Community Sacrifices - SN2826 - 221119

I listen to myself teach and I have to apologize. I have never heard myself makes so many errors and naming of countries. I called Ammon Edom. Moab I don't know. There's so many, I appreciate your corrections, but that day, it would have stopped. Too many things. It just I was just not in the best spirits. Thank you for your patience.

Holy God, we ask your blessing on this time together.

It's an unusual reading. Many approaches can be taken and I pray that I've followed the one you've led me on. So please, please guide my words when I thoughts my speech help me to speak clearly.

I'll be able to receive your instruction not mind in Jesus name. Amen. And amen. So the seder this week, Seder. November 9th, November. Numbers begins in chapter 28, really roughly 8:20. But officially, it begins on the 26th. Verse those were the the verses that I'm citing. She did give me the clicker.

The overwhelming thing in this week's satyr to me is the presence of the Lamb. It just it it maybe you won't get it. But it's something that really really move me.

As a young boy, I went to church with my parents. They didn't allow me to dance around in front of the congregation and do somersaults. Cartwheels. I had to behave and the thing that caught my attention the most in the church when I was a young lad or the stained glass windows, I looked at the stained-glass windows and I just Imagined, all kinds of things. I imagine clouds moving and sun shining and everything else. It was as a very great experience for a kid. If we ever build their own church, I'd love to have something for kids to see that is beautiful like that.

The lamb. So before we begin, I like to quote my almost favorite verse in the Bible Revelation. 13:8 says, that your names have been written in the Lamb's Book of Life, before the foundation of the world from the creation of the world, before the world was founded before, God had anything else done Names written in a book. And I don't understand that, but I know it's true in some sense. And so, I praise God, that our names. If you're a follower of Yeshua have been written in a book,

Sacrifice.

So, the topic of this satyr teaching is community sacrifices. And I immediately thought animal sacrifices because that's what it kind of stresses.

But the more I thought about it, the more I thought, let's examine what a sacrifice is. Anyway, this is the Oxford English Dictionary. The two primary definitions are a surrender of a possession to a deity or God for propitiation appeasement. He's an Angry. God, we need to, please him is what that means or homage honor or respect. And whenever this word propitiation came up and I was in the presence of my good friend whitefriar. He said, we don't need to propitiate. God wouldn't need to please an Angry God. We don't need to appease his anger. He's not angry at us. He is always loved us. He is propitious. So that whole idea of appeasing, an Angry God is not Christian. It's not Jewish, it's heresy, it's ancient Pagan idolatry. It's nothing else. You don't have to please God, if people are forcing you into accepting a concept of propitiation, Of God. That's why Jesus had to die. To please him to take our place. There are problems with that whole idea. I'm not saying I disagree entirely. I'm saying, there are problems with that idea. Atonement is much bigger. Then pleasing God.

So surrendering a possession, something that you value giving it to this God, either, we're not going to or not, even going to allow for cuz she ation here. Surrender of a possession to God. To demonstrate honor and respect. That is a sacrifice.

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We love God. We know he loves us.

We want to show our honor and respect to him so he could give him things that we think he will appreciate from us small tokens. The proof text on the it's not propitiation for God. So loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. God sent not his son into the world to come to condemn the world but that the world through him would be saved. So that's the first definition of a sacrifice. We cut it in half. It only has to do with giving something to God, trying to demonstrate our honor and respect and love for him. It might be, we've decided to not do something that might be what we're giving him, it might be that we've decided to do something that might be demonstrating that we love him. It might be acts, it might be thought it might be worship. It might be praised, it might be songs. It could be all kinds of things that we give to God to demonstrate. We love him.

I was going past a family.

They look like they were starving, they had a sign up, was a father and a mother and I think the six kids is a lot of kids. And I just drove past and I thought they're really hungry their poor. There need their really hungry. I had a coupon Burger King feed a family for whatever, I don't know. So I bought a whole bunch of hamburgers and I bought some drinks on the side and I took it back over and I gave it to them.

Why did I do that?

To honor God. because he said to do things like this,

it wasn't partly probably because I wanted to help them, but the whole idea of my helping them is because I want to honor God is no other reason. I mean, you might get pleasure yourself for Help by helping someone, but but it is, if you're, if you're doing it for yourself, you got the wrong idea. If you're doing it because But you still Bend but I still fed them. Did I derive pleasure from feeding them? I knew I had done what I'd been called to do. So yes, I derive pleasure from feeding them.

I don't want to make anything out of myself. Just this is something we all do, something we all do in one way or another on the second definition of sacrifice, according to the oecd.

So I use a lot of lexicons. My English lexicon is the OBD. I really love. I love, love this ginormous set of books. That I access online. Anyway, so the other idea is offerings offerings that we're giving to God, that could include possessions, but it doesn't have two offerings of prayer. So the Hebrew word for this is to feel to feel our Thanksgiving to thanks to God. To a Toda Raba, thank you for a rabbi or penitence. A great great thanks. Actually two. Robot penitents, 2xu, 2xu Von to turn to repent, to go in the direction of God, instead of the opposite direction submission of Ava is a word meaning of

poor in need. Servant week. Ava can also carry the idea of accepting correction from someone submitting yourself to God and saying whatever you say Lord I'm submitting myself. I'm accepting your teaching. I'm consenting to your leadership. and those are the four words that a weedy includes for sacrifice, and I had to add one more Hebrew word, cuz it's just there said of God, We offer. Uprightness. We offer Justice. We offer charity. We offer. Good Deeds. We offer charity. Yeah.

National sacrifice. So on this is on this in this seder. God instructs, Moses regarding all of the natch National sacrifices, some of your Bibles of heading, might say corporate sacrifices. And so you go downtown. If you go down in this everyday, you offer to Lambs every Sabbath. You offer Lambs, 52/7 year to a salad every first day of the month, for all 12 months, that's what you offer. Two, bulls one ram Etc. And those are all * the 12 or the 52, or the 365. The Feast of unleavened bread. On the first day you offer. Two bowls, one ram seven Lambs.

1.

Goat. On the second day of the Feast of unleavened bread, you offer.

To Bowl One lamb. 7 oz, 1, G 7. 1 lamb. I don't know. Seven Lambs everyday. And one goat. This is in addition to the Daily offerings.

Which is an addition to the Sabbath offerings. They offer a whole lot of bulls and lambs, and goats, and Latin and and lamps. I thought it was about meeting unleavened bread and sweeping your house, free 11, and getting rid of sin in your life and that kind of stuff. I had no idea. They killed this many animals on the Feast of unleavened bread. Did anyone else realize that in here? A lot of people did, Oh everybody, but me?

Okay. Maybe I should sit down and let you guys teach.

Unleavened bread is a serious animal sacrifice Festival.

That's going to change my ideas about unleavened bread when I celebrate it this year.

This, this demands serious. Offering. Whatever offering is Pentecost first day of the month. Dave atonement Tabernacles and go through all that stuff in the final analysis. This is kind of astounding. Only nap, National sacrifices Community, sacrifices sacrifices for the community night nation of Israel. 113, Bulls, 3793, Lambs, 30, goats. I think I'm low actually on those numbers, but 86% of all of the sacrifices of all the animal sacrifices are lambs.

Does that surprise you?

What? Nobody's surprised.

I think it's amazing.

Lambs. Male Lambs. It's no wonder that John when he saw Christ coming said, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

Which teams which offerings do you think he was talking about?

All of them.

Jesus fulfilled, the entire sacrificial system didn't fulfill. It copied him Jesus is the entire system. Jesus is the Supreme original sacrifices. The sacrificial system copied what Jesus provides for us. So, these are National sacrifices. I thought that was very interesting and worth saying The core name who take care of my Sanctuary will approach me and serve me it is they who will attend me and offer me the fat and the Bloods is Adonai Elohim. They will enter My Sanctuary approach. Might able to minister to me and perform my service. so, the sacrificial system has to do with The Levites approaching God, coming into his presence and being in his presence and serving him. Now, what did they do to serve him? In the presence of God. What did they do? They splatter blood, they pray prayers, they raise up incense. They confess sins. Personal, and National. That's how God wants to be served.

you'd almost have to say, He wants us to pray. That's really what it's about. Is animal sacrifices or something. But it's it's sacrifices really bigger bigger than that. So now we've covered the national sacrifices. Now we're going to talk about the sacrifices that aren't for the nation. This twisted, my head pretty hard. Passover is not a national sacrifice. Passover's personal. Each family had to pick a lamb. Each family had to tie the side for however, many days each family. Had to kill the lamb. Each family had to Mark the post with blood, each family had to go inside.

And pray as the Passover Angel passed over the Israelites and took the Egyptians. Each family, very personal, very close, very private. You could pretend you were doing it. If you did you were taken. If you were honest about it, God. Kept you from dying.

Personal. First fruits, first fruits. What first fruits if I were to offer first fruits, I would offer tomatoes because they're my favorite. You get it. I love tomatoes. It's not one of the seven species identified by Deuteronomy 88. Typically, the seven species are things that come from the ground specifically cereals, specifically grapes figs. Pomegranates olives, and honey or date. Survival might say dates, your Bible might say, honey. That's because one, it says the land of milk and honey, it wasn't talking about collecting bees and getting honey. It was talking about making honey from dates. Kind of like molasses. This was a great.

Produce.

Harvest dates and others. Other first fruits, we have the first fruits of wool. Now, that's not from the crown. It says you're supposed to offer the first of your shearings. That's a different place. So it's like a first-rate and they would bring it in similar way. Then there's a first fruits of what they had to burn a lot of wood on the Altar and so there were some groups of people who collected wood and when they collected wood for the altar they brought it in just like a feast of first fruits. The sign. They celebrated their bringing would praise God. Like a bhikharam harvest. It's interesting. Do the first first fruits of your, do you offer to the priests? It goes on and on, I don't have a problem offering Tomatoes. If it Frank, Frank says, if you're a man, she could offer dill and mint or whatever it is that you want to celebrate. But but generally first fruits, were only limited to the 7 or whatever you felt you should bring. And so that's first. Fruits are these National sacrifices No. Your Harvest, your personal Harvest not National personal. Seven species of the seven species of Deuteronomy 88. From barley to wheat. Barley is the spring Harvest which is Passover. Ish wheat is in the summer, which is Pentecost ish or shovel loutish. And is 50 days 49 between barley and wheat Harvest Street. Additionally, okay, that's interesting.

Fitzmyer in his anchor, Yale Bible book. New book, big tone on the Acts of the Apostles. He identifies 350 day Feast 350 de pentecostes and the first days, the same as the last day. So it's really 49 but but they call him 50s. The distance between first fruits, Barley & grains, 50 days, 50 days, between new grain and new wine, 50 days between new wine and new loyal. Now, we don't have this in in In the Tanakh. This is in the temple. Scroll. The Dead Sea Scrolls guys was definitely was celebrated and understood to be in place at the time of Jesus. By some of the people in Israel. And fitzmyer makes an argument that this linkage between new grain, new wine, a new oil gives us insights into Acts. Were there celebrating the Feast of Pentecost the new grain and people are saying are they drunk with new wine? And Sophie's Mars saying that the temple. Scroll people, the Dead Sea Scrolls, people kind of said these three or like one thing its first fruits.

What first fruits grain wine oil.

Oil. Spirit Wine. Spirit. Huh, Joy Green.

Salvation. So you could say that these are all fruits of the spirit. And the more you study first fruits that, before you go.

Marvelous. It's unusual, this marvelous and then you make this Proclamation, my father was a Wandering. It when you bring your first fruits to make this Proclamation, my father was wondering, you're a man who's Sojourner needs. A few in number, became a great nation, Egyptians treated as harshly Christ. The Lord, he heard us. Our Affliction refresh oppression, brought us out with the mighty hand behold. Now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground which you a lord have given me And then it says you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship him. You shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house you the levite and the surgeon room I mean this is a big happy party. With me. But you have to give this Proclamation. what's your but at least three different ways to interpret what this means and I'm not going to get into any of them, but My father was a Wandering there, me. And he wasn't part of this congregation that we are now. God brought them out. And now I can Proclaim I'm giving this to you Lord. Thank you for being my God.

More personal, private sacrifices more. We already covered a whole bunch of them. I thought there were all these other ones. These are all personal sacrifices, the burnt offering the Grain in the drink, the Thanksgiving, The Sentinel bring the guilt offering and various prayers. So all of these burnt If if why would I have a, why would I, why would I offer a burnt offering?

Took the approach to come there right to protest. Come here. Let's say I was really, really happy that my child was graduating from high school or college or they were getting married and I wanted to entirely dedicate myself to the Lord for the good things he has done. I might offer a burnt offering. I'll complete surrender of myself to God. Just represent that I want to be completely God's, not partly completely. So I would offer a burnt offering on such a day and I might offer our Thanksgiving offering on such a day and I might offer meal and drink offerings on the same day. And if I had some sin in my life, I might even offer Us in offering on the same day. And the sin offering is for confession of the sin for forgiveness of the sin and for cleansing of any

Goo.

Cleansing of any.

Any, what? Residue defilement. If I'm defiled in any way for cleansing and if I, if I need, if I need it. Because if I'd hurt someone, I might also need to make restitution and that would be a guilt offering so so it's actually conceivable that that a person wanting to celebrate a wonderful wonderful. Wonderful day might offer all of these sacrifices on the same day.

Not National. Personal private. Not communal National And then there's this. Other personal and private sacrifices, I just included one various prayers. I said, as one example the Army. This is called the standing prayer. so, the standing prayer you have to stand Have to stand.

Get yourself situated.

Put your feet together. Stand upright. And you offer the standing prayer.

Silently.

and the reason you say it silently with your lips moving is because Hannah it says connection back to Hannah and then if I'm the leader of a prayer service and I'm leading in the army. I say my own, I mean,

And then I said out loud. And the reason I say that loud is, so the people who can't read it or don't have it, memorized can go. Amen. Amen. Amen. And so each of the each of the reasons for these weird, weird Traditions, say it silently, say it out loud, people say, amen. It all has to do with letting everyone be Park. Of this. Personal.

Private. Sacrifice this done twice a day.

Whole lot of praying going on.

And the personal and private sacrifices are not accepted during the Sabbath and festivals. There are separate altogether off to the self. Festivals in Sabbath. Moser National issues. After the destruction of the temple. Jewish Traditions substituted, what they call the service of the heart prayer etcetera for the service of the altar sacrifices, the rabbi's, decided cat, killing the animals anymore, like, that would like that. We can offer prayers. So, they did.

I caused me a lot of scratching my head.

If these animal sacrifices have been substituted by prayer, how many prayers do I need to make every in a year?

How many confessions do I need to make in a year?

I kind of It kind of changes the I pray whenever I want to Rob.

Yeah, it's continual even I think they're actually continual. What looping? The pray unceasingly. See, I'm in the wrong place. You guys should be up here.

Here's where they get the verse. Service of the heart, replaces, the service of the altar.

When you obey my Commandments, that I command you today, to love the Lord, your God, and to serve him with all of your heart. And with all of your soul, he will give you rain for your land and its season. The early rain, in the latter rain, that you may Gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. There we go. Again, grain wine oil gifts of the holy spirit. Again, I think that fits Meyer may have something going on with this Temple. Scroll analysis, Max

And that rich Doug. Have you come across that? It interested me. He will give you grass for your fields for your livestock and you shall eat and be full. Take care, lest you? Be deceived and turned aside and serve other guys and worship them know who is giving you these things know who it is, that you're honoring know who it is. That you're thankful to know who it is. Who gives you life and everything else.

Praying hands.

Prayer, talking about prayer. I can't talk about prayer without this story. Does anyone know the story of albrechtsen and his brother Albert?

It's tradition. They were both up-and-coming artists and they were poor and Albrecht and Albert decided to make a pact that one would work well, the other ones studied art and then the other one work while his brother could then study art. And so

Albrecht became a great artist. Then he drew this. This is in Albertina Museum, in Vienna It's called a number of things, what?

All brushed. Door. So it was believed, this was a study of a greater work called the study of the hands of an apostle which was destroyed And you can say it was because they are similar. Definitely but this incredibly beautiful blue paper is handmade. This is not a cheap copy, that you would do a piece of art on and then throw it away because it was us just to work to get ready to do another work. The other one was a greater work recognized as a greater work, but it's believed that this was more precious to him than the greater work.

I don't know if the story is true or not, but it's it's a beautiful story. I bought a mold casting of of this for my mother was something she loved how many people have ever seen these in on a wall in a in their house sir.

More than one. You drew them. Yeah, beautiful. So this is one way to pray with your hands folded like this and what does it symbolize to you when your hands are folded like this?

Submission. Okay. Reverence. It's a, it's a. I'm trying to do the right form here, right? Kind of, I think this is the right way to do it. Lord, Let me do it this way.

How about this way?

What's this mean what's this symbolize? Huh.

Pleading begging. Also. This is acceptable. This is acceptable flight different nuances and what they mean, right? Okay. That one. What's this mean?

supplication asking for something, hoping it will be given

Lifting up something? Giving something up to God. So is this receiving or giving?

I can be both. And sometimes the giving is the receiving and you don't exceed. Don't you don't realize that? It just it's kind of like

I like it's like one thing. It's like breathing almost Beautiful. Beautiful. This is prayer.

One more.

I tried to find one like this, this is best when I found. This in my mind represents myself and my brother. We're not black. But this is the closest thing I found. when I learned to pray,

Was pretty much like this.

I was holding my hands like this sometimes like this, but usually like this. And my brother was trying to do it the right way.

We both received instruction. And I was kind of, I need help here.

These are all genuine forms of prayer, weight of ways to pray. This week's satyr Miriam and Aaron had died already. But not Moses, Moses was still around. It's been 9 chapters. They're both gone and Moses is still there. What's he thinking? Kind of amazing. Meanwhile, in the meantime, you know, the last few weeks we've been in this great series Israel, head rebuild and God had sent plagues and snakes, and he gave Redemption a couple different times. Israel had conquered sea hound dog, are add all Canaanite. Kings, they went through or around Meridian eat. Salmon Balaam had delivered incredible mess in prophecies. A new synthesis had been completed which is no small feat, Moses successor. As I read it, Joshua had already been appointed or possibly pre appointed with the expectation that the final appointment would come later, but everyone knows who it is. Everyone knows who the new bosses and Moses is kind of going like, how come I'm still here?

Been a long time. What's going on God?

As numbers close comes to a close, we know. God continues to help Moses lead Israel through his last day on Earth. He doesn't die until Deuteronomy 34. That's a long time from now. It's actually not a long time, but in terms of reading, so we're going to go through. It's a long time. A long time hearing we teach about it, for sure. So. So here's what God is telling Moses to do. Pay attention to the National sacrifices, Moses. I'm not focusing right now on the personal stuff. Yeah, they're related. But the important thing for you to realize is these things are important to the entire nation. these aren't personal things, Moses might be at the point of saying, I wish my sons have been, you know,

Something better. I don't know. Joshua, I like Joshua fine but My family is kind of come to an end. It hasn't. We've had a group Shoney in this congregation many times. And so, the Christian Knights did not die. anyway, I think God's kind of saying

before you go on to deliver Deuteronomy, I want you to focus on what's important for the nation.

The personal stuffs also important. But what's important for the nation is as the big deal, it was important to give Israel. Specifics of the national sacrifices without discussing the personal ones, National and personal RX inextricably. Intertwined yet entirely distinct as examples. Here's an entertainment, without the individual passover's in first fruits, there be no National Feast of unleavened bread. There'd be no Exodus. Without a high priests personal sin. Offering the sin offering of the high priest is a personal sin offering. But he has to give it or there'd be no damn atonement. If the pie priest doesn't do the thing, he needs to do. The nation can't. Survive. Really? We each offer personal private familial offerings in order for our corporate offerings to mean anything.

so, What that means is every time you pray personally, every time you offer something to God personally it's not just for your good, it's for the good of the whole body of Christ.

How often what should we be praying?

Continually. Our corporate body needs each individual sacrifice God. Composed our body with no division that the members members have the same care for one another. And we each has members need every member of the body. If one member of the body is left out, the body is not complete, the body is not hold. The body is not healthy, the body is sick.

So at this time, I like to read this blessing for special occasions. I'll read it in English. Then I read it in transliterated Hebrew blessed, are you? Oh Lord our god, king of the universe who has granted us life and sustained us and allowed us to arrive at this time. No. Other translation says and and the permitted us to reach this season This is Bob Mass's favorite prayer. He recited it often because his family needed help. Baruch attah Adonai eloheinu. Melech ha'olam shehecheyanu Mono, Mono Mono

Thank you, Lord, for allowing us to reach this time. Applications for today. First of all, Moses, I imagine Moses is going on. Why haven't you taken me yet? I've heard that from time to time from people. If you're one of those people who's saying, why haven't you taken me yet? This is what you need to know. God is still with you. You still teaching comforting and helping you. Once you're his he'll never leave you nor forsake you I have a few verses to prove that point

When it's finally your time. He'll still be with you.

Taking you home.

Play mat.

The other application. We each need each other, every member of his body. His body needs every one of us to be whole in the meantime, don't shirk your responsibilities, you are a member of his body. When I was working at rtai off and had lunch with friends, and I would say, you know, the time is coming, you know, if it's coming short, we should not forsake the meeting together for lunch.

And so I had a lot of lunchtime meetings with dear friends, still do. Jesus said, sacrifices and offerings, you have not desired, but a body, a body that's that body. Where the body? We need each other. Have you prepared for me? Everybody sees his body, where his body and burnt, offerings and sin offerings. You've taken no pleasure. Then I said, behold I've come to do your, will of God as it is written in the scroll of the book, Jesus is quoting Psalm 40, he's being quoted in Hebrews. So you can say Jesus didn't say that but I think he did, I'm sure he did. I need the. Pound it out that you can build it.

What's with this? You don't deserve burnt offerings, you don't deserve Surf Racks. Okay? So what were those replaced by

Prayer. Worship. Praise study. Good works, Etc.

And the city has no need of the sun or moon to shine on it for the glory of God, gives its light and its lamp. Is the Lamb, the lamb is the lamp. Of God's kingdom. Let's pray. Holy God. Thank you for instructing Us in personal sacrifices and National sacrifices in this time, in our country. Lord, we we acknowledge and recognize that we need to do what is best for our country.

Not just for ourselves, but for our country. please help us to realize that as we do things as we say things, as we

think of things.

We need to be concerned about the good of your body for that is our true country. So we ask your blessing on us as we depart from this place. Help us to live, according to your will and according to your word, in Jesus name, amen.