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Leviticus chapter 4 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Leviticus chapter 4, let us pray.
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  Our Father who's in heaven, Lord, you know all of our needs.
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  Lord, search us, search our minds and our hearts.
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  God, pull out the dross, pull out all the impurities, pull out
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  the things that we're holding on to.
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  God, we consecrate the temple today, drive out the money
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  changers, flip over the tables. God, don't let them make
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  merchandise out of us. God, we are yours.
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  We are yours alone. We don't care about houses or
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  land, we don't care about riches, money, God, we want the
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  fear of the Lord. Teach us your ways, Father.
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  Show up and show off and show out.
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  God, You are holy and worthy. Mighty Lord, we praise your holy
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  name. We enter in the gates with
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  praise and Thanksgiving. God, we come in with clean hands
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  and a pure heart. We have not bowed down to idols
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  or swore by a false God, for this is the generation that
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  seeks thy face. O Jacob, thank you, Father, for
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  another day. Thank you, God, for giving us
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  our marching orders, giving us health, Lord, helping us to see
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  you and to see You correctly, helping us to have sound
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  doctrine, sound theology. Father, thank you for the full
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  context of Your word. Thank you, God, for all of the
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  many things that you revealed to us.
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  Lord, thank you for the convictions that we hold.
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  Father, I pray that no one will talk us out of it.
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  Father, that will be resolute, Lord, that it'll only be You
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  that we want to serve. Lord, let the fear of man go.
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  God, we fear you. Let everything else bow unto
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  you, Father, for yours is the Kingdom, and the power and the
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  glory, forever and ever. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And the Lord spoke unto Moses,
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  saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a soul, if a
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  soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments
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  of the Lord concerning things with ought not to be done, and
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  shall do against any of them. So here he's going to talk about
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  some things that are not so sweet to his nostrils, some
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  sense that he abhors. Friends, verse three, If the
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  priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the
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  people, then let him bring for his sin which he has sinned, a
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  young bull without blemish unto the Lord for a sin offering.
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  So we're going to get into this whole section of a sin offering
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  friends, and a lot of these are going to be sins that they
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  unwillingly knew that they were committing.
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  But we are all sinful and that is what God wants us to know.
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  Every single one of us has fallen short.
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  There was no one that could ever save themselves.
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  And that's what Jesus was so upset with the Pharisees and the
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  Sadducees and the Sanhedrin when he came on the scene as they
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  were trying to build all of these laws on top of the laws to
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  protect them from breaking the law.
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  And He was showing them that through all of their meticulous
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  behavior, it still was not enough.
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  And it would never be enough. Only Jesus Christ was the ever
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  was the only one that ever fulfilled the law, was able to
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  live up to every single standard of the law because He is the one
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  who created it to show us our need for Himself.
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  Praise the Lord God Almighty, we love Jesus for and he shall
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  bring the bull onto the door of the Tabernacle of the
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  congregation before the Lord, and shall lay his hand upon the
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  bull's head and kill the bull before the Lord.
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  So, so many times. You see that the person bringing
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  it is to lean upon this animal to show that all of their sin
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  was put upon the animal. You know, friends, this would
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  have been a sight to see. All of it would have been in
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  plain sight for the people to be able to look at, and to see that
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  the priest here was putting his sins upon this animal. 5 And the
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  priest that is anointed shall take of the bull's blood and
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  bring it to the Tabernacle of the congregation. 6 And the
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  priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it of the
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  blood 7 times before the Lord, before the veil of the
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  sanctuary. So imagine that this veil that
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  is keeping them separate, and this blood that goes upon it,
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  friends. And that is the only way that we
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  could ever enter in to the holiest of the holy places, as
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  if we're covered in the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  One day you're going to stand before a holy God, and he's only
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  going to see you one of two ways.
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  There's not 1/3 option, friends, either he's going to see the
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  blood of Jesus Christ covering you from the top of your head to
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  the bottom of your feet. He's not going to see not a
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  single sin that you've ever committed, period.
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  And God is going to say, well done, good and faithful servant,
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  come into the rest that I have prepared for you.
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  Or you're going to try to enter in and there's going to be a sin
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  in your life that is not covered by the blood.
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  And Jesus is going to say, depart from me for I never knew
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  you. And you're going to try to say,
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  look at all these pedigree. Look at my resume.
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  Look at all the religious things that I did.
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  And he will say, go to where there's weeping and gnashing of
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  teeth because you refuse to be covered in the blood.
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  Friends, this is how important it is.
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  Lock in 7 And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the
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  horns of the altar of sweet incense for the Lord, which is
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  in the Tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour all
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  the blood of the bull at the bottom of the altar of the burnt
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  offering, which is at the door of the Tabernacle of the
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  congregation. So you need to know Is Jesus's
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  blood ran red down that cross, and is spilled out on the ground
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  every place that had touched his holy friends. 8 And he shall
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  take off from it all the fat of the bull for the sin offering,
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  the fat that covers the inwards, and the fat that is upon the
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  inwards. 9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them,
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  which is by the flanks, and the call above the liver and the
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  kidneys, He shall take away. 10 as it was taken off from the
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  bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall
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  burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering.
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  So here you can see that as they're dressing this animal
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  out, friends, as they're butchering it down, God says to
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  burn it because it is a sin offering.
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  It is not to be enjoyed because there is no fun in sin.
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  It is only fun for a season and it leads to death.
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  It bites like a Viper. Friends, you need to know that
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  sin will always lead to death. Anytime that that that Satan,
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  that the enemy comes in and he tries to lie to you and he tries
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  to get you to believe the lie that God's holding out on you.
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  The original lie all the way back in the garden that the
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  serpent told Eve whenever he was trying to get her to think that
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  God was holding out on her. And you need to know that this
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  pride of life, you need to know that this disgusting lust of the
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  eyes and the disgusting lust of the flesh and how it always ends
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  in death. No matter if it's greed, no
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  matter if it's in the sexual immorality, no matter if it's in
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  drunkenness, no matter if it's in any of the things that Satan
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  tries to come in and to get us to, to walk in this pride and
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  vanity, it always leads to death, friends.
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  That's what you need to know at the outset.
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  We need to understand that He does not play fair.
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  He is the father of lies. He will drag you away.
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  And it is nothing but disease. It is nothing but decay.
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  It is nothing but torment, friends.
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  And that is where it leads. It is death, friends, and that's
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  what God wanted us to know when He's talking about the sin
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  offering. 11 in the skin of the bull and all his flesh with his
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  head and his legs and his inwards and his dung.
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  That's what it is. It's just a bunch of dung.
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  It is smelly, it is disgusting, it is repulsive.
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  Friends, in the nostrils of a holy God, sin always leads to
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  death. Well, even the whole bull shall
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  he carry forth outside the camp unto a clean place where the
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  ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire.
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  Where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.
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  It says take him out of here, get the sin out of here.
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  And that is what is modeled and mirrored here, friends, is the
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  sin offering must be dealt with and it must be taken out before
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  it kills us, before it destroys us.
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  Friends, it'll destroy your life.
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  It'll destroy your body. It'll destroy your marriage.
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  It'll destroy your health. It'll destroy your relationship
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  with people, with your children, with your relatives.
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  Sin will destroy all of those things.
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  And we tout it and we're proud of it, friends, and we need, we
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  need to understand the gravity of it.
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  We need to understand the depravity of it.
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  We need to understand that it does not ever go anywhere.
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  It is always decay. 13 And if the whole congregation of Israel
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  sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of
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  the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the
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  commandments of the Lord concerning things which should
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  not be done, and are guilty. So here, this is the sin of
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  ignorance, friends. And there is very clear mandates
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  within the word of God of what we are to do.
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  And when it finally comes to our attention that we've been
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  sinning against God, we need to make it right. 14 When the sin
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  which they have sinned against it is known, then the
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  congregation shall offer a young bull for the sin, and bring him
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  before the Tabernacle of the congregation.
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  So this is the most expensive thing.
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  This is what God deserves. He deserves our finest and our
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  best. There's nothing better in life
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  than to serve God when you were young.
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  Friends, give him the best of your years. 15 And the elders of
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  the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bull
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  before the Lord, and the bull shall be killed before the Lord.
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  16 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the
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  bull's blood to the Tabernacle of the congregation. 17 And the
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  priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle
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  it 7 times before the Lord, even before the veil.
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  Can you see the blood dripping down this veil, allowing them
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  access into the throne room of God?
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  This prototype of what's happening in the heavenly realm,
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  day and night and night and day, forever and ever.
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  A perpetual scene of pointing towards Jesus Christ.
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  The land that was slain before the foundations of the earth. 4
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  Living creatures bowing down the sea of glass mingled with fire,
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  thundering peals of lightning. Friends, this rainbow above his
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  head, can you see him, friends? He is the Lion of Judah, and he
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  roars. 18 And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of
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  the altar which is before the Lord, that is, in the Tabernacle
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  of the congregation. I shall shall pour out all the
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  blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is
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  at the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation. 19 And he
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  shall take all, all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.
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  Give God the best part, Give God our first part. 20 And he shall
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  do with the bull, as he did with the bull for a sin offering, so
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  shall he do with this. And the priest shall make an
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  atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
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  So the first bull, that was for the priest, if he had sinned and
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  he knew it. And here this is for the people,
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  if they sinned unknowingly and it finally dawned upon them that
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  they had sinned, perhaps they had found the book and they
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  realized that they had been acting wickedly and serving
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  false gods. And all of a sudden they want to
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  start serving the Lord God Almighty.
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  And they realize that they have done the things that he told
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  them not to do, and they weren't doing the things that he told
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  them to do. And here they're wanting to make
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  it right. They want to be at one with God.
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  They want His blessing and his covering.
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  They want to be at 1:00 and they want to be justified in his
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  sight. 21 And he shall carry forth the bull outside the camp
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  and burn him as he burned the first bull.
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  It is a sin offering for the congregation.
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  So you need to understand is the the worship that God will accept
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  is the worship that he outlines within his Word. 22 When a ruler
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  has sinned and has done somewhat through ignorance against any of
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  the commandments of the Lord his God concerning things which
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  should not be done and is guilty, 23 Or if his sin, where
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  he has sinned come to his knowledge, he shall bring his
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  offering a kid of the goats, a male without blemish.
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  So here you need to understand that you got to pay the IT costs
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  to be the boss. If you're in a lead position,
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  you're held to a higher regard. And that is why the Bible tells
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  us in the New Testament that not everyone should rush in to
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  trying to be a leader. You were going to be judged by a
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  different standard, friends. We're going to be held to a
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  higher standard, friends. And so that's what he's talking
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  about here. And he's telling them to bring a
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  goat, a male, without any spot, because God deserves our best.
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  24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and
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  kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before
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  the Lord. It is a sin offering. 25 And the
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  priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his
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  finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of the burnt
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  offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the burnt
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  offering. 26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, and
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  the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest
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  shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it
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  shall be forgiven him. So just as they did whenever
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  they were having the communion is here, he's telling them that
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  he's burning all the fat just like they did back then.
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  And that is a sign that God is worthy of all of our best. 27 In
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  if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he
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  does somewhat against any of the commandments of the Lord
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  concerning things which ought not to be done and be guilty.
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  So this is just a common person. This isn't somebody in
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  leadership 28 or if it's sin which he has sinned come to his
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  knowledge, then he shall bring his offering a kid of the goats,
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  a female without blemish for a sin which he has sinned.
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  So notice here that God does not just require bulls, but he also
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  will accept sheep and doesn't just require bulls and sheep,
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  but he says a goat, but make sure that it's male.
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  And then look at here, He will accept for the common person, a
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  female, which shows that God doesn't really try to keep
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  people away from himself. He will meet you where you're
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  at. He will meet you and He will
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  actually allow you to come near to Him no matter the amount of
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  money that you earn in a year. God just wants the best.
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  He wants the first. He wants you to acknowledge your
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  need for Himself and He's going to continue to go down and He's
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  going to continue to degrade what is required to come near to
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  Him based upon if you are rich or if you are poor, if you're a
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  leader or if you're a commoner and God just wants to meet you
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  where you're at. That's what you need to
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  understand is that God doesn't exclude anyone because He wants
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  everyone to come unto the saving knowledge and to repent and to
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  turn from sin and self and to actually worship Him in spirit
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  and truth, and to be covered by the blood of the Lamb. 29 And he
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  shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay
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  the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering. 30 And the
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  priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put
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  it upon the horns of the altar of the burnt offerings, and
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  shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the
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  altar. 31 And he shall take away all the fat of it, as the fat is
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  taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offering, and the
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  priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto
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  the Lord, and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and
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  it shall be forgiven him. So imagine that, friends, this
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  at one mint, friends, they can be at one with God.
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  They can have peace with God. They can have the forgiveness of
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  their sins. They can know that if they were
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  to die, they're going to spend eternity in the presence of God
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  Almighty. And isn't that amazing, friends?
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  This isn't just hey, bless me, this isn't just, hey, forgive
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  me. This is wanting and desiring
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  fellowship with a holy God. And God is so powerful and he
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  dwells in unapproachable light, friends.
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  And we have to come to him covered in Jesus's blood so that
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  he will see us as holy friends and set apart.
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  And he won't see us as profane. He was.
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  He won't see the sin in our life, friends.
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  He will only see us. Completely at one with him. 32
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  And if you bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it.
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  He shall bring it a female without blemish.
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  So he requires it to have no defect.
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  He wants the best. 33 And he shall lay his hand up on the
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  head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in
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  the place where they killed the burnt offering. 34 And the
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  priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his
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  finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of the burnt
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  offerings, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the
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  bottom of the altar. We'll end on 35.
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  And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the
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  Lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace
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  offerings. And the priest shall burn them
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  upon the altar according to the offerings made by fire unto the
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  Lord. And the priest shall make an
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  atonement for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be
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  forgiven him. So God wants to get level with
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  the gravel. He wants you to know that He
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  loves you and that He is for you.
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  He's not against you. And He wants you to come to him
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  on his basis. You don't get to make up your
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  own rules of how you want to approach God, of how you want to
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  worship God, of what you're comfortable with.
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  You need to understand that God gives us from Genesis all the
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  way to Revelation, He gives us the way that we should come.
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  And it's only by the blood of the Lamb that was slain before
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  the foundations of the earth. His name is Jesus Christ of
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  Nazareth. And this is all pointing towards
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  our desperate need to be covered.
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  There's only one way unto the Father.
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  No one comes unto the Father except through Jesus Christ.
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  He's not one of many ways. He is the only way, friends.
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  And we've got to come to God on His terms.
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  And it is by being covered in Jesus's blood.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.