Numbers 28:9-10 Bible Study | Episode 810

November 15, 2024

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

Numbers 28:9-10  Bible Study | Episode #810

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had 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. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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Transcript

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.

Well, good morning. Welcome to Lake Community Church's morning Bible study. We are in numbers 28. And if you'll remember, in our last Bible study, we were talking about the daily offering, the daily sacrifice. And they would offer a sacrifice in the morning and then in the evening. Both the sacrifices were done during daylight. One of them would be right after daybreak, and one of them would be late in the evening, before dusk. And so those offerings and those sacrifices became a regular part of the people's lives. It became a stalwarth of how they lived. They would recognize that that was going on. They would think about God. It was one of those times to consider God to. And you say, well, what do you mean by consider God? Consider God means to turn away from your regular life and take up in your own mind the things of God, the things that God is doing, the searching out and trying to find God in your heart and in the world that you live in, and seeing God at work in your life. And so considering God, or as we hustle and bustle and run through our daily lives, oftentimes we forget to consider or to contemplate God and what he is doing in our day, what he's doing each and every day. And so that daily sacrifice for the jewish people in Jerusalem was a. Was a great reminder of that is a great reminder that we could. We should ponder God. We should think about what God's doing, where God's at, how he's moving in our lives, how he's moving in our hearts. We should. We should do that on a regular basis. It should be something that we do all the time. And those, those sacrifices that were daily sacrifices were important. They had the, they had all the pictures of what we would call a devotion or a daily time with God. First of all, you had the sacrifice. You had the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. And that is the. That's the premise, the basis, that's the thing that initiates and makes it possible that we can have that relationship with God, is the sacrifice of Jesus. And we ought to ponder that. We ought to ponder the price and the results more. Just as important, the results of that sacrifice, the results of that sacrifice are an empty grave, a newness of life, a possibility of hope and peace, and especially to know the grace of God and to know the power of God in our lives. That's what that sacrifice is all about. That's what that atoning sacrifice is about. And so when we're having more in that relationship, when we're walking with God, when we're considering what God is doing and how he's doing it, that's where we go. We go to our daily devotion. We set aside time to consider God. Now, in verse nine and ten, you have the Sabbath offerings. And I want you to notice just two verses, in fact, because it doesn't have to go into a whole lot of explanation because, well, the unique reason is they're the same. And on the Sabbath day, two lambs, and the first in their first year without blemish and two tenths of an ephah flower, fine flour as a grain offering mixed with oil, with a drink offering. This is a burn offering for every Sabbath, besides the regular burn offering with its drink offering. And so, if you'll notice, it's the same offering, it's just doubling the offering. So the Sabbath offering would have been a morning and an evening offering, and then there would have been a sacrifice in the middle of the day that would have dealt with those two extra lambs. There's a, there's a, there's the atoning sacrifice offering. Then what do we have with it? The fine flower, which is the bread of life, which is Jesus. When he says, I'm the bread of life, when he, when he talks about them being the manna that comes down from heaven, that's, that's what he is, and that is his word. That's, that's literally scripture, that it's the word of God that we, that we read every day. And, and so many times the, at the initial outset and especially the world, they want to act like what we have is not the word of God. Well, it is. We have the original Greek and Hebrew. We have thousands of manuscripts, original manuscripts that date back within a few centuries of when the actual writing was penned. And so we know with pretty well, we know with historical precision. And when I say historical precision, I mean that it's the most documented book in human history by far. And when I say most documented, I mean by far the most documented book in human history, especially as ancient as it is. And how many books as a part of the Bible, the 66 books that make up the Bible, especially how old some of them are. We know pretty much what the Hebrew and Greek is. We know there are just a couple of places in scripture where there might be a passage that this question maybe, maybe ascribe at some point in time, right at the start, added some. Something, and you go, well, why would they do that? Well, we do it in our own Bible. So we have footnotes and we have additions, and we have study notes in our own Bible. Well, they may have added something to give some context, and it wasn't actually a part of the writing, and we don't consider that scripture, but we don't. We're not sure which one it is, and neither. And usually those things and, well, not usually in every instant, those things are, well, they don't. They don't change anything. They. They may give us a more broad understanding of it, may widen our ability to know what's going on, but they don't change the context at all. In fact, they're just kind of common. Usually. Almost always, they're just kind of a commentary on what's being said. It's a. It's a opportunity to. For whoever's. Whoever was making that addition, that scribe that was making that addition, they were giving us an understanding for the future. And so that doesn't really change scripture at all. The places that that takes place, which are just a few dozen, are small and don't change the actual intent or purpose or meaning of the verses. And so we know what we have, uh, now, how well we actually translate it into our own language can be some. There's some question about that. There's. There's some really rough and. And, uh, and loose with the, uh, text translations of scripture. There's some pretty tight and strong, uh, they're strong translations of scripture. And so when we eat of the bread of life, we're eating literally what, you know, uh, Moses, David, Peter, John, we're reading what they wrote. We're reading exactly what they wrote in our language, translated from the original Greek, which we have lots of manuscripts of. And so we have the bread of life, and then it's going to be mixed with oil, which means you got to have the Holy Spirit involved. You cannot really understand God's words. You cannot know God at all without the revelation of the Holy Spirit. So we take that flower and mix it with the oil, and that's, that's, that's really kind of your daily Bible study. And on Sunday, you're going to get a double portion of it. You're going to go and you're going to, you're going to have it at church, and then you're going to have it on your own. As you're taking time to consider God, even on Sunday, even outside of church, you're going to consider and ponder who God is. And then with the drink offering. The drink offering was wine. And it's, you know, it's a picture of the goodness of God. And when you have, when you have the atoning sacrifice, the word made flesh, the word of God, Jesus himself, and the power of the Holy Spirit in the oil and the goodness of the Holy Spirit in the drink offering, well, you got a great sacrifice, you've got a great context for relationship. And on Sunday, on the Sabbath, on, now that Sabbath for them was on Saturday, but on the time where you come to worship God corporately is the best way to say it. On that time when that happens, you have a, excuse me. On that time when that happened, you have a, a wonderful communal relationship with God. You commune with him. And so that's what it's all about. And on Sunday morning, you get to do it with a lot of other people and it becomes, well, just a great time of fellowship and a great time of seeking God out. And so when you go to church on Sunday morning, now, the older and more mature you get in the faith. And when I say older, I'm not talking about chronological age. I'm talking about growth in your relationship with God and your understanding of why you are there. The farther you get into your relationship with God and your realization of your gifts and your purposes, Sunday morning becomes a time to serve, to serve God and to serve others. But even in that context of service, God really speaks to us. He really moves in our hearts and our minds. And so contextually, as you're studying through what God does, is you're doing the things that God does. You see God, you see God in his power, you see God in his presence, and you hear from him. And so when you're serving at church, you get a portion of God, and then you get that time. And I always have that time where I kind of ponder and consider what's happened that day and considered the important things that have gone on. And, well, what I'm really doing is just considering God. And so the Sabbath offering is just a double portion of the daily sacrifice. The I get together on court in corporate worship on Sunday mornings is a double portion of what God is doing each and every day and wants to do each and every day in your life. If you give him an opportunity, I pray that that'll be the case for you. I pray that you'll give him an opportunity to be and do and carry out his hope and life in yours. And I pray that it'll be powerful, and I pray that it'll be life changing. And I pray that each and every day you build your faith, because you make sure that you consider God as you go today. I pray that the Lord will bless.

You and keep you you, that he'll make his face to shine upon you, and that he will give you hope and peace today. In Jesus name.