Daniel Hyde

and its purpose.

We're not trying to read into it.

We're not trying to add something to the Word of God.

Of course, the Lord forbids us from doing that.

But we want to be able to take these passages and derive out of them truth about God and about ourselves, and especially about his relationship with us, his people.

So let me give you six principles, hermeneutical principles.

They'll be short and just mention a few details about each for us to think about how we can understand and read with prophets.

this passage of the tabernacle.

Well, first of all, we have to read these narratives and these stories and all these details as scripture.

The Lord Jesus Christ, of course, tells us that the law, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, the law, as we call it, as he called it, is the word of God.

And Jesus received not only the law, not only the book of Exodus, but this section of

as the Word of God.

And he taught his disciples after his resurrection on the road of Emmaus, he taught two disciples there about the truths of the law, how they pointed to his death and resurrection, his sufferings, and his glory.

And so we read it as the Word.

Paul reminds young Pastor Timothy that from his childhood, he was acquainted with the sacred writings, the scriptures.

and that they are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.

When he talked about the sacred writings, he's speaking especially to Timothy of the Old Testament.

He knew those words from his infancy.

He was taught by his mother and his grandmother the Old Testament, which brought him to the Lord.

And so these narratives of Exodus 25 through 40, roughly, which is the section dealing with the tabernacle, are just as much inspired in the Word of God as our New Testaments.