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The Tabernacle (Exodus 25-27, 36:8-

PODCAST The Tabernacle December 14, 2025 | Brandon Cooper Brandon Cooper discusses the significance of the tabernacle in Exodus 25-27, emphasizing its detailed instructions as a visual aid to understand God’s presence and purpose. He highlights the importance of the ark, table, and lampstand, each symbolizing different aspects of God’s relationship with His people. The ark represents atonement, the table God’s provision, and the lampstand His light and life. Cooper also connects these elements to Jesus, who is described as the ultimate tabernacle, bridging the gap between God and humanity through His sacrifice and presence. He encourages the congregation to approach God with confidence and to share the Gospel with others. TRANSCRIPT_______________________________________________+ The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Good morning church. Good to see you all this morning, if you want to go ahead, grab your Bibles, open up to Exodus 25 Exodus 25 is where we’ll start this morning. As you’re turning there, I travel occasionally for work in particular, and it’s always a bummer. My kids are invariably disappointed. Never mind Amy, who is shockingly disappointed always because she needs the extra help around the home, of course, but so my kids, you know like they know that the younger ones burst into tears, all that kind of stuff when I’m leaving, they like to know that dad’s going to be home, that they’re going to be able to stay with them. They prefer it when I am present with them, when they get to be with me. Fact, one time when I was leaving on a trip, this was number of years ago, one of my daughters actually drew a picture of herself so that I could take the picture with me, so that she would still be with me in some way, still have it my briefcase, in fact, at this point. So again, everybody just likes it when we’re, you know, we’re together. We get to be with dad. That’s how Israel would be feeling at this moment in Exodus. I mean, they don’t really have a home at this point. They’ve left Egypt, where they were for four plus centuries, and they’re not yet in the Promised Land, even then, though they’re going to be entering this new land and they’re going to be fighting new battles. And there’s this question, will you be with us, father? And in our chapters this morning, we get an unequivocal yes to that question. This first detailed bit of instructions, and we get in the latter half of Exodus is all about God’s dwelling place, all about the tabernacle. And when I say detailed instructions, by the way, I do mean detailed instructions. Quite long if you’ve read Exodus before. The old joke is that it took God six days to create the world and 40 days to explain how to make his tabernacle. And that’s right, tells us a little something, by the way, about just how important this place is. In fact, not only do we get detailed instructions in 25 to 27 but then we go back in 36 to 38 and we get all those same instructions again. It’s an almost verbatim repetition of the text, just showing that the Israelites actually followed God’s detailed instruction. So this is so important, we get six chapters of Scripture all about it, in part because it’s one of the most powerful visual aids that we have in Scripture to understand who God is and what he wants. So my hope here this morning is that as we look at the furnishings and the tent and the courtyard, that we would understand God’s heart to dwell with His people, to dwell with us, and that would produce in us a deep and abiding joy. So with that, let’s dive in. We’ll look first at the furniture, because that’s what is given to us first chapter, 25 let me start by reading verses one to nine. I will say at the outset, I’m not going to read every verse of our text. Those of you who call Cityview home, I’m hoping you read every verse this week, so that you are ready to go. But let me start Exodus. 25 one to nine, the Lord said to Moses, tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from every one whose heart prompts them to give. These are the offerings you are to receive from them, gold, silver and bronze, blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen goat hair, Ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather, acacia wood, olive oil, for the light spices, for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breast piece. Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you. So here’s our introduction to all of this, and it begins by God encouraging those with a heart to give, to bring their offerings to him. It is not mandatory here. It is freely of...