Deuteronomy 16:1-8 Bible Study | Episode 903

March 26, 2025

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

Deuteronomy 16:1-8  Bible Study | Episode #903

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 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 Deuteronomy, chapter 16. Deuteronomy 16, 1:8. We try to it last weekend. For some reason I taped the whole Bible study and then it didn't.

It didn't take. And so sometimes that happens when you live in a rural setting. You just. The Internet doesn't work the way you wanted it to work and it didn't last week.

But we're. We're working through those problems and working through the Bible. And, and that's the key to it, is to continue to work through it, continue to move on, continue to do the things that God has laid on your heart, continue to search for the new things that God is doing around you.

Continue to be consistent in your life, in your loving other people, and you're taking care of business. And that is what's going on here with Moses. He is being consistent in that he is redescribing the feast that he'd already gone through.

But you've got a new group of people. You got the children of Israel that are going into the promised land, and he is redescribing, retelling them, making sure they understand what each feast means.

Now, the first feast that he deals with is Passover.

It is the feast, as far as the rest of scripture is concerned, is the most important in the sense that it is a picture of the work God's doing with humanity through Christ Jesus.

And so when we get to the Passover, I mean, you've got the Passover lamb, you've got the children of Israel enslaved in Egypt. You've got God delivering them out of Egypt and taking them on a journey to his best, which is the promised land.

I mean, that is. That is the.

That is the story of the Bible. That is God's plan for humanity.

And so many times, so many times we we oftentimes, as, as believers, we get. I guess the best word is bored. Sometimes we get bored with it. And I'm gonna say this.

The reason you're usually bored with it is because you're not using it. You're not working it. You're not actually,

you're not actually putting it into practice in your daily life. You have become distracted world. And that is, that is very common. It's not something that is unusual. But we do get distracted by the world.

We get distracted by the things that are going on around us rather than, Rather than focusing on the one who is, who is the author of the things that are going on around us.

So he says, observe in the month of a bead. Every year. Every year you do it. Now, we know we do this every year. As far as our holiday season, we do, we have, we do Thanksgiving and Christmas.

And let me say this. As you get older, they change. They change you. You lose family members, you add family members.

You, you end up not meeting with some family because they, they become distant family as you have, as your family, your own personal family grows.

Thanksgiving and Christmas can be very difficult times, but the consistency of doing it is important, and the consistency of doing the Passover is important for them. And we do it also.

I mean, we celebrate during the season of Passover, we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, we celebrate what we call Easter, but at Resurrection Sunday, he said, you got to keep the Passover each year to the Lord your God.

For in the month of Abib, the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. Notice, he brought you out of darkness.

You were, you were, you were in Egypt and he. He led you out by night. By the way, this is one of those little phrases that as you're studying through scripture all your life, sometimes you miss.

I, you know, I didn't realize that he said that here, that he said he brought him out of Egypt by night. And you know, the imagery here is important because night means to not understand, to not get it.

And he brought them out by night. They didn't totally understand. They didn't totally get it, and he brought them out. Therefore, you sh. Sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God from the flocks and the herds and place where.

At the place where God chooses, the Lord chooses to put his name. They didn't know it was Jerusalem.

And he's going to consistently say the place where the Lord chooses.

Where God chooses is where I want you to worship.

Now, for us, it's not where God chooses because God indwells us,

but it's definitely when God chooses. Because God commands us in the New Testament to regularly meet. You know, he instructs us to be together as a congregation. He says, you shall eat no leavened bread with it seven days.

You shall eat unleavened bread with it.

And remember, leaven is a picture of sin. And so we eat. We eat the bread that has no leaven. We eat which is a picture of the body we eat from the one who has no leaven.

Jesus, you eat it for seven days, completely eat it.

That is the bread of affliction. For you came out of the land of Egypt. In Haitian, you said, well, Jesus is the bread of affliction. Yeah, because he was afflicted for our sins.

He bore the sin of the whole world to the cross. The sin and the shame, by the way. Not just the sin, but the shame. And so many times we want to take the shame back and live in it rather than let it go.

He said, you shall eat no leavened bread with it seven days. You shall eat unleavened bread with it. For you came out of Egypt in haste that you may remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

Now notice he's wanting them to remember.

This whole idea of celebrating these feasts and these passovers is to remember, remember, remember, remember, remember, call you into remembrance. So that when you hit a time where you really got to have it and, and really that.

That's the way it works, isn't it? You know, we live our life, like, consistently,

regularly, but there's sometimes when we really got to have it, when we really got to have it, we know it. He says, no leaven shall be seen among you. Meaning stay away from all kinds of sin.

Don't. Don't let it be near you and then all your territory for seven days. Nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until the morning.

By the way, they, they.

They sacrificed the lamb. They put the, the blood over the doorpost of the heart, and then they. They cooked the meat and they ate it.

That is a picture of eating the sacrifice. And by the way, we. We are to consume Christ. He's the unleavened bread. He is the spotless lamb. We are to consume him.

That's why he said, unless you eat of my flesh and drink of my blood, you can have no part in me. We're to consume who Jesus is. It's supposed to be literally the consumption of who we are.

We're to take him in completely and fully. You may not sacrifice the Passover with any of your gates, within any of your gates which the Lord God gives you. Meaning.

You can't do it in your place the way you want to do it. You got to do it my way. Do it my way, he says. But at the place where the Lord God chooses, which is Jerusalem, to make his name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight,

at the going down of the sun at the time you came out of Egypt, the beginning of the day, the end of the sun course across the sky. At twilight, you sacrifice the lamb, he says, and you shall roast and eat it.

By the way, Jesus, they. They had to hurry and get Jesus off the cross before and get him in the tomb before the sun went down. Another perfect picture of Jesus.

And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the Lord your God chooses.

And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day, you sh. There shall be a sacred assembly to the Lord your God. And you shall do no work on it.

Now, these are just these. This is just the pictures. These are the pictures that God's given us and that he gave them back then to remember a consistent, regular thought process, a consistent, regular teaching.

By the way, this is important for your children regularly doing what God has told them to do. Because when they get older, they're going to look for answers in their life and they're going to turn back to that which was consistent.

You need to hear that children are going to turn back to and look forward to what is consistent.

And if you've consistently raised them in the presence of God, they're going to turn back to God.

They're going to turn back to his presence and his way and his will. And if we don't do that, we're going to miss out. We're going to heavily miss out and we're going to be a disservice to our children.

We're disservice to ourselves when we don't follow God. But we are majorly a disservice to our children when we don't do the regular.

What we consider mundane oftentimes,

the common.

When we do the common stuff regularly, the things that God has said do. Assemble yourself, worship,

study God's word,

talk about it, discuss it, make it a part of your conversations, who you are and what, what you see God doing.

These things. These things seem mundane. But to the. To the to the keen observer and by the way that's what children are the ones that are watching you closely to the kingdom observers they're life to them because they are going to be the things that they do when they're older because they're going to search out those answers the way they saw them modeled before them by you.

And so we need to be doing that regularly especially this time of year as we head into the passover season, the resurrection season we need to remember that these things are happening and they're coming and they're on their way and our children need to see it and know it and it needs to be regularly a part of what we do and who we are.

I know where you're going to do that I know we've been doing that and we're going to keep on 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.