Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule:
Exodus 25-28
In his book Faith, Hope, and Hilarity, Dick Van Dyke told about a Sunday school teacher who asked her students to talk about how they felt about their church. The students responded in the usual ways: some said something silly to get the rest of the class to laugh, while others tried to be more serious. One of the girls was new to the class, and she felt uncomfortable about entering into class discussions, so she never raised her hand or volunteered an answer. That Sunday, however, she did have an answer for her Sunday school teacher, and it was unforgettable. She said that going to church was “like walking into the heart of God.”
We are about to walk into the heart of God by walking into a study of the tabernacle. The super seniors recently were able to tour a model of the tabernacle in Pennsylvania. I was really impressed with the tour guide and her clear presentation of the gospel. In Exodus 25-31, we are going to examine a blueprint for the tabernacle just as God gave it to Moses on Mount Sinai. We then will watch the actual building of this masterpiece in chapters 35-40. This tabernacle was an actual building for not only the meeting of God with His people but also where the priest would offer sacrifices for the sins of the people to bring about a complete fellowship with God.
In the first fifteen chapters of Exodus, we enjoyed God’s leading of Moses and the people of Israel out from captivity in Egypt. The next nine chapters reveal God’s sovereignty in His leading of this group of wanderers through the wilderness and right up to the borders of the land they had only dreamed about to that point. Now we are going to learn about the tabernacle where God was to make His holy habitation and speak to man. A study of the tabernacle is vital for the maturity of the Bible student because fifty chapters in Scripture are devoted to a discussion of the tabernacle. The most significant fact of the Tabernacle is that truth, that fellowship with God required a life to be taken and blood that needed to be shed. I am so thankful my Savior was willing to give His life and shed His blood so that I can have fellowship with Him today. What a privilege to be able to walk into the heart of God at any moment through the reality of my salvation.
Prayer Requests:
Personal
- Lord, please help me to demonstrate gratitude for the amazing price that you paid for my salvation.
- Lord, please help me to enjoy the fellowship that is possible because of my salvation.
- Lord, please help me to revel in the privilege to enter into the very heart of God.
Political
- Representative Cara Clemente – District 014 – Lincoln Park.
- Representative Triston Colen – District 105 – Mancelona
- Representative Kevin Coleman – District 016 – Wayne