1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:03,640 Let me invite you all to find your seat. 2 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:10,320 Good morning once again to everybody. 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:14,680 As you find your seat, let me invite you all to open your 4 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,960 Bibles to the Book of Numbers. This morning we're going to be 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,480 in two chapters, Numbers 28 and 29. 6 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:26,760 We're being the entire chapters of of both 28 and 29. 7 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,520 Tyler, the sermon this morning. Is this a sacrifice better than 8 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,920 bulls and Rams will not be reading the text upfront this 9 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,560 morning because it is so long. And then we're doing 2 old 10 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,280 chapters because these chapters deal with offerings and all the 11 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,800 offerings that God commanded his people when they enter the 12 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:47,960 promised land. And so while it may seem a 13 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,440 little tedious, we will work our way through it section by 14 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,320 section. I won't be reading it, but I, I 15 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,400 trust that you can either read it you you have already read it, 16 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,880 or you will maybe read it afterward in your own time. 17 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,640 But let's open in a word of prayer and we will jump into the 18 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:11,760 sermon this morning. Father, as we break open your 19 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:17,240 word and we discuss it and examine it and, and try to apply 20 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:23,680 it to our lives, especially on a text that doesn't have a an 21 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:27,520 immediate direct application to us, that none of us have shown 22 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:32,160 up here with a bull or a ram or a lamb or a goat this morning. 23 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:39,560 Lord, we pray that you would help us to see that we've shown 24 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:45,160 up with, with our, our bodies, our lives, and you have called 25 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:49,120 us to present ourselves as living sacrifices, holy and 26 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,120 acceptable to you. And so this morning, God, would 27 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,560 you help us to understand what that means, what are the 28 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,480 implications of that and how we make these sacrifices and how we 29 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,840 how do we present ourselves as living sacrifices and, and what, 30 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,920 what do we have to learn from the Old Testament sacrificial 31 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,960 system? God, help us to understand why 32 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,440 you gave these sacrifices, what you were trying to teach your 33 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,240 people, what you wanted them to learn, and what you want us 34 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,760 today, thousands of years later, to learn. 35 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,600 I pray all this in the name of Jesus, Amen. 36 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:34,120 What does warning information, airplane safety guides, movie 37 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:41,800 credits, terms and conditions, drug information sheets, and 38 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,240 credit card agreements all have in common? 39 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:53,760 They are things that almost nobody reads, either because we 40 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:58,600 don't think it matters or it's not applicable to our life. 41 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:06,600 There are sections of the Bible that fit in this category, and 42 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,880 the two chapters that we're looking at this morning are such 43 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,080 a section. We read these two chapters. 44 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,360 If you read them ahead of time or maybe if you read them later, 45 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,720 and you might think I'm not an Old Testament Jew, we don't 46 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,720 celebrate these feasts anymore. We're not building booths and 47 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:28,760 living in them or cleansing out all of the leaven in our house. 48 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,240 So what does this have to do with my life? 49 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:37,800 But this morning, I want us to, I want to exhort us as we look 50 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,120 at these eight different types of offerings and these different 51 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,720 feasts that are given in the text. 52 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,880 I want us to, I want to challenge us to see, can we 53 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:50,320 glean application from this? What, what does God want us to 54 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:55,240 think and feel and see and know and do from these eight 55 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,400 different offerings and feasts that we look at? 56 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,760 So that's my challenge to us this morning. 57 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,840 We're going to go through it. There are going to be 888 58 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:08,560 sections this morning because that's how the text is divided 59 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,520 up. We won't read it because it'll 60 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,120 take it'll take just take too much time. 61 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,279 But I will give you all the information that's contained 62 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:19,600 there in the text. So let's start looking at 63 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,600 Numbers 28. Our first section we're going to 64 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:28,600 look at is verses one through 8. Now you may have a title in your 65 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,480 Bible that says daily offerings, or maybe it's something along 66 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,240 those lines, daily offerings. And that's the first section 67 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,360 we're going to look at is the daily offerings. 68 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,880 Now I want to make a note that before we look at the daily 69 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:45,760 offerings, just as a side note in these two chapters, all of 70 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:50,640 these offerings are cumulative, so they build on top of each 71 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:52,360 other. So it's not as though when you 72 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,880 make a daily offering when it's the Sabbath, you don't make that 73 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:57,440 daily offering. You still make the daily 74 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,120 offering. You make the daily offering plus 75 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,560 the Sabbath. And when it's the Feast of 76 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,840 Booths, you don't just make the feast of Booths offering, you 77 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:07,280 make the daily offering, the Sabbath offering. 78 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:11,040 If it's the Sabbath and they're all, they all build on top of 79 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,520 each other. All right, So keep that in mind 80 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:18,160 as we go through it. God starts off giving a command. 81 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,160 If you see that in verse 2, command the people of Israel to 82 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,720 make offerings. Now this is a reminder to us 83 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,160 that offerings, while they can be voluntary, we often use the 84 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,160 word offering us being voluntary. 85 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,840 They can be, they often are, but they first and foremost are 86 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:40,720 primarily commanded. God commanded His people to make 87 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,360 these offerings. And I want to point out a word 88 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,600 that occurs 4 times in verse two. 89 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:50,120 Look at it in verse 2. It's the word my. 90 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:56,760 He says my offering my food. Twice He says my food, and then 91 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,920 He says my pleasing aroma. That's important. 92 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:05,960 Don't miss that word my. It reminds us that what we do in 93 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:11,520 worship is God's. It is God's worship. 94 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:19,880 It's so easy to think of it as this is my song that I am 95 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,280 leading. You know, you may have been a 96 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:23,520 church. I grew up in a church where 97 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,920 people would have solo solos. They would sing or play an 98 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,520 instrument or something, right? And often they would think of it 99 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:31,640 as this is my song that I am leading. 100 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,480 This is my money that I'm giving. 101 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,600 This is my sermon that I'm preaching. 102 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:45,280 This is my ministry in which I am serving or even at a bigger 103 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:47,480 scale. This is my church that I'm 104 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:52,080 leading. And yet we see right here, it is 105 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,880 God's. It all belongs to God. 106 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:00,840 Everything we do here this morning and every morning is 107 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,120 God's, not ours. God tells them they are to offer 108 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,800 a daily offering every day of the year. 109 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,200 Every single day. They are to offer 2 male lambs a 110 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:13,960 year old without blemish, one in the morning and one in the 111 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,680 evening. They were to do this every day 112 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,160 without fail. In addition to the lambs, they 113 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:23,800 are to offer a grain offering 1/10 of an EFA of fine flour 114 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,120 mixed with 1/4 of hen of beaten oil. 115 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,040 And along with the grain offering, they'd offer a drink 116 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,440 offering. So they would have the lamb, the 117 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,800 grain offering and the drink offering 1/4 of a hen of strong 118 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,800 drink for each lamb. Now I want to point out three 119 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:48,440 aspects of the daily offering. Number one, I want you to notice 120 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:54,040 in this text that God is pleased with their offerings. 121 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:57,800 Now where do I get that? Three times God describes the 122 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:03,520 offering as an aroma and three times He describes the aroma the 123 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:08,480 exact same way, a pleasing aroma. 124 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:15,480 God in his grace was pleased with their offerings. 125 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:19,280 And brother and sister, because of Jesus Christ and His death on 126 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,960 the cross, God is pleased with our offerings. 127 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:30,720 Here's why this is so important to understand, especially like 128 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,600 culturally, this is so important for us to understand because we 129 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,080 have many contacts where we legitimately strive to please 130 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,200 someone and the person is not pleased. 131 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:48,680 Sometimes a a child tries their very hardest in a ballet recital 132 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:54,800 or a piano recital or a basketball game or their grades 133 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,680 in school, and yet the parent is still not pleased. 134 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:06,760 Sometimes we give it our very best on our work project and our 135 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:13,000 boss is still not pleased. Sometimes in marriage, we may 136 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,480 strive to make dinner with all our effort. 137 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:27,800 Our spouse is still not pleased and we must not transfer this 138 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,960 experience, these experiences to God. 139 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:40,880 You see, God never looks at us singing or our preaching or our 140 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:48,480 evangelism or our discipleship and thinks, nice try, try better 141 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:56,000 next time. I've heard better. 142 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:03,200 What a great joy it is to know that because of Jesus Christ, 143 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:11,360 everything we do for the Lord is pleasing to the Lord, assuming 144 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:16,040 it's done with the right heart #2 Second thing I want to point 145 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,720 about this daily offerings. God required the Lamb to be 146 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,720 without blemish. These lambs, every one of them, 147 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,320 two a day, every day, 300 and well, it's like 54 days of the 148 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:30,520 year, 354 days of the year they are to be without blemish. 149 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,800 In fact, 15 times in these two chapters God reminds them that 150 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,280 they are to be without blemish, which means the Lamb had to be 151 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:42,600 perfect. In a sense, as perfect as a Lamb 152 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:47,560 could be. In Major League Baseball there 153 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:54,200 have been over 238,500 games. Baseball has been around for a 154 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,080 long time. They play 162 games a year, 155 00:10:56,080 --> 00:11:00,560 238,500 games if you multiply that times 2 because there are 156 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:03,240 two pitchers per game, at the minimum 2 pitchers per game. 157 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:11,880 That's 477,477 thousand. For a pitcher to throw what is 158 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:17,880 known as a perfect game, he needs to have no hits, no walks, 159 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:22,120 no hit batsmen, no uncaught third strikes, no catchers 160 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,960 interference, no fielders, obstructions, no fielding 161 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:26,480 errors. In other words, a batter can 162 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:34,120 never reach base for any reason. There are 27 batters and that's 163 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:40,160 it, no more. Of those 477,000. 164 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,760 Do you know how many have been perfect games? 165 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:55,600 24 That's .005%. I was thinking about it like 166 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:57,840 what if that was the standard to play in college? 167 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:03,000 What if colleges said if you would like to pitch baseball in 168 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,800 college, you have to throw a perfect game in high school? 169 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:13,320 Think of the pressure, think of the hopelessness of like I'll 170 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:18,920 never play at the next level. And yet God says if you would 171 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:23,760 like to come to heaven, you must be perfect. 172 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,000 You have to have you have to throw a perfect life. 173 00:12:36,730 --> 00:12:40,890 And yet we have no pressure. We have hope. 174 00:12:41,050 --> 00:12:44,760 Why? Because Jesus lived a perfect 175 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:52,400 life and he makes us blemish free, His perfection of his 176 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:56,080 life. And he says, I make you blemish 177 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:00,560 free. You may enter the presence of 178 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:08,400 the father #3 Third thing I want to point out about the daily 179 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,040 offerings is that the burnt offering was offered daily 180 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:16,920 morning and evening, every day, daily morning and evening. 181 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,720 There was no, I'm sorry, I was busy. 182 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,080 I meant to do it, but I was really busy. 183 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:30,120 I got distracted, you know, I was got distracted. 184 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:38,600 I was on vacation. I just forgot I was really 185 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,840 tired. I had every intention to make 186 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:42,680 the evening one but I I went to bed early. 187 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:46,040 I was really tired. I'll catch up this weekend. 188 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,160 I'll make 7 offerings on the weekend. 189 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,600 I'll catch up. Did work that way? 190 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,960 God said these burnt offerings were to be made every single 191 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:04,720 day, without fail, twice a day, every day, morning and evening. 192 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:10,640 Brothers and sisters, we need the worship of God every single 193 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:21,000 day of our life, every day. Just as I eat every day, usually 194 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:30,000 two to three times a day, I need to spiritually eat day two to 195 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:36,720 three times a day, whether that is through prayer or His Word or 196 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:42,160 meditation. We need the worship of God every 197 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:47,560 day. Verses 9 to 10 deals with the 198 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,240 Sabbath offerings. The next section we're going to 199 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,440 look at in verses 9 to 10 is the Sabbath offerings. 200 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,760 Now on the Sabbath, which was Saturday for them, they were to 201 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,840 offer 2 male lambs a year old without blemish. 202 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,440 They were to offer a grain offering, 2/10 of a fine flour 203 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,760 mixed with oil and a drink offering. 204 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:10,320 Now this all of this is in addition to the burnt offering 205 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:14,480 that we just looked at. Now, what this reminds us of is 206 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:18,560 that the Sabbath for them was not just a day of rest where 207 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:22,640 people slept in longer and took an afternoon nap, right? 208 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:25,000 Now, maybe they did do that, but it wasn't just that. 209 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:30,360 It was a whole day, once a week set aside to worship God. 210 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,880 And they and they would recognize this by making these 211 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:39,160 additional offerings every week. Now I understand, you know, that 212 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,440 there are endless debates and conversations about the role of 213 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,360 the Sabbath, the New Testament Christian, right? 214 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,800 Like, are we to observe a Sabbath? 215 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,480 Are we not? If we do observe it, what are we 216 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:51,240 allowed to do? What are we not? 217 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,480 That debate is not going to get solved. 218 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,040 There's just not. And it's certainly not going to 219 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:01,320 get solved here this morning. So we can go back and forth all 220 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:05,280 day long about that. Here is one thing that is not up 221 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:10,200 for debate. The early church models for us 222 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:15,280 at the very least, that the way at the minimum, the way that we 223 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:21,160 observe the Sabbath, which is now Sunday, I believe, is by 224 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,400 gathering with the people of God to worship God. 225 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,280 At the minimum, the way that we observe the Sabbath today is to 226 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:34,400 gather with the people of God to worship God in the same way that 227 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,320 they're offering on the Sabbath was different, right? 228 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,840 It was more they still made the daily offering morning and 229 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:45,040 evening, and then they made the Sabbath offering after the 230 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,040 morning offering. It was more it was different. 231 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:52,360 Our worship of God is to be different on the Sabbath. 232 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,680 It should be more. Now I understand you might be 233 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,520 thinking, Matt, you're, you're preaching to the choir here. 234 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,200 Like literally you're preaching to the choir. 235 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:02,560 We're here. We made it. 236 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,040 You're telling us together we did. 237 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,760 We gathered we're here. What are you trying to get at? 238 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:19,440 That may not always be the case. I may not always be the case. 239 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:26,520 I have known many, many people who have faithfully attended 240 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:31,600 church every Week, 2, three times a week, every single week 241 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:42,200 for 10/20/30 years and then stopped attending for 10/20/30 242 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:50,260 years. I was talking to my boys the 243 00:17:50,260 --> 00:17:52,380 other day about a book we're reading, a book together on 244 00:17:52,380 --> 00:17:55,540 vocation and calling, and I was talking to them. 245 00:17:55,540 --> 00:17:57,940 One of the the chapter was talking about church and being 246 00:17:57,940 --> 00:18:00,340 committed to church and I was exhorting them. 247 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:02,860 This is so important for you parents. 248 00:18:03,140 --> 00:18:08,660 I was exhorting them to make weekly corporate worship and 249 00:18:08,660 --> 00:18:13,600 intrinsic conviction for them and not simply a borrow one from 250 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:19,880 mom and dad. As parents, we have such a 251 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:23,360 responsibility to make sure that our children are not borrowing 252 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:26,680 our convictions, but they are developing their own intrinsic 253 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:31,320 conviction of this. And I want to say the same to 254 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:38,880 you as your spiritual father because I don't the way our 255 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:43,640 church is like 5 years from now, about 1/5 of you won't be here. 256 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,200 That that's just how what how our church is. 257 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:50,080 And then another fifth of you won't be here. 258 00:18:53,720 --> 00:19:01,680 You never outgrow your need to gather with the people of God to 259 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:07,160 worship God. Make this your intrinsic 260 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:14,520 conviction to once a week at the minimum, gather on the Sabbath 261 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:20,480 to worship God. Verses 11 to 15. 262 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,040 These are what's called the monthly off section we're going 263 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:25,880 to look at is the monthly offerings. 264 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:29,040 These are often referred to as the new moon sacrifices. 265 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,600 You may have seen that throughout the Bible of new what 266 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,200 the new moon, that's what this is, is the monthly offerings. 267 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,360 The new moon sacrifices once a month. 268 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:38,760 At the beginning of each month. They were to offer unique 269 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,960 offerings. So again, this is cumulative. 270 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:42,360 This is on top of everything else. 271 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,520 So if the new moon fell on the Sabbath, it would be daily 272 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,760 offering, Sabbath offering, and new moon offering. 273 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,400 They're all cumulative. They were to offer unique 274 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:58,880 offerings. 2 bulls, 1 ram, 7 male lambs A grain offering. 275 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,480 The grain offering would be commensurate with the size of 276 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,480 the animal. The bull would be 3/10, the ram 277 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,240 would be 2/10. The lamb would be 110th. 278 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,680 The drink offering would be commensurate as well. 279 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:13,000 The bull would be half a hint of wine, the ram would be 1/3 of a 280 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,440 hen, and the lamb would be 1/4 of a hen. 281 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,960 In addition to all of that, they were to offer a sin offering a 282 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,840 goat. 1 Male goat for a sin offering to the Lord. 283 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,720 Again, this is in addition to all the daily offerings, all the 284 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,480 Sabbath offerings. Now, here's the question that I 285 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,600 had about the monthly offering, right? 286 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:36,040 It's like, well, if you got daily offerings and you have 287 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:40,480 Sabbath offerings, why do you need monthly offerings, right? 288 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,720 What, what is the purpose of this monthly offering? 289 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,920 We'll have to back up for just a moment. 290 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:52,640 One commentator writes this. The new moon was affirmed by two 291 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,400 witnesses who began watching. For at the end of each month, 292 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:01,120 once sighted in the sky, the new moon was announced in Jerusalem 293 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:04,960 with a long trumpet blast, and an official message was sent out 294 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,640 by a signal fire. The entire Hebrew calendar 295 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,800 depended on these declarations, for without them no one would 296 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,960 know when a new month begun, had begun. 297 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,560 They used the moon to keep time right? 298 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,040 We all know this, this is important. 299 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,520 You ever had time just bleed together, right? 300 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,040 People ask you like, you know, when did you do this? 301 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,480 And you're like, I was last week and your wife's like one last 302 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:32,480 week. It was last year. 303 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:36,960 You're like, right, Right. You ever had time just kind of 304 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,120 bleed together in your mind? Like your days bleed together, 305 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:40,760 your weeks bleed together, your months bleed. 306 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:43,400 It's really bad if your years bleed together, right? 307 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,120 You just kind of lose sense of all time. 308 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:53,240 The new moon was a way to pause and celebrate a new beginning. 309 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:59,080 It was one day once a month where it was a time for the 310 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:03,600 Israelites to pause and celebrate a new beginning, and 311 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,240 they would make offerings to celebrate this. 312 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:11,760 Brothers and sisters, let me exhort you to be intentional to 313 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:16,200 build new beginnings into your spiritual walk. 314 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:23,360 Build new beginnings. You see, all of us in Christ 315 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,600 have put our hand to the plow and have not looked back. 316 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,120 That's what it means to be a Christian. 317 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,000 You put your hand to the plow and you're not looking back. 318 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,920 But that doesn't mean we keep plowing the same field over and 319 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:39,480 over again. God will give us new fields to 320 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:44,120 plow. You say, what does that look 321 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:45,520 like? Well, a new beginning might be 322 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:50,600 an area of your life where you say, I'm not going back there. 323 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,600 I've been engaged in this sin for the past five years of my 324 00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:00,080 life, the past 10 years of my life, and today it stops and I'm 325 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:09,460 not going back. Or it might be a commitment to 326 00:23:09,460 --> 00:23:15,060 start doing something. Here's why there's some like 327 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,640 because sometimes you think it's too late, right? 328 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,160 Like you wake up one day and your kids are 7, five and two. 329 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,800 You've not done worship and you're like, it's too late. 330 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:28,560 It's not. It's not too late to start. 331 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:39,360 Start today. Be intentional to build new 332 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:44,360 beginnings in your life. It's never too late. 333 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,120 Verses 1625. These are the the Bible. 334 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:56,440 My Bible calls it Passover offerings. 335 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,280 I don't know why it does that because it's really not the 336 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,480 Passover offerings. These are actually the Feast of 337 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,920 Unleavened bread offerings. If you notice, the Passover is 338 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,640 only mentioned in verse 16, but the the section is really about 339 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,160 the Feast of Unleavened Bread. So I feel like they should 340 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:16,400 change that label there. This is the Feast of Unleavened 341 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,080 Bread. It started with Passover. 342 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,200 That's why they mention it here. The Passover was celebrated on 343 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:25,080 the the first month, on the 14th day, so the 14th day of the 344 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,280 first month of the year. But then on the 15th day of the 345 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,400 month began the Feast of Unleavened Bread. 346 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,000 And what they would do is they would go through their house and 347 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,480 they would remove all leaven in their house. 348 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,560 Anything that would be used to leavened bread, they would 349 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:45,440 remove this and for seven days they would eat unleavened bread, 350 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,600 right? This was a sacrifice, right? 351 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,080 If you've ever eaten unleavened bread, it doesn't taste as good, 352 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,440 right? The leaven not only helps it at 353 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:56,120 the area, but it also like adds flavour to it doesn't taste as 354 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:59,200 good. And so they would eat this 355 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:04,040 unleavened bread for seven days on the first day of that month, 356 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,920 on the first day of that, that, that, that week, and on the 7th 357 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,280 day of that week, the text says they were to do no ordinary 358 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,040 work. Now, when you read that word 359 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,720 ordinary, read it as occupational. 360 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,520 So like the Sabbath they were allowed and the Sabbath they 361 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:23,080 were not to work at all, do anything but ordinary means 362 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:25,280 occupational work. So they could still like do 363 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,520 chores and whatnot, but they weren't trading commerce. 364 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,320 They were to see from their normal jobs. 365 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,840 They would offer a burnt offering. 366 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,800 Instructions for this offering are the exact same as the new 367 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,480 moon offering, so I won't look at it. 368 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,840 They're the same exact thing as the new moon offering. 369 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:48,320 Now, what was the point of this? Why did God command them once a 370 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:52,880 year for a whole week to remove all leaven and to eat unleavened 371 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,520 bread? What was the point of it other 372 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,760 than, you know, remembering the Exodus and so forth? 373 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,720 That that's true, but what? Why did God have them do that in 374 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,160 the Exodus? What was the point of this? 375 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:08,360 I think this is the answer. God was teaching His people what 376 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:15,480 it means to be holy. Now the apostle Paul picks up on 377 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,960 this in the New Testament. God was teaching his people to 378 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,400 cleanse out the leaven in their lives. 379 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,680 How interesting that God would teach this lesson through 380 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,880 something so small as leaven. You've ever seen leaven? 381 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,080 It's very small. How interesting that God would 382 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:37,080 teach them this massive lesson through something so small. 383 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,560 You see, the ship captain may worry about the iceberg, but a 384 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,400 great ship can also be sunk by a tiny leak. 385 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,200 A lightning strike is not needed for a wildfire for a great 386 00:26:54,920 --> 00:27:02,160 started by a small spark. Engineering mistakes need not 387 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,400 happen in calculus, for an entire bridge can collapse by a 388 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:13,120 miscalculation and arithmetic. And although it actually is 389 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:18,240 rocket science, an entire rocket can explode from a very small 390 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:24,040 crack. You see, it is not often the 391 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:29,120 so-called egregious sins that ruin a person, but it is the 392 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:32,400 little leaven that leavens the whole lump. 393 00:27:37,910 --> 00:27:43,510 We need not commit adultery. Satan will settle for an 394 00:27:43,510 --> 00:27:48,870 emotional affair. He need not commit sexual 395 00:27:48,870 --> 00:27:53,030 immorality. He will settle for fooling 396 00:27:53,030 --> 00:27:58,470 around. We need not bow down to bail. 397 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,560 Satan will settle for idolatry of money. 398 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:11,360 We need not get outwardly angry. Satan will settle for 399 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:17,520 unforgiveness in the heart. Brothers and sisters, a little 400 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:27,520 leaven leavens the whole lump. Cleanse out the leaven in your 401 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:37,360 life, verses 26 to 31. The next section is the Feast of 402 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,120 Weeks. This, this, this the first 403 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,000 festival, the first feast was the Feast of Unleavened Bread. 404 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,680 The second is the Feast of Weeks. 405 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,720 It essentially is one day. It's called the Feast of Weeks, 406 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,640 but it's only one day. It was actually one day. 407 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,520 It was 50 days after Passover, often called Pentecost. 408 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,320 Pentecost you get, you get the 50, right? 409 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,960 Pentecost, this is the feast that's being celebrated in Acts 410 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,120 chapter one, right? When we think of Pentecost, we 411 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,640 think of Acts 1 and 2. But Pentecost actually started 412 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,560 in the Old Testament. It was 50 days after Passover. 413 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,400 That's what they're celebrating in Acts one and two. 414 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,560 It marked the end of the grain harvest and the beginning of the 415 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,080 period when the first fruits could be offered to God. 416 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,320 So when this grain harvest ended, they could now begin to 417 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:27,040 offer their first fruits to God. The offerings are the exact same 418 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,840 as the New moon and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and they're 419 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,880 also going to do no occupational work on that day. 420 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,000 All right. Now, what was the purpose of 421 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,240 this? What was the purpose of the 422 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:43,080 Feast of Weeks? It was an opportunity to present 423 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:48,200 their first fruits to God as a way to express praise for His 424 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,040 provision. They would offer their first 425 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,520 fruits to God to say, God, we want to praise you for your 426 00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:01,720 provision of for us. Now how appropriate it is that 427 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,280 God would give us the greatest gift in the history of the world 428 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:13,520 on Passover, His Son, and then fifty days later at Pentecost, 429 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:19,360 He would also give us a gift of equal magnitude and His Spirit, 430 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:29,440 Passover and Pentecost, Jesus and the Spirit, He gave us these 431 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:37,040 two gifts. On these two feasts, we joyfully 432 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:43,040 give to God our first fruits, our very best, because God gave 433 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:48,360 us his very best. I told this illustration a few 434 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,440 months back, and it bears repeating. 435 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:57,000 Suppose one of my son's years from now comes home one day and 436 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,600 says that he's found a godly woman that he loves and wants to 437 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:06,120 marry. I would be happy, I would be 438 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,160 excited. And he asked me, he says, Dad, 439 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,760 can you and mom take care of the rehearsal dinner? 440 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,640 And I was like, of course, Of course. 441 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:20,920 So I go home and I tell Lauren. Lauren, our son came to us and 442 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,680 and said that he wants us to take care of the rehearsal 443 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:23,360 dinner. Can we do that? 444 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,080 She's like, yeah, I'm like, OK, great. 445 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,520 Don't we have a bunch of leftover spaghetti from the 446 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:33,080 retreat? They don't have like, a lot of 447 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:37,120 it. So we ran out of dining hall and 448 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,880 we serve our guests leftover spaghetti. 449 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,520 That would be shameful, right? Some of y'all are thinking, I 450 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:52,520 don't see a problem with that. That would be shameful, right? 451 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:06,920 Whether it is my tithe, whether it is my time, whether it is my 452 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:13,680 talents. I don't want to give God my 453 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:21,280 leftovers. I want to give him my first 454 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:27,480 fruits. I want to give him my very best. 455 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:39,000 Chapter 29 verses one through 6. The next feast is the Feast of 456 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,280 Trumpets or what's called the Feast of Trumpets. 457 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:46,960 This was to be celebrated on the first day of the 7th month on 458 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,760 during this Feast of Trumpets, they were to do no occupational 459 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,360 work. The offerings are the exact same 460 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,720 as the New moon and the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast 461 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:56,800 of Weeks. Exact same. 462 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:00,560 There's one exception there to offer one bowl instead of two. 463 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,320 That's The only exception. On this particular day of the 464 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,320 Feast of Trumpets, they were to blow the trumpets. 465 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,440 They would sound the trumpets. Now what was the purpose of 466 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:11,960 this? Why would they do this? 467 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,040 Well, the Day of Atonement that we're going to look at in just a 468 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,240 minute. Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, is 469 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:20,640 the most important day of the year. 470 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:26,120 Atonement was on the 10th day of this month, 10th day. 471 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:33,160 And so this sounding of trumpets was a call to the nation to 472 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,680 prepare themselves for Yom Kippur. 473 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,560 That's what it was. When they would hear the 474 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:44,600 trumpets, they would know I need to begin preparing myself for 475 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,120 Yom Kippur. It was a call for them to 476 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,640 reflect on their past sin in preparation for the Day of 477 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,600 Atonement. You could say that the Feast of 478 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,280 Trumpets functioned as a so-called wake up call. 479 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,000 I think that's what it was. I think that's what it was 480 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,680 intended to do. It was to wake them up and to 481 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:09,560 remind them clean up, prepare your hearts for the Day of 482 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:17,080 Atonement in the summertime, which is what it is now. 483 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,239 Obviously the only way for us to cool our house is to open all 484 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,400 the windows at night and put fans in them and let in all the 485 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,440 cool air. It's nice if you get box stands, 486 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,840 you put them in the window. It actually works better than 487 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,880 air conditioning in a lot of ways. 488 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,360 It brings in just massive amounts of cold air at the night 489 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:37,080 time. What? 490 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,199 Yeah, that's what I'm telling myself. 491 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:41,840 Nick. Nick looks like I'm telling 492 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:42,600 myself this. OK. 493 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:49,719 It does work. Well now, because of all the 494 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,679 fans, it's quite loud in our house. 495 00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:57,120 My wife does not like loud alarms. 496 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,920 Her alarm on her phone is. She's chosen the most gentle, 497 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:07,000 soothing, soft, quiet alarm that you could choose. 498 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:12,160 The other day we were waking up early to go work out and I had 499 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:16,040 woken up much earlier and I was downstairs and I was, you know, 500 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:17,160 I don't, doing all kinds of stuff. 501 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:19,920 And I came upstairs expecting to find her awake when it's time 502 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,760 for us to leave for the gym. I come upstairs, I'm surely 503 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,280 she's awake, she's putting on her shoes, she's still snoozing 504 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:32,000 in the bed. And I'm like, why didn't you set 505 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,760 your alarm? So her phone to be like, why 506 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,800 didn't she set her alarm? I pick up her phone. 507 00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:41,040 I noticed, oh, she did set her alarm. 508 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,920 It's actually been going off for the past 3 minutes. 509 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:50,280 It's currently going off, but you can't hear it because the 510 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:54,600 fans are going off. And her alarm is like, you know, 511 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,720 see, sometimes we can't hear God's voice. 512 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:12,920 We can't hear God's wake up call because of all the fans in our 513 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:19,080 life. We got too many fans going on 514 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:27,440 and we can't hear God's voice. Brothers and sisters, we don't 515 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:35,600 want God's wake up call to be a harp or a flute or chimes. 516 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:45,440 We want it to be a trumpet. A loud, obnoxious trumpet that 517 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:53,000 wakes us up. We want the Word of God to like 518 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,840 a trumpet in our life, waking us from our spiritual slumber. 519 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,760 We want brothers and sisters in the gathering of the church to 520 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,120 function like a trumpet in your life. 521 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:08,040 Don't be a harp to each other. Be a trumpet. 522 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:14,240 And let me encourage you. I understand. 523 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,280 You hear that trumpet. What's the temptation? 524 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:24,040 Snooze. Please stop. 525 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:30,240 Please stop being a loud sound in my ear. 526 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:35,760 Don't hit snooze on your brothers and sisters and 527 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:41,360 especially on God. Don't snooze God out of your 528 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:46,600 life. It's loud for a reason. 529 00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:54,120 Verses 7 to 11, this is the offerings for the Day of 530 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:55,800 Atonement. This is Yom Kippur. 531 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,280 This is the most important day of the year. 532 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,880 This hands down the most important day of the year for 533 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,080 Israel. On this day, they were to take 534 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,960 three actions. Number one, they are to afflict 535 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:09,560 yourselves. Like what? 536 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,560 Afflict yourselves like what does that mean? 537 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,480 Other translations have humble yourselves or deny yourselves. 538 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:21,360 Most scholars take this to mean to fast from food. 539 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:23,200 I think that's what they were doing. 540 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:24,920 They would fast from food on this day. 541 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:26,440 That's what that means, I believe. 542 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,840 Do no work at all. So not just occupational work, 543 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,480 but all work was deceased. So just like the Sabbath, no 544 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,760 work on the Day of Atonement and #3 they are to make offerings. 545 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,720 The offerings are the exact same as the Feast of Trumpets. 546 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,560 Now, what was the purpose of Yom Kippur? 547 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:51,640 God said in Leviticus 1630 For on this day shall atonement be 548 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,840 made for you, to cleanse you. You shall be clean before the 549 00:38:55,840 --> 00:39:04,480 Lord from all your sins on this day and only this day. 550 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:09,240 One day a year the high priest would enter the holy of Holies, 551 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:14,480 and he would make atonement for all the people for all their 552 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:19,040 sins. Now you remember, well then why 553 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,040 did they need this? I mean, why do they need this 554 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,080 day of all these other sacrifices are being made? 555 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,760 If they're making a daily offering, a Sabbath offering, a 556 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,400 monthly offering, the feast, they're doing all these other 557 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,400 things, why do why do they need Yom Kippur? 558 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,560 Why do they need this? Writes this. 559 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,880 The underlying reason for the day was that the other offerings 560 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:43,240 for sin could not provide for unknown or secret sins. 561 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,680 Because of such sins, the sanctuary, the land, and the 562 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,320 nation remained ritually unclean. 563 00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,600 The Day of Atonement was instituted by God for the 564 00:39:53,600 --> 00:40:01,120 complete atonement of all sin. On this day, God would atone for 565 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:05,520 all the things that were secret. Secret to others, even maybe 566 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,880 secret to yourself that you're not even aware that you had done 567 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,120 this or thought this or said this. 568 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,960 I've called this day the Day of Atonement, the Good Friday of 569 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:20,360 the Old Testament. Yom Kippur is a type type. 570 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:26,280 It points us to the true Day of Atonement, the death of Jesus 571 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:30,200 Christ. The author of Hebrews writes, 572 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,560 When Christ appeared as a high priest through the greater and 573 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,920 more perfect tent, he entered once for all into the holy 574 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,240 places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but 575 00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:45,640 by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 576 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:51,640 Hebrews, 911 to 12. You see, in the Old Testament 577 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:57,520 they had to make these offerings every day, every week, every 578 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:04,240 month, every year. We make none of them. 579 00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:13,160 We make none of them because Jesus's blood is sufficient. 580 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:21,840 It is sufficient. You imagine standing before a 581 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:26,360 judge. Our clothes are stained. 582 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,600 We're in so much debt that we can't even pay the parking fee 583 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:37,720 of the courthouse. We are guilty of a long, long 584 00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:43,120 rap sheet of crimes. And our smell is offensive to 585 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:52,200 the courtroom. And the judge says one word and 586 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:58,600 our stains are removed. Our debt is paid, our guilt is 587 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:07,640 forgiven and is washed clean. You see, our great High Priest 588 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:12,560 Jesus Christ entered the true Holy of Holies, and he shed His 589 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:18,920 blood, and he made atonement for every single sin we have ever 590 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:27,680 committed. Or He is a sacrifice far better 591 00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:36,000 than bulls and Rams. Last section, it's a long one. 592 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:41,320 It's the Feast of Booths. This is the last and most 593 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,360 significant feast that that we're going to look at the Feast 594 00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,400 of Booths on the 15th day of the 7th month. 595 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,600 So this is 14 days after the Feast of Trumpets and five days 596 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:55,000 after Yom Kippur. They were to do no occupational 597 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,840 work. They were to keep this feast for 598 00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,200 seven days. The offerings for this feast are 599 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,160 a lot. For the first seven days, each 600 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,120 day, every day, for seven days in a row, they're to offer two 601 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:11,200 Rams, 14 male lambs and 1 male goat. 602 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:16,960 On the first day they are to offer in addition 13 bulls, the 603 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:21,200 second day 12 bulls, the third day 11 bulls and on and on. 604 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:28,440 On the 8th day, they're to offer one bull, 1 Ram, 7 milligrams 605 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:33,960 and one goat and the same as all the other feast. 606 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:40,160 Now, if you count all of that up, and I don't know how people 607 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:43,320 count because when I was counting I got like I got a #1 608 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,200 commentator got a different number, another coming to get a 609 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,600 different number. And I'm like, man, I guess like 610 00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,200 we didn't all of us, you know, Pastor, we the major in math. 611 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:55,560 I guess because I don't this is the number I got. 612 00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:01,840 You count all this up one bulls. This is just for the piece of 613 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:09,520 booths, 71 bulls, 15 Rams, 105 male lambs and eight goats. 614 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,520 That's a lot over one week. Now, what was the purpose of 615 00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:16,920 this? What was the purpose of the 616 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:21,080 Feast of Booths? God says in Leviticus 2340 to 617 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:25,200 43. You shall take on the first day 618 00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:30,200 the fruit of the splendid trees, branches of palm trees, and bows 619 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,520 of leafy trees and willows of the brook. 620 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,520 You shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days, and 621 00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,520 you shall dwell in booths for seven days. 622 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,360 All native Israelites shall dwell in booths that your 623 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:47,040 generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in 624 00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,480 booths. When I brought them out of the 625 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:54,320 land of Egypt, they would literally take leaves, like big, 626 00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,360 huge palm leaves and they would build a little booth and they 627 00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,760 would live in it for a whole week. 628 00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:06,320 You imagine if, if, if we were required to live in like a man 629 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,640 made tent for a whole week, like imagine as a church, we'd have, 630 00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,800 I think Laura might be happy. But like imagine if we had 631 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:17,880 mandatory camping once a week or like every year like that, Like 632 00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,360 I require, if you're going to be a member of this church, you're 633 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:25,520 going camping every year for once a week, right? 634 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,560 Why did they do this? Why did God have them do this? 635 00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:35,840 Why did God require them to dwell in these booths? 636 00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:37,880 What were they supposed to learn by this? 637 00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:43,280 They were supposed to learn what the Israelites were were 638 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:47,560 supposed to learn in the wilderness and didn't. 639 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:53,600 They were supposed to learn the same thing that Moses did learn 640 00:45:54,800 --> 00:46:00,200 and wrote about in the very first verse of Psalm 90? 641 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:08,920 Lord, You have been our dwelling place throughout all 642 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:15,600 generations. Our dwelling place is not our 643 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:23,680 homes, it is the Lord. Our food is not fish and 644 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:28,720 cucumbers and melons and leeks, it is the Lord. 645 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:34,120 Our water does not come from the fresh springs, it is from the 646 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,600 Lord. Our provision is not manna and 647 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:43,920 quail from heaven, but the Lord God is our dwelling place. 648 00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:53,920 He is our home. As we close, I want to remind 649 00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,720 all of you that they have not yet conquered the promised land. 650 00:46:58,240 --> 00:47:01,080 When God gives all these offerings, they they haven't 651 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:02,800 even started conquering the promised land yet. 652 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:10,880 God says in verse 39, these you shall offer to the Lord at your 653 00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,680 appointed feasts. Now here's the question I have. 654 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:16,440 Where are they going to get all these animals? 655 00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,120 I was thinking like, how many is this? 656 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,000 If you count up all these animals and these two chapters, 657 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:27,360 Again, the math did not match any of the commentators I had, 658 00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,600 but neither did they match each other, so I don't know who's 659 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,040 correct. Here's the math I came up with. 660 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:45,440 1051 male lambs every year, 101 bulls every year, 31 Rams every 661 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:51,920 year, and 24 goats every year. That is not to mention more than 662 00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:56,480 one ton of flour and 1000 bottles of oil and wine. 663 00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,520 And this is not even all the sacrifices. 664 00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:07,960 This is just two chapters worth. Where are they going to get that 665 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:12,400 many animals, oil, flour and wine? 666 00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:21,880 God, God is going to give it to them. 667 00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:29,840 If God required this much every year from them, it means that 668 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:34,760 God would be faithful to provide them this much every year and 669 00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:39,600 more. You see, I know many of you are 670 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:44,640 on a season of uncertainty. Many of you are in a season 671 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,560 right now where you know what the future holds. 672 00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:48,280 You would love to know what the future holds. 673 00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,280 If you could have a crystal ball, man, that would be a gift. 674 00:48:57,500 --> 00:48:59,100 You're in a season of uncertainty. 675 00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:02,340 So with Israelites, so with Israelites. 676 00:49:04,420 --> 00:49:09,820 But just as the Israelites can look at this blood stained altar 677 00:49:10,900 --> 00:49:16,460 and be reminded every day that God is faithful to provide for 678 00:49:16,460 --> 00:49:25,000 us, we too look at a blood stained cross and are reminded 679 00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:29,200 God is faithful to provide for us. 680 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:38,920 He will provide for you. Let's pray.