Exodus 40:17-33 Bible Study | Episode 651

April 8, 2024

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

Exodus 40:17-33  Bible Study | Episode #651

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. Sad that we mix up yesterday. We had I accidentally went live on my own page rather than on Lake Community Church's page. I encourage you to go back and look at that Bible study. It was a good, a little bit of Bible study about the wealth of the Holy Spirit as far as worship is concerned.

And really that's what we're talking about in the book of Exodus at the book of Exodus, building the tabernacle because tabernacle of the picture is all the pictures of worship that God has for us. That are not related to sacrifice that, that's what Leviticus is on about, which we'll be starting next week.

But that being said we're going to, we're going to go through things we went through in chapter 30, how God rendered the tabernacle built. And it was from his perspective. And if you're an English from inside he steps out in the holy of holies and goes out to the gate which is the one gate in, which is Jesus.

And he describes how he wants to tap back a bit. And then yesterday we talked about the millennial. And then we talked about the record, the Holy Spirit, his father's water and wine and oil and how that functions in Russia, because that's important. It's important to understand as you're doing your worship, because God wants to, he wants to cleanse us, he wants to refresh us, and the refreshing of the Holy Spirit, or the renewing of the Holy Spirit, really is a picture of welling up to life inside of us, and then rationing us of the world during worship, and Then we left the goodness of God.

And remember the goodness of God is a picture of the wine. And that's and I talked about that yesterday and how that is in the room side, it doesn't really matter what's going on that side. And my real life troubles or difficulties are the goodness of God. His peace, his joy is on the inside and.

And God is doing that with every time with us, no matter the circumstances we live in. And then finally, we talked about the power of the Holy spirit, which is a picture of the Northern team and how God did not give us a, he didn't give us a recipe for that. And so it would not be an after or an either for us to to use.

As far as the specific that the parent is the idea of the of the hellish spirit, which is the presence and the power of God upon us when we worship, when we seek him out and worship him. And then, tie that off to the New Testament and how God uses early women in the New Testament as a picture of the power of his spirit and the power of his wr being on in our lives.

And so then we get to Moses. And Moses is in verse 17, and Moses is gonna put together Temple. Now notice this is important. As we read it you most of the time, you went to the end of a book and you want to finish it, move on to the next book. And sometimes you'll do that with this and you'll forget, you don't realize it.

Yeah. I'd tell them how to move it, but he started from the, he started from the Hurling of Hurlings and came every way out well. Moses steps to build it. How does he start? It says, and it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month that the tabernacle was raised up.

So Moses raised up the tabernacle. He fastened its sockets and set its boards and puts bars and raised its pillars. And he split out the tent over the monocle and put the covering of the tent on top of it. And the Lord had as literally commanded Moses, and he took the testimony and pled in the ark. Now Levi, this.

He doesn't start on the inside out. He starts on the outside in. And you'd say that's natural. You have to put the tent up before you could put the stuff in. And that really was the point, isn't it? You thought before you can get to the hell of hellies, you got to get the stuff on the outside done to get to the inside.

And it seems logical, and it is logical. If you went out camping, and you went to put up a to put up your campground the first thing you usually do is set your tent in the right place. And you're not safe if there's no one inside the tent before you set the tent up. Why? Because you need to set the tent up.

And a lot of times what you do is you set the tent up, you get the campground area, or, Round you set up and then you will inside and put the things inside the tent that you move inside the tent. Why do you do that? It's logical, but the main thing is that you can't get to the inside and get that handle until the outside is taken care of.

And the outside has to do with a lot of things. It has to do with how we'll approach God. And that's what the whole point of the tabernacle is our approaching of God. And so Moses sets up the tent first. He sets the tent up. Then he deals with everything that is necessary to get inside the tent.

And he puts the things together that are going inside the tent together before he puts them in there. It says, and he spread out the tent over the tabernacle. Verse 20, he took the testimony and put it in the ark. That's the Ten Commandments. Inserted the petals through the layers of the ark and put the motion seat on top of that.

He brought the Eric into the tabernacle and hung, hung up the bao of the covering and petitioned a theat for of testimony as Lord that commanded Moses. Moses. Moses is the only person that wasn't a high priest that actually got to be in the holy of Holies and the men who bat that at got to be in the holy of holes before.

Right before God's presence fell down on it, and he put the table in the tabernacle and he set up the bread and he put the lamp stands in place and he lift the lamps and he put the bed of after all the things that are necessary to get in there. And then he hung up a screen at the bureau of the tabernacle and he put the altar of Ben Athron before the bureau of the tabernacle in the tent of meeting.

And he offered upon it a burnt offering and a grain offering as the Lord had commanded Moses now. He set up the tent, he got in the tent ready, and then he set the tabernacle at the way God had said to set it up on the inside. When he comes to the outside and in preparation for God's presence to come, and then we're going to deal with that tomorrow, in preparation for God's presence to come, what does he do?

He offers offerings, and this is a foreshadowing for what we're going to be talking about over the next few months in the Book of Leviticus. It is a foreshadowing because he offers two types of offering. He offers a bad offering, And a grain offering, and there was a going to be the the 2 main types of offerings are going to be some other subsets of offerings that we'll talk about but the bone offering is a offering of blood.

It's a sacrifice of an animal and it's burnt completely out. Meaning God completely consumes that, because that's a picture of sin. His consuming of sin, and that offering is in place of us. And then granted offerings is an offering of fetishism. And that's the whole point of the tabernacle. The point of the tabernacle is to picture God's Dealing with sin, and he is giving us an opportunity to fellowship with him, and Moses goes out, and the initial thing that happens after the tabernacles put together, he sets up the things on the outside then.

The the labor, the ban offering, and he offers a sacrifice immediately, right there at that time, he offers a sacrifice and he says, he's basically saying, this is what God's done for us. This is this is the whole point of the endeavor. It is to, it's to it's to have fellowship with you.

He said, the raven between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar put water there for the rushing. And Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet with water from it. And so you have he's starting out. When it's first built it's, he's like a, he's like a child with a new toy.

He's got to use it immediately. Why? It's not because he's immature. It's because that's the whole reason God sent him to Egypt in the first place is so that they could have fellowship with him. And that fellowship involves a couple of things. It involves, first of all, it involves him growing and offering himself as a sacrifice.

And that's the picture of the burn offering and offering of sacrifice, a grinding offering, which is a fellowship offering. And that's the whole point God wants to have fellowship with us. And then he rashes. himself. There's the washing of the sun. There's the washing of the road. There's the cleaning of the Holy Spirit, which we talked about yesterday, how the Holy Spirit cleanses us and and washes the road off of us so that we're totally prepared to know and to hear it, to be, and to be intimate with God.

And then it says whenever they went into the tabernacle meeting and when they came near the altar, they washed it as the Lord had commanded Moses. Why? Because God is removing us from this. worldly bond when we worship him, when we seek him out, he's removing us from this physical road, and he is moving us to the spiritual road, which he is we don't have a question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, so that I have a time, we know which came first, the spiritual came first and God wants to move us from this physical environment to a spiritual understanding of him, and a knowledge of him, and so But every time, the whole purpose of it is to move us from the encumbrances of this world to the presence of God.

And it says here that they're washed every time, the Holy Spirit's involved every time. And that's another aspect of the Holy Spirit, of the world that really needs to be focused on. And what is that? The Holy Spirit and his presence is something that has to be sought out. And I just remember I remember realizing that really realizing that truly in college when when I was I was doing my thing and living in my, anger and hatred and all that kind of stuff and living that out.

My sophomore year of college just, firmly acting as I shouldn't have acted toward people that, I really had no reason to hate but I did. And and God's spirit woke me up, took me to church. And, I really came into an understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit bringing us to him, bringing us to God.

And it's a powerful thing. It's a powerful, it's a powerful understanding that the guide for the whole process. We start out at the gate where Jesus is and get all the way into the Holy of Holies where the trying God exists, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit's the one that's guiding me through the process, teaching me to offer myself as a sacrifice, washing me, cleansing me, preparing me feeding me the word of God.

enlightening me to what it really means and what it's all about. And then ushering me into the presence to the very point where the spiritual and the physical are run together at the mercy seat of Christ. And That's what it's all about, says he raised up the court of the Adirondack tabernacle of the altar and hung up the screen of the court gate.

If Moses finished the work that's really what what it's all about is preparing to meet with God and, I find it so powerful as we get right here to the end of the book of Exodus, that the whole point of Carl and Moses to go in was to bring his people to this spot, to this place. And that's what culminates here.

It's the end of the story of his deliverance from Egypt is ushering us into his presence. Now, it's not the end of the story because we got some good stuff coming up, but it is the first step. It's teaching his people to reckon his deliverance, to walk in his atonement and to meet with him.

And that's what he's doing each and every day. He's wanting to meet with you and you going through this process in your own heart and mind brings you to

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.