Okay
So I wasn't extending it. So I was going all beats, like full beats.
And then I saw it. And so that was my fault.
Anyways, if you have your bulletins, turn your bull, open your bulletins today,
September 7th and our times right there on the left, Sunday morning, 10 30 a.m.
Sunday evening, 4 30 p.m.
And Wednesday service, 5 30 and then our Sunday soul winning time to p.m.
And by the way, did you guys go? Was it you guys had any souls?
What one so we got one for the for the day, which is at 1
95 I do intend to get back to so many next week and actually with the weather changing
It's actually nice because it doesn't the heat wears you out and then on top of everything else and
Then the memory verse for this week is Philippians 1 5 for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day
Until now and then we have the birthdays that came up every old Rogers
I'm thinking that I haven't seen them in a while, but I'm also sure anytime there's rain, they just don't come out.
Have you heard from them? From Kevin and them?
If not, I'll reach out to them.
Yeah, no, I know that, but anytime there's rain, he tries to keep it, which is totally understandable.
And then I've been getting some updates on the soul winning.
Mexico looks like they're having a blast.
I'm really sad for two reasons.
Number one, the soul, and even number two, the food.
There's nothing like my food to make your day better.
But it is what it is.
We did have some good Mexican food
when we were down in the valley,
so we're not gonna be too sad.
And then we have all our prayer requests there in the back.
Just keep praying for everybody.
And then I really appreciate just everybody
looking out for the kids.
Any questions on the mother baby room?
You know, I'm not going to go through all the announcements I went through in the morning.
I think, you know, we, we can, I'll just cover that in the mornings as far as repetition.
And then let's go ahead and turn our hymnals over to page 133, 133 glory to his name, glory
You can't get away from saying...
I have decided to follow Jesus and then we're going to be in Exodus 24, Exodus 24 today.
He's a
is 24 exit is 24 and if the kids can't keep it down my son I will remove you
from there and put you somewhere else okay attention open exits 24 right there
Come up unto the Lord thou and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel
and worship ye afar, and Moses alone shall come near the Lord, but they shall not come
nigh, neither shall the people go up with him.
And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the people answered
words which the Lord hath said we will do and Moses wrote all the words of the Lord and rose up
early in the morning and build it an altar under the hill and 12 pillars according to the 12 tribes
of Israel.
And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings and sacrificed
peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord and Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins and
Half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar and he took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the people and they said all that
That the Lord had said we will do and be obedient and Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on
the people and said behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with
you concerning all these words. Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and 70 of the elders
of Israel and they saw that the God of Israel and there was under his feet as it were a paved work
of sapphire stones and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel,
he laid not his hand, also they saw God
and did eat and drink.
And the Lord said unto Moses, come up into the mount
and be there, and I will give the tables of stone
and a law and commandments which I've written
that thou mayest teach them.
And Moses rose up and his minister Joshua
and Moses went up into the mount of God
and he said unto the elders, tarry ye here for us,
until we come again unto you.
And behold, Aaron and her,
are with you and if any man and if any man have any matters to do let him come unto them.
And Moses went up into the mount and a cloud covered the mount and the glory of the Lord abode
upon Monsignor and the cloud covered it six days and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of
the midst of the cloud and the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on top of the
mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. And Moses went into the midst of the cloud and
And Moses was in the Mount 40 days and 49th.
Pastor Kabul, you pray.
Father, we pray that if it was over again on the prayer list,
I thank you here in my prayer,
we send you to Father, we pray that if it was over again
on the prayer list, I thank you here in my prayer list,
I thank you here in my prayer list,
All right, we're here and it's been a while. I don't remember. I think the last time I preached on this was like two or three months ago
Where you know in the Sunday evenings my goal is to go through an overview of the Bible
But then again topics come up or things that I want to talk about so then I don't come back and then of course, you know
I'm gonna this is I hadn't really talked about it and then
Once I do, I'm just going to drop it and move on to other things.
But I did decide to just break my collarbone.
And so then I hadn't preached for a while.
But now that that's over with, it's time to move on to other bigger and better things.
But the title of my sermon today is Christ in the Tabernacle.
pictures in Exodus, and we're going to be mainly in Exodus 24 to about chapter 31.
We're going to just kind of do a very big overview, because if you've read those chapters
at all, there's a lot of description of how the Tabernacle is built and, you know, the
The show bread and a bunch of the the accessories and there's very a lot of detail about the curtains and the cherubimms and
The material that's used but there's a lot of symbolism also and that's really what we're going to focus on today
Is we're going through this but I love this in excess 24 it says right there and he said
When they he came down, I love this and verse three says and Moses came and rex is 24
Came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments and all the people answer with one voice
It said all the words which the Lord had said we will do
And so one of the reasons I'm going through an overview of the Bible even when we get to some of these parts
Where that might be a little bit more
I hesitate to use the word boring, but that's sometimes how us as human nature perceive things.
If we're not looking careful at the word of God, but just the things that might be a little bit
more tedious is that, hey, just like Moses, I'm just going to preach the whole word to you.
And my goal is that you would just do everything that the Lord had said to do.
You know, I love that because it says there in verse three. And then I think
And then I think that he had said it later on.
I just don't remember where I didn't,
this came out later, but basically twice in this chapter,
they said, hey, whatever the Lord said, we will do.
Which is interesting, because as you go through this,
he's there 40 days and 40 nights,
and it's really setting up the stage for what?
After 32, which is when Aaron gets in trouble
by making a golden calf.
And the reason that it's so important is to stay consistent in the Word of God and consistent in church.
And one of the things that I couldn't wait to do is get back into church is because it doesn't take that long to get on the wrong track.
You know, we'll talk about that next week, but I'm going to just go ahead and preface it a little bit by the fact that, hey, it was only 40 days.
That's a month and like 10 days and they were already off the beaten path.
I mean, it gets really, really bad, right?
I mean, if you just skip church because you're sick or because you're not feeling good,
man, you better pray to God that you better not make an excuse not to come to church next time
because you skip once, you know, it's all right.
But then you come up with an excuse to skip again.
The next thing you know, you're just not going to church regularly.
Then then you're not reading your Bible regularly.
And then you're worshiping a golden calf.
And you say, oh, you're exaggerating.
because you know if you look at Solomon, Solomon was the wisest in the land and he had so much
wisdom but he used it for worldly pleasures and he had 700 wives and 300 concubines and what they do
they veered him off the wrong path. I mean he literally set up altars to all the false gods
because he wasn't in church regularly because he was not reading the Word of the God lately.
He preached on King Josiah, and I love what it says, right?
It says they found the book of the law, right?
One of the applications I want to do is bring an old book with a lot of dust and just, you
know, you dust it off, and then all of a sudden it became real for them.
And the challenge with human nature is exactly that.
It's human nature.
You know, one of the things I tell my wife is just hold me accountable to my human nature.
You know, my human nature is to want to be lazy and to not want to do things and to not want to, you know, work hard and to just entertain myself.
Because that's just the nature of things. That's why social media works. They call it doom scrolling. That's why entertainment works.
You know, the reason that Trump won the presidency is not just that there's a social shift.
I really believe there is a shift in morality.
It might not be like it was in the days of how we were growing up, but also there's the other
element, which is they just love the entertainment factor of it. I mean, Donald Trump is an
entertaining president.
I mean, you can't deny it. He is extremely entertaining. I mean, I love watching Donald Trump
because you just never know what's gonna come out of his mouth, you know, just and it's just like sometimes
It's just hilarious. Sometimes it's fun, but the reality is it's also sad that we've gotten to the point where that's where people are
You know a society that seeks to be entertained is a society that's in decline. I mean if you study the the ancient
history especially the Romans what did they do they entertain the people that's why the coliseum
so famous and they had you know the Olympics and I mean and it was even worse now we complain
about the Olympics and how skimpy their outfits were I mean they were just doing it in the nude
like completely which is interesting to me but I don't want to digress but the point is what I
You want to have the right attitude, but you also want to execute the right attitude.
They said, hey, whatever the Lord said, we will do, but did they really do that?
They didn't. And what's interesting also is that the next couple of chapters is
where God spends a lot of time with Moses, who actually about 40 days and 40 nights,
And now I'm not going to touch it today or I might touch it a little bit depending on my notes
But in Hebrews we get a picture of this and it says that basically
Moses saw what it actually should look like in heaven. You know, he got a glimpse of
what the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant and all these things should look like.
And so let's go there to Exodus 24. We're going to go through a lot of chapters.
We're going to go through a lot of Scripture. And really, the goal is to give you that symbolism
of these things, right? And so the first point I have for you today is that the Covenant...
is confirmed, right? In Exodus 24, God is confirming this covenant. In Exodus 7, I mean 24 verse 7,
it says, and he took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the people, and they said,
all that the Lord hath said, we will do and be obedient. So what's the book of the covenant?
The Bible for us in the English-speaking language is the King James Bible. You know,
the reason that we take this book so seriously is because it's not just like any other book.
To us, we really believe we're convinced 100% that this is the word of God,
and this is why we do the things that we do. If you're not convinced, then what are you
even doing here? Because really, I mean, there's a lot of good books out there, but this is the
greatest book, right? It says there, verse 8, in Moses took the blood and sprinkled it upon the
people and said, behold, the blood of the covenant, which is what a picture of Jesus Christ shedding the
for us, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
So it wasn't just the blood, but it's also the words.
And what did Jesus do?
He had a ministry of preaching and teaching the Word of God, basically his ministry, before
he shed that blood.
So the book is just as important as the shedding of blood.
People like to argue, they're like, well, what saves?
Is it the blood that saves?
Is it the cross that saves?
It's all of it that saves.
You can't have one without the other.
You know, we, we're not, we're not like a Baptist that just are like nitpicking things.
We're Baptists that believe the whole thing.
I love it all.
Good, bad and ugly.
I want it all.
Right?
And so.
What is this meaning or symbolism? Well, the Old Covenant
it just points to the blood, right?
And it points to what? The New Covenant, which was the test, the testament that Jesus Christ did on the cross, and
it binds what God and His people.
How do people know that we're, that we're Christian? Well, because we believe that Jesus Christ died for us.
To be honest with you, we're not the Baptists that think,
hey, you have to live a good life,
and if you're not living a good life, you're not saved.
No, we're the ones that say, hey, how do you know you're saved?
Well, I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Perfect, that's how I know you're saved.
All right, why?
Well, because Jesus did all the work.
It's not that it was free. It's free to us
But it was it was a lot of work to Jesus Christ go to Matthew
Actually go to Hebrews 9 go to Hebrews 9, but I'll read for you really quick Matthew 26
And by the way, just bear with me. I was able to clean up my notes, but like I said, I've just I'm still
in dealing, hopefully that won't be the case next week, but today I'm still kind of, I got home, I was pretty exhausted.
So in Matthew 26, the Bible says, for this is my blood of the New Testament, who's this speaking Jesus,
which is shed for many for the remission of sins. You know, John MacArthur died recently,
and one of the things that we've done is make sure to preach against John MacArthur because he denied the blood.
I guess he just forgot to read Matthew 28, right?
I mean, it just literally says,
which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
In Hebrews 9, the Bible says there in verse 19,
for when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law,
he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and his up
and sprinkled both the book and all the people saying,
this is the blood of the testament which God had enjoined unto you.
Which is what we see here in Exodus 24.
So what does the New Testament do? Well, it clears up the Old Testament for us. Is this important in the Bible?
Absolutely. Actually, I think
personally that the Old Testament is more important to us than it was to the Old Testament saints,
because the Old Testament saints didn't technically have the full Old Testament.
They only had the book of the law up to the point in their history, right? Like Moses didn't have Joshua, Judges, Ruth,
you know, 1st and 2nd Samuel, 1st, 2nd Kings, you know, and the rest.
Moses only had what? What he wrote, which is the first five books of the law.
Joshua only had that. It's not till later that the book of Joshua was written,
you know, or Ruth didn't have Ruth, and Esther didn't have the book of Esther.
I mean, Esther had to live in order for us to have the book of Esther.
We're the ones that have those books so that we can get edified,
but we need to clear it up in the New Testament.
By the way, go back to Exodus 25. Just keep your finger in the book of Exodus because we're going to be going through those chapters
But in 1st Peter 1 verse 2 the Bible says elect according to the fore knowledge of God the father
Through sanctification of the Spirit what sanctification or separation?
unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ
grace unto you and peace be multiplied and of course each one of these we could just spend so much
time i mean i've literally done entire sermons just on the blood of jesus christ pastor cobs done
the same but an exit is uh so the first point is that we have the covenant confirmed i'm going to
make some notes here because like i said uh uh i guess it's just been a long day for me uh but
You know the nice thing about getting entries later in your ministry is you're more comfortable behind the pulpit
I used to worry so much about interruptions or pauses and then you get older you're like
That's not that big of a deal because you just got to do what you got to do from up here
so I
Don't normally interrupt myself this much, but I will today go to Exodus 25
And then the next thing we see is now we start to see the symbolism now for them. It was physically true, right?
I think obviously not I think we know the New Testament got rid of symbolism because what's the ultimate goal?
The ultimate goal is to live life by what? By faith.
We got to have blind faith, right? It's not just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
but also everything that we do technically has to be blind.
That's why we have so many pictures in the Old Testament of technically a blind faith.
I mean, literally they get to the Red Sea and the only way across the Red Sea is by faith.
Because there's no way even Moses, as great as he was, didn't see the solution.
Right, I mean I brought it up this morning about you know getting injured
But what I'm what I don't see is the solution of like the pause in work and the pause in the church
You know where the solution comes from I'm just I'm just
you just gotta have the faith that God's gonna open up that sea wherever it is, right?
And then later on, when they're crossing the river Jordan, you know, and every step they take,
they're taking it onto dry ground, they're doing it by faith. And there's so many other examples
that we could look at. But the whole goal is that in your life, if you're reading the Bible,
is to see the faith element of it. Because the hardest thing to do in life is to live by faith.
Believing unto the Lord Jesus Christ is easy, but living that faith because the Bible says right that we need to work out our own
Salvation meaning we're always working on that faith the faith to know that God's gonna provide
the income when we
When the economy just kicks us in the butt, right when Biden and even Trump I mean because yeah inflation is maybe tapered off
But things are still expensive. I mean the price of eggs didn't just go back down to like a dollar a dozen
I mean unless I'm wrong, but my wife shops she hasn't she didn't come home when they be like hey Trump got into office and
The dozen eggs are now
This we're still paying the same. We were with Biden. I think it just hasn't gone up, right?
So right here we see what in Exodus 25. We're gonna see the arc
the table and the lampstand, right?
And so obviously there's a lot of detail here,
but I'm just gonna focus on the specifics, right?
And in Exodus 25 verse 10, it says,
and they shall make an arc of shittimwood.
Two qubits and a half shall be the length thereof,
and a qubit and a half the breadth thereof,
and a qubit and a half the height thereof.
So we obviously have an arc,
and then in verse 23 says,
that shall also make a table of shittimwood.
Two qubits shall be the length thereof and a qubit the breadth thereof and a qubit and a half the height thereof and then
We see there verse 31 and I shall make a candlestick of pure gold of beaten work. So the candlestick be
Made his shaft and his branches his bowls his knobs and his flowers shall be the same and
These had meaning then for us. It's more of a spiritual meaning and the reason I say this is because
I don't know who's ever walked into some, some Baptist, forget Jewish, just some old school
Baptist churches. And sometimes you see like a menorah there, or you'll see different symbolism
there. But they don't carry, they don't have any spiritual significance in our day. Right. The
spiritual significance is a symbolism of what they stand for. And that is really important. And
I'm not downplaying that, you know, if you want to have a model of the Ark and teach your children,
They put a lot of faith in things like that.
I mean, there's literally Baptist churches where they'll blow the shofar, they wear the shoal,
and they do all these weird things.
None of that carries any weight.
God got rid of all the ceremonial laws for the specific reason that they started worshiping this stuff.
I mean, I literally saw the weirdest thing today that's just carried over from all these generations.
It was really strange and I wish I would have had time, but I think I was getting ready for church and I was just checking
Something online and then it popped up. I guess the Catholic Church is about to Saint some young kid
You're looking at me. So I guess I wasn't the only one that saw it. It was weird
Because they have them in a clear casket. I
Actually thought it was a picture of a young guy asleep because they preserved them so well
And I guess it's this the youngest kid to ever get
I guess he passed away at some point, I don't know all the history, and they're basically
going to saint him, and people are going by and they're basically worshiping this dead
kid, I don't know who he is or whatever, but that's really why I believe God got rid of
all the symbolism, because people worship all the weirdest things, right?
They'll worship the table, they'll worship, you know, there's literally Catholic churches
That was pierced in the head of Jesus Christ and people go up to and kiss it, which by the way, I'm I get grossed out really easily
Like my brother makes fun of me because I won't drink after people even my own family members
I mean, I'll drink after like my wife, but that's about it
Like if you share a coke with me and you you drank from the bottle and then you want to share it with me
Good luck trying to get me to do that. I just don't get how people will go up in a Catholic church and all drink from the same
Cup like that I would probably throw up like that's gross
But that's just a side note of just though how weird people get with these things, right? But the arc
What does it represent? It just represents God's like throne and presence, the law, you know, it's
overlaid with gold. And of course, this was just made with human hands.
The real arc where God dwells and in heaven. I mean, that's just gonna be something to with you know, that that's gonna be amazing
I mean really that's that's what it's gonna come down to right and then the showbred or the table for the showbred is
You know, obviously a symbolism of what man does not live by bread alone
But by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God, right and the light lampstand
I mean these should be pretty simple, but sometimes we may skip them
Who's the light of the world Christ?
Right? And he likens us to being the light of the world and that we shouldn't hide our
light under a bushel for men not to see it, right? We need to shine as a light and let
God carry us through the different parts of the world, bringing the gospel or the good
news to the world that Jesus saves, right? I just met, you know, man, I didn't realize
Like, that's why the light shines so that people can be drawn to it, like a moth to a flame,
except this is different because we're not going to get burned up, we're going to get saved, right?
And John is six like you don't have to turn there go to he would stay there in Hebrews 9 or go back to Hebrews 9
But in John 6 verse 35 says in Jesus said unto them
I am the bread of life
He that cometh to me shall never hunger and he that believeth on me shall never thirst
I love this verse because I think it has both a real physical application and a spiritual application
And you know what when you're consistent in church and when you're reading the Word of God
Even if you don't understand it all, you know what you're never hungry
And you don't get thrown off easily.
And you know what I mean by that?
What this really stands out to me with is when people try to mess you up, you know, there's
many ways that people, when I was a young Christian, would mess you up, right?
They were like, oh, did you notice this contradiction in the Bible?
First of all, there's no contradictions.
It's just something you didn't understand, right?
But when you're young, now if someone comes, I mean, I literally have conversations with
someone and be like, hey, what do you think this pastor, what do you think this verse
means?
And I'll read it and I'll be like, you know what?
That well, I don't know
I'm not worried about it either because I know God will reveal the answer to me in time if it's something of interest
I might even chase that rabbit trail, but I don't worry about it anymore, right? Oh, well, how do you prove this to someone?
I don't you either believe it or you don't I'm not worried about it
Like I'm not hungry to figure out the mysteries of God that he hasn't revealed to me
I just he's already revealed what he wants me to be revealed in the Word of God. That's all I care about
And there's plenty here that I need to figure out on my own for it
You know, it's dumb enough you're dumb if you're trying to get off on rabbit trails
Just wait if you can get to the point where you can tell me with all confidence that you figure it out
Everything in the Bible then go be my guest try to chase something weird, but I guarantee you you haven't
You know, it's like people sometimes
Said hey, why don't you I've also had these conversations are like why don't you go so many here so many there?
I'm like, hey, I'm not against so many like in Israel or maybe in Muslim countries
But what I always tell them is like look if you can confidently come and tell me that you've already knocked every door of every
Receptive country and sitting in the world and you're done then be my guest go to those hard to reach places
But I guarantee you haven't
You know, people always try to make things more difficult than they are.
Just here in Houston alone, you know, one of the things that I'm excited about just
getting back to Seoul and in is the fact that it's just so, I mean, we really have like
low hanging fruit.
For the, go try to go, I've gone to Washington with Pastor Thompson, man, it's like one
of the worst places to go Seoul winning.
Everybody just hates you. Everybody hates you.
Phoenix, Arizona, it's like hidden miss,
but I've gone so in in there, it's not that great.
I've gone so in in Detroit, and we go to the ghettos,
it's great, but then we've gone to other places,
it's not so great.
Houston.
I'm pretty sure it has not so great places, but Houston is so big. It's gonna take us years to get through all the good
I mean we like literally have the best low-hanging fruit outside of like a ripe
Receptive mission feel like the Bahamas or Mexico. I mean we go to apartment complex
Sometimes I walk out of there and I only given the gospel in Spanish and I'm like six seven eight
910 and guys you'll see guys post online and they're like oh man I broke my personal record today
I let six people to the Lord I'm like man we do that on a Sunday with our eyes closed
It's not even bragging though. We're just in a great receptive area
It has nothing to do with how good of a soul winner we are just people are ready to listen to gospel
So, I really believe that both God feeds you spiritually and you're not hunger, and physically
He gives us the food.
Go to Hebrews 9, but in John 8 verse 12, the Bible says, then spake Jesus again unto them,
saying, I am the light of the world.
He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
You know, what does that really mean to us?
What means that we're aware of our sin nature?
I will says for all have sin and come short of glory God
You know what I love about being a Christian is that at least I'm
Widely aware of most of my sins and then I can do something about it
Or most people don't even think they're sinning right the world has terms like oh, I'm a social drinker
you know
They don't realize that even drinking is a sin right or they're like oh, I'm just you know
I'm just sowing my wild oats.
They don't realize that's fornication
because they really don't know these things, right?
Or I just recreationally use drugs.
Or whatever, I mean, I know I say it here
and you're like, you're being weird.
No, I'm not.
Like the world really thinks like that.
They think that, hey, I've never done anybody wrong.
I've never stolen, I don't cheat people.
Yeah, but you're doing all this other stuff.
That's all just as bad.
You know, for us, we want that light to shine on us, and I want God to point out the fact
that, hey, man, I screwed up today.
Lord, forgive me my sins, because I know he's faithful and just forgive me my sins.
You know, God really does feed you in that way.
I mean, you need to have the Word of God in your life all the time, so you're just confident
to just be like, Lord, I screwed up.
Because the problem with living life where you think you're not a sinner is number one
You don't think you're doing anything wrong and then when you do find out you're doing something wrong
You always kind of try to justify it, right like Adam. Hey
The reason we sowed fig leaves is because you sent me this woman for wine. I mean, she's always getting blamed, right?
How about how about Adam you grow a pair and take care of your wife, right?
Like Hebrews 9 go to Hebrews 9 the right there in verse 4 Bible says
Which had the golden censor
speaking of the Old Testament, right?
And the Ark of the Covenant overlaid roundabout with gold,
wearing was the golden pot that had manna
and Aaron's rod that butted and the tables of the Covenant
and over at the cherubim's of glory shadowing
the mercy seed of which we cannot now speak particularly.
Why do we keep going back to Hebrews? Well, Hebrews does one thing. Hebrews is one of my favorite books in the Bible
But it's also a deep book like it's a difficult book to understand
If you disagree with me, then you're way smarter than me
But Hebrews is a difficult book to understand but but the theme of Hebrews is just what?
That we have the better testament and what's the better testament Jesus Christ is the best thing that's ever happened to us
Right, they knew of a coming Messiah.
We literally know that the Messiah came and His risen is at the right hand of God.
And we were the benefactors.
We're the elect.
We're the children.
We're heir according to the promise.
The reason that we live life so peacefully is because we've already believed.
We don't have to go through all these ceremonial things.
We don't have to wait 40 days and get scared and be like, you know what, we need a golden
And I mean poor Aaron I'm gonna beat up on him next week, but you know, this is one of the wildest stories in the Bible
Go over to Exodus 26
We saw
But we saw here. Let me let me look at my notes real quick
We saw the the the covenant confirmed
You know what? I'm just gonna make my notes over here
And then we see the symbolism, right, of the arc, the table, and the timestamp, you know, the arc.
And now we see the tabernacle, where God...
Would dwell when they were going through the wilderness, right? And we see there at exes 26
Verse one it says moreover thou shall make the tabernacle with the ten curtains of fine twin
linen and blue and purple and scarlet which one of the symbolisms of that is what?
They're not only royalty colors, which is the main thing that people tell you, but also the bruising and the suffering that Jesus Christ had to do for us.
Right now, my kids have been really impressed because I'm walking around without a shirt, which I normally don't do, but obviously I'm feeling this wound get aired out.
And Daddy's got blue and purple and, you know, scarlet all over his body.
Like I've literally got all kinds of, I look like a rainbow on my right side.
My, my, my daughter keeps going daddy, like your, your, your body keeps changing color.
And I'm like, yeah, I know, cause I'm getting, I'm healing, it's painful, but it's also pretty cool.
Right. And it says, with cherubimms of cunning work shall thou make them.
And go over to Hebrews eight. I'll read for you really quick in John. So just stay,
they're in accidents, Hebrew. I'll read the rest of the verses so we can keep it real simple today.
The dwelling play, this is the dwelling place of God among these people, right?
Obviously, this is here on earth.
Heaven is the ultimate dwelling place.
And every color and material points to what?
To Jesus Christ.
Like blue represents what?
Heaven, but also the bruising.
Purple is what? The royalty color? Scarlet is the blood?
You know, the linen is the purity?
That's what we see in the New Testament is Jesus Christ.
Both not only dying on the cross for us, suffering for us,
but even in Revelation he comes back, what? White as snow.
We're saved by the blood of Jesus Christ and he's made us, what? White as snow.
My kids I love children because they're so literal right my kids have often asked me
How is it that you can be covered in the blood and be white as snow?
I don't know when we get to heaven we can ask God. He's got special blood, right?
I mean we are we're covered in the blood and we're white as snow. Let's go there to John 1
Here in Hebrews, but in John 1 verse 14 the Bible says and the word was made flesh and
Dwelled among us and we beheld his glory the glory is that the only begun of the father
full of grace and truth
Hey, what this what makes us distinct from all other religions?
Jesus Christ was made flesh, but Jesus Christ is God
Today there is a bigger attack on Jesus Christ than probably ever in my lifetime
I mean, people will admit that he was a prophet or that he was some important historical figure.
Nobody can deny that except for atheists that are done, but even, you know, non-Christian historical figures will give you
creedists the fact that Jesus existed. What they don't want to give creedists to is that he actually was God.
And that is a big distinction right in Hebrews 8 verse 5 the Bible says who serve unto the examples and shadow of heavenly things as
Moses was admonished of God
When he was about to make the tabernacle for see
Sayeth he that thou make all things according to the pattern show to thee in the mouth
You know, and I love this because Pastor Cobb preached on this. So over here and you know, let me just grab it
I think I have one. I didn't I just didn't use it because this is not mine
You guys can get a copy if you want but Pastor Cobb did like a 10
10 week 10 week series on this and he kind of just kind of went through the Tabardacle
I don't know what we can look it up. I think it's I need to find it
It's I think we recorded it but in there and I so I remember a lot of this when I was going through this
And one of the things was he pointed this out where, you know,
Moses got to see, like, how it was actually supposed to be done.
You know, what they did...
Pailed in comparison to what he actually saw because I mean obviously even if we if you copy something it's never the original, right?
Moses was pretty cool
I mean Moses got to just do a lot of cool things, right?
He got to talk to Jesus and he got to see the backside of God the father
I mean Moses just he's shown so much that people didn't even they have to pull a veil around on his head
I mean
Moses is one of my favorite characters, but we're not talking about Moses, let's not get sidetracked.
But in Revelation 21 verse 3, go back to Exodus 27, but in Revelation 21 verse 3 the Bible says,
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them,
and be their God. Hey, the tabernacle is what? We are a tabernacle now, right? We are the temple of God.
And who's going to dwell with us? God. That's why sanctification is so important,
because God won't dwell with us if we're full of sin. Right? I mean, God didn't just come down.
He came down at the right time. And you have to, you know, the high priest had to do certain
things in order to even go beyond the second veil. Like you couldn't just go in there all dirty and
You know, I'm not saying you have to, obviously we don't do that today, but hey, if you got
something going on, clean it up.
If you don't know how to clean it up, then come to church and clean it up, right?
I'm not one of those that tells you don't do things until you've cleaned up, but maybe
do things so that you can get cleaned up, right?
Because we have a we have groups of people that attack us for say, oh, well, you know
You got a bunch of people in your church that are new and overzealous and there are a bunch of jerks
But they always you know brag about so many, you know, I always tell them is so when it will clean you up pretty quick
When you see the dire situation of the world
Like I don't just believe that people are just jerks and then go so when and so in it and then become less jerks
I think you could get someone who's a jerk and they go so when and so when and so when you know
What's gonna happen to their character? They're just gonna get better
I mean, if you look at my life 10 years ago to now, my life is better and one of the reasons
it's better is because I go soul winning.
I'm not a better person, but I'm just aware of the crap and the sin that's out there
in the world.
I mean, forget the people you get saved, at least they're saved.
I mean, sometimes you run into some interesting things.
I mean, Brother Heath was the one that mentioned to me and I just, I was too, too under the
influence of all the drugs.
By the way, these are legal drugs, but I still was.
But that shooter that went out and shot up the Catholic church or whatever, I guess there
was a video and I only saw like a snippet of it, the guy's talking like a demon voice.
Right?
I mean, he's literally possessed.
That's what we're dealing with. I mean, that's that's the reality of the world
And what we need to do is focus on the fact that Jesus went out there and
You know, he gave us the symbolism of the Tabernacle, but now we are that Tabernacle
We are that holy temple. We need to be sanctified so we can fight that spiritual war
Right because we want God with us not against us
You know, God is against the world. God hates the reprobates rejected
I mean, it's just the truth, right?
And yeah, the Bible talks about being at enmity with God.
I don't wanna do that.
We're not 100%, but we should be better
than everybody else, right?
Whatever that percentage looks like.
So let's go over to Exodus 27.
Let's go over to Exodus 27.
We've looked at the covenant.
We looked at the ark.
We looked at the tabernacle.
And now what we're covering is the bronze altar on the court.
All right
And again, I'm just covering
Remember even Sunday evenings is an overview. It's a symbolism. We'll tie it all together
But there next is 27 verse 1 the Bible says and thou shall make an altar of shittom wood
Five cubits long and five cubits broad the altar should be four square and the height thereof shall be three cubits
And thou shall make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof
His horn shall be of the same and thou shall overlay it with brass
And this is where what?
At the altar is where you deal with sin.
You lay it at the altar of Jesus Christ, right?
Now we don't do altar calls
because we don't have an altar.
And I'm not, I know other churches do that.
That's just personally, we haven't done that in a long time.
I'm not against it.
I just, what I do, my wife and I, if we have something,
we just lay it spiritually at the altar of Christ, right?
That's just a private thing that we do ourselves.
because the altar points to the Christ sacrifice, right? And so go over to Hebrews 13, go over to
And then the courts really went like the congregation.
This is where we come to access Jesus Christ, right?
It's not, the veil was rent.
So we're not going to worry about the veil
because we have, we can come boldly,
the Bible says in the New Testament,
to the throne of grace, right?
We can come boldly to God and ask for anything.
We don't have to wait for Aaron, the high priest,
or you know, Pastor Ray is the high, I'm not a high,
you guys are all priests just like I am.
were royal priests, were kings, were saints in the spiritual kingdom of Christ.
In Hebrews 13, verse 10, the Bible says,
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat, which serve the tabernacle for the bodies
of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin,
are burned without the camp.
Wherefore, Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Jesus suffered it all for us.
That's why I don't get enough arguments with people about what saves, what saves is everything that Jesus did.
Now do you have to understand it all when you get saved? No, but that's why you go to church
Actually, I like understanding it all because it just makes it even better for me
Like I'm just like whoa, that's awesome that I believed in all that. I didn't realize it was that great
That it was that magnanimous. I don't know if I pronounced that right. My wife will correct me later
Tonight she'll be like, you know, you mispronounced this mispronounced that she she always like gets all my one time
I instead of saying goad I said go add and and she laughed about it
And then I was like I didn't really get it at the time and then later on she's like honey
You know, it's go not go and I was like, yeah, whatever. I don't
So so if I mispronounce something just take it up with my wife. She'll correct me
But in John 1, go back to Exodus 28, but in John 1, verse 29, the Bible says the next
day John seeeth Jesus coming unto him and sayeth, behold, what, the Lamb of God.
See he was the sacrificial Lamb, which taketh the way, the sins of the world.
You know, I talked today about how Jesus Christ suffered for us.
Who do we think we are to not suffer for Christ?
You know, who do we think we are to not just suffer at all?
Right. I mean being a Christian makes you tough just in general. You know, that's why I think being a Christian
Make it so egregious to us men to look at like sodomites and queers because you know, there's nothing like
God just makes you a man
He says hey, you can't be offended by stuff. You got to just get tough and go
You know he gives you all these examples
I keep thinking of I got hurt and I wanted to cry like a little baby and crawl under a rock because it was painful
But then you go to the book of acts where they leave Paul for dead after stoning him and immediately he gets up and goes
Into the next city and starts doing what so when he I mean if Paul can do it I can do it
You know in Romans 5 verse 9 the Bible says much more than being now justified by his blood
We shall be saved from the wrath through him. I mean, I think this is pretty
Cut and dry, but it's important to go through this because I've heard some weird stuff preached out of exes
You know false religions love the Old Testament more than they love the New Testament
Which is weird because the New Testament literally tells you that it's the better Testament
I have nothing against the Old Testament, other than the fact that God clearly tells
himself, this is the better Testament.
But hey, if you're a Seventh-day Adventist, they live in the Old Testament.
They're like swimming in there, back, I mean, literally like, oh, the Sabbath, so great.
You know, I mean literally, I mean anything in the Old Testament is amazing.
They want to just, I've been to like, so the Seventh-day Adventist Church, I grew up and
had a lot of doctors.
And they did a lot of crazy stuff, and so, I mean, I've literally been to where they do like the Christmas specials, you know, and the Christmas special always tied it, but it was literally the same play.
I don't know why they did it twice, but the Christmas story always ended with Christ being crucified and rising again, because you know you want to tell the whole story.
camels and sheep and they would make everything look like the Old Testament and there was a big deal
and all that stuff and I just thought to myself like none of that matters anymore you know that's
a whole other thing but you go places that's what they focus on I mean you can go to like
where was it I think was it it's been a long time but I think it was in first or second
Every Christian holiday they'll do like a theme and then you can go and like tour and they do different things
And they just always over focusing on the wrong thing. It's never like the salvation message
It's just all the cool things they can do with it, which is weird
I mean think about it right now with Israel. I mean everything is symbolic, right?
You know the I think I saw an article about I guess the blood is there gonna be a blood moon here pretty soon
Because somebody was talking about it or am I wrong?
If I'm wrong, you can tell me. I haven't seen, I think I, I'm telling you, there's just way too
much information. Maybe it was an old article. But let's go back to Exodus 28. And so we see what?
The priest's garments.
Now, I like this because this doesn't apply necessarily just to the pastor or price applies to all of us, right?
And it says, and now she'll make what holy or separate garments for Aaron, thy brother, for glory and for beauty.
Hey, what's the garment that we wear? We wear the blood of Jesus Christ.
Why do we want people in church? Not because it's going to lead them to heaven. They're already going to heaven if they're saved.
We want them for sanctification.
There's a reason why we clean up our lives.
It's not gonna make us like more saved or less saved,
but it's gonna make us a better instrument for Christ.
You know, I was talking about earlier this morning
about how, look, if you're still around,
you're still useful, then let the Lord use you.
And the way the Lord uses is
he's gotta clean up that garment.
What's that garment?
The flesh, right?
You don't want this garment to be distracted
by all the things of the world.
I was talking a few weeks ago about how I don't I don't even go to the gym because you know, everybody's dressed in the nude
It's getting hard
To just go anywhere this morning. I was like my
What's I think I drove I drove in the morning that that's the first time I drove but I got down at the
at the shipply doughnuts and
I'm just like I should have just had my wife get down
Because there was a young lady dressed in there like it looked like she just got out of bed
I mean actually better yet out of the shower she's put on like she was wearing spandex whatever and like a broad
I'm just thinking to myself. I don't want to be surrounded by that stuff because I want to be I don't want to go to church
Filled with that crap in my mind
Right, I just rather be really honest with you like I'm a guy
I mean my mom thought I was nuts because I never went through the icky girl phase in my life
Like I had girlfriends quote-unquote ever since I was like five years old
I remember like in first grade my mom bought me flowers for my so-called girlfriend and
This girlfriend and that girlfriend
But the challenge is that at some point you got to grow up and be a man and you only have eyes for one girl
Which is your wife, right? And that's what the priest garment is is us being sanctified
Hey, I want to I don't want to place any wicked thing before my eyes and when I do I want to come to the Lord and ask forgiveness for those things
Now, as a man, it's easy for me to up here preach from a man's point of view, but whatever
that is for women, you need to clean that up.
Usually for women, it's more of an emotional thing, it's a gossip thing, it's a comparison
thing, whatever it is, and if I'm wrong, you guys can correct me later, but that's what
I've seen.
You need to do that, right?
The priest's garment is important.
You can't just come to the throne of grace with all this filthiness in your life.
Now the Lord knows you're filthy, but he wants you to clean that up
I'm talking about the the rewards and the recompense of life not salvation
I want to make that clear none of this has to do with salvation. This has to do about just being
sanctified and cleansed in the eyes of God.
The Bible says, cleanse your hands, you know, your sinners, right?
Right there, and you don't have to turn there for the sake of time,
but in Hebrews 4, verse 14, the Bible says,
seeing then that we have a great high priest
that has passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God,
let us what? Hold fast our profession, right?
The high priest is Jesus Christ after the order of Melchizedek.
He gave us the example
In Isaiah 61 verse 10 the Bible says I will greatly rejoice in the Lord
My soul shall be joyful in my God for yet clothed me with the garments of what salvation?
Hey, there's people are like, oh, how do you see I we don't see salvation in the Old Testament
You're just not reading it
He had covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments and
As a bride adorneth herself with their jewels
Hey, I don't know how you got to life, but the ideal for my children, the ideal for anybody should be to get to your life
as clean as possible, right? To your marriage life. The marriage bed is undefiled, the Bible says.
Look, if you didn't get through that way, then just clean it up.
God's not judging you how you got there. God's judging you if you're now aware and continue that way
That's a big difference, right? I mean, I didn't grow up like some of the pastor friends that I have that you know
I grew up south of the Adventists
I'm gonna tell you something about a work salvation. It always makes you sin more
Because you just you just you tend to just give up hope
Cuz you're like man, I tried and I tried and I tried and so then you just get this attitude of if I can't beat them join them
I mean cuz it's the truth. Whereas, you know, it's funny. I sinned less. I'm not sinless. I
paused right I sinned less now that I'm saved
Because I realized hey, I'm a sinner and I just stopped worrying about sinning so much
I just want to focus on the Lord Jesus Christ
Problem that because who's ever heard that you know you tell your young kids or or maybe a young apprentice
You're trying too hard, right? There's an old proverb in like karate and in martial arts
Yeah, I don't know if you ever seen those movies or the old sensei's and they're like you think too much
No, think clear mind. You want it to be like
Subconscious or you go to the military. Why do you go to boot camp in the military?
It's not just conditioning. It's because when you're in the field of battle, you don't have time to think it has to be what?
reactionary responsive right it's the same thing in the Christian life hey
just focus on Jesus Christ and then when sin creeps up you'll be like oh well
there's no temptation you know there's no how is it first is it first credit
is 1013 it is right first let's go to first let me go there real quick because
I'm the worst because I
Memorized scripture and then I get up here, and I get so excited. I butcher it all first cream
I'm almost sure it's first Corinthians 10 13 if it's not you guys can help me find it
There is no temptation taking you but such is his common demand, but God is faithful
Yeah, but God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able
But will with the temptation also make a way to escape it that you may be able to bear it
But what does it say? Wherefore my dearly beloved flee from idolatry?
Right, but you're not going to be aware of that if you're constantly just worrying about sin
You know what happens if you're constantly worrying about not trying to sin you're just kind of constantly going to be sinning
I know it sounds weird, but that's exactly what I want to do is just constantly be in the Word of God
And then when sin creeps up and be like oh, well, I recognize this and then I'll run away
By the way, I'm not claiming any perfection. I mess up plenty, you know, you guys can all me accountable that but
But but being in the Word of God makes it so much easier
Go back to Exodus 29 but in Revelation 19 verse 8 the Bible says and to her was granted
That she should be arrayed and fine linen clean and white for the fine linen is the righteousness of what the saints
You want to have that righteousness
That fine linen. How do you get you get sanctified? You clean up your life, right? What was the purpose of the pre scarment?
is that it had to be clean.
They couldn't, you know, air in the high priest,
couldn't just go in beyond the veil
if he wasn't sanctified.
You know, there was a whole process.
I don't have time to go through all that.
But if you read through the book of Exodus,
even Leviticus, there's a lot that went into it.
Thank God, we don't have to do it like that anymore.
Honestly, that's a lot of work.
They had the perpetual flame,
and they had to sacrifice thousands of goats
and oxen and sheep and turdledoves
and go through all this.
Man, can you imagine?
I don't know that I'd want.
This career is hard enough,
just preaching the word of God
and then having to get up every morning and do all that.
That's crazy.
But in Exodus 29 we want to look at the consecration of the priest right in verse 29
I mean verse 7 of Exodus 29 the Bible says
Then shall thou take the anointing oil and pour it upon his head an anointing
What is that? What is oil represented in the Bible?
The Holy Spirit you want to be
What's a parallel passage that I could think of, and it's not an exact parallel, but I
just think of, you know, Stephen is what?
Full of power and of the Holy Ghost, and he gets martyr for Christ, right?
When you want to show up to church, you want to show up to work, you want to wake up and
show up to your family full of the Holy Ghost, right?
And it's not this like super emotional, crying, I don't know, light in heaven type of thing.
I've never been a fan of that.
And now that I'm a Baptist even less, but it's really more of just that time you spend
with the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
How do you do it?
Hey, you figure it out.
For me, I like preaching because we come to why I like preaching, but I also like that
It's great. I like that I can sanctify that way because I don't know that I personally have that
discipline as just a layman. I'm just going to be real honest with you. You know what I like?
I like that we have a soul-winning time and then I'm forcing me to go soul-winning because then
I'm just getting consecrated when I go soul-winning because I really believe that nine times out of
ten when I'm out soul-winning, I'm in the spirit, I'm not sinning. At least I get a little reprieve
I like when there's an event because I could just be with other people right and I don't know if you've done this
But at least I've gone to events and you'll catch yourself and the guys will catch themselves trying to make a joke
Not necessarily a lewd joke, but maybe a worldly joke
And everybody nobody really says anything, but everybody just brings it back
Because that's why you want to be surrounded with like-minded people because if you go to the world
You make a joke and then the other guys is gonna one-up you and then the other guy's gonna one-up you and pretty soon
You're like whoa this thing got disgusting real quick. I've been in that situation before you're like where did that come from?
Because there's always one guy who's just the most disgusting guy in the room, right?
You don't want to be you don't want to be in that situation. You don't have to turn anywhere stay there and exit is 29
But let's go over just a couple of verses at the tide of this.
In Acts 10, verse 38, the Bible says,
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power
went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil.
For what? For God was with him.
How does God with you when you're anointed with the Holy Ghost?
In 1 John 2, 20, the Bible says,
But ye have an unction from the Holy One and ye know all things.
And we do.
See because it's not saying, you know, this is a biblical application, right? So spiritual
We know we have all the answers to life. We just learned this book. I
Might not know all the answers to physics or math
But I know the answers to life because see I don't care how good of a mathematician you are if you have a crappy life
You're the worst, right? I mean
What's his name?
All the famous like Albert Einstein and Oppenheimer and the guy who invented the
Computer that British guy that was a queer. Hey, they had the answers to a lot of things, but they didn't have the answers to life
Think about all these great artists in the world. I who have killed themselves
in my lifetime
committed suicide
because they didn't have the answers to life. Right? They didn't have the answers to the main thing.
Romans 12 once says, I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present
your bodies a living sacrifice. And I love this verse, holy, acceptable unto God, which is what,
your reasonable service. I always love that one because it gots like, that's just like what's
expected of you. You know, sometimes my kids will come to me and they're like, daddy.
or someone at work will be like, hey, I just did this thing that you asked me to do.
I'm like, great. And you can tell they're waiting for like this big applause. I'm like...
You want me to applaud you for doing what you were like what eggs when you were supposed to do
You know, it'd be like if I got up here every Sunday and be like hey before I start preaching
I'm here preaching for y'all
Can I at least get a round of applause and then after the round of applause be like okay now?
I'm ready to preach it's my reasonable service to just I mean
It's what you guys expect me that I committed this to this life
And then I should at least show up three times a week right like it shouldn't be like this this like all
experiencing a whole pastor showed up to church, man great job or the other way
around right oh you guys showed up to church today let me give you a big round
of applause you should show up to church three times a week because God told you
to show up to church forget what I said you should be in church because God said
so you know church attendance is probably one of the most offensive things to
talk about because people don't like to be told that they need to be in church
I don't really care if you're in church all the time.
I really don't.
I don't check on anybody.
On occasion, like last week, I called Brother Todd because he told me he's actually sick,
so I called to check in on him.
I talked to some of you guys more than others.
I don't call it, if I have, you correct me, but I don't call anybody to be like, hey,
why weren't you at church unless I know that you were sick or something and then I'm checking
in on you.
But you know who is checking on you?
God.
You can make whatever excuse you want for not being in church and you know, it's interesting because it's always been like that ever since I grew up
The Sunday morning crowd is always the best crowd
The Sunday evening crowd is the second best crowd and the Wednesday crowd. That's the worst crowd
Which it should be Sunday evening Sunday morning Wednesday should be the exact same crowd
Could have nothing to do with me. You even if I was the most boring and I'm not saying I'm great
But I'm just saying even if I was the most boring just none
Important just I just couldn't preach anything really good pre-church
You should still be a church three times a week because it has nothing to do with me or with you
It has everything to do with God and obeying God
Let's let's not uh, let's not uh, belabor that point, but basically
It's your reasonable
Service to be holy to be consecrated to present your body's a living sacrifice
What does that mean? It means that you give up the world for Christ
You give up all the one of the things that I've struggled with all my life
Since I don't know my life, but since I got saved right which is I guess I should say all my life as a newborn in Christ is
that I've kind of
Given up on the career paths that I had right. I technically I don't have a career at 46 most people be like what a loser
I'm gonna die anyways, right when I'm reading the Word of God. I'm like, yeah, you're right God. I don't need a career
Well, when I get in the flesh, I'm like, man, I didn't build a career.
I don't have like a big savings account, I don't have a 401k, and I don't know how much
money I've put in.
You know, there's people that know how much they've put into social security.
I don't even know about that.
Like, I just know I pay my taxes and move on, right?
At the end of the life, though, it's not going to matter, but what will matter is what I've
done for Christ, right?
What I've consecrated in my life now for Jesus Christ.
Uh, and the last point is the all term incense, the senses, the basin and the oil.
Let's, let's cover these.
Like I said, this is a very good overview.
Let me just make sure I got all my notes.
We're really, I'm looking at my time.
So I've got a couple of minutes.
We'll close this thing out.
So right here we have the altar of incis in nexus 30 it says and now shall make an altar to burn incis upon
should them would shall out make it and
basically
What is it? It's the prayers ascending to God, right? We were to go to Revelation. We see that we see that in all their scriptures as well
the basin is a
picture of just cleansing before
The Lord Jesus Christ and the anointing oil obviously is the picture of the Holy Ghost, right?
In Psalm 141 verse 2 says let my prayer be set forth before thee as an instance and that lifting up my hands is the evening sacrifice
The Bible says that our prayers are like a sweet odor to the Lord
You know, we need to cleanse ourselves and pray properly.
I've done a whole series on it.
I still have like two or three more sermons to do,
but prayer is a very important thing in life.
Also, it turns out from the sermon last week
that singing is also very important.
Singing proper Psalms and hymns.
Well, the Lord wants to hear from you.
You know, but Mike said something
that resonates with every parent.
Who here thinks that your kids sing like crap?
Your kids.
Nobody when my kid I mean Daniela is two and a half. She's going on three
I love the sound of her voice all day. She has just the cutest voice
Somebody might get annoyed by it. She's mind. I mean her voice just like melts my heart
Now my other two kids too, but you know that baby voice when they're first learning to speak and they speak it all wrong
It's the cutest thing in the world. You guys have a four-month-old just wait till they start googling and gagging and saying mommy and daddy
It's the greatest thing in the world
Right the Lord loves us better than that the Bible says
He loves when we sing to him and we pray to him and we worship him it lights up his life
In Hebrews 10 verse 22, let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith having our heart sprinkled from an evil
Conscience and our bodies washed with pure water and Ephesians 5 verse 18 says and be not drunk with wine where nexus and be filled
What with the spirit?
You know one of the things I'm trying to wean off is all these pain medications
Because I don't want to be drunk with anything so that I can be filled with the spirit
That's why people don't understand Baptist because we just don't want to fill our bodies with any crap
Now I understand there's a there's a time and place for everything and I know the Lord does too
I'm just saying I don't want to get addicted to anything for that purpose. Let's go to the last point and we'll close out and
Here we see we're going to see Ohalya Bezalel and the Sabbath right and nexus 31 verse 2
Says see I have called by name
Bezeleel the son of Yuri the son of Ur the son of the tribe of Judah
And I have filled him with the spirit of God and wisdom and an understanding knowledge in all manner of workmanship
And the reason I wanted to point these guys out is that
Love actually, I guess there's just so many things. I love the Bible. I keep saying that just know I love it all right
But God gives everybody special gifts and number two things that you need to understand number one
The guy the gifts that God gave you are your gifts and stop comparing. I
Used to do that when I was a young man, and you know what I realized is
I'm not the other guy. God gave me specific gifts and I'm way better than anybody else with my gifts because they're my gifts
And the time that I excel in life is when I just focus on my gifts and not what other people are doing
Right. I used to worry even when I first started preaching, you know, you watch other preachers
And maybe you're comparing your preachy style to theirs. I don't really care anymore. This is my style
I don't know how to fix it. This is what it is. That's what the Lord gave me
But I know somebody's listening right if God has me here. It's for a purpose
You have a gift or gifts that God's giving you use them for Christ
Right, that's why we need so many soul winners because the one gift that God gave everybody is the ability to soul win and
So went to specific people that other people might not reach
Like for example, my style is very direct. I like a no frills. No thrills. I rarely build rapport
I don't even try to do it salesy whereas other people are really nice about it
And you know some people respond well to my style and like we get them saved right away
And some people respond better to some other style
You want to make sure that you use those gifts properly, right?
So right here, let's go to 1 Corinthians 12 and then I have two more verses. I'll close it out
But in 1 Corinthians 12 verse 4 the Bible says now there are
Diversities of gifts, but the same spirit and that spirit is capitalized as spirit of the Holy Spirit
And there are differences of administration, but the same Lord and these are the diversities of operation
But it is the same God which worketh in all. Hey, we got to realize we're all members of one body
and one can't function without the other, right?
I love the example of the Bible sometimes
uses very simple examples so we can understand things.
You know, the nose is not the ears, well, duh,
yeah, but you need one and the other.
Like the ears can't breathe like the nose does
and the nose can't hear like the ears do.
What's the same thing in a church?
Some people, I don't downplay anybody
who does anything in the church is important to me.
Or you're the best soul winner, to me, I look at it as long as you're doing it with everything in your might.
God's looking at you and saying, keep it up.
But what we have a tendency to do is show up and be like, oh, the pastor only mentioned so-and-so.
Or people only like these people.
Just show up and do your thing for God. Who cares?
And lastly, even if I mention you or don't mention you, I'm not that great in the eyes of God.
You know who you want to please? God Almighty.
That's the only way I'm if I think you're cool and God doesn't you know what you're losing
But if I think you're a jerk and God thinks you're great, but I'm the one that's missing out. I
Mean, that's just the fact of life
Let's go to the last two verses Ephesians 2 verse 10
My wife says for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus into good works
Which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them
And then the last verse I'll have for you Hebrews 4, 9 through 10 says,
There remaineth therefore a rest of the people of God.
For he that has entered into his rest, he also hath seized from his own works, as God did from his...
Hey, this is why we know that it's not work, because the only way to get rest in life is through Jesus Christ.
Right? We don't keep the Sabbath.
God is our Sabbath. Jesus Christ is our Sabbath, right?
So all of these things that happen in the Old Testament,
confirm me the covenant, the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the tabernacle,
the bronze altar, the court, the priest garment, the consecration of the priest,
the altar of incense, the senses, the basin oil,
The specific people chosen with specific gifts, the worshipping of the Sabbath, all that is is just the symbolism that it all falls on who?
Jesus Christ fulfills all of this.
We don't need any of that.
You know, you don't come to church and it's like this big nice building.
It doesn't look like this.
You know, Pastor Cobb's not running around with it.
You're in the theorem and the 12 tribes of Israel, you know, and then he's handing it down to me.
He takes off his mitre and gives it to me.
We don't need to do any of that.
This is just the symbolism that Christ is the ultimate sacrifice
Our sacrifice needs to be our zeal and love for the Lord Jesus Christ.
It's not even just that we go so in need.
It's not just that we go to church.
It's not just that we raise our families in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
And all of that is like the byproduct of the fact that we just want to serve the Lord with all our might
and our soul and our strength and everything He gave us.
I mean, at the end of the day, the reason I'm here today has nothing to do with you guys showing up.
It has everything to do with Jesus Christ, right?
The reason I preach what I preach this morning is because that's to do with Jesus Christ.
Look, I just want us to serve the Lord to the best of our abilities.
God just, what is the conclusion of the whole matter?
Let me, we'll close out with that one.
Go to Ecclesiastes 12, even though it wasn't in my notes.
It's literally two verses.
But Solomon and all his wisdom got there and he says,
let us hear in verse 13, the conclusion of the whole matter.
Fear God and keep His commandments
for this is the whole duty of man.
For God shall bring every work into judgment
with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
I mean, that's really the purpose of going through the entire Bible
is that we just want to worship God.
Let's close in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father Lord, thank you so much for today. Thank you for your blessings, Lord
Thank you for all those in attendance here today Lord. Thank you that they're faithful in spite of who's behind the pulp
But they're faithful to you Lord and it may be you that takes notice and not me
Because you're the one that matters Lord that we may as a church decrease
So that you can increase and if we have any increase in numbers or in success
That it would just be because we're glorifying you and not because we're patting ourselves on the back
So, Lord, thank you for all the symbolism,
for all the things that we don't have to do anymore.
Thank you that we have a free will to just go out there
and worship you as we see fit according to your will
and the word of God.
It is in Jesus' name that we pray, amen.
Let's turn to our last hymn, 499,
and we'll be dismissed, 499.
When the roll is called up yonder, amen.
That should be like our battle, him for Spring Crest.
We've sung that him more times than I care to think about
in Spring Crest since I've arrived here.
When the roll is called to be under.
["Spring Crest"]
Well, let's call it a roll, show sound,
and time shall be no more.
And the morning breaks eternal, bright, and fair.
Thank you very much.