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Let's go ahead and find our seats this evening Find the seats and find a song book close to you and turn to page number two Song number two and we will open the service with glory to his name song number two find the seats and find a hymnal Turn to page number two and we will sing glory to his name sing it out on the first Down at the cross where my Savior died Now when we're dancing from sin, I cry there to my heart was the blood of life There to my heart was the blood of life Song number two on the second I am so wondrously saved from sin Jesus There he took me Oh Sing it out on third Oh precious fountain that tastes from sin Saves me Then to my heart I'm gonna sing it out on the last but you guys are doing a lot better than usual So let's finish strong on the last My Amen great singing welcome to the evening service here at Verity Baptist Church We call it the the most exciting service of the week, right? We're glad to see everyone here this evening Let's open the service with a word of prayer the only father Lord. We love you We thank you for everything that you do for us Thank you for a great day that we had Lord and thank you for the dear people would come here on a Sunday evening Lord to worship you through singing Lord Pray Lord that you would bless the service Pray for the singing pray for the preaching pray for the fellowship that everything that would be said and done this evening with green Glory in honor to your name. Lord. We love you in Jesus. I pray men Alright sound time for favorites where if you're selected, we will sing a stanza from the song that you pick brother Christian guide song number 34 So number 34 and we will start with I know that my Redeemer live Amen number 34 Not so familiar with the beginning so I'm gonna have to like wing this one. All right, so number 30 forcing it out on the first Oh I know I know And on the earth I know Am I good So number two, all right again, we're gonna sing that song again song number two glory to his name Down at the cross, let's see it again down at the cross where my Savior died That's my heart Oh But the search guy saw number 40 for zero No disappointment in heaven It's also brother Salvador's favorite song number 40, there's no disappointment haven't seen it out on the first Here in the sky Will be sunshine With I'm My lord I Valley I got 143. Amen Blessed assurance. Jesus is mine. So number one four three 143 now with some passion to get out on the first Yeah This is my My Brother Marisha Song number two one five. This will be the last song for favorite song number 215 You mind if we say the last one the last stanza or a song number two one five We're gonna sing that add on at the last as well. All right, let's finish strong on the last Now I hope that will show After the passing There in those mansions Oh Oh Oh Oh Amen we want to welcome you to the Sunday evening service here and Verdi Baptist Church. We're glad you're with us This is the most exciting service of the week and we're glad you're here and let's go ahead and take our Bulletins will look some announcements real quickly If you do not have a bulletin You can raise your hand and one of our ushers will get one for you If you need a bulletin just put your hand up and we will get one for you the verse this week Psalm 37 3 trust in the Lord and do good so shalt thou Dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed and that's a good verse there We like that if you open up your bulletin, you'll see our service time Sunday morning service 10 30 a.m We had a wonderful service this morning. We're glad that you're back out tonight for the evening service. We had 260 in church on Sunday morning So praise the Lord for that and I'm just telling you that because we need to get into that other building. All right, and so we we need help getting it there as quickly as possible Sunday evening service at 6 p.m. And Wednesday evening Bible study, of course midweek service at 7 p.m if you look at our sowing times our main sowing times on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. And we have additional sowing times on Sundays at 2 p.m. And then usually on Thursdays and Fridays, but those are postponed for now if you are a soul winner Please do not forget to add your salvations on the communication card so that we can update the bulletin If you have a map that did not get done or finished Please clearly mark what was done was not done and put it in the bin in the foyer so it can get recycled through And of course if you're running late, you can call us or text us at the number there 9 1 6 8 6 8 9 0 8 0 let us know your plan on being there But you're running late that way we can make sure we have a partner for you and a map and everything You need if you are a first-time guest if it's your first time here at Verity Baptist Church. We're glad you're with us We have a gift We'd like to give you as you walk out of the church building tonight If you go out our main foyer or our secondary foyer, you'll see these little gift bags on your way out Please grab one on your way out as a gift from us to you for being our guest There are several resources in this bag that we'd like you to have to when I like to highlight Is this documentary that our church made it's called being Baptist and it's very well made very interesting We think you'll like it and we want to give this to you as a gift So, please make sure you don't leave here without grabbing one of these gift bags on your way out And if you are a guest would ask that you please take a moment to fill out the communication card Which is inserted in your bulletin and if you need a pen just raise your hand one of our ushers can bring you by Verity Baptist Church pen and you're welcome to keep the pen as a gift from us as well We'd love to have a record of your attendance and we'd actually like to send you a little gift But we need your information to do that So, please take a moment to fill the card out and when the offering plate goes by after the announcement We'll sing a song and after the song will receive the offering you can drop this card in the offering plate If you notice there in the announcements, we are a family integrated church. What that means is that children and infants are Welcome in the service and we do have mother baby rooms and daddy rooms available for your convenience If you have a child has been distracting during the service if you need some privacy So, please make sure you use those rooms as needed and if you're not sure where they're at You can look at the back of the bulletin and you'll see a layout of our church building I'll show you where all those things are at If you need to be baptized, please let us know we'd love to baptize you the baptistry is filled the water is warm We've got everything you need if you've already spoken to somebody then all you need to do is at the end of the service after the Preaching while we're singing the last song you step out that door someone will meet you there We'll get you situated for baptism. Otherwise on the back of your card or your communication card You can check off that you'd like information about baptism and we'll follow up with you and talk to you about that If you look at the announcements and upcoming events Of course, we've got our series Sunday mornings and our Sundays Excuse me is our wilderness wandering is going through the book of Numbers on Wednesday nights We're going through the book of Hebrews and then the big announcements is workdays for this week So guys we need your help with this. We've got several clipboards back there and we appreciate Several of you went by this morning and signed up, but I think there's still some open spots there So we just want you to be aware of What's over there on October 26 Thursday, October 26 and Friday, October 27. There's Shifts all day from 8 a.m. To 9 p.m. Three shifts one in the morning one in the afternoon one in the evening and We're getting into some more specific Things so what brother Joel is looking for. He's looking for some guys with we have enough slots there for three Electrical leads for each one of the shifts So if you are an electrician you have experience with electrical work you you can help with that This is your week to shine. All right, this one we need you. So we've got three Shifts and we could use an electrical lead for each one of those shifts so guys that knows some electrical that can help us with that and Maybe you don't feel comfortable being a lead but you can help and you have some experience with electrical Then there's a couple of slots for each shift for each day To be a helper. So if you could help us with that, that'd be great There's other things there to continue with the scraping continue some miscellaneous cleaning So just go by there and you'll see that there's opportunities there for you but especially This week if you've got some electrical know-how we could really Use your help if you've already been helping with like the abatement Then you can keep coming and there's more of that to do Of course office reconstruction on Saturday as well if you have any sort of construction Knowledge or experience then obviously you can help us with that also on Friday October 28th at the same time from 8 a.m. All day Brother Jose Cruz is gonna be leading a group of men to clean up the whole property the outside So this is gonna be separate from the work going inside. This will be outside There's four acres of land over there and it needs to get cleaned up So if you can help us with that, we've got a sheet for volunteers as well If you have any sort of landscaping experience, you've done landscaping or anything like that, then you can sign up There's four slots there and specifically We just need some guys to get in there with some weed eaters and just cut that whole field Down and then there's four slots for some general labor Maybe you don't have any landscaping experience, but especially this would be good for like young men Maybe a teenager or something you guys can sign up and because when these guys are weed eating kind of cleaning up We need some guys to be raking and putting everything together putting it into the trailer so that it can get hauled off so there's that and then the last thing is There's a special clipboard for Monday Tuesday and Wednesday All right, because these guys brother Joel and these guys they are just they are working machines So working all day Thursday Friday and Saturday is just not enough. They want to work on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday as well So if you're available on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday, and I'm joking they are working machines But if you're available on those days But this is a list specifically for semi-skilled tasks. So Monday Tuesday and Wednesday Semi-skilled tasks if you are semi-skilled Don't ask me what that means. You can talk to brother Joel about that But if you're semi-skilled he will let you know if you if you're semi-skilled or not, but um If you can help with that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday their slots there and there's no times We just want to know if you're available when you're available and he will contact you and get you situated With that I have gained a lot I mean I always had a lot of respect for these guys But I've gained a lot of respect for these guys over the last couple weeks and these guys are amazing and we need other men To kind of come in and help. All right, we've got the guy We definitely have the guys that know what they're doing, but they can't do it by themselves So we if you guys can help us we would appreciate that make sure you check out the clipboards ladies There's clipboards for you as well for the harvest party. There's sign-up sheets there to bring cornbread and dessert So make sure you go by there harvest party is Tuesday, October 31st at 6 p.m We'll have the annual chili cook-off bag of treats for every kid in attendance games The winner of the cook-off will get a hundred dollar gift card as a first place winner I think to Amazon and then a $50 gift card for the second place winner and also There's going to be a ladies basketball game at the Harvest party the ladies had a basketball game last year and it was a lot of fun for them. So ladies there's going to be Clipboards for you to sign up at the harvest party. So when you get to the harvest party, you'll sign up and then You'll get put into teams and will be a ladies Basketball game. All right ladies, so we're giving you the heads up you can start working on your you know, whatever your free throws and your layups and Dribbling between your legs or whatever you got to work on And then there's also I'm sure there'll be a men's basketball game, but we're not organizing that because I don't care But the guys I'm sure they'll figure it out. So they'll get it going but you ladies will get you covered All right home school group. They've got PE class Thursday, November 2nd at 10 a.m Other things there for you to look at please don't forget to turn your cell phones off replace them on silent during the service so that They're not a distraction to anybody if you look at the back of the bulletin birthdays and anniversaries for this week today is Liliana Pettis's birthday October 22nd and Tomorrow Noel Rosenberg's birthday November. Excuse me, October 23rd Jun Davidson's birthdays October 24th. I'm sure she's smiling somewhere right now and I am Emma Gonzalez Has a birthday October 25th Abraham Jimenez has a birthday October 26 and brother Ron Colac has a birthday October 26 praise report money matters. All those things are there for you. I think that's it for all of the announcements So we're gonna go ahead and sing the chorus of the week as we prepare to receive the offering tonight. I stand amazed When I examine that old rugged cross, let's go ahead and sing it out on the first as we prepare to receive the offering Ah Oh On the second Ah Oh Oh Amen good singing We'll have the guys come up and help us with the offering at this time And let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer Heavenly Father Lord We do love you. We thank you for allowing us together together on a Sunday night Lord I pray that you'd bless the offering the gift and the giver Lord We pray that you'd bless the time set aside for the preaching of your word in Jesus name. We pray. Amen You You You You You Please open relative numbers 15 Numbers chapter 15 if you don't have a Bible, please put your hand up and I'm not sure can combine bring your Bible Numbers chapter 15 just keep your head up and she'll come by Numbers 15 we read the entire chapter as our custom Numbers 15 beginning verse number one And the Lord has spake unto Moses saying speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them when he become into the land of your habitations which I give unto you and will make an offering by fire unto Lord a burnt offering or a sacrifice in performing a vow or in a freewill offering or in your solemn feast To make a sweet savour unto Lord of the herd or of the flock Then shall he that offerth his offering unto the Lord bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth fourth part of an hen of oil and the fourth part of an hen of wine for a drink offering shall that prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice for one lamb or For a ram that shall prepare for a mean offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hen of oil And for a drink offering that shall offer the third part of an hen of wine for a sweet savour unto the Lord When I prepares a bullock for a burnt offering or for sacrificing performing a vow or peace offerings unto Lord Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half and hen of oil and That shall bring for a drink offering half and hen of wine for an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord Thus shall it be done for one bullock or for one ram or for a lamb or a kid? According to the number that you shall prepare So shall you do to everyone according to their number all that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner an offering an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord and If a stranger sojourn with you or whosoever be among you in your generations And will offer an offering me by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord as he do so he shall do One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you an Ordinance forever in your generations as ye are so shall the stranger be before the Lord one law and one manner shall be for you and for the stranger that sojourneth with you and The Lord speak unto Moses saying speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When he come into the land whether I bring you Then it shall be that when he eat of the bread of the land He shall offer up and heave offering unto the Lord He shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering as he do the heave offering of the threshing floor So shall ye heave it of the first of your dough you shall give unto the Lord and heave offering in your generations And if he have erred and not observed all these Commandments which Lord's fate have spoken unto Moses Even all that the Lord hath commanded you by the hand of Moses From the day that the Lord commanded Moses and henceforth among your generations Then it shall be if I'd be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation That all the congregation shall offer one offering one young bullock for a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord and with his meat offering and his drink offering according to the manner and one kid of the goats for a sin offering and The priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel They shall be forgiven them for it is ignorance They shall bring their offering a sacrifice made by fire unto Lord and their sin offering before the Lord for their ignorance They shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger that sojourneth among them seeing all the people were in ignorance and if any soul sinned through ignorance Then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering and the priest shall make an atonement for the soul That's in it ignorantly when he sent it by ignorance before the Lord to make an atonement for him and it shall be forgiven him He shall have one law for him that sent it through ignorance Both for him that is born among the children of Israel and for the stranger that sojourneth among them But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously Whether he be born in the land or a stranger the same reproach it the Lord and that soul shall be cut off from among His people because he had despised the word of the Lord and it's broken his commandment That soul shall utterly be cut off his iniquity shall be upon him And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness They found a man gathering that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the congregation and they put him in Ward because it was not declared what should be done to him and The Lord said unto Moses the man shall be surely put to death all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp and all the congregation brought him without the camp and stone him with stones and he died as the Lord commanded Moses and Lord speaking of Moses saying speak unto the children of Israel and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments There are throughout their generations and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribbon of blue And it shall be unto you or for a fringe They may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them And they seek not after your own heart and your own eyes After what you used to go a whoring they may remember and do all my commandments and be holy unto your God I am the Lord of God which brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God I am the Lord your God. Let's pray Heavenly Father. Thank you for this evening God, I thank you for your word and for everyone that's here. I see Please give us all tender hearts at the message tonight. I see be there pastor to strengthen him and fill in your spirit We love you in Jesus name pray. Amen Amen All right We're continuing tonight in our wilderness wanderings series here in the book of Numbers and this morning We finished up numbers chapter number 14 and tonight we are going to dive into Chapter number 15 and just by way of introduction. I'd like to explain that this chapter is A little bit different the book of Numbers is is a little bit of a different book in the sense that There are some books in the Bible that are More of like an epistle style in the New Testament. They'd be called epistles where it's like writings and Teaching you definitely have that in the Old Testament. They're not called epistles, but you have like the law books Or the instructional books like Leviticus that are giving you a lot of the laws of God but then you also have the narrative books like first second Samuel first second Kings that are giving you stories the book of Numbers is a mixture of narrative and writings of the law and for example, we spent several weeks going through chapters 13 and 14 Which was a narrative of the spies going into the Promised Land and we're going to get into another Section of narratives in number 16 and 17 when we talk about Korah and the rebellion of Korah against Moses But in chapter 15, we have this kind of transitional chapter where we go back into more of legal writings and Writings of the law and this is a long chapters 41 verses long and The way we're going to go through this is I've divided the chapter into sections and I'll give you headings for each one of these sections and what we'll do is we'll do a general overview of each section and then I'll give you an application for each one of The sections and my goal is to get through the whole chapter tonight. That may not happen So we'll see how far we can get but again by way of introduction. I do want you to see Just something interesting at the beginning of this chapter and who this chapter is really Spoken to or given to in numbers 15 in verse 1 the Bible says this and the Lord spake unto Moses saying Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them now Here's what I want you to notice and I want you to notice this little phrase It says when ye be come into the land of your habitations Which I given to you now if you've read been reading the book of Numbers Have you been with us through the book of Numbers study and hopefully that kind of stands out to you as something? Peculiar because of the fact that we just spent the last two chapters Talking about how God is upset with the children of Israel and now he's pretty much told them that they're not going to enter the Land he's told them that they're going to wander in the wilderness for 40 years one day for every One year for every day that the spies Searched out the land he's talked about the fact that their carcasses are going to fall in the wilderness and they're not going to enter Into the land but then chapter 15 begins with God saying In verse 2 speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them when ye be come into the land So what is this talking about? Well, go back to Numbers 14 if you would just real quickly and look at verse 28 numbers 14 in verse 28 The Bible says saying to them as truly as I live saith the Lord as ye have spoken in mine ear So will I do to you verse 29 your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness and all that were numbered of you according to your whole number for from 20 years old and Upward which have murmured against me and we've dealt with that and talked about that and talk about the fact that God said from 20 Years old and up you will not go into the land. You're going to die in the wilderness However, we talked about it this morning God did tell them that their children would enter the land look at verse 30 numbers 14 verse 30 God speaking to the children of Israel Doubtless he shall not come into the land Concerning which I swear to make you dwell therein save Caleb the son of Jeff unit and Joshua the son of none verse 31 But your little ones which he said should be a prey Then will I bring in and they shall know the land which ye have despised? So God told the generation of the wilderness wanderings that you would not into the land but your children your little ones the next generation would enter the land and then we get into numbers 15 go back to numbers 15 in Verse 1 and the Bible says and the Lord spake unto Moses saying speaking to the children of Israel and saying to them when he Become into the land. So the question is who is God speaking to and God is actually speaking to the next generation He's speaking to the little children He's speaking to the next generation because he's already told these people you're not going to enter into the land But it's interesting to me that then in chapter 15 He gives all the install these instructions of what they are to do when they enter into the land And I want you to notice that though God was upset with the children of Israel in chapter 13 in chapter 14 in chapter 15 He begins afresh and a new with them and he says look you've made mistakes and we can't go back and undo those but there's still a future for the nation of Israel and he begins to instruct them and specifically the next generation the Children that will enter into the land and he tells them when you come into the land And this is a theme in this chapter Look at verse 18 again just by way of introduction numbers 15 verse 18 speaking to the children of Israel This is God's speaking Of course to Moses speaking to children of Israel and saying to them when ye come into the land whither I? Bring you so I want you to notice that this chapter is giving instructions of what to do when you enter into the land and the Instructions are being given to a group of people that God has swore in his wrath that will not enter the land But their children will enter the land which is why God gives us numbers chapter 15 so it's a chapter that's really given to the next generation and it's Instructions for the next generation and there's some things here that he's already given to the children of Israel But there's things that God wants them to be ready for and understand as they enter in now Like I said, there's we're going to divide this into several sections I've got five sections that we can divide this chapter Outline this chapter into and five headings if you'd like to outline it and have it for your notes Of course I always encourage you to take notes the first heading for the first section you can entitled laws for sacrifices laws for sacrifices and what God does in the first 12 verses and Then also verses 17 through 21 is he gives these instructions Regarding the sacrifices look at verse 2 He says speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them when he be coming to the land of your habitation Which I given to you and will make an offering by fire unto the Lord a burnt offering or a sacrifice in performing a vow or in a Freewill Offering or in your solemn feast to make a sweet savor unto the Lord of the herd Or of the flock now, I'm not going to take the time to go through and break down these sacrifices because we've already I've already preached verse by verse chapter by chapter through the book of Leviticus the book of Leviticus is like a manual for the Levitical priests and it goes through each one of these and we've talked about it And and and we've done that so you can you can look that up if you'd like in the Leviticus series I'm not going to take the time to do that now I do want you to notice though that these vows that are being talked about here in verse number three are all You'll notice there. It uses the term free will offering all of these were voluntary offerings There's some offerings that you Were had to give if you're part of the children of Israel and then there were some offerings that were voluntary you did it Just out of your love for God or out of the abundance that God had blessed you and he's talking to the children of Israel About these sacrifices that they're going to perform when they enter into the promised land that they're going to be so prosperous and about an abounding They're going to want to give these sacrifice look at verse four then shall he that offer this offering unto the Lord Bring a meat offering and a meat offering the word meat in our King James Bible Actually, it's just another word for the word food Alright, so it's not the what we call meat and the Bible is called flesh And this is these meat offerings would be like a cake like something that like a bread that they would Make for the Lord of a tenth eel of flour notice their flour mingled with the fourth part of an hint of oil verse 5 in the fourth part of an hint of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or Sacrifice for one lamb or for a ram thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled With the third part of an hint of oil over seven and for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of a Hint of wine and again, I'm not preaching on these sacrifices But let me just say this you'll notice that there's these drink offerings that are being mentioned here I That are given and the drink offerings go all the way back to Jacob Jacob was actually the first person in the book of Genesis that offered a drink offering unto the Lord and I just want to mention This again, it's not something I want to focus on tonight But these drink offerings were to be poured out unto the Lord and they were to be a hint of wine and of course these are Alluding to the Old Testament in the Old Testament. They're alluding to the New Testament Lord's Supper Where you would take the juice the grape juice and it would be poured out During the Lord's Supper we take the bread and break it that Pictures the breaking of the body of Christ and we take the wine which is non alcoholic juice And again, I'm not preaching on that tonight But I've got other sermons to explain that and that that wine or that grape juice is poured Symbolically showing the shedding of the blood of Christ and that's what's happening here as well with the burnt offering You were to give a drink offering that will be poured out and it is all symbolizing or shadowing The shedding of the blood of Christ because the Bible says that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins look at verse 6 or for a ram thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hen of oil and for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of a hint of wine for a sweet savour unto the Lord and when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering and for a Sacrifice of performing a vow or peace offerings unto the Lord and by the way Let me just say this the drink offering sin also be a picture of the pouring out of God's wrath Which all connects to the same thing because the wrath of God was poured out on the Lord Jesus Christ When his blood was shed look at verse 9 then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering or three tenth deals of a flour mingled with oil for a hint oil and thou shalt Bring for a drink offering half a hint of wine for an offering made by fire of sweet savour unto Lord Thus shall it be done for one bullock or for one ram or for a lamb or a kid and notice that with these offerings There's different levels. These are all burnt offerings and a burnt offering and again I won't take the time to go into but the whole point of a burnt offering was that you gave this entire Animal to the Lord and then the whole thing was burnt and consumed unto the Lord there were other offerings where pieces were cut off and the Levites and the priests were allowed to eat and even the Congregation was allowed to eat from the different pieces that were cut off but a burnt offering was wholly given to God It was completely burnt unto the Lord that not only pictures the Lord Jesus Christ But it pictures us because God wants you to be a burnt offering unto the Lord. He wants you to be wholly Completely given unto him. That's what Paul talks about in Romans when he says that we should offer ourselves a living sacrifice Wholly acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service So we see these offerings and there's different levels a bullock is obviously much more expensive than a ramp That's more expensive than a lamb. That's more expensive than a kid So there's these different levels for different people who wanted to give a sacrifice Maybe they can't afford to give a whole bull But they can give a lamb so there's these options for them verse 12 according to the number that you shall prepare So shall you do to everyone according to their numbers so we see these sacrifices The section that deals with sacrifices is not only in verses 1 through 12 But it's also covered in verses 17 and 21 So I'd like you to see those verses Look at verse 17 and the Lord spake unto Moses saying speak to the children of Israel and say unto them when you come into The land whither I bring you notice that that is Connecting these two thoughts verse 1 or excuse me Verse 2 says when you come into the land of your habitation Which I give unto you and then we have these verses up until verse 12 about the sacrifices then verse 17 Speak and the Lord spake unto Moses unto Moses saying verse 18 speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them when you come into the land whither I bring you and then we've got Some more instructions regarding these sacrifices in verse 19, then it shall be that when ye eat of the bread of the land Now this is important because God is preparing them because at this point They are not eating of the bread of the land because if you remember while they are in the wilderness And this was supposed to be a short-term thing But it ends up being for 40 years that while they are in the wilderness God is the one that's providing their food because manna is coming down from heaven every every day every morning They go out and they gather the manna for them to eat for that day on the day before the Sabbath They got they either twice as much and they did not go out on the Sabbath But God says when they enter into the Promised Land That they're going to eat of the bread of the land and this speaks to the fact that there's maturity happening here here We have a congregation but these people we if we could use them as an illustration. They just got saved Right. They just got out of Egypt. Egypt is a picture of the world Moses is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're going to talk about that on Wednesday night in our Hebrew studies Which I didn't really Work it out this way But in Hebrews chapter 3 we're actually going to be talking about the same chapters We're talking about in the book of Numbers, which I did not plan but the Holy Spirit did and so we're talking about Moses And the children of Israel in the day that they provoked God and refused to enter into the Promised Land so, I don't know God just wants us talking about this I guess but Moses pictures the Lord Jesus Christ He's a deliverer that goes in to Egypt and brings the children of Israel out of Egypt picturing salvation Has them cross the Red Sea picturing baptism, but while they're in the wilderness They're they're they're picturing these new Christians. They're in the wilderness. They're not conquering the land They're just kind of stumbling by their new and what are they doing? They're being fed God is bringing manna down from heaven and they're being fed at the hand of God but when they cross the Jordan River that Pictures the Christian that is mature and the Christian that is living the victorious Christian life in the Promised Land conquering the Giants caking the cities getting victory in their life over sin and a major difference between the Christian on the wilderness and the Christian in the Promised Land is the Christian in the wilderness is being fed the Christian in the Promised Land is feeding themselves and If you understand that the bread from heaven pictures the Lord Jesus Christ But the bread from heaven also pictures the Word of God because Jesus is the Word of God and man shall not live by bread alone But by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God a great way for you to test your own Maturity is to ask yourself when you are fed the Word of God Are you fed the Word of God because you show up to Verity Baptist Church and Pastor Jimenez makes it rain manna from heaven Or do you open up your King James Bible on Monday morning and feed yourself? now nothing wrong with being Fed bread, you know manna from heaven I'll do my best and I spend as much time as I can studying and preparing for these sermons to feed you some well-balanced meals From the Word of God, but the mature Christian will not only be fed at church They'll also open up the Bible and feed themselves So he's telling them he's looking forward to when they mature and he's saying verse 19 Then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land He said when you're over there, you're not being fed by man anymore. You're cultivating the land. You're bringing up grain You're turning it into bread. You're eating the bread of the land He says ye shall offer and heave offering unto the Lord and you shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for and heave offering as You do the heave offering of the threshing floor So shall you heave it verse 21 of the first of your dough you shall give unto the Lord So at this point, they're not cultivating anything They're not producing anything They're just wandering in the wilderness being fed by God through man not having Moses leave them but he says when you mature a little bit in 40 years for them and you enter the promised land and you start feeding yourself He says when you start cultivating the ground and you start producing you need to offer up a cake of the first of your dough Verse 20 of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the Lord verse number 21 So here's the first application for the sacrifices. Nothing that I've said was application up to this point All of that was just free material for you. All right, be mature feed yourself. That's how you know, you're good How do you know if a child is physically growing? Well when they're a baby they get fed as they get older they can feed themselves if you are feeding yourself Congratulations, you're growing in the Lord if you never open up the Bible and feed yourself And you're a babe in Christ and that's okay. If you're a baby if you just got saved no problem But if you've been a baby for the last 20 years, that's a problem. We need to get you on the strong meat of the word Anyway, all of that is free. All right, here's the application When it comes to sacrifices, we should give of our substance and we should give as a priority Because notice when they're not Making money. He doesn't expect them to really do anything Up to this point they the sacrifices they had given they had because they got them from Egypt when they left the land of Egypt But God is telling the next generation that when you start beginning to produce Then you need to offer of the first of your dough of the first of your dough You shall give unto the Lord and look he's talking about Literal physical dough right like dough that you put in an oven and make bread But here's the application for you when you New Testament Christian start making some dough Of the first of your dough you need to give unto the Lord That's what the Bible says The Bible says that we should give of our substance every good gives comes from above Everything we have is given to us by God And when God allows us look when if God gives you the strength and the ability to go out and make some dough Then of the first of your dough you shall give unto the Lord and obviously there's a picture of tithing and honoring the Lord with our Finances keep your place there in numbers 15 go to Proverbs if you would Proverbs chapter 3 Just if you open up your Bible just right in the center right in the center You're more than likely following the book of Psalms right after Psalms You have the book of Proverbs if I can get one of these guys if you can just turn the AC down one just one degree I Would appreciate that in Proverbs chapter 3. I don't know if it's I'm always hot, but I see things going like that So Proverbs 3 look at verse 9 Psalms Proverbs Proverbs 3 verse 9 honor the Lord with thy substance and with the firstfruits of all thine increase Notice that we were supposed to give to God from our substance From what he prospers us and then we should give him first God comes first look pay God before you pay your rent or your mortgage or the Government or anyone because in all things he should have the preeminence Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you So honor the Lord with thy substance and with the firstfruits of all thine increase and notice what the Bible says Here's the promise so shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine God says when we honor the Lord with our substance Then he honors us and he makes sure that we're taking care of so shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses Shall burst out with new wine and sometimes people will say well I don't I don't make I can't afford to tithe or to give and my response is you can't afford not to Because of the Lord delight in us That's been the theme Because if God is with us look if God is with me I'd rather live on the 90 and give him 10% then try to live on the 100 against God because God's gonna get his 10% and God can make sure that car breaks down or you have some medical bill or whatever and I'm not saying if you have a medical Bill that you guys not you're not right with God. I'm not saying that maybe you're not I don't know I'm just not saying that okay. I'm just saying I don't know why we're talking about this Time okay, just trust God and time that's the application. Let's move on go to Numbers chapter 15 Look at verse 13 Numbers chapter 15 and verse 13 So the first section is a section on sacrifices laws regarding sacrifices and that's in verses 1 through 12 17 through 21. I know some of you are writing commentaries in the book of Numbers So I'm just making sure you get those no in those Outlines right okay, then the second section is a section regarding strangers the law of strangers We see this in verses 13 through 16 notice what the Bible says all that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner an offering an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord verse 14 and if a stranger Now please understand the word stranger in your King James Bible is not the way we use stranger like like stranger danger Okay, that's not what the Bible is talking about the word stranger just means Foreign so here is talking about someone that is a foreigner and the context makes that clear because verse 13 He says all that are born of the country That would be Someone that's a native of that country They're born there shall do these things after this manner and offering an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto Lord and if a stranger or a foreigner Sojourn, what does that mean it means they're living among you sojourn with you or whosoever be among you in all your generations And will offer an offering made by fire sweet savour unto Lord as ye do so shall he do that's the key words as Ye do so he shall do as the one that is born of the country does So shall the stranger do as well look at verse 15 one ordinance shall be both for you and of the congregation and also for the stranger that sojourn is with you an ordinance forever in your Generations as ye are so shall the stranger be before the Lord. What is God saying look at verse 16? one law and One manner shall be for you and for the stranger that sojourneth with you The the Bible here and God is giving us laws for a stranger laws for a foreigner Someone who's not born in the land and what does God say in the Bible? And by the way, this is consistent throughout the throughout the Old Testament when God Established a nation and gave laws for the nation. I could have you run all sorts of verses I'm not going to do that, but he consistently said this throughout the Bible that there will be one law For the stranger as for the one born in the country One law and one manner shall be for you and for the stranger I know I'm about to piss some of you off or your Fox News Baptist But let me let you know a little secret. God is not a Republican and The devil for sure is a Democrat. I mean that's without a doubt But but you know the Bible teaches that there should be one law for all the people and there should not be a law you say well, well if someone lives in this country and They're sojourning among us But they're whatever you want to classify them an illegal immigrant then they can't do certain things that I can do Is that you think God is for that? Now look, I realize people like I can't believe you would say that All Christians are supposed to be Republican. Well, I'm not Yeah, every Christian is supposed to just follow the Republican line Well, the Republican line is wrong and a lot of places because God says that it's wicked to have one law for a certain group of people and one law for another group of people and the whole this whole You know foreign policy stuff is just a bunch, you know, it's a bunch of garbage because they make these these you know, these The these crisis up and you say well, what what does the Bible say? You know the Bible says Bible says to let anybody the Bible says anybody can go anywhere they want And you say well if you're a president, what would you do? Well, you know, I just let anybody come who wants to come But you said well, but what about the terrorists? Okay, then here's the thing How about you just let them in and check them in as they're coming in and make sure they're not terrorists but just let them in because the Bible says where there's more people there's more power and In this whole and like I'll very lost some of you whatever Next year is an election year and you are not gonna like what I have to say There is a serious right at election year there's a sermon coming called God's not a Republican and there's another sermon coming called the devil is a Democrat and We'll see how that goes But look you and I need to let the Bible tell us And look, I don't think we should be letting a bunch of terrorists and I don't think we should do that But you know, what are they doing now? I mean, have you ever thought about what they're doing now? They're letting them in But they're making them cross barbed wire and pass all these what's the point of that Why are you making these people you're letting them in but you're just making them kill themselves in the process Why don't just let them in and just check them out and you don't if they're bad if they've done bad things and don't let Them in and if they're good and they're here to work and they're and they're just trying to feed their family Then you know what? There should be one law for everyone That's what the Bible says and if you don't like it, then you don't like the Bible Maybe you need to turn off Sean Hannity and start reading the King James Bible And I know someone's gonna say oh, he's just a Venezuelan communist, whatever Read the Bible That's what the Bible says go to Hebrews chapter 13 Hebrews chapter 13 if you you know, cuz whenever I preach a sermon called God's not an American who's like, oh, he's a Venezuelan communist Hebrews 13 If you start at the Book of Revelation go backwards you have the book of Jude third second and first John second first Peter James and Hebrews You know, you'd solve a lot of problems if you just instead of making them cross through a bunch of barbed wire and rivers and having children die and you're just gonna is the Nation is so weird cuz like we'll let you in as long as you survive this like treacherous torturous Ordeal as soon as you pry, you know cross the the the barbed wire and if your children don't die Then we'll be right there to help you. How does that make any sense? I Mean have you really thought about that? Why don't you just let them in and just as they're coming in? Give them a license give them some ability to work and if they're bad send them back Instead of pretending like we want to send them all back while we're letting them all in and buzzes a bunch of garbage Hebrews 13 look at verse 1 Let brotherly love continue. Okay, so that you didn't like the political application. Let me give you a spiritual application. All right You can turn on Fox News when you get home Donald Trump can still be your hero Hebrews 13 1 let brotherly love continue. Now. I want you to notice in the Old Testament God had this law and it's consistent throughout the Bible How to treat a stranger and his main thing is this don't have one law For people that are born in the land and another law for a stranger that sojourneth among you have the same law What is he saying? He's saying treat them the same treat them equally. They're human beings. They're made in the image of God He said treat them all the same then in the New Testament. We have the same Concept with a different application because in the New Testament, we don't have a nation and a congregation That is a nation. We have a congregation that is a church So notice what he says in Hebrews 13, let brotherly love continue Now that's the context the context is this that we should allow for brotherly love that there should be brotherly love Amongst Christians, let me tell you something there ought to be brotherly love amongst Christians no matter what nation they're from No matter what country they're from if they're God's children, I like him In fact, I like God's children from other countries more than I like heathen Americans from this country Let brotherly love continue and then he says this that's not going over very well. So Let me get off of that be not forgetful to entertain strangers see word strangers there and Here's what God is saying it's the same concept in the Old Testament as the New Testament and the Old Testament says treat everyone the same in The New Testament the application is the same if there's a stranger let brotherly love continue and be not Forgetful to entertain strangers. What is he saying? He's saying in your life and in my life as Christians We should treat everyone the same We should not have this concept Where it's like, oh I treat my friends really well, but this person that I don't know this stranger That's not part of my clique this foreigner or this outsider or this new person I'm gonna treat them badly The Bible says that God is against that and in fact God is so against it that he will even test you Look at it Hebrews 13 1 let brotherly love continue be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unawares You know, the Bible says that God will send angels into your life That'll looks like strangers Just to see how you treat them Now like I am not telling you that you should feed homeless people. In fact, I'm telling you should not feed homeless people Because you should not enable people That are not working. The Bible says if a man doesn't work He shouldn't eat and a lot of homeless people are in that place because of addictions and you shouldn't enable them But I also don't think you should mistreat them Because what if God just sends an angel that looks like they might be homeless just to see how you treat them just to see what you say about them and Then you just fail that test and then God's like, okay That's how you want to treat people Then that's how I'll treat you because you know what the Bible says God says that God the Bible says that God will treat us the way we treat others You want to forget you want forgiveness from God? You need to forgive others you want mercy from God You need to be merciful towards others. And if we treat people differently Because they're an outsider or we don't know them that great that's wrong and you're you're not right with God so the idea is this we need to treat people the same and Look, this is mainly very important I mean, it's important all the time, but especially with young people because young people and oftentimes in the teenage years People will be insecure and they'll be in their little groups and their little clicks and then some new kid will come around or some Kid that's not part of their group or whatever and then they mistreat them. That's wrong And look you kids need to learn that you need to just treat people with respect and kindly and not treat people Badly not be a bully against other children because what you will reap what you sow And look in life all of us need to remember and always have some empathy and you should always put yourself in Somebody else's shoes next year when we get into that new building. I'm gonna preach a whole sermon series on emotional intelligence I was actually supposed to preach it this this fall We're supposed to be in it right now, but I decided to cancel it because we have so much going on I'm just gonna save it for next year But in part of emotional intelligence is having empathy which means just putting yourself in the position of someone else And look if you just learn to ask yourself, what if that were me? What if I was the outsider? What if I was the new person? What if I was the person that was kind of not on the inside and there was just this group of people and they're being mean to me how would I feel and Look if you just think that way it should soften your heart to be like well I wouldn't like that. So maybe I shouldn't treat other people like that. And if you can't empathize you might be a psychopath Because that's literally the characteristic of a psychopath. It's just no empathy So we should treat people With respect and look we should not be respected or persons. We should treat everybody the same stranger or not When it comes to a nation He says treat them all the same have the same laws for everybody and when it comes to personal relationships Treat everybody the same and look, please understand something. Not everyone has to be your best friend that Verity Baptist Church Not everyone has to be your friend. Some people don't clash and they don't do well together. That's okay I'm not friends with everybody in this church. All right, I mean, you know that But but I mean I'm joking of course But you know what I'm saying is people get this idea like oh look you don't have to be friends with everybody But you need to be nice to everybody You have to not be you need to not be mean to people and look if there's any place in the world That people should feel welcomed and accepted and loved and at least respected. It should be Church Again, I'm not talking about some wicked reprobate Okay, because I preach these things be like water for transvestite what look if we're not gonna let a transvestite walk in here Okay, I'm not talking about some wicked hater of God I'm talking about a normal person. They walk in maybe they look a little different than you Maybe they have a different culture than you do. Maybe they have a different background than you do They might be a stranger to you. Hey treat them well and treat them the same way you treat anyone else have one law for everybody that's what the Bible says and God cares about this so much that he does Q&A not Q&A Yeah, quality assurance. He sends angels unawares I mean look if God sends an angel down my path. I want to treat them. Well, I Want that angel to go back and say yeah, he was nice bless that guy Help him out. You know, I don't want to I don't want angels going back to heaven saying he's a bully Beat him up God So we have laws on strangers now keep your place there in Hebrews because we're gonna leave it and we're gonna come back to it And go back to numbers 15, so the first section is a section on Sacrifices the second section is a section on strangers And I'll have to I'll have to work on that before the elections begin Try to try to win you over He was are you are you a Republican or are you Democrat I'm a Christian I'm a Bible believing Christian because you're say who do you how do you vote Jesus? Make make Jesus president that'll solve every problem The third section is a section on sin we have the laws of sin This is covered in verses 22 through 31 the laws of sin and We have this section divided into two sections There's the sin of ignorance and then there's the sin of arrogance The first section is a section on the sin of ignorance and even this section is divided into a couple of subcategories the first subcategory is Congregational Lee now notice there are numbers 15 look at verse 22, and if you have heard and Not observed all these commandments because remember he's giving us all these commandments And he's saying if you heard you errored you made a mistake And you did not observe these commandments which the Lord has spoken unto Moses even all that the Lord has commanded You by the hand of Moses from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and hence forward among your generations verse 24 Then it shall be if ought be committed notice by ignorance without knowledge of the congregation so in this context we're talking about a congregational sin Where sin is being performed in the congregation but it's by ignorance and what we're learning about is the sin of ignorance and The book of Leviticus talks a lot about this. I preached the whole sermon about it when we were in Leviticus I'm not going to take the time to have you run to those verses But let me just explain that the sin of ignorance covers two two sections Two possibilities one possibility is where someone with the what the word Indicates thing of ignorance where they performed a sin, and they didn't know it was the same They didn't know that that was a sin Then that is what the Bible would call a sin of ignorance So you know for example in the New Testament application lots of people show up to church like this and maybe they have a tattoo But you know the Bible specifically forbids tattoos the Bible says to not print things on your body And that may be new to somebody and they're like I didn't know that I didn't know the Bible said that well That's a sin of ignorance and God understands and acknowledges that maybe you did something that was wrong But you didn't know it was wrong. That's a sin of ignorance There's also another and look if you have to have people you have tattoos like I think like everyone in this church has tattoos I think even my staff has matching tattoos. It's weird. So, you know, I'm not preaching against you. Okay, but I mean, I don't have a tattoo my wife doesn't have tattoo, but Anyway, it's a sin. Okay, so don't do it. But maybe maybe you didn't know your nose is sin. Okay, no problem It's a safe. It's a sin of ignorance Here's another application though for the sin of ignorance is when you end up sinning, but you did not set out to sin so You know something happened like in the heat of the moment. Maybe something happened and You said something you shouldn't have said you did something you shouldn't done, but you didn't set out or Premeditate to go do that. It just happened Those are the things that fall under the sin of ignorance now God doesn't excuse them, but he does give them their own category look at verse 23 even all that the Lord commanded you by the hand of Moses from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and henceforward among your generation then it shall be if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation that all the Congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering for a sweet savor unto Lord with his mean offering and his drink offering according to the Manner and one kid of the goats for the sin offering and the priest offering shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel and it shall be forgiven them for it is ignorance and they shall bring their offerings a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord and their sin offering before the Lord for their ignorance verse 26 and it shall be forgiven all the Congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger that sojourners among them seeing all the people were in Ignorance, so he's saying look and here he's talking about Congregationally if people perform a sin of ignorance if a congregation performs a sin of ignorance We're going to talk a little bit about that more in a minute but let me give you the other example the other example is a personal example look at verse 27 if Any soul because remember first we talk about the congregation now We're talking about an individual if any soul sinned through ignorance Then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering and the priest shall make an atonement for the Soul that sinneth Ignorantly when he sent by ignorance before the Lord to make an atonement for him and it shall be forgiven him He shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance both for him That is born among the children of Israel and to the stranger that sojourneth among them So notice that there's this sin of ignorance and let me just say this It's interesting because God still holds you accountable even for a sin of ignorance Even though they did something that they didn't know was wrong or they did something they did not set out to do They still have to bring a sacrifice and ask forgiveness and look what the Bible teaches Is this that unto whom much is given much shall be required and though there are always Consequences for sinning when you do sin out of ignorance God has more leniency towards you and he allows them to bring a sacrifice He allows them to be forgiven if they said look I didn't know or if they say I didn't intend to I Ended up doing that but I did not set out to do that. I didn't premeditate to do that I just in the sin of the moment I gave into my flesh and that's what happened That is a sin of ignorance. Now. It can be happen both congregationally and it can happen personally. We saw that Let me give you an example of this Congregational Lee that happens to the children of Israel 40 plus years later you're there at numbers 15 go to Joshua chapter 7 Joshua chapter 7 you have numbers Deuteronomy and then the book of Joshua Joshua chapter 7 Remember when the children of Israel enter the promised land under the leadership of Joshua They conquer the city of Jericho and They have this great victory But then they have a massive defeat at the next city the city of Ai And I don't have time to go through the whole story You can study it out on your own if you'd like I preach sermons on it But I will say this that the city of Ai was a small city and the children of Israel decided not To send all of the army and all of the men to battle They just send a few because they thought they could easily overtake it. That was the first mistake the second mistake is that unbeknownst to them there was sin in the camp and Again, this goes back to what we were talking about the first fruits when they entered the promised land God told them that they were once they conquered lands that they could take of All of the merchandise and all the things that were in the land for themselves as a bounty or as a reward for Conquering these different cities so as they conquered the cities they could take the houses they could take the horses They could take the food they could take the money and it was as a reward for them for conquering that land But they were not to take anything from the first city from Jericho You say why is that because we honor the Lord with the substance and with the first fruits of all our increase so the first Was dedicated to God they were not to take anything from Jericho that all belonged to God and then anything going forward They could have for themselves again picturing the fact that we pay God first we give him the first fruits We give him the first 10% There was a man by the name of Achan who stole from Jericho because Joshua told him don't take anything from Jericho But there's a man by the name of Achan who stole from Jericho and I want you to notice how God says it look at Joshua 7 and verse 11 Because they have this defeat in Ai as a result of that Joshua's on his knees praying and Then God speaks to Joshua Joshua 7 and verse 11 and here's what he says This is God speaking to Joshua Israel Now Israel is the name of a man Jacob Who's renamed Israel who had 12 sons which had the 12 sons of? Jacob or 12 sons of Israel that became the 12 tribes of Israel Israel is a name of the entire nation the congregation the people of Israel God says Israel have sinned and I look at that and I think well did Israel sin or did Achan sin, but I want you to notice how God sees it God does not see it as Achan sin God sees it as Israel sin look at it verse 11 Israel has sinned and He is that what it says? No, it's plural and they the entire congregation have also transgressed my covenant Which I commanded them notice plural for they plural have taken of the accursed thing And I've also stolen and dissembled also and they have put it even among their notice these words own Their own stuff plural as far as God is concerned the whole congregation did it now look at verse 24 Joshua figures out who the person was verse 24 Joshua 7 24 and Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan That's one person the son of Zerah and the silver and the garment and the wedge of gold and his sons and his daughters and his oxen all the things that he stole plus his family and his houses and his sheep and his tent and all that he had and they brought them unto the valley of a core verse 25 and Joshua said why has thou troubled us? The Lord shall trouble you this day and all Israel stone him with stones and burn him with fire After they have stone them with stones now. Here's what's interesting one man takes of the accursed thing Brings it into the camp hides it under his tent Steals from God one man and God says they did it The congregation Israel they them they there he says it's them because sometimes An entire congregation now it was a sin of ignorance for the rest of the people they didn't know it happened But there was sin in the camp and look here's the application for you. Is that your sin affects others? And oftentimes one person's sin can bring judgment upon an entire congregation And look I'm thankful for the great things that are happening at Verity Baptist Church right now And we we are having a lot of momentum and things good things are happening. We have 260 in church this morning We have 207 people here tonight We're making Sunday night great again All right for those of you because I already attacked your Fox News stuff and but but look but one person sin one person could bring sin into the camp and Just stop all of that So, you know, you need to realize that your sin could affect others and you're still accountable even if it's done through ignorance because the children of Israel still lost the battle of AI because of a kin God had to Deal with a kin and Joshua had to deal with a kin Because you cannot allow sin in the camp and the same is true and within within a church You know a little 11 11 at the whole lump and and Joshua can't allow sin in the camp and we have to deal with it and we have to remove it because Your sin could bring the whole congregation down. So we see that there's a sin of ignorance We're not gonna get through the whole chapter. All right. Well, let me just finish this Sin of ignorance and sin of arrogance and then we'll be done Look at go back to Numbers 15 look at verse 30 So we saw the sin of ignorance right The sin of ignorance is I didn't know or I did not intend to I didn't know it was a sin Or I didn't set out to do it. It's just in the heat of the moment. I gave into the flesh I said something I should have said I did something I should have done whatever but I didn't it wasn't premeditated That's the sin of ignorance. Now. What's the lesson for that the lesson? There's two things God still holds you accountable for sin There's still consequences for sin But unto whom much is given much shall be required and to who less is given God Understands if you just didn't know and he's gonna be more lenient with you and he's going to give you more grace and give you More help that's the sin of ignorance. But then there's the sin of arrogance. Look at verse 30 but the soul that doeth ought presumptuously Presumptuous That word means showing little respect for others by doing things. You have no right to do or overstepping abound So this is not a sin of ignorance. This is a sin of arrogance This is someone who's presumptuously look at verse 30, but the soul that doeth ought presumptuously Whether he be born in the land or a stranger because remember it's one law for everyone the same reproacheth the Lord The idea is this when you and I decide I know what the Bible says and I don't care I'm gonna set out to do it. I'm gonna pre meditate it. I'm gonna do it presumptuously I'm just gonna go get that tattoo or whatever You know, I'm gonna go do this or go do that even though you know better God says that you are reproaching the Lord and That soul shall be cut off from among his people verse 31 because he hath despised The word of the Lord and hath broken his commandment that the soul shall utterly be cut off His iniquity shall be upon him. Let me give you one verse and we'll finish up go to Hebrews chapter 10 Go back to Hebrews if you want Hebrews chapter 10 I'll cover the rest of this next week verses 32 through the end of the chapter It's interesting because in verse 32 we actually get back into a narrative about a guy that gets killed for not keeping the Sabbath day So we'll cover that next time Let's talk about the sin of ignorance the sin of arrogance Excuse me, and I know we're looking a lot of Hebrews But I guess I'm all into Hebrews right now Hebrews 10 because remember Hebrews is talking about the Old Testament and in Hebrews 10 26 Here's what the Bible says for if we sin Willfully That's the opposite of the sin of ignorance That's not I didn't know or I didn't intend to that's I knew and I didn't care I Knew and I just set out to do it. Anyway, I knew and I just premeditated I planned it I decided this is what I'm gonna do for if we sin willfully After that, we have received the knowledge of the truth Here's what he says there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins now Sometimes people go crazy with this in Hebrews But it's because they don't understand the context of the Old Testament which we just saw the context is this if you sin by ignorance If you sin you didn't know or you didn't intend to then there were Sacrifices that were available for you to bring to the Lord You could bring the sacrifices of the sin of ignorance and say God I didn't know or God I didn't intend to I you know, it just I didn't plan it I didn't set out to do it and and you can give the sacrifice and God will forgive you But if we sin willfully God says there's no sacrifice You're just going to deal with the consequences and and and here's the application for New Testament Christians When you sin and you didn't set out to or you sin and you didn't know God will forgive you and he might show mercy and and not make you do the conflict But when you and I decide to sin willfully Knowing good and well what the Bible says and just doing it. Anyway God says there's no sacrifice for sin now. He'll forgive you but he's still gonna cause you to reap those consequences and he's still gonna you know, lay the smackdown on you because You reproached him So there's a difference between a sin of ignorance and a sin of arrogance And obviously we're all sinners and we're all going to sin, but we should be careful To not have this arrogant presumptuous. I know what the Bible says. I don't care anyway Hey, you're gonna be held to a higher standard according to the Word of God Because if we sin willfully after that we have received knowledge of truth There were named remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, so we should be warned about that and understand that We'll cover the rest of this chapter next week. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father Thank you Lord for your word Thank for the Bible think for these chapters in the Bible and even these these chapters regarding the laws Oftentimes people would skip these or think that there's no value in learning from them, but there's so much application there's so many things for us to learn Lord I pray you help us to Learn them and understand them and Lord help us to to take heed to the lessons. We've learned tonight that we should give God of the sacrifice to him of the blessings that he's given us and we should give to him first and That we should treat treat strangers Equally in the same as everyone else we should have one law for everybody and in our personal lives We shouldn't treat some people one way and other people another way We should treat people with kindness and love and respect and then of course help us to learn about these sins the sin of ignorance and the sin of arrogance when we have a sin of ignorance help us to Try to get it right quickly and Lord help us to be fearful and to not set out with with a closed fist Raising our fists up to heaven with a sin of arrogance because there is no sacrifice at that point Lord We love you thinking for these warnings help us to heed them in the matchless name of Christ. We pray Amen, all right, we're gonna have brother RJ come up and lead us in a final song just want to remind you Of course, we've got all sorts of clipboards in the back We've got clipboards for the harvest party if you'd like to sign up for desserts or cornbread We got clipboards for the workdays If you guys could go by there just take a look at it see where you could help and what you could do We would really appreciate Your help with that and then of course if you can look around your section and kind of clean up clean up the mess That maybe your kids might have made and put the hymn books back and it all helps the cleaners in the morning And of course if there's anything we can do for you, please let us know I hope you know that my wife and I we love you We were praying for you and we're here for you. Whatever you need if there's anything we can do for you Please let us know why brother RJ come up and lead us in a final song Now share our songbooks and turn to page number 303 3 Song number 303 We will sing My faith looks up to the song number 303, let's go ahead and sing it out on the first Wow May It's great Oh Oh Sorry guys are swimming well spin it strong on the last Oh Amen great singing can have brother Johnny. Would you dismiss us with a word of prayer? What did I You