Leviticus 1

good morning good morning good morning welcome to coffee and devotions that's where every day you and I we get together we have a little bit of milk milk coffee maybe tea we get into God's word and we grow and our love for the Lord together and this year 2023 Lord dwelling will make it from Genesis through Leviticus so glad to be with you today why don't we have some coffee we'll pray milk yeah we'll get into God's word oh why don't you put your toy down there you go great let's go ahead and pray by the way thank you so much for this day we thank you for the cooling down of the weather we thank you for your word we thank you for giving us life today I pray now that your spirit would teach us and help us to understand these words in Jesus name amen all right so here we go we get to start the Book of Leviticus today all right The Book of Leviticus so Leviticus do you guys know what a levite is that somebody who works in the temple somebody who works in the temple or the Tabernacle in this case right and so it was called because it was that's the Greek word for this is like a a rule book for the priests or for the Levites right uh but you guys want to know what it's called in Hebrew foreign and the Lord called up and the Lord called to Moses that's what its title is in Hebrew so uh here we go this is regarding the burnt offering okay so the first few chapters of Leviticus that we're going to be reading are all about different types of sacrifices so this morning it's about the burnt offering all right so here we go now the Lord called to Moses oh I bet that's why they call it and the Lord called to Moses and the Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tabernacle of meeting saying it's speak to the children of Israel and say to them when any one of yours of you bring an offering to the Lord you shall bring your offering of livestock of the herd and of the flock if his offering is a burnt offering of the herd so what type of offspring um a burnt offering let's write a burnt offering let him offer a mail without blemish so what type of mail or what type of animal male a male what do you think it means without blemish do you think it should have like a broken leg you know messed up ears missing an eye skin disease no no without blemish right so so a boy animal without blemish why do you think David should make sacrifices without blemish instead [Music] if they don't want to get sick and dead no good guess bit me because it's not clean hmm well yeah because God has declared that that shouldn't happen I think it's more that there he doesn't want the cheap stuff he doesn't want what's left over right that's one of the things that they started to do in the prophet Malachi would later say you know you're offering the blemished animals because you're cheap wads but you're not offering to the Lord the good stuff you're offering to him the cheap animals all right but you shall let him offer a mail without blemish and shall offer it of his own free will at the door of the Tabernacle of meeting before Jehovah so should somebody have to twist his arm force him nope I was on free will then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him he shall kill the bull before the Lord and the priests Aaron's sons shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around the altar by its door and the Tabernacle meaning so what were they supposed to do with the blood please yeah something like that right so sprinkle the blood around the altar and this and he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces right so he's got to butcher up the animal now yeah here let me see this animal I'll hold him here while we finish okay the sons of Aaron the priests shall put fire on the altar and lay the wood in order on the Fire then the priests Aaron's sons shall lay the parts here are the different parts the head and the fat in order and the wood that is on the fire upon the altar he shall wash its entrails and its legs with water all right so uh the the in trails are like it's guts right it's it's intestines yeah exactly right so would you want to cook the stuff that's inside intestines no no that's that's what poop is right and so nope they're gonna squeeze that all out and wash them out and then also wash the legs to make sure there's no filth on the legs of the animal that's being sacrificed too is that again as a what as a what a cat yeah well the cow's dead yeah they killed the cow and they sprinkled its blood all around the animal nope this is God says it's a richly clean animal they're not to sacrifice uh unclean animals like pigs yep but we'll talk about the difference between and we'll talk about the difference between clean and unclean later well anyways he shall wash its entrails and its legs with water and the priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice an offering made by fire a sweet Aroma to the Lord so the burnt offering is made by fire and what is it to the Lord holy well it's fully but it's a sweet Aroma do you know what Aroma is it smells remember when I made hamburgers yesterday [Music] you think gasoline smells better that's odd but it's kind of like a barbecue right when when Daddy heats up the grill the barbecue Does this does it smell good yeah right the smell of food no I mean I I would think that it would smell good yeah well that's what it's saying here it's a Sweet Smoke well it's a sweet Aroma to the Lord okay so that's if it's a if it's a uh a bull right now this is that would be the most costly most costly type of burnt offering well the other burnt offering is verse 10. if his offering is of the flocks of the sheep or of the goats so this is instead of a bull what is the snow a sheep or a goat right as a burnt sacrifice he shall bring a male without blemish is that the same as a if it was a bull yep yeah so a male without blemish he shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord and the priests Aaron shall what do you think they should do with its blood drop all the blood around the altar good so basically it's the same thing except let's see if you can go similar and he shall cut it into its pieces with its head and its fat and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar but he shot what do you think he should do with the entrails and the legs watch wash them with water then the priest shall bring it and burn it on the altar it is a burnt sacrifice an offering made by fire a sweet smelling Aroma to the to the Lord that's right this is two times it said it now so they're both burnt offerings so they're different types of animals and then verse 14 here we go we'll wrap this up with this section ready and if the burnt offering of his offering to the Lord is of birds so which one is what type of burnt offering isn't this this now the birds tweet tweets that's right then he shall bring his offering of turtle doves or young pigeons right so you can bring turtle doves or young pigeons the priest shall bring it to the altar okay no you can't do Hawkeyes no no pop no Hawks no Eagles turtle doves or young pigeons so here's now this is interesting the priest shall bring it to the altar ring off its head and burn it on the altar the blood shall be drained out at the side of the altar he shall remove its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east side into the place for ashes then he shall split it at its wings but shall not divide it completely and the priest shall burn it on the altar on the wood that is on the fire it is a burnt sacrifice an offering made by fire a sweet smelling Aroma to the Lord alright so it's a sweet smelling Aroma to the lord well so what type of offering was this whole part chapter one you remember a burnt offering that's right a burnt offering now people might bring burnt offerings for different things right it might be for right you need it for atonement all right I think that's what verse five said uh then he shall put his hand on the head and of the burnt offering of the burnt offering and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him so it might be because of sin some people might make burnt offerings because they made a vow or some people might make a vow yeah yeah well not vowels but vow meaning like a promise a solemn oath to God or some people might do it because they are dedicating something to God or it might be a burnt offering for Thanksgiving right so there's different reasons why people in the Bible would make burnt offerings but we normally think of the burnt offering as the sin offering but we'll we'll get there later there's actually one specifically for Sydney okay what do you think is the best verse to summarize this anything stick out to you and and it was a sweet smelling normal a sweet smelling Aroma to the Lord's Goods that's like the only thing in common so do you guys think we have sweet smelling Aromas to the Lord now yeah well in First Corinthians it tells it tells us about Jesus being the sweet smelling Aroma to the father yeah and then in Philippians you know what is the sweet smelling Aroma now nope our generosity to one another right so we can still offer up the sacrifice of praise and we can be generous our whole lives can be offered up to the Lord as a free will offering all right you guys ready to pray by the way thank you so much for giving us Jesus Christ Our burnt offering Lord we thank you that his sacrifice to you with a sweet smelling aroma and that you made him to be the one who would be our atonement taking away our sins but also making us right with you father we pray that you would please by your spirit press these truths on our hearts and let us love you all of our lives in Jesus name amen well may God bless you may you walk in the joy and peace of Jesus Christ and we'll see you next time bye [Music] thanks for listening to this week's message from God's word for you a 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