Sacrifices in Leviticus - Pastor Jonathan Shelley | Stedfast Baptist Church

And then the title of my sermon this morning

is sacrifices in Leviticus, sacrifices in Leviticus.

And now these first several chapters here

leading up to about chapter 10 really deal

with a lot of the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament.

And of course Leviticus is named because

of the fact that this is dealing with

the Levitical priesthood for the most part.

These are the instructions for the priesthood

and what they're gonna be doing.

And it's not arbitrary.

Of course, when you read the Bible,

especially maybe the first time

or when you're young or when you're not even saved,

you read the Old Testament law

and it just seems confusing.

There's a lot of animal sacrifices.

They don't make very much sense.

But when you become saved and you understand the gospel,

you can actually see a different layer

to a lot of the Levitical priesthood.

And I wanna keep your finger here,

but go to Psalm 119 in the middle of your Bible

for a second.

And I wanna show you just one verse

that I wanted to pick out of Psalm 119,

but the Bible tells us that it's a spiritual book.

It's not just carnal instructions.

It's not just history.

There's a spiritual layer.

And the Bible itself,

everything is pointing to the gospel.

Everything in creation is pointing to the gospel.

Everything in the Bible, all the stories,

all the examples are pointing to the gospel.

And in fact, even the law

is pointing to the gospel message.

And in Psalm 119,

I wanna look at verse 18.

The Bible says,

open thou mine eyes

that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

So this verse, I think what's interesting about it

is it's kind of telling us that there's a second meaning

or there's something that can be seen in the law

that you wouldn't just get without God helping you.

And it says open thou mine eyes.

This is typically a reference to being saved.

When you get saved,

the Bible talks about your eyes being enlightened

and you're getting a new understanding.

Now you can see God.

Of course, that's language that's used by Jesus Christ

when talking with Nicodemus

and talking about being able to see God.

And of course, that's used

in other parts of the gospel messages.

And so when you become saved,

you not only see the law for what it is,

of course, it's perfect.

It's what we should do as humans on this earth.

We should abide by God's law,

whether that be just his moral instruction,

whether that be his civic duties,

whether that be a criminal justice system,

just national policy.

Just all of those ideas are all great

and there's nothing wrong with them.

We can all understand them.

In fact, an unsaved person can understand

that just the carnal truths of the Bible,

but beyond that, there's a spiritual layer

and there's a spiritual layer

to the sacrificial system in Leviticus.

And when you read it,

it's kind of just boring and dry, if you ask me.

But when you kind of think about it

from a gospel perspective,

it becomes a little bit more engaging.

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

open our eyes that we can behold wondrous things

out of the law.

And these wondrous things, I believe,

are pertaining to Christ, the gospel

and just the doctrine associated

with the gospel specifically.

Now here in Leviticus chapter one, verse one,

he says,

And the Lord called on the Moses and spake him

out of the tabernacle of the congregation saying,

Speak unto the children of Israel

and say unto them, if any man of you

bring an offering unto the Lord,

ye shall bring your offering of the cattle,

even of the herd and of the flock.

If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd,

let him offer a male without blemish.

He shall offer it of his own voluntary will

at the door of the tabernacle

of the congregation before the Lord.

So you have, you know, in these chapters, divisions,

you have in some senses a little bit

of a different flavor of the different sacrifices.

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.

Now you also have in this particular section

in verse three, notice it says

that the person doing this offering

is supposed to offer it of his own voluntary will.

You know, God put the word voluntary there

for the Calvinist to look that much more stupid, okay?

Because it's just like, hey, you get to choose

if you want to.

Like how can you be a Calvinist

and then understand this word voluntary will?

That, you know, and that's what makes God special.

What makes God special and unique from humans

is how his will can be accomplished

while still giving us an actual voluntary free will.

The Bible tells us that we have a true, genuine free will

and we can really do whatever we want.

But while we have that autonomy,

God can still accomplish his ultimate will

and still accomplish the main objectives

of the gospel message,

even though we have our own faculties,

we have our own abilities.

You know, I typically relate that to sports or something.

It's like, if you were just so good that it's like,

I know that you have the ability to play against me

but no matter how good you are,

how much you try, you're gonna lose the game.

Like I'm gonna beat you

and not only am I gonna beat you,

I know every move you're gonna make.

Like when I go left, you're gonna go right

and then I'm gonna score, I'm gonna dunk on you.

And in fact, and sometimes people love to talk trash

this way, they'll even say like,

hey, I know you're gonna do this

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 tell you what's gonna happen beforehand

and then they do it.

That's much more impressive

than if someone were to do that to a robot.

If you just have a robot and say, hey, look,

I'm gonna make this move

and then the robot's gonna respond counter-wise.

You think like, well, that's not as impressive

as giving someone true free will

and allowing them to make their own decisions

and then still God's able to accomplish His will.

But what is this really ultimately picture?

Well, a couple of things that it pictures.

Let's go to Matthew chapter number 12 for a moment.

Go to Matthew chapter number 12.

The Bible pretty much has almost every sacrifice

as being a burnt sacrifice in some way.

Now some are just entirely burnt.

Like that's the only portion of the sacrifice.

But 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

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.

It can't necessarily all be embodied by one example

or just one metaphor or one symbol.

And one of the aspects of the sacrifice of Christ

which is not necessarily popular by many pastors

but I think that just the general population

has no problem with doctrine

is the fact that Jesus Christ really went to hell.

And it's kind of surprising to me now.

I feel like our country has become so decristionized

that many people don't even know the stories of the Bible.

And one of the stories that I found

was probably the most famous stories

or a story that most people would always hear

is Jonah and the whale.

And yet I go knock on doors and I'm like,

hey have you heard of Jonah and the whale?

And they're just like, I have no idea

what you're talking about.

And it's kind of sad because it's a great story.

It's very familiar.

It's the one thing everybody remembers

out of the minor prophets.

You're like, I don't know anything in minor prophets

but I remember Jonah and the whale.

It's kind of a fun story.

And yet Jesus references that about himself.

Look what it says in verse 39.

But he answered and said in them,

an evil and adulterous generation

seek it after a sign

and there shall no sign be given to it

but the sign of the prophet Jonas.

For his Jonas was three days and three nights

in the whale's belly.

So shall the Son of man be three days and three nights

in the heart of the earth.

So according to the Bible,

Jesus is comparing himself to Jonah

and saying the picture of Jonah is really about me

and how I'm gonna be in the heart of the earth

three days and three nights.

But most people if I ask them, hey,

do you know where Jesus went after he died?

They say heaven.

A lot of people think that Jesus went immediately to heaven

but the Bible teaches he first descended

into the depths of the earth

or as the Bible says right here

into the heart of the earth

that would be like the center of the earth.

And so that's where we get a lot of doctrine.

We understand hell itself is in the center of the earth

and of course that's why so many of the sacrifices

are talking about being a burnt offering

and being roast with fire.

It's because of this picture of Christ is gonna go

and perform this sacrifice for us.

Now let's get more details on this.

Go to Jonah itself, go back a little bit

and go to Jonah itself in the Old Testament.

So we're beholding wonders, things out of the law

and you know some people get upset about this doctrine

but then you're like okay,

well what does the burnt sacrifice mean?

Because it's heavily emphasized.

Burnt sacrifice or being roast with fire

is not a minimum thing in the Bible.

In fact it's reiterated over and over and over again

and I would even argue that from an Old Testament picture

and the foreshadowing of the Old Testament

it's emphasized more than the cross itself would be.

But that doesn't mean that the cross is less

or not emphasized or not important

and of course the New Testament seems to emphasize

the cross more than Jesus going to hell

but the Old Testament seems to picture the burnt sacrifice

more than the pictures of the cross.

And so we don't wanna sit here and just pick and choose

and say well one matters and the other doesn't

or this one's the only one that we should talk about.

I think we should talk about both.

And the Old Testament is still just as relevant

to the gospel messages of the New Testament.

The Bible says in Jonah chapter two it says

is then Jonah prayed on the Lord his God

out of the fish's belly and said I cried

by reason of mind affliction unto the Lord

and he heard me out of the belly of hell cried I

and thou hurtest my voice.

Notice when Jonah is describing what it was like

to be in a whale's belly or the great fish's belly

he describes it as the belly of hell.

And again this is a metaphor for Jonah.

Jonah wasn't literally in hell, we get that.

Jonah is using this language to describe

what it feels like, what he's experiencing.

And in some ways if you think about it

there's a lot of parallels because in the whale's belly

there's no light, it's complete darkness.

There's complete darkness, he's alone

and the fish even is gonna be obviously

submerged underneath the water.

So it's kind of picturing being underneath,

being in a prison, there's just complete darkness.

So some aspects of this experience

are gonna mimic those things in hell.

I have no idea what it would have been like physically.

It could have been warm.

I mean in most cases the stomach is a warm place.

You know it's considered a mammal, I don't know why

but by scientific classification it's considered a mammal

and so you know it could have been hot.

It could have been very uncomfortable.

There could have been, even potentially

the acid in there could have been a burning sensation.

I don't think he was dying necessarily

but he's probably close to, probably felt like it.

I can't even imagine, usually when you're in pain

five minutes seems like five hours.

I can't imagine three days.

It might have felt like eternity.

And in fact maybe from like other portions of scripture

or maybe God gave him wisdom

that he would know in three days he's gonna be getting out

but when you don't know that you're getting out

it's a really hopeless feeling.

And you're kinda just wishing to die

and by dying like in a sense of ceasing the pain.

And that's again what's gonna be experienced in hell.

People are gonna be in hell wishing to not exist anymore.

Wishing for the pain to stop.

Wondering when is it gonna be over?

And the unfortunate part for them is it's never over.

It's never gonna end.

There's weeping and gnashing of teeth

and of course it's even more excruciating

because it's actual fire, it's actual burning.

Yet in an incredible way while there's fire

it's outer darkness in a sense.

So I have no idea how any of that makes sense.

It's a scary place.

If you tried to dream up the worst punishment imaginable

you will land at hell.

In every category hell is the worst.

Possible in every category in every way.

And of course that's because God is gonna punish sin

because he hates sin and his wrath

is kindled against hell.

And the Bible says just as Jonah was here

in this metaphorical sense, Jesus really was there.

So this is what's interesting about the book of Jonah

is it's like Jonah's saying these things

but then it's like literally true

for the Lord Jesus Christ.

He says in verse three,

for thou hast cast me into the deep

in the midst of the seas and the floods

compass me about all thy bills

and thy ways passed over me.

Then I said I'm cast out of thy sight

yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

The waters compass me about even to the soul.

The depth closes me round about

the weeds are wrapped around about my head.

So again, weeds being wrapped around his head.

That's Jonah that we're talking about of course.

But it says here

and I went down to the bottoms of the mountains

the earth of the bars is about me forever

yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption

oh Lord my God.

Verse six doesn't really make as much sense for Jonah.

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.

So it's kind of like metaphoric for Jonah

it's literal for Jesus Christ

because for Jonah it's metaphor

that he's in the belly of hell.

For Jesus he really is in the belly of hell

and so if you kind of see chapter two

it almost seems like it kind of goes back and forth.

It's like two is about Christ

and then three is about Jonah

and then four is about Christ

and then fives about Jonah

and then six is about Christ.

And so kind of as it's like alternating pattern

and when it's about Christ

it's a metaphor for Jonah

but it's literal for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now let's go to Acts chapter two

and let's confirm what we've just seen in the scripture

but in the Old Testament law

you would have a burnt sacrifice

and you would burn this animal

and what is that to foreshadow into picture

is how Christ was gonna go to hell

and he was gonna suffer for us.

Acts chapter number two

look what it says in verse number 27

because let's do verse 26

therefore did my heart rejoice

and my tongue was glad

moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope

because that will not leave my soul in hell

neither wilt thou suffer thine holy ones

as the corruptions.

Now for Christ he did know that it was temporary.

He did know that he would eventually come out

and he said that's the only hope he had

because if you're in hell

your only hope is you're getting out

for those that are not getting out there is no hope.

He says thou has made known to me the ways of life

thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance

men and brethren let me freely speak unto you

of the patriarch David

that he's both dead and buried in sepulchre

as with us under this day

therefore being a prophet

and knowing that God had sworn

with an oath to him

that of the fruit of his loins

according to the flesh he would raise up Christ

to sit on his throne.

He's saying this before spake of the resurrection of Christ

that his soul is not left in hell

neither is flesh to see corruption.

So in the Psalms which we're not gonna go to

we could prove this doctrine so many different times

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

because his soul is not gonna be left in hell

but it's like then the author needs to explain to us

and Peter is kind of explaining

but he's not talking about himself

because number one, David's flesh is gone.

David's flesh saw corruption.

David's sepulchre we have a sepulchre

we could go get his bones out right now.

But they don't have the bones of Christ

they don't have the flesh of Christ

it's resurrected and it's in heaven right now.

And he's saying he wasn't talking about himself

he was talking about someone else

of his physical decency

someone that was a physical son of David

that was going to be in hell

and who were we talking about?

He was speaking before of the resurrection of Christ

that his soul was not gonna be left in hell

and that his flesh was not gonna see corruption

meaning that his body wasn't gonna rot

and decompose and turn into bones

and we would have his sepulchre

we don't have his sepulchre

you know of the people that have lived

and died on this earth

you know we have their dust at least

you know whether they've been buried

or cremated or whatever you wanna think of

we have their dust

and yet we don't have the body of Christ

the most influential person of all history

we have no burial site where his body is

you know we have the tomb

the stone was rolled away and the tomb was empty

and so the Jews had to lie and say

oh well the disciples secretly buried him

and in order to deny Christ

you have to believe the disciples secretly buried Jesus

and then went out and lived lives of misery

and woe and ultimate sacrifice

and martyred him for no reason

like if you're gonna make up a lie

wouldn't you wanna make up a lie for money

or make up a lie for fame

or make up a like why do you have to lie

to be martyred

to be killed and persecuted and hated

you know that's typically not

you're not usually willing to die for a lie

especially a lie that you made up about yourself

you know be estranged from your own family

and just being out in the world where everybody's hating you

and being beaten and being put in prison

and being killed and people just being mad at you

just a lie about some guy's body that you buried somewhere

you know that's what the secular is

that's what the atheists have to believe

and it makes no sense

there's no motive

no it's obvious that they died

because they saw the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ

that they were saved

that they were filled with the spirit of God

and they are willing to suffer the affliction

and be a partaker of Christ's sufferings

just like what Christ did

and of course we don't have Christ's body

because he suffered in hell

now again some people would say well he went to hell

but he didn't suffer

you know that kind of creates a weird idea

because then we have to create a compartment in hell

that's not suffering

whereas the simple understanding would just be it's suffering

okay also Christ isn't saying here like in verse 26

well my heart did rejoice

because of the special compartment

where there's no suffering

now what did he say

he said that the only thing that he had hope in

is that he wasn't going to be left there

so he didn't like it at very minimum

but even then in this chapter

you have even more clear verse

it says in verse 23

him being delivered by the determinate counsel

and foreknowledge of God

you have taken

and by wicked hands of crucified and slain

here's another verse that the Calvinist can't understand

but notice it's like hey

by the foreknowledge of God

he knew that you guys were going to take Jesus

and you were going to crucify him

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

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

now again think about this

it's like

hey in verse 24 God raised up

when is the resurrection

that's three days after the crucifixion

and then it says

having loosed the pains of death

so being raised up

loosed him from

the pains of death

now if we just slow down and think about this very carefully

number one

Christ is not dead

when he was on the cross

now he is suffering pain

and you could argue he's dying

but he's not dead

he hasn't experienced death

okay

so to say that this is talking about the cross

would number one

be to misunderstand the fact that he's not dead on the cross

and when you're dead

we typically understand that physically you're not experiencing pain anymore

from a physical perspective

but what is the pains of death

this is what the bible is describing as hell

because of course the dead are in hell and they're experiencing pain

and what loosed Christ from the pains of death

or the pains of hell

is being resurrected

which then matches in perfectly with the whole context is in verse 26

he's saying that's why you had some hope

and that's why in verse 27

because he wasn't going to be left in hell

and of course this is all fits together perfectly

that he was loosed from the pains of death

and he suffered

and that's why the bible emphasizes

burnt offerings so much

because some people would say oh well Christ went to hell

wouldn't the bible tell us

and it's like yes it tells us a lot

it brings it and so every time you read about the burnt sacrifice

you read about these burnt offerings

you should be realizing what Christ did for us

by taking our place in hell

experiencing the pains of death

the bible says by reason of affliction cry die

out of the belly of hell cry die

so it's just like he's saying it's affliction

in the book of Jonah

it's saying it's the pains of death in the book of Acts

I mean nowhere else in the bible is hell a pleasant place

nowhere is there any other escape

the only relief that he's claiming to have

is the hope of leaving

okay so it seems like it's just really simple

that Christ went to hell like the bible says

he was in the heart of the earth

it was pain it was affliction

he cried God hurt him and he was resurrected

and of course then that satisfies our punishment

because we would have to go to hell

if we got what we deserved

and so instead an innocent perfect spotless lamb

Jesus Christ went and took our place

not only to die but to go to hell for us

he became a curse on the cross

and the curse of the law is what

what is the curse of the law

it's death okay

and what's the worst part about death

it's not that you cease from the pain of the cross

it's that you then go to hell

for the ways of sin is death

it's you know what what's scary about death

is not not being alive

it's being in hell

because for the Christian it's not as scary

because we're going to go to heaven

and in some cases people even long for death

because they simply want to be in heaven

where there's even more rest

it's I mean what is heaven considered

rest no pain joy

I mean for for many elderly people

and even not even just elderly people

some people they're just suffering a lot on this earth

like they're just in a lot of physical pain

they're in just a lot of torment

they're not having much rest

and it's like they're not experiencing much joy

I mean Lazarus with his sores

he wasn't enjoying life

he was excited to die and go to heaven

okay

so death itself

what's scary about death

what's the punishment of death is hell itself

and so Christ not only experienced excruciating pain on the cross

and in this life

and the shame and the embarrassment and the woe

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

and it really is

and so we shouldn't undermine what Christ did

we should just realize

that Christ took our punishment in hell

go back if you would

so then what's important about this

is that this burnt sacrifice

it's offered it's offered of a voluntary will

picturing what that your salvation

is based on your voluntary will

of putting your faith

in the sacrifice of Christ

that we put our faith in what Jesus did

of our own voluntary will

and that's what saves us

it's not our works

it's not you know the fruit of the ground of what we did

it's simply offering someone in our place

and that person in our place

is an animal picture in the Old Testament of Christ

and so all of the animal sacrifices make sense

with the gospel and what Christ did

you know from an Islamic perspective

you know it's kind of crazy to me

or like even Jews

you know they have all these animal sacrifices

that they would give lip service to

and point to

and of course even Muslims today

have their halal meat

and they sacrifice goats

and lambs and animals and stuff

it's like well what is that picture though

what's the point of that

like why is God having you constantly

slaughtering animals

and sacrifice them

like why is he doing that

and again from a Christian perspective

it's because it pictures the Lamb of God

and how Jesus took the sin of the world

and how he died for our sin

but the Muslims don't believe that

and the Jews don't believe that

and the Jews really don't even believe

that's what their antichrist will even do

they have a kind of a warped idea

of their antichrist being a

a political leader

and conquering the world

whereas Christ came to die for the world

and be sacrificed for the world

and yet they don't understand these pictures

they don't understand these things

why

because they're not saved

if they're not saved

you're not going to understand

the wondrous things out of the law

you're not going to get them

and so you're just going to perform sacrifice

look the Jews

are wanting to perform animal sacrifices again

you know in Israel

in modern Israel today

they're trying to bring back the red heifer

they're trying to bring back different animal sacrifices

the Bible in the book of Daniel talks about in the end times

there's going to be a daily sacrifice

and that is going to be taken away

with the antichrist

because he's going to claim that

he's the real Christ

but even their little antichrist

he's not dying for the sins of the world

he's killed by some radical or something

or something's happening that's different

after he conquers the world

not him coming in a lowly form

as a humble servant loving people

you know what does the antichrist go

he goes out to conquer and to kill

like the antichrist is just killing

and slaughtering people in mass

Jesus Christ is saving people

and healing them from their sicknesses

and their diseases

and bringing like good things into the world

he's killed for feeding people

and raising people from the dead

the antichrist is different

because he's slaughtering everyone

and conquering everyone

and 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 they're complete opposites

completely different

we have to understand

that this levitical priesthood

is foreshadowing Christ

and again these sacrifices

are daily sacrifices

they're done like all the time

every single day

these burnt sacrifices

now it says in verse 4

and he shall put his hand up on the head

of the burnt offering

and it shall be accepted for him

to make atonement for him

so notice this gives you the atonement

but the Bible tells in the book of Hebrews

that the animal sacrifices

could never take away sin

that was never what really took away the sin

it says in verse 5

and he shall kill a bullet

before the Lord and the priest

Aaron's sons shall bring the blood

and sprinkle the blood

about upon the altar

that is by the door

of the tabernacle of the congregation

so one aspect of the sacrifice

is that blood is sprinkled

and it'll also talk about how it's put on the horns

of the altar

and I'm not going to necessarily go to every verse

for sake of time this morning

but it's sprinkled

and it's on the horns

and this you know is going to foreshadow

and picture how Jesus Christ

you know leading up to his crucifixion

he is being whipped

he has a crown of thorns

and so of course as he's going up to the cross

his blood is being sprinkled

his blood is literally

it's not necessarily all gushing out

but there's going to be sprinkles of his blood

going on the ground

going in different areas

of course it's just kind of

picturing the splattering of Christ's blood

that's going through all these different elements

and then later we're going to have

another element of the blood

but he's constantly

you know having his blood sprinkled

it says

and the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar

and lay the wood in order upon the fire

so again it's

this sacrifices a wood sacrifice

and I think that's the picture again

the cross he's put on wood

and of course that is how he's killed

so you have another layer there

it says in the priest Aaron's son shall lay the parts of the head

and the fat

in order upon the wood that is on the fire

which is upon the altar

but his inwards in his legs shall he wash in water

and the priest shall burn all on the altar

to be a burnt sacrifice

and offering made by fire

of a sweet saver unto the Lord

and so again

you kind of have different parts of the animal

it said in verse uh

I can't remember which verse it was

it said oh six they fillet

or they fillet the burnt offering

this this is to

de-skin the animal

so and again

we're not going to read all of Leviticus

but you could read it all if you want

but basically they skin the entire animal

and they take just kind of the

outward parts like the head

and these different parts

and they put them up into one section

then they get all the fat

and they gather that into a section

then they get all the meat portion

and they do different things

with these different parts of the animal

in some cases you have a whole burnt offering

so there's burning the entire animal

in other cases they're

they're going to burn certain parts of the animal

in certain places

okay so they're going to take the inwards

and they're going to burn them on the altar

that's right here inside the holy place

whereas the skin and the dung

and the head and all these outward parts

they're going to take them outside of the camp

and they're going to burn them outside of the camp

okay so you kind of have like

different things happening

all with this particular animal

and you know they're eating the meat

you know this always bothered me

because it's like you know

you read about Native Americans

and they eat like the whole animal

and it's like but in the Old Testament

like they're not eating all this weird stuff

okay and you know people are always

offering you these weird cuts of meat

and you know God bless you

you can do whatever you want

but I'm just like you know in the Old Testament

they're burning that stuff

you know what I mean

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

you know like I'll take

I'll take the steak portion of the animal

you know they're they're cleaning it

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

they're not eating the blood

they're not eating the fat

and so I think number one

all of these things are just good things in general

like they're just carnal truths

they're the superior way

to clean the animal

to perform you know all these different things

associated with cooking

the animal

and so we should take some lessons from this

but again it pictures spiritual things as well

it says in verse 13

but he shall wash the inwards of the legs with water

and the priest shall bring it all

and burn it upon the altar

it is a burnt sacrifice

and offered me by fire

of a sweet Savior unto the Lord

and if the burnt sacrifice

was offering to the Lord be a fowl

then he shall bring his offering of turtle does

or young pigeons

and the priest shall bring it into the altar

and ring off his head

and burn it on the altar

and the blood there

shall be wrung out at the side of the altar

so also with the animals

they do the same thing

they ring out all the blood

they get all the excess blood

at the end of the altar

and they do this similarly

in other sections of the Bible

where it says that they would pour out all the blood

at the bottom of the altar

and if you would go to John chapter 19

John 19 · chapter mention

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

and so I think the horn is the altar

kind of picture of course

you know like the cross itself

you got two lifted up horns

and you have the blood put on there

and he's obviously put up on the cross

and you have you know

his hands being nailed to the cross

can kind of picture

the blood on the horns of the altar

you have Aaron himself being anointed

and they put blood on his ear

and on his fingers and on his toes

and it's like picturing

you know again

I believe Christ being on the cross

and you got the crown of thorns

and you've got it on his hands

he's nailed to the cross

but then you also have another element of the blood

after he's dead

being poured out at the altar

in John 19 look at verse 34

but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side

and forth came there out blood and water

and he saw that it bear record

and his record is true

and he knoweth that he say it's true

that you might believe

so according to the bible like

these things are picturing this

and here's one of the scriptures that's fulfilled

it says for these things were done

that the scripture should be filled

a bone of him should not be broken

and again another scripture say

they shall look on him whom they pierced

so these animals are being slaughtered

and killed in all these different ways

so that blood can be sprinkled

and then all the rest of the blood

can just be poured out of the bottom of the altar

just like a picture of how Christ's blood

is all poured out at the bottom of the cross

so all these things while they seem arbitrary

weird random they're picturing different elements

of what's going to happen with Jesus Christ

and of course these offerings being in different places

are going to be also picturing that as well

go if you went to chapter two of Leviticus

you know obviously most of the time

the bible is is making it clear too

that they're supposed to be

males without blemish

sometimes they use females

but it's always supposed to be

an animal sacrifice without blemish

without any problem

and that's a picture of the sinlessness of Christ

that he was in all points tempted

like as we are yet without sin

the bible says in chapter two

this is a meat offering

so this is a little bit different

and again what's confusing to me

is like almost all of these offerings

are meat in our sense of like carnal flesh

whereas typically when the bible is saying

a meat offering here

it's talking about bread

it's talking about like the wheat

so it seems backwards a little bit

but that's just because meat in the bible

a lot of times in the Old Testament

it's just referring to just food in general

and again the meat here is talking about

flour and bread

says in verse one

and when any will offer a meat offering

under the Lord

his offering shall be a fine flour

and he shall pour oil upon it

and put frankincense there on

and he shall bring it to Aaron's sons

the priest

and he shall take there of his handful

of the flour thereof

and of the oil thereof

with all the frankincense thereof

and the priest shall burn the memorial of it

upon the altar

to be an offering made by fire

of a sweet savor under the Lord

and the remnant of the meat offering

shall be Aaron and his sons

it is the thing most holy of the offerings

of the Lord made by fire

so they take flour, oil, frankincense

and they burn this to God

but then a portion of it

is given to the priest

and they consume it

it says specifically in verse number five

and if they'll bring an oblation of meat offering

baking in the oven

it shall be unleavened cakes

of fine flour, mingle with oil

or unleavened wafers anointed with oil

so it has to be unleavened

again this is picturing that Christ himself

is sinless again

the leaven is a picture of sin

that's mentioned in first Corinthians chapter number five

a little leaven leavened at the whole lump

and it was foreshadowing sin in the church

and the leaven is picturing the fact that Christ

is sinless because he's unleavened

and so these are unleavened cakes or wafers

it's like you kind of have

either an unleavened pancake

or an unleavened cracker wafer

type of a bread that they're eating

so different styles and different methods

of creating a meal here

and notice God's giving them a little bit of liberty here

they can make it into a cake style meal

they can make it into a wafer style meal

but then they are to eat it

so this is what they're constantly eating

they're eating with oil

so again oil is often a picture of the Holy Ghost

and so of course Christ is this unleavened wafer

he's this unleavened cake

he's filled with the Holy Ghost

and then you have this frankincense

which frankincense you know

I'm not going to be like super dogmatic about this

because I think there's a lot of things this could picture

obviously in general frankincense is a perfume

it's a smell it's an odor

so in one sense it's typically there

just to show that God's pleased with the offering

that is a sweet saver that God is satisfied with

I think another element is

that in the Gospels

there's the women they go out and buy spices

and they anoint the body of Christ

so it's for his body

and again what we're dealing with in this meat offering

is really talking about the physical aspects of Christ

we're talking about his physical body

he had no sin

he's filled with the Holy Ghost

but also his body saw no corruption

and if you think about this Lazarus

after four days the Bible says he stinketh

if you kind of remember

whereas the women go

and they anoint the body of Christ

and in fact he's anointed many times throughout the Gospels

with perfumes

with ointments

and it's to prepare for his burial

and again the emphasis is that

when Christ comes out and he resurrects

that his body saw no corruption

and so I believe it's

the frankincense is kind of showing like hey

this smells good

as opposed to smelling bad

and so Christ when he resurrects

he has a sweet saver

a sweet smell

not a rotten smell

not a decomposing smell

because decomposing flesh

is one of the most disgusting things you could ever smell

and so it's kind of like just

picturing how Christ's body was going to be preserved

and it's not only going to be preserved

but it's going to be a sweet saver

and it's going to be a sweet smell

and again that's because it's foreshadowing the

the resurrection itself

that Christ is going to resurrect

and there's nothing negative about the resurrection

he has a glorified body

it's of a sweet saver

it's of a sweet smell

because there's nothing worse than smelling

something bad

or smelling something rotten

and you know that's why you take a shower

okay

and and there's nothing wrong with perfume

or there's nothing wrong with some kind of a fragrance

that makes you smell you know pleasant

now don't be too heavy-handed there

okay I'm not saying like

you know

we don't want to smell you from feet away

okay

but it's like you know

some people use a slight fragrance or whatever

and it smells good

you know you walk in the perfume store and you want to gag

because it's just overwhelming

and we get that

but it's just like

you know in general

there's a good fragrance

there's a bad fragrance

and isn't it interesting that like

good religion

is concerned with smelling good

and false religion

smells horrible

have you ever noticed that

I'm just

I'm just gonna say it okay

I've noticed that false religion

and bad religion

usually smells bad

okay

their culture

there's their temples

their seeks or whatever

I mean all of it just smells bad

you know even the orthodox

they do these weird things

like some orthodox

they'll take a rotten foot

and they'll mix it in water

they'll like stir water with a rotten foot

and make people drink it

I've seen Hindus

they're drinking like foot water

you know if you read the

in the Old Testament

there's gonna be a portion in the Bible

where it talks about the false prophets

fouling water with their feet

and then making people drink it

wow

and it's just interesting how like

false religion

has like a physical uncleanness to it

and true biblical Christianity

is trying to be clean

and it's trying to have

good smells

and good fragrances

you know it's like you go to a

Texas brisket restaurant

and it just smells good

you smell all the meat being cooked

and everything

and it's just like

I mean you know think about it

where God is at

it just always smells good

I mean you smell someone

charcoaling and barbecuing

and it just smells good

you know in my neighborhood

they smell someone's cooking burger

or someone's cooking steak

or something

it smells good

and you're just kind

you're kind of like I want that

you know

whereas it's like some places

some cultures

some cuisines

you're like I don't want to smell your food

I don't want to smell your cooking

I don't want to smell

your rotting meat

or your rotting flesh

or the weird stuff that you're doing

and you know typically

your taste is associated with

their smell anyways

like God gave you a nose

to smell something

and say oh I shouldn't put this in my mouth

because it smells bad

like that's supposed to be

why you have that

you know reprobates don't know this

and so they'll eat disgusting things

they're on fear factor

eating stuff your nose is telling you no

why is it that when you have to eat

something you don't like

isn't it hold your nose

it's like you have medicines

hold your nose

it's like why would I just ignore

every God given instinct

every God given intuition

everything that God's given me of like

hey this food smells rotten

and it looks rotten

and it's like eat it

it's just like well

maybe I should just eat stuff

that smells good

and looks good

you know God gave me eyes

and a nose for a reason

and I'm going to use it

okay

and of course

I believe that all these things

are foreshadowing again

the gospel that the gospel

is a pleasant thing overall

obviously that cross

and the crucifixion or not

but the specific elements

of the resurrection

and he's coming out of the grave

and it's a sweet saver

I mean it would be kind of

spoiling the gospel

if Christ came up

you know resurrect from the dead

and they're like oh wow we can tell

you know from the smell

or something like that

no it was a pleasant smell

it's a good smell

on the walk to Emmaus

no one's like

you kind of smell like

you've been in a grave

for three days

you know so it's just like

hey they were preserving the body

and so I think again

that's where the frankincense

being put in this offering

this meat offering

that God wanted

them to enjoy the smell

of these offerings

and so it

it smells like a good kitchen

you know where God

is having them perform

all these sacrifices

and they have the oil there

they're doing a frying pan

they can cook it in an oven

frying pan pan

they got all kinds of different cooking

instruments that they're using here

but they're using fire

of course for every one of these sacrifices

I want to look at verse 11

no meat offering

which you shall bring to the Lord

shall be made with leaven

for you shall burn no leaven

nor any honey

and any offering of the Lord

made by fire

so two elements could not exist though

honey and leaven

so again the leaven is a picture of sin

and while I believe the frankincense

is a picture of the resurrection

and why that's a sweet saver

I believe the honey

is not put in here

because of what the bible says

about taking no pleasure

in the crucifixion element

okay so let's go to Isaiah

Isaiah 53 · chapter mention

chapter 53 for a moment

let's go to Isaiah chapter 53

Isaiah 53 · chapter mention

because again honey

is is sweet

and it's enjoyable

it's pleasant

honey could picture a lot of different things

you know I think also honey could just

picture the carnal pleasures of this life

and and again this is not

you know the gospel is not about

your best life now

and the carnal pleasures of this life

you know there's nothing wrong

with carnal pleasures

but this is not the gospel message

you know Christ didn't die on the cross

so you could have a sweet life

he didn't he didn't do that

to just have like all of this joy

and money and and whatever

you know from the carnal pleasures of life

like oh now I get to enjoy

the cowboys more or something

and like you know I love I don't mind

football like I'm not like

I want to be careful

I'm not hating football

I'm not even saying football is bad

but what I don't like

is how so many pastors

india of w will preach with a cowboys jersey on

and I mean I saw it recently this week

I saw like a pastor of a church

she's just got a cowboys jersey on

and I remember our our pastor growing up

would always say like if he said

if the cowboys make it to the super bowl

he was going to dress in a full

cowboys uniform

for the sermon on Sunday

and I'm just thinking like why

like should we have NASCAR church too

like what if I'm just like

hey if Jeff Gordon is going to win

you know I'll dress up like Jeff Gordon

or something you know it's just like

like why or you know like pickleball

or something you know it's like what

like why why the cowboys

and it's like you know that's that's

wrong to mix that with church

okay I'm not

if you want to go watch a cowboys game

or if you want to go play a sport

or you want to watch people

driving a circle and call it fun

you can do that all you want

but it's like that's just that's just

not church

okay I mean it's not about Christ

it's not about the gospel

and so we shouldn't be mixing the honey

in with his other stuff

and I believe you know when it talks

about Christ look at what it says in

verse 1 of Isaiah 53

who have believed our port

and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed

for he shall grow up before him

as a tender plant and as a root

out of a dry ground

he have no form nor comeliness

and we when we shall see him

there is no beauty

that we should desire him

he is despised and rejected

of men and man of sorrows

and acquainted with grief

and we hid as it were our faces rim

he was despised and we esteemed him not

so I believe what the Bible is trying

to indicate here in Isaiah 53

is the is the crucifixion

this is the crucifixion

and it's just saying like

when Christ was on the cross

you didn't enjoy that

there was nothing enjoyable about the cross

it's to picture the ugliness

of our sin and the ugliness

of what Christ is doing for us

you know some people twisted this

and I think it's blasphemous to say

that Christ was not

he was like an ugly man or something

or he looked he looked very rejected

from a carnal perspective

well that undermines what the Bible

teaches because the Bible teaches

that the lambs are supposed to be

like a perfect spotless lamb

so it's supposed to be the most

attractive looking lamb sacrifice

not something that has blemishes

not something that it has

and in fact the Bible is really explicit

that you know

if you got a humpback

you got a crooked nose

you know whatever

you couldn't even perform the sacrifice

of the Lord

you know picturing that Christ had to have been

you know a spotless perfect lamb

without blemish

okay he wasn't

there wasn't something messed up about him

but obviously on the cross

with a crown of thorns shoved on his head

and being beaten and bloodied

and bruised and not having eaten

like it was an ugly picture

because it's ugly for someone

to get beaten up

it's ugly for someone to be

you know hurt and in all these ways

and so there was no beauty

that they desired of him on the cross

because why?

because he was despised

because he was rejected of men

because he's been stripped and naked

and shamed and beaten and whipped

and there's a crown of thorns

I mean it's just it's an ugly mess

it's an ugly mess

but that's not to say

that Christ himself was an unattractive person

or something

that's a bad way to read the text

okay

so we go back to Leviticus

and it's saying no honey

I believe it's just picturing

this this element of the cross

that there was no nothing pleasant

about the cross

okay so there's no honey mixed in

because there's nothing

and again it's an unleavened cake

it's an unleavened wafer

again leaven and honey

is really where you kind of

you dial in the pleasure out elements

you know it's like the fluffy pancake

the fluffy pancake makes it kind of special

you know

in fact there's a restaurant in

Oklahoma City

that we would eat at

as a breakfast place

and they have the thickest pancakes

like I've ever had

and they were delicious

and I don't even like pancakes

like I'm not a pancake person

but these pancakes were exceptional

and it was the

you know they definitely used leaven

okay

there was no question of whether

they were using leaven

and of course they're also using

sugar or something you know

similar to what honey is bringing

into the recipe

is bringing in

you know that pleasant aspect

but again with

Christ on the cross

it's an unpleasant picture

it's a sinless

filled with the Holy Spirit

Christ

that is being beaten and bloodied

and bruised

and blood's being sprinkled

and spattered

and again

you know in some senses

there's a kind of an ugly process

you know

slaughtering animals

and blood being everywhere

that's not really that enjoyable either

and it's just to illustrate

a lot of these

elements with

with Christ

look at verse 13 now

it says

in every oblation of thy meat offering

shout thou season with salt

neither shout though suffer

the salt of the covenant thy God to be lacking

from thy meat offering

with all thine offerings

thou shalt offer salt

so every meat offering has salt on it

now salt

currently speaking it preserves meat

it'll help it last longer

and in fact many meats

are salted heavily

so they just have a very long shelf life

you look at deli meats

you look at like things like pepperoni

and salami

they've been

they've been salinated in a way

to where they can be preserved

for a very long time

a beef jerky

salt is helping in this preservation element

so if you think about it

it's something that should

dye rot and decompose

salt's keeping it

from dying

rotting and decomposing

and so its shelf life

has been extended

so i would i would argue

this is a picture of grace

because the meat should have expired

but it's not expiring when it should

so it's getting a grace period

and so in a lot of ways salt

pictures grace itself

and so every meat

is pictured with grace

and of course we're saved by grace

we don't get what we deserve

you know and of course

every sacrifice has to have the salt

because every sacrifice is a picture of grace

because there's nothing about the gospel

and there's nothing about christ

that isn't with grace

it's all about the grace

and how we're saved by grace

we're saved by salt in a sense

if the salt loses it's saver

it's good for nothing

and of course salt

you know without any grace

is just kind of meaningless

and that would mean what?

any salvation that's not by grace

is meaningless

any sacrifice without grace

is meaningless

okay

it's the grace that's the needed element

and you could even

you could even take another element

beyond just the gospel

it's just like christians without grace

are kind of meaningless too

because the bible says

if you don't have charity

then you're nothing

you know

if you're doing things without charity

then it's just kind of meaningless

and so we need to have grace

and of course we can

take that element into

you know our daily lives

not just the gospel

and getting saved

in chapter 3

look at verse 16

i'm just going to kind of

skip around just a few more verses

that i think are interesting

but it says in verse 16

the priest shall burn

and upon the altar

it is the food of the offering

made by fire for a sweet saver

all the fat

is the Lord

so all the fat was supposed to be burned

now again

i think that this is uh

it's not so much like overly literal

like obviously in a

a ribeye

or some portions of meat

there's this like tiny little bits of fat

that are wedged in there

this is talking about the big portions of fat

and it very clearly articulates these

okay

so you're just taking all the main sections of fat

and you're taking them all out

of the offering

system

and it's all the lords

and again i believe the fat is a picture of sin

okay it's a picture of sin

and how

all the fat is burnt

and all the fat is consumed

because christ's really satisfied

all of our sin

the bible says

the blood of jesus christ cleansed us from all sin

and so just all the fat

all that excess

is completely burned

is completely given to the lord

and it's completely satisfied

by god

whereas you see the false prophets

people like elie suns

they love to eat the fat

and it's just kind of a picture of how they don't want

you know the actual satisfaction for their sins

or the

the atonement for their sins

and they just

indulge in sin

and they

allow themselves to become excess

because of the fat

look at chapter number

ten

four verse ten

it says

and as it was taken off of the bullet

of the sacrifice of peace offerings

the priest shall burn them

upon the altar of the burn offering

and the skin of the bullet

and all his flesh hit his head

and with his legs

and his inwards and his dung

even the whole bullet

shall he carry forth without the camp

under clean place

where the ash is poured out

and burn them

on the wood of the

with the fire

so

it

and I'm not again

I'm not reading everything here

so you kind of have to just

roll with me

but

all the inwards were burnt at the altar

all the outward portion

was then taken outside the camp

and it was burned separately

so go to Hebrews chapter 13

Hebrews 13 · chapter mention

if you would go to Hebrews chapter 13

Hebrews 13 · chapter mention

this is the picture

two two elements of the burning

now

why is it the inwards burnt

in that altar there

because I believe that's the picture of hell

and again

what went to hell

Christ's body didn't go to hell

his soul went to hell

okay

picturing the inward part

but the outward part

was taken without the camp

and this is told explicitly

in the book of Hebrews

that this is picturing the cross

so in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 10

Hebrews 13:10

it says we have an altar

where they have no right to eat

which serve the tabernacle

for the bodies of those beasts

whose blood is brought into the sanctuary

by the high priest for sin

are burned without the camp

wherefore Jesus also

that he might sanctify the people

with his own blood

suffered without the gate

let us go forth therefore

unto him without the camp

bearing his approach

so it kind of says like

oh just like they would take the skin

and the head

and they took that

and they put that

and did it without the camp

but the inwards were burned

there at the altar

so again

his soul went to hell

but outwardly

he went to the cross

he was outside the city

they took him without

and they put him on the cross

and that's where his skin

and his head

and whatever were suffering

because let me tell you something

when you're getting whipped

and you're getting a crowd of thorns

and you're getting nails pierced

you know what's hurting

your skin

and it's hurting your head

you know it's hurting

the outward parts of the body

but the inward parts

the soul

that's where the fire from hell

is actually the pains of death

okay so that's why it's two separate things

like you kind of wonder like

why not just burn it all right there

couldn't they have just done that

why go through all the hassle

and all the effort

of burning the inside here

then taking the outside out

and the burning

because it's picturing different elements

of the sacrifice of Christ

not only did he go without the camp

not only did he get crucified

not only is his skin his body

and his physical

you know pain that he suffered

he also has the inward suffering

of hell and the burning

that was there as well

so inward burn on the altar

outward burn outside the camp

and then it's foreshadowed here

go to chapter 5 look at verse 15

chapter 5 verse 15

and I know this morning I'm not

you know getting up and screaming

and yelling about how wicked

and feminist our world is but

you know hopefully you like the bible

okay come tonight

all right that's all I'd say

but it says in chapter 5 verse 15

if a soul committed trespass

a sin through ignorance

in the holy things of the Lord

then he shall bring for his trespass

and the Lord it ran without blemish

under the flocks

or out of the flocks

with thy estimation

by shekels of silver

after the shekel of the sanctuary

for a trespass offering

and he shall make amends

for the harm that he had done

in the holy thing

and shall add the fifth part there to

and give it under the priest

and the priest shall make an atonement

for him

with the ram of the trespass offering

and it shall be forgiven him

so chapter 1 we dealt with the burnt offering

chapter 2 is a meat offering

chapter 3 is a peace offering

chapter 4 is dealing

and chapter 5 are kind of dealing

with trespass offerings

and ignorance offerings

and sin offerings

and it's saying if someone did some

ignorant offering

like an ignorant sin I'm sorry

they sin through ignorance

or this trespass through ignorance

then not only do they have to give the animal sacrifice

they have to give a fifth portion

of shekels of money to the priest

and notice it said in verse 15

with thy estimation

by shekels of the silver

after the shekel of the sanctuary

so they figure out

hey I sinned

and they realize they sinned

then they bring the animal

when they bring the animal

they have to then figure out

how much does this animal cost

and so I don't know the numbers

doesn't matter

let's just say it was a thousand shekels or whatever

they would say okay this animal is a thousand shekels

and then they would say okay

then I have to give a fifth of that

in money also

so if it was a thousand

you're giving a fifth that's 20%

so I'm trying to use easy numbers

that would be what 200 shekels

okay so they have to give 200 shekels with it

but they're figuring out the price of this animal

to end up giving this

look at chapter six

and let's read some more about this

it says in the Lord's bacon of Moses saying

if a soul sin and commit a trespass against the Lord

and lie unto his neighbor

and that which was delivered him to keep

or in fellowship

or in a thing taken away by violence

or at deceived his neighbor

or have found that which was lost

and lieth concerning it

and sweareth falsely

and any of all these

that a man doeth sinning therein

then it shall be because he has sinned and is guilty

that he's restored that which he took violently away

or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten

or that which was delivered him to keep

or the lost thing which he found

or all that about which he hath sworn falsely

he shall even restore it in the principle

and shall add the fifth part more there to

and give it unto him

to whom it appertaineth

in the day of his trespass offering

and he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord

and ram without blemish out of the flock

with by estimation for a trespass offering

notice this

unto the priest

so what's interesting about this

is you have a situation

where you not only give the animal sacrifice

you have this shekels of silver being given to him

and the first portion is he didn't do it

he didn't understand it was a sin through ignorance

okay he whisked it not

as the bible says in verse 17

he whisked it not meaning he didn't know

he was guilty but he didn't understand it

and I believe this is foreshadowing Judas Iscariot

okay because Judas Iscariot

he goes in covenants with the priest

and is given 30 shekels of silver

to betray the Lord Jesus Christ okay

but then later when he after the after the crucifixion

Judas ends up coming to himself and realizing

he's betrayed innocent blood

so in a sense you can see like oh he didn't realize

what he was even doing exactly

and he comes and he gives that money back to the priests

and so in the same sense it's like this guy

sins through ignorance

and then he gives this shekels of money to the priest

that they estimated the value of this animal

and again they ask that they give a price of Christ

of course it's 30 shekels in the New Testament

is what we understand

and it's just kind of an interesting foreshadowing

but think about what Judas did

and then it's interesting when you read

chapter six again

because it's interesting thinking about like

what it's saying would be the reason

why you would have to give money

and then it's like what did Judas do

because it says here in verse number two

if a soul sin had committed trespasses against the Lord

and lie unto his neighbor

oh that's what Judas did

he lied unto Jesus didn't he

in that which he was delivered him to keep

he was supposed to keep the Lord Jesus Christ safe

but he lies and he delivers them onto the Romans

or in fellowship

I mean he comes and betrays him with a kiss

he's lying to him

he's deceiving him in a fellowship

if you keep reading it says

or in a thing taken away by violence

oh you mean like the Roman soldiers coming with swords

to take away the Lord Jesus Christ

and then it says or at the seed his neighbor

again the betrayal of the kiss by Judas Iscariot

or have found that which was lost and lieth concerning it

and swear it falsely

of course it's like Christ is kind of coming

and it's like a secret

the gospel has been lost

and then Judas of course is like lying about this

it's like it's interesting how all these people

that are guilty

are just like Judas Iscariot

and that's the specific sacrifice

that you have to add money

you have to add the sequels of the sanctuary

and of course then that money goes to the priest

in the same way

the money of Judas went back to the priest

and then they bought Potiphar's field

with that money

and so it's just kind of interesting how a lot of these

you know sacrifices

are kind of picturing elements

of the gospel message

look at

verse 12

it says in the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it

it shall not be put out

and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning

and lay burnt offering in order upon it

and he shall burn thereof

there on the fat of the peace offering

so verse 13 the fire shall ever be burning

upon the altar and it shall never go out

this picture is again hell is forever

hell will never cease

so there's an eternal nature

there was a sacrifice though every morning

so you could you could see how

hell is forever

but Christ sacrifices forever

and it covers that

and so will never taste of death

in verse 16

it says in the rainder there shall Aaron

and his sons eat with unleavened bread

shall it be eaten in the holy place

in the court of the tabernacle

of the congregation

they shall eat it

so they're eating this flour

they're eating this bread meal

and it's really specific in these chapters

when it's talking about eating

it's usually talking about the bread

the wafer or the cake

so they're eating this

and it's a sweet saver

it's a memorial

so to satisfy you going to hell

you eat the wafer in a sense

and what is that foreshadowing

that's picturing how

we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ

and his death burn resurrection

and that satisfies us

from going to hell

this is brought up in John chapter 6

John 6 · chapter mention

Jesus Christ said that you had to eat

his flesh

so that you could have life in you

you eat food to have life

you eat food to survive

to be sustained another day

and in the same way

we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ

and that gives us eternal life

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

and we do this

we believe

and that's what gives us salvation

but notice in verse 17

it shall not be bacon with leaven

I have given unto them for

their portion of my offerings made by fire

it is most holy as the sin offering

and as the trespass offering

it cannot have leaven

picturing what salvation

is not faith and works

it is faith alone

and why is it not works

by leaven here

because any offering that we have of ourselves

is coming leavened

because we are sinful

we have fallen short

so therefore our works cannot save us

and we can't mix in

what Christ did

His wafer

with our wafer

because our wafer is leavened

and he doesn't accept

any offering with leaven in it