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Leviticus, Part 2 (Ch 2-7) · Accidental Bible Scholar

• Jeff Ward: Okay, welcome back to the Accidental Bible Scholar podcast. Today we're going to cover session two of three podcasts on Leviticus. And we're to go through chapters two through seven, Randy says. Yeah. So strap in and ⁓ hang So going to cover again Leviticus and it's going to be Randy. All right. We'll probably read more of Leviticus in one setting then. then you have it a lot. at that. Outstanding. Yeah, okay. So we're going to talk about five offerings. We've already talked about one. So we're really going to spend time on four, although we'll kind of rehash a little bit at the burnt offering, the grain offering, the peace offering, the sin offering, and the offering. Those are what's covering the first seven chapters of But before we get there, let's set the context. And I'm going to read some verses here. First one is, ⁓ 8.5. says, place where they serve is a sketch. This is the writer of Hebrews talking about the priest who served in the old tabernacle in the old covenant, ⁓ temple, where they serve as a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary. Just as Moses was worn by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle, for he says, see that you make everything according to the design shown you on the mountain. ⁓ The Old Testament or Old Covenant tabernacle or temple was just a sketch or a shadow of the actual heavenly sanctuary. And since it was a duplicate or a shadow of that or a sketch of that, that's why God said, hey, follow these things exactly. They're not arbitrary. One I'm setting up for you here is not arbitrary. But the key is the Old Covenant was just a shadow of this, okay? So the thing's gonna read out in Leviticus. is fits in that category. then 9, 9, 10, and 11 says this, this was a symbol for the time then present. Again, he's talking about back then under So all this stuff was a symbol when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the They serve only for matters of food and drink in various washings. They are external regulations imposed until the new order came. But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. So here we see that what Jesus is doing, the old covenants couldn't perfect the conscience of the worshiper. Jesus does perfect our conscience or complete it, because justice has been done, so our conscience is satisfied. All right. These old things served only a matter of food and drink and washings and external regulations. And they were only imposed until a new order came. So the things we're going to see... are obsolete because we no longer need it because Jesus fulfilled all five of the Leviticus sacrifices. For you and I, it's a great value for us to go back and read and learn and see how those sacrifices were done and we can see the meaning of Jesus and it just helps us better understand what Jesus did at the cross for us. Hebrews 10.1 says, for the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come, but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship. Again, these were just shadows, sketches. They were just to show us what's coming, but they're still very valuable to us because we can look and we can see some of the things that Christ did for us at the cross. I'll just briefly talk through the burnt offering, because we covered that last time. But it's a perfect male. All right. That's a picture of Christ's perfection It was the legs. Peter says Christ did no sin, a picture of no sin in Christ that he did. Paul said he knew no sin. That was the head, the mind. Christ knew no sin. And John says in him was no sin. So that's a picture of guts, if you will, that were put on in the burnt offering. It was a voluntary offering. Jesus volunteered to come to earth, put on flesh, and go to the cross. This sacrifice of burnt offering was offered north of the altar. Calvary was outside the camp into the north of the temple. It was totally consumed. The burnt was totally consumed. there was nothing but ashes left. That's a picture of it is finished, what Jesus spoke, so his work is done. God poured out, when God poured out his wrath on a bull or a goat, there was wrath left over. Okay, but when God poured out his wrath on Christ, God's wrath was totally exhausted. He kept pouring out until there was nothing left and there was no more wrath to pour out and it was over, it's done. It is finished. That's the ashes of the old It's also the trespass offering to do something different. It offered atonement, which is a covering for our sin, but it didn't take away sin. OK. It shows us that we were made righteous by the work of Christ. Let me see if I can quickly go to Romans 3, 24. We all have, dog us a little bit here and say we all have Romans 3 23 memorized, but you got it read 24 through 26. Yeah, but they are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. God publicly displayed Him at His death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness because God in His forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed. This was also to demonstrate His righteousness in the present time. so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus's faithfulness. Okay, he took away our sins. This is using, how in the new covenant, Paul brings forth the old covenant, the mercy seat, the blood that was shed, that was taken into the holy holies once a year and sprinkled on the mercy seat, which is the top part of the ark of the covenant. And says Jesus was that mercy seat. at the cross and you see how they tie together and that's what Leviticus does. And then Romans 10, mean, Romans, Hebrews 10, 8 through 10, I'll read that because I have it here. When he says above, we're talking about the verse five, six and seven. When he says above, sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them. At first you go, he doesn't want these things even though he said he did. But then it says, here I am, I have come to do your will. Jesus is going, here I am. You don't want goats. You don't want bulls. You don't want lambs. here I am with a body that you gave me. He's saying, those were just shadows, pictures, sketches, but you really didn't want them because they didn't do what you wanted to do. You wanted to cleanse our conscience. You wanted to take away our sin. You wanted to pour your wrath out on somebody besides the people that. that follow you and that believe you. He says, here I am to do your will. He does away with the first to establish the second. He does away with the old offerings to establish the second. He does away with the old covenant to establish the new covenant. And here's the result. By his will, we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ for So we have been ⁓ once for all by the one single sacrifice of Christ. we've been made holy. So don't let me tell you you're not holy there. All right, that's the burnt offering. Let's talk about, let's go into the grain offering, the meal offering. also see this referred to sometimes as a peace offering, but we're not gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about the peace offering here next. But flip to Leviticus if you're ready. Ready. And read two verses one through three. Okay, when a person presents a grain offering to the Lord, his offering must consist of choice wheat flour. and he must pour olive oil on it and put frankincense on it. Then he must bring it to the sons of Aaron the priests and the priest must scoop out from there a handful of his choice wheat flour and some of its olive oil in addition to all of its frankincense. And the priest must offer its memorial portion up in smoke on the altar. It is a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord. The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons. It is most holy from the gifts of the Lord. Okay, there's a number of ways they would do this. It's up to the choice of the person to do it, but it had to be grain. They could bake it in an oven and to make loaves of bread, yeast, bread without yeast, unleavened They could wafers. Either way, they would smear them with ⁓ olive oil. So would be some sort of grain with olive oil on it, either cooked or not cooked. It could be made on a griddle and made into almost like crumbly pieces of stuff would be fried in olive oil. It be deep fried in olive oil. There's a number of ways they would do this to symbolize it. It be just flour with frankincense on it and with oil on it, as is mentioned there as most basic form of it. Any grain offering is not to have yeast in it. Yeast is a picture of sin, or honey in it. It's interesting they mentions honey. Why would he mention honey in it? Why would there be no honey in this? The reason there'd be no honey, honey is sweet to the taste, but when you test it with fire, honey turns black and stinks and it puts off a horrible scent. Frankincense, when it is put on the fire and subjected to the test of fire puts off a aroma. Yeah. So that's a picture of our work or our comfort, if you will, or our desire for comfort, when it puts to the test, doesn't live up to it and it crumbles. was put to the test and he came out of it smelling sweet, like frankincense. It's a gift to the Lord. So Jesus was a gift to us, also back to the Lord. There could also be soft kernels roasted. It typifies, there's no blood here. This is the only offering I'm talk about today that there's no blood in. So this is not this is not typified the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. This typifies his perfect life, his pure, sinless perfection that he lived for 33 years. That's what that speaks to, his person, rather than his death. and his sinlessness, his moral qualities. The oil in the Old Testament, oil to my knowledge is always a picture of the Holy Spirit. Okay, so it's a picture of Jesus was a man anointed with the Holy Spirit. That's Acts 10.38. So he was God, but Philippians 2 says he took his godness and set it aside, folded it up like a garment and set it there for a second. took on the form of a man, 100 % humanity, and then he operated here as a man in oil and the Holy Spirit. That's what the is. The frankincense is a picture of prayers. It's also a picture of a aroma coming out off of a test. Jesus will be tested and was tested and tempted in every way, and he's there. Another thing, when you think of wine, his blood, bread, his body, oil, the Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. One thing that all those wheat or the bread to make the wheat, the wheat to make the bread, all of those require crushing. The wheat has to be ground. The have be stomped out or treaded out or had to be in a wine press. The olives to bring olive oil had to be in a wine press. It's a picture of everything that Jesus was going to go through. in his life and on the cross. Everything that symbolizes Christ has been put to the test of grinding or crushing or pressing, however you want to look at that. Let's look up two verses here. I'm gonna go to Ephesians 5 2. And when you're done writing, if you'll go to 2 Corinthians 2, 14 to 15, and I'll just talk to the next one, Psalms 1. So Ephesians 5 2 says, let me read one. Therefore we imitators of God is dearly love children. Verse two, and live in love just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us. as a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. So this was a sweet aroma to God. That's what frankincense does. We'll also see, we also saw that the burnt offering was a fragrant sacrifice to God, a fragrant aroma to the Lord. That's what Christ is pictured here. 2 Corinthians 2, 14 and 15. Got it. But thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and who makes known through us the fragrance. that consists of the knowledge of him in every place. For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things? So Jesus is a sweet fragrance to the Lord. We as followers of Jesus, we begin to smell like him. Okay. We are also a sweet fragrance to the Lord. We won't go there, but Psalms 141, The first two verses, so Psalms 141 and 142 talks about our incense or the frankincense being prayers. In Revelation it talks about a bowl of incense poured out on the altar in heaven and that creates a smoke that comes up that is the prayers of the saints. So our prayers are sweet smelling to the Lord. They're also our prayers are put to the test so that our prayers after they've been on the altar go perfectly to Jesus or to the Father and do his will. We looked at it last week, I believe, but our uplifted, our lifted hands, when we're in praise and worship, we lift our hands, that's a burnt offering according to Psalms 141. All right, questions or comments on that one? No. All right, let's go on to back to Leviticus. This time read Leviticus 3 verses one through five, and then skip from five and read 17. Okay. Now if his offering is a peace offering sacrifice, if he presents an offering from the herd, he must present before the Lord a flawless male or a female. He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the meeting tent. And the sons of Aaron, the priest, must splash the blood against the altar's sides. Then the one presenting the offering must present a gift to the Lord from the peace offering sacrifice. He must remove the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that surrounds the entrails, the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews the protruding lobe on the liver, which he is to remove along with the kidneys. Then the sons of Aaron ⁓ offer it up in smoke on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the wood in the fire as a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord. Then verse 17. ⁓ perpetual statute throughout your generations and all the places where you live, you must never eat any fat or any blood. Okay, so blood, fat, kidneys, liver are all burned at the altar. This sacrifice also is a sweet savor, a sweet aroma. The kidneys and the liver talk our heart, giving our heart to Christ. Christ gave his heart, his everything to peace. between us and God. And then there's also a picture of us giving our heart and mind to them. The fat, we're gonna put the fat on there because it's a Genesis 45, 18 talks about fat being the abundance or the best. It's a picture of giving our best. Christ gave his best, gave from his abundance and he gave it all for This is interesting one that's also there is that this is the This offering, the giver of the offering, the one that brings animal, also eats of it, partakes of it. So there's a portion that's given to, after it's gotten to a point that it's cooked, through the fires, given to the offeror. This is a picture of our communion with God, our peace and fellowship that we have. It's a picture of the old, what the... Lord's Supper is also a picture of the Lord's Supper's picture of abiding with Christ, abiding in him with against 1 Corinthians 10, 14 through 22 talks about us participating in the altar of Christ, in the table of Christ, in the sacrifice of Christ. Those are all things we do when we partake of the Lord's Supper. This is in the Old Testament, that picture partaking of it. It's interesting. that on any altars there's many times a partaking of it we eat. And eating is funny because it's easy in the Western mindset not to think it means anything. But eating is throughout scripture. In Genesis 3, eating the very thing that got us in trouble, right? And then we provide food as sacrifices throughout. And then we even have There's an altar in heaven that we participate in by partaking of the Lord's Supper. In 1st Corinthians 10, that's contrasted to partaking of the demonic altar or demonic table. If you've studied the occult, they sacrifices. They partake of their sacrifice that they put on the altar. So there's something meaningful about that. And Jesus says he would call it abiding in him. eat his flesh and drink his blood, you're abiding in him, that's what Jesus says. I'll use a slightly different terminology in 1 Corinthians 10 there. And it would also be called, you'll see it's called a fellowship offering. So there's this fellowship as we eat of this. So the priest, our picture of God partaking of it, and then we fellowship with God as the offeror also partakes of it. Let's see. Go to Colossians 1.20 if you don't mind. And I'm gonna go to Ephesians 2.14. And I think I can quickly get to Romans 5.1. So Romans 5.1 says, therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, that's what most of Romans 4 talked about, therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. That's a picture of this. There's peace between us and the Father because of Jesus Christ. that was between he and I was put on Christ and his wrath poured out and was burned at the altar. And then Ephesians 2. 14-18. That's a lot of reading. should have given that to you. Just kidding. For he is our peace, tell me about Christ. The one who made both groups into one, both groups being Gentiles and Jews, and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility. When he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments and decrees, he did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross by which the hostility has been killed. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near so that through him we both have access to one spirit in one spirit to the father. So this is another picture of him joining the Jew and the Gentile are now one man. there's the what was between us is no longer there anymore. It's been destroyed. And in Colossians 1.20. Colossians 1.20 says, and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven. Okay, talking about a peace offering again, right? This is the, Jesus Christ was a peace offering. He reconciled all things to God. So we have total permanent peace us and God because of the work of Christ, nothing else. And nothing can take that away because his work is finished. That's homework if people want to go read Psalms, Psalm 85. just as you read Psalm 85, let the idea of a peace offering wash over you as you read it and think about Jesus Christ creating peace between us. Deliverance is another idea of peace that is used there. All right, questions or comments on that? No, that's good. Okay. Let's go with Leviticus one, Leviticus 4:1-12 If you don't mind reading that I know it's a lot. Then Lord's by the this is now we're going on to the sin offering. That's just said in order until this is the sin offering. We've talked about burnt offering grain offering. Peace offering and now the sin offering. And this is what we're going to read about the sin offering. OK, then the Lord spoke to Moses. Tell the Israelites when a person sins by straying unintentionally from any of the Lord's commandments, which must not be violated and violates any one of them. If the high priest sins so that the people are guilty, on account of the sin he has committed, he must present a flawless young bull to the Lord for a sin offering. He must bring the bull to the entrance of the meeting tent before the Lord, lay his hand on the head of the bull, and slaughter the bull before the Lord. Then that high priest must take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the meeting tent. The priest must dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the Lord toward the front of the special curtain. of the sanctuary. The priest must put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the Lord in the meeting tent. And all the rest of the bull's blood he must pour out of the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the meeting tent. Then he must take up all the fat from the sin offering bull, the fat covering the entrails and all the fat surrounding the entrails. The two kidneys with the fat on their sinews. Has that been said? Sinews. Sinews. Thank you. and the protruding lobe on the liver, which he is to remove along with the kidneys, just as it is taken from the ox of the peace offering sacrifice. And the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering. But the hide of the bull, all its flesh, along with the head and its legs and its entrails and its dung, all the rest of the bull, he must bring outside the camp to the ceremonially clean place, to the fatty ash pile, and he must burn it on a wood fire. It must be burned. on a fatty ash pile. That's it. All right. Are we beginning to see how hard it is to live up to the old covenant? Yes. This is sin that I didn't even mean to do. It was unintentional. I found out later that I violated a law and I'm like, ⁓ my goodness. Right now. I mean, I don't know on a typical day what the line was like, you know, at this time. Right. mean, in the blood was sprinkled on the altar, had to go into the holy place, not the far most holy place, but that's where the burnt offering was, was in there and they had to sprinkle blood there, then they had to pour blood around the altar. Then they couldn't even burn it on the altar. Sin is repugnant to the Lord that it had to be outside the camp, outside and away from everything, and for this sin offering to be done. So these are some of the... differences. First of all, it never says this is a sweet savor to the Lord and you'll never find that because that's how repugnant sin is. Burned outside the camp. Christ was burned outside of Jerusalem, outside the camp. Okay, that's a picture of this. It was mandatory for unintentional sin. Some of these offerings we've seen before are voluntary offerings. This was not. was mandatory. Okay, let's go to some things. Do you mind flipping to Hebrews? 13 and then you can go there will be reading in 10th And then I'll go to Romans Hebrews 13 Yeah, Hebrews 13, 11 through 13. Ready for me to read? Yep, let her rip For the bodies of these animals, or those animals whose blood the high priest brings into the sanctuary as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp. Therefore, to sanctify the people by his own blood, Jesus also suffered outside the camp. We must go out to him, then outside the camp, bearing the abuse he experienced. Okay, so he says they brought it into the sanctuary, but then took it outside camp. He's describing this sin. And he's describing that Jesus is outside the camp. We have to go outside the camp. We have to go outside our camp. We are joined as one man, but many times we're not joined to our family. We're not joined to our friends. We're not joined to our culture because of going outside and we're different. And we are now associated purely with Jesus Christ. Okay. And then go backwards, go to 10 Hebrews 10, one through four. fascinating scriptures that we don't have time to go into, but we'll just do it. 10.1 through four. Yeah. For the law possesses the shadow of the good things to come, but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable by the same sacrifices offered continually year after year to perfect those who come to worship. For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered since the worshipers would not have, would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin. 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 sins. couple of important things there. One, take away sin. This offering in the Old Covenant did not take away sin, but Jesus' offering did take away sin. It covered sin, and so that's why they had to continually do it. All day, every day, this was doing it. And all these other certain days and times, they would do it as well. And these were offerings continually. Why? Because they didn't purify the conscience of the worshiper. But Jesus does purify our conscience. These were a reminder of sin. But Jesus, through Cor. 10, is the contrast of that in that it removes all consciousness of sin. We're not even be sin-focused. Our sin problem is so fixed, is so... dealt with. The solution is so final that we're not even supposed to be conscious of it. Remember that's religion is the one thing that constantly makes me aware of my sin. And I'm constantly asking do I measure up? But in the new covenant, my question is, does Jesus measure up? And it's always yes. So I'm Christ focused, not sin focused. And then where you were there, I hope you're still there, read five through 14. This is a lot I know. But he's going to talk about being holy once and for all. multiple times and it's gonna be talking about forgiving. But listen for the once and for all, listen for the given, forgiven and listen for the holy. So when he came into the world, he said, sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. Whole-burn offerings and sin offerings you took no delight in. Then he said, here I am. I have come. It is written of me in the scroll of the book to do your will, O God. When he says above, this is a book with me on the Old Testament, sacrifices and offerings and whole-burn offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor did you take delight in them, which are offered according to the law. Then he says, here I am, I have come to do your will. does away with the first to establish the second. By his will, we have been made holy through the offering of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again, sacrifices that can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, He sat down at the right hand of God, where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet. And by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy. totally forgiven. Verse 10 and verse 14 of Hebrews 10 talk about how we've been made holy by his sacrifice. Something that's kind of crazy is our conscience is clear. Yeah. That kind of goes against what we normally think. Right. Our conscience requires justice and justice has been done. So our conscience is clear. It's been taken care of our sin problems take care of. So we go back to verse two and go, we're no longer to have consciousness of sin. It's no longer to be the primary focus in our mind. Jesus Christ is to that and his sacrifice took away sin once ⁓ for all. What a great section there in Hebrews. 10, if you would have continued in verse 17 and verse 15 and 17, it say, it would give us, we've read this before, a purpose of Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit bears witness that our sins and our lawless deeds will be remembered no more. That's verse 15, 16 and 17. What a wonderful, awesome thought to comprehend. Stay there in Hebrews. Romans 8.3. For God achieved what the law could not. The law is only a sketch, right? For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. He did this by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh. So our sin in the flesh has already been dealt with, already condemned. 1 Peter 2.24 reverts back to Isaiah 43, talks about a... a healing that has been given to us. That's both physical and spiritual. Matthew 8, 16, 17 is the thing that makes sure we know it's physical healing. Romans 5, 9, let me read that real quick. Let me find it real quick. right, five, nine, much more. First of all, Romans four and five. are good. Six, seven, and eight, maybe those five chapters along with Hebrews 10 is maybe the greatest words ever put on paper. it's worth your while to read over and over again. But 5 9 says, much more then. Because we have now been declared righteous by His blood, we will be saved through Him from God's wrath. This is the sin offering, righteous by His blood. So those who we before, but those who call themselves sinners, they don't understand that they've been made righteous. You can't be both. OK. And if you go 17 through really all the way through verse 21 in chapter five is what we've talked about in the past. Are you still in Hebrews? Read 812. For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds and their sins I will remember no longer. There you go. Their sins I will remember no more. 10 17 says very similar, but it pushes 10 15 there saying that the Holy Spirit is the witness. He witnessed what took place. He was the note taker, right? Watching the God, God the father and God the son deal with mine and your sin. And he witnessed it. goes, done. It's been taken care of. Right. Forgiveness and holiness, righteousness, they're real. And he bears witness to God himself bears witness to what happened on the cross as being good and take away. We won't go there for the sake of time, Ezekiel 18 20 talks about judgment, falling on the person. It said basically, you earned judgment. Fair and square is what Ezekiel 18 20 will tell us. But Jesus took it upon himself. Jesus stepped in our place and took our judgment. That's the sin offering picture. If you want to go read Psalm 22, read Psalm 22 with the sin offering in mind and just get a bigger sense of what. has taken place for us. All right, next one. it starts out with my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Yeah, it's much of Jesus. It's a picture of the Messiah on the cross going through the sin offering for us. Yeah. Pretty crazy. Yeah, it is. Transpast This will be the last one. OK. So your time of reading Leviticus word for word is coming slowly to an end. Chapter 6 in Leviticus 1 through 7. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, when a person sins and commits a trespass against the Lord by deceiving his fellow citizen in regard to something held in a trust or a pledge or something stolen or by extorting something from his fellow citizen, has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely concerning any of the things that someone might do to sin, when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty, then he must return whatever he had stolen. or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, or the lost thing that he had found, or anything about which he swears falsely. He must restore it in full and add one fifth to it. Then he must it to owner when he is found guilty. Then he must bring his guilt offering to the Lord, a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver shekels, or a guilt offering to the priest. So the priest will make atonement on his behalf. before the Lord, he will be forgiven for whatever he has done to become guilty. Okay. Trespass offering, some of the differences. Notice in this offering, there's an injured party and an injuring party. The injuring party is the one that this trespass offering is going to be sacrificed for. So the sin offering was the stuff I really didn't know I was doing. This is the intentional sin that I know I'm doing, the trespass. There's a line in the sand and I put my toe over it. That's the trespass offering. And notice there's restitution. Restitution is a godly thing, is a godly attribute. Okay. So the injurer makes restitution. So he pays back the original, whatever he took or caused to be lost, and he adds 20 % to it. So he adds one fifth back to it, right? Here's the thing that we, that you miss, that we might miss is both parties from this. The injured party, well, they get what they lost plus 20%, plus one fifth. The injurer, how does he gain? The lamb takes the punishment and the guilt is removed. So this is the mechanism by which everybody's made whole, the injured and the injurer. That's sometimes we forget. and I saw this in a sermon just this past Sunday. Matt Thompson said that he was talking about the jailer in the Philippian jailer in Acts 16. He was saying God's grace is even for the abuser, even for the oppressor. Here's a picture, even for the injurer, God's grace is there because the lamb takes the punishment, the guilt is removed. The gospel the answer for all of us. And we've all been the abuser and we've all been the abuse to different degrees. And I'm not trying to light of anybody's abuse, but there's hope for both parties. Both parties here gain. Go to Psalm 69:4 if you don't mind and read that. Okay. 69:4 those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, my enemies for no reason outnumber me. They make me repay what I did not steal. Jesus Christ paid a debt that he didn't owe. We had a debt that we owed that we couldn't pay. He stepped in and paid that debt for us. He's stepping in right now or not right now at the cross 2000 years ago. He has already stepped in as the lamb and taken the guilt and the punishment of the one that does the injury. Let me read Isaiah 53, 10. Though the Lord desired to crush him and make him ill, once restitution is made, he will see his descendants and enjoy a long life, and the Lord's purpose will be accomplished through him. Restitution, this is the other side of that story, of the trespass offering. Jesus took the punishment, He also made restitution. So Jesus is both the lamb that takes that, that takes the wrath and the punishment for the guilt and removes the guilt. He is also the one that provides restitution. Okay. You and I are both parties. We receive the restitution. mean, what blows me away, almost say it every morning when I wake up is I just can't believe how good God is because he could have just, he didn't just make a way for heaven. and we detract from what he really did when we think that way. He did so much more. He created us below the angels, now we are above the angels. He made us and women walking around the planet that are now seated at the right hand of the Father in Christ. He took and made and joined our spirits as one to his. He more than we can comprehend and more than we would have done. Crazy that he actually restored us not just 20 % more, but a gazillion times more to be one with Christ, to have Christ in us, to us in Christ seated at the right hand of the Father. I meant to say this earlier on the other one, but just a quick side note. You're reading about Hebrews 10. It says that Jesus is there waiting for his enemies to be made his foots to. Who makes his enemies his footstool? The church. His body on the planet Earth right now to do his will on Earth as it is in Heaven. It's you and I to take the enemies of Christ, which are not flesh and blood by the way, but take the enemies of Christ and make those be his footstool. That's a whole aspect of spiritual warfare that we need to investigate or that we need to be proficient in. Don't have time here, of course. You read out of Psalm 69, go and read that whole chapter. Would be a good place to kind of contemplate the trespass offering and what Christ was doing and has done in that trespass offering. Psalm 69. and I want to read as the final reading here and as a summary of everything we just talked about of Leviticus 2 through 7, 1 through 7. We didn't read one today, but that's a burn offering. Let me just read verse 12. We've already read it. But when this priest, this priest being Jesus Christ, the one from the tribe of Judah, the one in the line of Melchizedek, when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God. Amen. There are no chairs the tabernacle or in the temple anywhere because the priest's job was never done. The priest in the old covenant, the ones that come from Levi, from Aaron, never finished. They never sat down. They were always busy at work keeping the oil lamps burning, keeping the incense burning. The continual sprinkling of blood There are no chairs the tabernacle or in the temple anywhere because the priest's job was never done. The priest in the old covenant, the ones that come from Levi, from Aaron, never finished. They never sat down. They were always busy at work keeping the oil lamps burning, keeping the incense burning. The continual sprinkling of blood and offering of sacrifice is never done. But this priest, our priest, the lion from the tribe of Judah sat down when he once and for all time offered a sacrifice and put away our sins. he signified it by sitting down. It is finished. offering of sacrifice is never done. But this priest, our priest, the lion from the tribe of Judah sat when he once and all time offered a sacrifice and put away our sins. And he signified by sitting down. It is finished. That's the five burnt offerings in a whirlwind. Questions, comments or thoughts before we finish up? No, it's very good. I had no questions. We got one more Leviticus thing. One more Leviticus. That'll be next. Leviticus 13. 13. And we're going to deal with leprosy. Everybody's favorite subject. But in my mind, it blows me away. Yeah. And if it doesn't blow you away, it's just because I cover it wrong. But it's amazing. We'll get there in our next one. All right. Thanks, Randy. You're welcome.