00:00 Introduction and Podcast Update

00:43 Valentine's Day Origins and Traditions

03:18 Bible Reading: Leviticus 5-7 Overview

03:49 Sins of Omission and Purification Offerings

06:00 Reparation for Defiling Holy Things

07:04 General Rules for Unintentional Sins

07:30 Breaking Oaths and Guilt Offerings

08:09 Instructions for Burnt and Grain Offerings

09:43 Peace Offerings and Fellowship

10:27 Prohibitions on Fat and Blood Consumption

10:54 Care for the Priests

11:14 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

Hey everybody, welcome back to another

edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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I've got some Bad news.

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And that is that we are short my

partner in crime on the podcast.

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He is, uh, at home

recovering, trying to rest up.

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He's a little bit under the weather

right now as so many people are.

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So you can be praying for pastor Rob,

but he's already eagerly anticipating

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being back with us to record again.

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So hopefully it's just a couple of

days and he'll be back full strength.

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Um, But yeah, no fun right now.

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There's a lot of this flu

bug that's going around.

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I think that's what a lot of people have.

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I don't know that that's exactly

what Pastor Rod has, but it's

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just seems to be decimating the

population around North Texas here.

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And so hopefully you're staying

healthy and having a happy

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Valentine's Day at the same time.

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It is February 14th and that is

the day known as Valentine's Day.

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And it got me wondering as I was thinking

about Hit and record on this podcast,

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just where it comes from and who St.

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Valentine was.

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And, uh, there's debate on, on

which Valentine was the one that

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is, is responsible for the day.

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There's two Valentines out there.

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There's also a, a Western Valentine's

day, which is February 14th,

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which is what we celebrate here.

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And there's also one celebrated by the.

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Eastern Church, the Eastern

Orthodox Church on July 6th.

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So, um, men, if you didn't get the

flowers in time for Valentine's Day

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today, maybe you can say, Hey, we're

going to shift and celebrate the Eastern

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Valentine's Day on July 6th instead.

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And that'll buy you some, some time,

but it's kind of strange that there's,

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it's a bit of an enigma wrapped

in a mystery, uh, about why we.

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Celebrate Valentine's Day, and it

has to do with love and exchanging

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cards and candy at school in the

such there's nothing per se about

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Valentine himself that speaks to

this, um, his death was, uh, the day

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of Valentine's Day, February 14th.

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That's the day it's commemorated

and remembered and celebrated.

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And there was a feast in the early

church to remember him as one of the

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martyrs, uh, But there's not really a

whole lot there to suggest cupid and,

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and, uh, you know, the, the love and

the, and the, the, the, let me buy my

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kids Valentine's day cards and have them

drop them in various boxes at school.

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And the things, it seems to be a little

bit of a mashup that, that people

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just noted at one point in time, it

was believed during the middle ages

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that this first came to be around the

time that Jeffrey Chaucer was writing

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before Chaucer, nobody really connected

Valentine's day and romance at all.

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But it was during his time and his

writings and then coupled with just the

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idea that February the springtime was the

time where birds seem to pair together

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in the such that this was when romance

got associated with Valentine's Day.

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So, uh, there you go.

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I, uh, maybe you already knew that.

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Maybe you have.

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Had an itch about why Valentine's

day has anything to do with romance.

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And, and hopefully that scratched it a

little bit, although not sufficiently

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because I still am confused about

Valentine and Valentine's day.

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If you have more information on that,

feel free to write in podcast at compass,

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NTX dot O R G and inform us, let us know

this is where the Valentine's traditions

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come from, but happy Valentine's

day to those who celebrate, I hope

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you have a great day going out and

waiting for a long time to get a table.

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To have dinner with your spouse or

boyfriend or girlfriend, if that

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may be the situation that you're in.

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Um, yeah, it's going to

be a Friday night too.

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I know for Amanda and I, a lot of times we

would try to celebrate Valentine's Day on

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a different day of the week just because

we didn't want to go out with all of the

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crowds and, uh, and run into all that.

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Although now that I'm saying

that out loud, I think we're

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planning on going out tonight.

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So, uh, wow.

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There you go.

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I guess we will be waiting

for a table ourselves too.

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So hopefully we'll see some of you

out there also waiting for tables,

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depending on where you're going.

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But let's jump into our

Bible reading for today.

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Leviticus five, six, and seven

Leviticus five, six, and seven.

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Um, remember.

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Keep pressing on in the midst of it.

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There's, there's purpose.

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There's, uh, there's, there's substance

to everything that we're reading here.

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This is not just to

fill pages in the Bible.

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There's not a single word of

God's word that is filler.

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There's not a single word

in the Bible that is there

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just to create a longer book.

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There's significance to all of this,

and not just for the Israelites,

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but also for you and I today.

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There's principles for us to take away.

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And so we come to Leviticus 5.

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Verses 1 through 13, we get into

sins of what are called omissions.

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Sins of omission.

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These are sins that might be related

to something that a person fails to do

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without realizing, but later comes to

realize it and then confesses it as sin.

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Sins of omission may be something akin

to somebody who didn't realize that

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part of being a follower of Christ is,

is to, is to serve the body of Christ.

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And so they come to realize that later and

they They may be repent of that and say,

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I want to go and I want to use the gift.

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The spirit has given me to serve the

body of Christ, to build up the body

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of Christ, something along those

lines, or maybe a sin of a mission.

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Maybe as a new believer or a believer

for a period of time, uh, you don't

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realize that part of our, our sacrifice

and worship of the Lord is giving.

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To him and giving to the church.

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And so to realize that, and then to go

back and correct that that's, that's

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an example today of a sin of omission.

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And that was the case back

here in the time of Israel.

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When somebody was made aware of that, they

would have to confess that and seek the

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purification for that versus six through

13, then the purification offering.

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Uh, here the blood is going to be

sprinkled on the altar and the rest

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is going to be poured out on his base.

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And the blood sprinkled on the altar

is, uh, the, the, the sanctification,

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uh, element there that the

holiness, the, the consecration.

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The carcass of the animal

offered there is then going to

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be offered as a burnt offering.

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And then again, if they couldn't

afford that, God was gracious

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and provided an alternative.

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If they couldn't afford a lamb

or a goat for the offering, they

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could bring a couple of birds.

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Uh, but if, if they couldn't,

could not even afford that, then

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they could have a handful of

flour and that would be accepted.

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Again, God is, uh, he

wants to be forgiving.

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He is a merciful and gracious God.

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And so he's trying to make it as.

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That's the wrong concept, but

he's trying to not put an.

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Unnecessary barrier between somebody

and forgiveness and even think just

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how the Catholic Church then has taken

this over the course of their history

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and perverted something like this where

Absolution and indulgences that somehow

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you could gain more Uh, forgiveness

through your financial means and those

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that didn't have the same financial means.

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Well, they didn't have the same access to

that forgiveness that the wealthier did.

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This is exactly the opposite of what

God's doing here in Leviticus five.

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He's saying, look, if you

can't afford this, that's okay.

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Bring a couple of turtle doves.

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If you can't afford the birds, okay,

then bring a handful of flower.

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The point was bring something that's

going to cost something sacrificial to

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remind you of the payment for the sin.

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Uh, chapter five, verses 14 through 16.

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Then, uh, this is where we get

into reparation or restoration

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for defiling the holy things.

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If there was something that was holy,

something that was consecrated, uh,

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to be used only for the worship of

God, that, and that was defiled.

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Um, then there needed to be

reparation or restitution made.

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This was an unintentional

act that we're talking about.

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Wherein the person most likely

took some food that had been set

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aside after being offered to Yahweh

and set aside for the priest.

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Maybe they took some of that for

themselves without realizing it.

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A breach of faith is how it's described.

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It's, it's a treacherous act,

even though maybe not intentional,

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it's, it's still severe.

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It's significant.

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This is the same concept as adultery,

very strong language, even for this.

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Unintentional sin.

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Why?

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Because the things that are

the Lord's belong to him.

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And so for somebody to defile those

things, uh, would have been treated

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quite seriously by the Lord at this time.

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But.

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Again, he is a God that delights

to forgive and wants to forgive.

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And so he's going to give that as a

means of how somebody can be forgiven

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through, uh, through the restitution.

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He would repay whatever he took

and add one fifth to the total

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and give that then to the priests.

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All right.

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Verses 17 through 19

general rules here for.

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Unintentional sins.

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Uh, this is the person who feels they

are guilty of a sin, but is unsure

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of perhaps what sin they committed.

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Again, I want you to pay attention to the,

the generousness of God's grace and mercy.

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He is even willing to take the

person that says, you know what?

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I just, I feel like maybe I wronged God.

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What do I need to do here?

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There's going to be an offering

that is prescribed for that chapter

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six, then Versus one through seven.

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What do we do when we break

an oath or deceive by an oath?

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A breach of faith here again

is that same concept here?

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They need to be repaid whoever you

defrauded with a false oath or you broke

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the oath You were to repay that person,

uh plus one fifth Um of of whatever it

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was that you defrauded them of and so on

top of that Then you have to bring a ram

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for a guilt offering Likely, uh, the,

the ram and the guilt offering part of

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this is because when they took the oath,

they would have employed Yahweh's name.

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They would have swore by the name

of the Lord in making this oath.

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And so in breaking it, it

would bring shame not only on

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them, but also on the Lord.

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And so hence the restitution made to

God as well, uh, versus eight through

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13, then caring for the burnt offering.

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Perpetual state of fire again on the

altar remind the israelites of their

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perpetual need for the lord's forgiveness

And so there was always to be fire on

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the altar there 14 through 18 of chapter

6 then caring for the grain offering

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god was Concerned about the the portion

that was not offered on the altar and

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how it was to be consumed He not only

cared about how they were to offer the

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portion on the altar itself But also

what do you do with the leftovers?

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What is that going to look like?

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How are the priests going to consume it?

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What is that?

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How is it going to be done in a way that

is holy because it belongs to the lord?

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In verses 19 through 23, uh, caring for

the priest, grain offering offered on

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the, the day of the priest anointing.

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So this is specifically the one offered

for the priests, uh, and this was to

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be completely burned with none left

over to be eaten, uh, consecrated

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wholly to the Lord there, the, the

priest grain offering, uh, then 24

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through 30, uh, for the SIN offering.

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These are the instructions on

how to care for the, the animals

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being offered as a sin offering.

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Uh, these offerings were given to the Lord

and he cared again how they were handled.

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And, and he cared about beyond

the sacrifice itself here.

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Also, we find examples of God's

concern that the holy things

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not be treated as common.

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They were to break the earthenware pot.

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They were to wash the thing accidentally

splashed with the blood that the

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holy things were different and they

were to be treated as different.

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God is concerned about that.

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It lived against chapter

six, 24 through 30.

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And then we get into chapter seven.

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Again, more concern for how we

handle the offerings, the guilt

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offering versus one through seven.

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Any male within the Israelites could eat

of the meat, but the skin was reserved

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for the priest who offered the animal.

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He could have the skin himself.

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And so that was for him, uh, versus

eight through 10, dividing the

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leftovers amongst the priests.

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How do they determine who among

the priests gets what portion, the

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burn offering, the grain offerings.

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These are very specific instructions

that God is giving to his people.

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Versus 11 through 21, the peace offering.

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Verse 12, we see that this

is about Thanksgiving, that

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there was to be none left over.

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It was all to be either offered

or consumed, eaten by the people,

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the free will, the vow offering.

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Verse 16, any leftover from that

one, which there apparently was

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allowable leftovers there, had

to be burned after three days.

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And so if there was any leftover after

day three, it needed to be burned,

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which some of you need to go to your

refrigerators and apply that principle

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to the leftovers that might be still

hanging out on the shelf in there.

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Pull them out, throw them on the fire.

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Um, it's time to let them

go versus 20 through 21.

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Then again, notice how we have to be

careful about how we come to the feast.

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Anyone unclean who ate would

be cut off from the fellowship.

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And that's all part of the peace offering

of the fellowship offerings there.

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Again, intentionality is

the important concept here.

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22 through 27, um, Leviticus

chapter seven, no fat and no blood.

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The Israelites were forbidden from eating

any of the fat or any of the blood.

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The fat belonged to the Lord and

the blood contained the life and

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the life was significant there.

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And so that was not to be

consumed by the Israelites.

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And if any did, what would happen?

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They would be cut off from

the presence of their people.

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That's a very serious thing.

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God takes how we worship him seriously.

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That's what we can take away

from even some of these things.

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God takes how we worship him.

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Very, very seriously.

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Finally, verses 28 through 36,

here's the care for the priests.

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The Lord here is communicating

that the people should respect

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the priests and that the priests

were going to be cared for by him.

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And in verse 36, it's a perpetual

do throughout their generations

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that the priests were always to

be cared for, taken care of by

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the people and by their offerings.

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So there you go.

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Leviticus five through seven, let

me pray and then we'll be done.

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God, we are grateful for a day, even

though it's a Hallmark manufactured data

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to celebrate love as you have defined

it and intended it to be represented

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in exercise between a husband and wife.

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And so we just pray for a great

day for our church family today,

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that marriage especially would be

celebrated and lifted up and exalted

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today as the gift that it is from you.

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And so we pray for a great

day today in that regard.

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And we also thank you for your word

and these detailed instructions.

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It seems like there's a lot here and

it's easy to get lost in the weeds.

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And yet we were reminded how, how

seriously you treat your holiness and

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how carefully we need to be about.

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Your holiness and about being holy because

you have called us to be holy as we're

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going to read in just a few days here.

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And so God, we thank you so much

for these things and we pray that we

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would be that holy people who approach

you carefully, reverentially, and we

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approach you out of devotion and love.

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And we pray this all in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Keep reading Bibles y'all and

tune in again tomorrow for another

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edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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