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Many gifts one spirit3/29/2023 Two minutes later, police call for an ambulance, but Officer Derek Chauvin continues to press his knee on Floyd’s neck for another 6 minutes. Floyd can be heard begging, “Please, please, please, I can’t breathe,” in a haunting echo of the words of Eric Garner almost 6 years ago. Floyd for nearly nine minutes while he is handcuffed and pinned face-down to the ground. Footage shows a Minneapolis PD officer kneeling on the neck of Mr. George Floyd was arrested in Minneapolis for allegedly using a counterfeit twenty dollar bill to pay at a local convenience store. Eric Garner, Ezell Ford, Michelle Cusseaux, Tanisha Anderson, Tamir Rice, Natasha McKenna, Walter Scott, Bettie Jones, Philando Castile, Botham Jean, Tatiana Jefferson, Eric Reason, Dominique Clayton, Breona Taylor, among many others. There is even a new outbreak of the disease in Hood River County.īut now the nation is also reeling in the wake of the death of yet another unarmed black person at the hands of police. There is, of course, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 100,000 people in the US, made 40 million unemployed, and kept all of us sheltering in place, unable to live life as we have known it, unable to make even the simplest of human connections. Give us the wisdom to know what that job is and the strength to perform it with grace and excellence.There’s a lot going on in the world right now. PRAY – Father God, thanks for the reminder that each one of us has a job to do in the church. Are you carrying your load and fulfilling your calling? Take this Spiritual Gift Inventory and see how God has wired you for ministry. In the New Testament, Jesus Christ has made every believer part of the royal priesthood (I Peter 2:9) so that all of us can share in the work of ministry. A leadership shortage still exists in the Church. Oh, how I’ve come to realize in these thirty-two (32) years of pastoring that the work of the Church is still too much for the pastor to handle alone. The LORD accepted the tribe of Levi as a substitute for the firstborns (Numbers 3:40-51).ĪPPLY – Too much work to handle alone! The LORD recognized that the responsibilities associated with sacrifices, worship and the Tabernacle were too much for Aaron and his sons therefore, He appointed the entire tribe of Levi to be their assistants. Since God had spared the firstborn of Israel in the tenth plague, the firstborn belonged to the LORD. The LORD gave specific instructions as to their position around the Tabernacle and their duties to the Tabernacle (Numbers 3:14-39). As a result of this leadership shortage, the LORD appointed the entire tribe of Levi to serve as assistants to the priests in performing the sacred duties and maintaining the Tabernacle (Numbers 3:5-10). READ – “Call forward the tribe of Levi and present them to Aaron the priest to serve as his assistants.” - Numbers 3:6 NLTĮXAMINE – The LORD had appointed Aaron and his sons to serve as priests to the nation of Israel (Numbers 3:3) but the sins and death of two of his sons left only Aaron and his sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, to serve as priests (Numbers 3:4). 2 Nov, 2021 Many Gifts, One Spirit! Numbers 3
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