00:00 Intro & Pastor PJ the Weatherman

01:27 Birthday Recap: Bullriding

02:11 Introduction to Leviticus

05:03 Leviticus Chapter 1: Burnt Offerings

07:39 Leviticus Chapter 2: Grain Offerings

09:02 Leviticus Chapter 3: Fellowship Offerings

10:57 Leviticus Chapter 4: Sin Offerings

13:11 Conclusion and Prayer

13:47 Outro

Hey everybody, welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey, we are back on Thursday.

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It's Thursday and hopefully you're

having a great Thursday right now.

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It's supposed to be really

cold here in Texas again.

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I mean, it was in the 80s last

week and now we're back in the, I

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saw some projected highs of like,

36, 37 for today, which is nuts.

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This is Texas though.

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This is what it is.

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You get this fake spring.

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I mean, I feel bad for the trees

and the plants because sometimes

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it'll get warm for like a week and

they're like, Oh, okay, we're done.

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And the flowers will come

out and it'll be all nice.

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And then the freeze hits

again and they just die again.

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And yeah, I don't feel bad for the wasps.

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The wasps and the bugs though, why

does it take them so long to die

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when the cold comes and yet the first

sign of warmth, the flies are back?

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Unreal to me.

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They're just immediately

ready to just attack.

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At the first sign of warmth, it's insane.

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I don't think I've experienced that.

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I don't know what you're talking about.

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We were in the backyard last

week, and it was in the upper 70s.

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And there were wasps that were

out flying around, like, ready to

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build new houses for the summer.

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I didn't see that.

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Thank God.

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What are you doing?

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I stay inside mostly, I think.

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That's probably what I'm doing.

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That's probably fair.

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Yeah, but yeah, February was The month

they got snowmageddon a few years ago,

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before we moved out, when everything

shut down and the power grid failed

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and everything, that was February.

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So it's still possible for us to

get some nasty weather between

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now and the end of the winter.

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Well, the weather guy I follow

says that it's supposed to be

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cold for the foreseeable future.

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Ponder on weather.

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That's the one.

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POW.

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He's good.

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Anyways.

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Yep.

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So it is it's Thursday.

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I trespass around that you

had a fantastic, amazing,

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wonderful birthday yesterday.

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It was so memorable.

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I can't even tell you

how memorable it was.

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Well, the video of you riding

the bowl last night at youth

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group was pretty amazing.

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Unexpected.

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Unexpected.

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Indeed.

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Yeah.

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But man, I wrote it for that.

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It was 20 minutes.

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It was a world record.

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And then we slaughtered it and ate it.

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It was amazing.

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Because of what we're

reading about, right?

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Because of the Old Testament law?

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Did you, you were practicing that?

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Well, yeah, half, halfsies.

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Cause we didn't, it

wasn't a burnt offering.

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We ate it.

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It was a peace offering.

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It was a fellowship offering.

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Did you eat the fat?

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Cause the fat belongs to the Lord.

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Well, I have to admit, I do

like some fat on my meat.

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So, I did have a little bit.

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I think the Lord wanted me to have some.

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Fair.

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I mean, it was your birthday.

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That's fair.

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Anyways enough with the ridiculous

googly, we'll jump in to what

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you're really all here for, which

is Leviticus one through four.

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Yeah, Leviticus one through four.

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We start a brand new book and as

we jump into the book of Leviticus,

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it's a, it's helpful to kind of

set the stage for what we're doing

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and what this book is really about.

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This book breaks down this way.

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The first seven chapters dealing with

the sacrifice, sacrificial system

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chapters eight through 10 dealing

really with the high priesthood.

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Chapters 11 through 16 dealing

with the uncleanness of the people

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and chapters 17 through 27 dealing

with practical matters of holiness.

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So this is really the

law being laid out here.

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Leviticus has to do with

the priestly tribe, Levi.

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Is the tribe of the priest, Leviticus

being the book of the priests here.

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And so another way to break it down,

chapters one through 16, you've got the

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priest to the people, and then chapters

17 through 27, the Holiness of the Nation.

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And so that's kind of what we have here.

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And this is one of those books that gets.

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Difficult.

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So let me just encourage

you on the front end.

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Don't give up.

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Don't slow down.

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Don't get into Leviticus and be

like, okay, we're talking about which

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sacrifice and there's repetition.

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And then the priest should make

atonement in the, okay, wait a minute.

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He's making atonement again.

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Stay focused.

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Stay with us.

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Keep going.

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Hopefully these podcast episodes

will help you along those lines

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to try to understand what's going

on with each of these chapters.

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We'll do our best to shed

our light on that, but.

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Just know that, that hit Leviticus,

there's good things in Leviticus.

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Leviticus is good.

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In fact, Pastor Rod you pointed out

that one of the churches in the area

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is actually preaching through Leviticus

right now, which is quite the undertaking.

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And and I was pleasantly

surprised by that myself.

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Yeah, it's such an important book.

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I think as New Testament Christians,

we often fail to appreciate it because

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there's so much regulation and there's

so many details there, but what it

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shows us is something fascinating

and it's how we get close to God.

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God desires.

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Communion and fellowship with his people

and we can't just presume upon him and

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show up to his living room as it were we

have to have Ritual and I guess cultic

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purity and the way that we do that is

in some way connected to these things

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They obviously don't take away our sin.

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That's what the book of Hebrews teaches

us We could never be right with God

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through the blood of bulls and goats

But they do show us what's necessary

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for us to have a relationship with

God because right now it's defiled.

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It needs to be remedied because of our sin

and Leviticus really lays it out for us

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in graphic detail what needs to take place

for that chasm to be cleared by God and so

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it's helpful for that regard because when

Jesus comes he takes all of this away.

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But in the meantime, it's important for us

to realize because of how important it is.

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In fact, some people have noticed that

because Leviticus sits in the middle of

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the Pentateuch that it might be one of the

most important books in the Pentateuch.

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If you're thinking chiastically, A,

B, C, B, A, C would be the emphatic

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point and it's specifically Leviticus

16, which is the center of Leviticus,

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which is the Day of Atonement.

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So, this is an important book.

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Moses saw it as important.

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Israel saw it as important.

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We ought to see it as important as well.

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Yeah.

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Super helpful description of that.

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Yeah.

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It really does help us to understand

and grasp the gospel so much better.

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And when we understand the

book of Leviticus, well,

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let's get into a chapter one.

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These are the rules and regulations

for the various burnt offerings

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that are going to be given.

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And so in verses one through two, Moses

again, is identified as God's mediator.

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He's the one that the Lord calls.

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He calls Moses to talk to him and

sends Moses to go speak to the people.

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It's interesting that.

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Again, Moses was the one that

said I'm not good with my words.

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And yet he's not now saying,

Lord, please send Aaron.

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Please send somebody else.

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Please give me another spokesperson.

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It seems that Moses has overcome that

that fear or that that reticence,

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and now he's God's spokesman.

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And so Moses is going to talk

about the various burnt offerings.

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And so in verses three through nine,

you've got cattle, all of the different

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cattle that are going to be offered and

how to go about that versus 10 through

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13, the sheep and the goats that are

going to be offered as burnt offerings

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and versus 14 through 17, all of the

different birds which were offerings

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that were for the poorer people, the

people that couldn't afford to bring a

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lamb or a goat or bull or anything like

that they would bring the birds instead.

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But the burnt offerings were

to be perpetually offered.

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They were always to be offered.

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And that's why the fire on the burnt

altar was to be perpetually kindled.

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It was never to go out.

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In fact, the text says that the fire

was to be always at the ready because

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the people needed to be able to come and

bring the burnt offering to the Lord.

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The reason being for what the text

says, that these offerings would

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make atonement for the people.

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Now.

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That word atonement is one that we think

of when it comes to Jesus in the cross.

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In fact, we will often talk about penal

substitutionary atonement, meaning

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penal punishment substitutionary.

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He took our place in atonement,

meaning he made us at peace with God.

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He satisfied the wrath of God.

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And so he did that through

his death on the cross.

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These animals were meant to point to that.

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And so for the.

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The priests, they were

making these offerings.

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They were bringing these offerings

and burning them in the altar and

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thereby bringing atonement, making

atonement for the sins of the people.

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Now that's why the altar needed

to be at the ready at all times.

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If somebody brought their

sacrifice, they need to be ready.

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The priesthood to take it, to process

it, and to offer it before the Lord.

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Notice also here it says a

pleasing aroma to the Lord.

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Sorry, bro.

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I didn't mean to cut you off.

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No, you're good.

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It's this is a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

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What's interesting about that

is that the burnt offering was

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burnt to a crisp, minus the hide.

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So you can imagine it smelling

good for at least a few moments

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until it got to the point where it

started burning and becoming crispy.

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That doesn't smell so good.

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But for the Lord, it was a pleasing aroma,

not because it was he, God doesn't have

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a nose, first of all, so it's metaphoric

and it's application, but the pleasing

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aroma was that justice had been satisfied,

not completely, not fully, but on that

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bull, on that goat, on that animal, God's

wrath was being poured out upon them.

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This is what we deserve, but the bull,

the goat stands in substitution for us.

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That sacrifice is pleasing to

God, and that eventually points

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to His justice placed upon Christ.

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Chapter 2 then, we get into

the grain offerings, which is

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another category of offering.

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And these were going to be presented as

a means of gratitude, thanksgiving for

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the Lord's provision of food in the land.

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And so they're bringing these grain

offerings, which would have been

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sometimes baked into wafers, or offered

sometimes just a handful of flour.

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But this had to do with the Lord's

provision of food in the land.

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And the salt was added to the offering.

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And that salt was symbolic of the

preservative of the covenant, that

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this was the way that they were going

to preserve and maintain the Mosaic

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covenant, not the Abrahamic covenant

necessarily, but the Mosaic covenant,

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the conditional covenant, which

was rooted in and founded upon and

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conditioned upon the people's obedience,

even in this sacrificial system.

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So in chapter two, the grain

offerings, you've got uncooked green

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offerings in the first three verses.

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You've got cooked grain offerings

in verses four through 10 there.

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And then 11 through 16 kind of just

miscellaneous grain offerings as they're

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addressed in in chapter two here.

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But this is where we begin to

see a portion of the offering

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is going to go to Aaron and his

sons to supply their food needs.

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Now, remember we're going to see this when

they get to the promised land itself, that

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the tribe of Levi doesn't have its own.

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Portion of land.

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The tribe of Levi is going to be supported

by and taken care of by the people.

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And part of the way that God is going

to do that is beginning to be seen here.

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Their food is going to come from the

sacrifices that are brought by the people

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to be offered by the Levitical priests.

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And so here are some

of the grain offering.

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They're taking some of those wafers

and they're eating those while the

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rest of it is offered before the Lord.

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Chapter three, then we get into the third

category that we find here, at least

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of offering, which is the fellowship

offering or the peace offerings.

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Unlike the grain and the burnt

offerings, this was an optional offering.

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And so this was what we

call a free will offering.

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This was not something that was mandated

or obligatory, but something that was

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encouraged as a free expression of just

the gratitude for the intimacy, the peace

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that the Israelites enjoyed with God.

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Leviticus chapter seven describes an

occasion that might be appropriate,

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such as confession, confessing sin

or fulfilling a vow or just again,

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as I was just implying, just of

your own free accord and desire.

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Another difference between this

type of offering and the other

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offerings was that the worshiper in

the free will offering of the peace

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offering was Entitled or permitted

to eat some of the animal as well.

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And so this could be

cattle versus 1 through 5.

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This could be sheep 6 through 11.

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This could be goats in 12 through 17.

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But the worshiper was entitled or

allowed to participate in the feast here.

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So this is kind of a fun one for

everybody to participate in together

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with the free will offerings here.

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And this is where we have that famous

phrase, all fat is the Lord's in verse 16.

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Why is that a big deal?

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The richness that is is was part

of the fact that the delicacy,

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the choice portions, and those

are offered to the Lord rather

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than kept back for the worshiper.

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Now, if you want to experience

this, what you do is you go to

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Hutchins and you get a beef rib.

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Those are really fatty cuts of

meat, but they are delicious.

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Let me just encourage you to do that as an

application to your Bible reading today.

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Go to Hutchins, get a beef rib.

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And you know what you could do?

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You could sever off some of the fat

portions and bring it to Pastor Rod . No.

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Believe.

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Don't do that.

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I want the whole rib.

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I It all has to come together.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All fat is the Lord.

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Some people I'll leave it there.

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Yeah.

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all fat is the Lord.

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Good.

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Now finish, finish that sentence,

pastor pj, you were gonna say it.

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Go ahead.

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I used a joke with people that I

wanted that to be my life verse.

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So don't judge me when I eat

my my Christmas tree cakes.

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Yeah.

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Thanks Dan, by the way.

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Yeah.

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Thank you for those in the brownies.

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Yeah.

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Delicious.

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Hey, Leviticus four sin offerings.

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Now this is where we get

into the nitty gritty.

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And this chapter's purpose was to teach

Israel what to do in response to their

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inadvertent or unintentional sins, which

implies that there are sins that are

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intentional and we'll get to those, but

these are the sins that people commit

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without realizing that they're sinning.

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They're not high handed, high handedly

sinning, which is what we'll get to later.

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And so Yahweh, the Lord makes a way

for their sins to be forgiven and for

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them to be restored to the community.

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And so in this, we get what to

do when a sin, when a priest sins

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unintentionally, verses three through 12.

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What to do when the corporate body

sins unintentionally versus 13

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to 21 when the nation how to go

about making an atonement for that.

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And then versus 22 to 26, what

about when a leader of the

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people sins unintentionally?

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What are they supposed to do there?

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And then finally versus 27 to 35,

just when your average Joe, just your

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normal person sins unintentionally,

how do they go about offering these?

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These sacrifices.

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So God is thorough in these instructions.

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And that's something that stuck

out to me this time is he's

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covering all the bases here.

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He's going, you're not going

to sit back and wonder, well,

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what am I supposed to do?

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Where do I fit in this?

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He's giving it for everybody

saying, this is my desire.

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This is what you're supposed to do.

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Everybody would fit into

one of those categories.

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Yeah.

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I think it's especially

fascinating that someone who

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sins unintentionally, you might.

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Think in your head.

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Oh, well, they're not guilty of that sin.

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Then they're free from the guilt of

that sin And because they were ignorant,

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they're not held accountable Now what you

see here in Leviticus 4 is that's just not

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true God still holds us accountable for

the sins that we commit even if they're

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done in ignorance That is a powerful

thought and one that carries over to the

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New Testament A lot of people think, well,

if the gospel doesn't go to such and such

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a tribe and such a remote location, then

certainly God's not going to judge them.

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And that's not true entirely.

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What will happen is that God will judge

them differently according to their

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knowledge, but they'll still be judged.

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And so what you see in Leviticus

here, in chapter 4 in particular,

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and really throughout the whole

book, is that God is a just God.

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He demands payment for sin.

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There is no such thing as God

just overlooking sin, lest

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his justice be compromised.

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That's an important feature of who God is.

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This is one of the reasons why when

we present the Gospel, we say God is

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creator, he's holy, and he's just.

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He's a just God who cannot be

simply pushed aside to say, well,

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God, you could just overlook this.

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Well, no, he doesn't do that.

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God demands justice to be served, and

this is true even for those who don't

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know that they're sinning against God.

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What a powerful thought to consider.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Well, hey, let me pray for us and

we will be done with this episode.

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God, we are grateful for the atonement

that we have in Christ that we have our

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sins covered as Christians, those that are

intentional, unintentional, and albeit,

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we certainly want to guard ourselves,

especially against any Intentional sins,

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any high handed sins, but God, we're so

grateful that we have atonement in Christ

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that covers it all, that there is not a

sin that we have committed or will commit

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in the future that will fall outside

of the reach of the blood of Christ.

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And that is such a gift for us to

remember, even as we read through these

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things, to help us not to be presumptuous

in that, but to be grateful for it.

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And we pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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