Leviticus 2:11-16 Bible Study | Episode 657

April 16, 2024

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

Leviticus 2:11-16   Bible Study | Episode #657

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 let community churches morning. Baba study. We are in Exodus chapter two. Leviticus chapter two. I keep doing that. Leviticus chapter two. And we are studying verses 11 through 16. We're doing the grain offering. And remember for my last two studies I'm doing this approach to the fellowship that we have with God.

And so it is a picture of our fellowship offering that we have with with God and you need to know God and let's. Once once the attaining sacrifice is made, it's possible that we can have a relationship here with him. And the whole point of this is to have that relationship. And And the green everything is about that now in there.

So then there's some clarifications are made here. The end what I mean by that? They, he clarifies the cipher and he, and when I say clarifies it he gives some instruction as to how this is supposed to be done. What's supposed to happen as far as this offering is concerned, it brings up some things that I think are important for you to spend a little time thinking about as far as the context of fellowship with God, a communion with God, having a relationship with God.

Remember they're bringing these these bread offerings and they, it is a clear picture of Jesus and the communion. And so when we get to This grain offering, he wants to make sure that you understand that there's some aspects of it that can't be, and there's some aspects of it that should be.

And verse 11 says, no grain offering which you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven. Now and I'll recall that yeast, okay. And leaven is the is the substance that makes bread. path up and let me tell you something. And now the money we may have a yeast roll. We love some biscuits and we love yeast rails and we love yeast.

We love it. We love us to the now in scripture, that's a negative or that's something that we don't deal with. We don't do and used in scripture is a picture of sin. And when he says, no great offering, fellowship offering, no offering that is meant for the purpose of a fellowship with me shall be made with love.

And what I'm saying is it's hard to have fellowship with God when you have when you have rebellious sin in your life when you have active choices to to choose not to work with God in your life, but to work in your own way and your own way. And remember, that's really where sin comes from.

It comes from my heart. Now, the world is falsely unsure, and it's broken and fallen, but the truth is that sinning sinning comes to them, sinning comes to them, our own desires to to do our will and our way, and we're separated from God, and if we're going to have the atoning sacrifice of Jesus, the blood offering, then we're going to have fellowship with God.

God says I can't have sin. God's holy and he wants us to be holy. Now you say I might not ever have fellowship with God. Remember, I'm not talking about, I'm not talking about the sun, but it's just a, that's just replete with within us. I'm talking about. Act of rebellious sin. I'm talking about when we just choose not to work with God and choose to walk in our will and our way we lose our closeness with God.

We lose our fellowship with God. And he says he says, you shall not burn for you shall burn no loving, no, any honey in any orphan to the liver made by fire. Now the. He says, I don't want you to put leaven in the bread. You can't do that. And he doesn't want honey to be added. And you go I thought honey was good.

It was good. It is good. It is his very best. And remember these bird offerings are offerings that are made to God as a part of our giving to him. Relay and give God honey. Honey comes from doesn't, honey is I can go through all the aspects of honey that make honey wonderful. Honey is great for your health.

Honey is great for it is one of the most power packed, and when I say power packed, I'm talking about energy packed substances that we have to eat. Honey is a it's a fact that you have to study. If you don't know anything about honey and it's medicinal qualities, it's it's good for your body.

It's good for your life. And what's cool about honey is the best honey to eat. Or to ingest is the honey from the area that you live in because it is it usually has every ingredients from the bees in the area that you live in that will help you and give you the most honey is A location specific, power packed, wonderful gift God has given us.

It is a beautiful gift that God has given humanity in the form of a liquid I like honey, so it's beautiful. It's wonderful. That being said, we don't bring that as a sacrifice to God. It's not something we do to God. That's what he gives us. We can't we just Produce that I'm telling you, scientists cannot produce honey.

The way honey actually is. It's it you could, but it's not synthetically made very well. It is not really synthetically made at all. It is. It is a. It is terrible. It was terrible that humanity can't make some of the things that God makes, we think. But the truth is, there's just some things that God makes.

Man can't make a cell. We've never made a cell in a laboratory. We can't even get to where we we even know what It's totally possible to do. In fact, we've now found out that there are smaller machines in sales that make sales operate, and we don't even know how that's even possible.

And likewise with hunting it is a gift from God and it is a picture of God's provision, his goodness, his power for provision for us. And he says. I don't let that as a better offering to me. That's a gift for me to you. So we don't really love him because we don't want sin. And we don't want you to use their offering of hurting on the after, because that's a gift for me to you, not a gift from you to me.

As for the offering of first foods, and we're going to get into first food offerings later on as we're going through the book of Leviticus, but first food offerings are literally what they mean. Whenever you had a first endeavor, a first child, a first opportunity, you move to a new area and the first things that God gets you with in those areas, there's, there shouldn't be an offering made for that.

And the reason for that is, is because the first field offering gives us a it makes sure that we're centered when we're experiencing new things, it makes sure we're in the fact that we look at God and we say, God is the author of all good things. And so I want to recognize, but anything that I, for the first time, God's given me good things from my, in my life.

I want to recognize that and get back to him so that I'm saying to him, I recognize that all of it has happened for me, comes from you. And if it's a first food offering, which could be a grant offering. In fact, the first food offering is a fellowship offering. You're saying, thank you, God, for all that you're doing.

I'll let you join me in my life and join me in the things that are going on. And so I'm going to offer this to you. When you go to a business, sometimes you'll see a framed a dollar a framed some denomination, five, 10, 15, five, 10, 20, a hundred dollar bill and the rent and and you've ever read is that that's the first.

Money that business made where that's a similar idea, except rather than putting on the rail, you give it to God, and that is the first food offering. And he says, I read that. He says he says all that. And you can do that as a bone offering. You bring that. And because you have given it to God, unlike honey, God gave it to us.

We're giving him the first fruits of the labor of our lives. The first food of the opportunity of our lives. The first food label thing we got is done for our lives. When we do that, he says, as for the offering of first food, you shall answer them to the liver, but they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet arraignment.

Meaning, meaning that he doesn't want it burned up. He gave it to him for a reason and he wants it to be. Not burn up. He doesn't want, he doesn't want it to be a consuming offering that he's going to consume. It says, and every offering of your brain offering, you shall soothe and reset. You shall not allow the sight of the covenant of your God to be awakened from your brain offering.

With every offering you shall ever set. If you're from the South and you're from Ireland and we live. Salt on food now. We're not we're not as flavorful and as wonderful as a lot of s as far as adding some of the great flavors that I love Italian Mexican. You just name 'em.

I love some spiciness and all that kind of stuff, but in island, we got to have sat. And sat is a picture. The best way for me to describe it is realness. We were the Senate of the earth. In fact, we add the flavor of who God is to the world. And that's what Jesus said.

You're the Santa of the earth, but if you're sad, loses it, sadness, what good is it? He asked that question and he goes into it and I don't have time this morning to break that down for you, but look it up. It's in New Testament. I think it's in two books. I know it's in Matthew. And when you're thinking about and studying about salt, you realize that we're the salt of the earth.

And and it's a picture of us. adding God to the world. We're the ones who carry the presence of God into the world. And he says, as far as being a picture of that, us being the goodness and the flavor of God in the world. It's gotta be in every offering. It needs to be in every offering. We, an offering should not be made that does not directly correlate with us, with who we are.

If you're doing like an offering to God, it's got to be from you. David talks about that when he when he finds the place where the temple is going to be built and another man on the temp, on the temple mount, the place where Jerusalem sits today and and when he went to, when David went to him to to purchase it from him, a man said, I'm going to give it to you.

I'm going to give it to God. And God said, and David said, far be it for me to offer something to the Lord that cost me nothing. And that was a, that is a great line, a great understanding David had of his relationship with God. I don't really offer an offering to God that doesn't. Come from me. It's not an offering for me if it doesn't come from me.

And so God wants your life to be an offering to him in the room. When we're walking around, our lives are an offering to him. And when we offer offerings to him, we want someone else to come from us. He does. And when you're thinking about what you're doing from God, for God don't think about what other people can do for God and you can help them do it.

Think about what you are doing for God. What is your offering that you're making to God? And that's what salt's all about. That's what, that's why we're salty. He says, if you offer a grain offering of your first fruits to the Lord, now I notice he's gonna get into this first fruit a little bit more deeply how to do it.

He says, you shall offer the grain offering that of your first green heads of grain roasted on the fire grain beaten from the full head. Now. What does that have to do with anything? What I'm saying is if it's going to be a first food offering, it needs to be the first food. It doesn't need to come from the bottom of the barrel.

You don't need to offer it. Once you've bought in all the rain and harvest you sell what you can and then scoop out the big bottom of the barrel and offer that as your first fruits, because you just got through bringing in the, he's saying, if you're not offering a first fruits offering, make sure it's the first.

Which is obvious. It sounds obvious. It sounds obvious to me. But oftentimes we don't do that, do we? Oftentimes, he's the last thing we think of and not the first thing we think of. If you're going to do a firstfruits offering with God, very few people know what a firstfruits offering is, and even fewer people should give a firstfruits offering.

But if you're going to give a firstfruits offering, you need to give God the first, the best, you need to give him the top. He and it needs to be the hills of the green need to be green and not dead and yellow and brown. He says, and you shall put oil on it. Because why? Let us the first fruits offering.

And so the power of God needs to be present. He says, you need to put it on it and you need to lay frankincense on it, which is a realization that without God, I'm dead without God, I'm lost without God. I have nothing. That frankincense is a picture of the the burial of Jesus Christ is a picture of putting to death the oath and bringing about the new.

And the idea is God is saying to them, I won't, if you're going to do a first verse offer, make sure it's the first. And make sure that you recognize that my power has bathed this for you and without me, you have nothing without me, you're dead. And then the proof shall burn the memorial portion, part of it beaten rain and part of it, so with all the funny sense and all of it made by fire and as an offering made by fire, whether it was out of your mouth, this is a gift we give to God. A first roots offering is an is a recognition that God is the author of all good things in our lives. As you, as we're starting through those offerings, you're going to begin to, what I want you to do is I want you to just begin to think about. How do you move your life and how you structure things?

Because remember, our lives are the offering now. It's not brain. We don't bring we don't bring cattle or sheep or dogs. No, we're not making blood sacrifices. I have a step back up one day in the new temple in Jerusalem. But as far as God is concerned with the offering, he wants us to understand how we're to live our lives.

And these are pictures of our offering to him and his sacrifice for us through his son. And you, when you really get into it deeply, you realize what a wonderful book Leviticus is. We'll be standing in chapter three tomorrow and a new offering. For a new day. May God bless you and keep you. Amen.

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.