Numbers 28:11-15 Bible Study | Episode 811

November 18, 2024

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

Numbers 28:11-15  Bible Study | Episode #811

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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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're in numbers, chapter 28, and we are dealing with the. The sacrifices and what this chapter is. In the next chapter is a quick list of the sacrifices. It doesn't really go into a lot of detail about how and why and where. It just gives a list, almost as if God's laying it out. Okay, these are the sacrifices, and this is when you do them. So there'll be a quick guide, you know, almost like a table of contents for sacrifices. If. If they. If they forget, if they don't know, this is how you remember them real quick. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And it turns out that way, that it really looks that way. And so you start out with the daily sacrifice. And again, I say this of the utmost importance. The daily sacrifice was something that was very special to the Jews in Israel. It was very special to the people of Jerusalem. It was a sweet aroma to God, but it was sweet to them because it was a recognition, a daily recognition that God is there and that he is taking care of them, that they have fellowship with him, that he has given them truth, that he's giving them good things, that he's giving them joy. Then you've got the Sabbath offering. And as far as lifestyles go, both of these offerings and what they represent are really, really important for our life, for your life. They're important for you to realize that your life and your walk and everything that goes on on a daily basis, God's in the middle of, and especially for children and teenagers, this continual placing God's word in front of them, the continual making sure that they're in the fellowship of believers, that they're at the meetings on Sundays, is important. It's one of those things that teenagers and children remember. Even if they wander far, far away from God, even if they wander far away from him and the Bible says that happens, and that happens a lot. They don't forget it. And when they come back to it, when they come back to going to church, when they come back to reading God's word, when they come back to talking about the things of God in their heart, there's something that is special there. It's something that stays there. And they remember the good things that come with fellowship from fellowship with God. And, and it is the steadiness of doing it over time, so many times in our, especially in our modern church culture, because we've kind of mixed up the conversion experience where we come to faith in Jesus Christ and repent and turn from our ways and turn to his ways, we focus the whole of our faith kind of on that one event. And in many ways, that's all some churches even really even get into is every Sunday is an evangelistic service. And even if what we're discussing or going through in scripture is, is not evangelistic, maybe it's about family, maybe it's about something about, and all these things come from God, all of the things that might be taught that would be good for edifying the body, even if, even if those things are taught on Sunday morning at the end, it's a call to repentance and a call to relationship with Christ, rather than a call to do and answer and hear what God has said to your heart and act upon it. And sure. Can repentance happen anytime God's words preach? Absolutely. But when we get together as the body of Christ, we're getting together to be grown by God and to be edified by God and to be illuminated by Goddesse and then to walk in that. And so oftentimes, the important thing is not that one experience of conversion. We need to be doing the sanctifying experience, the sozo, the being saved, not the being saved in the event, but the being saved, as in the life process of goddess walking with us and walking us through our lives. And so what's important about that? Well, the important part of salvation, not what we call the event of salvation, which is really a conversion experience. After you've been born again and the holy spirit begins to draw you to God, that moment where you actually realize that you need God, after he's done all the work of making sure that you can get to him, after he's done all the work of revealing himself to you, after he's done all the work of calling you and wooing you by his spirit, once you realize that that event of being converted is, is. Is a culmination of the beginning process of salvation and really the commencing of you joining God in your salvation, which is, which is a process that lasts the rest of your life being, being made in his image and in his likeness, walking with him. Salvation. Salvation is, is a long term process. And so what is the key component of salvation? Well, it's time. Time is the key component of salvation. Not a moment in time, but time as it goes by. Time as things happen, as things go on. And so if you want, for your children, if you want them to have that long term effect of God's presence in their life, you can't take them to the event. You need to take them through the process. The event's important, but the process is what cements the event in place. The process is what makes the event life changing and that's what's going on. When God says we're going to do these sacrifices, he doesn't start out with the event sacrifices. Those things happen once a year. The Passover, the feast of weeks, the feast of booths, the, you know, he doesn't go through those things first. What does he go through? Well, the first thing is the daily sacrifice. Daily time spent with God. Daily time searching after God. Daily time doing what God has called us to do. Second, sacrifice once a week, meeting together. Meeting together to fellowship. Meeting together to edify. Meeting together to use our spiritual gifts to build the kingdom. Meeting together to hear God's word. Meeting together to worship God. Regular, regular, regular. Then what? What does God do? Well, the next, next step is each month at the beginning of your months, verse eleven says, you shall present a burnt offering to the Lord. Two young bulls. Now he's up in the number, the amount of sacrifice, because there's more time. And notice it piles on itself. For the daily sacrifice is in the morning. The evening is the lamb. The Sabbath offering is the same sacrifice, morning and evening lamb. But we're going to add two more. So we're going to have extra, you know, some extra Jesus on the Sabbath, more time on the time we worship together. Then we come in for the monthly offerings. A whole lot of stuff. Two young bulls, that's the sacrifice of your flesh. One lamb, that's the sacrifice of your will. Seven lambs in their first year, a complete atoning sacrifice for your sin. Look at that. So we're adding, we're adding to it as we go through the months of the year. Keep going through those months. And as time marches on, each month we come back and we say, okay, we're going to. We're going to have the bulls, the flesh, the ram, the will, the lambs, the atoning sacrifice, and they're going to be without blemish. Three tenths of an ephah, fine flour, a grain offering mixed with oil for each bull, two tenths for. Of an ephah. A fine flour of grain offering mixed with earth for the ram. One 10th of an eph. Of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each lamb, as a burnt offering, a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord. Well, there's similarity here, right? Same process similarity. We've added the understanding that, you know, God, over time's putting to death our flesh. God, over time, is changing our will. God, over time is doing that through his perfect atoning work of salvation in our lives. And then we go back and what do we have that's common to the other ones? Well, bread, the flour, the oil, the bread and the oil, the bread of life. What makes the process, what is the driving force behind the process? Well, it's the. It's the fellowship offering that comes from the grain offering. The bread, the flour mixed with the oil, the cake that is made from that. It is a. It's that Holy Spirit revealing God's word. The oil being the power of the Holy Spirit, the grain being the bread of life. Jesus. And God's mixing those two together to reveal himself to us. And they're common to the whole thing. And there's. There's an asp. You gotta have some. You gotta have some of God's word for the bull, right? Three tenths of an ephah, a fine flour and a grain offering mixed with oil for the bull. Okay, so there's some flesh there. The way we. The way we deal with our flesh is the word of God. Then for. For the ram, we got two tenths of an ephah, God's will. The way our will is changed and, and focused on God. Notice it's more for the flesh than for the will because our will is malleable. It can be changed. It can be changed toward God. Our flesh can't be. Our flesh has got to be dealt with directly by God's word, and we got to be changed by it. So it's a little bit less, but still it's God's word. And then one 10th of ephah, a fine fly mixed with them for grain offering for each lamb. So the atoning sacrifice is the same as it is in the first two. That doesn't change. There's one 10th of an ephah for every lamb. Why? Because it's consistent, consistent, consistent. And that's what we're talking about. That consistent daily walk, that consistent weekly meeting together, that consistent monthly realizing that God over this time is doing some major things in my life. And if I look back over a month, I can go, wow. I do. My life does feel like it's going in the right direction. I can see things better. I do have clarity in my, in my walk after a month, after the next month. And you get six months down the road and you go, wow. I do sense the presence of God as I've been, as I've been going through this process. And then, and then their drink offering shall be half a hint of wine for the bull, one third of hint of wine for the Ramdez, one fourth of hen for the lamb, and this is the burnt offering for each month, throughout the months of the year. Notice the goodness of God comes from each one of them. The most coming from the escape from the power of our flesh, the second most being our will being changed. And then there's just that continual over and over and over again, the goodness that comes from the atonement of God that's evident in our lives. And then also at the very end, one kid goats as a sea, one kid of the goats as a sin offering for the Lord shall be offered. This is kind of pushing us forward to remember each month down the road, we're going to have that day of atonement, sacrifice, we're going to have that passover, we're going to have those times where we remember that God has made a way through the blood of Jesus. So each month there's a remembrance of that. Now, listen, you got it. Over time, this is, this thing is done over time. So many of us, we want that instantaneous relief, we want that instantaneous fix. And those things don't happen instantaneously. They can, they can miraculous happen. You can have a miraculous healing, you can have a miraculous deliverance, you can have a miraculous removal of evil in our lives. But the thing that grows the kingdom, the thing that makes us powerful as we walk with God, the thing that makes us know him is well, it's that daily walk, it's that daily walk, it's that weekly gathering together, it's that reflection during the year, as weeks go by and saying, look what God's doing in my life. I can see God moving in my life. I can see God doing the big things in my life. And that's what it's really all about. We're going to go into the offering for the Passover and the feast of weeks, and we're going to go all through those things, and it's going to be great. It's going to be great. But the truth is, the truth is, the big stuff, the big stuff is done steadily, daily, weekly, monthly, walking with God. And when you do that well, and you do that over time, that's when you see life powerful and available to you. I think about those who were one way, and now they're totally changed. And it wasn't because some mountaintop experience, it wasn't because some, some time that they made a commitment to Christ at an altar, although that was a part of it. What really made someone powerful and mighty is that sustaining regularity of being who you should be all the time, every day, over and over and over, and walking in it. That's where life is found. If you're watching this this morning or later on, or maybe on hope alive, the podcasts that we have, each and every that we have on all the podcast systems my wife puts in these Bible studies, this one will come out probably in about a year. We're about 48 weeks behind as far as these things. I think she's just getting into numbers and we're almost through with it. If you're listening to this down the road and you're just going through it on Facebook, wherever you're at, as you're going through these things, if you're in the middle of numbers with me, you've been walking for a while with God's word. You've been seeking that out. I want to encourage you that you really, you really. There's no investment that's better than this. There's no, and I'm not talking about this Bible study. I'm talking about this daily walk with God. There's no investment better than this. And so if that's you, let me encourage you that God's doing more and more powerful things than you could ever imagine in your life, because you're, you're spending that time daily walking with him. He's going to build big kingdom stuff in your life. I don't, I don't have to encourage you that that's going to happen. You've already seen it or you wouldn't be here in numbers, chapter 28. But let me tell you, it's more than you can imagine.

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.