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00:41 Leviticus 16: The Day of Atonement

03:17 The Significance of the Two Goats

05:30 Gospel Imagery in Leviticus 16

07:03 Laws on Sacrificing Animals

07:57 Rules on Sexual Relations

10:04 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody, welcome back to what

hopefully is the last solo episode of

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the daily Bible podcast for a little

while I assume and hope and pray

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pastor Rob will be back tomorrow.

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I know he wants to be back

I know you guys miss him.

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I miss him.

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I want him back here it's hard

to just sit here and talk to a

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computer screen and Be left to my

own conclusions, my own thoughts.

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It's good to have somebody to

bounce back and forth with.

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So, uh, yeah, I miss having him in the

office and hopefully he'll be back with

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us tomorrow for Wednesday's edition.

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It is Tuesday, February 18th, through 18.

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Uh, this is the day that is

supposed to be the polar vortex

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descending upon the Metroplex here.

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So hopefully you are ready

and prepped up for that.

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And, uh, I'm excited to

get into Leviticus 16.

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Leviticus 16, probably one of my favorite

chapters in the book of Leviticus.

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If I can have a favorite chapter in

a book, I would say in Leviticus,

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this is my favorite chapter

because, uh, the gospel is.

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If you squeeze Leviticus 16, like a

sponge, the gospel would drip out.

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Um, this is about the day of

atonement in the day of atonement.

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Yom Kippur, as it's known today,

is a day that takes place in our

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current calendar sometime in the

September, October timeframe here.

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And this was a day when the high priest

was supposed to make atonement, not

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just for the, the individual sin of

one person or the sin of a family,

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but for the whole nation of Israel.

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And so we're going to get

into that a little bit.

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Uh, notice verse two, it says, tell

Aaron, your brother, not to come

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into the most Holy place at any

time before the mercy seat that's

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on the arcs that he may not die for.

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I will appear in the

cloud of the mercy seat.

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Now, right before that.

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He said, um, he, Moses had

been referencing the death of,

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of Nadab and Abihu, the death

of the two sons, verse one.

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And then he talks to Aaron and the

Lord says, tell Aaron not to just walk

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into my presence anytime he wants to.

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That has led some.

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To conclude that the sin of offering

unauthorized fire, a strange fire

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involved the two sons of Aaron, Nadab

and Abihu, walking into the Holy

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of Holies, beyond the veil into the

presence where the Ark was, and that

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that was part of what led to their death.

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I think there's some ground to that.

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I see the connection there in verse one.

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The Lord speaks to Moses after the death

of them and the first thing he says

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is, Hey, tell Aaron, don't do this.

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Don't come into the holy place

anytime you want to, because

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if you do, you're going to die.

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And so I could see the connection

there, that part of them offering

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the strange fire, the unauthorized.

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Unauthorized fire was that they waltzed

into the Holy of Holies, uh, when

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they were not allowed to be in there.

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In fact, the only one allowed to go

into the veil behind the veil, into

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the Holy of Holies before the Ark,

uh, where the mercy seat was and the

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glory of God resided, the only one

allowed to do that was the high priest.

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And that was only once a year

here on the day of atonement.

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And so this day was

significant in so many ways.

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This was the time.

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The high priest would go in before the

Lord to offer a sin offering and to

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offer a blood offering before the Lord

and atone for the sins of the nation.

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And so, but it was done in such a

picturesque way that points to the cross

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and what takes place place at the cross.

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Let's talk about the animals.

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So Leviticus 16.

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three, we find that there's going to

be a bull offered for a sin offering.

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And then there's also going to be

a Ram offered for a burnt offering.

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And so the bull was going to be

offered for a sin offering and

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the Ram for the burnt offering.

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But then there were also going

to be in verse five, two goats.

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And another ram.

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And so the two goats are the ones

that kind of take center stage here.

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The bull Aaron's going to offer

that for himself and for his

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house as a sin offering before

going any anywhere further.

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Now I've referenced Hebrews a

couple of times as we've been

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talking through Leviticus.

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This is another point where

it comes into play, uh, that.

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It says in Hebrews chapter nine, verses

six and seven, these preparations

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having thus been made, the priest

go regularly into the first section,

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performing the ritual duties.

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That's the outer part of the

tabernacle, but into the second

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one, only the high priest goes,

that's what we're talking about.

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Day of atonement.

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So writer of Hebrews is

ref referring back to that.

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And he goes, but once a year, not

without taking blood, which he

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offers for himself and for the

unintentional sins of the people.

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So.

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Aaron here is instituting

the day of atonement.

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This is the first time

this is going to happen.

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So Aaron's going to offer a bowl for

himself and for his family in the,

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in the, the burnt offering as well.

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But then we get to the goats

and here's what's fascinating.

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One of the goats is selected

by lot to be the sin offering.

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So that goat is going to die.

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That goat is going to shed its blood.

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It's going to give it to life

for the sins of the people.

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The other goat.

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Is chosen to be what we

now know as the scapegoat.

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That's where this concept

comes from, of a scapegoat.

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And this goat, it says,

is going to be for Azalel.

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And we're not exactly sure what Azalel is.

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There's a lot of speculation out there.

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But we don't, we do know this.

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That that goat, the goat reserved for

Azalel, was sent out into the wilderness.

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But something happened before

that goat was sent away.

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And there was a reason why

the goat was sent away.

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After the first goat was sacrificed,

the second goat is presented before the

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people, and in verses 20 through 22,

Aaron's gonna confess all the sins of

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the people over the goat before he sends

it away into the wilderness to bear

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away, to carry away the sins of Israel.

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Israel removing them from their midst.

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And so this is the gospel.

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This is why the gospel is dripping

from Leviticus chapter 16, because

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you have the one goat, give it to life

for the sins of the people, you have

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the other goat, take the sins of the

people away, remove them as far as the

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East is from the West, so to speak.

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And so in this picture that we

see here, we see the sacrificial

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death and the removal of sin.

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That is the cross.

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At the cross, the Day of

Atonement is fulfilled in Christ.

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The Day of Atonement was

the type pointing to Jesus.

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What Jesus would do on the cross when

he would die on the cross for our sins.

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He would give his life for our sins and

at the same time the one sacrifice in

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Jesus also was the one that propitiated.

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He satisfied God's wrath.

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He removed our sins.

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He expiated.

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That's the word I'm looking for.

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expiated, which is a word that means

to remove, to cleanse, to purge.

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He removed our sins from us, just

like we see this other goat being sent

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away metaphorically from the people.

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They would watch that goat walk away, and

it was as though this was a picture of God

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removing their sins from them as a people,

atoning for their sins, cleansing them.

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And so that's why Leviticus 16 is so

rich with gospel imagery here, that we

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have in these two goats a representation

of what took place at the cross.

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When Jesus Christ died for us,

he gave his life for our sins.

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He's the sin offering and he's

the offering of expiation.

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He's the offering that removes

our sins from us as far as,

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as the East is from the West.

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What a cool picture of the gospel

we get here in Leviticus chapter 16.

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Chapter 17, then we get into

some laws on sacrificing animals.

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Uh, rules for where the sacrifices

were to be offered rules about

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abstaining from eating any of the

blood of the animal since the life

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of the animal was in its blood.

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So again, God's kind of having to shape

Israel up here and provide parameters

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and rules and regulations for them

saying, Hey, don't be like the nations.

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Don't sacrifice just anywhere

you want to sacrifice.

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Now you've got a place to bring

your offerings, to bring your

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sacrifices here to the tabernacle.

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Don't just go do it

wherever you want to do it.

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And also don't eat the

blood of the animal.

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The other nations may eat the blood,

but the blood is the life of the animal

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and the life represents the cost.

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The blood represents the cost of the life

and the life is the payment for your sins.

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And so God did not want the people.

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Eating the blood.

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He also didn't want the people

treating sack the sacrificial system

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like the other nations treated the

sacrificial system to their gods.

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In chapter 18, then we get some

rules about, uh, sexual relations,

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what is and what is not acceptable.

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Uh, God wanted again, Israel to

be different from the nations.

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That he was driving out from before

them, they, the text even says that

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they had done these things and that's

why they were being driven out.

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They, they had committed these sins

and God was going to punish them.

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And so he wanted to look at Israel

and say, don't be like them.

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Don't be like them.

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These things that I'm prohibiting you

from doing in chapter 18, these were

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things that the nations were doing.

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And so you be different.

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Don't do these things.

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They're an abomination to me.

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They're not to be practiced.

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We're not going to do this.

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Don't do it.

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And if you do it, you're going

to end up just like they did.

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And so there's these warnings here that

God takes this area very, very seriously.

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Why?

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Because he designed it, he created

it, he declared it to be a good thing.

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And it's a thing that then was

taken by fallen man and perverted.

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And it still is today, but it's important

to note here in verse 22 and parents,

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I'll kind of let you visit verse 22 and

decide if you want to broach that, but.

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That issue some people today

will say well, you know, does

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does Jesus ever condemn it?

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And I think he does even as he says, you

know for this reason a man shall leave

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his Husband his father and mother and hold

fast to his wife Paul certainly condemns

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it Christ does through his teaching on

marriage and what marriage is condemns it

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and in here in the Old Testament Leviticus

18 22 God certainly does condemn it as

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something that he calls an abomination.

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And there's nothing that changes between

that and between the new Testament.

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And the reason being is this is

not in accordance with his design.

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This is not as, as Paul

terms it, what is natural.

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And so this is what he

says is an abomination.

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It's wrong.

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It's wicked.

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It's detestable to him

and it should not be done.

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And so just note there in

Leviticus 18 22, we see where

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God condemns that particular act.

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All right.

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18 again, 16.

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So good.

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So much gospel richness in Leviticus 16.

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Awesome, awesome chapter for us.

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Well, let me pray for us.

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And then we will be done with this

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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God, thanks for Leviticus 16.

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Thank you that, uh, that we're not

looking to goats, but to Jesus.

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That we don't have to gather together

for a human high priest to represent

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us before you once a year, But we have

our great high priest and thank you

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that we have his blood that cleanses us

That we have his sin offering that of

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his own life for us That that cleanses

us from our sins and that he is able

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to then save us to the uttermost and

we can draw near To you through him.

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So thank you.

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Thank you for jesus.

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Leviticus just keeps driving

that home more and more.

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Thank you Thank you.

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Thank you for Jesus.

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And we pray that in his name.

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Amen.

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We'll keep reading your Bibles y'all

and tune in again tomorrow for another

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edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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Bye y'all.