In the last three chapters of the Book of Exodus, Moses puts up the tabernacle.
In those three chapters, well over a dozen times I find the phrase, "….just as the Lord commanded Moses."
Moses did it just the way he was supposed to. It seems to me that if we are to do the things just [...]

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I never met a preacher who complained that the congregation he was serving gave too much.
I never met a preacher who had to tell the congregation he was serving to stop giving, there was sufficient, more than enough for all the work.
Moses had to issue a command to the people of Israel to stop [...]

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Who gives to the Lord?
Who gives the most?
When do they give?
Exodus 35 gives some insight. Those with a willing heart will give to a cause that is clearly the Lord’s cause.
"Everyone whose heart stirred him and everyone whose spirit moved him came and brought the Lord’s contribution for the work of the tent of meeting [...]

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We are not obligated to keep the Sabbath Day any more. Things changed when Jesus rose from the dead. But, there is a principle we/I would do well to live by.
I didn’t learn or maybe it was relearn this till just a year ago. I live in Silicon Valley. It’s expensive. The mortgage is a [...]

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There is the expression - you can see it in his eyes.
With Moses it was different. You could see it in his face. In fact the skin of his face shone because he had been speaking with God.
How cool is that?!
I wonder if people can see in my eyes, if my face reflects [...]

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God made a covenant with Israel. He performed miracles, did things that had never been seen before for them. He loved them. He wanted the Israelites to tear down altars, to not make covenants with others, smash sacred pillars and cut down symbols of wooden deities.
His name was Jealous. God is a jealous God.
I [...]

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The terms compassionate and gracious don’t seem fitting to a God who sent 10 plagues on Egypt, opened up the ground to swallow umpteen thousand disobedient Israelites and just plain got angry sometimes, even calls himself Jealous.
Still, the Lord called Himself compassionate, gracious, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness and truth, who forgives iniquity, [...]

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Friends with God that Moses was, he still could not look God in the face. When Moses asked to see God’s glory, God offered to pass by and show Moses His back while Moses was protected in the cleft of a rock AND by God’s hand.
What a wonderful picture of trust and compassion, for God [...]

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What would a friend of God ask for? What would this friend want so that he could continue to remain in favor with God?
Moses asked for four things.
1. Let me know God’s ways.
2. Let me know God.
3. Consider the nation that is God’s people
4. To see God’s glory
What would you ask God for to remain [...]

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Moses and the Lord were friends. The Lord spoke to Moses just as a man speaks to his friend says Ex33.11.
After that, "When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
If I had a friend whom God spoke to as a [...]

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I want to know more about Moses. “The Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend.”
I can talk to God as a friend, but I don’t hear Him that way.
Perhaps the more I talk to Him, the better I will be able to hear.
I should try [...]

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Sometimes you have to pick which side you are going to be on. No waffling, no pussy footing, no playing the ‘whatever’ card. Sometimes you have to take a stand.
When Moses came down off the mountain of Sinai and found the people had been committing adultery/idolatry with a golden calf, he insisted they take a [...]

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