Números 4

Números 4

Meyer - Our Daily Homily - Numbers 4:19 Every one to his service and to his burden. Is this what the Apostle referred to when he said that every man should bear his own burden? There are burdens which we cannot share or depute, to bear which we need special grace, and must continually seek the aid of the Divine Spirit. The burden of our own existence. — Each of us must give an account of himself to God. We were created for a specific purpose; and our failure to fulfil it cannot be settled on another. God will require each man’s soul of himself. “Every one of us shall give account of himself to God” (Romans 14:12). You have a charge to keep, a soul to save, and a God to glorify. The burden of our life-work. — What makest thou in the world? The Maker of all waits for thee to enter his great workshop and become his apprentice and co-worker. To be an idler, or an absentee, will land thee in inevitable disgrace. The appointed place cannot be left vacant, and thy tools untouched, save at thy grave peril. The burden of the souls of others. — We are our brothers’ keepers, liable at any moment to be called upon to give an account of how they fare; and we cannot rid ourselves of this responsibility by annual donations or subscriptions to charitable or missionary institutions. The burden of daily intercession. — Jesus bears the burdens of his people as He intercedes for them in heaven; and there is a sense in which we are called to bear up his hands in this holy service. We must consider the work of daily prayer for his Church, for sufferers, and for the world, as part of the burden of the Lord, allotted to us because we are members of his body. Numbers 4:20 but they shall not go in to see the holy objects even for a moment, or they will die." they shall: Nu 4:15,19 Ex 19:21 Lev 10:2 1Sa 6:19 Heb 10:19,20 Rev 11:19 Numbers 4 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries EVEN SEEING BRINGS DEATH! but they shall not go in to see the holy objects even for a moment, or they will die - The Hebrew word translated "for a moment" is keballa which basically refers to swallowing. The idea apparently is as quick as it takes to swallow something is all the time one would need to look to be killed! Just one look and one would be instantly destroyed just like the seen in the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark!" If you have forgotten the scene, watch this incredible clip of what transpired when the German looked into the Ark of the Covenant! The point is that God is holy and unholy people cannot look at Him! The Septuagint renders the phrase as ‘to look suddenly on the holy things’. THOUGHT - How easy it is for us to take for granted that we one day will be allowed to see Jesus face to face with no fear of dying, all because He died in each of our places as the substitutionary Lamb of God (Jn 1:29+). O, that God might grant us grace that we might by His Spirit be enabled to meditate more on this eternal life-transforming truth about Jesus. Amen. And indeed, because of His Spirit and grace, even today we have the privilege of being allowed/enabled to fix "our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, Who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Heb 12:2+). Currid - Those who have been entrusted with the rituals of the worship of God are here directed to take great care and manifest due diligence in the performance of their duties. These truths are no different in the church from what they were in Israel. Much of the language of these early chapters of Numbers is military language, and the Levites are, in a sense, compared to soldiers who are called to do their duty, and to do it well. The same can be expected of the minister of the gospel. Burkitt says: "Every faithful minister is a spiritual soldier, warring under Jesus Christ, his captain and chief commander: must the soldier be called and do all by commission? So must the minister. Must the soldier be armed, trained up, and disciplined, and made fit for service? So must the minister. Must the soldier shun no dangers, stick at no difficulties, pass through thick and thin? Must he use allowed weapons, approved armour of his general’s directing, not of his own inventing? All this must the minister be and do." Numbers 4:21 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Numbers 4 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Matthew