The Bible by David Alley

The Bible by David Alley

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Leviticus 10 - The Sin of Nadab and Abihu | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church

In this video listen to Leviticus 10 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Leviticus 10 all four sons of Aaron’s make mistakes in the Levitical worship system. Firstly Nadab and Abihu have just seen in the previous chapter how approaching God produced fire on the sacrifice, and it was glorious. They now presume and approach God but not the way he asked, and instead it is them who are consumed by fire. The stakes are now much higher. God isn’t someone to be taken for granted. In the New Testament the story of Ananias and Sapphira is like this, where they presumed that they could do whatever and God would approve. Early in the spiritual life of the children of Israel, God is demonstrating the seriousness of approaching him properly. And if we are all priests before Him, it indicates we too are to approach God in all seriousness. There shouldn’t be any presumption, or assuming that whatever is good enough for God. People seem to forget that God is both loving and a righteous judge. The judgements of God are conveniently forgotten. But they will catch up with all people at some point. These points illustrate that we consider Christ seriously regardless as to whether there is instant judgment or delayed judgement. Then we see the failing of Aaron’s other two sons Eleazar and Ithamar. Their mistake wasn’t presumption, but forgetfulness as they tried to serve God, but neglected to eat the sacrifice. Here there is grace at work, rather than with Nadab and Abihu who were presumptuous. Aaron intercedes for them and mercy is extended. So we have here the intercession of a high priest (Christ) for the other priests. (us) This demonstrates that all priests make mistakes, but our approach to God should be that of a resolve to please God to the best of our abilities, which results in mercy.
T1 · E100
11 jun 2022
13:23

Leviticus 9 - The Priests Begin Their Ministry | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church

In this video listen to Leviticus 9 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Leviticus 9 God indicates his blessing of the newly instituted sacrificial system, by giving a sign. After Aaron, the newly installed High Priest offers the first sacrifices, fire from the presence of the Lord comes out and consumes it. This means that fire probably came out of the Holy of Holies. It was an indication that God was pleased and things were being done right. Fire didn’t normally come out after this. But it is also a sign of incredible change. Think back just a few hundred years to the Israelites as wandering nomads with sheep. They are now a nation, belonging to God, with a priesthood, and there has been a lot of change. But this was NOT the beginning of sacrifice. Rather that was already there at the very foundation of the world. First when Adam sinned, Christ killed a lamb to cloth them. Later Abel and Cain offered sacrifices. Right from the beginning people knew that sacrifice was needed. And of course scripture says that Christ himself was slain from the foundation of the world. But society corrupted sacrifice, so that people began to offer their children to demons. We have now come to a point where God has redeemed sacrifice, and setup an example of Himself in the world. It's a picture of Christ. And even though sacrifice is fulfilled in Christ, there is still a call for us who follow Him to offer spiritual sacrifices. Peter says (1 Peter 2:4-5) “As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
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10 jun 2022
9:42

Leviticus 8 - Ordination of Aaron and His Sons | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church

In this video listen to Leviticus 8 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Leviticus 8 we now have a type of repetition of Exodus 28-29 but with differences. There God commanded certain things concerning the High Priest and priests, and now we are seeing what God commanded actually happening. And it begins with the washing of Aaron, performed by Moses. While the passages says in English “washing”, its a sign of baptism by immersion. Aaron was the to be the high priest and he was baptised by someone before him and greater than him being Moses. In a very similar way Jesus Christ who was to become our High Priest was baptised by someone before him, namely John the Baptist. NEither of these washings was for the forgiveness of sin, but for the setting apart for High Priestly ministry. The Burton Coffman commentary lists 14 ways in which Aaron here is like Christ later. For example Aaron’s 4 sons watched the process of Aaron’s consecration. Later Christ has 4 gospels giving testimony to his life and ministry. No doubt Christ saw himself in not just this passage, but in all of them as he heard the law read in the synagogues as a child. The chapter advances to consider the anointing of the High Priest which came after the washing. This also happened to Christ after his baptism when the Holy Spirit came on Him. There is something for all believers to learn here. We are all priests in the Lord’s service under our High Priest. We should be baptised We should be set apart for service We should be anointed too and filled with the Spirit And then we should serve.
T1 · E98
9 jun 2022
14:09

Leviticus 7 -Laws for Guilt and Peace Offerings | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church

In this video listen to Leviticus 7 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Leviticus 7 the rest of the instructions are given about how to dispose of the sacrifices after they are completed. A very clear instruction is found in verse 26 that blood is not be consumed at all. We find that even though the law has not carried over in most instances into the economy of grace, that this instruction about blood did. Gentile believers in the New Testament were told to abstain from sexual immorality and from blood. This is outlined in Acts 15. There is something about sexual immorality with pollutes the body and soul, and something about blood which is so special that it must be treated with respect. This chapter then wraps up the five offerings, all of which represent the person and work of Christ. They teach us about him, and about his purpose in coming. But the sacrifices also demonstrate that we are to continue to be holy and offer spiritual sacrifices too. This is what Romans 12:1-2 says “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Our response to God since Christ came then is that we still offer confession, repentance, but we accompany that with obedience, prayer, and with other sacrifices like out tithes, offerings and service to God. These are things done not out of obligation but out of love. The book of Leviticus emphasizes holiness and these are the kind of things we do as believers of Christ.
T1 · E97
8 jun 2022
13:59

Leviticus 6 - Laws for Burnt Offerings | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church

In this video listen to Leviticus 6 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Leviticus 6 we continue to think about guilt offerings which had to be accompanied with restitution, or if they weren’t the offering couldn’t be accepted. In the New Testament period some have the idea of cheap grace. They believe someone can sin and live however they want, and Christ will forgive. This is clearly WRONG. While Christ is our sin and guilt offering, repentance is always required. In John 8 there is the story of the adulterous woman. Jesus was gracious and forgave but also gave the command to “go and sin no more.” She was required to repent, that is to change. But what if the woman was not humble and had said, “thank you for forgiving me, but I have every intention of sinning again.” Then there would be no forgiveness. Hebrews 10:26 says “if we deliberately keep sinning, no sacrifice for sin remains.” The chapter then goes on to discuss the disposal of the remains of sacrifices, and says that the fire must remain always on the altar. This reminds us of prayer, or at least the Moravian brethren in the 1700’s took it that way. They started a prayer meeting that ran non-stop for 117 years saying ‘we must not let the fire on the altar go out.” That prayer meeting had a profound historical effect on the evangelical and missionary movements that followed them. Repentance must accompany confession, and our prayers are to be ongoing before the Lord. This is part of a holy life, which the book of Leviticus is teaching us.
T1 · E96
7 jun 2022
15:08

eviticus 5 - Laws for Guilt Offerings | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church

In this video listen to Leviticus 5 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Leviticus 5 there is more on the sin offering up until verse 13, and from verse 14 onwards is discussion of the guilt offering. What is the difference between these two? Isaiah 53 can demonstrate as it talks about Christ Surely he took up our pain, and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. That passage says that the punishment was on Him. That is the blame and the guilt. But the iniquity is on him too, that is the sin. One is the act itself and the other is the restitution for that act. The payment for both is in Christ. The priests standing in the tabernacle or temple each day would have felt the weight and expense of sin. The amount of blood and animals being offered would have demonstrated how high human guilt was. This all speaks to the greatness of what God did on our behalf in sending Christ. What then is our response to such a great sacrifice. We come with confession, repentance, and then out of our gratitude, we offer our lives fully in return, quick to obey and quick to respond to God in all ways.
T1 · E95
6 jun 2022
11:33

Leviticus 4 - Laws for Sin Offerings | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church

In this video listen to Leviticus 4 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Leviticus 4 we encounter a sacrifice for unintentional sin. And interestingly there is NO sacrifice in the Law for intentional sin. When someone sinned deliberately, such as King David with Bathsheba, there was no outline for what to do. David had to cast himself on the mercy of God with repentance, and we see his prayer outlines in Psalm 51. We also encounter the idea of collective sin, that of an entire community or nation. This something we rarely think about today, but it's true that entire nations such as Australia, undoubtedly have collective sin and guilt. The answer for this is not sacrifices like in Leviticus, but in Christ where these sacrifices point to. The truth is that there is no group that is completely blameless, and while some groups do blame others, they are never guiltless themselves. This chapter also begs the question, why are there so many different types of sacrifices. A sacrifice for sin, for guilt, for peace, a burnt offering and an incense offering. David Alley will explain why each represents Christ and why there is a need for the variety.
T1 · E94
5 jun 2022
16:38

Leviticus 3 - Laws for Peace Offerings | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church

In this video listen to Leviticus 3 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Leviticus 3 we have my personal favourite sacrifice - the peace offering. Peace is everything in the Old Testament. The word shalom represents health, wealth, success, prosperity, favour, family, friendships, long life, wisdom and much more. Peace is the name of our church - a name we were given by the Lord. Scripture tells us in E’phesians 2:14 that Christ is our peace. And in Romans 5:1 it says "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." The peace offering is an animal sacrifice that feeds the worshipper just as the previous meal offering did. So these two offered together to God represent joy and peace, and they feed the one making an offering. It’s an amazing picture of how in Christ we are fully fed with meat and bread. Christ offered himself not just for sin, but to be our joy and peace.
T1 · E93
4 jun 2022
10:26

Leviticus 2 - Laws for Grain Offerings | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church

In this video listen to Leviticus 2 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Leviticus 2 we have the second of the 5 offerings in Leviticus 1-7, the meal offering. This was an offering of fine flour, which talks of the fine character of Christ. We know and love many great people like John Wesley, or Abraham Lincoln, but each of these have their own character flaws. Christ however is someone with no leaven, and of fine flour, he has no character flaws. This offering was made often along with the previous one, out of gratitude to God. The scriptures tell us “for the joy set before Him, he incurred the cross.” This was also an offering to be eaten by the priests and the one bringing the sacrifice. So Christ is offered for us, and we are to eat Him. But how do you consume the Lord? We do so by simply believing in Him and being hungry for him. Christ tells us in Matt 5:6 that “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” Do you hunger and thirst for Christ? If not, that’s why you are not satisfied.
T1 · E92
3 jun 2022
10:01

Leviticus 1 - Laws for Burnt Offerings | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church

In this video listen to Leviticus 1 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Leviticus 1 we have a book that many people think is boring, and they skip it when doing their Bible reading. But rather than boring, its one of the most fascinating books. Firstly, the book is written in the first person with God doing nearly all the speaking. There are not many Bible passages like this. It is a red letter book. Also all the offerings and sacrifices have Christ hidden in them, its all about Jesus. And it's also the middle of the entire Torah. It is the central part of the Law, and there is a chiastic structure, which essentially means this book has been put right in the middle to highlight its importance. Chapter one starts with the first sacrifice, the burnt offering. Like all the sacrifices to come, it shows us an element of Christ. A perfect blemish free sacrifice was needed, which was Christ for us. In chapter 1 we also see that there were various level of sacrifice that could be made depending on one’s financial position. The most wealthy could offer a bull, and others a sheep or goat, and the poor could offer birds, such as doves or pigeons. In theory pigeons could be caught, so as to provide the very poorest a sacrifice of time only. Later in Luke 2 we see that Jesus’ parents offered a sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves indicating that Christ was born into a family with few resources. The God of all sent his son into a humble home. Learn all of this and more in this video.
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2 jun 2022
15:14
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