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Exodus chapter 30 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 30, let us pray. Our Father who's in heaven, we
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  thank you God for another day to come and worship you in spirit
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  and truth. We thank you God, for the
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  ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ covering us.
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  God, from the top of our head to the bottom of our feet.
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  Lord, we run into the throne room to the most holiest of holy
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  places. God, we dine and we Sup with
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  you. You are our King.
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  You are our Lord. You are everything.
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  You're the highest and the loftiest.
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  God, you are seated above all of creation.
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  We set our minds upon you. We set our eyes upon you.
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  We set our intellect and our emotions and our will upon you.
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  God and God alone, we thank you for conviction.
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  We thank you, God, that you don't leave us out there.
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  We thank you that you welcome us, Father.
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  We thank you, Lord, that you come just like the Good
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  Shepherd, Lord, you leave the 99 board to come and to find us.
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  We thank you for giving us a reason to live to know you
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  Father, to seek you Lord to find out all of your unsearchable
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  ways. Lord, you are the hidden
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  treasure chest in the field. God, we sell everything for you.
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  God open up the windows of heaven and fling out blessings.
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  God shower us with your presence.
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  It's in King Jesus is holy and precious and powerful name that
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  I pray men. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  And they shall make an altar to burn incense upon of Acacia
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  wood. You shall make it.
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  So here you need to know that God's about to give some more
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  measurements. He's about to give some more
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  requirements and he's going to be able to identify those who
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  can build this Tabernacle of meeting exactly to the exact
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  specifications that he's going to outline here in this chapter.
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  2A cubit shall be the length of it, and a cubit the breadth of
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  it. 4 squares shall it be, and two cubits shall be the height
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  of it, and the horns shall be of the same.
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  So this was 18 inches by 18 inches by three feet tall,
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  friends. Three.
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  And you shall overlay it with pure gold, and top thereof the
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  size thereof, and round them out in the horns of it.
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  And you shall make unto it a crown of gold round and about.
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  So this was Speaking of the royalty of this gold and this
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  crown for and two golden rings shall you make to it under the
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  crown of it by the two corners of it, by the two sides, and it
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  shall make it, and they shall be places for the Staffs to bear it
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  with all. So here it was not to be treated
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  as an unholy thing. They were to have reverence for
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  this article that was going to go right outside of the holiest
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  of holy places. Five And you shall make the
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  Staffs of Acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 6 And
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  you shall put it before the veil, that is by the ark of the
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  testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony,
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  where I will meet with you. So God's Shekinah, glory,
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  manifest presence is going to come down into the most holiest
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  of holy places. And we know that Jesus, when he
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  died on the cross, a criminal's death, the veil ripped from top
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  to bottom to allow us access into this place. 7 And Aaron
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  shall burn their own sweet incense every morning when he
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  dresses the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
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  It's all pointing towards Calvary.
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  And they were to learn all of these ways to respect and to
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  have reverence and to actually understand the price of Jesus's
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  sacrifice. Nine, you shall offer no strange
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  incense there on, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offerings,
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  neither shall you pour drink offerings on it.
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  So this was just a place to burn the incense, but there was to be
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  no strange fire to be put upon it.
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  And it was only the prescribed incense that God is going to
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  outline here in this chapter. 10 And Aaron shall make an
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  atonement upon the horns of it once in a year, with the blood
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  of the sin offerings of atonements.
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  Once in a year shall he make atonement upon it throughout
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  your generations. It is most holy unto the Lord.
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  So only the high priest was to put the blood on it, to make it
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  at one with God. 11 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, 12
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  When you take the sum of the children of Israel after their
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  number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul
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  unto the Lord. When you number them there, that
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  there be no plague among them when you number them.
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  So we see here that God is going to get together the appropriate
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  amount of funds to be able to keep this thing going, and He's
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  going to make it an equal playing field.
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  No one gets left out, No one has to give more or less.
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  It is a flat amount for every single male 20 years and over 13
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  And they shall give everyone that passes among them that are
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  numbered half a shekel. After the shekel of the
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  sanctuary. A shekel is 20 gerhas and half a
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  shekel shall be the offering of the Lord. 14 Everyone that
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  passes among them that are numbered from 20 years old and
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  above shall give an offering unto the Lord.
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  So this was roughly a an amount that they were to come and give
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  a flat amount. And in our currency it would be
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  about $15 friends. And so no matter if you were
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  super wealthy, it was still the same.
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  But if you were very poor, it was still the same.
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  Anyone who was 20 years and over was to give this amount. 14
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  Everyone that passes among them that are numbered from 20 years
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  old and above shall give an offering to the Lord. 15 The
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  rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less
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  than half the shekel, when they give an offering unto the Lord
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  to make an atonement for your souls.
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  So this was for them to understand that in God's eyes
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  they are all on an equal playing field.
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  No one is greater and no one is lesser in the eyes of God.
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  We need to understand that every single man, woman and child is
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  made in the image of God. We need to understand,
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  regardless of creed, nationality, regardless of
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  tongue, we are His masterpiece. 16 And you shall take the
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  atonement money of the children of Israel, and shall appoint it
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  for the service of the Tabernacle of the congregation.
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  And it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before
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  the Lord to make an atonement for your souls.
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  So God wants to make them at one with him, and how he does it is
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  He gets them to come before him, and to acknowledge that they
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  belong unto Him. 17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 18 And
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  you shall also make a lava of breasts of brass, and his foot
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  also of brass, to wash outside, and you shall put it between the
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  Tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and you shall put
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  water in it. So we need to understand that
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  the cleansed are those who worship, and we have been
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  cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ and the water that gushed
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  out of his side, friends. And now we can come unto God and
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  to worship him in spirit and truth. 19 For Aaron and his Son
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  shall wash their hands and their feet there at 20 And when they
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  go into the Tabernacle of the congregation, they shall not
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  wash with water that they die not, they shall wash with water
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  that they die not. And when they come near to the
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  altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the
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  Lord. So here we need to understand
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  that they had to be cleansed in order to go in and to worship.
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  And we know that when Jesus walked this earth, that we see
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  Mary Bethany come and wash His feet with her tears, friends.
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  We see her anoint Him with the alabaster jar, and we see that
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  this is all synonymous. And God wants us to be cleansed
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  by the washing of the water of the Word over our minds, and to
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  be renewed friends, and to be restored unto Him. 21 So they
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  shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not, and
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  they shall be a statue forever, even to him, and to his Son's
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  seed throughout their generations. 22 Moreover the
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  Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, 23 Take you also unto you a
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  principal spices of pure mirror 500 shekels, and sweet cinnamon
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  half so much even 250 shekels, and of sweet calamus 250
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  shekels. 24 And of cash of 500 shekels.
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  And after the shekel of the sanctuary in an and of oil of
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  olive a hen. 25 And you shall make it oil of holy ointment,
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  anointment compound after the art of apothecary, it shall be a
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  holy anointing oil. So we can see that not only did
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  the cleansed come to worship God, but also the anointed.
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  And we see that any time in Scripture that this oil is
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  referenced, it is synonymous with the outpouring of the Holy
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  Spirit upon us. 26 And you shall anoint the Tabernacle of the
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  congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony. 27 and the
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  table, and all his vessels, and the Candlestick, and his
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  vessels, and the altar of incense, 28 and the altar of
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  burnt offerings, with all his vessels, and the lava, and his
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  foot. 29 And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most
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  holy. Whatsoever touches them shall be
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  holy. So anything that the Holy Spirit
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  comes and touches is anointed, and it is holy unto God. 30 And
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  you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that
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  they may minister unto me in the priest's office. 31 And you
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  shall speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a
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  holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations. 32
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  Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall you make
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  any other like it after the composition of it.
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  It is holy, and it shall be holy unto you. 33 Whosoever compounds
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  any like it, and whosoever puts any of it upon a stranger, shall
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  be cut off from his people. So God took this recipe very
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  seriously. He told them the exact
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  measurements of how they were to put this fragrance and this
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  incense together. And it was not to be used for
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  profane things. It was to be revered as holy
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  unto God and pleasing in the nostrils of a holy God. 34 And
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  the Lord said to Moses, Take unto you sweet spices, stack
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  anca galbum, these sweet spices, pure frankincense.
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  Each shall be of a like weight. 35 and you shall make a perfume,
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  a confection after the art of apothecary, tempered together,
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  pure and holy. Can you see the spikenard being
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  poured out on Jesus as he goes to the cross, smelling of it and
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  being anointed? And God here in this chapter
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  wanted the Israelites to know that He took it very seriously,
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  and they were not to just do it haphazardly.
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  It was pure, and it was holy unto God. 36 And you shall beat
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  some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in
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  the Tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet
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  with you, and it shall be unto you most holy.
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  So this was a reminder unto the Israelites of their prayers
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  going up as a sweet aroma unto God.
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  And we know that the prayers of the Saints are what please God,
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  as He smells them. Friends, do not withhold your
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  prayer life from God. God will increase all of the
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  tribulation your life in order to get more prayers out of you.
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  Friends, do it when the chips are high and everything is good.
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  Do not wait for the tragedy to come. 37 And As for the perfume
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  which you shall make, you shall not make it to yourselves
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  according to the composition of it.
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  It shall be unto you, holy for the Lord we'll end on. 38
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  Whosoever shall make like unto that to smell thereto shall even
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  be cut off from his people. So here God is telling them that
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  this recipe of perfume, this recipe of incense was to only be
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  used in the worship and in the consecration of His people as a
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  holy and pleasing aroma unto God.
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  What an amazing God we serve that even hijacks our senses and
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  cares about how things smell. You know, He didn't have to make
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  the world the way that He did. You know that He chose to give
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  us our senses so that we can experience Him in all facets of
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  all things, through intellect and through reason, through
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  science of discovering things. He gave us all of the senses to
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  be able to touch and to see and to smell Him and His creation
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  and all of creation proclaims His name.
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  So that man is without excuse. You're not going to be able to
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  get to God one day and say, I did not know because He gave you
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  enough all around you to discover that there is a Creator
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  and we are His creation and we get out of our own way and we
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  give Him all honor and due praise.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.