Called To Holiness | Holiness: A Journey Through Leviticus - Week 1 | Pastor Mike Signorelli
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Called To Holiness | Holiness: A Journey Through Leviticus - Week 1 | Pastor Mike Signorelli
(upbeat music) We're gonna start in an unusual way. And if you have a physical Bible, I wanna ask that you do this with me. If you don't, if you don't have one with you, I do want you to bring a physical Bible this entire month so you can write in the margins of the pages. And I think it'd be a great experience for some of you. You know, your Bible, this is a phone without notifications if you think about it. And so this is gonna be really, really good for you to lock in and pay attention. But I wanna start with Leviticus chapter one, verse one. And then what I want you to do is flip over to Numbers chapter one, verse one. And if you can see this, I've got, I can flip back and forth between Leviticus chapter one, verse one, and Numbers chapter one, verse one. And we're gonna ask, I'm gonna show you something that's incredible. Okay, I need to know where my Bible nerds are 'cause that's what this is all about. So let me read this to you, Leviticus chapter one, verse one. The Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meetings saying, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, when any one of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offerings of livestock from the herd or from a flock. Now, let's just read it again so we make sure we comprehend it. The Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting. Now I want you to flip to Numbers, this is the next book of the Bible, Numbers chapter one, verse one. And it says, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the tent of meeting on the first day of the second month and in the second year after they had come out from the land of Egypt. That is an entire sermon. I've never heard this before quite synthesized this way. But when you go from Leviticus chapter one, verse one to the very next book of the Bible, Numbers chapter one, verse one. First you have God speaking to Moses from inside the tent and Moses is outside of the tent. And he's giving them instructions. And he said, if you do all of these things, then there's gonna be an atonement for sins and there's gonna actually be an atonement for breaking covenant agreement. And we're gonna come back into alignment. And there's gonna be a restoration of that intimacy and that relationship. And here's the evidence that Moses and the children of Israel actually followed through with the instructions of Leviticus is now you go to Numbers chapter one, verse one. And it says, and I love this, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the tent of meeting. So in one book of the Torah, which is Leviticus, God's speaking from inside the tent, which is the holy meeting place. And he's speaking to Moses who's outside and one book of the Torah later, it's actually that Moses is inside the tent. Access has been restored, intimacy has restored, sin has been at its own fore and there's a covering that's made. So now let's this, okay, now I set it up. Now we're gonna go through the entire book of Leviticus over the next several weeks so that you can understand what did Moses and the children of Israel do that God Moses from outside of the tent, inside of the tent. What is what happened? And that is what we're going to look at. Now just to break down a little bit more context for the book of Leviticus, I hope I'm wedding your appetite. I hope you're getting an excitement on the inside of you for the word of God. So the thing that you need to understand about the book of Leviticus is that it's broken up into sections and we're gonna actually take it in each section. So I'm not gonna get up ahead. I'm gonna just try to do this one week at a time so that it doesn't necessarily confuse you. But we're gonna be talking in this first section, which is the first seven chapters and it's primarily concerned with offerings before the Lord, what you give the Lord. And why are offerings necessary? It's necessary because before the book of Leviticus, we see the children of Israel breaking covenant. What does covenant mean? It means an agreement. And God desperately longs to be with his people. He longs to be among his people. He wants to be with his people. But just like the children of Israel, y'all know we're the same way. We're stiff neck, we're stubborn, we're complainers, we're whiners. We know the right way, but we wanna do the other thing. We wanna satisfy our own selfish desires. And so just like the children of Israel, they were struggling with rebellion. It was rebellion against God. We struggle with rebellion against God. And so Leviticus is when God spoke to Moses and said, here's what you do to deal with the sin and deal with the rebellion and deal with all the pride. Now the most beautiful thing, and I'm gonna say it in the beginning, and then as we read throughout the entire month, it's gonna be confirmed over and over and over again, is that you are going to see a crystal clear picture of Yeshua Havashiach. Jesus Christ emerged from the book of Leviticus. And oh, I got chills all over me. When we finish the book of Leviticus, it's gonna feel like you read the book of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This is where it's gonna, this is what I'm saying. And I'm saying it now because it's like, how do I put this? For those of you who are into movies, there's Easter eggs. And then the whole thing starts coming together and you're like, that's crazy. The Bible references itself. Prophecy is said hundreds or thousands of years later, it's fulfilled and it echoes back and forth. No book is like this book because this book is living. And so the scriptures are so compelling. So as we're reading through the book of Leviticus, I'm gonna do the best job I can of showing you Jesus. It's insane. Okay. So all of that was my introduction. And let's now go a little bit deeper. The first offering that we have, and this is Leviticus chapter one. Now I promise you, we're gonna do seven chapters in the next 25 minutes. Just follow me, okay? So the first section is the burnt offering. And this is Leviticus chapter one, verse one through 17. I'm just gonna read a portion of it. So let's start with verse two. Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, when any one of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock. If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. Let's all say that together, male without blemish. That is a very important distinction. So if you need to bring a burnt offering, don't bring a female, bring a male, and then don't bring any male, bring a male without blemish. Okay, let's keep going. He shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting that he may be accepted before the Lord. Okay, let's back up there. So if an offering needs to be made, bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and it must be a very specific thing that is brought. It's a male without blemish, okay? So in other words, what this is telling us about the nature of God and his personality is you don't bring God whatever you want to bring him, you bring him what he requires. So we have to start there, because already you're starting to realize that our Western Christianity is unraveling, because what we've taught people is Jesus loves you, just come, come however you are. That is true, but we're gonna understand why that's true. It's not because nothing matters before God, and he just loves us, it's actually the opposite. You can only bring God what he requires. But what, and this is the very first instance where we see an image of Jesus emerging is that it must be a male, Jesus was a male, and it must be without blemish, Jesus never sinned. And so the only way to satiate or satisfy God is by giving God what he requires as a penalty for your sin. And in this old system, the burnt offering was the very specific ingredient of it, and in the new covenant, which is a mirror or a type and a shadow of the old covenant, you have to give what God requires, which is his only begotten son, without spot or blemish, okay? And then because God is satiated and satisfied by the sacrifice of Jesus, now we can come boldly before the throne of grace. Oh, it's, okay, I'm trying not to get ahead of myself, but it says bring the sacrifice to the entrance of the tent of meeting. So because Jesus stood at the entrance, the sacrifice was given, and then what does it say? The veil was torn between that and the holy of holies. So what allows us to walk freely into the tent of meeting with God is not just because he loves us, it's because Jesus satisfied his requirement for atonement for our sins, and that's why we get to walk past that entrance into the presence of God. Oh, this is already my favorite, I'm loving this. Okay, less preaching, more teaching. Let's get back to the book. Verse four, he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. He, then he shall kill the bull before the Lord and Aaron's sons, the priest shall bring the blood and throw the blood against the sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. Doesn't that remind you of the crucifixion? The process of crucifying Christ, throwing the blood, sprinkling it, splattering the blood, then in verse six. Then he shall play the burnt offering and cut it into pieces, and the sons of Aaron, the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire, and Aaron's sons, the priest shall arrange the pieces, the head and the fat and the wood, and it says that is on the fire on the altar. Guys, Jesus is crucified, he's resurrected. So the lamb has been slain, and as the lamb has been slain for our sins, the blood's been splattered. He's resurrected, then he says, wait in Jerusalem for the promise. Then guess what happens in the upper room? Tongues of fire are represented over each individual person in the upper room. It's almost as if the Levitical order for atonement for sins has been fulfilled. It's like wait for the, okay, we know that killing this animal is not the full process. It's the burnt offering, which means we know everything's complete when there's fire. So in the upper room, when they're all praying and the Holy Spirit comes, and it's represented as fire over each and every one of them, oh, I got chills. Now the meeting place is no longer a tent, but it's a temple called our body, and the fire is over each individual because the Holy Spirit's on the inside of us, and we don't have to go to a physical place anymore because we are the habitation of His presence. Mind blown, seriously. So that, okay, let's get back. Verse eight, "And Aaron's sons, the pre shall arrange "the pieces," and then it says verse nine, "but it's in trails and its legs, "but he shall wash with water." Come on, "And the pre shall burn all of it on the altar "as a burnt offering, a food offering, "with a pleasing aroma unto the Lord." If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, then from the sheep or goats, he shall bring a male without blemish, and he shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord, and Aaron's sons, the pre shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar, and he shall cut it into pieces, verse 13, "But in the entrails and legs, he shall wash with water." I love that Jesus is just washing feet. I love that His, come on, there's something about this, and the pre shall offer all of it and burn it on the altar. Now, the last thing I wanna make us aware of in this first section of the first part of Leviticus is the significance of a burnt offering is its totality, it's all. It's everything's being offered. And so now I think about the scripture in Romans chapter 12, verse one, "We are called to live our life "as a living sacrifice before the Lord." In other words, burn the whole thing down, God. Every single bit of me, it's a living sacrifice before you. I'm not holding anything back at all. I'm not putting it on life support. I'm killing it and burning the whole thing. It's a type and a shadow. It's like we saw it in the old covenant, we see it in the new covenant, and then the Lord says in the same way, be a living sacrifice, Romans chapter 12, verse one. Now, you die too. Die to your selfish ways, selfish ambition, rebellion, pride, all that, and we come up into this Levitical order. Okay, now we're gonna go to the next section, which is chapter two. Chapter two is another kind of offering, which is the grain and peace offering. And there's a profound revelation in the grain and peace offering. But let's bring it back to some context. Y'all, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I'm a Whole Foods kind of guy. I like Whole Foods, I know it's expensive, I don't care. I don't even know if it's actually organic, but it makes me feel, but it might be placebo, but I like Whole Foods. We grocery shop, right? We are not agricultural society anymore. So when we want food, what do we do? We don't raise livestock and then slaughter it, right? We don't have, I mean, if we have gardens, we certainly couldn't live off of them. We're not agricultural, but so I have to, I have to recontextualize this for us. So in their society, they worked the land, which I want you to now think about all of the ancient people that would be living in proximity of the Israelites. So when you work the land, it's very simple equation. Input equals output. The more you work it, the more it yields, right? And so with the people of Israel, when they would have been surrounded by all these ancient people, the question really would have been like, "Man, why are these people living like this?" It's so bizarre, it's so different. It doesn't make sense on the surface. And I'm gonna show you that because with the burnt offering, so let me get this right. You feel, now I'm thinking like an outside civilization looking into the Israelites. So you feel that you have sinned. You've done something to bring you out of right relationship with God. So you're gonna take a male and a male without blemish from your sheep, your goats, or your bulls, and you're gonna kill that. And then you're gonna roast it like, what a waste. Because the males would be used for fertility to reproduce. So you're actually saying, like, wait a second, you're diminishing the size of your herds by trying to sacrifice them to your God. So a pagan people would follow me 'cause I'm coming for you. A pagan people would say, well, why don't you give the one with the blemish? 'Cause that's not good to reproduce. Or what if you just give a female, 'cause that only reproduces a little bit. Why a male that can reproduce with many females? Like, why give your best? Because God requires our best. God requires our best. So now, if you're a pagan Christian, you're probably gonna get upset when the offering section of the service happens. Because you're a pagan Christian. You don't give your best to God. You give your leftovers to God. You give the thing that's maimed or crippled or whatever. Like, oh, I won't feel this if I give $10 in the offering. It's not a big deal. Because we don't understand the nature of God. Sometimes our heart, we think like pagan people looking at the Israelites saying, the way that they're supposed to live, according to the Torah is outrageous. You're telling me in New York City, with inflation increasing, you're giving that kind of money to the local church, it becomes the equivalency of you're telling me that in this environment where we've got to raise all these animals and cultivate this ground, you're giving a male and a male without blemish, which is your perfect mechanism to procreate and make all the other herds. You're gonna risk shrinking all of your herds and eating less food just to appease an invisible God. And the Israelites are like, yeah, we are. Because, okay, here's the revelation. When the increase comes, we know who it came from. Because the increase in our lives defies natural rules. Because in the natural, it's the male without blemish that replicates. But in the spiritual, it's God that brings the increase. So when Christians tithe or give 10% of their income, plus offerings to the local church, to a natural minded person or a pagan Christian, they're like, that's crazy. The way that you have more money is you keep all of your money. That's what you do. That doesn't make any sense that you would give this money to an invisible God for the work that he's doing in ministry. It doesn't make any sense. You're right. That's why I am doing it. Because by faith, I am moving in the area of generosity, because what I'm saying is, I believe that the increase that you'll see in my life is not from me, and it's not from my own human efforts, it's from God. Now when you go to Jesus, 'cause I know I'm hurting somebody's feelings right now, and they're questioning whether this church is for me, or if I'm trying to manipulate you for money, no, it's a principle. Watch this. Jesus sees a woman, this is Jesus Christ, sees a woman give two mites, which it was 100% of her income into the local temple. And then he tells his disciples, you see that woman? Be like her. Do that. That's the example. Why? Because this invisible God, Elohim, the God that the Israelites served, was only able to be pleased by faith. You couldn't please him by any other way. Now we're in the book of Leviticus. If you go backwards and you look in the story of Genesis, you'll see an account of some of the first human beings on this planet, and one of them tries to give God what he thinks he can give God, and the other one gives something sacrificially, and some of you know the story I'm referencing. So the thing about God is he's moved by faith. There's a realm, it's a realm of faith. You cannot just give him whatever you think he wants. You have to give him what he requires, and what he requires is something within the realm of faith. So you see in the book of Leviticus right off the bat, "Hey, I know you only have so many herds and flocks, "but you're gonna have to give me the mail, "and you're gonna have to give." This is God talking to Moses, by the way. Moses didn't make this up. And I know Moses didn't make it up, 'cause if any human being was making up the rules for a society, it wouldn't be the hardest stuff you can do. And he said, "I know what you need to do. "You need to operate by faith. "You need to Moses tell the people "that they're gonna sacrifice a mail and a mail without blemish." That's crazy. So now let's go to the second section, and it is a grain offering. So why grain? Well, they're agricultural. So it's very difficult to raise grain. Then you're gonna harvest all this grain, and let's look through the second chapter. When anyone brings a grain offering as an offering to the Lord, his offering shall be a fine flower. He shall pour oil on it, and frankincense on it, and bring it to Aaron's sons, the priest. And he shall take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil with all the frankincense, and the priest shall burn this, and it's memorial portion on the altar, a food offering with a pleasant aroma before the Lord. Side note, what did the woman who was preparing to die offer the prophet? Was it not her last bit of oil and a last bit of flour? So you see like a template like, "Hey, this is all I have." The prophet comes and says, "I need to eat, I need food." Well, but listen, all I have is oil, this little bit of oil and this little bit of flour, and then we were gonna eat this, me and my son, and then we're just gonna prepare to die. But then you know what the prophet doesn't say, "Oh, that's fine, our church has a food kitchen." We'll go ahead and feed, our local temple has a food kitchen, you know what he says? Yeah, give it to me. Because what he's saying is, there's a template. When you put your limited finite resources into the stewardship of the supernatural things of God. So in other words, he was a prophet from the Lord, and he was saying, yes, make me that last bit of food with your oil and flour, and give it to me so I can carry on the work of ministry. When that woman obeyed, it says that the oil and flour supernaturally never ran out. It was a supernatural provision, and it's the same template in Leviticus chapter two. What God is saying is, I know you're working this land. I know it's so much work. I know you're sweating by your brow. But in order to get in right standings with me, you're gonna have to take that, that, mill it down to flour, combine it with oil and frankincense, and then burn it before me. This is a template for the heart of God. In other words, instead of, okay, this is God. I know this is gonna hit different. In other words, instead of feeding your own family that portion, I need you to give it, and then I need you to burn it before me. Because that's gonna be the trust that you believe I am your provision. And that you are not living exclusively off of the results of your own work with your own hands, but you're making room for my mighty hand of favor. So, when you become a Christian, what you are essentially doing is you're joining in to this Levitical order, and you're learning the sacred ways of God, and it was not gonna make sense to any of the pagan people living within your proximity. And that's why partly we're reading the book of Leviticus is to help you feel a little less crazy for operating by faith, because faith is a requirement to please God. Okay, now we're gonna pick up the pace, okay? Now, when you talk about the second type of offering, which is grain and peace offerings, new covenant, you should be thinking first Thessalonians, chapter five verse 18, that says we should regularly offer thanks and acknowledge for God's provision in our lives. So this is the same pattern repeating itself from Leviticus chapter two to first Thessalonians chapter five. Now we're gonna move on to the third section, and this actually starts with the fourth chapter. I'm so proud of you. You're becoming a theologian with every passing second. So we're gonna go to Leviticus chapter four, and now we're looking at the third type of offering, which is a sin and guilt offering, a sin and guilt offering, and starts at chapter four verse one, which says, and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying speak to the people of Israel, saying if anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the Lord's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them, if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull with a herd without blemish to the Lord for the sin offering. He shall bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, and lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before the Lord, and the anointed priest shall take of the bull, the blood of the bull, and shall bring it to the tent of the meeting, and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil of the sanctuary. I wanna cry. I wanna cry. So what this is saying is there are gonna be times where unintentional sin is committed. What does that mean, unintentional sin? Pastor Mike, please, we're all adults here, we know when we're sinning. No, actually we don't. Sometimes we've been so conditioned by the world that we think wrong is right, and right is wrong. Sometimes we adopt the world's value systems, we adopt what the world says about marriage, about what the world says about sexual identity, what the world says, and inside of our mind and our soul is this hybrid being where it's like we're a little bit of Christian, a little bit of pagan, a little bit of the world, a little bit of the kingdom, and what we try to do, some of us, is impose our feelings on scripture. So, but I know somebody who's that sexual orientation, and I love them, and so I wanna take the scriptures and accommodate their sexual orientation. I wanna find a way to make it mean what I want it to mean, and there's a lot of pagan Christians that are these hybrids where it's like, well, I agree with that, so I'll do that, but this, I don't know, maybe this scripture means this instead, and we're trying to impose our own interpretation primarily based on our own experience in life, and our own emotions and feelings about things, and as a result of that, we can get into unintentional sin, and not only that, but before you accepted Christ's Savior, probably a lot of your sin was unintentional, because you're like, I don't know, is it a sin to be drunk? Everybody gets drunk, this is America, we all get drunk when we turn 21, like there are things that we've accommodated that in God's eyes are sinned. That's why one of the first phenomenon that happens when the Holy Spirit is convicting someone is they suddenly have an acknowledgement of, wow, I'm a sinner, and they're like, matter of fact, I never even felt bad for doing this stuff, but I feel deeply convicted, and I need a Savior, that's the evidence of the indwelling, or the working of the Holy Spirit on the outside, that becomes the indwelling on the inside upon a confession of faith. Now, why do I say that? Because what it's saying is, you take the bull without blemish, who's male, to the front of the tent of meeting, you lay your hand upon it, and then you kill it, then you take the blood, dip your finger in it, and sprinkle it seven different ways. Now, this is absolutely insane. When you study the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, his blood was spilled seven different ways. It was in direct fulfillment of the Levitical Order. It was saying, in order to cover for intentional and even unintentional sin, things done out of ignorance, the blood has to be spilled seven different directions. And when you read the crucifixion account of Jesus, it's all there, seven different ways the blood was spilled. It is such a beautiful picture of the fact that even when you do things knowingly or unknowingly, there is still protection and provision made by the blood of Jesus. That's why we can say, watch this, it's all clicking, isn't it? Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Why? Because his blood has been spilled seven different directions to cover for the things you're doing intentionally or unintentionally, and the evidence of that is the Holy Spirit will begin to convict you. And then when you read the Bible, it'll be like a 3D experience where the words come up off the page and you're suddenly like, whoa, God forgive me. I don't know how many times I've been reading the word of God. And out of my mouth, I've uttered the words, Lord forgive me because he's made me aware of what I wasn't aware of. And when you look at this section, it's talking about the sin and guilt offerings that are mandatory for addressing unintentional sins. Isn't God good? See, when you start to go into this and we're almost done, so proud of you all, it's like you start to come into an increased awareness of how good he is, why? Because the more you realize the cost, the more value what was purchased for you actually becomes. Can I just help you understand that for a second? Like, if I were to buy you a pack of bubble gum, you'd be like, thanks, does my breath smell? Then if I were to buy you a car, you would have been like, whoa, Pastor Mike, are you serious, you just bought me a car? Then if I were to buy you a house, now you're crying in console black, are you serious you're buying me a house? Then if I were to buy you a mansion, then I'd buy you a private jet. Like with each thing that I mentioned in your mind, there's an increase to perceive value. And the more value you perceive, the more you appreciate what's been given to you. When you read the book of Leviticus, and you see the cost for your sin intentionally, unintentionally, how many animals, part of this hurt, have to die? How many grain offerings have to be made? The more physical things, and I think that was the value of the Levitical system, was like, you would see it with your own eyes. Like, you'd be thinking about what you did, looking at that bull getting slaughtered, that you fed that bull, you've brought that bull in its pen, you've picked up the defecation of that bull, and you're like, man, you see it over there? Like, something physically alive has to physically die because of the way I talk to you. Like, something has to physically die because we gossiped. You see that? Like, you see all that blood everywhere? That's 'cause we had our little gossip circle. That's because, oh, you remember when we were in lust and perversion? Yeah, you see that? We gotta go kill an animal and go through an entire process to get in right standings with God because what we did. So the value in the book of Leviticus is in understanding the value of your forgiveness. Come on, that's really what it is because you're like, wow, we have to go through a formal process. And that's why I think the reasons why we do communion, think about communion, is because we're bringing a physical object, the cup of wine juice with the bread to say, even though we weren't there for Christ's crucifixion, he had to physically die and go through an entire process so that my sins can be forgiven. And that's why he said for as often as you do this, do this in remembrance of me because you're not going to see a physical bull being murdered anymore and sacrificed and the blood coming out at the temple. And because you're not going to get that visible, physical, tangible representation, now I've got to give you communion so that you can still see with your eyes, which are the windows of your soul. It goes into your spirit, in through your soul. This is what I had to do. God is saying I had to die free. I had to go through a process of crucifixion so you can be free. And so you have this type and a shadow. So even communion, breaking the body, even communion, drinking the cup, it becomes a type and a shadow of this Levitical system. And it's a reminder. And then he says, hey, for as often as you do this, it's almost like he's saying, just like you would see them bring that bull to the tent of meeting. And it would be a visible reminder. You need to break bread and grab that cup and look at it and remember what it cost. Remember what, man, I feel emotionally even saying that. So Leviticus chapter four, five, six, and seven are all the third and final for this section sacrificed, which is the sin and guilt offerings. And that is the significance of this. You know, in Hebrews chapter 10, verse 10, we're gonna end on this verse. Talks about Jesus Christ's ultimate sacrifice, fulfilling all of the requirements of Leviticus. So these books, Hebrews and Leviticus, they're talking to each other now, saying now that you understand the first section of Leviticus, now you understand that Jesus Christ is the ultimate sacrifice. So what I want you to do this week, and this is my encouragement to you, we're about to pray in a few moments, is I want you to read Leviticus chapter one, verse seven, or chapter one, through chapter seven. And I want you to look at this and say, Holy Spirit, show me in the midst of these pages who you are, give me a greater revelation of the freedom that I have access to. Because when you go to the burnt offering, it's like I have this voluntary act of worship signifying this total dedication to you, God, that I can be a burning one for you. God, when I offer the grain offering, it's the hard work with my hands and I take this paycheck. And then I set aside a portion of this paycheck, and I give it into the offering, because what I'm saying is, when the increase comes, the evidence is going to be that it's supernatural, it's from you, God, because yes, I'm taking a margin of my income and giving it to you, but I'd rather live on 90% blessed than 100% cursed. I've got to make room for God. And then finally, when you look at the sin and guilt offering, may your heart be comforted by knowing that your intentional and unintentional sin has already had a provision, and that the Holy Spirit will be faithful to reveal to you. And as the scriptures say, you're going to go from glory to glory, that you're going to increase, and God is going to continue to be faithful. And for some of you, as you're on this journey of doing communion at home, may it serve as a visible reminder that there's already been protection and provision made, and that all of your sins have been forgiven by that blood. So I want to pray for you right now, and this is just the first seven chapters. Each week, we're going to go a little bit deeper. I'm telling you, it gets better. How many of you have enjoyed learning? How many of you enjoyed this massive congregational exegesis going through the scriptures and learning together? Come on, more to come, invite your friends. Tell them to come back for next week and get caught up on this one. But let's just bow our heads just to remove all the distractions and let's pray. Heavenly Father, I pray for each and every one of them. Lord, that they would hunger for your word, that they were thirst after you, God. Lord, that this would bring them closer to you, that they would step past the entrance into the tent of meeting, into full communion with you, full relationship with you. And God, I just thank you that we are going to increase our understanding of the worth of what you did, because we know the cost. And God, we thank you. Can everybody just say thank you for a few moments? Just thank him. Think him that there was always a plan. I don't know who this is for, but it's if the book of Leviticus points to the book of Hebrews across all those hundreds of years, that means that God did nothing by accident. It was all being worked out. So how much more your family, how much more your life, that there's always been a plan across generations to bring it all to past, to bring it all into fulfillment. If you're thankful for that plan, can somebody just shout amen, and hallelujah that you're thankful for that plan across generations. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)