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| Leviticus 7:1-10 |
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Lesson # Leviticus 7:1-10 Study Material - Leviticus 7:1-10 You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Lev. 7:1-10 1 'Now this is the law of the guilt offering; it is most holy. 2 'In the place where they slay the burnt offering they are to slay the guilt offering, and he shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. 3 'Then he shall offer from it all its fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, 4 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver he shall remove with the kidneys. 5 'And the priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the LORD; it is a guilt offering. 6 'Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. 7 'The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. 8 'Also the priest who presents any man's burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has presented. 9 'Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in the oven, and everything prepared in a pan or on a griddle, shall belong to the priest who presents it. 10 'And every grain offering mixed with oil, or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, to all alike. Similar to the sin offering of chapter four, this is a restatement of the guilt offering of chapter 5, or the offering for known sins in the life of the believer. This offering is for believers only. Unbelievers do not have the right to confess their sins to God, since they have not recognized God as the one true God. When they believe in Christ then they are no longer unbelievers. They are members of Gods family and thus included in the 'family' business as it were. The details of the guilt offering are given in the study of chapter five and the first portion of chapter six. The priest cannot present an offering on behalf of a person, unless the priest is first in fellowship himself. No service in the temple can be performed unless the person doing the service is in fellowship, and therefore within Gods will. Now we get to the real meat of the matter as to why all of these offerings are being presented again. In Christ's time, the priests working in the temple were mostly unbelievers. There were some exceptions. Some priests understood their scripture correctly. We saw that in our study of Matthew and the birth of Christ. But the High Priests and many others in the temple, rejected Jesus, yet they were performing the rituals day and night, month after month, year after year as though they were doing some good work for God. They went through the ritual, but its meaning was not a reality in their lives. These offerings were teaching aids. None of them saved any person, ever. None of them restored any person to fellowship, ever. They all taught the principles of the Bible such that a person could learn their meanings and then apply them in their lives. People could not live outside of the Temple or even inside it all of their lives - not enough room. After going through the rituals, everyone went home and back to their day to day routines. They would then, if they were positive toward what they had learned, would then apply doctrine to their lives. They would confess to God, privately in their prayers, as is taught in this last of the five offerings -the guilt offering - the offering for known sins. They would review whatever notes or material they might have in order to keep Gods word in front of their minds and thus continue their spiritual growth from day to day. They might even get together with friends, family, neighbors, whomever, for the purpose (not for social activities) of reinforcing what they knew in doctrine and to perhaps even learn or see someone else's perspective on a given subject. Perhaps something that they had not thought of. Children would have the opportunity to learn as well. All Christian service occurs in the sphere of fellowship. It has nothing to do with where or even what you are doing. You can be washing dishes, and if you are in fellowship then you are in full time Christian service. You can be inventing the next great invention of the century. You can be changing diapers, filing papers, typing, driving a truck, digging, writing, sleeping, etc. Whatever you do while in fellowship, you are in full time Christian service. The emphasis is not on what or where you do a thing, but what is your spiritual status - fellowship or carnal. Doing work for the church while out of fellowship is worthless works, human works (wood, hay, and stubble) and rejected by God. Doing work for the church while in fellowship, or doing anything for that matter while in fellowship, is the production of divine works (gold, silver, and precious stones). Your spiritual objective is not what you do, but the sphere in which you do it. Being in fellowship and advancing in your spiritual studies, will cause all of your good works to be just that - divine production, or good works as defined by the scriptures. These are the components of the construction of that temple inside your soul, they are the furnishings of that temple. The principles of doctrine make up the foundation and framework of that temple being constructed in your soul. You study to build that framework. You apply what you know to your life, to furnish and complete your soul. Aaron and all of the priests could not properly perform their duties unless they first applied the offerings to their own personal lives. No unbeliever can perform the duties of the believer legitimately. Likewise no believer can perform their Christian family (Gods family) service unless they are in fellowship. 
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
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