26<\/strong>. shall do no service<\/em> ] i.e. no necessary responsible service. They may assist their younger fellow-Levites as voluntary helpers.<\/p>\n their charges<\/em> ] their<\/em> functions<\/strong>; the duties committed to their charge.<\/p>\n Verse 26<\/span>. To keep the charge, and shall do no service.<\/B><\/I>] They shall no longer be obliged to perform any laborious service, but act as general directors and counsellors; therefore they were to be near the camp, sing praises to God, and see that no stranger or unclean person was permitted to enter. So the Jews and many other persons have understood this place.<\/P> <\/P> 1. IF it required so much legal purity to fit the Levites for their work in the tabernacle, can we suppose that it requires less spiritual purity to fit ministers of the Gospel to proclaim the righteousness of the Most High, and administer the sacred ordinances of Christianity to the flock of Christ? If these must be without spot<\/I>, as the priests before without blemish<\/I>, and these were only typical men, we may rest assured that a Christian minister requires no ordinary measures of holiness to prepare him for an acceptable and profitable discharge of his office.<\/P> <\/P> 2. If the Christian ministry be established to prepare men for the kingdom of God, of the holiness of which the purity of the camp was but a faint emblem, how can any man expect to enter that place of blessedness, who has not his heart sprinkled from an evil conscience, and his body washed with pure water; his life and conversation agreeable to the sacred precepts laid down in the Gospel of Christ? If the law of Moses were more read in reference to the Gospel, the Gospel itself and its requisitions would be much better understood.<\/P> Reader, however it may be with thee, Antinomianism<\/I> is more general among religious people than is usually imagined. What multitudes of all denominations are expecting to enter into the kingdom of God without any proper preparation for the place! Without holiness none shall see the Lord; and from this decision of the Divine justice there shall never be any appeal.<\/P> <\/p>\n With their brethren, <\/B>by way of advice, and assistance in lesser and easier works. <\/P> <\/p>\n 26. But shall minister with theirbrethren<\/B>in the performance of easier and higher duties,instructing and directing the young, or superintending importanttrusts. “They also serve who only wait” [MILTON].<\/P><\/p>\n But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation<\/strong>,…. By giving advice, instructing younger Levites, and doing lighter service. Jarchi says, they shall return to shutting of doors, singing and loading wagons; but the last especially seems too burdensome: the ministry of such is explained by the next clause,<\/p>\n to keep the charge<\/strong>; of the tabernacle, to watch and observe that no stranger or unclean person enter into it; and this they were capable of when at the age of fifty, and upwards:<\/p>\n and shall do no service<\/strong>; heavy and laborious:<\/p>\n thus thou shall do unto the Levites touching their charge<\/strong>; dismiss them from service when at such an age, or however make their service easier; for this respects ancient men, as Aben Ezra notes; though it may include both their entrance on their work, and their cessation from it.<\/p>\n (26) To keep the charge.<\/strong>A clear distinction is here made between the service <\/em>which involved heavy manual labour in carrying the furniture of the Tabernacle and in slaughtering the victims, and the charge <\/em>or oversight of the furniture and the vessels of the Sanctuary.<\/p>\n Num 8:26<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>But shall minister with their brethren<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> They were to be dismissed at the age of fifty from all the laborious part of the service, and were afterwards to attend only upon the easier duties of their ministry. The Hebrew words directly suggest this meaning, and do not support their <\/em>opinion, who would render the passage, they shall minister to their brethren; i.e.<\/em> as counsellors and instructors. <\/p>\n REFLECTIONS.<\/strong>As they who bear the vessels of the Lord must be holy, the Levites are, 1. Enjoined to wash and shave themselves all over; and then water of purifying is sprinkled upon them. Thus must Jesus sprinkle our consciences, ere we can serve the living God. 2. When prepared, they are presented before the Lord, and, instead of the first-born, surrendered up to God’s service. Whatever God calls for, we may cheerfully resign, as we shall surely see a blessing from it. 3. Offerings of atonement followed; for most necessary it is, that they who preach peace with God to others, should first experience it in their own souls. Whereupon, 4. A solemn presentation of them is made by Aaron to God. Ministers are living sacrifices, whose time, abilities, strength, and all, must be employed for God, from the moment they are devoted to him. 5. God accepts of them instead of the first-born, appoints them their work in the tabernacle, to make atonement for the children of Israel, that there be no plague among them; and regards them as his immediate servants. Note; <\/em>(1.) God’s service is among the highest honours. (2.) They who are called to the honour, must remember the work of the ministry, and diligently preach the atoning blood of the Lamb which was slain. (3.) If this be neglected, the plague of sin among the people will lie at the minister’s door. 6. Their time of service is fixed. The prime of life is fittest for the laborious work of the ministry: when the faithful labourers begin to grow aged, they may well be assisted by their younger brethren. <\/p>\n REFLECTIONS<\/p>\n<\/p>\n PAUSE my soul, while by faith thou walkest in the sanctuary of the Old Testament dispensation, and in viewing the golden candlestick with the lighted lamps, behold thy adored Redeemer, as divinely represented shining forth, in and through all his New Testament revelation, under the fulness of all the HOLY SPIRIT’s influence. Oh! how gloriously did he shine, of whom this golden candlestick with its seven lamps was but the faintest image, unto whom the SPIRIT was not given by measure. Hail! thou ever blessed, ever glorious JESUS! thou that are both the light, and the life of thy people. From thee and thy precious influence, do all the lights of the temple derive their lustre. By thee they shine; for thee they minister; and to thy glory they serve. LORD! communicate to my dark and benighted heart the rays of thy grace. Shine in precious JESUS, on my cold and lifeless soul, and warm my frozen affections; be thou my everlasting light, and my GOD my glory.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n And while I thus look up to thee my GOD and Saviour, as the fountain and source of all that is truly glorious, may my soul behold in the dedication of these Levites to the temple service, how high a dignity those souls are called to, who, by the LORD’S appointment, minister in holy things. Let me offer a prayer before the mercy seat, for all of this description and character, who are the true Levites before GOD; I mean such as are of the HOLY GHOST’s commissioning, that He who hath called them may qualify for the work. Oh! LORD, consider their earthen vessels: pity and compassionate the weakness of their frame; and by the powerful influences of thy grace, do thou give in unto them that they may give out to thy people! may a gracious GOD and Saviour make them faithful, to shine as lights in thy church here; and, by turning many to righteousness, may they shine as the stars in the church above, forever, and ever!<\/p>\n from the age, &c. Observe the gracious care of Jehovah. <\/p>\n to keep: Num 1:53, Num 3:32, Num 18:4, Num 31:30, 1Ch 23:32, 1Ch 26:20-29, Eze 44:8, Eze 44:11 <\/p>\n and shall: 1Ti 4:15 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Num 3:7 – keep<\/p>\n 8:26 But shall minister {l} with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.<\/p>\n (l) In singing Psalms, instructing, counselling and keeping the things in order.<\/p>\n But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge. 26. shall do no service ] i.e. no necessary responsible service. 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