Find Joy
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Find Joy
Nehemiah 8:13-14/ Numbers 29:9-16
INTRODUCTION
ILL- Falling asleep on way to Wyoming.
Yellow lines do no good if you can’t see them.
Jews of Nehemiah- were missing God’s signs because they were not looking.
They bring back the religious holidays instituted under Moses.
Their purpose was to point to the Messiah.
Walk through Sunday after Passover
Women find the grave empty and talk to angels, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?"
Peter and John race to the tomb and find it as the women said.
Jesus first appearance- 2 Disciples- not of 11 Apostles- on road to Emmaus- explains the Scriptures and how they point to Jesus. Luke 24:25-27
And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Now they see that all of the Old Testament pointed to Jesus.
The religious festivals were given so they would not miss the significance of Jesus' death on the cross.
Remember- Nehemiah has called all the Jews to gather at the Water Gate for the reading of God’s Word.
-Reinstate Feast Days- A call to joy.
13 On the second day the heads of fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law.
14 And they found it written in the Law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,
12 “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days.
13 And you shall offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord, thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;
14 and their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each of the two rams,
15 and a tenth for each of the fourteen lambs;
16 also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.
Nehemiah again in chapter 8 calls them to joy.
3 Ways We Find Joy
1- Remember God
1- Remember God
These feast days were days to remember what God had done.
Feast of Tabernacles- remember the 40 years of living in tents in the wilderness and how God provided.
The Passover - Jesus will die the day before Passover.
10th Plague- Moses went to Pharoah and warned him of death of all the first born.
Moses then warned the people of Israel.
Lamb for every household. Without blemish.
Kill the lamb and apply blood on doorposts and lintel. You shall eat and what is left burn.
Death angel with pass through at midnight and everyone house without the blood applied will see the death of every firstborn.
Becomes a Yearly Feast--adds to the the Passover Offerings
2- Understand Sin
2- Understand Sin
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God offered atonement through shedding of blood.
Day of Atonement - 5 days before Feast of Tabernacles. - Most holy of days. Only day the high priest would go into the Holy of Holies to sacrifice.
2 Goats - lots were cast.
1 Goat was killed for the sins of Israel.
1 Goat was the scapegoat- sin was put on the goat and it was sent into the wilderness.
Sacrifice was violent and there was a lot of it.
Daily sacrifice
3 And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord: two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.
4 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight;
Sabbath Sacrifice
9 “On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
10 this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
Monthly Sacrifice
11 “At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;
15 Also one male goat for a sin offering to the Lord; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
Passover Sacrifice
19 but offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the Lord: two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish;
Feast of Weeks
27 but offer a burnt offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;
Feast of Trumpets
2 and you shall offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the Lord: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;
Day of Atonement
8 but you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old: see that they are without blemish.
Feast of Booths
Day One= Numbers 29:13
13 And you shall offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord, thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;
Same for 7 Days.
8th Day only 7 lambs.
3- Accept Forgiveness
3- Accept Forgiveness
Jesus came to be the final sacrifice.
John the Baptist.
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Jesus’ death was greater than O.T. atonement.
Propitiation
1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Jesus’ followers had just gone through a horrible few days.
5 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
Joy comes through being forgiven.
Nehemiah- the people mourned for their failures.
10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
CONCLUSION
After his death Jesus appeared to prove his power over death.
The first thing he taught them was for them not to miss how the O.T. pointed to him.
Don’t miss Jesus.
ILL- Carbon Monoxide Detectors at FBC Wewoka.
Don’t miss the warnings.
Hear Jesus and find Joy.
Ignore Jesus and find death.
Are you ready for your sins to be forgiven?
Jesus has already paid the price.
Apply the blood to the doorpost.
