Exodus 30:22–33

hey hey good morning good morning welcome to coffee and devotions that's where every day you and I we get together we have a little bit of coffee we get into God's word and we grow and our love for the Lord together and this year 2023 Lord willing we'll make it from Genesis through Leviticus so glad to be with you today why don't we have some coffee we'll pray and we'll get into God's word let's pray father we thank you so much that you have been a gracious God to us Lord we thank you that you have cared for us and watched over us Lord we pray that you would please help us today as we read your word that we would understand it that you would work in our hearts in Jesus name amen all right so why don't we go ahead and jump into God's word today we're at Exodus chapter 30. I'll grab my spectacles there grab my bubble and here we go Exodus chapter 30 beginning at verse 22. moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying also take for yourself quality spices 500 shekels of liquid myrrh half as much sweet smelling cinnamon 250 shekels 250 shekels of sweet smelling cane 500 shekels of Casia or cassia according to the shekel of the sanctuary and a hen of olive oil and you shall make from thee so I gotta flip the pager and you shall make from these anointing oil and ointment compounded according to the art of a of the perfumer it shall be a holy anointing oil with it you shall anoint the Tabernacle of meeting and the Ark of the testimony the table and its utensils the lamp stand and its utensils and the altar of incense the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the Laver and its base you shall consecrate them that they may be most holy whatever touches them must be holy and you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them that they may minister to me as priests and as and you shall speak to the children of Israel saying this shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your Generations it shall not be poured on man's flesh nor shall you make any other like it according to its composition it is Holy and it shall be holy to you whatever whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people well we need to ask ourselves hey what's this about B what's the best verse to summarize this and see what are we called to do right so what is this about well this is this anointing oil that God is prescribing it's the Lord he's speaking to Moses and he's given him all these instructions for the Tabernacle none of it's actually built yet priests don't have their garments they aren't consecrated yet this is the blueprint for everything that's supposed to happen and the standard operating procedures by which everything is supposed to be carried out and so here we have okay there's got to be an there's got to be an oil that's going to be anointing everything and it's it's a lot of oil I mean a hint of oil it's about a gallon's worth of this stuff right and and there's all sorts of people who argue back and forth about what all these things are and how they're to be made right some people will say is this more of a a concentrate that then they would add more oil to to make it more people debate about this Casia versus the cinnamon and you know true cinnamon is stuff that comes from Europe or sorry from Asia places like Malaysia today um it's pretty rare but the Casio would be more like what people actually sell the cinnamon today is what one commentator says right Myrrh is this uh resin that would come from Arabia it's not in Canaan but places like uh Africa and Arabia so all these different ingredients the point is is that this is this is not meant to be you identify it explicitly with these things while it is important right but the point of that is what this is getting at is those costly ingredients for this perfuming could only be afforded by royalty and temples and so this was meant to be God's palace and God's palace was so small the way God wanted his Palace to smell right this was this was a luxurious thing and it was meant to be that when the people would walk by the Tabernacle right it was it was a sense I think it's smell the anointing oil on the high priest I could smell the the sacrifice I think it's they could go into the courtyard and they would be able to to know that this was the Lord's presence they were entering into that the things in this weren't common but they were set apart that they were holy and so anything that was set apart had this oil put on it other people weren't supposed to touch right because it was set apart for God's use not an ordinary use right there's there's a difference between the altar and there's and their barbecues outside their own tents right so this is this is God's Royal home this is God's Abode with his people and it's supposed to be different there's this elevation of who God is as their redeemer as their King as their lord and so they are to anoint all these different things to set them apart is Holy and then the last thing we're going to actually see this in the first part of Leviticus I think it's chapter eight where the high priests themselves are actually Anointed with oil these things actually come true and if you'd like sometime go look up Psalm 133 and and right this is a beautiful Psalm about and you can even sing this right uh we sing it quite regularly actually it's this last Psalm we sing every time we have a presbyterian meeting you know uh behold of how very good it is a pleasant thing to see when Brothers live to dwell as one in unity right it's like the precious oil poured upon Aaron's head pouring down upon his beard and on His Garment spread right it's this this picture of God's God's sanctifying God's consecrating God's setting something apart as holy and so what's the best verse to summarize this one in my Bible you know I have the very end of this underlined uh I have well I have a bunch underlined never mind 29 30 and 32 I have underlined I'm always cheating I got like three things underlying but maybe you would underline something else let me know what is this calling you to do it is Jesus Christ who is the anointed one of God it is Jesus who was anointed not with this would you remember what happened to Jesus when he was with Mary and she took that alabaster jar filled with with nard and she poured it out upon his head and they're mad because this is expensive and he says you guys don't know what she's doing she's anointing me for my death Jesus being set apart for a holy use he was going to be that perfect sacrifice he was going to be the high priest to offer himself up upon that cross of calvary and he is now marked each and every one of us with an anointing out of a precious nard but with his own spirit poured out upon us at our lives might be lived as a Living Sacrifice and so we come to Jesus even here and we see the one who is Anointed with a costly anointment not to be treated as common right but when we come to the Lord Jesus Christ we come to him as one who is Holy one who is highly exalted one who is our Lord one we can follow and know that when we are in his presence we are in the very presence of God let's go ahead and pray father we pray that we would look to you more and more trusting in you for your great salvation Lord we thank you for giving us our high priest we thank you that these each and every one of these things is just a shadow a type of picture of what is true in heaven and a better Tabernacle and so Lord we pray now that you to please let us look to you and trust in you in Jesus name amen well may you have joy today may you have peace knowing that God is with you and may you walk with confidence knowing that he watches over every step you take and counts every hair on your head he's your Shepherd have rest today I'll see you next time bye [Music] thanks for listening to this week's message from God's word for you a Ministry of Sharon RP Church in rural Southeast Iowa we pray that the message would be used by God to transform your faith in your life this week if you'd like to get more information about us feel free to go to the website Sharon rpc.org we'd love to invite you to worship with us our worship time is 10 a.m every Sunday at 25204 160th Avenue Morning Sun Iowa 52640 may God richly bless you this week foreign [Music]