2018-09-23 Exodus 25
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“You are to construct a table of acacia wood, thirty-six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.
Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it.
Make a three-inch frame all around it and make a gold molding for it all around its frame.
Make four gold rings for it, and attach the rings to the four corners at its four legs.
The rings should be next to the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table.
Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table can be carried by them.
You are also to make its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
Put the Bread of the Presence on the table before me at all times.
The table points to God’s desire to dwell with us.
The table points to God’s desire to dwell with us.
You are also to make its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
Put the Bread of the Presence on the table before me at all times.
God desires dine among us.
God desires dine among us.
You are also to make its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
You are also to make its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
Put the Bread of the Presence on the table before me at all times.
Illus: I met my wife on a mission trip to Vietnam. We hiked through mountain jungles, sat on the floors of jungle huts and walked across bridges that have probably collapsed right now.
On that trip I know the moment where we began to go beyond just people who rode in the same buss to really know each other.
We had just gotten in from a jungle hike outside the city of Pleiku and our team was exhausted. Most of the team members took off to their rooms to rest the back of their eyelids.
Jennifer and I were not tired. I looked at her and said, you want to go grab something to eat, so we went to the hotel restaurant. Sitting across from one another we ordered a plate of french fries and two cokes.
It was the first time we sat and talked beyond pleasantries. That was the beginning of a life long friendship.
When God placed a table in the tabernacle it communicated what God’s intent was. He wants to know us.
God wants to have a relationship deeper than pleasantries. He wants to develop a relationship like one that can be found at a family table.
I have asked one thing from the Lord; it is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, gazing on the beauty of the Lord and seeking him in his temple.
For he will conceal me in his shelter in the day of adversity; he will hide me under the cover of his tent; he will set me high on a rock.
The priest were invited to join God at the table.
The priest were invited to join God at the table.
You are also to make its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
Illus: While I was working my way through college I got a job waiting tables at a mexican restaurant.
I could tell you some tales like the time I acidentaly dropped a hot fajita plate on top of a customer.
That said, being a waiter was a constant practice of humility. Customers were not shy at all to look down on you, chew you out if part of their order was wrong, and or leave their table looking like a battle zone all the while not tipping for your effort in cleaning it up.
I remember one night when group of people came in. They were my last table of the night. Throughout their dinner they asked me questions about who I was, about the school I went to… they actually treated me like human being.
Towards the end of their dinner they asked me to sit at the table with them. It was a memory I will never forget. This was one of the few tables where I was given the respect and dignity of people treating my as a equal.
When we come before God, we would be fortunate to be a servant in his house. We would be privileged to be the busboy cleaning up the table for Him.
That said, God invited the priest to eat with him, and he invites us to eat with him.
God desires for us to be more than servants, but instead family who join him at the table.
The bread is to be set out before the Lord every Sabbath day as a permanent covenant obligation on the part of the Israelites.
It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, for it is the holiest portion for him from the fire offerings to the Lord; this is a permanent rule.”
Jesus defined his ministry around the table.
Jesus defined his ministry around the table.
You are also to make its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
Put the Bread of the Presence on the table before me at all times.
Jesus was the bread of the presence.
Jesus was the bread of the presence.
You are also to make its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
Put the Bread of the Presence on the table before me at all times.
Illus: Think about how much of God’s ministry is centered around bread.
When God led the people out of Israel, he told them to remember his mighty act through unleavened bread.
When the people of God doubted the provision of God, God rained bread out of the heavens.
When david was desperate, God gave him the very bread of the tabernacle.
When Jesus
Jesus first temptation in the wilderness was to to turn stones to bread. He responded by saying Many shall not live by bread alone.
Jesus proved his authority twice by multiplying bread to feed 5000 and 4000.
Over and over the theme is that hunger should lead us to God. God uses hunger to bring us back to his table.
Then at the Lord’s supper he shows that our deepest needs are satisfied in Him. He was the bread which brings us to the table.
Illus:
“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty again.
Jesus communicated the purpose of the bread around the table.
Jesus communicated the purpose of the bread around the table.
You are also to make its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
Put the Bread of the Presence on the table before me at all times.
Illus: At the last supper, Jesus turns the tables on everything. He has communicated over and over that he is the deepest need of our heart. He communicated that He is the one who satisfies us.
Then at the Lord’s Supper, he shows how he will not only satisfy our yearnings, but also satisfy the wrath of God.
The bread would be broken. Jesus used the table, the very bread of God to communicate that He would go to the cross to be broken for us.
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As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take and eat it; this is my body.”
Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks, he gave it to them and said, “Drink from it, all of you.
For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
But I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
One day we will dine at God’s table.
One day we will dine at God’s table.
Put the Bread of the Presence on the table before me at all times.
Our future hope is the day when we dine with Jesus Christ.
Our future hope is the day when we dine with Jesus Christ.
Ilus: Through the broken bread we look forward. Our future is a table in the heavens waiting for us.
God is preparing a great banquet! You have been invited, and your entrance is through the broken body of Jesus Christ.
Illus:
Then I heard something like the voice of a vast multitude, like the sound of cascading waters, and like the rumbling of loud thunder, saying, Hallelujah, because our Lord God, the Almighty, reigns!
Let us be glad, rejoice, and give him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has prepared herself.
She was given fine linen to wear, bright and pure. For the fine linen represents the righteous acts of the saints.
Then he said to me, “Write: Blessed are those invited to the marriage feast of the Lamb!” He also said to me, “These words of God are true.”