back to indexWed Bible Study - Leviticus Lesson 3
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Gracious Father, we just want to thank you so much for the opportunity for us to come 00:00:16.160 |
I pray that as we wrestle through the difficult passages of Leviticus, give us insight as 00:00:22.400 |
to your intention, what you were trying to do, Lord God, with the nation of Israel and 00:00:30.200 |
Help us not to turn from it to the left or to the right, not to add meaning, and to be 00:00:36.120 |
able to understand, Lord God, all that you've done and all the intricacies, Lord, of preparation 00:00:43.240 |
for the coming of Christ, that we'd be able to understand it and to be convicted by it 00:00:49.640 |
And so we just entrust this time to you, Lord, in Jesus' name we pray, amen. 00:00:54.040 |
You know, in my questions, I asked you guys to make sure that you read and prepare. 00:00:59.000 |
So the questions I gave to you was to cover the first three chapters of Leviticus. 00:01:03.280 |
But as I was studying, I realized it's just way too much material to go over in one day. 00:01:08.160 |
And so we're just going to be covering the burnt offering today, which is going to give 00:01:11.640 |
us a good foundation for how to understand the rest of the passages. 00:01:16.000 |
So next week, my intention is to go through chapter two and three, but chapter six and 00:01:20.960 |
seven is really kind of an additional passages for the first five chapters. 00:01:26.580 |
So there is a possibility I may get to chapter two and then just end up doing chapter two 00:01:32.920 |
But for today, we're going to definitely only be covering chapter one, the book of Leviticus. 00:01:38.720 |
Again, as I mentioned to you before, Leviticus is not a book that you can just casually sit 00:01:46.320 |
Whether you are a brand new Christian or you've been a Christian for a while, you really need 00:01:55.220 |
You don't need to understand all the material. 00:01:57.560 |
All I'm asking you to do is if I say the gates or a tent of meeting and you have the basin 00:02:05.600 |
and you have the three different offerings in the burnt offering, that at least you know 00:02:11.740 |
But if you're having to look it up and say, what is he referring to? 00:02:14.600 |
Is he in chapter one or chapter six or what is he referring to? 00:02:17.520 |
Then it's going to, I can guarantee it's going to go over your head. 00:02:20.520 |
So I really want to encourage you at least know the content. 00:02:25.040 |
That's why we're here trying to study it, but know what's in that passage. 00:02:29.680 |
So it's chapter one, next week, chapter two and three. 00:02:49.960 |
So the first part of it is just a brief review of what we talked about last time, how Leviticus 00:02:55.520 |
is an instructional manual on how a sinner can have a relationship with a holy God. 00:03:03.080 |
So if you want to summarize what the intent of the book of Leviticus and why he's doing 00:03:07.760 |
everything that he's doing is how can God's sinful people approach a holy God? 00:03:16.180 |
So we saw that Exodus, Exodus is the Lord coming to Israel and establish the tent of 00:03:26.420 |
So Israel is delivered from the nation of Egypt. 00:03:29.880 |
They come out and God gives the law instructions and then the book of Exodus ends with the 00:03:38.120 |
And again, if you haven't read, you may be saying, well, what is a tabernacle? 00:03:42.240 |
And this is the very reason why I really need you guys to read before you come. 00:03:46.240 |
So if I have to explain to you what a tabernacle is, what the altar is and what incense is, 00:03:51.080 |
and you know, if you have no idea, if it's the first time hearing it, then it's really 00:03:57.880 |
But I guarantee you, right, if you come prepared and you understand even 50% of what is being 00:04:06.560 |
taught in Leviticus, it will open up the New Testament to you like it has never, never 00:04:14.160 |
Because Leviticus is the preparation for understanding of fundamental doctrines of atonement, of 00:04:21.720 |
propitiation, of blood sacrifice, laying on of hands, sacrifice without blemish, the Lamb 00:04:28.440 |
of God, all these gospel terms are saturated in the book of Leviticus. 00:04:35.240 |
And so it's not just somebody saying, oh, here comes the Lamb of God. 00:04:38.120 |
A Jew would have had a clear picture of that Lamb of God that's being slaughtered through 00:04:43.560 |
And so basically what this is, it gives you a physical illustration of the gospel itself 00:04:51.520 |
So again, if you just kind of come casually, I'm thankful that you come either way. 00:04:58.680 |
Because I know a lot of you guys come in after long days of work, so I know you guys are 00:05:02.880 |
But if you're going to come, make the most of it, take the time to study, and try to 00:05:12.480 |
This is not one of those studies you can just casually walk in and then walk out and think 00:05:19.240 |
So I really strongly encourage you to do that. 00:05:21.800 |
Exodus is the study of the Lord calling or coming. 00:05:33.440 |
Leviticus, he calls to himself through a tent of meeting. 00:05:37.520 |
And then the book of Numbers is him dwelling among us. 00:05:43.000 |
The whole point of the sacrificial system is that a holy God would dwell among sinful 00:05:51.920 |
And we see the same pattern also in the New Testament, where Israel serves as a model 00:06:01.200 |
And so we also see in the New Testament how Jesus draws near. 00:06:04.200 |
That's basically his birth, where he chooses to come off of his throne, and then he dwells 00:06:11.720 |
He begins his ministry by calling his disciples to himself. 00:06:14.640 |
He said, "I will make you fishers of men," to go to the people. 00:06:18.040 |
And then his final result of his death and resurrection is that his Holy Spirit makes 00:06:24.880 |
In fact, I don't have it here, but if you were to take some time to outline the Old 00:06:30.320 |
Testament versus the New Testament, you'll see a lot of similarities. 00:06:34.240 |
You see kind of a parallel where Genesis begins with God creating Adam, and then Adam falls, 00:06:42.120 |
And then as a result of that is a need for sacrifice. 00:06:46.080 |
In the New Testament, you see Christ coming, and then instead of falling, he actually succeeds, 00:06:53.960 |
And instead of needing sacrifice, he becomes a sacrifice. 00:06:57.240 |
And instead of God dwelling in Israel, he dwells among his people, the church. 00:07:02.320 |
And so we see a parallel in the New Testament where Paul says, "Do you not know that you 00:07:08.760 |
So we're studying now in Leviticus where God is establishing his presence through the 00:07:12.880 |
tabernacle, which eventually becomes the temple, where in the New Testament where Christ, he 00:07:17.680 |
gives, he himself is sacrificed, and as a result of that, he establishes church as the 00:07:24.700 |
So you see a parallel between what God is doing in the Old Testament and the New Testament. 00:07:28.920 |
And the whole purpose of this is so that God would draw near to us, because we cannot go 00:07:39.600 |
If you see here, I'm going to see if I can do this. 00:07:54.720 |
That's what we're going to be studying in the sacrificial system. 00:08:05.580 |
So you have four distinct tribes of the Levites, and if you, again, if we get to study the 00:08:10.920 |
book of Numbers, it'll basically list God's plan of how he wants each of the tribes to 00:08:17.360 |
be located, all centered around the tabernacle. 00:08:20.720 |
So the tabernacle, where it represents the presence of God, is right in the middle of 00:08:24.280 |
the camp, and then the Levites, who are priests, who represent the people, are in between, 00:08:34.500 |
And this is how God wanted Israel to camp every time they sat down. 00:08:38.780 |
So every time they picked up, God had specific orders, which tribe goes first, and they have 00:08:45.520 |
It's kind of like a military, like basic training. 00:08:48.000 |
And then whenever they stop, they have to stop in this order. 00:08:55.800 |
They always, for 40 years, as long as they march, this is how their camp looked like. 00:09:02.840 |
And there's a purpose for that, because no matter where they were at, at any given time, 00:09:10.600 |
they were at, again, a short distance to the tabernacle, every single one of these tribes. 00:09:15.080 |
So when we're talking about God's presence dwelling in the midst of Israel, it was literally 00:09:24.540 |
So what we're studying through the book of Leviticus is, if God is dwelling here, how 00:09:36.400 |
And so today, and for the next few days, we're going to be talking about the establishment 00:09:41.280 |
of the sacrificial system, and then chapter 8 and on, if you remember the outline, it's 00:09:50.840 |
So the first part of it is about the sacrifices. 00:09:55.880 |
And then there's a third part, but we'll talk about that later. 00:10:11.440 |
I have some pictures for you guys to look at. 00:10:21.040 |
Saddleback actually had a ministry that actually sets up a literal tabernacle in the life-size 00:10:27.880 |
version, and so I thought that would be interesting, so I actually went and took a look at it. 00:10:32.120 |
And the first thing that struck me about the tabernacle was how small it was. 00:10:37.360 |
Because I was expecting for a million people out in the desert, all having access to God 00:10:43.360 |
and the sacrifice, I thought that it would be humongous, like at least a football field 00:10:49.560 |
Actuality, it's somewhere between about 75 feet to about 150 feet. 00:10:54.960 |
So I'm not exactly sure of the dimensions of this room. 00:10:58.800 |
So from here to back of that room would be about 100 feet, right? 00:11:06.540 |
And then from here to here, it's about 130, I think, right? 00:11:10.160 |
So basically the size of the tabernacle is about the size of this room, maybe a little 00:11:20.880 |
So it would be something like this, more of a rectangle. 00:11:24.520 |
And this sat right in the middle of the camp. 00:11:32.320 |
So this right here would be the holies, and it's divided into two parts. 00:11:38.600 |
And when we talk about the details of this, we'll talk about it at another time. 00:11:41.960 |
But this is where usually the person who's getting sacrificed is never allowed to go 00:11:53.940 |
So that's a version of outside picture, and this is the inside picture. 00:12:00.520 |
So the dimensions of this is pretty accurate. 00:12:03.160 |
I don't know if they built this to size, but it's pretty accurate. 00:12:08.320 |
So if you can notice, and then here's more of a close-up picture. 00:12:21.900 |
This would be the leaven where they would wash the animal parts. 00:12:27.560 |
So if you read chapter one, you'll know they'll take the intestines and different parts of 00:12:32.480 |
the body, and they would put it here, and they would wash it. 00:12:34.800 |
But the sacrifice would actually be offered here. 00:12:45.000 |
So if you look in the bottom, 8.6 times 8.6 by 5 point something. 00:12:54.960 |
It would be the size of that baptismal, but maybe a little bit wider. 00:13:04.520 |
I mean, considering that it's making regular sacrifices morning and night, and we're talking 00:13:09.600 |
about hundreds and hundreds of animals being sacrificed for the various sins of Israel, 00:13:13.640 |
and it was all taking place on that one particular altar for 40 years. 00:13:22.240 |
I have some pictures on here that are going to be pretty gruesome, and I did it on purpose. 00:13:28.160 |
And some of you guys who are eating may want to finish it up. 00:13:31.640 |
It's not coming up anytime soon, so you have about three minutes to finish your food. 00:13:41.520 |
The reason why I did it is because this is what Israel saw. 00:13:48.000 |
God deliberately made this gruesome image of blood spilling everywhere. 00:13:55.520 |
And so can you imagine, we're not talking about blood being spread out in the size of 00:13:59.840 |
We're talking about on that particular altar, there's an animal being sacrificed every single 00:14:05.480 |
And when they're sacrificed, they would take the blood and sprinkle it all over. 00:14:08.840 |
So can you imagine hundreds of animals being sacrificed on that one particular altar, what 00:14:16.800 |
So you have all this dried blood from years of blood just being, you know, and there's 00:14:25.960 |
And so there's dry blood and new blood on that thing constantly. 00:14:30.320 |
Animals' blood being spilled on that ground, hundreds and hundreds of them. 00:14:34.700 |
So you could probably imagine if you've ever seen a picture of a slaughterhouse, it would 00:14:45.120 |
Because they don't have a neat way to dispose of this. 00:14:49.720 |
And so the reason why, you know, at the end of it, I'm going to show you some pictures, 00:14:54.680 |
is because this is God deliberately left this image in the nation of Israel. 00:14:59.640 |
So when God talked about the sacrifice of the lamb, it wasn't just something that they 00:15:05.040 |
This was something that they smelled, they touched, and they saw on a regular basis, 00:15:11.520 |
And it's a picture of sacrifice that God deliberately left with the nation of Israel, right? 00:15:16.720 |
So Leviticus is kind of like, you know, when you sing songs when you were kids, you know, 00:15:21.840 |
for those of you who are teachers or have parents, you know, when you would sing songs, 00:15:26.960 |
you would do body motions, you know, this little light of mine, I'm going to let it 00:15:34.520 |
But I'm just saying, like, you would put motions to these songs to help you to memorize what 00:15:45.800 |
Leviticus is a physical action where every part of what you're doing, it points to something. 00:15:56.720 |
Everything that God is doing, He's restricting certain things and He's commanding certain 00:16:00.720 |
things and He's prohibiting certain things and He's telling you to touch it. 00:16:04.800 |
And so every aspect of what He is saying and what He's doing is by having them act it out, 00:16:13.400 |
So our job is, as we are studying it, to try to figure out what is He trying to implant 00:16:22.960 |
How does this relate to and how does this help them to understand their need for sacrifice? 00:16:33.160 |
Every spreading of the blood, every sprinkling, everything that they saw, smelled, and touched 00:16:40.120 |
So that's the thing that I want you guys to pay attention to as you're reading it. 00:16:43.880 |
Instead of just understanding, "I wonder what that means," think of it as a Jew who actually 00:16:50.480 |
What they were seeing, what they were smelling, what they were feeling, and all of it to prepare 00:17:13.080 |
This is basically the outline of the tabernacle. 00:17:24.580 |
This is the outer court where the sacrifices usually took place. 00:17:33.160 |
And usually God had very strict restrictions on who can come to the outer court and who 00:17:38.640 |
So later on when the temple is built, right, where would have been the outer court where 00:17:48.080 |
So the Holy of Holies, like this area, was restricted. 00:17:52.460 |
And then the Holy of Holies, within this, the tabernacle, you had the holy place and 00:17:56.960 |
then you had the most holy place, the Holy of Holies, right? 00:18:01.960 |
So when you're reading through Leviticus and it says, "Make sure you take the animal to 00:18:05.760 |
the outer court or bring them into the inner court or bring them to the Holy of Holies 00:18:09.600 |
or the holy place," hopefully you have a visual picture of what he's referring to. 00:18:15.360 |
So the tabernacle is really not that complicated. 00:18:22.520 |
He had very few articles that he placed in there and every single one of them had very 00:18:29.320 |
But sometimes because we're not familiar with what they are, the reason why we get lost 00:18:33.680 |
is because we think that the tabernacle has like hundreds of things and hundreds of articles 00:18:37.780 |
and hundreds of these things and then we get lost in it. 00:18:40.640 |
But again, if you look at the picture of the tabernacle, it's pretty simple. 00:18:44.200 |
You have the altar, you have the wash basin, you have the outer court, you have the inner 00:18:47.440 |
court, you have the tabernacle, and then that's split in two. 00:18:51.760 |
And within the tabernacle, within this room, there are specific articles that's in there. 00:19:00.360 |
But what we're talking about the sacrifice is most of it is taking place out here. 00:19:24.120 |
You had the, what do we call this type of outline? 00:19:35.840 |
So kiastic outline, basically it has .123 and then it has a middle point and then the 00:19:42.560 |
second part has the same mirroring the other points but in an opposite order. 00:19:48.760 |
And the reason why the kiastic form is interesting is because you know exactly where the main 00:20:00.240 |
So all of it culminates to the teaching of the Day of Atonement in chapter 16 and 17. 00:20:05.360 |
And then, so remember we talked about how the first part of the outline, the sacrifices, 00:20:10.000 |
chapter 1 through 7, and then chapter 8 through 10 is about the cleansing of the priesthood 00:20:15.560 |
and their preparation and then the last part of it is what is considered clean and unclean. 00:20:24.760 |
Mostly for the work being done at the tabernacle, right? 00:20:30.840 |
The second part of it mirrors it but who is that for? 00:20:39.320 |
So the first part of it, you have the priest, you have the sacrifices, the priesthood, and 00:20:44.040 |
clean and unclean, and then you have the Day of Atonement, and then the second part of 00:20:57.400 |
Where again the people of God and then finally the sacrifices specifically. 00:21:03.840 |
So this is, I've talked about this before but this is just kind of as a reminder. 00:21:07.720 |
If you can memorize this outline, it'll help you tremendously when you're reading through 00:21:12.800 |
Leviticus but even when you're lost, at least you know where you're lost. 00:21:18.680 |
You can get lost in Irvine but if you know you're in Irvine, you're not too bad. 00:21:21.800 |
But if you're lost in Irvine and you don't know you're in the United States, then you're 00:21:28.040 |
So if you know this outline, if you're reading and it's like, "Oh, I don't understand it," 00:21:31.840 |
but you at least know that the theme is the same in chapter 6 and 7. 00:21:38.920 |
So if you're going to memorize anything, you don't have Bible memory for this session, 00:21:43.400 |
I strongly encourage you to memorize this, right? 00:21:47.040 |
And the chapters that fit in with that because that'll help you to read through, at least 00:21:55.480 |
The five major offerings that we know, I'm not going to go through all of them, but you 00:21:58.640 |
have the burnt offering which we're going to be covering today, the grain offering, 00:22:02.840 |
peace offering, sin offering, guilt offering. 00:22:05.320 |
And each of these offerings met some need of the worshiper. 00:22:08.800 |
We're going to be talking about the burnt offering today. 00:22:22.040 |
So the idea of tithing, presenting the first fruits, it all comes from this idea of the 00:22:30.320 |
So this is not the only passage that teaches this, but this is where this is introduced 00:22:36.760 |
The peace offering, again, the significance of that is peace with God leads to peace with 00:22:43.040 |
And so this is an offering where they would give an offering and most of the offering 00:22:46.800 |
that they gave to God, the parts that you can eat, they would keep it separate and they 00:22:52.120 |
would actually have a picnic with it, and that's the peace offering. 00:22:56.360 |
Sin offering deals with an inadvertent sin, right? 00:23:00.280 |
And then the guilt offering is an offense that you've wronged somebody else and how 00:23:05.520 |
to compensate when you've wronged somebody else. 00:23:08.040 |
So burnt offering, in a sense, is repenting with God. 00:23:13.500 |
Guilt offering, all of this is a repentance before God, but guilt offering has to do with 00:23:17.320 |
offense that you've committed against somebody else. 00:23:20.000 |
So all of these things are different kinds of offerings that relate to your personal 00:23:25.080 |
relationship or a corporate relationship with God. 00:23:29.480 |
And every one of these were necessary in order to have the holy God be in the midst of the 00:23:37.160 |
He's not going to just show up and just sit anywhere. 00:23:40.240 |
That sin needed to be dealt with, and this was God's remedy of how sin was going to be 00:23:48.720 |
So the burnt offering, or oftentimes it's called the whole offering, and the reason 00:23:53.520 |
why it's called whole offering is because all of it is burnt up. 00:23:56.680 |
There's not a—only part that's not presented to God is the skin. 00:24:02.520 |
They would use the skin for, you know, obviously for various reasons, but the offering as a 00:24:08.740 |
And we'll talk about the significance of that, okay? 00:24:11.560 |
The purpose of this offering, it was the most important of the five offerings because of 00:24:27.040 |
Every day, morning and night, the burnt offering was offered. 00:24:30.980 |
Not only was the burnt offering offered every single day, it was offered when other offerings 00:24:37.800 |
In other words, because this was the sacrifice that represented general atonement for sin, 00:24:44.780 |
you couldn't get to God to offer the other sacrifices until this was given. 00:24:51.640 |
Remember when Jesus says to the disciples, he says that, "If you do not allow me to 00:24:56.600 |
wash your feet, I have no relationship with you," and Peter says, "Then wash my whole 00:25:00.480 |
body," and says, "He who has bathed does not need to bathe again," right? 00:25:06.400 |
He's talking about the general atonement, right? 00:25:09.400 |
"He who has repented and sins have been justified does not need justification over and over 00:25:17.480 |
But because you walk on this earth, your feet's going to get dirty, so you need to continue 00:25:23.800 |
To constantly live in repentance and forgiveness. 00:25:28.280 |
So this burnt offering represented the general atonement for the nation of Israel, and it 00:25:34.040 |
had to be given repeatedly over and over again. 00:25:36.840 |
Even the sins that you were not aware of, it's just constantly coming before God, recognizing 00:25:45.520 |
These sins that you knew of, sins that you didn't know of. 00:25:48.640 |
So oftentimes if somebody wanted to come and give a peace offering, they would give this 00:25:52.840 |
offering first, to get right with God, and then they would give a peace offering. 00:25:57.760 |
So if they want to give a guilt offering, they would give this offering, and then they 00:26:02.760 |
So this was the most prominent and the most important of all the offerings, because of 00:26:07.440 |
its frequency and because of its meaning, okay? 00:26:13.200 |
Now I want you to remember all of this, because so much of the language in the New Testament 00:26:17.880 |
about Christ's sacrifice is specifically referring to this offering, okay? 00:26:24.640 |
It was a general offering given to establish peace with God for the atonement for sins. 00:26:29.580 |
So if you have your Bibles open, turn to Leviticus chapter 1. 00:26:43.960 |
Can somebody with a loud voice read verse 3 and 4? 00:27:09.440 |
If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, 00:27:14.160 |
he shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before 00:27:20.940 |
This offering is to be given in order for him to be accepted before the Lord. 00:27:25.540 |
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him 00:27:31.640 |
So the idea of this, the meaning behind this offering is so that God would be able to accept 00:27:43.100 |
So when we talk about the idea of atonement, obviously the bigger idea comes from the day 00:27:49.200 |
But the sacrifice that the nation of Israel would have immediately thought of when they 00:27:54.040 |
thought of atonement is probably this sacrifice, right? 00:27:58.840 |
So when you and I think of atonement, we think of like propitiation, we think of all these 00:28:05.280 |
Maybe you watched a movie of somebody going rescuing somebody, you know what I mean? 00:28:09.040 |
So we have these imageries of somebody who is lost or maybe a ship that's lost in the 00:28:14.560 |
ocean and a lifeboat going out and getting the life, you know what I mean? 00:28:19.120 |
Lifeguards going and jumping into the water, saving them, strapping them. 00:28:22.040 |
So when we think of rescue, we have our own idea of what rescue means because of images 00:28:27.640 |
that we've seen, the illustrations and the stories that we've heard. 00:28:31.320 |
Israelites, when they thought of atonement, sacrifice, immediately this was the picture 00:28:39.520 |
This is, they had no TV, they had no Facebook. 00:28:42.680 |
This is, in some sense, this is a form of entertainment, right? 00:28:46.560 |
Maybe that's a crude way to put it, but that's basically their stimulus was God deliberately 00:28:51.960 |
gave the whole nation of Israel front row seats. 00:28:56.040 |
Now it is tented, but this tent does not go that high. 00:29:01.720 |
I don't know the exact height, but basically if you put somebody on your shoulder and they 00:29:06.360 |
sat on your shoulder and looked over, you could actually see the sacrifices. 00:29:09.560 |
So this tent, the outer walls aren't that high. 00:29:13.840 |
So if you wanted to, not that you should, the nation of Israel, this was not like a 00:29:19.400 |
fortress where they went into a cave where no one could see, right? 00:29:23.520 |
This was right at the center and God gave every single tribe front row seats to what 00:29:29.760 |
This was happening for 40 years before they went into the temple. 00:29:33.280 |
So a Jew would have thought at that time, atonement, this is the sacrifice, right? 00:29:40.680 |
And so we're going to go over exactly what they did because every part of that teaches 00:29:45.240 |
us what happened with Christ and what it means for us, okay? 00:29:54.160 |
Even the word atonement itself in Hebrew, kippur, I'm probably not saying that right, 00:30:01.800 |
One of the meanings is to wipe clean and the other is to pay a ransom, right? 00:30:07.680 |
So in this context, which one is he referring to, to wipe clean or to pay a ransom? 00:30:12.400 |
It's most likely both because you can't have one without the other. 00:30:18.840 |
You can't ransom, you can't pay for someone's sins until the sins are wiped clean. 00:30:24.220 |
So the idea of atonement has a sense of cleansing and ransoming, right? 00:30:31.280 |
So in the New Testament, when the word ransom is used, again, this is the sacrifice and 00:30:38.040 |
the imagery that they probably had more than any other sacrifice outside of the yearly 00:30:42.960 |
day of atonement and the sacrifices that happened once a year. 00:30:49.920 |
And he says all of this is a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 00:30:58.560 |
So all of this was a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 00:31:09.840 |
You know, Genesis 8, 20 through 21, if you know the context, you know, this is after 00:31:14.760 |
the flood happens, the world is wiped out and only Noah's family exists. 00:31:18.800 |
And after the flood dies down, they come out and Noah gives a sacrifice. 00:31:25.840 |
"Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of 00:31:29.880 |
every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar." 00:31:38.000 |
Yet Noah is giving the burnt offering, right? 00:31:48.300 |
So then why is he introducing it in Leviticus, right? 00:31:52.680 |
It was already innately understood that sacrifices needed to be made in order to atone for their 00:31:58.520 |
But the book of Leviticus is specifically pointing to the coming of Christ, right? 00:32:06.280 |
So the general understanding of sacrifice already existed. 00:32:10.240 |
And we see that even with Cain and Abel, right? 00:32:14.920 |
So the sacrifice was not introduced in Leviticus. 00:32:16.920 |
It was there from the very beginning of the fall. 00:32:19.840 |
But what's happening is as time goes by, God is basically honing in, right? 00:32:25.680 |
Basically this, what do you call it, the shadow is becoming a bit more clearer. 00:32:36.040 |
You can see a shadow where the outline is not clear, but you clearly see it's a human 00:32:40.760 |
But as the shadow draws closer to the screen, you can see that the outline isn't just, it's 00:32:45.800 |
not a blurry blob, but now you can kind of see the hair. 00:32:49.720 |
And then as he comes and he puts his face right up on it, and you say, "Oh, okay, I 00:32:54.000 |
So that's basically what's happening in the Old Testament. 00:32:55.840 |
You see a fuzzy picture, right, of the sacrifice. 00:32:59.240 |
And then as time goes by, God gives more instructions, and the more instruction he gives is becoming 00:33:06.080 |
So Leviticus is basically that sacrificial sacrifice that was needed is coming closer 00:33:11.840 |
And we're beginning to see what he's pointing to, eventually. 00:33:16.280 |
So what's interesting here is it says, "When the Lord smelled," what? 00:33:22.920 |
It was because of Noah's sacrifice, and it was pleasing to him. 00:33:27.280 |
The Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man. 00:33:31.680 |
For the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth, neither will I again strike down 00:33:37.600 |
So God makes a covenant with Noah that he's never going to do this again. 00:33:47.340 |
Because it was a pleasing offering to God, right? 00:33:50.040 |
So this burnt offering in Leviticus chapter 1 was an offering that the nation of Israel 00:33:58.280 |
To please him, to be in his presence, to appease his wrath, right? 00:34:02.720 |
And eventually, this offering was going to be replaced by the ultimate sacrifice, which 00:34:19.880 |
Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." 00:34:23.800 |
So again, so much of the language of the New Testament about not only the sacrifice of 00:34:30.000 |
God, sacrifices of the sacrificial system, but even the language of calling us to live 00:34:36.560 |
righteous lives, again, all of these vocabularies are all coming from the sacrificial system. 00:34:41.880 |
Philippians 4, 13, "I have received full payment and more, and I am well supplied, having received 00:34:47.480 |
from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, fragrant offering, pleasing offering, a sacrifice acceptable 00:34:54.480 |
Okay, so this is just to show you how much Leviticus is saturated in the New Testament. 00:35:01.800 |
Okay, this is the part I really want you guys to pay attention. 00:35:06.440 |
Not that I want you to not pay attention to the other stuff, but... 00:35:23.580 |
First of all, the animal must be brought by its owner into the outer court of the tabernacle. 00:35:36.560 |
So when he comes to the outer court of the tabernacle entrance to the Tent of Meeting, 00:35:40.880 |
right, this is where he brings it, and this is where it is determined if the worshiper 00:35:44.560 |
and the animal brought for sacrifice was to be inspected, if they were acceptable to enter. 00:35:50.080 |
Now, the complete instruction of what was necessary is not mentioned here, right? 00:35:55.640 |
Because this only refers to the sacrifice itself. 00:35:59.440 |
If you look at the complete instruction, there's regulations on not only defect for the animal, 00:36:07.880 |
So if you had any kind of defect, or if you had any kind of disease, or not only did the 00:36:13.000 |
sacrifice need to be perfect, but the sacrificer also had to be perfect, because he... 00:36:17.720 |
Or certain things would disqualify him from entering into the tabernacle, right? 00:36:23.280 |
Which was, again, I'm not going to go too deep into this, but remember in the Book of 00:36:27.440 |
Acts, you had the eunuch from Ethiopia, how he was a God-fearer, and he was in Jerusalem, 00:36:36.320 |
Philip the evangelist, he runs into him, and he says he was coming back from his worshipping 00:36:42.960 |
Yahweh in Jerusalem, and then remember he says, "If somebody doesn't explain to me Isaiah 00:36:50.440 |
And he explains, and he hears about Christ, and then he converts and he gets baptized, 00:36:57.600 |
Because in the narrative of what's happening with the gospel, Ethiopian just comes out 00:37:02.520 |
of nowhere, and then he disappears, and never appears again. 00:37:05.880 |
There's significance behind that, because the scripture says he would have been disqualified, 00:37:10.760 |
one because he's an Ethiopian, he's not a Jew. 00:37:13.920 |
And so he probably went all the way to the temple, and he was never allowed to go into 00:37:21.960 |
And so the fact that he converts, and he gets baptized, the hostility that caused him to 00:37:28.320 |
be separated from God and his people would have been broken. 00:37:31.800 |
So the significance of that event, of the Ethiopian's conversion, is that the door is 00:37:36.680 |
now being opened to everyone who was considered to be unclean. 00:37:41.640 |
Gentile, people who had diseases, who were maimed or blind, women, it was the door got 00:37:52.220 |
And so again, that's the significance of the Ethiopian conversion, and so what he's describing 00:37:57.680 |
here is not comprehensive, it's specific for the animals, but he was to come to the outer 00:38:02.800 |
court, and at the outer court the priests would come, they would inspect the animal 00:38:09.740 |
And he had to be, what, without blemish, it had to be perfect. 00:38:14.320 |
Now where does that, how does that help us in our imagery of God, of Christ's sacrifice? 00:38:24.100 |
He who knew no sin became sin so that we may become the righteousness of God. 00:38:27.780 |
So he was the perfect sacrifice without defect, the Lamb of God. 00:38:32.340 |
That's where this imagery, the idea comes from. 00:38:35.340 |
That's why when Jesus went to, remember when he went to the wilderness and he was tested 00:38:40.460 |
by the devil, the significance of that was if he failed, he would have been disqualified 00:38:49.580 |
So it wouldn't have mattered what he did the 30 years up to that point or the next three 00:38:53.780 |
years, no matter how powerful he was, if he failed that test, he would have been disqualified. 00:39:00.020 |
Instead of failing that test, what does he do? 00:39:02.660 |
He comes out of that, and though all of mankind failed, right? 00:39:07.860 |
It was lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, lust of pride of life, every human being has 00:39:13.780 |
Jesus comes out of there in flying colors, and he puts the devil to shame. 00:39:18.620 |
And the significance of that was to testify that Jesus was the perfect Lamb. 00:39:27.500 |
So that was his credential that qualified him for the sacrifice for mankind. 00:39:34.220 |
That's why that testing in the wilderness is so significant. 00:39:40.780 |
I hope it really sings sin because this is so rich. 00:39:45.460 |
What you understood about Christ, like it was all in Leviticus already. 00:39:52.380 |
It could have been a cattle, sheep, or goat, or birds, and why were there three separate 00:39:59.740 |
It's not mentioned here, but it's God made provision for the rich, the middle class, 00:40:07.580 |
So if you happen to be a sojourner, if you didn't have as much money, God made provision 00:40:14.420 |
And you have to understand that in the Old Testament time, this period, that Israelites 00:40:23.100 |
So for them to offer up a sacrifice of these animals, financially, it was a huge burden. 00:40:31.220 |
So this was not just something that they had thousands of, and they just went out and picked 00:40:36.940 |
This is something that, you know, this peace offering that they actually had a meal was 00:40:43.820 |
So every one of these sacrifices they offered up to God was a big hit in their finances. 00:40:51.300 |
So these are sacrifices that actually meant something. 00:40:55.940 |
Not only was it a physical sacrifice, it was a financial sacrifice. 00:41:02.700 |
The most common offering, and understandably, was the male goat or the sheep. 00:41:09.100 |
The bull would have been very expensive, right? 00:41:13.020 |
And then you had the chicken that was provisioned for the poor, and so that was only, if you 00:41:17.460 |
couldn't afford anything, that's only the poor. 00:41:19.300 |
So the majority of the people would have been the middle class. 00:41:22.140 |
And the middle class, even in the desert, there would have been some people who had 00:41:25.780 |
And so the most common offering would have been the middle offering, right? 00:41:29.740 |
So the male sheep without blemish, which is Jesus Christ, right? 00:41:35.820 |
That's why he's called not the bull or the bird, but the Lamb of God, right? 00:41:41.500 |
Because this was the image that the Israelites saw and smelled and tasted and touched on 00:41:51.900 |
The sight of a lamb being slaughtered and blood being gushed out for the atonement of 00:41:56.300 |
your sins was a daily routine that they saw, right? 00:42:01.260 |
Every Jewish child would have seen it, touched it, and had some experience killing an animal, 00:42:14.620 |
When he reaches the entrance of the tent of the meeting, he would lay hands, okay? 00:42:19.720 |
So right here, and that would be the acceptance. 00:42:22.620 |
He would lay hands on the animal, and the laying on of hands signify union with the 00:42:32.420 |
And it signified that animals would be sacrificed on behalf of the worshippers. 00:42:36.020 |
So when this animal sacrifices, vicariously, I am being sacrificed for this animal. 00:42:41.820 |
So basically, this animal represents me in this system. 00:42:46.900 |
And that's so he would lay his hands, so once the priest says it's acceptable, right, that 00:42:55.140 |
Again, all of this, right, is clearly pointing to Christ. 00:43:02.020 |
Laying of hands, that's why in the New Testament it says in ordination to not to be hasty, 00:43:07.420 |
because when you lay hands on somebody, it means you're uniting with that person. 00:43:10.840 |
So the idea of laying on of hands in the New Testament isn't somebody in authority giving 00:43:17.940 |
I have power, and I'm asserting power and giving some of it to you. 00:43:22.740 |
Laying hands basically means that we are becoming one. 00:43:25.840 |
And that's why, I'm not sure if I have that passage here. 00:43:40.060 |
All right, so can somebody turn to 1 Timothy chapter 5, 22? 00:44:19.580 |
Verse 22 is, "Do not be hasty in laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others." 00:44:33.460 |
So if you lay hands hastily, that person's sin, because you're uniting with that person, 00:44:41.060 |
So the idea of laying on of hands is not, at least in the biblical sense, isn't I have 00:44:49.300 |
Only God has that power, and we're not kings. 00:44:52.580 |
It basically is saying we watched their life, we tested them, and we're united with that 00:44:57.580 |
So we lay hands when we pray, and we're sending missionaries off, we lay hands on them saying 00:45:02.540 |
that we're going to, in spirit and in prayer, we're going with you. 00:45:06.540 |
When we ordain people into ministry, we're saying that we're basically inviting him to 00:45:16.500 |
And so if you do this hastily, you're going to sin along with his sins. 00:45:21.580 |
So that's why he's saying be careful not to do that hastily. 00:45:24.260 |
And so the idea of laying on of hands in the Old Testament, in the sacrifice, is I lay 00:45:28.980 |
my hands on this animal, and him and I are one, but then this animal is going to take 00:45:42.300 |
So the person offering the sacrifice is commanded to kill the animal. 00:45:45.500 |
So in this particular, this is not true of all the sacrifices, but in the burnt offering, 00:45:56.120 |
He doesn't just come and lay hands and then shoves and then he disappears. 00:46:01.580 |
He actually has to pick up the knife, and he has to slit the throat. 00:46:09.300 |
And then after that happens, he has to cut the animal into pieces, and he has to do all 00:46:14.900 |
of this, all for the purpose of the sacrifice. 00:46:21.100 |
The word for kill, shahad, is not the typical word for killing. 00:46:27.820 |
This is a specific Levitical term that's reserved for sacrificial offering. 00:46:35.400 |
So again, a Jew who would have read this in Hebrew would have clearly been able to understand 00:46:39.740 |
that he wasn't just killing the animal, he was sacrificing the animal, specifically for 00:46:44.780 |
So in all purposes, he is killing this animal, but it was specifically for the purpose of 00:46:50.700 |
sacrifice, and it was reserved for sacrificial slaughter. 00:46:54.980 |
The word denotes a specific ritual killing and ensured the blood was drained out of the 00:46:58.620 |
animal's body, which then the blood was offered to God. 00:47:13.980 |
And then the priest would take the blood and sprinkle the sides of the altar. 00:47:27.060 |
He would come into the court, wait for the priest to come. 00:47:30.980 |
The priest examines the animal, examines the person, and is acceptable. 00:47:35.780 |
When it's accepted, he would lay his hands on the animal, ready to be slaughtered. 00:47:39.700 |
And once that happens, he would pick up his knife and he would go to the north side of 00:47:45.260 |
the altar, and then he would kill the animal. 00:47:48.580 |
And he would drain the animal of its blood, this ritual killing. 00:47:52.300 |
And he would wait until the life of the animal was completely out of him, and when it was 00:47:57.140 |
lifeless and limp, he would take that animal, cut off its head, open up its intestines, 00:48:03.340 |
take all of these things out, cut off its limbs, take it to, remember, that basin, and 00:48:10.620 |
And then he would skin the animal, and then the priest would take the blood, and then 00:48:14.860 |
you see that altar, and he would take this blood. 00:48:18.140 |
Imagine if it was a goat, I mean, how much blood there would be. 00:48:23.060 |
Imagine how much blood there would be if it was a bull. 00:48:24.920 |
He would take all that blood, and then he would carry it with him and just sprinkle 00:48:29.940 |
And that sprinkling signifies cleansing, ritual cleansing, getting prepared. 00:48:34.940 |
And then once he would do that, he would take all of the sacrifice, put it on the altar, 00:48:42.500 |
So you have to understand that Israelites were not normally eating meat because it was 00:48:54.620 |
I mean, this is a sheep or goat that, you know, if you normally slaughtered it and brought 00:49:01.180 |
it into a dinner table, it would have been delicious. 00:49:04.100 |
But they weren't allowed to touch any of that in this ritual. 00:49:07.220 |
The only thing that they were able to preserve was the skin, and that was offered to the 00:49:11.860 |
priest for them to use for maybe tents or whatever it is that they were going to use 00:49:17.020 |
And that's why this is called the whole offering. 00:49:20.360 |
And so the significance of this whole offering for the atonement is that every single part 00:49:34.540 |
That's why this represents most closely to the sacrifice of Christ, that He didn't just 00:49:47.200 |
And it signifies, even for our own salvation, that when we repent, our repentance isn't 00:49:52.520 |
just compartmental, like, "I repent because I did this on Saturday, so I did this, and 00:49:59.700 |
This repentance justification, when we come before God and we repent, we don't repent 00:50:03.340 |
because we lied, because our sin's much deeper than that. 00:50:08.980 |
We don't just repent because we have purity issues or we have the... 00:50:13.100 |
This offering basically signified that this sin is so deep, there's nothing to be salvaged. 00:50:20.740 |
That's why when we convert, He says, "You must be born again." 00:50:25.580 |
That whatever it is that you were before is crucified and is gone. 00:50:33.020 |
All of it, all of it is crucified with Christ, and all of it is redeemed by the blood of 00:50:39.500 |
Again, the significance of it being the whole offering. 00:50:43.820 |
Now I'm going to show you the bloody part, okay? 00:50:47.900 |
And let me explain to you why I want you to see it. 00:50:51.940 |
Because God deliberately left this imprint on the Israelites. 00:51:02.620 |
Can you dim the light so we can have even a better picture? 00:51:05.380 |
If you haven't eaten, I want you to really see it. 00:51:10.140 |
Just dim it as much as you need to so that you can see it. 00:51:27.780 |
I wish you could see it better, but this is the best that we can do for now. 00:51:58.340 |
Now, this probably, this is a tame version, right? 00:52:03.240 |
If you came in and actually sacrificed, this was not something that you just came into. 00:52:09.600 |
That, you know, I heard some of you guys gasping when you saw the head of that goat. 00:52:16.100 |
If you came to sacrifice, you would have done that and you would have put that on the floor. 00:52:26.500 |
So, you know, for somebody like him who butchers for a living, I'm sure he doesn't get shocked 00:52:31.580 |
But for most of us who didn't grow, you know, grow on farms or animals, I mean, it's kind 00:52:36.900 |
But every single Israelite had a front row seat to this sacrifice. 00:52:44.100 |
And every single one of them probably stepped in a pool of blood on a regular basis. 00:52:51.280 |
Why did he leave this bloody scene that's so gruesome? 00:52:56.060 |
In fact, what you're seeing is probably on a daily basis. 00:52:59.620 |
Can you imagine what the temple of God, temple looked like during the Passover? 00:53:05.920 |
They said that somewhere around 70,000 lambs were offered during the Passover at the temple. 00:53:12.460 |
And so can you imagine just slaughtering 70,000 animals all for the purpose of just sacrifice? 00:53:18.900 |
So all of this, so all of these sacrifices, the priests and the order, all of that culminated 00:53:26.920 |
And at the Day of Atonement is this for every single person in Israel. 00:53:32.460 |
So can you imagine what that slaughter would have looked like? 00:53:36.080 |
And then they have to take this blood, not only sprinkle it around the altar, the priests 00:53:39.500 |
have to take that and enter into the Holy of Holies and then make it a bloody scene. 00:53:43.600 |
So typically when you see the tabernacle, inside of the tabernacle, you see nice, clean, 00:53:49.260 |
shined furniture with golden lamp stands, because that's probably what it looked like 00:53:58.020 |
Imagine just one use in one year, after the blood is sprinkled all over for the sins of 00:54:04.700 |
Israel against the curtains, against the curtains of the tabernacle, everything, right? 00:54:11.660 |
The Ark of the Covenant, it was just saturated with blood. 00:54:19.700 |
All of this was basically to give a physical image of our sins. 00:54:29.460 |
And it was a physical illustration of the need for this atonement. 00:54:36.340 |
So when a Jew thought about the sacrifice, he basically was schooled for thousands of 00:54:49.380 |
When we come into the New Testament, we talk about atonement, sacrifice, the Lamb of God, 00:54:53.780 |
we all kind of project our own idea and we kind of water it down to make it palatable 00:55:06.980 |
Because again, every part of this reveals the gruesomeness of our sins and the necessity 00:55:15.180 |
of what was needed, what this multiply million by million to atone for our sins. 00:55:23.380 |
So I think it is extremely important that you and I grasp the gravity of our sins because 00:55:33.860 |
Hebrews chapter 9, 18-26, "Therefore, not even the first covenant was inaugurated without 00:55:40.700 |
But when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, 00:55:43.940 |
he took the blood of calves and goats, the water and scarlet wool in his sip, and sprinkled 00:55:48.340 |
both the book itself and all the people, saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant that God 00:55:54.420 |
And in the same way, he sprinkled with blood both the tent and all the vessels used in 00:55:59.540 |
Indeed, under the law, almost everything is purified with blood." 00:56:03.740 |
It was just everything in the tabernacle was saturated with blood. 00:56:06.980 |
"And without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins. 00:56:10.580 |
Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these 00:56:13.820 |
rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 00:56:17.780 |
For Christ has entered not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true 00:56:23.460 |
things, but into heaven itself, not to appear in the presence of God on our behalf, nor 00:56:27.980 |
was it to offer himself repeatedly as the high priest enters the holy places every year 00:56:34.360 |
For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. 00:56:38.480 |
But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by 00:56:45.460 |
So all of this bloody scene was simply a shadow of the reality that Jesus was going to fulfill 00:56:50.660 |
in reality with his blood, with his body, with his life, all of it. 00:57:00.100 |
And so after the killing, he would chop up the animals and then the priest would burn 00:57:06.580 |
The worshipers was to wash the hind legs and the internal organs in the basin. 00:57:12.880 |
And then the priest burned everything, all of it. 00:57:41.020 |
Well the children were considered men after the age of 13. 00:57:46.620 |
But typically it was the men represented the families. 00:57:57.620 |
And I think the passage in Romans chapter 12, "I appeal to you therefore brothers, by 00:58:02.060 |
the mercy of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, 00:58:07.180 |
And again, a Jew hearing this would have probably, you know, same words, but with him would have 00:58:14.780 |
been coupled with that imagery of his complete sacrifice, a dead animal, right? 00:58:21.900 |
And so finally, burnt offering is ultimately fulfilled in Christ. 00:58:32.980 |
And I just have a few verses to, 1 Peter 1, 18, 19, "Knowing that you were ransomed from 00:58:38.940 |
the feudal ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver 00:58:43.340 |
or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot." 00:58:50.820 |
Mark 10, 45, "For even the son of man came not to be served, but to serve and to give 00:58:57.140 |
1 Peter 2, 5, "You yourselves, like living stones, are being built up as a spiritual 00:59:01.340 |
house to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus 00:59:07.540 |
So again, all of the language in the New Testament, it has its origination in the specific teachings 00:59:20.860 |
Just going into New Testament is kind of like, you know, you have, you know, let's say you 00:59:24.540 |
have, I don't know, English 101 or History 101, 201, 301, 401. 00:59:35.040 |
So you have to take it in order, but if you jump in and only know the New Testament, it's 00:59:39.760 |
kind of like jumping into the 301, 401 class without taking the foundation. 00:59:46.860 |
You need to know how the plus and minuses work before you get the calculus. 00:59:50.700 |
And so New Testament is kind of like the building that was built upon the foundation, but the 00:59:59.880 |
This is part of the reason why I wanted you to come into the book of Leviticus is because 01:00:04.680 |
it really opens up the New Testament to help you to understand, right? 01:00:09.700 |
It's not, it may not change, but it'll make your understanding of the gospel and Jesus' 01:00:14.540 |
sacrifices so much richer if you really understood where it came from. 01:00:23.520 |
In school, and this is related to, again, how God is using illustration to teach Israel 01:00:31.320 |
In school, what lesson do you remember the most and why? 01:00:38.280 |
And I remember the lesson about photosynthesis during a period that I could care less what 01:00:46.660 |
And to this day, I remember that lesson because our, my biology teacher in 10th grade dressed 01:00:54.360 |
up as a crazy professor, and he was also our baseball coach. 01:00:58.620 |
And so he dressed up as a professor and he laid down photosynthesis on the ground and 01:01:03.620 |
with his thick German accent, and he spent the whole hour jumping around showing us. 01:01:08.220 |
And again, this is during a period where I could care less. 01:01:12.540 |
I'm not even sure why I was in class that day. 01:01:16.940 |
But I remember so distinctly that lesson, that particular lesson. 01:01:22.100 |
If he sat there and he shared with me, like, talked about photosynthesis, I probably wouldn't 01:01:30.060 |
But I remember that day because he illustrated. 01:01:32.020 |
He went out of his way to illustrate with pictures and being dressed up and with his 01:01:37.660 |
accent running around animated for over an hour. 01:01:44.700 |
This was so important that God made the priest dress up and he set up this system because 01:01:52.580 |
he wanted to make sure, he wanted to make sure that his people understood what was coming 01:02:09.660 |
In what way do you think the burnt offerings appeared, prepared the Israelites for the 01:02:14.220 |
sacrifice of Jesus for our sins on the cross? 01:02:17.900 |
And then third, what is one thing you would be willing to sacrifice everything to have? 01:02:27.020 |
You're willing to sacrifice everything to have. 01:02:31.060 |
Four, God calls us to be a living sacrifice as an act of worship in light of Jesus' sacrifice 01:02:40.060 |
Is your life a burnt offering, whole offering given to the Lord's use, or are you holding 01:02:46.100 |
Would a partial sacrifice of the Lord been accepted in the Old Testament? 01:02:50.260 |
You think any part of that offering would have been accepted if they said, "You know 01:02:58.100 |
What if I gave 90% of it and I held this back and took it home and ate it? 01:03:05.260 |
Would that sacrifice would have been accepted? 01:03:09.620 |
This sacrifice represented all of us, every part of us. 01:03:13.500 |
So Romans chapter 12, when it says, "Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice," He's not 01:03:23.420 |
So let me pray for us, and then again, I'll break you guys off and take some time in your 01:03:36.620 |
There's so much in your Word, Lord, that we have yet to discover. 01:03:42.580 |
So much, Lord God, that we've just kind of gleaned through because we didn't understand 01:03:50.220 |
Help us, Lord God, to uncover these treasures. 01:03:54.560 |
If your sacrifice of your Son in any way has become trivial to us, old news, something 01:04:04.220 |
that we've heard so often that it's hard for us to even muster up any emotions, I pray 01:04:14.220 |
that the study of Leviticus would help us to visually see what it is that you've done 01:04:19.820 |
for us, that we may be moved, impacted, stirred, and convicted, Lord God, that you would renew 01:04:32.020 |
I pray that you would bless our time of discussion, help us to be honest and open in our weaknesses, 01:04:37.260 |
that we would truly be able to partner together, covering over our weaknesses and sharpening