WEBVTT 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:15.039 Welcome to the Preaching of the Cross Radio Podcast, featuring the radio ministry of Pastor James W. 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.480 Knox of the Bible Baptist Church of Delant, Florida. 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:31.280 Our prayer is that these half-hour Bible study programs will bring the lost to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and enable the saved to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Savior. 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:34.159 Now here's your host, Pastor James W. 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:34.960 Knox. 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:11.359 I believe God will bless your heart if you can stay with us. 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:12.959 We're going to study the Bible. 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:14.239 That's always a blessing. 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:17.680 We're going to teach just exactly what the Word of God says. 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:27.359 We're not going to correct or change or amend or cast doubt upon a single word in the pages of the pure holy Bible. 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:30.560 We are studying together the Bible book of Exodus. 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:49.200 We have come to a portion of that book which deals with the pattern and instructions for the building of the tabernacle, the place where God would meet with man and fellowship together with his people, the nation of Israel. 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:57.519 And let's read, starting at verse number 16, Exodus 25, verse number 16. 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:07.040 And the Bible says, And thou shalt put into the ark, we talked about that Ark of the Covenant last time, the testimony which I shall give thee. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:11.120 That's the written words of God upon the tables of stone. 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:14.879 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold. 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:20.319 Two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:23.520 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold. 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:25.759 These are winged creatures. 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:41.840 Of beaten work shalt thou make them in the two ends of the mercy seat, and make one cherubim on one end, and the other cherub on the other end, even of the mercy seat, uh shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:54.639 And the cherubim shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat, where their wings and their faces shall look one to another toward the mercy seat, shall be the faces of the cherubim. 00:02:54.800 --> 00:03:19.360 Thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee, and there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims, which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:24.560 Now, think with me for a few minutes about this picture. 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:33.919 Just try and picture this in your mind, and then we will rejoice in that which it symbolizes. 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:45.199 A wooden box, rectangular in shape, made of wood, covered over with gold. 00:03:46.400 --> 00:04:09.360 Inside that box, that arc, inside that are the laws, commandments, statutes, and ordinances of God written, written to instruct man to show this nation how God wants them to live. 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:26.240 That nation as a whole, and every individual within that nation is incapable of keeping all those commandments all the time. 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:35.279 Not one of them, not one of them can keep every commandment, not one of them can keep every commandment every day. 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:37.120 Can't be done. 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:57.519 So God, God places on top of that box over those laws, over those commandments, God places a mercy seat, a mercy seat. 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:00.480 Do you know what a lawbreaker needs? 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:02.160 Mercy. 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:06.800 Do you know what a sinner requires? 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:08.160 Mercy. 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:17.120 Do you know what God willingly, lovingly, graciously provides? 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:18.959 Mercy. 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:20.800 Now think of this. 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:30.800 Not only did God put the mercy seat above the law, greater, greater is mercy than law. 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:36.319 Greater is God's grace than man's sin. 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:37.680 Hallelujah. 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:51.600 Not only has God placed the mercy seat above the law, but he didn't say, I will meet with you inside the ark where the law resides. 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:57.759 He said, I will meet with you on the mercy seat. 00:05:58.639 --> 00:05:59.839 Praise God. 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:11.519 My friend, I'm not, I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, but the Bible says every one of us has sinned often. 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:23.279 And the Bible says that because every one of us have sinned, every one of us is under condemnation and is deserving of the wrath and judgment of God. 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:26.480 That's just the facts from the Bible. 00:06:26.800 --> 00:07:05.920 However, the God we've sinned against is a merciful God, the God whose laws and commandments we have broken is a merciful God, and his mercy, his mercy sits above his law, so that you may find forgiveness if you will come to God humbly as a lawbreaker, and put your faith and your trust in the one, the one who paid for your transgressions, the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:16.879 Now, this tabernacle is a remarkable thing, not only in its simplicity, but in the attention to which God gives it. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:23.759 Over fifty chapters in the Bible are devoted to the tabernacle. 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:35.279 During forty days and forty nights on the mountain, the Lord revealed to Moses the pattern of the tabernacle, which would be central to the life of Israel up to the days of David the king. 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:43.759 There was a gap of over a hundred years when the ark was absent, and after which, in the reign of Solomon, the temple took its place. 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:50.160 And associated with the tabernacle, there was a priesthood and a sacrificial system which was appointed by God. 00:07:50.319 --> 00:08:00.720 And any who regard this as a merely historical development, which has been superseded and has no value for today, you're going to miss out on a lot of truth. 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:33.919 You see, as we mentioned, 50 chapters in the Bible devoted to the tabernacle, 13 in Exodus, chapter 25 to 31, and chapter 35 to 40, 17 chapters in Leviticus, 13 chapters in Numbers, three chapters in Deuteronomy, and in the New Testament, eight chapters of Hebrews have the tabernacle as their central idea or point of comparison. 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:42.720 Now, this far exceeds the chapters dealing with the temple and reflects the value of the teaching that is associated with the tabernacle. 00:08:42.879 --> 00:09:04.960 So great is this truth that although the creation of the universe is covered in two chapters in Genesis, the construction of the tabernacle occupies, well, as we said, fifty chapters, because it shows the great purposes of God in redemption. 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:16.159 And God is in the Bible far more concerned with redeeming man than he is with man knowing how things were made. 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:23.279 Now, the scripture contains a number of titles given to the tabernacle. 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.559 Let's consider some of the main ones. 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:34.399 In Exodus 25, 8, the tabernacle is called a sanctuary. 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:45.679 As we mentioned last time, the desire of the Lord is to have a place in which he could dwell and meet together with his people. 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:57.120 Looking forward to the day when there would be the place that God had made. 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:03.759 That was in chapter 15, verse 17. 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:10.720 Sanctuary means a separated, a set apart, sanctified place, holy, hallowed. 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:12.960 It's not for common use. 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:18.240 We used to call our church buildings sanctuaries. 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:26.000 But since they become entertainment centers, that word is no longer fitting in most places. 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:30.799 Then the tabernacle is called the tabernacle of the Lord. 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:43.200 This title is used five or six times in the Pentateuch, indicating that the tabernacle was the possession, not of the Hebrew people, but of the Lord. 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:47.919 This title emphasizes the holiness which marked the place. 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.720 It was the Lord's house, and he ordered all that was in it. 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:56.879 The running of it, the conditions for entrance and service, everything was his. 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:03.679 Man didn't decide who went in, who didn't go in, what furniture was there, what activities took place there. 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:05.279 It's the Lord's. 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:09.440 It's also called the tabernacle of testimony. 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:18.159 This sanctuary was a testimony to Israel, that God was present. 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:26.559 It testified of the means of approach to God and the way one could enjoy fellowship with Him. 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:35.279 The tabernacle was also a testimony to the nations that the Lord was with Israel and dwelt among them. 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:42.480 This designation, the tabernacle of the testimony, is found, I think, nine times in various forms. 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:48.799 Exodus 38, 21, Numbers 1, 50 and 53, Numbers 10, 11. 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:59.200 It's the tabernacle of the testimony, Numbers 9, 15 calls it the tent of the testimony, and so forth. 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:02.879 It's tabernacle of witness. 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:14.960 So all this has the idea of God showing something about himself to man by means of this tabernacle. 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:31.440 It's significant that it was the tabernacle of testimony over which the Levites were appointed, including the responsibility of camping around it and taking it down and bearing it on the journey and setting it up again. 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:37.360 As they marched through the wilderness, they carried with them the symbols of God's presence and power. 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:54.159 It's also important to note that when the cloud of God's glory came down, covered this very place, and when the tabernacle was reared up, the glory of the Lord abode there. 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:58.159 His presence is an essential part of his testimony. 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:01.600 It was the tabernacle of witness. 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:08.799 And subsequent to the rebellion of Korah, the rods were laid up. 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:14.720 The testimony being given to Israel that it was Aaron. 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.279 Now, testimony today should have these same features. 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:29.759 When God's people gather and God meets with them, the person of God, the ways of God, the mind of God, the character of God should all be on display. 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:37.519 This tabernacle showed that God met with his people, and that the people came and met with God. 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:40.480 How would anyone know they were meeting with God? 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:49.600 Because they observed the due order and the explicit commands, as a mortal would obey God. 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:59.200 And so today, when we gather together, let's make certain that we're not just a bunch of people meeting in a building. 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:04.159 But that as far as our hearts are concerned, we understand we're meeting with God. 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:16.799 And as far as the world is concerned, they see us approach a holy God in humble obedience. 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:24.080 The place was also called the tabernacle of the congregation. 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:28.159 This was a great honor for Israel. 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:33.120 The congregation were linked with the tent, which was the tabernacle of the Lord. 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.919 The term is used more than any other. 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:42.080 Found 115 times in the King James Bible, Tabernacle of Congregation. 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:46.480 Thirteen times is tent of the congregation. 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:51.120 First appearing, that's just in the Pentateuch. 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:54.240 Genesis, well, Exodus through Deuteronomy. 00:14:54.320 --> 00:15:07.120 The first appearing or use of this is Exodus 27, 21, where the people were instructed to prepare oil for the lamp, which was to burn in the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony. 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:47.440 It signifies that this was the gathering place of the people, the place where they or their representatives were summoned to appear before the Lord, who was the center of their lives, the place where their spiritual needs were met, where they offered their worship, the place uh where they the uh the way they maintained the, let me say it that way, the way they maintained the place, which was their responsibility, also showed much about its importance and thus God's importance to the people. 00:15:47.679 --> 00:16:12.799 Now, reference has been made to the fact that the tabernacle is sometimes referred to a tent, and the words are often used by uh preachers and Bible teachers somewhat interchangeably, and that's because quite obviously this was a temporary, movable uh bit of construction. 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:36.080 Unlike the temple, with its solid foundations that could not be moved or transported about, the tabernacle was a transportable, if that's a word, uh dwelling place, a mobile home, if you will, as opposed to uh one set upon firm foundations. 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:47.519 Now, the general plan of the tabernacle, it wasn't a grand thing, wasn't uh immense and beautiful as the temple would be. 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:49.919 It was of modest proportions. 00:16:50.799 --> 00:17:01.279 The central structure was surrounded by a court measuring a hundred cubits by fifty cubits, it's about 150 feet by 75 feet. 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:06.480 The longer side was placed from east to west, and the shorter from north to south. 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:12.319 A white curtain or hanging was supported on pillars, surrounded the court. 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:19.519 On the east side, there was a gate measuring twenty cubits, about uh thirty feet wide. 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:42.240 The central structure was thirty cubits long, ten cubits broad, ten cubits high, situated in the courtyard with the entrance door facing eastward, and was divided into two compartments the holy place, twenty cubits long, and the holy of holies, ten cubits long, making this latter compartment a perfect cube. 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:44.240 Ten by ten by ten. 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:59.519 Outwardly, this central structure had little of attraction and beauty, as the covering scene was of badger skins, giving a somewhat, well, drab or dull appearance. 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:11.359 That's because the beauty was all to be found on the inside of Jesus Christ, the Bible said, when the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, he had no form nor comliness. 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:15.279 When we see him, there's no beauty that we should desire him. 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.279 You know, if God, if God, think about this. 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:38.400 If when God was manifest in the flesh, Jesus Christ, that body in which he was manifest, was not beautiful, so that the inward beauty of the holiness and righteousness of God would stand out more in more stark contrast. 00:18:39.920 --> 00:19:00.960 What I I wonder if the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork, what if what if even this awe-inspiring creation is not beautiful compared to what lies beyond? 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:04.400 Why our minds can't even take that in. 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:13.119 Now, the general plan of the tabernacle, uh, the courtyard, so we continue with this idea, the courtyard. 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:17.279 Nearest to the gate, there was the brazen altar. 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:19.920 That's the place where sacrifices were offered. 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:29.119 Between the brazen altar and the door of the central structure was found the laver, where the priests washed their hands and their feet before entering the holy place. 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:36.000 Passing through the door into the holy place, the priests, for only priests were permitted to enter. 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:41.440 There they saw before them the table of showbread, the lamp stand, and the golden altar of incense. 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:45.200 We'll read all about these things as we move on through Exodus. 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:54.720 Then the holiest of all was entered only by the high priest, and that only once a year on the Day of Atonement. 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:59.759 In there were the ark and the mercy seat, the two cherubim's wings spread. 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:01.039 Over it. 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:05.119 In the holy place the only light was that of the lampstand. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:11.119 In the holiest of all, the only light was the glory of God. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:18.799 Now the tabernacle was pitched in the center of the camp of Israel, with all the other tents surrounding it. 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:21.359 On the north, Dan, Asher, Naphtali. 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:24.400 On the west, Ephraim, Manasseh, Benjamin. 00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:26.799 On the south, Reuben, Simeon, Gad. 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:42.960 On the east, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and the families of the Levites were also camped round about it, were closest to it, on the north, those of Merari, on the west, those of Gershon, on the south, those of Koath, on the east, before the gate, Moses, Aaron, and his sons. 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:49.680 Now what this means, what this means, is that the priests were central to the people. 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:53.359 The tabernacle was central to the priests. 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:59.279 The Holy of Holies was central to the tabernacle. 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:02.960 The Ark of the Covenant was central to the Holy of Holies. 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:09.359 And the mercy seat of God and the Word of God were central to all. 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:13.119 How is it in your life? 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:17.039 What's the central thing in your life? 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:21.359 What does everything in your life center around? 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:24.000 What would that be? 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:34.799 What is the central thing in your life? 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:38.319 If it's your children, you're off. 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:41.440 If it's your marriage, you're off. 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:43.839 If it's your job, you're off. 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:45.119 If it's your money, you're off. 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:47.279 If it's your religion, you're off. 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:50.480 Pleasure, entertainment? 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:53.759 Come on, God set this thing up. 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:56.880 An earth within a universe. 00:21:58.319 --> 00:22:00.960 A nation within the earth? 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:04.240 A tribe within a nation? 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:08.720 A tabernacle within a tribe? 00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:11.599 A holy of holies within a tabernacle? 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:17.519 An ark with a mercy seat in the word in the Holy of Holies. 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:20.960 What's what's central to you, my friend? 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:23.359 What's in the midst of your life? 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:30.880 What does everything in your world revolve around? 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:38.480 You know, you go in the average home, walk in the living room, all the seats point to what? 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:47.200 You go into a man's heart, all thought, all thoughts, all energy, all effort, all desire points to what? 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:49.519 I'm just asking. 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:51.359 Would you examine yourself? 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:52.400 Would you evaluate? 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:53.440 Would you consider? 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:59.440 What is your focal point? 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:02.319 What is your center? 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:06.319 What is the object of your desire? 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:24.799 Now the Bible says in verse 23, Exodus 25, 23, thou shalt also make a table of shit'em wood, two cubits shall be the length thereof, a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof, and thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereunto a crown of gold roundabout. 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:27.039 We talked about that a little bit last time. 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:30.799 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about. 00:23:31.279 --> 00:24:07.680 Thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof roundabout, and thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof, over against the border shall the rings be for the places of the staves to bear the table, and thou shalt make the staves of shit and wood and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them, and thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and the spoons thereof, and the covers thereof, and the bowls thereof to cover with all of pure gold shalt thou make them, and thou shalt set upon the table the showbread before me always. 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:22.079 So this table it was to be holy, special, beautiful, properly adorned. 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:30.880 So the objects and items, the tools for the table, in like manner. 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:35.599 Beautiful, holy, precious, valuable. 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:43.279 You see, in this place where God was worshipped, nothing was insignificant. 00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:58.960 In this place where God was worshipped, nothing was to be considered profane or vile or meaningless or unimportant? 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:05.440 With all my heart I believe that God intends it to be so today. 00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:25.119 Whether I am worshiping the Lord in my private life, or whether I am worshiping the Lord in the assembly of his people, should not all my thoughts be as pure and beautiful as I could make them? 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:30.319 Should not all of my desires be as pure and beautiful as I could make them? 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:42.160 Should not all of my actions, all of my responses, all of my interactions be as pure and beautiful as I could make them? 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:49.359 You see, it would be the tendency of man to say, well, who cares about the spoons? 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:56.799 It would be the tendency of man to say the table is not as big a deal as the Ark of the Covenant. 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:09.119 It would be the tendency of man to cut a corner here, to downplay there, to lack precision in this area or that. 00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:21.279 And yet, what we see in these chapters in Exodus is that God is as concerned with the small details as he is the large ones. 00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:32.240 Because everything pertaining to our lives is important to God, and everything about our worship of God should be important to us. 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:48.160 Everything about our relationship to and our fellowship with God should be carefully considered, well attended, overlaid with gold, if you will, that is, made just as fine as we can make it. 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:51.200 Because he is worthy of that. 00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:53.680 He is deserving of that. 00:26:54.240 --> 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