SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Preaching the Cross Radio Podcast, featuring the radio ministry of Pastor James W.
SPEAKER_00: Knox of the Bible Baptist Church of Delane, Florida.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: Now here's your host, Pastor James W.
SPEAKER_00: Knox.
SPEAKER_01: May I have your attention, please.
SPEAKER_01: I'm Brother James.
SPEAKER_01: I greet you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world, and I have a very special announcement for you today.
SPEAKER_01: We have reached Exodus chapter 40.
SPEAKER_01: We have reached the 40th chapter of the book of Exodus.
SPEAKER_01: Now I'm not going to say we're nearly done with our study.
SPEAKER_01: We've got a lot left to look at.
SPEAKER_01: But we've sure come a long way since we began a long, long, long time ago.
SPEAKER_01: And we come today to the 40th chapter of the book of Exodus, and we'll start at verse number one.
SPEAKER_01: Hope you can follow with us in your Bible so that you can benefit from both hearing and seeing.
SPEAKER_01: If all you can do is listen, listen carefully, and we'll study God's word together.
SPEAKER_01: All right, the Bible says, and the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, On the first day of the first month, start the year.
SPEAKER_01: Start the year this way.
SPEAKER_01: On the first day of the first month thou shalt set up the tabernacle of the tenth of the congregation.
SPEAKER_01: And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with a veil, and thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it, and thou shalt bring in the candlestick and light the lamps thereof, and thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle, and thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and thou shalt set the labor between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein, and thou shalt set up the court roundabout, and hang up the hanging at the court gate, and thou shalt take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof in it shall be holy.
SPEAKER_01: You notice something?
SPEAKER_01: This is how God works, this how he works.
SPEAKER_01: He starts with the inside and works his way to the outside.
SPEAKER_01: When people get saved, they're still carnally minded and they start with the outside and work their way to the inside.
SPEAKER_01: In our preaching, in our church life, it's so easy to put the emphasis on the outside and to downplay the inside.
SPEAKER_01: But you know, if the heart, if the heart is ever made right with God, then everything else will take care of itself.
SPEAKER_01: If the inner man, if the inner man is true, pure, clean, right, the outer man will follow.
SPEAKER_01: It can't be any other way.
SPEAKER_01: And so the Lord would always have us to begin with the inside.
SPEAKER_01: What's the very starting place?
SPEAKER_01: The Ark of the Covenant.
SPEAKER_01: It all begins with the Word of God and the mercy of God, and then everything else follows and flows from there.
SPEAKER_01: All right, verse number ten, and thou shalt anoint the altar, the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar, and it shall be an altar most holy.
SPEAKER_01: And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot and sanctify it, and thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons under the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and wash them with water.
SPEAKER_01: God wants his people clean inside and out.
SPEAKER_01: Wash away that defilement, that dirt.
SPEAKER_01: Come before the Lord, just as just as clean and righteous as you can be.
SPEAKER_01: And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him and sanctify him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
SPEAKER_01: And thou shalt bring his sons and clothe them with coats, and thou shalt anoint them as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
SPEAKER_01: For their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.
SPEAKER_01: Now they've had some very fine men that have stood and ministered before the Lord in the priestly office, and they've had some dreadful and horrific men who occupied that station.
SPEAKER_01: And yet, despite the successes and the failures of man, God gave his word and God will keep his word.
SPEAKER_01: If God made covenant and God made promise, God will fulfill those covenant promises.
SPEAKER_01: You can always count on God to do what he said he would do.
SPEAKER_01: Now, as we've oft cited throughout this study, the great high priest, the fulfillment of all that Aaron typified and pictured, is the Lord Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: And all the promises of God in him are yea and amen.
SPEAKER_01: In addition to that, Revelation 1 and verse 6, every saved man and woman has entered into a holy priesthood, 1 Peter chapter 2, and the promises that God has made to us.
SPEAKER_01: Some days we're all we should be, some days we're far from it.
SPEAKER_01: Some of God's people find examples of Christianity.
SPEAKER_01: Others, others, what a hindrance to the work.
SPEAKER_01: But, but by the grace and goodness and mercy of God, he keeps all the promises that he made to his church.
SPEAKER_01: Thus did Moses, according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he.
SPEAKER_01: And it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that's the second year after the Exodus, the departure from Egypt, on the first day of the month that the tabernacle was reared up.
SPEAKER_01: Now, Numbers 9, 1 to 3 says, On the 14th day of the first month, the Passover was kept.
SPEAKER_01: On the first day of the second month, the people were numbered.
SPEAKER_01: That's Numbers chapter 1, verses 1 and 2.
SPEAKER_01: So there are 50 days between Exodus 40, verse 17, and Numbers chapter 10, verse 11.
SPEAKER_01: In the interval comes all of Leviticus and Numbers chapter 1, verses 1 through 10.
SPEAKER_01: All that's going to happen in less than two months.
SPEAKER_01: Alright, verse 18.
SPEAKER_01: And Moses read up the tabernacle and fastened his sockets and set up the boards.
SPEAKER_01: There's an ascending scale you might want to note and take a look at here.
SPEAKER_01: In the court, brass and silver were used.
SPEAKER_01: In the holy place, silver and gold were used.
SPEAKER_01: In the holiest of all, the most holy, holy of holies, only gold was used.
SPEAKER_01: In the court, you have the light of nature.
SPEAKER_01: In the holy place, the light of the candlestick.
SPEAKER_01: In the holy of holies, the light of God's glory.
SPEAKER_01: In the court, ordinary people enter by the gate.
SPEAKER_01: In the holy place, only the priests, the sons of Aaron.
SPEAKER_01: In the Holy of Holies, the high priest alone.
SPEAKER_01: That's God's design.
SPEAKER_01: All right, so Moses reared up the tabernacle and fastened his sockets and set up the boards thereof and put in the bars thereof and reared up his pillars, and he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it, as the Lord commanded Moses.
SPEAKER_01: And he took and put the testimony into the ark, that's God's words, written on those tables of stone, from Exodus 25, 16, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the covering, as prescribed in chapter 26, verses 33 to 35, and covered the ark of the testimony as the Lord commanded Moses.
SPEAKER_01: You see a theme?
SPEAKER_01: Verse 16, Moses did what God told him to do.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 19, Moses did what God told him to do.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 21, verse 23, verse 25, verse 27, verse 29.
SPEAKER_01: It is a pattern in the life of Moses to obey God completely.
SPEAKER_01: That's why he was a great man.
SPEAKER_01: That's why.
SPEAKER_01: 22.
SPEAKER_01: And he put the table in the tent of the congregation upon the side of the tabernacle northward without the veil.
SPEAKER_01: And he set the bread in order upon it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
SPEAKER_01: And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation over against the table on the side of the tabernacle southward.
SPEAKER_01: And he lighted the lamps before the Lord as the Lord commanded Moses.
SPEAKER_01: And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the veil, and he burnt sweet incense thereon, as the Lord commanded Moses.
SPEAKER_01: And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle, and he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering, as the Lord commanded Moses.
SPEAKER_01: And he set the labor between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there to wash withal, and Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat when they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed as the Lord commanded Moses.
SPEAKER_01: Now here's what I wonder.
SPEAKER_01: I just, I as I think about my life, as I think about yours without knowing you, just as I think of how men live their lives, I wonder.
SPEAKER_01: If someone wrote a description of my career as a worker, an employee, my secular employment.
SPEAKER_01: I wonder, could they write that I had such and such a job and I worked in such and such a place and I did such and such a thing as the Lord commanded me?
SPEAKER_01: And then I took a wife, you took a husband or a wife, we we married, and we had children, and we raised those children.
SPEAKER_01: I wonder if the tale of our marriage and the tale of our child raising could be concluded with these words, as the Lord commanded.
SPEAKER_01: Our church life, our leisure time, our entertainment and activities.
SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't it be a grand thing if when the books were opened that told the tale of our lives that over and over again God would have written as the Lord commanded, and then put your name right there.
SPEAKER_01: They did such and such, and this and that, as the Lord commanded.
SPEAKER_01: You've got to admire the fidelity of Moses.
SPEAKER_01: You've got to admire the dedication, the adherence to truth and right that we see on the part of Moses.
SPEAKER_01: Now, verse number 33 says, and he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate, so, so Moses finished the work.
SPEAKER_01: Now that word so is put in summary, but it also has to do with the manner, the nature of the work.
SPEAKER_01: How did he do it?
SPEAKER_01: As the Lord commanded.
SPEAKER_01: Now watch carefully.
SPEAKER_01: All that we've been reading, the last several broadcast, tedious, more detailed than most people are interested in, not as thrilling as some of the grand stories of the Bible, the ouches and the sockets and the pillars and the boards and the size of this and the size of that, and the overlaid here and the woven there.
SPEAKER_01: And yet, after all these people followed the leadership of Moses in laboring to build this tabernacle, and after Moses directed and led so that everything that was done was done in perfect accord with God's will and God's word and God's commandments, then, not a moment, not a moment sooner, then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation.
SPEAKER_01: And the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
SPEAKER_01: Now listen very carefully, please.
SPEAKER_01: The glory of the Lord did not fill that place because God is enamored with goatskin curtains.
SPEAKER_01: The glory of the Lord did not fill that place because God is just attracted, irresistibly attracted to boards and sockets and pillars.
SPEAKER_01: The glory of the Lord did not fill that place because God had never seen anything as beautiful as a table of showbread or a brazen altar.
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, the glory of God came and filled that dwelling place because the Lord delights to fellowship with his people and will do so when they are found in obedience to him.
SPEAKER_01: When his words were specifically obeyed, when his commandments were carried out to the letter by willing-hearted men and women, when that thing was finished to God's specifications both inside and out, then the glory of the Lord came and filled that place.
SPEAKER_01: There's another dwelling place in Scripture where God took up residence.
SPEAKER_01: When Solomon built the great temple on Mount Zion, the building blocks, the size, the dimension, the shape, the architecture, the woodwork, the ornaments, the furniture, the decorations, when everything was done in perfect accord with God's words and God's commandments.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible tells us in 1 Kings the eighth chapter that the glory of God came and filled that dwelling place.
SPEAKER_01: There's a third dwelling place on earth for man, where God comes to dwell with man.
SPEAKER_01: It's the New Testament church, the bodies of saved born-again believers.
SPEAKER_01: We are called, 1 Corinthians 6 says it.
SPEAKER_01: What know ye not?
SPEAKER_01: Your bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_01: Now the Lord gave some very specific instructions to his infant church.
SPEAKER_01: And as that infant church waited in the upper room, you read about it in Acts chapter number one, they did exactly what God told them to do.
SPEAKER_01: They were exactly where God told them to be.
SPEAKER_01: Their hearts and minds were exactly as God had instructed.
SPEAKER_01: What happened?
SPEAKER_01: The glory of God came and filled that upper room where they were all sitting in one accord.
SPEAKER_01: Now listen carefully.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to go into detail on this program.
SPEAKER_01: I've preached this many times in many places.
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, people come up with all kinds of man-made notions and speculations as to what it means to be filled with the Spirit or how to be filled with the Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you this.
SPEAKER_01: The tabernacle was filled with the glory of God when those people were in complete and perfect obedience to the Word of God.
SPEAKER_01: The glory of God filled that temple when the people of God were acting in complete and perfect obedience to the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: And the glory of the Lord filled that place where the New Testament church was assembled when those people, when those people were living in perfect obedience and complete obedience to the Word of God.
SPEAKER_01: Thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
SPEAKER_01: The glory of God sent those in that building, in that place, out from that place to declare, to manifest, to speak forth, to show forth that the glory of God had come and filled the dwelling.
SPEAKER_01: In the passage in 1 Kings, the glory of the Lord came and filled that place.
SPEAKER_01: And when it did, those people were driven out of that place to declare and to show forth that the glory of God had indeed come upon that dwelling.
SPEAKER_01: And as I'm sure you know, on that day of Pentecost in Acts chapter number two, when the glory of God came and filled that upper room, those men and women were driven from that place to declare and to manifest that God had come in his glory.
SPEAKER_01: That's how it always is.
SPEAKER_01: If you ever get filled with the glorious spirit of the living God, nobody has to tell you to witness, nobody have to tell you to speak up for the Lord, nobody have to compel you to make known what God had done for you.
SPEAKER_01: Now, verse 36.
SPEAKER_01: And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys.
SPEAKER_01: He led them with that pillar of cloud.
SPEAKER_01: When the cloud moved, they moved.
SPEAKER_01: When the cloud became stationary, they stopped right there.
SPEAKER_01: But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.
SPEAKER_01: For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night.
SPEAKER_01: You remember chapter 19, chapter 24, when the glory of the Lord was upon Mount Sinai, that whole mountain was on fire, but not consumed.
SPEAKER_01: This pillar of fire resting on this tabernacle and not consuming the wood, the skins, the fabric.
SPEAKER_01: It's miraculous, it's supernatural, it's God.
SPEAKER_01: So the pillar of the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and the fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: And then stunning words throughout all their journeys.
SPEAKER_01: Now, I I don't want to throw a negative note in because Exodus doesn't end on a negative note, it ends on a positive note.
SPEAKER_01: But you've got to wonder as you read about all the failure of the people in Leviticus and Numbers and Deuteronomy, how could they do that with that pillar of fire shining right before their eyes and that pillar of cloud glowing right before their eyes?
SPEAKER_01: But but we don't want to end that way.
SPEAKER_01: Look back with me in your Bible if you can.
SPEAKER_01: If not, I'll read it to you.
SPEAKER_01: Listen to the end of Genesis.
SPEAKER_01: The end of Genesis.
SPEAKER_01: So Joseph died, being 110 years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
SPEAKER_01: In a coffin in Egypt.
SPEAKER_01: You know how Exodus begins with the children of Israel seeing their babies killed and their men, women, and children serving as slaves to Pharaoh.
SPEAKER_01: You know how the book ends?
SPEAKER_01: It ends with the glory of God abiding day and night with the children of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: Did they deserve that?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: Did they earn that?
SPEAKER_01: Certainly not.
SPEAKER_01: But God by his power, God by his grace, God, because he set his love upon those people, look at where he's brought them.
SPEAKER_01: He has brought them from bondage into the light and liberty that comes from his presence.
SPEAKER_01: Are you saved, my friend?
SPEAKER_01: You don't earn it, you didn't you didn't didn't merit it, you don't deserve it, you can't earn it, you can't pay for it.
SPEAKER_01: I could say it over and over and over again.
SPEAKER_01: But God, by his grace and God by his goodness, has not only brought us out of darkness, but into his marvelous light.
SPEAKER_01: Not only has he set us free from being the devil's captives, but he has chosen to abide with us forever, to dwell with us that he might be our God and we might be his people.
SPEAKER_01: Praise to his holy name.
SPEAKER_01: What a savior.
SPEAKER_01: Now that's the last verse of Exodus.
SPEAKER_01: We're not through with our study yet.
SPEAKER_01: We've got a couple more broadcasts, one, maybe two, maybe three more broadcasts, some random notes on Exodus, some things of interest regarding Moses.
SPEAKER_01: So it'll be a little while before we start on something new.
SPEAKER_01: But I hope you've enjoyed this study.
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