Sermon Illustrations

A blessing is God’s expression of favor on you. In the passage we look at this morning, God commanded his priests to give his people a blessing from him. When I started looking at this passage this week, one image came to mind. It’s sort of funny actually, but a scene from Rocky II came to mind. You know the Rocky movies right... Rocky Balboa is a journeyman boxer that gets the chance to fight for a title fight. He’s a Philadelphia fighter and a neighborhood boy, and throughout the movie you see him gaining steam. In one scene he’s running in preparation for the big fight and he passes the priest’s window he shouts up to him for a blessing...