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Today is Saturday February 13, 2010 and we are reading through the Bible in a year. Today's message comes from the reading of the Book of Numbers, chapters 3-4. If you would like to read the chapters along with us here online you can Click Here to read them or copy & paste this URL onto your browser: http://www.readytofollow.com/bible-february-13

Title: Bible Study: God's Job Opening
God appointed the Levites, in particular, to be His special servants. They were to separate themselves from all the rest of the tribes. “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine; Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.” - Numbers 3:11-13. A matrix is something that develops from an original state, an example would be a master or leader that sets the example for others to follow. In other words, God, who was master of all, chose the Levites to be the godly leaders that would set the example for the rest of the tribes. God knew that once the Israelite's entered into the promised land that they would fall easily into the idol worshiping and other worldly things that was going on there. So, He needed one tribe to set themselves apart from the rest of them so that at least some of His people would live a godly life. If the Levites had dwelled among the rest of the tribes they too would become as one of them, therefore, they were to separate themselves from the rest of the tribes. The same goes for us as Christian's as well, there are many people who will call on Jesus as their Savior just to get in the gate. Praise God that they will get through the gate, but they will really never do much for God here on earth. So, God has chosen a select few to be an example for the others to follow. Any person who calls on Jesus as their Savior and chooses to live their lives for Him literally is born into the tribe of Levites and is to be separated from all the rest of His children.

God not only chose the Levites as His special people He also employed them into the ministry of God, they were in charge of the Tabernacle and everything in it, each person had a specific job to do to lighten the load for Aaron and his sons which at the time were the only three working there. They were divided according to the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and these were subdivided into families. Each group was given a particular job to do according to the sons they came from. “Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded. And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.” - Numbers 3:15-17. The first-born, were offered to God, not as a sacrifice, but to be trained to serve Him in the ministry. He would be taught from almost birth God's Word, what he was to do for Him and what position he held in the Tabernacle. Today, when we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior we are reborn, so, we become baby Christian's. We are then babies being trained to serve God in the ministry and as we grow we obtain the positions that God prepares us for. “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.” - II Peter 2:2-5. God has appointed each and every one of His elect into the holy priesthood, meaning that we are called to minister to others and be a part of the church.

Since we are God's elect, born into the tribe of Levites and are called into the ministry of God that means we are to act like we are God's elect. In my Sunday School class I said to my girls, You know when we accept Jesus in our hearts and become a child of God that means that Jesus comes into our hearts and lives inside us. So, if we do bad things, we are making Jesus do bad things too. Of course Jesus can not do bad things, but when we continue to do bad things we are hurting Him and making Him sad. The same thing should apply to adults,

since Jesus lives inside us we have to pay serious attention to the things we do. Think about it. The Apostle Paul said, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”- I Corinthians 6:9-11. At one time, no matter how good we tried to be, we could not enter the kingdom of God, but by God's grace and the shed blood of Christ we can all rejoice in the fact that we are washed clean of all our sins and can now enter the kingdom of God. Praise God! One thing I would like to make clear here is that although we are called into God's ministry and He blesses us for the work we do, it is not the work we do that gets us to heaven. “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.” - Galatians 2:16. It is only by accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior that gets us to heaven, He is the gift that God gave us by His grace, our salvation can not be earned, it is freely given to all who call on Jesus to save them. Praise God!

Enjoy the rest of your day/night and God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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