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Excerpted from: What Does God Really Want? (Part 6)The key to understanding this in a personal way is that these people were involved in building the Tabernacle, which like the Temple is a type of the church. We are to understand that we too, in like manner, have been appointed by God personally to work in edifying—building up—the church. He empowered them with wisdom, and that means skills, or strength of capacity at performing some operation.
He gave them understanding, which means discernment and the ability to arrange or connect knowledge, meaning, specific acquaintance to do cunning works, inventions. By inspiration, by God's Spirit, God added to the natural ability, and so they were empowered to execute God's design in building the church. That is in there for our admonition so that we will understand that every one of us has been handpicked, and that we have been given of God's Spirit, empowered to fulfill our responsibility. The gifts, the ability—the power is already there—and it can be drawn upon. We have the responsibility within our stewardship to use it properly.
Exodus 35:30-31
Excerpted from: The Holy Spirit and the Trinity (Part 4)Perhaps it would be helpful to understand that the basic usage or meaning of the Hebrew word that is translated wisdom is the equivalent of our English word skill. The book of Proverbs tells us, "Above all things, get wisdom." What he is saying is, "Above all things, get skill." Skill in what? Skill in living. God wants us to be skilled in living. In this case God has filled Bezaleel with wisdom, and this wisdom basically had to do with the responsibility that He had given to him.
Exodus 35:30-31
Excerpted from: The Holy Spirit and the Trinity (Part 6)God also increased in them knowledge, which means a particular acquaintance. Cunning works means being inventive, and having a mind to be able to look at something and say, We need this kind of a tool to accomplish it, and be able then to produce the tool to make it. By inspiration God added to natural ability so that they would be able to execute God's design. He gave them things far over and beyond their natural abilities.
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