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FBT Daily Devotional: Leviticus 24

• Pastor Reggie

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We trace Leviticus 24 through three images—an ever-burning lamp, fresh showbread, and a holy Name—to show how daily habits keep faith bright and honest. Prayer, praise, and reverence turn rules into a living pattern for presence, renewal, and integrity.

• The lamp that must not go out and daily oil for sustained presence
• Fresh showbread as a call to fresh praise and gratitude
• The weight of God’s Name and the danger of casual speech
• Moving from tabernacle symbols to heart-level practice
• How prayer, Scripture, obedience, and worship keep the fire alive
• Practical reminders to resist stale routines and cultural drift

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And I uh we're going to get started and for your spiritual breakfast, are you ready? Leviticus 24, 1 through 23. And I titled this, Don't Let Your Fire Go Out. Amen. So, family, we're going to do this chapter, and it might look like just another list of temple duties and rules at first glance. You know, we like to dig deeper, but there's fire in these verses. I'm gonna find the fire. If you look close enough, you're gonna find it. So, this chapter shows us what happens when God's light burns continually, and what happens when we take his holiness lightly. Okay, so it's divided into three parts. I like do numbers. So the the lamp that must never go out, that's the first four verses, and I'm calling it the showbread that must be fresh before the Lord. That's verses five through nine, and I'm usually King James Version, okay. And then part three, the blasphemer who disrespected God's name, verses 10 through the end of 23. Okay, so don't let your fire go out. I'm gonna say, keep the light burning. So God told Moses, command the children of Israel to bring pure oil of pressed olives for the light to make the lamps burn continually every single night without fail, that lamp had to stay lit. Why? Because it was a symbol of God's continual presence, amen. His unchanging glory and his light that never goes out, even when darkness tries to cover the land, cover us. Okay. Think about your electricity at home. If your light bill isn't paid, what happened? The power goes out. They all care that you prayed. But God said, keep oil in the lamp. Siblings, that means keep the anointing flowing, keep prayer alive, keep worship burning. Jesus said in Matthew 25 that the wise virgins had oil in their lamps, but the foolish ones let theirs run out. So don't let your fire run out just because life gets busy or people get messy. You got to tinge your fire every day. So feed it with the word. We feed it with prayer, with praise and obedience. And this is part of it. Okay. In Leviticus, I think it was, yeah, Leviticus 12 and no, Leviticus 6, 12 through 13, talked about it. It said, the fire on the altar shall be kept burning. It shall not go out. A fire shall always be burning on the altar, it shall never go out. You see, that connection ties directly to the lamp that we're talking about in 24. Just as the priest had to keep that lamp burning continually, you and I must keep the fire of the Holy Spirit alive in our heart. No matter the season you're in, you don't let your fire go out. So y'all can shout. You don't need to unmute it though. Neighbor, it's oil time. It's oil time. Here we go. We're finna get this. We are not waiting for somebody else to light our flames. God's spirit is already in us. It's our job to keep it burning. Okay, so don't bring stale bread. My point, too. Don't you bring stale bread, you keep it fresh. Verses five through nine. So then God told Moses to put 12 loaves of bread on the golden table before the Lord, fresh every Sabbath. That bread represented the tribes of Israel, God's people always before him. But catch this, it had to be replaced weekly. I would say daily, but yeah, weekly. God didn't want old, dry, stale bread sitting in his presence. Do you eat or serve people stale or mold the old bread? That means God doesn't want yesterday's praise when he's doing something new for you today. Every day is a new day when you wake up, right? Amen. Keep that oil burning. He wants another prayer, another praise, acknowledgement. Lamentation speaks on the same thing in chapter 3, verse uh 22. The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They are new every day. Great is your faithfulness. Amen. So every Sabbath, that connection, the priest replaced the showbread with something fresh. In the same way, God gives us fresh mercy every morning when He wakes us up. That means our prayers, our praise, our worship should be fresh too. Don't live on yesterday's hallelujah, and God's doing something new for you today. You wouldn't serve guests old hard biscuits. He don't want it neither. You've been sitting around the counter for a week. You'd make something fresh when guests are coming over together. It's the same thing. Just kind of connect that. So every time we come before him, it should be with fresh hallelujah, a new thank you, a renewed surrender to him. Like it says in Psalms 96:1. But it says, look, God deserves it. God deserves fresh bread from your heart every day. That's how your lamp keeps burning. When the word in you stays fresh, your light stays bright. Okay. Point three, watch your mouth. Y'all gonna get this. Verses 10 through 23. Respect the name of the Lord. This chapter shifts a little bit. So there was this young man, and they they mentioned his nationality. Mom was Israelite, dad Egyptian. Okay. But he blasted the name of the Lord. He was getting into a fight with another young man. And when he used the name of the Lord and thing, judgment came down on him quick. Okay, and then he was stoned to death. So it's uh sobering reminder. God's name is holy. Today, people will pull his name out, toss it around, using it and slaying. And you don't do that. You need him, you call him, but don't just throw his name out. This this name has power, it means something. Amen. So honor his name. Philippians 2 9 speaks of that also. Therefore, God also has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name. That at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God and the Father. See that connection? Okay, but now through Jesus, we honor the name above every name. Amen. You ever hear someone use your mama's name the wrong way? Oh, your mama, your mama, we perk right up, don't we? Oh, hold it, holy. I'll watch your mouth. You don't talk about my mama, you don't mention my mama. Same thing right here. You don't mention my father and him. You don't talk about him that way, you don't use his name in vain. All right, his name saves, his name heals, his name delivers and protects. Watch him out. So it teaches us to have that reverence for God's presence, not just in words, but in how we live. Don't live one way in public and another in private. I don't even know how you can keep it straight. If you do, you know, you got to come on, be consistent. Then shout his name like a slogan. His name deserves purity, power, and purpose. Extra part I'm gonna cover here today's connection from the tabernacle to our temple. We're no longer lighting golden lamps in a tent, but our hearts are now his temple. Okay, the oil is that Holy Spirit. Amen. The light is our witnessing, the bread is our relationship with him, and his name is our obedience. Amen. Romans 12 1 mentions the same thing. Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. That means every part of your life, your words, your worship, your work should shine in his glory. When people see you, they should see the lamp still burning. When they hear you, they should taste fresh bread. When they observe your life, they should know you carry his name with reverence and power. So, in closing, let me review this real quick as we prepare for the rooms. I came to tell you, keep your oil flowing, don't let disappointment drain your flame. Okay, keep your bread fresh, don't let routine make your worship stale. Keep the name holy. Don't let culture or current times drag your reverence down. Don't use his name out of place. So let's be that generation whose lamps don't flicker, whose praise doesn't expire, and whose hearts stay pure for God. Don't let your fire go out. You keep that burning until he returns. Amen. All right, we can go to breakout.