Sermon 2 March 2015 By Bruce McCallum

1. BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
The Preparation of your heart

2. Exodus 25:1-3 (NIV)
1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 "Tell the Israelites to
bring me an offering. You are to receive the
offering for me from each man whose heart
prompts him to give.3 These are the offerings you
are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze;
…

3. Exodus 25:1-3 (AMP)
1 AND THE Lord said to Moses, 2 Speak to the
Israelites, that they take for Me an offering. From
every man who gives it willingly and ungrudgingly
with his heart you shall take My offering. 3 This is
the offering you shall receive from them: gold,
silver, and bronze, …

4. Exodus 35:4-6 (NIV)
4 Moses said to the whole Israelite community, "This is
what the Lord has commanded: 5 From what you have,
take an offering for the Lord. Everyone who is willing is
to bring to the Lord an offering of gold, silver and
bronze; 6 blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen;
goat hair;

5. Exodus 35:20-21 (NIV)
20 Then the whole Israelite community withdrew from
Moses' presence, 21 and everyone who was willing and
whose heart moved him came and brought an offering
to the Lord for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all
its service, and for the sacred garments.

6. Exodus 35:29 (NIV)
29 All the Israelite men and women who were
willing brought to the Lord freewill offerings for all
the work the Lord through Moses had commanded
them to do.

7. 1. TABERNACLES, TENTS, TEMPLES AND
PLACES TO WORSHIP …. STAY FOCUSSED

8. 1 Corinthians 6:19 (NIV)
19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of
the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have
received from God? You are not your own;

9. Psalm 24:3-4 (NIV)
3 Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may
stand in his holy place? 4 He who has clean hands
and a pure heart,

10. 2. PREPARE YOUR HEART
2 "… You are to receive the offering for me from
each man whose heart prompts him to give (Ex
25:2)
[Amp] …. they gave ‘willingly and ungrudgingly’.
‘Everyone who is willing is to bring to the Lord an
offering…’ (Ex 35:5)

11. Exodus 35:20-21 (NIV)
20 Then the whole Israelite community withdrew from
Moses' presence, 21 and everyone who was willing and
whose heart moved him came and brought an offering
to the Lord for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all
its service, and for the sacred garments.

12. Exodus 35:29 (NIV)
29 All the Israelite men and women who were
willing brought to the Lord freewill offerings for all
the work the Lord through Moses had commanded
them to do.

13. KEY 1 – WITHDRAW
Then the whole Israelite community withdrew
from Moses' presence,
. and everyone who was willing and whose heart
moved him came and brought an offering to the
Lord for the work on the Tent of Meeting.

14. KEY 2 – FREE FROM PRESSURE & OBLIGATION.
29 All the Israelite men and women who were
willing brought to the Lord freewill offerings for all
the work the Lord through Moses had commanded
them to do.

15. KEY 3 NO STRINGS ATTACHED
they gave ‘willingly and ungrudgingly’.

16. KEY 4 SEPARATE TITHES AND OFFERINGS

17. KEY 5 INVOLVE YOUR FAMILY,
Moses said to the whole Israelite community

18. 3. BE A PARTNER

19. John 14:11-14 (MSG)
11 "Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If
you can't believe that, believe what you see—these works.
12 The person who trusts me will not only do what I'm doing
but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father,
am giving you the same work to do that I've been doing.
You can count on it. 13 From now on, whatever you request
along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I'll do it.
That's how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son.
I mean it. 14 Whatever you request in this way, I'll do.