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Exodus chapter 27 verse 8. You shall make it hollow with boards,

as it has been shown you on the mountain. So shall it be made.

So this is really interesting. I, I really love this verse in a way. I've not even noticed it

before, but as I was reading through Exodus 27. So the first part of this chapter is

describing God's instructions for building the bronze altar. So the whole chapter starts with

you. She'll make the altar of Acacia wood. And he begins describing it and he gets to the very

end of this description of how the bronze altar shall be made in the tabernacle. And the Bible

says, verse 8, you shall make it hollow with boards. God speaking to Moses and he says,

as it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall it be made. I love that picture.

Like God says, Moses, up here on this mountain, I've shown you something. Now go down this mountain

and do it just like I've shown you up here. Moses meeting with God on this mountain, all the other

people are down at the bottom. So Moses alone with God. God speaks to him. And Moses has a

responsibility to take what he has heard in private with God and put it into action in public.

As it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall it be made. And I just think about,

so I read that verse. I think about my time with the Lord this morning.

Each morning, and I'm alone with him, communing with him. And as he's speaking to me through

his word, there's so much that he says to me that is not intended to be kept in that room

alone with him that's intended to be shared with others. It's intended to encourage others

and that's intended to be put into practice outside of that room. My time with the Lord,

your time alone with the Lord, which I hope I pray you have every day in a Matthew,

six kind of way, go in your room, close the door, pray to your father's unseen that you have time

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