Exodus 36:5-7 (KJV) Enough and Too Much

Exodus 36:5-7 (KJV)
And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.

Once the people had seen Moses’s countenance, having met with God, and heard his vision for the tabernacle, they were only too willing to be involved. They gave and they worked. Soon enough these people, far from a perfect crowd by the way, had given:

• More than enough, 
• Sufficient and 
• Too much

This passage is often used to motivate Christian giving; “If only everyone would do what they can, God’s work could have more than enough now too.” The implication is that the reason pastors, or other spiritual leaders, cannot tell the people to stop giving is because they haven’t all done what they could.

Perhaps there is another reason.

In the case of the tabernacle, Moses had specific instructions what he was building. His was not a five, ten and twenty year plan[1]. He was to build the tabernacle and the furniture to go inside it. That was it. They knew when they had more than enough because they had a fixed project in view.

Perhaps the reason some ministries never seem to have enough is because they have no finished product in view. They dream of bigger, better and more. Having such dreams, they are never content to tell their congregations that they have given enough.

I am of the opinion that if the congregation will tithe faithfully, the preacher ought to accept that as enough.

[1] The Tabernacle was used, as it was originally built, for hundreds of years.

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Exodus 36:5-7 (KJV) Enough and Too Much

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