Making the Tabernacle

Hey, hey, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This is 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 in 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 this morning. 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 for the joy it is to sit at your feet and to worship you. Lord, we pray that your spirit would teach us this morning that we would walk in your ways. In Jesus' name, Amen. Alright, so we are at Genesis chapter 38 beginning at verse 9. Here we go. Then he made the court.
On the south side, the hangings of the court were of fine woven linen, 100 cubits long. There were 20 pillars for them, with 20 bronze sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver. On the north side, the hangings were 100 cubits long, with 20 pillars and their 20 bronze sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver. And on the west side, there were hangings of 50 cubits, with 10 pillars and their 10 sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver.
For the east side, the hangings were 50 cubits. The hangings of one side of the gate were 15 cubits long with their 3 pillars and their 3 sockets. the same and the same for the other side of the court gate. On this side and that were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets.
All the hangings of the court all around were of fine woven linen. The sockets for the pillars were bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver, and the overlay of their capitals was silver, and all the pillars of the court had bands of silver. The screen for the gate of the court was woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine woven linen. The length was twenty cubits, and the height along its width was five cubits. corresponding to the hangings of the court. And there were four pillars with their four sockets of bronze, their hooks were silver, and the overlay of their capitals and their bands was silver. All the pegs of the tabernacle and the court all around were bronze.
Well, we need to ask ourselves, A. What's this about? B. What's the best verse to summarize this? And C. What do we call it to do in response to this? So, A. What's this about?
Well, this is about the court of the tabernacle. We've already gone through Bezalel making all the inner things in the Holy of Holies. and of the holy place, and now it's working its way out, right? There's the center of the tabernacle, where we normally think of the tabernacle, but there was a large courtyard around, and now it's the courtyard, all the different, essentially, walls of the courtyard. So that's what this is about. Bezalel and Aholiab, they're actually making the sockets and the pillars and the woven linen.
They're tying it all together. and they're actually making the courtyard. Well, what's the best verse to summarize this? Well, I think it's going to be then, verse nine, then he made the court of the south side. And you can underline each time, he made something, he made something, he made something. What's this calling us to though? What's the covenant truth? How does this point us to Christ? Why is this in the Bible is the question. Well, just because God commands something doesn't mean his people always do it.
God is the one who gave this pattern to Moses, and it's the people now who have donated the things for it, and now it's actually being made. It hasn't been used yet. The priests haven't been consecrated. We'll get to that in Leviticus. But for right now, this is this moment of obedience. He's given Bezalel the wisdom to make these things. He's teaching people how to do this. He's overseeing all this work. And now the courtyard itself, things are starting to come together. It's almost ready.
It's meant to bring us more and more to this is made, and this is made, and this is made, and this is made, and we're excited for when God is going to come and worship and the tabernacle is actually going to start. Why is this in the Bible? I think this is pointing us to the blessing it is for God's people to obey Him. This is a place where He's going to dwell with His people. He's the Covenant King, He's the Sovereign God, He's the Redeemer, He's the one who loves them, He's the one who's going to care for them and be in their midst. And it's being made His dwelling place amongst Israel in the center of the camps.
Now the courtyard is built. But we don't have a tabernacle now. We don't have a Holy of Holies. We don't have an Ark of the Covenant. We don't have a table of showbread. We don't have any of this. Why? Because God is making a living temple now of people. Living stones built one upon the other with the apostles of the foundation and Jesus as the cornerstone.
And Jesus, our High Priest, doesn't minister. He doesn't walk through a tabernacle of curtains. He doesn't walk through the gates past the bronze altar and the laver. No, He's entered into the Holy of Holies in heaven and He has sat down there on the mercy seat. And He ministers for you.
Because where our obedience is sparse at best, Jesus's obedience was perfect in His entire earthly ministry and has fulfilled all these promises. They were pointing us to Jesus. And so we look to Him. We don't need a temple, we don't need a tabernacle anymore for we don't cling to the signs because we know in heaven our Redeemer, our King, lives.
And He has sent His Spirit to be in our hearts that we might be in His midst. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for the work of your indwelling Holy Spirit. Lord, we pray that we would obey, that we would worship you in spirit and truth, that we would indeed be the people who would worship the Lamb who was slain. Father, please, let us love you and follow after you. In Jesus's name, amen. May the Lord bless you. May you walk in the joy and peace that comes from Jesus Christ, the shepherd of your soul and the redeemer of God's elect. I'll see you next time. Bye.
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