Join Rabbi Schneider in ‘Discovering the Jewish Jesus’ as he reveals the overlooked harmony between spiritual obedience and divine intimacy. Through a detailed analysis of the peace offering and other scriptural sacrifices, Rabbi Schneider emphasizes the importance of intentional prayer and the strength found in trusting God’s proximity. An exploration of scriptural passages offers listeners clarity on the complex themes of sin, forgiveness, and spiritual fellowship.
I want you to know, beloved, that you and I can bring God pleasure or we can grieve His Holy Spirit. Father God, we offer up this broadcast to you right now. We pray, Father God, that your word will go forth, proclaim today, that it will hit the mark, Father God, in the hearts of your people and result, Father God, in sin being burned up and great fruit arising to you, Yahweh, as a sweet savor offering in Yeshua’s name. Amen. Did you know that every time you say amen, you’re actually speaking Hebrew? It means let it be. Beloved, we are now in the midst of an extended series. We’re looking at the type of worship that Yahweh outlined for the tabernacle. He told us, come to the tabernacle. I want you to draw near to me and I want to be close to you. And when you come, you need to present me a sacrifice. We’ve been looking at the specific sacrifices that Yahweh commanded needed to be offered there. Because every one of these sacrifices, beloved, number one, was fulfilled by Messiah Yeshua and pointed to Him. But secondly, there were principles for us to have operating in our lives so that in participating conceptually in what these sacrifices meant, our intimacy with the Lord could be enhanced and increased. And today we are going to begin by looking at the peace offering, which is called in Hebrew, beloved, shalem. It comes from the Hebrew word shalom. Shalom means peace, restoration, restoration. wholeness, completeness. The distinguishing characteristic, beloved, of the peace offering that’s described in the third chapter of the book of Leviticus is that the worshiper, the Israelite that came to the tabernacle, the priest that offered it, and Yahweh all had a portion of it. It speaks of the Lord, beloved, sitting down and having a meal with us. Abraham experienced the same thing in the Torah. when the Lord appeared to him in human form and Abraham went out and prepared a meal for the Lord that was clothed in humanity and had that meal with him. It speaks of fellowship. When you think about the Lord partaking of this offering that was offered up on the altar to him and literally taking a portion of it as the worshiper took a portion of it for himself, it speaks of deep abiding fellowship. The Lord, beloved, not only is our Father, Not only is to be feared and reverenced in his holiness, but he also, beloved, is a friend that sticks closer than a brother. And this particular offering, beloved, is about friendship with God. Do you know that the Lord called… Moses, his friend, the Lord said, I speak with Moses as a man speaks to his friend. How much more, beloved, for you and I today as we learn how to be obedient to the Spirit of God, those of us that have been bought by the blood of Yeshua and are filled, hallelujah, with the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, no longer do I call you slaves, I call you friends. Thank you, Father God. We pray, Lord, that you’ll bring us into a deep experiential friendship with you. Hallelujah and amen. Now, in this particular offering, reading from the book of Leviticus chapter number three, verse 16, with the understanding that everyone had a portion in it, the worshiper, the priest, and the Lord, the Lord’s portion we read in Leviticus chapter three, verse 16, was the fat portion of it. I’m going to read now from the New American Standard Version. And the priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as food and offering by fire for a soothing aroma. All the fact is the Lord’s. Now, as I said earlier, this is anthropomorphic language. That this offering, the scripture said, was offered up as food to the Lord. Obviously, the Lord doesn’t eat animals like we eat animals, but this is anthropomorphic language. In other words, it’s language that the Lord uses to try to communicate with us in a language that we can understand. We see this phenomenon happening often in Scripture. So, for example, when it said the Lord repented, when he looked upon the world and he saw that all man was wicked, and so he had to destroy the world except for Noah and his family with the flood. And what is it you think? Well, what happened? Didn’t God know that man was going to fall? Didn’t the Lord know that this was going to happen? I thought he knew everything. So why does he have to repent now? We read another place in Scripture where it says the Lord repented. But this is anthropomorphic language, beloved. God knew where he was going. He had a plan for all eternity. The Bible says that Jesus was slain before the foundation of the world in the plan of God. But this is language that the Lord uses to help us be able to relate to him with words, beloved, that make sense to us. So here we read… Again, using this anthropomorphic language that this offering in verse 16 of Leviticus 3 was food to the Lord and that the fat portion of it was God’s. Let me read it again. Leviticus 3, 16. And the priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as food and offering by fire for a soothing. This was something that blessed God. It brought him pleasure for a soothing aroma. All fat is the Lord’s. It is important to note that the first three of these offerings, the burnt offering, the gift offering and the peace offering, all of these were sweet savor offerings to the Lord. Some of the translations read that they were a soothing aroma. And what this means, beloved, is that these offerings gave God pleasure. When it says it was a soothing aroma to him or a sweet savor aroma to him, doesn’t that involve the sensation or the experience of pleasure? And the Lord wants you and I to understand that we can bring Him pleasure. That when we choose to love Him, when we choose to put Him first, it brings Him pleasure. We can either bring Him pleasure or we can grieve Him. Sometimes we don’t realize this about God, we just think that God is and there’s nothing that we can do that moves Him emotionally. God is complete in and of Himself. We cannot take away from him as being God. We cannot add to him as being God. He is complete. He is whole. But somehow, beloved, it’s a mystery that you and I, whom he created in his own image to love and have a relationship with him, can bring him pleasure or we can grieve him. Remember when Yeshua was on earth and Lazarus had died and they came up to him and they said, you know, if you would have been here, Lazarus would not have died. And the scripture says Jesus wept. I mean, he was moved. Other times we read that Jesus looked upon them and they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he was moved, the scripture says, with compassion. Both in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, we are read not to grieve. That means to bring sorrow, not to grieve the Holy Spirit. That’s a person of God. we can bring God pleasure. And we see in this particular verse that this offering that was given to the Lord, because this particular offering, it was a freewill offering, this grain offering, this gift offering that’s called the meat offering or the meal offering, beloved. This was an offering that was simply a love offering. It’s like when you give somebody a gift just because, right? An Israelite would come and they would give the Lord this fine flour and the oil and the frankincense just because they wanted to say, I love you. I love you for who you are, that you brought me into the world to experience life. I love you and I’m thankful to you for all you are. And so when a worshiper came and told the Lord this through the presentation of this offering, it was a soothing aroma to him. It brought him pleasure. I want you to know, beloved, that you and I can bring God pleasure or we can grieve his Holy Spirit. Now, I want you to also understand that not only did the Lord have a portion in this offering that we read about in Leviticus 3, verse 16, but we read in Leviticus 7, verse 11 through 18, that the worshiper and the priest also had a portion of this offering. So here we have this picture of the Lord sitting down and having a meal, because we just read in Leviticus 3.16 that it was presented to the Lord as food. And so here we have a picture of the worshiper, the priest, and the Lord all sitting down and having a meal together. And when we think of having a meal with somebody, what do we think of? We think of fellowship. That’s why the Bible says, let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to the Lord. And it’s speaking here in the book of Revelation about all the wonderful things that God has planned for us. And the climax of it, beloved, is the marriage supper of the Lamb. We’re going to read about it in a second, where we have a meal with God in heaven. Meal, beloved, is the symbol of friendship and of fellowship.
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And so God wants us to understand who he is to us, that he’s not a God that’s far away, that he’s a God beloved that is here and near and in us. And we just need to be praying for revelation. I mean, when we read a scripture, we know it in our mind and we think we know it. But we need to be praying it. Like in other words, if we read that we can trust God, that he’s sovereign, we should be praying, Lord, help me to be able to trust you with my circumstances. Help me to see that you’re involved in my circumstances. Help me to see that you really are my friend. Help me to understand that you’re my friend. Help me to understand how near you really are to me. Help me to understand, Lord, that I’m not in this world as a victim and at the disposal of just the course of life and the natural, but you’re my friend and you’re with me and that I can trust you. We need to be praying these things, beloved, so that they mean something to us and so that we have revelation. And so this meal that God has through this sacrifice with the worshiper and the priest, it reminds me of Revelation 19, verse number seven and nine. Hear the word of God. Let us rejoice, be glad, and give the glory to him. For listen now, for the marriage supper, here we go, God having a meal with his people, a marriage meal, the pinnacle of intimacy. For the marriage supper of the Lamb has come. Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. Yeshua said right before he was crucified, he said to his disciples in the book of Matthew, chapter 26, verse number 29, he’s having a Passover meal with them. It’s the meal that we get the Lord’s Supper from. And this is what he said to them there. But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine with you again from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s kingdom. So here’s Yeshua once again, God in the flesh having a meal with his disciples. He said, I’m not going to be able to have this meal with you again until we have it together again in my Father’s kingdom. And we just got done reading when the pinnacle of that’s going to happen. It’s going to be, beloved, at the marriage supper. Hallelujah of the Lamb. God, beloved, is our friend. And I believe that we can gain in our understanding of this inexperience by praying about it. Maybe you don’t feel like God’s your friend. Maybe you don’t really feel that God is close to you. You know what? Just begin to pray. Ask and you’ll receive. Seek and you’ll find. Pray when you’re driving to work. Pray when you’re at work. Pray wherever you are. Pray when you’re at home. Don’t just pray once a day. Don’t just pray five times a day. Keep praying, Lord, help me to know you’re my friend. Help me to know how near you are, that you’re the best friend, Father God, that I could ever have. Help me to experience it, Lord. Help me to know it deep inside me. Let me not just believe in it, Lord, but let me know it inside. How many of us, we believe certain things, but we really don’t know what we believe. Not saying that we couldn’t say what we believe, but we don’t know it inside. In other words, We say we believe God loves us, but do we really know God loves us? I mean, are we really convinced inside that God loves us? Do we walk around with a spirit of judgment on us? You know what? Begin to pray. Lord, help me to know you love me. Help me, Lord. I need to know your love. Your Word says that I should know the height and the depth and the width and the breadth of the love of God for me in Messiah. Father, help me to know it. I don’t know it. I believe in it, Lord. I see it. I can quote it in Scripture. But deep inside, Lord, I’m not carrying it inside me. I’m believing in it from afar. So come inside me, Jesus. And imprint upon my soul the knowledge of your love for me that I can walk in that fellowship with you inside. The mystery of the gospel, indeed, beloved one, is Messiah in you. Pray about these things. The peace offering, the offering of shalom, the offering of shalom is about God’s friendship with you. It’s about completeness, beloved. And so, Father, we ask you to breathe peace. We ask, Father, the offering of Shalem inside us and help us, Lord, to respond by offering it back to you and walking, Father, in friendship with you. In Jesus’ name, amen. And so we’ve covered the first category of offerings up to this point. We’ve covered the sweet savor offerings, the offerings that were a soothing aroma to the Lord. We looked at the burnt offering, total commitment to Yahweh as the worshiper laid his hands on that offering and it became a symbol of himself. And the Lord is demanding, beloved, the same thing from you and I, total dedication, total commitment to him. And then we look, beloved, at the grain or the meal offering, the meat offering, which is about giving him an offering because we love him. And now we just got done sending the last of the sweet savor offerings, the offerings that were a sweet aroma to the Lord. Now we’re going to look at the last two offerings as we look at the second category of offerings. The second category of offerings, beloved, that were offered up to Yahweh inside the tabernacle were the guilt offerings. The offering, beloved, for… Sin and the offering, indeed, beloved ones, for trespasses. In Leviticus chapter 4, we have the sin offering. In Leviticus chapter 5 and 6, we have the trespass offering. The sin offering was different from the trespass offering in the sense that the sin offering was about general forgiveness. It’s connected to general redemption. The sin offering, beloved, was for the sinner. In other words, we by nature, the scripture says in Ephesians 2, are children of wrath. That there’s something about fallen humanity that in and of itself, he is in sin. You know, David said, in sin I was conceived. And so the sin offering is just a general offering for the sinner. general redemption, whereas the trespass offering in Leviticus chapter five and six was for specific sins that the Israelite had committed. Now, we read as we study Leviticus chapter four through five that the offering for sin And the offering for trespasses was predominantly for those things that the guilty party had done that were unintentional. So I’m going to read, to make this point clear, Leviticus chapter 4, verse 1 and 2, and then Leviticus chapter 5, verse number 15. Hear the word of God. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, speak to the sons of Israel, say, if a person sins, get this now, unintentionally in any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done. And then in Leviticus chapter 5, verse number 15, with the trespass offering. Hear the word of God. The Lord said, if a person acts unfaithfully and sins, get this now, unintentionally. And so these offerings were generally for sin that was done, listen, unintentionally. This is illustrated in the book of Matthew, chapter 12, when we look at the sin, beloved, of the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. I’m not going to have time to finish this today. You’ll want to make sure to join me on next broadcast because I’m sure that many of you, like me, have been very fearful about what the Scripture says is a sin that no one can ever be forgiven of, not in this age or in the age to come. Yeshua says it’s the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. And I believe as we study this section of Scripture in Matthew chapter 12, talking about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, we can tie it in as we understand the atonement that took place for sins that were unintentional. And we reference this to the fact that when Yeshua talked about the sin of the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, He said that any sin that’s spoken against the Son of Man, speaking of Himself, can be forgiven. But anyone he says that blasphemies the Holy Spirit can never be forgiven in this age or the age to come. What’s the difference? The difference is, beloved, that when someone blasphemies the Holy Spirit, they know what they’re doing. Join me on next broadcast as we look at the sin of the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, how it applies to this world today, and how it ties in, beloved, to the sin offering and the trespass offering that were offered up to Yahweh in the tabernacle. Let’s ask God for mercy. Let’s ask him, beloved, to consume our life as a sacrifice on the altar. I can preach about these things, beloved, but we need the power of the Holy Spirit, amen, to cleanse us and transform us. So, Father God, we’ve looked at the offerings. We’ve looked at the offerings, Father God, that you commanded, that you gave revelation about in the Torah. And we ask you, Father God, to do and will in our life that which will be pleasing to you. Lord, your Word says that you’re the author and finisher of our faith, and that, Father God, you’re the potter and that we’re the clay. Father, will you take us and cleanse us and make us and mold us? We want to be a sweet and savor aroma to you. We want to offer up our lives to you, Father, even as Yeshua did, as a fragrant aroma to you. We want to walk before you, Lord, perfectly. So we ask you, Father, to conform us to the image of the Lord Jesus by the Holy Spirit. Have your way in our life, Father God. We want to be a living and pleasing aroma and sacrifice to you. There’s a portion in God’s Word that I’ve really been putting myself under, asking the Lord to shepherd me into perfect obedience. It’s the story of the rich young ruler that came to Jesus in Matthew 19. It’s also repeated in Mark and Luke. And the rich young ruler says to Jesus, good teacher. Jesus says, why do you call me good? Only God’s good. And then the rich young ruler said to Jesus, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Yeshua said, keep all the commandments. The rich young ruler said, I’ve done all the commandments from my youth. He was a moral man. Then Yeshua said to him, now go and sell everything you have and you will inherit the kingdom of God. And the Bible says the rich young ruler went away sad because he wasn’t able to surrender his possessions to the Lord. And the disciples were really like, wow, who can inherit the kingdom of God? Jesus said, what’s impossible with man is possible with God. Beloved, we don’t have to earn our salvation, but Jesus is calling for us to surrender. Will you surrender your finances to Him?
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What I love about the Aaronic blessing is that it did not originate with man. The words actually proceeded from the very essence of God himself. The blessing comes from the book of Numbers chapter 6. So listen to these words and receive the blessing of the Lord into your life today.
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with his countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, his peace. God bless you and shalom.
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I’m Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by discovering the Jewish Jesus. Be sure to join us next time when Rabbi Schneider explains the unforgivable sin. Find clarity about this frightening passage this Wednesday on discovering the Jewish Jesus.
