Leviticus Study - 2025-04-16

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we're going to experience some a little bit of a course correction in the beginning of what we're going to do in Leviticus and

see where we go with it and then we'll be on to talking about the

the feasts in

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All right.

So the feasts of the Lord 1 through 44

most of you know, I kind of get to the point in time

the time where I have 12 or 13 slides. It takes me about an hour, but I've got 16 tonight.

So we're going to

go through it a little bit faster maybe as time goes on. So

let's ask ourselves and when we think of all the feasts by name

there are seven major

what we call Holy Days feasts or rituals that the

Israelites were told to

prepare and

participate in and be able to acknowledge the Lord God of whom they serve.

So before we get into that, I want your thoughts as

far as some of what we call the holidays, and I'm speaking in a Christian perspective.

With regards to community and fellowship, now think about the church experience that we are all having.

So we're talking about our community here in the fellowship that we have.

Coming together with believers fosters what when we come together? What does it foster?

Okay, fellowship, that's good.

Unity, oh my gosh, you must have been reading notes and shared faith.

You know, it's interesting that

because of, and I think I shared this somewhere along the line very recently,

there was an inside story about the churches in Iran and

the

Cholomani is

extremely concerned as is all the priests that

50,000 mosques have closed out of

75,000.

Now you talk about the graphic idea of the church. There is movement and what is interesting,

when God says about revival, He always refers

pejoratively to younger generations, and as you look back at the revival that was was brought forth in

the

the days of Pentecost,

those things in the charismatic movement, they always

first started in the small ideas of children, of young children, of teenagers.

Now what happened in Asbury? College, same thing, young people.

So consequently, there's an idea that we have that we are going to have shared faith and

we have unity, so that's one element of what we're doing.

So observing the rituals and traditions during the holidays that we all have, and

Gail and I were just talking about what we're doing for Easter, what she was doing for Easter.

We have these ritual holidays that we express in some Christian format.

I want you to think about what they mean to you, gathering with family, gathering with friends.

What perhaps, oh, okay,

we're at the end now.

Well, we should not be there, and may the Lord bless you and no.

All right.

Okay, so when we observe these rituals and traditions during the holidays,

it helps us to do what?

At the end of the game, what does it help us to do?

Celebrate? Okay.

What else?

Connect with each other.

Because you know, it's the idea of, okay, Gail asked, are you going over to your kids?

You know, and we're connecting with our grown children. We're connecting with one another. We have feasts,

we have times together, and you have a whole house full of people, right? Or you're going somewhere this year.

All right. Okay, so we have that. So we're connecting.

We're expressing unity. We have a shared faith, and in the teaching and evangelism arena,

holidays serve as a platform to do what? What do we do when we're all full of pie and we're, you know,

we're sitting back.

Ah, you two, oh my gosh, you're showing your age, girl.

How can you take a nap with all the kids around?

Will you sneak off in the garage somewhere?

Think about it. What do we do?

We share, right?

We share our stories.

We share our lives.

We reinforce our Christian identity

by those things that we do together.

Isn't it wonderful and you're blessed, and you know,

I know you have kids out of town too, that when you get together and you hear about their stories,

it just blesses you on the inside.

You know, and that's really part of what we're talking about here.

And then the teaching and evangelism idea is that holidays serve a platform to what?

Again, share our faith,

values, and stories with other individuals.

You know, and we may not have a Christian group, we may have a mixed group.

So we share what we can, sometimes there is successes, sometimes there's not,

but we're sharing things that are monumental in our life and our values.

And the hope and the renewal that we're talking about then,

many holidays emphasize themes of hope and renewal, inspiring believers to do what?

To live out their faith with purpose.

And so many, probably like you, you, I know of so many people, they're Christian,

but they have no purpose.

Well, I'm going to go to heaven.

Well, that's just not what only God wants.

He wants for us to have purpose in our life.

And thinking about the feasts that God ordained, which we will be going through.

God wanted, as we originally went back in Exodus, we talked about wanting relationship.

And in that relationship, he wanted to build a nation and in building a nation,

he wanted these very things that we're talking about here.

So the celebrations now are more than just dates on a calendar.

They are spiritual anchors that remind Christians of God's love and promises

to rekindle them with other people and things that you may have forgot about that

you're talking about, things that you rehearse with one another, again,

kind of stimulates you and sometimes challenges you to say, okay, you know,

that that that son or the daughter of mine or my grandkids, I mean,

they're really experiencing maybe even a closer relationship than perhaps I have.

Okay, so my question then, which holiday holds the most meaning for you

and why what holiday is that Easter?

Okay.

Why is that because the Lord resurrected from the dead anyone else?

You're looking over there.

Do you have a net consensus now?

Christmas Christmas.

Yeah, I was a Christmas.

Yeah, okay.

Why not a challenge, but a question.

Why is it that you like Christmas family?

Okay, so family is important up there.

Okay, that's good.

You got the same.

Okay, you got the same.

I think the first answer is pretty close.

Easter because that was where, you know, the whole point of Christianity,

like the whole fact that he was resurrected, like, you know, when he was

born, he wasn't resurrected yet.

So Easter is kind of the kind of telltale.

So Easter is important.

Anything else?

All right, Gail.

No, quiet.

Same thing Easter.

Okay, Easter.

Yes, same here.

So we have resurrection.

We have Christmas.

We have things like that that we're dealing with with regard to our

favorite holidays now.

Okay, before we go on just so we don't get mixed up.

There are a lot of feasts that we'll be covering in the first month

of the year.

There is Passover on leavened bread feast.

And again, the first fruits feast.

So there is those things that are important in the month of and

you can think of a car named Nissan in the first month of the

calendar year.

And just to set you forth in the third month, fourth, fifth,

and sixth, there's not much going on.

But in the seventh month, we are the Feast of Trumpets, the

Day of Atonement, and the Day of Tabernacles.

So let's take a look at what we'll be talking about.

So verses 1 and 2 of the chapter is just a an exhortation

that there are sacred things that are to be obeyed and to

given be given us by the Lord.

And then verse 3, it talks about the Sabbath and this is not

a feast.

It's just tucked right in here.

It's a weekly command.

It's a weekly time of rest and relationship that we have

with our Lord.

The highlight that is of that day is a significant

perpetual covenant that God made with his people.

So getting through that now we go into the feasts, the

Passover, verse 4 and 5 again is celebrated the first month

of the year and it commemorates deliverance of Israel

from Egypt and we'll be breaking these things down.

Verse 6 and 7 is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, a feast

of unleavened bread lasting seven days with special

offerings.

And then verses 9 through 14, the Feast of First Fruits

celebrates the first harvest of the year and includes

the offering of a sheaf of grain.

And verses 15 through 22 is the Feast of Weeks or

commonly called Pentecost.

It occurs 50 days after the feast of the first fruits

and rest after the harvest.

And then verse 23 through 25 is the Feast of Trumpets

which is Rosh Hashanah.

Again, that marks the beginning of the seventh month

a day of blowing trumpets and rest.

And then verse 26 through 32, the Day of Atonement

which is Yom Kippur as we know it.

It's the holiest day of the year for Israel, a time

of fasting, repentance and atonement for sin.

So finally, the Feast of Tabernacles is what we also

call the Feast of Booths and we'll be talking about

that.

It commemorates Israel's journey in the wilderness

and God's provision.

So that's the outline that we'll go through.

So let's take a look at why.

So we gave our reasons why these holidays are specific

to us.

The reason that God wanted to establish these and

make an imprint on their minds is that he wanted them

to remember his blessings.

We talked about that sharing his provision and deepen

their faith and live in alignment with his principles.

That was the goal.

It just wasn't random things that were picked out

because of the seasons.

They were specific to remember what he has done

for them.

Just as we discuss these things, his imprint in these

wanted to be established in their minds and hearts.

Let's take a look at the background now of what festivals

were originally.

In the pagan nations of Greece and Rome, festivals were established

by man to find favor with deities and to prevent disasters

which were accomplished, which were accompanied by gluttonous

eating, drunken bras and promiscuous acts.

So if you remember, there was a God that we said for

everything.

There was a God of harvest.

There was a God for rain.

There was a God for protection.

They had many, many, many, many Gods and they had rituals

for each one.

I mean, they were very busy.

So again, that's what pagan nations did and the pagan

prophets really spoke against these festivals because of

the outcome.

When you ended up with a bunch of people drinking wine

and having a fun time, what begins to happen?

It begins to get very disorganized and all of a sudden

there's trouble.

They did not want that but they still had it.

However, on the other side, the Israelites were celebrating

these things and again, the way they celebrated them was

the sanctity of the festival and again, there was no

hint of in the Bible of orgies, wildness, promiscuous

abandonment connected with these pagan festivals because

God pulled them aside and told them about two words

that we remember separation and purity.

Remember those words have been given over and over

again in his commandments to separate yourself from the

rest of the world and to be pure before me.

We give a lot of us gave a lot of studies on those

things.

So the biblical concept then on the other side was

the exact opposite there were the festivals were

commanded by God but presented the Israelites with again

the remembrance of his provision.

Now, I ask you the same question.

I mean if we if we think about the holidays, we

think of the remembrance of Christmas.

We think of the remembrance of Easter of Palm Sunday.

We just celebrated so those things that God wants us

to remember and again, these celebrations when the

people gathered in the temple were testified by

Isaiah.

It says in 3029 the Lord's people will sing as they

do when they celebrate a religious festival at

night and the Lord is Israel's mighty rock and

his people will be so happy as they are when they

follow the sound of the flutes to the mountain

where he is worshiped and again the rejoicing of

the whole community again, all of us may be in

our separate families, but the rejoicing of that

community spirit and it included slaves and it

did not condemn other people and outsiders.

They included them the Levi the proselyte the

orphan and the widow in Deuteronomy 16.

So that's the background of festivals now that

it's fast forward now if it's not a secular

festival, then what is it?

It's where God always commands them to first

purify themselves through the restriction of their

desires for pleasure and in every time of their

celebration.

What secular non-religious secular meaning there

is a secular job.

I have I do things I work for people.

There is an anointed job that I have so secular

is something not having to do with with Christendom.

Okay, so then the greater of the then greater at

the temp they then gather at the temple to

participate in the hymns the prayers the sacrifices

that we've been talking about so that the place

the site the service would influence their sight

and hearing with a spirit of reverence to the

God whom they serve.

What do we do when we come in here?

We sing it remember that we remember things that

God has told us in the past.

We get our mind set.

There is the reverence when we pray.

We pray together.

There is an anointing in that prayer.

Excuse me.

I'm going to take a cough drop here.

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Thank you.

And pardon what flavor hauls sugarless and it has

lemon and tart in it.

So it keeps me awake.

Well, if I give you my last one.

So again, what he is doing is patterning these people

to be able to understand what he desires and the

end of the day those two words separation and

holiness.

All right.

Sounds familiar to what we have been talking about.

He commanded the sacrifice of a sin offering before

they ever did this to atone for what they were

in sin and he warned the people to stop sinning.

Again, the festivals did what it repaired the

divide between the perfection of God and the man's

fallen nature because of sin of Adam and Eve.

So there we have in essence, what a festival is

not and what it was designed to do again, just

at the common bottom.

If you take a look at the life of Adam and Eve,

we had communion in the garden.

We have judgment because they did not listen to

the commands.

God separated them from garden.

There was rebellion and then there was redemption

the whole cycle of man coming back to God.

Okay, the Sabbath.

Let's just quickly talk about that.

The Sabbath then was a weekly observance like we

observe weekly.

It occurs every seventh day.

It make it a regular and perpetual holy day.

And and my wife and I go through this when she

can't make it sometimes you know, I can't make

it to church because of us and so she feels so

bad about it.

Well, you know, not that we should feel bad, but

it's the idea it has become part of our life

that what we do individually, we now come together

in unity and we enjoy the fellowship of the

brothers and the sisters and what worship there

is, what message is preached, what word comes

into our heart.

So that's an occurrence that we desire and want.

So there is rest and reflection.

Being a a secular pastor, there wasn't much

rest and reflection and you know, when you preach

on Sunday and then go to work on Monday and

then work all week and then all those things

that are put on you.

It was tough to find rest, but we are to rest

and we are to reflect again primary characteristics

of the Sabbath is to rest and the work ceases

to honor God's own act of resting on the seventh

day after that creation and that's we found

in Exodus 28 through 11.

All right, the sacred assembly is the again,

the Sabbath is designed as a day of gathering

worshiping providing spiritual nourishment

and a sense of community.

All the things that we have been talking about

God instituted then he drew the people out.

He wants to Institute in the church today.

Holiness something that is obviously part

of the package.

The Sabbath is set apart as holy.

Reminding believers to focus on the relationship

with God and his provision and the way that

we do that because we can get so distracted

at home or in our shop in our men's cave

and I'll speak on behalf of the men or other

things that it takes some time to bring us

back to draw us together to remember his

goodness so we have that and then the again

the covenantal significance of this is again

observing the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant

between God and his people symbolizing their

dependence on him and so often we don't

walk in that we walk in independence.

I was talking to one sister today.

She's back in the back there visiting and

we were talking about the churches today.

There's so much secularism in the church.

You almost don't know the difference between

the church and the secular society in some

instances.

So consequently the church of the redeemed

should be different than what we're experiencing

in the world and Hebrews 4 9 and 10 it says

so then there remains a Sabbath rest for the

people of God for whoever has entered God's

rest has also rested from his own works.

All right now the Passover here we go.

All right those words pulled up a little bit

but it says this it was celebrated in the

spring around March or April during the month

of Nissan on the 14th day the Israelites

celebrated the Passover pointing to God's

deliverance and sparing of their life from

the death and slavery in Egypt.

So again those traditions that they

celebrate it was the Seder meal.

Some of you may have participated in that

or have experienced that it was eating of

unleavened bread matzah it had roasted lamb

bitter herbs and retelling the story of

the Exodus.

So what's that mean unleavened bread again

reminds them of the hasty departure from

Egypt there was no time for the bread

to rise and so they had to bake it quickly

and get out of there.

So that's why they remembered that and

again the sacrifice lamb reminds them of

being saved from the death angel that

God sent to Egypt and the bitter herbs

represent the bitterness of slavery that

the Israelites endured in Egypt.

So there was significance for everything there

significance everything that we do in

church today the Lord asked us to

praise him what do we do we sing we

worship the Lord wants to feed us

through the Holy Spirit there is an

anointed message there is fellowship

there's gathering so all these things

are still fast forward from when he

originated them.

So the question that I have for you

what might be the significance of the

Passover as it relates to us as

Christians.

What is that if you look at the Passover

what might that be?

Okay, but what?

Okay, get it.

So what else what's that remind us of?

Gail.

Okay, Jesus was crucified.

Yes.

Yeah.

So the equation is his plan has never

changed.

There's a new and better covenant

that we're experiencing but his plan

never changed.

Just as the blood of the Lamb saved

this Israelites the blood of Jesus

saves us from our sins past present

and future and eternal judgment and

damnation we do not have.

So that's that's what we are

experiencing the Passover remind us

of our redemption through Christ.

We were slaves to sin but through

his sacrifice we have been set free.

So there is the connection between

the Passover then and what we

experience now.

Okay, so the Feast of Unleavened

Bread and we'll go through this

it sometimes it gets confusing

but we'll plow our way through it.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

started immediately after the Passover

when I showed you that chart,

it was heavy in the first month

and in the third through six month

there was light and then there

was a heavy festivals in the fall.

So it started immediately after

the Passover it was 15 to 21 days

long and they celebrated the

physical departure and journey

of freedom from Egypt.

So before the feast began all

leaven or yeast was removed

from their homes.

Why is that Israel was again

commanded to eat bread without

leaven or yeast which represented

the removal of sin and corruption

from the Israelites.

So there was a removal of those

things that were leaven which

was the sin and the corruption.

So the question what might the

significance of the Feast of

Unleavened Bread then mean to us

today?

What might that mean if there

was a removal of sin?

All right, I won't hold you up

here.

How about Jesus was buried during

the during the Feast of the

unleavened bread.

So he was separated from his

burial symbolizes the laying

down of his sinless body which

would then later rise to bring

new life to all of us.

The sin or the leaven in the

bread is buried and the

purification meaning the unleavened

bread is ours to experience.

So there is a connection those

are subtle it is there.

So purity and separation again

from sin represents Jesus as an

emblem of this feast.

So there is that connection.

Jesus described themselves in

John 3 35 is what the bread of

life.

So as we think of these things

we think okay and again the

statement has been made many

times.

What is Leviticus have it's

boring.

It's it's it's awful of laws.

It's this and that well it's

just a template of what we are

living in today is resurrection

power the final atonement for

sin.

Okay the first the Feast of

first fruits that celebrates at

the beginning of the harvest

season.

So we now jump from the spring

into the harvest it's

celebrated during the same time

as the Passover and Feast of

unleavened bread and it

occurs on the day after the

Sabbath again during the week

of the Feast of unleavened

bread right in the middle again

I don't know how they get all

this work done but there was a

lot of feasts that they

participated in the worshippers

would bring the first chief or

Omar of barley to the priest

as an offering to the Lord and

a lamb without blemish grain

that was mixed with oil and

wine.

And if you remember as we went

through those things there were

significance for each.

I'm not going to repeat all of

them.

So the priest waves the sheaf

before the altar symbolizes

again the dedication of the

entire harvest to God and

acknowledges him as his as the

provider for the people.

So what significance of the

Feast of the first fruits to

us meaning Christians.

What is this the first fruits?

His resurrection.

Yeah, so we have that from the

dad again like a grain of wheat

dying and later sprouting.

What about the grain that they

have found in Egyptian tombs

that when planted and watered

it springs forth with life.

It doesn't matter how long

that death has been but

again there is life in the

sea there is life and

resurrection and what he's

done.

So again there is the equation

between the festivals that and

you notice most of what I'm

doing is saying past tense.

There are individual Jewish

people that celebrate these

things and we don't minimize

that but what we have done we

have gone from the old

covenant to the new covenant all

that we're doing is saying

okay all this is so new but

yet it's not new as you see.

It's something that he formed

from the foundation of the

world.

The themes of renewal new

beginnings and again dedicating

our best to God.

Just as the feast of first

fruits pointed to a future

full harvest.

Jesus resurrection is viewed

as a promise to the future

resurrection for all who

believe aren't you happy that

we have hope.

Oh my gosh we were just

talking this morning we had

prayer over at Meadowwood

and there was I forget how

many people were there I

shared on the crucifixion from

Luke 23 and I just wanted to

paint the picture that we

were all Christian and we're

sitting around and was reading

this and gave a devotion on

it was just so wonderful to

think that these brothers and

sisters sitting here coming

from different walks of life

into a retirement situation

that we all know that when we

pass from this life to death

that we will see each other

and we will be in heaven.

That's a very comforting thing

to think about and realize

especially when you're on

the other end of life.

Okay, the feast of weeks,

which is Pentecost now you

all ought to know this answer

when we go through it.

Okay, the feast of weeks then

is known as the Feast of

Pentecost.

It is one of the major biblical

festivals.

It was again celebrated 50

days after the first fruits

and again, you know, I would

think that people would get

these things pretty well

mixed up but remember they

had priests to tell them what

was coming when they had to

live all their own lives but

they had all these different

festivals and feasts and again

it marks the conclusion of the

grain harvest season in Israel.

So the Israelites would then

bring two loaves of leaven

bread to make made from the

first wheat harvest and present

them to the priest as a wave

offering.

So we've gone from unleavened

to leavened.

Additional sacrifices were

offered again including seven

lambs, one bowl, two rams,

one goat along with grain and

again drink offerings.

So question, what might be the

significance of the Feast of

weeks or Pentecost to us as

Christians?

Yeah, where in Acts 2.

Yeah, very good.

Okay, so he sent the Holy

Spirit.

He was thinking about these

things way back when.

In the annals of time.

You know, you wonder how God

could put all these things

together to make it all work

out.

I would get confused in the

first millennium.

You know thinking about all

that he's done and yet when

you look at so many things in

the Bible, they're redundant

because what his nature

requires and wants is what

the relationship of people and

there's only one way to have

that because he's sinless he

what he needs to give you an

opportunity to get rid of the

sin so you can fellowship with

him so you can commune with him

and be in his presence because

without that we won't get

there.

You know, we can't bring sin

into the camp because again,

you know, it says in the Old

Testament that he despised sin.

We can't bring all that all

that part of life into God's

presence without doing

something responding to it and

that is the repentance.

Okay, again, 40 days after

Jesus resurrection, the Holy

Spirit was given to Pentecost.

So again, the not the 40 to 50

days.

So Pentecost represents the

power of the Holy Spirit and

believers to build up our

inner man equip us to spread

the gospel and live for

Christ.

So again, there is the endowment

of power, dunamos, meaning

what the power of the Holy

Spirit.

It's not in us.

It's the Holy Spirit through

us.

So we have that.

All right, the Feast of

Trumpets then is also called

Yom Teshar, meaning in Hebrew.

It is a biblical festival that

marks the beginning of the

Jewish New Year.

It is celebrated in the first

day of the seventh month of

Teshara, usually in September

or October.

So it's the blowing of

trumpets that remember what

John Kennedy does every so

often, right?

He gets the horn out, which is

the shofar and he blows it.

That's what this is all about.

Again, the central ritual is

the sounding of the shofar and

the blasting to serve as a

spiritual wake up and a call

to repentance and a reminder

of God's sovereignty.

So again, how often do we need

to be reminded of our

relationship when the Holy

Spirit speaks to us, could be

daily, could be weekly, it

could be hourly.

God in these providential areas

are proclaiming, look, keep

the relationship pure, keep

the relationship close to me.

You're going away.

Then there's a festival that

comes reminding them of what

God's goodness is.

People would gather for

worship and prayer emphasizing

God's kingship.

The day was holy and there was

no work to be performed.

So what might be the

significance of the Feast of

Trumpets to us as Christians?

This isn't hard.

Make the equation.

And there was silence.

Yes.

All right.

Jesus, we had the resurrection.

He'll return.

We are assured that he will

return.

Aren't we glad that we're not

left alone that we are going

to see him returning?

Ken, are you okay?

Oh, okay.

Your back hurts.

Oh, okay.

All right.

Okay.

I didn't mean to embarrass you.

Just wondered if maybe we

needed to pray for you.

All right.

Okay.

You need it.

All right.

So he'll return.

The feast overshadows the

return of Christ when the

trumpet will sound.

Hallelujah for that.

In First Thessalonians 4 16 for

the Lord himself will descend

from heaven with a shout with

the voice of an archangel and

with the trumpet of God.

So again, there's this

assimilation of what he did and

what he is going to do.

All right.

The Day of Atonement then or

young Kapoor as a lot of us

know it is the harvest is the

holiest day of the Jewish

calendar which is observed on

the 10th day of to share following

the Feast of Tabernacles.

So if you're not confused now,

that's okay.

I mean when I kind of looked at

this thing and got it I said

she this is you know, and I

wonder how they kept all that

but I remembered that the

priests were what the scribes

they were the people that were

doctors.

They were the people that

prayed for answers to God from

from God.

They were the intimate.

They were the ones that were

connected with this.

All right.

So the primary focus of the

Atonement of sins and the renewal

of one's relationship with God

the high priest entered the

Holy of Holies to make Atonement

for the people.

Okay.

Now here is again a situation

that's coming up a bull was

sacrificed as a sin offering for

the high priest and his

household two goats were used

for the community and if you

remember I was the one that

preached on this one goat

did what he was the sin

offering it was given up.

It was sacrificed and the other

was the scapegoat that what

did what it had the sins of

the community placed on it and

it was taken out and left in

the wilderness for to carry the

sins and the transgressions

away.

So now this is a big question

and I'm not going to give you

this answer.

As it relates to sin, what

is wrong with this picture?

Oh, he's always here.

So what go ahead.

Roger.

What?

Okay, that's a good word.

It wasn't permanent.

Right.

Any other additions to that

thoughts that Gail?

It really wasn't complete.

It was not complete.

The only sacrifice that was

given that was complete was

what Jesus for our sin.

So you see that there is a

redundant need to bring once

again these things before God

do it again and again and

again and like I said to be

honest with you, I'm glad I

live on this side of the new

covenant.

You know, I'm not so sure I

could do all that on the other

side.

So Hebrews 10 for it is

impossible for the blood of

bulls and goats to take away

sins.

It can atone it can cover but

it doesn't do away.

This shows that these sacrifices

symbolically covered sin but

could not fully remove it.

Atonement addressed the

separation from God caused by

sin but not its removal.

So consequently we have

atonement versus the removal

of sin atonement again rituals

foreshadowed the ultimate

atonement through Jesus Christ

the high priest sprinkled blood

of the sacrificial lamb on the

mercy seat to cleanse the

sanctuary and atone means to

cover the sin of the people not

do away with it.

God only covered their sins

which then had to be repeated

again and again unlike our

relationship with God where he

forgave and remove sin once

and from for all from our

lives.

That's wonderful to think about.

So there is an atonement

activity that goes on even in

this day that is complete.

God forgave us and took away

our sins by what his death

which was complete and permanent

removal of that sin as the high

priest confessed the sins of

the nation over the scapegoat

identifying Israel's failings

and seeking forgiveness.

So must we seek forgiveness of

our sins and and ask him to

forgive them.

So what might be the

significance of the atonement

for us as Christians.

Well he's going to judge.

Yeah, I mean that that's part

of it but then ultimately he's

going to do what there is a

great right thrown judgment

that he's going to judge all

people.

First Peter 4 5 but there but

they will have to give an

account to him who is ready to

judge the living and the dead.

So again the equation that we

have is that similarity in

feasts now a caution toward us

that maybe our newer believers

there's nothing to be afraid

of the judgment of God because

what the judgment of God is

is just declaring his

righteousness within the life

of those that accepted.

Yes for didn't accept and of

course consequently there's then

the judgment.

So if we are saved hallelujah

that we're on the right side

of that decision for Christians

God judgment is a moment to

embrace his justice and mercy

that we all seek to begin with

and then rather than fear and

punishment it is a confirmation

of the believers hope and faith

injustice in Jesus finished work.

Amen for that.

First Corinthians 5 10 says this

for we must all appear that you

and me before the judgment

seat of Christ so that each of

us may receive what is do us

for the things that we've done

while in our body whether good

or bad.

So, you know, that's where it's

at.

That's the declaration of his

kingdom you we will be judged

but we will be judged

accordingly revelation 2012

and I saw the dead great and

small standing before the throne

and the books were opened

another book was opened which

was the Book of Life the dead

were judged according to what

they had done as recorded in

these books and Matthew 25 21

well done and this is us

that's for us like good and

faithful service enter into the

joy of your reward this verse

again describes the final

judgment and the accountability

for every individual.

All right in Matthew 25 Jesus

speaks of separating the

righteous sheep from the

unrighteous goats and again

these verses show that all

people are accountable to God

and it's interesting and we

have again where we live

retirement community older

people when you come to them

and you if opportunity presents

itself and you talk with them

and I you know I'm hesitant to

say how I talk with some people

but I'll not tell you this

before it got us with you when

hospice is there and they are

dying my question to them is you

know at some point in time

you're going to meet your maker

are you prepared for that and

that's a tough question to get

out of your mouth sometimes but

it's the truth and at that

point in time I have nothing to

lose because here is a person

that is dying that when you

know that they don't know the

Lord you want to have give them

every opportunity to do so.

So I would even encourage you

and you in the fray of your

life if you're not surrounded

by by the environment that we

perhaps have more commonly is

that when you see older

people I was out shopping the

other day and there was this

old lady doing something old

I'm old okay and and

consequently I asked her about

certain thing I forget what the

question was and we ended up

because I thought well Lord

maybe you know you're talking

to me so I open conversation we

were walking and it ended up

that she knew the Lord and she

was so blessed that somebody

asked her and I thought it's

okay well you know that it's

not that it didn't go

anywhere it's just an

affirmation to this dear woman

that she knows the Lord Jesus

Savior so don't discount those

things as possibilities think

of them as opportunities you

just never ever know.

All right the Feast of

Tabernacles again known as the

Feast of Booths.

It was a joyful and significant

biblical feast.

It was now a celebration again

it commemorates God's

provision and his presence

during the Israelites journey

through the wilderness after

the after the Exodus from Egypt

it begins on the 15th day up to

Sherry typically September or

October and lasts for seven

days it's followed by an

additional sacred assembly on

the eighth day.

So the families construct

temporary shelters or booths

they were called made of

branches and leaves decorated

perhaps with fruits and symbols

of harvest.

And again everyone sleeps in

the booth symbolizing their

dependence on God a graphic

interpretation of what he's

done for them.

The first and the eighth day

are observed as sacred

assemblies focusing on worship

offering sacrifices again the

waving of palm branches in

symbolic worship and prayer.

So now last one of the last

questions.

What may be the significance of

the Feast of Tabernacles for

us as Christians?

I think the fulfillment of

Christ dwelling in his church in

his body.

The dwelling of Christ within

his church.

Let's take a look at that.

Will dwell among us as King

reigning with righteousness

and truth.

All right.

What does all this mean?

Let's bring it together.

Let's try to let's try to think

about this in a holistic

attempt.

God is forming us into his

bride which we are.

It talks about that in the

scripture which is the church.

Okay, that's you and I

together to a glorious victorious

and mighty assembly of people.

That's what he is endeavoring

to do just like he wanted to

do with the 12 tribes of Israel.

Nothing new under the sun.

I think we're further along than

they were at least I would

hope so.

And again each feast serves as

a reminder of God's faithfulness

and covenant relationship.

They had and now we have with

him.

So when we look at these things

it's just not okay this and

that and the confusion of

whatever.

It's the fact that there are

seven feasts in Leviticus 23

and for everyone they participated

in acknowledged and did so we

have the same and as we go

down here the end result of

that is saying that we are

living on the right side of

this and consequently that's

what we have.

Okay any questions now is it

was hard to put this thing

into a dynamic but what you

want Gail you wanted that okay

there you go.

All right.

You got it.

So we have we have an ability

to look back and to experience

what they experience through

the eyes of Scripture and again

happy to say that we're here.

So in the covenant that we

have which is important.

What particular experience

looking at those seven really

sticks out at you as an

individual in celebrating what

God originally did years and

years and thousands of years

ago.

What's the most interesting to

you.

What's the most thing that the

biggest thing that stands out to

you now that we've gone

through all of them.

But the crucifixion.

And anyone for that any any

takers on that one.

Okay.

Pardon.

All right.

That's what we are.

Yeah.

Okay.

Good.

And what else?

All right.

Pentecost.

Yeah, that's that's the that

that's really brings us to

them now.

Yeah, absolutely.

Okay.

Anybody else?

Pardon.

All right because because that's

when God dwells us.

Yes.

And he is now you're looking to

the end right.

That's the end game.

Isn't it?

Amen.

All right.

Okay, that wasn't too bad.

We kind of had to skip

through the tulips because it's

no sense in giving Jamie half

that the tabernacle series.

So, you know, we kind of divided

that where things start and

stop.

So again, Lord, we thank you

for your goodness.

Lord, sometimes it's difficult

to see your hand in these

things.

But as we unfold your truths

that were evident thousands

of years ago.

We see your hand identically

in the very things that we

experienced today.

Another culture another time

another group of people.

But since you are the same

and you want relationship Lord,

we thank you for building a

relationship with each one of

us in this room.

Thank you so much for your

goodness.

Lord, we bless you tonight

and we tabernacle with you

and live with you for ever

and ever we do not die.

We go from this life into

the life of eternity and live

with you.

Thank you for that in Jesus'

name.

Everybody said Amen.

God bless you.

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