#1,328 - God's Care for Each of His Children (Exodus 38:25–26)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 27 March 2021
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God cares deeply about every person that makes up His kingdom. View the 2021 McLean Bible Church Reading Plan here.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:04.7 | Exodus chapter 38 verses 25 and 26. The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded |
| 0:11.7 | was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels by the Shekel of the Sanctuary, a becca ahead that is |
| 0:21.1 | half a Shekel by the Shekel of the Sanctuary for everyone who is listed in the records, |
| 0:26.8 | from 20 years old and upward for 603,550 men. Is that not the most inspiring verse you've ever |
| 0:37.6 | read before or two verses? You might be wondering like, okay, how are we going to pray according to |
| 0:43.0 | these verses? In a chapter that just lists out all kinds of instructions, very specific details |
| 0:50.7 | about the construction of the tabernacle as a place for God's worship, specifically the altar |
| 0:56.4 | burnt offering and the bronze basin and the making of the court and all these different materials |
| 1:01.2 | for the tabernacle when we read these two verses though. The reason I want to pray according to |
| 1:07.0 | them is because so it lists here 603,550 men who are over 20 years old. So that's a count that had |
| 1:18.0 | been made that factored into how many shekels would be involved and talents would be involved in |
| 1:25.5 | this part of the construction of the tabernacle. And the picture I want you to see here is that |
| 1:32.8 | every single one of those men in this case, 20 years old and upward, mattered, they counted |
| 1:42.0 | and they all contributed. They all had something to give for the construction of the tabernacle. |
| 1:49.8 | And these verses are pointing to so amidst the mass of God's people who he's brought out of Egypt, |
| 1:56.8 | every single person matters, every single person down. It doesn't just say around 600,000 |
| 2:05.0 | minutes says 603,550 men. And if somebody's birthday happened that week, then the next week, |
| 2:16.3 | it would have said 603,551 men like every single person counted. And I just want to |
| 2:23.7 | encourage you with that picture from the Old Testament. You think about it. There are |
| 2:29.8 | by God's grace millions upon millions of followers of Jesus today. Children of God, sons and |
| 2:37.9 | daughters of God right now in the world. And we rejoice in that reality. We want there to be more |
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