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Candle Light Service - Welcome, CFC offering today.
Even if you have not yet decided what you are giving…put an envelope in to represent you if you are planning to give something.
Champions Week January 12th - Pastor Jeremy Mills, Vision Sunday January 19th.
God’s Unspeakable Gift
Bible is divided into two sections, Old Testament and New Testament.
The first 2/3 of the Bible is the story of God’s dealings with an earthly nation: Israel.
He wanted them to be His chosen people, but when He came to earth as their Messiah they rejected Him.
That is when God turned His attention to the Gentiles.
Throughout the OT period, God was trying to teach mankind something - that no matter how hard we try, as humans we cannot measure up to God’s standard of perfection.
Even the most religious among us fall severely short of the mark.
The whole OT system was designed to make mankind feel their inadequacy.
When the poorest person in the kingdom appeared before a king, they were required to bring a gift to add to the kings treasury.
Gift giving played an important part in the social life of the east that the Hebrew language contains no less than fifteen different expressions for this one idea.
This is why we have scriptures like these.
This wasn’t just the way it was in politics - the poorest person in the kingdom was also required to bring a gift (a sacrifice) when they appeared before the presence of God at His tabernacle.
Leviticus 5
(1) If a person sins...
(6) he shall bring… for his sin… a lamb
(7) If he is not able to bring a lamb… then two turtledoves or two young pigeons.
(11) But if he is not able to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons… then he who sinned shall bring… one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering.
(13) So the priest shall make atonement for him… and it shall be forgiven him.
Crucial principle to grasp: Some gifts were given voluntarily in the same way we give a present today.
Other gifts were required at the penalty of your life!
(Tribute money, gift to kings, sacrifice to God) It was a high insult and indignity to refuse a present - and it could be fatal!
I get this question sometimes when teaching people a Bible study: “If the Bible calls the Holy Spirit a ‘gift’, then what’s the big deal if I choose not to receive it?”
This question misses the point entirely.
Some gifts you can choose to participate in receiving.
But if you need a kidney transplant and someone offers you the gift of life…You have to participate in that kind of gift or it will be fatal.
In the NT, the sense of the word “gift” is basically still the same as the OT.
It’s a “sacrifice” that we choose to reject at our eternal peril, not an option.
The difference between the OT and NT, and this is surprising, is that the gift now comes from the opposite direction - The King of Kings gives gifts to the poorest among us!
It wasn’t that God didn’t give anything back in the OT, He loaded his people with benefits.
It’s just the focus was on the fact that you had to bring a gift (sacrifice) - then and only then would God receive you.
God was teaching something - No matter how much you bring, it’s never enough!
Look at the NT.
Who ascended from the grave?
Jesus!
Who opened the graves of others?
Jesus!
Who walked on the water?
Jesus!
Who healed the blind, the deaf, and the lame?
Jesus!
The GOD in the OT who received gifts from people is Jesus Christ in the NT who gives gifts to people!
The church world talks about giving your life to Jesus, and that is good…but it’s not complete!
In the NT, God is the giver…He has a gift for you.
You don’t have to be a Christian under your own power or through your own efforts, because God wants to give you His gift.
His Spirit!
Jesus promises it
Peter explained how to receive it
Gentiles received it
You need to receive it
Only three times in the Bible do the apostles use the word “unspeakable” (unutterable, untellable, unbelievable, indescribable, incredible.)
When Paul had a vision of Heaven...
When Peter anticipated seeing Jesus in Heaven...
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