WEBVTT 16:27.200 --> 16:29.680 Good morning, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. 16:29.680 --> 16:31.520 Good to see you this morning, thank you for coming. 16:32.480 --> 16:36.400 Let's grab our seats and open up our hymn books, page 185. 16:36.400 --> 16:42.240 We're going to start off with my Savior's love this morning, page 185. 16:45.200 --> 16:47.200 My Savior's love. 16:50.600 --> 16:56.440 page 185. Let's all sing it out to the Lord this morning on that verse. 16:56.440 --> 17:04.500 I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus as a 17:33.100 --> 17:38.100 Good job this morning, page 185, My Savior's Love, on the second. 17:38.100 --> 17:45.100 For me it was in the garden, he prayed not my will but my will. 17:51.600 --> 17:54.120 But sweat drops are blood for 19:32.200 --> 19:33.420 Great singing everyone. 19:33.420 --> 19:35.820 Let's open up this morning with a word of prayer. 19:35.820 --> 19:37.460 Heavenly Father, we thank you so much 19:37.460 --> 19:39.460 for another day in your house, Lord. 19:39.460 --> 19:41.500 We thank you for the opportunity to be here 19:41.500 --> 19:43.660 to worship you and to sing. 19:43.660 --> 19:45.580 Please fill us all with your Holy Spirit 19:45.580 --> 19:47.920 as we listen and hear the word of God preach to us 19:47.920 --> 19:48.920 this morning. 19:48.920 --> 19:51.460 Pray that you would fill Pastor Sho with your Holy Spirit. 19:51.460 --> 19:54.440 Build us up and edify us as your people this morning. 19:54.440 --> 19:55.280 We love you so much. 19:55.280 --> 19:56.800 In Jesus' name I pray, amen. 19:57.100 --> 20:00.100 Page 162 will be your next song. 20:00.100 --> 20:02.100 To God be the glory. 20:02.100 --> 20:05.100 Page 162. 20:09.800 --> 20:12.800 To God be the glory, page 162. 20:17.900 --> 20:20.560 Let's all sing it out together on that verse. 20:20.560 --> 20:27.540 To God be the glory, great things He hath done. 20:27.540 --> 20:28.400 So let us sing. 23:09.700 --> 23:13.960 Thank you for coming to said fast Baptist Church if you need a bulletin just lift up your hand nice and high one of our ushers 23:13.960 --> 23:16.540 Can come by and get you guys a bulletin on the front 23:16.540 --> 23:22.100 We have our Bible memory passage Philippians chapter 4 and if you can quote the entire chapter you can receive a prize 23:22.380 --> 23:25.680 We also have inside our service times. We have 23:26.200 --> 23:32.160 Church this evening at 430 we have a Wednesday night Bible study at 7 and we had our Spanish service already at 9 a.m 23:32.720 --> 23:36.960 We have churchwide soul winning meets here at the building and then regional times that meet throughout 23:37.700 --> 23:38.980 the Dallas Fort Worth area. 23:38.980 --> 23:41.420 You just see one of the respective leaders there. 23:41.420 --> 23:43.860 We even have a couple different ladies times. 23:43.860 --> 23:45.340 And there is a ladies group chat. 23:45.340 --> 23:48.460 So if you're interested in that, you can always ask my wife 23:48.460 --> 23:50.180 or some of the ladies. 23:50.180 --> 23:53.540 Miss Lucy also helps lead one of the ladies times. 23:53.900 --> 23:55.860 Down below is our church stats for the year. 23:55.860 --> 23:57.880 We've done really good on our soul winning, 23:57.880 --> 24:00.740 and we wanna continue for the end of the year. 24:00.740 --> 24:03.000 On the right is several ladies you can be in prayer for. 24:03.000 --> 24:05.880 Please be in prayer for their pregnancy. 24:05.880 --> 24:08.600 Down below, again, if you are coming on Sunday morning 24:08.600 --> 24:10.640 and our parking lot is filled, 24:10.640 --> 24:13.560 you can use this back lot right over here across the street. 24:13.560 --> 24:15.980 Just please be respectful of using that area. 24:15.980 --> 24:18.340 Upcoming events, our Heritage of the Lords Conference 24:18.340 --> 24:21.900 is gonna be coming up pretty soon, October 9th. 24:21.900 --> 24:28.900 the 11th. And so we do have a insert in the bulletin that has this kind of a little bit 24:28.900 --> 24:35.680 of a schedule there. So that way you can plan accordingly. But we do have a morning activity 24:35.680 --> 24:41.580 there on Friday and then the evening service with Pastor Russell at seven. We also have 24:41.580 --> 24:47.740 a spelling bee at nine 30 on Saturday. We have our we have a park that we're going to 24:47.740 --> 24:49.900 be doing just kind of a fellowship. 24:49.900 --> 24:54.260 opportunity on Saturday. So if you'd like to come out have lunch with us and 24:54.260 --> 24:59.420 just have some fellowship and then Sunday morning I'll be preaching I'll 24:59.420 --> 25:02.700 be preaching both services so we'll still have kind of a normal schedule. 25:03.400 --> 25:10.280 We'll have an area kind of in our fellowship area as far as just registering again and 25:10.280 --> 25:13.860 we'll be handing out just a few good, like a few giveaways. 25:13.860 --> 25:17.960 And then any visitors that come, we're going to have a lot of our like shirts and extra 25:17.960 --> 25:22.000 merchandise and we'd like to give our visitors like a shirt or something like that. 25:22.000 --> 25:25.560 Just some of the things that we have from all of our conferences left over or whatever. 25:25.560 --> 25:31.400 We'd like to just be really hospitable to and generous to our 25:31.400 --> 25:37.340 guests and visitors that come for the conference. So we do possibly need a few volunteers for 25:37.340 --> 25:41.940 a few different things. So if people want to help with, you know, just welcoming people 25:41.940 --> 25:47.540 for our, you know, kind of our events in our conference, as well as our Saturday activities, 25:47.540 --> 25:54.360 advantageous for put a note in the group chat. So if people want to just help with just cooking 25:54.360 --> 25:59.340 or serving a little bit on that Saturday, as well as some of our services, we would 25:59.400 --> 26:06.960 love that. Just see Evangelist Fur and he can mark you down to do those things. If you 26:06.960 --> 26:13.080 are planning on attending the Friday morning activity, there is something to fill out there 26:13.080 --> 26:18.600 down below. So really looking forward to our Heritage of the Lord conference and celebrating. 26:18.600 --> 26:22.840 I actually ordered a bunch of new stickers and I'm excited. I'm sure the kids are going 26:22.840 --> 26:23.680 I really like those. 26:23.680 --> 26:27.400 So down below we also have our Mighty Men's Conference. 26:27.400 --> 26:29.840 It's going to be October 23rd to the 24th. 26:30.600 --> 26:35.000 And I don't think we have a physical sign up yet. 26:35.000 --> 26:35.880 We might add that too. 26:35.880 --> 26:39.240 But we do have online, if you go to godresource.com, 26:39.240 --> 26:41.120 you can register for the event. 26:41.120 --> 26:45.840 And it would really help us if we get everybody to sign up. 26:45.840 --> 26:48.360 Because we are planning on trying to do a dinner. 26:48.360 --> 26:51.200 So there's going to be kind of like a dinner and a gift. 26:51.200 --> 26:54.760 And so if we have a pretty accurate head count, 26:54.760 --> 26:56.040 that's going to really help us. 26:56.040 --> 26:57.360 So we'll probably. 26:58.600 --> 27:02.720 I just really encourage you if you haven't to sign up online and then we'll probably 27:02.720 --> 27:05.780 have a sign up sheet and then if you don't sign up, we're still going to corner you and 27:05.780 --> 27:06.980 ask you if you're going to come or not. 27:06.980 --> 27:09.200 So that way we have a pretty accurate count. 27:09.200 --> 27:13.300 But for the men, if you'd please just help us out and just kind of give us some kind 27:13.300 --> 27:18.900 of an accurate count because we are planning on feeding you a nice dinner and kind of getting 27:18.900 --> 27:19.900 some gifts and stuff. 27:19.900 --> 27:24.980 So I would like to make sure that we accommodate everybody accordingly. 27:24.980 --> 27:26.600 Faithful word preaching boot camp and then. 27:26.600 --> 27:31.880 we have a Trinidad missions trip in November, Shreveport's Zolani Marathon December 12th, 27:31.880 --> 27:36.440 and then a Philippines missions trip in 2027. So lots of different events there. 27:37.240 --> 27:39.000 On the back is our prayer list. 27:39.300 --> 27:44.540 Continue to be in prayer for our church family. If you have additional prayer requests, just please email us 27:44.940 --> 27:47.460 If something changes on our prayer list 27:47.460 --> 27:53.780 We kind of depend on you guys to give us those updates and help us to make sure that everything stays current and accurate 27:53.780 --> 27:57.920 So please just let us know and we'd like to update those things 27:57.920 --> 28:04.220 But please be in prayer for our church family and that's really all I have as far as announcements are going to sing our Psalm of the Week 28:04.220 --> 28:05.860 Psalm 28:05.860 --> 28:06.900 119 28:07.500 --> 28:09.500 in our Psalm book Psalm 119. 28:21.100 --> 28:23.100 Again, that's Psalm 119. 28:25.500 --> 28:28.500 Let's all sing it together on that first. 28:28.500 --> 28:37.500 Thy word is the Lamb unto my feet and the light unto my heart. 32:06.100 --> 32:08.780 At this time, the offering plates will be passed around. 32:08.780 --> 32:12.180 And you can turn in your Bibles to Leviticus chapter 1. 32:12.180 --> 32:14.100 That's Leviticus chapter 1. 32:56.700 --> 33:02.500 Leviticus chapter 1. We're going to read the entire chapter as is our custom. 33:02.500 --> 33:08.700 Leviticus chapter 1. Follow along silently. Beginning in verse 1, the Bible 33:08.700 --> 33:11.820 reads, and the Lord called unto Moses and spake unto him out of the 33:11.820 --> 33:16.180 tabernacle of the congregation saying, speak unto the children of Israel and 33:16.180 --> 33:21.220 say unto them, if any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, ye shall bring 33:21.220 --> 33:24.600 your offering of the cattle even of the herd and of the flock. 33:24.600 --> 33:30.800 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a meal without blemish. 33:30.800 --> 33:35.600 He shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 33:35.600 --> 33:36.600 before the Lord. 33:36.600 --> 33:40.600 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted 33:40.600 --> 33:43.120 for him to make atonement for him. 33:43.120 --> 33:47.520 And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord, and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring 33:47.520 --> 33:51.640 the blood and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the 33:51.640 --> 33:52.600 tabernacle of the 33:52.600 --> 33:58.240 congregation. And he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into his pieces. And the 33:58.240 --> 34:03.440 sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar and lay the wood in order upon the 34:03.440 --> 34:09.440 fire. And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head and the fat, in order 34:09.440 --> 34:14.960 upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar. But his inwards and his legs 34:14.960 --> 34:16.360 Shall he wash in water? 34:16.600 --> 34:21.960 and the priest shall burn all on the altar to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire of a 34:21.960 --> 34:28.280 sweet savor unto the Lord. And if his offering be of the flocks, namely of the sheep or of the goats, 34:28.280 --> 34:32.120 for a burnt sacrifice, he shall bring it a male without blemish. 34:32.500 --> 34:37.300 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the Lord, and the priests, 34:37.300 --> 34:41.460 Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar. 34:41.460 --> 34:46.180 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head at his fat, and the priest shall lay them 34:46.180 --> 34:51.380 in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar. But he shall wash the inwards, 34:51.380 --> 34:52.820 and the legs with water. 34:53.100 --> 34:56.580 and the priest shall bring it all and burn it upon the altar. 34:56.580 --> 34:59.980 It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire 34:59.980 --> 35:01.860 of a sweet savor unto the Lord. 35:02.200 --> 35:06.000 and if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the Lord be of fowls, 35:06.000 --> 35:09.240 then he shall bring his offering of turtle doves or 35:09.240 --> 35:13.120 of young pigeons. And the priest shall bring it under the altar 35:13.120 --> 35:16.680 and wring off his head and burn it on the altar 35:16.680 --> 35:20.320 and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar 35:20.320 --> 35:25.040 and he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers and cast it beside the altar 35:25.040 --> 35:27.720 on the east part by the place of the ashes 35:27.720 --> 35:30.120 and he shall cleave it with the wings thereof. 35:30.200 --> 35:32.200 but shall not divide it asunder, 35:32.200 --> 35:34.720 and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, 35:34.720 --> 35:36.720 upon the wood that is upon the fire. 35:36.720 --> 35:40.020 It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, 35:40.020 --> 35:41.880 of a sweet savor unto the Lord. 35:41.880 --> 35:43.200 Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer. 35:44.200 --> 35:46.600 Father in heaven, we thank you for our church services today 35:46.600 --> 35:51.640 I pray that you bless the sermon this morning and fill pastor shelly with your spirit as he preaches the word of god to us 35:51.720 --> 35:58.200 And help us to pay close attention to the message this morning and make applications and draw lessons from 35:58.920 --> 36:00.760 the sermon and 36:00.760 --> 36:06.920 Also lord, I pray that you bless our soul winning time later. We love you and I ask for these things in the name of Jesus christ 36:06.920 --> 36:07.600 Amen 36:08.100 --> 36:13.760 Amen the title of my sermon this morning is sacrifices in Leviticus sacrifices in Leviticus 36:13.760 --> 36:19.800 And now these first several chapters here leading up to about chapter 10 really deal a lot of the animal 36:20.220 --> 36:24.940 sacrifices of the Old Testament and of course Leviticus is named because 36:25.860 --> 36:31.900 The fact that this is dealing with the Levitical priesthood for the most part these are instructions for the priesthood and 36:32.260 --> 36:36.080 What they're going to be doing and it's not arbitrary of course when you 36:36.100 --> 36:40.020 You read the Bible, especially maybe the first time or when you're young or when you're not 36:40.020 --> 36:41.020 even saved. 36:41.020 --> 36:44.180 You read the Old Testament law and it just seems confusing. 36:44.180 --> 36:45.580 There's a lot of animal sacrifices. 36:45.580 --> 36:47.420 They don't make very much sense. 36:47.420 --> 36:52.220 But when you become saved and you understand the gospel, you can actually see a different 36:52.220 --> 36:54.620 layer to a lot of the political priesthood. 36:54.620 --> 36:58.260 And I want to keep your finger, but go to Psalm 119 in the middle of your Bible for 36:58.260 --> 36:59.620 a second. 36:59.620 --> 37:03.020 And I want to show you just one verse that I wanted to pick out of Psalm 119. 37:03.020 --> 37:04.020 The Bible tells. 37:04.100 --> 37:10.780 us that it's a spiritual book. It's not just carnal instructions. It's not just history. 37:10.780 --> 37:16.660 There's a spiritual layer and the Bible itself. Everything is pointing to the gospel. You 37:16.660 --> 37:21.060 know, everything in creation is pointing to the gospel. Everything in the Bible, all the 37:21.060 --> 37:26.540 stories, all the examples are pointing to the gospel. And in fact, even the law is pointing 37:26.540 --> 37:31.300 to the gospel message. And in Psalm 119, I want to look at verse. 37:31.400 --> 37:35.920 18 the Bible says, open thou mine eyes. 37:36.200 --> 37:40.400 that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. 37:40.400 --> 37:44.200 So this verse, I think what's interesting about it is 37:44.200 --> 37:47.500 it's kind of telling us that there's a second meaning 37:47.500 --> 37:51.300 or there's something that can be seen in the law 37:51.300 --> 37:54.700 that you wouldn't just get without God helping you. 37:54.700 --> 37:56.400 And it says, open thou mine eyes. 37:56.400 --> 37:58.500 This is typically a reference to being saved. 37:58.500 --> 38:02.600 When you get saved, the Bible talks about your eyes being enlightened 38:02.600 --> 38:04.100 and you getting a new... 38:04.200 --> 38:07.400 understanding, now you can see God. 38:07.400 --> 38:12.360 Of course that's language that's used by Jesus Christ when talking with Nicodemus and talking 38:12.360 --> 38:14.240 about being able to see God. 38:14.240 --> 38:17.240 And of course that's used in other parts of the gospel messages. 38:17.240 --> 38:23.040 And so when you become saved, you not only see the law for what it is, of course it's 38:23.040 --> 38:24.040 perfect. 38:24.040 --> 38:28.280 It's what we should do as humans on this earth. 38:28.280 --> 38:32.200 We should abide by God's law, whether that be just his moral instruction. 38:32.200 --> 38:37.700 whether that be a civic duties, whether that be a criminal justice system, you know, just 38:37.700 --> 38:43.300 national policy, just all of those ideas are all great and there's nothing wrong with them. 38:43.300 --> 38:44.300 We can all understand them. 38:44.300 --> 38:49.760 In fact, an unsaved person can understand that just the carnal truths of the Bible, 38:49.760 --> 38:50.100 but 38:50.200 --> 38:57.040 Beyond that there's a spiritual layer and there's a spiritual layer to the sacrificial system in Leviticus and then you read it 38:57.160 --> 38:59.960 It's kind of just boring and dry if you ask me 39:00.040 --> 39:05.560 But when you kind of think about it from a gospel perspective it becomes a little bit more engaging 39:05.560 --> 39:11.120 And so that's what I want to do is I want to go back to Leviticus and we're hoping that God will help us 39:11.200 --> 39:18.080 You know open our eyes that we can behold wondrous things out of the law and these wondrous things 39:18.200 --> 39:23.640 I believe are pertaining to Christ, the Gospel, and just the doctrine associated with the 39:23.640 --> 39:25.240 Gospel specifically. 39:25.240 --> 39:27.040 Now here in Leviticus chapter 1. 39:27.700 --> 39:30.860 verse 1 he says the Lord called on the Moses and spake in him out of the 39:30.860 --> 39:32.560 tabernacle congregation saying 39:32.560 --> 39:35.540 speak of the children of Israel and saying them of any man of you 39:35.540 --> 39:39.500 bring an offering of the Lord you should bring your offering of the cattle 39:39.500 --> 39:43.740 even of the herd and of the flock if his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the 39:43.740 --> 39:44.460 herd 39:44.460 --> 39:49.780 let him offer a male without blemish he shall offer it of his own voluntary will 39:49.780 --> 39:54.000 at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord so 39:54.300 --> 40:04.300 You have, you know, in these chapters divisions, you have in some senses a little bit of a different flavor of the different sacrifices. 40:04.300 --> 40:12.300 In chapter one, you kind of have a burnt offering. That's kind of the main focus of chapter number one is this burnt sacrifice. 40:12.300 --> 40:13.300 price. 40:14.000 --> 40:24.000 You also have in this particular section in verse 3, notice it says that the person doing this offering is supposed to offer it of his own voluntary will. 40:24.000 --> 40:29.000 You know, God put the word voluntary there for the Calvinist to look that much more stupid, okay? 40:29.000 --> 40:33.000 Because it's just like, hey, you get to choose if you want to. 40:33.000 --> 40:37.000 Like, how can you be a Calvinist and then understand this word voluntary will? 40:38.800 --> 40:41.640 That, you know, and that's what makes God special. 40:41.640 --> 40:47.000 What makes God special and unique from humans is how His will can be accomplished while 40:47.000 --> 40:50.180 still giving us an actual voluntary free will. 40:50.180 --> 40:54.520 The Bible tells us that we have a true genuine free will and we can really do whatever we 40:54.520 --> 41:00.600 want, but while we have that autonomy, God can still accomplish His ultimate will and 41:00.600 --> 41:06.040 still accomplish the main objectives of the gospel message even though we have our own 41:06.040 --> 41:06.800 faculty. 41:06.800 --> 41:10.840 We have our own abilities. You know, I typically relate that to sports or something 41:11.360 --> 41:18.380 It's like if you were just so good that it's like I know that you have the ability to play against me 41:18.380 --> 41:22.060 But no matter how good you are how much you try you're gonna lose the game 41:22.060 --> 41:24.820 Like I'm gonna beat you and not only am I gonna beat you 41:24.820 --> 41:29.240 I know every move you're gonna make like when I go left you're gonna go right and then I'm gonna score 41:29.240 --> 41:33.560 I'm gonna dunk on you and in fact, and sometimes people have to talk trash this way. They'll even say like hey 41:33.560 --> 41:34.800 I know you're gonna do this 41:34.800 --> 41:40.160 and I'm just gonna stop you or I'm gonna score on you this way or they just tell you the play beforehand or they 41:40.160 --> 41:46.400 Tell you what's gonna happen for him, and then they do it. That's much more impressive than if someone were to do that to a robot 41:47.500 --> 41:50.640 If you just have a robot and say, hey, look, I'm going to make this move, and then the 41:50.640 --> 41:57.400 robot's going to respond counterwise, you'd think like, well, that's not as impressive 41:57.400 --> 42:02.460 as giving someone true free will and allowing them to make their own decisions, and then 42:02.460 --> 42:06.200 still God's able to accomplish His will. 42:06.200 --> 42:08.220 But what does this really ultimately picture? 42:08.220 --> 42:08.600 beautiful. 42:08.800 --> 42:14.000 A couple things that it pictures, let's go to Matthew chapter number 12 for a moment, 42:14.000 --> 42:17.200 go to Matthew chapter number 12. 42:17.200 --> 42:22.400 The Bible pretty much has almost every sacrifice as being a burnt sacrifice in some way. 42:22.400 --> 42:28.400 Now some are just entirely burnt, like that's the only portion of the sacrifice. 42:28.400 --> 42:28.900 But. 42:29.000 --> 42:37.000 I believe because the gospel is so complex and there's so much depth to it and because the gospel and what Christ did has so many layers 42:37.000 --> 42:43.000 that we have so many different sacrifices because we're picturing different layers of the gospel and different things that's being accomplished by Jesus Christ. 42:43.000 --> 42:49.000 It can't necessarily all be embodied by one example or just one metaphor or one symbol. 42:49.000 --> 42:53.400 And one of the aspects of the sacrifice of Christ, 42:53.400 --> 42:57.000 which is not necessarily popular by many pastors, 42:57.000 --> 43:01.800 pastors, but I think just the general population has no problem with this doctrine, is the 43:01.800 --> 43:05.840 fact that Jesus Christ really went to hell. 43:05.840 --> 43:12.360 And it's kind of surprising to me now, I feel like our country has become so de-Christianized 43:12.360 --> 43:16.160 that many people don't even know the stories of the Bible. 43:16.160 --> 43:20.800 And one of the stories that I found was probably the most famous story or story that most people 43:20.800 --> 43:23.500 always here is Jonah and the whale. 43:23.600 --> 43:26.600 And yet I go on knock on doors and I'm like, 43:26.600 --> 43:28.160 hey have you heard of Jonah and the whale? 43:28.160 --> 43:30.080 And there's like, I have no idea what you're talking about. 43:30.080 --> 43:33.880 And it's kind of sad because it's a great story, 43:33.880 --> 43:36.720 it's very familiar, it's the one thing everybody remembers 43:36.720 --> 43:37.680 out of the Minor Prophets. 43:37.680 --> 43:38.960 You're like, I don't know anything in the Minor Prophets 43:38.960 --> 43:40.640 but I remember Jonah and the whale, you know? 43:40.640 --> 43:42.840 It's kind of a fun story. 43:42.840 --> 43:46.160 And yet Jesus references that about himself. 43:46.160 --> 43:48.240 Look what it says in verse 39, 43:48.240 --> 43:49.360 but he answered and said to them, 43:49.360 --> 43:51.480 an adulterous generation. 43:51.600 --> 43:57.040 seek it after a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet 43:57.040 --> 43:58.120 Jonas. 43:58.120 --> 44:02.360 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of 44:02.360 --> 44:06.680 Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." 44:06.680 --> 44:13.000 So according to the Bible, Jesus is comparing himself to Jonah and saying, the picture of 44:13.000 --> 44:15.320 Jonah is really about me. 44:16.000 --> 44:20.000 and how I'm going to be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. 44:20.000 --> 44:22.000 But, you know, most people, if I ask them, 44:22.000 --> 44:24.000 hey, do you know where Jesus went after he died? 44:24.000 --> 44:25.000 They say, heaven. 44:25.200 --> 44:31.700 A lot of people think that Jesus went immediately to heaven, but the Bible teaches he first descended into the depths of the earth, 44:31.700 --> 44:36.800 or as the Bible says right here, into the heart of the earth. That would be like the center of the earth. 44:36.800 --> 44:41.600 And so that's where, you know, we get a lot of doctrine. We understand hell itself is in the center of the earth. 44:41.600 --> 44:49.000 And of course, that's why so many of the sacrifices are talking about being a burnt offering and being roast with fire. 44:49.000 --> 44:53.200 It's because of this picture of Christ is going to go and perform. 44:53.200 --> 44:57.940 this sacrifice for us. Now let's get more details on this. Go to Jonah itself. Go back 44:57.940 --> 45:03.820 a little bit and go to Jonah itself in the Old Testament. So we'll be holding wondrous 45:03.820 --> 45:06.840 things out of the law. And you know, some people get upset about this doctrine, but 45:06.840 --> 45:09.280 then you're like, okay, well, what does the burnt sacrifice mean? 45:09.800 --> 45:11.960 because it's heavily emphasized. 45:11.960 --> 45:15.040 Burnt sacrifice or being roast with fire 45:15.040 --> 45:17.000 is not a minimum thing in the Bible. 45:17.000 --> 45:19.960 In fact, it's reiterated over and over and over again. 45:19.960 --> 45:23.280 And I would even argue that from an Old Testament picture 45:23.280 --> 45:25.000 and the foreshadowing of the Old Testament, 45:25.000 --> 45:28.140 it's emphasized more than the cross itself would be. 45:28.500 --> 45:33.000 But that doesn't mean that the cross is less or not emphasized or not important. 45:33.000 --> 45:37.900 And of course, the New Testament seems to emphasize the cross more than Jesus going to hell. 45:37.900 --> 45:44.100 But the Old Testament seems to, you know, picture the burnt sacrifice more than the pictures of the cross. 45:44.100 --> 45:47.300 And so we don't want to sit here and just pick and choose and say, 45:47.300 --> 45:52.000 well, one matters and the other doesn't, or this one's the only one that we should talk about. 45:52.000 --> 45:53.200 I think we should talk about both. 45:53.600 --> 45:58.400 And the Old Testament is still just as relevant to the gospel messages of the New Testament. 45:58.400 --> 46:00.700 The Bible says in Jonah chapter 2, it says, 46:00.700 --> 46:03.600 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, 46:03.600 --> 46:07.000 and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, 46:07.000 --> 46:10.900 and he heard me out of the belly of hell, cried I, and thou heardest my voice. 46:10.900 --> 46:17.300 Notice when Jonah is describing what it was like to be in a whale's belly, 46:17.300 --> 46:21.500 or the great fish's belly, he describes it as the belly of hell. 46:21.800 --> 46:23.800 And again, this is a metaphor. 46:24.200 --> 46:27.640 For Jonah, Jonah wasn't literally in hell, we get that. 46:27.640 --> 46:31.360 Jonah is using this language to describe what it feels like, 46:31.360 --> 46:33.520 what he's experiencing. 46:33.520 --> 46:35.780 And in some ways, if you think about it, 46:35.780 --> 46:37.280 there's a lot of parallels. 46:37.280 --> 46:39.640 Because in the well's belly, there's no light. 46:39.640 --> 46:42.060 It's complete darkness. 46:42.060 --> 46:45.160 There's complete darkness, he's alone, 46:45.160 --> 46:47.880 and the fish even is gonna be, obviously, 46:47.880 --> 46:50.800 submerged underneath the water. 46:50.800 --> 46:52.200 So it's kind of picturing being under. 46:52.200 --> 46:55.200 being, you know, in a prison. 46:55.200 --> 46:57.200 There's just complete darkness. 46:57.200 --> 47:04.200 So some aspects of this experience are going to mimic those things in hell. 47:05.000 --> 47:08.600 I have no idea what it would have been like physically. 47:08.600 --> 47:10.360 It could have been warm. 47:10.360 --> 47:13.720 I mean, in most cases, the stomach is a warm place. 47:13.720 --> 47:15.600 You know, it's considered a mammal. 47:15.600 --> 47:18.080 I don't know why, but, you know, by scientific classification, 47:18.080 --> 47:19.440 it's considered a mammal. 47:19.440 --> 47:21.680 And so, you know, it could have been hot. 47:21.680 --> 47:24.400 It could have been, you know, very uncomfortable. 47:24.400 --> 47:27.040 There could have been, you know, even potentially the acid 47:27.040 --> 47:30.400 in there could have been a burning sensation. 47:30.400 --> 47:32.920 You know, I don't think he was dying necessarily, but... 47:33.000 --> 47:35.200 but he's probably close to, probably felt like it. 47:35.200 --> 47:36.200 I can't even imagine, you know, 47:36.200 --> 47:38.240 usually when you're in pain, five minutes, 47:38.240 --> 47:41.600 seems like five hours, I can't imagine three days. 47:41.600 --> 47:44.640 It might've felt like eternity, you know, just, you know, 47:44.640 --> 47:49.000 and in fact, maybe from like other portions of scripture, 47:49.000 --> 47:51.600 or maybe God gave him wisdom that he would know 47:51.600 --> 47:53.400 in three days he was gonna be getting out, 47:53.400 --> 47:55.800 but when you don't know that you're getting out, 47:55.800 --> 47:57.900 it's a really hopeless feeling. 47:58.700 --> 48:01.700 It's a really, and you're kind of just wishing to die, 48:01.700 --> 48:05.200 and by dying, like in a sense of ceasing the pain. 48:05.200 --> 48:08.700 And that's again, what's going to be experienced in hell. 48:08.700 --> 48:11.700 People are going to be in hell wishing to not exist anymore, 48:11.700 --> 48:13.700 wishing for the pain to stop, 48:13.700 --> 48:15.700 wondering when is it going to be over. 48:15.700 --> 48:19.500 And the unfortunate part for them is it's never over. 48:19.900 --> 48:23.100 It's never gonna end. There's weeping and gnashing of teeth. 48:23.100 --> 48:29.900 And of course, it's even more excruciating because it's actual fire, it's actual burning, 48:29.900 --> 48:35.300 yet in an incredible way, while there's fire, it's outer darkness in a sense. 48:35.300 --> 48:37.900 So I have no idea how any of that makes sense. 48:37.900 --> 48:39.500 It's a scary place. 48:39.500 --> 48:43.600 If you tried to dream up the worst punishment imaginable, you will land in hell. 48:44.200 --> 48:48.720 In every category hell is the worst possible in every category in every way 48:48.720 --> 48:55.920 And of course that's because God is going to punish sin because he hates sin and his wrath is kindled against hell and 48:56.620 --> 49:03.360 The Bible says just as Jonah was here, you know in this metaphorical sense Jesus really was there 49:04.400 --> 49:07.780 So, this is what's interesting about the book of Jonah, is it's like, Jonah's saying these 49:07.780 --> 49:12.480 things but then it's like, it's like literally true for the Lord Jesus Christ. 49:12.480 --> 49:15.960 He says in verse 3, for thou hast cast me into the deep in the midst of the seas and 49:15.960 --> 49:19.600 the floods, compass me about all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. 49:19.600 --> 49:24.060 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight, yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. 49:24.060 --> 49:27.880 The waters compass me about even to the soul. 49:27.880 --> 49:31.840 The depth closes me round about, the weeds are wrapped around about my head. 49:31.840 --> 49:32.340 again. 49:32.400 --> 49:33.400 weeds being wrapped around his head. 49:33.400 --> 49:35.720 That's Jonah that we're talking about, of course. 49:35.720 --> 49:36.720 But it says here, 49:36.720 --> 49:38.220 And I went down to the bottoms of the mountains, 49:38.220 --> 49:40.000 The earth of the bars is about me forever, 49:40.000 --> 49:42.160 Yet hast thou brought up my life in corruption, 49:42.160 --> 49:43.160 O Lord my God. 49:43.160 --> 49:46.240 Verse 6 doesn't really make as much sense for Jonah. 49:47.100 --> 49:54.100 It's more metaphorical, but for Christ, the earth really was about Christ in the sense that he's in the center of the earth. 49:54.100 --> 49:58.600 So, you know, it's kind of like metaphoric for Jonah, it's literal for Jesus Christ. 49:58.600 --> 50:02.600 Because for Jonah, it's metaphor that he's in the belly of hell. 50:02.600 --> 50:05.100 For Jesus, he really is in the belly of hell. 50:05.100 --> 50:10.100 And so, if you kind of see chapter 2, it almost seems like it kind of goes back and forth. 50:10.100 --> 50:15.100 It's like 2 is about Christ, and then 3 is about Jonah, and then 4 is about Christ. 50:15.100 --> 50:18.820 is about Christ and then five is about Jonah and then six is about Christ. 50:19.020 --> 50:21.300 It's kind of as it's like alternating pattern. 50:21.700 --> 50:25.500 And when it's about Christ, it's a metaphor for Jonah, 50:25.660 --> 50:28.140 but it's literal for the Lord Jesus Christ. 50:28.580 --> 50:32.220 Now, let's go to Acts, chapter two, and let's confirm what we've just seen 50:32.220 --> 50:35.980 in the scripture. But, you know, in the Old Testament. 50:36.800 --> 50:41.300 Law, you would have a burnt sacrifice and you would burn this animal. 50:41.300 --> 50:45.540 And what is that to foreshadow in the picture is how Christ was going to go to hell and 50:45.540 --> 50:46.700 he was going to suffer for us. 50:46.700 --> 50:52.620 Acts chapter number 2, look what it says in verse number 27 because, let's do verse 26, 50:52.620 --> 50:57.600 therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad moreover also my flesh shall rest 50:57.600 --> 51:00.160 in hope because that will not leave my soul in hell. 51:00.500 --> 51:02.740 neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one as he corrupts you." 51:02.740 --> 51:06.580 No, for Christ, He did know that it was temporary. 51:06.580 --> 51:09.020 He did know that He would eventually come out. 51:09.020 --> 51:11.220 And He said that's the only hope He had. 51:11.220 --> 51:14.820 Because if you're in hell, your only hope is you're getting out. 51:14.820 --> 51:16.420 For those that are not getting out, there is no hope. 51:16.800 --> 51:19.800 He says, thou hast made known to me the ways of life. 51:19.800 --> 51:22.680 Thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. 51:22.680 --> 51:25.840 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both 51:25.840 --> 51:29.700 dead and buried in sepulchre as with us unto this day, therefore being a prophet and knowing 51:29.700 --> 51:34.500 that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins, according to the 51:34.500 --> 51:36.960 flesh he would raise up Christ and sit on his throne. 51:36.960 --> 51:41.480 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul is not left in hell, 51:41.480 --> 51:42.960 neither is flesh as a corruption. 51:42.960 --> 51:43.800 So in. 51:43.800 --> 51:47.800 The Psalms, which we're not going to go to, we could prove this doctrine so many different times, 51:47.800 --> 51:55.800 but if we go back to the Psalms, David in the book of Psalms is being quoted as talking about his flesh resting in hope 51:55.800 --> 51:57.800 because his soul is not going to be left in hell. 51:57.800 --> 52:03.800 But it's like, then the author needs to explain to us, and Peter is kind of explaining, 52:03.800 --> 52:10.600 but he's not talking about himself because number one, David's flesh is gone. 52:10.700 --> 52:13.340 Okay, David's flesh saw corruption. 52:13.340 --> 52:15.300 David's sepulcher, we have a sepulcher, 52:15.300 --> 52:17.980 we could go get his bones out right now. 52:17.980 --> 52:20.100 Okay, but they don't have the bones of Christ, 52:20.100 --> 52:21.180 they don't have the flesh of Christ, 52:21.180 --> 52:23.400 it's resurrected and it's in heaven right now. 52:23.800 --> 52:26.200 And he's saying he wasn't talking about himself. 52:26.200 --> 52:29.300 He was talking about someone else of his physical descendency, 52:29.300 --> 52:31.300 someone that was a physical son of David, 52:31.300 --> 52:32.900 that was going to be in hell. 52:32.900 --> 52:34.400 And who were we talking about? 52:34.400 --> 52:37.000 He was speaking before of the resurrection of Christ, 52:37.000 --> 52:39.200 that his soul was not going to be left in hell, 52:39.200 --> 52:41.400 and that his flesh was not going to see corruption, 52:41.400 --> 52:43.400 meaning that his body wasn't going to rot, 52:43.400 --> 52:45.600 and decompose, and turn into bones, 52:45.600 --> 52:47.200 and we would have his sepulcher. 52:47.200 --> 52:48.600 We don't have his sepulcher. 52:48.600 --> 52:51.800 You know, of the people that have lived and died on this earth. 52:51.800 --> 52:57.040 earth, you know, we have their dust at least, you know, whether they've, you know, been 52:57.040 --> 53:03.120 buried or cremated or whatever you want to think of, we have their dust and yet we don't 53:03.120 --> 53:04.440 have the body of Christ. 53:04.440 --> 53:10.000 The most influential person of all history, we have no burial site where His body is. 53:10.000 --> 53:14.200 You know, we have the tomb, the stone was rolled away and the tomb was empty and so 53:14.200 --> 53:19.720 the Jews had to lie and say, oh well, the disciples secretly buried Him. 53:19.800 --> 53:24.280 In order to deny Christ, you have to believe the disciples secretly buried Jesus 53:24.280 --> 53:28.000 and then went out and lived lives of misery and woe 53:28.000 --> 53:32.480 and ultimate sacrifice and martyrdom for no reason. 53:32.480 --> 53:36.400 Like if you're going to make up a lie, wouldn't you want to make up a lie 53:36.400 --> 53:40.240 for money or make up a lie for fame? 53:40.240 --> 53:43.100 Like why do you have to lie to be martyred? 53:43.800 --> 53:48.800 To be killed and persecuted and hated, you know, that's typically not... 53:48.800 --> 53:50.800 You're not usually willing to die for a lie. 53:51.400 --> 53:53.800 Especially a lie that you made up about yourself. 53:53.800 --> 53:56.100 You know, be estranged from your own family, 53:56.100 --> 53:58.900 and just being out in the world where everybody's hating you, 53:58.900 --> 54:01.600 and being beaten, and being put in prison, 54:01.600 --> 54:04.900 and being killed, and people just being mad at you. 54:04.900 --> 54:08.500 Just a lie about some guy's body that you buried somewhere. 54:08.500 --> 54:10.400 You know, that's what the secular is. 54:10.400 --> 54:12.300 That's what the atheists have to believe. 54:12.300 --> 54:14.100 And it makes no sense. 54:14.100 --> 54:15.400 There's no motive. 54:15.600 --> 54:19.880 No, it's obvious that they died because they saw the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ, that 54:19.880 --> 54:23.080 they were saved, that they were filled with the Spirit of God, and they are willing to 54:23.080 --> 54:28.440 suffer the affliction and be a partaker of Christ's sufferings, just like what Christ 54:28.440 --> 54:29.440 did. 54:29.440 --> 54:32.440 And of course, we don't have Christ's body because He suffered in hell. 54:32.440 --> 54:35.400 Now again, some people would say, well, He went to hell, but He didn't suffer. 54:36.700 --> 54:43.900 You know that kind of creates a weird idea because then we have to create a compartment in hell that's not suffering 54:45.220 --> 54:52.400 Whereas the simple the simple understanding would just be it's suffering. Okay. Also Christ isn't saying here like in verse 26 54:52.820 --> 54:56.980 Well, my heart did rejoice because of the special compartment where there's no suffering 54:58.220 --> 55:03.100 Now what did he say? He said that the only thing that he had hope in is that he wasn't gonna be left there 55:03.700 --> 55:06.200 So he didn't like it at the very minimum. 55:06.200 --> 55:10.600 But even then in this chapter, you have an even more clear verse. 55:10.600 --> 55:12.100 It says in verse 23, 55:12.100 --> 55:16.600 him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, 55:16.600 --> 55:20.400 you have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. 55:20.400 --> 55:25.200 Here's another verse that the Calvinist can't understand, but notice, 55:25.200 --> 55:27.900 it's like, hey, by the foreknowledge of God, 55:27.900 --> 55:31.500 he knew that you guys were going to take Jesus and you were going to crucify him. 55:31.700 --> 55:38.400 It's not that they didn't do that of their own will, it's just God knew exactly what they were going to do before they even did it. 55:38.400 --> 55:46.700 Now it says in verse 24, whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible that he should be holding of it. 55:46.700 --> 55:53.600 Now, again, think about this. It's like, hey, in verse 24, God raised up. When is the resurrection? 55:54.000 --> 55:57.200 That's three days after the crucifixion. 55:57.200 --> 55:58.000 Okay. 55:58.000 --> 55:58.900 And then it says, 55:58.900 --> 56:01.200 having loosed the pains of death. 56:01.200 --> 56:07.000 So being raised up loosed him from the pains of death. 56:07.000 --> 56:10.000 Now, if we just slow down and think about this very carefully, 56:10.000 --> 56:15.200 number one, Christ is not dead when he was on the cross. 56:15.200 --> 56:17.200 Now, he is suffering pain, 56:17.200 --> 56:19.600 and you could argue he's dying, 56:19.600 --> 56:21.200 but he's not dead. 56:21.400 --> 56:24.000 He hasn't experienced death, okay? 56:24.000 --> 56:26.600 So to say that this is talking about the cross 56:26.600 --> 56:30.700 would number one be to misunderstand the fact that he's not dead on the cross. 56:30.700 --> 56:35.300 And when you're dead, we typically understand that physically you're not experiencing pain anymore 56:35.300 --> 56:36.800 from a physical perspective. 56:36.800 --> 56:38.500 But what is the pains of death? 56:38.500 --> 56:40.800 This is what the Bible is describing as hell. 56:40.800 --> 56:44.800 Because of course the dead are in hell and they're experiencing pain. 56:44.800 --> 56:48.700 And what loosed Christ from the pains of death? 56:49.000 --> 56:54.200 or the pains of hell is being resurrected, which then matches in perfectly with the whole context 56:54.200 --> 56:59.880 is in verse 26. He's saying that's why you had, you know, some hope and that's why in verse 27, 56:59.880 --> 57:04.280 because he wasn't gonna be left in hell. And of course, this is all fits together perfectly, 57:04.280 --> 57:10.440 that he was loose from the pains of death and he suffered. And that's why the Bible emphasizes 57:11.000 --> 57:15.800 burnt offerings so much, because some people would say, oh, well, if Christ went to hell, 57:15.800 --> 57:16.920 Wouldn't the Bible tell us? 57:17.000 --> 57:19.000 And it's like, yes, it tells us a lot. 57:19.000 --> 57:22.000 It brings it, and so every time you read about the burnt sacrifice, 57:22.000 --> 57:24.000 you read about these burnt offerings, 57:24.000 --> 57:26.000 you should be realizing what Christ did for us 57:26.000 --> 57:28.000 by taking our place in hell, 57:28.000 --> 57:31.000 experiencing the pains of death. 57:31.000 --> 57:34.000 The Bible says, by reason of affliction cried I, 57:34.000 --> 57:37.000 out of the belly of hell cried I. 57:37.000 --> 57:40.000 So it's just like, he's saying it's affliction in the book of Jonah. 57:40.000 --> 57:43.000 It's saying it's the pains of death in the book of Acts. 57:43.000 --> 57:45.000 I mean, nowhere 57:45.000 --> 57:49.640 else in the Bible is hell a pleasant place. Nowhere is there any other escape. The only 57:49.640 --> 57:55.560 relief that he's claiming to have is the hope of leaving. Okay, so it seems like it's just 57:55.560 --> 58:00.440 really simple that Christ went to hell like the Bible says. He was in the heart of the 58:00.440 --> 58:00.840 earth. 58:01.000 --> 58:06.800 It was pain, it was affliction, he cried, God heard him, and he was resurrected. 58:06.800 --> 58:13.920 And of course, then that satisfies our punishment because we would have to go to hell if we 58:13.920 --> 58:15.380 got what we deserved. 58:15.380 --> 58:21.000 And so instead, an innocent, perfect, spotless lamb, Jesus Christ, went and took our place, 58:21.000 --> 58:24.360 not only to die, but to go to hell for us. 58:24.360 --> 58:28.560 He became a curse on the cross, and the curse of the law is what? 58:29.400 --> 58:31.400 What is the curse of the law? 58:31.400 --> 58:32.520 It's death. 58:32.520 --> 58:33.120 Okay. 58:33.120 --> 58:34.720 And what's the worst part about death? 58:34.720 --> 58:37.360 It's not that you cease from the pain of the cross. 58:37.360 --> 58:39.400 It's that you then go to hell. 58:39.400 --> 58:41.760 For the ways of sin is death. 58:41.760 --> 58:47.760 It's, you know, what's scary about death is not not being alive. 58:47.760 --> 58:49.560 It's being in hell. 58:49.560 --> 58:53.560 Because for the Christian, it's not as scary because we're going to go to heaven. 58:53.900 --> 58:56.900 And in some cases, people even long for death 58:56.900 --> 59:00.400 because they simply want to be in heaven where there's even more rest. 59:00.400 --> 59:02.200 It's rest... I mean, what is heaven considered? 59:02.200 --> 59:05.800 Rest, no pain, joy. 59:05.800 --> 59:08.500 I mean, for many elderly people... 59:08.800 --> 59:12.360 And even not even just elderly people, some people are just suffering a lot on this earth. 59:12.360 --> 59:18.100 Like they're just in a lot of physical pain, they're in just a lot of torment, they're not having much rest. 59:18.100 --> 59:24.360 And it's like they're not experiencing much joy. I mean Lazarus with his sores, he wasn't enjoying life. 59:24.360 --> 59:27.060 He was excited to die and go to heaven. 59:27.060 --> 59:32.560 Okay. So death itself, what's scary about death, what's the punishment of death is hell itself. 59:32.900 --> 59:41.600 And so Christ not only experienced excruciating pain on the cross and in this life and the shame and the embarrassment and the woe, 59:41.600 --> 59:48.900 but he also experienced the pains of death itself, which is the scary, arguably in my opinion, one of the scariest things that you could possibly face. 59:48.900 --> 59:50.900 And it really is. 59:50.900 --> 59:57.300 And so we shouldn't undermine what Christ did, we should just realize that Christ took our punishment in hell. 59:57.300 --> 59:58.500 Go back if you would. 59:58.900 --> 01:00:03.940 So then what's important about this is that this burnt sacrifice that's offered is offered 01:00:03.940 --> 01:00:11.780 of a voluntary will. Picturing what? That your salvation is based on your voluntary will 01:00:11.780 --> 01:00:18.580 of putting your faith in the sacrifice of Christ. That we put our faith in what Jesus did 01:00:18.580 --> 01:00:21.860 of our own voluntary will and that's what saves us. 01:00:22.200 --> 01:00:26.900 It's not our works, it's not the fruit of the ground of what we did. 01:00:26.900 --> 01:00:32.700 It's simply offering someone in our place, and that person in our place is an animal 01:00:32.700 --> 01:00:35.200 picture in the Old Testament of Christ. 01:00:35.200 --> 01:00:39.600 And so all of the animal sacrifices make sense with the gospel and what Christ did. 01:00:39.600 --> 01:00:44.640 From an Islamic perspective, it's kind of crazy to me, or like even Jews, they have 01:00:44.640 --> 01:00:48.520 all these animal sacrifices that they would give lip service to and point to, and of course 01:00:48.520 --> 01:00:50.120 even Muslims today have their halal. 01:00:50.200 --> 01:00:53.280 meat, and they sacrifice goats and lambs and animals and stuff. 01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:55.840 It's like, well, what is that picture though? 01:00:55.840 --> 01:00:56.840 What's the point of that? 01:00:56.840 --> 01:01:01.000 Like, why is God having you constantly slaughtering animals and sacrifice them? 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:02.960 Like, why is He doing that? 01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:06.360 And again, from a Christian perspective, it's because it pictures the Lamb of God and how 01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:09.920 Jesus took the sin of the world and how He died for our sin. 01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:11.000 But the Muslims don't believe that. 01:01:11.700 --> 01:01:14.400 And the Jews don't believe that. 01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:18.140 And the Jews really don't even believe that's what their antichrist will even do. 01:01:18.140 --> 01:01:23.960 They have a kind of a warped idea of their antichrist being a political leader and conquering 01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:29.360 the world, whereas Christ came to die for the world and be a sacrifice for the world. 01:01:29.360 --> 01:01:31.380 And yet they don't understand these pictures. 01:01:31.380 --> 01:01:32.380 They don't understand these things. 01:01:32.380 --> 01:01:33.380 Why? 01:01:33.380 --> 01:01:34.020 Because they're not saved. 01:01:34.300 --> 01:01:38.300 If you're not saved, you're not going to understand the wondrous things out of the law. 01:01:38.300 --> 01:01:41.300 You're not going to get them, and so you're just going to perform sacrifices. 01:01:41.300 --> 01:01:45.300 Look, the Jews are wanting to perform animal sacrifices again. 01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:51.460 You know, in Israel, in modern Israel today, they're trying to bring back the Red Heifer, 01:01:51.460 --> 01:01:54.440 they're trying to bring back different animal sacrifices. 01:01:54.440 --> 01:01:57.320 The Bible and the book of Daniel talks about in the end times, there's going to be a daily 01:01:57.320 --> 01:02:01.920 sacrifice and that it's going to be taken away with the Antichrist because he's going 01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:04.020 to claim that he's the real Christ. 01:02:04.020 --> 01:02:09.600 But even their little Antichrist, he's not dying for the sins of the world, he's killed 01:02:09.600 --> 01:02:13.200 by some radical or something or something's happening that's different. 01:02:13.200 --> 01:02:13.800 after he calls. 01:02:13.800 --> 01:02:17.960 conquers the world, not him coming in a lowly form, 01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:20.500 as a humble servant, loving people. 01:02:20.500 --> 01:02:22.000 You know, what does the Antichrist go? 01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:24.400 He goes out to conquer and to kill. 01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:25.940 Like the Antichrist is just killing 01:02:25.940 --> 01:02:28.140 and slaughtering people en masse. 01:02:28.140 --> 01:02:30.540 Jesus Christ is saving people and healing them 01:02:30.540 --> 01:02:32.780 from their sicknesses and their diseases 01:02:32.780 --> 01:02:35.480 and bringing like good things into the world. 01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:36.820 He's killed for. 01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:44.360 Feeding people and raising people from the dead the Antichrist is is different because he's slaughtering everyone and conquering everyone and and 01:02:44.980 --> 01:02:51.820 Stabbing everyone in the back and betraying people and just like he's just the man of sin is what the Bible describes him as and so 01:02:51.820 --> 01:02:53.820 They're complete opposites completely different 01:02:54.500 --> 01:02:58.800 We have to understand that this Levitical priesthood is foreshadowing Christ. 01:02:58.800 --> 01:03:00.800 And again, these sacrifices are daily sacrifices. 01:03:00.800 --> 01:03:04.800 They're done like all the time, every single day, these burnt sacrifices. 01:03:04.800 --> 01:03:06.200 Now, it says in verse 4, 01:03:06.200 --> 01:03:08.300 "...and he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, 01:03:08.300 --> 01:03:10.000 and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him." 01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:12.000 So notice this gives you the atonement. 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:17.000 But the Bible tells in the book of Hebrews that the animal sacrifices could never take away sin. 01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:20.000 That was never what really took away the sin. 01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:21.100 It says in verse 5, 01:03:21.100 --> 01:03:22.500 and he shall kill a bull before the Lord and the... 01:03:22.500 --> 01:03:27.920 priest, Aaron's sons shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood about upon the altar 01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:30.660 that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 01:03:30.660 --> 01:03:36.420 So one aspect of the sacrifice is that blood is sprinkled and it will also talk about how 01:03:36.420 --> 01:03:38.800 it's put on the horns of the altar. 01:03:38.800 --> 01:03:42.920 And I'm not going to necessarily go to every verse for sake of time this morning, but it's 01:03:42.920 --> 01:03:45.560 sprinkled and it's on the horns. 01:03:45.560 --> 01:03:49.280 And this, you know, is going to foreshadow and picture how Jesus Christ... 01:03:49.600 --> 01:03:52.400 you know, leading up to his crucifixion, 01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:55.520 he is being whipped, he has a crown of thorns, 01:03:55.520 --> 01:03:58.800 and so of course, as he's going up to the cross, 01:03:58.800 --> 01:04:00.400 his blood is being sprinkled. 01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:02.300 His blood is literally, it's not... 01:04:02.300 --> 01:04:07.600 necessarily all gushing out, but there's going to be sprinkles of his blood going on the ground going in different areas 01:04:07.600 --> 01:04:14.220 Of course, it's just kind of picturing the spat the splattering of Christ's blood that's going through all these different elements 01:04:14.220 --> 01:04:20.680 And then later we're gonna have another element of of the blood but he's constantly you know 01:04:20.680 --> 01:04:26.840 Having his blood sprinkled it says and the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar and lay the wood in 01:04:27.240 --> 01:04:30.200 Order upon the fire. So again, it's this sac 01:04:30.300 --> 01:04:34.060 is a wood sacrifice and I think that's the picture again the cross he's put on 01:04:34.060 --> 01:04:38.940 wood and of course that is how he's killed so you have another layer there 01:04:38.940 --> 01:04:42.780 it says in the priest Aaron's son shall lay the parts of the head and the fat in 01:04:42.780 --> 01:04:46.260 order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar but his inwards 01:04:46.260 --> 01:04:50.180 in his legs shall he wash in water and the priest shall burn all on the altar 01:04:50.180 --> 01:04:54.800 to be a burnt sacrifice an offering made by fire of a sweet savor under the Lord 01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:58.600 And so, again, you kind of have different parts of the animal. 01:04:58.600 --> 01:05:03.400 It's said in verse, I can't remember which verse it was. 01:05:03.400 --> 01:05:04.600 It says, oh, it says it's six. 01:05:04.600 --> 01:05:07.400 They filay, or they filay the burnt offering. 01:05:07.400 --> 01:05:10.600 This is to de-skin the animal. 01:05:10.800 --> 01:05:14.300 So, and again, we're not going to read all of Leviticus, but you can read it all if you 01:05:14.300 --> 01:05:20.700 want, but basically they skin the entire animal and they take just kind of the outward parts 01:05:20.700 --> 01:05:24.980 like the head and these different parts and they put them up into one section. 01:05:24.980 --> 01:05:27.560 Then they get all the fat and they gather that into a section. 01:05:27.560 --> 01:05:33.220 Then they get all the meat portion and they do different things with these different parts 01:05:33.220 --> 01:05:34.260 of the animal. 01:05:34.260 --> 01:05:37.660 In some cases you have a whole burn offering so this is burning the entire animal. 01:05:37.660 --> 01:05:38.660 other cases there. 01:05:38.800 --> 01:05:42.200 they're going to burn certain parts of the animal in certain places. 01:05:42.200 --> 01:05:47.300 Okay, so they're going to take the N words and they're going to burn them on the altar that's right here 01:05:47.300 --> 01:05:53.300 inside the holy place. Whereas the skin and the dung and the head and all these outward parts, 01:05:53.300 --> 01:05:57.800 they're going to take them outside of the camp and they're going to burn them outside of the camp. 01:05:57.800 --> 01:06:03.300 Okay, so you kind of have like different things happening all with this particular animal 01:06:03.300 --> 01:06:06.200 and you know, they're eating the meat. 01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:12.800 You know, this always bothered me because it's like, you know, you read about Native Americans and they eat like the whole animal. 01:06:12.800 --> 01:06:17.800 And it's like, but in the Old Testament, like, they're not eating all this weird stuff, okay? 01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:20.800 And, you know, people are always offering you these weird cuts of meat. 01:06:20.800 --> 01:06:22.800 And, you know, God bless you. You can do whatever you want. 01:06:23.200 --> 01:06:27.340 But I'm just like, you know in the Old Testament they were burning that stuff. You know what I mean? 01:06:27.660 --> 01:06:34.140 It's like hey, here's the head and this body part and this and you're just like yeah, I'll take the brisket 01:06:34.140 --> 01:06:39.600 You know like I'll take I'll take the steak portion of the animal, you know, they're cleaning it 01:06:39.600 --> 01:06:45.860 And again, they're cleaning it up too, you know, they clean out the insides and of course cleaning out the insides. They're washing it 01:06:45.860 --> 01:06:51.200 They're not eating the blood. They're not eating the fat. And so I think number one all of these things are 01:06:51.200 --> 01:06:56.400 good things in general. Like they're just carnal truths, they're the superior way to clean the 01:06:56.400 --> 01:07:00.720 animal, to perform, you know, all these different things associated with cooking. 01:07:01.100 --> 01:07:05.760 the animal. And so we should take some lessons from this, but again it pictures 01:07:05.760 --> 01:07:09.800 spiritual things as well. It says in verse 13, but he shall wash the inwards of the legs with water 01:07:09.800 --> 01:07:13.400 and the priest shall bring it all and burn it upon the altar. It is a burnt sacrifice and 01:07:13.400 --> 01:07:15.400 offered me by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord. 01:07:15.400 --> 01:07:19.680 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the Lord be a thousand, he shall bring his 01:07:19.680 --> 01:07:21.560 offering of turtle doves or young pigeons 01:07:21.560 --> 01:07:25.640 and the priest shall bring it to the altar and ring off his head and burn it on the altar. And the blood 01:07:25.640 --> 01:07:28.640 thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar. 01:07:29.100 --> 01:07:31.540 So, also with the animals they do the same thing. 01:07:31.540 --> 01:07:32.840 They wring out all the blood. 01:07:32.840 --> 01:07:36.540 They get all the excess blood at the end of the altar. 01:07:36.540 --> 01:07:40.700 And they do this similarly in other sections of the Bible where it says that they would 01:07:40.700 --> 01:07:45.540 pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar. 01:07:45.540 --> 01:07:47.940 And if you would go to John chapter 19. 01:07:48.500 --> 01:07:59.500 We'll see, so Christ's blood is sprinkled throughout the sacrifice of him walking to the cross and being beaten and whipped and having a crown of thorns upon his head. 01:07:59.500 --> 01:08:04.500 And so I think the horns of the altar kind of picture, of course, you know, like the cross itself. 01:08:04.500 --> 01:08:07.500 You've got two lifted up horns and you have the blood put on there. 01:08:07.500 --> 01:08:16.500 And he's obviously put up on the cross and you have, you know, his hands being nailed to the cross and kind of picture the blood on the horn. 01:08:16.500 --> 01:08:22.980 of the altar. You have Aaron himself being anointed and they put blood on his ear and on his fingers 01:08:22.980 --> 01:08:28.420 and on his toes and it's like picturing, you know, again, I believe Christ being on the on the cross 01:08:28.420 --> 01:08:32.820 and you got the crown of thorns and you've got it on his hands, he's nailed to the cross, but then 01:08:32.820 --> 01:08:38.820 you also have an element of the blood after he's dead being poured out at the altar. In John 19, 01:08:38.820 --> 01:08:39.780 look at verse 34. 01:08:40.500 --> 01:08:44.220 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forth came there out blood and 01:08:44.220 --> 01:08:48.780 water, and he saw that it bare record, and his record is true, and he knoweth that he 01:08:48.780 --> 01:08:51.420 sayeth true, that ye might believe. 01:08:52.600 --> 01:08:57.720 So, according to the Bible, like, these things are picturing this, and here's one of the 01:08:57.720 --> 01:08:58.720 scriptures that's fulfilled. 01:08:58.720 --> 01:09:01.360 It says, For these things were done that the scripture should be filled, the bone of him 01:09:01.360 --> 01:09:02.360 should not be broken. 01:09:02.360 --> 01:09:05.780 And again, another scripture says, They shall look on him whom they have pierced. 01:09:05.780 --> 01:09:10.080 So these animals are being slaughtered and killed in all these different ways so that 01:09:10.080 --> 01:09:13.160 blood can be sprinkled and then all the rest of the blood can just be poured out of the 01:09:13.160 --> 01:09:14.160 bottom of the altar. 01:09:14.160 --> 01:09:18.460 Just like a picture of how Christ's blood is all poured out at the bottom of the cross. 01:09:18.460 --> 01:09:20.600 All these things seem arbitrary. 01:09:20.600 --> 01:09:26.740 weird, random, they're picturing different elements of what's going to happen with Jesus 01:09:26.740 --> 01:09:27.740 Christ. 01:09:27.740 --> 01:09:33.560 And, of course, these offerings being in different places are going to be also picturing that 01:09:33.560 --> 01:09:34.560 as well. 01:09:34.560 --> 01:09:35.760 Go if you would to chapter 2 of Leviticus. 01:09:36.900 --> 01:09:42.300 You know, obviously most of the time the Bible is making it clear too that they're supposed 01:09:42.300 --> 01:09:44.260 to be males without blemish. 01:09:44.260 --> 01:09:47.580 Sometimes they use females, but it's always supposed to be an animal sacrifice without 01:09:47.580 --> 01:09:50.580 blemish, without any problem. 01:09:50.580 --> 01:09:55.220 And that's a picture of the sinlessness of Christ, that He was in all points tempted 01:09:55.220 --> 01:09:57.260 like as we are, yet without sin. 01:09:58.000 --> 01:10:01.000 The Bible says in chapter 2, this is a meat offering. 01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:02.000 So this is a little bit different. 01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:09.300 And again, what's confusing to me is like almost all of these offerings are meat in our sense of like carnal flesh. 01:10:09.800 --> 01:10:14.280 Whereas typically when the Bible is saying a meat offering here, it's talking about bread. 01:10:14.280 --> 01:10:16.120 It's talking about like the wheat. 01:10:16.120 --> 01:10:20.440 So it seems backwards a little bit, but that's just because meat in the Bible, 01:10:20.440 --> 01:10:24.120 a lot of times in the Old Testament, is just referring to just food in general. 01:10:24.120 --> 01:10:27.800 And again, the meat here is talking about flour and bread. 01:10:27.800 --> 01:10:29.240 It says in verse 1, 01:10:29.240 --> 01:10:32.280 And when any will offer a meat offering unto the Lord, 01:10:32.280 --> 01:10:35.720 his offering shall be a fine flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, 01:10:35.720 --> 01:10:37.080 and put frankincense thereon. 01:10:37.700 --> 01:10:41.140 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests, and he shall take thereof his handful 01:10:41.140 --> 01:10:45.660 of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof, and the 01:10:45.660 --> 01:10:50.020 priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire 01:10:50.020 --> 01:10:52.580 of a sweet savor unto the Lord. 01:10:52.580 --> 01:10:54.940 And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron and his sons. 01:10:54.940 --> 01:10:58.500 It is the thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire." 01:10:58.500 --> 01:11:00.340 So they take. 01:11:00.600 --> 01:11:04.700 flour, oil, frankincense, and they burn this to God. 01:11:04.700 --> 01:11:08.600 But then a portion of it is given to the priests and they consume it. 01:11:09.800 --> 01:11:12.600 It says specifically in verse number five, 01:11:12.600 --> 01:11:15.300 and if thou bring an oblation of meat offering bacon in the oven, 01:11:15.600 --> 01:11:22.300 it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 01:11:22.300 --> 01:11:23.500 So it has to be unleavened. 01:11:23.900 --> 01:11:27.100 Again, this is picturing that Christ Himself is sinless again. 01:11:27.100 --> 01:11:30.940 The leaven is a picture of sin that's mentioned in 1 Corinthians chapter number 5. 01:11:30.940 --> 01:11:34.820 A little leaven, leavened at the whole lump, and it's foreshadowing sin in the church. 01:11:34.820 --> 01:11:40.540 And the leaven is picturing the fact that Christ is sinless because He's unleavened. 01:11:40.540 --> 01:11:43.140 And so these are unleavened cakes or wafers. 01:11:43.140 --> 01:11:46.700 It's like you kind of have either an unleavened pancake. 01:11:46.800 --> 01:11:52.800 or an unleavened cracker wafer type of a bread that they're eating. 01:11:52.800 --> 01:11:58.000 So there's different styles and different methods of creating a meal here. 01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:00.000 And notice God's giving them a little bit of liberty here. 01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:02.560 They can make it into a cake style meal. 01:12:02.560 --> 01:12:05.760 They can make it into a wafer style meal. 01:12:05.760 --> 01:12:07.040 But then they are to eat it. 01:12:07.040 --> 01:12:08.240 So this is what they're constantly eating. 01:12:08.240 --> 01:12:09.040 They're eating with oil. 01:12:10.100 --> 01:12:12.700 So again, oil is often a picture of the Holy Ghost. 01:12:12.700 --> 01:12:15.300 And so of course, Christ is this unloved wafer. 01:12:15.300 --> 01:12:16.900 He's this unloved cake. 01:12:16.900 --> 01:12:19.200 He's filled with the Holy Ghost. 01:12:19.200 --> 01:12:23.100 And then you have this frankincense, which... 01:12:23.100 --> 01:12:27.000 frankincense, you know, I'm not going to be like super dogmatic about this 01:12:27.000 --> 01:12:29.000 because I think there's a lot of things this could picture. 01:12:29.100 --> 01:12:34.540 Obviously, in general, frankincense is a perfume, it's a smell, it's an odor. 01:12:34.540 --> 01:12:38.020 So in one sense, it's typically there just to show that God's pleased with the offering, 01:12:38.020 --> 01:12:40.540 that it's a sweet savor, that God is satisfied with it. 01:12:40.540 --> 01:12:47.060 I think another element is that in the gospels, there's the women, they go out and buy spices 01:12:47.060 --> 01:12:50.700 and they anoint the body of Christ, so it's for his body. 01:12:50.700 --> 01:12:53.500 And again, what we're dealing with in this meat offering is really talking about the 01:12:53.500 --> 01:12:54.740 physical aspects of Christ. 01:12:54.740 --> 01:12:57.060 We're talking about his physical body, he had no sin. 01:12:57.100 --> 01:13:02.200 He's filled with the Holy Ghost, but also his body saw no corruption. 01:13:02.200 --> 01:13:06.760 And if you think about this, Lazarus, after four days, the Bible says he stinketh, if you 01:13:06.760 --> 01:13:08.500 kind of remember. 01:13:08.500 --> 01:13:12.360 Whereas the women go and they anoint the body of Christ, and in fact he's anointed many 01:13:12.360 --> 01:13:17.400 times throughout the gospels with perfumes, with ointments, and it's to prepare for his 01:13:17.400 --> 01:13:17.900 burial. 01:13:18.500 --> 01:13:26.000 And again, the emphasis is that when Christ comes out and He resurrects, that His body saw no corruption. 01:13:26.000 --> 01:13:32.900 And so I believe the Frangansons is kind of showing like, hey, this smells good as opposed to smelling bad. 01:13:33.100 --> 01:13:38.700 And so Christ, when he resurrects, he has a sweet savor, a sweet smell, 01:13:38.700 --> 01:13:42.500 not a rotten smell, not a decomposing smell, 01:13:42.500 --> 01:13:46.500 because decomposing flesh is one of the most disgusting things you could ever smell. 01:13:46.700 --> 01:13:51.200 And so it's kind of like just picturing how Christ's body was going to be preserved 01:13:51.200 --> 01:13:55.000 and it's not only going to be preserved but it's going to be a sweet savor and it's going to be a sweet smell. 01:13:55.000 --> 01:14:00.800 And again that's because it's foreshadowing the resurrection itself, that Christ is going to resurrect 01:14:00.800 --> 01:14:03.400 and there's nothing negative about the resurrection. 01:14:03.400 --> 01:14:05.600 He has a glorified body. 01:14:05.600 --> 01:14:08.400 It's of a sweet savor. It's of a sweet smell. 01:14:08.400 --> 01:14:12.600 Because there's nothing worse than smelling something bad or smelling something rotten. 01:14:12.600 --> 01:14:14.600 And you know, that's why you take a shower. 01:14:14.700 --> 01:14:17.540 Okay. 01:14:17.540 --> 01:14:20.660 And there's nothing wrong with perfume, or there's nothing wrong with some kind of a 01:14:20.660 --> 01:14:23.660 fragrance that makes you smell, you know, pleasant. 01:14:23.660 --> 01:14:24.980 Now don't be too heavy-handed there. 01:14:24.980 --> 01:14:29.700 Okay, I'm not saying like, you know, we don't want to smell you from feet away. 01:14:29.700 --> 01:14:30.380 Okay. 01:14:31.100 --> 01:14:36.140 But, it's like, you know, some people use a slight fragrance or whatever and it smells 01:14:36.140 --> 01:14:37.140 good. 01:14:37.140 --> 01:14:40.540 You know, you walk in the perfume store and you want to gag, it's just overwhelming. 01:14:40.540 --> 01:14:41.540 And we get that. 01:14:41.540 --> 01:14:45.540 But it's just like, you know, in general, there's a good fragrance, there's a bad fragrance. 01:14:45.540 --> 01:14:50.460 And isn't it interesting that like good religion is concerned with smelling good and false 01:14:50.460 --> 01:14:52.060 religion smells horrible? 01:14:53.500 --> 01:14:56.500 Have you ever noticed that? I'm just gonna say it, okay? 01:14:56.500 --> 01:15:01.000 I've noticed that false religion and bad religion usually smells bad. 01:15:01.000 --> 01:15:06.500 Okay? Their culture, their temples, their Sikhs, or whatever. 01:15:06.500 --> 01:15:08.500 I mean, all of it just smells bad. 01:15:08.500 --> 01:15:11.500 You know, even the Orthodox, they do these weird things. 01:15:11.500 --> 01:15:16.500 Like, some Orthodox, they'll take a rotten foot and they'll mix it in water. 01:15:16.500 --> 01:15:20.500 They'll like stir water with a rotten foot and make people drink it. 01:15:21.900 --> 01:15:25.580 I've seen Hindus, they're drinking like foot water. 01:15:25.580 --> 01:15:29.580 You know, if you read the in the Old Testament, there's gonna be a portion in the Bible where it 01:15:29.580 --> 01:15:35.260 tells about the false prophets fouling water with their feet and then making people drink it. 01:15:36.460 --> 01:15:41.980 And it's just interesting how like false religion has like a physical uncleanness to it. 01:15:42.600 --> 01:15:47.160 And true biblical Christianity is trying to be clean, 01:15:47.160 --> 01:15:51.040 and it's trying to have good smells and good fragrances. 01:15:51.400 --> 01:15:54.000 You know, it's like you go to a Texas brisket restaurant 01:15:54.000 --> 01:15:55.100 and it just smells good. 01:15:55.100 --> 01:15:57.800 You smell all the meat being cooked and everything. 01:15:57.800 --> 01:16:00.700 And it's just like, I mean, you know, think about it. 01:16:00.700 --> 01:16:03.400 Where God is at, it just always smells good. 01:16:03.400 --> 01:16:06.400 I mean, you smell someone charcoaling and barbecuing, 01:16:06.400 --> 01:16:07.700 and it just smells good. 01:16:07.700 --> 01:16:10.800 You know, in my neighborhood, someone's cooking burgers, 01:16:10.800 --> 01:16:12.700 someone's cooking steak, it smells good, 01:16:12.700 --> 01:16:15.400 and you're kind of like, I want that, you know? 01:16:15.400 --> 01:16:17.500 Whereas it's like some places... 01:16:17.800 --> 01:16:23.640 Some cultures some cuisines you're like I don't want to smell your food. I don't want to smell you cooking 01:16:23.640 --> 01:16:29.040 I don't want to smell your rotting meat or your rotting flesh or the weird stuff that you're doing 01:16:29.280 --> 01:16:33.140 And you know typically your taste is associated with their smell anyways 01:16:33.500 --> 01:16:39.340 Like God gave you a nose to smell something to say oh, I shouldn't put this in my mouth because it smells bad 01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:42.100 Like that's supposed to be why you have that 01:16:42.600 --> 01:16:45.880 You know, reprobates don't know this and so they'll eat disgusting things. 01:16:45.880 --> 01:16:48.440 They're on fear factor, eating stuff your nose is telling you no. 01:16:49.440 --> 01:16:53.160 Why is it that when you have to eat something you don't like, isn't it hold your nose? 01:16:53.500 --> 01:16:56.300 It's like you have medicines, hold your dose. 01:16:56.300 --> 01:17:02.900 It's like, why would I just ignore every God given instinct, every God given intuition, 01:17:02.900 --> 01:17:08.200 everything that God's given me of like, hey, this food smells rotten and it looks rotten. 01:17:08.200 --> 01:17:09.500 It's like, eat it. 01:17:09.500 --> 01:17:15.100 It's like, well, maybe I should just eat stuff that smells good and looks good. 01:17:15.100 --> 01:17:18.100 You know, God gave me eyes and a nose for a reason and I'm going to use it. 01:17:18.100 --> 01:17:18.700 Okay. 01:17:19.100 --> 01:17:24.100 And of course, I believe that all these things are foreshadowing, again, the Gospel. 01:17:24.100 --> 01:17:26.860 The Gospel is a pleasant thing overall. 01:17:26.860 --> 01:17:29.340 Obviously, that cross and the crucifixion are not. 01:17:29.500 --> 01:17:32.300 but the specific elements of the resurrection, 01:17:32.300 --> 01:17:35.200 and He's coming out of the grave, and is a sweet savor. 01:17:35.200 --> 01:17:37.500 I mean, it would be kind of spoiling the gospel. 01:17:37.500 --> 01:17:39.600 If Christ came up, you know, resurrected from the dead, 01:17:39.600 --> 01:17:41.500 and they're like, oh wow, we can tell, you know, 01:17:41.500 --> 01:17:43.300 from the smell or something like that. 01:17:43.300 --> 01:17:45.600 No, it was a pleasant smell, it's a good smell. 01:17:45.600 --> 01:17:47.400 On the walk to Emmaus, no one's like, 01:17:47.400 --> 01:17:50.200 you kind of smell like you've been in a grave for three days, you know. 01:17:50.200 --> 01:17:53.000 So it's just like, hey, they were preserving the body. 01:17:53.000 --> 01:17:55.800 And so I think, again, that's the frankincense being put in this offering, 01:17:55.800 --> 01:17:57.500 this meat offering that God... 01:17:57.500 --> 01:18:01.580 God wanted them to enjoy the smell of these offerings. 01:18:01.580 --> 01:18:04.740 And so it smells like a good kitchen, 01:18:04.740 --> 01:18:06.700 you know, where God is having them perform 01:18:06.700 --> 01:18:08.100 all these sacrifices. 01:18:08.100 --> 01:18:09.460 And they have the oil there. 01:18:09.460 --> 01:18:10.500 They're doing a frying pan. 01:18:10.500 --> 01:18:13.140 They can cook it in an oven, frying pan, pan. 01:18:13.140 --> 01:18:15.360 They got all kinds of different cooking instruments 01:18:15.360 --> 01:18:18.020 that they're using here, but they're using fire, 01:18:18.020 --> 01:18:20.680 of course, for every one of these sacrifices. 01:18:22.500 --> 01:18:24.980 I wanna look at verse 11. 01:18:25.300 --> 01:18:28.700 No meat offering which ye shall bring unto the Lord shall be made with leaven, 01:18:28.700 --> 01:18:34.340 for ye shall burn no leaven nor any honey, and any offering of the Lord made by fire." 01:18:34.340 --> 01:18:38.780 So, two elements could not exist though, honey and leaven. 01:18:38.780 --> 01:18:41.300 So again, the leaven is a picture of sin, 01:18:41.300 --> 01:18:45.940 and while I believe the frankincense is a picture of the resurrection, why that's a sweet savor, 01:18:45.940 --> 01:18:47.340 I believe the honey... 01:18:47.500 --> 01:18:54.500 is not put in here because of what the Bible says about taking no pleasure in the crucifixion element. 01:18:54.500 --> 01:18:58.000 Okay, so let's go to Isaiah chapter 53 for a moment. 01:18:58.000 --> 01:19:04.000 Let's go to Isaiah chapter 53, because again, honey is sweet and it's enjoyable, it's pleasant. 01:19:05.500 --> 01:19:08.500 Honey could picture a lot of different things. 01:19:10.000 --> 01:19:12.000 You know, I think also honey could just... 01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:15.560 picture the carnal pleasures of this life and 01:19:16.240 --> 01:19:22.420 And again, this is not you know, the gospel is not about your best life now and the carnal pleasures of this life 01:19:22.800 --> 01:19:26.960 You know, there's nothing wrong with carnal pleasures, but this is not the gospel message 01:19:26.960 --> 01:19:31.800 You know Christ didn't die on the cross so you could have a sweet life 01:19:32.800 --> 01:19:41.400 He didn't do that to just have all of this joy and money and whatever from the carnal pleasures of life. 01:19:41.400 --> 01:19:44.880 Oh, now I get to enjoy the Cowboys more or something. 01:19:44.880 --> 01:19:51.200 And look, I don't mind football. I want to be careful. I'm not hating football. 01:19:51.200 --> 01:19:52.960 I'm not even saying football is bad. 01:19:52.960 --> 01:19:59.200 But what I don't like is how so many pastors in DFW will preach with a Cowboys jersey on. 01:20:00.800 --> 01:20:06.700 And I mean, I saw recently this week, I saw like a pastor of a church, he's got a cowboy jersey on. 01:20:06.700 --> 01:20:10.100 And I remember our pastor growing up would always say like, 01:20:10.100 --> 01:20:15.700 he said if the cowboys make it to the Super Bowl, he was going to dress in a full cowboy's uniform 01:20:15.700 --> 01:20:19.700 for the sermon on Sunday. And I'm just thinking like, why? 01:20:21.300 --> 01:20:24.300 Like, should we have NASCAR church too? 01:20:24.300 --> 01:20:30.300 Like, what if I'm just like, hey, if Jeff Gordon is gonna win, you know, I'll dress up like Jeff Gordon or something. 01:20:30.300 --> 01:20:36.300 It's like, like why? Or, you know, like pickleball or something. You know, it's like what? 01:20:36.300 --> 01:20:38.700 Like why the Cowboys? 01:20:38.700 --> 01:20:43.700 And it's like, you know, that's wrong to mix that with church. 01:20:43.700 --> 01:20:44.700 Okay? 01:20:44.700 --> 01:20:47.200 If you want to go watch a Cowboys game, 01:20:47.200 --> 01:20:48.900 if you want to go play a sport, 01:20:48.900 --> 01:20:52.100 you want to watch people drive in a circle and call it fun, 01:20:52.100 --> 01:20:54.000 you can do that all you want. 01:20:54.000 --> 01:20:56.600 But it's like that's just not church. 01:20:56.600 --> 01:20:58.200 Okay? 01:20:58.200 --> 01:20:59.700 I mean, it's not about Christ. 01:20:59.700 --> 01:21:01.300 It's not about the gospel. 01:21:01.500 --> 01:21:05.900 And so we shouldn't be mixing the honey in with his other stuff. 01:21:05.900 --> 01:21:09.060 And I believe, you know, when it talks about Christ, 01:21:09.060 --> 01:21:11.660 look at what it says in verse one of Isaiah 53, 01:21:11.660 --> 01:21:15.700 who had believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 01:21:15.700 --> 01:21:20.300 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground. 01:21:20.300 --> 01:21:22.980 He hath no form nor comeliness. 01:21:22.980 --> 01:21:26.340 And when we shall see him, there is no beauty. 01:21:26.600 --> 01:21:30.760 that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men and man of sorrows and acquainted 01:21:30.760 --> 01:21:35.960 with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteem him not." So 01:21:36.760 --> 01:21:41.160 I believe what the Bible is trying to indicate here in Isaiah 53 is the crucifixion. This is 01:21:41.160 --> 01:21:46.440 the crucifixion and it's just saying like when Christ was on the cross. 01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:48.400 You didn't enjoy that. 01:21:48.400 --> 01:21:50.600 There was nothing enjoyable about the cross. 01:21:50.600 --> 01:21:53.000 It's to picture the ugliness of our sin 01:21:53.000 --> 01:21:55.400 and the ugliness of what Christ is doing for us. 01:21:55.400 --> 01:21:56.900 You know, some people twisted this, 01:21:56.900 --> 01:21:59.300 and I think it's blasphemous to say that Christ was not, 01:21:59.300 --> 01:22:01.100 he was like an ugly man or something, 01:22:01.100 --> 01:22:03.900 or he looked, he looked very rejected 01:22:03.900 --> 01:22:05.300 from a carnal perspective. 01:22:05.300 --> 01:22:07.000 Well, that undermines what the Bible teaches 01:22:07.000 --> 01:22:08.300 because the Bible teaches that the lambs 01:22:08.300 --> 01:22:10.700 are supposed to be like a perfect spotless lamb. 01:22:10.700 --> 01:22:12.700 So it's supposed to be the most attractive-looking lamb 01:22:12.700 --> 01:22:14.500 sacrificed not- 01:22:14.600 --> 01:22:18.000 something that has blemishes, not something that has, and in fact the Bible is really 01:22:18.000 --> 01:22:23.340 explicit that you know, if you got a humpback, you got a crooked nose, you know, whatever, 01:22:23.340 --> 01:22:25.900 you couldn't even perform the sacrifice of the Lord. 01:22:25.900 --> 01:22:31.280 You know, picturing that Christ had to have been, you know, a spotless perfect lamb without 01:22:31.280 --> 01:22:32.280 blemish. 01:22:32.280 --> 01:22:35.920 Okay, he wasn't, there wasn't something messed up about him. 01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:41.060 But obviously on the cross, with a crown of thorns shoved on his head, and being beaten 01:22:41.060 --> 01:22:42.500 and bloodied and bru- 01:22:42.600 --> 01:22:45.600 and not having eaten, like, it was an ugly picture. 01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:48.100 Because it's ugly for someone to get beaten up. 01:22:48.100 --> 01:22:52.100 It's ugly for someone to be, you know, hurt and in all these ways. 01:22:52.100 --> 01:22:56.100 And so there was no beauty that they desired of him on the cross. 01:22:56.100 --> 01:22:59.600 Why? Because he was despised, because he was rejected of men, 01:22:59.600 --> 01:23:03.600 because he's been stripped and naked and shamed and beaten and whipped 01:23:03.600 --> 01:23:06.600 and there's a crown of thorns. I mean, it's just an ugly mess. 01:23:07.700 --> 01:23:15.000 But that's not to say that Christ himself was an unattractive person or something. 01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:17.000 That's a bad way to read the text, okay? 01:23:17.000 --> 01:23:18.500 So we go back to Leviticus. 01:23:18.500 --> 01:23:23.000 When it's saying no honey, I believe it's just picturing this element of the cross, 01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:27.400 that there was no, nothing pleasant about the cross. 01:23:27.400 --> 01:23:30.100 Okay, so there's no honey mixed in because there's nothing. 01:23:30.100 --> 01:23:32.700 And again, it's an unleavened cake. 01:23:32.700 --> 01:23:34.700 It's an unleavened wafer. 01:23:34.900 --> 01:23:40.900 Again, leaven and honey is really where you kind of, you dial in the pleasure elements. 01:23:40.900 --> 01:23:43.460 You know, it's like the fluffy pancake. 01:23:43.460 --> 01:23:46.540 The fluffy pancake makes it kind of special, you know. 01:23:46.540 --> 01:23:51.000 In fact, there's a restaurant in Oklahoma City that we would eat at as a breakfast place, 01:23:51.000 --> 01:23:54.960 and they have the thickest pancakes like I've ever had, and they were delicious. 01:23:54.960 --> 01:23:55.960 And I don't even like pancakes. 01:23:55.960 --> 01:23:59.600 Like, I'm not a pancake person, but these pancakes were exceptional. 01:23:59.600 --> 01:24:02.560 And it was, you know, they definitely used leaven, okay? 01:24:02.560 --> 01:24:02.900 There was no. 01:24:02.900 --> 01:24:04.700 question of whether they're using lemon. 01:24:05.100 --> 01:24:08.000 And of course, they're also using sugar or something, you 01:24:08.000 --> 01:24:11.400 know, similar to what honey is bringing into the recipe is 01:24:11.400 --> 01:24:13.700 bringing in, you know, that pleasant aspect. 01:24:13.700 --> 01:24:16.900 But again, with Christ on the cross, it's an unpleasant 01:24:16.900 --> 01:24:17.300 picture. 01:24:17.600 --> 01:24:21.100 It's a sinless filled with the Holy Spirit. 01:24:21.500 --> 01:24:27.600 Christ that is being beaten and bloodied and bruised and bloods being sprinkled and spattered and again 01:24:27.600 --> 01:24:33.340 You know in some senses. This is kind of an ugly process. You know slaughtering animals and blood being everywhere 01:24:33.440 --> 01:24:35.620 That's not really that enjoyable either 01:24:36.400 --> 01:24:40.400 And it's just to illustrate a lot of these elements with Christ. 01:24:40.400 --> 01:24:41.400 Look at verse 13 now. It says, 01:24:41.400 --> 01:24:45.400 In every oblation of thy meat offering, shalt thou season with salt, 01:24:45.400 --> 01:24:48.400 neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking 01:24:48.400 --> 01:24:51.400 from thy meat offering with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. 01:24:51.400 --> 01:24:54.400 So every meat offering has salt on it. 01:24:54.400 --> 01:24:57.400 Now salt, carnally speaking, it preserves meat. 01:24:57.400 --> 01:24:59.400 It'll help it last longer. 01:24:59.700 --> 01:25:02.660 And in fact, many meats are salted heavily, 01:25:02.660 --> 01:25:04.980 so they just have a very long shelf life. 01:25:04.980 --> 01:25:06.620 You look at deli meats, 01:25:06.620 --> 01:25:09.340 you look at things like pepperoni and salami, 01:25:09.340 --> 01:25:11.940 they've been salinated in a way 01:25:11.940 --> 01:25:15.060 to where they can be preserved for a very long time. 01:25:15.060 --> 01:25:19.500 A beef jerky, salt is helping in this preservation element. 01:25:19.500 --> 01:25:20.340 So if you think about it, 01:25:20.340 --> 01:25:24.100 it's something that should die, rot and decompose. 01:25:24.300 --> 01:25:28.300 Salt's keeping it from dying, rotting, and decomposing. 01:25:28.300 --> 01:25:31.300 And so its shelf life has been extended. 01:25:31.300 --> 01:25:34.300 So I would argue this is a picture of grace. 01:25:34.300 --> 01:25:38.300 Because the meat should have expired, but it's not expiring when it should, 01:25:38.300 --> 01:25:40.300 so it's getting a grace period. 01:25:40.300 --> 01:25:44.300 And so in a lot of ways, salt pictures grace itself. 01:25:44.300 --> 01:25:49.300 And so every meat is pictured with grace, and of course we're saved by grace. 01:25:49.900 --> 01:25:54.260 We don't get what we deserve, you know, and of course every sacrifice has to have the 01:25:54.260 --> 01:25:57.300 salt because every sacrifice is a picture of grace. 01:25:57.300 --> 01:26:00.340 Because there's nothing about the gospel and there's nothing about Christ that isn't with 01:26:00.340 --> 01:26:01.940 grace. 01:26:01.940 --> 01:26:04.740 It's all about the grace and how we're saved by grace. 01:26:04.740 --> 01:26:06.780 We're saved by salt in a sense. 01:26:06.780 --> 01:26:09.860 If the salt loses its savor, it's good for nothing. 01:26:10.200 --> 01:26:14.520 And of course, salt, you know, without any grace, is just kind of meaningless. 01:26:14.520 --> 01:26:18.600 And that would mean what? Any salvation that's not by grace is meaningless. 01:26:19.900 --> 01:26:22.900 Any sacrifice without grace is meaningless, okay? 01:26:22.900 --> 01:26:25.400 It's the grace that's the needed element. 01:26:25.400 --> 01:26:29.400 And you could even take another element beyond just the gospel. 01:26:29.400 --> 01:26:31.900 Is it like Christians without grace are kind of meaningless too? 01:26:31.900 --> 01:26:36.400 Because the Bible says if you don't have charity, then you're nothing. 01:26:36.400 --> 01:26:40.400 If you're doing things without charity, then it's just kind of meaningless. 01:26:40.400 --> 01:26:41.900 And so we need to have grace. 01:26:41.900 --> 01:26:47.900 And of course we can take that element into our daily lives. 01:26:47.900 --> 01:26:52.540 just the gospel and getting saved. In chapter 3, look at verse 16. I'm just going to kind 01:26:52.540 --> 01:26:55.980 of skip around just a few more verses that I think are interesting, but it says in verse 01:26:55.980 --> 01:26:59.760 16, the priest shall burn them upon the altar. It is the food of the offering made by fire 01:26:59.760 --> 01:27:05.080 for a sweet savor. All the fat is the Lord. So all the fat was supposed to be burned. 01:27:06.300 --> 01:27:12.620 Now again, I think that this is a, it's not so much like overly literal, like obviously 01:27:12.620 --> 01:27:17.780 in a rib eye or some portions of meat there's these like tiny little bits of fat that are 01:27:17.780 --> 01:27:18.780 wedged in there. 01:27:18.780 --> 01:27:22.980 This is talking about the big portions of fat and it very clearly articulates these, 01:27:22.980 --> 01:27:23.980 okay. 01:27:23.980 --> 01:27:27.860 So you're just taking all the main sections of fat and you're taking them all out of 01:27:27.860 --> 01:27:31.620 the offering system and it's all the Lord's. 01:27:31.620 --> 01:27:33.780 And again, I believe the fat is a picture of sin. 01:27:33.900 --> 01:27:37.500 Okay, it's a picture of sin and how all the fat is burnt 01:27:37.500 --> 01:27:41.980 and all the fat is consumed because Christ really satisfied all of our sin. 01:27:42.940 --> 01:27:46.940 The Bible says the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. 01:27:47.200 --> 01:27:55.700 And so just all the fat, all that excess is just completely burned, is completely given to the Lord, and is completely satisfied by God. 01:27:55.700 --> 01:28:00.900 Whereas you see the false prophets, people like Eli's sons, they love to eat the fat. 01:28:00.900 --> 01:28:07.700 And it's just kind of a picture of how they don't want, you know, the actual satisfaction for their sins, or the atonement for their sins, 01:28:07.700 --> 01:28:14.700 and they just indulge in sin, and they allow themselves to become excess because of the fat. 01:28:15.100 --> 01:28:18.100 Look at chapter number four, verse 10. 01:28:18.100 --> 01:28:19.100 It says, 01:28:19.100 --> 01:28:22.100 And as it was taken off the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings, 01:28:22.100 --> 01:28:25.100 the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burn offering, 01:28:25.100 --> 01:28:30.100 and the skin of the bullock and all his flesh and his head and with his legs and his inwards and his dung, 01:28:30.100 --> 01:28:34.100 even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, 01:28:34.100 --> 01:28:38.100 where the ashes are poured out and burned on the wood with the fire. 01:28:39.300 --> 01:28:46.180 Again, I'm not reading everything here, so you kind of have to just roll with me, but 01:28:46.180 --> 01:28:49.580 all the N words were burnt at the altar. 01:28:49.580 --> 01:28:55.020 All the outward portion was then taken outside the camp and it was burned separately. 01:28:55.020 --> 01:28:59.140 So go to Hebrews chapter 13, if you would, go to Hebrews chapter 13. 01:28:59.140 --> 01:29:03.380 This is the picture, two elements of the burning. 01:29:03.380 --> 01:29:06.180 Now, why is it the N word's burnt? 01:29:06.500 --> 01:29:09.700 in that altar there, because I believe that's the picture of hell. 01:29:09.700 --> 01:29:14.020 And again, what went to hell? Christ's body didn't go to hell. 01:29:14.020 --> 01:29:17.940 His soul went to hell, okay? Picturing the inward part. 01:29:17.940 --> 01:29:21.460 But the outward part was taken without the camp, 01:29:21.460 --> 01:29:25.620 and this is told explicitly in the book of Hebrews that this is picturing the cross. 01:29:25.620 --> 01:29:28.420 So in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 10 it says we have an altar. 01:29:28.500 --> 01:29:32.100 where they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. 01:29:32.100 --> 01:29:35.700 For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary 01:29:35.700 --> 01:29:38.900 by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp. 01:29:38.900 --> 01:29:42.340 Wherefore, Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, 01:29:42.340 --> 01:29:47.860 suffered without the gate, let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp bearing his approach." 01:29:47.860 --> 01:29:50.500 So it kind of says like, oh just like they would take the skin. 01:29:51.400 --> 01:29:55.480 and the head and they took that and they put that and did it without the camp. 01:29:55.480 --> 01:30:00.280 But the N words were burned there at the altar. So again, his soul went to hell, 01:30:00.280 --> 01:30:04.760 but outwardly he went to the cross. He was outside the city. They took him without and they put him 01:30:04.760 --> 01:30:09.400 on the cross. And that's where his skin and his head and whatever were suffering. Because 01:30:09.400 --> 01:30:12.600 let me tell you something, when you're getting whipped and you're getting a crowd of thorns 01:30:12.600 --> 01:30:15.480 and you're getting nails pierced, you know what's hurting? Your skin. 01:30:16.100 --> 01:30:17.400 And it's hurting your head. 01:30:17.400 --> 01:30:19.700 It's hurting the outward parts of the body. 01:30:19.700 --> 01:30:21.980 But the inward parts, the soul, that's 01:30:21.980 --> 01:30:25.140 where the fire from hell is actually the pains of death. 01:30:25.140 --> 01:30:27.060 OK, so that's why it's two separate things. 01:30:27.060 --> 01:30:28.640 Like, you kind of wonder, like, why not just 01:30:28.640 --> 01:30:29.700 burn it all right there? 01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:32.540 Couldn't they have just done that? 01:30:32.540 --> 01:30:36.940 Why go through all the hassle and all the effort of burning the inside here, then taking 01:30:36.940 --> 01:30:38.540 the outside out and the burning? 01:30:38.540 --> 01:30:41.100 Because it's picturing different elements of the sacrifice of Christ. 01:30:41.100 --> 01:30:45.740 Not only did he go without the camp, not only did he get crucified, not only is his skin, 01:30:45.740 --> 01:30:52.100 his body, and his physical pain that he suffered, he also has the inward suffering of hell and 01:30:52.100 --> 01:30:54.380 the burning that was there as well. 01:30:54.380 --> 01:30:58.460 So inward burn on the altar, outward burn outside the camp, and then it's foreshadowed 01:30:58.460 --> 01:30:58.800 here. 01:30:58.800 --> 01:31:03.480 chapter 5, look at verse 15. Chapter 5 verse 15. And I know this morning I'm not, you know, 01:31:03.480 --> 01:31:09.520 getting up and screaming and yelling about how wicked and feminist our world is, but 01:31:09.520 --> 01:31:14.520 you know, hopefully you like the Bible. Okay. Come tonight, alright? That's all I have to 01:31:19.600 --> 01:31:22.600 But it says in chapter 5 verse 15. 01:31:26.300 --> 01:31:29.300 If a soul commit a trespass, a sin through ignorance, 01:31:29.300 --> 01:31:30.800 in the holy things of the Lord, 01:31:30.800 --> 01:31:33.100 then he shall bring for his trespass in the Lord a ram 01:31:33.100 --> 01:31:36.100 without blemish under the flocks, or out of the flocks, 01:31:36.100 --> 01:31:37.900 with thy estimation by shekels of silver 01:31:37.900 --> 01:31:40.500 after the shekel of the sanctuary for a trespass offering. 01:31:40.500 --> 01:31:43.100 And he shall make amends for the harm 01:31:43.100 --> 01:31:44.800 that he hath done in the holy thing, 01:31:44.800 --> 01:31:47.000 and shall add the fifth part thereto, 01:31:47.000 --> 01:31:48.200 and give it unto the priest, 01:31:48.200 --> 01:31:50.000 and the priest shall make an atonement for him 01:31:50.000 --> 01:31:51.500 with the ram of the trespass offering, 01:31:51.500 --> 01:31:52.200 and it shall be forgiven him." 01:31:52.200 --> 01:31:52.900 So... 01:31:53.100 --> 01:31:56.820 In chapter one we dealt with the burnt offering, chapter two is a meat offering, chapter three 01:31:56.820 --> 01:32:01.500 is a peace offering, chapter four is dealing, and chapter five are kind of dealing with 01:32:01.500 --> 01:32:06.440 trespass offerings and ignorance offerings and sin offerings, and it's saying if someone 01:32:06.440 --> 01:32:12.140 did some ignorant offering, like an ignorant sin, I'm sorry, they sinned through ignorance 01:32:12.140 --> 01:32:16.940 or this trespass through ignorance, then not only do they have to give the animal sacrifice, 01:32:16.940 --> 01:32:18.940 They have to give a fifth portion. 01:32:19.300 --> 01:32:23.000 of shekels of money to the priests. 01:32:23.000 --> 01:32:25.100 And notice it said in verse 15, 01:32:25.100 --> 01:32:29.200 with thy estimation by shekels of the silver 01:32:29.200 --> 01:32:30.800 after the shekel of the sanctuary. 01:32:30.800 --> 01:32:33.800 So they figure out, 01:32:35.200 --> 01:32:36.600 hey, I sinned. 01:32:36.600 --> 01:32:38.400 And they realize they sinned. 01:32:38.400 --> 01:32:39.600 Then they bring the animal. 01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:40.500 When they bring the animal, 01:32:40.500 --> 01:32:41.600 they have to then figure out 01:32:41.600 --> 01:32:43.400 how much does this animal cost. 01:32:44.000 --> 01:32:46.320 And so, I don't know the numbers, it doesn't matter. 01:32:46.320 --> 01:32:48.320 Let's just say it was a thousand shekels or whatever. 01:32:48.320 --> 01:32:51.480 They would say, okay, this animal's a thousand shekels. 01:32:51.480 --> 01:32:53.600 And then they would say, okay, then I have to give 01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:56.520 a fifth of that in money also. 01:32:56.800 --> 01:33:00.800 So, if it was a thousand, you're giving a fifth, that's 20%. 01:33:00.800 --> 01:33:03.500 So, I'm trying to use easy numbers, that would be what? 01:33:03.500 --> 01:33:04.500 200 shekels, okay? 01:33:04.500 --> 01:33:08.900 So, he has to give 200 shekels with it, but they're figuring out the price of this animal 01:33:08.900 --> 01:33:10.000 to end up giving this. 01:33:10.000 --> 01:33:14.000 Look at chapter 6, and let's read some more about this. 01:33:14.600 --> 01:33:16.200 It says in the Lord's bacon of Moses saying, 01:33:16.200 --> 01:33:18.600 if a soul sinned and committed trespass against the Lord 01:33:18.600 --> 01:33:20.720 and lie unto his neighbor, 01:33:20.720 --> 01:33:23.160 and that which was delivered him to keep, 01:33:23.160 --> 01:33:27.200 or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, 01:33:27.200 --> 01:33:28.840 or hath deceived his neighbor, 01:33:28.840 --> 01:33:31.680 or hath found that which was lost and lieth concerning it, 01:33:31.680 --> 01:33:33.280 and sweareth falsely. 01:33:33.280 --> 01:33:37.300 And any of all these that a man do is sinning therein, 01:33:37.300 --> 01:33:39.720 then it shall be because he hath sinned and is guilty 01:33:39.720 --> 01:33:42.200 that he is restored that which he took violently away. 01:33:42.300 --> 01:33:44.540 or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, 01:33:44.540 --> 01:33:47.580 or that which was delivered him to keep, 01:33:47.580 --> 01:33:50.540 or the lost thing which he found, 01:33:50.540 --> 01:33:54.540 or all that about which he hath sworn falsely, 01:33:54.540 --> 01:33:56.620 he shall even restore it in the principle, 01:33:56.620 --> 01:33:59.260 and shall add the fifth part more thereto, 01:33:59.260 --> 01:34:01.020 and give it unto him, 01:34:01.020 --> 01:34:04.300 to whom it appertaineth in the day of his trespass offering. 01:34:04.800 --> 01:34:06.560 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, 01:34:06.560 --> 01:34:08.080 and it ran without blemish out of the flock, 01:34:08.080 --> 01:34:09.800 with thy estimation for a trespass offering." 01:34:09.800 --> 01:34:12.120 Notice this, unto the priest. 01:34:12.120 --> 01:34:17.120 So what's interesting about this is you have a situation 01:34:19.040 --> 01:34:20.200 where you not only give the animal sacrifice, 01:34:20.200 --> 01:34:23.880 you have this shekels of silver being given to him. 01:34:23.880 --> 01:34:26.500 And the first portion is he didn't do it. 01:34:26.800 --> 01:34:29.400 He didn't understand it was a sin through ignorance. 01:34:29.400 --> 01:34:32.900 Okay, he whisked it not as the Bible says in verse 17. 01:34:32.900 --> 01:34:35.200 He whisked it not meaning he didn't know. 01:34:35.200 --> 01:34:37.800 He was guilty, but he didn't understand it. 01:34:37.800 --> 01:34:41.300 And I believe this is foreshadowing Judas Iscariot. 01:34:41.300 --> 01:34:44.900 Okay, because Judas Iscariot, he 01:34:45.000 --> 01:34:52.000 goes in covenants with the priest and is given 30 shekels of silver to betray the Lord Jesus 01:34:52.000 --> 01:34:53.000 Christ. 01:34:53.000 --> 01:34:54.000 Okay. 01:34:54.000 --> 01:35:00.520 But then later when he after the after the crucifixion, Judas ends up coming to himself 01:35:00.520 --> 01:35:03.360 and realizing he's betrayed innocent blood. 01:35:03.700 --> 01:35:09.400 So in a sense, you can see like, oh, he didn't realize what he was even doing exactly. 01:35:09.400 --> 01:35:13.000 And he comes and he gives that money back to the priests. 01:35:13.500 --> 01:35:17.300 And so in the same sense, it's like this guy sends through ignorance 01:35:17.300 --> 01:35:23.800 and then he gives this shekels of money to the priest that they estimated the value of this animal. 01:35:23.800 --> 01:35:26.300 And again, they ask that they give a price of Christ. 01:35:26.300 --> 01:35:29.800 Of course, it's 30 shekels in the New Testament is what we understand. 01:35:29.800 --> 01:35:32.000 And it's just kind of an interesting foreshadowing. 01:35:32.000 --> 01:35:34.800 But think about what Judas did. 01:35:35.300 --> 01:35:37.700 And then it's interesting when you read chapter 6 again, 01:35:37.700 --> 01:35:42.400 because it's interesting thinking about like what it's saying would be the reason why you would have to give money. 01:35:42.400 --> 01:35:46.200 And then it's like, what did Judas do? Because it says here in verse number 2, 01:35:46.200 --> 01:35:50.800 if the soul sinned, it committed trespass against the Lord and lie unto his neighbor. 01:35:50.800 --> 01:35:53.700 Oh, that's what Judas did. He lied unto Jesus, didn't he? 01:35:54.300 --> 01:35:58.020 that which he was delivered him to keep he was supposed to keep the Lord Jesus Christ safe 01:35:58.020 --> 01:36:05.620 But he lies and he delivers them unto the Romans or in fellowship. I mean he comes and betrays him with a kiss 01:36:06.580 --> 01:36:09.400 He's lying to him. He's deceiving him in a fellowship 01:36:09.920 --> 01:36:14.100 If you keep reading it says or in a thing taken away by violence 01:36:14.100 --> 01:36:18.880 Oh, you mean like the Roman soldiers coming with swords to take away the Lord Jesus Christ 01:36:19.600 --> 01:36:21.440 And then it says, we're at the scene his neighbor. 01:36:21.440 --> 01:36:25.280 Again, the betrayal of the kiss by Judas Iscariot. 01:36:25.700 --> 01:36:30.940 or have found that which was lost and lieth concerning it and sweareth falsely. 01:36:30.940 --> 01:36:34.900 Of course it's like Christ is kind of coming and it's like a secret, the gospel has been 01:36:34.900 --> 01:36:38.720 lost and then Judas of course is like lying about this. 01:36:38.720 --> 01:36:43.260 It's like it's interesting how all these people that are guilty are just like Judas, a scariet 01:36:43.260 --> 01:36:46.340 and that's the specific sacrifice that you have to add money. 01:36:46.340 --> 01:36:49.420 You have to add the sickles of the sanctuary and of course then that money goes to the 01:36:49.420 --> 01:36:53.700 priest in the same way the money of Judas went back to the priest and then the money 01:36:53.700 --> 01:36:56.900 bought Potterfield's Field with that money. 01:36:56.900 --> 01:37:01.900 And so it's just kind of interesting how a lot of these sacrifices are kind of picturing 01:37:01.900 --> 01:37:04.620 elements of the gospel message. 01:37:04.620 --> 01:37:07.280 Look at verse 12. 01:37:07.280 --> 01:37:09.920 It says, in the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it. 01:37:09.920 --> 01:37:11.220 It shall not be put out. 01:37:11.700 --> 01:37:16.000 And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning and lay burnt offering in order upon it, 01:37:16.000 --> 01:37:19.200 and he shall burn thereof, there on the fat of the peace offering." 01:37:19.200 --> 01:37:23.800 So verse 13, the fire shall ever be burning upon the altar and it shall never go out. 01:37:23.800 --> 01:37:25.600 This picture is again, hell is forever. 01:37:26.800 --> 01:37:28.800 Hell will never cease. 01:37:28.800 --> 01:37:30.700 So there's an eternal nature. 01:37:30.700 --> 01:37:33.000 There was a sacrifice though every morning. 01:37:33.500 --> 01:37:38.100 So you can see how hell is forever, but Christ sacrifices forever. 01:37:38.100 --> 01:37:42.500 And it covers that, and so we'll never taste of death. 01:37:42.500 --> 01:37:44.300 In verse 16, it says, 01:37:44.300 --> 01:37:48.400 In the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat with unleavened bread. 01:37:48.400 --> 01:37:52.400 Shall it be eaten in the holy place in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation, 01:37:52.400 --> 01:37:54.400 they shall eat it. So they're eating this flour. 01:37:54.400 --> 01:37:56.000 They're eating this bread meal. 01:37:56.500 --> 01:37:58.700 And it's really specific in these chapters. 01:37:58.700 --> 01:38:02.500 When it's talking about eating, it's usually talking about the bread, the wafer, or the cake. 01:38:02.500 --> 01:38:06.800 So they're eating this, and it's a sweet savor, it's a memorial. 01:38:06.800 --> 01:38:09.900 So to satisfy you going to hell... 01:38:10.400 --> 01:38:12.400 You eat the wafer, in a sense. 01:38:12.400 --> 01:38:13.600 And what is that foreshadowing? 01:38:13.600 --> 01:38:16.500 That's picturing how we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 01:38:16.500 --> 01:38:17.800 and His death, birth, and resurrection, 01:38:17.800 --> 01:38:20.300 and that satisfies us from going to hell. 01:38:20.300 --> 01:38:22.000 This is brought up in John chapter 6. 01:38:22.000 --> 01:38:24.800 Jesus Christ said that you had to eat His flesh 01:38:24.800 --> 01:38:26.500 so that you could have life in you. 01:38:26.500 --> 01:38:28.300 You eat food to have life. 01:38:28.300 --> 01:38:32.500 You eat food to survive, to be sustained another day. 01:38:32.800 --> 01:38:36.800 And in the same way, we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and that gives us eternal life. 01:38:36.800 --> 01:38:41.600 It's a bread that you don't have to eat every day, but in the same sense, you have to eat it for life. 01:38:41.600 --> 01:38:46.000 And we do this, we believe, and that's what gives us salvation. 01:38:46.000 --> 01:38:49.520 But notice in verse 17, it shall not be baking with leaven. 01:38:50.320 --> 01:38:53.600 I have given unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire, 01:38:53.600 --> 01:38:56.040 is most holy as a sin offering and as a trespass offering. 01:38:56.300 --> 01:38:58.000 It cannot have leaven. 01:38:58.000 --> 01:38:58.800 Picturing what? 01:38:58.800 --> 01:39:02.800 Salvation is not faith and works. 01:39:02.800 --> 01:39:04.500 It is faith alone. 01:39:04.500 --> 01:39:07.100 And why is it not works by leaven here? 01:39:07.100 --> 01:39:12.300 Because any offering that we have of ourselves is coming leavened 01:39:12.300 --> 01:39:14.200 because we are sinful. 01:39:14.600 --> 01:39:16.600 We have fallen short. 01:39:16.600 --> 01:39:22.000 So therefore our works cannot save us and we can't mix in what Christ did, 01:39:22.000 --> 01:39:26.000 His wafer with our wafer because our wafer is leavened. 01:39:26.000 --> 01:39:29.000 And He doesn't accept any offering with leaven in it. 01:39:29.000 --> 01:39:32.000 So guess what? Your offering is not accepted. 01:39:32.000 --> 01:39:34.200 Cain's offering is not accepted. 01:39:34.200 --> 01:39:38.400 Any offering that is tainted with leaven is not accepted of God. 01:39:38.400 --> 01:39:41.800 That's why it has to be an unleavened wafer, which is only Christ. 01:39:42.300 --> 01:39:44.500 You know, I like this verse and I use it a lot in my soul. 01:39:44.500 --> 01:39:49.300 I'll go over to Romans chapter 5, and I think this is an important point. 01:39:49.300 --> 01:39:57.300 But, you know, in Romans chapter number 5, I'm trying to help people understand the two elements, 01:39:57.300 --> 01:40:03.300 that salvation is a free gift, but also that, you know, as we illustrate typically in the first point 01:40:03.300 --> 01:40:07.300 of our gospel presentation, that, you know, there's none righteous, no not one. Okay? 01:40:07.500 --> 01:40:11.580 But then the Bible brings up that there is one righteous, look at verse 18. 01:40:11.580 --> 01:40:13.340 And I'm just starting in the middle of the verse, 01:40:13.340 --> 01:40:20.460 even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men on the justification of life. 01:40:20.460 --> 01:40:23.660 I usually in my gospel presentation I'll just read that portion and I'll say this, 01:40:23.660 --> 01:40:25.420 who was the only one that was righteous? 01:40:26.460 --> 01:40:28.460 And pretty much without fail they'll say it was Jesus. 01:40:29.340 --> 01:40:31.180 It's by the righteousness of one. 01:40:31.900 --> 01:40:34.780 that the free gift came upon all men in the just situation of life. 01:40:34.780 --> 01:40:35.900 We can't screw that up. 01:40:36.460 --> 01:40:39.820 We can't misunderstand that because clearly there's only one that was righteous 01:40:40.460 --> 01:40:43.500 and it's a free gift and it comes to everyone. 01:40:43.500 --> 01:40:49.660 So everyone is offered to be saved by the free gift of what Christ did and his righteousness. 01:40:49.660 --> 01:40:52.140 Our offering with leaven is not accepted by God. 01:40:53.200 --> 01:40:56.940 It's not us and him, it's the righteousness of one. 01:40:56.940 --> 01:41:02.940 There's one wafer, there's one cracker, there's one thing that you metaphorically eat. 01:41:02.940 --> 01:41:07.440 It's believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and that gives us our salvation. 01:41:07.440 --> 01:41:09.940 And if you go back, look at verse 18 now. 01:41:10.900 --> 01:41:15.400 So in verse 16, they eat the wafer, 17 is not with 11, 18, notice this, 01:41:15.400 --> 01:41:18.300 and all the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, 01:41:18.300 --> 01:41:22.400 it shall be a statute for ever in generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire, 01:41:22.400 --> 01:41:27.300 everyone that toucheth them shall be holy. 01:41:27.300 --> 01:41:30.200 So notice when you do this, you become holy. 01:41:30.200 --> 01:41:34.300 And that's a picture of the imputed righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ 01:41:34.300 --> 01:41:37.300 that comes on to you when you believe on Him. 01:41:37.400 --> 01:41:42.600 When you don't accept the sacrifice of Levin, when you're just trusting him alone, 01:41:42.600 --> 01:41:44.000 that's what makes you holy. 01:41:44.000 --> 01:41:45.500 Just simply touching it. 01:41:45.500 --> 01:41:47.400 And it made me think of a story in the Gospel. 01:41:47.400 --> 01:41:48.800 Go to Matthew chapter number 9. 01:41:48.800 --> 01:41:49.800 Go to Matthew chapter number 9. 01:41:49.800 --> 01:41:52.200 This is going to tie everything to what I'm saying together, 01:41:52.200 --> 01:41:54.700 to where it's clear of what I'm saying, okay? 01:41:54.700 --> 01:41:58.900 Oh, you're just saying that eating the cracker is just faith alone. 01:41:59.100 --> 01:42:03.800 Or you're just saying doing these things is faith alone or faith is what's the spiritual 01:42:03.800 --> 01:42:04.800 element. 01:42:04.800 --> 01:42:05.800 That's what the Bible says, okay? 01:42:05.800 --> 01:42:06.800 Let me show you. 01:42:06.800 --> 01:42:09.920 Matthew chapter 9, look at verse number 20. 01:42:09.920 --> 01:42:15.400 And behold, a woman, which was diseased, with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind 01:42:15.400 --> 01:42:17.400 him and touched the hem of his garment. 01:42:17.400 --> 01:42:21.760 So just like they touched this and they became holy, she comes and touches Jesus. 01:42:21.760 --> 01:42:26.720 Verse 21, for she said within herself, if I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. 01:42:27.200 --> 01:42:31.040 So she's made whole by touching the garment. 01:42:31.140 --> 01:42:33.640 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, 01:42:33.740 --> 01:42:35.840 he said, daughter, be of good comfort. 01:42:35.940 --> 01:42:38.280 Thy faith hath made thee whole. 01:42:38.380 --> 01:42:40.020 And the woman was made whole from that hour. 01:42:40.120 --> 01:42:42.720 So notice, it wasn't just touching Jesus, 01:42:42.820 --> 01:42:44.180 or touching bread, or doing it. 01:42:44.280 --> 01:42:46.020 It's not these carnal things that save you. 01:42:46.120 --> 01:42:48.100 It was the faith that saved them. 01:42:48.300 --> 01:42:50.500 That's what it means to eat the cracker. 01:42:50.500 --> 01:42:54.500 That's what it means when Jesus is saying in John chapter number six to eat His flesh. 01:42:54.500 --> 01:42:59.300 That's what it means when it's talking about touching the garment or touching the bread and being made holy. 01:42:59.300 --> 01:43:03.500 It's putting your faith in Jesus Christ and that makes you whole. 01:43:03.500 --> 01:43:05.100 That makes you righteous. 01:43:05.100 --> 01:43:06.700 That makes you right with God. 01:43:06.700 --> 01:43:08.300 That gives you the atonement. 01:43:08.300 --> 01:43:09.900 That's what causes you to go to heaven. 01:43:09.900 --> 01:43:12.100 It's not anything you did physically. 01:43:12.100 --> 01:43:14.500 It's your faith that saves you. 01:43:14.500 --> 01:43:15.700 And it couldn't be clearer. 01:43:16.800 --> 01:43:21.160 I want to go to a couple more verses and chapter 6 will be done for this morning, but 01:43:21.160 --> 01:43:24.320 you know I hope that maybe when you're reading the Old Testament 01:43:24.320 --> 01:43:28.560 you won't be discouraged on Leviticus. You'll think like, hey I want to behold 01:43:28.560 --> 01:43:30.040 wondrous things out of thy law. 01:43:30.040 --> 01:43:34.560 Because there's something, you know for the person that's not saved it's 01:43:34.560 --> 01:43:36.080 going to be a really boring session. 01:43:36.080 --> 01:43:39.920 Okay. I'm going to be like, man just killing animals again 01:43:39.920 --> 01:43:41.920 and dung and heads and... 01:43:42.200 --> 01:43:43.800 crackers and whatever. 01:43:43.800 --> 01:43:45.600 But you know what, for us that are saved, 01:43:45.600 --> 01:43:49.400 there's a whole other layer that's really exciting and really enjoyable, 01:43:49.400 --> 01:43:51.400 and it's wonderful that we get to read through it. 01:43:51.400 --> 01:43:53.100 And again, there's nothing wrong with the law, 01:43:53.100 --> 01:43:56.800 and I'm not saying that you can't enjoy it, even carnally. 01:43:56.800 --> 01:43:59.100 But let's just be honest, this is a little dry, 01:43:59.100 --> 01:44:02.100 but for those of us that are saved, it comes alive. 01:44:02.100 --> 01:44:04.700 And of course, you know, that's kind of just the, 01:44:04.700 --> 01:44:07.700 their communion is dead and dry. 01:44:07.700 --> 01:44:09.700 Ours is alive because it has meaning. 01:44:09.800 --> 01:44:13.000 You know, we're not drinking booze, okay, like the Catholics. 01:44:13.000 --> 01:44:17.880 We're not going to go have service every Sunday morning and drink booze. 01:44:17.880 --> 01:44:20.960 How is that making you go to heaven? 01:44:20.960 --> 01:44:24.840 Like if you're Catholic, you believe you have to perform the Eucharist to go to heaven. 01:44:24.840 --> 01:44:29.480 You believe a cracker and alcohol are going to get you into heaven. 01:44:29.480 --> 01:44:31.600 It's not faith that saves you. 01:44:31.600 --> 01:44:34.640 And it's faith in Christ's sacrifice and what He did for us that saves us. 01:44:35.100 --> 01:44:37.740 So in chapter 6 it says in verse 23, 01:44:37.740 --> 01:44:41.180 for every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt, it shall not be eaten. 01:44:42.940 --> 01:44:48.540 So you know again a lot of these the sacrifices were wholly burnt and I believe that's to show 01:44:48.540 --> 01:44:51.500 that Christ died for the full offering for sin. 01:44:52.100 --> 01:44:56.180 You know, some secular, some weird people will say Christ didn't really die. 01:44:56.180 --> 01:45:00.020 No, He really died and that's the picture that the whole burnt offering 01:45:00.020 --> 01:45:03.900 and so he took the whole picture for us. Verse 28, 01:45:03.900 --> 01:45:07.940 But the earthen vessel, wherein it was saught in, shall be broken, and if it be 01:45:07.940 --> 01:45:09.700 saught in a brazen pot, it shall be 01:45:09.700 --> 01:45:12.740 scoured and rinsed in water. Now 01:45:12.740 --> 01:45:14.800 this is kinda interesting but... 01:45:15.000 --> 01:45:18.500 You could cook some of these things in different vessels. 01:45:18.500 --> 01:45:21.900 An earthen vessel would be like a clay type of a pot, 01:45:21.900 --> 01:45:25.300 like a dust pot or something, and a brazen pot. 01:45:25.500 --> 01:45:28.100 is obviously a metal type pot. 01:45:28.100 --> 01:45:30.300 And again, from a cleanliness perspective, 01:45:30.300 --> 01:45:32.300 you know, if you're cooking in clay 01:45:32.300 --> 01:45:33.900 and the dirt and the dust, 01:45:33.900 --> 01:45:36.900 like disease, bacteria and stuff 01:45:36.900 --> 01:45:39.500 can get into that actual pot 01:45:39.500 --> 01:45:40.900 and it becomes contaminated 01:45:40.900 --> 01:45:42.300 and it's not clean anymore. 01:45:42.300 --> 01:45:44.100 So after you've cooked in something like that, 01:45:44.100 --> 01:45:45.700 you just break it, okay? 01:45:45.900 --> 01:45:51.100 The brazen pot can be rinsed and scoured, scoured just like scrubbing. 01:45:51.100 --> 01:45:55.700 So they're just scrubbing it clean, they're wiping it down. 01:45:55.700 --> 01:45:59.300 And I believe that this is picturing, again, Christ, 01:45:59.300 --> 01:46:04.800 He, from an earthly perspective, His earthly vessel was destroyed. 01:46:04.800 --> 01:46:10.300 You know, the Bible says that when He breaks the cracker, He says that His body was broken. 01:46:10.600 --> 01:46:12.600 and it was broken for us. 01:46:12.600 --> 01:46:15.600 So Jesus Christ, so the earth and vessel was broken. 01:46:15.600 --> 01:46:18.400 But then He rose again. 01:46:18.400 --> 01:46:20.800 And of course, you know, you kind of picture, you know, 01:46:20.800 --> 01:46:23.000 brazen things can abide by the fire. 01:46:23.000 --> 01:46:26.000 They were cooked in fire and they're rinsed. 01:46:26.000 --> 01:46:27.800 And now they can be used again. 01:46:27.800 --> 01:46:30.000 And I believe that's a picture of the resurrected body. 01:46:30.000 --> 01:46:33.200 So the resurrection, hey, it abides by the fire 01:46:33.200 --> 01:46:34.400 and it's not going to be broken. 01:46:34.400 --> 01:46:36.800 It's going to be reused and it will be used forever. 01:46:36.900 --> 01:46:41.460 and it's been cleansed and so, you know, it can continue being used. Of course, 01:46:41.460 --> 01:46:48.100 you have pictures of Christ himself, even his feet are like brazen feet that were abiding in the fire. 01:46:48.100 --> 01:46:52.340 And so you kind of have these pictures. Look at verse 30, and no sin offering whereof 01:46:52.340 --> 01:46:55.780 any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile with all in the 01:46:55.780 --> 01:47:02.420 holy place shall be eaten, it shall be burnt in the fire. So all the blood is 01:47:03.300 --> 01:47:06.600 discarded in the sense. So all the blood is emptied. 01:47:06.600 --> 01:47:09.700 And I guess my last point would be this is that, 01:47:09.700 --> 01:47:13.900 you know, it seems like, because the Bible says without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. 01:47:13.900 --> 01:47:17.000 So all the blood of Christ was shed for us. 01:47:17.000 --> 01:47:17.900 Okay? 01:47:17.900 --> 01:47:21.000 And it appears, and again this is just my 01:47:21.000 --> 01:47:24.800 understanding of Scripture, but when Christ reappears and He's showing Himself to them, 01:47:24.800 --> 01:47:27.700 He says like flesh and blood cannot enter the Kingdom of God. 01:47:27.700 --> 01:47:29.800 And He says He has like flesh and bone. 01:47:30.200 --> 01:47:36.600 but not blood. And it appears that our first experience, our first life is powered by blood, 01:47:36.600 --> 01:47:43.880 but our second is powered by the spirit. And so, you know, eating of blood is kind of a picture 01:47:43.880 --> 01:47:47.800 of trying to live forever in this old body carnally. 01:47:48.300 --> 01:47:49.820 And you know, this is what a lot of people want to do. 01:47:49.820 --> 01:47:54.900 A lot of people are trying to just live forever in this body with blood. 01:47:54.900 --> 01:47:59.700 You'll notice the satanic, the occultists, they're obsessed with blood. 01:48:00.100 --> 01:48:05.600 And many of them are eating blood, drinking blood, vampires are drinking blood. 01:48:05.600 --> 01:48:10.600 Like there's this obsession of the satanic, there's this obsession of the ungodly. 01:48:10.600 --> 01:48:16.600 With blood, you have the Mayans and you have the Aztecs and you have the Native Americans. 01:48:16.600 --> 01:48:19.600 You know, they're obsessed with eating blood and drinking blood. 01:48:19.600 --> 01:48:21.600 And you know, the Bible forbids this. 01:48:22.200 --> 01:48:28.200 You go into India, into these dark corners of the world of Hinduism, they're into blood. 01:48:28.200 --> 01:48:33.000 I mean, have you not seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? 01:48:33.000 --> 01:48:35.200 Okay, it's weird, alright? 01:48:35.200 --> 01:48:38.200 They're doing weird stuff. I know it's a movie, but you know. 01:48:38.200 --> 01:48:44.000 I'm just saying like, hey, it's weird, but you know, we're not looking for blood to sustain us forever. 01:48:44.500 --> 01:48:50.700 Okay, it's the Spirit of God that gives us that life and being renewed in our spirit. 01:48:50.700 --> 01:48:53.400 And you know, we shouldn't be so obsessed with the blood. 01:48:53.400 --> 01:48:58.840 You know, in church, you know, you should realize that there's something more powerful 01:48:58.840 --> 01:48:59.840 than blood. 01:48:59.840 --> 01:49:00.840 It's the Spirit. 01:49:00.840 --> 01:49:04.280 And you see Jesus Christ saying, who is my mother? 01:49:04.280 --> 01:49:05.600 Who is my brother? 01:49:05.600 --> 01:49:09.520 You know what's more important than a blood relative? 01:49:09.520 --> 01:49:10.520 Is a spiritual relative. 01:49:10.520 --> 01:49:10.800 Thanks for watching! 01:49:11.500 --> 01:49:14.300 And so, you know, the spirit usurps the blood. 01:49:14.300 --> 01:49:16.700 And, you know, we shouldn't be dwelling on the blood. 01:49:16.700 --> 01:49:19.100 You know, of course, many people are dwelling on blood today. 01:49:19.100 --> 01:49:21.200 They dwell on blood because they think about genetics. 01:49:21.200 --> 01:49:22.400 They're always concerned with genetics. 01:49:22.400 --> 01:49:27.800 And they're like, we got to save the world by all being one color or one race or having, you know, 01:49:27.800 --> 01:49:29.200 it's all about bloodlines. 01:49:29.200 --> 01:49:30.400 It's all about genetics. 01:49:30.400 --> 01:49:34.200 It's all about this group of people or it's about family. 01:49:34.200 --> 01:49:37.700 Like everything that's not trying to serve God, it's all about blood or something. 01:49:37.700 --> 01:49:38.200 Yeah. 01:49:38.200 --> 01:49:38.700 Okay. 01:49:39.400 --> 01:49:46.840 It's always about my family or my bloodline or my heritage or my white supremacy or black 01:49:46.840 --> 01:49:49.200 supremacy or whatever. 01:49:49.200 --> 01:49:52.560 And I like how white people always demonize the only people that want this. 01:49:52.560 --> 01:49:57.120 It's like, bro, go with me in the ghetto and you'll meet people that say like they're the 01:49:57.120 --> 01:50:00.200 physical descendants of Israel and they're dark as night. 01:50:01.500 --> 01:50:05.500 And then you would go meet some Jews and they'll say they're the physical descendants of Abraham. 01:50:05.500 --> 01:50:06.500 Okay? 01:50:06.500 --> 01:50:10.500 And then you'll meet some white people and they'll say like, well, we're better than them. 01:50:10.500 --> 01:50:12.500 And just like, everybody thinks they're better. 01:50:12.500 --> 01:50:14.500 But you know what's better? Spirit. 01:50:14.500 --> 01:50:18.500 The spiritual family, the spiritual truths of the Bible. 01:50:18.500 --> 01:50:20.500 And you know what's better than the carnal truths of the Bible? 01:50:20.500 --> 01:50:22.500 The spiritual truths of the Bible. 01:50:22.500 --> 01:50:25.500 Okay. So don't eat blood, number one. 01:50:25.500 --> 01:50:29.400 But number two, you know, let the spirit be more important than the blood. 01:50:30.100 --> 01:50:32.800 And you know that's where we're going to all be anyways. 01:50:32.800 --> 01:50:34.660 We behold wondrous things as I law. 01:50:34.660 --> 01:50:35.660 We're going to have eternal life. 01:50:35.660 --> 01:50:38.680 You know if you haven't believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, you need to settle that today. 01:50:39.300 --> 01:50:42.500 But, you know, there's cool things in the Bible when you're saved. 01:50:42.500 --> 01:50:44.300 And you take the time to slow down. 01:50:44.300 --> 01:50:47.380 So, hopefully next time you read through Leviticus, you'll kind of see some of the pictures, you'll 01:50:47.380 --> 01:50:49.300 see some of these elements. 01:50:49.300 --> 01:50:52.700 And we'll understand that the sacrifices of Leviticus were to all point us to Christ. 01:50:52.700 --> 01:50:53.700 Amen. 01:50:53.700 --> 01:50:54.700 Let's close in prayer. 01:50:54.700 --> 01:50:56.040 Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for your Word. 01:50:56.040 --> 01:51:01.740 Thank you for the sacrifice of Christ, for Him being, you know, this perfect spotless 01:51:01.740 --> 01:51:01.980 lamb. 01:51:02.800 --> 01:51:06.040 willing to die on the cross for our sins, willing to bear 01:51:06.040 --> 01:51:10.900 the burden of all of our sins, willing to have His blood sprinkled and shed and 01:51:10.900 --> 01:51:11.680 poured out, 01:51:11.680 --> 01:51:16.080 willing for His soul to send into hell 01:51:16.080 --> 01:51:20.560 for three days and three nights, but to come out victorious. And I pray that we 01:51:20.560 --> 01:51:21.000 would 01:51:21.000 --> 01:51:24.840 follow in His footsteps, that we would love the Bible, that we'd love the pictures, 01:51:24.840 --> 01:51:28.220 that we would embrace the spiritual truths of the Bible, that we wouldn't be 01:51:28.220 --> 01:51:28.920 offended. 01:51:29.300 --> 01:51:32.580 by the carnal truths or the spiritual truths and that we would elevate the 01:51:32.580 --> 01:51:34.820 spiritual over the carnal. In Jesus name we pray. 01:51:34.820 --> 01:51:35.140 Amen. 01:51:39.300 --> 01:51:44.100 I'm in our last song this morning, page 60, face to face. 01:51:44.100 --> 01:51:47.900 Page number 60, face to face. 01:51:47.900 --> 01:51:48.400 Thanks. 01:51:55.600 --> 01:51:59.200 Song 60 let's all sing it out together on that first