WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:10.720 Well, some good news before we get into the sermon as that is that this week we started the cosmetic renovation of Suite 830, which is the space to your right with our small group rooms. 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:12.160 And so this week it got painted. 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:16.399 We'll be doing the carpet and the front doors, some new front doors into that space. 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:24.000 And then as well, this coming week we're going to finalize some decisions about renovation of the rest of the building over in the children's wing, the old sanctuary, and the back lobby. 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:26.640 So more information to come with that. 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:34.560 As well, on Wednesday morning of this week, I was at a citywide ministry prayer breakfast, and I got to spend time with two new pastors in our city. 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:38.960 This is Zach Cardin on the left, who I actually worked with at Church of the Apostles years ago. 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:41.600 He's the new pastor at Marietta Community Church. 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:46.960 And then Brandon Owen on the right is the new pastor at First Baptist Marietta. 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:54.159 And I just want us as a church, before we jump into the sermon, to pause and pray for these two men and their families and these churches. 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:56.719 We want them to flourish. 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:58.159 We want them to flourish. 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:00.240 We want these churches during these transitions. 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:01.840 We want these churches to flourish. 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:06.079 We are all better when any of us and any of our churches are flourishing. 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:07.439 So let's pray together. 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:13.599 God, we come to put before you for these two men and their callings, their churches, their families. 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:15.599 God, we pray for their families. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:23.359 For Zach, not a move, but a move of calling and a move of relationships. 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:25.920 And God, we pray for Zach and his wife. 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:30.319 God, pray that this transition would feel peaceful. 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:32.959 God, that it would be a great reward for him. 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:38.159 God, we pray for a real sense of passion, excitement in what he's doing. 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:40.560 Give him wisdom beyond his years. 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:41.920 Give him insight. 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:47.040 God, we pray for Brandon as his wife and children move from Nashville. 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:50.879 11 months in, please be with them in this transition. 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:55.840 Help them build friendships, feel a sense of community in their church, but beyond their church. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.319 Help them feel a sense of home in our town. 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:02.560 And God, I pray for a great sense of calling on Brandon and give him wisdom. 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:04.079 God, I pray for these two men. 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:06.480 I pray their preaching would be full of Jesus. 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:09.120 And we pray that their churches would flourish. 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:10.639 We pray this in Christ's name. 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:11.520 Amen. 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:16.960 This morning we're continuing our study of the ancient strange book of Leviticus. 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:20.479 Leviticus is the third book of the Old Testament. 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:30.560 And what we have been seeing in the past two sermons, what we always see in the Old Testament is that the Old Testament is picture after picture of God's grace to come. 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:36.319 And then the New Testament is teaching after teaching about that grace. 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:41.280 About 15 years ago, I was a seminary-educated young pastor. 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:44.719 I was a devoted, I was a committed Christian. 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:45.759 I was so committed. 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:47.919 Here's a lovely picture of my wife and I. 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:49.199 Then at the time. 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:56.400 I mean, that was a lot of laughter. 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:00.879 I mean, a little bit would have been, you know, understandable. 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:02.639 It felt a little uncalled for. 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:03.919 A little bit. 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:06.479 I guys, I was committed. 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.479 I mean, I was even trying to look like Jesus. 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:12.240 This is how, this is how committed I was. 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:16.800 I mean, it testifies to Christy's character, right? 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:20.639 That she could she could love me looking like that. 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:33.280 During this season of my life, every morning, I was pulling up the bootstraps to prove to God how worthy I was or how strong I was. 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:34.080 Right? 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:39.280 I was using what I did to feel loved by God. 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:45.280 So, of course, day by day and week by week, I was becoming more exhausted as a Christian. 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:49.840 I was too insecure with God to feel any sense of peace. 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:55.919 Even when my life was slow, my heart was incredibly, incredibly busy. 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:57.759 And I limited compassion. 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:00.800 I had limited compassion toward others. 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:03.840 Because why aren't you getting your act together like me? 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:05.520 I mean, look at look at look at what I'm doing. 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:07.680 Get your act together. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.080 So limited compassion. 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:16.879 I felt like an amazing Christian one day and really loved and amazing, and then the next day, just a lot of despair. 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:27.439 See, I was looking for something, something else, more than Jesus, something that I could do, contribute, something else, to finally really be accepted by God. 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:35.120 I had received Jesus but returned to the law, to a performance-oriented life, my record for him, not his record for me. 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:38.480 So of course I was exhausted and lacked peace. 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:43.040 As I reflect back on the first two sermons of Leviticus, I can kind of see it. 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:51.040 I was living, and I can still do this, still do this easily, I was living in Leviticus 2, the grain offering, my devotion to God. 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:52.720 We talked about it last week. 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:59.600 Outside of Leviticus 1, the burnt offering, God's provision of grace to us. 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:05.519 Now, religion says, I obey, therefore I am loved. 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:08.480 I obey, therefore I am loved. 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.319 I'm only loved if I obey. 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:13.360 I'm devoted, so then I can be loved. 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:22.160 So this is like saying Leviticus 2, our devotion and worship, without Leviticus 1, God's grace to us. 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:23.839 But the gospel's different. 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:28.000 The gospel says, I am loved, therefore I obey. 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.720 I'm loved, therefore I worship, I'm loved, therefore I'm devoted. 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:32.480 I'm loved, therefore I give. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:33.120 Right? 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:36.639 This is the way that Leviticus is laying the grace of God out for us. 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:44.160 Leviticus 2, my devotion and worship through Leviticus 1, God's grace to us, the burnt offering. 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:46.399 And maybe we would say, great, fantastic. 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:47.120 Thanks for us. 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:47.920 How do I do that? 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:49.040 What does that mean? 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:56.399 Well, Titus 2, 11 and 12 actually says that this grace of God actually empowers us, it does something in us. 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:00.879 Paul says, for the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people. 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:03.439 And we could kind of say, well, that's kind of like Leviticus 1. 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:11.680 Verse 12, it's kind of like Leviticus 2, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age. 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.639 So how we say it is a core value of spiritual growth. 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:16.639 It's one of our core values as a church. 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:18.079 We want you to grow spiritually. 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:19.519 I want to grow spiritually. 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:21.680 This is our hope for us. 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:36.000 We say it this way: we grow in the grace of God by living more deeply in the great wealth of our beloved identity in Jesus Christ, as we know it through Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:40.240 The Holy Spirit uses this deepening to heal and transform us. 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:45.920 And that's going to be a lifelong pursuit of a lot of confession and weakness, but a receiving of God's grace to us. 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:51.120 It might look like certain spiritual practices to live more deeply in the wealth you have. 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:55.040 Now, Leviticus chapter 3, 1 and 2. 00:06:55.199 --> 00:07:09.199 If his offering is a sacrifice, a peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord, and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:13.920 And Aaron's sons, the priest, shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar. 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:20.639 So the worshipper personally slaughtered the animal and then handed the animal over to the priest. 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:29.279 The priest then takes the blood out of the animal, puts it in like a bowl, kind of sloshes it about, let it sprinkle up on the altar. 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:32.399 And out of that, strange ancient practice, we get this. 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:38.959 Point number one our fellowship, our oneness, our nearness with God is through God's grace alone. 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.399 And that's by substitutionary atonement, big theological term. 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:48.399 All it means is this the worshiper, feeling guilty, antsy, doesn't have his act together. 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:53.199 The worshiper took that animal, laid his hands on the animal. 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:55.040 And there's a transfer there. 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:56.800 This is what happens at the cross. 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:58.720 So all this is pointing to the cross. 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:05.759 That there's a transfer of our sin and our fault put upon God Himself and His righteousness given to us. 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:07.600 Substitutionary atonement. 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:15.279 It's the goodness that we have in this that another paid for our right to have nearness and relationship with God. 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:17.839 We don't have to earn it and we don't have to maintain it. 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:19.519 We get to receive it. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.800 Fellowship is nearness, a oneness. 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:25.199 This is the kind of relationship God wants with us. 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:32.000 A non-anxious, unhurried relationship with the Father. 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:33.919 So quick review. 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:36.720 Leviticus 1, the burnt offering. 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:39.120 So each chapter is giving us an offering. 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:42.960 Chapter 1, burnt offering, God's grace to us through substitutionary atonement. 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:47.519 Chapter 2, grain offering, our devotion and worship given to God. 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:54.320 Chapter 3, peace offering, our thanksgiving for our peace that we have with God. 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:56.960 So if we think about this, it's amazing how this lays. 00:08:57.200 --> 00:08:58.799 I mean, who knew Leviticus is great? 00:08:58.960 --> 00:08:59.919 It's so good. 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:00.720 So good. 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:03.679 By chapter one, we can live chapter two. 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:09.120 And then we respond with chapter three, this thanksgiving of the peace that we can have. 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:13.440 But it's not built upon our chapter two devotion, it's built upon our chapter one. 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:19.279 Which means we don't have to live exhausted in chapter two in our devotion because of chapter one. 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:25.519 And because of chapter one, it sends us into chapter three where we're saying, thank you, God, for your grace alone. 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:29.360 Now, if you really want to nerd out, here's R.K. 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:31.600 Campbell's Leviticus chart. 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:32.960 I know you're waiting for this. 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:35.919 You came, you're like, if only he would show us. 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:46.639 This is a British Anglican minister, and he dug into Leviticus and he drew out this chart, and he has, you know, little comments under burnt offering. 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:48.399 We see all the different offerings. 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:50.480 He has little notes here and there. 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.679 But for us just to look at it today, I know you're gonna go home, you're gonna study all week. 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:56.480 I know you will. 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:00.320 But for today, it's just pretty simple. 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:02.480 One, two, three. 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:02.960 Right? 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:03.679 That's where we're at. 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:05.039 Chapter one, chapter two, chapter three. 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:06.799 We're in number three today. 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:08.559 One, two, three. 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:10.879 They go in order. 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:15.679 The peace offering followed the sin offering. 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:20.720 The only way we have peace is through the sin offering, through the burnt offering. 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:25.919 So it means that we aren't condemned, we aren't dismissed, and we aren't just put to work. 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:27.759 It's all gratitude. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:32.159 Our response is all gratitude, because only by the blood of another. 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:35.360 This is how it is pointing to Jesus over and over again. 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:37.919 And we are relieved of a guilt trip. 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:43.519 And we're also relieved of a performance story in life, and we're relieved of trying to prove our worth. 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:45.519 Leviticus 3, 3 and 4. 00:10:45.679 --> 00:11:02.720 And from the sacrifice of the peace offering as a food offering to the Lord, he shall offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:04.240 What in the world's going on here? 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:05.279 Point number two. 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:09.200 Fellowship with God involves surrender to God. 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:17.279 All these really detailed parts of this animal represented the richest parts of the animal. 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:24.399 And at the time, they thought that these parts made up the core of a person. 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:31.519 So the worshiper here is taking the core of the animal, the richest parts, and giving them to God. 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:35.360 As a way to say, God, you can have the core of me. 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:45.360 So when we read this, and we're going to read a longer section here, we're going to read through the end of the chapter, and we're going to read it over and over again, these parts of the body, and you can get lost in it and get like, what is this is ridiculous? 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:46.480 I might as well just leave. 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.519 This is talking about the core of who you are. 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:52.080 God, you can have the core of me. 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.080 And that was Thanksgiving, and that was surrender. 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.440 We see this with Hannah in the Old Testament. 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:00.879 Hannah couldn't have a baby. 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:02.559 She was barren. 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:06.240 And then finally the Lord gives her child, Samuel. 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:13.360 And in 1 Samuel, we see that Hannah devotees, surrenders Samuel to the Lord. 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:15.600 Her most precious thing in the world. 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:19.039 And it says she went to the temple with a fellowship offering. 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:24.639 That she took three animals from the herd, which would have been a just, I mean, this is big money offering. 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:26.080 She's showing up. 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:27.279 Extravagant. 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:29.519 She brought flowers, she brought a grain offering. 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:33.279 She testified what the Lord had done, his goodness to her, she gave thanks. 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:34.720 So we see this with Hannah. 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:40.000 It was atonement, it was devotion, it was thanksgiving, and it was surrender. 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:49.120 And the growth in grace question that stirred in me this week was this given the astonishing grace to you, to us. 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:50.000 Chapter 1. 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:51.360 Given that, it's already there. 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:52.320 Given that. 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:55.360 What do you need to surrender? 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.720 As to grow in godliness and no greater freedom. 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:02.159 And that's not more condemnation on you, that's more grace on you. 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:04.559 Given the astonishing grace. 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:05.360 Given that's already there. 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:06.720 Given that's already there. 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:09.919 What might God be calling you to surrender? 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:13.039 Alright, we're gonna read verses 5 through 17. 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.519 I'll warn you, it's gonna, it's a bit of a read. 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:16.399 Hang in there. 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:17.919 Alright, here we go. 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.799 Then Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering. 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:23.759 Hang on to that. 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:25.120 We'll come back to that. 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:27.919 Which is on the wood on the fire. 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:30.879 As a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:37.759 If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:41.360 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the Lord. 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:46.000 Lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it in front of the tent of meeting. 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:50.080 And Aaron's sons shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar. 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:55.200 Then from the sacrifice of peace offering, he shall offer as a food offering to the Lord its fat. 00:13:55.360 --> 00:14:08.399 He shall remove the whole fat tail, cut off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that's on the entrails and the two kidneys, with the fat that is on them, at the loins and the long lobe of the liver, and he shall remove the kidneys. 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:09.919 Y'all still you still hear? 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:10.159 Good. 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:10.720 Nobody left. 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:11.519 I didn't hear the doors. 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:12.320 Verse 11. 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:16.000 And the priest shall burn it on the altar as a food offering to the Lord. 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:20.240 If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord and lay his hand on its head. 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:23.519 See, he said over and over again, this transference. 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:25.360 My sin goes upon. 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:28.879 This gift, this gift of atonement that is coming to us. 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:37.679 Verse 13, and then lay his hand on its head, kill it in front of the tent of meeting, the sons of Aaron, throw its blood against the sides of the altar. 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:53.440 Then he shall offer from it as his offering for food offering to the Lord, the fat covering the entrails, and all the fat that's on the entrails, and the two kidneys with the fat that's on them, and the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, he shall remove with the kidneys, and the priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering pleasing, sharoma. 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.240 All fat is the Lord's. 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:57.200 Amen. 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.120 Could be a new memory verse. 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:04.159 I don't know. 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:06.399 Retreat theme. 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:08.639 I mean, there's so many places we go with it. 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:10.799 Verse 17. 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:17.679 It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations and all your dwelling places that you eat neither fat nor blood. 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:18.799 Point number three is this. 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.120 Out of all that, God loves you. 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:23.200 And God delights in you. 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:25.519 Last week we said this. 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:32.879 Our devotion for Jesus, chapter 2, is empowered by our already acceptance in Jesus, chapter 1. 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:36.480 Then in chapter 3, we just read back in verse 5. 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:40.000 The fellowship, this is so good, so good. 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:45.759 The fellowship offering was burnt on top of the burnt offering. 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:48.879 Anybody else? 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:50.799 I mean, anybody, that just gets me excited. 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:52.399 That gets me excited. 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:54.159 Let me translate it, okay? 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:55.600 Maybe you'll get more sound. 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:00.879 Our fellowship with Jesus, which is chapter three, is empowered. 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:05.279 It's built upon our already acceptance in Jesus, which is chapter one. 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:06.879 That's so good. 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:10.720 That's a picture of grace to us of how good Jesus is for us. 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:15.759 And then we learn in verses 5 and 11 and 16 that God delights in the fellowship offering. 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:19.600 When we read this over and over again, a pleasing aroma to the Lord, pleasing aroma to the Lord. 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:23.600 We're reading God doesn't love you and just kind of put up with you. 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:26.639 You're a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:28.720 God loves you and delights in you. 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:30.080 He adores you. 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:36.240 A few years ago on Christmas, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day on Delta, there was a dad Hal. 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:37.360 Here's a picture of Hal. 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:38.639 Hal's on the left. 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:40.159 We don't know the guy in the middle. 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:41.919 And then Pierce is on the right. 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:43.759 That's Hal's daughter, Pierce. 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:45.200 She was flight attendant. 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.320 She had to work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:51.759 Six flights she had to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. 00:16:51.919 --> 00:17:01.840 So Dad buys a ticket on every single flight and just rides with her on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:04.000 Because he doesn't want her to be alone. 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:05.920 So he could be with her. 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:06.480 Right? 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:07.440 This is endearing. 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:09.200 This is so endearing. 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:13.759 Because this father delights in his child. 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:15.680 He just wants to be with her. 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:22.319 And it's a beautiful gospel image for us that the Heavenly Father, he delights in you. 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:24.079 Yes, this is through chapter one. 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:27.519 This is through the burnt offering, God's grace to you of Jesus. 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:31.039 Because he sees you as he sees his own son, Jesus. 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:35.519 He knows all of you, he loves all of you, he delights to pursue you and to be with you. 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:43.279 He longs for fellowship, that nearness, that oneness of a non-anxious, peace-filled relationship. 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.559 Paul puts it together for us in Romans 5, verses 1 and 2. 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.440 Listen how we can hear Leviticus 1 through 3 in here. 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:53.279 Romans 5, 1 and 2. 00:17:53.599 --> 00:18:00.720 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:10.880 Through him, we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:15.519 So the peace offering of the Old Testament is pointing us to the real offering. 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:17.920 This Jesus for us. 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:20.880 Not our shed blood for him, his shed blood for us. 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:27.279 Point number four is this through redemption in Christ, we enjoy communion with Christ. 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:38.160 Years ago, my mentor told me I needed an unhurried, non-anxious presence, of which, thanks. 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:39.759 Thank you. 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:41.359 Just tell me what to do. 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:43.599 Like, hurry up, tell me what to do, so I go do it. 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:45.599 You know, I can get this non-anxious presence. 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:47.839 You're talking, like, like let me know what to do. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:51.519 And here's what he said, how it works out for him in his life. 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:58.319 I need to start my day lingering in the welcoming presence of our Father. 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:04.079 I'm just as susceptible as anyone to living a driven life rather than a called life. 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:11.920 I begin my day with Sabbath rest, slowly reading the scriptures, remembering the gospel, and fellowshipping with our Father. 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:16.000 Not resting is a recipe for disaster. 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:21.119 It might build a huge stock portfolio, but it will bankrupt a heart. 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:29.039 So hold on to that and then think back on this Leviticus: burn offering, grain offering, peace offering. 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:33.599 Chapter one gives us chapter two, gives us chapter three. 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:34.720 Right? 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:35.759 Through Jesus. 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:45.039 Through Jesus, we get to linger in the presence of God, not being condemned, but being welcomed, being loved. 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:46.240 He delights in us. 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:49.440 Now, let's go back to that total Bible nerd chart. 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:51.039 I know you wanted to see it again. 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:52.960 You were thinking about it the whole time. 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:57.920 Under each offering, just kind of floating out. 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:02.640 It took me a while to see it, you know, like it took me a while, but like just kind of floating out there. 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:06.000 You can see that Campbell just digging into this Leviticus. 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:07.279 He's digging and digging. 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:12.880 He's drawing this chart, he's nerding out, and then just it's interesting on that chart every once in a while, just floating around. 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:14.240 It's not really attached to anything. 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:15.359 A lot of stuff's attached. 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:17.920 He kept writing, you see it three times? 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:19.359 Sweet savior. 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:21.519 Sweet savior, sweet savior. 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:25.279 My little one and I went to bubble tea on Monday night. 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:26.880 Y'all know bubble tea at the market? 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:29.920 Five dollars for a cup of tea. 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:34.160 They do have little bubbles at the bottom. 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:36.240 Do you know little bubbles, right? 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:38.799 I don't know what that is, but they're at the bottom. 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:40.000 And so she ordered her bubbles. 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:42.640 You got Barbie flavored, so we're riding home. 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:52.640 And like there's a big straw because you're drinking your tea, and then every once in a while you get a little bubble that pops up in your mouth, and you get to burst it, and there's a little sweetness comes. 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:54.319 Anybody else in the bubble tea? 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:55.200 Bubble tea. 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:58.799 A little sweetness pot, like a little bubble of joy. 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:07.119 And like she was sitting over in the shotgun seat and she was drinking this bubble tea, and every time one of those bubbles came up, she pop it, and you I just hear it, ooh. 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:13.279 So I was like, let me have, let me, I want one. 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:14.160 You know, so I had one. 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:14.559 Ooh. 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:19.200 So of course I thought about the Leviticus chart. 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:28.400 I mean, as a good preacher, I mean, this is what naturally that moment you think about is you go, like, this is just like the Leviticus 1 through 7 chart. 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:29.839 This is what it is like. 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.799 Because I can just see Campbell studying Leviticus 1 through 7. 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:35.920 He's just digging into this. 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:41.279 He's love, all the fellowship offerings on top of the burn offering, oh, our grain offerings through the burn offering. 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:42.640 He's just digging, digging in. 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:47.839 It's just like, he's just pondering how enough Jesus is for us. 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:50.240 And over and over again, I love it. 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:52.640 I love it that he writes it's not connected to anything. 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:54.480 It's just three times. 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:58.240 Sweet Savior, sweet Savior, sweet Savior. 00:21:59.359 --> 00:22:00.079 Let's pray. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:04.000 Heavenly Father, thank you that you provide the sweet Savior for us. 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:06.160 We do not have to save ourselves. 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:08.480 It is by your blood for us. 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.119 God forgive us for all the ways we try to save ourselves and just wear ourselves out. 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:17.519 Help us to rest all the more. 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:21.279 And how sufficient Jesus is for us. 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:26.640 May we grow in our devotion. 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:28.480 May we grow in our thanksgiving. 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:30.079 May we grow in our surrender. 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:35.920 And may all this be built upon and through your grace to us, which is enough. 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:39.680 Thank you for the sweet Savior, Jesus. 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:40.400 Amen.