Numbers 28:26-31 Bible Study | Episode 813

November 20, 2024

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

Numbers 28:26-31  Bible Study | Episode #813

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, finishing out the chapter, finishing out the chapter, as we consistently and regularly come and do Bible study in the morning at 07:00. And I say that because that's what really this chapter is about. Sure, we can see the pictures. We can see as God kind of shows us what the sacrifices here. And remember, these are the sacrifices of the jewish people. They represent a total sacrifice for God's people. And we can see, as we're, as we're reading and studying through this, how God is dealing with the Ram being their wheel, the bull being the flesh, the lamb representing the atoning sacrifice, the kid goat representing the sin offering. We see those, but what we see primarily here is a building in consistency. The daily sacrifice to two lambs, the weekly Sabbath Shabbat sacrifice being two muralams, the monthly sacrifice. We get into these pictures of the ram and the goat and the bulls and the lambs. But finally, we get to the end and we get to the offerings at the festivals or the feast, the first one being the feast of Passover and the second one being the feast of weeks. And then we're going to go next week, although they're going to be a, some slight changes in these. But as you're, as you're studying through, you see the consistency of God. And I think about that. I think about the consistency of what we do and why we do what we do and how we do what we do. So many churches and so many leaders oftentimes want to. Well, they want to add something fresh, something new. And just to be as straightforward as I possibly can be about this. There are things that God does new. He has a new work. He does new things in people's lives. He is a God of new beginnings. There are all kinds of, in fact, the number eight does. That's what the number eight represents in scripture is new beginnings. So God does new things, but the one thing that makes God God for us, that is really, really necessary, especially when we find ourselves in the sin nature that we're in, is he is consistent, he is forbearing, he is patient, he's long suffering. What I mean by that? Well, he's the same yesterday, today, and forevermore being, being consistent, being strong, being patient, being long suffering, being the same over and over and over again. These, these ideas of who God is for a long, long period of time are really, really important for us because we're the ones that need to undergo long term life, life supporting change. We're the ones that need that. We need it really, really bad. And the only way for that to really happen for us, for us to experience change, which would be a challenge from our nature to his nature, is that he's got to be, he's got to be consistent. He's got to be regular. It reminds me of that, that story about the pastor who was called to the church, and he was known to be a great preacher, great speaker, orator. And he preached his first sermon there at the church, and it was great. It was really fabulous. And he was also known to be consistent and wanting people to hear God's word and to act upon God's word. And the people, they, they love the message. They really loved it. And they, and they, they talked about how great it was. And, and then the next Sunday, he preached the same message. The same message. And the second time it was, it was good. It was really good, but it was, it was a little disconcerting. Why would he preach the same message twice? Did he have some kind of issue? What's going on? Well, the third Sunday when he preached the same message, they really had had an issue and they began to talk during the week. And on the fourth Sunday, when he preached the same message over and over and over again. Now, the fourth time, some of the leaders of the church went to him and said, we love your, you are fantastic orator, you great preacher, but you've now been here four weeks and you've preached the same message. And he, and so we, we just need to know when, when are you going to preach a new message? And he says, I'm going to preach a new message when you get to doing what I preached in the last message. And, you know, that is really what God does with us. See, when you're walking down a path with God, and the Bible says that God has ordered the steps of the righteous he has set a path for you to walk down. When you're walking down that path with God, and you do not either progress down the path or you deviate from the path, you head in some other direction. When you do that, God remains where he was on the path until you come back to where you're supposed to be on the path. You don't get to miss a section of the path or mix miss a section of the walk with God. Because, by the way, that walk is what glorifies God, and that walk is what changes you, okay? That walk is what glorifies God, and that walk is what changes you. And so when you're walking down that path and you deviate from it or you fail to progress down it, God just remains with you on that path, exactly in that spot until you come back and decide it's time to move forward. He is consistent. He is continually consistent with you because you need the growth that's going to take place in every step. And you want and desire for your eternal future to glorify God in the most powerful way possible. And that is to take those steps of faith in your life down that path. And so consistency and regularity are the hallmarks of a Chris, a growing and maturing christian life. And that's what we find here. Notice the first verse. The first word in the verse when we go to the feast of weeks is also, also on the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the Lord, meaning this is a different festival, but it's going to be very the same in some ways. He says, you shall have a holy convocation just like you did in the feast of Passover. You shall do no customary work. The same as the feast of the Passover. You shall present a burden offering as a sweet aroma to the Lord. The same as the Passover. There will be two young bulls, one ram and seven lambs in the first year, the same as the Passover. With the grain offering and fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths for one ram, and one 10th for each of the lambs. And then verse 30 starts with also one kid on the goat, one kid of the goats to make an atonement for you. Be sure they are without blemish. You shall present notice. Do the same thing again. Do the same thing over and over again. Do it again, because be sure that they are without blemish. You shall present them with their drink offerings beside the regular burn offerings, with its grain offerings. He's he's saying, also keep doing what you're doing. You know, when I was young and there were enough of sequels to it that probably enough people listening to this, especially for the next ten or 15 years, will remember aspects of it, there were sequels on up into my adult life. So I know that at least if you're in your, in your late twenties, early thirties, you know, of the karate kid. It was a great movie. The first movie was great. The second movie, not as much. The third movie. Well, you know, you know how sequels go. And so they, they weren't as good as the original because the original is always the best. It's always the, the most important one. Anyway. Then the karate kid, young man's trying to learn how to defend himself in a fight and he goes to a, a karate master and the karate master has him begin to do some work around his house and, and, uh, I remember, uh, when he was teaching him how to paint, he was telling him to uh, you know, to, to make a movement up and down as he's painting this fence and this, uh, it's a fence with lattices, you know, with, with the wood up and down. And he's supposed to paint it up and down, up and down in the same way over and over and over again. And when he doesn't do it, he shows him how to do it again, over and over and over again until that motion with his hand becomes natural to him. So that when he's in the fight and when he's defending, when he's battling, that that motion is just a natural motion and he uses it to win. He uses it defeat those who he's fighting against. And it was about the consistency. And finally, the person, the little kid, the karate kid, he gets angry because he's tired of working on the guy's house, working, doing all these things, these repetitive motions over and over and over again. And when he shows him how to use them in the aspect of fighting, he realizes that the repetitive motions have made him strong, have made him, have given him a skill set that's going to make him victorious. And so oftentimes we think that this walk of life with God is repetitive or it's boring, but it's not, it's not boring, it's not repetitive. It is repetitive. But as you repeat, you go deep. As you repeat, you grow strong. As you repeat, you figure out things, you see things from a perspective, you've never seen them before. And so God is consistent because we need him to be consistent. And God teaches us consistency because that's what makes us into who we are with him. It gives us the ultimate aspect of his character, which is to be patient and long suffering. You say the ultimate aspect of his character? Yeah, as far as we're concerned, that is the ultimate, because if he's not patient or long suffering, we never make it, and so he is. I pray that you'll think about that, that you'll think about that character trait. So many don't want to learn patience, don't want to be patient, say, don't pray for patience. But you're never really going to be a mature believer until you're like your, your lord and he is at its core.

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.