Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day." Sermons
1. How God brings good out of evil. The Divine physician so treated the distemper of the people that it ended, not simply in restored health, but in increased vitality and energy. The lapse into sin was made the means of imparting to the people the stimulus necessary for the erection of the tabernacle. 2. That revival of religion evinces its reality by the effects which it produces. (1) Willingness to hear. "I will hear what God the Lord will speak" (Psalm 85:8). Happy would it have been for Israel had it not "turned again to folly." (2) Willingness to give. Liberality in the Lord's service. (3) Willingness to work. The joy of salvation cannot better spend itself than in the doing of the work of the Lord's kingdom, Willing hearts, ready hands. On the injunction to keep the sabbath, see Homily on Exodus 31:12-18. - J.O.
Ye shall kindle no fire. Biblical Museum. In the old time it was a law that each night, at a prescribed hour, a bell should be rung, on hearing which the people were to put out their fires. This a law not about putting fires out each day, but against lighting a fire on one particular day. Why this law?I. TO SHOW THAT ON THE SABBATH, ESPECIALLY, MEN SHOULD ATTEND TO THE INTERESTS OF THE SOUL RATHER THAN TO THE COMPORTS OF THE BODY. II. TO REMOVE FRIVOLOUS EXCUSES FOR NON-ATTENDANCE ON RELIGIOUS WORSHIP. III. TO GUARD THE TIME OF FEMALES OR SERVANTS FROM UNRIGHTEOUS INVASION; and teach men that women had religious rights and duties equally with themselves. IV. TO INCULCATE IN ALL THE DUTY OF SELF-SACRIFICE IN MATTERS RELATING TO THE SOUL AND GOD. (Biblical Museum.) Scientific Illustrations. All creation seems to possess the instinct of rest. We well know how eagerly the human heart sighs for rest. But it is not so well known that even plants sleep. Their strange sleep, says Figuier, vaguely recalls to us the sleep of animals. In its sleep the leaf seems by its disposition to approach the age of infancy. It folds itself up, nearly as it lay folded in the bud before it opened, when it slept the lethargic sleep of winter, sheltered under the robust and hardy scales, or shut up in its warm down. We may say that the plant seeks every night to resume the position which it occupied in its early days, just as the animal rolls itself up, lying as if it lay in its mother's bosom. All the world seems to express the sentiment contained in the words uttered by one of old, who desired the wings of a dove in order to seek and obtain rest.(Scientific Illustrations.) People Aaron, Ahisamach, Aholiab, Bezaleel, Dan, Hur, Israelites, Moses, Shoham, UriPlaces SinaiTopics Burn, Dwellings, Fire, Habitations, Houses, Kindle, Lighted, Sabbath, Sabbath-day, ThroughoutOutline 1. The Sabbath4. The free gifts for the tabernacle 20. The readiness of the people to offer 30. Bezaleel and Aholiab are called to the work Dictionary of Bible Themes Exodus 35:2-3 1653 numbers, 6-10 Library An Old Subscription List'And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the Lord's offering to the work....' --EXODUS xxxv. 21. This is the beginning of the catalogue of contributions towards the erection of the Tabernacle in the wilderness. It emphasises the purely spontaneous and voluntary character of the gifts. There was plenty of compulsory work, of statutory contribution, in the Old Testament system of worship. Sacrifices and tithes and other things … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Appendix xvii. The Ordinances and Law of the Sabbath as Laid Down in the Mishnah and the Jerusalem Talmud. Gifts and Talents. Early Battles Exodus Links Exodus 35:3 NIVExodus 35:3 NLT Exodus 35:3 ESV Exodus 35:3 NASB Exodus 35:3 KJV Exodus 35:3 Bible Apps Exodus 35:3 Parallel Exodus 35:3 Biblia Paralela Exodus 35:3 Chinese Bible Exodus 35:3 French Bible Exodus 35:3 German Bible Exodus 35:3 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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