Daily Bible Study Devotional
Message Title: Build Me A House
Date: Monday January 23, 2012
Today's Chapters: Exodus 24-27
Preview of Today's Message: God wants you to build Him a house, one that has a good solid foundation and is movable. All Scripture quoted from the King James Version.

Hello My Friend,

A state of sin set apart from Christ, is a state of spiritual death and bondage to Satan. However, Christ’s finished work on the cross abolished the state of spiritual death and bondage to Satan by His death, burial, and resurrection. It is only by our believing in and accepting Him that we are set free, once we are set free God gives us plans to build Him a house, Christ being the foundation, and the Holy Spirit being the frame.

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them...That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ...Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.” - Ephesians 2:10,12,13,19-22.

Moses, as mediator between God and Israel, having received the judgments from God comes down to the people, acquaints them with the laws he had received, writes them down, and reads them to the people. He returns to God as commanded to receive further directions, for forty days and forty nights he was with God was up on the mount. “And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.” - Exodus 24:12,13.

God has given us instructions, tables of stone that are to be impressed upon the heart of every believer. His instructions can only be found in His Word, it contains all His laws and commandments needed to be a holy temple in the Lord. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” -2 Timothy 3:16,17.

God instructs Moses to build Him a house, “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,.. And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.” - Exodus 25:1-3,8,9.

Because they were in the wilderness they dwelt in tents, God ordered His house to be a tabernacle, so it would move with them. Today, God still dwells in a movable tent, the heart of every believer. “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” -2 Corinthians 5:1. The people were to furnish Moses with the materials, by their own free will. We should ask, not only, What must we do? but, What must we do for God? Whatever they gave, they must give it with all their heart, cheerfully, not grudgingly, for God loves a cheerful giver. “But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:..Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.” - 2 Corinthians 9:6-8,11.

Every part of the tabernacle, down to the loops of a curtain, was given specific details on how it was to be assembled and attached to become one tabernacle. “Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them. The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure. The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second. Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another. And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.” -Exodus 26:1-6.

It was important that Moses follow these instructions entirely, one missed loop could have done a lot of damage. While we may not ever see the significance of knowing every loop and tache needed in building God's house, they are significant to God. Every piece in that tabernacle was a foreshadow of Christ. “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” -Hebrews 9:11-14.

God wants us to build Him a house, a house in which He can be comfortable in, a house in which He is seen in by others, but He needs a good foundation. Without a good foundation no matter what we build upon it it would crash. Our foundation is none other than Jesus Christ. “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” - 1 Corinthians 3:11-17.

While our salvation rests solely upon the completed work of Jesus Christ, heavenly rewards are earned by building God's house. “For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.” -Matthew 16:27,28. True service done in the power of the indwelling Spirit, is of eternal standing, but fleshly service is perishable and will bring down the house of every person who defiles the temple of God.

Today's Psalm: 127:1 - “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”

Today's Proverb: 10:25 - “As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.”

Today's Prayer: God, our faith is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus as our chief cornerstone. It is through Him that our whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple bringing glory and honor to Your name. Lord, lead me and guide me as Your indwelling Holy Spirit transforms me into Your image day by day as I build every detail of Your house. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Enjoy the rest of your day/night.
God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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