Thru the Bible - #143-Numbers 28- Laws for Offerings

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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
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The title of today's lesson isLaws for Offerings.
Let's get the reading going.
Numbers 28, let's read.

SPEAKER_01 (00:51):
Numbers 28.
The Lord said to Moses, Givethis command to the Israelites
and say to them, See that youpresent to me at the appointed
time the food for my offeringsmade by fire, as an aroma
pleasing to me.
Say to them, This is theoffering made by fire that you
are to present to the Lord, twolambs, a year old without

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defect, as a regular burntoffering each day.
Prepare one lamb in the morningand the other at twilight,
together with a grain offeringof a tenth of an epha of fine
flour mixed with a quarter ofhint of oil from pressed olives.
This is the regular burntoffering instituted at Mount
Sinai as a pleasing aroma, anoffering made to the Lord by

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fire.
The accompanying drink offeringis to be a quarter of a hint of
fermented drink with each lamb.
Pour out the drink offering tothe Lord at the sanctuary.
Prepare the second lamb attwilight, along with the same
kind of grain offering, anddrink offering that you prepare
in the morning.
This is an offering made byfire, an aroma pleasing to the

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Lord.
On the Sabbath day make anoffering of two lambs a year old
without defect, together withits drink offering and a grain
offering of two tenths of anephah of fine flour mixed with
oil.
This is the burnt offering forevery Sabbath, in addition to
the regular burnt offering andits drink offering.
On the first of every month,present to the Lord a burnt
offering of two young bulls, oneram, and seven male lambs a year

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old, all without defect.
With each bull there is to be agrain offering of three tenths
of an ephah of fine flour mixedwith oil, with the ram a grain
offering of two tenths of anephah of fine flour mixed with
oil, and with each lamb a grainoffering of a tenth of an ephah
of fine flour mixed with oil.
This is for a burnt offering, apleasing aroma, an offering made

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to the Lord by fire.
With each bull, there is to be adrink offering of half a hen of
wine, with the ram a third of ahen, and with each lamb a
quarter of a hen.
This is the monthly burntoffering to be made at each new
moon during the year.
Besides the regular burntoffering with its drink
offering, one male goat is to bepresented to the Lord as a sin

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offering.
On the fourteenth day of thefirst month, the Lord's Passover
is to be held.
On the fifteenth day of thismonth there is to be a festival,
for seven days each bread madewithout yeast.
On the first day hold a sacredassembly and do no regular work.
Present to the Lord an offeringmade by fire, a burnt offering
of two young bulls, one ram andseven male lambs a year old, all

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without defect.
With each bull, prepare a grainoffering of three tenths of an
ephah of fine flour mixed withoil, with the ram, two tenths,
and with each of the sevenlambs, one tenth.
Include one male goat as a sinoffering to make atonement for
you.
Prepare these in addition to theregular morning burnt offering.
In this way, prepare the foodfor the offering made by fire

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every day for seven days as anaroma pleasing to the Lord.
It is to be prepared in additionto the regular burnt offering
and its drink offering.
On the seventh day, hold asacred assembly and do no
regular work.
On the day of first fruits, whenyou present to the Lord an
offering of new grain during thefeast of weeks, hold a sacred

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assembly and do no regular work.
Present a burnt offering of twoyoung bulls, one ram and seven
male lambs a year old as anaroma pleasing to the Lord.
With each bull, there is to be agrain offering of three tenths
of an epha of fine flour mixedwith oil, with the ram two
tenths, and with each of theseven lambs one tenth.
Includes one male goat to makeatonement for you.

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Prepare these together withtheir drink offerings.
In addition to the regular burntoffering and its grain offering,
be sure the animals are withoutdefect.

SPEAKER_00 (04:46):
All right, now the last time we were together, we
looked at how the Lord caredabout the inheritance for five
women, how he cared to showMoses the promised land, which
he didn't have to, and how hecared to bring up a new leader,
which was Joshua, after theupcoming death of Moses.
Today we are looking at the lawsof offerings.

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When it comes to worshiping God,it is to be done to his exact
measure.
And you have heard me say this alot of times as we started these
lessons.
It must be how the Lord wants itto be done, not us, not how we
want it to be or what we think,but how the Lord wants it to be
done.
Six times in this chapter, theLord says, This is a sweet,
soothing aroma to me.

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This should teach us thatworship is important to God.
There are five offerings to theLord in this chapter, and that's
how we're gonna break thisoffering excuse me.
That's how we're gonna breakthis chapter down.
We're gonna break this chapterdown into five topics, and then
going over each offering, thefirst, the daily offering.

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We see this in verses onethrough eight.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses,saying, Command the sons of
Israel and say to them, Youshall be careful to present my
offering, my food, for myofferings by fire of a soothing
aroma to me at their appointedtime.
And you shall say to them, Thisis the offering by fire which

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you shall offer to the Lord, twomale lamb year old without
effect, as a continual burntoffering every day.
You shall offer the one lamb inthe morning, and the other lamb
shall be offered at twilight,also a tenth of an ephi of fine
flour for a grain offering,mixed with a fourth of a hand of

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beaten oil.
It is a continual burnt offeringwhich was ordained in Mount
Sinai as a soothing room, anoffering by fire to the Lord.
Then the libation with it shallbe a fourth of a hand for each
lamb in the holy place.
You shall pour out a libation ofstrong drink to the Lord.
And the other lamb you shalloffer at twilight, as a grain

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offering of the morning, and ashis libation, you shall offer
it, an offering by fire, asoothing aroma to the Lord.
Now, if you do the math with allof these offerings, the annual
obligation was 1,086 lambs, 32rams, 113 bulls, 1,000 bottles

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of oil and wine, and more than aton of flour.
In verse 7, it mentionslibations.
This drink included wine andstrong drink.
Look at verse 7 again.

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Now, that word strong drink,Hebrews 79, 41, that word means
an intoxicating liquor.
It also means an alcoholicbeverage.
So for those of you, excuse me,let me re-take that back.
I I know not none of you,because you all sit down and you
actually study the word of God.

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But for the illegalists outthere, this is talking about
strong drink.
This is talking about alcohol.
There is no way to get aroundit.
You can kind of play your gamesand say, oh no, they were just
drinking grape juice or adifferent form of grape juice.
No, they were drinking grapes,but they weren't drinking grape
juice.
They were drinking wine, whichis fermented grapes, and then

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you have distilled grapes, whichperforms strong drink.
And the strong drink was uh uhwould be how you get things like
whiskey and bourbon.
So they had a strong drink.
Now you have to remember, allthings are made by the Lord, and
all of these things are good andcan be good, and they can be
made for you to enjoy.
The key is that that you thatyou don't abuse it.

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And when you have this strongdrink, the point is not to drink
as many as you can to whereyou're drunk.
It's not to uh just keep goingand going and going until you
can't stand up.
It was just to be enjoyed.
They were to enjoy it with theirmeal.
In this case, the Lord said topour it out, and notice where he
said to do it at.
He said to do it in the holyplace.
So for any legalists out there,you can be upset about it.

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But when the Lord said to Israelto bring the strong drink, he is
talking about wine and evenalcoholic drinks.
We're gonna move on to part two,the weekly offerings.
We see this in verse verses 9and 10.
Then on the Sabbath day, twomale lambs, one year old without
defect, and two tenths of theephire of fine flour mixed with

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oil as a rain offering and aslibation.
This is the burnt offering ofevery Sabbath in addition to the
continual burnt offering and hislibation.
You notice that for Israel, thisis the Sabbath, so they were
supposed to bring double whatthey did the other days.
Because remember, they were todo no work on the Sabbath.
Part three.
The monthly offering.

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So we see this in verses 11 to15.
Then at the beginning of each ofthe months, you shall present a
burnt offering to the Lord, twobulls and one ram, seven uh male
lambs, one year old, withoutdefect, without defect people.
The Lord wants you to bring hisbest.
And three tenths of an ephire offine flour for a grain offering

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mixed with oil for each bull,and two tenths of fine flour for
a grain offering mixed with oilfor one ram.
And a tenth of an ephire of fineflour mixed with oil for a grain
offering for each lamb, for aburnt offering of a soothing
aroma, and offering by fire tothe Lord.
And their libations shall behalf a hen of wine for a bull,

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and a third of a hen for theram, and a fourth of a hen for a
lamb.
Excuse me, for a ram and afourth of a hen for a lamb.
This is the burnt offering ofeach month throughout the months
of the year.
And one male goat for a sinoffering to the Lord, it shall
be offered with its libation, inaddition to the continual burnt
offering.

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So we see these offeringscontinue.
We had the weekly offering, nowthat was the monthly offering.
Next we are going to look at thePassover offering.
We see this in verses 16 to 25.
Then on the 14th day of thefirst month shall be the Lord's
Passover.
And on the 15th day of thismonth shall be a feast.
Unleavened bread shall be eatenfor seven days.

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On the first day shall be a holyconvocation.
You shall do no lubarious work,and you shall present an
offering by fire, a burntoffering to the Lord, two bulls
and one ram, and seven malelambs, one year old, having them
without defect.
That's the key to remember,without defect.
And their grain offerings youshall offer fine flour mixed

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with oil, three tenths of anephar for a bull, and a tenth
for the ram, and tenth of anephar you shall offer for each
of the seven lambs, and one malego for a sin offering to make
atonement for you.
You shall present these besidesthe burnt offering of the
morning, which is for acontinual burnt offering.
After this manner, you shallpresent daily for seven days the

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food of the offering by fire ofa soothing aroma to the Lord.
It shall be presented with itslibation in addition to the
continual burnt offering.
And on the seventh day you shallhave a holy convocation, you
shall do no laborious work.
So we see that the Lord givesthem the offerings that they
were to make on the Passover.

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Then we move on to number five,the first fruits offering.
And we see this in verses 26 to31.
Also, on the day of the firstfruits, when you present a new
grain offering to the Lord, inyour feast of weeks, you shall
have a holy convocation.
You shall do no laborious works,and you shall offer a burnt
offering for a soothing aroma tothe Lord, two young bulls, one

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ram, seven male lambs, one yearold, and their grain offering,
fine flour mixed with oil, threetenths of an ephi for each ram,
two tenths for the one ram, atenth for each of the seven
lambs, one male goat to makeatonement for you, besides the
continual burnt offering and hisgrain offering, you shall

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present them with theirlibations, they shall be without
defect.
And one of the main things Ilike to point out in there is
that the Lord mentioned severaltimes without defect, he wants
their best.
As we talked about, I mean, way,way back back when we was in
Exodus, when you brought theseofferings to the Lord, don't
look and say, well, you know, Ineed one of these bulls, you

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know, to help me with thegarden.
And, you know, that one rightthere got a little bit of a
limp.
Let me get that as my offering.
I mean, because you know, we'regonna sacrifice him anyway.
No, you were to give the Lordyour best.
You were supposed to take thatstrong bull and present that to
the Lord to show the Lord, Lord,you are the one who gave me all
of these blessings.
You are the one I obey, and I'mopen, and my obedience will

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cause you to bless me even morethan you have.
So it was a key that you saidthat they stayed obeying the
Lord.
As it is for you and I, it is akey to stay on that path and
obey the Lord.
And it is a key that we dothings in his order.
We need to do things in the waythat he wants and how he wants
them to.
God takes worship very seriouslyin this chapter right here.

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And if you were with me forchapter 27 here in Numbers, we
saw that the Lord takesofferings, excuse me, he takes
worship very seriously, and weare to abide for exactly how he
wants that done.
Okay.
That brings us to the end ofNumbers chapter 28.
I hope that you enjoyed it.
I hope that you learnedsomething.
As always, I ask you to continueto pray for me, that I stay

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strong in the scriptures, thatthe Lord is a continual lamp to
my feet and a light to my path,and I am doing the same for you.
Wherever you are on these sixcontinents that I have picked up
listeners from, I thank the Lordfor it.
I thank the Lord for you to taketime out of your day, out of
your week, to listen to a guylike me go through and break
down the scriptures with you.

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I appreciate you a great deal.
All right, that's anotherchapter of numbers down.
That is all for now.
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