In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding the tenor of God's words rather than just the literal meaning. He highlights the commandment of not cooking a kid in its mother's milk as an example of the sentiment behind God's instructions. The speaker then discusses Moses' realization of the greatness of the God he was dealing with and his 40-day encounter with God. The sermon concludes with a call to the audience to give their all to God and to pray for the resources they need to fulfill His will.

I suppose it's in England too, but I don't know, I know it's here in Scotland. So the school teacher had told them that they'd been certainly right, and your children are listening to what's going to happen to them, that they are to teach four faiths now, they're not to teach the Christian faith, only as one among four. They're to teach Buddhism, they're to teach Islam, they are to teach Humanism, and they are to teach Christianity. And they are not to say that Christianity is the only truth. Now that's going to happen here in Scotland. It's about time you Scots got up and did some crusading, like the Crusaders did before. New Covenanters ought to be rising. You ought to invade all the powers that be. You have a perfect right to. They are going to preach lies to your children. Listen to what God says. You are to break down everything, smash it. That's what he said. You're not to have anything to do with it. Do you have snare for you? Yes you do. Thou shalt worship, verse 14, no other God, for the Lord whose name is Jealous is a jealous God. Dost thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods? And one calls thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice, and thou takest of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go whoring after their gods. Thou shalt make thee no molten God. Hmm. I'm jealous, he said. Now, you're only jealous over people that you love, aren't you? This was one of the things that got into Moses. He realized how God loved these people. He was absolutely jealous for them. I'm a jealous God, he said. Yeah. I want you. I want all of you. I want you all together. I love you. Oh. If you spend time with God, this is the thing you will discover. His amazing love. God wants everything. That is true love. He wants everything. Doesn't he? Listen. Then he goes on and says this. We're going to see it now, and we'll come back at the end of the chapter. The Feast of Unleavened Bread. Now, you know when that happened. That was when, at the Passover, when the blood of the Lamb was shed. Thou shalt keep it. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the month Abed. For in the month Abed thou camest out of Egypt. What does he mean by that? Well, listen to what Paul says. That Jesus Christ has redeemed us from the corruption that is in the world through love. You've read that in Galatians chapter 1. That's right. Well, that's what leaven in bread, in their bread, stood for. The corruption of Egypt, or the world. That's right. He said, now you'll get the corruption of the world out of you. The second thing he says is this. All that opens the matrix is mine. And every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male, but the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem of the land. And if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy son shalt thou redeem, and none shall appear before me empty. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest. Here in time and in harvest thou shalt rest. And thou shalt observe the feast of wheat, and the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of engaring at the year's end. You might be thinking, what's all that about? We'll come back to it in a minute. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. That is the three times that he's spoken of in the preceding verse. Firstfruits, wheat harvest, the feast of wheat, firstfruits of the harvest, and the feast of engaring. They had three sort of harvest festival services. It was very wonderful. Three times in the year all your men children shall appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. I'll cast out the nations before thee, enlarge thy borders, neither shall any man desire thy land, and I shall go up to appear before the Lord thy God Christ in the year. And so he goes on. Three times in the year. And did you see this in the end of verse 20? None of them were to go up before God, these three times in the year, empty. They were to go up full. In other words, God was going to bless them in the land, and they were to go up full to God. But he said, listen, you're only to work six days a week. I don't want you to break the Sabbath. You'll still come up to me full. I'll increase you. I'll bless you. I want you all to come to me. This is how he loved them. This is why he said, now all the openness of the matrix is mine. All the firstborns, I want you to know that I love you. I want you to know that I've claimed you. This is why he was thinking, how can I fasten on to this people the truth that I love them and that I want them. He says, well, give me the first thing that's ever born, cow or sheep or goat or whatever it is. Give it to me, the firstborn male. Give it to me. I want you to know that you're mine, mine, mine. All that you are, all that you have, let me have the first, the best. I'll increase. I'll see that nobody takes anything from you. You'll lose nothing. But keep this all in rest now. Don't get this leaven of the world working in you. That's what he's saying. You're mine, you're mine. Your children are redeemed. Everything's mine. I love you. I want you to come up to me. Of course, we know there's no central place now to go. There's no, nothing like that. We don't have to make pilgrimages to Mecca or go to Jerusalem or anything like that. We go up to the Lord. Lord, yes, there you are. Wonderful. Three times in the year. Every four months. And then, this. Verse 27. The Lord says to Moses, write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words, I've made a covenant with thee and with Israel. Ah, isn't it? But look what he said just before that. The end of verse 26. Thou shalt not seize a kid in his mother's milk. Well, bless the Lord. Because you've been blessed, haven't you? There's this little baby kid being born. He loves it. You can say, well, that's a sentimental type. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I like a little bit of sentiment, don't you? No? You're a stranger to me. I like a little bit of sentiment. I don't like over-sensitization. No. But, he said, don't go there. And old Moses, and you'll see in a moment why I'm going this way, because it's written in Scripture. Moses realized what a God he was dealing with. Yes. He realized it. And he was up there with God forty days, and forty nights, and this is what God said. Now listen. Do you get what I'm saying? Can you hear me? It isn't just the words I'm saying, it's the tenor of the words. You know what we mean by tenor, though I have a tenor voice, and I could just sing to you and sing to you, and you might not understand a word I was singing, especially if I was singing in Hebrew, which I can't, by the way. I can just about manage to sing in English. You can hear the voice. What is it that's coming through to me by all these commandments, Lord? What is it? It's this. I want you. I want you to see that your national life is run on these lines. Oh, I want a nation that's mine, mine, mine. That's what he's saying. Say, what's in your heart? Can you hear the tenor? Of it all? Oh, how harsh mere words can be. Can bash people over the head with the words, words, words. But do you get the sound of it? Do you get the limp? He says, don't go after these other gods. Don't make covenants with these other things. Don't do this. Don't do that. Keep in rest. Come to me at least three times a year because you will know that's what will happen when they got in the Promised Land. They had a small holding or a large farm tens and tens and tens of miles away and there wasn't any LLF plane and there were no cars and there was nothing like that. They couldn't pop into church every Sunday morning like that. Three times a year, he said. And when they came, they never had to come empty. They would bring their offerings and their sacrifices and their gifts to the Lord. He said, now look, I don't like to sort of part with you for four months but will you come three times in the year to me? So Moses was thinking to himself, oh Lord, I've had 40 days with you. I've had 40 days before this. Hallelujah. And his heart was rejoicing. He'd heard God's heart. Some people only hear words. What do you hear? Glory. Now I don't know whether he came dancing down that mountain. I think he thought, I've got to be a bit careful. I broke the last two. I guess he came down that mountain cutting these tables of God's requirement for his nation, for his heart. And when he got down there and he called them, they stared at him and ran away. His face was glowing. That's what made him glow. That's what made him shine. He'd come heart to heart with God. He'd seen the glory. He knew the truth. Do you? Oh. Moses. It's Moses. But, his face was glowing with him with glory. Everything in him had been naturalized in God. Everything in him had responded out of the glory being in his presence. That's when we look upon one another's faces we see where we've been. With whom do you keep company? Oh, when the glory comes to you. It transmutes you. It may not be to the same degree in which Moses was there because he literally spent forty days up there with God. And certainly not to the degree in which Jesus was transfigured. But I do say this to you. You can have a transforming, transfiguring relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. If you will. Present yourself. I hear old Paul saying the same thing. I don't know whether you do. Paul, you will remember that he said this. You are to present your bodies. That's what he said. And he said in that same 12th chapter of Romans please read it tonight sometime. And he said present your bodies a living sacrifice unto the Lord. And he said this too. You will be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So if there's no transformation you know people haven't presented themselves. If they're still really the same old thing just gone religious a bit you know they've never, ever presented themselves to God. And Moses wished not that the skin of his face sure, he didn't know it. Isn't it wonderful that it's good to be transformed and not know it. But other people know it. And it's so wonderful. Now, he'd gotten used to it. And that's what happens. You can get really used to it. Glory be to God. Old Moses got used to it. And every time he went into God he went in bare faced. When he went out to people had to put it on again. He got used to it now. Hallelujah. Fail off. Face to face with Christ my Savior. Glory. Amen. Now listen. Whenever you go into God don't you start putting a veil on. You know, the prayers. All the nice prayers you repeat. Don't you try that. The nice bedside poem books you read. Don't you try that with God. When you go into God you go naked. Bare faced. To prove you're not a bare faced liar. That you're in absolute reality with the Lord. We all need to practice this a bit, you know. Not literally. I mean, we don't all want to come in with veils all over our faces. When we talk to one another. But sometimes it's everybody listening to me. You have to veil the inner glory for the sake of others. Oh, Paul said that. He said, we're beside ourselves. To God. If we're sober it's just because of you. Paul knew what it was. To keep the glory in. So he wasn't always bawling, Amen, Hallelujah, Praise God and all the people outside that didn't understand the bit we were talking about. Oh, this man's gone cranky. You're lost by that, you see. He veiled it. He veiled it. He wasn't afraid of anybody. Except this. He was afraid of stumbling them because of their ignorance. And they didn't know. Couldn't be expected to know. And he'd come with a big heart like Moses. He wanted everybody to come in. Come in to the glory of God. I'm going to stop. Not because I've finished. Tomorrow night's our last night. I don't know the world we're going to sort of wind up on, Moses. I don't really know. Perhaps we'll in any successive Wednesday night when I'm home, I took note of what was said on Sunday night about letting the Tuesday night meeting be a prayer meeting. All right. And on successive Wednesday night perhaps we'll continue. Might take us the rest of the year. I'm only home a few Wednesdays either. Somewhere between here and the year end. Something like that. But I hope that you have entered in into this tremendous thing that God wants to do. Now, if you're not there and your heart really pines to be there, listen. Make sure before you get to bed tonight that you know your name in the book. That's your entitlement to all that I've said. Amen. And more than I've been able to say. All right? Let's pray then. Glorious Lord O Lord O Lord we're so grateful to Thee for this marvelous thing that Thou hast revealed in the book. And Lord more and more O win people's hearts Lord. Win them we pray. The world is so strong has so many attractions. If necessary Lord, carry us away from our Egypt into some psionic place and talk to us all. Better get us to Thy Calvary. Blessed Lord Jesus. Until we can see the glory of God in Thy face. Dear Lord Jesus who died to be our Saviour let us live now to be our sanctifier unto God. Move upon us Lord. Everyone. Everyone Lord. That we should get the truth and the tenor of Thy words. And get the meaning and longing of Thy heart. For we're not saved by words. But by Thy loving heart Thy grace through the redeeming blood of Jesus. Thank you Father. Thank you for loving us. Amen Lord. Amen Lord. You know there's something more wonderful than knowing that God loves you. And that's knowing how He loves you. Perhaps you might like to see the second verse next time. It's wonderful to know that He does. When you know how He does that's marvelous. Perhaps you might add why too as a third verse. Do you know why He loves you? That's glorious isn't it? Well um I'm sorry that we've come to the end of our series. For my own heart has been blessed as we've been going through the life of Moses. God asked me for a title for the series. She thought it was a bit sort of banal say, the life of Moses. So we sort of knocked our heads together without too many hollow noises coming out. I think we've come up with the idea Moses the God man. And I told her she better put the reference for it than if people think it's rankest heresy. That's only because they don't read their Bibles. Mind you that's how all heresies do come. Because God plainly said to Moses I will make you a God the Pharaoh. And that was a very very marvelous thing. All right it's a tremendous thing to realize that this man Moses was the mediator of a very very wonderful covenant. Known to us of course now as the old covenant. But when it was made it was the new covenant that God made with people then. And it was very very wonderful indeed. And how that Moses was given the opportunity indeed he was raised up to be the leader in the bringing forth of the greatest overall type to the Lord Jesus that there is in the whole Bible. And that is the tabernacle. Now our study is not the tabernacle. That might take us another twelve months on top of what we've already been doing and shall not reach the end of it tonight. But the tabernacle itself as you know was the great reason ultimately why God called Moses up the mountain. We always think he was called up the mountain to receive the ten commandments. And perhaps that's about as far as our knowledge and our thinking goes. But far and away beyond that he was called up the mountain to see a pattern. God showed him on the mountain in the fire and in the glory the pattern of the tabernacle that he was to build for him. And the ten commandments were given not just to be the kingdom law of the children of Israel but to be placed in the heart of the king. That is the ark which represented more specifically the person of the Lord Jesus. And the two tablets of stone were ultimately put there in the heart of the ark. That was wonderful. And the ark as it is the tabernacle as it is revealed unto us in its completeness piece by piece. And then it's raising up and all the glorious system of worship and of teaching and of the blood offerings and the bodily sacrifices and the great atonement and redemption and everything that was brought into being based on that tabernacle speaks to us in the completest way possible of the Lord Jesus Christ. I hope that you know this. For instance, let's just look at it this way. Turn back with me in Exodus chapter 19 and you will discover the chapter opens like this. In the third month when the children of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai and in verse 3 Moses went up unto God. Okay, that's the third month. In chapter 40 it says this. Verse 17 It came to pass in the first month in the second year on the first day of the month that the tabernacle was built up and there you have the normal gestation period of a baby. All right? That the tabernacle was, as it were, born. And so you get this marvelous revelation of God that it was produced. I know that they were at noon a month but here is the great and glorious truth you know that all babies don't keep the timetable properly. Some come under some go over time. At least I'm told. And so here we have it. The production, the bringing into the world of the tabernacle. It was a marvelous thing that God did. And you know Moses was charged with this. He was charged with it to go back into the 19th chapter or if you like on through chapter 20 21, 22 and 23 and 24 and when you get to chapter 25 the Lord speaks unto Moses and he says Speak unto the children of Israel that they bring thee an offering of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart you shall take my offering then he goes down through the verses specifying what he wants and it says in verse 8 and let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them you know he's a dear God indeed he wanted to come down and live among his people. That was it. And Moses you may remember was up in the mount forty days and forty nights he sent at last down the mountain by the Lord carrying the two tables of stone that is the ten commandments and charged with all the details of the building of the tabernacle when he was up in the mountain it wasn't only God who was busy writing ten commandments Moses was busy too and he was writing down the commandments that God gave him and writing down the details of the tabernacle and this is why you will read um that it was all done under the commandments of the Lord by the hand of Moses. You'll read that again and again and again and you know how often we talk about somebody writes in long hand or they've got a nice hand in fact when I was born in London they used to call it fist sometimes but they weren't all that respectful I suppose they had in mind that I was going to be an awful writer at one period but here is the wonderful truth that he wrote it down he wrote down lots of the other ordinances and laws he had a great time up there he was so in God that he didn't think about eating or drinking and I suppose too he had no sense of the passage of time and I don't know this another thing I'm going to ask when I get to heaven I don't know this I don't know whether you've got the answer I can see Jim sitting there like the philosopher staring at me and I don't know but I don't think that Moses ever went to sleep I don't think he did I don't think he any more needed sleep to restore his strength and he needed food or drink to keep it up because he had passed into God and there he was and I suppose everybody else would have said unnoticed you were up 40 days and 40 nights without sleep that's impossible and I suppose he might have heard a whisper again I don't know but it was said with God nothing is impossible and he was with God and he never noticed the passage of time like sometimes you don't when I've been speaking to you for an hour and you don't even know you've been sitting there for a quarter of an hour because we pass into God and we lose all sense of everything else you know our meetings together should be a foretaste of heaven they should be mountain top experiences we should forget about all other things God should so grip hold of us that everything begins to burn inside us all in his presence and he catches up everything and just fills us and because we're filled with him we lose sense of everything else these should be the little foretastes of what it's going to be when we get to be with the Lord forever well then Moses wrote these things down and ostensibly he was coming down the mountain to do what God said but you know what he did he smashed the two tablets of stone he turned on the people with anger that they had turned against God smashed the golden calf chided with the people went up again next morning into the mountain as we read last night in verse 31 of chapter 32 to make an atonement for sin if he could he would have made the ultimate sacrifice if he could have done to atone for the people's sin but he was a mere man that is all he was great man that he became by God's grace and then you know what happened we went through this last night I'm only recapping slight bits of it and then God said to him in chapter 34 you're to come up to me again in the morning and so he toiled away hewed him out two tables of stone and before the day was really awake he toiled up the mountain to God and there he stayed with God another forty days so you will see that the tabernacle never got built when Moses came down first time all right now we'll catch up in the end of chapter 34 where we spent so much wonderful time at least it was wonderful to me last evening and the children of Israel verse 35 of chapter 34 saw the face of Moses that the skin of Moses face shone and Moses put the veil upon his face again until he went in to speak with God wonderful and Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together and said unto them these are the words which the Lord hath commanded that you should do them six days shall work be done now he's thinking of the building of the tabernacle at this moment the commandment goes beyond that it just didn't just cover the tabernacle time the building of the tabernacle but he's now thinking of this tremendous condition as we saw a little earlier Moses wasn't all that concerned about the promised land he'd been raised up to lead the people to the promised land but he wasn't concerned about the promised land as we saw in that earlier chapter in verse 15 of 33 where he said to God if thy presence go not with me I don't want to go to Canaan Lord don't you carry me up here I'd rather just stay here talking to you I don't want to what a glorious thing take not things of the Lord whosoever is of a willing heart God doesn't want anything from anybody who hasn't got a willing heart if you've got a willing heart God will have all you want to give him and he thinks that all you have to give should be all that you want to give this is what he says let him bring it and offering them to the Lord gold he starts with and so on alright and then he goes into verse 10 and every wise hearted man among you shall come and make all that the Lord has commanded God didn't only want their gifts he wanted their labour too he didn't want you to give money in lieu of working there are too many people like that sometimes you know I feel that our missionary societies the Lord bless them I'm not being critical of them rather you know we'll go you support us you give us the money we'll go on the field I suppose it's necessary but lest it should so in anybody's heart I'm going to say a poem in comfort I'll give to 20p in the pound or something like that and think you're giving a lot because you're giving a fifth instead of a tenth what a tremendous truth it is to know that God wanted all they had I showed you in the earlier chapter at least I hope I showed you in chapter 34 where he said this I want your sons in verse 20p to come to me three times a year I want everything that's born every male firstborn you're mine you're mine I want you I want you I want what you have I want your labour and I want your heart for that's what he's talking about and everything that he had to say was based on this notice it had to be the heart that's right the heart and you and I have to see this it is our heart that God wants but he doesn't want this pious stuff Lord you have my heart I'll keep my bank balance you don't deceive God you have my heart Lord God reckons that means you're all if you interpret it otherwise then don't say you're reaching after the fullest and the best don't deceive yourself and don't damage other people's ears by pouring it into them what a glorious truth it is what God does not want is humbug now beloved it's a marvelous and glorious thing and we go right down and it says in verse 20 when all the children of Israel heard this I'm going to read it advisedly say all the congregation of Israel departed from the presence of Moses at all if that's what he wants see oh no they went away and they came in verse 21 they came everyone whose heart stirred him up and everyone who his spirit made willing and they brought the Lord's offering for the work of the tabernacle of the congregation and for his service and for the holy garment and they came both men and women as many as were willing hearted and brought bracelets and earrings and rings and tablets and jewels how about if you all did that what do you want all these jewels on your floor when there's a need what do you want your gold for and the children of Israel will teach you if you look and we say we're in a better covenant we say we are I suppose if everybody wants to be like Prince Charles or Lady Diana with gold rings and diamonds and I don't know what bless her heart but here is the tremendous thing hallelujah it might be a good thing for God to get us in the wilderness and strip us down mightn't it we might make progress then what a marvelous thing you know half the time God doesn't believe us because you can believe God 100% of the time but I doubt whether he believes us 50% of the time if you come to really think it out oh what a marvelous thing oh it's so great look at this verse 26 all the women whose hearts stir them up good you women lift your hearts stir your husbands up too if you've got one stir him up because he thinks he shouldn't be stirred too much in this direction I mean he's got responsibilities he says you probably thinks the one of them but you see the whole tremendous thing lies here willing hearted wise hearted whole hearted a heart that will work stirring up hallelujah when your heart gets stirred up your emotions will get reached you know that don't you glory be to God my heart is boiling up indicting a good matter says old David glory I think this is right I said the Lord Lord in this chapter for tonight I'm having a good time and it says this and here we go verse 29 the children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the Lord every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work which the Lord had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses now it's wonderful to have a great leader we've been thinking a lot about this in these days but great leaders can't really accomplish anything in the end in the world except they've got a great people they can't do it one man couldn't do it on his own Moses realized this one of the most wonderful things about Moses was his complete humility you remember he started off like that it became a bit of a nuisance to him he had such a poor idea of himself there's one thing you may be sure about this man Moses and any other man who becomes a great man of God he knows it Moses isn't a personality wreck when he got before God he said I can't do this Lord I just can't do it God likes to get hold of people who know they can't do it Amen Moses comes down this mountain he's all aglow 80 days in the presence of the Lord first time after the 40 days when he came down in the presence of the people he was horror stricken came out of the blazing light into the dark gloom of idolatry amongst the people of God he goes back up into the glory again and he comes down this time and I guess he's saying again I'll have to ask him when I see him I guess he's saying Oh Lord make thy people willing make thy people willing David saw this he wrote a psalm about it thy people shall be willing offering in the day of thy power come on I want your heart I want your gold, I want your silver I want everything I want all these colors, these spices, these things you've been storing up ransack your tent you say we're a poverty stricken people we have no homes of our own where are we going we're probably going to establish in a promised land and God must have said oh be quiet when you get there there'll be more gold and silver and precious stones and houses than you've ever seen or known in your life you see everybody's saving up for the rainy day that's why God doesn't rain down blessings from heaven that's why he doesn't do it although we use the appropriate terms in prayer we know what to say we're very clever we're evangelically taught we read the right books but have you got the right spirit have you got the right heart have you blessed be every man or woman that's got this right heart in them God would be able to do something you know beloved I believe he's got to do something wonderful with us if we really got into this position I do, I believe it with all my heart glory glory be to the name of the Lord give me the people give me the people now if ever there was anybody who realized this and all leaders however exalted they may be that is in office being elevated by God I don't mean in their own estimation of themselves they know that they must have help I suppose first of all we've got to say Lord God raise us up a real leader I think that's the cry Lord raise us up real leader and then here's the next thing and every man who's called of God to leadership has got to know this as we finish verse 29 let's read it again chapter 35 the children of Israel for ever be their name honoured at this juncture of their experience brought a willing offering unto the Lord every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work which the Lord had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses and Moses said unto the children of Israel see the Lord hath called by name Bethaniel the son of Eurip the son of Her of the tribe of Judah and he hath filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship to devise curious works to work in gold and in silver and in brass and in the cutting of stones to set them and in carving of wood to make any manner of cunning work and he hath put in his heart that he may teach both he and Aholiab the son of Ahisomach of the tribe of Dan. Then hath he filled with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work of the engraver and of the cunning workman and of the embroiderer in blue and in purple in scarlet and in fine linen and of the weaver even of them that do any work and of those that devise cunning work then wrought Bethaniel and Aholiab and every wise-hearted man in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary according to all that the Lord had commanded and that Moses called Bethaniel and Aholiab and every wise-hearted man in whose heart the Lord hath put wisdom even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it Glory be to God I don't know about you that put fire in my bones when I read it Hallelujah! Every man that's a leader of God he knows he's got to have some good men under him God raised up two Bethaniel and Aholiab I know that that's great a man can't carry on alone he just can't do that every man needs a supporter didn't Jesus he called twelve I want you to be with me he said they became his supporters call them what you will he didn't need trotting up of course he wasn't a Moses he was a greater than Moses but nevertheless we see the whole glorious thing he called these twelve supporting him they had to do the baptizing for instance he didn't so you can read in the scriptures now this must be beloved however great your leader is however great that man is he's no greater in the end he can't be as great as he ought to be unless he's got support can't be done he can go off on his own and blaze his own trail and say well alright farewell to you but if he's going to be there as God put them there for nine months at the base of Horeb and he's going to do a work in that place then he's got to have men we saw earlier of course women as we read but we saw earlier how that's where he sat one day at the base of that mountain with a lot of sheep that couldn't help him and he had to feed them and he learned to be a shepherd and he saw a bush catch fire there we said I don't know how many weeks ago it was now or how many hours of preaching it was ago now that we saw that God was showing him what he was going to be one man he was going to burn and burn burn and burn and burn for God and he never burned out Abraham burned out David burned out David all these did those glorious things they were wonderful men but they came to old age and they burned out and the metabolic rate you know the fire ceased to burn and they died you see but not Moses God took him he died straight away at God's hands without ever burning out God buried him took him took him buried his body wonderful things here marvelous truth well this is what God did with this man well it's all right sitting there in the depths viewing his flock just being led anywhere and God was exercising him about his future ministry but now he wants more than sheep he wants workmen he just doesn't want the people to leave now they're static they're fixed the leadership is here I've been up in the mountain he wouldn't have said this he was a humble man I've been up in the mountain I've been with God I've seen the glory and they said yes yes yes there's your face we can see it shining there was no deceiving these people he said now come on and as I said last night and I think we all agreed that Moses was a man who virtually came back from the dead 80 days without eating or drinking he gone through the dark black cloud layer the God laid upon Sinai into the beyond and he came back as it were from the dead but he came back as a man from heaven and a man from God a man renewed in every way a man invigorated by the Lord now we're going to produce Jesus no we're going to produce the tabernacle I want to keep your thought on the right line oh oh Lord what a privilege what a privilege and at last they were willing to give give gold to make a false God oh we'll give gold to bring forth Jesus now that's what's needed in this world will you give your gold will you give your silver will you give your goat's hair and skins will you give everything to bring forth the blessed Lord and the only hope of salvation for you know it was in the repeatedly shed blood in the constantly sacrificed lamb and goat and ox that they lived their life consisted in it hallelujah it was wonderful and Jesus was thinking Lord, Lord I must have some real lieutenants I must have some some men I want some strong men I can't do it Lord I can't do it on my own now then you leaders it's time you prayed into being what you say you'll need 40 days in the mountain I produce it I don't know God I have your men God's called them by name I know who they are praise God it's great isn't it God put it in their heart hallelujah this is the proof of a true prophet of the Lord and a man of God what he puts in your knowledge he puts in somebody else's heart you know it right no guesswork I've never thought about it put it in their heart I've heard people in this room say it's in my heart God put it in my heart to do this have you let your heart go cold have you let the voice die in you I want to see truth as plain as it's possible to see it I don't want to deceive myself and he found that they were there willing hearted willing spirited they were on the go hallelujah I'll tell you why they got a leader they could see it in them they could see it in them now that's when it all works right let any one of these factors be missing you'll never do a work God never when you see a man aglow they knew then when he came down the mountain they believed it before when he said I've seen God burning in a bush when he came down that mountain and they could see God burning in him and his face was glowing and shining they knew it was right the God you see outside you has got to be the God that comes and lifts and burns in you unless you've got no cause or no power to fulfill it it's God's calling you what a tremendous thing it is to have this great working of the Lord's heart making them making them you know what that means you've got to do it their spirits made them their hearts made them they couldn't hold back this I believe is a definition of zeal that's what I believe zeal is I believe the rest is a mental affectation it won't last long it'll come it'll go but when the spirit oh it's burning inside hallelujah when the fire's there hallelujah Lord I want to see this thing through to the end nobody moved on they were there unless I'd never understood the scriptures of God or in the little thing that I do understand of experience I've never known anything now may the Lord write this right in our hearts amen well look let's read this shall we verse 3 these people chapter 36 they received of Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the century to make it with all and they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning hallelujah they'd gone home at night and they'd had a little talk together husband and wife and they'd say yeah we can give this shall we give them this we'll give this too we don't want this do we let's give it that's it every morning they were turning up what you'd have thought you'd have thought this is amending this supply just breathe it I love this don't you praise God it says and all the wise men that wrought all the work of the century came every man from his work which they made and they spoke unto Moses saying people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which the Lord commanded to make and Moses gave commandment and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp saying let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the century so the people were restrained from drinking no no no hallelujah target reached amen now away they go they make all the things hallelujah let's go on shall we we're travelling quickly all right and they go right down to 37 38 39 and they've got to the very end and at the very end they make the clothes for the high priest it means starting with the sockets and the curtains and the ark and the candlestick and the show bread table and the altar they brought the oil they brought the spices they brought everything that God required and right at the end it says 30 of chapter 39 they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and wrote upon it in writing like to the engravings of a signet holiness to the Lord and they tied it unto it a lace of blue to fasten it on high above the mitre as the Lord commanded Moses thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses so did they and they brought the tabernacle all the love all right verse 43 and Moses did look upon all the work and behold they had done it as the Lord had commanded even so had they done it and Moses blessed one ought to receive a real blessing from a man of God and that but you see what it was God crowned it with this great crown all God the root of the word holiness as you know is separation all God not ours we've given it freely willingly from our hearts our spirits we're not craving after it we don't want it we want it all to be the Lord's God crowned it that's the crown wonderful to have your work crowned isn't it to have your heart crowned hallelujah they realized that they were indeed a royal priesthood that whole people well that was marvellous I think I am going to ask Moses how he felt about a lot of this you know when I see him he just blessed them blessed them he had the veil on his face so from without the veil from within the veil on his face it was like a voice of God speaking from within the veil was speaking blessed is the man that can bring the blessings of God upon people blessed are the people who are blessed with such blessings like the voice of God speaking Amen that was wonderful and so just to pass into the fortieth chapter God spoke to Moses saying on the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation I hope that you are reading some of these chapters in between because we can't stay on the whole of the details wonderful as they are he tells him the way to set it up he'd seen it there copied out the details got all the instructions now he's being told erect it this is the way to be done Moses alright verse seventeen it came to pass in the first month in the second year on the first day of the month that the tabernacle was reared up and Moses did it verse nineteen as the Lord commanded Moses at the end of the verse at the end of verse twenty-one as the Lord commanded Moses twenty-three as the Lord commanded Moses twenty-five as the Lord commanded Moses twenty-seven as the Lord commanded Moses twenty-nine as the Lord commanded Moses thirty-two as the Lord commanded Moses seven times he obeyed the commandment to perfection to detail he did it this was his greatness of course detail he paid attention to detail I don't know about you but I get very concerned about people who don't bother about detail you know, you send them to do a job and after they've done it you've got to clear up after them you know they haven't got their hearts right with God yet attention to detail there was nothing oh God don't mind he understands of course he's not petty fogging and all this business do you think that Jesus the carpenter did that? do you think he won his position because he did it right to the detail do you think he did do you think that that's what made father said this is my son in whom I am well pleased he'd done everything he'd done unto the Lord so did the Israelites God will do anything unto the Lord a little personal anecdote here I can remember the time a long time ago when I went to work on a farm you'd never think so would you but if you know sometimes think sometimes I know a little bit about agriculture I worked on a farm I also worked milking cows you'd never believe that would you I don't know about goats but I've worked with horses I've worked with cows and I've even worked with human beings I wonder which are the worst but I can remember my governor coming down one morning and told me that I hadn't got to be so perfect told me that straight out I hadn't got to do this let it go I don't know whether your governor's ever told you anything like that I didn't say that personally it just flashed back into my mind while I was speaking I've got that kind of mind it hops all over the place as you're aware but isn't this a marvellous truth they did it down to the details he done make it after the pattern did you know that the way you work tells God and everybody else what you'd be like if you were in full time service preaching for him do you know that did you know that he trained his own son for 30 years it had to be right well they put up the tabernacle they did the work as unto the Lord and it says this so verse 33 Moses finished the work then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation because the cloud abode thereon and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle the children of Israel went on in all their journeys if the cloud was not taken up then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up for the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day and fire was on it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys and the Lord called unto Moses I'm in Leviticus it's a pity really that there's a that's right you weren't reading Mickey were you and the Lord called unto Moses and spoke unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation oh oh so here then is the glorious truth when it was all done Amen the great and mighty God who'd been there came right down and said this is my home I'm right in the center and you listen up God said I don't want anything from you unless it's your heart he was showing them that he was right in the heart of the nation that's where he came and Moses tried to go into the tabernacle and God said not yet Moses I'm first I'm first Moses couldn't go in and the glory of the Lord flooded this marvelous place because it was all as God commanded let's get it as God commands shall we then we can expect the glory to fill let's stop banging our chairs around and bashing the walls trying to get God to do things when we're not prepared to have it as God wants I know we're in a different covenant but are we because we're under grace and much more privileged to be worse than those that were under law and not so privileged do we think that because we're not under law but under grace we can do as we like oh you should read Paul he says God forbid when he starts when you get on this line God forbid he says I know that there's a translation of the Greek which really says by no means can't see how it's going to be done nowhere to be right beloved oh glory we can get it right it's a marvelous thing God so wonderful and then Moses discovers something else I expect by now he sort of got used of it to God you know now the voice starts to speak to him from within the tabernacle God's in there now now he's speaking from within the tabernacle glory that's what God had wanted first thing he said was this speak to the children of Israel sound to them if any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord