Autumn Sermon Series: Learning from the Tabernacle & Doing Church God's Way

“You must make it according to all that I show you—the pattern of the tabernacle as well as the pattern of all its furnishings.” Ex 25:9 HCSB 

The Tabernacle and its furniture
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I'm excited as I start to think and pray about our new Sunday morning sermon series, starting in September, about the Tabernacle.

Have you ever tried to read through Bible, from cover to cover? Have you ever given up? If so, my guess is that you gave up half way through Exodus. From Genesis 1 to Exodus 20, there is one continuous, fascinating story. Then in Exodus 21 to 24 are some obscure laws, then in chapters 25 to 31 are endless technical details about how to build a large tent called the Tabernacle. This is not exciting reading! Chapters 32 to 34 are a little more interesting, but then chapters 35 to 40 describe how the Israelites built the Tabernacle, and most of the boring details of chapters 25 to 31 are repeated! Why would God do this? Probably, to make it as clear as possible to us that the Tabernacle is very, very important to Him.

We will start the series with an overview of the Tabernacle, demonstrating how it is a three dimensional representation of the Gospel. Then we will look in detail at all the parts of the Tabernacle and use them to understand how they continue to represent God's priorities for us as a church today.

God still wants to dwell among His people, but He wants to do it on His terms. Please start praying for this series and let's continue to build our church according to the pattern God has given us.

Sermon Titles

1. The Tabernacle: A 3D map of the Gospel:  Ex. 25-40
2. Building The Church God’s Way: Ex. 25:9. The Lampstand: God Gives Light To Sinners. Ex. 25:31-40, 27:20-21.
3. God at the centre: The Ark: God Reigns Over Sinners. Ex. 25:10-22.
4. God separate from sinners. The veil. Ex. 26:31-37
5. Getting the Gospel right. The Altar: God Saves Sinners. 27:1-8.
6. The Holy Spirit. The anointing oil. Ex. 30:22-38.
7. Sanctification: The Laver: God Cleanses Sinners. Ex. 30:17-21.
8. Invitingly different: The curtain and the court: Ex 27:9-19.
Getting worship right: The golden calf. Ex 32:1-29.
9. Prayer: The Incense: God Hears Sinners. Ex. 30:1-10. Ex. 32:30-33:6
10. Focus on Jesus. Ex: 33:7-34:7, 34:29-35.
11. Fellowship together: The Table of Presence and the Showbread. Ex. 25:23-30 and the golden frames and crossbars Ex. 26:15-30.
12. God’s mighty promise to us, and ours to Him and one another. Ex: 34:
13. Giving and building together: The ransom fee, Ex. 30:11-17,  Bezalel and Hur. The giving of the people and the building of the Tabernacle. Ex. 31:1-11, 35:4-40:38.