The Daughters of Zelophehad [Part 1]

Pastor, author and Bible teacher Alan Wright you are. Errors you have a rightful inheritance and you didn't earn it and you didn't merit and you don't deserve but since it has been proclaimed to you, you might as well. Claimant that's faster.

Alan welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life for no hold. I'm being excited for you to hear the teaching today.

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Contact us at pastor@an.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860. More on that later in the program but now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright heard of a wealthy man who you left an inheritance for his children, but he was also just want to cover his bases in case there was something about the afterlife that he would be surprised by. Maybe you could take it with you. And so in his after crafting his will, he brought and also his doctor, lawyer and minister and he said I want to eat to take this packet and inside of it was $100,000 in cash in each one is set at the time of my funeral. I want to walk by my casket before the service and please just insert this into the casket just in case I want to have some cash to go with me, so the time of his death arrived and sure enough the doctor, a lawyer and administer all went by, this casket discreetly putting envelope into the casket.

Afterwards, a doctor and a lawyer in the minister were talking to one another and they said well that was the strangest thing ever. When I said yeah quiet and finally the doctor said I just have a guilty conscience. I have to just admit I want to get my wife a new car and I just put 50,000 and 50,000 in the minister said well I have a guilty conscience also. It seems so ridiculous to me that I just put 25,000. Then I 75,000 out for the homeless shelter and the lawyer said I am uphold this it what you put it all in and he said absolutely. I wrote a personal check for the whole amount you know you have a spiritual inheritance in Christ that is so vast that Paul sums it up by saying we've been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

Every spiritual blessing in Christ. It is to say that we are heirs of God himself. So, Charles Spurgeon said if you are heirs of God, what it means is that God has it.

It's yours. If God has pleased in your narrative that God has joined her an air of that joy in God has everlasting life. You are an air of everlasting life. You are heirs, and you have a rightful inheritance and you didn't earn it and you didn't merit it. And you don't deserve it but since it has been proclaimed to you, you might as well claimant where learning about unheralded women in the word, some of whom you may not even have known of the end it's a fitting time to be preaching on women in the word in the midst of culture right now and which were seeing many different thoughts and public opinions. And it's good to see what the word has to say about God's attitude towards women in the vastness of his love and really what people don't understand is that for the culture that Jesus came along and he was a radical in his inclusion of women will see more of that.

But I'm not preaching this year is primarily to see what God has to say about women.

I'm primarily preaching it to see what the lives of these women have to say about God. And this story is marvelous. It is the story I honestly didn't even know was here except my wife taught on it one time and awakenings and she told me about it and I said is that really there. It is numbers chapter 27 the daughters of the loaf. I had if the gospel story tucked way back in the old covenant on you read about in chapter 26 is a census that was taken all the people were counted all the clans because there were preparing to make plans for dividing all of the land in the promised land.

How would they apportion all the land well-versed one of numbers 27, then drew near, the daughters of the loaf. I had the son of heifer son of Gilead, son of Mark here, son of Manasseh from the clans of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the names of his daughters were Marla Noah hog lot milk and tears, and they stood before Moses and Eleazar are the priest and before the Chiefs and all the congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting. I was the portable tabernacle traveling with them and they said our father died in the wilderness is not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Cora the died for his own sin, and he had no science. Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan because he had no son give to us the possession among our father's brothers.

Moses brought their case before the Lord and the Lord said to Moses, the daughters of the love I had our right, you shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers and transfer the inheritance of their father to them. You shall speak to the people a visual saying, if a man dies and has no son that he shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter and then adverse after further clarification and versa second part of verse 11 and it shall be for the people of Israel a statute and rule as the Lord commanded Moses. I've always been curious, instead reading interesting stories of inheritance and how people done strange things in their wills. Maybe none stranger than that of wealthy man who lived at the turn of century the 20th century is a Canadian lawyer and finance years name was Charles Miller are and he was known for practical jokes. And so, in his will. People were not surprised that he said this will is necessarily uncommon and capricious because I have no dependents or near relations and no duty rests upon me to leave any property at my death and what I do believe is proof of my folly and gathering and retaining more than I required in my lifetime.

What follows is just hilarious and playful bequest. For example, three men who were known to despise each other are granted joint lifetime tenancy in Miller's vacation home in Jamaica.

Seven prominent Toronto Protestant ministers and temperance advocates were to receive $700,000 worth of O'Keefe brewery stock a Catholic business only if they participated in its management.

Three fervid anti-horseracing advocates were to receive $25,000 worth of Ontario Jockey club stock stuff like that but the funniest was that his main bequest was in the Lord is by far and strangest the 10th clause said that after 10 years.

All of his assets were to be converted to cash and given to the woman in Toronto and be a resident of Toronto who had had the most births and the 10 year period.

And so it began what was known is the great stork Derby and women all over Toronto trying to have babies as fast as they could. It grew into a major fortune during that 10 years and two women shared the bulk of it I both had had nine children. There were two others that also claim to have nine children, but there there claim single dubious at latest, settled with them for a smaller amount, but all told, there were at least 36 children that were in a sense father to even though he was dead by Charles Miller strange inheritance stories, but none that is more interesting or powerful than the daughters of the loaf. I had who were in a strange position their father had died in the wilderness and had no son, and all of the customs of inheritance in Israel at the time were that inheritance always flowed from fathers to sons. But if these daughters receive no inheritance, no portion of the land.

Then the father's name would just as if be blotted out and not remembered any more.

And of course these daughters would be left without an inheritance and so they did a very bold saying and approached Moses himself and the priest and the A's are. They came to the tent of meeting there at the sacred tabernacle where God's glory would rest and they made their appeal and Moses essentially said why don't make the rules, but I will talk to God about it, and the mediator.

Moses went to God and he said yes.

He said these daughters should receive an inheritance include them in the apportioning of the land talent right will have more teaching moment from today's important series that you believed in mind my experience it in the hypothalamus, the left but never of myself as a love story from beginning to end spiritual bride of Christ, the perfect bride. The Bible tells my mom's in the interlock with any man who was found another one tasted the sweetness of God's love for you is for the woman who searched for 25 2014 only found fully marred after the five love languages size incredible reality that God pursues us and left constant lover of myself. Ancient biblical accounts exploding the extent this proposal and showing his embrace raveling after the match made in heaven, lover of my soul gospel is shared when you get to write ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I banks from Alan write ministries call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past Rowan.like today's teaching now continues your once again is when they portion the land around the daughters received it as a lasting statute and it was clarified that if the father had no signs that the inheritance would go to the daughters. It is a wonderful story and it ties in to the overarching theme that we see running throughout Scripture of inheritance. One of the ways that you can read the Bible for deeper understanding the gospel is to pay attention to themes that run through the Scripture. The principle of the Scripture is that God's people are set free.

But there more than just set free their given an inheritance we see this is start out with God speaking to Adam and Eve and telling them that they have dominion in the earth in a very real sense God who owns everything makes Adam and Eve's stewards of the earth. You name the animals, you tend to the garden.

It's yours. So it's like an inheritance since the drama then begins to develop as the serpent comes an intense Adam and Eve. You see this drama that develops. Are they going to appropriate and keep their inheritance are they gonna forfeit it, and when they send, they forfeit and their put out from the garden and so it is that sin is enter the world and humanity is living in a condition of forfeiting the glorious inheritance that God has arranged for them to have and so we begin to see this whole drama.

How will the people ever be able to reclaim an inheritance that now they have rightly rejected will God calls a man named Abram later called Abraham. We don't know much about Abram, except that he's come from an area called the Chaldees and God speaks a unilateral blessing to Abram and speaks an inheritance to him and he said you have an air effect. You have so many heirs look at the stars in the sky. If you could count them, so numerous, will your descendents be good Abram and Sarah were old and childless beyond child bearing years, but God promised him a miracle. He promise that inheritance would flow down in the plot promise of land and the promise of this great nation and I'll make your name great that all of this will continue on because you will bear a son, while time went by and there was no sign and so it was that Abram it first came to the Lord and he said it's obvious I don't have an air I'm going to make my servant air and the Lord said to him, no, you are going to have an errant is going to be your own son one more time went by and they say will maybe we're supposed to do something about this. So they brought in Hagar maidservant the slave woman in their home and she and Abram had this child together. Ishmael and that I will. Maybe Ishmael is going to be the air, but God was faithful, and he brought about a miraculous sign that Abraham and Sarah, whose name was Isaac, which means laughter because Sarah laughed out loud at the hilarious nature of the grace of God and yet now they had Ishmael, the slave woman's sign and they had Isaac and technically Ishmael was the firstborn technically should receive the double portion of inheritance, but Sarah one day seeing how Ishmael was interacting in the family, and he was called a wild donkey of a man.

She told Abraham I want you to get rid of the slave woman and that sign and so Abram sent them out and so it was that Ishmael didn't get the inheritance Isaac did you see the dramatist developing so early on in the Scriptures all a battle about inheritance Isaac had these twins, Jacob and Esau, but Esau was the firstborn and deserved to get a double portion of the hair, inheritance, according to the customs of prima janitor, but Jacob was a connivers and a deceiver.

The younger these twin boys and he deceived Isaac. One day in the thinking that Jacob was Esau so that he would bless Jacob rather than Esau and release the inheritance to Jacob, which he did and Esau will realize that his brother had stolen his blessing had bitterness towards him and eventually Jacob had to flee. Esau wanted to murder him and it was all about the inheritance.

It was all about the father's blessing you see how it continues to grow, and so we see all throughout the Scripture, there is this amazing picture of a battle of the longing of who's going to get the inheritance will the inheritance be claimed.

Will it be forfeited. All of this grows until the people are slaves in Egypt for a long time and when God comes to set them free.

Pharaoh is so stubborn and if you ever start worrying about what God was cruel to Pharaoh. You got to remember Pharaoh with it. Evil, evil tyrant think of just one of the worst terrorist worst evil tyrant. You can imagine this way Pharaoh was interacting and these people been wrongfully enslave all these years.

And God sent Moses to go and speak to Pharaoh on God's behalf. If they let my people go, and Pharaoh wouldn't do it to a series of plagues came against the people of Egypt will this series of plagues culminated with the 10th plague in the 10th plague was at the firstborn of the Egyptians would perish on this woeful night except the Hebrew parent who put blood over their doorpost their firstborn's would be spared, and so on a dark night, a destroyer came to Egypt there was loud wheels and shrieks of terror on this night as there was judgment against Pharaoh and all of Egypt but the Hebrew firstborn were spared. Pharaoh said go and the people were set free is very important to the narrative of what happened with the Hebrew people enter your understanding of inheritance to remember this, the firstborn's of all people should have died except there was one thing that was different. There was a revelation given to the Hebrews to put the blood of an innocent lamb over their home and wherever that was the blood it was reckoned as though that blood counted and so the firstborn was spared, which goes far to explain why then God told Moses to tell the people from this time forward. You will always rip have to bring your firstborn to me because the firstborn belongs to me, and you have to redeem the firstborn and so there was a whole system in Israel where and when you are a farmer and you had a firstborn lamb you were to take an offer it to the Lord. But if you had a firstborn son. This was the custom that develop and according to the laws of God you would bring your firstborn present him to the priest and also you could present five shekels and the priests would take the son is this son belong to the Lord.

This son like all the others should've just died.

Amongst the firstborn to get God's judgment against sin in the world but instead was spared by the blood of the lamp and so they bring to the priest any site. Here's the firstborn and here's five shekels and the braces site the rat was like do you want the five shekels or do you want your son is that I think I'll take the sun given the five shekels it was called the redemption of the firstborn son. And so this is a practice so you have to understand that this is all part of the narrative that is shaping the whole mentality of the people of God and the nature of what redemption is all about. So God set the people free and they come out in Egypt in their freedom. And God doesn't just set them free, and he said I want to give you a land you go to be errors. So in other words, to be in the people of God is not just to have freedom from slavery. It is to have ownership of the land is not just to be forgiven. It is to be an air. And so the people were to come and take possession of a land that God is that I have prayer for you is your inherited going take it, but they sent 12 spies and intent of them came back with a fearful response. Consider giants in the land.

We feel like grasshoppers as of the people shrunk back in their fear and instead they wandered in the wilderness into a whole generation died out. There were two spies who had faith that they could take the land in the first place. Joshua and Caleb and so was after that generation died out that Joshua led the people into the promised land to take their inheritance.

His name was Joshua.

You are you have not accomplished you can know with certainty that you are valued and that you're in here. That's it for today would get the conclusion coming in the next edition. Teaching the daughters of the lookahead balance here in the studio back in with additional insight on this for your life.

In today's final word. Glad you believed in mind while experiencing the left but not of myself as a love story from beginning to end the spiritual bride of Christ, the perfect bike. The Bible tells my mom when you walk with her anymore. It's gonna member the woman tasted the sweetness of God's love for you despite pretty woman who searched for 25 2014 only fully my doctor the five love languages size incredible reality that God pursues us in life comes to an F myself ancient biblical accounts explode in the heart except Christ proposal and showing his embrace and live. After the match made in heaven, lover of my soul is shared when you get Alan Wright Ministries.

This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as our banks from Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor. Rowan.org hello so as we talked about already. Today, with providers unheralded women in the Bible. That's with the series about God used were also looking at some of our own deeds which have been sinful and not glorifying God. And so yet. Can God use me and I walked boldly and copied thing is for this. They got it out yet you look back in and especially looking at these unheralded women is not so much would look at those that were sent the women were looking at ones that you may name another name right. Yet God put the gospel on display in our lives that will learn about these daughters of the lookahead five women whose ancestors were slaves and who went by every natural thought and their culture. Not in a position to receive an inheritance in the promised land. And yet they knew this deep stirring of faith they really believe God would want them to be errors along with everyone else and so that's our story right. It's unlikely we once were slaves would have any spiritual inheritance, but through simple childlike bank we receive and faith that we could become heirs even though it didn't line up with this thing more. Rates didn't line up with the click rules and laws and so that's what our story is we are the ones who heirs of every spiritually rich blessing in Christ and that's by the daughters of love has a wonderful today's good news message is a listener supported production Alan Wright Ministries