Exodus – God’s Way Out!
Hebrews – God’s Way Out for us!

When we are disobedient to God, sometimes we have to go back to what we knew about God and revisit what He asked us to be and do before we can move forward again. This is what is happening in the last chapters of Exodus.


Exodus 35-40 – Passage snippets…
Chapter 35:
Moses spoke to the entire congregation of Israel, saying, “These are the things that God has commanded you to do:
2-3 “Work six days, but the seventh day will be a holy rest day, God’s holy rest day.
5-9 “Gather from among you an offering for God. Receive on God’s behalf what everyone is willing to give as an offering…
10-19 “Come—all of you who have skills—come and make everything that God has commanded…

27-29 Every man and woman in Israel whose heart moved them freely to bring something for the work that God through Moses had commanded them to make, brought it, a voluntary offering for God.
30-35 “See, God has selected Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. He’s filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability, and know-how for making all sorts of things, to design and work in gold, silver, and bronze; to carve stones and set them; to carve wood, working in every kind of skilled craft.
And he’s also made him a teacher, he and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. He’s gifted them with the know-how needed for carving, designing, weaving, and embroidering in blue, purple, and scarlet fabrics, and in fine linen. They can make anything and design anything.”

32 “The People of Israel did what God had commanded Moses. They did it all.”
42-43 The Israelites completed all the work, just as God had commanded. Moses saw that they had done all the work and done it exactly as God had commanded. Moses blessed them.
Chapter 40 Relationship between God and His people is restored

34-35 The Cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the Glory of God filled The Dwelling. Moses couldn’t enter the Tent of Meeting because the Cloud was upon it, and the Glory of God filled The Dwelling.
36-38 Whenever the Cloud lifted from The Dwelling, the People of Israel set out on their travels, but if the Cloud did not lift, they wouldn’t set out until it did lift. The Cloud of God was over The Dwelling during the day and the fire was in it at night, visible to all the Israelites in all their travels.
THINK ABOUT IT

God also promises to be always be with us who believe and love him back. He will love us no matter what we’ve done or who we are. His love never changes for His created. But for God to go with us and be with us, we must be obedient to Him and learn to walk in His ways. God will never walk away from us. But sometimes we walk away from His Presence. The farther we walk away from the Light, the farther we go into Darkness.


HERE’S THE PROOF…
Hebrews 10, Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All


“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings
you were not pleased.
7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—
I have come to do your will, my God.’
8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
16 “This is the covenant I will make with them
after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.”

17 Then he adds:
“Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more.”
18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.”
A Call to Persevere in Faith

23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Jesus did all that God commanded Him to do while He was on earth. Jesus was sent, from God, to seek and to save the lost. And Jesus did. His last words on earth, from the cross of final sacrifice for all our sins were, “It is finished”. Done. Complete. The relationship between God and mankind restored once more, once and for all, forevermore. Our part is to believe that He did.

Oh Lord,
Thank you. Thank you for completing the work, the sacrifice, the healing, the teaching, all from a place of profound, relentless love for us. I’m overwhelmed just thinking about how much and how deeply you love us. I know you are with us. Help us to love like you love.
In Jesus Name, Amen