Day 41

V From the Exodus to the Crossing into Canaan - 1462-1422 B.C. ~ cont.

(1462 - 982 480 years of 1 Kings 6:1)

B. Time spent at Sinai (sometimes called Horeb) ~ cont.

8. Tabernacle built

a. Materials given by people - Exodus 35:4-29; 36:1-7
b. Tabernacle items
Ark - Exodus 37:1-9
Table of Shewbread - Exodus 37:10-16
Golden Candlestick - Exodus 37:17-24
Curtains of Linen - Exodus 36:8-13
Curtains of Goats Hair - Exodus 36:14-18
Covering of Rams' Skins - Exodus 36:19
Boards and Sockets - Exodus 36:20-30
Outside Bar - Exodus 36:31-32
Middle Bar - Exodus 36:33
Overlay of God - Exodus 36:34
Inner Vail - Exodus 36:35-36
Outer Vail - Exodus 36:37-38
Brazen Altar - Exodus 38:1-6

{pages 179-183}

For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.  (Exodus 36:7)

My note on the verse?  Is there an overabundance in the house of the Lord now?

K&D:  “And there was enough (דַּיָּם their sufficiency, i.e., the requisite supply for the different things to be made) of the property for every work to make it, and over” (lit., and to leave some over). By this liberal contribution of freewill gifts, for the work commanded by the Lord, the people proved their willingness to uphold their covenant relationship with Jehovah their God.

I like the encouragement "willingness to uphold their covenant relationship."  We have a better covenant.

Heb 8:6  But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

Heb 8:7  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

Heb 8:8  For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 

Heb 8:9  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 

Heb 8:10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Heb 8:11  And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

Heb 8:12  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 

Heb 8:13  In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. 

I was going to grab only the part about a better covenant, however, I found all of it encouraging.  I especially needed to hear:  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and iniquities I will remember no more.

Back to the abundance of giving thought:

2Co 9:7  Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Convicted in how I am not willing to give ALL to Him.  Wanting to hold back parts, pieces, thoughts, rather than laying it all before Him.  Allowing Him to do what HE will with the vessel that HE has redeemed for HIS own.

1Co 6:20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.