This is Chad Harrison, and you're listening to Hope Alive, Applying God's Word to Your Daily Life.
Hi, this is Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and have been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now, that God would open up his word to you and allow you to see him and to know him and to know his will, that you might glorify him and that you might walk in faith and power each and every day.
Especially today. In Jesus name. Good morning. Welcome to like community churches morning Bible study. We are in Leviticus chapter eight, and there is so much to deal with as far as the anointing of Aaron and consecration of Aaron and his sons into the priesthood. And so it's a pretty land chapter probably spent several few days on this, but that being said.
It is a river for picture God annuity, a line of priest, an river of priest. And that's one of the words that we use is the river of Aaron or the priesthood of Aaron. And that priesthood was passed down. A family line is passed down family line from generation to generation.
In fact that family line is still got remnants of it here today on the earth. There, there are Jews that come from the line of Aaron. And that, that. Is still there and it's still operating. It is a, it's an important and the anointing of the high priest is something that I think is deserves a whole lot of Insight deserves a whole lot of investigation, looking at, considering and for all kinds of reasons.
And that's why I say there's a whole lot to talk about the Princeton that Aaron was in, that Aaron was the beginning of, is an impertinent order. It, interestingly you can drag as far as how they were consecrated and set. Said into that office, you can draw a lot of insights as far as I preached to the priesthood that I wrote that up and you can learn a lot about how God said priesthood, the priesthood and what that means for you personally, and you go what priesthood we're a member of?
We're a member of the priesthood that Jesus is a member of, Hebrews, which we'll study in our January Bible study. The book of Hebrews that that explains that priesthood is Jesus comes in the order of Melchizedek and he's on Genesis. And I have a Bible study on that. If you want to flip back through and find that Bible study in the book of Genesis Matilda Beck's priesthood is the priesthood that Jesus comes in, and it's an eternal priesthood, the Bible says.
It is and not just the New Testament the Old Testament. And so that priesthood is the one that we're a part of. Now, you've got to run in a different priesthood, so we don't need to, no, that's not how it works. We, It's just because we're in a different does not mean that the office and the position and how that position functions really changes because it doesn't how we approach God and what we do in that priesthood is very important.
Now. They they consecrate Aaron and the sons. It is a, it, those priesthoods, the priesthoods, when they're put in place, they're going to be passed down, they're going to keep going on, and they're not to, they're not to have an end to them. And when Aaron was made high priest, the order of priest under Aaron was supposed to last for a long time, and by the way, it did.
It, it lasts only until the time of Jesus. Moving a millennia later, you have priests that are in the line of Aaron. And then that priesthood, like I said there are still there's still a lineage of Aaron in the world today. And so it says in the lyric spectrum, I was just saying, take Aaron and his sons with him.
A birr as the sun offering, two lambs, and a basket of unleavened bread, and gather the whole congregation together at the birr of the tabernacle. It's easy for me to say the tabernacle of meeting. So Moses did as the Lord commanded him and the congregation was gathered together to the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
And Moses said to the congregation, this is what the Lord has commanded to be done. Now notice as the last two chapters, this is a commandment. This is where God said. This is what it should be done. Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water and he put the Tumi on them and guarded them with the sash, clothed them with the robe and put the EOD on them.
And he guarded them with the intricately of the roe and band of the eod and with the tithe the, and with that, he tied the EOD airmen and what you have here is a picture. Now you go I just don't really know how to think what that looked like. Interestingly, in the last few years, I've watched a movie and the movie's called The King and it's about a it's about King Henry, I think the eighth and and his being a noted king and coming into his position as king.
Because his brother is not able to take the throne. His father dies. And the truth is King Henry is a is he's the one that should take the line because he's the eldest son, but his youngest brother gets killed and and he's the pick of his father and. King Henry, the reason he was not supposed to be king was because he was rebellious.
He didn't want, he didn't want to be king. He didn't desire to be king. He had he had fallen out with his father. He had given himself over to riotous living. It's really, once you study his life, you realize it's a picture of a prodigal son. And then all of a sudden it's time for him to be king and the nation needs him.
And he just totally changes his life. He just totally has a life changing experience that revives around him becoming the king. And and the reason about that is because there's actually a depiction of him being anointed and placed into the position of king. And the way it starts out is he is on his knees.
And the flow of just just something covering his bottom half. And he's he's, he doesn't have any Cleveland in the acrobat and he's got his arms outstretched and they are melting him King, just like in this position. And the reason I bring that up is because. It's a perfect picture of us. And really that's what happens here.
The Lord said to Moses saying to Aaron take Aaron and his sons with him. All right. So you've got the priesthood, the lineage to end the bandits. Those were the clothing that the priest was supposed to wear. That's a picture. All those, and we've gone through those in detail. All those pictures are a picture of the rain, not that a priest is supposed to wear.
All of them have symbology to The things that we were to do as priest our covering of sin that God has provided to us. The the tieback to his word as far as the e five's concerned and his plan, that is an eternal plan. And then it says, take full anointing oil. And so we have the power, the resonant pilot of God that's going to be involved in this.
The power of God to take a prodigal like King Haley. Hello. A prodigal like us, someone who is who is lost and dying, and then God redeems them out of that death. And a bull as the sin offering. You remember, I, I know I told you bulls, ox, cattle, basically is a picture of our flesh. So they're going to take the bull as a sin offering and a basket of unleavened bread, which is The Word of God.
It's a picture of the Word of God. It's a fellowship offering, but it is the picture of the Word of God. And gather all the congregation together at the Durable Tabernacle Meeting. Notice, this is a public event. This is something that's going to be done out in the public so that everybody can see it, so that there's an order of McKisnick.
And it's not a direct. Some similarity, but it has a lot of similarities to a public baptism. It is a public anointing and pilot of what God wants to do. And you have every, all the pictures, all the indications of God's hand. We're taking someone who really doesn't deserve to be.
When I say really, they don't deserve to be a, a. able to have a relationship with God, aiming to be a priest. Aaron really messed up. He didn't shut down the rebellion that was taking place when Moses was getting the Ten Commandments and the golden calf. In fact he engaged in helping them make that golden calf that would turn to indicate in our modern way of thinking that would misqualify him from the priesthood, but it wouldn't misqualify him.
Why? Because if disqualification from the priesthood. It was based off of your perfection prior to the third priesthood. Nobody would be a priest. Did you hear that? If your qualification for being in the priesthood required perfection before you in the priesthood, you would never be a priest. There would not be one.
And so his qualifications have nothing to do with it. God's anointing and God's purposes. is what is important. It's what's important to understand. And he said, take Aaron and his sons and the baromeths, that's the covenant of the saint, and the American oil, that's the power of God, and the bird, which is a sin offering, which is, A picture of offering your sin for flesh and the two lambs.
That's a picture for the sons. He's got a bill for the father, two rams for the son and a basket of unleavened bread, which means the word the revelation of God, the understanding of God's rule and God's plan. Take all of them and meet at the congregation, meet the congregation at the door of the tabernacle.
All y'all put together, we're going to show you, we're going to give you a clear picture of God's American power for those he is going to use to be a part of his kingdom world. So Moses did as the Lord commanded. And we passed by that so many times and we just don't comment on it, it is important to think about it.
Moses did what God said. That's why he is. Today, Moses there are so many people out there that God has so much he wants to do through and he wants to make their name, but he has given them that the name of that is under his name. He wants to make their name known. He wants to make you and who the light of the world.
And the only thing keeping you from that is. obedience to the will of God. And he said, and the congregation was gathered together at the door of the tabernacle meeting. And Moses said to the congregation, this is what the Lord has commanded to be done. What is he saying? We're going to do what God says, as a pastor, so many times, we we're dealing with everything and we're going through life, just like any other person.
And then we're also dealing with a lot of spiritual issues of other people. And it can make you very tired. It can make you very worn out. It can make you very. Today was a Columbus day. And my office was closed. The the courthouse was closed. Most government offices were closed. And my wife asked me, I actually did go spend a an hour or two with my granddaughter, but other than that, I just wrapped around the house and she said did you call anybody, talk to anybody and I did talk to a few folks on the phone, but.
She said, did you go see anybody, talk to anybody? And the answer was no. Why? I didn't want to, I didn't want to talk to anybody. I wanted to be alone. And so a lot of times that's what happens when you're in the position of being a shepherd of a flock of people, but that being said sometimes I don't.
If you would like doing what God has instructed us to do in the church. I don't feel like doing those things. And by the way, if you feel that way, sometimes it's understandable that happens, that doesn't mean that I don't do it. You have to remember, even when all my flesh says I don't feel like it, that doesn't mean that my spirit's not saying do it.
And when the Spirit of God, along with my new human spirit, which he's given me when the Spirit of God, my spirit urged me to do God's will, Then like Moses, we need to do behind the will, we need to do as the Lord is commanded. So Moses air in his sons verse six and wash them with water.
So that's the cleansing power of the Holy Spirit the the washing of the world away. And he put on the tunic on him, meaning the covering of sin, and he goes little, the sash and clothed him with the robe. And he put all the all the different aspects of the garment on him and he prepared him for.
Being the the high priest, he put him in a position to, to be the high priest. And when we're studying and thinking through this there's an element of obedience here. There's an element of commonality here, meaning this is something that we should study because it was common to all believers that we are a real priesthood.
Peter talks about that in first Peter two. It's spoken of by by pair. It's spoken of by John that we are a real priesthood. And those things are important to understand that we, when we read Aaron and him being anointed as the head of the order of his priesthood, that we have a priesthood and we have a head of that priesthood who is Jesus.
And his order is very similar to Aaron, except his order is an eternal order. And When we study this anointing, this preparation of God for our lives and I preach to that we need to take on these things and see some of the power of Moses, who is Aaron's brother Moses doing what God has commanded, he is taking on the role as the leader of God's people, or more importantly, if you, when we get down the road the king the sovereign, over his people.
But Aaron is taking on a very important role there. And that's priesthood. And by the way, we're a kingdom of priests, which means we, we have a real entity. In that the leader of our order is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And we have we are a priesthood, meaning we have direct access to the throne room of heaven, to the altar of God to do the ministry of the kingdom of God in the world that we live in by the way, we're also prophets because we speak God's word.
And we have all three offices and we have a function to to Observed. We have a function to work out in our lives in all three offices, prophet, priest, and king, because Jesus was the prophet that was spoken of about Moses. He was the king of kings, the coming king, the once and future king Jesus.
He is the king of kings and he is our great high priest. He is the one who makes intercession for us with the father in heaven. Even as we speak right now, and we're not missing out and we're not liking anything, but we have his very best available to us each and every day.
And we need to understand that just as Henry was a practical just as Aaron was a prodigal. So we are. A prodigal and God has made us a real a priesthood anyway, you know why? Because his grace is sufficient for us. And so I would say to you today that you need to realize all the positions God has made for you.
You need to begin to reckon those positions and do as the Lord has commanded. As Moses said, he did and.
As you go today, I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you that he'll make his face to shine upon you and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.