Published: April 18, 2024 | Speaker: Chuck Hartman | Series: Leviticus - The Parable of Leviticus 1 - Part 12 | Scripture: Leviticus 7:11-38
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for your many blessings and today we thank you for the blessing of of ARA and and the baby surviving this ordeal we do pray that U you would give the doctors and nurses wisdom as they care for both
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of them in the hospital give Richard uh peace of mind and uh trust in you U we do thank you that um a tragedy was
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averted by Your Grace by your mercy and we do thank you Father for the for the medical technology ology that you have blessed us with for certainly uh 50 even 100 100 years ago she would probably not
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be with us so we give you all the praise for your grace and your mercy and your blessings and we pray that you'd bless our time together tonight in your word that that it would be edifying that it
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would be pleasing to you that it would be guided by the Holy Spirit who will lead us into truth and keep us from error so guide our thoughts as we focus on your word to learn your ways and your
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will for us we ask in Jesus name amen so tonight I'm going to start with a reading from 1 Corinthians chapter 8 now concerning things offered to Idols
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we know that we all have knowledge knowledge puffs up but love edifies and if anyone thinks that he has he knows anything he knows nothing yet as he ought to know but if anyone loves God
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he's know this one is known by him therefore concerning the eating of things offered to Idols we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that
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there is no other God but one for even if there are so-called Gods whether in heaven or on Earth as there are many gods and many lords yet for us there is one God the father of whom are all
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things and we for him and one Lord Jesus Christ through whom we are all things and through whom we live through whom are all things and through whom we live
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however there is not in every won that knowledge for some with consciousness of the idol until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol and their conscience being weak is defiled but food does not
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commend us to God for neither if we eat are we the better nor if we do not eat are we the worse couple points um his comment there
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Paul's comment there that for us there is one God well that's actually his his um reconfiguration of the shama uh that that's what lie the hero Israel the Lord
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Our God the Lord is one and so he he said yeah one God and Father and one Lord Jesus Christ uh that that's a statement of well at least the dity not
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the uh Trinity but you know it's definitely the deity of Christ there that's that's again the Old Testament foundation of the New Testament is is
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evident as you as you spend more time in the Old Testament uh and I know I've mentioned this book before but um by Richard Hayes The Echoes of of the Old
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Testament scriptures in the in the letters of Paul and it does it echoes it just Echoes like a chamber but what we're dealing with here in 1 Corinthians chapter 8 is actually what we're dealing
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with in Leviticus chapter 7 and that is meat sacrifice to a God okay now of course we wouldn't say that Leviticus 7 is meat sacrificed to
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an idol because this is Jehovah this is this is the one God but none of the surrounding Pagan nations would have seen it that way they would have seen it as nothing different than what they
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did and so when we come to the peace offering we're coming to uh something that that is that is probably the most significant offering in terms of
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Christian practice and as Lord willing will talk about next week it it has a much stronger case as the basis for the Lord's Supper than Passover does though
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that is not the conventional thinking because Jesus we'll get into this next week but because Jesus instituted the Lord supper at the Passover reformed theology especially
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has simply replaced Passover with the Lord's Supper there are very few if any real connections between the two again we'll get into that but what I want you to
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listen as we talk about the peace offerings uh is is to to listen for the the echo in the Lord's supper now the Lord's Supper is going to
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be the main topic in First Corinthians starting in chapter 10 and so what he's doing here when he talks about eating meat sacrificed to Idols um he's he's
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acknowledging uh acknowledging uh what we have lost sight of and that was this was standard practice among the pagans but it was also standard practice
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among the Jews the Jews simply called theirs the peace offering this is the only offering that is a communal meal okay so it it actually parallels
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the the foods the meat sacrific to Idols to some people disturbingly closely as if the Jews were copying the
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pagans but we we really shouldn't be disturbed by it because of what we talked about before what we're talking about here is table Fellowship and its table fellowship with the deity
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that that's the essence of this okay and we're going to talk this evening about what what there there are differences significant differences between the Jewish practice and the Pagan practice
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and that was something that was noticed by the pagans during the old Covenant the Jews didn't do it the way the pagans did and and so while there are
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similarities once again the differences are what matter okay um and and we don't need to go where the Liberals went and say okay the Jews were simply
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copying no they weren't copying they they were having a communal meal with their God just as the pagans were ostensibly doing with their God or gods and Paul In
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this passage is is really kind of difficult to difficult to follow because he denies but then acknowledges other acknowledges other gods okay and what he's doing there is
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he simply I think he's saying that yeah we know that there are spiritual forces of wickedness there are demons there are Fallen Angels there are powers and principalities in this present Darkness
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there's something behind that Idol we deny its power we deny its reality but we don't deny its existence because there is but one God
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and so when we consider um the other religions in the world you know there there is a power behind them a deceiving Spirit that's behind them uh and we
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should acknowledge that uh and it's a it's the prince of the power of the air it's the ruler of this age ultimately but we know that there is but one God so in a way he's saying you know
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this doesn't mean anything to us meat doesn't commend us whether we eat or whether we don't we're neither the better nor the worse however the circumstances around the temple meal
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still have still have significance and what the significance is is to the conscious conscience of the weak believer the new believer the the
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one who just converted from paganism and then to see other um brothers and sisters eating at that Temple communal meal or as he says later on you know if
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you come to a uh you're allowed to eat at a Pagan's house no problem but if the Pagan says hey this this meat was sacrificed to an idol this afternoon well then at that point you pass the
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plate okay hopefully people put money in it now um you know you don't eat that meat because of what he said there's nothing nothing about the meat one way or the other and Paul makes that clear
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uh and so people today who who make a big deal about Foods don't get it they they they're still focusing on the the types and the Shadows when the when the
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fullness has come and and Paul I think is the one well Jesus as well who declared all foods clean um but Paul is the one who gives us the theology behind it that while
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there are demons there are powers in the spiritual realm which our age pays no attention to either good or evil except
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the of those of their own making but they are they are there they are defeated they are non- entities to a believer and so anything associated with them is
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nothing to a Believer so long as their conscience is clear so long as they can eat with faith as Paul says anything apart from faith is sin if you can eat
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with faith and that's that goes back to Romans 14 causing your brother to stumble is encouraging him to do something for which he does not have sufficient faith and so we have to be
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sensitive so we we we recognize the reality of the of the old era and the powers that still in residual form
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dominate that old age but the powers of the new age have come through the Holy Spirit and so we don't need to be afraid of what we're eating or where we're going or who we're buying anything from
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those things are are nothing to Paul they neither commend us nor do they um condemn us the only problem
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is if we have a weaker brother with us and by doing something we offend them or encourage them to do something for which they do not have sufficient Faith but
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the point that I want to make I mean what what we're talking about there is that the the other side the spiritual side and the dark side if we want to put it that way exists since the 18th century the
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enlightenment 17th 18th century rationalism and then of course modern science that goes along with it um we've all been kind of convinced that that
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that doesn't really exist that that realm doesn't exist anymore and one of the reasons that we are encouraged to think that it doesn't exist is because we don't see uh the same manifestations
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of it that we read about in the Old Testament but frankly those manifestations were very few and far between that none of the spiritual forces of the of the of the universe
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manifest themselves on a regular basis okay and so we shouldn't be um dissuaded from their existence if if you if you want an apologetic for that I I would
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suggest reading screw tape letters um excellent by by CS Lewis and I think I think every believer should read it but the idea there was um that the most
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subtle of all God's creatures Satan has a strategy and that is basically to make man believe he doesn't exist okay well Paul is very clear that these demons
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these Idols do exist but they mean nothing to us and if our faith is in Jesus Christ then we can eat or not eat with a clear conscience as long as our
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our conscience is not let me put it this way our conscience is not directed to the idol our conscience is directed to our
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brother does that make sense we we don't care about what you call an idol because it's a nothing it's a creature of God who will spend its eternity in the abyss okay it's
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already been defeated at the cross we have nothing to fear from it and so we're not we're not worrying about whether I'm doing something wrong in respect to God and my liberty no what
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what we ought to be concerned about is whether we're doing any harm to the conscience of a younger weaker brother okay Yuri I said this before that in the
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fundamental circles like who the pulit is trying to make everyone the weaker brother yeah and that no one has ever growing up right that's that's
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what we do we go to the lowest common denominator we make everybody the weaker brother or we frankly are clumsy Christians tripping over ourselves so I do you know that's a
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different discussion Romans 14 um which someday we'll get to in Sunday mornings I think um but what the reason I'm starting in 1 Corinthians 8 is because basically this
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is what we're talking about in Leviticus 7 this is a this is a meal with the god this is meat sacrificed to an idol okay not an idol of course but again the
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Pagan world would have considered it they would have recognized it as one of their Temple their Temple feasts okay so and I I don't I don't disparage it because I think of the
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feasts it is the most important it is the icing it's the Cherry it's it's the dumal of the entire sacrificial system and I think that's why in the second
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listing of the sacrifices it is listed last because in order of um not priority but in order of
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operation it must be last okay so we um we look at what is a sacred meal well a sacred meal is a meal that
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is offered to a God and then eaten by its devotees okay so a sacred meal works like this you you have an altar
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okay and you have the wood on the Altar and you put the the offering on the altar okay but you only put some of
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it because that goes to God this is the peace offering this is this is the peace offering yes this is a sacred meal is what which the the meal offered I'm kind
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of combining the two and then I'm going to separate the peace offering the the meat that was offered to an idol in a pagan Temple and the meat that was offered to Yahweh in the peace
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offering are sacred meals okay that make sense so they they they come under the same category heading or the same genus but
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they're different species so some of the meat and all of the fat because the fat belonged to the Lord that goes on the Altar and it is burned it goes to God
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but what happens is and this this is done ceremonially of course none of the meat comes back off of the
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altar but some of the offering is then and and this is kind of how it works okay the offering is presented to God and God then gives some of it
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actually most of it back okay so he gives back some of it to his priests and he gives back some of it to
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his worshipper
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the offering the initial offering of the of the animal and the slaying of the animal is the giving over of that animal to God then it's God's he presides at the
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feast okay that make sense now this is not like the other ones the sin offering the guilt offering for example where very little of it was offered to Yahweh
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and the rest of it went to the priests that was their sustenance okay that was their Larder basically because they had no land you know they did not have an inheritance so that belonged to the
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priest the offerer of those sacrifices got nothing except atonement forgiveness of sin which is pretty important but here most of the offering goes back to
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the offerer only the breast and the shoulder the wave breast and the heave shoulder is given to the priest one to the priests the other to the officiating
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priest whoever actually did it that was kind of his bonus for the hard work of that day he had the choice cuts the the breast and the and the shoulder uh and
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you can um a number of commentaries will will show you butcher's pictures of which you know this is the T-bone this is the New York strip you know uh the different parts of of the cow or
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whatever just the worshiper the one who made the offering group of worshippers just the one who made the made the offering plus his
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family and any friends that looks like fiends and hopefully if he
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follows the other laws uh poor people it it's it's not all of Israel they don't
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all partake be very little but people also sacrifice well they'll get it for their family yeah I mean exactly if there are if there are 10 peace offerings then
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there'll be 10 families having a feast just outside the tent you know from the from the meat of that offering the priest also will have a full table with the priest getting the breast and the
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officiating priest getting the shoulder or the other way around um I'm not sure which way it goes but this is what a sacred meal is Gordon fee
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writes that um well this has to do more with uh well let's see where does he say
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16 here it is um in the in the Corinth of Paul's time such meals were still the regular practice both at State festivals and private celebrations of various kinds in in other words you can you could invite a priest to officiate at a
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it was kind of like inviting Samuel to have dinner you know with Jesse and his family okay you invite a priest to officiate um and you go to silly Bobs and get a bouncing ball set and have a
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party but it was a it was a joyous occasion and it was a time of Celebration with the God and that's what uh what was going on in Corinth and so
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private celebrations of various kind kinds there were three parts to the to these meals the preparation the sacrifice proper and then the
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feast the meat of the sacrifice apparently divided into three portions that which was burned before the god that a portioned to the worshippers and
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that placed on the table of the God now that would be the priest's portion okay so this this pattern would have been something that the Corinthians the Romans the the Gentiles in Paul's
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churches would have recognized the pattern of the peace offering in Leviticus and so their understanding of meat sacrifice to
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Idols was one of long standing ancient tradition okay and so Paul's writing to them but he doesn't want to give Idols
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any credibility in that sense and he doesn't want to bind the consciences of people who have been set free by the holy spirit so he cannot in good
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conscience just forbid it because actually everything is Sanctified through prayer and Thanksgiving Paul wrote that okay so he
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can't he doesn't just come in as so many as as you were saying so many um preachers would do and say Don't eat there as they serve alcohol or they you know this or that
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like really I mean we're free and and so um you know Paul does say somewhat in enigmatically uh in Romans 14 do not let
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that which is good to you be spoken of as evil well that has two meanings one don't you don't use your Liberty to cause your brother to
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stumble two don't be told not to do what you're free to do okay don't be told don't allow yourself to be told that something is sin when it's not sin eating at a
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certain place or eating a certain food it's all free in Christ there there are no dietary restrictions and there actually no I mean there are certain
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places that we could not go without offending a brother okay we should not go to those places and just a little hint those places usually don't have
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Windows except for I guess theaters too but places without windows are probably best avoided
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that's that's just a very a little little litmus test there I was curious like what's the
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scenario in Corinth every single day at some Temple there was food being sacrificed and there was a pagan Temple meal going on yeah and then that meal that meat would then go to the marketplace because it had been blessed
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and Sanctified by certain deity Apollos or or Athena or whatever whatever and they would buy that because it's pre-blessed food you know it's it's organic it's what it's organic it's
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organic yeah it's it's divinely organic okay so it it was happening all the time that's what we don't realize is that this was the common culture but it was also the common culture in Israel
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through the peace offering which was every day someone was every day we still have that with Hal Ander F yes there there's the Jewish the Jews still have
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it with the kosher Halal oh yeah we we have it in yeah we have it and and they do still observe that um and and there's a
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process that goes on a ritual that goes on that invokes Yahweh but um what we're what we're dealing with here is that the people of Corinth would have been absolutely
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familiar with this practice um every single day of their lives just okay um so the sacred meal then is is what ties these two together but I think it's
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important to realize that that there is a significant a significant difference um the major difference that I noted in reading and
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studying is that the priest has nothing to say in terms of as far as we read the the Torah of the offerings there is no
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verbal part verbal part played by the priest there is no incantation there is no words of consecration okay that is completely
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different than the Pagan ritual which focused you can you can think in terms of of Elijah at Mount Carmel and the role of the Pagan priests the priests of
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Baal okay they were they were singing they were dancing they were uttering incantations they were doing all sorts of things because it was all up to them they were were the prime movers to bring
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together God and the people okay well no not not in Judaism Elijah just goes up and says hey God you hear me this is you
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and the fire comes down and consumes the offering okay that's that is the significant uh the most significant difference between the True Religion and all man-made religions is that this is
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all of God this is by God's grace that it's even instituted and the entire operation is by God so um one uh one
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commentator uh points this out um let me see if I can find the quote he says the sacrifices of Israel unlike other ancient religions were conducted without
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incantations Israel's religion did not have Magical elements that gave rise to General Tendencies toward mythol mythologist I can't even say it towards
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okay so this is a a significant um Point Jacob Milgram points out to best be that this is best explained he calls it a sanctuary of
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silence and and throughout everything that we have read have we read anything of verbalization by the priests do they say anything during all
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of this Torah of the offerings every single offering they are simply silent Servants of Jehovah they got nothing to
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say okay and that that's very significant um Jacob mgram points out and he's a follower of the documentary hypothesis so he assigns this to the Priestly uh the P writer so I just want
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to say that because it's in his quote he says it the sanctuary of silence is best explained as the concerted attempt of P to distance the rights of Israel's
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priests from the magical incantations that necessarily accompanied and indeed empowered the ritual acts of pagan
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counterparts consider the Catholic mass Hawes corpes mayum the priest holds up the element the bread and he says this is my body and according to the Catholic doctrine
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that is the point at which transubstantiation creation takes place and the bread becomes the Flesh of Jesus Christ that's exactly what the offerings
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of Israel were not okay that is incantation and magic and it puts the emphasis on the priest rather than God okay so and and it got
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to the point by the time of the Reformation that the priest didn't even understand the words they were saying they were simply saying it by wrote because that was the magical
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incantation that turned and they still do it that way they that turned the bread into the Flesh of Jesus Christ okay paganism that's what it is it's nothing
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less than paganism and when we study the sacrifices we we realize the priests had a very well compared to God they had an
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insignificant role okay they had nothing to say they just had things to do they had to do them right but there were no words given to them in terms of of
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consecration or anything like that so what we are again dealing with here when we look at the peace offering is this is table Fellowship
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between Yahweh his priests and his people this is the meal when all has been atoned for the burnt offering the guilt offering I'm sorry not the guilt
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offering the grain offering has been given the sin offering and the guilt offering if there's any offense the guilt offering if you have offended and defrauded your brother you
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did not bring a peace offering okay until the guilt offering was accomplished in other words until reconciliation was made that sounds a lot like the Lord's Supper okay or what
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what Jesus says if if you're bringing your gift to The Altar and and your brother has ought against you leave your gift before the Altar and go and be reconciled with your brother because
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Unity of the community was essential to the sacred meal now I think to me this gives me a broader understanding of our sacred meal
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the Lord's supper and again next week that we're going to talk only about the Lord's supper and its comparison its analogy with the peace offerings so this is um this is table Fellowship um said
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the similarities between the communal meal at the Tabernacle and the sacred Feast at the local temple are present in the record and cannot be ignored and what I'm saying there is we cannot deny
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that when Paul is talking to the Corinthians and he says meat sacrifice to Idol blah blah blah he's not talking about something that was only done by the pagans because it was done by Israel
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as well okay now yes what the pagans were doing was a perversion of the truth but again they thought the same thing of what the Jews were doing so in the world in the culture in which Paul was writing
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this was just a regular thing that happened across the board and again rather than just forbidding it see we have to be careful what we forbid Christ has set us free and if the
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if the Son of God has set us free we are free indeed and so any anything that that says that says no that's got to be suspect now that's
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not to say that there aren't things that are no there are sin sin is no okay but I'm talking about things of of no account as Paul says I'm neither better for eating nor worse for not eating
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these are these are Adora these are matters indifferent and while we need to be sensitive Romans 14 sensitive to the consciences of our brothers and sisters we cannot deny the
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right to partake or not partake because we are free and so and again Paul was not a fundamentalist Baptist preacher and that's why he's so hard to
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understand what we would like him to do is say no don't eat there don't eat that meat don't drink that wine he never does okay and that's significant we live
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in this world we're not of this world but we may with Thanksgiving partake of this world and enjoy its benefits and we can do that with a clear conscience
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because Christ has conquered all of the principalities and Powers they're nothing they're defeated okay so that I think that's an encouraging word for me at least but he says um the apostle was
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not forbidding Believers from taking a meal with an unbeliever or even in an unbelievers home but to partake of a meal in the house of an idol a meal that has been devoted to the God no less than
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any other offering that we have considered in Leviticus is to participate in table fellowship with that false that false god Paul is not willing to acknowledge the reality of the God as a true deity
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for there is only one God but the Demonic deception inherent in all Pagan religions is real enough and when the believer stands upon the knowledge and there are many who think that Paul's
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comments about knowledge was actually mocking the mocking the Corinthians that they were bragging we know that they were a bunch of braggards he they say you know I know
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that you are more spiritual than all he says in chapter 1 you know but they were not you can tell from the rest of the letter that they weren't very spiritual at all but they were claiming to be and apparently they were also claiming to
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have knowledge and so he's kind of you know you say you have knowledge but you don't not you do not yet know as you ought to know he's
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really um gigging them with that statement so they they claim to have knowledge that there is but one God and consequently Act without concern for the conscience
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of another believer he or she implicitly equates the hydrous Temple meal with the table Fellowship of the Lord represented in the Lord's supper if an is if a young
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believer a weak believer partakes in that meal their conscience will be defiled because in their mind they are
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having table fellowship with a demon with an with an idol if a believer partakes in the meal firm in the conviction that the idol is nothing they're
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nothing they're fine does that make sense that bother anybody bother anybody that seem too uh too loose is it not also
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the sacrif idol for the sake also that all matter again good point yeah later on when he says if
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you're you know you're at a meal eat whatever is placed before you Paul says but if the host says hey this meat was sacrificed to Idols don't eat not because of your conscience because of
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his even if he's an unbeliever okay you you need to maintain that separateness come out from among them and be separate but that doesn't mean you can't go to your neighbor's
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dinner okay but if that neighbor now we don't really have this anymore and I'm not sure I could come up quickly with an analogy you know what would the neighbor say um you know like this meat was
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bought at Walmart you know um that's just me I I have a suggestion it occurred to me years and years ago but you know as in in my 20s you know once you turn 21
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suddenly alcohol becomes a huge big deal and among Presbyterians there is a lot of Heming of Heming and over it because of the freedom issue and because it then becomes kind of a
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cultural Mar of being really reformed right to partake and that sort of thing and so it struck me at the time that believers who may be making a huge big
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deal out of how many proof yes yeah right yeah you got to get over 80 if you're really reform asse you're with them to to carouse at times and then and also among
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believers who seem to be making a huge big deal out of it and are bordering on carousing the need to withhold from that
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seems very strong yeah I would say that I agree with you 100% I would say that's more Romans 14 in 1 Corinthians 8 because there's no demon involved but there is behavior that would defile a
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weaker conscience absolutely um and and that does happen a lot within sadly within the reform they sadly they seem quite proud of their ability to partake of alcohol and and I don't see any
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reason why there should be pride in that either way fundamentalists are also very proud of their abstinence so Pride you know is evident in both AB and then
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yuriy yes right money like Proctor and Gamble back in the day when their symbol was apparently some demonic you can't watch anything onf oh really terrible oh it's everything oh my word terrible good
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thing Poo's on Prime you know I'm sure that that everything in Amazon is pure I mean we don't want you know like don't don't ask how the sausage is made Yuri what if say
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this meat is or bread is well I I mean I don't know that that I I would not I don't know that that would be as effective because
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frankly I don't really know what's involved in halal most Gentiles would not really know they probably say Halal to you too I mean means that food doesn't have any
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unan things very Sim prepared okay so like kosher it's it's prepared in a certain way I don't know that that I mean that's that's your conscience frankly it's it's your conscience if you
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have the conscience to eat it or if you have any doubt don't eat it well the question would be that person like I don't think Allah is
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anything that person really is like well and then maybe it's best not to that would be an application I really I think we have to be led by the holy
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spirit in in each of these I can't make a pronouncement and say and I don't think I think because of our Liberty we don't need don't need pronouncements we need to seek the will of God through his word and then follow
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our conscience and if I if if if we can I I guess what I what I would think is because we have the Holy Spirit within us he will guide our
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conscience if someone say says this this meat is meat is halal and that doesn't register anything in my brain or heart or anything I'm going to eat
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it I I I but if I you know I just feel like he does he gives us Impressions he guides us into truth he delivers Us from Evil um and I think he's always there
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he's ever present to strengthen and not weaken our faith I I don't believe a Christian can defile their conscience unknowingly you know I think you have doubt well if
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you have doubt don't eat it is better not to eat than to eat with doubt um but if you have no doubt if you don't even know what it means um then ignorance is
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bliss have the stake I don't I don't you know but I think it's really up did you have another comment I was just going to say that I don't know enough about other people concerned
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people concerned theirt well exactly yeah but you you do know okay you do know some of the things that are common offenses within American
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Christianity so just to use an example you know you're you're having a having a family new at church coming over for dinner do you put wine on the table okay
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I don't now I don't hide my wine either okay that would be difficult um you know I I have my wine rack out and there it is with the wine glasses okay it's all
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there do I am I you know my Liberty okay I'm not going to hide that I'm not going to allow which is what is good for me to be spoken of as evil I'm
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not going to try to hide it on the other hand I'm not going to presume that they're okay with partaking okay I'm not going to just put it out on the table I might ask you know
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how do you feel about wine I remember being asked that by a fundamentalist it was one of my best comebacks they asked Mew well how do you you know how do you feel about wine I said red
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with meat and white with fish uh that wasn't a good answer they left the
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church form the appearance of evil yeah yeah I yeah I like form
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afterin right you're right and it's used that way to actually limit a believer's freedom and we are we ought to be going in the other direction you know we we are the sons and daughters of God this creation belongs to us it is our
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inheritance because we are joint HS with Christ we ought not to have people telling us turn turning us back um and and turning us back into weaklings and slaves to the to
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the principle the elements of this world okay so and and Paul is just I think if any if you ever think you're hearing Paul deny something that is in and of itself legitimate you're probably not
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understanding him correctly okay especially if it has to do with food and drink because the kingdom of God is not a matter of food and drink but a matter righteousness uh peace what is it righteousness and joy in the holy
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spirit thank you um so um when we come to this Feast then it's it's something that that we really ought to rejoice in
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and and I want to read I guess I have my notes they're a little bit backwards I'm going to read um a a rabbi a very very well-known Rabbi uh judgment concerning
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the peace offering
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um the rabbis claim that it is never brought for sin first of all and that quote in the world to come all sacrifices will be will be en olded but that of Thanksgiving will not be en
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olded and all prayers will be an olded but that of Thanksgiving will not be an olded okay so this this shows the understanding of the Jewish Community
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concerning the Thanksgiving or praise offering which is kind of the the that's the first one listed under the peace offerings there are three actually
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listed under the peace offering the Thanksgiving also known as the praise offering the votive or vow offering and the Free Will offering those three are
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what we read in in Leviticus 7 uh starting I think in verse 11 and really going through the end of the chapter so the the rabbi saidou know all the other sacrifices will be done in the age to come all the other prayers will be done
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in the age to come but not the Thanksgiving sacrifice and not the Thanksgiving prayer okay it's very very significant and it actually is incredibly significant in the Psalms if
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you read the Psalms in light of the peace offering you see that it it is probably the most represented offering sacrifice though not necessarily by name
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but it is the most recognized um in the the Psalms consider as we look at the uh the
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meaning of the offering what we're dealing with here then and my my notes on the board are not outlined but what we are dealing with
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fundamentally is a condition of peace with peace with whom yeah consider that and
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okay read it again just The Echoes of the Old Testament in in the new are just so they're almost cacophonous they're they're just so resounding but Romans
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5 therefore having been justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ okay and then goes on about how we um through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith
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into this grace in which we stand and we exalt in Hope of the glory of God and he goes on to talk about the the love of God having been poured on so Faith and
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Hope and love there in in the first verses of chapter five um a condition of Peace um that has to exist a condition of
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Peace exists Peace exists this is what table Fellowship means this is why in the ancient world if an enemy grasped hold of the tent Peg of your tent the laws of
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hospitality demanded peace you fed him you you you know you took care of him uh I don't know how that broke apart you know what did you do when he leave shot him in the back I mean you know at what
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point did that did you give him a head start how does that work I didn't know how that worked but the idea we don't really have that anymore in our culture but the idea of table Fellowship was a
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statement of a condition of Peace which is why for the Lord's supper or for as Jesus said bringing your your offering to The Altar and I think he was talking of the peace offering there I really do
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because frankly your offense to your brother is not as vital as your offense to God so you wouldn't stop with your sin offering or your guilt offering but
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you would stop with your peace offering because it wasn't all about you it's about the community okay so I I I mean that's conjecture I'll grant that but when you understand more about those
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sacrifices you realize Jesus is talking about the peace offering that you're bringing and yet you know that your brother you have offended your brother and that may be you've defrauded him go
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take care of the guilt offering first because the condition of Peace doesn't exist yet I'll call in you in a moment uh let me let me write something down
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here so this is this is peace with God peace with God and his people and peace within the people okay
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so Israel is at peace with Yahweh and within it
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herself well yes I think it is because these are the only only ones that are without reference to sin okay completely without reference to sin the burnt offering and the grain offering were referenced to sin in general the this
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the sin offering and the guilt offering were referenced to sin in particular peace offerings are responses to the blessings and grace of God that's what they are so they are all in a sense Free
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Will and none are free will because we are expected to give thanks to God when he blesses us okay so um and that that's you know that's another discussion but
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um JH Kurt makes this comment um that it was a it was an expression and an attestation of a condition of peace and friendship of the maintenance and
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blessedness of blessedness of Fellowship now I I hope you're hearing the Lord's Supper okay when we talk about the peace offering and the
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relationship between Yahweh and his people and his people and his people and realizing that this is the last this this is not necessarily chronologically the last but this offering cannot be
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offered if any of the others are pending if a sin offering is due or a guilt offering is due or a birth offering is due the peace offering
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cannot be cannot be offered way
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thank you we have we don't look at it as Redemptive right we don't look at it as Roman Catholicism does but we do not yeah and and so we don't look at it it is not analogous to the other we don't
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look to the Lord's Supper for example for atonement we may we may consider in it the atonement but actually our consideration of the atonement that we do celebrate in the
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supper should be about communion and about the the result of that atonement okay and that is to to to create and to
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build the body of Christ the church okay the true Temple thank you very much put more in it um so yeah it that that you
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know we don't compare the Lord's Supper to any of the other sacrifices Rome does go for Rome it's a sin offering okay now aace offer aace offer because the Roman way of thinking that
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you you are you are sacrificing something and you're getting something back right but also in the Roman way of thinking there no such thing as a peace offering because a peace offering would
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would assume Assurance of Salvation which is anathema okay so there's no such thing as a peace offering I don't know why people go to Rome I really don't it's it's not a good place you know you you got no hope no assurance
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and you got you got a guarantee of 10,000 or more years in in in a you know in a bottle that's a that's Aladdin um you know Purgatory okay 10,000 years I'll give
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him okay um not going to do Robin Williams so this situation of Peace must exist now we
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know this is also what points to Christ the situation of Peace did not exist the writer of Hebrews tells us that the situation of peace that was granted
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after the offer offerings of sin offering the guilt offering the burnt offering that was by the grace of God and the people were to by faith celebrate a condition of peace that
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wasn't really yet real it was prpic it was prospective okay and those who understood that were looking forward to
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that that sacrifice whereby peace would be established so Paul is taking the Echoes of the Old Testament he's saying here is the resounding voice of God in
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Christ okay we hear it in a in a faint echo through the many sacrifices but particularly this one but now we have peace with God through justification in
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our Lord Jesus Christ so they would have recognized I think that you know we have to keep doing it um it also looks backward into time okay we are not told
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in Genesis in Genesis 4 why God had favor upon Abel's sacrifice and not Cain's and it it seems to me now you know how
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did God with what we've been studying how do you think God showed that favor we don't know we don't read it so this is somewhat conjecture but how do you think God showed favor to abble
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sacrifice and not Cain's consum I think he consumed it with fire I mean what other what other what other means biblically would we have to
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understand how God showed favor to one and and left the other and did not favor the other I think he consumed it with fire I think what we have there again
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this is pure conjecture because the word doesn't say it but I think Cain was bringing a peace offering and Abel was bringing a sin offering there was no condition of Peace yet between and we we
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read it in the Lord's words sin is lurking at your door and you must Master it so we can kind of infer from what God Said to Cain that you got a problem and
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you're not bringing it to me you're you're a sinner you have sinful thoughts and you're not bringing a sin offering you're bringing a peace offering and
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there's no condition of Peace how can I
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that they didn't know anything about right which is WR I think they knew more than we do they a lot about how to sacrif yeah needed to be sacrific otherwise would be doing it the begin
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yeah keep in mind their dad talked with God in the garden right you know they were they were not so far removed from the original uh I mean we I don't I don't
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think we could meet the anti- delians with equinity I think we would probably fall on our faces I think they
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were um I mean he speaks of them of great stature and great ability and they built cities and they founded New crafts and whatnot these of course
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were the sons of Cain but I don't think that the sons of Abel were were lacking Noah could build a big boat I mean you know he was so they they had
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knowledge God still communed somehow I don't know we don't know how but to think that they were like Cain and Abel were just you know up to their you know bring why would God simply accept
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whatever they whatever they brought when he begins to reveal himself in the in the word he is only pleased with what he commands right so we have to assume that
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they had some understanding of what they ought to be doing which I think again is evident in what God Said to Cain he said why are you cast down why is your countenance cast down what does that
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imply you know better you you know I'm not just being an arbitrary deity here playing fa favorites Paul tells us God has no
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partiality so he's it's not that he he chose you know Abel was his favorite no Abel was obeying and Cain was not okay
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um but again that's conjecture we don't have it in the word but but the idea of a condition of peace is really predominant in the entire scriptures
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that that is what this creation is yearning for is that full and final condition of peace not only between God and man but man and man that's the new
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Earth all right so um the mechanics of the peace offering um it's interesting that the blood even for a peace offering
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blood must be shed okay now significantly the significantly the word kipor or atonement is not
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used the laying on of hands is done but we talked about that a number of weeks ago that had more to do with identification than
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identification than transference okay it was not transferring the sin but it was identifying the offerer with the offering before God so the laying on of
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hands was was this part right here okay it was essentially this is my gift whether it's thank giving a thanks whether it's um fulfilling of a vow or
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whether it's a free will offering just out of the spontaneous Joy of God's blessing this is my offering and it's a sense in which I'm offering myself it's
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an identification with the animal that is being offered okay remember we talked about the about the scapegoat which is the only one where the sins of the nation were lit laid
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upon the animal and it's also the only animal that wasn't sacrificed so the the idea that by laying on of hands we are um what's the word um we're imposing or
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infusing something into the sacrifice that's that's not really the biblical meaning of that it's more to do with identification which I think is why
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U Paul says to Timothy do not lay hands quickly on any man so that you're not participating in their sin you that has nothing to do with transference in fact the transference there would be in the
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reverse their sin would be transferring back to Timothy see it's identification okay so they you're identifying with the sacrifice um and and then you are offering it up
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to the Lord
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um okay um quote by a Japanese Evangelical um scholar and a teacher over in Japan um he has this to say about the offering he says the the the
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Thanksgiving offering is called the TOA he says the to the term TOA refers to a serious and weighty act on the part of the worshipper that comes last in
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worship or if not last at least after penitence so what what he's saying there is what I've been saying that if there
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is anything for which atonement or restitution are required sin or guilt you don't bring a peace offering yet
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okay that is in that sense that's why it's last in the law of the offerings here in Leviticus chapter 7 because it is the statement of Peace there were
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three types as I mentioned and they are significant there was the
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Thanksgiving there was the votive and the Free Will and certainly Calvinists hate to read that word
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that when you read when you read Leviticus 7 starting in verse 11 where the law of the peace offerings is given the first one is the TOA and it does seem to be
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the Supreme one the word has has derived into the idea of Thanksgiving but it it literally means
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confession so the the
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toad is the confession offering now that that's another word that we don't use much because of Roman Catholic influence we don't use the word confession uh we use the word confess but we don't use the word
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confession what we're dealing with here is speaking what is true that that's what confession is is to speak what is true it's to um the word the prefix con
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is with and and the idea of of confessio or whatever is to is to speak with to agree with okay so in the sense of a