Monday, 21 July 2008
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Feeding on Jesus' love
Yesterday, Pastor Prince unveiled Jesus in Leviticus in the peace offering sacrifice.
20 July 2008 (Sunday – 2nd service)
Pastor Prince
FEEDING ON JESUS’ LOVE
Let’s learn to encourage ourselves in the Lord
Pastor’s ministry – not of motivation but an unveiling of Jesus
Famine רעב (Hebrew) – a leader looking at the house
- When the prodigal son was out of his father’s house, he was in the pig pen
- Provisions and abundance are in the house of God
- God supplies all your needs according to His riches in glory
- Isaac sowed in famine and reaped a 100 fold
- Jacob thought “all these things are against me” but his beloved son Joseph was the one in authority
God does not send the famine. But in every famine, God makes use of it. 2 things happen:
i) Unveil the true heart of the people – do they really trust God?
ii) Unveil God’s heart
Joseph told his brothers to come near. The heart of our heavenly Joseph is revealed during famine.
God gives us more than enough during the famine. He is the one who sees us through
Natural facts (temporal) versus eternal truth
- People are more willing to trust a written cheque for one million dollars than God’s Word
- God’s integrity is behind every redemptive truth in the bible
The road to Emmaus (Luke 24) – He restrained their eyes from seeing Him bodily and expounded from the bible things concerning Himself.
Find Christ in the bible – that’s your identity, your inheritance.
Bread – you can eat it.
The word “Emmaus” means “warm baths”
The disciples had warm hearts (“did not our hearts burn within us”) because they saw Jesus in the bible. Warm hearts = health
Feeding the new Adam, not the old man
See Jesus in the bible (not in person). Their bodies were rejuvenated (v33 “and they rose up the same hour and returned to Jersualem”)
Jesus lifts you out of your depression and self-occupation by expounding things concerning Himself.
For you become like the one you see
- Eg Peter was able to walk on water like Jesus as long as he kept his eyes on Him.
We are in the world but not of the world
Rich in every way (you do not want to have lots of money but be a poor man)
The way you feed on Jesus is in finding Him in the bible
Salvation is of the Lord (Jonah 2) In Hebrew, “Jesus is Lord”(Yeshua Jehovah) – at the point when he said this, his prayer was answered.
Revelation is transformation
Peace offering – Leviticus 10:14
The breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering you shall eat in a clean place, you, your sons, and your daughters with you; for they are your due and your sons’ due, which are given from the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
His sinless life qualified Him for His death on our behalf
The peace offering (shelemim) – plural – sacrifices
Shele – comes from the word shalom – peace for spirit, soul, mind and body = sacrifice of peace-s
Offeror lays hand on the offering (ox, lamb) – his sins are transferred; all the “acceptableness” (of the sinless sacrifice) is transferred to the offeror.
The lamb is placed on the altar of burnt offerings. Fire consumes the sacrifice (judgment)
The offeror goes out without sin-consciousness because another is dying in his place. He goes out with the acceptance and perfection of the lamb, and lives with the expectancy of good.
“What does Jesus’ righteousness deserve in this situation?” For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Leviticus 10:14 – it’s your due because you’re a priest
Priest of the bible – must have no blemish.
Today, Jesus qualifies you to become a priest. You don’t become to qualify.
I am a king-priest
Leviticus 7:28-34
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offering to the LORD shall bring his offering to the LORD from the sacrifice of his peace offering. His own hands shall bring the offerings made by fire to the LORD. The fat with the breast he shall bring, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the LORD. And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. Also the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a heave offering from the sacrifices of your peace offerings. He among the sons of Aaron, who offers the blood of the peace offering and the fat, shall have the right thigh for his part. For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering I have taken from the children of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the children of Israel by a statute forever.’”
v 30 “..that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the LORD.”
- Breast speaks of love
- Your food is to feed on Jesus’ love for you (not your love for Jesus)
John depended on the Lord’s love for him.
Peter boasted of his love for the Lord.
John was the only disciple at the foot of the cross, fit for the Master’s use.
There is all nourishment in the breast of the sacrifice. (Jesus’ love)
God is love. How can there be love where there’s nothing to be loved? Long before all things were created, the Father loved the Son and the Son loved the Father. And the Father gave His Son for us. Jesus gave His life because He loved us and because He loved the Father.
v 30 “.. as a wave offering before the LORD.”
- Jesus finds His nourishment in loving you. He feeds on His love for you.
- Fellowship – sitting at the same table, eating the same food (feeding on Jesus)
v 31 “..the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.” – Jesus has qualified us to be priests. Aaron is the high priest just as today, Jesus is our High Priest.
v 32 “Also the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a heave offering..”
- Thigh – a picture of strength
- Heave – resurrection – raise
- The wave offering and the heave offering (actions), makes a picture of the cross
v 33 “He among the sons of Aaron, who offers the blood of the peace offering and the fat, shall have the right thigh for his part.”
- you’ll first feed on His love then you feed on His power. Power always follow after love
- “Because You love me, Your power shall supply all my needs”
v 33 “He among the sons of Aaron..” – “who offers”
- not all the sons of Aaron, but he who offers
- offers (H7126) in Hebrew means to come near to Jesus
- drawing near is looking to Him, “Because You love me, Your power is on this situation; and protect him” (to pray for our enemies too..)
In the midst of your challenges, He prepares a table. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies ..(Psalm 23:5)
I don’t know what tomorrow holds but I know who holds tomorrow.
Don’t determine God’s love for you by looking at your circumstances. The way you determine God’s love is the cross.
We have a hero, Jesus. And He is no fantasy.
We are designed for the love of Christ. Even at a ‘lower’ level, when you love someone, that person is transformed.
What’s the difference between “kindness” and “loving kindness”, “mercies” and “tender mercies”?
- eg. A little boy falls off his bike. A kind stranger picks him up, a ‘merciful’ stranger brushes the dirt off his pants. Suddenly, a lady pushes through the crowd to her son, hugs him and comforts him. Here is “loving kindness” and “tender mercies”
- it’s not just the action, it’s the heart. And God loves us like that!
The most important thing to do every single day is to feed on His love.
Eg. When you hug your daughter and love her and are reminded that Jesus gave her to you.
Worship is when you love someone/ something and your heart overwhelms with thanksgiving for the One who gave him/ it to you.
You are what you eat J
And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. (Colossians 1:17)
- in Christ, all things are held together (relationships, marriages, business, mind and consciousness)
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Leviticus 10:12-13 (Grain offering – next week)
And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Elemazar and Ithamar, his sons who were left: “Take the grain offering that remains of the offerings made by fire to the LORD, and eat it without leaven beside the altar; for it is most holy. You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons’ due, of the sacrifices made by fire to the LORD; for so I have been commanded.
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