Join us as we discover the different types of sacrifices outlined in Leviticus, highlighting the importance of giving our best to God. From studying the role of the olah offering which demands our everything, to the grains offering — a voluntary expression of gratitude, we reflect on how these ancient practices apply in our modern lives. Through these offerings, we are reminded of the call to live sacrificially, with every aspect of our lives surrendered to our Creator.
I wonder, have you and I ever done something for the Lord just because we love Him, just because we want to thank Him? This is what He’s calling us to do, beloved. We’re studying Hebraic worship and we understand that the tabernacle of ancient Israel revealed beginning in Exodus 25 is a blueprint for having intimacy with Yahweh today. Presently what we’re studying, beloved, is the sacrifices that took place in the tabernacle with the understanding that the Hebrew word for sacrifice is the word korban and it means to come close. The reason that Yahweh gave the Israelites these sacrifices was to bring them close to himself because the whole purpose of the tabernacle in Exodus 25, 8 is that Yahweh could dwell with them. You and I, beloved, could have a deeper experience with the Lord. We can have a richer experience of intimacy with them if we will apply the principles that are revealed in the Hebraic worship that we see in the tabernacle to our lives today. And in the center of this Hebraic worship, we find the principle of sacrifice. From the beginning of time, we find that archaeologists have unearthed ancient civilizations, and even in pagan civilizations that didn’t know God, they had an elaborate sacrificial system. Deep within man, beloved, there is a desire or an inclination to give ourself over to something bigger than ourselves. Whether in the pagan culture it was a false deity, in today’s society, it’s oftentimes entertainment and lust and seeking to fulfill the American dream. People giving themselves over to something that leads to death. But Yahweh says, if you’ll give yourself over to me and present yourself to me as a sacrifice I’m going to bring you into truth and riches and treasures forevermore. And by studying the five particular types of sacrifices that Yahweh outlined for us in the Torah, we can understand those principles as they apply to our life today. And by being diligent, beloved, to not just hear about them, but to take a hold of them and to practice them, you will be brought in and I will be brought in to a deeper, more enriching and fulfilling experience with Yahweh and His love today through the Lord Jesus, through Yeshua HaMashiach. I want to just make some final comments about the burnt offering. Quick review, the Hebrew word for burnt offering is the word olah, and it means to ascend up. The distinguishing characteristic of it was that the entire sacrifice was burned. Not part of it, all of it, the entire animal. And what this speaks of is entire devotion, entire giving ourselves over to Yahweh, This is seen even before the law was given, before the tabernacle was given, in the life of Abraham, the father of all believers, whom God called upon in the book of Genesis chapter 22, verse 2, to offer up to him his son. I want you to know that God will settle, that Yeshua will settle for nothing less than You and I giving Him our everything. He wants entire surrender. And Father, right now, I ask for mercy for myself and for those, Lord, that are Yours. Lord, we know that You demand nothing less than everything from us. Oh, Father, we ask you for the Holy Spirit’s sanctifying work in our life that we can truly turn everything over to you, Father God. Our circumstances, our finances, Father God, everything over to you, Father God. our inner thoughts, our emotions, our feelings, our actions, our food habits, what we watch on television, all of it, Father, we want to turn over to you in Yeshua’s name. He’ll settle for nothing less. Yeshua spits the lukewarm out of his mouth. Every part of the Israelites’ life, beloved, was governed by the Torah, what they ate, the laws of kosher, how they dressed. Let me ask, have you turned the way that you dress over to the Lord? Are you dressing to draw people to yourself? Are you dressing to attract people with your flesh? It is inappropriate, beloved, to be dressing in such a way that we’re drawing people to our sexuality. If you want to live by that principle, you’ll die. The Bible tells us in the book of Romans that if we, by the Spirit of God, are putting to death the deeds of the flesh, we’ll live. I’m not saying that we can’t dress attractive. But there’s a way to dress attractive, beloved, that gives God the glory. The high priest dressed in attractive garments. The scripture said there were garments for beauty and glory. But he didn’t dress in such a way that he was drawing people to his flesh. In fact, the priest dressed in such a way that all their flesh was covered. They actually wore garments that looked like long underwear so that none of their flesh was showing. Because God wants us to understand that the flesh is not the principle of the spirit. The Bible says the spirit lusted against the flesh and the flesh lusted against the spirit. You can dress attractive without drawing people to your sexuality. I want you to know, if you want to be entirely committed and devoted to Yahweh, you need to filter the way you dress through the Lord. It’s interesting that when we speak about all of our life being turned over to Yahweh, and it means everything. It means what we eat. It means the friends that we have. It even means the way that we dress. And it’s interesting when we’re thinking about the Ola offering and how every part of our life needs to be given over to God. Mankind, listen now, is the only one of God’s creatures that wears clothes. I mean, your dog doesn’t wear clothes unless you put a coat on him in the winter. Your cat doesn’t wear clothes. Your goldfish doesn’t wear clothes. You go to the zoo, those animals don’t have clothes on. The only animal, beloved, that wears clothes is mankind. And the Lord even told the children of Israel to wear the tzitzit, the sanctified fringes on their clothes. And what this communicates, beloved, is that God, listen now, He wants to reign over our fleshly instincts. He wants them to be covered with sanctified clothing, letting His principle, the principle of the Spirit and the principle of divine intelligence and the principle of the Word of God, He wants that to reign over our natural instincts. The animal kingdom, none of them wear clothes. They all live by their natural instincts. But the Lord doesn’t want us living by our natural instincts, and he doesn’t want us to use the power of our nature, our fleshly nature, to get by in this world, to draw members of the opposite sex inappropriately, and to try to influence people by the power of the flesh. We need to be completely given over to God.
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I want to continue here by pointing out that in the sixth chapter of Leviticus, verse number 12, we read these words about the altar that the burnt offering was burned on. It says, And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not go out, but the priests shall burn wood on it, listen now, every morning. The interesting thing about this is that the fire never went out. The 13th verse says of Leviticus 6, fire shall be kept burning continually on the altar, it is not to go out. And what was put up on the altar, beloved? The burnt offering, the olah. And remember, when the worshiper brought the burnt offering to the altar, we read in the book of Leviticus chapter 1 that he laid his hands on his offering. And in so doing, he was identifying with his offering, that the offering became an extension of himself. And then that entire offering was burned up in smoke unto the Lord and became a soothing and a fragrant aroma to Yahweh. What the Lord is saying here, by having the fire never go out, is he saying, when you give yourself over to me, spirit, soul, mind and body, my fire is going to be on the altar to receive you. and to be consumed by my Holy Spirit and to receive the blessing. Over and over and over again in Scripture, when there was a tremendous amount of sacrifices and offerings that were presented unto the Lord, the manifest presence of God dwelt. This happened, beloved, at the institution of the tabernacle of the temple and many other places in Scripture. All the animals were sacrificed as offerings unto Yahweh and then the manifest presence of Yahweh fell. And so I’m going to Leviticus chapter one. I want you to notice that there were different types of animals that the Israelite could bring for his burnt offering. We read in Leviticus chapter one, verse three through nine, that the Israelite could bring a bull. We read there in Leviticus chapter one, verse 10 through 13, that the worshiper could have brought a sheep or a goat. And finally, we read in the 14th to the 17th verse that he could have brought a pigeon or a turtle dove. What’s the point of bringing the bull, the sheep, or the pigeon? Why the different types of offerings? Because, beloved, not everybody could afford a bull. Some people could afford a sheep or a goat, but they couldn’t afford a bull. Some people could afford only a turtle dove or a pigeon. The point is that we need to bring to God our best. Now, if you could afford a bull… and you only brought to the Lord a pigeon or a turtle dove, that would not be an acceptable burnt offering because it would be revealed there that you’re not really giving to the Lord your best. You’re not giving Him everything. The point is, beloved, that we need to be giving Him our best. This is also referenced in the Greek Hadashah, the New Testament, in the story that we read about in the book of Mark, chapter number 12, verse 41 through 43. Hear the word of God. And he sat down opposite the treasury and began observing how the people were putting money into the treasury. And many rich people were putting in large sums. A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a cent. Calling his disciples to him, he said to them, truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the contributors of the treasury, for they all put in out of their surplus. But she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned and all she had to live in. Beloved, this is the point. It’s not how much you give, it’s are you giving him your everything? And Yeshua said it in the very end of the scriptures, beloved, in Revelation chapter 22, beloved, verse number 12, he said, behold, I am coming quickly and my reward is with me to render to each of you, to every man, according to what he has done. Father, we ask You today, by the power of Your Spirit, by the Eish, Lord, by the fire of Your Spirit, we ask You to consume our lives, Holy Spirit, to present ourselves as living sacrifices to Yahweh, wholly burned up, Father, on the altar. of consecration, abandonment, and surrender to you. Beloved, the principle of the burnt offering, the principle of the Ola offering is just as much in effect today as it was in effect for the ancient Israelite. They did it by bringing an animal, beloved, but the Lord is looking for the principle of it to be operating in your heart and in my heart today. We’re going to continue now with the second type of offering that Yahweh called the Israelite to present to him in the tabernacle. It’s called the grain offering, sometimes referred to as the meat offering. The King James calls it the meat offering. Some translations call it the meal offering. It’s found in the book of Leviticus, chapter number 2. Hear the word of God. Now when anyone presents a grain offering as an offering to the Lord, his offering should be a fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it. This offering is known in Hebrew as the mincha offering. It was a gift offering. People usually brought this offering along with the burnt offering. It was an offering simply of thanksgiving. Have you ever given a gift to somebody just to appreciate them and are thankful to them for who they are and what they mean to you and what they’ve done for you? Most of us have done that. We’ve given people gifts just out of love. It was voluntary. This is a voluntary offering. We’ve given to people gifts, voluntary gifts. Sometimes the most precious gifts to receive are gifts that are not given on your birthday or Valentine’s Day or Christmas or Hanukkah, but just gifts that you’re not expecting from someone, and they present you a gift. They just say, I want you to know I appreciate you. That’s what kind of a love offering this was, beloved, the mincha, the gift offering, the meat meal or the grain offering. It’s an offering, beloved, that was specifically to consist of, we read in verse number 1 of Leviticus 2, it’s to consist of fine flour, listen now, oil, and frankincense. The Lord specifically stipulated that in the offering need to be included fine flour, oil, and frankincense. We need to realize that all three of these ingredients to the ancient Israelite that was wandering in the wilderness was very costly. I mean, these weren’t items that came cheaply. Today we think of flour. I mean, you can go to the store and get flour just like that. You don’t think of it as a precious commodity. But if you’re in the wilderness, beloved, To give up fine flour, frankincense, and oil was to give up something very precious and very meaningful. It represented a significant sacrifice. Remember David said, I will not give to the Lord that which cost me nothing. It’s inappropriate. The Lord sees through the outer and He sees the heart. So those that were coming to present this offering, Yahweh stipulated the boundaries of it and it was a costly offering for the average Israelite. the same type of phenomenon that we just read about a little bit ago, the same type of offering, beloved, that was in the case of the widow’s mite who gave up all that she had, and Yeshua said she has given more than everyone else. Now, not only did the Lord tell us here that the offering had to be consisting of fine flour, frankincense, and oil, but he also told us that it could not have any honey in it or any leaven in it. So we read what it should have, and also we read, beloved, what it can’t have. Let’s take each one of these ingredients, beloved, first of all looking at those that it should have, and then we’re going to move over to look at the ingredients that the Lord specifically said, I don’t want you to include the honey or the leaven in the offering. First of all, when we think about the fact that the frankincense and the oil and the fine flour were costly, it reminds me of this story in the book of Luke. There was a woman in the city who was a sinner. And when she learned that he was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume. Remember that this offering included frankincense. Now, I know it’s a little different, but it has that fragrant perfume smell. “…and standing behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and kept wiping them with the hair of her head and kissing his feet and anointing them with the perfume.” This in principle, beloved, was the type of offering that we’re referring to here. It was somebody just coming up to Jesus, presenting this costly vial of perfume. Some have estimated it to be a year’s worth of wages just because she loved him, because she was appreciative of him, and because she was so thankful of all that he had done for her. I wonder, have you and I ever done something for the Lord just because we love him? just because we want to thank Him, this is what He’s calling us to do, beloved, to present ourselves to Him in this way. The frankincense speaks of his beauty. The oil perhaps speaks of the Holy Spirit because oil in scripture is so often associated with the Holy Spirit. And the fine flour, it’s a reflection of how perfect he is to us because it wasn’t just flour that was costly, but it was fine flour, the fine character of Yeshua HaMashiach whose character was perfectly conformed to the image of God himself. And so it’s a reflection of we love you for who you are, and we appreciate who you are. We know who you are, and we want to lavish our love upon you by presenting you this offering that reflects who you are, how beautiful you are, and the fact that we realize that you are one that’s sent from God, filled with the Holy Spirit, which is represented by the oil in the offering. Now let’s read verse 11 of Leviticus 2, and look at the ingredients that were not to be included in the offering. Hear ye indeed, beloved one, the word of God. No grain offering which you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall not offer it up in smoke, any leaven, now listen to this, or any honey as an offering by fire to the Lord. Leaven in Scripture so often is symbolic of sin and arrogance and pride. And so because this offering was a reflection of who Jesus was himself, the beautiful one represented by the fragrance, the one whose character and his humanity was perfectly conformed to the image of God by the fine flour, and the one who was filled and empowered by the Ruach HaKadosh, which is illustrated by the fact that it had oil in it. It could not have in it the leaven because that represents sin and pride, and that’s not who He was. And it could not have honey in it, beloved, because honey is symbolic of artificial sweetness. And beloved, God doesn’t need to be artificially sweet because He’s always good.
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I’m your host, Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Be sure to come back next week when Rabbi Schneider reveals why the grain offering is a gift of love. That’s coming up Monday right here on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
