Hey everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. What's up folks? It is a special edition since we're recording on Saturday after Pastor Rod has just Poured out his heart and soul exposing the scriptures to our men this morning at our men's Bible study I am presently without heart or soul right now. It is gone for that very reason. Yeah. No, it was great though, man I thought it was really helpful and and Apropos certainly evergreen topic talking about irreproachability. Mm hmm. Thank you. Appreciate that. Yeah, it was good. It was good Our men responded. Well, nobody got up and stormed out which was I was worried about a couple people did walk out though There wasn't a storm, but they did walk Yeah, I think they were getting more coffee from the Chick fil A. I assume the worst. I assume they were offended and upset. And even though Stephen came back, I still took it, took it to heart. You should have. You should have. Yeah. I'm going to put, I'm going to put Angelo on blast a little bit here because our ladies, they got breakfast burritos from, yeah, from Valerie's and granted they had to go through it to get them because they, the order got messed up and they had to make them day of. Oh no. Oh no. I'm just saying that the bar has been set by our ladies. They got breakfast burritos. We do Chick fil A only because it's what we've always done. Maybe we need to start thinking outside the Chick fil A box and start picking new things. They're really easy to work with though. So I don't blame us for using them. They're just order it, pick it up. And remember they used to deliver it to us at one point when we were, you know, the big fish in the pond. They did. Yeah. Not so much anymore. You know, I was watching Lewis Azuma was at men's Bible study this morning. Good job, Lewis. And yeah, at one point I looked over and I was watching him and he was like, he was like a mouse over his chicken sandwich as he was eating it. It was very intentional, but he was eating this sandwich. And then I remember that he worked for Chick fil A duration. Yeah, he's a former Chick fil a employee. That he is. It was like watching Tiger Woods putt is what it was like. It was like just this like he's this is his his element here. He's eating that which he worked to support. The heavenly manna. Yeah. Anyways, I like Chick fil a. Not a bad breakfast. They're great. It's not bad. It could be a lot worse. But does Valerie's have the coffee and the fruit platter? No, so we would have to Supplement I didn't get any fruit today. I yeah, I didn't even actually see the option I think I went after probably the fruit had been dispatched Well the way that guys were serving the fruit was in a cup They had just a cup thrown in the and they were scooping it up with the cup and makes perfect sense Makes perfect sense. Yeah, one of the guys was like this. I gotta wear at men's bible study because this is what we have That's right. Get the spoons out of here. It wasn't a big gulp or anything though So no, at least it was a smallish cup. Yeah. Well, hey, let's jump into our text exodus 30 31 32 we are still in instructions being given for the construction of the tabernacle. More instructions for the tabernacle, for the worship of the people, instructions for the altar of incense the bronze basin, the anointing oil are all given within this chapter. So the altar of incense is what it sounds like. It was much smaller than the burnt. Offering altar. This is going to be the place where the incense was offered as a as a soothing aroma to the lord And so that is going to be created that is going to be built and made for the tabernacle The bronze basin would have been for ceremonial cleansing washing And so that would have held a large amount of water for the priests in their purification processes and then you had The anointing oil and this is interesting we get Pretty detailed instructions at some point here on what the anointing oil was to consist of and who was allowed to use it and what it was supposed to go on, what it wasn't supposed to go on. But this was not just like your, your canola oil that they were pulling down. There was a recipe for this anointing oil here. Not to be duplicated either not to be duplicated or imitated or no imitations accepted Yeah, what I find interesting about this chapter and some of the chapters that we've covered actually is that it struck me anew that Every part of this worship was multi sensory In other words, God, wasn't just communicating to them through one sense. It wasn't just music. It wasn't just what they felt on their skin. There was smell and taste even because of the priests eating the food the whole human person was engaged in the act of worship. And I think that's really interesting because it tells me that worship is meant to be something that takes all of our senses and directs it toward God. Now you can't do that as much today, but we still have some of that communion. We taste and touch and smell. Something that's meant to reflect the sacrifice of Christ. And so here we see God interacting with us in a very condescending way. Not in a negative sense, obviously, but in a positive sense. God is communicating with us by saying, when you worship me, you're bringing your whole person to me and you're giving all of that to me. And it's telling us something about who he is. I think that's a really cool thought that kind of gave me a fresh appreciation for our worship. Yeah Another interesting thing here that I didn't know previously is is the atonement tax The the tax that they were to pay as a reminder that God had it had caused God to deliver them They purchased it that hey, I have redeemed you you're paying me back. Yeah, and that that was an interesting Note there that they were to pay that every time that they came for for worship and regardless of who they were rich or poor It was all the same number same amount Cause that soul costs the same to redeem. Yeah. Yeah. Just a reminder here as we read through these things, God takes his holiness seriously and thus the holiness of those who will serve him. Aaron and his sons are to be consecrated. That means to be set apart as holy that they may serve me as priests. We talked about this and, and even this morning, just in, in men's Bible state, you're talking about us as men being living lives of blessing. that consecration, that life, that life of holiness before the Lord, because we don't want to drag the name of Christ through the mud. You brought up the, the articles that have been written over all the pastors that have fallen in our area recently and how Christ takes the hit every time that a guy falls like that and goes through that. So just a reminder, man, God takes holiness seriously in our holiness, seriously as representatives of his. And so it's important. And we see that even through these specific details of the worship of the, the Israelites during the wilderness. So God spoke to Israel through these means. This was the worship that was communicated to them and how he expected them to worship him. Very precise. There's a lot of room for interpretation, I think. So we talked about the fact that there's precision in what he asks for. And yet there's there's some, there's an element of artistic design. A holy ab and bezel. I'll get to choose, you know, putting all this stuff together. Does God have a different expectation in our worship today? Here, super precise. This is how you worship me. This is when you worship me, morning and evening. I want this kind of smell. I want this kind of approach. Has God changed his mind or has he changed his approach with New Testament worship? In a sense, Yes, in the form, but no, in the, the concept he still desires to be worshiped in a way that honors him in a way that is, is reverential in a way that is not overly casual or flippant, but there's more freedom in what that entails. I mean, you look at the book of acts and what they were doing with the early churches, they were gathering together, breaking bread in each other's homes. They're gathering for the teaching of the word. We draw a lot of the principles out of that. There's a, an. Early, early, early church document called the didache which is informative for how we do church today, because it was, it's one of the earliest forms that we know of. And it's right within a stone's throw of, of when the epistles are being written. And it gives us a glimpse into how church was being done at that time. And that's kind of a, a thought. Foundation and format for why we do things the way we do things. So it's different. We don't have anointing oil. You go to someone, the higher churches, the more liturgical churches. So yeah, they're going to have more of that. And it's rooted back here in the old Testament. It's rooted to practices like this. But do we have anything in the new Testament that specifically commands that to continue? We don't. But the, the heart behind it should be there. Absolutely. And probably that's, I think what's most helpful here is the heart that God wants us to have when we approach him to worship is serious and thoughtful and calculated, not calculated in a, in a negative sense, as though we're, we're, we're tracking every single. Moment of it, but in the sense that we're giving God intentional and thoughtful worship That's instructive for us And even though our worship does look different If we could take our understanding of who God is revealed in these chapters in his worship We should be able to Bring him more. I don't know now. I mean today is sunday, right? Yeah, today's sunday. It is that that should influence the way that we approach god in worship on a regular sunday morning. Yeah Yes, it should yeah chapter 31 you mentioned these two guys But we've got these two men who are identified to lead the efforts in constructing the tabernacle Bezalel and oholia and god even says of bezalel specifically I think it applies to oholia, but it's directly said of bezalel that he filled him with his spirit Which is we're talking about the spirit this morning in church. In fact that recently was Chatting with somebody who said man i've heard more about the holy spirit In the last handful of weeks going through the Gospel of John that I've heard in a long time in the church, which I find while encouraging. And we're going to be talking about this morning, but I stumbled across it in the Nicaean creed. I mean, the, the Nicaean creed again, 83, 25, not scripture, but informative, just like the dedication written in very close proximity to the founding of the early church. The Nicaean creed says the Holy Spirit, that being God, he is to be worshiped and glorified as God. And I think that's, that's the balance that we have to figure out here as the spirit Equips the church and his roles to glorify Jesus. We're going to look at that this morning in John 16 that he says, Jesus says he will glorify me. That's what the spirit's job is, but he's still God. And so we need to recognize that and revere him and reverence him and worship him and glorify him as God because he is God. And how we do that is, is unique. And I was encouraged reading this because he's doing here what he does for us in the new Testament. It's, it's different. But it's still in inhabiting. It's in dwelling Bezalel, not in a salvific sense, but it's, he's being filled and empowered and equipped to be able to use the gifts that he probably had naturally to be able to use those for the service of God and in service of him. And so we see that here with Bezalel. That's a, That's a cool scene that we see with the spirit being involved in equipping and empowering them to serve the Lord. It's a big question, but I think it's worth asking, how would you identify the major differences between the Holy Spirit's role in activity under the old covenant versus his role in activity under the new? Yeah, I would say a good word in the old old covenant is the word empowering. When you see the Holy Spirit rush upon King David or rush upon King Saul, It was empowering. It was equipping for a task at hand, whether it be a war, which it often was, or a leadership moment, which it often was, but it was not a ceiling. So we've, we talked about that last week is one of the things that the Holy spirit does for us as new Testament believers, the Holy spirit does for us. Seals us as a guarantee of our future inheritance. That was not the old covenant methodology of the spirit That's why david prays in psalm 51 Take not your spirit from me. That's that's not something a new testament would christian would pray Because that's not on the table if you're in christ You've been sealed with the promise to holy spirit as a guarantee of your future inheritance So we're not going to pray with king david take not your spirit from me because that's not even a possibility But the holy spirit was not an indwelling a permanent indwelling presence in the old testament the way he is with the church in the New testament That's encouraging and comforting that once we're given the spirit under the new covenant He doesn't depart right once he's truly taking residence in someone's life It is a permanent residence and here's a question that i've talked about with others before. What do you think about this? Does the spirit reside in and with us after we die? That's That's a brain twister In our glorified state do we need the spirit's presence the way that we need the spirit Beer's presence with us right now. That's the question. And yeah, even today, so John 16 today, we're talking about the spirit's role in guiding us into all truth. That word guide means to take us deeper into knowledge. It's not to guide us or lead us from point A to point B. It's lead you deeper is to help you understand it better is, is his role. Illumination is the doctrine that we talk about the spirit's role in. We need that now because even as Jesus is saying in John 16, he's not here with us. I'm going away, but I'm leaving you the spirit and the spirit is going to do all of these things in eternity. We are going to be with him and he's going to be with us and we're going to be in his presence. Will we need the spirit? In that capacity, we're going to need the spirit. What's the spirit's capacity in eternity? I don't know, man. That's fascinating to consider. My sense is that he, he will stay with us. That's my guess. And I think part of it is the privilege of having him with us. I think that's, what's going to make heaven heaven is that we will perfectly enjoy his presence and that his presence will be with us continually. And I wonder, I don't have any evidence for this outside of my intuition. If it is his presence within us, his glorifying work, that is the reason we can be confident we won't sin in heaven because we are glorified and we understand that in some mild way. We think, okay, we are now brand new, but I think it's probably my guess, the work of the spirit, the power of the spirit staying with us for the rest of eternity that guarantees we'll never sin even in heaven. Yeah. Interesting. Which would cause us to glorify him for our sinlessness. Because we're aware of that. Yeah. Yeah. I get it. I get it. Chapter 32. This one, the golden calf, you're probably familiar with this. If you've read the old Testament before, this is a low point, the lowest of low at this point the Israelites, Moses has been up on the mountain and they're frustrated. They're like, where is he? Let's do something. Aaron, make us gods to go before us. That's 32 verse one there. And Aaron just folds. Aaron is, is just a shmarmy guy in this whole interaction. Cause not only does he do this and does he fashion it and does he say, here's your gods, but then when he's confronted on it later, he says, well, you know, they came to me and said, Moses is gone and I just threw it in and out came this calf. And he just, he doesn't even take responsibility for his part in this. He doesn't repent. I mean, this is not a godly grief that he feels over this. God tells Moses while he's on the mountain, Hey, you need to go back down because they've turned aside verse eight out of the way that quickly out of the way that I commanded them. And we've talked about that man. Israel talks a big game. We'll obey everything that you command us to do, God. But even before Mount Moses is down the mountain there again, they're, they're, they're going after these foreign gods and of gods of their own creation here. And this is the first time that we get God saying, Hey, Moses, step back because I'm going to blow them up and start over with. And Moses intercedes. And this is why Moses is a type of Christ because God's wrath is averted by Moses's intercession on behalf of the people of Israel. And Jesus is the greater Moses in the sense that he's going to fully avert God's wrath against us because we're guilty. And God's wrath, as Ephesians two says, burns against us. We are by nature, children of wrath. And Christ is the one that averts the wrath of God by absorbing the wrath of God on our behalf. And that's why he's Better than Moses. Moses is not the one that's going to suffer for the people, but Jesus is going to do that. But here is the first time that happens. It's not going to be the only time, unfortunately, that that happens, but his appeal is God. Remember your promises. Don't let the nation's glory over the fact that you will have appeared to have failed. If you destroy the people and it says that God relents. I think God is teaching Moses more than God's changing his own mind here. That's my take on on the relentless for sure. Yeah. Yeah. And I think it's worth highlighting since we just covered it recently with the men It was Moses desire for God's glory That he appealed to him saying please don't do this because it's your glory on on display here Right. We want to protect your reputation and your honor. So please don't do this I think that's really insightful and helpful as we think about praying for others We're interceding for them where we should do it with the same intentionality that moses does and with the same purpose We want to see god glorified and glorified That's why God, we're praying these certain things. Yeah. I think it's important to note two things. Number one, chapter 32 of Exodus is a big one. It's worth remembering in your mind. Where does the golden calf incident take place? Exodus 32. We're going to come back and we're going to see this theme pulled out in different places, but something worth noting. Secondly, is that the Levites really take center stage here in a very good way. And this is why later on, we're going to read the book of Leviticus. And it's going to be for the Levites because their work is now given to them based on this incident. They rise to the surface because they stand with Moses and now God's going to reward that faithfulness by saying, okay I'm going to remove the requirement for the firstborn to be set apart from my purposes And instead i'm just going to take the tribe of Levi Because they they do good here and they honor the lord. They're passionate for his glory as is Moses Who of course is from the tribe of Levi? And so this is all around a good thing for them anyway, not for everybody, because they're also called upon to do some of the dirty work that needs to be done. Yeah. 3000 people dead as a result of this. Yeah. This is not just, Hey, I'm going to grind this up and make you drink some gold dust water. People die as a result of this sin and we should feel the weight of that. Eternity is at stake here. A lot of times we don't think of eternity too much in the old Testament because it's not, the concept does not develop much in the old Testament, but there's eternal souls that are dying and going away from the presence of God as far as his goodness and his mercy and his kindness and his, and they're going to Be cut off from the people. I mean, that's, that's that cutoff terminology there. I think this is more than just a, the, the punishment of physical death. It may have just simply been that, that they're, they're dying and then still going to go and be part of God's eternity with him. But who knows all that to say there's severe consequences here for their, their actions. Yep. Let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, keep us from such presumptuous sins from the pride of saying we're good. And look at us and we're going to boast and say, God, we'll do everything that you command us to do. And yet how quickly can our hearts go astray, protect us from that. God, we pray help us to be men and women of integrity here at our church. We desire that we long for that. We want your name to be glorified through everything that we do. And we want nothing that we do to bring shame upon the name of Jesus. And so we ask that you give us that favor to be successful in that pursuit. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Keep reading your bible student again tomorrow for another edition of the daily bible podcast. We'll see you then folks. Bye