Lamps, Levites, & Living Sacrifices

Numbers 8:1-26
Lamps, Levites, & Living Sacrifices

A Num. 6:1-21 (Nazarites: Living Sacrifices)
B Num. 6:22-27 (Blessing of God's presence: The Mercies of God)
B' Num. 8:1-4 (Blessing of God's presence: The Mercies of God)
A' Num. 8:5-26 (Levites: Living Sacrifices)

I. The Lampstand: By the Mercies of God …

o The Lampstand represented _______________________________ (Jn. 8:12)

o The Lampstand represented _______________________________ (Rev. 21:22-22:5)

II. The Levites: Present your bodies as living sacrifices, holy …

o Separated to _______________________________ (1 Cor. 6:19-20)

o Separated from ________________________________ (Rom.12:2)

III. The Limits: … acceptable to God

o Set apart by _________________________ (Gal. 6:2)

o Set apart by _________________________ (Eph. 4:12)

THE Living Sacrifice, Holy and Acceptable to the Father

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new [freshly killed] and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God …Heb. 10:19f