Week 11 Friday
Exodus closes out the tabernacle instructions, Psalm 52 warns those who trust in themselves rather than God, and Peter's Pentecost sermon leads thousands into the newborn church.
Exodus 27
📖 What are we reading?: Final details about the tabernacle - the altar, and the surrounding courtyard.
✞ What does this passage say about God? He cares about every last detail of how His people would approach Him - nothing here is incidental.
🛐 How does this passage teach us to live? We don't need a tabernacle anymore, because Jesus has become all the elements we've just read about.
Looking for some extra info?
🎥 A 3D reconstruction of the tabernacle.
➡️ The bigger picture: Exodus, meaning "departure", was written by Moses around 1400 BC. It tells the thrilling story of Israel's miraculous deliverance from slavery in Egypt - a picture of Christ setting us free from the prison of sin.
Psalm 52
📖 What are we reading?: More solemn warnings for those who are not connected to God.
✞ What does this passage say about God? He uproots those who trust in wealth and wickedness rather than in Him, but He is a refuge for the faithful.
🛐 How does this passage teach us to live? Verses 8 and 9 show us what benefits come from placing our faith in Him - like an olive tree flourishing in His house.
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➡️ The bigger picture: The Psalms is a collection of 150 poems and songs, written by David and others, expressing the full range of human emotion in response to God and to life.
Acts 2:14-46
📖 What are we reading?: Peter's Pentecost sermon convicts many, and the chapter ends with a beautiful description of the early church, devoted together to the apostles' teaching, fellowship, and prayer.
✞ What does this passage say about God? He takes a fearful, faltering disciple and turns him into a bold preacher of the gospel, whose words cut thousands to the heart.
🛐 How does this passage teach us to live? How can our churches begin to look like the one described at the end of this chapter again?
Looking for some extra info?
📝 A devotion series on dealing with sin, using Peter's words to the people.
🎤 Luke preaches on the change we've seen in Peter from the Gospels to this moment.
➡️ The bigger picture: Luke's second book outlines the ministry of the early church - though it could just as well be called the Acts of the Holy Spirit, as He guides and grows Jesus' small movement into something that changes the world.
A Prayer for the Day
🙏 Lord, thank You that Jesus is now our tabernacle, that we flourish when our faith is planted in You rather than in wealth or self, and that You can turn even the most faltering disciple into a bold witness. Help our own church to look more like the one we've read of today. Amen.
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