Leviticus 2:1-6 Bible Study | Episode 655

April 12, 2024

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

Leviticus 2:1-6  Bible Study | Episode #655

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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Transcript

This is Chad Harrison, and you're listening to Hope Alive, Applying God's Word to Your Daily Life.

Hi, this is Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and have been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now, that God would open up his word to you and allow you to see him and to know him and to know his will, that you might glorify him and that you might walk in faith and power each and every day.

Especially today. In Jesus name. Good morning. Welcome to Lake community churches morning. Bible study Saturday for yesterday. We had a little hiccup of Facebook, but got that resign and this man and say it's good to have you going to be able to go through grain offering without expanded over two weeks because of that, a little bit of hiccup, but we all do with chapter two of Leviticus, it is the grain offering and it says when internet offers a grain offering to the His offering shall be a fine flyer.

Now this asso, like the first offering, the burnt offering, is a it's voluntary offering. It's not a requirement. It's not one that's got to be made. It's not one that God comes in and says that that you have to make this offering on this day at this time, which he is going to do about certain offerings.

He's going to come in and say this offerings for this time, for this reason, for this purpose, this is Of the better is, better volitional. It's not voluntary. It's volitional. And what does that mean? That means that the initiator of this offering is not God. The initiator of this offering is you.

And when he's explaining how to do it, he's getting you the i he's getting you understanding of what to be done, but he's not telling you how to do it. And that is. He's not telling you when to do it. He's telling you that you should do it, but he's not telling you exactly what it should be offered.

And you go, what does that really matter? It matters because remember, salvation is fundamentally a work of God based on our volition, meaning based on our willingness to follow him, to trust him, to work with him to live with him, to act by faith. It is a. He's a volitional act by us. Remember, we both are God's regeneration of us, or him making us into a new creature, giving us we both, that is a volitional act by him.

That is something he chose to do. It's not something that we do by ourselves. It's not something that we decide. It's not something that God, that we can make God do. We have no. So in that God has to provide the circumstances by which is possible. He's done that in Jesus Christ. And then once he's provided the circumstances for that to be possible Then he was acted to give us new life in Jesus was life and that life was light of the world.

He's through Jesus to give us that life by his ambulation. Now once we have been born again, once we've been converted, once we've repented and turned toward him, then God gives us the. Ability and the opportunities he puts in these things in place for us to actually trust him, for us to actually do what he has asked us to do the things he's given us in some ways, the opportunity to do.

And that is the cool thing about the Christian life. We join God in what he does so that we can be as he is. It's like we talked about in study last night. We actually we actually get. To be as he is when we act or when we believe in them in our own heads, my own voluntary actions decide to act and be as God is.

And that was in the context of love. We have, God chose to love us and we have to. Choose to love him. And we have to choose to love others. And Rev is live and we don't choose IO lab because that's not something that innately comes from us because we're centers. It's something that is a gift of God that's been given to the universe.

It's something that's rampant in the universe. It's a common source of grace and it's a particular source of grace. What do you mean by that? Nothing's lab is common in the universe. It's clearly saying him. Making universe the way he did. Perfect. He's got perfection in his laws. It's very intricate.

It's very personal. The way he's created the universe to operate is for our benefit and for our best. It is a beautiful, powerful, wonderful thing that he has done. And it is good. And that's what Genesis says. It's good. And so his love is replete without, with with. Throughout the universe it is reported through out of the things that are made physically.

It's reported with all the things that are made that are living beings. And so you still live throughout the universe that comes from God. And that is part of his common grace that he gives to us. And so he gives us his personal love. We can know the love of God. We can know who's his love and how do we know what love is?

Christ died for us. We know his love because he has acted in the physical universe personally on our behalf and provided for us atonement for our lack. of love, a lack of God, and a hatch. And love is the defining characteristic of God. Now there are a lot of characteristics of God that you can name, but the preeminent one, the main one, is his love.

And so when we're choosing to do things, we choose to do things by his love. Now, raffling that tangent, but I think it's very important that you understand that the first two rafflings are volitional rafflings. The first one full of shadows, Christ, but it's also full of shadows. Us offering ourselves as living sacrifices to him.

We've done that to all the flesh and we reckon the newness of life. This offering is the same way and it's called a brain offering. I like to think of it as a fellowship offering now. The reason it's called a grain offering is because God calls it a grain offering, but the reason I think of it as a fellowship offering is because it can be very directly tied to worship because of what is being offered, but it also is a picture of once, once we have given ourselves over to God, we've given our flesh over to God, we said we're going to give you our lives and we want to offer ourselves as living sacrifices.

Once that happens, once we've done that Now to have a time where we actually get to know him, we have fellowship, we have communion with him. And that's one of the reasons we use that word for communion to describe this in the New Testament version of this offering or this sacrifice. It is a communion or a fellowship with God.

He says, when even that offers a great offering to the Lord, his offering shall be a fine flyer. Now, what is he saying? That's a type of flower that has to be it has to be. Ground down to a fine point and it can't be done just by doing it with a with a stone and a whole it's got to be done over and over again, if you're going to use that methodology and it may, and it needs to be fine flower.

Now this doesn't put up to be made here. These people are in the wilderness, so they would have to be using supplies of grain, the thing that either barely from surrounding tribes, people coming through. Trading things, they would have had to bring it out of Egypt, which they likely did bring a lot of food out of Egypt, especially this flower out of Egypt now that remember they eat manna from heaven to survive, God took care of them, but they would have had some fine flower with them.

And that would have been a very valuable product for them. And in rare ground fine flower would have been. Would have been something that would have been a great cost to them, something that they would have wanted to give away. Easily, that's a beautiful picture of worship. It, it should cost you something.

As David said, for me to give the Lord something that cost me nothing that, that is a, that is an important understanding and principle that needs to come from that needs to come from the scripture that you, when you worship God, and remember, this is a picture of worship.

When we seek out God, when we have fellowship with God, it should cost us something. It should be of great value to us. So many times we make worship. Easy for folks. We make worship something that is secret sensitive. And the truth is if anybody's thinking God, it's because it's how much spirits I would call on him.

Carlin. And the reason we say with spirits, I recall them is because he's already completed the new birth and they're on his way to them. We shouldn't teach people to do something. That's not inmate is not absolutely innate to what it was to be a Christian. And what does that mean? It means to me, it means that Christianity costs, God.

His son, Christianity is a cost benefit relationship. It cost us something. It cost us our lives to have his life. And it cost God his son so that he could have us. And to make church And I'm not just saying church, we should make people feel comfortable and all that kind of stuff. But to make to make everything easy on people to suit God out, it was not a, it's not an accurate reflection of what it is to be a Christian Christianity cost us things and it, so it says he shall put it on it.

Another valuable substance that they wouldn't have had that would most likely have been olive oil, virgin olive oil. It would have been something that they would have had the benefit of bringing out of Egypt. Now when they get to the famous land, they're going to be able to have the flour and the oil easily.

But in the wilderness, they would not have had it. It would have cost something. And put fragrance scents on it. That's another item that they would not have had in the wilderness. All these things are things that they would not have had in the wilderness and it would have sacrifices would have been costly.

They would have had to buy them from from traders that might've come by and they would have had to, it would have, these things were not easy to kill. Glaine and Saxon is not easy to kill. These oils and these Perfumes are not easy to get, and so each one of them, I want you to notice, each one of them, there's the picture of frankincense, which is a, an oil used for a beer, there's the pulling of the olive oil, which is a picture of the power of the Holy Spirit.

And then you've got the fine flower, which is very costly where they are. And that fine flower is a picture of flesh, but remember, this is fine flesh. This is this is a flesh of great value, which is a picture of Jesus Christ or a foreshadowing of him being the sinless sinless bread of life that God gives us.

He shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priest, one of whom shall take it from the, from his handful of fine flour and oil with all the frankincense. And the priest shall burn it as a memorial offering made by fire, a sweet arrangement to the lure. Now. This one is going to be placed a little after, the best way I think of it, he's going to put it in his hand, he's going to put the the fine flour the hemp to frankincense on it, he's going to put that in his hand, he's going to mix it together for me, it reminds me of my great grandmother Granny McLean Grand Clean, that's what we called her.

Her making them cat head biscuits when I was a little bitty boy. And him, her working in that flour and kneading out that dough and putting those biscuits on a pan and putting them in the oven. Those were the best biscuits in the world. And I enjoyed eating them every time she ever made them.

My dad loved them. And so when she would come and she came a lot when we were young it it was a great time for her to make those things. That's really what I think about when I think about this. Now you may think of it from another context. And if you're British, you might call it a scone we call it biscuits biscuits to them, I think, or cookies.

But anyway the whole idea here is this rain offering is to be put together. We're putting together, we're putting together that fine flour. Which is a picture of the the the body of Christ. We're putting together that which is a picture of the Holy Spirit. And then we're having that hymn of frankincense was a picture of his death is to celebrate.

It was given to him at his birth to foreshadow his death. And in his death, it was placed on him as a as a preparation of his body for the tomb. These are pictures of they're pictures of their show. There are pictures of us worshiping Jesus for his finished work on the cross. It says the rest of the grain offering shall be airing in his sun.

So it happens. They put that biscuit on the on the anter. And lemme tell you something. I love biscuits or I love I love some cornbread. As you can tell. I'm a little hungry this morning. I love it with when it's just a little bit bump on the edge. And I love the edges of its.

Specifically, and let me tell you, that's what they did with the sacrifice. They burned that bread and that's really what it ended up being, is being a bread. They burned that bread through a wafer and the edges that were burnt were to be to God and that which was left, the priest ate. And you saw the first outing of the communion offering of G that Jesus instituted in the upper room that that taking of the bread and ingesting it as a picture of taking the sacrifice of Jesus and making it a part of our lives.

And isn't that a beautiful picture? It is really a beautiful picture that God's given us here a fair shadow and know exactly what he's going to be doing in the future in Jesus Christ and says, and if you bring an offering of grain, offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes. Now remember 11 or A picture of yeast is a picture of sin, so it's always unleavened 'cause Christ flesh was unleavened.

It's a picture of Jesus being the spotless or the sinless lamb of God. He says, when you bring that, it shall be unleavened cakes. A fine flower mixed with oil and unleavened ERs anointed with all. I guess those are big biscuits and small biscuits is my thinking. And really that is, if you have a large piece of grain, you make a larger cake or and that's what they call it, a larger cake.

And then with the smaller ones, there would be smaller wafers, and there would be place family after. And they would allow to allow it to get to the place where it's almost burnt and the part that was burnt and be left for God and the rest of it. And that's a fine arama to God. It's a it's Jesus giving his life on the cross.

And and his death is, was a sweet arama to God. Why? Because it paid for the sin of humanity. And Moses. If you didn't want to put the oil in the little bitty pieces, if somebody just had a little bit of flower, the effort of sacrifice, notice you're able to bring a whole lot, a little bit, those with means could bring it, those without means could be a little, and we all got the same result and that is a picture of God.

Those who have no talent need to put that to work. Those who have five talents need to put it to work. And what's the Well done, my good and faithful servant, because you've been faithful a few things, I'll put you in charge of many. It is a picture of God saying, bring what you have, bring what I have given you to my altar, and I am going to bless you not based off of the amount you bring, but based off of the attitude or the position of your heart.

Toward me, volitionally, you choose to sacrifice to me. And he said, but if your offering is of ground offering baked in a pan, it should be a fine flour unleavened mixed with oil. So they actually could bring pans and put this on the altar. I think that's fabulous. Cause that's exactly how my granny claim did it.

And so it says you shall break it into pieces and put it on it. It is a grain offering. And if your letters, Arbus, that stuff has to do with art. All this offering has to do with is a foreshadowing of Christ, a foreshadowing of us. We're offering ourselves as sinless sacrifices to Him which is our reasonable act of service, a living sacrifice.

We're offering that to Him, however sinless because of the atoning work of Jesus Christ. We're offering that to Him. And As we study this again next time we get together this is going, this is a beautiful picture of the work of Jesus Christ. And it's a beautiful picture of how God has voluntarily or volitionally loved us.

And then we volitionally choose. To honor to choose to worship his work in giving us the newness of life, the newness of our own hearts and our own minds is probably that you'll see this. This is just a beautiful picture of what God is willing to do completely. And finished as you go today, I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you that he'll make his face to shine upon you and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.