to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze,And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,and to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
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I'm going to call it glory in the changing. Glory in the changing. And Lord, I need you. I really, really do. I need your wisdom, your spirit, your prophecy, your creativity to help take this burden that you placed in my spirit and to lay it out before your people. I believe now more than ever in this ever-changing world that we need reminders that glory can exist in the changing. You've given me this word. You've given me this gift and ability. And God, I just lay it at your feet and I say build your church. Open their hearts to receive this word. Allow this word to be confrontational with the areas that are resistant to change. allow this word to lure them closer into the presence of God to the extent that they would be changed for sure but also that they would believe that they are called to bring change to the world I thank you God for studying me for giving me peace clarity and vision I receive it in Jesus name amen amen amen okay let's go to work again. Child, we go to work again. I want to try and unpack this revelation that God has given me, but I'm going to try and use an analogy about how our minds work. And in the process of giving you this analogy of how our mind works, I believe that it's going to help us to understand more accurately what the Hebrew children were experiencing when they were in the wilderness. …
THE Psalmist Ethan is here speaking of the Covenant people—the people of God, the people who know the joyful sound of the Covenant of Grace and who, therefore, walk in the Light of God's Countenance. It is said of these persons that God is the glory of their strength. All strength of every sort comes from God. Since He is the Author of all being, it is He who gives strength to every form of existence. Read the remarkable chapters which close the Book of Job and see how God there claims to have given strength to the eagle in her lofty flight and to the horse when he paws in the valley— and leviathan and behemoth, those mighty creatures of the sea and the land! God claims to have given all the strength that there is in any of these members of the inferior creation and we are certain that He also lays an equally just claim to all the strength that there is in man. The power of the arms, the swiftness of the feet, the keenness of intellect—all these come from the Most High who has worked such wonders in the formation of the human frame! Whatever of vigor and capacity there may be in it, all must be traced to the almighty hand of God! Even the glory of man's physical strength, whether he knows it or not, belongs to God. He makes the young man vigorous and the full-grown man mature in strength, so He ought to have the service of the strength which He has, Himself, created! …
That was a wonderful scene when Joseph said that Benjamin should not go back with his brothers, but should remain in Egypt as his servant because the silver cup had been found in his sack, and Judah pleaded with Joseph, not knowing that "the lord of the land" was his own brother! You remember how he pictured their old father at home, who would certainly die of a broken heart if Benjamin did not return to him in safety and how, at last, he offered to be a bondman to Joseph if he would but let Benjamin go free. You see, he pleaded for substitution, and he also told Joseph how he became surety for the lad unto his father—and his plea was so effectual that Joseph could refrain himself no longer, but bursting into tears declared that he was their long-lost brother! So, dear Friends, if the great Lord of Heaven and earth seems angry with you because of your sins—"and He is angry with the wicked every day"—put your case into the hands of the sinners' Advocate, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and when He stands up to plead with His Father for you, He will soon bring a smile of forgiveness upon the righteously severe Countenance of His Father and you shall gladly say, "Jesus, You are He whom Your brethren shall praise because of Your almighty power in pleading for them." We find that at a later period, the tribe of Judah was foremost in wisdom and skill. If you turn to Exodus 35:30, you will see that when the tabernacle was to be erected in the wilderness, "Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lord has called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; and to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work." And, surely, I may metaphorically apply this description to our Judah-Jesus! What wisdom there is in Him and what skill! What is there that He cannot do? Bezaleel could cut, polish, and set precious stones—but Jesus can take the worthless pebbles of the brook and transmute them into diamonds! Jesus takes "base things of the world, and things which are despised," and works such marvelous changes in them that the Lord of Hosts says concerning them, "They shall be Mine in that day when I make up My jewels." He is a wonderful Lapidary! Some of us have been upon the wheel under His hand for a long time—and we are apt to think that He has cut us most cruelly— but the cutting is intended to bring out our brilliance and to make us fit to shine in the diadem of the King in due time! Bezaleel was also a worker in wood—and our great Judah-Jesus came to us when we were growing wild in the forest of sin. It was His axe of conviction that cut us down and it has been His hand of skill that has been fashioning and carving us to make us worthy to be pillars in His Temple! …