for our sin.

That's a powerful picture from the outside of that. Tabernacle grounds, it's a powerful picture of what God's doing. And it's important, when we read, why are you preaching through Exodus pastor? Because Exodus and Genesis. As you just keep on going through the Old Testament, there's a giant finger pointing out of every book and it's pointing at something.

And it's something that each book points to is some aspect of the Jesus who would come and take away the sin of the world. And so each book in the Old Testament is a teacher to us. It shows us a way, and we should look for those, because they're encouragement to you. And they also open your eyes to aspects of God that you would never ever really get to see in the New Testament, because you're just looking at the wonder of Jesus.

He is a royal priesthood for us, and he's created that for us, and he is our great high priest. And we have a way to the presence of God, but that way is only down to you. As you go today, I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you, that he'll make his face to shine upon you and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.