Seize the Moment – Day 560

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28
Sep '21

Seize the Moment – Day 560

Posted on Sep 28, 2021 by Jerry Ingalls in Devotions, General |

28
Sep '21
 

The Cost of Redemption!

Numbers 3

 

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, September 28.

 

Do you know what it means that you are redeemed?

 

An Old Testament illustration of redemption comes with the purchasing of all the firstborns of Israel through the tribe of Levi. Every firstborn of Israel rightfully became God’s at the Passover event. Later, in Exodus 13:2, God reminded His people of His claim:
 
“Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the first offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and beast; it belongs to Me.”

 

The firstborns should have died during the tenth plague, but instead were saved by the blood of the Passover Lamb and set apart as belonging to God.

 

God made a way for them to be redeemed and that is why the Levites weren’t counted in the census. Listen to God explain the cost of redemption in Numbers 3:12-13,

 

Now, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of every firstborn, the first issue of the womb among the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall be Mine. For all the firstborn are Mine; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, from man to beast. They shall be Mine; I am the Lord.

 

There were 22,000 Levites (39), which was only 273 people shy of redeeming every firstborn male in Israel, which was 22,273 souls (41-43). What did God do about those additional 273 firstborns? He set a redemption price of five shekels per head (46-51). Redemption is never free!

 

There was a substitution for the redemption of every Israelite firstborn, just as Jesus Christ is our substitution for our redemption today. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6:20,
 
“For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.”

 

Seize the moment and glorify God with your life! It’s His anyways, surrender control!

 

God bless your day!
 
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