["Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Major"]
Welcome to First Works Baptist Church, if you could, go ahead and please stand with
me, turn to song number 55, when the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.
Song number 55, on that first verse.
When the trumpet of the Lord shuts down, and time shall be no more, and the morning lights
eternal, bright and fair, when the saved on earth shall gather over on the other shore,
when the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.
When the roll is called up yonder, when the roll is called up yonder,
when the roll is called up yonder, when the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.
On that Friday countless morning, when the dead in Christ shall rise,
on that resurrection share, and the chosen one shall gather to their home beyond the
skies, when the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.
When the roll is called up yonder, when the roll is called up yonder,
when the roll is called up yonder, when the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.
When the slaver for the master comes to setting sun,
when all of life is over and the work is done, when the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.
When the roll is called up yonder, when the roll is called up yonder,
when the roll is called up yonder, when the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.
Great singing. Let's open up the service in prayer.
Father, thank you for this wonderful, beautiful night that you've given us.
Thank you for allowing us to be able to come back and hear your word
and have that spiritual recharge for the week.
Father, I just pray for the Holy Spirit to be upon the preacher.
May our ears be clean from your word.
Most especially, may our singing glorify you.
We love you. In Jesus' name, amen.
You may be seated.
Song number 364, standing on the promises.
Song number 364.
Song number 364 on the first verse.
Standing on the promises of Christ my King.
Through eternal ages, cruelest praises ring.
Glory in the highest I will shout and sing.
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing on the promises that cannot fail.
When the howl storms of hell and fear assail.
I will prevail, shall prevail.
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior.
Standing, standing,
I'm standing on the promises of God.
Standing on the promises of Christ the Lord.
Bound to him eternally by love's strong core.
Overcoming daily with the spirit sore.
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior.
Standing, standing,
I'm standing on the promises of God the last.
Standing on the promises I cannot fall.
Listening every moment to a serious call.
Resting in my Savior as my all in awe.
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing, standing on the promises of God my Savior.
Standing, standing,
I'm standing on the promises of God.
Great singing everyone.
If you want to hear some announcements before our next song which is going to be the handout
Jesus my fair, Jesus my fair,
excuse me, my Jesus fair, my Jesus fair.
Alright so here's some announcements here.
Thank you for coming back to the evening service.
Thursday we have our Bible study at 7 p.m.
We're going through the book of Isaiah.
Today was the birthday breakfast for those who have birthdays in February.
Happy birthday to you all.
So many teams and times are there on the left.
We're going to pay for our expecting mothers for some church events.
We have the soul winning training which began today.
And hopefully you guys were able to make it.
If you guys weren't, make sure you guys come for next week as well with pen and ready to take notes.
Amen.
We have the kids Valentine's Day exchange February 9th
and then the home school field trip at Burt's Bees February 18th on Tuesday.
If you have any questions on any of those, you can reach out to Miss Sarah.
And that's it for the announcements.
Please silence your phones to not be a disturbance to the service.
If you guys wouldn't mind opening your, pulling out the sheet, my Jesus fair.
My Jesus fair, very powerful song.
On that first verse.
My Jesus fair was fierce by thorns, by thorns grown from the fall.
The seed who gave that curse was born to end that curse for all.
Oh, the divine, O matchless grace, that God should die for men with joyful grief, I lift my praise.
How pouring all my sin, adoring only Him.
My Jesus, He was born by men, by men in blasphemy.
Father, forgive their senseless sin, He prayed for them for me.
Oh, the divine, O matchless grace, that God should die for men with joyful grief, I lift my praise.
How pouring all my sin, adoring only Him.
My Jesus, He was born by men, by men to sin.
Oh, the divine, O matchless grace, that God should die for men with joyful grief, I lift my praise.
How pouring all my sin, adoring only Him.
My Jesus, He was born by men in blasphemy.
Father, forgive their senseless sin, He prayed for them for me.
Oh, the divine, O matchless grace, that God should die for men with joyful grief,
I lift my praise.
How pouring all my sin, adoring only Him.
My Jesus, He was born by men to sin.
Oh, the divine, O matchless grace, that God should die for men with joyful grief, I lift my praise.
How pouring all my sin, adoring only Him.
Praise you. As the ushers come forward for the offering, please turn your Bibles to Leviticus chapter 2.
Thank you.
Good evening, tonight we're in Leviticus chapter 2. Leviticus chapter 2, the Bible reads,
And when any will offer a meat offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be a fine flour, and he shall pour oil upon it and put frankincense thereon.
And he shall bring unto Aaron's sons the priests, and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof,
and the priests shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons, it is the thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
And if thou bring an oblation of the meat offering, bacon in an oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
And if thy oblation be a meat offering, bacon in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened mingled with oil.
And if thy oblation be a meat offering, bacon in the frying pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the Lord, and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.
And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar, it is an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons, it is the thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
No meat offering which he shall bring unto the Lord shall be made with leaven, for he shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any offering of the Lord made by fire.
As for the oblation of the firstfruits, he shall offer them unto the Lord, but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.
And every oblation of thy meat offering shall thou season with salt, neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering, with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the Lord, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
And that shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon, it is a meat offering, and the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof, it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
Let's pray. Dear Lord God, just thank you for allowing us to safely come to your house, Lord. Just thank you for the King James Bible, Lord.
We pray that you bless pastors as he preaches out of your word tonight, Lord, and that us in the congregation can learn new truths from your word, Lord, and come away from it changed, Lord. We pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen. Okay, we're in Leviticus chapter 2 this evening, and tonight I'm continuing from my morning sermon on the Levitical offerings.
Of course, this morning I was only able to cover the first offering, which is the burnt offering. Tonight I'm going to cover the meat, peace, sin, and trespass offerings.
Let me give you a little bit of review from this morning to get us caught up and help us to kind of get into chapter 2 here.
First and foremost, we're talking about this morning that the Book of Leviticus is obviously referring to the law of the Levites that is essentially composed of ceremonial, purity, dietary, moral, and sacrificial laws.
These particular duties were only designated for the tribe of Levi to carry out, and specifically the offerings were only for the house of Aaron.
The accoutrements and the building, constructing, and deconstructing of the tabernacle were given to the Kohathites, the Gershonites, and the Mararites.
And the essential teaching there is that the only ones designated to even carry out the work of the Lord are those who are part of the priesthood.
And obviously, I didn't mention this in the morning, but tonight we can pretty much surmise that the way we can apply that to the New Testament is that the only ones that should be carrying out the work of the Lord are saved people.
Because in the New Testament, the priesthood is made up of all believers. The Bible talks about the royal priesthood, the holy nation, referring to those who have believed on Jesus Christ.
They're the ones designated to carry out the work of the Lord, and so even though we're not part of the physical house of Aaron, the physical house of the Kohathites, the Gershonites, and the Mararites,
we're part of that spiritual house, that spiritual building that's made up of all believers through their faith in Jesus Christ.
I also mentioned the fact that the offerings were a temporary religious rite.
There's only a small window of time when these things should have been carried out, and that is when they go into the promised land, up until the death of Jesus Christ on the cross,
that was the window of time where these specific commandments were to be kept.
Of course, with the exclusion of the moral laws. The moral laws existed prior to the Levitical law being instituted, and they will exist from here on out, and so that's important to know.
Of course, tonight we're going to go over the last four offerings, but let me just give you a little bit of review regarding the burnt offering.
We said that the burnt offering was an offering given to atone for sin, and there were specific rules, conditions that needed to be followed.
We said that it was supposed to be a male without defect, meaning that the bullock that they were supposed to bring unto the Lord can only be a male, no female,
but also it could not have any visible flaws. It couldn't have any blemishes or spot.
That was supposed to symbolize the perfection of Jesus Christ, the fact that he is the Lamb of God who is without spot, without blemish.
He is sinless.
We also said that the blood that was drained from the animal and sprinkled on the altar by the priest obviously pictures the blood of Jesus Christ.
The Bible tells us in Hebrew chapter 9 that without the shedding of blood, there is no remission or forgiveness of sins.
We also talked about the fact that the bullock was supposed to be placed on wood, obviously signifying the fact that the sacrifice of the Lamb,
which is Jesus Christ, was placed on the cross, which is also made of wood, ultimately making him the curse for us,
because cursed is every man that hangeth on a tree.
We also talked about the fact that it was supposed to be burned with fire.
And that is the most notable aspect of the burnt offering is the fact that it was placed on fire, allowed to be burned from the morning until evening,
and that obviously signifies the fact that Jesus Christ went to hell for three days and three nights.
His soul was made an offering for us.
We talked about the fact that the animal's inward parts were to be washed with water, signifying the fact that Jesus Christ was sanctified through the word of God.
It was to be a sweet savor unto the Lord, just as the sacrifice was a sweet savor unto the Lord.
It placated the Lord, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, that is.
And then lastly, that the hide or the skin of the offering was to be removed and given to the priest,
signifying the fact that when we get saved, when we believe on Jesus Christ, the righteousness, the righteous garment of Jesus Christ is given unto us.
When the Lord looks upon us, he doesn't see us through our own righteousness, but through rather the righteous garment of Jesus Christ.
But even thereafter, we as Christians have the responsibility to put on Jesus Christ, meaning to walk in the spirit and not fulfill the lust of the flesh, etc.
Now tonight, we're going to go over the last couple offerings.
The first one we're going to cover here is the meat offering.
Look at Leviticus chapter two and verse number one.
It says when any will offer a meat offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be a fine flour and he shall pour oil upon it and put frankincense thereon.
And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priest, and he shall take there out his handful of the flour thereof and of the oil thereof with all the frankincense thereof.
And the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar to be an offering made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord.
And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons.
It is the thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
So this particular offering, known as the meat offering, was actually given to essentially express thanksgiving.
And again, this actually still falls under the category of being a voluntary free will offering, right?
So this wasn't mandatory for people to do, but obviously, if someone just felt a sense of gratitude,
they felt a sense of thanksgiving for all the resources that God has provided for them,
then they were encouraged to obviously give this type of offering as a means to express gratitude or thanksgiving for God's provision,
acknowledging that God has provided for them throughout the year.
And it's also important to note that this offering was given alongside the burnt offering.
So when the burnt offering was brought about, the bullock, this was also in conjunction offered as well, the meat offering.
Now, let me also mention this because sometimes people get confused about this.
Meat offering isn't referring to the animal flesh, the way we would consider to be meat today, right?
We talk about, man, I want some good meat.
We're thinking about flesh, we're thinking about beef, anything that comes from an animal.
Meat in the Bible is just referring to food.
And in this particular instance, it's actually referring to the grain, okay?
And so, you know, when Jesus said, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me to finish his work,
it's referring to the fact that his food, spiritual food that is, is to do the work of the Lord.
So meat and food are kind of used interchangeably in the Bible.
Now, unlike the burnt offering, there was a little more leniency with the meat offering
and then ultimately a portion of this was given unto the priest that had to be eaten within the courts.
And just as the burnt offering, when we read about it today, this morning, pictures the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ,
the meat offering actually pictures or symbolizes the perfect life of Jesus Christ.
So the burnt offering pictures the perfect death of Christ, the meat offering pictures the perfect life of the Lord.
So let's look at the instructions regarding the meat offering and what they entail and what they symbolize.
First and foremost, we see that it was supposed to be offered as an unleavened offering, meaning without yeast, right?
Look at verse 4 of Leviticus 2, it says, and if thou bring an oblation, by the way, an oblation is just another way of saying
an offering that which you are presenting, if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering, bacon in the oven,
it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
And obviously, we can pretty much right off the bat see how this pictures Jesus Christ since Jesus is the bread of life, right?
And often in the Bible, leaven is a picture of what? It's a picture of sin.
We think of the most notable portion of scripture in the New Testament dealing with this.
1 Corinthians 5 talks about a little leaven, leavening the whole lump, meaning that a little sin can cause sin to permeate in a church.
And not every instance where leaven is mentioned is it referring to sin, but the majority of them are.
And so we see here that when this offering was given, he had to make sure that it wasn't leaven, meaning that there was no sin pictured involved.
So Jesus Christ is that unleavened bread of life.
Look at John chapter six, John chapter six, if you would, John chapter number six and verse 33.
And hold your place during Leviticus two because we're going to come back to that and then jump back to John chapter six.
Look at John six verse 33 says, For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life into the world.
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore, give us this bread.
Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
So we see here that when the meat offering was given, one of the stipulations, the conditions that were involved is that the cake that was baked should not be leavened.
Another thing that we see in Leviticus chapter two regarding the meat offering is that it was eaten by the priest.
You don't have to turn there, but Leviticus two six says this, and the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof and shall burn it upon the altar.
It is an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord, and that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons.
It is the thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
Now, let me just mention this briefly before I get into the spiritual significance of this.
In the Old Testament, the priesthood that was essentially their full time job.
And so obviously they needed provisions.
They needed housing.
They needed sustenance in order to carry out the work of God because they weren't necessarily working other jobs, right?
They weren't necessarily merchants.
They weren't about they weren't shepherds caring about cattle.
Their job was strictly to focus on the offerings, the tabernacle, things of that nature.
And so when these offerings were given, though there is a lot of spiritual significance to it, though it was a form of worship.
It was also a way that you can provide for the Levites who were doing this full time.
And in fact, in First Corinthians Chapter nine, we see that this principle actually carries over to the New Testament
because just as the Levites are the ones responsible for not only teaching the word of God,
but also carrying out the duties of the tabernacle and the sacrifices,
we see that the New Testament teaches that pastors, missionaries and evangelists essentially fulfill that same role.
As we take care of the house of God, the Bible says that we can live of the gospel
since our full time job is to teach God's word and feed the sheep, feed the flocks of God and do the work of the ministry.
First Corinthians nine, you don't have to turn there, verse 13 says,
Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple?
And who is he referring to?
He's referring to those Levites.
He's referring to the house of Aaron.
He's referring to the Kohathites, the Gershonites, the Mararites.
These are people who are ministering about the holy things.
They're carrying the Ark of the Covenant, the showbread or deconstructing the tabernacle, constructing it.
They're carrying out the responsibilities of the offerings.
Therefore, it tells us that they live of the things of the temple.
They need the things of the temple in order to sustain them and their families.
Because, by the way, the priests in the Old Testament had children because they were married.
Okay, unlike these priests today in the Roman Catholic Church that have taken the abstinence valve for whatever reason,
where do they even get that from?
Like, oh, well, priests are in the Bible.
That's funny because every single priest in the Old Testament was actually married and had children.
Okay, and in fact, it was almost a requirement.
We can't say it was a requirement, but it was very much traditional for them to have families
because they had to pass on that responsibility to their children.
We have Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, who's of the descendants of Aaron, right?
So, when Aaron passed off the scene, the next son would take over and essentially fulfill the role of that priest.
And so, you know, this priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church are just a bunch of pedophiles and false prophets.
Whereas, the priests that we see in the Old Testament actually were married and, you know,
they didn't observe Good Friday or whatever, and they didn't wear a Band-Aid on their neck or whatever.
You know, they actually had wives and children, families that they had to take care of.
And, by the way, the New Testament doesn't have that Old Testament priesthood.
The priesthood is just made up of all believers.
So, it's not a specific office in the local New Testament church.
The only offices that are mentioned are pastors and deacons, bishops and deacons, right?
Elders and deacons are legitimately the only offices that are mentioned.
And, of course, by proxy, you can say evangelists as well.
The priesthood, the way the Roman Catholic Church puts it forward, doesn't even exist in the Bible.
Something that's completely made up.
And, if you were to reference the Catholic Bible, you'll see how they perverted God's word just numerously.
But, specifically regarding the bishop, the elder, the pastor, they replaced that with the priests, okay?
Which is not even found in the underlying Greek text, but it doesn't matter to the Roman Catholic Church
because they just like to prefer God's word and just believe me because I said so type of ordeal there.
But, I digress.
The point that I'm making here is the Bible's teaching us in 1 Corinthians 9
that the offices of the local New Testament church and how to provide for those fulfilling that position,
you know, the principle is still the same from the Old Testament.
So, that strategy or that system from the Old Testament is carried over into the new
with the house of God, which is the church of God, the pillar and ground of truth.
It tells us, and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar.
So, here we could say that, you know, those who were of the Kohathites, the Gershonites, the Mararites,
they're not the ones ministering of the altar because the ones who are ministering of the altar are who?
Are of the house of Aaron.
The ones of the house of Aaron are fulfilling kind of a greater duty with the sacrifices,
but it's the same thing in a local New Testament church, right?
You know, myself, I'm a pastor, the senior pastor of First Works Baptist Church,
but we also have Brother Ulysses Hernandez who is the evangelist of the church, okay,
who essentially takes care of the administrative work of the church.
He could be considered kind of like the Gershonites, the Mararites,
you know, making sure that the Baptist tree stays ice cold, amen?
I'm just kidding.
But, you know, he would be considered the person who ministers about the holy things in the temple,
whereas the pastor can be compared to those who wait at the altar.
Regardless of what it is, both of them are partakers of the altar and of the temple.
And he even goes on to say, even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
There goes that principle there.
That's important to note because you have churches today like, oh, pastors shouldn't be, you know,
on the payroll of the church and, you know, they should not live of the gospel where it literally says that they live of the gospel.
How do you excuse this verse right here?
Now, look at John chapter six here with the previous point about the meat offering being eaten by the priest.
It says in verse 48, I am the bread of life.
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever.
And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Now, let me just pause here and mention the fact that obviously we're looking at this
or interpreting this in light of Leviticus chapter two because of the meat offering,
which is fine flour, you know, bread, cake mingled with oil, etc.
and how this pictures Jesus Christ because he is that bread of life that isn't leavened, right?
He is unleavened.
But, you know, this is obviously picturing salvation as well.
And again, I'm not picking on the Catholics, but I am picking on the Catholics
because this is a major chapter that they focus on, okay,
to teach this false cannibalistic doctrine, and that's exactly what it is, of transubstantiation, okay?
Whenever someone throws a word out like that, you just question it immediately.
What do you mean trans?
You know, first of all, trans is not, you know, it's questionable,
but transubstantiation is this teaching that when the Catholics participate
in what they refer to as the Eucharist, which is the bread and the wine,
which by the way is literal wine, alcoholic wine that they're drinking,
when they participated that and they consumed the bread and the wine
that it literally becomes the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ, okay?
And they say all kinds of stupid things to try to excuse that.
Well, it's not literally, it's just by accident, I think they call it by accident or something like that.
Basically, it's just like, well, it does become the flesh and blood,
but not like literally flesh and blood, but it is the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ nonetheless.
And let me explain to you why, because if you look this up, this is exactly what they say.
I mean, that one Bozo, the voice of reasons idiot,
this is literally what he said when he was responding to me.
But let me explain to you why they say,
well, it doesn't literally become the blood and body of Jesus Christ.
But it is, but it's not literally.
I'm going to explain to you why.
Because if you're to take a sample of their droppings,
you would say there's no flesh or blood in this,
some form and substance of someone's flesh or blood, right?
What is it?
It was a cracker and then alcohol is what it was.
So they want to say that it's literally his flesh and blood,
but they can't really say it literally becomes the flesh and blood
because of the fact that they obviously understand
that if they were to take samples of what they defecated,
they would see, oh, this isn't literally flesh and blood, okay?
But they'll pervert John chapter 6 into thinking that,
to interpret it as such that, well, he's saying he's the bread of life,
so we have to eat him.
We have to drink his blood, drink his flesh,
or eat his flesh, drink his blood.
Now, what's interesting about this is that,
look at verse 52, it says,
the Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying,
how can this man give us his flesh to eat?
Now, who are the ones who are having the Catholic interpretation?
The Jews, right?
It's not the believers because the Apostle Peter later on says,
to whom shall we go, thou hast the words of eternal life,
and we believe and are sure
that thou art the Christ, the Son, and the living God.
And in that entire confession, he doesn't say,
well, to whom shall we go, thou art the Eucharist.
And we believe that if we eat your flesh and drink your blood,
then we'll be saved.
Now, he says, thou art the Christ, the Son, and the living God.
You know, he makes the biblical profession of what salvation is, right?
But they're the ones who are like,
how can this man give us his flesh to eat?
They're taking this literal interpretation of this passage,
which is what the Catholics are doing.
Verse 53 says, then Jesus said unto them,
verily, verily, I say unto you,
except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood,
ye have no life in you.
There you go!
I knew it!
He says, whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life,
and I will raise him up at the last day.
So they're like, oh, little Bruce.
This is how they condescending like to talk to me online.
Oh, Brucey, little Bruce.
Don't you read verse 54?
It literally says if you eat his flesh and drink his blood,
you have eternal life.
You know, case closed.
Well, little Catholic.
Little pappist.
Little pappy.
You know, there's something called context, right?
And if we don't use context,
then you can use any verse to teach pretty much anything, okay?
Look at verse 40, because we need to interpret this in its context.
And verse 40, I don't know if you know this,
but that would be considered context.
Verse 40 says, and this is the will of him that sent me,
that everyone would see the Son and believeth on him,
may have everlasting life,
and I will raise him up at the last day.
So verse 54 says if you eat his flesh, drink his blood,
you have eternal life, he'll raise you up in the last day.
Verse 40 says that if you believe on him,
you'll have everlasting life,
and you'll be raised up in the last day.
What is it telling us?
It's telling us that what Jesus means
by eating his flesh and drinking his blood
is that you believe on him.
That's what it means, okay?
Because he doesn't literally mean eating your flesh
because guess what cannibalism is a sin,
it's an abomination in the eyes of God.
And drinking literal blood
is actually an abomination in the eyes of God
also because the blood is the life of the flesh,
and he literally has commandments over and over again
not to drink the blood, but somehow
we're supposed to believe that Jesus Christ sanctioned
the drinking of human divine blood or something like that.
Nonsense.
He's making a correlation here
because he's gonna be giving of his flesh,
he's gonna be giving of his blood,
he's gonna shed his blood,
he's gonna give of his body
in order to provide salvation,
and if we believe on his sacrifice,
the fact that he died on the cross,
guess what will be raised up in the last days?
But Catholics are blind.
They can't see that.
They refuse to see it.
Catholics will literally go to Mass every single Sunday
to be saved.
The Mass is all about getting saved.
I don't know if you know this.
For us, we congregate here
to hear the preaching of God's word,
to be edified in the things of God,
to learn the Bible,
to be edified so we can
meet for the Master's use
in the field and be good Christians
and obey God.
Nothing to do with salvation
other than being apt to preach salvation.
Whereas Catholics literally
they're just like, it's all about the Mass
because that's how we get saved
is through the Eucharist.
Well that's interesting because he literally says
you'll never be hungry again.
So why do you have to keep going back?
You know, if you drink of his blood
you'll never thirst again.
Well that's funny, then why do you keep going back?
And they literally believe this
nonsensical doctrine called Epiclesis.
Okay?
What is Epiclesis?
It's part of the Eucharist
and what they'll say is they'll say
when they hold up the bread
they do that whole ritual
they lift up
their Eucharist, right?
And they perform
this prayer known as the Epiclesis
and what that is, it's a prayer
that invokes the Holy Spirit to
come down from heaven
upon the Eucharist
and essentially turn that bread
and that wine into the flesh
and blood of Jesus Christ.
I mean, just freaky stuff, right?
But
here's the thing when it comes to Catholics
and I've said this before and I'll say it again
and that is
that Catholics literally believe
everything that is just contrary to the Bible.
It's kind of like the
it's just like the
beginner's guide.
You know, if you ever want to get a Christian
to just learn how to debunk certain false doctrines
just give them to Catholics because it's so easy.
Because they literally
teach and believe everything that is
contrary to the Word of God.
You know? Especially when it comes to this
whole Epiclesis thing because remember, they
have to pray to bring down
the Holy Spirit upon that Eucharist
to turn it into the
flesh of Jesus Christ. But what does the
Bible say?
In Romans chapter 10, it says
that the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on
this wise. Say not in thine heart
who shall ascend up into heaven
to bring Christ down from above
or who shall descend into the deep? That is to bring
up Christ again from the dead. But what say
that the Bible talks about that the Word
is nigh thee, even the Word of faith
it's in thine mouth and in thine heart
which is the word of faith which we preach unto you
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in thine heart, that God have raised thee
for thither thou shalt be saved. So isn't it interesting
that they pervert that and say
no, we have to invoke the Holy Spirit
to come upon the Eucharist so we can be saved
whereas the Bible says you don't have to
descend, you know, bring anybody
down from above.
You don't have to bring up Christ again from the dead.
Why? The Word is nigh thee, even
the thine mouth. You can literally call upon the name
of the Lord right here, not in mass
not in some geographic location
not consume some bread
not consume some alcoholic beverage
you can literally just believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
call upon his name and be saved.
And so this
is what the meat
offering essentially is entailing
is that unleavened bread
now I need to hasten because I got on the Catholics
a little too long there
but it's necessary
because I hate Catholicism
you know I was a Catholic
I went to Catholic school
and you know I was a Catholic for many years
I went to Catholic mass
for Easter and Christmas
as a good Catholic should just kidding
and you know but you know they're lost
you know they believe false doctrine
and they are going to go to hell
unless they believe on Jesus Christ exclusively
and reject the
Catholic manner of salvation
okay and so
we see here that the
meat offering
was to be unleavened
it was to be eaten by the priest
and it was to be mingled with oil
look at Leviticus chapter 2 verse number 5
it says
and if thy oblation be a meat offering
bacon and a pan it shall be a fine flour
unleavened mingled with oil
and of course oil in the Bible is a representation
of the Holy Spirit
that's often what it's used for
symbolizes is the anointing
of the Holy Ghost
let me read to you from John chapter 3 verse 33
it says
in other words Jesus Christ
was just filled with the fullness
of the Holy Spirit
he was mingled so to speak
with oil
the Bible also says in Luke 14 verse 18
the Spirit of the Lord is upon me
he hath anointed me to preach
the gospel to the poor
so notice that it says that the Spirit of the Lord is upon him
and then it says that he's anointed
that phrase
anointing is often used in conjunction
with oil right
so the Spirit of the Lord pictures that oil
that came upon the Lord Jesus Christ
to preach the gospel
get people saved last verse here in Hebrews chapter 1
and verse number 8 says
but unto the son he saith thy throne O God
is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness
is the scepter of thy kingdom
thou hast loved righteousness
and hated iniquity therefore God
even thy God hath anointed
thee with the oil of gladness
above thy
fellows go to Numbers chapter 15
Numbers chapter 15 hold your place around Leviticus
Numbers chapter 15
we see that it was supposed to be
unleavened it was eaten by the priest it was mingled
with oil but it was also offered
with frankincense
you're in Numbers 15 I'm going to read to you from Leviticus
2 verse 1 it says when any will
offer a meat offering unto the Lord
his offering shall be a fine flour
he shall pour oil upon it and put frankincense
thereon and of course frankincense
is essentially
something that symbolizes deity
this is why when the wise men
came to Jesus Christ they brought
gold, frankincense and
myrrh signifying that he is
God that he is deity
so that one's pretty simple to see there
and then lastly
we see that it was often accompanied
with a drink offering
look at Numbers 15 verse 4
it says then shall he
that offereth his offering unto the Lord
bring a meat offering of a tenth deal
flour mingled with the fourth part of a
hint of oil and the fourth part of a hint
of wine for a drink offering
shalt thou prepare with
the burnt offerings or sacrifice
for one lamb
now I don't have time to develop this but
essentially what we see when it comes to the drink offering
is that depending on the animal
that they bring to burn
there was a variation of the measure
of the drink that was offered
alongside with the meat offering
and another thing I want to note here
is that when the drink offering was given
it's not the priest taking the drink offering
and drinking it himself
he participated in the meat offering
but he himself did not drink of the drink offering
it was actually poured upon the altar unto the Lord
which is pretty significant
if you think about it because
when you have the burnt offering
on the altar being sacrificed
on the wood
but then you also have the drink offering
being poured out
well in John chapter 19 when Jesus Christ
is crucified on that wood
they pierce his side and what happens
out comes blood and water
and so that is a picture
of that as well. Now the main thing
about the meat offering
is this matter
of just being thankful
keep in mind that this is a voluntary offering
and so when
people were just swelled up with gratitude
they were grateful for the great
store they came in, for good
health, for their livestock
God has blessed their resources
their finances greatly
they wanted to express how grateful they were for that
and now this was a means in which to do it
now obviously this doesn't exist today
but in fact you know the Bible
talks about, let me read to you from Psalm 107
verse 22
The Bible also says in Hebrews 13 verse 14
by him therefore
let us offer the sacrifice of
praise to God continually
that is the fruit of our lips
giving thanks to his name
so praise God
that we live in the New Testament
where we don't have, if we're feeling just gratitude
we don't got to bring a livestock right
we don't got to bring livestock and a meat offering
and do these things, you know we can literally just
speak in the New Testament
we don't got to bring a livestock right
and quite frankly
we need more Christians to just express
gratitude for the things that we have
especially us in America
you know we have so much to be thankful for
if we're to just highlight just the spiritual blessings
salvation, the Bible, church
there's much to be grateful for
but just how about just like the practical things
good health right
maybe if you drove here in a car
amen
you know
if you say well I didn't drive here in a car
someone drove me, amen
right
well you know it's just like I've had a rough week
but hey if you're still alive
and God is with you
and you're being fed spiritually
you have a local church
of people that love you, you have a pastor
there's so much to be grateful for
and so what this
what we can learn from the meat offering
is that we need to give thanks to God
not just personally in prayer
but how about just praising God
with others right
talking to other members of the church
talking about how grateful we are for what God has done in our lives
so much negative talk out there
there's so much you know
gloom and doom out there
there's so much political talk out there
why don't we instead of just talking about
all the policies
and trump this and trump that
why don't you actually talk about what God has done in your life
why don't you offer
the offering and sacrifice
from the fruit of your lips of thanksgiving
you know someone's going to come up to you and be like
brother I'm thankful that Trump's deporting all these
all these Mexicans amen
praise God
well you know at least you're giving thanks
okay you know
I'm just saying you know
the Bible says that giving thanksgiving
is the will of God
for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus
it's talking about giving thanks unto the Lord
that's God's will for our lives
it's to be a people of praise
don't let the liberal churches
hijack that practice
amen
with some false praise and false thanksgiving
holding up their holy hands or whatever
we actually know how to praise God
and you know what we don't need smoke
and mirrors and purple lights to do so
we can literally go to our brothers and say
praise God for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ
I praise God for the fact that I'm saved
man it's a blessing
I got someone saved this week
I got to preach the gospel to my friend
church you know there's so much to be grateful for
and that is the offering
of thanksgiving the part of the
meat offering go to Leviticus chapter 3
Leviticus chapter 3
I'm going to try to finish
this tonight so
I might go for like another hour or so
hope you don't mind
alright the next one is the peace offering
so we covered the burnt offering the meat offering
and now let's get into the
peace offering I won't spend too much time on this
but I do want to show you a little nugget of truth
here let's look at verse number 1
so we see a lot of the similar instructions
given for the burnt offering
and of course the difference here is that
this particular offering can be male or female
the burnt offering was only supposed to be male
this could be male or female
now a couple things I want to mention regarding the peace offering
is that if you've read
Leviticus you'll
notice this phrase
the wave offering right and the heave
offering you'll often see that in
conjunction with the peace
offering let me just explain what that means
the peace offering was obviously
something that was given unto the Lord
but portions of it were also given unto the priest
same principle as what we looked at
in the meat offering and
when it talks about the wave or the heave offering
it's just referring to the gesture
that was done with the portions
that are given to the priest that would often
take that portion put it over the altar
and they would wave it from side
to side signifying that this is
something that is dedicated unto the Lord
but is going to the priest
and the heave offering is also something that would be
of higher quality that they would essentially
kind of like heave upward it would be like an
upward gesture now
this could be just speculation
but it's kind of interesting that one is this
way right and the other is this
way over the altar
you know that could signify the fact
that this is an offering
of the Lord Jesus Christ it's a cross
you can see how that could
apply now part of the peace
offerings or
free will offerings as we looked at this is something that
was often given to conclude
a vow so if someone were to take
a Nazarite vow if you've read
Numbers chapter 6 if they concluded that vow
they would often conclude it
with a peace offering it was just an offering
you would give to say this is finished I
completed my oath I completed my vow
or to just again show
thanksgiving for answered prayer
there was just
gratitude for something
that God has done he answered
your prayer people would often offer
this peace offering and
probably the most notable and significant
peace offering in the Bible is the one
that was done by Solomon in 1 Kings
chapter 8 where he did a peace
offering of 22,000
what was it 22,000 oxen
and 120,000
sheep that's a lot right
and again this isn't mandatory
but this is something he did at the dedication of
the temple he was grateful
he had gratitude and he's just
like let's just slaughter all these animals just to show
the Lord that we are grateful for him
and the Lord wasn't up in heaven like
oh this is a mistreatment of animals
this is an excess you know
that's just too much you know no he
accepted that offering and
so he was very
much well pleased with that and so
peace offering was often given as
a means of thanksgiving
or when you would conclude a certain
vow the same procedures
were done with the peace offerings with the burnt offering
of course as I mentioned with the exception
that it could be female not just a male
now look at Leviticus
go to Leviticus chapter 7 if you would
and here's the little nugget that I want to share
with you as I was studying this
you can see how this can correlate here
but what we see with
the peace offering is that
it was offered with unleavened cakes
and wafers along
with leavened bread of the
sacrifice okay
so this is pretty
unique right because we see the other offerings
where it's only unleavened but here
it's unleavened cakes and wafers
along with leavened bread
look at Leviticus 7 verse 11
it says and this is the law of the sacrifice of peace
offerings which he shall
offer unto the Lord if he offer
it for a thanksgiving then he shall
offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving
unleavened cakes mingled with oil
and unleavened wafers anointed with
oil and cakes mingled with oil
of fine flour fried
besides the cakes he
shall offer for his offering leavened
bread with the sacrifice of
thanksgiving of his peace
offering so that's pretty interesting
now what's the significance of this
well hold your place there and go to Ephesians if you would
Ephesians chapter number 2
Ephesians chapter 2 let me just
explain a couple things regarding
that which is clean, unclean
leavened and unleavened and what they
signified in the Old Testament
a lot of these laws
especially regarding the dietary laws
in the book of Leviticus
you know essentially symbolize the fact that
God's people were set apart
right? they were
quote unquote clean because
they were set apart unto the Lord
these were God's people
and many of the surrounding nations could be
considered what? they were like unclean
people so many of the dietary
laws were meant to essentially
kind of symbolize that
the fact that you know the swine
and the unclean animal you know
it's God forbidding his people to
intermingle with the heathen
unless they should learn their ways and manner
of life and then forsake God right?
and so you had all of these lists
of unclean animals that God
forbade his people to participate in
and of course the clean animals
would be considered those of the nation
of Israel and the same principle
applies with leaven and unleavened
leaven meaning with
sin unleavened meaning
pure you know undefiled
etc. now
we see that in the New Testament
that law was completely repealed
we mentioned in the morning
that with the bringing in
of the New Testament by the death of Jesus Christ
and the cross the dietary
laws along with some of the other ones
are completely done away with this is why
Colossians 2 tells us let no man judge
you therefore in meat or in drink
or respect of the holy day or the Sabbath
day or the new moon in other words
like hey Colossians
Gentile believers don't let any
Judaizer come to your church and say you can't eat
shrimp oh you guys don't
observe oh you guys don't believe in
Yeshua here you guys don't observe
the Sabbath
or whatever where's your where's your
horn or whatever you know your what's that called
the shofar where's your
shofar see all that stuff is like oh
I'm sorry this isn't a Jewish synagogue
it says you know
first works Baptist church
we don't accept Judaizing in our
church and in fact many of those
things have been done away with okay
and you say well you know
you shouldn't you shouldn't really speak condescendingly
about those things since they were instituted in the
Old Testament yeah but here's the thing though
an observance
of those things is a
rejection of Jesus Christ though
because it's essentially saying
oh Jesus Christ did not
fulfill these things he has not
died because he is not Messiah
well Jesus yeah but Jesus actually
fulfilled those yeah because he had not died yet
of course Jesus Christ
kept the Sabbath of course he kept the dietary
laws of course he kept the Levitical laws
because during his ministry he was still
under that Old Testament period
but once the death of Jesus Christ
came on the cross those things were done away
with and this is why in Acts chapter 10
you have the famous story of Peter
right and he falls into a
trance God sends down
the sheet and at the four corners
and they had all kinds of animals on there clean
and unclean and God tells
them rise Peter kill and eat
you know you got Fogo to
child there you know Texas to
Brazil right there and he's like not
so Lord for nothing common or unclean
has ever entered into my mouth a little holier than now
he's just he's
more pure than God or something you know what I mean
and then he's just like
he's like without what God has
cleansed that called not thou common
and what does he mean by that he's saying look
the gospel is supposed to go into the Gentiles
I've cleansed them as in
I've set them apart like
salvation is to come to them as well
they've also can
obtain salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ
because he's the savior of all men
he's not willing to perish he's like
don't call it common or unclean and of course
Peter didn't get it first couple of times
and then finally he does and that
vision was given to him because Cornelius
who would be considered an unclean person
was going to come to him
and then or not one of his guys was
going to come to him and he was going to go to Cornelius house
get him saved get his household saved
and then realize oh wow the Gentiles
they can get saved too
he's like yeah what do you think the great commission was all about
right
and so
I say that to say that when the Bible
is talking about this peace offering
the reason I believe it's referred to
as a peace offering is because
of this particular detail with
the unleavened
the unleavened cakes and unleavened wafers
and the leavened bread and I believe this
is actually signifying both Jew
and Gentile being brought
together at this particular
sacrifice known as the peace
offering look at Ephesians chapter 2 verse 11
the Apostle Paul addressing
Gentile believers
says in verse 11 wherefore remember
that ye being in time past
Gentiles in the flesh
who are called uncircumcision
by that which is called the circumcision
in the flesh made by hands
you know basically saying like hey
you guys have been called
those who are uncircumcised by Jews
because they are
physically Jews by still keeping the law
of circumcising according to the law
of Moses verse 12 says
that at the time ye were without Christ
being aliens from the commonwealth
of Israel and strangers
from the covenant of promise having no
hope and without God in the world
but now in Christ Jesus
ye who sometimes were far
off are made nigh by the blood
of Christ so in this particular
offering of the peace offering both
that which is unleavened and leavened actually
are come together over this particular
sacrifice he says in
verse 14 for
he is our what peace
you know like that peace offering
who made both one
and has broken down the middle wall
partition between us having abolished
in his flesh the enmity
even the law of commandments contained in
ordinances for to making himself of
twain one new man so making what
peace and that he might reconcile
both unto God in one body
by the cross having slain
enmity thereby so
what do we see here we see
that when the peace offering
was given that contained
the wave and the heave offering
along with this we have
this reconciliation
of both that which is leavened and
unleavened right so making
peace through this sacrifice
of Jesus Christ verse 17
and came and preached peace to you which
were afar off and to them that were nine
for through him we both have
access by one spirit unto the
father beautiful picture right
so what do we learn here we're learning
that yes we believe
in replacement theology meaning that
believers
have replaced the physical nation of Israel
as being God's chosen people
but whoever is an Israelite
as far as their
ethnicity is concerned but they're a believer
in Christ they're part of that spiritual
nation as well they've
also replaced that Israel
as well okay they've been grandfathered
in now they've replaced but
another way of explaining this is that of
twain one new man is made
of both Jew and Gentile now God
views both as just being a believer
this is why we don't use Judeo-Christian
okay you know
how can you put Judeo
which is a religion
that hates the Lord Jesus Christ
in front of Christian it's a complete
oxymoron like
well it's because we share the same morals and values
oh really have you read the Talmud
yeah explain to me how moral the Talmud
is not very moral
at all and in fact it's in stark contrast to
the word of God okay
and so there's no such thing as a Judeo-Christian
yeah but Jews gave us the Bible not all
of them no
not everyone who's a Judah
and in fact the vast majority of the prophets of the
Old Testament you don't even know where they're from
and the last time I checked is God who gave us the Bible
right
and by the way if they were Jews who gave us the Bible
let me just say this they were believers
and what does the Bible tell us look we're New Testament
Christians the Bible tells us for in Christ
Jesus there is neither Jew nor Gentile
right neither
bond nor free neither male nor female for
ye are all one in Christ Jesus
why cause that peace offering brought
both leaven and unleavened together
etcetera
interesting go back to Leviticus
if you would chapter 4 let me just complete
the sermon in the next
45 minutes I'm just kidding
actually it might be 45
I don't know we'll see
alright here are the last two
the last two offerings are the sin offering
and the trespass offering and unlike
the first three offerings
these are actually mandatory okay
so you have the burnt offering
you have the meat offering
you have the peace offering
those were voluntary but the sin offering
the trespass offering are actually
mandatory so
you know it's kind of like salvation you know
you can choose to be saved
by accepting that burnt sacrifice
but once you're saved it's like you have to
kind of offer this sin offering type of a thing
okay and there's obviously different ways you can
interpret this but that's one way you can do it
so let's talk about the sin offering
these were offerings that were presented
due to sinning ignorantly
okay
these offerings were also by the way part of the
day of atonement that's something you might have read
or paid attention to when you're reading through
Leviticus look at Leviticus chapter 4
verse 1 it says the Lord spake unto Moses saying
speak unto the children of Israel saying if a
soul shall sin through ignorance
against any of the commandments of the Lord
concerning things which ought not to be done
and shall do any against
and shall do against any of them
if the priest that is anointed do sin according
to the sin of the people then let him
bring for his sin which he hath sinned
a young bullock without blemish unto the Lord
for a sin offering let me just
mention real quick that when it says a soul shall
sin through ignorance soul is just referring to
a person even
including their physical body we often think of a soul
as that inanimate aspect of ourselves the spirit
but there's instances
in the Bible particularly in the book of Leviticus
where soul is just synonymous with the body of person
so what do we see here
well the sin offering was given by
everyone including the priest himself
okay and
this is essentially referring to the fact that
you know there was an unintentional
sin committed by the
member of the children of Israel
why? because of the fact that people just sin
every single day sometimes they do
it ignorantly they don't even know that they're
breaking the commandments of the Lord
they're sinning against God and so
God wanted them to get that
right with him therefore
he gave the instructions of the sin
offering and again it applied to the priest
because yes even the priest were
sinful as well
they were not perfect you know they
committed flaws they committed sins etcetera look at verse 6
we're going to see instructions regarding the blood
it says and the priest shall
dip his finger in the blood
and I want you to notice this and sprinkle of the blood
seven times before the Lord
before the veil of
the sanctuary now what is this picture
well when you look when you study
numerology in the Bible there's certain numbers
that keep popping up over and over again
and they have certain significances to them right
for example the number 6 is often
the number of a man right
you have the number 10 it's often
the number of trial and tribulation along with
40 and when you look at
the number 7 that's often a
number of what? completion
and or perfection
you know God created the heaven
and the earth in six literal days and he rested
on the seventh denoting what?
completion
so when the Bible talks about here
the sin offering being given the priest
takes the blood and he sprinkles it
how many times? seven times
denoting perfect
forgiveness
complete forgiveness right
now this is interesting because
you know in the New Testament you have
Peter going to Jesus
who's the sacrifice and saying
like you know if my brother offended
me how off should I forgive him
till seven times you know
and then the Lord obviously says
seven times seventy he's basically saying like
perfectly is what you need to be doing
so you see that principle being
addressed there but the point is
is that the blood of Jesus Christ forgives
us completely
perfectly
and the reason that's
important to know is because of the fact that
you know a lot of churches out there
think that you're only forgiven for past sins
or something like oh you're
not forgiven for future sins you're only forgiven for
your past sins but it's pretty stupid
if you think about it because every sin that
we commit is future in respect
to where Jesus Christ died on the cross two thousand years ago
to us there's a past
present and future but literally where Jesus
Christ was in the first century A.D. everything
that we've done is like future right
but not only that we see the principle that the blood
is sprinkled seven times meaning that God
forgives us wholly
and this is the famous what the famous passage
in Romans 4 is talking about you know
but to him that worketh not but believeth on him
that justifieth the ungodly his faith
is counted for righteousness even as
David described the blessedness of the man
to whom the Lord imputeth righteousness without
works saying blessed are they
whose iniquities are forgiven
whose sins are covered blessed is the man
to whom the Lord will not impute sin
denoting the perfection
the completion of forgiveness
of past present and future
sins this is why
the sin offering often included
the sprinkling of the blood seven
times look at verse eleven if you would
verse eleven
it says in the skin of the bullock and all his flesh
with his head and with his legs and his
inwards and his dung
even the whole bullock shall he carry forth
without the camp unto a clean place
where the ashes are poured
out and burn him on the
wood with fire where the ashes
are poured out shall he
be burnt so this is
different from the other burnt offerings
in that it was taken to be
burned without the camp now go to
Hebrew chapter 13 if you would
Hebrew chapter 13
Hebrews 13
look what it says in verse number 10
it says we have an altar
where of they have no right to eat
which serve the tabernacle
for the bodies of those beasts
whose blood is brought into the sanctuary
by the high priest for sin are burned
without the camp where for
Jesus also that he might
sanctify the people with his own blood
suffered without the gate
let us go forth there for the blood
without the gate let us go forth there for
unto him without the camp bearing
his reproach so obviously
the sin offering is to
signify somewhat the location
of how Jesus Christ died he died
without the gate outside of the camp
on Golgotha he was
crucified on Mount Calvary
just as the sacrifice was
essentially taken outside the camp to be
burned without the camp now
the practical application that we can
get for ourselves here
is the fact that you know
again as I mentioned the burn offering is something that we do
for salvation right believe
on the Lord but the sin offering is something that
they God required
for the children of Israel to do evening and
morning okay something you have
to do every single day like for example we
wanted the forgiveness of sins when we got saved
right we believed on Jesus Christ we got
the forgiveness of sins past present and future
but you know we also have to confess
our sins daily to be right with God though
not to stay saved
not to maintain eternal life
not to maintain our salvation but just
to be right with God
right and if we confess our sins
he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness and quite frankly
God mandates that
of us right
he wants us to be right with him every single
day yeah it's great that we're saved but
you know what let's move on to perfection
and part of moving on to perfection when it
comes to spiritual matters is staying
right with God confessing our sins
daily and asking the Lord you know Lord
have I sinned against you unintentionally
maybe there are sins
you know especially if you're a new Christian
you come across a verse in the Bible
and it's just like oh whoa this is a sin
I've been doing this this whole time
and you're like I've unintentionally
sinned against God not because I want to sin against
God not because I thought it was great to do this
I just didn't know you know
what God says that's fine just confess it
you confess it
and he's faithful and just to cleanse us
forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
it's a beautiful thing and you know what
as a pastor I constantly tell people
keep short accounts with God
you know how short
well in the Old Testament it was morning and evening
so it's always good to wake up in the morning and just
ask God to forgive you say Lord forgive
me and just you know if there's anything
you know search my heart
examine me see if there be any wicked way in me
cleanse your heart and at the end of the
day because you know things happen throughout the day
you might have given someone the thumbs
up without using the thumb on the
freeway or whatever you might have been
in the flesh sometime throughout the day
you might have done something you might have just walked in
the old man and when you complete your day you should say
Lord forgive me for that
forgive me morning and evening
keep short accounts with God
so you can stay right with the Lord
there's so much more I want to say about that but we need to move on
to the Trespass offering
now it's important to note that when we talk about
the sin offering obviously all
these offerings are for the Lord right but the sin
offering deals primarily
with your offenses to God
things that you do ignorantly against the
Lord you want to get it right
and so you bring this animal
you sacrifice it they sprinkle the blood
they burn it without the camp you're forgiven
now the Trespass offering
the sin offering
primarily focuses against sins against the Lord
the Trespass offering on the other hand
are sins against the Lord
but also against your fellow man
so now we know why
these are mandatory
it's mandatory to be right with God but you know what God mandates as well
for you to be right with your brothers
for you to be right with your fellow man
right this is what the Trespass offering
was for
this was offered when someone
unintentionally violated the
holy things of the Lord
of the house of God so those are
obviously offenses towards the
Lord and the purpose of this offering
was essentially to make reparations
so the major focus of the Trespass offering
was to get right with God
but also to get right with your fellow
brethren but not just like I'm sorry
right like I
wronged you I'm sorry no you need to make
reparations you need to
confirm your love towards your brother you need to
fix that situation
that's what it was about okay
and in fact you know some people
could call the Trespass offering like a guilt offering
and you can kind of see that
because when you read about
and when you read
the entire chapter go to chapter 5 if you would
when you read the entire chapter
you see that most of the time when people were
offering these Trespass offerings they felt bad
about something they're like oh man
I feel like I wronged
in this area and so people
were encouraged to bring a Trespass offering
even if like you had a hint of thinking like
oh man I did something wrong we'll just go offer a
Trespass offering just to be safe
right now
one of these
one of the reasons a Trespass offering was offered
was if someone lied under oath
look at verse 1 of chapter 5
it says if a soul sin and hear the voice
of swearing and is a witness
whether he had seen or known of it
if he do not utter it
then he shall bear his
iniquity and what is that referring to
just lying under oath you know that
someone said something that was in violation of God's
laws you're called to witness and you
lie about it later on
you're just like man I feel so bad
that I've lied like I should not have done that
what can I do to make it right
and obviously this isn't referring to like murder
or something like that okay
this could be referring to other situations it doesn't really specify
what circumstances we're talking about
but I'm sure we can come up with the various
circumstances where this would apply
but you know someone lies about
something and then they feel bad about it later
they're encouraged to bring a
a Trespass offering
now how does this apply to us
because we don't offer Trespass offerings
well basically what this teaches us
he that knoweth to do good
and did it to not, to him it is sin
you know the Bible
talks about this sin is the transgression
of the law but you know what sin is also
when you know you're supposed to be doing something
you don't do it
hey when you know you're suppose to be in church and you're not in church
when you know you're suppose to be reading
your Bible you don't read it
when you know you're suppose to be sowing and you don't sowing
when you know you're suppose to be doing right
And you're just like, I know this is what I should be doing,
but I didn't do it.
Guess what?
You're not right with God.
It's sin unto you, the Bible says.
Not only that, we see that they were encouraged or commanded
to bring a trespass offering if they were contaminated
by touching an unclean thing.
So if they touched a dead body, if they touched an unclean
animal of sorts, they were commanded
to go offer a trespass offering before they performed
the duties or brought a sacrifice for worship,
they were commanded to do this trespass offering.
Another one would be a careless vow.
So sometimes in the Old Testament, just like today,
people make promises and they don't keep those promises.
Maybe they don't keep them because they lack integrity,
which by the way, God's people should not lack integrity.
Fulfill your vows, amen, fulfill your oaths.
But let's just be honest, maybe some of us, not maybe,
some of us have done this, myself included,
we have promised something, we've given an oath,
but we forgot about it.
How many can say I've done that before?
Or is everyone here like, no, I keep every single oath?
Sometimes in the Old Testament, people
can make a careless vow, and they're like, oh, man,
I didn't fulfill my vow.
I violated this.
Well, they are commanded to go and offer a trespass offering.
Sometimes they can transgress by unintentionally
using things that are dedicated unto God.
And probably the most simplest example
of this in the Old Testament would be
that if they use their tithe for something
other than the tithe, that would be a transgression
against the tithe of the Lord, at which point
they would offer a trespass offering to make that right.
Now, here's the last one, look at verse 15.
And they were also mandated to offer this trespass offering
if they sinned against their fellow man deliberately.
They intentionally sinned against their brothers.
They were commanded to bring this offering.
And the way this carried out is that restitution
needed to be made before doing any other kind of offering.
Or before doing the trespass offering,
they needed to make restitution to the person they offended.
Look at chapter 5, verse 15.
It says, if a soul committed trespass and sinned
through ignorance in the holy things of the Lord,
then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord
a ram without blemish out of the flocks,
with thy estimation by shekels of silver
after the shekel of the sanctuary for a trespass offering.
And he shall make amends for the harm
that he hath done in the holy thing,
and shall add the fifth part thereto,
and give it unto the priest, and the priest shall make
an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering,
and it shall be forgiven him.
So what we see here is that the priest
that would bring the animal to the priest,
the priest valued the price of the ram.
In other words, it had to be a certain price.
If it wasn't, they needed to go get one.
And the guilty party paid restitution in silver shekels.
And in fact, it would give a fifth part
of the appraised value to the priest.
So if they lied to their neighbor,
they borrowed some sort of, they borrowed a goat
or whatever, and they ended up keeping the goat,
they stole the goat, whatever,
they would have to go make that right.
And they would have to give the full amount
of what that goat costs, okay,
and then add a fifth part to that, okay,
of what that particular animal was appraised for.
So what is this?
This is essentially making restitution,
getting things right with their fellow man.
Look at chapter six, if you would.
Chapter six, and let's read a couple verses here
in verse number one.
It says, and the Lord's speaking to Moses, saying,
If a soul sinned and committed trespass against the Lord,
and lying to his neighbor in that which was delivered
to him to keep, or in fellowship,
or in a thing taken away by violence,
or hath deceived his neighbor,
or hath found that which was lost,
and lieth concerning it, and swereth falsely,
and any of these that a man doeth sinning therein,
then it shall be because he hath sinned and is guilty,
that he shall restore that which he took violently away,
or the thing which he had deceitfully gotten,
or that which was delivered him to keep,
or the lost thing which he found,
or all that about which he had sworn falsely,
he shall even restore it in the principle,
meaning what it's valued for,
and shall add the fifth part more thereto,
and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth
in the day of his trespass offering,
and he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord,
and ram without blemish of the flock with thy estimation,
meaning that the priest would have to look at the flock
and say, all right, is it worth this much?
Hey, this thing is a little light.
This thing's not well fed.
You need to go get that which is actually cost
for a trespass offering.
He says, by thy estimation for a trespass offering
unto the priest, and the priest shall make an atonement
for him, for before the Lord, et cetera.
So what do we see here?
We see that God was very much interested in the Israelites
getting right with their brethren.
Now, we don't have this today, right,
as far as the offerings are concerned,
but you know what God still commands of us
is restitution, getting things right with your brethren.
And let me just park it here for just like,
just give me two minutes, all right?
Just give me like two minutes.
You know, I often, you know, I don't really,
I can't say I discourage, but I don't encourage
Christians of the same church
to do business with each other, okay?
You know, and obviously I don't command that,
but if someone says, hey, you know,
we're dealing with these large sums of money,
we're working together, what do you think?
I often say I typically would not
just because there's just more room for offenses
and error and things of that nature.
And so, and when that happens, now, like you have this,
you know, elephant in the room of this offense,
financial offense or whatever,
and then we got to deal with it and so on and so forth.
Well, you know, that's happened in our church
a couple of times.
And you know what, people who do business
with other people in church, meaning not in church,
but with people of our church,
folks, if you come out losing in that particular bargain
or business deal, you know, first and foremost,
if you come out losing, just come out losing.
That's my philosophy.
If you've been defrauded, just allow yourself
to be defrauded, and maybe the lesson to you,
you don't deal with this person.
Now, obviously, if you're like, no, this is a huge offense,
I want this person to pay me back,
then obviously we can issue church discipline
and do the Matthew 18 route, right?
But here's the thing, you know, if you're that person
who's doing shady dealings, you're not trustworthy,
you don't have integrity, you need to restore
that which you took away as a Christian, right?
You need to restore, and may I say, not just the principle,
but even the fifth part to it as well.
You say, why is that?
Because we ought to go the second mile, that's why.
And it's your brother in Christ, and look,
we've had this in the past, where people have done dealings
with other people in our church, and they wronged them,
and you know, thousands of dollars,
tens of thousands of dollars were lost,
and you know, they did not restore that,
and that's wicked, my friends.
That's super wicked, that's evil, you know,
you're supposed to keep that value even until you're hurt,
that's what the Bible teaches.
And although we're not in the Old Testament,
where we're offering these trespass offerings,
you know what, the spirit of the law still exists today,
and the spirit of the law is this,
if you've wronged your brother, and you owe him 10 Gs,
hey, pay him those 10 Gs, and add another fifth part to that
I don't know how much that is, but I'm sure it's a lot, okay?
But here's the thing is that, you know,
and you might be dealing with a brother who's just like,
you know what, you don't have to pay me,
the apology is enough, let's just forget
about the whole thing, you know, you can go like this,
all right, but here's how to avoid just all that.
Number one, just don't do business with each other.
But if you're like, I'm just gonna risk it anyways,
okay, that's fine, but just be ready
to kiss that thing goodbye, because it's better
to have gained thy brother than to lose your brother
and be offended at their shady dealings, okay?
And so, you know, there's a lot I can say about that,
but you know, this is still in existence today, my friends.
And you're not right with God if you took something
from someone in our church, or you did a shady dealing
in our church, deceitfully, or let me just say this,
if you gave someone a particular price
that something costs, you put it on paper
and said this is what it's gonna cost,
and then you come back and say, oh, by the way,
it's actually gonna cost more.
And you're trying to take advantage
of your Christian brother?
Because you know, people like to take advantage
of Christians because we're forgiving,
we like to work with people, well, some people know that,
and they take advantage of that.
They're like, well, I know I said this on paper,
but it actually cost me more.
Come on, we're brothers, right?
Just pray about it.
Oh, let me pray about it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, no, I'm gonna pay whatever's
on the paper right here, because that's what we signed.
That's the contract.
We don't need a contract.
We're brothers in Christ.
And I remember years ago, like when I used to do
like videography and photography just on the side,
like as a side hustle, you know,
I did a job for a friend, okay?
I did a job for a particular friend who's a pastor now,
and he hired me for a particular job,
and I said, hey, I kind of learned,
I know it's kind of weird, but I've learned
that I need to do contracts.
I don't know we're friends and stuff,
but just to be safe, he was like, brother, we're Christians.
Why would we do a contract, you know?
Like, our word should be enough.
And I felt bad, and I was just like,
ooh, man, dang, you gotta pull that out on me?
Like, all right, you know, well, this is how much it is.
He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,
and this is the work I'm gonna do, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And Miss Ashley knows exactly what I'm talking about,
because I'm sure she's experienced this more often than not.
And then, you know, when the project came to it,
he gave me more work, and then, you know,
because I'm a Christian, I'm just gonna be like,
all right, you know, I'll do it, you know,
friend or whatever, but here's the problem.
When everything's said and done, he didn't pay me, right?
And I was like, hey, you haven't paid me.
He's like, well, I need you to also do this.
I'm like, we didn't agree to that.
He's like, yeah, but that's what you're supposed to do.
I was like, see, this is why I told you
I wanted to do the contract,
because then you're pulling this stuff, you know.
You said, what does that man owe you?
Restitution!
Now, I don't want restitution anymore.
I don't really care.
That's just an example, though,
and it should be that man's conviction
to give restitution, okay?
You know, and by the way, even if it takes
a lifetime to pay off, just do it.
You know, I got lawyer fees, amen?
Because I've been sued for stuff I preach.
It just comes with the territory, and you know,
praise the Lord that, you know, this world is not my home,
but you know what, I'm not just gonna be like,
thanks for winning the case, see you later.
Like, God will repay you, brother.
We're Christians, brother, you know?
I'm gonna pay it off, and I pay it off incrementally,
but I pay it off, because that's what's right to do.
Now, thankfully, this man is very merciful,
and he's just like, hey, ministry first, this second.
You know, pay whatever you gotta do at the ministry,
and then give me whatever, and praise God for that.
But I'm not just gonna be like, ha ha ha.
Well, he said I don't have to do it.
No, I wanna pay, because I don't wanna be indebted
to anybody else like that, and I don't wanna defame
the reputation of Christ and take advantage of someone else,
and so let this be a lesson to you.
Hey, if you owe someone money, you should pay them back.
Amen?
And if they forgave you for it, and they say
you don't have to, then thank God for that,
but the spirit of the law should be I owe you,
and I'm gonna give restitution, I wanna confirm this,
and get this right.
Now, go to Matthew chapter five.
Just two verses and I'm done, all right?
Actually, two passages, not two verses.
Matthew chapter five.
Look at verse 22, he says, Jesus says here,
but I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother
without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment,
and whosoever shall say to his brother, Rocka,
shall be in danger of the council,
but whosoever shall say thou fool
shall be in danger of hell fire.
I don't know what Rocka means,
but probably you just cook someone
if you say that back in the day, or something like Rocka.
Verse 23 says, therefore, if thou, listen to this,
if thou bring thy gift to the altar,
and there remembrance that thy brother
hath ought against thee,
leave there thy gift before the altar,
go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother,
then come and offer thy gift.
So even Jesus said, hey, if you're trying to serve God,
you're trying to bring this offering,
and you remember that you offended your brother,
or your brother has ought against you, pause,
let me go get this right first.
Go get it right, and then come offer the gift.
What is that showing us?
It shows us that God wants us to be right with him
through that offering, but he also wants us
to be right with our fellow brethren.
And you can't say, well, I'm right with God,
I'm just not right with so and so.
It doesn't work that way.
You gotta be right with both.
And obviously, you might deal with people
who are unwilling to forgive you.
You know what, there's nothing you can do about that.
If you ask for forgiveness, if you've confirmed your love,
you paid your dues, you paid your debt,
and they still have ought against you,
then there's nothing you can do, God has forgiven you,
that's all you can do.
But if you know for a fact that you have not gotten
that right with someone, and you think you're still right
with God, you're delusional, it doesn't exist.
God, that sin offering was for us to be right with God,
but you know, let me also say that the Trespass Offering
signifies that God values us being right with each other.
And so, this is something that was given,
and you think about it, when it comes
to the Trespass Offering, the Bible would often refer
to it as a ransom, right?
You know, these offerings were considered a ransom.
It's like they were coming to pay off this ransom.
Well, the Bible tells us in Mark chapter 10, verse 45,
for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto,
but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many,
meaning that he is that payment for the things that we owe.
And obviously, you know, in an eternal aspect,
we have such a debt, we had a debt that we could not pay.
No matter how much we worked, no matter how much
we did right, we could not pay,
therefore Jesus Christ was that perfect ransom
to pay off that sin debt, and so that's pretty much it.
What's the last thing that I wanna mention here,
and I'm not gonna go through Hebrews chapter 10.
I was, but I've already taken too much of your time,
and I wanna stay right with you.
But what we see here is that though the offerings
were necessary to kinda ingrain in the minds
of the Israelites these future principles,
we also have to understand that, you know,
God wasn't necessarily pleased with the blood of bulls
and of goats, because they could never take away sin.
And Jesus Christ says in Hebrews chapter 10,
but a body has thou prepared me.
So he is that perfect fulfillment of those sacrifices.
He fulfilled every single one of those perfectly.
So the next time you go through Leviticus,
you start yawning a little bit,
because it's a little boring,
just remember what they signify.
Just remember what it pictures,
just remember what it symbolizes,
and may it help you to have a heart of gratitude.
Let's pray, Father, we thank you so much for your word,
and thank you for those Old Testament sacrifices.
I'm thankful that I live in the New Testament,
which is a better testament
established upon better promises.
And we know that many of those in the Old Testament
saw through a glass darkly,
and we know that even now,
though we may see through a glass darkly
as far as the future events are concerned, Lord,
we can clearly see the Old Testament stories and laws
and bring to ourselves that beautiful picture
of what they signified of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you for the sacrifice
that Jesus made for us on the cross,
and the fact that we are forgiven through his blood.
And Lord, I pray, Father God,
that you'd help us as your people
to develop a heart of gratitude
towards what you've done for us.
Help us to give the sacrifice of thanksgiving
in the morning and night,
but in like manner, help us to confess our sins
morning and night.
Not for our salvation, of course, we know,
but so that we can just be right with you
on a day-to-day basis.
We love you so much, and we thank you.
Pray these things in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Song number 119 in your hymnals.
Till the storm passes by.
Song number 119 in your hymnal,
all in that first verse.
In the dark of the midnight
have I yawned in my face
while the storm howls above me
and there's no hiding place.
Mid the crash of the thundered
crashes Lord,
hear my cry,
keep me safe
till the storm passes by.
Till the storm passes over,
till the wonders doubt galore,
till the clouds fall forever
from the sky.
Oh, we ask that we stand
in the hollow of my hand,
keep me safe
till the storm passes by.
Many times say to whisper,
there is no need to try,
for there's no less sorrow,
there's no hope by and by.
For I shall always be free.
And tomorrow I'll rise,
where the storm,
there were dark little skies.
Till the storm passes over,
till the wonders doubt galore,
till the clouds fall forever
from the sky.
Oh, we ask that we stand
in the hollow of my hand,
keep me safe
till the storm passes by the last.
When the long night has ended
and the storms come to morn,
let me stand in thy presence
on that bright peaceful shore,
in that land where the Tetris
never comes,
for may I well be,
when the storm passes by.
Till the storm passes over,
till the wonders doubt galore,
till the clouds fall forever
from the sky.
Oh, we ask that we stand
in the hollow of my hand,
keep me safe
till the storm passes by.
Great singing, you're in a special place.