“Bread and Light” (Exodus 25:23–40)

“Bread and Light” (Exodus 25:23–40)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, November 11, 2018

Exodus 25:23–40 (NIV)

23 “Make a table of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high. 24 Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it. 25 Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim. 26 Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are. 27 The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table. 28 Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them. 29 And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings. 30 Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.

31 “Make a lampstand of pure gold. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them. 32 Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other. 33 Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand. 34 And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms. 35 One bud shall be under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair—six branches in all. 36 The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.

37 “Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it. 38 Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold. 39 A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories. 40 See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

1. A Table for Bread in God’s House (vv. 23–30).

a. The Plans for the Table
b. The Purpose of the Table

i. Hospitality of the Lord
ii. Abiding Presence of the Lord
iii. Provision of the Lord
iv. Gratitude to the Lord

2. A Lampstand for Light in God’s House (vv. 31–40).

a. The Plans for the Lampstand
b. The Purpose of the Lampstand

i. God’s Abiding Presence
ii. God as the Source of Light and Life
iii. The Worship of God Is Beautiful and Reverent.