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 Church's morning Bible study. We are in Leviticus chapter six and seven. And as we go through this you, you say why six and seven? We've actually talked about every offering that he, that he mentioned in chapter six and chapter seven, we've discussed everything.
As far as how the offering is done and where we'll do that. Where we'll be back in chapters one through five chapters, one through five game instructions about how. Each one of these offerings is done. How they're supposed to be carried out gave a specific instructions about how the animals are to be offered.
Who's getting, how things are to work out. It just went into detail into how to do it. Now. Chapter 6 and 7 is actually what we would call the Lamb. It is where God pronounces what should be done. And and that is the part of Leviticus that makes Leviticus a little difficult for people as they read through it.
And the reason is, First of all, it seems rebundant, but second of all, it's psychologically psychologically something that people are just not ready to deal with. They don't want to go through it. And it's really because of this this one little road and that one little road, It stokes the rebellion that is in our heart that comes from our sin nature, and it causes us not to want to do it, even though the road is very important in the law in Leviticus.
It's very important in our legal system, in the way things are done because our legal system the way laws are made oftentimes leaves some room for the judge or for the officer or for some aspect of the Libra system. Task a move room. Let me decide to do this. Or you could do that to act this way or to act that way because not all situations are the same.
Not all people are the same. Another events that that you could tie to that lab will work out the same. And in our legal system, we realized that there are some things that need some wiggle room. And the lab would provide for it. But now, there are some things that there can't be any wiggle room for.
It has to be done a certain way. And if it's not done that way we, The whole system fares apart. It must be this way in order for there to be uniformity in order for things to be just and right between people they. The lab provides the, some things just have to be a certain way and the word that usually is used to say we're going to do it this way and this way only is the word shall.
You shall do this. You shall not do that. And that part of the lab just eats at our color. It eats at who we are. Because we are in our own nature. And immediately rebellious. We have, and we have been born to the line of rebellion. Adam and Eve, when they ate the fruit of that tree, they took real rebellion against the order that God had set out that was for their very best.
An order in which they were, they had all things, they had all things, that there was nothing that wasn't provided for them. And they had, they, they were fulfilling their The reason they were made, they were totally fulfilling who they were and how they should live. And then, they actively chose to rebel against what God said.
This one thing you don't do. And they did it. And I see it all the time, especially when we're dealing with little children. That innate nature to want to obey against what has been told to them what they had been told they should and shouldn't do. Even though they have no knowledge of the consequences of it, they don't really understand how it's gonna figure out.
They're willing to do it their way. They not, they're real to be preeminent. They yet they real to override the will and their pets, the will and those who were taking care of them they real to dominate. And oftentimes we see parents giving in and doing it. And so in chapter six and seven, God, after he's already told him how to do all these all things in pretty great detail, he comes around and sets the land just like he did the Ten Commandments.
Now, there's a couple of things I want you to notice about it. First of all, there's a lot of shalls. In fact in the first part of chapter six, he says, and you can study it and read through it yourself. He says, I've never spoke to Moses saying if a person sins and commits a trespass against the Lord, lying to his neighbor about safekeeping or about a pledge or about a remedy, or if he's extorted from his neighbor, if he's found where it was lost and lies couldn't.
Lies concerning it and swears falsely. If in any one of these things that a man do in ritual sins, then it shall be because he is sinned and is guilty that he shall restore what he has stolen or the thing which he was stewarded and was delivered to him for safekeeping, but the last thing he found that he shall restore.
It fell by you and run fifth mill to it and give it to any neighborhood brands on the day of the trespassing offering notice there's a lot of shell in there and it's not it's there's not even a room in it and that room said you've ever had in god provide some wiggle room in it. He doesn't provide a wiggle room in it because we're a little bit new with these offerings, which are pictures of our sanctification process.
Remember, that's what Leviticus is about. It's about a picture of how we come to God and offer sacrifice to him so that we might be changed and made back. The way we're at to be now. Remember the sacrifice that puts to Jesus. We don't provide that. We don't provide the initial atonement for seeing Jesus provides that.
And we've talked about that. And if you want to, you can look back on on October the 8th 2023 and listen to the salmon. Yesterday, you can see, you'll hear that we don't provide for attainment, but we dream God in the salvific process, in the sanctification process, which is what the book of Leviticus is about.
It's about the sanctification process. And let's say this, the sanctification process, there's not wiggle room in it. We think there is, but there's not, because there's no way for you to take that which was a lot from God. And bring it to a place where it totally and completely comes to a guy's will and give it room for him.
It's already out of line. You can't give it room to decide on a certain kind of thing should be done and get it back in line. If you've been in the house and you lay in a foundation, you realize it's not square, it's not right. You can't go back. You can't say, we're going to give it a little bit of wiggle room.
The hypersonic won't do it properly. It can't move that way. There has to be, with something that's broken in order for it to be fixed, meaning made right, in order for something for that process to take place, there has to be some pretty stringent and pretty straightforward standards that has to be, this is the way it's done.
This is the way you do. a trespass offering. This is the way you do offerings. That's there's eight through 13. You'll notice command them saying, and he says, this shall be and the half this shall do endless right. And that was, it's not just God's instruction to us, pooping about how to bring these other things in it's instructions to Evan.
And notice, Aaron's not receiving this letter. Aaron's not getting it. What's happening? There's a mediator between God and the people, and God and Aaron, and that's Moses. And Moses is the one that's coming through, that's right. And the top of the Supreme Court, as you look at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.
C., there's one figure right in the middle. At the front of that building, there's a statue of one individual that's right at the middle. There's a server that and down as you go to the right and to the left, but there's one right in the middle. And that's Moses. Why? Because he's the lab. And the reason he's the, is because humanity did not want the Israelites will not bring up them tapping nothing and be with God directly.
And so now there's a mediator between God and them Now. Mediator, we've got a really good one. Melchizedek was good, but he's not even close as Hebrews tells us to the one we've got, and that's Jesus. That being said, there's got to be a whole lot of shalls going on. If the Old Testament land says, you shall not do these things, which defines God's character nature and says, you shouldn't do this, and this, there also has to be some shalls.
You shall do these things. And then, if you can't do those things, Get your set in your mind, right? And if we're going to have a better law firm, you shall do it this way. If we're going to have a a trespass, often you shall do it that way. I had a brain on the phone, our son, our family, our office in chapter six.
It better be this way. And he says it over and over. Tell Moses, I mean tell Adam, do it this way. Tell the people, you shall do it this way. Why? Because if you don't learn to do it the way God says do it, that's God's will. How God says to do things is a revolution of his will. And that's hard to figure out in your own heart and mind.
Are you telling them the way God says to do things is? It comes from him, or it seems obvious that, but it's not always obvious. You don't always really get to a place because I want to do it my way. And we want to do it our way in so many ways. And this mobster is not meant to condemn you and tell you're wrong or you're not doing it right.
I don't have to do that. I have to condemn us every, we know we don't do it right. We know we don't act right. We don't, we know we don't live right. I don't have to tell you that to make it okay. I don't have to tell you that to, I don't have to beat you up over it, because and I know, and we know that we have to get some pretty in depth instruction about how to live to get ourselves out of the the destruction that sin has caused in our lives.
And if we. Give up on during the shalls, then all we have is how we're not doing what God said is the right thing. And what all we got left is the shall nots. And I don't want to live the shall, shall nots. I wanna, the way God wants me to. I wanna figure out what it is I should do. Chapter seven, he says the trespass offering again, you shall do this and you shall do that.
I made the shells the lair of peace offerings. It's got a lot of shells in it. You shall offer leavened bread with sacrifice and the Thanksgiving of peace offering. And you shall do that. And then flattened fat and blood. You shall not eat. And we're going to talk about that a little bit tomorrow and begin to get into the, how the priest is taken care of, but you get pretty deep into the showers and shall nots.
The shall nots are things that I've already not done and I've already done those things and I messed up. I need some shells. I need some instruction from God about how to live and those sacrifices or pictures of how to make things right between me and him and me and other people. And that's a good thing that we have them.
It's a good thing that we go through those things. Why? Because we've got to be taught how to live, and that's what sanctification is about. We've got to wrestle with God as Jacob did. We got to wrestle with him about ourselves, about our lives, about who he is. And when we do that we sat down the road of the shalls do you shall do this, you shall do that.
And even with little children, when they have stable fences to live their lives in, meaning there's some rules and regulations, their lives are much, much better. They are children crave to have To have Simran tell him what's right and what's wrong and force them to live that way.
They feel loved. In fact, the New Testament tells that. Those whom the Father loves, He does discipline. And children want to be disciplined. They want to have A way to live and know how that, and for there to be some stability in that, and you do too. You want the stability of God's life, the life he has for you to live, which means you gotta, you got to you gotta wrestle with him.
You gotta do it with it. And that's what chapter Leviticus. You shall do it this way. It's a screaming out by God, do this way, do it this way. This is, I'm telling you how to do it. Not going a little bit up to you. You don't know how to, I'm telling you how to do it. And when we do that regularly with our lives, when we begin to go to God for the answers, everybody has a source for information.
The greatest source of information about how to live your life, the only source really is God and his word. And when we begin to really wrestle with who he is, what he says, how things are in his world, before we know it your life is heading in the right direction and you are experiencing the goodness of God and his best and the wonders that come from that.
And Even though it might not be all that enjoyable to study through Leviticus six and seven started out by saying, okay, I've told you how to do all these sacrifices, but now let me tell you, you shall do these things, do this way. And when we do it we agree with God that he's right.
And that's a good place to be in a good place to step this week on this 2023. I pray that you will start it that way. You will start it this week and that you will chase after God.
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.