And then I just wanted to say that I guess I come from, you know, the Somalian luring
centers, because I didn't say I learn at full salvation, I said I lean on full salvation.
Oops, I got my leering from Somalia.
But the other thing, this is really for my children, because, you know, we don't necessarily
have a proper choir.
Son, when I'm leading, that doesn't mean you have to stop singing.
I'm just telling you when to move to the next verse, because I know you thought I was
telling me not to sing.
So I'll work with you at home.
He thought I was telling him not to sing, but I was trying to tell him to stop singing.
He was holding those notes a little bit longer than he should have.
But anyways, welcome to Spring Crest Baptist.
Today's January 11th.
Our service times are Sunday morning, 1030, Sunday evening, 430 PM, and Wednesday, service
530.
Soul winning is 2 p.m. every Sunday.
We had four souls for today, so we've now gone from zero to four.
Now we only have like 297 souls left for the year to knock out 301.
I think we're gonna do better this year.
We're more organized, we're more settled after what I call the merger.
So last year we didn't have really marathons until like the latter half of the year, whereas
this year we'll probably have one at least every other month, like a soul winning marathon.
And that'll definitely just add on, you know, we'll add different things.
We have all the birthdays there on the right.
Upcoming activities, we have church work day, Saturday, January 20, 26, of course, just
like every church work day, I will be here for sure, wherever it shows up, depending
on the number of people, we'll feed you breakfast, and so we appreciate anybody who's come out.
We have done about two or three since about a year and a half ago, and every time it's
been a massive improvement on the church, so every time we do it, it looks way better.
And then February 7, the day before Pastor Oz preaches for us, he's flying in, and we're
going to be joining him, we're making a group thing, we're going to go to the NASA Space
Safety Center.
If you have the link, just sign up.
We only need children over the age of three.
Children over the age of three counted.
We have 13 I think so far, so we only need about seven more to get the good group rate.
Regardless, we're doing it, but if we can get the 20, it'd be better.
And then February 8, Pastor Dillon Oz will be preaching both services, so come out and
support him.
If you want to invite guests that have never heard Pastor Oz, you're more than welcome
to do so.
Pastor Oz is famous on TikTok and Instagram and all those places, there's literally billions
and billions of views for saying that Sodom might need to be lined up and shot in the
back of the head.
He made world news a couple years ago and, you know, I completely agree with him.
If we were going to go based on the biblical, I guess the only thing I would say is, the
Bible says to stone them, but it's the same thing, you know, I guess a gunshot to the
back of the head is just a high velocity metal stone that would, you know, eliminate the
threat.
So that's what he's famous for.
But besides that, he's just a really good preacher, he's a young preacher, I think
he's under 30 and he's got a great family, so I would encourage you to come listen to
him.
He's got a lot of biblical wisdom, really enjoy talking to him and listening to him
preach.
And then on March 22nd, we have Pastor Bruce Mejia coming to preach for us, both services.
Pastor Bruce Mejia is famous for two things.
Number one, in January, I think of 2021, his church was literally blown up by sodomites
for preaching against the sodomites.
I mean, it literally, their video, it was literally blown up.
I mean, I don't know how to describe it.
And he's also famous on Instagram as of last year, just for doing really good content on
the Bible, biblical content that people like.
So I'm looking forward to those.
I do have just a little side note here that I put for the parents and the kids, please.
We're just, let's reduce or actually let's just avoid the treats and the drinks and the
toys.
Scissors and even tissues.
I already mentioned it.
We found tissues on the side of the pews.
Actually, I found them more than once, but I kind of gave it, I was like, maybe this
is a one-off.
So I left it alone, but it's been like four or five times.
And like I said this morning, I am making a very strong assumption that it's a child
because if it's an adult, that's very serious.
That's a whole other thing.
And number two, just the toys and everything being left behind, it's just toys need to
be in the toy room, and then all of the other stuff needs to be in the fellowship hall.
Other than that, a big prayer, pray for Brother Matt, said he has a job interview tomorrow,
so we have to pray for him at nine o'clock in the morning, and then pray for Sister Millie,
and she will be going in early for a double bypass, which she said, so just pray for her.
Bester Cobb preached this morning at her request, and if nothing else, let's turn our hymnals
over to page 441, and then we're going to be in Leviticus 10, 441, 441.
By the way, I did hear, so these are new hymnals, and they're the same font size as the previous
hymnals.
Now, the only difference is it is a little bit more condensed, and they're not bold.
If you do have a challenge with the hymnals, I know that they have the sheet music.
I can print up a couple on a binder for those that have a hard time tuning.
I don't mind doing that.
Just let me know.
I might not be so benevolent as a younger man, but now that my eyes are going on me,
I can definitely relate.
So if it's hard, let me know.
But great is thy faithfulness, 441.
Yes, please turn in your Bibles to Leviticus chapter 10, Leviticus chapter 10.
The Bible reads, "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer
and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord,
where she commanded them not.
And there went out fire from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified
in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.
And Aaron held his peace.
And Moses called Mishael and Nelzaphan the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said
unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
So they went near and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.
And Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eliezer and unto Ithamar his sons, Uncover your hay
heads, neither rend your clothes, lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people.
But let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, be well the burning which the Lord
hath kindled.
And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die,
for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you.
And they did according to the word of Moses.
And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine, nor strong drink thou, nor
thy sons with thee.
And ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die.
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean.
And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken
unto them by the hand of Moses.
And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eliezer, and unto Itamar, his sons that were left.
Make the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and eat
it without leaven beside the altar, for it is most holy.
And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due and thy sons' due of the sacrifices
of the Lord made by fire.
For so I am commanded, and the way breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean
place, thou and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, for they be thy due and thy sons'
due which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
The heave shoulder and the way breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire
of the fat to wave it for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be thine and
thy sons with thee by a statute forever, as the Lord hath commanded.
And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt.
And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, which were left alive,
saying, Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place?
Seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation,
to make atonement for them before the Lord, behold, the blood of it was not brought in
within the holy place. Ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place as I commanded.
And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their
burnt offering before the Lord, and such things have befallen me. And if I had eaten the sin
offering today, should it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord? And when Moses heard
that, he was content. Please bow your heads for a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, thank
you for this day. Thank you for all the souls, one out, soul winning today. Please bless Pastor
Reyes, bless his message and give us ears to hear. And let us enact this in our lives,
what he preaches today. And please forgive us our sins. We thank you. We love you and
pray this in Jesus name. Amen.
You know, one of the blessings that year by year is when you just have more people that
you can rely on to help out. So I really appreciate for Josh, just stepping up and reading for
those of you that don't preach regularly and then go out so when in the afternoon and I'm
not I'm the same like, there's days where I'm just like parts at the end of the day.
So I really appreciate it. But then it allows me to just not lose my brain when I'm preaching.
But we're there in Leviticus 10. But we're picking up the last time I preached on the
overview of the Bible that we've been doing since early last year. We've gone through
Genesis and Exodus. This is not expository. We're not going verse by verse. We're just
kind of doing a major overview of some of the major stories was in November. And the
title of that sermon was "The Fire Never Goes Out." And the title of the sermon this evening
is "The Fire You Bring Matters." So it's interesting because there was a big separation,
but I was still on the fire. But a lot is to be said, and the reason obviously we know
that famous story, or if you don't know, you're going to learn about it today. The children
of Aaron that were taken out by the Lord, right there in verse 1, it says, "And Nadab
and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer and put fire therein and
put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.
And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in
them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.
And Aaron held his peace."
And we see that obviously Nadab, it doesn't tell us what they burned, but it wasn't what
God wanted.
It was so bad that he took them out.
And it must have been really bad if you really take a look at this.
We've already covered, before I even just get into the message, just so we can kind
of gauge, not kind of, just so we can gauge the severity of whatever they did.
Number one, whenever there's something super severe, notice the Lord doesn't give us all
the details.
We don't need all the seedy details.
That's why we're not Catholic priests here where I need you to confess all your sins
to me.
And I've told you that either in person or I've told you that from the pulpit.
You know, if you want me to pray for you, confess your faults one another.
But if I start just sensing you're going to go too deep, I'm just going to stop you.
I don't want to know.
I don't need to know.
Don't pervert my mind.
I don't want to pervert yours.
You know, that's just number one.
But number two, you know, you think about when Aaron made the molten calf.
I mean, that's a pretty serious sin.
Moses was pissed off at the situation.
God's angry, so angry that he just wants to take out the people of Israel.
Then instead, Moses intercedes and asks God to stave off the situation.
Moses then punishes them by, you know, basically grinding up the molten calf and making them
drink it.
But you know, Aaron remains the high priest, you know, after the forgiveness and everything
like that.
But here, these guys don't even get, they're taken out immediately.
So it must have been way more severe.
And remember, also, you know, when Noah, Noah, because I always want to say Jonah or Noah,
Noah gets taken advantage of by his sons, it just tells us, it just tells us something
happened.
It doesn't give us all the details.
No one knew, the Bible says, but it doesn't go into all the details.
So this is obviously something really severe.
And so when I first brought into Leviticus, the previous sermon, we covered chapters one
through seven, we were really talking about all the different offerings, right?
And right now, today, the goal is to cover chapters eight through 10, but we're really
going to focus mainly on chapter 10, right?
Because the title is, again, the fire you bring matters, because we need, you know,
if you look at the offerings, everything has to be burnt up, well, not everything, but
a lot of it, right?
And what does that signify?
It's of the coming Messiah, right?
It's a burnt offering, it's atonement for sins.
We get the Hebrews and it says, even though the priest ministered daily, it could never
atone for your eternal, you know, damnation.
Only Jesus, you know, the sacrificial lamb went in once and he spilled the blood once
and he died once and it was done once and for all, right?
We'll look at that.
But we'll see there a couple of things that I want you to stand out because I was going
to focus mainly on verses one through three, but as I kept reading this, what really stood
out to me was the end of Leviticus 10 verses 19 through 20, but in the middle to set this
up, right there in verse eight, so this happens, and the Lord, they're removing the bodies,
and then it says, "And the Lord spake unto Aaron saying," now the majority of the time
that anything's being done in the first five books, especially with Moses in leadership,
Moses is getting word from God, and then he's delivering that commandment to Aaron or to
the people of Israel, obviously Moses is an authoritative figure, the people need to listen
to Moses because he's a leader, but here the Lord's not even going to send this to Moses,
he directly intervenes, this is how serious of a situation it is, and it says, "And the
Lord spake unto Moses saying, 'Do not drink wine, nor strong drink, thou nor thy sons
with thee when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die, it shall
be a statute forever throughout your generations, and that ye may put difference between holy
and unholy, between unclean and clean, and that ye may teach the children of Israel all
the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'
And Moses spake unto Aaron, right there in verse 12, 'Now Moses is speaking unto Aaron
and said unto Eliezer and unto Ithamar his sons that were left, 'Take the meat offering
that remaineth of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside
the altar, for it is most holy.'
Now Moses gives a command, and he gives this very strict command, and then there at the
end of the chapter though, Moses is angry because they didn't listen to the command,
but listen to the response from Aaron, and we're actually going to break this down here
in a little bit, but I just want to set this up, it says in Aaron said unto Moses, 'Behold,
this day they have offered their sin offering, and their burnt offering before the Lord,
and such things have befallen me, and if I had eaten the sin offering today should have
been accepted in the sight of the Lord.' And Moses heard that, and when Moses heard
that, he was content. So we see this interaction, it's real interesting, right? When the Lord
speaks to Aaron, he says, 'Do not drink wine nor strong drink.' So based on that, we can
draw the conclusion that I don't know what Nadab and Abaihu did, but they were probably
drunkers. I don't know if they were drunk during or before or after, but obviously I
think the strange fire, the incense or whatever they're doing is drug-induced, right? It's
some kind of stimulant that is not pleasing to the Lord. You know, I've heard many people
say this, and I didn't mean to touch on this, but I might as well. I've heard many people
say this, that smoking weed is not bad because it's not necessarily viable. Well, God doesn't
want us to put anything unclean in our body. He said make, what is it? Let's look at there
in verse 10. It says that you may put difference between holy and unholy. And then what is
to say in between unclean and clean. You know, I was talking to brother Heath yesterday, we
were here. I don't know if you guys noticed, which by the way, that's one of my announcements
I forgot. Don't let your kids touch the new coffee pot. We got a, like this little commercial
coffee pot and the outside is always hot. But I was talking about how, you know, we
were just talking about keeping the area clean and he was helping me clean it up and stuff.
And I was like, look, I don't know how people can be dirty. And we were just in general
talking about dirty. I was like, and especially as a Christian, if any Christian is dirty,
I don't know how a Christian can think of themselves, just walk around being a dirty
person or having a dirty home when the Bible is so clear that he wants us to separate the
clean from the unclean. And it's not just like this verse, it's like this continual
commandment, keep the clean from the unclean, the day from the night, evil from good. Like
it's this, there's this dichotomy and it's one of those things. And so whenever people
want to justify drugs because of, especially like natural drugs, like weed and ayahuasca
and all these natural, if it's unclean to your body, it's not clean of the Lord, right?
If it messes with your, with your biology, with your cognition, it's not good because
you're not in of a sober mind and all those things make you un sober, right? They make
you drunk with whatever it is that you're messing with. But I just wanted to touch on
that. I don't know why, but maybe I'm not saying anybody smokes weed. I'm just saying,
maybe you know someone who smokes weed, call them out, let them know, don't do it. Right?
But what is the Leviticus 19 right there versus 19 and 20? We see this balance and that's
really what stood out to me, right? We see this balance of the Bible and I speak a lot
about the harmony of the Bible and the balance of the Bible, right? Sometimes when we're
new Christians we tend to be what? Overzealous, right? We overcompensate or we overcorrect.
Look, correction is good but overcorrection is not good, right? And then as to the few
verses end, what we see and what's usually, and I'm not saying it's missed. I've actually
never heard any preaching on this but this just really stood out to me and we're commanded
to preach the whole Bible. Just because I've not heard it doesn't mean that I can't preach
it. I'm not bringing a new thing to you but I might be bringing a new way of preaching.
I've not ever heard anything specifically on these verses but for me it really stood
out that you could miss something like this. Right? In the beginning you have Nadab and
Abihu and what are they doing? They're presumptuously sinning. Really the cause of their death wasn't
the fact that they sinned but they're literally sinning against God directly. I mean one
thing is to just lie to someone or defraud someone. The other thing is to be a priest
of the Lord and to treat the things of God with contempt and not seriously right. As
a matter of fact even in preparation for this sermon it was so apparent and it was so manifested
to me that this is a serious thing that as I kept trying to see what as I kept trying
to understand 19 and 20 I was like make sure you get it right or if you don't don't even
preach it at all because you know the Bible says that we don't want to you know we don't
want to mishandle the word of God right and then Aaron though Aaron on the other hand
what does he exercise he exercises submission to the word of God to the commandment of God
with the sermon and we'll and I'll point that out here in a little bit but I just want you
to kind of keep that in mind because everything that we're looking in verses in chapters eight
and nine and even chapter six lead lead up to this so go over to Leviticus eight go over to
Leviticus eight a few chapters back and the first point I have for you is that holiness
is ordered it's commanded it's not a suggestion it's a commandment as a matter of fact it was
going to be a not a two-parter but this morning pastor Cobb yesterday threw me an audible
and he called me late afternoon said hey I'm going to preach or is it all right if I preach
and I said absolutely sister Millie asked him to preach so he brought a message but the message
that I'm going to bring next week and I can talk about it is I said that this year we're going to
you know really anchor in we're going to dig deep on the core doctrines from the Bible especially
the things that are are under attack and that was bringing a message specifically on submission
on marriage and just you know authority itself but here we see that Aaron is submissive to the
word of God because holiness is ordered from the Lord this is not some suggestion some volunteer
thing look if we want to serve the Lord holiness is required right it's not required for salvation
but to serve the Lord the priest said hey you know God chose him he said Nadab and Abihu I've
chosen you to serve and when you do serve you have to listen period right we go there Leviticus 8
and in verse 33 says that ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in
seven days until the days of your consecration be at end for seven days shall he consecrate you
and as he hath done this day so the Lord hath commanded to do to make an atonement for you
therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night
seven days and keep the charge of the Lord that ye die not so the Lord's already commanded him
several chapters before hey you need to do things a certain way or you're gonna die for so I am
commanded so Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses
and I underline that because there is a very big distinction that's going to happen between
the commandment of Moses and the commandment of God not that they're in contradiction
but there is a superiority a hierarchy to that right and so go over to Exodus 29 a few chapters
back go over to Exodus 29 but before any fire was was before any fire fell on these two individuals
God already had given them clear instructions right holiness was not optional it was not a
volunteer effort it was not flexible or emotional it says hey that ye die not there is in the new
testament says there is a sin unto death right I mean this is a serious thing observing God
that's why you know if you if you show up even if you just show up hard have heartedly man you
better take this thing of serving the Lord seriously because the Lord is serious I mean
I would rather you just like get saved and not serve and just be ignorant of those things once
you become aware of them and then you do them I mean it's a serious consequence not that the
Lord's not going to chastise those that aren't serving but I believe that he's going to chastise
them differently we're more committed he's also going to bless them differently though right
someone who got saved and isn't serving the Lord is not going to get the same blessings
that someone who saved and is dutifully serving the Lord and just it's just night and day it's
going to make a big difference but also someone who's serving the Lord is also going to get tried
different and it's going to get pushed different right you know you don't have to be a football
player in the NFL you can just be a spectator you just won't get the rewards as you know
NFL superstar will get I'm saying because we're in January the NFL means the Super Bowl is around
the corner right but what comes with that you ever talk I watched this documentary a few years ago
about the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan you know a lot of people do not like Michael Jordan
even his own teammates didn't like him you know I've seen documentaries and read articles on
Steve Jobs and by the way I'm just making a even the world understands this constantly what I'm
trying to point out here it's better with God but even the world you know Steve Jobs was hated by
a lot of his employees but a lot of them are still even though they hate him you know what
they're grateful because he was so tough on them that they had stock in the beginning they were
there when it started he didn't let them you know go home they were sleepless nights he was a jerk
he would throw stuff but now they're all millionaires because the stock's great and
he had a huge vision the same thing they were interviewing i think it was will pennington
and he's like man michael jordan was a jerk right he was a big jerk there's another word
they use here but i won't use it here but he was a big jerk he was mean he's like but we won
championships right and that's the world imagine with god i mean god's gonna hold us to a different
level and sometimes we don't like that you know because it's tough god expects us to show up
early to stay late to show up when the going is good but also to show up when the going's bad
as a matter of fact he says look if you show up only when it's good what makes you different
in the world nothing when you show up when it's bad that's when it makes a difference right so
we see this there in exodus 29 where then verse 42 says this shall be a continual burnt offering
throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the lord
where i will meet you to speak there unto thee and there i will meet with the children of israel
and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory and i will sanctify the tabernacle of the
congregation and the altar i will sanctify also both erin and his sons to minister to me in the
priest office so he separated for that specific thing i will dwell among the children of israel
i will be their god and they shall know that i am the lord their god who brought them forth out
of the land of egypt that i may dwell among them i am the lord their god there's so much good truth
in the old testament right these people that are like in order to get saved you need to make jesus
lord of your life i always tell them like how are you going to make jesus lord of your life
jesus is lord he doesn't need your permission he's not like knock you know and seek and ask
and maybe you know if you give me permission i could you know hang out with you and become your
no he's lord whether you like it or not you know whether we like it or not what's going on in the
world you know who who's at at the epicenter of it all ordaining it the lord he knows exactly how
it's going to turn out he's already seen the end i mean we know we're victorious from the book
you know in revelation but because he's lord not because he's asking us for permission not because
we have some power to let him into our life or not let him into our life he's in our life whether
we like it or not right good or bad he's there holiness is ordered it's commanded in hebrews
five verse four the bible says for every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men
in things pertaining to god that he may offer both that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for
sin who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way for that he himself
is compassed with infirmity and by reason hereof he ought as for the people so also for himself
to offer for sin and no man taketh his honor unto himself but he that is called of god as was errant
hey god is ordering holiness god is picking and ordaining the men of god god is the one that's in
in control of the whole thing that's why when he when he says hey i need holiness and cleanliness
because he ordered it in leviticus 8 verse 36 we saw that already you don't have to turn there
you can go to leviticus 9 but verse 36 says so Aaron says that all which the lord commanded by
the hand of moses so we know that god requires holiness but number two god approves when his
orders or when his commandments are obeyed right i mean if you love me keep my commandments in my
world without faith is it it is impossible to please god says in hebrews right in leviticus
9 right then verse 23 the bible says in moses and errant went into the tabernacle of the congregation
and came out and blessed the people and the glory of the lord appeared unto all the people
and there came fire out from before the lord and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering
and the fat which when all the people saw they shouted and fell on their faces so look god the
bible tells us we're going to see these verses i'm getting ahead of myself but we might as well just
address it god is a consuming fire but the fire that you bring matters you know if the fire is
coming from god then you better be on fire for the lord and that fire is from the lord but if you're
messing with the lord he's going to use that same fire to take you out you know my uh i know you guys
know i mean if you don't know then i don't know you've been living under a rock that you had this
dyke try to run over a you know ice agent and she got shot in the face and killed and everybody
you know of course you've got the the the what is it the uh oh man the bleeding hearts the liberal
left and you know how wrong it is and everything like that and you got the right you know it's so
right but from a biblical perspective you know we were just taking a look at it my wife and I
and she was telling me how this lady was married before now if any of this is wrong because I know
there's a lot of this information you guys can correct me later but so far from what I understand
at some point this lady had a six-year-old son the one that was that it was her biological child
from a previous marriage then the husband died and so then she decided she no longer like men
she married a woman and now the six-year-old child has gone from a normal lifestyle to a
unnatural lifestyle and now she's dead and it's my understanding that the other dyke doesn't want
the child which is amen good good good for them right but now the grandfather I think of the
biological mom is coming to take him and I said well then the lord bless you know the fire from
you know the fire that you bring matters right the lord brought the fire down got rid of all
the sodomites to protect that child and he's gonna live with a grandpa even if the grandpa's a little
left he's a normal grandpa you know he probably has a wife that lady was raised normal or more
normal I don't know I think if you move to Portland and you're not in a good church you
could get messed up I've been to Portland it's like we're way out there we're not Texas is not
even when people say don't California my Texas we're not even close I mean Portland's really
bad so but what I'm saying is the Lord just you know he approves but also he can disapprove
right the in here we see that he sent fire and it was a good thing he blessed he filled his
glory filled all around that's the fire we want you know just got reading through all the gospels
and i love when jesus is walking with them and he's expounding all things of the bible
and then they realize it's him and he disappears and they said did not our heart burn within us
right i remember back in the day when i was in the insurance business there was a guy by the name of
a.l williams and he had this famous speech and it was like just do it just do it and he had this
southern georgia accent but one of the things he said i don't know why the good lord did it but
you know something inside something inside me always gets my butt burning to get things done you
know and all this stuff but for us as christians we need a fire to go out and do the things of the
lord right and because the only thing that gets us going is a fire because sometimes it's just a
small ember but you know what if you had a small ember of your butt you know if you just sat down
number you get up quick you didn't even need a fire and sometimes it's like that sometimes it's
just a small ember but it gets you going and sometimes it's just like a roaring fire but what
we don't want is what happened to you know this individual that is just basically presumptuous
and despising dominion and speaking evil of dignity this is the kind of stuff that we don't
want in our life right God approves an order right go to Leviticus 6 just go back a few pages
go to Leviticus 6 you know they saw the fire from the Lord there was no need for Nadab and Abihu
to add anything to it right that's the problem with modern Christianity is we're always trying
to add our own spin I was watching this other guy I'm you know I have a business so I had
I get all this stuff just so you know I'm not it doesn't really matter but just so you know where
I'm getting it and I saw this guy and he's like hey you know here's a great business idea do what
other businesses are already doing and you'll be successful but it's interesting what he said he
said don't try to make it better don't try to make it worse just do it exactly the same because
that's how the world works right the Bible is the same way don't try to make it better don't try to
make it worse just do exactly as it says when i was a telemarketer over 20 years ago i took a
telemarketing job i had to wear the thing and you know you call and you have to follow the script
you know the people that were the most successful the ones that followed the script right what and
they would get on the phone with you they would listen in and then they would hang up if you
messed up and they're like hey we need you to follow the script and if you didn't follow the
script for a while you know what you get fired it's interesting that we use that word fired
right because Nadab in the bible got fired literally Leviticus 6 right there verse 9 the
bible says command Aaron and his son saying this is the law of the burnt offering it is the burnt
offering because of the burning upon the altar all night until the morning and the fire of the
altar shall be burning in it and the priest shall put on the linen garment and his linen britches
shall he put on his flesh and take up the ashes which the fire had consumed with the burnt offering
on the altar and he shall put them beside the altar and he shall put off his garment and put
on the other garments and carry forth the ashes without the camp into a clean place
and the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it and shall not be put it shall not be put out
when the priest shall burn wood on it every morning and lay the burnt offering in order
upon it and he shall burn there on the fat of the peace offering the fire shall ever be burning
upon the altar it shall never go out and this is the law of the meat offering the sons of Aaron
shall offer it before the Lord before the altar you know there's a lot of pictures here but the
biggest picture that I want to focus on is that God is a consuming fire this is a picture of the
burning eternal perpetual fire of Jesus Christ in second chronicle seven verse one the Bible says
now when Solomon you don't have to turn them for the sake of time go to Deuteronomy four
but in second chronicle seven verse one says now when Solomon had made an end of praying
the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices and the
glory of the lord filled the house very similar to what we see in Leviticus and the priest could
not enter into the house of the lord because the glory of the lord had filled the lord's house
and when all the children of israel saw how the fire came down and the glory of the lord upon the
house they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement and worship
and praise the lord saying for he is good whereas mercy endures forever hey you know what i see here
a real fear of the lord you know what we would be just as fearful if we stepped outside today
and we said hey we're just going to pray before we leave and we're out there all of a sudden right
next to us all the field fire comes down in front of the entire field you know what we bow down and
put our faces to the ground and be like thank you lord your mercy endures forever right and do it
around me four right there in verse 24 the bible says for the lord thy god is a consuming fire
even a jealous god i love that it's combined right hey he's a consuming fire and he's a jealous god
what does jealous god mean it says he wants all of our attention he doesn't want us distracted
he doesn't want us lusting he doesn't want us fornicating he doesn't want us adulterous
in the spirit or in the flesh hebrews 1229 says for our god is a consuming fire it's interesting
you know in the recent month we had this whole trinitarian uh fight from a bunch of guys and
it turns out that they were a little ignorant but what i what i find interesting is i just
not reading the bible the bible also says that the lord is a consuming fire you want to argue
with me about whether he has a bodily shape or not how about the fact that he also is a consuming
fire you know who's part of the lord jesus christ how it tells us the lord is a man of war the lord
is his name the bible tells us god is a spirit and then they worship him uh must worship him
in spirit and in truth and we know that the truth is jesus christ so it's we've way way more deep
and way deeper in than our understanding that somebody could just come and be like well you
know i don't know i don't agree with that well then stop reading the bible if it's clear as
daylight that there's many attributes to god but that he's still one god and that's it you just
take it at faith value anyways let's not detract the third point i have for you go back to leviticus
10 is we're going to spend the rest of the sermon is nadab and abihu right they sin presumptuously
but also you know what they do whenever you're presumptuous you also just take it upon yourself
without permission you know it's not like they were looking for validation they just did whatever
the heck they wanted they did what was right in their own eyes look as christians this is a great
lesson that we need to not take things upon ourselves i mean there's so much application here
right earlier i was asked you know how do you deal with family members and all that stuff and i
and i gave the individual my opinion it was i mean it was just it's not a it wasn't it was just a
general question i said look my opinion is how you handle this stuff i said but at the end of the day
it's really your family's issue and the husband needs to make a decision and that's i mean it's
a serious thing i don't say these things lightly because that husband needs to take it to the lord
in prayer and then do what the lord says not just try to think what he thinks is right right you
know our instinct is to want to always just kind of be in the flesh you know when we were uh i
showed some of the texts to some of the guys and they're like give me his number and you know let's
do this and let's then of course we're just kind of surmising in our flesh how nice it would be to
torture someone in their flesh like with you know maybe uh you know some form of like psychological
warfare but the reality is it's not up to us we don't do anything vengeance is mine say of the
lord you know who takes control the lord jesus christ right in leviticus 10 right there in verse
one it says and they have and nadab and abihu the sons of erin took either of them his censor and
put fire there in and put incense there on and offered strange you know it's another word that
we use a lot in our circles for strange they they offered queer fire before the lord which he
commanded them not to and there went out fire from the lord and devoured them and they died
before the lord and by the way i'm not adding queer strange or synonym let me make that clear
and moses said unto erin this is that that the lord spake saying i will be sanctified in them
that come night of me before all the people are we glorified and erin held his peace you know you
think erin didn't miss his children but he held his peace it's interesting i uh this is pastor
cobb and i did not align our sermons he just called me last minute to preach and he preached
about the passing of his son how his son was murdered but you know what he said he was he
said i'm grateful for the 26 years that the lord gave me gave me you know because that's what the
lord wanted his mercy endureth forever erin he's not happy about the situation we know this from
later on you know what he held his peace because god's justice is justice you know too many times
people want to argue why god does things to certain groups of people why look god is god
period until you can explain some of the basic tenets of life let alone why god does things in
the macro level we can barely understand the micro life that we live our own little world you know
let's take it even deeper you can barely understand why things happen inside of your own body you know
oftentimes when you get sick it takes you a while to even try to figure out how you got sick right
you just don't know how number one you get sick and number two how you get better i mean obviously
you can give yourself rest and vitamins but the body's the one that does all the work did you like
go in there and execute some code to do that no your body's already doing that right god does the
things that he needs to do go to exodus 30 go to exodus 30 and right there in verse nine i mean in
verse seven the bible says and erin shall burn their own sweet incense every morning so this is
a very important thing because this is part of what they were supposed to do right and erin shall
burn their own sweet incense every morning when he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense upon it
and when erin lighteth the lamps that even he shall burn incense upon it a perpetual incense before
the lord throughout your generations you shall offer no strange incense thereon no burnt sacrifice
nor meat offering neither shall you pour drink offering thereon it's not like they didn't know
that's why it was such a serious uh right it's not like they were they were ignorant about it
not like they were outsiders they were recently consecrated as priests and they ignored the direct
order from the lord you know as a matter of fact thank god that we're in the new testament
because if you think about it 90% of christians ignore the direct order to be fishers of men
i mean if we deserve what we had coming to us there'd be fire raining from heaven every day
but his mercy endureth forever right in numbers three you don't have to turn there for the sake
of time just stay go back to leviticus 10 but there are numbers three verse four the bible says
in nadab and abai who died before the lord when they offered strange fire before the lord in the
wilderness of cyanide look it was mentioned later as a thing like hey this is something that happened
that you need to not do just like the bible says about sodom and gomorrah and the bible says about
lot you know and about noah as it was in the days of noah god gave the certain events to as an
example what we shouldn't do he didn't he didn't have to keep repeating the event you know how
many times god has to do something for it to be true one time that's it i mean i'm glad that he
repeats himself because we're kind of hard of hearing but all it really should take is one you
know that's what we tell our children right hey children how many times do i want you to do i
want to say something before you do it daddy only wants to say it once unfortunately and i don't i
say it more than once right see but daddy listens because my daughter i use her an example on wednesday
my little baby daughter and i called her vanilla and she came to me she said no daddy you have to
say honey badger baby so that's right my honey badger baby needs to listen you know just because
you know she that was a request i had to figure out a way to put it in the freeze then go to
proverbs 14 12 the bible says there is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are
the ways of death look don't do what is right in your own eyes do what's right in god's eyes if
there's a constant prayer in my life is the lord help me not to be presumptuous help me not to be
puffed up help me not to be haughty help me to do the things you do because you know when you start
to experience a little bit of success you you want to tend to think that that you had something to
do with it you know the biggest blessing of the growth of spring crest baptist church in the last
two years is that it had nothing directly indirectly i believe it had something to do with me but
directly it had nothing to do with me i did not go and recruit all these people i didn't go so
in them and they just magically show up god sent everybody like that's really he's the one that
gave the increase and it's great because then i you guys can't say oh well he's just trying
to make it himself and i can't say that i did it the lord did it that's the way it should be
go go over to livicus 10 back the fourth point that he makes is god declares i will be sanctified
how does this apply to today look god will be sanctified period end of story end of paragraph
end of sentence in 2026 this still applies god will be sanctified he does not take lightly
that's showing up to church and just playing church instead of being serious about church
i don't care if it's two people here or 30 people here you know what when i get back here when i do
this i'm serious about it you know sometimes people will come and be like hey i'm going to
be there this morning you know and i appreciate giving you know people communicate with me
or i'm gonna leave i won't be there for the second service i won't be there and i know what's happening
sometimes because they just want to communicate other times because they're communicating because
they might feel bad about it or whatever and i'm not saying this because i'm some like guru it's
because i when i was a church member i felt the same way but you know what my response always is
is what pastor's response was always to me he's like you do what you gotta do brother and you
know why he would always say that because at the end of the day you know who you're who you're
accountable to at the end of the day god and i and it actually lines up with what i'm preaching here
but we're there in leviticus 10 and in verse three says in mothe's sentence errant this is
the lord this is that that the lord spake saying i will be sanctified him that come nigh to me and
before all the people are we glorified and errant held his peace you know what god didn't do he
didn't apologize he didn't say sorry for killing your children errant whoops god didn't explain
himself god did not soften the blow you know i'm not i don't agree with everything that our
government is doing i don't think anybody will ever agree with everything our government is doing
at any time but you know if if law and order is executed the one thing i do agree with the current
administration is that if they're executing law and order they don't apologize they're executing
law and order whether you agree with it or not that's not the discussion i'm making we need to
live in law and order and the law of the land is the law of the land that's biblical whether you
like it or not look i don't apologize to my children when i get on to them now sometimes
i think about it later and maybe in my presumption i am human or in my haste you know i might have
done something then if it's my choice i'll come and apologize but they should never expect an
apology from dad when dad's putting down the hammer right i'm the boss period and they
shouldn't hold a grudge or be bitter wife shouldn't be bitter with their husbands hey you
shouldn't be bitter or begrudgeful or you know have a bad attitude towards anybody in church
especially the pastor and i'm not puffing myself i'm just saying these are the ordained physicians
from the lord it has nothing to do with me it's just that's how the god set it up you know people
didn't like moses but you know who god said was the leader moses people didn't like erin and you
know whose staff butted erin's rod i'm sorry whose rod butted erin's rod right i mean if the lord
says it the lord says it go over to psalm 33 in hebrews 12 verse 28 it says wherefore we receive
a kingdom which cannot be moved let us have grace whereby we might serve god acceptably with
reverence and godly fear for our god is a continuing fire hey why do we do it because we have we have
grace and we serve god acceptably with reverence and godly fear a lot of churches are reverent
they don't have fear of god it's it's lip service and it's real because the bible talks a lot about
that jesus was like you just basically give me lip service it says in jeremiah says or in isaiah
says with their hearts they don't serve me it's all it's all talk like a yapping chihuahua all bark
and no bite and even if it bites you right it's like a joke i mean i'm just saying i grew up around
a bunch of chihuahuas in mexican it was more annoying than anything we'll go there psalm 33
and there verse 8 says let all the earth fear the lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in
awe of him for he spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast the lord bringeth
the council of the heathen to not he make it the devices of the people of none effect the council
of the lord standeth forever the thoughts of his heart to all generations hey why do we serve the
lord because he's the lord why well he did everything commanded it made it happen look
you're not here because we negotiated some contracts and you could be warned you're here
because god gave you life whether you like it or not you're here god gave you life so how about
you just be grateful for it in job one verse 20 the bible says then job arose and rent his mantle
after he had lost everything right he shaved his head and fell down on the upon the ground and
worshiped and said naked came i out of my mother's womb naked shall i return dither as the lord gave
and the lord had taken away blessed be the name of the lord in all this job sinned not nor charged
god foolishly hey don't be charging god foolishly for your status in life gives and you take the
way and this leads me to and we might just end on this point i don't even even know if i want to
touch the other point because this is really where i want to folks go to litabacus 10 where
they're in verse 19 we see the contrast which by the way this is also a great message you know
when we're talking about doubling down obviously aaron didn't raise all four of his children
the right way i mean two of them literally were so bad they were reprobates the lord took them out
by fire you notice how god didn't say aaron you're such a bad father i'm going to remove
you from the office of the bishop i mean he was a high priest until the end now did it end well he
was taken in a mountain his garments were stripped from him and then he died there in the mountain
you know with now and they mourned him and so i don't know that that was necessarily like a very
glorious way to go but he was there until the lord took it right even after the the golden calf
even after all the challenges even after getting mad at erit i mean at moses for uh you know being
with the ethiopian woman all that stuff you know what you still the ordained man of god you think
god doesn't know that men make mistakes one thing is presumptuous like if i commit adultery man you
i need to be removed right if i do but i'm a sinner i i sin all the time i've added this
to my my literally my soul winning presentation i'm like hey god commended his love for us that
while we were yet sinners christ died for us and i'm like hey by the way just so you know
god already paid all the sins from the past present and future as a matter of fact
god's already paid the sins you're going to commit in the next hour and the sins i'm going
to commit in the next i kind of look at you they don't like that one but i like doing that because
it becomes more real when it's immediate thinking about the sins i might commit next week might not
feel so bad but i know i'm going to commit sins right some point in the next 24 hours you know
what you're all going to do you're all going to commit sins but look at the contrast there
leviticus 10 verse 19 we read that you know when joshua was reading moses comes and he gives them
a command and basically they don't follow his command not moses command but leviticus 19
erin said and erin said unto moses behold this day have they offered their sin offering and their
burnt offering before the lord and such things have befallen me and if i need me the sin offering
today should it have been accepted in the sight of lord go back to leviticus 6 we're going to be
number 25 and i'll give you a second to get there it gives us like the specific of the sin offering
right in leviticus 6 and when we covered this in chapters 1 through 7 we went over this a little bit
but as a review verse 25 says speak unto Aaron and his son saying this is the law of the sin offering
in the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the lord
it is most holy pay attention the priest that offered it is for sin shall eat it in the holy
place shall it be eaten in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation whatsoever shall
touch the flesh thereof shall be holy and when there it is sprinkled of the blood there upon any
garment thou shall wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place but the earthen
vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken and if it be sodden in a brazen pot it shall be scoured
and rinsed in water in other words cleaned up all the males among the priest shall eat thereof it
is most holy but right here it says and no sin offering whereof any of the blood is brought into
the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile with all in the holy place shall be eaten it shall
be burnt in the fire this is why it's so important to pay attention remember last week we talked
about Saul and now Nadab and Abihu hey Moses commandment was correct he said you need to eat
it and it's based on this you've got five verses they're telling you hey you need to eat it but
then there's the exception and no sin offering whereof any of the blood is brought into the
tabernacle the congregation to reconcile with all in the holy place shall be eaten
it shall be burnt with fire what had happened earlier Nate, Abihu were killed where in the
tabernacle you know the fire of the Lord took them out there there's blood spilled right so it's not
that Aaron and I don't want you to get this wrong Aaron didn't circumvent Moses but God to perceive
Moses that's why it's so important that you understand we understand actually biblical
authority and proper hierarchy and submission because from behind the pulpit I have authority
I do I mean God has given me authority I have the right to rebuke and reprove and admonish you and
say hey you need to do this but I'm gonna make mistakes I mean Moses said correctly but Aaron
was paying attention right he didn't decide to do his own thing what he did was he exercised
reverend restraint right because he had just seen what happened to his children right this is
submission and so let's break this down so you guys don't think I'm taking because this took
me a while I want to make sure I got it right then when it gets 1019 let's look at the actual
structure and the reason we're looking at the structure is one of the things because you know
it's interesting online I got an argument from people about the fact that if you're King James
only you better be careful because you might fall into the replacement theology and replacement
theology for those that don't know is that you know the Lord has replaced Israel the race with
Israel the spiritual race right everybody who believes on the name of the Lord because old
Israel even though salvation has always been by faith they were the chosen people you know what
they never hearkened they were stiff-necked they were hard-hearted they had a stony heart
it's never got it but the other thing is the reason people poop with the king james is because
it's true the king james writers didn't just translate the best translation they didn't
preserve the best uh version for the english people and it's literally the greatest translation
of all time but they didn't just do it from a a linguistic point of view like a spoken word
but they also did it from a written word they knew proper grammar like how to write properly
look at the structure of this this verse verse 19 has three clauses right and they're building this
argument right clause one he acknowledged duty right this day have they offered their sin offering
and their burnt offering before this is what marin i mean erin responds he says this and if
you look at this this is a perfect hence meaning it's a completed action meaning he's saying hey
this is completed but it's also done correctly right what are you doing is he's affirming compliance
to the law then clause number two is the exceptional condition right and it's this
phrase it says and such things have fallen me now i'm not going back to the greek i'm telling you
where they grew this from this is considered what's called a hebrew idiom where it means
calamity divine infliction but forget if you don't know hebrew which i don't know we just
look at it from a english viewpoint right erin is referring to the death of nadab and abihu
well what's the prefix be the prefix be is like the old english element right related to by
that means that it adds meanings like around thoroughly to make or cause or to provide too
so what has befallen him is the death of his cause the the form is the grief and death of his
children this has befallen me that's fallen on me right that's caused to be fallen on me
in other words this is not a normal situation that we're dealing with most this is this is a
grief but also the sermon i mean there's a lot going on i mean you think about errant he just
lost his children but he's also like not messing around because he knows god says hey you mess
around you're next clause number three the moral test right and says and if i had eaten the sin
offering today should it have been accepted in the sight of the of the lord now this is considered
the way it's worded and the way it's written it's considered a rhetorical question he's not
back talking he's not defending right it just he basically means with this action of please god
what he's doing is he's appealing to the higher divinity right he's not asking moses for permission
or trying to justify he's just pointing out why he did this what's interesting is he didn't have
to go deeper because moses also knows the law and in verse 20 it says and when moses heard that he
was content right two things matter when moses heard that that verb heard means to receive or
process not just like why oh there's a noise like he listened to him he actually paid attention
it's like today when i brought up in the announcements the fact that if you need
bigger thoughts for the new hymnal right let me know meaning i heard you i i didn't just you didn't
just say words and i walked away like i processed that information i'm like oh you know maybe
you need to think about other people in the church right and so moses understood erin's reasoning
and i wrote this down because i didn't want to get wrong right or i didn't want to uh come to it
because i do that a lot right erin does not circumvent moses authority what he does is he
realizes that he must obey what the higher authority remember up to this point we've seen
moses giving the command of moses but then nadab and the bible get killed and who in verse eight
it says and the lord's faith the lord's presence is is there he knows this is there's not like
necessarily an intercession right are you dealing directly this is why it's so important to follow
the authority too because we have intercession jesus served as a buffer between us and got the
father that's why it says that he serves that he prays and he interceding for us what daily
regularly jesus is interceding for us moses pictured that right aaron here has to deal with
with with god because god's like not not having it right that he must obey the higher authority
so the situation differs from leviticus 8 where we started in 833 where moses gave the command
aaron is not is not in the presence of god in leviticus uh in in 833 whereas in leviticus 10
8 and when everybody is he's not dealing directly with him it says the presence of the lord came
right it says in verse 10 verse 8 god speaks directly not through moses god's immediate
holiness supersedes even god given procedural command procedural command sorry when the spirit
of obedience would be violated by mechanical compliance but what i know i got a little
technical but what does that mean look we've seen this you know let me give you some examples
david and the showbread right there was like this very strict thing but that didn't supersede god's
holiness right he was david was right in feeding the bread because that was the most important
thing at the time but then we have Saul's disobedience what did Samuel say it's better
to you know obey it as a sacrifice then you have Jesus healing on the Sabbath they were really
pissed he's like hey which one of you knowing the law wouldn't leave 99 sheep for the one
yet you're mad at me for healing this guy like you know when he's healing on the Sabbath like
they got it all wrong and that's what we need to be careful in church right that we I love the
sensational sermon I love the hard preaching and we're going to not stop but we also got to just
cover it all sometimes when we cover it all I mean I try to find the good juice like I think
this is it I spent a lot of time I got really excited about it if you're not then you need to
read your Bible more because I think it's really good stuff but this is just uh but but we got to
do it all right I love the fellowships I love when we buy food we have good fellowships but you know
what's more important when we go out soloing whether we feed you or not you should show up
and go soloing whether the sermon is good or not you need to show up to the preaching we have two
great preachers coming to preach for us hey don't just show up when they show up show up right now
when this might not be the most exciting sermon don't do it for my sake do it for God's sake
right so right there in uh I've got five minutes so let's just close this thing out in hosea six
verse six the bible says for I desired mercy and not sacrifice and the knowledge of God more than
burnt offerings but they like men have transgressed the covenant they have dealt treacherously against
me you know God he and this is constant in the book of Isaiah he says hey I'm not interested
in your oblations in Jeremiah he says the same thing he's constantly saying hey I'm not that
interested in your man-made rule I want to know that you obey me Jesus said to them he's like hey
I say obey your brother and your father and you guys basically perverted this thing and made it
worse you know I'm obviously paraphrasing here go to Psalm 51 verse 15 the bible says oh lord
open thou my lips and my mouth shall show forth praise thy praise for thou desire's not sacrifice
or else would I give it thou delight is not in burnt offering the sacrifices of god are a broken
spirit a broken and contrite heart oh god thou will not despise what's the bigger sacrifice
broken spirit broken and contrite heart heart is deceitful the wicked above all things right who
can know it hey the only way to do this you come to the lord humbly and let him search out your
heart the reigns of your heart the reigns of your of your emotions and then guide them the right
way right and then i think this is the final point yeah the final point is that god's response is a
good response because you know how we know because moses responses i just love that and when moses
heard that he was content because you know who supersedes moses god see oftentimes people in
leadership they just want to be right because they're in leadership and i really believe there's
a time and place for that but it's in the right you know it's on a case by case but when it comes
to the spiritual matters there's no time or place for that god rules let me go back to like the
teenage years or elementary years god rules and everybody else rules right i mean god rules he's
in charge he's in command and as a pastor i sometimes have to be told my thoughts because
i see things but i have to discern them based on the word of god but also as a father or as a
husband you need to do the same in your family with your spouse with your children with your
other family members and then how we in how we congregate with each other right we want to have
Aaron's attitude i mean i know Aaron kind of messed up a lot but in this situation Aaron's
kind of man's man Jess lost his two children to a fire from the lord he held his tongue and then when
time came to seek obedience he's like i'm going to make sure i do what God says even though Moses
and he didn't circumvent because Moses understood you know Moses just gave the command you know and
leadership will do that sometimes in haste you'll say something and the people that are following
it's for them know also sometimes the details as well sometimes they need to fill in the details
if you're paying attention to it what Aaron did what he's like he remembered the stipulation
right with all if there's any blood then you burn it you don't need it and when Moses heard he
processed he's like oh that's right he's like all right I'm happy good job most uh Aaron that's the
and actually that's the kind of like employees that's the kind of stuff I love with my children
my wife if I say something and then I come in guns of blazing hey Moses is pissed off right I mean
you read it he's mad and I come in guns of blazing and all of a sudden I get stopped by anything like
well you asked for this but really what you meant with this and you're like oh yeah that's that's
really what I'm saying good job move on so you need to be able to not only be able to execute but
also read the mind of god now we don't let's try carefully what I mean by that is read the mind of
god from god's word and see the problem is the people who get off of bad doctrine they get off
because they start deviating from what's on god's word right going back to the the thing of the
trinity why is there even an issue about what the trinity is because they're not following god's
word because you show them the god's word they're like yeah but but it but doesn't matter that's
strange fire to the lord that's a strange instance to the lord so let's go ahead i said that last
final point i don't know that we really need it i want to i want to close on that because i thought
that was more important to me it's just a little nuance there but i i think it's a super important
one because aaron makes that distinction why was aaron spared why did aaron succeed further why
did uh rod bud why did he you know lead a life to where he got retired of because he was able
to discern now was he able to discern all the time absolutely not we know the story but in this
specific example moses was content and you know you want to make your leadership content your
boss content your dad content your mom content or your uh what your children for the wives the
wives to make their husbands content you know you want to make the pastor or the leaders in
the church content you also want to make the congregation content there's different leadership
in the church even if it's unspoken because people are older and younger viewer and and older in the
faith we need to learn how to discern all of that let's close in order prayer heavenly father lord
thank you so much for today thank you for these wonderful lessons even though that it is uh eight
10 specifically in chapter 10 lord and uh lord i i pray that uh that i got it right and if i
didn't lord well then at least the lesson i did get right where you know if i'm not right then
they need to obey you i'm not the boss i'm just chosen here to lead based on you lord you're the
block i'm just the message that we may hear you or even do your will and not our will in our life
in jesus name we pray amen let's turn our hymn notes over to page 410 410