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This entire beginning chunk of the book of Leviticus has been talking about different sacrifices and offering the Israelites had to make in order to become temporarily right with the Lord. Thankfully, God knew this was not a permanent fix and send His one and only son, Jesus, to die on the cross and pay the price of our sins for all eternity!
Hello and welcome to the Christians on College Campuses podcast. My name is Will from the University of Oklahoma, and today we are talking about Leviticus chapter 7. So the first chunk of the book of Leviticus has been all about different offerings and sacrifices that the Israelites had to do in order to become temporarily right with God and spend time with him. We have things way different now. The price of our sin has always been death, but God sent a permanent fix for our sins in the form of Jesus. Jesus was sent to earth. Jesus was sent to earth to live a perfectly sinless life and then die on the cross so that our sins could be forgiven forever. But the book of Leviticus took place way back in the Old Testament before we get Jesus. So they had to deal with the different sacrifices and offerings that they need needed to make in order to spend time with God. So these are the instructions for the guilt offering. It is most holy. The animal sacrificed as a guilt offering must be slaughtered at the place where the burnt offerings are slaughtered, and its blood must be splattered against all sides of the altar. The priest will then offer all its fat on the altar, including the fat of the broad tail, the fat around the internal organs, the two kidneys, and the fat around them near the loins, and the long lobe of their liver. These are to be removed with the kidneys, and the priests will burn them on the altar as a special gift presented to the Lord. This is the guilt offering. Any male from a priest's family may eat the meat, it must be eaten in a sacred place, for it is most holy. The same instructions apply to both the guilt offering and the sin offering. Both belong to the priest who uses them to purify someone, making that person right with the Lord. In the case of the burnt offering, the priest may keep the hide of the sacrificed animal. Any grain offering that has been baked in an oven, prepared in a pan, or cooked on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it. All other grain offerings, whether made of dry flour or flour moistened with olive oil, are to be shared equally among the priests, the descendants of Aaron. These are instructions regarding the different kinds of peace offerings that may be presented to the Lord. If you present your peace offering as an expression of thanksgiving, the usual animal sacrifice must be accompanied by various kinds of bread made without yeast, thin cakes mixed with olive oil, wafers spread with oil, and cakes made of choice flour mixed with the olive oil. This peace offering of thanksgiving must also be accompanied by loaves of bread made with yeast. One of each kind of bread must be presented as a gift to the Lord. It will then belong to the priest who splatters the blood of the peace offering against the altar. The meat of the peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the same day it is offered. None of it may be saved for the next morning. If you bring an offering to fulfill a vow or as a voluntary offering, the meat must be eaten on the same day the sacrifice is offered. But whatever is left may be eaten on the second day. Any meat left over until the third day must be completely burned up. If any of the meat from the peace offering is eaten on the third day, the person who presented it will not be accepted by the Lord. You will receive no credit for offering it. By then the meat will be contaminated. If you eat it, you will be punished for your sin. Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean may not be eaten. It must be completely burned up. The rest of the meat may be eaten but only by people who are ceremonially clean. If you are ceremonially unclean and you eat meat from the peace offering that was presented to the Lord, you will be cut off from the community. If you touch anything that is unclean, whether it is human defilement or an unclean animal or any other unclean, detestable thing, and then eat meat from the peace offering presented to the Lord, you will be cut off from the community. Then the Lord said to Moses, Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. You must never eat fat, whether from cattle, sheep, or goats. The fat of an animal found dead or torn to pieces by wild animals must never be eaten, though it may be used for any other purpose. Anyone who eats fat from an animal presented as a special gift to the Lord will be cut off from the community, no matter where you live. You must never consume blood or any bird or animal. No matter where you live, you must never consume the blood of any bird or animal. Anyone who consumes blood will be cut off from the community. Then the Lord said to Moses, Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you present a peace offering to the Lord, bring part of it as a gift to the Lord. Present it to the Lord with your own hands as a special gift to the Lord. Bring the fat of the animal together with the breast, and lift up the breast as a special offering to the Lord. Then the priest will burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his descendants. Give the right thigh of your peace offering to the priest as a gift. The right thigh must always be given to the priest who offers the blood and the fat of the peace offering. For I have reserved the breast of the special offering and the right thigh of the sacred offering for the priests. It is the permanent right of Aaron and his descendants to share in the peace offerings brought by the people of Israel. This is their rightful share. The special gifts presented to the Lord have been reserved for Aaron and his descendants from the time they were set apart to serve the Lord as priests. On the day they were anointed, the Lord commanded the Israelites to give these portions to the priests as their permanent share from generation to generation. These are the instructions for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, as well as the ordination offering and the peace offering. The Lord gave these instructions to Moses on Mount Sinai when he commanded the Israelites present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai. So remember, these offerings were given, these sacrifices were made as a temporary fix for the sins of the Israelites. And so God, as we were living, God was like, Hey, I want to do something permanent so that my people can spend time with me always. So he sent his son Jesus, his one and only son, to live a perfect, sinless life so that we can live and spend time with Jesus forever. And if you are not a follower of Christ and you want to do that, in a second I'm gonna pray and you're gonna repeat that prayer after me. And there is nothing magical about the words that you were going to pray, but from here on out, you are a follower of Christ and you get to spend time with God forever. And after that, click the link below for next steps. So if you want to become a follower of Jesus, repeat after me. God, I need you. I know I'm a sinner, but in need of a savior. Jesus, I believe you died. And rose again to pay the price for my sin. Lord, save me. Change me. Make me new. From this day forward, I will follow you. And in Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
