Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
January 30, 2025: SOAP #5537:  Exodus 25-27; Acts 6

SCRIPTURE:  Exodus (NIV) 25:8 “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.  9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.
Exodus (NIV) 26:30 Set up the tabernacle according to the plan shown you on the mountain.   (also 27:8; 25:40; Acts 7:44; and Hebrews 8:5)
Exodus (NIV) 27:8 Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

OBSERVATION:   Moses went up the mountain to spend time with God.  Not only did he bring down the Ten Commandments, but he also brought back plans to build a portable tabernacle.  God not only told Moses; He showed Moses.   Surely there must have been times when the builders went to Moses with questions about the plans and Moses said, “Here is how I saw it on the mountain.”          

APPLICATION:  When I have questions about living out my Christian life, I can go back to the gospels and see how Jesus did it.  I can also think back to how my dad did it.  Visual examples help me better understand God’s written words. 

God wants my life to be a visual example for others to follow.  He wants my life to be a living example of how to live in victory through the hard times. 

PRAYER:   Lord, thank you for coming to earth to show me how to live.  And thank you for the people you placed in my life to show me how live in my world.  May my life be useful as a living example for others of how to live in this world.  Amen

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