Numbers 29:1-6 Bible Study | Episode 814

November 21, 2024

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

Numbers 29:1-6  Bible Study | Episode #814

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 29. We've made it to numbers 29. We're going through the offerings that are to be made. Well, at the feast. We started out with the daily offering and then the weekly offering, then the monthly offering. And then as we go through it, you begin to recognize patterns. And, well, the pattern is when we get to the festivals, that the offerings are the same. Now, you're going to notice that there's a big change right at the end, but the patterns are the same. And in fact, on the 7th month, on the first day of the month, you shall hear the convocation. That's verse one. And you shall do no customary work. So they're going to have a convocation. They're going to have a worship service. A celebration for you is the day of blowing the trumpets. You shall offer a burnt offering, a sweet aroma to the Lord. So they're supposed to give an offering notice. This one young bull, one lamb. Seven lambs of the first year without blemish. The grain offering shall be a fine flower of mixed oil. Three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the ram, one tenths for the seven lambs. Also one kit of goats as a sin offering to make atonement for you. Besides the burnt offerings with its grain offerings of the new moon, the regular burnt offerings with its grain offering and the drink offerings, according to their ordinance, a sweet aroma, an offer made by fire to the Lord. Now, as you read this, you think it's exactly the same. Well, it's almost exactly the same as the last two. And the difference is that rather than two bulls, it's one bull. And the feast of Trumpets is the feast of trumpets is the feast that we call, basically Pentecost. It's the celebratory. It's the celebratory feast in the sense that it represents the movement of God, God moving his people by his spirit. And it is a, it's a, it's a. Well, it's a beautiful, the whole, the whole thing is beautiful. In fact, Jesus is the one who honored it at the last and greatest day of the feast, when he told him to, told him that he was, he was basically living water. And if you thirst, you'd come to him and you would have, you would be filled. So it's a beautiful feast, and it is an important feast. And it's a feast, if you look at it in its depth, you would go, well, why is it exactly the same? Well, it's not exactly the same. It's just one off. And the one thing is the bull. There's not two bulls to be sacrificed, it's to be one. And remember, bulls deal with our flesh and our worldly nature, our desires. And those are two different things. The flesh is the lust of the flesh. It's just the innate desires that our flesh had that are very destructive for our lives. And you go, well, I don't know exactly what you're talking about. Well, the reason you don't know what I'm talking about likely, is because I can't go through it all with you, because I don't know what your flesh really desires. And here's the thing. When people say they're born that way, what they're selling is they're born with a fleshly, a lust of their flesh, desires that seem to overwhelm them. And the truth is that of all the sin of the world can be a fleshly desire, and all the sin of the world cannot be for you. There are things out there that other people lust after in their life. They just, I mean, if they get an opportunity to indulge themselves in that, they want it, and then other people don't. And so your flesh, even though it is utterly sinful, even though it is, it is firm and is going to indulge itself in every possible way, in every possible way in your life. Even though that's the case, it's not going to do it in the same way as everybody else. Everybody has their own fleshly desires. Everybody has their own, uh, indulgences of their flesh. All of them are sinful, but not all of them are the same. They're not going to be the same. They're going to be, they're going to be different. And as you, as you go through the world, uh, we, we oftentimes want to categorize sin. But sin is just. All sin is. Is not God. Not God's will, not God's plan, not God's direction. It is all that is not God. It is the darkness, not the light. And so one person's sin seems to another so terrible and awful, and yet their sin is just as bad before God because it is all not God. And so, as we look at this, we see that it is only one. And the reason it is only one is because the other aspect of the bull being sacrificed is for, uh, is for your soul and your soul's desire to be worldly. And you go, what's the difference between your soul and your flesh? Your flesh is your body, your. Your physical desires. Your soul is. Is the will of your heart and mind. Your heart is your. Is your passions, your emotions. And your mind is your intellect. Your thoughts, uh, you, the. The. The thoughts of your heart. The direction that you make choices to go in. And so when we make our choices, some of us are very heart or passion oriented. And we make decisions based off of the looming passions of our lives, the things that we just really like, the things that we love. And then some of us are very cerebral, and we make. We make logical choices. And even though we say we make logical choices, we make choices that the world offers, rather than the choices that God gives us through the wisdom of God. And remember, wisdom is knowledge from the perspective of God. Meaning, it's not just understandings. It's not just pieces of information, bits of data that we have, we're able to accumulate and put in some form of order. Wisdom is seeing the world from God's perspective. God has all the knowledge. He's all knowing, but it is seeing it in the way he orders the world, the way he puts things in perspective. And so our hearts and our minds have to be conformed. Our flesh. The Bible's prescription for our flesh is to flee youthful lust. And if you'll notice, why does it say youthful? Because, well, those lusts generally manifest themselves when we're young, even, even when we're children. But but sure enough, when we're teenagers, the. The lust of the flesh that we have, whatever that, however, whatever those things are for you, they usually manifested themselves as teenagers. And the Bible's prescription for that is to flee, meaning to get away from it. So if you have a problem with it, don't be around it. And that's a, that's a great. I mean, but, and the reason is, is because you can't control your flesh. Okay? You, you ultimately if you're rounded enough, you're going to indulge in it whatever that fleshly desire is, and we have many, each person has a unique concoction of those desires. And whatever they are, and however the great they are, you're to flee them. You're to make sure that you don't put yourself in a position to indulge yourself in those things. That's the prescription for dealing with our flesh, well, with our hearts and minds, the desires of our will, which would be the desire to rather than to be godly, it would be to be worldly or to be carnal. That's one of the words that has been historically used by theologians. It's called carnality or worldliness. And your desire to be worldly, your desire to be like the world, to be conformed to the likeness of the world. And that's what the Bible teaches us not to do. It says, do not be conformed to the image of this world or the likeness of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Well, how do I renew my mind? The word of God renews my mind. The word of God gives me insight and understanding. So the way I keep from being conformed to the image of this world but be transformed by the renewing of the mind is I allow God to transform my mind. I allow God to, to take my heart and my mind and focus it on him and focus it away from the world through his word, through Jesus, and the manifestation of Jesus, the full story of God's plan in Jesus Christ. And so you go, well, which bull is being sacrificed here at the feast of trumpets? Well, it's the first one. It's your flesh. There's always got to be a sacrifice made for your flesh. Always, in every situation, every christian understanding and ideas that we go through life, there is always, always, always a need to put aside the desires, the intense longings of the flesh. We've got to put those things aside, and we've got to trust in God. You go, well, what about a will? Well, the feast of trumpets is the feast of celebration. It's a feast of moving according to God's direction. And so, uh, innate to this feast is the trumpets are blown and God's people prepare to move. Innate in this actual feast is choosing to chase after God. It's choosing to do God's will. We're getting up to move where God wants us to move. We're getting up to move in the direction God wants us to move in. Uh, that's what the feast of trumpets is about. And if you think about it, that's what Pentecost is about. Pentecost is. Is about, uh, uh, Usda. Choosing the Holy Spirit. Choosing the Holy Spirit. Placing in us a new spirit and we. And as the Holy Spirit reveals God's will to us by and through the Holy Spirit and our spirit to our hearts, we, we. We're choosing to be filled by the. With the Holy Spirit. We're choosing to have the Holy Spirit come upon us in fire because we choose an erect by faith innate to this celebration. Innate to Pentecost. In eight two, the feast of trumpets is the celebration of us choosing to hear God and act upon what he says. So there's not a need for a sacrifice for the, for the will, because our will is. Is in line with God's will. And so even though the other two feasts had the exact same sacrifices every day, two bulls, this one only has one. And it only has one because we've already chosen to trust God and walk by faith with him. Wow. So there is a difference in sacrifices here. Yeah, it is. And it's a very important one. When we choose in our lives to chase after God's will and God's will along, then really, the only issue is the lust of our flesh. And that's an issue. It really is. It's a major one, because we all have those things that we desire, and that we desire so intensely that at some point in time, nothing matters other than those desires. And the only thing you can do to fix that is to get away from it. That's the only way you can fix it. And that is the intense desires of our flesh. And they do need a sacrifice. But when you've chosen to walk with God, there's no more sacrifice needed there. It's not. It's not necessary. Why? Because faith is what pleases God, your faith. Even if it's done not very well. And trust me, if you think you're doing faith very well, you're probably nothing. Okay. Um, you. You're likely not. When I say, well, I'm talking about Jesus type of faith. You're probably doing it. If you're doing it the very best you could do it, you're probably doing Peter style faith, and you're still sinking in the water. You're still. You can't walk. You're not quite walking on the water. You're almost walking on the water, but you're not quite. You're probably doing Peter style faith. And that's great faith, because remember, Peter's the only other person to ever walk on water like Jesus. So we would like to be that way. We'd like to walk on water, even if we do it poorly. And even if we do it poorly, God doesn't care, because it pleases him for us to determine in our hearts to trust him and to walk in it. And he sustains us on that path, and he makes sure that our steps are steady and strong and that he gets us where he desires us to be, because it was his will in the first place. So continue to walk by faith and trust God. Continue to seek his will out. And when you find it, indulge yourself in that.

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.