Numbers 28:16-25 Bible Study | Episode 812

November 19, 2024

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

Numbers 28:16-25  Bible Study | Episode #812

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 are in numbers, chapter 28. Numbers, chapter 28. And we're dealing with the offerings that were made at Passover. Now, as you're kind of thinking through this, you're sitting there going, well, the Passover offering was the lamb, the spotless lamb that was. That was sacrificed on the great day of Passover. It's really the celebration of Passover. But the truth is, Passover was a festival, and the festival lasted for a week. It's one of the. Where they come together and they are in Jerusalem for the better part of the week, and they have days of worship and days of celebration. It's one of the feasts. One of the festivals. Feast. And so as you're thinking about this, you go, well, we kind of know what the offering is for that. And it's not talking about the offering. It's talking about the daily offering. It's talking about how we're going to do the offering during Passover week, when we're having the, you know, the daily offering. When you have the offering in the morning, offering in the evening. That's what this passage is dealing with. And I want you to see that it has some. Well, it has some real similarities. It's got some things that you need to. Well, we need to look at and go, okay, what's going on here? Now, I need to make sure that we go back and we understand there was a daily offering, morning, evening, then there was a Sabbath offering. And that's the second study we've done on this. That was a morning and evening. And then we added two more so that we pretty much kind of. Well, it's exactly. We doubled the offering. Then we go to the first of the month. At the beginning of the month, we go to the monthly offering. Now, that was a whole lot more intense. There's a lot more going on. And we talked about that in our Bible study yesterday. And that involved an ox, it involved a ram, it involved a kid goat, it involved several lambs, several sheep. And so it was far more intense. And if you'll notice, these things are building in intensity. And then we get to the Passover week. In the Passover week, you're going to have the morning, the morning and evening sacrifices, the daily sacrifices, but it's going to be, well, let's just look at it. It says, verse 16. On the fourth day of first month is the Passover of the Lord, and on the 15th day of the month is the feast of unleavened bread, and it shall be eaten for seven days. Notice they eat the unleavened bread for seven days. It's not just one day, it's seven days. It's a feast. It's a week long feast. On the first day, you shall have a holy convocation, which is a Sabbath. Now, you need to understand that as we're thinking through this and as you think through in the future. And what I mean, what I mean by Sabbath, it's a Shabbat. It's a. It is. They are to do, on this holy day of convocation, the first and the last of the convocation. They're to do exactly what they would do as far as work, as far as preparation, as far as life. They would do it exactly the way they would live out a Shabbat. So if the first day of the convocation was on a Friday, then for that week, you would have a Shabbat on Friday, you would have a Shabbat on Saturday, and then the next week, because it's a week long celebration, you would have a Shabbat on Friday, or. And then a Shabbat on Saturday. If it was on Wednesday, you would have a Shabbat on Wednesday, have a Shabbat on Saturday, have a Shabbat on the next Wednesday, have a Shabbat on next Saturday. And I'm going through that because it matters. It matters. It matters a lot, as far as you know, really, when Christ was crucified. When was he crucified? And understanding that they had to handle this business of taking care of his body before he went in to the grave on a Shabbat, on a Passover Shabbat. And so it says, he says, and you shall present an offering made. You shall do no customary work, meaning we're going to treat this just like we would a regular Sabbath holy day. And you shall present an offering made by fire as a burnt offering to the Lord. Okay. Same as. Same as the first of the month. Two young bulls. That represents a sacrifice for the flesh. One lamb, same as the monthly sacrifice. And that represents a sacrifice for our own personal will. Seven lambs, which is a complete sacrifice for our atonement for our sins, both in the flesh and of the will. And remember, our flesh and our will both have aspects of sin. If you have lustily flesh, meaning your flesh lusts after things, desires, things that are wrong, you were supposed to flee that. And then if our heart and our mind have sinned, that's the desire to be worldly. That's a desire to be like the world, to look like the world. Well, what do we do? We're transformed by the renewing of our mind. We do not conform to the image of this world, but we are transformed by the renewing of our mind. And then there's a grain offering that shall be made of fine flour. Same thing. You notice it's the same thing as the monthly sacrifice. He says, you shall make an offering of a grain offering, mixed flower, three tenths of an ephah for a bull, two tenths for ram. And you allow for one 10th of an ephah for each one of. So it be in the seven tenths for each one of the seven lambs. Also one goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you. Meaning make atonement for the priest, you shall offer these beside the burnt offering of the morning, which is for the regular burnt offering. You're going to do this as a part of the morning sacrifice, just like we did the first of the month. And in this matter, she shall offer the food of offering made by fire daily for seven days. You're supposed to do this every day for seven days. So you've got the morning sacrifice. You're supposed to do 365 every day of the year. You've got the. The Shabbat or the Sabbath sacrifice is supposed to be done on every Saturday, first of the month. You're supposed to do a. A sacrifice that involves a whole lot of who we are as far as human beings. It's not just getting that daily bread, it's actually dealing with our sin, dealing with our will, dealing with a perfect atoning sacrifice with the seven. Well, with the seven lambs. And then you shall offer these burnt offerings in the morning. So we're going to do it, which is for a regular burnt offering, meaning how they normally do it in the morning. It's going to be a part of the morning sacrifice in this manner. You shall offer the food of the offering made by fire daily for seven days as a food, as a sweet aroma to the Lord. It shall be offered by side the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. And on the 7th day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. And you're going, well, pastor, what does this mean? Well, I want you to notice as we're going through this chapter, there is a, there's a continual steadiness about it. There's a, there is a perpetuation about it, there's a constancy about it, regularly doing it over and over and over and over again. You have that morning sacrifice every day, every week you have that double sacrifice of the Shabbat. Then every year you go through the Passover, and then, you know, tomorrow we're going to deal with the feast of weeks and then next week we're going to deal with other ones. You do them over and over and over and over again and you go, well, it seems monotonous. It's not monotonous. It is not monotonous. What it is is, it is a practice. It is ordering your life in such a way that the practice of your life is being in the presence of goddess. The practice of your life is taking special time each day, each week, during celebratory times during the year. Sacrifice toward the Lord. Now I realize as we go through and we get older, we do this as far as we do, as far as holidays are concerned. We do it all on and on and on and again. And in fact, we build traditions around it. And then it can be kind of sad when, when family members pass on. As you get older, as you get gray headed like I am you, you begin to have family members that are no longer there, and that's sad. But then you also have new family members who are running around all over the floor and crawling and crying and those are joyful. But as life keeps churning on, you have the steadiness and the consistency of serving God, of recognizing God, of walking with God, of giving a sacrifice to God. And that is a beautiful picture of the work of God consistently, regularly being added to and a part of and an important part of your life. And it becomes an anchor for you. It becomes an anchor that holds you in place when life changes. Life causes things to go out of whack and seem to go awry for you. That happens all the time. But when that's going on, if you have the anchor of these things, there's hope. And so when children grow up in families that don't have these things, oftentimes they feel lost. They feel lost as young adults because they don't have anything that's steady, anything that's permanent. And then when they begin to, they are called by God and they have a relationship with God and they begin to add these things, that consistency in their life. It's really filling a, filling a hole that they never had. It really is filling a place that they've never been. And they, those people who really didn't know God when they were younger feel, feel the familial relationship of the church, even to a higher degree than those like myself who grew up in it. I do feel like the church is family. I do feel like that it's important to have those intimate and those close and those powerful relationships with people. But when you've not had it in your life and then all of a sudden you get it, you're even more thankful. It's even more, it's even more wonderful for you. And so there's, there's some positive and negatives to coming to Christ at any time during your life. There's always positives. There's always positives. The negatives are, if you, if you come to Christ when you're in your thirties, sometimes you, you regret missing the things you could have been doing in your twenties. Or if you come to Christ when you're in your twenties, you regret not growing up with Christ and, and so on and so forth. There's all those things. And, and if you come to Christ when you're young, sometimes you want to have the joy of those adults that you run into that are just now figuring it out. And it is powerful and it is wonderful. The work of God is wonderful, but it is at the mo, in the most important way. It is consistent and steady and regular. And so many times, as Christians, we want to make the mountaintop experience, the conversion experience, the, the revival experience. We want to make those experiences where we really, really see the hand of God at work. We want to make those things the wholeness of what it means to be a believer. And those things are important. Those things do make a difference in our lives. But the truth is that you don't really ever experience those things until you make God the steady, active, regular member of your life, that he's, he's, he's always right there and always at work. And so as you're, as you're thinking through these sacrifices, and we're going to go, we're going to go into the feast of wheats and he's going to give a sacrifice for there and we'll see what they look like. I'm going to tell you there's a lot of similarities when. When we get to these things, but. But the similarities. And it's not boring. It's not boring. It's fulfilling. It really gives you a sense of, I'm not just floating out here in nothingness. It secures you to something that's eternal, which is God. So I pray that you'll consider it that way. You'll think about it as we go through this. Sometimes as we study through, like, numbers in a passage like this, we go, that's just boring. It's the same thing over and over and over again. Or is it. Is it really? Or is it just God being the same yesterday, today, and forevermore and us putting ourselves in a position that we might experience that even if we don't recognize it, you know, we're just not recognizing it every day that he's the same. But he is. He is the same.

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.