Okay, it's recording now. You guys could tell Rick the
intro. Thank God that Noah found grace
and the human race was not destroyed. The point that I'm trying to
make is that the human race was saved from the wrath of God by
God Himself. He saved eight souls and the
human race continued. So I want you to know that Genesis,
human race. Now let's turn to the book of
Exodus. The second book of Exodus, in this book we are introduced
to the writer Moses and to the nation of Israel. Here we see
that the scope of salvation becomes a bit narrower. In Genesis we
have God saving the human race, and in Exodus we have Him saving
a nation. God rescues Israel from bondage. So go with me to Exodus chapter
6. Let me turn there. In verse 2 we read, And God spake unto Moses. Kind
of sounds like Leviticus introduction, right? That's how Leviticus starts,
too. And God spake unto Moses, and
said unto him, I am the Lord, and I appear unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and
unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty. But by my name Jehovah
was I not known to them. And I have also established my
covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land
of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. And I have
also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the
Egyptians keep in bondage. And I have remembered my covenant. Wherefore, say unto the children
of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under
the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their
bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and
with great judgment." In that verse, in your English Bible,
highlight that many times he says, I. That is God doing it. God didn't go to Moses to get
help. God doesn't come to us to get help from us. When God
delivered us, because you and I were in bondage. If you believe
the gospel, you were in bondage. If you do not believe the gospel,
you're still in bondage. You need a mighty God to come
to the Egypt where you are in right now. I might be speaking
to my own children right now. I pray that God Almighty comes
to their souls and delivers them. I really do, brother. That's
what we were, just like the Israelites, in bondage. But He says, I will
bring you out. I will get rid of all their bondage. I will redeem you. What an amazing
God we have. The last verse, it says, I will
take you to me for a people. Please catch this. This is connected
to Leviticus. And I will be to you a God. And
ye should know that I am the Lord your God. which brings you
out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. Who saved me? God did. Who delivered me? God did. That's the test. If you're going
to have a testimony, if you and I are going to have a testimony
in front of the world, that's our testimony that God did it
all. So, we move from the entire human
race to a nation from Genesis to Exodus. And when we start
reading, and as you continue reading Leviticus, you're going
to notice that we move from a human race to the nation to actually
individuals now. Because it is each individual
that are going to go and offer up a sacrifice. Because the gospel
comes and impacts individuals. See, the gospel came and I believe
the gospel. I believe the gospel, right?
But I cannot believe it for my children. Neither can you. Right? But we believe in a God
that can come and has come to actually rescue sinners such
as you and I. And let me tell you something,
my children are just as sinful as me. And they need Christ just
as much as I do. When we read Leviticus, think
about this fact. It says, And I will take you
to be for me a people, and I will be your God. In Exodus 29, verse
35, it says it again. It says, And I will do well among
the children of Israel, and I will be their God. What Leviticus
will teach us is how individuals must act like when a holy God
lives among them. We went from universal human
race to a nation to now individuals. I believe the book of Leviticus
provides us with an answer to the question, how can a holy
God dwell with a sinful people? So now let's start our overview
of the book. So I got two themes that I want
you to know throughout the book. The first 10 chapters, the theme
what I have called is Worshipping a Holy God. The remaining chapters
is what I call Walking with a Holy God. So we got Worshipping a
Holy God and we got Walking with a Holy God. The God of the Bible
is holy. I think we all know that. And
the way we come to Him in worship is and must be different. There's
only one way we can come right to worship God, and that way
is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. The God of the Bible is holy,
and the way we walk with Him is and must be different. There's
only one way we can walk with God, and that way is by faith
alone, in Christ alone. In the first ten chapters, we
are taught about how one must approach this holy God as we
seek to worship Him. We often forget that God is not
a God of disorder, but a God of order. We do that, especially
here in this nation. We can just do whatever we want.
After all, brother, we're Americans. I could come to God with whatever,
however I want. God is a God of order. The first six chapters in Leviticus
are very careful and precise instructions on offerings. I
tell you, this is perhaps why people stop reading Leviticus.
But I will encourage you, brothers and sisters, to read Leviticus. Chapter 1 covers the burnt offerings. Chapter 2 covers the meal or
grain offering. Chapter 3 covers the fellowship
or peace offering. Chapter 4 covers the sin offering. Chapter 5 covers the guilt offering. In chapters 6 and 7, we are given
a summary now of the burn, grain, sin, guilt, fellowship offering. Now, just so you don't feel like
these offerings have nothing to do with us in the year 2022,
I would like to remind us that we have sinned against a holy
God. This holy God has been and will forever be holy. His standards
have not been lowered down. He demands, listen to this, He
demands that the soul of the sinner It shall die. Ezekiel chapter 18 verse 20.
Didn't we sing that? We sang that, right? 2 Corinthians
chapter 5 verse 21. Our Lord Jesus Christ brings about the
efficacy That's a big word for me. Which
these offerings could never obtain. Efficacy. I always tell my brother
language matters and always does. And to me words matter and they
always do. Especially in English for me.
Efficacy is defined as such. The ability to produce a desire
or intended result. Matthew chapter 1 verse 21 says,
And she shall bring forth a son Pretty soon God and God's providence
will get to do this. We get to celebrate the amazing
thing where Emmanuel came down. I love it. I love the fact that
in Still in the year 2022 and everything that has going on
God has given us in his grace a time for us to even just meditate
and concentrate on the things heavenly things not earthly things
where we get to worship him in spirit and truth and thinking
about Emmanuel with us Christ coming down where he where she's
going to bring a forth a son that son is Jesus Christ and
says thou shall call his name Jesus For he shall save his people
from their sins. The Lord Jesus Christ did not
fail at this mission. He indeed saves. He did not make
it so salvation can be possible, but rather indeed obtain salvation
for his people. His once and for all sacrifice
is efficacious. It did accomplish what it was
intended to accomplish. The Lord Jesus Christ's death
is not like the sacrifice we read. I'm telling you, you should
read Leviticus, but it's not like those sacrifices. If you could profit from anything
that I say today, I hope that you profit from this. Go with
me to Hebrews chapter 10, verse 4. I would like for all of us to
know that there is no forgiveness found, no efficacy found in the
sacrifices in the book of Leviticus. But rather, those sacrifices
always pointed to the work and person of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you go to Leviticus and you
read the sacrifices and all you see is goats and all the animals
are sacrifices, you missed it. But if it leads you, if it compels
you to meditate what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for you
and I, you got it. You got it. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 1 says, For the law, having a shadow
of good things to come, and not that the very image of the things,
can never, with those sacrifices which they were offered year
by year continually, make the commerce thereunto perfect. For then would they not have
ceased to be offered, because that the worshippers once purged
shall have have no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices
there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. If you never highlighted this,
highlight it. For it is not possible that the
blood of bulls and of goats shall take away sins. Now I have seen rocks that are
more smarter and less sinful than the people who push the
agenda of getting Israel back into the land of Israel so they
could erupt back again the temple so we could go back to sacrifices
on animals. I am telling you brother, I have
seen rocks that are more smarter than that and less sinful because
that is a sinful thing to go back to what is not possible Notice the key words there, never
and not possible. Those sacrifices never were efficacious. How can you know that for sure?
Well, by the mere fact that they offered them up year after year
after year after year after year. I think you get the picture.
Year after year they were offering them up. They were never efficacious. They never took away any sin
at all. The blood of bulls and goats
could never take away sin. It could never take away sins. First, because it was not the
substitute that God has always intended to truly take for the
sins of these people. I don't know how to sing, but
I'm going to read this hymn. For my pardon this I seek, nothing
but the blood of Jesus. For my cleansing this I plead,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. Nothing can forsake atonement,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. Not of good that I have done,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. This is all my hope and peace,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. This is all my righteousness,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. Now by this I will overcome,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. Now by this I will reach my home,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. Glory, glory, this I sing, nothing
but the blood of Jesus. All my praise for this I bring. Come on, you guys got to be charismatic
a little bit. Just human me for a second. Let's try this again. All my
praise for this I bring. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. Second thing, the blood of bulls
and goats is not human blood. Now, we are living in a day when
people truly believe and bring animals to the same level of
a human life. In fact, at times it seems like
a human life is worthless compared to an animal's life. It ought
to be weird when you hear someone call a dog or any animal, for
that fact, my baby. It is a very sinful thing to
act like an animal can be your child or be greater than your
child. Now, I may be hitting on some
people's toes, but it's okay. You only get to hear me out every
now and then. Plus, I'm often, people say,
like, when I do preach, it's kind of like when you drink that
strong cup of coffee that you can only have every now and then.
That's why I only preach every now and then. That's just the
truth. Now, humor me for a second. Think of the most beautiful and
amazing animals you have ever seen. Better yet, let's think
of the most beautiful dog you have ever seen. After all, dogs
are man's best friend. Can you picture it? You guys
got it? The most beautiful one, okay? Okay. Will you be willing to
kill and let dogs go extinct if it means that it will save
a single baby's life? What about a baby with conditions?
What about a baby with Down syndrome? A human being, ladies and gentlemen,
it is priceless compared to all the animals in the entire world. I'm telling you, we are created
in the imago Dei. We are created in the image of
God. I'm talking about when babies
are in the womb, they have the image of God. Our Lord Jesus
Christ tells us about our worth as human beings when he says,
Matthew chapter 10 verse 29-31, Matthew chapter 12 verse 11.
Matthew chapter 6 verse 26. I'm trying to drive this point
because The world is telling us that
we're just like animals and sometimes we're less than animals. Matthew
chapter 6 verse 26 says, Are ye not much better than they? And lastly, because we're talking
about dogs, Matthew chapter 15 verse 26, God has given us a
value more intrinsic than that of the animals. We're meant to
rule over them. not act like them or be compared
to them. Children, children, all the children
here, your life is worth more than all the animals on the face
of the earth. All the animals on the face of
the earth could go extinct, and it's going to be okay. After
all, we could eat plants. That was a joke, but it's okay.
You guys missed it. We could become vegans. It's
going to be fine. God will take care of us. There's
plenty fruits. But going back, I just want to
retrace back, because after all, we're in Leviticus. Going back
to the offerings that the first six chapters speaks about. I'm
here to tell you that our Lord Jesus Christ fulfills them all.
All of those offerings were just a type of what the Lord Jesus
Christ has fulfilled. There is no more fire for you
and I. See, the burnt offering was to
be consumed by the fire, and Christ at the cross was indeed
consumed by the wrath of God. This is why Romans 8, 1 can tell
us there is no condemnation for you and I. Because there is no
more fire. He is that perfect burn offering.
The Lord Jesus Christ is that meal or grain offering for poor
sinners like you and I. He is that wheat that fell into
the earth and died. The reason why we can bring a
grain offering to God. The Lord Jesus Christ is that
fellowship or that peace offering. You see, you and I, outside of
Christ, are enemies of God. We were once enemies of God.
We did not have fellowship with God. We were at war with God. But guess what? God was at war
with us. But God put an end to this and
permanently restored a fellowship. He put an end to this broken
fellowship in the person of the Beloved. It is Christ that obtained
the peace with God. It is in Him that we can have
fellowship with God. Colossians 1 verse 20 says, 2
Corinthians 5 verse 18 says, by Jesus Christ and has given
us the ministry of reconciliation. We call men and women, I'm calling
my children to be reconciled today with God by believing in
Christ. Otherwise, you're still in your
sins and you will perish. Christ is our fellowship and
peace offering. The Lord Jesus Christ is also
our sin and guilt offering. He indeed paid for all of our
sins if we believe the gospel. He took and consumed all guilt. Go with me to chapter 6. No, actually chapter 4. Yeah,
chapter 4. Leviticus chapter 4, verse 13
and 14. The beautiful thing that we're
about to read is that God, like I was saying, Christ actually
paid for all the sins and took away all the guilt. Do you know
that you and I sin against God intentionally? But sometimes
we do it unintentionally. In court, this will be said to
be motives. when we do it intentionally.
We have motives, right? We did it with a purpose that
was intentional. But sometimes that may not be
the case. We sometimes sin and we do it unintentionally. Leviticus
chapter 4 verse 13 and 14 says, Whether you do it intentionally
or unintentionally, you are found to be guilty on the side of a
holy God. This God will not put your unintentional
sins under the rug and say, hey, it's gonna be okay. He is not one to be like the
Supreme Court or any of the courts that we have where it could be
bribed. His standards will remain. His holiness will be intact. When the sin which they have
sinned against is known, then the congregation shall offer
up a young bullock for the sin and bring him before the tabernacle
of the congregation. Leviticus teaches us that God
deals with all lawbreakers. Even when you broke the law and
sin unintentionally or in ignorance, as the King James Version says,
You see, we sometimes do things and break the law unintentionally,
but nevertheless, God cannot just put those things under the
rug, and we cannot continue with our fellowship with Him because
of our sins. God is a holy God after all, and all of that needs
to be dealt with. Are you thankful that God dealt
with all of your sins? I'm talking about all of them. I'm talking about A-L-L. In Spanish, todos. All of my
sins dealt with intentionally, unintentionally. For the sake of time, let's move
a little bit faster in this overview of Leviticus. So that was the
first six chapters. You get to see all the offerings,
and I hope that you get to see Christ fulfilling all of that
which that typifies. You cannot find comfort in the
goats and bulls or the pigeons. You cannot find comfort, and
you should not find comfort, but you should find comfort with
that which is pointing you to. It's pointing you to the cross. Chapter 10 deals with the death
of Naphath and Abihu, the sons of Aaron. If you go with me to
chapter 10, verse 1 and 2. And Ada and Abihu, the sons of
Aaron, took either of them his censer and put fire therein,
and put incense thereon, and offered a strange fire before
the Lord, which he commanded them not. It cannot be broken. How God delivers His judgment
are not arbitrary. See, He has told them not to
do it. And what do they do? They did it. There's consequences.
There are consequences that are eternal, ladies and
gentlemen. When you think you could come
to God any kind of way and offer Him up anything, which He did
not, and He said so, right? Even the King James Verse, He
said so. He says, He did not command them to do it. He said,
don't do that. What did they do? They did it.
Many people think that they could come to God any kind of way except
by believing the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, you know, there's so many
other ways to go to God. I mean, are you sure Christ is
the only way? Like the only way? Like only
only? You don't mean only, do you?
God actually did mean only. In Hebrew, in Greek, in Spanish,
in English, in all the languages, God actually means only. Christ,
ladies and gentlemen, is the only way. You cannot water that
down. If you do, you will be consumed. I cannot lie to my children and
say, oh yeah, you can believe in this and that. If you don't
believe in Christ, you will perish in your sins. If you believe
in Christ, you have eternal life. That's what chapter 10 is telling
us. Don't come to God any kind of way. Priest or no priest, you and
I cannot approach this holy God any kind of way. We cannot bring
strange things into the worship of God. So much of what is called
worship nowadays is no worship at all. God demands that we approach
Him according to how He has set forth. After this chapter, we start
entering into specific things that deals with everyday life. This is the portion where I was
telling you that I call walking with a holy God. After all, the
promise in Exodus was that He will deliver us, He will deliver
the children of Israel, and He will dwell, live among them. Remember, the question is, how
can a holy God dwell among sinful people? And you ought to ask yourself,
how should I act when a holy God dwells with me? When a holy God is your neighbor,
I bet you you are not going to act the same as if you had another
neighbor. Chapter 11 deals with clean and
unclean foods. Chapter 12 deals with the purification
after childbirth. Chapter 13 and 14 deals with
skin diseases. I'm talking about these very
specific things that Leviticus deals with. Chapter 15 deals
with what the King James Version says to be running issues out
of the flesh. Read that on your own time. Chapter
16 deals with the Day of Atonement. or Yom Kippur in Hebrew. Here,
because we read the first ten verses, I want us to think about
these two things from it, okay? I'm almost done, I promise. Leviticus
chapter 16, verse 6. And Aaron shall offer his bullock
of sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement
for himself and for his house. There has always been only one
sinless priest, our great high priest, our Lord Jesus Christ. You see, Aaron was not sinless. Aaron needed to atone himself. Aaron needed a sacrifice to pay
for his sins. Do you need a sacrifice to pay
for your sins? Because the wrath of God will
come upon you or it did come upon Christ. Second thing I want
you to notice is that there are two goats. Leviticus chapter
16 verse 7. And he shall take the two goats
and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle,
the congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon
the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the
scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat
upon which the Lord's lot fell and offer him for a sin offering. So here we have the one goat
for the sin offering. Continue reading, it says, So
here we have one goat as a sin offering and the other goat as
a scapegoat. You guys got that, right? So one goat to make an
atonement and the other goat to be let go into the wilderness. Here we see two things, propitiation
and expiation. Another big thing for me. Dr. James White says the word propitiation
means an appeasement. 1 John 2, verse 2 demonstrates,
I want you to read it on your own time, it demonstrates that
Jesus not only made salvation possible, but he actually appeased
the wrath of God regarding the sins of his people. Now, religious
people hate this fact. but it's a truth the Bible teaches.
The wrath of God indeed came down upon the blessed Redeemer,
and the wrath of God indeed was appeased by our Lord Jesus Christ's
sacrifice at the cross. They hate it. They hate this
fact because it talks about wrath. It talks about that there is
a need to appease the wrath of God. You know, God loves the sinner
but hates the sin. If it is so, at the very least,
there's one man that we know of in hell right now, Judas Iscariot. At least we know one man is in
hell, right? Doesn't sound like he felt like
God loved him and he hated his sin. The wrath of God came down
upon Judas. Professor Michael Morales says,
expiation, that's another word, that is the word that represents,
so propitiation represents the goat that was sent for atonement,
and expiation represents the goat that was scapegoat. Expiation means that Jesus' sacrifice
cleanses us from sin's pollution and removes the guilt of sin
from us. Ladies and gentlemen, this is
a true demonstration of Psalm 103 verse 12. As far as the east
is from the west, so far does he remove our transgression from
us. Now, you think about how far
the East is from the West, and you contemplate how far God has
removed your sin and my sin if we believe the gospel. These two things, propitiation
and expiation, is the result of the work of Christ at Calvary
Street. It was accomplished not by you
and I, but by our blessed Redeemer. This right here should have should
have a shouting for joy, singing songs of praises and thanksgiving
to our God. What a Savior we have in Jesus
Christ. Now going back to the overview,
chapter 17 deals with the forbidding of eating blood. Chapter 18 deals
with unlawful and sexual relationships. Now, we could truly stay here
for a week or two. This is so practical and so necessary
in today's age. Chapter 19 deals with various
laws. Now, laws that include do not
steal, do not lie, do not deceive one another, do not hold back
wages, do not pervert justice, and so on and so forth. Chapter
20 deals with punishments for various sins to include the sacrifice
of those children to Molech. Now, Molech is another name for
women's rights. Molech is another name for her
body, her choice. Molech is still alive and well
in the year 2022. But those who kill babies will
be punished. They will not escape God's justice. No supreme court can change the
law of God. Chapter 21 deals with rules God
set forth for the priests. Chapter 22 deals with the unacceptable
sacrifices. In chapter 23, now we're told
about the festivals God appoints to the people of Israel, all
of which are shadow or a type of Christ. You see, Christ is
our true Sabbath. Hebrew chapter 4 speaks about
this reality. Christ is our true Passover. 1 Corinthians chapter 5 says,
Out there for the old leaven, that ye may be new lumpen. As
she unleavened it, for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for
us. All of those festivals, it speaks
about Christ, brother. All of them do. I just don't
have the time. Chapter 24 tells us about a second
death. This death is about someone who
blasphemes. You remember in chapter 10, we
were told about the death of the two sons of Aaron. Here in
chapter 24, we are told about another death. Very interesting,
everything in Leviticus is actually God telling Moses how certain
things are to be done, and then you find chapter 10, boom, there's
a death. And then you find chapter 24,
boom, there's another death. God tells Moses to have the assembly
take this blasphemer and stone him outside the camp. Those chapters
that deal with the walking with the Holy God demonstrates, in
my opinion, the need to apply the gospel to our everyday life.
Because, see, all those things that were covered, the skin disease
and that, even after a woman gave birth to a child, they had
to bring a sacrifice. They had to be cleansed. We must
apply the gospel of Christ in our everyday life. The gospel
cannot be a religious thing that we do every Sunday gathering
together. It cannot be a religious thing
that is up there in the sky that has nothing to do with how I
live my life on earth. The gospel is not something way
up in the sky, like I said, that cannot be applicable to our daily
life. We must live a life by faith alone in Christ alone. Walking with a holy God requires
us to have faith in Christ. Chapters 25-27 cover things such
as the Sabbath year, the year of Jubilee, reward for obedience, and redeeming
what is the Lord's. Now, I will close with this,
and I thank you for enduring me. I want to provide you with
two last things, okay? 1, go with me to the end of the
book of Exodus chapter 40. Exodus chapter 40, verse 34. Then a cloud covered the tent
of the congregation, Highlight that. Now go with me to Numbers
chapter 1 verse 1. Numbers is the fourth book of
your Bible. Numbers chapter one, verse one. And the Lord spake unto Moses. Again, notice the end. The end
is telling us this is still a continuation of what we just read. And the
Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle
of the congregation. In Exodus chapter 40, Moses could
not enter the tabernacle. In Numbers chapter 1, we find
him in the tabernacle. Ask yourself why and how Moses
was able to enter the tabernacle. You must read Leviticus. Crazy,
right? We have the book of Leviticus
in between Exodus and Numbers. And the answer is very clear.
It is by the once and for all sacrifice of our Savior that
sinners such as you and I and Moses could enter into the presence
of God. We pray to our Heavenly Father
and we end our prayer in Jesus' name because we know that we
only have access because of Christ. We are only accepted by God because
of Christ. It is the sacrifice of the Lamb
of God that took away our sins, took away our guilt. took away
the wrath of a holy God and made us, this is a crazy thing, bro,
he made us sons and daughters of him. I promise you, this is the last
thing. For those that are taking notes,
write down the word holy. Write it down. top down, like H-O-L-Y, holy. And I will give you my definition.
A definition that I believe should allow you not to be scared of
this God, but worship Him and be thankful and grateful for
all the marvelous things that He has done for us. Are you ready? If you're taking notes, so H-O-L-Y, Write the word E next to the
H. Write the word N-L-Y next to
the O. Write the word O-V-E-S next to
the L. And write the word O-U next to
the Y. You know what that spells, Phuong
Soi? Great question, my son. He only loves you. God is holy. He only loves you. Get it. God is holy. He only loves you. John chapter
6 verse 26 says, Pray the Father for you, for
the Father himself loves you. Romans chapter 5 verse 8. But
God commended his love towards us in that what we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. John chapter 5 verse 9 says,
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. This is Christ
speaking. Christ loves you. He's holy. Continue ye in my love. One thing
that I did not cover and I don't think I need to cover is that
throughout the book of Leviticus we are told, be ye holy for I
am holy. It's because if you are loved
by God and you love God, you will obey His words. I'm not
going to tell you all the rules and everything. You will live
your life by faith in Christ. You will seek God's kingdom above
everything else. Above everything else? Above
everything else. You will live a life that is
in faith in the Lord Jesus Christ till you die. Because He loves
you. Galatians 2 verse 20 says, I
live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself
for me. Romans chapter 5 verse 5 says,
Amen.