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*Bringing An Offering*
*/Leviticus 1 - 7/*
We are going to cover the first seven chapters of Leviticus tonight.
I'm going to just cover the high spots.
Maybe you have found yourself making a commitment to reading the Bible all the way through.
You start in the book of Genesis and do pretty good.
You struggle some, but you get through it okay.
Then you move to the book of Exodus.
Exodus is no problem.
It was hard, but you make it through.
Then you come to the book of Leviticus.
When you read all of the details, you find it so complicated and involved.
You find it dull and uninteresting then finally quit in utter frustration.
That was my first experience with the book of Leviticus.
I daresay there are those of you who have had the same experience.
Properly understood, the book of Leviticus may be the most thrilling book in the Old Testament.
In verse 2, we read, /"Speak unto the children of Israel."/
It's addressed to the Hebrew people.
You say, "That's the people in the Old Testament.
We are in the New Testament.
Why are we interested in that?
According to the book of Hebrews, all of this in the book of Leviticus has been fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
If we no longer observe and do all of these things, why bother studying the book?
Why waste our time with studying something like that?"
The book of Leviticus is referenced in the New Testament more than any other Old Testament book, as far as I can tell.
My computer search hit some 400 times it is referred to in the New Testament.
Really, there are truths taught in the New Testament which cannot be understood in their fullness and in their depth unless you get the message of the book of Leviticus.
The book starts with a conjunction, /"And."/
That means it is tied to the previous book.
/"And the Lord called unto Moses out of the tabernacle."
/So there is a connection between Exodus and Leviticus.
In Exodus, God gave the pattern for that tabernacle.
It was the place where God's people went to worship.
It was there that they were taught how to approach God.
Leviticus which is in contrast to the book of Exodus.
· In the book of Exodus, you have the account of the exodus from Egypt.
You see there how God gets His people out of Egypt.
· In Leviticus, you are going to find out how God gets Egypt out of His people.
Exodus shows us the way out.
Leviticus shows us the way in.
In our English Bibles, this book is titled "Leviticus."
If you look at the first four letters in Leviticus, you will get it.
Leviticus, pertaining to the Levites or the Tribe of Levi.
So here is a book that pertains to the Old Testament tribe of Levi.
Who are those people?
That was the tribe from which the priests were taken.
In the Old Testament they had priests whose job it was to lead the people in the worship of God and to teach the people what God expected of them and how to correctly worship Him.
The Lord spoke in verse 1, /"out of the tabernacle."
/In Exodus 19:3, we are told that God spoke out of the mountain, Mount Sinai.
He gave the law.
Now, God is speaking out of that tabernacle, and He is giving specific instructions and directions about how a sinner can approach a holy God.
The whole Bible is a book about salvation.
The whole Bible tells us the story of how we who are sinners and deserve hell can go to a wonderful place called heaven and be in fellowship with God forever.
So Leviticus is a book of worship.
There are certain *key words* in the book of Leviticus, which I want you to jot down, and they will be important to unlock for us the meaning of this book.
One of the words is "blood."
You will find that word occurs about 90 times in this book.
Another word is the word "holy," or "holiness."
Those words occur about 80 times in this book.
Eight times in this book you will find this phrase, "be ye holy."
God is saying to us in the book of Leviticus, "You be holy!
God is holy!
You be holy!"
It shows us that the only way that we can be holy and the only way we can approach a holy God is by way of the blood.
God always requires blood.
I want to share with you what *the theme* and the key of this book is.
The theme is */how a sinner can approach a holy God and be acceptable/*.
The bottom line is this in verse 2. "If any man (generic) of you bring an offering unto the Lord..."
You had to approach God with an offering.
In the book of Leviticus he is going to tell you the specific *offerings that are to be used*.
In the first seven chapters he gives us the *five offerings by which sinful people can approach this holy God.* I'll point them out to you as we move along.
The first three of these offerings are called */sweet savor offerings/*.
They show us the God-ward aspect.
All of these offerings are going to point us to the Lord Jesus Christ and His death on the cross.
Leviticus finally came alive to me and I really got a blessing out of it when I began to look for Jesus in the book of Leviticus.
When I could see Jesus, then the whole thing just began to leap with excitement, thrill and blessings.
Some ordinary things in life may seem rather dull and uninteresting in themselves.
Take sugar.
That doesn't really look exciting, does it?
Or take salt.
I rather doubt you get all excited about salt.
I like salt on my food.
Probably not good, but I do.
But in and of themselves, sugar and salt are not all that exciting.
But you can take sugar or salt and put them under a microscope and you will be absolutely astonished at the beauty and the wonder and the splendor that is wrapped up in sugar and salt.
You can take these offerings and put them under the microscope of the Holy Spirit and the teachings of the New Testament and all of a sudden these offerings are filled with beauty and wonder and glory and awe.
You will come away from them with a new appreciation and love for the Lord Jesus Christ like you have never had in all your life.
The first three offerings are sweet savor offerings that */show the God-ward side of the cross of Jesus/*.
The next two offerings are the *sin offerings *that */show the man-ward side of the cross of Chris/*t and what the cross accomplished for us and how it affects us practically and personally.
*I.
Offerings of Dedication.*
These three offerings, the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the peace offering, picture for us the value of Christ's death on the cross.
It's the God-ward side when Jesus died on the cross.
Here is what was to happen.
Imagine a person in the Old Testament and they have sinned grievously.
Sin brings guilt.
You do not sin with immunity.
You do not sin and there not be a price to pay.
So here is this Old Testament person and they have sinned.
They want to do something about their guilt.
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