The Law of the Grain Offering

Well, good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This is where every day you and I, we get together, we have a little bit of... Milk. Tea. Milk. Coffee. Coffee. We get into God's Word and we grow in our love for the Lord together. And this year, 2023, Lord willing, we'll make it from Genesis through... Leviticus. Leviticus. That's right. Genesis through Leviticus.
Why don't we have some coffee, milk, tea, whatever you happen to have. We'll pray. We'll have a little bit and we'll get into God's Word. Father, we thank you so much for this day. Lord, we pray that you would please instruct us, teach us, grow us in our knowledge of you, and our love for you. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, so we are at Leviticus, Leviticus chapter 6. And in Leviticus, right, we went through chapters 1 through 5 together. And in chapters 1 through 5 it was all about if an Israelite brings an offering.
This is the type of things they should bring. This is how they should bring it. Now it's about the priests. How the priests deal with the offerings. You should do this, and if you're doing this, you should do this. Yeah, but now this is what the priests are supposed to do with that offering.
Okay, so we are at chapter 6, verses 14 through 23. Deborah, you want to scoot close and you can... How about you read verses 14 through 18, and then Nathan, I'll have you read verses 19 through 23. Okay? So, you're going to answer questions. Okay. Alright.
This is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it on the altar before the Lord. Okay, so they're going to offer what type of offering before the Lord? A grain offering or like a cereal offering. He shall take from it his handful of fine flour of the grain offering with his oil and all the frankincense which is on the grain offering and shall burn it on the altar for a sweet aroma as a memorial to the Lord.
Okay, so there's a grain offering and now it's kind of summarizing what that grain offering is, right? It's got a little bit of oil, frankincense, it's a sweet smelling aroma to the Lord. All that we have already learned. But now there's new material, verses 16 through 18. How about I read that, is that cool? Okay.
And the remainder of it, Aaron and his sons shall eat. With unleavened bread it shall be eaten in a holy place. In the court of the tabernacle of meeting they shall eat it. Alright, so if you bring a grain offering, a cereal offering, what's Aaron and his son supposed to do?
Is it supposed to be totally burned in the fire? No. No? What's supposed to happen? That's not supposed to take like a handful of it. They're supposed to eat it. Whatever's not burned, they eat it. Well, how do they burn it? What's that? Well, it's like roasting it. Oh, so they're like cooking it on the side. Yeah. That's right. It shall be baked. It shall not be baked with leaven.
I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy. Like the sin offering and the trespass offering, all the males among the children of Aaron may eat it. It shall be a statute forever in your generations concerning the offerings made by fire to the Lord. Everyone who touches them must be holy." Alright, so this is the grain offering and the normal grain offering if anybody brings it to the Lord. It's a holy offering, but what are the priests allowed to do?
Eat. That's right. So Nathan, can you read 19-23? Now this is a little bit different. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, This is the offering of Aaron and his sons, which they shall offer to the Lord, again and on the day when he is when he is his son's what beginning on the day when he is anointed one tenth of day before a fine flower as a daily grant offering half of it in the morning and half of it at night okay so interestingly now it's still a what type of offering free stuff It's a grain offering by the priest, but now, is it the people bringing this offering? No, it's the priest. It's the priest bringing the offering. So if a priest brings an offering, it's going to be different.
They can do it at day and at night. It shall be made in a pan with oil. When it is mixed, you shall bring it in the big pieces of the greenery. You shall offer for a sweet woman to the Lord. The priest among his sons, who is anointed in his place, shall offer it. It is a statue forever to the Lord.
It shall be wholly burned. burned for every grain offering. For the priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten. Okay, so what's the difference? If somebody, if a normal person brings a grain offering, the priest are to burn it or to roast it. And eat whatever's left. But eat whatever's left. But if a priest brings a grain offering. Or put it in a pan with olive oil. Yeah, it's almost like making cornbread, right? But what do you do with that? You burn it. Burn it and then you eat the ashes? No, it's burned entirely. Right, so you see there's a difference between these. Okay, so what do you think is, so you gotta, mommy asked you later, she said, what in the world was this about? What would you tell her?
Offerings. Okay. The priest and the grain offerings. Good. So that's what this is about. The priest and the grain offerings. Good. What do you think is the best saying to summarize this? Yeah, I think that would be fine. I have underlined in my Bible, and shall burn it on the altar for a sweet aroma as a memorial to the Lord, a sweet aroma to the Lord, so when things are repeated, often that means it's important. But yeah, you might underline things about the priest and the burnt offerings. I think that would underline the priest. You think you would underline the pan? Well, what do you think? Do we have a tabernacle today? Nope. Not an earthly tabernacle. Okay, so it's not an earthly tabernacle. So how does this apply to us then? What do you think? How are we called? Is there anything about this that is kind of like with covenant or with Christ or a connection to us somewhere? What do you think? I can't put my hand on it.
Well, I think it'd be difficult to make a connection here, but I think there might be a connection in that is there a sacramental meal that we are invited to? What's that sacramental meal? The wedding. Well, yeah, the wedding feast of the Lamb, but regularly, often at church, we take the Lord's Supper. And what's one of the elements in the Lord's Supper?
There's two elements, the bread and the wine. The bread, I think it's similar to the grain offering here. I'm not saying it's the exact same, but when Jesus says, this is a new covenant in my blood, and one of the things he talks about with this sacramental meal, Does he just take wine? No, he also takes bread and he breaks it and gives it to him and says, this is my body broken for you. I think Jesus is acting almost like a high priest here. He's going to offer up his own body as his grain offering. It's a little bit of a stretch maybe, and that's okay. But I think it can remind us of Jesus that way. Alright, you guys ready to pray? Okay, let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much that you are the one who instituted these holy offerings. Because they are a sweet-smelling aroma to you. They are pleasing to you. Lord, you are the one who brought in the grain. You are the one who brought in the harvest. It's the harvest season here. We see the beans being taken out, the corn being harvested.
And we remember that you are the one who provides for our lives. And Lord, you have provided more than just for our physical lives, but you have given us the bread of life, Jesus Christ. And so Father, we pray that we would love you and walk in your ways. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Alright, you guys want to say goodbye? Bye! May the Lord bless you and may you rejoice in Jesus. We'll see you next time.
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