Leviticus 4:2-21 Bible Study | Episode 660

April 19, 2024

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

Leviticus 4:2-21   Bible Study | Episode #660

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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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 man. I'm welcome to Lake community churches. Many Bible study. We're in Leviticus chapter three and we're dealing with the two chapters that we're dealing with in Leviticus four and five unintentional sin or the sin offering, and then you have trespass and that is, that was that's where you intentionally go in or you trespass God's law.

We're going to talk about that later on the week, but. The first part of this week, we talked about the end of last week, we talked about the different aspects of sin, intentional sin, unintentional sin Sin of commission, sins of omission, all that kind of stuff. And it was so exciting because we Adams love to talk about seeing, that's the church just loves that.

And so as I'm being facetious, because the truth is that is the struggle of our lives. We want to honor and glorify God and not have sin in our lives, but we will. And oftentimes we'll try to mitigate it or say that it's not as bad a problem as it is. And the truth is, it's really a bad problem.

It is. It's a bad problem. It's a bad, it's a really bad problem that God had to send his son to die for. So obviously it is a problem. In fact, the Bible says that we are a repeat with wickedness, where our hearts are filled with wickedness, we turn to our own wicked ways each and every day.

It completely, whatever we've done. And that. Leads us to this passage that leads us to this passage that room where we do some that we don't even know we're doing. Oftentimes I hear people talk about I need to ask for forgiveness for all my sin. Yes, if you identify the group of all your sin being all the sin, but you know about, because you can't ask for forgiveness for sin that you really don't have any idea about.

And in fact God knows that you can't, he knows you, there's no way for you to ever really get to the bottom of how sinful you actually are. And he wants you to go through life learning of who's real and who's way, and as you learn of who's real and who's way, you realize the things in your life that are not according to that real and that way.

And that would be sin. Anything in your life that's not In line with God's rule is sin because of God's rule is his perfect character in nature manifest in life. And so his rule tells us who he is and how to live. But if you don't know his rule, if you don't wrap them as well, if you don't, if you don't if you don't.

Meet his will perfectly. Where we're sitting, that's a, that's sin. Now you don't know his perfect, complete, perfect will because we are born, separated from God. We don't know him. We have to learn about that. And when we learn about that where we figure out certain things are not according to way God does 'em.

God wants us to figure that out. God wants us to figure it out, that we, the things in our lives that are inhibiting us or keeping us from his very best. He desires for us to know him, and in the process of knowing him, that's going to uncover it's going to uncover the sin in our lives. And oftentimes we think that it's such a negative, but in actuality, I think you really think about it.

It's the natural element of knowing God, and the natural element of knowing God is to discover all the unintentional sin we do, which is a lot. So he says here, and there's three categories of people that he's going to deal with. He's going to deal with with just the regular folks, and he's got He's going to deal with the leaders who are not necessarily spiritual leaders, but are leaders of the people.

And then he's going to deal with the people as a whole. And then he's going to deal with then he's getting in and then all different ways, the two different aspects to there's actually 30 different race you could sacrifice for these, and they are throwing out how I've seen.

Is revealed to us. It says in verse two, spoke to the children of Israel saying, if a person sins unintentionally against any of the commandments of the Lord in anything which ought not to be done and does any of them, which means. That's a pretty bad spectrum of what a person could do. If I sent in any way against any aspect of the commandments and I do any of it, then I'm in this category where that would be out of us.

And as we go through life, that would be symbolic and we'll be saying. These are the things that you are doing that are against my commandments. And by the way they dealt with us for 1, 300 years. And when Jesus came around, he showed them that they really weren't even close to being admitted into the synagogues because he said that the issue is not the outward, it is the inward it's the inward desire.

It's the inward Brokenness of man, your head is broken. And so you shouldn't just reveal what's going on. That's random with your head. And so the truth is you can do this for 1300 years as a pupil and still not get it right. And so God is in the process of he's revealing himself. And as he reveals himself, he reveals how you're not him, how you're, you don't meet that standard.

He says if the unlettered priest sins Now, he's going to go through all of them. Now, these are spiritual leaders. He says, if the amounted prince sins bring guilt, bringing guilt on the people, they let him offer to the Lord for his sin, which he will send a young boy without blemish, a sin offering.

Now, remember, our race, Canada, burlesque And things like that, there's a picture of the flesh in the end scripture. So when you're standing through the Bible and you're dealing with you're dealing with scripture when you were talking about your flesh that's what's going on.

And by the way, that's where we're saying is that your son abides in your flesh. It is your, it's your, it is your son nature. That is what the flesh speaks to. It's your natural, separation from God, the true sinfulness that you have been with, you passed down from mother to father to children. It is, it was our sin.

We sinned by being just totally separated from God. And so he says, if you do that, if that happens and the prince does it, Which would be in the New Testament. That's all of us that, that would speak to all of us who have the ability to go before God, meet with God, have a personal relationship with God, be be a co of Christ.

That's all believers. We are a priest now. We are killing them of priests. And all actuality when we can, when we sin and we do because we're gonna realize that we have unintentionally sin our lives. We realize also s in the, in our flesh. And what do we do? Verse four. He shall bring the bull to the door of a tabernacle meeting before the Lord say his hand lay his hands under bull's head and kill the bull before the Lord.

Now notice the priest is the one who is acting here killing the bull. He's ing the sin on the bill. The bill is taking his position as far as the sin is concerned, and then he is, he's killing it, which tells us something about. Unintentional sin, the sin that we figured out, we got to do it with it.

That's what it tells us. It tells us, you, you have to deal with it. You just can't say I didn't know about it. And that's just the end of it because you'll keep on doing it. Even though they now do know. You have to deal with it. And how do you deal with it? You place it on not in the word of mouth, you place it on Christ.

We give it to Christ. We hand it over to Christ. And boy, that's hard to do. It is not easy to do. But if you think about it, I am giving this to Christ. In a real sense, he's already paid for it. He's already been sacrificed through it, but I brew still need to place it on his account.

I know to move it from my books to his books. I need to have my life changed so that it's no longer an aspect of how I live. It's an aspect of how God reveals himself. And it's important that we do that. He says, he shall bring the blood to the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord, lay his hands on the bull's head and kill the bull before the Lord.

Then another priest shall take some of the bull's blood and bring it to the tabernacle of meeting. This is a picture of, this is a life process. He's taking that blood. He's taking that blood, which is in the blood. His life, he's taking that blood and he's bringing it to the actor. The priest dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the bread seven times before the Lord.

This is seventh and my near completion. So he is, and by the way, it's going to take a little while for you to deal with each and every aspect of your sin nature, which is a lot. And a lot of dealing with it. And so it's a lifelong process. So salvation is a struggle. It's a lifelong process. And so when we're dealing with this, you got to do, you got to deal with it.

And the priest shall put some of the bread on the horns of the altar, a sweet incense before the Lord. Why is that a sweet incense before the Lord? Because we're coming, becoming more like him. Each time we lay aside some aspect of our sin nature, we'll become more like him. We take on his identity and not.

Us we actually begin to ramp in the life that he's provided for us. And so it's a sweet incense before the lure, which is in the tabernacle meeting, and he shall pull the remaining bread of the, at the base of the altar. Meaning that's gonna be the end of that. We're gonna, we're gonna try to lay that all aside.

He and it says at the base of the altar of the BUN offering, which is at the bull of the tabernacle meeting, he shall take from it air the fat of the bull. As the sin offering, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat which is on the entrails, the two kidneys, these are the best parts of the sacrifice and that's the part that God lets burn up.

It's there from giving to him. It's a full, complete offering because you're giving him the very best part as it was taken from the burial of the sacrifice of the peace offering and the priest had done the memory altar burn offerings. But the bulls hide and all its flesh with its head, it was legs, its entrails, and those apple, the whole bull.

He shall care outside the camp to a place where the ashes are pulled out and burn it on a wood fire. And I noticed they're going to keep anything from this book. They're going to burn the good parts and they're going to give it to God. And then the rest, they've done it, not even buried on the on the.

After they're going to take it outside the camp and get rid of it. But that's a picture of a complete getting rid of some aspect of sin in our hearts. Throwing it in that hard. It is hard. It is difficult. And I'm going to tell you, it's going to be the right thing in the process of you doing it.

But when we give it to Christ and we allow Christ to totally rid us of it, which is, that's the picture of this, taking it outside of the camp, burning the hide, the head, everything that's left that were the best pets that were given to God, once we get rid of all that, there's nothing left. And that's what God wants for us.

It says but the bulls hide and all his flesh with the sleds and legs, all of that. Kid outside the camp to clear it to a clean place and it's burrowed up now in verse 13, he's going to not only just deal with the priest that's the pooper who have a relationship with God, but he's going to deal with anything that deals with all the people.

He says, now, if the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, meaning we don't matter. We didn't let it. And. That's gonna happen. We're whole congregations are gonna be involved in something that, they just didn't realize was not the right way to do it.

And if you don't think that goes on, it does all the time. It is continual aspect of us being sinful. And then we all put together and we're all sinful together. And if you thought that's not gonna take place, it's going to take place and it's gonna become a problem. He says, he says, when the sin which we have committed becomes known, then the assembly shall offer a young boy for the sin and burn it before every tabernacle of meeting and the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on it. So who's going to take care of the leadership? The leadership of the body, the leadership of the people back then, the leadership of an individual congregation.

It's, you gotta do it with sin. It when you realize that you're doing something that you shouldn't be doing, and you realize that you're acting in some way that's not according to God's word for your congregation, what do you need to do? You need to get together and say look, we're doing that.

We're going to lay that aside. We're going to place that on Jesus. And they're doing the same thing that we've done, the priest would have done, they're doing the same thing for the whole congregation. It's a beautiful picture of God dealing with his pimper and getting them headed in the right direction, getting them moving toward his best and moving away from from rather themselves, their own sin nature, their own desires, their own ways of doing things.

Moving them to a bride. It says, the anointed prince shall bring sir the bill's bread to the tabernacle of meeting. They're going to do the same thing. They're going to dip their finger in the bread and spend seven times before the Lord. In front of the baron, and he put, shall put some of the bread in the heron's hood after, which is before the Lord.

The same process, the exact same process. Bill, place your hands on the hood, take the bread. Place it on the altar. He's going to, he's going to take the bone offering which is a dual tag and it, take all the fat and burn it down to the actor. Just that's verse 19, just like we do with the other.

And he shall do this with the bill as he did with the bill. A sin offering that he shall do it. So the priest shall make atonement for them and it shall be forgiven them. Notice God's going to release us from the consequences of those sins. He's going to release us from the problems and the struggles, and he's going to allow us to wrap the way we should wrap, then he shall carry the bush outside the care and burn it.

As he burned the first bull, it is a sin offering for the assembly. I think this is a fabulous Bible study right here for how God deals with just he deals with our son nature. Remember that burns a picture of the flesh and God does do it with our son nature on a regular basis. And he does it quickly as a church and he does it individually as preached.

He's going to do it in your life. He's going to deal with who you have and he's going to rip those things out of your life. And so many times, and I'm going to tell you, I believe this is why Libetus is a book that people really generally don't want to study is because it is a deep dive into our sin and Jesus is paying for that sin.

It's a struggle for us. It is. It is diving into the things of our lives. That we really just don't like. And the fact that we actually don't want those things and don't like those things is another aspect of God's revelation to us, because if we were left to our own devices, if God never, ever revealed to us, those things are terrible and those things are things that we shouldn't, should not, and ought not be a part of, we would just continue on.

And I'm like, there were nothing like there were regular rate to live your life. And they're not. And so God, in his infinite grace, has made it possible that we could actually struggle with our sin. And notice, it's not just God taking away the sin. He takes away the aspect of our sin being punished, the the penal, the penalty for our sin.

But we are intimately involved in The salvation process of bringing our sin before the Lord and placing it on his altar and allowing him to remove it from our lives. This is a process. And in fact, maybe the Book of Leviticus is the book that's most involved in explaining how to live the salvific process out the sanctification process of God out.

And maybe that's why. It's the book we least like of the five books that Moses wrote. The first book is God's showing us that we can't have any other way. It will always end up in slavery to sin. The second book, the book of Exodus is God delivering us from sin. He's delivering us from the road.

He's delivering us from death. And we like both of those books. We like to see how things work and when we like to see how God redeems. But the third book, the book of Leviticus is about salvation. It's about the salvific process, how we go through being. Plans being made complete and made whole and maybe just because we got to deal with that.

We struggle with it the most. We don't want to study the book of Leviticus, but I'm gonna tell you, it's the best aspect of it because it's the aspect of God's plan for our lives. That makes us most like him. We try our efforts to hear God's word, trust him and act upon it. And. Allowed the sin of our lives to be burned on his holy altar and to be handled fully by him.

And so I pray that as we study tomorrow that God deals with these sins, just the common folk a little bit different. It's a little less astringent and but many times just the same.

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.