Overflowing with Thankfulness (Part 3 of 3)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In Exodus, God instructed Moses to take a freewill offering for everything necessary to complete the tabernacle. The response was so lavish, Moses ordered the people to stop giving! On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explores the inspiration behind such generosity.
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| 0:00.0 | In the book of Exodus, God tells Moses to take a free will offering so that he can secure the resources necessary to finish building the tabernacle. |
| 0:33.6 | The Israelites were so lavishly generous in their response that Moses had to tell them to stop giving. |
| 0:41.4 | What inspires such a contribution? |
| 0:45.0 | We'll find out today on Truth for Life as Alistair Begg teaches from Exodus Chapter 35. |
| 1:02.3 | Now let's just notice them very straightforwardly. Verse five, notice the phrase, |
| 1:15.9 | From what you have, from what you have, take an offering. From what you have. What did they have? What do we have? Only what God the Creator has provided. Only what God the Redeemer has granted them in their exodus from the bondage of |
| 1:23.1 | Egypt. Only what God, who has sustained their lives, makes possible for them now in light of the project |
| 1:30.5 | that is before them. If you like, we might say that everything we have is stamped with the seal |
| 1:37.7 | of God's ownership. Everything in the universe, there's not a place, as Kuyper, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, many |
| 1:45.3 | years ago. He says, there's not one inch in the whole universe at which God does not look and |
| 1:51.5 | say, this is mine, this is all mine. Now, this is vastly different from our contemporary |
| 1:59.1 | culture, isn't it? Where pantheism suggests that the earth is God and everything is God, |
| 2:06.2 | and since we are part of everything, there's somehow or another we are part of God. |
| 2:10.8 | Not so, says the Bible. |
| 2:12.8 | The earth is the Lord, Psalm 24, verse 1. |
| 2:16.0 | The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof. In other words, |
| 2:20.2 | the earth belongs to God, and everything that grows and is dug up out of the earth, everything |
| 2:26.0 | that exists in the entirety belongs to God. By the time David is involved in the prospect |
| 2:33.7 | of building the temple, |
| 2:37.7 | he makes the point very clearly, as he says in First Chronicles 29, |
| 2:41.5 | everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand. |
| 2:50.1 | So we understand this fundamental notion. |
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