A sermon on the design of the tabernacle in Exodus 26 by Rev. David Camera.

Application questions:

• How would you say the design of a building or a house and its interior influence us?
• Look at a picture of the Tabernacle online or in your bible. How is the Tabernacle designed?
• What was the design of the Tabernacle intended to communicate to us? About God? About ourselves? About access to God?
• What does the fact that God was willing to dwell in a special way in a tent with His people tell you about His character?
• Do you tend to focus on the accessibility of God or His inaccessibility? Do you know why? Where should our focus be? Why? (Hebrews 10:19-25)
• Think back over the Garden of Eden. How does the Tabernacle represent the Garden, both before and after the Fall?
• Read Revelation 21:22. Why will there be no temple in the New Heavens and Earth?
• Look at John 1:14. How does Jesus fulfill the tabernacle?
• In 1 Cor. 6:12-20 Paul says that individual Christians are “temples” because we are indwelled with the Holy Spirit. What implications does Paul draw in this passage about our moral and ethical behavior?
• Think about the design of church buildings. What messages are communicated, intentionally or not, by their design? How should church buildings be constructed today? What messages should the architecture communicate and why?

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