Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption,

and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Hey guys, welcome back to the year in the Bible with Daily Grace podcast. My name is

Kristen, and today we're talking about numbers 25 through 27. And in today's chapters,

we pick up with some sad news. The people started worshiping the bail of pure. They were

uniting themselves with the daughters of Moab with women who worshipped false gods, and

eventually the men of Israel started worshipping them too. And this rebellion made God man.

There was a plague because of their disobedience, but the plague stopped when one of the priests

who was zealous for the Lord turned back God's wrath. And then in chapter 26, God told Moses

to take a census of this new generation. And in this chapter, we're reminded that though

the people have been in the wilderness for 40 years, God still allowed them to be fruitful

and to multiply. And then continuing on to chapter 27, Joshua was affirmed as the next

leader of the people. He was given authority before the Israelites by Moses, and he was raised

up to lead the people into the promised land. Okay, so a big picture within these chapters,

again, we see a lot of failure. Though the Lord had shown his people such amazing mercy

and kindness, he had shown his goodness and his holiness. They forgot. They started worshiping

other gods. And we're reminded that we all do this. We all sin and fall short of the glory of

God. We're not good enough to find God on our own. We need a perfect leader, one who will never

fail. We need Christ. He is our perfect priest. He is the one who is zealous for the Lord's

glory. He is our leader, the one who is given all authority on heaven and earth. Though we continually

disobey God, Jesus never disobeyed. He lived perfectly. And he died the death that we deserve.

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