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If you were to name people who have lived an effective life, who would you name? In the Christian world, I think many people would say Billy Graham, or Chuck Smith, or Greg Laurie, Luis Palau or perhaps James Dobson. Going back a bit further, perhaps Corrie Ten Boom or Charles Spurgeon.

But there are many others who lived the effective life you probably have never heard of. They are famous in heaven, however.

When you think of the most effective people in the Bible, who comes to mind? Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, David, Daniel, Isaiah, Elijah and Elisha? But what about those who aren’t so famous? Have you heard of Bezalel and Oholiab? You will hear of them today. Without question they lived the effective life. But what makes a life effective?

First, there is a distinction between the world’s definition and God’s definition of an effective life. God’s definition of an effective life comes from a spiritual perspective. God made us with a soul and spirit and an effective life comes from spiritual bearing.

To be effective means to accomplish a goal or purpose. To be spiritually effective you must fulfill God’s purpose. He wants your life to have meaning and purpose, to have value, to live for that which is higher and greater than yourself; to have spiritual significance and to make an impact on the people around you. An effective life is a fulfilling life because you are fulfilling God’s purpose.

In these verses today, you see those principles which God gives to those who seek to live the effective life and fulfill God’s purpose.

When God met Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him not only laws and commandments, He also gave instructions for building the tabernacle, the place where God’s presence, His Shekinah glory, would be seen. God was fulfilling His promise that His presence would go with them as He brought them to the land He promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

God gave Moses detailed instructions about how the tabernacle was to be built. Every aspect of the tabernacle is a shadow of the throne of God in heaven itself and a symbol of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who makes relationship with God possible.

In these verses today, God called the men He desired to use in the craftsmanship of the tabernacle, and He called them by name. These are Bezalel and Oholiab; not famous in the annals of biblical history, but effective in fulfilling God’s purpose and examples to everyone who seeks to live the effective spiritual life and fulfill God’s purpose.

I. God Calls You to His Purpose

 God specifically called Bezalel and Oholiab by name for the purpose to which he had called them.

 Does God call you as well? Absolutely. And He calls you by name…

Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

A. God calls you to relationship first

 What does the word ‘calling’ mean? Literally, it means to call someone’s name to get their attention.
Revelation 3:20, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.”
 God has a calling and gives purpose to your life, but God calls you to relationship with Him first.
 When David was a young man, God called him and anointed him to become the next king of Israel. But long before that, David had a relationship to God.
Illus - When David was just a simple shepherd, writing Psalms and singing to the Lord and playing on his harp, did he have it in his mind that one day he would be famous? Did he say to himself, “One day these psalms will be read all of the world, I should get a publisher.” Was that the reason David wrote the Psalms? No, David wrote Psalms and worshiped on his harp because of his heart for God.
God called him to relationship before he called him to be king. The same is true for you and me.

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