WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.120 Good morning. 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:04.000 Happy Super Bowl Sunday. 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:06.400 49ers fans, who are we going for? 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.360 49ers? 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:10.720 Cheat Taylor. 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:14.240 You beat me to my own joke. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:17.199 That's how perceptive y'all are. 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:19.280 I'm rooting for Taylor. 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:22.640 Me and my family will serve Taylor. 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:27.359 But we're here, so let's study the Bible. 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:38.799 It's our last week in Leviticus before we break for Lent, which takes us to Easter, and then we will come back in Leviticus for the rest of our lives is our path forward. 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:41.840 No, we'll finish Leviticus from the summer. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:49.200 We've been studying these five different offerings in Leviticus 1 through 5: the burnt offering, grain offering, peace offering, sin offering, guilt offering. 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:54.640 And in chapters 1 through 5, they're all told from the point of view of the offerer, the sinner bringing the offering. 00:00:54.799 --> 00:01:00.479 And then in chapters 6 and 7, it's switched around, and they're told from the point of view of the priest. 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:02.880 So we get a lot of like details and stuff like that. 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:04.560 And we get some repetition. 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:06.319 So today's a little bit of repetition. 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:12.959 I'm going to be summarizing a bit as well because it's two full chapters, but we're going to make our way through seven points, by the way. 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:15.680 So if you've ever been like, why is he always three? 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:17.040 He's such a three-point. 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:18.799 He's so predictable. 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:19.359 Seven. 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:22.560 Okay, so cancel the lunch plans. 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:26.400 All right, so Hebrews 11, 1 through 3. 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:38.000 Now, faith is the assurance, that's our key word, the assurance of things hoped for, for conviction of things not seen, for by it the people of old received their commendation. 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:45.519 By faith, we understand that the universe was created by the Word of God so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:52.560 Now, what we've been saying is that Hebrews is this New Testament book that helps us understand Leviticus in the Old Testament. 00:01:52.719 --> 00:02:00.719 This word assurance there in that verse one, assurance gives us the image to stand under something stronger than ourselves. 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:09.280 And so point number one is this we can have peace-filled confidence because Jesus provides for us. 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:12.800 This is what Leviticus is telling us over and over for, it's pointing us toward. 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:14.400 We can have peace-filled confidence. 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.599 The word assurance can also be translated substance. 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:31.599 It's the image of standing under something, existing under something stronger than yourself, to be cared for and safe and provided for outside of your own performance and merit and ability. 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:33.599 You ever been driving down the expressway? 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:34.879 Maybe you're headed to Florida. 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:36.400 Usually this is when it happens to me. 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:43.199 You're headed down the expressway to Florida, and you can just see the storm in front of you, and it's a wall, right? 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:44.560 And you know it's coming. 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:48.319 So you brace and then you hit it, and it, you know, you're locked in. 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:51.599 Ten and two, you're leaning, nobody in the car is allowed to talk to you. 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:52.719 Just lean in. 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:55.680 And then you come to your first bridge, right? 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:57.919 And you come to your first bridge and you see something like this. 00:02:58.000 --> 00:02:59.120 I just grabbed this picture online. 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:00.080 It's usually not that many. 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:04.800 Usually one or two motorcycles have found a little safe haven, right? 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:07.919 And they do this because it's the first bridge they've come to. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:15.520 The bottom has fallen out, and they need a substance over themselves stronger than themselves to provide for them. 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:19.840 And in that place of provision, you have assurance. 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:22.479 You have a peace-filled confidence. 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:28.080 Not because you are strong, but because you're existing under something stronger than yourself. 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:37.120 That's the beautiful image we celebrated with Mabel and Henry as they went under, that they exist under a strong substance that's enough for them, this Jesus. 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:39.199 All right, Leviticus 6, 8 through 13. 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:41.120 I'll reread what Courtney read for us. 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:47.599 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:56.080 The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. 00:03:56.319 --> 00:04:06.400 And the priest shall put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them beside the altar. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:12.639 Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:17.120 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out. 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:26.000 The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:30.959 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually, it shall not go out. 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:39.600 Five times in this passage, five times, God commands the priest to make sure that the fire perpetually burns. 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:41.279 Over and over again, this is mentioned. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:50.399 Point number two is this the burnt offering, we can have peace-filled confidence as Jesus is our perpetual forgiveness. 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:54.639 The fire on the altar in the tabernacle, it was ignited by God Himself. 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:00.800 All that is needed for us to be accepted by Him. 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:02.399 It is His grace to us. 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:11.439 And the perpetual fire is showing us that we have perpetual, forever acceptance and favor. 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:17.439 That we have that with the Heavenly Father because of Jesus. 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:23.439 Now in Leviticus 6, 14 through 23, it gives us the grain offering. 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:31.839 And point number three, the grain offering, we can have peace-filled confidence as our devotion to Christ is empowered by Christ. 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:34.160 A bit of a repeat from a few sermons ago. 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:42.480 The grain offering is a portion of their daily bread that they're bringing daily here for an offering. 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:46.399 And these people understood that everything comes from God. 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:50.079 This was built into who they were and how they operated. 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:53.680 And they're pledging themselves back to God with this daily offering. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.360 But remember that the burnt offering came first. 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:02.800 So the pledging of themselves comes after God has provided the burnt offering. 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:06.720 Because your devotion's never enough. 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:10.879 And this is why we can have peace-filled confidence, is because the burnt offering comes first. 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:11.360 Right? 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:18.160 Because our devotion or our giving or our spiritual practices is never enough, it's never sustained enough or long enough or passionate enough. 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:21.439 We said it this way several weeks ago. 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:31.199 Our devotion for Christ comes through and is empowered by God's lavish provision of grace to us in Christ. 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:34.959 So it's us resting more fully in Christ. 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:44.240 And when we read that the smoke of the altar is a pleasing aroma to the Lord, we're reading that God doesn't love you and put up with you. 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:48.480 God actually loves and delights in you. 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:50.800 He adores you. 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:02.160 And it's not because you brought something incredible, some strength. 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.040 It's because you exist under a substance stronger than yourself. 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:09.839 That's where all these offerings are pointing us to our need and the sufficiency of Jesus. 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:12.160 Hebrews 7, 26 and 27. 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:20.240 For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:35.040 He has no need, talking about Jesus, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself. 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:40.800 Last week I watched the documentary on Netflix, The Greatest Night and Pop. 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.519 Has anybody seen The Greatest Night and Pop? 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:45.120 Okay, three of us. 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:46.000 It's pretty good. 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:49.759 Obviously, it's not wonderful, or else, you know, there'd be more people. 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:53.759 It's about the doc the song We Are the World, 1985. 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:55.680 Remember, We Are the World. 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:58.079 We Are the Children. 00:07:58.639 --> 00:07:58.959 We know it. 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:00.160 Okay, so that's what it's about. 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:02.399 And I didn't know a lot about this. 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:24.079 Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie, they wrote the song, and they wrote the song with the idea they're gonna get together the best, biggest, most talented singers, pop stars at the time to record this one song on one night, and then all the proceeds from that song would always go to starvation in Africa. 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:29.920 Okay, so the AMA awards were coming up there in 1985 in LA, and they figured this is it, this is the chance. 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:31.839 How do you get this many people in one location? 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:43.039 And so they get 45 pop stars after the AMA awards, all to go to one recording studio, and they show up there one night, they have one night, one night, to learn this song and record. 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:47.120 And we're talking, I mean, Kenny Rogers is there, the gambler, right? 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:52.320 I mean, Willie Nelson, Cindy Lopper, Bob Dylan, Stevie One, the boss was there. 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:56.879 I mean, everybody who was big, mid-80s, was in this room. 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:59.600 And they had one night to learn it and record it. 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:02.000 And we know, we know it forever, right? 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:03.120 I mean, you know this song. 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:04.559 What's it been 40 years? 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:06.000 And we know this song. 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:08.799 One night for all those people, one night, right? 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:10.879 So it's just once for all, is where I'm getting. 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:12.799 You kind of smelt it a little bit, I was headed there, right? 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:14.080 Once for all, right? 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:21.919 One night, you get that much talent and power in one room, and then the wake of that, of what's possible. 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:27.600 And that gives us just a little bit of an idea of the power of Jesus once for all. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:34.000 That this one event can create that much provision for us. 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:36.639 That it's enough. 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:38.000 Once for all, it's enough. 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:40.720 We don't we don't have to add to it, we don't need another one. 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:46.159 The perpetual need for offerings by the sinner, by us, is replaced by the once for all Jesus. 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:53.679 We could say it this way: perpetual religion is replaced by perpetual forgiveness in Jesus. 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:56.080 Because once for all. 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:04.159 It's interesting that this grain offering, that the priest would take some of it for their own provision to eat, for them to live. 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:09.919 For the people that worked in the tent and then later in the temple, that this is how they lived. 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:11.679 And this is where we get point number four. 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:15.679 God provides for the church through the giving of his people. 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:19.679 It was just built in, just part of spiritual life. 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:28.000 It was never questioned that you took a portion of your provision and you gave it to your spiritual community. 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:36.960 The church has a people and a place, a movement, priestly and pastoral leadership to the church, but also to society. 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:46.080 All of this exists and will continue to exist only out of the generosity of the people of the church. 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:52.000 Just to inform there's no secret endowment funding all the churches of the world. 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:55.679 If you know about it, please let me know. 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:59.360 I would I'm love to get a part of this. 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:00.879 It doesn't exist. 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:02.000 It doesn't exist. 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:03.360 So here's our prayer. 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:13.759 Heavenly Father, and this is my prayer for myself, help me to grow in the freedom to joyfully and generously support my spiritual home. 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:19.519 That is not guilt and obligation, that is freedom, joy, and generosity. 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:35.919 The future and the flourishing of any church, any and every church in this world, is not on the few wealthy, is on each spiritual person bringing their grain offering to their spiritual home. 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:39.919 Leviticus 6, 24 through 30 is about the sin offering. 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.080 So point number five is the sin offering. 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:47.120 In Jesus, we are forever forgiven, even for our unintentional sins. 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:50.559 So the stuff you've already, you messed up, you don't even know, right? 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:55.120 You don't even know how you burned somebody, you did something, you're not even aware of it, and you did it. 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:59.919 Like you're even forgiven for that which you're unaware of at this point. 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:02.480 Hebrews helps to explain. 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:05.519 I'll read Hebrews 8, 1 through 7. 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:08.799 Listen to all the tie-in from Leviticus. 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:20.080 Now, the point in what we are saying is this we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy places, in the true tent. 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:22.480 Remember, this is where this is going on in Leviticus. 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:24.879 The priest is going into the tent to make these sacrifices. 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:27.600 In the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:30.879 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:35.919 That is net thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:43.039 Now, if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.799 They serve a copy and a shadow of the heavenly things. 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:55.600 For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain. 00:12:55.759 --> 00:13:07.679 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old, as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:14.320 For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:21.679 The first covenant, perpetual religion, it's pointing us to our need of God's grace to us. 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:25.519 The problem with the first covenant is us, the offerer. 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:28.399 Like we are the problem that we have to maintain it. 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:29.759 We're not capable of that. 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:37.360 So our assurance is not because we give all of ourselves so perfectly, but because Jesus gave all of himself for us. 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:38.639 And that's what we stand under. 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:41.360 That's our assurance, peace, fold, confidence, that we stand under that. 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:42.960 We exist under that. 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:47.120 Leviticus 7 takes us into the guilt offering. 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.120 Point number six, the guilt offering. 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:53.679 In Jesus, we are forever forgiven, even for our intentional sins. 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:57.440 So we're forgiven of the stuff we didn't know we did, and we did it, we're forgiven. 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:00.320 And then the stuff you just you meant to do it. 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:05.200 You knew it, you did it, you went for it, did it, maybe you feel bad, maybe you don't feel bad yet. 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:09.679 You know, you're forgiven even of that, of your intentional sins. 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.759 And throughout 6 and 7, if you read it later, it's just all this repetition. 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:15.679 You start to feel this repetition. 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:18.559 And the repetition itself is a lesson. 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:30.879 God is saying something like, I'm holy, your sin is destructive and serious, and his grace is astonishing and real. 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.200 The last offering, the peace offering in Leviticus 7, 11 through 27. 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:40.559 I'll read verses 22 through 27. 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:57.759 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat of ox or sheep or goat, the fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it. 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:05.279 For every person who eats of the fat of an animal, of which a food offering may be made to the Lord, shall be cut off from his people. 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:18.399 Moreover, you shall eat no blood, whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places, whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people. 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:23.519 Do you remember Leviticus 3.16, our new life verse? 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:24.559 Do you remember this? 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:26.639 All fat is the Lord's, right? 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:27.519 Amen. 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:30.159 We're really embracing that as a people. 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:31.919 We knew John 3.16. 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:35.279 Who knew the Old Testament had so equally, equally um. 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:41.360 So blood belongs to God, and fat belongs to God. 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:46.720 I mean, this is the kind of stuff where you read the Bible and you're like, I think I was just gonna like give my life to something else. 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:48.480 Like, this is like what? 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:49.679 What am I a part of? 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:50.960 This is crazy. 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:53.840 Well, it's it's symbolizing something, okay? 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:59.679 And here's what it symbolizes the fat symbolize the best part of the animal. 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:02.799 So the best belongs to God. 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.720 And the blood symbolized life itself. 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:10.480 So life itself belongs to God. 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.720 We have a creator, we have a beginner. 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:17.039 And it all begins with God. 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:20.159 Point number seven is this about the peace offering. 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:26.159 Jesus creates peace and gratefulness in our volatile hearts. 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:31.440 So there's no wedge, there's no shame, there's no condemnation. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:39.360 The people, this peace offering, the people would make this offering, and then part of it they would go and have a big meal together. 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:46.320 And it's the image that Jesus calls us to of communion, the meal that we partake in, right? 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:49.360 We come forward each week with empty hands. 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:52.720 We're not bringing our own strength, we're bringing our need. 00:16:53.279 --> 00:17:01.759 And yet we have peace-filled confidence because it is about the provision given to us, it's not about the strength that we bring. 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:04.160 Do you remember our nerdy Leviticus chart? 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:04.720 R.K. 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:05.440 Campbell's. 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:07.279 Has anybody been getting into it? 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:08.559 No, you have not. 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:09.599 It's okay. 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:10.640 It's okay. 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:11.519 Just me. 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:12.880 Five offerings. 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:15.119 There's little notes on this Campbell chart. 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:26.400 If you remember a couple sermons ago, uh I was at the end of the sermon, I was way into this Leviticus chart, and um I was like, hey, can we just like imagine you know, Campbell? 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:30.160 He's studying this, he's charting it out, and then and I missed, I missed it. 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:31.519 I missed something. 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:33.759 Turns out y'all are listening. 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:34.640 I didn't know that. 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:36.079 Um sometimes I don't know. 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:37.759 Right now, I don't even I'm not sure. 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:39.759 Maybe you maybe you're listening, maybe you're not. 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:41.119 I'm not really positive. 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:43.920 Either way, I just keep talking. 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:46.640 But I got two emails. 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:48.640 Some of some of you caught it. 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:49.839 Did anybody else catch it? 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:51.039 Just a moment of honesty. 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:54.559 Can we just say did you catch it a few summers ago? 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:56.000 Yes, you did. 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:58.480 Y'all are so kind and gracious. 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:01.680 You just let me go on, just let it go. 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.240 But if a couple of you let me know, and I appreciate it. 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:07.039 It does not say sweet savior, does it? 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:08.079 Do you see it? 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:10.720 British people like a you. 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:12.079 They like to throw in an extra U. 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:13.839 Campbell's British. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:16.880 It says sweet savour. 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:17.519 Okay. 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:19.039 See, you already knew this. 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:20.880 Like, you've been you've been fine. 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:22.640 I discovered this this week. 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:28.000 So here's what Campbell is saying. 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:36.720 God's grace for us through the sufficient offering is a sweet savor to God Himself. 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:41.359 God savors, he relishes in the offering. 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:50.160 So I thought about this this week as uh my little girl's birthday, and I had to run to get some chicken salad chick for her for her birthday. 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:56.240 And so, you know, hit up a fancy Nancy home goods with middle-aged Kinesaw women just hitting that up. 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:00.240 And so show up to the counter. 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:01.920 And have you been there lately? 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:03.839 Do you know what's on the counter now? 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:06.480 Right in the middle of the counter? 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:07.440 Cake. 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:11.039 I don't know if they bought the bakery a piece of cake. 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:19.519 I don't know if they partnered, but there's a pile now in the middle of the counter, chicken snow chick, of a piece of, and I know about a piece of cake, the bakery. 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:19.839 Okay? 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:23.519 I used to get that cake every year for my birthday, and I'm excited. 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:24.880 It's$6 a piece. 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:25.359 I don't care. 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:26.319 They could charge$12. 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.039 It doesn't, it does, it doesn't matter. 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:30.240 Like, I'm gonna buy it. 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:37.440 It was 10:30 in the morning, and I bought a piece, and then I sat in my truck and I ate half of it. 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:41.680 Because all fat is the Lord's. 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:44.880 So it's okay. 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:52.480 What was I doing in in my truck all by myself at 10:30 in the morning eating cake? 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:56.160 I was savoring it, wasn't I? 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:57.279 Yes, every bite. 00:19:57.359 --> 00:19:59.119 It was it was amazing, it was wonderful. 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:04.240 It's the same thing you do when you get like your favorite brownie, or you know, you're a steak guy, you get a steak. 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:08.640 I mean, like you just every bite, you just sit, you relish it, right? 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:11.200 So back to the Leviticus chart. 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:14.160 All this, these offerings, they're all pointing us to Jesus. 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:15.519 So sweet savor for sure. 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:17.839 Okay, I'll still like defend myself a little bit. 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:22.799 But Campbell's saying, Campbell is saying, sweet savor. 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:27.359 And Leviticus helps us see how lovely and sufficient Jesus is. 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:31.359 And the Father savors the Son. 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:34.000 And that's good theology. 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:39.359 But it's really good news also because it means that the Son is enough. 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:42.799 And because of that, the Father savors you. 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:47.039 And you may come empty-handed, but it's okay. 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:48.559 Because Jesus is enough for you. 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:50.079 Let's pray together. 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:57.279 Jesus, thank you that you are enough and that the Heavenly Father sees us through you. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:11.359 Heavenly Father, thank you that you do not see us with disappointment or condemnation or let down, but that you see us through your wonderful grace that we know in Jesus, and that you see us as perfect as Jesus was. 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:19.599 And that you are enough for all of our sin and all of our mistakes and all of our goodness that is out of messed up motive. 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:26.799 That you see us as righteous and perfect and beloved and worthy. 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:31.519 Would you help us to rest more fully in your grace to us? 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:36.160 Would you help us to exist and live under this strength? 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:39.759 And that you are the strongest substance. 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:42.240 Jesus is Christ once for all. 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:43.440 Amen.