Summary: To prove that GOD uses the weak and insignificant person of this world to overcome the world. 1 Corinthians 1:28 (Amplified Bible) And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with con

I. EXORDIUM:

Do you have blemishes?

Yes. I glory and proud of all my blemishes. 2 Corinthians 12:9

2 Corinthians 12:9 (Amplified Bible)

But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me!

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To prove that GOD uses the weak and insignificant person of this world to overcome the world.

1 Corinthians 1:28 (Amplified Bible)

And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are,

IV. TEXT:

Leviticus 21:18 (Amplified Bible)

For no man who has a blemish shall approach [God’s altar to serve as priest], a man blind or lame, or he who has a disfigured face or a limb too long,

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are My Grace, Strength and Power in my life, I therefore glory in my weaknesses and infirmities so that the Power and Strength of the LORD JESUS may rest on my body.

2 Corinthians 12:9 (Amplified Bible)

But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me!

VI. TITLE:

Four blemishes that are not accepted at the altar

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Moses

B. Keywords: Access and Holiness

C. Name: derived from tribe of Levi

D. Central Person: high priest

E. Subject Matter: Digest of Divine Laws

F. Central Theme: Holy (mentioned 80 times (NIV)

G. Companion Book: Hebrews

H. Date of Writing: 1490 B.C.

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Leviticus 21:18 (King James Version)

For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

A. Blemished man can't approach GOD

"For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach:"

The LORD JESUS CHRIST looks on His Church, His Bride as spotless.

Song of Songs 5:2 (Amplified Bible)

I went to sleep, but my heart stayed awake. [I dreamed that I heard] the voice of my beloved as he knocked [at the door of my mother’s cottage]. Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my spotless one [he said], for I am wet with the [heavy] night dew; my hair is covered with it.

Job 11:13-16 (Amplified Bible)

If you set your heart aright and stretch out your hands to [God],

If you put sin out of your hand and far away from you and let not evil dwell in your tents;

Then can you lift up your face to Him without stain [of sin, and unashamed]; yes, you shall be steadfast and secure; you shall not fear.

For you shall forget your misery; you shall remember it as waters that pass away.

The LORD JESUS will do marvelous things for you. But you have to do these things first: (Job 11:13-16)

1. Set your heart aright

2. Stretch your hands to GOD - reach out to GOD

3. Put sin out of your hand far away from you

4. Let not evil dwell in your tents (bodies) - use your bodies as living sacrifice

Romans 12:1 (Amplified Bible)

I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.

Galatians 2:20 (Amplified Bible)

I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

5. Then GOD will approach you, accept you.

B. Four blemishes: blindness, lameness, flat nose, or superfluous

"a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,"

1. Spiritual blindness - you can't understand spiritual things - that is GOD. Worship GOD in Spirit and Truth

Isaiah 6:9-10 (Amplified Bible)

And He said, Go and tell this people, Hear and hear continually, but understand not; and see and see continually, but do not apprehend with your mind.

Make the heart of this people fat; and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn again and be healed.

John 4:24 (Amplified Bible)

God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality).

2. Lameness - if you will come to GOD as you are, weakling or unwise, just come to Him, even if you're lame, you can take the prey.

Isaiah 33:23 (Amplified Bible)

Your hoisting ropes hang loose; they cannot strengthen and hold firm the foot of their mast or keep the sail spread out. Then will prey and spoil in abundance be divided; even the lame will take the prey.

Isaiah 35:6 (Amplified Bible)

Then shall the lame man leap like a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

Insights of lameness in the bible:

a. unbalance - you focus on one thing, not well-rounded life: work and play life, worship and work life, pray and read the bible life is wanted in GOD's Presence.

Proverbs 26:7 (Amplified Bible)

Like the legs of a lame man which hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of a fool.

b. something that is not good or torn or spoiled

Malachi 1:13 (Amplified Bible)

You say also, Behold, what a drudgery and weariness this is! And you have sniffed at it, says the Lord of hosts. And you have brought that which was taken by violence, or the lame or the sick; this you bring as an offering! Shall I accept this from your hand? says the Lord.

ILLUSTRATION: A drunkard once spent his almost entire life to drink alcohol but he knew the LORD afterwards but he died as well, was not able to participate in church's ministry because he's so weak because of failed lungs, these type are just saved or "snatch" from fire.

1 Corinthians 3:15 (Amplified Bible)

But if any person’s work is burned up [under the test], he will suffer the loss [of it all, losing his reward], though he himself will be saved, but only as [one who has passed] through fire.

c. weaklings, coward, good-for-nothing

2 Samuel 5:6 (Amplified Bible)

And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, You shall not enter here, for the blind and the lame will prevent you; they thought, David cannot come in here.

If you're going to serve the LORD be strong in the LORD and in His might.

Ephesians 6:10 (Amplified Bible)

In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides].

Philippians 4:13 (Amplified Bible)

I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency].

Glory in your weaknesses and GOD will be there within you and among you.

2 Corinthians 12:9 (Amplified Bible)

But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me!

3. Flat nose - people that are meant to be destroyed, fools,

Flat nose or "charam" in Hebrew meaning: It connotes or signifies:

a. make accursed.

1 Corinthians 4:10 (Amplified Bible)

We are [looked upon as] fools on account of Christ and for His sake, but you are [supposedly] so amazingly wise and prudent in Christ! We are weak, but you are [so very] strong! You are highly esteemed, but we are in disrepute and contempt!

b. to be destroyed

Exodus 22:20 (Amplified Bible)

He who sacrifices to any god but the Lord only shall be utterly destroyed.

c. doomed to death, devoted

Leviticus 27:29 (Amplified Bible)

No one doomed to death [under the claim of divine justice], who is to be completely destroyed from among men, shall be ransomed [from suffering the death penalty]; he shall surely be put to death.

4. superfluous - more than is wanted; rendered unnecessary by superabundance. [Webster's Dictionary]

According to it's Hebrew word "sara" meaning prolong, be deformed by excess of members, stretch out self. Something that GOD does not want is unbalanced life. Hotness in the LORD is accepted while being hot and cold is spewed and will end up experiencing the tribulation period.

Revelation 3:16 (Amplified Bible)

So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth!

To be blunt, we are all like that before but GOD changed us to be accepted in the beloved.

1 Corinthians 6:11 (Amplified Bible)

And such some of you were [once]. But you were washed clean (purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin), and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified [pronounced righteous, by trusting] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God.

We don't boast because we are changed we boast in the LORD. All GLORIES belong to GOD ALMIGHTY.

1 Corinthians 1:31 (Amplified Bible)

So then, as it is written, Let him who boasts and proudly rejoices and glories, boast and proudly rejoice and glory in the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:24 (Amplified Bible)

But let him who glories glory in this: that he understands and knows Me [personally and practically, directly discerning and recognizing My character], that I am the Lord, Who practices loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the Lord.

2 Corinthians 10:17 (Amplified Bible)

However, let him who boasts and glories boast and glory in the Lord.

IX. CONCLUSION:

Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are My Grace, Strength and Power in my life, I therefore glory in my weaknesses and infirmities so that the Power and Strength of the LORD JESUS may rest on my body.

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