Exodus 38:9–20
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a time when men believe worship is something you invent in your garage. We think we can approach God on our own terms, with our own set of blueprints. But the book of Exodus, and particularly these latter chapters, stands as a massive, bronze-pillared rebuke to all such sentimental foolishness. God is not looking for creative suggestions from the focus group. And He does this, not because He is a cosmic micromanager with a flair for interior design, but because every cubit, every metal, every fabric is screaming the gospel. The instructions for the Tabernacle, first given and now executed, are a detailed lexicon for the language of redemption. If you do not learn this vocabulary, you will be liturgically illiterate. You will not understand how God separates the holy from the common, how He deals with sin, and how a sinner can possibly approach a holy God and live.