OT DAY 206 - We Need to Love Our Pastors (Please click here for English podcast)

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Silence

1.   Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2.   Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1.   Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2.   Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3.   Open your heart to praise the Lord

         Let the peoples praise you, O God;
             let all the peoples praise you!

            The earth has yielded its increase;

               God, our God, shall bless us.

             God shall bless us;
                      let all the ends of the earth fear him!

                             Psalm 67:5-7

                                                                       

Confession and Repentance

1.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

     “Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2.  Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

     "Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (Numbers 3:1-5:4)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers 1&version=ESV

 These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. 2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests. 4 But Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of Aaron their father.

                              Numbers 3:1-4

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

My Listening
     These few chapters all talks about the Levites. Who are they then and who are they now?  

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

    

     This presupposes a principle running through Israel's relationship with God. Everything belongs to God: place, people, time, things.  Israel acknowledges this by directly giving over part of all these things to God: they give to God every seventh day, every seventh year, a tenth of the harvest, and the firstborn of the flocks.  It would be appropriate to give their human firstborn, but instead God takes one of the clans, and does so for this task of looking after the sanctuary…
     The criterion for choosing Levi, the violence of their commitment to God when Israel made the gold calf (see Exodus 32) will seem strange to us, but that history might remind one not to mess with them, or rather not to mess with God.  The chapter's opening allusion to the Nadab and Abihu story (Leviticus 10) would issue the same reminder and remind the Levites themselves that leaders tend to fall into sin and that the bigger they are, the harder they fall. 

John Goldingay. Numbers & Deuteronomy for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.11-12.

     So, who are those people similar to the jobs of Levites now in your church? They are your pastors, those who are woking full time for God's ministry. And, the priests are the ordained priests(pastors) today.

     These passages remind us how important they are and how we should respect them and honour them. On the other hand, we also know that they would get more severe punishment if they are not following God's commands just as Nadab and Abihu.

      We need to love our pastors! 

Dear Lord Jesus, 
Help us to know that we need to love our pastors and really loving them, not just by saying but by our actions.  In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:

1. Do you have problems with your pastors or one of your pastors? Why? Can you make reconciliation? 

2. What is your actions to love your pastors more? 

Praise and Thanksgiving

Let's give thanks for God with us. Let us praise Him:

10,000 Reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXDGE_lRI0E

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