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Broken priests make broken decisions.
The priest was called to offer sacrifices to God on behalf of sinful people.
Illus: The priest was the go between.
He was someone who would be ritually cleansed so that when you brought your sacrifice to God it would be accepted.
The barebones truth is that if you brought a sacrifice to God to atone for your sins while you were in sin, God would consume you.
God placed a mediator between you and him, the priest.
He would offer the sacrifice on your behalf so that you would not die.
The priest’s job was to go to God on your behalf.
Only the priest can go inside the tent and
What does that say about us… we are unable to approach God no matter what we offer.
Nadab and Abihu proved that no human priest could rightly fulfill their calling.
Illus: The Bible is filled with the stories of fallen heroes.
Adam and eve didn’t make 3 chapters without sinning, Cain was a murderer, Noah was a drunk.
Abraham was an adulterer, Isaac followed his dad’s example.
Jacob had way to many wives… oh and he was a trickster.
Moses doubted God, Aaron was an Idolater.
Today we come to the next in line.
Nadab and Abihu… The priests in the line of sucession to speak to the people, and they offer unauthorized fire before the Lord.
Why does the bible show the wickedness of it’s heroes… to show that we need a greater hero.
We are here for a specific reason.
God exposed the triviality of Nadab and Abihu so that coming generations might understand the seriousness of what God demanded, and understand that a better priest was needed.
We do need a better priest, a perfect one, and the need left in this story points to Jesus Christ.
We need a holy high high priest.
Jesus Christ faced every temptation we did.
Where we fail, Christ was perfect.
Illus: Every priest had to go through a series of cleansings and sacrifices to be made clean.
Why? because these broken men were approaching God who demanded they be holy and perfect.
The reason God took Nadab and Abihu is because they did not come before him clean.
One misstep, offering unauthorized fire was enough for a holy God to consume these men.
When Jesus came to this earth, he lived not just to do miracles and teach.
He came to fulfill all righteousness.
When Jesus lived, he needed to be tempted in every way without sinning so that he might be the perfect priest to offer himself for us.
When Jesus lived, he needed to live the perfect righteous life so that he might give it to us.
Jesus did not have to go through the cleansings and rituals as a high priest, because he fulfilled all righteousness through his life.
We approach God’s throne because Jesus is the high priest who has made the way.
Jesus Christ accomplished what no human priest ever could, our restoration to fellowship with God.
Illus: God created priests and the sacrificial system for one purpose, so that we sinful people might be made right with God.
No animal sacrifice would ever be good enough to make us right with God.
No priest would ever be perfect enough to to restore our fellowship.
Christ did both on the cross.
On the cross he became our mediator and our sacrifice.
We can know God personally, without fear, because Jesus did what no human ever did: He made us right with God.
Through Christ we have become holy priests.
God has raised up priests made holy in the true High Priest, Jesus Christ, to display His glory and holiness to the world.
Illus: Every person here is a priest!
That is what the bible says.
We are able to aproach God because Jesus has made us clean, holy, righteous.
But as priests we have a job: we are called to go to a world that does not know Jesus, share with them the gospel, and see God transform their heart.
Just as a priest was called to stand between a broken sinner and God, so we are called to go to broken sinners with the message that God has forgiven them through the perfect work of Christ.
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