This section is one of my favorites from the whole Bible. God is teaching Moses and Aaron to represent Him with self-sacrificing compassion. He Himself is going to die for people that grumble against Him, and here He is doing a little bit of that kind of training on Moses and Aaron.
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Numbers Part 2 – Plagues and Devotion
Here are some cool bits from early in Numbers. People are dedicated to the Lord and being formed into His people. At the same time, Moses and Aaron are being formed into High Priests – the men that will represent God to the people and vice versa.
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Phinehas Son of Eleazar – Not a Chaplain
A couple of years ago, I tried to fill a little notebook with one Bible thought per day. I found it recently and there are some pages empty, so I’m backfilling them. Here is one today from Numbers 31:6 about Phinehas.
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More than Numbers: Part 1
Sermon on Numbers 1-10, where God’s grace is already showing up and the order of travel is established for the Hebrews as they head to the promised land.
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Moses, Joshua, Jesus and a Good Time to Take off Your Shoes
The sound quality of this is a little scratchy, but the content is really good. I forget where I did this, maybe when I was Pastor at the Evansville Rescue Mission.
In this blurb, I talk about times when people in the Bible took off their shoes. There were certain things going on with them, going on with the Lord, and going on with the nation of Israel and God’s people.
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Nehemiah Viewing the Ruins
I’m reading through Nehemiah with a group of guys from OneLife West and the thing that hit me yesterday was that Daniel was taken away and the city was destroyed around 605 BC. Nehemiah was going back and viewing the destruction around 450 B.C. That would be like me going and touring the battle of […]