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June 24, 2022
The Priestly Blessing
God wants to bless His children so much that He instructed the priests to pronounce a specific blessing of protection, grace, favor, and peace over them. He wants His children to be overtaken by blessings and to have peace that overflows into all the world.
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The Priestly Blessing (Out of Zion Episode #121)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Transcript
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Well, God loves to bless his people.
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We spent the last couple of weeks talking about how the blessings of God are to overtake
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us in life.
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He wants us to be blessed, to be fruitful, to be growing, to have a rich life.
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God wants us to be blessed so much that we see in the Old Testament how that he instructed
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the priest to actually pronounce his blessing over the people.
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There's something that we can learn from this priestly blessing.
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So welcome to this week's Shabbat Shalom Devotional when I seek to share just a little
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inspiration and share a little peace at the end of your very busy week.
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Let's read that priestly blessing.
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We find it in Numbers 6 verses 22 through 27.
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It says this, And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak
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to Aaron and his son, saying, This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel.
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Say to them, The Lord bless you and keep you.
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The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.
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The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
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So they shall put my name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.
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So here God is instructing the priestly line of Aaron to speak this blessing over the children
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of Israel.
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And in so doing, they would be placing his name on his children.
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Do you know that to this very day in synagogues, if there is a descendant of the lineage of
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Aaron there, that they still pronounce this priestly blessing over the people.
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And when they do, they raise their hands in the shape of the Hebrew letter Shin, which
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stands for the name of God.
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So they actually are projecting the name of God onto the people when they pronounce this
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blessing.
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Well, now this blessing says, May God protect you and keep you.
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It says, May he make his face to shine upon you, meaning give you his attention, to give
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you his pleasure and to be gracious to you.
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You know, we serve a gracious God.
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He always gives us more than we deserve.
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That is the gracious God that we serve.
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And the third verse says, May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
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Can you just picture that?
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The Lord's countenance upon you implies the smile of God.
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May God smile upon you and give you peace.
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Well now, why do you think God wanted the priests to bless the people with this?
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It's because God wanted to bless his people, but he needed them to understand that these
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blessings come from him, that they needed to come to him.
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And as I said last week, bow the knee in reverence to him that he could bless them.
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You know, Psalm 67 explains God's intent in this blessing, and it kind of repeats part
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of that priestly blessing.
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And then it says that it's so that the name of the Lord, remember the name would be put
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on the people, that it would be known throughout all the earth and throughout all the nations.
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So as we close today, I want to pray this prayer from Psalm 67 over you and with you.
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It says this, God be merciful to us and bless us and cause his face to shine upon us that
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your name may be known on earth and your salvation among all the nations.
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God wants to bless you so much that the blessings and the peace of God just spill out from you
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into all the world around you.
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00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,200
And so with that, I wish you Shabbat Shalom.
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,760
Well, God loves to bless his people.
2
00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:12,240
We spent the last couple of weeks talking about how the blessings of God are to overtake
3
00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:13,600
us in life.
4
00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:19,800
He wants us to be blessed, to be fruitful, to be growing, to have a rich life.
5
00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:25,720
God wants us to be blessed so much that we see in the Old Testament how that he instructed
6
00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:30,560
the priest to actually pronounce his blessing over the people.
7
00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,200
There's something that we can learn from this priestly blessing.
8
00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:39,400
So welcome to this week's Shabbat Shalom Devotional when I seek to share just a little
9
00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:46,200
inspiration and share a little peace at the end of your very busy week.
10
00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:47,800
Let's read that priestly blessing.
11
00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:52,200
We find it in Numbers 6 verses 22 through 27.
12
00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:57,040
It says this, And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak
13
00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:03,960
to Aaron and his son, saying, This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel.
14
00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:08,200
Say to them, The Lord bless you and keep you.
15
00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,540
The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.
16
00:01:12,540 --> 00:01:17,200
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
17
00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:24,200
So they shall put my name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.
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00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:30,840
So here God is instructing the priestly line of Aaron to speak this blessing over the children
19
00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:31,840
of Israel.
20
00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:36,400
And in so doing, they would be placing his name on his children.
21
00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:42,240
Do you know that to this very day in synagogues, if there is a descendant of the lineage of
22
00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:47,600
Aaron there, that they still pronounce this priestly blessing over the people.
23
00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:54,080
And when they do, they raise their hands in the shape of the Hebrew letter Shin, which
24
00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:55,860
stands for the name of God.
25
00:01:55,860 --> 00:02:02,040
So they actually are projecting the name of God onto the people when they pronounce this
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00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:03,040
blessing.
27
00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:08,560
Well, now this blessing says, May God protect you and keep you.
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00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:15,240
It says, May he make his face to shine upon you, meaning give you his attention, to give
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00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,360
you his pleasure and to be gracious to you.
30
00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,720
You know, we serve a gracious God.
31
00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,640
He always gives us more than we deserve.
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00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:26,720
That is the gracious God that we serve.
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00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:33,440
And the third verse says, May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
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00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:34,700
Can you just picture that?
35
00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:39,760
The Lord's countenance upon you implies the smile of God.
36
00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,600
May God smile upon you and give you peace.
37
00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:49,840
Well now, why do you think God wanted the priests to bless the people with this?
38
00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:55,160
It's because God wanted to bless his people, but he needed them to understand that these
39
00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,840
blessings come from him, that they needed to come to him.
40
00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:04,480
And as I said last week, bow the knee in reverence to him that he could bless them.
41
00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:11,740
You know, Psalm 67 explains God's intent in this blessing, and it kind of repeats part
42
00:03:11,740 --> 00:03:13,080
of that priestly blessing.
43
00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:17,960
And then it says that it's so that the name of the Lord, remember the name would be put
44
00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:24,060
on the people, that it would be known throughout all the earth and throughout all the nations.
45
00:03:24,060 --> 00:03:31,960
So as we close today, I want to pray this prayer from Psalm 67 over you and with you.
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00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:41,600
It says this, God be merciful to us and bless us and cause his face to shine upon us that
47
00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:48,980
your name may be known on earth and your salvation among all the nations.
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God wants to bless you so much that the blessings and the peace of God just spill out from you
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00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,000
into all the world around you.
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00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,200
And so with that, I wish you Shabbat Shalom.
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