Exodus 25

This divine worship God is very jealous of; this is the apple of his eye, this is the pearl of his crown which he guards as he did the tree of life, with cherubim and a flaming sword, that no man may come near to violate it: divine worship must be such as God himself has appoint…

Answ. 1, Read the Bible with reverence; think every line you read God is speaking to you. The ark wherein the law was put was overlaid with pure gold, and was carried on bars that the Levites might not touch it (Exodus 25:14). And why was this?

1. The Introduction to the Lord's Prayer, sic orate vos, After this manner pray you.] Our Lord Jesus in these words prescribed to his disciples and us a directory for prayer. The Ten Commandments are the rule of our life, the Creed is the sum of our faith, and the Lord's Prayer…

What duties we are to do, what sins we are to avoid. God gave Moses a pattern how he would have the tabernacle made, and he was to go exactly according to the pattern (Exodus 25:9). The word is the pattern God has given us in writing for modeling our lives; therefore how careful…

If obedience has not the Word for its rule, it is not doing God's will but our own, it is [in non-Latin alphabet], will-worship (Deuteronomy 12:32). The Lord would have Moses make the Tabernacle, [in non-Latin alphabet], according to the pattern (Exodus 25:40). If Moses had left…

Angels have eyes within and without (Revelation 4:6), to behold the beauty of the Lord, and it takes up their eyes always to behold his face; and there is no beauty of truth they desire more to behold — [in non-Latin alphabet] (1 Peter 1:12) — as to stoop down, and to look into…

But I had rather take it here for covenant, or agreement. For the Lord speaking of the Tabernacle of the covenant in Exodus, says, 'I will there make appointment with you' (Exodus 25:21, 22, 29, 42). We must not think then that he speaks here of an assembly of men, as when the p…

For however obscurely and at a distance Moses may exhibit Christ in shadows, rather than in a full portrait, (Hebrews 10:1,) this, at least, is beyond dispute, that unless there be in the family of Abraham one exalted Head, under whom the people may be united in one body, the co…

The Holy Ghost himself, has been pleased to put that Matter out of Doubt, by representing his Church by such a golden Candlestick, with seven Lamps, in the fourth Chapter of Zechariah, and representing the seven Churches of Asia by seven golden Candlesticks, in the first Chapter…

2. To be kept as things of price; as jewels and treasures are hidden in chests and secret places, that they may not be embezzled or purloined. And herein there may be an allusion to the law, which was kept in a chest or ark (Exodus 25:21). Thus the word is hidden, not in order t…

Now because the word of God branches itself into two parts, the Law and the Gospel, this notion may be applied to both. First, To the Law, in regard of which the Ark is called the Ark of the Testimony (Exodus 25:16), because the two Tables were laid up in it. The Gospel is also…

When God gave the law, the mount was on fire and trembled (Exodus 19:18), that the people might prostrate themselves more reverently before the Lord. The ark wherein the law was put was carried upon poles so that the Levites might not touch it (Exodus 25:11-14), to show what rev…

When a believer can call nothing his own, he can say all is his. The tabernacle was covered with rough skins on the outside (Exodus 25), yet most of it was gold within. So a saint may have a poor covering, ragged clothes, but he is inlaid with gold — Christ is formed in his hear…

The covenant is founded upon Christ, and is sealed in his blood. We read of the mercy seat, which was a divine hieroglyph, typifying Jesus Christ (Exodus 25:17). There will I meet you, and I will commune with you from above the mercy seat, verse 22.

Then I asked him what I must do when I came; and he told me I must entreat upon my knees (Psalms 95:6; Daniel 6:10), with all my heart and soul (Jeremiah 29:12-13), the Father to reveal him to me. Then I asked him further, how I must make my supplications to him; and he said, Go…