Numbers 3:1-4

well good morning good morning good morning welcome to coffee and devotions this where every day you and I well every weekday we get together we have a little bit of coffee no nothing well we don't have anything we don't have anything this morning we have a little bit of something to drink typically and we read the Bible the morning yeah it is it's before noon it's about lunch time ah it's before lunch we get a little bit of coffee we get into God's word and we grow in our love for the Lord together and this year 2023 Lord willing we'll make it through um Genesis numbers to Deuteronomy Deuteronomy and Hebrews Hebrews that's right Numbers Deuteronomy and Hebrews all right you ready to pray Lord we thank you so much for your word we pray that you would please help us to understand it please apply it to our lives in Jesus's name amen okay Numbers Chapter 3 the first four verses you think you're going to be able to help me with this no no okay now these are the records of Aaron and Moses when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount siani and these are the names of the sons of Aaron naab the firstborn and Abu Eleazar and ithamar these are the names of the sons of Aaron the anointed priests whom he consecrated to minister keep your mouth out there hey I want to be close to it come on come on these are the names of the sons of Aaron the anointed priests whom he consecrated to minister as priests naab and abood had died before the Lord when they offered profane fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai and they had no children so Eleazar and ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of of Aaron their father so you have God and he's spoke he's speaking to Moses and um oh Moses and Aaron Moses and Aaron that's right uh and the special what's the special place that God has for Aaron what job did he anoint him for um to be a to be a priest that's right to be the priest and Aaron has four boys do you remember any of their names one of them is Levi no not Levi so Aaron is of the tribe of Levi of the kohathites but this is a different so he's got four boys one is nadab and ab you got naab and Abu what happened to naab and Abu in the wilderness they got killed they were killed by who God by the Lord that's right they brought Strange Fire into the Tabernacle and so they died and they died without having any what they didn't have any children so that leaves two more boys to be priests and what boys mostly the same thing well no Eleazar and ithamar more no no that's Eli Sons yeah yeah not not not Aarons those are Le Eli sons and Samuel but you're right that there were priests who did that too and so they had no children so Eleazar and ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of Aaron their father so Aaron is the high priest but they're also low they're priests yeah they're priests but they're low well we don't call them low priests we just call them priests right so they would help their daddy in the work in the Tabernacle making all the sacrifices and stuff all right so uh do we have priests today what do you mean kind of a different name like Elders or like high priests and like and and the deacons are like leites and the members are like helpers H now the that's interesting but I don't think it's exactly right you know who our high priest is now it's not the elders God it's Jesus Christ himself right that's what we find out in Hebrews chapter 9 and 10 guess why we're doing the book of Hebrews after Deuteronomy because the Hebrews tells us right so Jesus is the high priest so who are who are the other priests then the high priest well no God's God's the one being worshiped guess who's a priest all of us that's right we're all priests a nation of priesthood right that's what God came to do right so Jesus is our high priest but he makes us into a nation a kingdom of priests Jesus is the highest priest you get and he's worshiping God and boy he have to worship Jesus and God well interestingly when Jesus is the high priest he goes into the Tabernacle in heaven and do you know what's in the holy of holies in in the Tabernacle here you have the ark and on the ark that's almost like the Throne of God so guess who sits on on The Mercy Seat God but guess what the book of Hebrews says Jesus Jesus went into the hly into the holy place and there he stays nobody stays in the Holy place other than God himself so we worship Jesus right because he is one with the father he's like like te bit no he's not a little bit lower at all he's like the same same in substance power and Glory he's the same and God's like he's this the father God's the father and he's the son and Jesus is a son right so we we don't believe in that Jesus is lower Jesus his best amount well they're the same in power and glory of the same substance homo Usos I didn't think we were going to talk about the Trinity today but that's good right so so okay so we have we are a nation of priests Jesus is our high priest and we get to worship God yeah all right you ready to pray okay Lord we thank you so much that even in the old Testament in this Covenant under Moses that you gave types and shadows to point us to Jesus Lord we pray that we would worship you in spirit and in truth we pray that we would follow after you and love you all of our lives in Jesus's name amen right you want to say bye bye bye have a good [Music] day thanks for listening to this week's message from God's word for you a Ministry of Sharon RP Church in rural Southeast Iowa we pray that the message would be used by God to transform your faith and your life this week if you'd like to get more information about us feel free to go to the website Sharon rc.org we'd love to invite you to worship with us our worship time is 10:00 a.m. every Sunday at 25204 160th Avenue Morning Sun Iowa 52640 may God richly bless you this week [Music]