Leviticus 10-11:23 - 2012 - Skip Heitzig

[Music] welcome to expound our weekly worship and verse by verse study of the Bible our goal is to expand your knowledge of the truth of God as we explore the Word of God in a way that is interactive enjoyable and congregational [Music] Heavenly Father thank you thank you of the reminder like in Isaiah in the year that King Uzziah died Isaiah said he saw the Lord High and lifted up seated on the throne in the Train of his robe filled the temple and he got a perspective adjustment that no matter what happens on earth in the political scheme of things he trusted into God who was overruling even the rulers who were over those on the earth so that's what we look to now Lord your overruling sovereignty and Providence in the lives of men we thank you that we've been able to make a vote make a statement vote our values and our conscience but father we pray for the president for the administration for governors in this land the House and Senate pray that you give them wisdom restrain them from evil and from making mistakes help them Lord to stay on target and bless this time together in Jesus name Amen okay we want to get right into it chapter 8 was the basis for the priesthood which was blood sacrifice that's the basis chapter nine was the beginning of the priesthood as they put on their robes and they were anointed with oil and sprinkled with blood so we have the basis in Chapter eight we have the beginning in Chapter nine and we have the breakdown of the priesthood in chapter ten are you going to read about two guys they are the two boys the two sons of Aaron it's the first day on the job they don't make it out alive there is a problem right off the bat in the way they do their ministry and you'll see God's response to it and we'll make an application of that as we go through just the first few verses so their names are native and a by who and verse 1 but here's what I like about the Bible see if I were writing a biography about what I believe in and what values I hold I would make sure that the people that I write about would always be written in a wonderful light a wonderful way I would take the heroes in my book and I would accentuate their goodness and I would not really even talk about their faults what I love about God is that all of the heroes in the Bible are shown in their true light their flaws are exposed you see them warts and all scars and all I love photography and one of my favorite books on photography is a photographer by the name of use of Karsh I like him because he photographed a long time ago with large format camera an 8 by 10 sheet of film in a camera that's a big piece of film and a big piece of film with a good German lens can't the resolving power of that the detail of that is unbelievable and with that large format camera he would position lights on famous people to accentuate moles scars cleft noses and cleft Chin's all of the things that we would love to hide he on purpose photographed them to bring them out so when you'd notice a picture you might even go oof and that is like a big mole that dude should like get that thing taken care of the reason he did it is he was portraying famous people and he wanted you to see them for who they really are that even even the most famous even the stars have imperfections this is before the day when you could go in and get get it nipped and tucked and get plastic surgery done so readily but interesting book God does that in his word with people like Abraham a man of faith he shows you how they failed in their faith or Jacob the deceiver or David King David a man after God's own heart but he was a womanizer and he had problems in his walk with the Lord spiritually and all of that is honestly portrayed so it says then a DAB and a by who the sons of Aaron each took his censer that little instrument that incense was put in fire was put in put fire in it put incense on it and offered profane fire before the Lord which he had not commanded them so fire went out from the Lord and devoured them and they died before the Lord and then Moses said to Aaron this is what the Lord spoke saying by those who come near me I must be regarded as Holy and before all the people I must be glorified the text doesn't tell us what this infraction was we don't really know what it exactly means when it says they offered profane fire some translations like the King James call it strange fire that doesn't help us another translation calls it unconsecrated fire and yet another translation says a different kind of fire ok so here's what I think it was the priest had to take the censor and go to that big brass altar in the outer courtyard where the sacrifices were made that brass altar of sacrifice because that is where God from heaven burned up in Chapter nine and consumed the sacrifice and God said now I've consumed the sacrifice I started the fire I lit the fire you have to keep that fire going they kept the fire going and when the priest wanted to put incense in a sensor so he could bring incense before that inner-court the holy place the fire had to be from that altar of sacrifice in the outer court that was the specification it's the holy fire that you keep going every day the fire that God started you put that in your sensor and you offer that before the Lord those were the stipulations evidently they took unconsecrated fire or a different kind of fire that is they probably just put a coal in the sensor and started it themselves instead of following the stipulation of going and getting a coal a live burning coal from the brass altar they just thought you know it's just a lot easier if we just make our own fire here God's response was pretty significant they got the message where at least everybody else got the message as God struck them dead with fire whether there was a spontaneous combustion or lightning from heaven some sort of fiery event happened that killed them now here's the deal if you're gonna serve the Lord if you're going to be in the ministry you can't be lazy if you think well I'm a priest you know there's a better way to do this fire thing than going all the way out there to that courtyard and digging around for a live goal I can just like this right now like at home and just bring it oh yeah no you can't if you think you can just put something together and throw it out there in the name of the Lord God won't be pleased with it I found an interesting quote I quote him a lot but I love his quotes a lot Charles Haddon Spurgeon to those in the ministry he said if you plan to be lazy there are plenty of applications in which you will not be wanted but of all above all you are not wanted in the Christian ministry the man who finds the ministry and easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death Nate Avenue by who found that out they were killed before the Lord from fire that came from heaven why was it important what is the big deal about getting the coal from the brass altar instead of any old coal and just lighting your own fire again what is the message if you're going to approach God if you're gonna worship God it has to be based on what sacrifice that was the altar of sacrifice where animals were sacrificed to God the messages when you approach God your approach your worship must be based upon sacrifice that's the only approach God will accept and these two sons of Aaron didn't get that message until they did this then they got it that's one possibility and that's what I leaned to not everybody agrees some believe that the sin of Nadab and Abihu is that they were drunk when they went into the tabernacle and that is because if you keep reading and like in verse nine it says do not drink wine or intoxicating drink so because it's written right after that and it just sort of seems to be out of context it could be that God is referring to the sin of nade a band a by who or sort of tipsy trying to serve the Lord but they weren't thinking clearly and they offered that fire in a profane manner not thinking clearly not discerning correctly not being able to distinguish right and wrong clean and unclean that that was their sin I don't lean to that I lean to that first explanation now here's the question does God still do things like that today it's a tough question and you have to be careful with it because if you start saying oh yes because be careful because then you're starting to say well that guy died probably because you know God was judging him and and you can get off base and think that listen everybody dies and you and I can't be the final arbiter of what God struck him dead okay so here here's what I want to say it seems that God doesn't do this regularly or normally but did do it periodically through history during the beginning stages of new dispensations or new eras new movements new things going on for instance right here at the beginning of a theocracy God is showing this is holiness man I don't want anybody messing with my stuff if you're gonna be in the ministry you do it right and if you don't this is how I feel about it and God would make a very demonstrative statement at the beginning of the theocracy number two at the beginning of the monarchy in Israel something like this also happened when the ark was being transported in that one guy by the name of yousa struck out his hand because the ark was tipping it was on that cart and he wanted to steady it and God struck him dead why did God strike him dead because the Lord had already told the priest how to transport the ark they were to carry it on their shoulders not in a will barrel not in the back of a pickup truck with wheels so at the beginning of the theocracy at the beginning of the monarchy and also at the inauguration of Christianity it happened yes even in the New Testament remember the story of Ananias and Sapphira Acts chapter 5 they pretended to give a lot to the Lord but they held some back for themselves God killed them not because they didn't give more money but they pretended to give more but really they were holding it back so God was saying this is a movement of me this is a brand new covenant I'm entering into you're messing it up you're spoiling it and God's feeling about hi PAH cracy was shown demonstratively now I'll just add an addendum to this before we move on you can thank God he doesn't act like this today if he did church services would be followed quickly by many funeral services am i right every time you and I would sing a hymn like I surrender all if you're not surrendering all when you sing that keel over dead rushers please get the body and call the morgue another one down Oh another one in the book of Corinthians Paul said that there were people in the church at Corinth who were not discerning the Lord's body in the taking of the elements and that God was allowing them to get sick and even died because of that but those were the beginning of these great phases that I talked about but let's move on it says God said that and notice Aaron that's the father watching his sons die Aaron held his peace heap man he was flabbergasted he was aghast he was in shock he just seen his sons get killed you can imagine the heartbreak and Moses called Misha L and elsif on the sons of Busey al the uncle of Aaron saw his cousins and he said to them come near carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp and so they went near and carried them by their tunics out of the camp as Moses had said and Moses said to Aaron and to eliazar in etham are his sons do not uncover your heads nor tear your robes which would be a sign of mourning you would rip the robe if somebody that you loved died he says don't do that don't show any outward signs of mourning don't uncover your head don't tear your clothes lest you die and wrath come upon all of the people but let your brethren the whole house of Israel be wailed the burning which the Lord has kindled that their gonna cry they need to cry over what the Lord has done in judging people who didn't serve him correctly that's the message he's getting you shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of meeting lest you die for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you and they did according to the word of Moses this would be a very hard commandment to fulfill if my brothers had just died and I wasn't allowed to show mourning for them that'd be very difficult to do why is that that God gave this command for two reasons number one he said the anointing oil is upon you you're a priest you're acting as the mediator of the covenant you're acting as a representative of the people before me the Lord they need a mediator if you get killed if you get struck dead they will have no mediatorial process the whole reason I'm instituting a priesthood is that the people have a representative so the anointing boils upon you still I'll just say this just because I'm in the ministry it's still hard you know people come to church every week on Sunday and they see the past or they hear the message and sometimes in a realize that pastors and pastors families have the same kind of issues and diseases and accidents and heartaches and stuff that everybody else has but the pastor still has to be in that pulpit and still has to bring the message in in many ways disconnect from what's going on personally to be able to bless people publicly it's it's not an easy gig to follow and these young priests who are just that day inaugurated into this position because their brothers have died are feeling what that is like in an intense way so that's number one the anointing oil is upon them reason number two is because if they were to act in a mournful way oh this is horrible my brothers have died which it was they would be sending a message to the people of Israel they would be sending a message that just contradicted the message God's trying to get through which is judgment so you know what I'm sorry but you have to just buck up and take it and you have to go through this you can mourn later but right now you can't show signs of mourning because the people are looking and if they see you mourning they could start resenting the Lord and it sends the wrong message a contradictory message to what God was trying to say then the Lord spoke to Aaron saying do not drink wine or intoxicating drink you nor your sons with you when you go into the tabernacle of meeting lest you die Wow it shall be a statute forever throughout all your generations that you may distinguish between holy and unholy between clean and unclean that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by the hand of Moses so those in the ministry don't touch the alcohol don't drink they could show up at the tabernacle a little bit like hey man what's happenin they would be PWI preaching while intoxicated or in this case priests ting while intoxicated and do you hear the logic of the Lord the logic is this look you need to think clearly I need you with a sharp mind of discernment I can't have anybody cloudy who's serving me they have to be able to think clearly and methodically and this is going to skew your ability to distinguish and discern clean from unclean holy from unholy so lay off the juice just get rid of it you and your sons forever it's a statute alcohol gives people a false sense of security a false sense of well-being a false sense of joy and they drink too much of it they just get plain goofy they just start talking weird and saying weird and getting emotional that's a human you or not love me now here's the thing the Lord Himself would love to give you a real sense of joy a real sense of security a real Holy Spirit experience so that you don't need that Paul writes in Ephesians 5 do not be drunk with wine in which is dissipation or excess but be filled with the spirit speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs making melody in your hearts and to the Lord he contrasts the filling of the Holy Spirit and the false feeling of well-being that comes from drinking so don't get drunk with wine be filled with the spirit don't go for a false eye get a real high that comes worth walking with the Lord and being obedient to him a lot of times people will mistake physical excitement for a spiritual movement whether it's with the substance or not they just if it's a physical excitement well the Lord was moving so after reading about native and a by who and then this thing of not drinking let me just ask you this question who lights your fire where do you get your fire lit from what do you depend on for your fire to really get going to be on fire for the Lord who lights your fire are you waiting for a worship leader to come and stoke the fire because you know what man you just better be good tonight you better like getting me moving and singing because if it's not excitement it's there's no excitement here it's your fault worship leader really you're waiting for a worship leader to come and stoke your worship fires or can you say I am so excited about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross I'm as excited about it today as I was the day I first heard about it my sins are forgiven I have my name written in the Lamb's Book of Life I'm going to heaven that excites me I don't need anybody to give me some false sense of excitement yeah being pumped up pump me up more who lights your fire is it a false fire then Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons who were left to boys who didn't die take the grain offering that remains of the offerings made by fire to the Lord and eat it without leaven beside the altar for it is most holy and you shall eat it in a holy place because it is your do your payment in your son's payment or do of the sacrifices made by fire to the Lord for so I have been commanded the breasts of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering you shall eat in a clean place you your sons and your daughters with you for they are your do and your sons do which are given from the sacrifices of peace offerings for the children of Israel let me remind you there's two different kinds of motions here that are referred to the heave offering and the wave offering the he barring is where you would take the sacrifice the meet in this case and you would move it toward heaven vertically you go up and down up and down that's the heave the wave is you go from side to side from right to left right to left why what's the deal with the heave offering because when I hear the word heave [Music] well see you know what I mean you think of getting nauseated the idea of moving it vertically or heaving it before the Lord is to show my dependence upon God I've received this from the Lord I'm offering it up in the presence of the Lord it acknowledges my dependence upon God when I waive it from side to side now it's not vertical its horizontal the first one deals with the vertical relationship my relationship with God the second one with all the people so when I wave it from side to side I am expressing that God is present among his people so look at it as a twofold witness the heave offering God is infinitely high the wave offering God is infinitely nigh he's near he's with his people but he's also separate and holy that's the idea that's the very visual sermon that was being preached by the priests who did it then Moses diligently made inquiry about the goat of the sin offering and there it was there's the goat burned up he looks and sees a burned up old goat and he goes hmm well doesn't say that but since he made inquiry he must have gone hmm and he was angry so he went hmm he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar the sons of Aaron who were left saying why have you not eaten the sin offering in a holy place since it is most holy and God has given it to you to bear the guilt of the congregation and make atonement for them before the Lord see it's blood was not brought inside the holy place indeed you should have eaten it in a holy place as I commanded and Aaron said to Moses look this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord and such things have befallen me my kids have died if I had eaten the sin offering today would it not be accepted in the sight of the Lord so when Moses heard he was content evidently these two young priests these two other sons of Aaron who weren't perhaps as trained as nade a banna by who who died didn't follow the priestly protocol which is you take a portion dedicated to the priesthood and you have to eat it right there in the holy place that's where you have to eat it but they're brothers just died they probably lost their appetite they didn't show any visible signs of mourning but they didn't not following the protocol because they probably either felt very unworthy to eat at that or they felt like they were in mourning and Aaron just by his speech err it's almost like look I don't even want to be in the ministry anymore I want to quit I've told you before that 1600 ministers a month quit the ministry I think that Aaron at this point said could he like choose another family you know I mean I know I got the right genes right Levi's jeans he's the Levite so he had the right genetics I mean but after what happened he's just like I want this anymore so he explains it and Moses understands that when Moses heard that it says that he was content I see a corollary here because sometimes I wonder well why is that paragraph even put here Moses makes a big deal you have to eat the goat you have to eat the flesh how come you didn't eat this flesh Jesus in the New Testament said unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood you have no life in you and so when you put that verse next to verses like this you see this twine this crimson twine of redemption that connects one dot to another dot and you can see the corollary from the Old Testament into the New Testament so once again before we get into the next chapter chapters 1 through 7 we need a sacrifice chapters 8 9 and 10 we need a priest and the fulfillment of the that is Jesus Christ our great High Priest I said that you need to understand this book or you will not understand the book of Hebrews right Hebrews chapter 4 the author says seeing then that we have a great high priest Jesus the Son of God who has passed into the heavens let us hold fast our confession for we do not have a high priest that is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses but was in all points tempted just like we are yet without sin therefore let us come boldly before the throne of grace that we might find grace to help and mercy in time of need it's a beautiful tie in as one represents the other so when Moses heard that he was content now we get into chapter 11 and well it's different let me tell you the focus the focused in the chapters that we just read were on the what on the whom the priest now the focus is on the people not the priesthood the people in the previous chapters it was about offerings for God in this chapter it's about food for the people in the previous chapters it was about the worship of God here it's about the walk in the world it's the choices that people will have to make on a daily basis of what they can and cannot eat or you might say as some people do the previous chapters dealt with the sacred this chapter deals with the secular the sacred verses the secular however I have a problem with this whole false dichotomy of sacred and secular you know Christians do this we have certain things we we call that that's sacred that takes place in the church so that's sacred and they like to call me Reverend well your Reverend skip although that sort of sounds like an oxymoron [Music] and the whole separation of church and state because we have the secular but then we have the sacred it's really a false dichotomy God wants to be part of everything all of your life every detail he wants to be the lord of your life at work in your marriage in your personal activities in your hobbies as well as a church we think that if something takes place at church over that's sacred you know we sanctify things that are even wrong gossip is okay at church we just give it a new name it's a prayer request hey come here I want you to pray about something I just heard about oh okay I'm really concerned tell me more well now it's sacred all of a sudden no it's not it's sinful so what God is doing in Chapter 11 is giving the children of Israel a diet this is God's diet this is what you can't eat is what you can't eat this is what's on the menu these things are off the menu here's my question why why would the God of the universe who you'd think have better things to do or think about give a menu to the children of Israel number one it shows us that God wants to be in all of the details of your life even the things that go into your body have you noticed the Christians some of us we emphasize the spirits of all the physical doesn't matter it's unruly both a physical toll about the spirit well as I read chapter 11 I would contend that I would say your physical body is connected to the spiritual entity which is you you better take care of your body your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit you've been bought with the price Paul said therefore glorify the Lord in your body and your spirit which is the Lord's I look at it I've given a body I'm only going to be given one so I take care of it so that I can serve the Lord with a quality of life as much as I can the Lord knows when my time is my time but I want to be a steward of what he has given me and take care of that because the body houses the spirit and so it's spiritual to take care of it God mentions that here he's concerned about our health there are other reasons we'll get to that at some point in time verse 1 and the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying to them now now just follow this I think it's going to be enjoyable as we go through it but it is different speak to the children of Israel saying these are the animals which you may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth among the beasts whatever divides the hoof having cloven hoofs and chewing the cud that you may eat now when was the last time you went to the meat market or the butcher at the store and this became an issue to you hey uh I like that meat but does it have a split hoof well back then it would have been a big deal nevertheless these you shall not eat among those that chew the cud or those that have cloven hoofs you can't eat the camel good to know not interested because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hoofs it's unclean to you the rock hyrax a rock hyrax is a furry little mammal that's a herbivore it's herbivorous furry little creature because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hoofs it's unclean to you the hair because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hoofs it's unclean to you so no rabbits - and the swine though it divides the hoof having cloven hoofs yet does not chew the cud it is unclean to you their flesh you shall not eat their carcass you shall not touch they are unclean to you now frankly I have no problem with list except for that not eating the bacon thing you know I mean I know it's not good for you but crisp bacon in the morning anyway I'm not under the Old Covenant so not a big deal I'll eat it anyway I don't have a problem that God tells me I can't eat camel I've never had a hankering for rock hyrax or camel I don't even like camels I've been around enough camels okay they're cute in the pictures but you know they're treated like slaves in the Middle East and they don't really like people they get beaten into submission by their owners and my my camel experience is I was living in Israel and I was down at a little scuba diving town which is now in Egypt called Shara mashek and there was a camel by a Bedouin tent and I was going over to this camel with a friend of mine go oh cool a camel I'm gonna go over and see it and pet it I got about three feet from it maybe five feet actually and it like big honkin loogie to spat and nailed me right in the face I wasn't interested in the camel after that I wasn't interested in eating it killing it yes but not eating it we're dealing with kosher law we're dealing with what foods on a daily basis you if you were Jewish under the Old Covenant had to make a distinction between what is kosher what is not God wanted his people separate from the other nations different in everything including their eating habits but now allow me to draw you a spiritual corollary to the chewing of the cud do you remember Psalm one you know it it's a very famous it's the most famous song because it's number one it's the first one you read blessed is the man David begins who does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly nor stand in the way of sinners nor sit in the seat of the scornful but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night the word in Hebrew for meditate literally means to chew the cud you know what it is to chew the cud animals that chew the cud they take the food they it's chewed up swallowed brought back up into the mouth from the stomach shoot again swallow brought back up again chewed swallowed brought back up several times it's gross it's it's the he bought from God designed these animals to do that to get the maximum amount of nutrients through the process some have several stomachs to be able to stomach it do it but that's how God designed it the idea of meditating on the Word of God isn't is more than just reading through it but it's taking a section of a phrase words of paragraph and reading it over and over and seeing how it goes together and reading it again and pulling out different points and going deeper and deeper that's the idea of meditation to chew the cud beautiful that you can do that's kosher and verse 9 he goes from earth animals to water animals clean and unclean basically if it's got fins and scales you're okay so no eels no shellfish things occur all these you may eat of all that are in the water whatever's in the water that has fins and scales whether in the Seas or in the rivers you may eat but all in the seas or in the rivers that do not have fins and scales all that move in the water or any living thing in which is in the water they are an abomination to you they shall be an abomination to you you shall not eat their flesh you shall regard their carcasses as an abomination whatever in the water does not have fins or scales that shall be an abomination to you have you seen a map of Israel or if you've been you know if you look at a map even in the back of your Bible Israel is situated on the Mediterranean Sea much of the food that the children of Israel got was from the Mediterranean Sea also there were was the inward Jordan River and Sea of Galilee the New Testament Gospels the disciples were fishermen their sustenance came from the Sea of Galilee they depended upon fish to eat and so these things became very very practical to them there was even a gate in ancient Jerusalem known as the fish gate if you remember the book of Nehemiah there were a group of merchants who went in through the fish gate and sold their fish on the Sabbath day and Nehemiah just like goes berserk because their break the Sabbath law to gain a profit so it's got fins and scales you can eat it if it doesn't you don't eat it I'm glad I'm under the new covenant because I love shellfish but I also know that certain times during the year mollusks whatever kind shellfish aren't good to eat there's a higher level of bacteria in them during the summer months and they can be poisonous and can kill and also there's a lot of iodine in shellfish and a person can have a reaction instantly and can their body can shut down in extreme cases so God just says don't do it now Moses didn't know all this but God did so he gave them for health reasons as well as to show that they were different for their health God knowing that science told him to stay away from him years ago I visited China and I'm an inquisitive kind of a guy so when they bring me stuff to eat I always ask what is that and then they they tell me oh that's turtle and I go huh I wish I wouldn't have asked that oh what's that oh that's shark fin soup hmm okay thanks and I kept asking these questions I was with my pastor at the time Chuck Smith and Chuck finally turned over to me and said I'd stop asking that if I were you because he didn't want to hear it either he was sort of getting grossed out by it all but my worst experience I've told some of you about is when I was in the Philippines and I was dying for a burger and they didn't have them there you know I'm looking for an in and out they don't have them in the Philippines they just have out not in and out I'll explain I had this burger it was little stand you know and I'm eating anything and it just tasted weird it tasted funny didn't go down right on my friend who was with me it was an out burger later on and a offering and when we got to the place we were speaking and I told the local missionaries there my experience is that oh you didn't eat it that stand did you I just explained what as I said oh man he said do you know what you just ate I said no it says that's worm meat that they make into burgers you ate a worm burger okay some things are just wrong to eat and that's one of them so I'm kind of digging this whole thing of don't eat this do eat that we have time for a little bit more verse 20 insects are given if they leap you can eat them if they crawl but don't leap can't eat them because the way their joints are that's basically it when my son Nate was just a toddler a couple times when he was shuffling around the house he would like move the plant or the lamp and he'd find and we kept the house clean but he would find every now and then a cockroach and he was a curious little boy and you know kids will put things in their mouth to kind of get the feel of things you know more than the hand they'll get a look at a little ball or something they'll chew it so you get a cockroach and my wife came in some this gross look at it and then put it in his mouth didn't kill him verse 20 all flying insects that creep on all fours so any creeps don't eat the creeps they shall be an abomination to you yet these you may eat of every flying insect that creeps on all fours those which have jointed legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth these you may eat the locust after its kind the destroying locust after its kind the cricket after its kind the grasshopper after its kind but all other flying insects which have four feet shall be an abomination to you so no chocolate-covered ants have did any of you ever eaten those oK you've eaten them are they good well the chocolates good right can you actually taste the ant no you can't taste it so you can't eat those you can't eat chocolate cover and answer according to the Bible you could eat chocolate-covered grasshoppers though those are okay BEC what does it say of John the Baptist when he was out in the wilderness no chocolate but he ate locusts and wild honey was he eating bugs trick question some think yes most scholars believe the locust he was referred as the Bible is referring to weren't bugs there's a tree have you heard of it called the locust tree it's even mentioned in the Bible a locust tree you know what a locust tree is a carob tree the little carob pods that emulate chocolate will take carob extract and will make chocolate like things that aren't chocolate but carob it's healthier for you they say so they weren't chocolate-covered grasshoppers but the locusts themselves were probably the carob pod that grew out in those desert regions that he was feeding off of interesting sidenote that might like totally destroy your whole little thing going on about man he ate bugs man I was all into that hippie thing since we have to bring this to a close and I'll never have any hope of finishing the chapter unless I speed read really quick and go like this but I won't we had missionaries in our church who were in Africa spent years in Africa and one better a missionary told me the greatest story said skip I'm walking down the road one day and I see a woman on down the road bend it over on the dirt road pounding the earth pounding the earth and then she'd stopped and her face went all the way to the earth and then she pound the earth pound the earth and she and he goes I had no idea what she was doing he got closer and it was an ant hill and she pound the earth and the ants would come up and she get a big mouthful in and chew him up and swallow him he witnessed it it totally grossed him out I just thought I'd share that with you you know the rest of the chapter talks about contact with the dead and certain things to stay away from that if you make contact with them you're unclean until evening the carcass of the Beast that is mentioned in verse 26 verse 28 whatever carries any such carcass shall wash his clothes and being clean till evening it is unclean to you I get tempted but I'll wait good stuff coming out good principals coming up some real jewels in these verses so I don't want to rush it I want to allow the Lord time we're gonna pray great being with you I just want to close on this note sometimes people ask well how do you know what's right and what's wrong just from reading this chapter just from the the principles that emerge from a chapter here we have a God who says don't eat that eat that so here's the deal since God is the creator and he made the universe he gets to make the rules we live in a time when like the book of Judges every man every woman does what is right in their own eyes well I agree with that well I don't agree with that well I think this and I think then that's okay any of your opinion but when it comes to right and wrong God said what is right and what is wrong and since he's the creator and he made the universe he gets to make the rules if you can go out and create your own universe you can create any rules you want so God has established certain laws and those laws if you break them are expensive if you defy the law of gravity I'm gonna jump off that 18-story building because I don't like the law of gravity you can but it'll be a very expensive trip so here is God giving us rules regulations we're not under the Old Covenant and I want to tie that in next week of the differences between what we're reading and where we live today because we're not under that Levitical code anymore as we know it's fulfilled in Christ but God gets to make the rules and change the rules and usurp the rules with new covenants in a higher set of rules so when he says if you want to get to heaven you have to come through Jesus if he made this universe and Jesus is His only Son and he sent him into the world if that's what he said that's the rules you may not like it you have every right to not like it innopolis but it's going to be a very expensive trip it's best to come to grips with the attitude of I'm going to know the Lord and submit to him because the Covenant God does now with us is simple we believe that's it we simply place our trust we place our life we make a living commitment to him saying that what Jesus did for us on the cross once and for all is enough and I'm going to trust him as my Lord and Savior and follow him and God says that's enough for him to make you righteous and grant you entrance into his kingdom that's a good deal when I first heard that I said I don't quite get it but it's such a good deal I'd be an idiot to pass it up if you're hearing that for the first time or maybe you've heard it before but you haven't acted on it don't be a fool don't let it pass you up let's pray father in heaven we thank you even though we're dealing with practices and priesthoods and laws that don't specifically apply to the New Testament Christian there are principles that are overshadowing that are plain and they are beautiful to behold but the bottom line is what are we going to do with your provision for our salvation in sending your son to die for our sins so that we can be absolved once and for all and you can consider us by our faith in Jesus you can consider us your sons and daughters and we can have a relationship with you and walk through life with confidence carefree and joy being filled with the spirit I pray for anyone here tonight who might be here who doesn't have a relationship with you personally they've never made it real they've never made it their own or they've fallen away from you they're not walking with you today and they need or they want to come back for you to speak to their hearts as we're closing the service as our heads are bowed if you need to give your life to Christ you need to repent of your sins you need to come back because you backslidden and fallen away I want you to raise your hand up and I'll pray for you as we close this service raise your hand up say skip pray for me I've come to church tonight but I need to get right with God I need to give him my life god bless you right in the middle anyone else slip that hand up in the middle toward the back on the side way over here on the side a couple of you thank you sir anybody in the family room just raise your hand up yes sir yes ma'am in the balcony raise your hand up anybody [Music] father for these around this room I pray that you will not only begin a work complete it and carry it through everyday strengthen them as they make this commitment to follow you I pray for peace I pray for joy I pray for a sense of forgiveness a new start as they leave tonight I pray that you'd give them strength Lord to put feet on their faith and to make the commitment that they're making by a raised hand public in Jesus name Amen would you stand to your feet as we close with this last song excuse me I'm gonna ask if you raised your hand I saw some in the family room you can just come through the doors I saw some on the side some in the middle I want you to get up from where you're standing and find the nearest aisle and come stand up here I'm gonna lead you in a word of prayer to receive Christ why Jesus called people often publicly and I'm gonna call you like Jesus called people to follow him to come out and make a stand tonight for Christ this is the beginning stand that you're gonna make stand right up in the front where Nelson is standing o to G always for you but you come from my I will entrust his presence daily I surrender to be my surrender anyone else from the family room balcony back front middle just come now [Music] those of you who have come forward I'd like to lead you in a prayer and I want you to pray what you're about to say I want you to say this from your heart I want you to say these words to the Lord this is the Covenant you're entering into with him you're gonna pray a prayer of abandonment of surrender to him you're gonna give him your life in this prayer so you mean this you say this with all the feeling you can in your heart to the Lord let's pray say it out loud after me Lord I give you my life I admit I'm a sinner please forgive me I believe that Jesus died that he shed his blood for me and that he rose again from the dead I turn from my sin I turned to you as my savior help me to live for you as my lord in jesus name amen give the Lord a shout out [Applause]

Channel: Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig

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Length: 56min 2sec (3362 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 19 2018