Aaron and His Sons' Portion

Hey, hey, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. It's so good to be with you this morning. This is where every day you and I, we get together, have a little bit of coffee, get into God's word, and we grow in our love for the Lord together. And this year, 2023, we'll make it from Genesis through Leviticus, Lord willing. Why don't we have some coffee, we'll pray, and we'll wrap up Leviticus chapter seven.
Let's pray. Father, you are gracious and loving, abounding in kindness, and you are the one who gives us your Holy Spirit. So, Father, we pray that you would teach us, guide us, and lead us into all truth today. Help us, Father, we pray, as we get into your word. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, let's go ahead and open up our Bibles. We are wrapping up Leviticus chapter 7, Leviticus 7, verses 28 and following.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying, He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offering to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offering. His own hands shall bring the offerings made by fire to the Lord, the fat with the breast he shall bring, and the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord. And the priest, And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breasts shall be Aaron's and his son's. Also the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a heave offering from the sacrifices of your peace offerings. He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offering and the fat shall have the right thigh for his part. For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering I have taken from the children of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the children of Israel by a statute forever. This I have consecrated, this is the consecrated portion for Aaron and his sons from the offerings made by fire to the Lord on the day when Moses presented them to minister to the Lord as priests.
The Lord commanded this to be given to them by the children of Israel on the day he anointed them by a statute forever throughout their generations This is a law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecrations, and the sacrifice of the peace offering, which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day when he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai."
Well, we need to ask ourselves, A, what's this about? B, what's the best verse to summarize this? And C, what are we called to do in response to this? So what's this passage about? Well, really it's a summary Of what's come before it right all the different Offerings are kind of wrapped up together here. This is the end of these prescriptive sections of the Offerings and now what we're finding out is the Lord is saying Aaron gets the thigh and the breast That's his portion forever Why because he's the one who made him priest it was his choice. That's what they're gonna get But they gotta do it in a way that is pleasing to Him, because He's commanded it. He commanded it to Moses, He gave it to Him, and it's to be passed down generation to generation to generation.
Now, what's the best verse to summarize this? Well, in my Bible I have verse 29 underlined. I also have verse 38 underlined. Let me know down in the comments. What would you? What would you underline as the best verse to summarize this whole Last Seek calling? What are we called to do?
We don't have a sacrificial system anymore. For that sake, we don't have an earthly high priest anymore. There's no son of Aaron who's perpetually offering sacrifices. There's no son of Phineas who does this. There's no one doing this anymore. Why do we even read these things? Because they were all meant to point us to Jesus Christ. See, we have a high priest who is not of the order of Aaron, but of the order of Melchizedek, who has a priesthood forever. When it says here that Aaron and his sons were, this was appointed by a statute throughout their generations, it was as long as their generations were going on. But a greater high priest would come. His name is Jesus Christ. Who is our peace offering? Who is our guilt offering? Who is our sin offering? Who is our only hope?
All of this was meant to point to the fact that while this is a great ritual, it's great ceremony, it has great severity and shows the holiness of God and the grace of his redemption, all these amazing pictures, they're realized in the person and work of Jesus.
And so trust in him, for he cares for you. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for the hope that we have in Jesus Christ. Lord, we pray that you would please Let us trust you, for you so loved the world that you did not even spare your own son, but you took the unblemished land and offered him up as a full offering for our sins. We're thankful. We're thankful to you for giving us a risen high priest who lives forever. And it's in Jesus' name, our high priest's name. Amen. Well, may you have faith in that high priest. May you take comfort in his priesthood. And may you know that he follows you with his love all your life. I'll see you next time. Bye.
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