Precept Ministries with Kay Arthur



Leviticus, Lesson 1, Chapters 1-12

How Can You Approach a Holy God?

How can a sinner, a sinner like you or me ever hope to approach a Holy God?

To bring it down very, very personally, how can you feel that you have a right to go into the presence of the holy God and to speak to Him, and talk to Him and request fellowship with Him and request help from Him, how can you ever hope to approach God in that way?

Well, there is only one way” precious one,” and there is only one hope, and that way is for you to be holy even as He is Holy.

But you say, look at me, I am a sinner, a person that lives in the flesh. I have come to know Christ; I have moved from sinner to sainthood, but still battle the flesh. How can I hope to be holy?

Well, that is what we are going to see as we look at the book of Leviticus: a book where God calls to His people and He says “I want you to be holy even as I am Holy.” If you will stick with me for the duration of this course, I promise you that God is going to do an awesome work in your life because as dull as this book may seem there is such a wealth of spiritual treasures under the surface of this book. There are things that once you grasp a hold of them, they will bring revival, revival to your heart and soul.

I want to take a few minutes and put you into context:

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

These are the 1st five books of the Bible and are called the Torah or Pentateuch

And right between the 1st two and the last two is this crown jewel, this book of holiness, the book of Leviticus. I want to take you back to Genesis and walk you from Genesis through Leviticus.

I believe it will really help you to understand Leviticus and what God said and why God says it.

I want to first of all take you to this map, and tell you where the book of Genesis starts

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God speaks and brings the world into existence. God makes man, and where does he place him? ~ in the Garden of Eden. What happens when God places man in the garden?

Well, He gives man the opportunity to obey Him or disobey Him. In creating a garden and putting in it the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God gives man the opportunity to exercise a free will. When man exercises that free will, he chooses not to obey God. He chooses to disobey God, and he to listen to his wife. His wife has listened to the serpent, and they eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Romans 5:12 therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned

This is important in understanding Leviticus; by one man sin entered into the world, and death, by sin so then death passed upon all of man because all men have sinned. So right from the very beginning in the book of Genesis we have man and the problem of sin.

Man goes and he hides from God. When God asks him where he is, he says I was naked so I hid. In God’s graciousness He comes down into the Garden of Eden gets Himself an animal. What does He do to the animal? He takes the skin of that animal and covers Adam and Eve. How does He get the skin off the animal? What do you have to do? You have to kill the animal. Here is the one account of death, not mentioned but what we see is that man has sinned, and man is aware of his sin, man is hiding from God. It’s God that approaches man, not man that goes after God. How can a sinner approach a Holy God? Man is hiding so a Holy God moves on behalf of man. That is what He does on behalf of you and that is what you are going to see as we do this study “precious one.”You’re going to see that God has moved on your behalf. You say, “Oh yes, I know Jesus died on the cross for me.” Oh yes you know, but do you know the depth, the implication of it? Do you know how that death can bring you into holy life, so that you can have an intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and with the one who spoke and brought the world into existence? In Genesis we have the shedding of blood, and there we have the covering for man’s sin, so to speak.

The book of Genesis takes us then from the Garden of Eden through the flood to Ur of the Chaldea’s.

God chooses one man out from among all the people of the whole earth, out from the descendants of Shem, Ham and Japheth. He chooses one man, and that man is Abraham. He tells him, “I am going to make of you a great nation, and in you all the nations of the earth will be blessed.”

Genesis 12:1 now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, And from your relatives

And from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; 2    And I will make you a great nation,

And I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing;

Galatians 3:8

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”

“All the nations will be blessed in you” is the good news of salvation, not only promised to Abraham but to the nations of the world through Abraham’s seed.

He was told to leave the Ur of Chaldea. He went up to Haran and was to go to a land that God had promised him; a land that flowed with milk and honey, a land that God would give to Abraham and his seed, his physical seed, forever. He promised them the

Land Canaan (Israel).

Genesis also takes us another place ~ the land of Egypt. When the book of Genesis closes we have the children of Israel who are descendent of Abraham in the land of Egypt.

The promise was passed from Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob (Israel), the father of 12 sons. These sons became the 12 tribes of Israel.

The book of Genesis ends with the children of Israel in the land of Egypt.

Now what happens to the children of Israel?

Now God tells Abraham when He makes a covenant with him---

Genesis15:13-16

13     God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.

14     “But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.

15     “As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.

16     “Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

Now what happens? They are in slavery for 400 yrs in the land of Egypt; they’re in the house of bondage under the control of Pharaoh. Egypt becomes a picture of the world, and Pharaoh becomes the prince of this world who rules. As it tells us in I John 5, we are slaves to sin before we are saved. We are under the dominion of Satan. But then when we believe, we are set free.

The “Book of Exodus” now takes us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage in

response to God’s promise to take them out of the land of Egypt. He takes them down to Mt Horeb also called Mt Sinai. There is debate as to where Mt Sinai is. But the point is, not where it is, but that it is. It is also known as the Holy Mt. of God. Now this is the book of Exodus from Egypt to Mt. Sinai.

What happens in the book of Exodus?

Israel comes out of bondage and is set free. Why does Pharaoh finally let them go? The “Angel of Death” comes through and brings death to every first born male of every household ~ the first-born male of man and first born male of animals. But if the Israelites would take a lamb without spot, blemish, and without defect and on the 1st month (Abib) the 14th day of the month slaughter that lamb and eat the flesh of that lamb and take some of the blood of that lamb and place it over the door post of their house, then when the Angel of Death came he would pass over them. Everyplace where he sees the blood on the door post the “Angel of Death” would pass over. We have the institution of Passover. So how are they delivered?

If Egypt is a picture of the world, if Pharaoh is a picture of the devil, and we are a picture of those who are in bondage to sin as it says in John 8, then what is the Passover Lamb a picture of? It is a picture of Jesus Christ.

     34     Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.

     35     “The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever.

     36     “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

In Exodus:

God gives them redemption by the blood of a lamb.

At Mount Sinai God gives them a law to live by: the Ten Commandments and the ordinances to follow.

God gives them a place to worship.

This is a picture of the tabernacle. He tells them every tiny little detail of how it is to be made.

He tells them about the fence that goes on the outside.

He tells them about the linen material. He tells them about the furniture and where to put the furniture.

There is a laver where the priests will wash daily.

They are to erect a tent. As they go inside the door of the tent, there is to be the table of showbread on the right. On the left side is the menorah. In front of the veil is the altar of incense.

There is a veil that separates the holy place from the

Holy of Holies. He tells them where they’re to place the Ark of the Covenant; where they are to place the testimony of the covenant. The ark represents the very throne of God. See Hebrews 8.

Hebrews 8:1     now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,(He is speaking about Jesus Christ.)

2     a minister in the sanctuary (this is not speaking of the earthly sanctuary) and in the true tabernacle,(a true tabernacle that is in heaven) which the Lord pitched, not man.

Man pitch it this tabernacle but God pitched the one in heaven.

Hebrew 8:3

3     For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

Hebrew 8:4  

   Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;(v.5) who serve as a copy and a shadow of heavenly things.

If Jesus were a priest on earth, He would not be a priest at all because He was of the tribe of Judah and not of the tribe of Levi. When we look at the tabernacle, we are looking at a copy and a shadow of heavenly things. A shadow is cast by something that is legitimate. If you see my shadow then I am casting that shadow. We have the true tabernacle in heaven, and what we see in the earthly tabernacle is the shadow of the true tabernacle.

Hebrews 8:5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, “See,” He says, “that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.”

Moses was warned on Mt. Sinai. Here at Mt. Sinai we have:

1. The law to live by

2. A place to worship (which we have just seen)

3. A priest to mediate between God and man

Every piece of furniture in the tabernacle speaks of Christ. The altar of sacrifice speaks of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ at Calvary. The laver speaks of Jesus making us clean. We are made clean by the blood of the Lamb. We are sanctified by the washing of the water of the word (Eph. 5:26).

As you enter the holy place on the right is the table of showbread. Jesus is the bread of life. He says that unless you eat My flesh and drink My blood, you can not be part of Me. (John 6:53)

On the left is the seven-branched candlestick. Jesus is the light of the world, and those that follow Him will not walk in darkness.

The altar of incense is so important. You will see why in the next session. It represents Jesus Christ as the high priest, the One who intercedes for us before God.

The veil that separates the holy place from the holy of the holies is the picture of the flesh of Jesus Christ as He hung on Calvary’s tree. (Hebrews 10:20)

The Ark of the Covenant held the 10 commandments. It told men how to be holy. The ark had a golden jar of manna in it. Aaron’s rod was in the ark. The rod represented the power of God. On top of the ark was a mercy seat. This is where the high priest on the day of Atonement would put the blood of the goat. Over the mercy seat are the cherubim. The mercy seat is the most holy place. This is the place where the propitiation for sins is made.

What is over the holy of holies? There is a pillar of cloud. This is the Shekinah glory that is over the Holy of Holies.

In the tabernacle, God was giving them a picture of redemption that is to come. This is the book of Exodus.

The book of Leviticus takes place on Mt. Sinai and doesn’t move for one month, we know this from:

Exodus 40: 17

Now in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.

Leviticus coves one month of time where God tells His people how they approach a holy God. Here you have a tabernacle and here you have a priest. God tells them about the priesthood and He tells them what to wear. But how do I, an ordinary man, a woman who is a sinner, how do I have fellowship with God? How am I going to get to God? Well according to this tabernacle and according to this priesthood, I can not come directly into the presence of God. You’re going to see why; you’re going to see the whole picture as we study; it’s going to open a new fellowship for you with God.

Leviticus is going to tell me that I come to God through a sacrifice; it is going to be through a priest that I am going to be able to have fellowship, that I’m going to be able to approach a Holy, Holy God. It’s not only going to tell me how to approach God, but how to be holy so I can come into the presence of that holy God. That is what we are going to look at next.

Believe me, if you will stay with me in this study, you are going to see precepts for life that will take you beyond the miracles and the healings and the desire for prosperity and show you: how do you live day by day, how do you live in the nitty gritty? How do you approach God? How do you get rid of the guilt that weighs you down? How do you get rid of these thoughts of failure that come constantly and bombard your mind? How does this happen? Well that’s what we are going to look at next.

In Leviticus we are going to see how you can approach a Holy God, and how you can be holy even as He is Holy.

3 questions:

You’re a sinner. You are born in sin. In sin did your mother conceive you. The Bible says all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

1. How am I going to have fellowship with a God that is so holy when I am so weak and made of flesh? How can I, a sinner, approach God?

2. How does a sinner have the audacity to ask help from God when there were times when he turned his back on God?

3. How do you deal with the guilt that haunts you, that robs you of your peace and steals your joy?

If any one knows about guilt it is me and my immoral lifestyle before I came to Jesus Christ. I have guilt because of the way it affected my children and a husband that committed suicide as a result of it all. How do you handle the guilt when you fail as a Christian? How do you handle that?

Now Leviticus will answer those questions and more.

Psalm 24: 1-5

1 The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it.

2     For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.

3     Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? And who may stand in His holy place?

4     He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall receive a blessing from the Lord

This Psalms asks all the questions that we have.

God is the one that created the heavens and the earth as recorded in Genesis.

He is asking a question in verse 3. Who can ascend to His holy hill? Because as there is a heavenly Zion, so there is a earthly Zion. The heavenly Zion is where God’s throne is. The earthly Zion which is Jerusalem, is where God some day will dwell, where Jesus Christ will some day reign. There will be a temple there. There will be offerings there that are talked about in Ezekiel 45

There is not a temple now but there will be a temple. When you see that temple being built, you will know that Jesus’ second coming is near. There will be a millennial temple when Christ rules and reigns on the face of this earth.

Rev 20 1-7

1     Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

2     And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;

3     and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

4     Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Rev: 20:5-7

5   The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.6   Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years. 7   When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison,

He talks about ruling and reigning and they will offer sacrifices, sin, birth, peace offering so some day Israel will be doing that as a nation and those that are born to the Jews after the Messiah returns.

So if you have clean hands and a pure heart, then you can ascend to the hill of the Lord. What is he saying here? If you want to approach a holy God, you have to be clean and holy.

Now, how does a sinner have the audacity to ask help from God?

Psalm 20:1

May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high!

So many times we hear on TV: “Sow a seed to meet a need” as if you have to pay God in order to get God to bless you. As you study the word of God you are going to see that that is not true. You’re also going to see that God doesn’t always bring deliverance immediately; God allows us to go through trials because it molds us and makes us. God reminded me to thank him.

Psalm 20:2-3 2     May He send you help from the sanctuary and support you from Zion!

3     May He remember all your meal offerings and find your burnt offering acceptable! Selah

How do you deal with the guilt that haunts you and robs of your peace and steals your joy? We will look at this at the end of the lesson. The answer to all of it is to be holy. “Holiness is synonymous with obedience.” It is not a feeling or an emotion.

Numbers 15:39,40     39“It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot, 40   so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be holy to your God.

He is talking about ribbons of blue tassels that the Jews wore and the Orthodox Jews wear today.

Even Christians can temporarily play the harlot because they follow after their eyes and their hearts and they are led astray.

What do you do when you break the commandments? How do you come to God? Well there is no way except through the way Leviticus lays it out for us in picture form. The only way, when you break God’s commandments that you can come to a Holy God and have clean hands is to approach Him this way according to the Tabernacle, through the altar of sacrifice, because without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.

Heb 9:22

and according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness

I wash in the water of the word (bronze laver), eat of the bread of life (table of showbread), walk in the light even as Jesus is the Light of the world.(lampstand). I come to Christ who is my mediator and intercessor. There is one God and one mediator between God and Man and that is who? Not an earthly priest but a high priest, Jesus Christ, who has entered into heaven and sits on the right hand of God, who lives to make intercession for you and me. I come to God through the rent veil of the Son of God. Because the blood is on the mercy seat, I have forgiveness of my sins; I have propitiation for my sins; and I am able to approach Him.

There were two things that were necessary for us to get to God. One was the offering the other was a priest. You and I as you will see have an offering, The Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. We have a priest, Jesus Christ our High Priest.

Let’s look at the offerings.

Leviticus 1-3

1 Then the Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,

2  “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When any man of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of animals from the herd or the flock.3  ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer it, a male without defect; he shall offer it at the doorway of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord.

1st offering mentioned in Leviticus is the burnt offering. Let’s go back to the book of Genesis. Man was expelled from the Garden of Eden because man has sinned. Man gave birth to two sons, Cain and Abel. They know that there is only one way to approach God. They don’t have a tabernacle yet but they know that God must be approached through an offering. God accepts Abel’s offering from the flock, but Cain refuses that kind of offering. Cain is a tiller of the ground, and he will bring fruit. And God says no, it will not be accepted and Cain’s countenance falls.

Genesis 4:6 -7

  Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?

7     “If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

How did they know what to sacrifice? By faith.

Hebrew 11:1

   1   Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

2   For by it the men of old gained approval.3   By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

4   By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

5     By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.

6     And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

Faith comes by hearing the word of God. That is why when you learn Gods’ precepts for life, precept upon precept, line upon line, you are learning the statutes of God, the mind and heart of God, the way to God. With His precepts you will get understanding, and you will hate every false way.

So there is the 1st sacrifice that man offers, one accepted one rejected. Why? Because one was through the shedding of blood and other was not.

When you come to Noah, he makes a sacrifice. What kind is it?

Gen 8: 20-21     Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21     The Lord smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

What was the altar called in Leviticus? It was called the altar of burnt offering; it’s a picture of the cross of Jesus Christ.

God calling Abraham to take his son, Isaac

Genesis 22:2   

   He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.”

What kind of offering was it? A burnt offering. What mountain was it? On Mt Moriah in Jerusalem he offered his son.

Genesis 22:7     Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” And he said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

8     Abraham said, “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together.

God will provide Himself as a sacrifice. Who dies instead of Isaac? A ram in the thicket that is a picture of the Lamb of God. So there were offerings before the tabernacle. They were burnt offerings.

Ex 10:25

But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice them to the Lord our God.

In Leviticus there are basically five offerings. You saw six as you did your homework, but watch:

Voluntary Obligatory (not voluntary)

Burnt Offering

Grain (meal) offering

Peace offering

Sin offering

Guilt offering

The 6th offering I didn’t tell you about is the Ordination offering, which we will study in our next lesson.

Amos 5:22

“Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them;

And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings.

“Burnt” olah means to go up; it goes up into the nostrils of God and satisfies Him.

“Burnt” kalil Psalm 51:19 means holocaust. God saw what was happening to the Jews. When you think of the burnt offering, think of consecration of a person out of love.

Burnt offering blood goes to God, the skin goes to the priest, and everything else is devoured by fire.

My High Priest, Jesus Christ, put on my skin, my humanity that I might have a High Priest who can be touched with the feeling of my infirmities.

Meal (Grain) offering, oil and incense with grain. It is a tribute to God. This is the only offering without blood. Only the priest eats it in the holy place.

Peace offering animal sacrifice. Man and God being reconciled. You have the priest eating his part and the people eating their part and the Lord getting His part.

Revelation 3:20

   ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

Sin Offering- unintentional sin

Leviticus 4:2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If a person sins unintentionally in any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and commits any of them,

1st time sin is mentioned in Leviticus is in chapter 4. The root meaning of “unintentional” means to go astray, to err. It’s unintentional, but not totally without ignorance.

Numbers 15:27-31

27     ‘Also if one person sins unintentionally, then he shall offer a one year old female goat for a sin offering.

28     ‘The priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who goes astray when he sins unintentionally, making atonement for him that he may be forgiven.

29     ‘You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the alien who sojourns among them.

30     ‘But the person who does anything defiantly, whether he is native or an alien, that one is blaspheming the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

31     ‘Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt will be on him.’ ”

There is no offering for defiant sin (verse 30).

In this offering and only this offering, the blood goes beyond the altar of sacrifice; the blood goes into the holy place. The blood is sprinkled on the veil. The blood is put on the four horns of the altar of incense. What is he showing us? With sin, we need a mediator and one who interceded. Who is the one who intercedes? We come to God through the rent veil of the flesh of the Son of God. So the blood of the sacrifice is taken all the way into the holy place and sprinkled on that curtain and put on the horns of the alter.

Every animal sacrifice that is brought: they go to the animal and the sinner puts his hand on the head of the animal. This is showing that his sins are being transferred. Then he slits the throat of the animal showing death is necessary, the shedding of blood is necessary to take care of his sin.

So then what happens? Then animal sacrifice is taken outside the gate, outside the camp and what is it a picture of?

Heb 13:11-15

11     For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp.

12     Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

13     So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

14    For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

15    Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.

Do you see the beauty of the offerings?

But what about my guilt? I have come to Jesus Christ but my past haunts me, and I still feel guilty.

Guilt offering –you have a personal confession to the fact you have sinned

Specific reasons for presenting a guilt offering ~ seven reasons in all. This is the first time that you see a confession of sin.

Leviticus 5:1-4, 5, 15, 17, 6:2- 7

5:1     ‘Now if a person sins after he hears a public adjuration to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt.

2     ‘Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast or the carcass of unclean cattle or a carcass of unclean swarming things, though it is hidden from him and he is unclean, then he will be guilty.

3     ‘Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort his uncleanness may be with which he becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty.

4     ‘Or if a person swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever matter a man may speak thoughtlessly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty in one of these.

5     ‘So it shall be when he becomes guilty in one of these, that he shall confess that in which he has sinned.

15     “If a person acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against the Lord’s holy things, then he shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation in silver by shekels, in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.

17  “Now if a person sins and does any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, though he was unaware, still he is guilty and shall bear his punishment.

There is the blood that is shed. I John 1:9.

But the guilt is still there. Genuine guilt is not a feeling, it is a condition. So if you are feeling guilty, I will tell you this: He has made the sacrifice and you believe in Jesus Christ and you have confessed your sins and you still feel guilty; then go to God and ask God, “Who did I offend in this situation?” Then go to that person that you offended and in this guilt offering it is the only offering that they confess and depending on the situation, they make restitution and add 1/5th to it. (20%)

Leviticus 6:1-7

6:1     Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

2     “When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the Lord, and deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted to him, or through robbery, or if he has extorted from his companion,

3     or has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do;

4     then it shall be, when he sins and becomes guilty, that he shall restore what he took by robbery or what he got by extortion, or the deposit which was entrusted to him or the lost thing which he found,

5     or anything about which he swore falsely; he shall make restitution for it in full and add to it one-fifth more. He shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day he presents his guilt offering.

6     “Then he shall bring to the priest his guilt offering to the Lord, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation, for a guilt offering,

7     and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he will be forgiven for any one of the things which he may have done to incur guilt.”

If you are dealing with guilt, then you go back to God and you says, “God, is this guilt genuine or is it just a feeling or an attack from the enemy?” You ask God to show you.

Ezekiel 33:14-16

14     “But when I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and practices justice and righteousness,

15     if a wicked man restores a pledge, pays back what he has taken by robbery, walks by the statutes which ensure life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

16     “None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has practiced justice and righteousness; he shall surely live.

So if you are remembering your sins and you have done what Ezekiel says, it’s you remembering them and the devil reminding you. But it’s not God. Your guilt is gone. That’s why there is not only a sin offering but a guilt offering and the guilt offering causes you to take what’s wrong and make it right.

You need to get right before God and you need to be right before man. Then your guilt is gone. So how can a sinner have there guilt gone? Every one of these offerings is a picture. We are going to look at these offerings. As we go through them you’re going to know how to live.

I will never forget when I taught Ezek 33 at a Teen Boot Camp. God moved, and we had people that went back and said I cheated on exams in college and I don’t deserve to graduation.

Others went back to stores and corporations and said I stole from you. This is how much I stole and I am going to repay it. Another was a young man, who went home and told his parents, I have been stealing from you, but also today I went to school were I worked as a janitor and turned myself in. When the school gym burnt down, I was the one responsible for it burning down. I had a fire cracker and as I was leaving. I just tossed it in the closet. I wanted to hear it explode. Then I heard the fire engines. I just told them I am willing to go to prison because I want to be right before God. But the guilt is gone. By God’s grace, this young man was pardoned. It is always by His grace that we are pardoned.

Well that is a synopsis of what you spent 5 hours studying. But now, do you see how it fits together? These are precepts for life. They will give you understanding and will help you hate every false way so that you walk that straight and narrow path. As you approach a holy God with clean hands and pure heart, and are able to ask Him for help because you know all the offerings are made through Jesus Christ.

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Somewhere in this area

They believe in all probability this area was the

Garden of Eden

He speaks of the two rivers Euphrates and The Tigris

I am talking about in the area of Iraq

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