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Leviticus 8 – Obedience is Key

Apr29

Good evening y’all. Today we are in chapter 8 of Leviticus

There were few points I observed while reading the chapter. I am going to use the SOAK method for each point.

In case you are wondering what SOAK means: 

S stands for Scripture
O stands for Observation
A stands for Application
K stands for Kneel in prayer

Be blessed 🙂

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S1) V 9, 13, 17, 21 and 29

O1) Moses did everything as the Lord commanded Him. He was fully obedient to God’s instruction. He didn’t deviate one bit from what He was instructed.  Basically, he followed the instruction to the letter

A1) How obedient are we to Gods instructions? Do we only obey the bits that seem convenient for us and ignore the rest? God desires total (and not partial) obedience from us. Jesus said if you love me you will obey me. Obedience is a sign of our love for God.

K1) Dear Lord pls give us grace to do all that you have asked of us. In Jesus Name, Amen

S2) : Next Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar, and he sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. In this way, he made Aaron and his sons and their garments holy (Lev 8: 30 NLT)

Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the Altar and sprinkled Aaron and his garments, and his sons and their garments, consecrating Aaron and his garments and his sons and their garments. (Lev 8: 30 MSG)

O2) The priests were consecrated by the sprinkling of blood to make them holy and fit for use

A2) In the same way the blood of Jesus consecrates us, makes us holy and worthy to be used by God.  God cannot use a vessel that’s unholy. It has to be holy 2 Timothy 2: 21 says

“If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work”.(2 Tim 2:21 NLT)

K2) Thank you Jesus for your blood that was shed for us.  Through it we have victory over sin and can come boldly before God. We ask you consecrate and sanctify us for your use oh Lord. In Jesus Name, Amen

S3) So Aaron and his sons did everything the Lord had commanded through Moses.(Lev 8: 36 NLT)

O3) Aaron and his sons did as the Lord commanded them through Moses. They obeyed and respected the authority of God in the life of Moses. They weren’t too proud to obey the instructions. They obeyed completely as well.

A3) How obedient are we to instructions passed to us by God’s servants? Do we obey or ignore them? Do we respect the authority of God in their lives.
A word of caution though, we have to test every instruction against the word of God because there are many false prophets out there today asking people to do things that are contrary to God’s word. May God help us be able to discern right from wrong.

K3) God pls help us to be obedient to the instructions you send us through your servants.

S4) “Now stay at the entrance of the Tabernacle day and night for seven days, and do everything the Lord requires. If you fail to do this, you will die, for this is what the Lord has commanded”. (Lev 8: 35 NLT)

O4) There are dire consequences when we disobey God. Aaron and his sons were told to obey what God commanded them, failure to do so was death.

A4) Same with us, when we disobey God willingly, we are gradually killing ourselves spiritually and sometimes there are also physical consequences for our disobedience., Romans 6 tells us that the wages of sin is death.

K4) God give us grace to obey you wholly. Deliver us from presumptuous and willful sins. Pls do not let them have control over us. In Jesus Name Amen

Thanks for joining today.

Have a blessed day 🙂

***With God all things are possible***

Exodus 37 -39: If you love me….

Feb25

Good evening y’all. Happy Mid Week 🙂

We are almost at the end of the book of Exodus 🙂

We will be starting the book of Matthew on Monday… yaaay 🙂 . I’m looking forward to what God will be teaching us in this book.

Today I’m doing a summary of Exodus 37, 38 and 39.

Be blessed 🙂

In these chapters, Moses recounts to us that they built the tabernacle following, precisely, the instructions given by God. They just didn’t build the Tabernacle as they wished. It was crucial that they obeyed and created just what God instructed. God specifically told him in chapter 25 that He had to build the tabernacle according to the pattern he had been shown.

“You must build this Tabernacle and its furnishings exactly according to the pattern I will show you”.(Exodus 25:9 NLT)

In chapter 39 we see that they did everything according to how God told them. This was reiterated twice in chapter 39. Once in verse 32 and again in verse 42. Moses wanted us to know the importance of obeying God’s instruction(s) and following His direction.

“Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished. And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses; so they did”. (Exodus 39:32 NKJV)

“According to all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work. Then Moses looked over all the work, and indeed they had done it; as the Lord had commanded, just so they had done it. And Moses blessed them”. (Exodus 39:42-43 NKJV)

Same with us. It is very important that we obey God fully not just partially.God desires full obedience. I’m reminded of King Saul. God instructed him to completely destroy the Amalekites but instead he partially obeyed God and in the end the throne was taken from him and given to David.

“One day Samuel said to Saul, “It was the Lord who told me to anoint you as king of his people, Israel. Now listen to this message from the Lord! This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has declared: I have decided to settle accounts with the nation of Amalek for opposing Israel when they came from Egypt. Now go and completely destroy the entire Amalekite nation—men, women, children, babies, cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and donkeys.” (1 Samuel 15:1-3)

“Then Saul slaughtered the Amalekites from Havilah all the way to Shur, east of Egypt. He captured Agag, the Amalekite king, but completely destroyed everyone else. Saul and his men spared Agag’s life and kept the best of the sheep and goats, the cattle, the fat calves, and the lambs—everything, in fact, that appealed to them. They destroyed only what was worthless or of poor quality.(1 Samuel 15:7-9)

“But I did obey the Lord,” Saul insisted. “I carried out the mission he gave me. I brought back King Agag, but I destroyed everyone else. Then my troops brought in the best of the sheep, goats, cattle, and plunder to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.” But Samuel replied, “What is more pleasing to the Lord: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams. Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as bad as worshiping idols. So because you have rejected the command of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.” (1 Samuel 15:20-23)

Obedience is a sign of our Love for God. we can’t say we love Him and then don’t obey His commands. Jesus in John 14:15 said: “If you love me, obey my commandments”

Isaiah 1:19 says “If you are willing and obedient,You shall eat the good of the land”.

Our obedience to God is more for our benefit than for God’s. Whether we obey or not doesn’t change who God is or His standards.

I pray that disobedience will not cost us our destiny; that God will give us the grace to be willing to obey him fully at all times in Jesus Name. Amen

Thanks for joining today.

Have a blessed evening 🙂

***With God all things are possible***