Exo Msg 85

1. Anything that does not have a measurement refers to something eternal, immeasurable, unlimited, and inexhuastible.
2. The glory of the divine nature as a rim signifies the divine keeping power and holding strength.
3. If we live Christ at home and at work, the very Christ whom we live will become the glory expressed through us. Tis glory, this expression, will become a rim that holds us and keeps us.
4. A golden ring signifies the eternal Spirit.
5. Four rings of gold signify that the divine nature of Christ is the linking factor and power.
6. The eteranl life-giving Spirit becomes the linking power through the expereience of the cross.
7. In our experience, the Spirit must pass through the testing of the cross, the casting, before the eternal Spirit can become in us a golden ring with its linking power.
8. Four signifies the four corners of the earth to reach all men.
9. If we would bear Him as God's testimony, we should be one with Him.
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Exo Msg 84

1. Just as Christ is the testimony of God, so the church is the testimony of Christ.
2. The law is a definition of God, not as commandments for people to keep.
3. The law is holy, just, good, and spiritual because it is a portrait of God.
4. The ark typifies Christ as the embodiment of God's testimony.
5. The ark signifies the center of God's dwelling place, the church.
6. The church must have Christ as the content in reality and not merely in terminology.
7. The outward prerequisite is the ground of oneness, and the inward prerequisite is Christ as the contents, as the embodiment of God's testimony.
8. Christ's humanity was strong in character and high in standard.
9. The overlaying of gold inside and outside signifies the divine nature mingled with the human nature.
10. The numbers of five and three signify God's building.
11. A half signifies another half is needed for a full testimony.
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Exo Msg 83

1. Silver signifies Christ's redemptive work.
2. Redemption involves termination and replacement.
3. Bronze signifies the testing of God's judgement.
4. Under God's testing, a young person may be examined by Him when he is about to say or do a certain thing at school.
5. The experience of the onyx is the basis for the experience of the other precious stones.
6. Linen signfies Christ's conduct
7. Blue color indicates heavenly.
8. Purple signifies royalty.
9. Scarlet signifies the blood of Christ shed for our redemption.
10. We need the Lord's cleansing even though we may not feel defiled because we are still in the old creation.
11. Acacia wood signifies Christ's human nature that is strong in character and high in standard.
12. Oil signifies the Spirit of Christ.
13. Spices signify the effectiveness and sweet odor of Christ's death and resurrection.
14. Goat's hair signify Christ made sin for us.
15. The rams' skins dyed red signify Christ's redemption accomplished through the shedding of His blood.
16. Porpoise skins signify Christ's strength in bearing sufferings.
17. The pattern of the tabernacle and of all its furniture signifies the church and all the details of the church life.
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Exo Msg 82

1. All the materials refer to the virtues of Christ's Person and work and that all were offered to God as a heave offering.
2. Wave offering is a type of Christ in resurrection.
3. Heave offering is the ascended Christ.
4. Gold signifies Christ's divine nature and it is pure and everlasting.
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Exo Msg 81

1. The tabernacle and the temple should be regarded as one dwelling place, not two.
2. Christ is the tabernacle, the church is the enlarged tabernacle, and the New Jerusalem will be the consummate tabernacle.
3. The sanctuary is not an individual person, it is a corporate people.
4. The ark typified the individual Christ. The tabernacle typifies both the individual Christ and corporate Christ.
5. In order to see the vision of the tabernacle, we need to pass through experiences of Passover, the Red Sea, Marah and Elim, manna, living water out of the cleft rock, the war against Amaleke.
6. 40 signifies tests and trials.
7. The materials of the tabernacle refer to Christ's person and work.
8. The heave offering refers to the uplifted Christ in ascension. The wave offering typifies Christ in resurrection.
9. There were 12 kinds of materials used in building the tabernacle. These 12 materials belong to 3 categories: minerals, plants, and animals. Animals are for redemption. Plant is for generating life. Minerals are used for building and fighting.
10. Christ's life is first redemption, generation, and building.
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Exo Msg 80

1. God's goal in His salvation is to bring His redeemed people into His dwelling place on earth.
2. Tabernacle is used in 3 ways in the bible. First, it's the tabernacle at the foot of Mount Sinai. Second, it is the Lord Jesus as God's tabernacle with man. Third, it is the New Jeruslam, the ultimate, consummate, enlarged tabernacle of God.
3. In our experience we may come to the stage of seeing god under a clear heaven without reaching the stage of remaining with God under His glory.
4. On the one hand, we cannot go back to the experience of seeing God under a transparent sky; on the other hand, we have not yet entered into the glory.
5. Where are we in our fellowship with the Lord? Are we with the people at the foot of the mountain, or are we with those on the mountain, or are we Moses on the mountaintop?
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Exo Msg 79

1. Sprinkled on the book because when the law was brought down to the people, it became unclean.
2. The blood for forgiveness of sines ushered in the better things.
3. In the new covenant, a new heart. To change their heart is with respect to their nature.
4. A new spirit to regenerate and reconstitute them.
5. I will put my Spirit within you - to put Himself into them.
6. A new heart to love Him and a new spirit to receive Him.
7. God promised to give the people a new heart, a new spirit, His spirit, and the inward law of life.
8. The blood not only redeemed God's people but also brought them into the enjoyment of God.
9. The blood of Christ redeems us, brings us to the tree of life, leads to waters of life, ushers us into the Holy of Holies, enables us to serve the living God, brings us to the temple of God to enjoy God for eternity,
10. The blood of the covenant is not mainly for forgiveness; it is primarily for God to be our portion.
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Exo Msg 78

1. The altar with the sacrifices produced the blood for the enactment of the law.
2. The first function of the law is to reveal God.
3. The seconf function of the law is to cause people to realize that they are fallen and far away from God.
4. The blood of the sin offering was shed on the altar. Then this blood was brought into the Holy of Holies and sprinkled on the propitatitory cover.
5. The blood brought His people into His presence.
6. Instead of trying to carry out these commandments, we should confess, in the light of the revelation in the Bible, that we are fallen, sinful, and corrupt.

Exo Msg 77

1. The burnt offering was for God's satisfaction.
2. Christ first became the burnt offering offered to God to satisfy Him, and then He became the peace offering to make peace between man and God.
3. Instead of making ridiculous promises, we should pray, "Lord, I have nothing, and I can do nothing. But with You there is the possibility for me to be redeemed, terminated, and replaced. Lord, by working Yourself into me You can reconstitute me and make me a living pillar as Your testimony."
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Exo Msg 76

1. Because God is holy, with Him there is nothing common.
2. Because God is righteous, with Him there is no injustice.
3. Because He is love and light, with Him there is no hatred or darkness.
4. As soon as the law was enacted, it became a covenant between God and His people.
5. With the enactment of the law through Moses, there are a certain particular, uncommon parts. First, there was an altar, twelve pillars, two types of offerings (burnt and peace), and the blood.
6. The altar indicates that we cannot keep the law of god and that we need to be redeemed.
7. They needed to be terminated and replaced by the sacrifices.
8. Christ is our Redeemer, substitute, and replacement.
9. The pillars are for a testimony.
10. After we have been redeemed, terminated, and replaced, we become pillars, the testimony of god, reflecting what He is.
11. The NT was given to make Christians a reflection of God.
12. For us to be a living testimony is accomplished by Christ through the cross.
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Exo Msg 75

1. Whether our sins are gross or somewhat refined and cultured, they have their source in the natural life.
2. We should not make any covenants with the natural life. To make a covenant with a natural life is to compromise with it.
3. God is ready to give us life, but we much be willing to kill the practices of the body.
4. The Spirit is willing to lead us, but we must be willing to e led by Him.
5. God gives life and the Spirit leads, witnesses, and intercedes. However, these four activities depend on our taking the initiative.
6. When we drive out the pagan tribes, the natural life, God also drives out these tribes.
7. According to the Bible, everything is by God's grace. Nevertheless, man must cooperate with God.
8. Mother's feeding the child requires the child to cooperate.
9. The more we grow in life, the more we shall take the initiative to drive out the natural life.
10. We must grow and be replaced by Christ. We must have the increase of Christ within us so that we can be replaced by Him so that we can take the initiative to drive out the natural life.
11. Our food is the word and our drink is the Spirit.
12. Today many Christians are spiritually blind, deaf, dumb, or paralyzed.
13. God's complete care of His people includes: blessing their food and water, taking sickness away from them, granting them multiplication, and causing them to live to full age.

Exo Msg 74

1. If we would experience Christ we must, on the one hand, know the frustraters and, on the other hand, know he detailed way to take possession of Christ and gain Him experientially.
2. We need to obey His voice, His speaking.
3. Once we have provoked the Lord, He will not pardon us until we confess.
4. The heathen may denote the Gentiles, whereas pagan indicates something demonic, devilish, and idolatrous.
5. The degree of God's driving out of the inhabitants of the land is measured by the increase of His people.
6. Our natural life is fallen, sinful, devilish, and demonic.
7. God's driving out of the natural life depends on our growth, increase, reproduction, and multiplication. It also depends on our taking the initiative to drive out these tribes.
8. If god were to drive out the natural life without a corresponding increase of Christ, we would become vacant. The something worse, the beasts, demons, would enter in to take possession of us.

Exo Msg 73

1. If we would take possession of the promised land, we must deal with the frustraters and also pay attention to the boundaries of the land.
2. The angel typifies Christ as the One sent by God to guard us in the way and to bring us into the land.
3. Zechariah 2:8 indicates that Johovah of hosts is being sent and 2:9 indicates He is the sent One. This indicates that the Sender and the sent One are one.
4. Trinity denotes the dispensation and application of the Triune god.
5. The sea signifies death and river signifies the water of death; wilderness signifies barrenness. The land is surrounded by death and barrenness. The land itself is a region of life filled with abundance of fruit.
6. The various pagan tribes occupying the land signify different aspects of our natural life.
7. Cannan means merchant.
8. In our natural life there are many frstraters which hinder us from taking possession of the all-inclusive Christ.
9. Christians should not expect to become fully spiritual overnight.

Exo Msg 72

1. "Thou shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread" indicates not to mix christ's redemption with our sinful life.
2. Any experience of Christ that is truly a topmost experience should be kept in secret and then brought to god's temple and offered directly to God for His satisfaction.
3. "Not boling a kid in its mother's milk" typifies that the word of God which nourishes the believers should not be used to kill them.
4. Christ alone should be our food and life supply.
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Exo Msg 71

1. In many of these ordinances Christ is portrayed. Either He is typified in a rather direct way or He is implied, indicated, or signified indirectly.
2. Man can worship God through the cross and by Christ.
3. The ordinanaces present us a vivid picture of fallen man living in the fall, filled with sins, invovlved with Satan, related to demons, and fully enslaved. However, there is One who came to man in his fallen and enslaved condition, becoming a slave Himself. After He was delivered by God to be a sacrifice for fallen man, He restored the matters of life, released us from our burdens, and became our refuge. Now we, fallen sinners, may flee into Him and take Him as our rest and freedom.
4. The fulness of the harvest and the outflow of the wine and oil presses signify the fullness of our harvest of Christ and the outflow of our experience of the cross.
5. If we live in Christ, enjoying Him as our rest and freedom, we shall grow in life, produce a harvest.
6. We need to flee into Christ, enjoy Him as our rest and freedom, and then live in Him, the all-inclusive One, as the good land.
7. The tears is the flow of wine and oil presses. Wine flows out to cheer God and man; oil flows out to please God.
8. If you enjoyed and experienced God in such a way, you should come to the feeling and offer to God the fullness of your harvest without delay.
9. Although these firstborn deserve to be slain by God, the firstborn of the children of Israel were redeemed by the Passover Lamb.
10. We are redeemed by Christ; now we do not belong to ourselves, but God.
11. To be holy is to be saturated by Christ and with Him as our holiness before God.
12. Not eating any flesh that is torn by beasts (Exo 22:31), but casting it instead to the dogs signifies that we should take only Christ as our life supply, not anything of death.
13. Keeping the Sabbath day enabled others to rest and be refreshed, whereas observing the Sabbatical year supplied others with food.
14. By keeping Sabbath day, we take Christ as our rest but by observing the sabbatical year we take Christ as our rest to a much fuller degree.
15. On the one hand, we need to learn how to live in Christ; on the other hand, we need to learn how to benefit others in Christ.
16. Keeping feasts unto god three times a year typifies the full enjoyment of the Triune God in Christ.
17. Keeping the feast of unleavened bread typifies enjoying Christ as the sinless life supply.
18. The feast of Passover and the feast of unleavened bread are one.
19. The feast of harvest typifies the enjoyment of the firstfruit of the Spirit of the resurrected Christ.
20. Firstfruits are related to the resurrected Christ (1 Cor. 15:20,23). The resurrected Christ is the life-giving spirit (1 Cor. 15:45). In the OT, there are firstfruits. In the NT, there is the Spirit. Firstfruits = resurrected Christ as the life-giving spirit.
21. Pentecost is related to the Spirit. The feast of the harvest was on the fiftieth day after the firstfruit was offered to God on the eighth day.
21. The feast of ingathering typies the enjoyment of the fullness of the Father in Christ.
22. This feast is also called the feast of tabernacles signifying the enjoyment of the fullness of the Triune God for eternity in the new heaven and the new earth.
23. First, we have the enjoyment of Christ as the Son; second, the enjoyment of God as the Spirit; and, consummatedly, the enjoyment of God the Father.

Exo Msg 70

1. Words like pollution, nakedness, slavery, murder, stealing, coveting, and witch strongly point both to man's fall and to his living in the fall.
2. Because of man's fall and man's living in the fall, there was the need for god to come in to decree the law with its ordinances.
3. On the negative side, we have Satan, demons, indwelling sin, and outward sins. On the positive side, we have God, Christ, the cross, redemption, forgiveness, justification, and reconciliation.
4. "Lord, I thank You that You are able to replace my husband with Yourself. I ask You, Lord, to replace Him."
5. The need for redemption indicates we are sinful. The need for termination indicates we are a hopeless case.
6. If we trace murder and lies to their source, we shall find the Devil.
7. Are you a sinner by mistake, or are you are a willful sinner? Your repentence toward God indicates that you are a sinner by mistake. Any sinner who repents is a mistaken sinner, one who can be graciously forgiven by God.
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Exo Msg 69

1. Theft is motivated by greed.
2. Someone who kidnaps a person is also one who does not honor his parents.
3. The ordinances in these chapters require us to preserve human life.
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Exo Msg 68

1. We must worship God through an altar (cross) and with the sacrifices (Christ)
2. The spirit of the ordinance in 21:1-6 is love and obedience.
3. The willingness to be a slave is a prerequisite to keeping all the detailed ordinances of the law.
4. To be a slave is to have the spirit of sacrifice.
5. Psalm 40:6: God desires not sacrifice or offering, but ears which are open to Him. He opened the ears of Lord Jesus so that He could do God's will.
6. Continuing as a slave is not a legal requirement; it is a matter of love.
7. Love is shown through sacrifice.
8. Love produces obedience.
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Exo Msg 67

1. Religion is the result of a thoughtful study of nature with man's philosophical inferences.
2. In 20:24-26, both man's work and way are utterly rejected by God.
3. Man's way is to build up something with as many steps as possible.
4. The altar God requires must be something which, in the eyes of man, is primitive and uncultured.
5. God's revelation leaves no room for man's work or way.
6. People may claim to worship God, but in their worship the work and way of man have actually caused them to put God aside.
7. To bring in anything of a human source is to insult the very God whom we worship.
8. To add man's work to the cross is abominable to God.
9. Everyone who worships God is terminated at the altar. Because we are a totality of sin, when we come to worship God, we should pray, "Lord, cleanse me with the precious blood and cover me with Yourself. Lord, in myself I dare not do anything. I come to worship You through Your cross. Wash me with Your redeeming blood and cover me with Yourself as my righteousness. Because I am a fallen person, I dare not do anything, plan anything, or bring anything of my own."
10. Anything that originates with us, anything which comes from our labor, is pollution and is not acceptable to God.
11. Nakedness denotes the shame of fallen man.
12. Climbing up steps to an altar exposes one's nakedness.
13. "Lord, cover me. I don't know what to say to the brothers. Lord, you be everything in this situation." To pray in this way is to keep ourselves under Christ as our covering.
14. The altar will terminate us with all our works and ways.
15. In the worship of God we must be identified with Christ as our sacrifice on the cross and be terminated.
16. The sacrifices, typifying Christ, satisfy god and give us mutual satisfaction with God and other worshippers.
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Exo Msg 66

1. The book of Exodus has one main point: God's redemption and salvation.
2. At Mount Sinai the children of Israel were feasting with God.
3. The law includes ordinances and commandments.
4. God whom we worship is the living and the speaking God (He has spoken from heaven, 20:22)
5. The burnt and peace offering in 20:24 is fellowship between God and His redeemed people.
6. To hold on to wealth instead of holding on to the living God is to worship idols.
7. The altar denotes the corss. Related to altar, we have death, burning, and resurrection.
8. The fact that the children of Israel could erect an altar either of earth or stone idicates that the cross is readily available.
9. "God, thank You for prreparing the cross that I may worship You. There is no need for me to work. I simply receive the cross You have prepared."
10. To hew the stones to make the altar more beautiful is to add man's work to God's work. This brings in pollution.
11. Steps refer to man-made way. Every denomination has its kind of steps. These steps cause man's nakedness to be exposed.
12. No steps means no place for human attainment or achievement, no place for man's way.
13. Burnt offering is for God's satisfaction, and the peace offering is for the people's enjoyment with God mutually.
14. A God who does not speak cannot bless. Our worship must be such that it invites the living God to come to us and bless us.

Exo Msg 65

1. The ministry of Moses was a ministry of condemnation and death because the pople were in darkness and their hearts were hardened.
2. Paul's ministry was of righteousness and Spirit.
3. The veil was simply the hardened heart of the children of Israel.
4. To unbelievers and even to believers who are indifferent in heart, the gospel of grace may become a ministry of condemnation and death.
5. Whether the Lord's ministry brings justification or condemnation, life or death, depends on our heart.