Every Wise Hearted Shall Come
Scripture: Exodus 35:10Devotional Series: Build Me a Sanctuary
Teaching: Build Me A Sanctuary pt. 1 (WED 2022-07-27) by Pastor Star R Scott
Exodus 35:5 says, And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the Lord hath commanded.” God has put people in the church, and everything that happens spiritually, He puts us in the church to edify one another and to bind us together, everything that Ephesians teaches. God has also, always, put in the church skilled people, craftsmen, to maintain the outward facilities. But there’s a great truth here that I’m going to show you in just a moment. Those people did not build the tabernacle alone. Their hands were laid to the task. In fact, the Spirit, we find in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, every person was there; with one hand they held a weapon, with the other hand they worked; amen? Every man. What’s being said here in Exodus is this: the skilled people teach the rest of us what to do. “Well, I don’t know anything about that.” You don’t need to. You need to show up, and somebody will tell you what to do; amen? And there’s so much in a project like this. There’s so much to be done, again, as you see it in the book of Nehemiah—the trash that needed to be hauled. The same anointing and the same blessings are upon the people that are hauling off the trash as the ones that are the artisans that are carving and working on the implements of the tabernacle. There is nothing mundane when you’re working for God; amen?
It talks about the fact that there are those among us that are wise-hearted. The twenty-first verse says, “And they came, every one whose heart stirred them up.” Somebody said they were talking to one of our young adults, and the young man said, “That’s just not my thing.” Well, then, my question would be, “What is your thing?” If being with the people of God isn’t your thing... You know, it’s not really my thing to be up there at 120 degrees either. Every person came, not because of compulsion, but because of a willing heart. I would just take it as an opportunity to look at your heart if you’re having trouble, because this is where you find out, in things like this, how unified and one we really are. These are just opportunities that enable us to be knit together.
But, as we’re looking again at what God’s doing, and we look down at that tenth verse, Chapter 35, “… every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the Lord has commanded.” Let’s turn over again to the twenty-first verse, “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 of the tabernacle of the congregation.” Now, here’s what’s going to be cool: they’re bringing an offering, and they’re coming themselves to work. And it says, “And both men and women who had willing hearts brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets of all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the Lord” (Exodus 35:22). It also talks about the different things that they had to bring, and all the women that were wise-hearted spun with their hands and brought that which they had spun. The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the Lord, those whose hearts made them willing to bring for all manner of work. “And he has filled him, the overseers, with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.” (Exodus 35:31). So there are those that are anointed specifically for these tasks, different ones. Why? Verse 34, “that he may teach.” That he may teach. And them, verse 35, “he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work.” So, the anointing there, the skills that were given, the ability to teach, then, those that had come out with willing hearts, whose hearts that had stirred them.