Well, good morning everybody. The book of Leviticus this morning. The book of Leviticus. So in this quarter in Sunday school we'll be looking in the books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Why are we going back over there? Well, number one, the curriculum says we've got to. Number two is, remember Romans 15 and verse 4, where it says that for whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning. So there is stuff that we glean from out of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Now personally, Leviticus, that is the book I don't want to read as I'm reading through the Bible. I can read through the book of Numbers. Numbers don't bother me. I can read through Chronicles. The names don't bother me, but all the offerings. How does this work? I know it has to do with Christ. Then you get over to 13 and it talks about leprosy and then plague being in the wharf and the whiff and the whistle and everything. What is that? And that's just a very different time frame than where we're at now. But I've looked forward to the book of Leviticus because there is so much of the type of Christ right through that whole book. Now, we're going to be looking today, I don't want to scare you, we're going to be looking at chapters 1 to 7 and chapter 16. Chapters 1 to 5 are the five offerings that Israel had to make. This is all I'm going to say about chapters 6 and 7. They are the Laws of the Offerings. We have the Offerings, then we have the Law of the Offerings. Chapter 16 is the Day of Atonement. So this is what we're going to be looking at. It's going to come down to six chapters. We'll quickly look at chapters 1 to 5. and then chapter 16. Now, who's heard of Clarence Larkin? Okay, Clarence Larkin, he's a guy from a little while ago, he's older than the rest of us, he's already with the Lord, I would assume. He has a book of charts, but you can go online, put in Clarence Larkin charts, and he has a lot of good charts on there. He does one for Leviticus. So you have the offerings along here, and he's got it broken down. The feasts, I'll be doing, Kieran's going to be doing the next two weeks, and then, good on you, Kieran, and then I've got the last week in Leviticus, chapter 23, the feasts, chapters 24, 5, 6, and 7, all about getting ready for them to go into the land. And then across the top here, it's just got a breakdown of it. So if you'd like to avail yourself of it, you can do that. If you want, I can send you that. And then it's cut and stucky taped. Stucky taped. Sticky taped. It's stuck together with sticky tape. Stucky taped. That's the past tense of using sticky tape. It's called stucky tape. So you know what you've done. OK. So we've got a lot to cover, and I pray what I have to say this morning will open it up. And you think, wow, look at what's in there. There is no way, as we say on God's green earth, you're going to cover everything. It'd be great just to break it down into just one chapter lots and just have a look at it and you draw out. everything that is about it. It's considered by some, Leviticus is considered by some to be probably the most important or one of the greatest books in the Bible. And a study of this book, if you know Leviticus, you will know that it will rule out all the cults and isms. If they know, oh, this is what the book of Leviticus is about, this is what it's Well, then it helps to rule out a lot. Leviticus was written by Moses. It forms part of the Pentateuch. It was recorded at some time while they were still on Mount Sinai. Now, from Exodus Chapter 19 to Numbers Chapter 10, the children of Israel were at Mount Sinai. They were there for about 11 months. And part of that time, they were given the law. And then while they were there, they were given these things in this book. Notice how the book opens. And the Lord called unto Moses and spake unto him out of the tabernacle congregation. It starts off, God says. And so right the way through the book, it's a thing of God continually giving things out. There is only two narratives in this. in this book, and Brother Kieran's got both of those. as he goes through. Other than that, it's God laying out, God showing, God demonstrating things for his people. It contains, it's a book of sacrifice, ceremony, ritual, washings, convocations, holy days, warnings, observances, all sorts of things, but they all point to Jesus Christ. Now take the book of Leviticus divided in two, not equally, in two parts. Chapters 1-16 shows the way to God is by sacrifice. Chapters 17-27, the key word in that first section would be atonement, 45 times. It's found 45 times in the whole book, but it's a key word in those opening chapters. And then the second stage, second part, the vision, Leviticus 17 to 27, it is the walk with God. Walk with God is by sanctification. So the way to God is by sacrifice, and that's how I get to Him. How do I stay walking with Him? Well, that's by sanctification. The book of Leviticus covers every physical aspect of daily life. If you just take time to read it, you'll think, wow, God gave them guidelines and rules for just about everything. And it was all a part of helping them in their, firstly, their approach to Him, and then how to stay in communion, how to stay in fellowship with Him. So it is, as I've said, the book has been a struggle for me for a long time, but I've put off learning it because I knew we were coming up. And like I said, I look forward to coming up because I want to learn this book. There's just so much in it, and we're not going to plumb the depths of it over, I believe, four Sunday school lessons. So we have the five offerings, we have the consecration of the prayer, I'm not going to give you the chapters of that, I'm just making mention of an overview now. There's things in there about diet, a God-given diet, motherhood, leprosy, atonement, the priests, details for daily life, feasts, laws concerning the land of Palestine when they were to move in. So far in our Sunday school, we've covered a lot, but we've rolled over about a year or so ago. We've covered Genesis and that's man ruined. Then we went over to the New Testament, we go back to the old and we've looked at the book of Exodus and that's man redeemed with the Passover, man redeemed. When you come to the book of Leviticus, we've been in the New Testament again, Romans, we go back to the old, back in Leviticus now, it has to do with man worshipping God. See, Genesis showed us, I'm not even going to get there, Genesis showed us man ruined, Exodus, man redeemed, Leviticus, man worshipping, man back in fellowship, man able to approach and come into God's presence and to be able to do that. A couple of things then as we look at the differences between Exodus and Leviticus. Exodus, I'm going to say these fast so you probably aren't going to get a chance to write them down, Exodus offers pardon. Leviticus offers purity. Exodus offers God's approach to man. Leviticus is man's approach to God. In Exodus, Christ is Savior. In Leviticus, Christ is sanctifier. In Exodus, man's guilt is prominent. In Leviticus, man's defilement is prominent. God speaks out of the mount in Exodus. In Leviticus, He speaks out of the tabernacle. Man is nigh unto God in Exodus. Man is kept nigh unto God in Leviticus. So now we come to the five opening chapters of the book of Leviticus. There are five offerings. The first three are sweet offerings. The last two are non-sweet offerings, and they all point to Christ. Now, they have five offerings to show different parts that what they didn't know of was Christ. They have five different offerings to make. And yet, in those five offerings, the Christian has one in Jesus Christ. So what they had Old Testament in the New, we have the same, but it's all wrapped in one. It's all wrapped in one person, the Lord Jesus. So let's go to Leviticus chapter 1. This here is the burnt offering. Leviticus 1 is the burnt offering. You find the law of that over in Leviticus chapter 6. Let's read these opening few verses. If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish. He shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord, and he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make an atonement for him. Hold your place, Ephesians chapter 5, and I'll make one comment there. Other than that, I think we'll just be staying in the book of Leviticus, and I will make reference to different verses as we go through. It's just for sake of time. My goal is to give you an overview of these chapters. You have a look at it, so you walk away and say, wow, Christ is right through that Old Testament. And it might just whet your whistle a little bit, the appetite. I really want to spend a little bit more time looking into that, be like the Bereans and get back and get into the Scriptures and have a look and just see what you have in Christ that's right over there in the yard. What is all this? When do we have... No, that's not us. But we have everything we need in the Lord Jesus Christ that is for us to live. Now, Leviticus 1. This burnt offering, Leviticus 1. We'll be back over to Ephesians 5. Just hold your place there. Two hands, get that third hand, put it in Ephesians 5. And the Lord called, now notice in verse 2, if any man of you bring an offering, it's an offering that could be made, it's an offering that started right back with Abel, Abel made a burnt offering, Abel, Noah, Abraham are all mentioned, the brazen altar, the burnt altar has its name derived from this particular sacrifice. It is the first offering given in the book of Leviticus, therefore it has prominence and it has importance. We need to understand that we say, oh, there it is there, and this is all about it. This offering points us to the Lord Jesus Christ, and Christ is our substitute. So you're going to bring that offering unto the Lord in verse 2. Well, let's cover this. It's a burnt offering. It's a burnt sacrifice. So it is wholly consumed on the altar, nothing is left over. In verse 9 it said, and the priest shall burn all on the altar. So when you hear of a burnt offering as you read through the rest of the New Testament, Old Testament, you'll hear about it's all on that altar, there's nothing left over, all was placed on that altar. Now, the term, a burnt sacrifice, is found also in verse 9, shall be a burnt sacrifice. It's found in verse 13 as well, and verse 17. Now, with that, In verses 9, 13, and 17, along with the phrase, a burnt sacrifice is also, a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, and it says, a sweet savor unto the Lord. So when the burnt offering was given, the Lord smelt a sweet savor. It was sweet. You ever smelt some things? And your taste buds are whipping the inside of your mouth to give it a go. But there are other things that you smell cooking. What's that? When God smelt their burnt sacrifice, it was a sweet savour. Ephesians 5 now, have a look at Ephesians 5 in verse 2. Ephesians 5, 2, And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a what? Sweet-smelling savour. So the Old Testament burnt offering, when that was offered, God smelled something sweet. It was pleasing to Him. When Jesus Christ offered his life as a sacrifice, God smelled a sweet savor. The connection between, we won't have time to go through all of these for all of for all of these things. But folks, I pray that as we go through, you'll start having an understanding Christ is in these offerings for us today, 2022, like He was with them about 1300 BC. Just like he was there, he's here for us. He's in it right now. We notice that the burnt offering was to be of the herd. In verse 2, it's supposed to be of the herd, so of the cattle. So no wild animals, carnivorous would have been. It had to be a domesticated animal, something that was obedient to man. It pictures the humility of Christ, the submission of Christ to submit himself to a body, to limit himself, to put off his glory, not his deity, he put off his glory that he may put on a body, a robe of flesh, and to be able to do that. It speaks of a male, and that speaks of strength, and Christ is mighty to save, without blemish, ideally perfect, speaks of the perfections of Christ. He was without sin, He did no sin, He was separate from sinners, of His own voluntary will, we find there in verse 3, of His own voluntary will. This offering was not an offering that was commanded, It was, I want to make this offering under the Lord. I want to give this whole burnt sacrifice. I want to give this all. I want to do that. It's not in force. It's an all-inclusive, in verse 2, if any man. Everybody's welcome to, but it was of a freewill offering. That animal had to be offered in life, not in death. Jesus Christ was offered in life, not in death. So many parallels you see from the offerings of the old to the offering, our offering, in Jesus Christ. The door of the tabernacle, it had to be placed at the door of the tabernacle. Why? Well, number one, it would save Israel from idolatry. Oh, well, look, here's an offering, I can make it wherever I want. No, God said, I want you to make it at the door of the tabernacle. Because if you think, well, look, it's not really that important. Well, you'll go and make an offering somewhere else, maybe like in a grove or somewhere else that they make them in the Old Testament. But no, he said, when you make an offering, you bring this offering and it's to be made at the door of the tabernacle. Everything for Israel was around the tabernacle, the meeting place where God was going to meet with them. Verse 4 talks about putting the hand on the head. and that's an act of designation. The Jew that would bring this particular burnt offering, he would say, I designate this animal to take my place and be my sacrifice. So too in the New Testament, when we realize, I need a sacrifice, I can't do it myself, I lay hands on Christ, and as I lay hands on Christ, I'm designating Christ. You are my sacrifice. I can't do this myself. I need you to be able to do it. And I reckon that's about all I'm going to cover. I don't... There is... I mentioned about the sweet savour. I will say this, the fire, verses 10 through 13, talks about the fire. Fire is not always a thing of judgment, of hellfire, wrath, judgment. That's not always what fire is. Consider back in Exodus and the burning bush. That burning bush wasn't a picture of hell and judgment, it was a picture of God. It showed who God was. Deuteronomy 4, Hebrews 12, it says, our God is a consuming fire. See, fire does destroy, yes, but fire also, it cleanses and it purifies, it consumes. So not every time we read fire in the Bible, we think, ah, there's judgment. No, because this is a sweet offering. The fire of offerings four and five, Well, that has to do with sin. This shows us who Jesus Christ is, and His sacrifice, who He is. Okay, let's go to chapter 2. Let's read these opening verses. And when any man offer a meat offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be fine flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon. So now we come to the meat offering. There's no meat in it. It's a meal. It is a food offering. It's flour. And what's particular about this offering are the ingredients that are there and that are not there. What is there is the oil. And what is not in this meal, in this meat offering, is leaven. Leviticus 1 shows us Christ in His death. Leviticus 2, the meat offering, shows us Christ in His humanity. Remember over in John 6, He says, I am the bread of life. So we see here in Leviticus 2, it speaks of Christ as the bread. It's a recipe for making bread. There's flour there, it's fine flour. So it's fine flour is not, you know, obviously lumpy flour. You know, yeah, it takes time, has to be well ground. It gets worked with a pestle there and they'd work it, I don't know what they do on a large scale, but you'll see a pestle and they'll work it in and they'll grind it, it comes smooth. It takes time, it's smooth. Well, you see, what sin has made, sin has made man lumpy. And we've got a lot of lumpy spots. But you look at Jesus Christ and He's just smooth. He's well-ground, just that high quality, that fine, like fine gold. It's not unrefined, it's refined gold. It's been worked on, it's been purified. And so Christ, as the meat offering, it speaks of his deity. Man, we, you know, we is just lumpy. And that's what sin has done to us. It's just made us like that. It speaks of that fine flour. It's beaten by hand, using a pestle. I'm just making sure I've covered what I need to bring out. Now let's have a look at what is included. We see there in verse 1. I'm just trying to find my place. And you shall pour oil upon it. Now that oil is a picture of the Holy Spirit. Have a look in verse 4. Now this offering is saturated, it's drenched with oil. Verse 4, it is anointed with oil. Verse 5, mingled with oil. Verse 6, pour oil thereon. Verse 7, tells us with oil. There is oil all the way through that. And that oil brings out that flavor, you smell that, as this is a meat offering. Now that oil pictures the Holy Spirit. The whole of Jesus Christ's life was of the Holy Ghost, the God. And if he needed to be poured, drained, dunked, mingled, everything, if every part of his life was of the Holy Ghost, How much more do we need the Holy Spirit to work in our lives to make a difference as we walk our lives in this world? Now, he was born of the Spirit, that speaks of being mingled. He was baptized of the Spirit, speaks of being anointed with oil. He was led of the Spirit, there's oil poured thereon. And as Jesus Christ taught and performed miracles, sacrificed himself in the power of the Spirit, that speaks of being with oil. Frankincense there is a plant-based herb additive. I'm not quite sure how you say that. But it comes, it gives a fragrance when it's been bruised and broken. And you get that smell. And the old timers, you go back a hundred years or so ago, no one's that old here, hopefully, no, we're all good. Those old timers would talk about our lives being broken bread and poured out wine. life given in sacrifice a lot and Jesus Christ was a life given in sacrifice a broken bread poured out wine they he poured out his life for mankind his life was broken for mankind Let's go down to the exclusion. We find that in verse 11. And the priest shall burn it upon the altar. It is the food of the offering made by fire. That's a very good verse in chapter 3. We need chapter 2. No meat offering which he shall bring unto the Lord shall be made with leaven, for ye shall burn no leaven nor any honey. in any offering of the Lord made by fire. Leaven is a picture of evil. So in Jesus Christ's life and ministry, he had the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God measured, he had the Holy Spirit without measure, it says, and then also he was without leaven, he was without sin, he was without evil. Remember, Jesus Christ was accused, John chapter 8, he said, who convinces me of evil? Is there anybody? Well, nobody could. There was no evil found in the life of Jesus Christ. No leaven. So he's that meat offering with oil, frankincense, but then what's been excluded? There was no leaven found in that Old Testament offering in Jesus Christ. There is no leaven found. Am I going too fast? Okay. Leviticus 3, we have the peace offering. Again, it is a sweet offering. It's peace. And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd, whether it be male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord. So it is a sweet savour offering, it speaks of communion, and it speaks of fellowship of the believers with the Father through Jesus Christ. Now, don't think of it as the peace that comes through the blood of the cross. Now, the blood of the cross, that has to do with sin, that comes up, that's in the next two offerings. This here is the peace, the fellowship that we enjoy, the communion that we enjoy, one with another, and with the Father, because of Jesus Christ. Now, instead of thinking Colossians, for example, think Ephesians 2. It says that he's broken down that middle wall of partition between the Jews and Gentiles. He's broken that middle wall down. He's made it possible for us to have access to the Father as one. So Him as our peace offering, He's made that so that we have fellowship one with another. 1 John 1, our fellowship one with another is in good standing when we are in good fellowship with Him. And so as we walk with the Lord, as we stay in the light of His Word, we have fellowship one with another. It causes us, Jesus Christ is our peace offering. How is it possible that we can live peaceably together in a body called the Church? How is it that we can have peace with the Father? It's through our peace offering, Jesus Christ. He was the peace offering that was made on our behalf. How much some people would give to have peace in their heart. the turmoil and the trouble and all the things that's going on. Storms will come, but in the midst of the storm, you've got to find that peace, that peace of God that's there. And you just get into it and then you enjoy it. And you realize God is in the midst of it all. It's not as the other offerings where everything is put there. Verse 3, the last part of 3, "...the fat that covereth the inwards, and the fat that is upon the inwards, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks and the call above the liver with the kidneys, it shall he take away." So God isn't after all in this, He's after the choice. He's after the choice pieces. You know, out at camp, I work out in the coal mine there, and when I go down to mess, you know, man, that smells like roast. You get down there, and no, there's a roast on the end there. Well, you know what I do, I have a bit of a look around. If nobody's around, I scan that roast, and I go all the way to the end, and I find that crispy bit. that's just a little bit charred, and you think that, and the next piece in, and I'll reach right over the back and I'll grab them out. The choice piece. You wanna go to a piece of cake. What piece do you get? You go to the edge? You don't go to the edge. You go right to the middle. Cut the piece out of the middle. You wanna make sure that nobody gets a piece that's not cooked. So you go right to the middle, make sure it's cooked. God's after the choice. He wants them to offer the choice. And folks, you know, for us, He wants us to offer to Him, this is just a side note, the choice of our life. He doesn't want us to offer to Him. See, sin takes the choice part too. Don't think God is austere to want to take the choice part of your life. Because sin and the devil also want to take the choice part of your life, so that you don't give God your best. See, sin and the devil would rather the world is the same. They would rather you waste the youth of your life, the strength of your life, on things for the world and sin and self and everything else. Don't give it to God. You know, he's too hard. But give it to me and enjoy it. Don't think God is being harsh and austere when he asks for the best. But we have that peace offering, it's the domesticated animals here again. There are three offerings that could be made. Let me make note of these. There's the bullock that could be offered, and that pitches Christ's servanthood as bearing the burden. It speaks of the lamb. The other offering that could be made for a peace offering would be a lamb, and that speaks of his character and his identification with man in life and in death. It speaks of the goat. There's also the goat, and that speaks of the identification of Christ being completely adequate to take away the sin of the world. Well, how do you get that? I thought it was, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Well, yes, that's true. But Leviticus 16, part of the offering of the Day of Atonement, is you have, I was going to say, two goats. You have two goats. One is live, they cast lots. One is a live goat. One is the scapegoat. The live goat gets offered. The scapegoat gets run by a fit man out into the wilderness. And that picture is that that scapegoat will take that sin away. It'll be taken away out of the camp. It'll be gone. Chapter four. Chapters 4 and 5 deal with the sin offering and the trespass offering. Now the sin offering, these two offerings are the non-sweet, because they have to do, let's see if we get them, the burnt offering and the meat offering and the peace offering all deal with Christ and His life and His character and who He is. But you have a look at the sin offering and the trespass offering, and they all deal with the work that Christ done. And so they are not sweet. They deal with sin and trespass and the like out of those things. The sin offering, that has to do with sin as a nature within man. The trespass offering has to do with sin as an act. Man is guilty on two counts. He is a sinner by what he does because he is a sinner by what he is. We don't have the wherewithal to make ourselves pleasing to God. We need a sacrifice. We will not ever be able to live up to the commands, to the standards of God's law. We need a sacrifice to take our place, and then that becomes Jesus Christ for us, that takes our place. So these things show. Chapter 4 is the longest. out of chapters 1, 2, 3 and 5 are all 16 or 17 verses. Chapter 4 is 35 verses. It's longer. It goes into detail about sin. And sin is terrible. It's nasty. It's not highly regarded. I know in this world, you know, they had a big sinfest down there at the Sydney Cuckoo Ground last night. And, you know, I don't know why it didn't flood down there. Sorry, the Sydneysiders. But those, you know, if any place needed a lightning storm, Sydney Cricket Ground was, and they weren't playing cricket, they weren't playing Rugby League or Rugby Union. The Sin Offering is an entirely new offering. How do I cover this? It is an offering where the burnt offering Lee left off, Chapter 1, the sin offering picks up and goes forward. The burnt offering shows who Christ is. The sin offering is what Christ did. The burnt offering, the high and holy standard of God, well, the sin offering shows man's deep need. We have a sin problem that we cannot get over, that we cannot get past. The burnt offering shows the preciousness of Christ. The sin offering shows the ugliness of sin and what needed to be done. The burn offering is a voluntary offering. The sin offering is a commanded offering. It continually brings man to the point that nothing that he has, nothing in his life will ever appease God. It just shows that that offering, we will never be able to do it. Man, deep down, all men have a profound sense of sin and guilt. And what they do with that determines eternity for them. Either they can meet, either they can look at their own sin and their guilt, and they can look at it through the Lord's eyes, and go to Him and confess and forsake, and everything's sweet. Or else they'll try to put it out of their mind, or they'll try to do works to get there, or they deflect. It's because of your relationship with your mother that you are the way you are. Or it's your father. It's your environment. You were down there in the ghetto. You poor individual. It's not in you. It's where you were raised. No, no, no, no. It's inside. But we have to be honest enough to look at it and say, I have a sin nature. There is nothing I can do to get out of it. Nothing I can do to appease God with it. Psalm 139, "...Search me, O God, and know my heart. See if there be any wicked way in me." I need to see that. The sin offering, it starts with the priest in verse 3. It starts with the priest in verse 3, I'll say this and I'll need to keep moving. Why does it start with the priest? Like priest, like people. You know if the priest is not right with God, the people won't be either. So, church leadership needs to be right with God. If they're not right with God, the church won't be either. If mum and dad isn't right with God, the family won't be either. I'm not saying there are right people within, but you better be careful. Everything rises and falls on leadership, the old preacher said. And so the effect of leadership has an effect. How many times through that you go through those Old Testament prophets and read them and see, go to the king, speak to the princes of the people. They want to go to the leadership of the people, speak to the men, talk to the men. Thus saith the Lord. Why? Because it starts, God goes to the authority in place, and then he works his way down. If authority is in the right position, it will come down. There is the altar of incense. That is part of it. The blood is sprinkled on that altar of incense as part of making of the offering. There's the sins of the congregation, there's the sins of the priest, the sins of the rulers are all down here because each of those need... Now, the rulers isn't the religious rulers, the civic rulers. The politicians have to give an account for their leadership over a nation. Righteousness exalted the nation, but sinners reproached any people. Proverbs 14.33, is it? And it all has to do with that. Let's go to the trespass offering. And this is chapter 5. he's going to make a trespass offering. The first mention of that is in verse 6, and he shall bring a trespass offering, verse 6. We find verse 6, verse 7, several times, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 times. Down through this chapter it mentions a trespass offering. It's when you trespass, when you go beyond, you talk about a trespasser, you go beyond the bounds. We all enjoy our personal liberty, our personal space. You are welcome to swing your arms, do whatever you want, but your liberty ends at my nose. You hit me in the nose, you've just trespassed into my area and now there's going to be an offence. Well, we like our liberty, but when we transgress, when we trespass and go beyond the law, where the boundary of the law is, when we go beyond, when we know what that is, it's no longer a sin of ignorance, we know what it is, we go, I need to make a trespass offering. I did that. And I'll make that trespass offering to cover it. The opening four verses of chapter 5 speak of four specific sins, but they are not conclusive, they're indicative of what else happens. Now in verse 5, let me point this out. And it shall be, when he shall be guilty of one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing. That word confess, this is the first mention in Scripture of the word confess. Up to this point in time, you would have thought confess comes up, but there's no confession up to this point in time. But this is where confession is like saying, I admit I've gone wrong. I've done wrong. I've gone beyond. I confess. I admit that God is right and I am wrong. Remember, when we confess our sins, put your hand up and say, God, you are right. I am wrong. I did the wrong thing. I went beyond your law. I did what you told, I went beyond the bounds that you've given me to live in my life. Okay? So confession is important. The more we confess our sins, especially the same sins over again. Don't you get sick of hearing the same sins being confessed? You say, God, I'm sorry, you know, I've had too much chocolate cake, too much chocolate cake. Well, I really, after doing this too much, I really ought to I really got to get serious about this and get victory. Making that confession. I've really skimmed that. Let's go to chapter 16. I pray I haven't lost you as I pray these things You see the glory of the offerings and what's in it. Now, before we get into the offering, this is the Day of Atonement. Let's read verses 1 and 2. I need to bring you up to date why this chapter is so important. I need to bring you up to why. Verses 1 and 2. And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu. Brother Kiran, he'll be taking care of them. Well, they're already taken care of, but he'll be talking on them. The two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord and died. And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark, that he die not. For I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. Now, let's consider these things. account happens after the death of Nadab and Abihu, the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord. And then he says, Aaron, come not at all times into the holy place. Nadab and Abihu, they had a great service going on. God met with these people and it seemed like they wanted to continue it going. And so they took incense and they offered incense. They walked into the holy place, they offered incense. So God pulls them up and says, you can't come in here at all times. There are specific times when to come into the holy place and make a sin offering. You have to know about when to be able to come in and to do that. There is a great gulf, it's not fixed, but a great gulf between the holiness of God and the sinfulness of man. It's not fixed. God wants you to come into his presence, but you have to come into his presence his way. Don't think that you can come in however you want, it'll be all right. Be careful. God smote them over in 1 Chronicles 13, 15 when Uzzah put forth his hand to stop God moving. They sought him not, and he's on a cart, the ark is on a cart, they sought him not after the due order. You better find out how God wants us to serve Him, how He wants us to meet with Him, and follow that method, and follow that pattern, and you're safe. You can be assured if you follow God's method to come into His presence, you're going to be assured of His presence, you're going to be assured of His company, you're going to be assured of admittance into that. But you need to find out just what it is. That's why there's the Day of Atonement. The priest comes in once a year for it. Verse 30 is the key to it. I've got about three minutes and I'll give you, and it's all about the day. It's all about the day. If you can write fast, I'll talk fast. It's a day of needful humiliation. Verse 4. The priest, remember we look back in Exodus at the high priest and the garb, you know, the clothes that he had on the way he was attired. Remember that? Just nod your head and make me feel good like you do remember. Thank you. Yeah, brother, we remember that. Well, what he's done on the Day of Atonement, he puts all that aside and he dresses very plainly. He doesn't have that fancy mitre. He has a linen bonnet on. Why? It's a day of humiliation. He can't stand before the people in the glory of the robes until he's first stood before God in the plainness and humiliation of making that sin offering. It's a needful day of humiliation. It's a day of special sacrifice, verses 5 through 11. The priest had to make an offering for himself. If he wasn't right with God, well, the people couldn't. He had to make sure he was right with God. It was a day of sacrifice. When you consider Jesus Christ, the book of Hebrews, he had no need to make a sacrifice for himself. He was at one sacrifice for sins forever. It's a day of nearness to God, verses 12 through 15, because on this particular day, on the Day of Atonement, they went into the veil, into that holy place inside. They couldn't go in there any other time. But it was a day of nearness to God. You know, folks, for us today in the New Testament, it says that veil, book of Hebrews, has been taken away. Now we have direct access into the throne room of God. We have direct access into God's presence because that veil of his flesh has been parted, it's been put aside. And we now come in and we can now live and serve in the presence of God. It's a day of solemn imputation. There's two goats and they took that one goat and they put it on the, and put his hands on. I mentioned lots were cast. One went to the altar, one went to the wilderness by the hand of a fit man. So if you're gonna be a priest back in those days, you couldn't be a fat little friar. You had to be fit. You had to be spiritually fit, but you also had to be physically fit to be able to run that animal out into the wilderness and then run fast enough so it doesn't follow you back. Because you don't want that sin coming back. No one wants their sin coming back, do they? Man, that sin goes out there and you leave it out there. It takes it away. It's a day of real affliction, verse 29. You shall afflict your soul. Sin is nothing to be trifled with, neither is the atonement. If you're frivolous with it, if you treat it lightly, there's something wrong. It's a day of rest. You shall do no work at all in it. Verse 29. Again, it's a day of rest. Christ sees from his works. We see from ours when we trust his sacrifice. It's a day of blessed experience. that you shall be clean from all your sins. I believe that's verse 30. 16 verse 30. For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you to cleanse you that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord. Folks, that's it. I'm done. I'm out of time. I'm not really done. I've got a whole lot more to say, but it's loaded. And I pray these things have been a help to you, that you can see the glory of them, and that they go back and study, take time to learn and see what is the value of those Old Testament offerings. Father, we pray, God, as we go into the morning service, that you'd speak to hearts. Lord, bless this time of fellowship together. And those folk coming in, protect them, we pray, as they drive, as they travel. May there be a sweet spirit in the service this morning. We ask now in Jesus' name. Amen.