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Leviticus, Part 1 (burnt offering) · Accidental Bible Scholar

• Jeff Ward: Okay, welcome back to the Accidental Bible Scholar podcast. We're excited you're here. And today we're going to jump into one of the easier books the Bible to read. that is ⁓ the Old Testament, and that is the book of Leviticus. So buckle in, strap in, and let's to what Randy would to... tell us about the book of Leviticus, which actually is, think, one of the harder books in the Bible and probably the most avoided by people. Unless you're concerned about getting rid of mildew, you know, we kind of avoid Leviticus. So I'm excited to hear ⁓ Yeah, this is our first book study, which is of what I would like to do a lot of. So we picked Leviticus. And we picked Leviticus. I don't know I would recommend that we don't put Leviticus in the title of this one. There's nobody to click on. This is true. We'll figure out another good title. Yeah, a bit of canon. We'll just rope them in with a good title. Okay. So we're going to look at Leviticus 1 today and briefly talk about the burnt offering as we're going to spend our time. Okay. And then the next time we'll go to chapters 2 through 7. Okay. And we'll talk about there are five sacrifices. The burnt offering is one of them. We'll talk about the other four, a little bit about burn offering another one. And the next we're going to look at a very hot topic in Leviticus 13, how to handle leprosy. I know that will be exciting. If leprosy in the title of one, I'm sure one will get lots of clicks too. Okay. Sounds good. Okay. So anyway, we step through Leviticus chapter one, going back to interpretation, we're going to take the New Testament and use it like a spotlight. that shows on the Old Testament and we're going to bring the Old Testament to life. Not that it needs to be brought to life, but brought in the light of the New Covenant, okay? Because right I don't have a flock out back that I've raised so that I can pull flawless males out of go sacrifice. Right? don't do anything. Jesus was our once and for sacrifice and He fulfilled all the five sacrifices Leviticus talked about. He fulfilled all five of them. Why do we have five? Well, just to even come close to even capturing a little bit of everything Christ did on the cross. We need all five. They're all different and they're all to give us a unique aspect or look at Jesus Christ. Again, we're only going look at the burnt offering today. As we go through this, what I want us to be listening to is just to learn some of the characteristics of the burnt offering because that characteristics of the burnt offering is going to reveal Christ to us. The next one I want to do is There's three types or three categories of animals that are used for the burnt offering, the bull, the goat or the sheep, and then pigeons or doves. And they are different. What I want to ask the question is, why are they different? And then I give what my opinion is of a reason that I think they're different. So those are the kind of things we're going to be listening for as we read. and as we discuss here. So Leviticus 1 and I've elected you as the reader of Leviticus 1 today. Okay. I have a few other verses we'll go through that or you got dialed up here but Leviticus 1 the first two verses. Okay. Then the Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the meeting tent. Speak to the Israelites and tell them when someone among you presents an offering to the Lord you must present your offering from the domesticated animals either from the herd or from the flock. Okay, that introduces the burnt offering. I want to bring out when someone among you, the when part is what I want to talk about just a little bit, or identify. It's a voluntary sacrifice. So this is the burnt offering is not a required sacrifice. In other words, there's not an event or a time or all these things that you must do this. Okay, you're required to bring this burnt offering. It is a voluntary sacrifice. Jesus voluntarily laid down his life at Calvary. for us, he voluntarily left heaven and put on flesh. So this is part of kind of the first introduction of the burnt offering that matches Christ, because it's a voluntary one. I talked about the five, that we're talking about five types. Here are the five types are, I'll just briefly, I don't think I've said them yet. Burnt offering, meal offering, peace offering, sin offering, and trespass offering. Today we're only talking about the burnt offering, okay? But each of these represent Christ and his work. So it's a voluntary. Next, read three through five when you get done taking notes here. his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he must present it as a flawless male. He must present it at the entrance of the meeting tent for its acceptance before the Lord. He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf. Then the one presenting the offering must slaughter the bull before the Lord. And the sons of Aaron, the priest, must present the blood and splash the blood against the sides of the altar, which is at the entrance of the meeting tent. Okay. So this burn offering, talking about coming from the herd. So you're talking about a bull. Okay. This would be an offering of a rich person. This is a really big offering, right? It's huge. only a yearling bull. Probably it's not the, you know, 2000 pound Angus bulls that I grew up ⁓ in my friends. Anyway, ⁓ there's fun stories on big bulls in Northwest Arkansas, but anyway. We won't go there. is a big, strong animal. And would feed a family for a while or feed a lot of people. So it's something that rich person would bring, a well-off person would bring. The next thing is a flawless male. Now, we're not going to go there, but if you look at other places in Leviticus, it talks about what would happen here. So flawless male bull, same thing applies for the other animals. But the wonderful, awesome thing is, is that when this man shows up with a bull on a rope and maybe multiple sons helping him manage it, when he shows up with this, nobody the man. The man is not quizzed. The man is not asked, why are you here? The man is not going, dude, are you sure you want to be here? And this would the wonderful, awesome thing is, is that when this man shows up with a bull on a rope and maybe multiple sons helping him manage it, when he shows up with this, nobody inspects the man. The man is not quizzed. man is not asked, why are you here? The man is not going, dude, are you sure you want to be here? And this would This will be applied to maybe a sent offering even more so. But the bull is inspected. If the bull is flawless, then after this process, the man will leave flawless. So the man is going to come in less than flawless. But as long as the bull is flawless, when the man leaves, he is flawless. And I say that because we do a lot. The law and or the way religion works is we do a lot of inspecting ourselves. This will be applied to maybe a sent offering even more so. But the bull is inspected. If the bull is flawless, then after this process, the man will leave flawless. So the man is going to come in less than flawless. But as long as the bull is flawless, when the man leaves, he is flawless. And I say that because we do a lot. The law and or the way religion works is we do a lot of ourselves. don't need to inspect ourselves. ⁓ Christ was inspected and was perfect. And therefore, since our sacrifice is perfect, we are perfect. don't need to inspect ourselves. Jesus was inspected and he perfect. And therefore, since our sacrifice is perfect, we are perfect. Since our sacrifice is flawless, blameless, holy, we are flawless, blameless, and holy. This is a great picture that maybe we don't about and we go, we don't sacrifice bulls. That's good. We got Jesus Christ. That's good. That's way good, right? But let's look at what they did, the process. When you show with a bull, they don't go, are you a messed up guy? Well, yeah, I'm a messed up guy. wouldn't show up with bull. That's why I a bull. Exactly. That's why I have a bull. I wouldn't have shown up like this if everything was going the way I wanted it to. Right. Right. Are you repentant? Well, that's why I have a bull. Yeah, exactly. offer. Right. Yeah. You confess your center? Well, I got a bull right here. this is such an awesome picture because the Levi priest His only job is to inspect the The bull's perfect. The man's going to walk out of this process perfect. So that's what it says, a flawless male. Then in verse four, says, the man, or the person that brings it says, he must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering. So let me read. Here's the New Testament version of that. And I'm not there. 2 Corinthians 5.21, which you know from my same school, you probably got to memorize because we say it quite a bit. St. Corinthians 521, God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us so that in him we would become the righteousness of God. So, we say this when we talk about righteousness and our identity in previous podcasts, but this laying the hands on the head is a picture of this. So the imperfections of the man are gonna go to that bull, the perfect flawlessness of that bull now come to the man. It's an exchange. It's the exchange that happened on the cross, except now these people lived it over and over and over and over, day in and day out. You put your hands on and there's an exchange. The flawlessness of the animal comes to the man, and the imperfections of the man go on to the animal there. So next thing I want to do in the next few verses, let's think about some things, is kind of identify what the man does and what the priest does. Because the priest, as you say here, me see, yeah, so first of all. What does a person do bringing the offering? He places his hands on the head, we already talked about, and he slaughters the bull. We just kind of read right past that. But he's going to now after he puts his hands, the bulls in here are not going to change positions. And now he's going to take the knife. He's going to go underneath this throat with one hand on the head and he's going to cut the bull's throat. Okay. This bull is something of value to him. In the Exodus or no in the In the Passover, the Passover lamb lived in the houses of the people for a week. So your kids, there's some attachment to this animal when they sacrifice it. So this is not a small thing. Then you got a couple hundred pound bull, maybe 500 pound bull. I don't know how big the bulls were from the herds at that time. I'm convinced they're not the 2,000 pounders that we have because they're younger than that. But think of the blood is in that. And he's going to sever arteries. So there's going to be blood squirting everywhere. You know, who knows how many heartbeats it's going to take to, for this bull to bleed out, but however many of those are, there's going to be blood squirting everywhere under pressure. Right. I mean, that's crazy. We don't think about that. The priest and the man, certainly the man, cause the arteries from the harder point adding are going to be covered in blood. This is not a small thing. You're going to, you're going to get a sense. of the cost that a sacrifice takes upon itself. Certainly more so in the sin offering than trespass offering, but here in the burn offering, the same thing. You're going to get a sense of, my goodness, the, stark, is the right word. What's just is going to be kind of emotional, kind of like, wow. And if there's a line doing this, they would have, everybody watching is going to see it. The guy with inline as he's waiting might've seen this happen multiple times and now he's just going to be covered in blood. priest, if done this all day, are going to be covered in blood. Right? So. you've ever cleaned a fish after fishing, messy. Yeah, that's messy. And that's a dead fish. Yeah, that's a sun water fish, right? They got a lot of blood in them more than it's not a bass, right? Or a freshwater bass. All And then what this priest will do is they'll sprinkle the blood on the four sides of the altar. So they're going to sprinkle the blood of this animal all the way around the side. Let's keep going. Read six through nine. OK. Next, the one presenting the offering must skin the burnt offering and cut it into parts, and the sons of Aaron the priest must put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire. Then the sons of Aaron the priest must arrange the parts with the head and the suet on the wood that is in the fire on the altar. Finally, the one presenting the offering must wash its entrails and its legs in water, and the priest must offer all of it up in smoke on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord. Okay, so we can look at what the presenter does there. He skins the animals. So now the animal's dead. It still weighs a lot. So skinning is going to take some time. And you I both skinned animals before. Probably, I've a huge elk with a pocket, basically with a knife. And ⁓ I mean, it's a lot, right? Yeah. I'm sure they've got a way to make it quicker here. they do it over and over and over again, you know, I've only skinned one out, so. But they skin animals. Then, this is still the presenter, the guy brought it, he's gonna skin this animal. He's covered in blood, he's gonna skin the animal, and then he's gonna cut it into its parts, okay? And then he's gonna wash it, or wash the entrails and the legs, okay? And then, what's the priest gonna do? The priest is gonna arrange the head, and then, the entrails and the legs on the altar, and then it's going to be burned completely up. Okay, there are, we'll see next episode, we'll see. not all of these offerings are burned completely up. Some of them are, you know, they take part of the meat to eat it. They take, they do think things. Sometimes the person that offers it will eat of the altar. We'll talk about that. It's a great picture of participating in the Lord's altar, participating in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The Lord's Supper is what we do that in, and we can talk about that, but this is not, they're not going to eat of this altar here. It's all burned up, which means what? That's picture, that is John 1930. It is finished. It's done. So one is going to take a while. They're going have have a hot fire. they're going to to stir it to keep getting new, you know, that animal has moisture in it, right? And the moisture is going to want not to be burned. So they're going to have to keep stoking the fire, keep rotating until it's nothing but ashes. Then they're going to dump the ashes out. They've dumped the ashes on the east side of the altar. The whole temple complex faces east. So when the person comes in, The first thing you see is an altar with a pile of ashes there. And is finished. This is solution, presented to the person that comes in through the gate of the tabernacle or the temple just immediately. There it is. And then when they get there done and their ashes are dumped, guess what? They go about their business and it is complete. It is finished. Jesus on the cross, it's a picture of that, of Him saying that. Psalm 141 verses one and two equates raising our hands to a burnt offering. It's voluntary and it is an offering of praise to the Lord. And the psalmist equates it to the burnt offering. So in church or by yourself in your room or wherever or in your car, hope you got one hand on the steering wheel. But when you raise your hands, you are in fact offering an offering to the Lord and it's equated to the burnt offering. We'll talk about some of the meanings of the burnt offering here. 141 versus one and two. Let's see, what else do want to talk about here? That's it. When you get done, that's when we're going, OK, the next thing is when you get done just tapping and goofing off when you're on a pen. There's a, read verses 10 and 11. 10 through 11. All right. If his offering is from the flock for a burnt offering from the sheep or the goats, he must present a flawless male and must slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the Lord and the sons of Aaron, the priest will splash his blood against the altar's sides. Okay. We're going to talk about, we want to look at some of the differences here. So the difference here, it's a goat or a sheep. In other words, from the flock, not the herd. It says on the north side of the altar. So as you come in, you're facing the west, the temple complex is facing east. And then so it'd be a right turn because the low line is going to go to the north from the north. The the priest would be there. You got a guy that's there stoking the fires. You got guys that are making sure that helping the man that they do this every day. So helping the man make sure he gets everything right and gets it on there. and then dumping the ashes. So you got this whole thing going on. That's, it's not mentioned in the other one. So talking about differences, every place I've read it said they to the North side altar everywhere. ⁓ So just not mentioned on the first one, I don't know. Another thing not mentioned here is they don't put the hands on the animal. heard thoughts on whether they did or didn't with the animal. Most people think they did, but it's a different that we can, talk about here in just a second. Certainly with the doves, this didn't happen with the doves, which is the main point. So probably the first still took the bulls went to the north and probably the sheep and the goat, you still place the hands on them. let's see, they still slaughter. He must present a false male and must slaughter it on the north side of the altar. So the man still, still slaughters it. Okay. Not as much blood this time, right? So it's a much smaller animal. So the blood that's under pressure would be lower as far as just physically lower. So it's not hitting a man in his chest. It's probably hitting him in his, you know, on his knees or whatever, thighs possibly. So less of it. Plus it's a smaller animal. So there's less blood with each right? Okay. And then, let's keep continuing. some differences. Let's go to 12 and 13. Okay. Next, the one presenting the offering must cut it into parts with its head and its suit. Is that how you say that? Yeah, fat. And the fat, yep. And the priest must arrange them on the wood that is in the fire on the altar. Then the one presenting the offering must wash the entrails and the legs in water and the priest must present all of it and offer it up in smoke on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord. Okay, so Kind of the same thing. It doesn't mention skinning, but he probably has to scan it because he's got to out. Got to get the parts and pieces all appropriately done, right? but it's not but it's a smaller animal. This would be as somebody that's not quite as well off as somebody that's presenting the bull or not wanting to present as big of a sacrifice for whatever reason. So, and then less messy, still very messy, but less messy somewhat. So, I want to talk about for just a second, a soothing aroma to the Lord. That word means sweet, means a delight or soothing, but it also has that soothing sense it. Why does Lord need to be soothed? Well, what's being soothed is his wrath, his righteous requirements are soothed. This about... This burnt offering reflects the holiness of Jesus Christ. The holiness of Jesus Christ soothes God's wrath. It's about the life that Christ lived. Okay, we'll talk about that in moment, but this is a soothing... aroma to the Lord, which is interesting because I'm thinking the place kind of didn't smell real good, know, as you're burning raw flesh. we'll talk about that a little more next time. Okay. Let's go to 1415. Okay. If offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, he must present his offering from the turtle doves or from the young pigeons. The priest must present it at the altar. pinch off its head and offer the head up in smoke on the altar and its blood must be drained out against the side of the altar. Okay, so what are the differences here? Well, it's a much smaller animal. It's two instead of one. The priest. Yeah, the priest. So the priest pops off or what's the word pops off? It's probably not the word. Pinch it, it's head. So the priest, here's what we'll find is that these doves are delivered to the priest by the person that brought him completely alive and the priest does all the dirty work. This person would represent somebody that can't afford something from the herd or can't afford something from the flock. Okay. It's important to know that that Jesus' atonement was for everybody, not just the rich, not just the poor. You know, in their day we thought would have been just for the rich. In our day, we've attempted to think it's just for the poor. It's for all walks of life. And... But it's interesting that they don't do anything. They don't do anything except deliver to the priest and then they watch it the rest of time. He also, it appears that he only dumps the blood on one side of the altar instead of all four. You're like, there's just not his blood. Yeah, I I agree. But even a thimble full of blood, you could put a drop on four places. You get four drops. It's not like out of two birds, you can't get four drops out of it, right? Right. You get four drops out of one, but it's not. It's only on the one side. Okay, so let's keep going. Read 16 and 17. Then the priest must its entrails by cutting off its tail feathers and throw them to the east side of the altar into the place of fatty ashes and tear it open by its wings without dividing it into two parts. Finally, the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar on the wood which is in the fire. It is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord. Okay, so what we notice here kind of the continuation where they talk about the priest does everything. The person that brought it does nothing except just hand them to it. This person is going to leave this experience with no blood on him, not even on their hands. The first person is going to be probably covered in blood or lots of it. And the middle person, the one that brings them from the flock is also going to be covered, but probably not as much to the extent and maybe, maybe, maybe from the waist down versus from everywhere. So I put here, these are three types of manual given as an atonement for the presenter. The main point of the lesson is to figure out main point of lesson that I'm doing here is to figure out why the difference. We've talked about the representation of Christ as we've gone. We'll do that even more next week. Well, actually, take that back. That was the wrong... Let's look at a couple things here. In St. Corinthians 521, we already read that, so we won't read it again. But the head. Paul is a thinker. Paul wrote that Jesus knew no sin. That represents the head. 1 John 3 5. Why don't you look that one up and I'll look at 1 Peter 22. OK, so 1 John 3 5. one that talks about love, more than any other disciple, said that in him was no sin. And then Peter, what would Peter, Peter's the doer, right? Peter's the man of action. He would be the leg. So we've got the head, the entrails, and then the legs. 1 Peter 2.22 says, talking about Jesus, he committed no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth. So we have Paul saying he did no sin. That's the head on the altar of the burnt offering. We have John saying that in him was no sin. So that's the entrails that are represented there. And Peter says, he did no sin. And that's the legs, the biggest muscles of that animal. And everything was totally consumed, right? about his point of... It is finished? It is finished, yeah. Okay. I'll put it here. seen here as burying our sins, even though he puts it on there, a ⁓ more broader than that. I said, but he's accomplishing, this is the picture of Jesus accomplishing the Father's will. In Hebrews he says, you not take... value. You did not desire sacrifices. at these sacrifices. But here I am. You have given me a body. It's such a chokes me up just now. This the son come to the father going, you gave me a body. Use it a sacrifice. That's the picture. Coming and doing the father's will, glorifying his father, vindicating the father's holiness because the father's passing over sin until it's taken care of, vindicating that holiness, ⁓ that majesty his throne. The burnt offering is captured in John's gospel and in Psalms 40. If you go read those, you read, I'm talking about the whole gospel of John or the Psalm 40. Go read those with this in mind, the Father's will, vindicating the Father's holiness majesty, glorifying the Father. That's what's happening here in Christ as the or in the burnt offering. And it is a sweet aroma. And we talked about that, soothing aroma. So that's all we're going to read, I think. Well, we may read, flip to it in case we read it. 1 Corinthians 2.12. OK, so here's my question. Why the difference? And you're like, well, Randy, the difference is because- the three burn offerings? Yeah, why the three? But why the treatment Why the treatment? Yeah. Yeah, so I can understand the- the value of the sacrifice kind of fitting the wealth of the person. That makes sense because we want everybody to include it. atonement covered everybody on the social economic spectrum, right? But why the difference, why does one leaf covered in blood and the other leaf nothing with blood on his hands? And you're like, well, you know, they... They're just as flawless. There's not one more flawless than the other. all just as flawless. So that can't be it. So in other words, there's not a level of sin or level of repentance that requires one or the other. It's voluntary sacrifice. Each one of need Christ. We all need Christ to the same level, right? So why the And let me just... Seriously, someone doesn't... life's not so messed up. They need a big bowl. And someone else is like, well, they're pretty good. You they just have a little need for sacrifice. Yeah, exactly. ⁓ We're identifying different needs here. Leviticus doesn't. None of the stuff heading into the cross, and certainly none of the epistles after the cross would say that. Right. You know, there's some, it's a little bit of Jesus. There was just, you know, lot of Jesus, know, yeah, he died every part of him, right? Okay. Yeah. So I put here, I think the difference is for us today because the difference is never explained in Leviticus. I 3,500 years later after this is written is where this is for. And this is, there's no indications that the Jews were ever told or ever. understood this. Now might be some rabbi somewhere that would disagree with me and I got that. I'm a rabbi, not Old Testament scholar. But I think Here's what I think. I think each of these three, it typifies a different sized revelation of Jesus Christ and his work on the cross. And let me explain that. You can have a, in my mind, in my explanation here, a bird-sized revelation of Jesus Christ. You can have a sheep-sized or a goat-sized revelation of Jesus Christ or a bull-sized revelation of Jesus Christ. I put the size of your revelation of Christ impacts every area of your life. And I think somebody would disagree with that, but it would be hard to disagree with that. We can see that amongst our friends and family. can see that. in our churches, outside our churches, that people a revelation of Christ differently. So let me just read, go through some comparison. I'm not gonna do three, I'm gonna go two. A large revelation of Jesus Christ, a small revelation of Jesus Christ. I mean this as instructive, I mean this as if you have a, if we all have, need a bigger revelation of who Jesus Christ is. I'm not saying that there's those who've arrived and those who haven't arrived. But some of us have dug into the point that we've left covered in blood. And some of us have failed to dig in as deep and have left with no blood on our hands. So that's kind of some of the things that I think this is showing us. So me go read a bunch of things or areas regarding sin. I put a small revelation of Christ in regards to sin. And I put, sins are not forgiven unless we confess each one. And I just don't believe that's true. And we've talked about bunch of verses. forgiveness, we talked about this before. A small revelation is somebody who is very sin conscious or sin aware. Hebrews 10 verses two and four would say is that we are to have no more consciousness of sin. They see Christian life is primarily about not sinning and making up for it when we do. I think that's a huge thing that many of us believe. We just say, hey, what's point of Christian life? Well, I want to not sin as much as I did yesterday. I want to keep working at it. So that's a very introspective, self-centered looking idea. A large revelation of Jesus Christ understands I'm completely forgiven from a once and for all sacrifice of Jesus Christ. I'm receivers of Christ's righteousness. The laying hands on the bull is an example of that. I have no more consciousness of sin. Hebrews 10, two through four. What time is it? Let's go read that real quick. I don't have that. You read that. I'm fast because you're fast with the fingers. So Hebrews 10, 2 to 4, I think we read this in a previous podcast, but go ahead. For otherwise they would not have ceased to be offered since the worshipers would not or would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin. Okay, go ahead. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. So the The old covenant sacrificial system was a constant reminder of sins. It didn't purify the conscious. And so they were constantly conscious of sins. But what Jesus Christ's sacrifice did is it completely purged the conscience so that now we are not conscious of sins anymore. And that's kind of opposite compared to what many people believe. And I can see where the person that left with no blood on their hands, they go, well, I'm glad that's over with. I'm not sure what good it did, you know, but I, but I meant the letter of the law the person left covered in blood was like, Hey, there was no question that there was something being paid there. Very, very and spiritual even, especially, and we're the way. A deep revelation of Jesus Christ. We're just free. Yeah, a small revelation of Jesus Christ. We're kind of like still trying to work through it, if you will. Being on the fence or some people say being on the fence. You haven't dove in. Right. The CEOs, we ever CEOs. No. Christian Easter only. Yeah. I mean, I don't know that them right. Or is there is probably something I don't know. Yeah. But but. Yeah, and put your feet in the water yet. Right. put here regarding the Holy Spirit. So I have a sin. What about the Holy Spirit? For a small revelation, the Holy Spirit is the heavenly police pointing out each of our flaws. There's a whole group of people that believe that and live that way. But a large revelation of Christ understands, I think, that the Holy Spirit teaches us what we've been freely given. That's why it's there. Hebrews 10, 15, and 17 says, that he bears witness. So he is our witness. Holy Spirit is our witness that our sins are forgiven and we will remember no more. Backing up 1 Corinthians 2.12, I had that to read and I have it right here so I won't take some. Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, so the Holy Spirit. So that, so that is the why in the ET. So that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God. And then the next several verses, Paul talks about how things are spiritually discerned and not discerned with our five senses or not discerned with our intellect. So the Holy Spirit is this one that teaches us the things that are freely given. not the accuser of the brethren. That's a different spirit, right? Regarding life, the small revelation, well, someday eternal life ⁓ will And I hope I get there. It's a future thing. A large revelation in Jesus Christ is that I receive eternal life out salvation and you and I right now are living it out. Christ is eternal life. said he touched eternal life. Eternal life has already begun because we're already in Christ. Our circumstances, a small revelation, we continue to plead for our circumstances to be fixed. God improved my circumstances and what our prayers sound like. A large revelation of Christ. We rest in the fact that wherever we go and whatever happens, Christ is with us. We are more than a conqueror and we are above our circumstances if you have a large revelation of Jesus Christ. Regarding love and acceptance, a small revelation of Christ, Jesus loves me more on my good days than he does on my bad days. That's just a gut feeling we have if you have a small revelation of Christ. If you have a large revelation of Christ, Jesus loves and approves of me no matter what and I can't stop smiling. I mean, there's a that comes with just knowing that you are. that your sins have been taken away in John the Baptist's words. Regarding ministry, small revelation of Christ. Ministry is something we do for Christ. Large ministry is something Christ does through us. We are co-labors as he and I as one working together to accomplish his will. This is one that I struggled with for a while and my testimony is on this thing. But regarding Bible study and prayer, a small revelation, I just had this gut feeling that I never seen to be able to do it enough. This Bible study and prayer is one of God's greatest disappointments in me. That's the sense I had when I had a small revelation of Christ. A large revelation of Christ that Bible study and prayer are spending time with God, and I do it because I'm already loved and accepted, and I just can't get enough. Regarding judgment, how many of us are nervous about judgment? How many people are scared thinking about judgment? That's a small... revelation of Jesus Christ. A large revelation of Jesus Christ would say, Jesus is going to be there, right? He's the judge. The judge has holes in his hands because of me. And he's crazy about me. And he gave himself for me. So let's go. I can't wait for it. Perfect love casts out fear is what I think of. That's a verse that we all hear, right? But we forget the context. As in 1 John 4, 17 and 18, the context of perfect love casting out fear. His perfect love cast out the fear of judgment. If you have a fear of judgment, dive into his love. Go deeper into his word and into his love. His perfect love, Christ's perfect love for you, will cast out your fear of judgment. That's of the things 1 John 4, 17, 18 says. What about blessings and answered prayer? A small revelation of Jesus Christ, and how many of us haven't been here, is this. X, Y, and Z, well then God will bless me. If I do X, Y, and Z, then I'll be worthy of answered prayers, right? Or he owes me answered prayers. And we never use those words, but that's an attitude we all have and struggle with. But with a large revelation of Jesus Christ, I go, hey, Christ is worthy of my answered prayers, not me. And his grace is undeserved and he pours it out on me all day long. My standing is one of grace. That's what Romans 4 will tell us. My standing within all life is one of grace. And then I put it regarding work and rest. A small revelation would say, I got to do my part. I'm here to do my part. large revelation would say, Christ has done it all. I can rest. I can make every effort to enter into a Sabbath rest. Every day is a Sabbath, because I can rest in His work and in His rest. You know, we've talked about, I think we talked about it here somewhere. Recently, I've talked about how was baptized by John the Baptist and John the Baptist's baptism was a baptism of repentance and Jesus had nothing to repent of. So he was doing that on our behalf. Yeah. Which says even my repentance is not something that I do. Right. He even had to repent on my behalf instead of me. And you're like, I thought maybe that was I own that. No, we don't own that. So would you say a small revelation is that we're bringing something to the table? Yes. And a big revelation is I didn't bring anything. Yeah, we're not bringing anything. Exactly. think it's in 1st 2nd Timothy, I think talking about somebody who's not acting right in the church. And it says, maybe the maybe that person through this process of Paul's talking about will be granted repentance. well, maybe this will repent. Maybe this person will be granted repentance. And then that's a crazy way. That's kind of what we're trying to That's a large revelation of Jesus Christ that he even repented on my behalf. What an amazing thought. Anyways, I put here, and this is the end. If you have questions, I can answer them or if you have anything else you want to talk about. a large revelation. Placed the hands on the head. He cut the throat while standing right there. He skinned it. Then he or she washed the legs and intestines. the head, the intestines and the legs were all put on the altar. They burned until there was nothing left but ashes. It is finished and we are at rest. That's a picture ⁓ of burnt offering. That's a picture of Jesus Christ. That's looking and finding Jesus in the Old Testament as we it. and think about what Christ has done on our behalf. Right. And that reveal that big revelation is nothing more than us diving more and more into him. Yes. Less of me, more of him. Yeah. It's not an earned thing. No. It is a realization or a or spending time in his word where you just realize, OK, not all about him. And you realize Well, that's how we grow. That's how we gain our fruits of righteousness. If we're going to act right or whatever. is just, the fruit is just comes to the, he doesn't, he can't show up without producing the fruit. Right. So when he shows up, he produces the fruit. It's the same thing with his word. You know, this is Jesus Christ in black and white, every single page. Right. And as I consume it, as I read it, spend time in it, as I ask questions about it. Yeah. That's how we go deeper into Jesus Christ. One of my prayers, you've known for years, is more of you Jesus, no matter what. And somebody else said, well you got, I had a good friend of mine in our Sunday school class, she made the correct thing. Well, you already got all of Jesus. I go, I know. Maybe he doesn't have all of me. I don't know what the word is there that I'm trying to say, because you can go, you received all of Jesus. The son of Beth is about, big on you, received it all when you said, me Jesus. No issue with that. I can name at least three times that Peter received the Holy Spirit, but that's a whole different subject for another day. But I got nothing wrong with that. And she was right. But also I'm like, yeah, but I don't have enough of him. Well, maybe that's the wrong word. Maybe he have enough of me. There's just, I just want more, whatever it is. And I've tried to think of other ways to pray it. And I just said, no, you know what I mean? I don't know if it's theologically correct. view Jesus no matter what. More Jesus no matter what. And then no matter what, it took me a while to say that actually. Because I knew what I was Yeah, am I really willing to do that? I knew what I was saying. Am I willing to do that? Because Jesus was persecuted, all the disciples were persecuted, and they, in my words, probably maybe not theologically correct, had more Jesus than I have. maybe not more than Jesus than I want. My wants up, seem to go up every day or have over time an upward slope to the curve. But yeah, I mean, no matter what, I used say, well, he's gonna send me to the mission field somewhere. I've heard that's what people say. I don't know if I really thought that, but yeah, that's what people think no matter what. Well, yeah, that's part of it, right? Send me as Isaiah said in Isaiah chapter six. Yeah, I got that. What if it doesn't get you promoted at work? Right. What if it doesn't get you promoted at work? Is it really? No matter what? Yeah. And that's a small one, but or friends. Yeah. What if you don't make as much money? What if you, what if you choose to do other things instead of working? You our job is we can work as hard as we want and every harder. weren't more money we make, know, what if our PR what if he rearranges our priorities such that that's way down at the bottom? And so we don't make as much money. Yeah. What if there's persecution? What if you're What if you reveal something to it and you that to somebody and you think it's the nearest thing ever and you go, boom, know, that, you know, I'm not sure that was, you know, what I was looking for exactly. You know, you've, I've been excited more than once about stuff that the, that the Lord has revealed to me. you know, I can't even think of one that some people have a problem with that word reveal, but, but Ephesians one seven. is a prayer that I pray every Monday for my family and my kids, is that prayer in Ephesians chapter one. Well, verse seven says, give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation. There's nothing wrong with asking for revelation. comes from God's word mixed the Holy Spirit. But it in fact, revelation. It is God revealing himself to me as I dive into it. It's a bigger and bigger revelation of Jesus Christ. not, then Ephesians 1-7 wouldn't make sense. And shouldn't be praying that for my family. And I shouldn't be praying that for myself. But I am praying that for my family. I am that for myself. Psalms 33-6 says by His Word and Spirit, the world was created. Spirit there, most of our translation says breath. But in the Hebrew, there's no difference between breath and spirit. So what he's saying is that by God's breath or spirit and by God's word the worlds were created. Well we see that in Genesis 1. We see the hovering over the deep ⁓ then God speaking let there be light and those two combined there's right. So what's mean? So what I'm telling you this is when you are sitting here with the word of God in your lap and you have the spirit of God within you have total access to the power that created everything we see. mean, that's a awesome thought. You're not just sitting here reading a textbook. You're a living word and you have that living word or the spirit of God within you. as you read sensitive to the Holy Spirit, the spirit of God and the word of God interact here between ⁓ us that changes us. And the we've chosen today to use, that increases our revelation of Jesus Christ. as we do that. That was a long answer to not even really much of a question, but what else is on your mind before we close? think that's good. I don't think anybody would say that was a liticus because it was good and quite informative. So thanks for bringing that. You bet. Next we'll cover Leviticus two through seven and Leviticus 13. So two more lessons on Leviticus and then we'll go somewhere else. So read Leviticus for the next podcast. All Thanks, Rainey. You're welcome.