Exodus Part 24
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As we finish up the series, I want to really focus in on the subtitle here:
“A roadmap to rest for your soul.”
Exodus 25-31 is instructions for the tabernacle
The conclusion of the instructions is to remember the sabbath, and to explain that the sabbath is sign of covenantal relationship with God.
And the Lord said to Moses, “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you. You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death. Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’ ”
And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
For Israel, the sabbath was a day.
For Christians, the sabbath is a person.
Sabbath literally means “to rest from or stop working”
But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand.
Jesus ALONE satisfies the works of the law.
Jesus ALONE fulfills everything that is written in Exodus (and the rest)
Exodus 32-34 is the golden calf.
This story shows how quickly people are to turn from their savior.
This story shows how quickly we fail if the work is up to us.
This story shows how we are prone to quickly take the blessings that God has poured out to be used in worship and take those blessings and make idols...
And yet, God is faithful, and and God renews and keeps his covenants, even if he must uphold both sides of the deal.
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Exodus 25-31 = instructions for the tabernacle
Exodus 32-34 = golden calf
Exodus 35-40 = building the tabernacle
Chapter 35, basically through the end of the book is Moses building the tabernacle. And at the beginning of this narrative, again, we see the sabbath mentioned.
Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do. Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.”
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Contributions for the tabernacle (35:4-29)
Construction of the tabernacle (35:30-36:39)
Making the ark (37:1-9)
Making the table (37:10-14)
Making the lampstand (37:17-24)
Making the alter of incense (37:25-29)
Making the alter of burnt offering (38:1-7)
Making the bronze basin (38:8)
Making the court (38:9-20)
Materials for the tabernacle (38:21-31)
Making the priestly garments (39:1-43)
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. And you shall bring in the table and arrange it, and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps. And you shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle. You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it. And you shall set up the court all around, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court.
“Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy. You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy. You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it. Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall wash them with water and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest. You shall bring his sons also and put coats on them, and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”
This Moses did; according to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did. In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected. Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars. And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark. And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil, and arranged the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, and set up the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil, and burned fragrant incense on it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He put in place the screen for the door of the tabernacle. And he set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing, with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet. When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, as the Lord commanded Moses. And he erected the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out. But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.
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Worship = Rest
Idolatry = Turmoil
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’ ”
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It’s not try harder...
It’s BELIEVE BETTER.
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Sin, rebellion, turmoil,
Is a result of unbelief.
God says A, we say B
(have you ever been in a relationship where the person always seems to be right? They’ll tell you something is a bad idea, you do it anyway, then you look back and think, yep, bad idea. That’s how it is with God. Except he’s ALWAYS right, and the consequences that will make us look back and say, “yeah, that was a bad idea” can take a while.)
For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
Notice,
God does not distinguish between belief and obedience.
YOU CAN’T say:
I believe God, I just don’t obey what he says. When we disobey, that is, act APART from belief and faith, we deny Jesus.
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
Four things that prevent us from entering and experiencing the rest in Jesus.
(1) We fail to repent of loving our sin.
(1) We fail to repent of loving our sin.
We may have remorse over doing bad things...
But we must move beyond that, we must kill the sin and the desire for sin...
If you do not hate your sin, you do not love God.
I wish I could live like the world, I look to the things of the world with longing...
(2) We try harder instead of believing better.
(2) We try harder instead of believing better.
We must fundamentally acknowledge that sin problems are actually faith problems.
We don’t lean into the grace and forgiveness that only Jesus can offer, we try to make it on our own, and we fail miserably.
(3) We are deceived by sin.
(3) We are deceived by sin.
(3a) We are deceived that God’s way isn’t the best way.
(3a) We are deceived that God’s way isn’t the best way.
(3b) We are deceived that something other than God can satisfy us.
(3b) We are deceived that something other than God can satisfy us.
(3c) We are deceived that something other than God can save us.
(3c) We are deceived that something other than God can save us.
(3d) We are deceived that something other than God is worthy of our devotion.
(3d) We are deceived that something other than God is worthy of our devotion.
(3e) We are deceived that our sin isn’t that big of a deal. We are deceived that we can worship idols next to God.
(3e) We are deceived that our sin isn’t that big of a deal. We are deceived that we can worship idols next to God.
(4) We fail to live in community.
(4) We fail to live in community.
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
If you belief the cultural lie that your relationship with God is just “between you and God” you will inevitably be deceived.
People who are not around other people who know and love Jesus become self-deceived. They are blind to their own condition.
“That person lacks awareness...”