EPISODE 63:: DEUTERONOMY 18 :: SERVING THE LORD

Deuteronomy 18:6-8 LET THOSE SERVE WHO ARE ZEALOUS FOR THE LORD

“Now if a Levite comes from any of your towns throughout Israel where he resides, and comes whenever he desires to the place which the Lord chooses, 7then he shall serve in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord. 8They shall eat equal portions, except what they receive from the sale of their fathers’ estates.

                There were those who came into the work of the Levites because they really wanted to serve the Lord and since they may have come to serve as a Levite by a different route, they were sometimes discouraged by the other Levites.  We find the same today, where men have studied the word of God diligently without having gone to Bible college in order to serve God and help carry out the great commission.  But because they were not educated in the same way they are refused as teachers and pulpit teachers.  Yet many of them are excellent lay teachers and preachers serving the Lord with all of their heart, mind and soul.