Leviticus 2:7-10 Bible Study | Episode 656

April 15, 2024

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

Leviticus 2:7-10  Bible Study | Episode #656

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 like community churches, morning Bible study. We're in Exodus chapter two. Not Exodus. I can't go on that. So let's have been there. So then we're in the medicals chapter two, and we're dealing with the grain offering and as we discussed last week, as we discussed in our.

and last Bible study. This offering to me is a picture of fellowship of God. It has a lot of aspects of it back below to the communion that we call the communion service. And that is a, that is a service where we take them to Berlin which is 11 Berlin and we take them a wine or a juice as it were in, in in.

In American tradition, it's not a tradition, that's where we're at, but we take the bread and the cup and it is a memorial, it's a, it's for remembering the last time that Jesus ate with his disciples before he went to the cross. And it is a little something that he. He desired to do.

It is a remember eating together in scripture is a picture of fellowship and it is a picture of Jesus willing to fellowship with his disciples, have this last moment of fellowship, this last moment of being together. And Bethlehem went to the cross. And when we come together as a church, especially in the teachings of Paul in Corinthians it is to be a time of fellowship.

And it's a time of togetherness, and it shouldn't be treated as some time where people come in and prune their mood spiritual. It should be a time of coming together, a time of unification, a time of celebration of what Christ has done. And the grain offering it's a picture of that.

It was the it's a thorough shadowing of what Jesus is going to do in the upper realm. And then ultimately a thorough shadowing of what Jesus is going to do in his body and the crafts. And and when we're shattering the grain, I think I was just in my own mind and, this is one of these shared teachings.

It's, I'm not telling you it's exactly right, but it's one of those shared teachings. I think of it as fellowship. I think it was is communion and communion means to do the letter commonality, communion, a fellowship with God. It is, it was that time where we had a fellowship of God. I actually noticed a couple of things about it.

Some of the verses that were used last week and then into the verses that we're using this week. It says, and if you bring it up as an offering of grain, Afro baked in an oven. Now that they touch about how that Afro is going to be baked in an oven and it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.

And so they would, I talked about my granny crying, making caviar biscuits. It has that feel to it, except. There's no leaven in it. So that it's not going to grow up like a musket. It's going to be like a rater. And he says, you should make it a fine flour. And that was just the best.

It's not, it was the very best of the grain they had. And they wouldn't have had a lot of grain in the desert. They wouldn't have had any grain, but they grew, they wouldn't have even bet it by not by. They would have either bought it from Moroccans or they would have brought it from Egypt.

And when you're studying this and thinking about it this is a very important effort for them because it's a rural supply. And my economics background says that if the supply is rural, And the desire to give this offering is high than the price of a product is going to be high.

And supply and demand with universally and they went back then also. And so this offer would have been a very important offering. It'd been a very valuable offering. And in the picture of the relationship of God and our communion with God it would have been a very important offering.

It would have been a offering where they would have valued it greatly. Notice there's multiple ways in which they effort they prepare for this offering. In verse seven, it says, if you ask for a rain offering, bait in a covered pan. So you've got one. That is baked in an oven, then you've got another one where you've got a covered pan and you would have put that on the fire it would have been a it would have been a middle transient type of grinder.

I don't know what I mean by that really. If they have an oven back then, you would have had to be in a place where you built. An oven and that would have taken time and would have taken resources. A covered pan. All we have to do is have the five and have a place to hang that that pan above the fire, right on top of the fire so that it can bake in that covered pan it should be fine.

Fine. I know now that the ingredients, how do you make it? is the same, but how it's married is different. And I think this is a picture of our relationship with God, our communion with God. Every person has their own unique fellowship with God. We're not ever exactly the same. And God made that intentionally so that he could have a unique relationship with each one of us.

And I am I am thankful for my relationship with God. Oftentimes, as I see others relationship with God we think I think that mine's not as good as theirs. Mine's not as sweet or nice or wonderful. And and and I knew I was in, in that. In that realization, I realized that all relationships with God are not the same.

Now they have the same ingredients. Everything that makes that relationship possible is the same, but how you read with God is going to be different. It's going to be, it's going to be unique to you. And I think it's important when you see this communion offering, this fellowship offering that is going on here, this grain offering That you understand that is it is one of those efforts that first of all is prepared before you bring it to the priest or something is that there has to be some preparation before you get there and then once you bring that before the priest, it's going to it's going to be the same ingredients.

It's going to have bread fine flour. It's going to have the, which is a picture of the power of the Holy Spirit. It's going to be cooked. It's going to be prepared. earlier. And it's going to be, it's going to be a sweet offering to the Lord. It's going to be important to God. God's going to take it and put it.

He said in verse eight, you shall bring the offering that is made of these things to the Lord. And when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar. Notice there's preparation beforehand and also bliss especially on Sundays, there needs to be some preparation in your head before you share it to church.

And we make preparation for a lot of things in our lives. Although some people. that make preparation for anything. And they live a happy go lucky life. And if that's you, okay your preparation and me preparation are not going to be the same, but you should prepare your heart for worship.

And just as they were preparing this grand offering in different ways it's going to be prepared differently by you. You should make some preparation in your heart to go meet with God. And and I think that's clear in this passage that preparation has to be done. If you're really going to have true fellowship with God, you got to do some prepping on the front end.

You got to prepare yourself. He says, then the priest shall take the grain offering a memorial cursion, meaning they're going to keep. Of the bread. This is one of those things that the priest is willing to get, is going to be an advantage for them. They're gonna have access to bread. They didn't have income.

They didn't have a they didn't have an inheritance in the land when once they get to Israel they don't have an inheritance in the land. They have a portion in the towns of Israel. They, the the Levites would live. In the towns, and they would have a place to live there, but they would not have a place to where they could make grain.

And so they're going to be able to have access to this bread. They're going to be able to have access to to grain offerings for themselves. They don't have the memorial portion of that, that they're going to be able to keep. And that is one of the methodologies by which God takes care of the post to it.

And in fact it is a picture, especially those who minister before the leader of being taken care of financially. I think this is God showing that if you were, if you're pastoring or leaning before the church, that, you should be you should receive some some Amount of money to take care of you and your family because you're going to be doing some of that rather than doing some of the other things that you could do to make some money.

Now, for me personally, I have my own income and so that's not necessary. But that being said, I do take some Sam from the church does pay for some things for me. Why did I do that? You say you were, you don't mean it pastor. I do that because I make sure that the church is doing what it should be doing and giving giving some income to those who are ministering for the church to those who are taking a place of ministry in the kingdom of God.

We should do that. We should do that. And we should do that all the time. And I think that's a picture that you need to get out of it. It says it's a, it's an offering made by fire. And that's a picture of the. The purification of the Holy Spirit, fire is the cleansing, and the purification of the Holy Spirit actually ratters the cleansing, fire is the purification, it's making you pure before Him, and it's a swing of the land before the Lord.

Obviously God, The whole plan is so that he could have fellowship with us. And a grain offering is a sweet amendment before him because it was a picture of him fellowshipping with us and what is left of the grain offering shall be Aaron and his sons. It is most holy of the offerings to the Lord made by fire.

Notice it is the most holy offering. And you would think that the the first offering, the bone offering would be the most holy because. That deals with sin. And that is the a picture of the atonement of Jesus Christ and the crash of our sins. But it's not the most toiling. It's not. God's having to deal with sin is something that he has to do, and it's necessary.

But it's not the most, it's not the thing that he wants from us. It's not the thing that he desires. You have his creation is to return for sin when he went out. So let's finish it up with us. And it's not the most important thing, but it is unparalleled. It does have impermanence the Bible offering does.

It's just not the most totally. It's not the most important, and I think that is something that we, we oftentimes just don't dwell on enough. We don't dwell on that the most holy, the most intimate, the most important thing to God is his love for us. And I. Showing our living out our life for him.

It is the center most aspect to his character. It is the most powerful person of who he is. And his life for us is what matters the most now. He was piled to overcome sin as a parent for us, but for him, he is. Abiding eternal, everlasting love for us is what matters, and our love for Him is what matters to Him.

And this offering is a communion, or a coming together, a Lord's Supper, a time of intense fellowship with God. And Why wouldn't it be the most holy camp? Why wouldn't it be the most important part? Why wouldn't it be the thing that God wants the most is for us to have that intimacy, that togetherness, that love, that relationship.

That's what it's all about. That's what scripture is all about is the great love God has for us. And in that love, there is a there is a there's peace and power and purpose. And I would just say to you that when we're studying with screen offering, we're going to split from the middle day as we study with screen offering, you realize there's great fellowship in this.

There's great togetherness. And there's. In the pantheon of offerings it is the most holy of the offerings to the Lord made by fire. Now, it's the one, it's the, it's also burned up. There's a portion of it burned up also, but it's the most heavenly one made by fire. Why? Because if the Holy Spirit is purifying us he's purifying us for one reason and one reason only as far as God's concerned so that we can be with him.

And in a runner for the know that our God loves us and God, our God rocks. To have fellowship with us. He wants us to be with him. Really a powerful and motivating understanding to have of God, especially found way back in the book of Leviticus in chapter two I pray that God will bless you 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.