Two Warnings (Num. 9:13-14)

11/26/2008 9:17 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                                                 Focus:  Two warnings

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Numbers 9:13-14

            Message of the verses:  “13  ‘But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet neglects to observe the Passover, that person shall then be cut off from his people, for he did not present the offering of the LORD at its appointed time. That man will bear his sin.  14  ‘If an alien sojourns among you and observes the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance, so he shall do; you shall have one statute, both for the alien and for the native of the land.’”

            After giving the new laws concerning the Passover in the previous verses and explained in yesterday’s SD, God now gives warnings to the people through Moses as if some of the people would want to stretch the rules and find it more convenient to celebrate the Passover in the second month.  They could not do this unless they fell under the circumstances given in verses 6-12, and if they did then that person would be cut off from the people.  Another warning was given and that was to any aliens and that is the Passover celebration will be the same for both the Jews and the aliens with the exception that the aliens had the sign of the covenant. 

            This would be the last celebration of Passover until it was done in the land with Joshua, for Israel would sin and then wonder around in the wilderness until all of the people twenty years and older had died and a new generation of Israelites would go in an conquer the land.  None of the males born in the wilderness were circumcised until they crossed the Jordon River, but after that they were circumcised.  This account is given in the book of Joshua chapter five, verses two through nine.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  “28  But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.  29  For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.”

There are similarities between the Passover Celebration and The Lord’s Supper and one of them is doing it in the correct way, the way that God has designed to do it.  The verses above from 1 Cor. tell me that it is very important to do a self examination in order to make sure that I have the right heart to participate in this very important celebration of the Lord’s Supper.  If a person did not qualify to celebrate the Passover and did he could die for that and Paul goes on to say that there were some in Corinth who did die because they were participating in the Lord’s Supper in an unworthy manner.

My Steps of Faith for Today: 

1. Give myself to the Lord for service and worship.
2. Recon myself dead to sin as spoken of in Romans six.
3. Continue to strive in order to learn contentment.

Memory verses for the week:                                              Romans 6:1-7

1. What shall we say then?  Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
2. May it never be!  How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
3. Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
4. Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5. For if we have become untied with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6. knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
7. for he who has died is freed from sin.

11/26/2008 10:06 AM