Bezalel

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0:00 Okay, today we're talking about Bezelel, crazy, in Exodus chapter 35 verse 30, then Moses said to the people of Israel, see the Lord has called by name Bezelel, the son of Uri, the son of her of the tribe of Judah, and he has filled them with the Spirit of God with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship to devise artistic designs to work in gold and silver and bronze in cutting stones for setting and in carving

0:35 wood for work in every skilled craft. And he has inspired him to teach both him and O'Holeab the son of Ahissamak of the tribe of Dan. He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroidery in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine woven linen or by a weaver by any sort of workman or skilled designer. I have with me today Carol Forrest and Brian Carlson, maybe you heard of him, I like talking

1:09 to them about the Bible and I've asked him, what does this make you guys think of? Bezelel, the craftsman to end all craftsmen. Or to begin. Or to begin, sure, yeah. I think about that when I think about the guys in the Old Testament and how it says he filled them with the Spirit, it doesn't say it a lot, but when it talks about some specific

1:41 guys it does talk about that. And I love that the artist needed to be filled with the Spirit to have all of the gifts that he could create, design. Like he had to think of the design, you know, he had to look at the plan and make sure it would work and find the tools and find the people that could help with the tools and the fabric.

2:12 I love thinking about God filling artists because a lot of times as a creative you feel very alone. It's like a lonely communal kind of job. Like, especially if you don't do a thing that affects a lot of people, you don't get feedback and you feel really insecure about the things that you're making. Like I wonder if Bezel-Leil felt like, oh, am I doing this right?

2:43 Does it look good? Like I'm making this for God. The actual God. Does it look good? Are the people going to like it? We're going to have to take it down. Right? This is the traveling one. Yes, the traveling one. Yeah. So we're like, it has to be innovative. It has to be beautiful. It has to be safe for the priest to go in. Is this one where God gave the measurements and stuff? Yeah. He always paid out. So, yeah, I just, I like that he gave him a helper guy that could do it all with him.

3:17 A holy ab. A holy ab. He didn't have to be alone. The great name for that. This is great. But that's what I think about that God, it's mentioned that he was filled with the spirit because artists make weird stuff. And it's important to know that it comes sometimes. From a place from real. Yeah. Yeah. His came from God, the spirit of God. Yeah, that's great. I just have like logistical concerns, you know, for example.

3:53 Did he get paid? How much did he get paid? This is a big job. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah, God, did Moses tell him beforehand or did he just call him out like at the meeting and he's like, whoa, me? What? I don't know, just so many. Yeah. A lot of responsibility. You would think it feels very weighty. I do think it's really interesting to think about that the spirit of God comes and that the spirit of God is needed for things to be made beautifully.

4:25 Mm-hmm. And when I was thinking about this, I was like in my head thinking about the same God that makes like the symmetry in a leaf also makes the like unpredictable shape of a cloud, you know? And like the cloud is in no way symmetrical or predictable, but it's just as interesting as the leaf that, and so I like the idea that the spirit of God is the source of beauty. Yeah. And it gives us permission, I think, to really appreciate things just because they're beautiful.

5:02 Mm-hmm. And it's nice to know the name of the place that starts. Yeah. Bezel-ed. Yeah. The craftsmen to start all craftsmen. Yeah, and it's also like, I mean, it's cool that God wants our participation. It doesn't mean to. It's like we're making everything. It can just snap his fingers and there's this little traveling arc, but yeah. As you know, like one of the things we talk about, the continual inviting us into it,

5:36 inviting us into it, doesn't need it. But wants it, wants us to be a part of the community of God and the perfect perfection of the trying of God and all that kind of stuff is fascinating. And very cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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