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Numbers chapter 8 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Numbers chapter 8. Let's pray.
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  Father God, we enter in to the throne room of grace.
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  We enter in by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Lord, we thank you for another day to come and to worship you
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  in spirit and truth. Lord, I pray that you will help
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  us, help us to see our need for you.
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  Lord, we confess all the times that we've got it wrong.
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  We receive our bridal identity. We receive the forgiveness.
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  God, today is the day of salvation, Lord.
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  So we surrender all, not just some, Lord, we surrender all.
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  We lay it all at the foot of the cross.
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  Lord, help us not pick it back up.
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  We thank you, Lord, for Jesus Christ coming, living a perfect
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  life. We thank you, Lord, that he died
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  a criminal's cross. Lord, we receive the blood that
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  ran red down that cross, the water that was spewed out.
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  We eat the flesh, God. We drink the blood, Father.
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  We thank you for our inheritance.
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  We thank you, God for being the least in the Kingdom.
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  We thank you, God, that you paid it all for the Pearl of great
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  price. Lord, help us to be those that
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  sell everything, to buy the treasure in the field.
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  God, I pray against the birds who come and nest in the
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  branches, father. I pray that we'll grow up like
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  the mustard seed, Lord, into a tree, Father.
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  But I pray that you'll shoo the birds away, Father.
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  Don't let him snatch the sea, Father.
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  I pray that it's fertile soil that this word reaches, that it
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  goes down deep into the cracks and crevices and fills all of
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  the hurts and the hang ups, Lord.
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  And I pray that you'll just continue to get glory, Father.
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  I pray you'll anoint this time, Father.
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  I pray that somebody gets saved. I pray God, you'll break off the
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  false narratives, Lord, and I pray that you'll continue, Lord,
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  to expand the horizon, Father, for what you want to do for such
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  a day as this, Lord, bring them into the fold, Lord, I pray that
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  somebody, somewhere, Father, will see you correctly and they
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  will come in. They'll surrender all and
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  they'll be there with us forevermore.
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  Lord, teach us your paths. Light it up, God.
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  Let us walk in it today. We're acknowledging you, Lord,
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  so we're believing. We're standing on the firm
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  foundation that you're going to direct our paths today.
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  Direct my speech, Lord. Hide me and hide my words.
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  It's all about King Jesus. It's not about me, Father, it's
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  all about you. So Lord, we just say yes and
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  Amen to every jot and every title for every syllable that's
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  on the page. God, we say yes and Amen to
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  every bit of it. And we might not understand it,
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  God, but we believe it and we hide it.
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  And Lord help us to understand it.
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  And it's in Jesus Christ. Holy and precious, powerful
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  name. Pray Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And the Lord spoke unto Moses,
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  saying, Too, speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When you light
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  the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the
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  Candlestick. So if you were tuned into the
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  last chapter, you know that at the very end of all the Princess
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  bringing in all of their sacrifices and their gifts there
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  to the temple, you saw that at the very end God had a word for
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  Moses. And here we pick it up in this
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  chapter and we see that God wanted to talk to Moses and say,
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  Hey, when you talk to Aaron, talk to him about the lampstand.
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  And we see that the lampstand was beaten out of the gold, the
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  pure gold, and it wasn't hollow, it was pure and it was
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  completely full. But it does not give light in
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  and of itself. There must be oil put into it
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  and it must be lit, friends. And we let God light us up, and
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  we allow God to give us our light.
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  We are nothing more than vessels for His light to be shown
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  through. And here we can see that this is
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  synonymous with what we read over in the Book of Revelation
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  when he's talking about the churches and the angels of the
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  churches, the messengers of the churches, the leaders of those
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  churches. And you see here that God has a
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  very peculiar interest in this menorah, in this lamp.
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  And if we just let it sit, it has no use.
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  And we cannot be lukewarm. We must be either hot or cold.
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  And here you also need to understand that the Holy Spirit
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  is the one who lights us up. But we must become the vessels
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  to be emptied of self and to be filled with His oil, the oil of
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  gladness. The Holy Spirit comes upon us,
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  and that is what lights us up for.
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  And this work of the Candlestick was a beaten gold unto the
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  shaft. 3 Then Aaron did so, and he lit the lamps thereof over
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  against the Candlestick, as the Lord commanded Moses.
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  Four. And this work of the Candlestick
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  was a beaten gold unto the shaft thereof.
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  Unto the flowers thereof it was beaten work, according into the
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  pattern which the Lord has showed Moses.
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  So he made the Candlestick. So there it is.
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  God gave Moses this blueprint of what he wanted, and then Moses
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  allowed the men who were filled with the Holy Spirit to cast
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  this beautiful peace that was pure gold 5.
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  And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, 6.
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  Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse
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  them. So he's going to make them like
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  newborn babes. 7 And thus shalt you do unto them, to cleanse
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  them, sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let
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  them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes and
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  so make themselves clean. They were like newborn babes.
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  And we see that this is the ashes of the red heifer.
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  We'll see that later on in the Book of Numbers that the ashes
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  of the red heifer were sprinkled into the water onto these
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  Levites, consecrating them. 8 Then let them take a young bull
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  with his meat, offering even fine flour mingle with oil, and
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  another young bull shall you take for a sin offering nine.
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  And you shall bring the Levites before the Tabernacle of the
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  congregation, and you shall gather the whole assembly of the
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  children of Israel together. So this was a public spectacle
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  of these men, shaved and shorn and sprinkled. 10 And you shall
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  bring the Levites before the Lord, and the children of Israel
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  shall put their hands upon the Levites. 11 And Aaron shall
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  offer the Levites before the Lord for an offering of the
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  children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the
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  Lord. So an entire tribe is given over
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  to the service of the Lord, and the people come, and they lay
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  their hands upon them, signifying that they are giving
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  them over unto the Lord. 12 And the Levites shall lay their
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  hands upon the heads of the bulls, and shall offer the one
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  for the sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering unto
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  the Lord, to make an atonement for the Levites.
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  So here they're putting all of their sins and trespasses upon
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  this animal. 13 And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and
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  before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the Lord.
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  So they were for Aaron and his sons, the high priest and the
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  priest usage in the temple. 14 This shall thus shall you
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  separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the
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  Levites shall be mine. 15 And after that shall the Levites go
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  in to do the service of the Tabernacle of the congregation,
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  and you shall cleanse them and offer them for an offering. 16
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  For they are wholly given unto me.
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  And among the children of Israel, instead of such as open
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  every womb, even, instead of the first born of all the children
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  of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
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  So God, unlike the animals, God here is saying that all the
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  first born belonged to him, but He would exchange their lives
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  because God wanted to keep them alive, because He does not ever
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  demand any kind of human sacrifice.
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  And so therefore he's saying, in the exchange for them, keeping
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  all their first borns alive and at home, he would take the
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  Levites unto himself. 16 For they are wholly given unto me
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  among the children of Israel, instead of such as open the
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  womb, I have taken them unto me. 17 For all the first born of the
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  children of Israel are mine, both man and beast.
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  On the day that I struck every first born in the land of Egypt,
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  I sanctified them for myself. So as the Passover went, they
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  passed over all of Israel's first born, those that had the
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  blood on the lentils. 18 And I have taken the Levites for all
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  the first born of the children of Israel. 19 And I have given
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  the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the
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  children of Israel, to do the service of the children of
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  Israel in the Tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an
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  atonement for the children of Israel, that there be no plague
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  among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come
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  near unto the sanctuary. So that's the whole bottom line
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  here is that God wanted them to be holy, and as they approached
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  them to the sanctuary, he wanted them to be covered, and at one
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  with him. 20 And Moses and Aaron in all the congregation, the
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  children of Israel, did to the Levites, according unto all that
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  the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did
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  the children of Israel unto them.
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  Here you can see lots and lots and lots of radical obedience
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  leading up to Chapter 11. 21 And the Levites were purified, and
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  they washed their clothes, and Aaron offered them as an
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  offering before the Lord, And Aaron made an atonement for them
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  to cleanse them. 22 And after that went the Levites in to do
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  the service of the Tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron
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  and before his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses
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  concerning the Levites, so did they unto them. 23 And the Lord
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  spoke unto Moses, saying, 24 This is it that belongs unto the
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  Levites. From 25 years old and upward
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  they shall go in to wait upon the service of the Tabernacle of
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  the congregation. So here we can see that at 25
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  their training started and then at 30 they launched it. 25 And
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  from the age of 50 years they shall cease waiting upon the
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  service thereof, and they shall serve no more, 26 but shall
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  minister with their brothers in the Tabernacle of congregation,
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  to keep the charge, and shall do no service.
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  Thus shalt you do unto the Levites, touching their charge.
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  So here he's giving them their retirement plan and telling them
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  at age 50 all the heavy lifting and everything that was required
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  for the animal sacrifices and the moving of the tent and all
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  the heavy articles. At 50 years old, it could cease,
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  but they could still volunteer and they could still come and
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  help out, but they did not have to be required to do all of the
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  heavy work that they were doing whenever they were younger.
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  What an amazing God that we serve.
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  He even cares about our physical limitations, friends, and He
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  created us out of dust, out of nothing, and He knows our
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  limitations and He makes provision for that.
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  What an amazing, thoughtful God that we serve.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this absolutely incredible
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  chapter here in God's Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.