Numbers 8:13-15 A Wave Offering

 13You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons and then present them before the LORD as a wave offering. 14In this way you shall separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and the Levites will belong to Me. 15After you have cleansed them and presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the Tent of Meeting.

“A wave offering was a portion of a sacrifice presented to God, then released by God for the use of those involved in the sacrifice. The meat fed the families of the priests.”

https://www.gotquestions.org/wave-offering.html

“The priests had their hands filled. Certain parts of the ram were taken, and “one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread, which is before the LORD,” and all these were put into the hands of Aaron and his sons, so that they stood with their hands full before the Lord. See the beauty of this, and pray for a complete realization of it yourself. The Lord intends to make you a priest, but your hands are full of sin. What have you to do? You must lay those guilty hands on the sin offering, and make confession, and exercise faith, then the sin is gone, being transferred to another, and your hands are empty.

What next? Will the Lord leave you empty-handed? No, He gives you something to offer. He allows you a part of the peace offering to fill your hands withal, and this you present before Him as a wave offering.

It is a blessed thing to stand before God with your hands full of Christ. The service which consists in holding forth Jesus is most blessed. I love preaching when I have to preach Jesus only. Then I come before you, not empty-handed, but loaded with meat and bread for you. How idle it is for us to stand before God with nothing to offer, and if we have not Jesus we have nothing, or worse than nothing.” (Spurgeon)

Are your hands full of Christ or full of sin?

Blessings 

God Knows Jude 1:4

 I heard a Pastor once say that thinking we can use up God’s Grace is like a little bird landing on the ocean and being afraid to take a drink because it’s afraid it will drink up the whole ocean. 

Does that mean we are free to abuse God’s Grace? Absolutely not. We can’t hide from God. We can’t pull a fast one on Him. We aren’t going to pull the wool over His eyes. 

God not only sees the things we do. God not only hears the words we say. God sees our hearts. He hears our thoughts. He knows our intentions. If your heart isn’t pure God knows. If your mind is corrupt with evil thoughts God knows.

God’s Grace is accessible with repentance. God knows none of us are perfect. We all have least an occasional evil thought. We all sometimes will have an occasional evil intention. Do we act on it or do we repent and ask God’s forgiveness? 

Jude 1:4 For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about  long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. 

In His Name

Numbers 8:8-12 Atonement Was Made

 8Then have them take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering. 9Bring the Levites before the Tent of Meeting and assemble the whole congregation of Israel. 10You are to present the Levites before the LORD and have the Israelites lay their hands upon them. 11Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, so that they may perform the service of the LORD. 12And the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and offer to the LORD one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Levites.

Atonement Was Made

“Thus the most precious animal the Hebrew owned, the noblest, the strongest, the image of docility and labor, was to be presented to make atonement. Our Lord Jesus Christ is like the firstling of the bullock, the most precious thing in heaven, strong for service, docile in obedience, one who was willing and able to labor for our sakes, and He was brought as a perfect victim, without spot or blemish, to suffer in our stead. The priest slew the bullock, and its blood was poured forth, for without shedding of blood there is no remission. The vital point of the atonement of Christ lies in His death. However much His life may have contributed to it, and we are not among those who, in the matter of salvation, separate His life from His death by a hard and fast line, yet the great point of the putting away of human guilt was the Lord’s obedience unto death, even the death of the cross. The victim was slain, and so the atonement was made.” (Spurgeon)

“The vital point of the atonement of Christ lies in His death.”

Let that sink in!

You can put away your guilt with the Christ’s death on the cross or you can carry your guilt unto your death and suffer the consequences.

Blessings 

A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing Jude 1:3-4

 We use to have a wolf hybrid. Her name was Grizzly because when we first got her at 10 weeks old she had a stubby tail and round little ears. I was holding her in my arms on her back tickling her belly and said “You look just like a little Grizzly Bear.” That was it, we had a name for her. She was stubborn, gentle and very smart. 

Where did the phrase “Wolf in sheep’s clothing” come from? It originates from Jesus’s own words in Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

Judes letter is a warning to the first century Christians about false teachers slipping in among the Church and perverting the teaching of the Gospel, trying to twist it into something it was not meant to be. Judes warning is still relevant today. I found this site godwords.org helpful in researching false teachers.

Jude 1:3-4 Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. 4For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about  long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. 

In His Name

Numbers 8:5-7 Getting Clean

 5Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean. 7This is what you must do to cleanse them: Sprinkle them with the water of purification. Have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

Cleansing 

“But on the authority of the Word of God, we confidently declare that all human methods of seeking the cleansing of sin, which men may practice, must end in failure, even as Job’s did when he said, “If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.” Yet, if God really means to save you, He will never let you be satisfied with any human plan of salvation, but He will, to use Job’s expression, plunge you in the ditch and make you feel even blacker than you did before. How will He do that?

The last point on which I have to speak is the best. It is this—THERE IS A RIGHT WAY OF GETTING CLEAN IN GOD’S SIGHT.

First, it is an effective way. He that believes on the Lord Jesus Christ shall be made clean. He shall be cleansed from all the foulness of the past—God will wipe it right out. He shall be cleansed as to his heart and his nature. To him God repeats that ancient promise, “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.” “How is this to be had?” By trusting to the divine method of cleansing the filthy, for the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanses from all sin everyone who believes in Him.

O sinful souls, if you could ever have made yourselves clean, Christ would not have needed to pour out His life’s blood that you might be washed in it! If the cleansing bath could have been filled with human tears, or could have been filled by means of the incantations of a so-called priest, there would have been no need for Your wounds, O Emmanuel, and no need of Your indwelling, O regenerating and sanctifying Spirit! But because we could not be cleansed by any other means, the water and the blood flowed freely from the pierced heart of Jesus, the Divine Son of God. And now the ever-blessed Spirit waits to be gracious, and to change the heart, and renew the nature, and make us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.” (Excerpts from C. H. Spurgeon Sermon 3069)

Have you made yourself clean or washed yourself with the blood 🩸 of Jesus?

Blessings 

Numbers 8:1-4 Lamps

 1Then the LORD said to Moses, 2“Speak to Aaron and tell him: ‘When you set up the seven lamps, they are to light the area in front of the lampstand.’ ”

3And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps facing toward the front of the lampstand, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

4This is how the lampstand was constructed: it was made of hammered gold from its base to its blossoms, fashioned according to the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.

Revelation 1: 20This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Lamps

The seven lampstands represent the seven churches that John was asked to write about in Revelation 2 and 3. The number seven is repeated throughout the Bible.

Years ago my sister gave me a old fashioned glass kerosene lamp with a wick that was our great grandfathers but it was missing the chimney. We have several power outages a year and our battery lamp had recently died. I went to the Salvation Army store and they had several glass chimneys and I picked the oldest looking one for a dollar and went to the hardware and purchased some low smoke kerosene. We now have an emergency lamp for light.

“The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

(Spurgeon)

Are you His light (lamp)?

Blessings 

Numbers 7:84-89 The Lord Spoke

 84So these were the offerings from the leaders of Israel for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, and twelve gold dishes.

85Each silver platter weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each silver bowl seventy shekels. The total weight of the silver articles was two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

86The twelve gold dishes filled with incense weighed ten shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel. The total weight of the gold dishes was a hundred and twenty shekels.

87All the livestock for the burnt offering totaled twelve bulls, twelve rams, and twelve male lambs a year old—together with their grain offerings—and twelve male goats for the sin offering.

88All the livestock sacrificed for the peace offering totaled twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.

89When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony. Thus the LORD spoke to him.

The Lord Spoke

Have you ever been troubled and opened your Bible and had the Lord speak to you through His word?

I have but it’s been awhile. It happened when my whole world seemed to fall apart and I opened my soul up to Him.

Joshua 24:15 But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

“As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

These words cut so deep into me that I wrote them on the wall.

Whom are you serving, Satan (sin) or the Lord?

Blessings  

Numbers 7:12-83 Twelve Days

 12On the first day Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah drew near with his offering.

18On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, the leader of Issachar, drew near.

24On the third day Eliab son of Helon, the leader of the Zebulunites, drew near.

30On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, the leader of the Reubenites, drew near.

36On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, the leader of the Simeonites, drew near.

42On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, the leader of the Gadites, drew near. 

48On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, the leader of the Ephraimites, drew near. 

54On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, the leader of the Manassites, drew near. 

60On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, the leader of the Benjamites, drew near.

66On the tenth day Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai, the leader of the Danites, drew near.

72On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ocran, the leader of the Asherites, drew near.

78On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, the leader of the Naphtalites, drew near.

Each tribe’s offering was the same.

“13His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels,a and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels,b both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; 14one gold dish weighing ten shekels,c filled with incense; 15one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering; 16one male goat for a sin offering; 17and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old.”

Twelve Days

This reminds me of the song, The Twelve Days of Christmas. The difference with the song was, it was a different gift each day and in these verses it was the same gift (sacrifice) each day but by a different tribal leader.

Jesus Christ offered Himself as the final gift (sacrifice) for us, once and for all!

The Jewish sacrifices were mandatory by the Law and the blood only covered sin.

Jesus’s sacrifice was voluntary and so is your acceptance of His gift 💝 and His blood 🩸 removes (forgives) sin.

Have you accepted His free gift?

Blessings 

Numbers 7:10-11 Dedications

 10When the altar was anointed, the leaders approached with their offerings for its dedication and presented them before the altar. 11And the LORD said to Moses, “Each day one leader is to present his offering for the dedication of the altar.”

Both our home churches perform baby and family dedications. Calvary Tucson performed a special child and family dedication when we adopted our ten year old son.

At our nondenominational churches the parents dedicate their infants as a public statement of faith that they we will train their children in the Christian faith and seek to instill that faith in them. 

The church congregation also affirms as a church family that they will also seek to encourage and help the parents to bring up the child in the Christian faith.

Baby dedications aren’t required for salvation but there are two instances in the Bible of baby dedications.

Jesus was dedicated at the temple.

Luke 2: 22And when the time of purification according to the Law of Moses was complete, His parents brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord 

Hannah 

1 Samuel 1: 27I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him, 28I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.”

If you or your children never received a baby dedication, it’s ok. You can always dedicate your household to the Lord.

I’m am reminded by:

Joshua 24: 15But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

Blessings 

BATTLES

 A devotional from a brother in Christ, enjoy 

THANK YOU to all of you that have been led to pray for me and are continuing to pray not really knowing what battles that I am facing. I believe the purpose that God has given me is to encourage the brethren, strengthen the saints, bring hope to the captives, and lead the lost to Jesus. This is why I believe that my battles are so fierce. When I am weary, I am reminded of the support that Moses received when he and the people of Israel were in the midst of their battle. It is written in *Exodus 17:12 But Moses’ hands were heavy and grew weary. So [the other men] took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on the other side; so his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.* Spiritual battles are raging around me, and it is not easy to endure. I consider it a great honor and privilege to have brothers and sisters in Christ come alongside me and support me in the ways that you do. One thing I know for sure, the battles are not easy, but they are always worth the fight. Remember my beloved, we are NOT fighting FOR victory, we are fighting FROM victory. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.     

A Fight To The Death Jude 1:3-4

 When I was in Middle School I was involved in my one and only physical fight.  A girl I didn’t know accused me of trying to steal her boyfriend. I tried to tell her I had no idea who her boyfriend was, even after she told me his name, but she called me a liar. She started pushing me and I pushed back. Unfortunately my push was hard and she went through the plate glass window into the sewing classroom. That was the end of the fight. 

What in your life is worth fighting for? Your spouse, your kids, your home? I suspect we all will answer “yes”. What about things unseen? Your health and well-being? Yes again.  What about your faith? 

Would you fight to the death to defend your faith in Jesus Christ and the Gospel? 

In just the last year, there have been:

• Over 340 million Christians living in places where they experience high levels of persecution and discrimination
• 4,761 Christians killed for their faith
• 4,488 churches and other Christian buildings attacked
• 4,277 believers detained without trial, arrested, sentenced or imprisoned

From open doors USA

“The Greek word Jude uses for "contend" is epagōnizomai. This is the only place in all of Scripture that this word is used. It comes from the root word agōnizomai, an athletic term that refers to ancient Greek contests. This paints the picture of hard work that would be continuous, costly and agonizing.”

From Proverbs 31 Ministries 

So what about you? Would you fight a continuous, costly and agonizing battle to defend your faith in Jesus Christ and the Gospel? Even a fight to our death? 

Jude 1:3-4 Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. 4For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about  long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.

In His Name

No Matter. Jude 1:2

 We just celebrated Valentines Day, a day that has come to represent expressing our love for our significant other. 

“There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14, including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire in the third century. According to an early tradition, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his jailer. Numerous later additions to the legend have better related it to the theme of love: an 18th-century embellishment to the legend claims he wrote the jailer's daughter a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell before his execution; another addition posits that Saint Valentine performed weddings for Christian soldiers who were forbidden to marry.” Wikipedia 

The Greek language has four different words use to express love. 

Agape: Unconditional love; the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation
Phileo: Love between friends
Eros: The sense of being in love; romantic love
Storge: Love of family; Parent/child, siblings, cousins, etc. In a very close family, agape is felt as well.

God loves you with agape love, unconditionally. No matter what you’ve done, no matter how far you’ve fallen, no matter how entrenched you are in sin, God agapes you. All you have to do is ask Him to forgive you and turn from your sin, repent. 

Jude 1:2 Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

In His Name

Numbers 7:6-9 Carry on Their Shoulders

 6So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites. 7He gave the Gershonites two carts and four oxen, as their service required, 8and he gave the Merarites four carts and eight oxen, as their service required, all under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. 9But he did not give any to the Kohathites, since they were to carry on their shoulders the holy objects for which they were responsible.

Carry on their shoulders 

My wife read me an article this morning about a mayor in TX that posted on FB basically telling constituents they they have to stop whining and be prepared to care for their own families and not wait on the government to help them. With the backlash his wife was laid off from her job and he had to resign.

But isn’t personal responsibility taught to us in the Bible?

Proverbs 6: 6Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker;

observe its ways and become wise.

7Without a commander,

without an overseer or ruler,

8it prepares its provisions in summer;

it gathers its food at harvest.

Carry on your shoulders the responsibility for yourself and your family by using what the good Lord has given you. Be prepared with provisions 🍱, water 💦 and alternative sources of heat 🔥.

Dear Heavenly Father, I lift up all those today without food, water and heat. Please help them with the basic necessities of human life like You do with the sparrow.

In Jesus name I pray. 🙏

Blessings 

Numbers 7:1-5 On The Day

 1On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils. 2And the leaders of Israel, the heads of their families, presented an offering. These men were the tribal leaders who had supervised the registration. 3They brought as their offering before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen—an ox from each leader and a cart from every two leaders—and presented them before the tabernacle.

4And the LORD said to Moses, 5“Accept these gifts from them, that they may be used in the work of the Tent of Meeting. And give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”

“Seemingly, the book of Numbers is out of chronological order here. This special offering may have happened before the events of Numbers 1.” (Guzik)

“Either the writer of this chapter was later than the writer of ch. 1, and failed to notice the discrepancy, or ‘on the day that’ must be understood loosely to mean ‘at the time when’—‘after.’ Cf.” (Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges)

Whatever the order or whatever the day, the Holy Spirit set the time and place for the scriptures.

Blessings 

Numbers 6:22-27 WE PRAY

 22Then the LORD said to Moses, 23“Tell Aaron and his sons: This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

24‘May the LORD bless you

and keep you;

25may the LORD cause His face to shine upon you

and be gracious to you;

26may the LORD lift up His countenance toward you

and give you peace.’

27So they shall put My name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

WE PRAY 

“Free prayer is most useful, and it will ordinarily consort best with the movements of the free Spirit; but in the case of a benediction, it is well that it was dictated to the man of God. The children of Israel might miss blessing through the ignorance, or forgetfulness, or unbelief of Aaron; and therefore it was not left to him; but he had to learn by heart each word and sentence. In this wise, and in no other, was he to bless the people. I like this; for if God himself puts the very words into the mouth of his priest, then they are God’s words.” (Spurgeon)

“Our Father, we are very weak. Worst of all we are very wicked if left to ourselves and we soon fall a prey to the enemy. Therefore, help us. We confess that sometimes in prayer when we are nearest to Thee at that very time some evil thought comes in, some wicked desire. Oh! what poor simpletons we are. Lord, help us. We feel as if we would now come closer to Thee still and hide under the shadow of Thy wings. We wish to be lost in God. We pray that Thou mayest live in us, and not we live, but Christ live in us and show Himself in us and through us.” (Spurgeon)

Spurgeon just prayed for us from his writings!

Blessings 

Numbers 6:18-21 A True Nazirite

 18Then at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head, take the hair, and put it on the fire under the peace offering. 19And the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration. 20The priest shall then wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. This is a holy portion for the priest, in addition to the breast of the wave offering and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.

21This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his separation, in addition to whatever else he can afford; he must fulfill whatever vow he makes, according to the law of his separation.”

“Please note here that the life of a tree is not determined by the shape of the branches, nor by the way it grows, but it is the substance. The shape of a church is not its life! In one place I see a church formed in an Episcopalian shape. In another place I see one formed in a Presbyterian shape. Then, again, I see one like ours, formed on an Independent principle. Here I see one with 16 ounces to the pound of doc- trine. There I see one with eight and some with very little clear doctrine at all! And yet I find life in all the churches, in some degree—some good men in all of them! How do I account for this? Why, just in this way—that the oak may be alive, whatever its shape, if it has got the substance. If there is but a holy seed in the church, the church will live! And it is astonishing how the church will live under a thousand

errors if there is but the vital principle in it! You will find good men among the denominations that you cannot receive as being sound in faith. You say, “What? Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” And you go through and find there are even in them some true Nazirites of the right order! The very best of men found in the worst of churches! A church lives not because of its rubrics and its canons and its articles—it lives because of the holy seed that is in it as the substance! No church can die while it has got a holy seed in it and no church can live that has not got the holy seed, for “the holy seed is the sub- stance thereof.” Spurgeon)

Are you a true Nazirite of the right order?

Blessings 

Fools Part 3

If you read my posts: Fools Part 1 and 2 we need to ask ourselves:

Why did the Lord give us so much scripture concerning a fool?

I believe it’s because HE wants us to reflect, to look at ourselves in the mirror and say, I am that fool!

It’s only at that moment HE allows us to have wisdom to say to ourselves, I no longer want to be that fool!

But we have to be real careful that we don’t become lofty or we will become another type of fool!

I believe this is time for me to take Solomon’s advice and shutteth my lips!

Blessings 

Fools Part 2

 Proverbs 20:3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

Proverbs 17: 12Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 17:16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

Proverbs 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

Proverbs 18: 6A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

7A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Proverbs 26: 4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

Psalm 53:1 To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Ecclesiastes 6:8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Proverbs 16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

Proverbs 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Proverbs 27: 22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Fools Part 1

 Ecclesiastes 10:3 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he isa fool.

Ecclesiastes 2:16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

Proverbs 17:21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

2 Corinthians 11:16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. 21I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

Proverbs 15: 5A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

Numbers 6:16-17 Our Sin Offering

 16The priest is to present all these before the LORD and make the sin offering and the burnt offering. 17He shall also offer the ram as a peace offering to the LORD, along with the basket of unleavened bread. And the priest is to offer the accompanying grain offering and drink offering.

Our Sin Offering

“I remember one joining this church who said, “Sir, I had faith once in Christ glorified, but it never gave me comfort. I have now come to a faith in Christ crucified, and I have peace.” At Calvary there is the comfort, and there only. That Jesus lives is delightful, but the basis of the delight is, “He lives who once was slain.” That He will reign forever is a most precious doctrine of our faith, but that the hand that wields the silver scepter, once was pierced, is the great secret of the joy.

O beloved, abide not in any place from which your eye cannot behold the cross of Christ. When you are thinking of the doctrines of the Gospel, or the precepts of the Word, or studying the prophecies of Scripture, never let your mind relinquish the study of the cross. The cross was the place of your spiritual birth. It must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul.

The blood is the true balm of Gilead. It is the only catholicon which heals every spiritual disease. Come, sin-sick soul, and breathe the air which was purified when the blood of the heart of Jesus fell from His wounds to the ground, for no spiritual disease can abide the presence of the healing blood. Hurry, you weak ones, to Calvary, and partake in God-given strength and vigor. It is from Calvary that you shall see the Sun of righteousness arising with healing beneath His wings. The beloved Physician meets His patients at the foot of the cross and relieves them from all their ills.” (Spurgeon)

Blessings