Numbers 18

Duty without fervency is as a sacrifice without fire; we should ascend to Heaven in a fiery chariot of devotion. 5. We do God's will as the angels in Heaven, when we give God the best in every service (Numbers 18:29): Out of all your gifts, you shall offer of all the best thereo…

For if all your comfort and happiness lies in God, all your diligence and care will be to please God. God was the portion of the Levites, it is said, because they ministered before him (Numbers 18:20). So it is true of the spiritual Levites — they that are careful to walk with G…

And God made another law in favor of the poor (Deuteronomy 14:28): At the end of three years you shall bring forth the tithe of your increase that same year and shall lay it up within your gates, and the Levite and the fatherless and the widow within your gates shall come and ea…

And the goat shall bear upon him all the iniquities of the children of Israel to a land not inhabited. The priest prayed that the sins, that is, the punishment of the sins of the people might be laid on the goat (Numbers 18:1). Aaron and his sons are to bear the iniquity of the…