Between Promise and Possession
August 30, Sunday Service of Worship (Numbers 3:14-51, As the Lord Commanded)
…And this tribe of Levi is to serve the Lord as his chosen possession. “The Levites are mine; I am the Lord,” he says in v. 45. So the Levites served at the whim of the Lord. So, while all the other tribes could go out and plant their fields and raise their livestock, the Levites had to camp…
August 23, Sunday Service of Worship (Numbers 3:1-13, My Brother’s Keeper)
…But the tribe of Levi also kept guard over the people. Meaning, they watched for intruders, those who disregarded the Lord’s commands and tried to get to close to the tent of meeting, and they put those intruders to death. Not only as a punishment against the wicked, but as a protection for…
July 26, Sunday Service of Worship (Numbers 2:1-34, Ordered Around the Presence of the Lord)
….This principle here is like the OT equivalent of Matthew 6:33, “seek first the kingdom of God.” And this is it, for those who live in between the promise and the possession. “Live with your life ordered around the…
July 19, Sunday Service of Worship (Numbers 1:47-54, Confident Access to the Presence of the Lord)
And here’s the pressing matter in this passage. God wanted Israel to be his people. He chose Abraham from all the people of the earth. He brought Israel up out of Egypt. Yet, God is holy. Israel was not. And you can’t just…
July 12, Sunday Service of Worship (Numbers 1:1-46, God’s Faithfulness in the Wilderness)
Well, you can turn in your Bibles to Numbers 1, for a new preaching series titled, “Between Promise and Possession.” We finished Mark two weeks back. Mark ends his gospel account by challenging readers to “take courage” and…
