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Dr. Manny Arango
Hey, Bible nerds. This is Dr. Manny Arango, and I'm your host for the Bible department podcast powered by Arma. This podcast follows a Bible reading plan we created to help you read the entire Bible in a year. You can head to the show notes or thebibledepartment.com to download our reading plan.
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No more empty churches. So let's partner with Church Candy and get our churches full. The glory of Jesus. Let's go. We're in Exodus, chapter 35, 38. Only got a couple chapters today. Chapter 35, 36, 37, 38. If you haven't done the reading, you want to go ahead and do the reading. Pause the recording, pause the video, pause the audio and go do the reading for today. Solid reading. Now, if you've done the reading, then you're going to immediately notice that this is really, really, really repetitive. Okay, You've heard all this stuff before. Okay, before the golden calf incident, Moses is going to receive instructions on how to build the tabernacle. And if you're not carefully listening, then you could think that this is the exact same thing, but it's not. This is actually them building the tabernacle. The only issue is that to prove that they build it, they. That they built it correctly, it's a literally verbatim copy and paste from the instructions. So the instructions are just. And God said to Moses, build it this cubit by this cubit and this curtain by this curtain, and blah, blah. And then when you get to this part of the book, it's going to be. And so the Israelites built it this cubit by this cubit and this curtain by this curtain. And it's going to be copy and paste. But the manifestation or the building of it as opposed to the instructions around the building of it. So it's gonna seem really, really repetitive. And a lot of people check out during this part of Exodus. Once you get To Exodus chapter 36, I believe we're just gonna start getting. Yep, Exodus, chapter 36, it's. It's just copy and paste from earlier in the book, like in the 20s. So let's kind of give some. Let's kind of like, help us orient ourselves in what's going on, like always. I'm gonna give you a context clue, gonna give you a nerdy nugget, gonna give you a timeless truth, and I hope it's gonna add value. Here's our context clue. We're gonna get a lot of instructions around the building of the tabernacle. And just so that you get this, it may not be apparent from reading, we're gonna have an outer court, an inner court, and a. Now, the reason that the structure of this tabernacle is important is because you and I are made in the image of God. Now, remember before we talked about atonement, so we talked about at one mint. Now, this tabernacle has three parts. An outer court, an inner court, and a holy of holies. Although it has three parts, it's a cohesive whole. It is one. It's a unified whole. It's three, but it's one. God is also three and one. The triune being, He's a trinitarian being. And if it weren't for the Trinity, we wouldn't have love. Okay? The Bible says God is love, and if there weren't three members of the Trinity, he couldn't be love. The reason that he is love is because the Father loves the Son, the Son loves the Spirit, the Spirit loves the Father, the Spirit loves the Son, so on and so on and so forth. But there's never disagreement in the Trinity. It's a cohesive whole. It's a picture of three and one. Three distinct parts, but complete shalom. Wholeness. Okay? God says, let us make man in our image, which means you and I are also triune beings. In the same way that God is Father, Son, Holy Spirit. In the same way that the tabernacle is outer court, inner court, holy of holies, you, my friend, me, we are made three in one outer court. It's everything you can see. That's my race. That's my ethnicity. That's my height or lack thereof. That's my hair color, hair texture, eye color. That's my gender. Well, we can make an argument that is that my gender is. Also goes deeper than just my outward appearance. But that's a conversation for another time. So we got an outer court, and we got a lot of Christians who will say things like, my outward appearance doesn't matter. I just want God judges my heart. Man looks at the outward appearance. And I would say, you may want to open up Exodus and read the description of this tabernacle because it seems like the outward appearance of the temple is really important. And I don't know if we're being biblically accurate to say that I can be sloppy and dress however I want and not care for the outer temple and still think that I'm doing a good job as being a priest over this temple. There are times where young adults will ask me about being single and being married, and I'll tell them, well, marriage is a choice. And a lot of times in the Christian space, we emphasize gaining favor with God. There's so many things that you could do to gain favor with God, but marriage isn't about gaining favor with God. Marriage is about gaining favor with another human being. And human beings care about how you smell, how you look, and you should care about those things. Your outer court matters. Okay? No one in the ancient world would say, it's just the holy of holies that matters. Absolutely not. That would be crazy there. The holy of holies is not the only part of the tabernacle that needs attention. The outer court has to have blue ribbon, has to have crimson yarn, has like. There's certain things about the outer court that God is specific about because its appearance matters. So we are. We have out of court, inner court. I would say this is your soul. It's the soul of a person, the seat of your emotions, your affections, your thoughts, your personality, your will. It's your soul. It's your inner court. Okay, out of court, inner court, then. You're holy of holies. That's your spirit. It's the thing that makes you you. It's your you ness. It's your uniqueness. It's the part of you that God has known forever in the part of you that is gonna be eternally safe in the arms of God forever. Okay? It's your spirit. In the same way that the Trinity is never in disagreement with each other, the goal of atonement, or one mint, is that the three parts of you are never in disagreement. I remember when I was believing God for children spiritually, I believed I was a father. I believe there was a mantle of fatherhood. All my life, everybody around me got dad vibes from me all the time. Kids in the youth group called me dad. Everybody around me. I was in my late 20s. Everybody referred to me as Dad. I was a spiritual father. And I went, you know what? I refuse to live an incongruent life. Doctors are saying that we're infertile, we're never going to get pregnant. But I believe that there's something true in the spirit. Therefore, if it's true in the spirit, it needs to be true in my soul. If it's true in my soul, if it's true in my mind and my emotions, then it needs to be true in my body. So I remember commanding my body to stop being in rebellion against my spirit and my soul. And so I believe for healing. Healing is wholeness. Healing is shalom. Healing is atonement. And so when we look at the tabernacle, we shouldn't just see arbitrary instructions for building some tent out in the wilderness. No, we should actually see a blueprint. A blueprint that shows us something about God, that he's three in one. But then a blueprint that reveals something about us, that we're made in the image of this God. And if this God is three in one, we're also three in one. And if he operates in wholeness, shalom at 1 m, then we should operate in wholeness shalom and at 1 mitt. I never want to be playing tug of war on the inside of me where my mind thinks one thing, but my feelings feel another way. And my body wants to do one thing and my mind wants to do another thing. No, the goal of the human experience is for all of me to be in alignment with God's will, God's word, God's way, God's wisdom.
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Dr. Manny Arango
Bible department family, it's Dr. Manny Arango.
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And first thing I want to say.
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Is that I'm proud of you for completing the New Testament. You did it. And now that we're in the Old Testament, I hope that looking at Genesis and Exodus from an ancient perspective and worldview has kind of like, opened your eyes. Well, I got news for You. If you've enjoyed some of the interpretations.
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That I've brought to the table from.
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Dr. Manny Arango
Genesis, then that's just the tip of the iceberg. This entire book, Crushing Chaos, was written from an ancient hermeneutic. I'm looking at stories like the Flood, Adam and Eve from the perspective of an ancient person. And we've got an event coming up on April 26th where I'll take a lot of the content from this book and I'll turn that content in a live lectures. You don't want to miss it. You can actually register for that event right now. The link is in the description and more than content. I think what you'll find as we gather together in Nashville are like minded believers and friends and a community of people that you don't just watch content with online that you can get to know and in person. I'd love to see you in Nashville. I'd love to hug you, high five you, and I'd love to nerd out together for one day as we come together in Nashville to learn about how to crush chaos. I'll see you in Nashville.
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Peace. So that's our context clue. Like, hey, we got a lot of instructions about the tabernacle, but let's not get lost. Let's, let's not lose sight of what's actually going on. Let's like root this tabernacle that none of us have ever seen or, or interacted with into our everyday life experience. All right. Nerdy nugget. Exodus chapter 35, verse 30 to 35. I'll read it to you. Exodus chapter 35. Starting in verse 30, it says this. So Moses said to the Israelites, See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Ur, of the tribe of Judah. He has filled him with divine spirit. Divine spirit. There's a nerdy nugget coming soon. With skill, intelligence, knowledge in every kind of craft, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver and bronze, in cutting stones for setting and in carving wood. This is what the spirit of God has anointed this man to do. To be a designer, to be an artist, to work in gold, silver and bronze, in cutting stones for settings and in carving wood, in every kind of craft. And he has inspired him to teach both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. He has filled them with skill to do every kind of work done by an artisan or by a designer or by an embroiderer, in blue, purple and crimson yarns and in fine linen or by a weaver, by any sort of artisan or skilled designer. That's such a great description from a man, Bezalel, in Oholiab. Here's my nerdy nugget. These are the first people in the Bible to be described as being filled with God's spirit. Every other person in the Bible prior to the New Testament has the Spirit descend on them. Keyword on, but not in them. This is the first time that we get the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit. And who's the Holy Spirit dwelling within an artisan? 2. Artisans, craftsmen, designers, artists. If you're a church creative, then can I tell you that God's spirit lives on the inside of you so that you could be creative, artistic. Don't just recycle ideas. If you were on staff at another church, now you're on staff at a new church. Don't just take the ideas you got from the last church and try to recycle them at this church. Whoa, that's lazy. God has filled you with his spirit so you can be creative so that you can build God's house. Literally. These men are not just. They're. They're jewelers. They know how to cut gold, silver, and bronze and cutting stones for setting, carving wood. They're builders, they're jewelers, they're designers, they're architects. These guys are amazing. They want to build God's house. They want to build God's tent out in the middle of the desert. And so if you identify as a creative, just know that God filled with his spirit, these men to devise artistic designs to work in gold. Okay, now here's the interesting thing. This is another connection to the Genesis account of creation, because Proverbs chapter 8 is going to tell us that God brought forth wisdom as one of the first of his works, that he brought forth wisdom and then used wisdom to bring the cosmos into existence, to shape the cosmos. Well, what are they filled with? They're filled with the divine spirit with skill, intelligence, and knowledge in every kind of craft. That's wisdom. Remember, the snake in the garden was crafty. He was wise. Jesus says, be wise as serpents, but innocent as doves. The serpent is crafty. And these guys have knowledge and intelligence in every kind of craft. That's a great way of describing wisdom. These guys are wise. And why do we get an allusion to wisdom? Well, because Exodus wants to make it really, really clear that the same God that was on the move bringing order to chaos, the same God that was doing that in the Original creation account is the same God who is doing that. Now that the tabernacle represents a space where we get back to Eden, where we get back to the original design that God has for humanity. All right, so these artists are the first people to be described in the Bible as having be having been filled with the Holy Spirit. This links this construction project of the tabernacle links this all the way back with Genesis chapter 1 and 2, because it sounds a lot like Proverbs 8. In Proverbs 8 is meditating on the creation. Let's get to my timeless truth. Exodus, chapter 36, verse 4 to 7. Exodus chapter 36, verse 4 to 7 says this so that all the artisans who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came each from his task being performed and said to Moses, the people are bringing much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do. So Moses gave a command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp. No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary. Is how excited they are to give to the. To. To give to God. So the people were restrained from bringing, for what they had already brought was more than enough to do all the work. My prayer is that God would unlock that kind of generosity in his church, in your life. In my life. That I would want to go above and beyond. That I wouldn't live my life thinking, God, can you bless me? Can you bless me? But I would live my life wanting to go above and beyond in terms of generosity in moving the kingdom forward with provision. Kingdom provision. That I would know the vision that God has laid out as a plan here on Earth and that I would magnetically attract resources so that we could push that vision forward. The people were so generous that Moses has to stop them from giving. No, no, no, no. We're done. We got everything we need, man. I want to be so generous that one day a pastor calls me and says, we can't do anything else. We. We. We have more than enough. We. We can't. Any more blessing from you guys. We can't handle any more. Our storehouses are overflowing. Like, we can't handle any more blessing from Manny Ranga Ministries. We can't handle any more blessings from Arma. We just can't handle it. I want to be that kind of person. I want to be the kind of person who doesn't say to myself, I think I gave enough, right? It was enough, right? No, I don't want to live from a place of enough. I want to live From a place of more than enough. I want to live in abundance. Okay, I gave you a context clue. Outer court, inner court, Holy of holies. You can wrap your mind around the remaining furnishings for the tabernacle. Tomorrow's our last day in Exodus and we're going to wrap up some of these creation motifs. I gave you a nerdy nugget. A key passage of scripture is this. These verses where God's spirit is 100% filling somebody and we are not in the New Testament when this happens. Bezalel and Oholiab and then Matamus. Truth is that you would be over the top kind of generous, brimming with generosity. The generosity would bubble over that. You wouldn't just be the kind of person who tithes and says, I check. I checked that box. I did a good job. No, but you'd be the kind of person who's sensitive to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. That you would live open handedly with everything that you have and that you would care about building wealth so that you can sow into the building of God's house. Because that's what they were doing in Exodus. They were building God a house. Hey, if you're on a streak, don't break it. I'm so proud of you. If you're not on a streak, what are you doing? What's stopping you? Hey, you've already done the reading for today. You've listened to this episode. How about you just dig in with tomorrow? Get on a streak. All right, so I will see you here tomorrow for day 107 as we close out the book of Exodus. I'm so proud of you. I love you.
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Dr. Manny Arango
Thanks so much for joining us on the Bible Department podcast. You can find us online and learn more about the show@thebibledepartment.com and on Instagram at the Bible Department. If you enjoyed this episode and want to dive deeper into the Bible, you can get free access to our library of courses@thebibledepartment.com we'll see you back here tomorrow.