I want to go directly to the word of God and ask you to go there in the 25th chapter of

Exodus with me this morning.

As you turn there, I want to bring greetings for Anna who will be with me next week and that will be the

third and concluding week of this series that I'm having with you and we're dealing

with a theme you see on the overhead screen watershed worship and if you were not here last week I'll give some

interpretation of that and we continue and the term is what I've never used

before this series while obviously dealt with the subject of worship many times.

And as we come to this passage of scripture and turning there,

I'm very, very moved because of happening in our family this last week.

And I'm going to get to that momentarily, but I not only want to read this, I will add an addendum passage from the New Testament and I'm not

going to ask you to turn there so we're not flipping pages but if you're making notes

you can quickly jot down 1st Peter chapter 2 and I will read a few verses

from that chapter as companion to the text we're looking at together in Exodus chapter 25.

I'm going to read three pairs of two verses, the first and second and then eight and

nine, then we'll go down deeper in the text.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying,

speak to the children of Israel that they bring me an offering.

From everyone who gives it willingly with his heart,

you shall take my offering.

And let me say that this offering was actually materials by unlarge though it contained precious

stones and contained gold and silver.

It was the building pieces for the tabernacle.

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