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Numbers 15:27 - Let's go behind the numbers Day 127

Grace and peace to you this day

Have I ever mentioned that I am a bit of a math geek.  Today's devo should prove that point.

Blessings,

Jeff

Think about this for a moment. There were roughly 600,000 able bodied men at this point in Israel's journey.  If 1 in a thousand "makes a mistake" each day that would be 600 goats as sin offerings.  If the priests offered 1 goat/minute, that would be 10 hours of non stop slaughtering every day. 

If a different group of 600 "made a mistake" each day, Any individual would be "allowed" 1 mistake every 1,000 days.  That's once ever 2.7 years. 

So who thinks that Israelites thought they could keep the law perfectly?  Has it been 2.7 years since you last "made a mistake"?

In Romans, Paul hammers on the idea that the law came in to increase the trespass.  The law drives each person to the conclusion that he/she is a rotten sinner and without hope apart from a Savior who can and did keep the law perfectly.  

Instruction - If you haven't given up on self-righteousness yet, do it today.  Here is the gospel in the Old Testament.  Stop suppressing the truth that you are dead in sin and trespass.  

Thanksgiving - The plan of salvation from before the foundation of the world.  Each person in the Trinity is distinct as to role in the plan, but not in conflict with each other.  The Son was not forced by the Father to become flesh and die on the cross.  The law was never designed to save, only to show need for a Savior.

Confession - thinking that the rivers of blood from animal sacrifice is somehow to be desired over the blood of the Lamb.

Petition - Take refuge in the name of the LORD, not in the results of any election (president or senate).  Expose self-righteousness in the lost.

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