(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) amen so keep your place in Leviticus chapter 1 that's what we're going to be for the entire sermon we're going to be referencing back and forth so when you leave Leviticus chapter 1 just keep a bookmark there we're going to come back and forth to the book of Leviticus so we're starting a new sermon series tonight the sermon series is on the offering so in the first seven chapters of Leviticus we see five main offerings that are detailed out for the children of Israel to be doing in the book of Leviticus in these first few chapters we're going to look at these sacrifices and see how they what do they picture how do they how do they apply to us in our lives today because remember all of these sacrifices everything that they did in the Old Testament were just pictures or foreshadowings of things that are to come all right so tonight in Leviticus chapter 1 we're going to be looking at this burnt offering the burnt offering is the first offering that we'll look at in our sermon series and if you're there in Leviticus chapter 1 well you'll notice as we just read the chapter that I'm going to give you four points tonight that describe the burnt offering as it's unique each of these offerings some of them have things that are similar but all of these offerings have things that are unique so tonight I'm gonna give you four points on the burnt offering that is unique to the burnt offering and hopefully I can explain to you and why the burnt offering is there so keep in mind that this is offerings that the children of Israel are doing when they have the tabernacle you know there is no they're they're doing this in front of the tents you know this is the beginning of these the Levitical law there was not you know they were not in Solomon's temple at this point you know we're hundreds of years from that point in history they're doing these things in front of the tabernacle and this is the Levitical priesthood you know Moses's brother Aaron was the the first high priest there and he was doing he was commanded to be doing these ritual sacrifices in front of the tabernacle or in the tabernacle look at Ephesians chapter 5 if you would Ephesians chapter 5 and you're gonna keep your place in Leviticus chapter 1 so the first unique thing about the burnt sacrifice that we need to see tonight is that it's a complete sacrifice all right not every one of the sacrifices that we're going to talk about is a complete sacrifice and I'll explain that in a little bit more detail when we look at you know next week we look at the next offering and how it's not a complete sacrifice that certain things you know of the sacrifice go here and other things of the sacrifice go here but the burnt offering is a complete sacrifice and this part of the offering shows the foreshadowing of Christ's sacrifice himself on how Christ's sacrifice was a complete sacrifice we should all be very happy that Christ's sacrifice was a complete sacrifice look at Ephesians chapter 5 in verse number 2 I'm glad I'm thankful that Christ gave all that he didn't hold anything back that he sacrificed everything look at Ephesians chapter 5 in verse number 2 and notice that the the wording here and how this matches perfectly with what we just read in Leviticus chapter 1 it says and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us why how did Christ love us did by saying oh I love you and all lovey-dovey feelings towards you know he had given himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor that exact same wording that we see in Leviticus chapter 1 talking about the burnt offering all right and I'm gonna get into that sweet-smelling savor in a couple points down the road but many of the offerings that we're gonna look at in this sermon series you will see that things are held back for certain reasons and we'll look at that but the burnt offering is a complete offering the entire animal was yes it was divided up in a certain way but everything was burned on the altar it was complete all right and by the way you know the burnt the fire part of it definitely is is part of that complete sacrifice picture of Christ as well as Christ in Acts chapter 2 and verse 31 you know he spent his soul literally went to hell you know his soul was not left in hell the Bible clearly says it shows the completeness of Christ's sacrifice and it shows I mean you know that I mean hell is is defined by fire in the Bible you know not only is the lake of fire the final destination of hell but in Matthew chapter 5 we see the the words hell fire used other places in the Bible talks about the torments of hell and the torments of just eternal destruction smoke of their torment you know I mean all of this pictures this burnt sacrifice pictures the completeness of Christ's sacrifice and I mean people that for some reason preach against like Christ going to hell you know they say all kinds of silly things like oh you're saying that the death on the cross wasn't enough or I don't even know what that means because you know they say oh when Jesus was on the cross he said it was it is finished that means that well obviously Jesus did not mean the entire gospel was finished on the cross because he still hadn't risen from the dead I mean what in the world are you talking about so I mean no Jesus's sacrifice was everything it was everything it was the death on the cross it was the blood it was all of these things it was his soul going to hell and of course it was the resurrection you know you cannot be saved if you don't believe Jesus rose from dead I mean that's Matthew or Romans 10 9 right there so I mean look Jesus Christ's sacrifice was complete look I'm glad it was complete look at Leviticus chapter 1 to go back to Leviticus chapter 1 look at verse number 8 let's look at this the Bible says in Leviticus chapter 1 in verse number 8 it says and the priests Aaron sons shall lay the parts the head and the fat in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar okay so there we see some parts but then look at verse number 9 but his inwards these are like the innards all right that you know the in inwards parts of the animal his lay and his leg shall he wash in water and the priest shall burn all on the offer so yeah they have to wash certain parts of it but everything is burnt to be a burnt sacrifice an offering made by fire of a sweet saver unto the Lord so it just pictures the completeness of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and what I mean I'm glad that the sacrifice was complete and it also pictures by the way the completeness of your salvation through that complete sacrifice I mean the idea that you could lose your salvation doesn't make sense on so many on any level actually I mean even just using the words even just using how people can be out there how the Pentecostal today can believe that you can be saved and then lose your salvation but just stop using the word saved just stop using that terminology because it doesn't make any sense I mean how are you saved if you if you die how are you saved if you end up in hell it's like you know you know going out and saving somebody from drowning right you go out you save somebody from drowning you do this heroic act you're like I just saved you and then you take them out and you drown them did you really save them I mean it just it doesn't even make any sense that the Bible would even use the terminology for by grace are you saved thou shalt be saved it wouldn't make any sense to even use the word because if somebody gets saved and then they go to hell like what in the world they weren't even saved I mean how could you call that saved I mean this is just kind of a rabbit trail but I mean losing your salvation doesn't make any sense okay and it flies in the face against the completeness of Jesus sacrifice and it flies in the face against the completeness of your personal salvation all right so this is the first point of the burnt offering don't miss the fact that it is a complete offering everything is offered and if Jesus held anything back he would not have been able to save us so the completeness was necessary for what Jesus did go back to Leviticus chapter one and look at verse number two let's look at verse number two and verse number three the second point I want to make about this burnt offering is that it was voluntary it was voluntary look at verse number two where the Bible says speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them if any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord you shall bring an offering of your cattle even of the herd and of the flock we're going to talk about those three categories in a couple minutes too but look at verse number three if his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd let him offer a male without blemish he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord of course it's a male without blemish why because it's picturing the sinless Jesus Christ the sinless Messiah it is a picture of what it is to come but the second point I want to make is that this offering this burnt offering this is not something that every man had to do you know every month or whatever this was a voluntary offering that somebody would bring of the herd of the flock and of the what do they call it of the of the flock of the herd and of the cattle so it's either gonna be a cow a sheep or a bird of some kind all right and it's it was a free choice but it had to be voluntary God wanted you know the the people the children of Israel he wanted them to do this of their own free will I mean it's a really a it's really a case it's really a great case in the Bible to show us that God wants us to have free will that God gave us free will I mean look there's points all over the back actually turn to Genesis chapter 2 God has always wanted man to have free will God never created man to have a bunch of role you know just to be a bunch of robots they just follow him and you know they are just predestined to just you know get saved and be great Christians that's a bunch of garbage it's found nowhere in the Bible God has always created man to have free will and that's why God is labeling this burnt sacrifice he's like you know what I want you to do this of your own free will I want you to do this if you do this of your voluntary self you come here and give this to me here's how you do it but it had to be voluntary so it would have been wrong for somebody to just drag some goat or sheep or whatever a male you know ram and without blemish I can't believe this kick the thing and you know be like I guess I got to give this because you know my uncle says I should or whatever I mean you know that would have been wrong from that from the beginning God wanted it to be of free will God wants us to have free will God created man to have free will from the very beginning look at Genesis chapter 2 verse number 16 look at what the Bible says from the beginning God created man to have free will and the Lord commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden now may is freely eat but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die so this is super important right here just to prove free will and how God created man how man literally just has free will God gave them one rule at the beginning he said you can eat anything you want in the garden and look there was no poison mushrooms in the garden there was no poison oak there was no you know weed or whatever you know people are like wanting to eat today to you know get all messed up in their head and turn themselves into fools but he said don't eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he didn't put a force field around it you know he didn't make this magical like thing that you can't approach or you get shocked or something he just said don't do it don't touch it or what what does the Bible teach the Bible teaches free will or consequences that's what the Bible teaches and like what we're missing today you say how is our society such a mess today because we're not teaching the consequences anymore you know man still has free will but we're not teaching the consequences which by the way are there whether people like it or not he says don't touch it or else consequences see there's sin all around us it's the same thing today there's sin all around us as saved Christians today there's sin all around us and there's consequences all around us and the sin it's there for the taking it's there for the taking and the consequences are always there we always must choose the right way it's the same thing because we have free will I mean for a lot of people free will is not a good thing for them but it's there and the consequences are always there I mean turn to Hosea chapter 1 we talked about this last we were chatting about this last Sunday night or something I can't remember but think of a husband-and-wife analogy think of a husband-and-wife analogy you say why did God give man free will it's really easy to understand you go find a guy that's married or not married I don't care who it is or even a gal and ask her the same question you ask her hey would you like to have someone be your husband who is forced to love you would you like someone to be married to you would you like to meet a young lady young men would you like to meet a young lady who somebody puts a gun to her her head and says you must marry brother so-and-so no no man would want that no no person would want someone to be forced to love them to oh you know they'll they'll take this pill once a day and then they'll love you or whatever I mean it's just like nobody would want that everybody wants their spouse to just freely love them this is a problem with with a lot of marriages by the way this is a problem with a lot of marriages like you know inevitably a husband treats a wife like garbage for 10 15 20 years and pretty soon you know it works the same way too by the way pretty soon you know you know that that love fades you know that that it just fades you're just like what happened you know it didn't happen overnight pretty soon you know you have some some wife who's just terrible to her husband for years and years and years and pretty soon he's off in the wilderness somewhere pretty soon he's up in the corner of a house somewhere he wants nothing to do with his wife you know why I want him to love me I want her to love me all this but look you can drive people away you can drive people away by how you treat them but back to the point God uses this husband and wife analogy all the time in the Bible especially relating to the children of Israel and in Hosea chapter 1 Hosea was a prophet he's one of the minor prophets right after the book of Daniel we find the book of Hosea but he's one of the minor prophets his contemporaries were Jonah Amos there's one more somewhere I think Micah was also one of his contemporaries but basically he was at he was mainly a prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel at the end of their reign and actually he was a prophet during a couple of Jahu's sons who we learned about this morning so Jahu was promised by God because he did such a great job God told him you're gonna have four generations of sons so if you ever look at the the genealogy of the kings of the children of the northern kingdom of Israel the longest reigning family is Jahu's family because he had son after son after son after son and two of those sons were underneath the the prophecy of Hosea all right so Hosea is kind of ripping face against the northern kingdom of Israel they're about to be taken over I mean we're within just a couple of decades at Hosea's time of you know the Assyrian Empire coming in and wiping out the northern kingdom of Israel but look at Hosea chapter number one and look at the analogy that God uses I mean God goes pretty extreme with this technology with Hosea all right look what he says he says the beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea and Lord said to Hosea go take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and the children of whoredoms for the land hath committed great whoredom departing from the Lord he tells this prophet go marry a prostitute he says go marry a harlot and you know Hosea is like oh man could we use some other you know you would think you'd be like I wish I would have gotten like the dung analogy that would have been better but he's literally told by God to go marry a prostitute you say why so he went and he took Gomer the daughter of Dibley him which conceived and bear him a son so he goes and he marries so I mean first of all guys like what was your name Gomer just run right like I don't know like so you're not probably gonna see a lot of ladies or a lot of kids or young ladies named Gomer you know what I mean for many different reasons especially if they know the Bible but I mean I mean he's like oh she's a she's a harlot what's your name Gomer oh man double whammy terrible name as a matter of fact it's funny because I was on a plane a few months ago and I was sitting on this plane and there was this plane had speaking of terrible names I mean this is not a a crazy preacher story this actually happened to me okay and there was pre-ordered meals before we got on the plane so the stewardess was asking everyone what their names were in the seats so she knew who who had what meal and she goes up to the lady there was an older lady sitting next to me to my right and she goes up to the lane she says am I pronouncing your your name right and the lady goes nightmare yes nightmare that's my name and I'm just like what in the world her first name was nightmare talk about talk about a name that you probably should have just changed right I mean parents have issues with with with this at this time but anyway she says she says but people just call me Alabama and then for the rest of the flight it was just like Miss Alabama Miss Alabama nightmare was never used but anyway that's up there with Gomer okay anyway so God God uses this analogy of a marriage to describe the relationship that he has with his people okay and his people were committing whoredoms against him God was using the children of Israel to in he was comparing he used this extreme example with his prophet to show that the children of Israel they're committing adultery against me they are going you know committing whoredom after other gods they're they're going off and they're breaking their covenant with me is what God was saying he uses this extreme example but back to the point God does not want some you know wife so he doesn't want us to be forced to be to love him he doesn't want that but there's going to be consequences and that's what you know follows in the book of Hosea and yet there definitely was consequences for the northern kingdom of Israel and those consequences were coming soon at least he sent the prophets to warn them you know he sent the prophets but the point is this was to be a free will offering and that's what God wants from us he wants free will offerings from us he wants us to voluntarily love the Lord I mean it's not a hard concept that's what God wants so if you ever feel like like man I just feel like I'm being forced to do this and forced to read the Bible and force look that is it's something is wrong with your heart at that point something is there is a major issue there because God you should voluntarily want to offer to the Lord you should voluntarily want to give to the Lord that's what God did for you by the way he voluntarily gave you without holding anything back through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ so I mean the argument against free will like with the Calvinists and all that is it's it's insanity it's it's nowhere in the Bible I mean free will is everywhere in the Bible even in this sacrifice in Leviticus chapter 1 go back to Leviticus chapter 1 go back to Leviticus chapter 1 so first two things that we see are is that it was a complete offering picturing the complete sacrifice the complete salvation that Christ's complete sacrifice provides for us I'm completely saved you don't have to say completely saved you could just say I'm saved if you're saying if you trust it on Jesus you are saved which means you're completely saved otherwise the word saved doesn't even make sense so it was complete the second point is it was voluntary Christ wants a voluntary service from us to him it's a reasonable service folks look at verse number verse number 9 of Leviticus chapter 1 the third point I want to make is that this sacrifice being complete and being voluntary was pleasing to the Lord look at verse number 9 and I want to point out that any of these sacrifices was pleasing to the Lord remember you could have offered a cow you could have offered a sheep you could have offered a bird a turtle dove I mean you could I mean which of those is more expensive there's clearly you know a higher value on capital than there is on sheep you know the Bible even you know counts that like six to one or something I forget I think it's six to one but the Bible actually acknowledges that there's a highly worldly that higher worldly value on the top of this list but notice something here any of these sacrifices is pleasing to the Lord look at verse number nine says but his inwards and his legs shall be washed in water this is the cattle and the priest shall burn all in the altar to be a burnt sacrifice an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord meaning it is a pleasing smell it is a pleasing sight it is a pleasing thing to the Lord look at verse number 13 talking about the flock again he shall wash the inwards and legs with water the priest shall bring it all and burn it on the altar it is a burnt sacrifice an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord it doesn't say like oh it wasn't as good as the first one but no it's a sweet savour the Lord is pleased with this the Lord is just as pleased in verse number 13 as he was in verse number nine now look at the bird you say just a bird really this guy gets away with just giving a bird look at verse number 17 he shall cleave it with the wings thereof that shall did not divide it asunder and the priest shall burn it on the altar upon the wood that is upon the fire it is a burnt sacrifice an offering made by fire of what of a sweet savour unto the Lord but not as good as the sheep no it's just a sweet savour unto the Lord whatever was given in the burnt sacrifice in these three categories whether it was a bird a sheep or the cattle was pleasing to the Lord turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 12 so you say why why the different options why why did God give the different options here it was voluntary it was free will it was complete and either one of these three options was complete or was was pleasing to the Lord look at 1st Corinthians chapter 12 let me show you a concept in the Bible that Paul lays out for the church at Corinth here look at verse number 12 of 1st Corinthians chapter number 12 now why different options the answer is because people have different situations people have different situations people have different means maybe somebody raised birds maybe somebody raised cattle maybe somebody didn't have sheep maybe some people had more resources than other people had resources and guess what a church is going to be filled with people of all different means all different resources all different talents actually look at verse number 12 the Bible says this says as the body is one talking about the body of Christ that is this church and hath many members now it's he's using an analogy of like a body he's using an analogy of like a person's body and a church and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ for by one spirit we are all baptized into one body that's the body of Christ whether we be Jews or Gentiles whether we be bond or free whether we be all made to drink into one spirit for the body is not one member but many the body is not just a finger the body is not just a hand the body is made up of many members if the foot now he goes into more more detail in this analogy it says if the foot shall say because I am NOT the hand I am NOT of the body is it therefore not of the body and if the ear shall say because I am NOT the eye I am NOT of the body is it therefore not of the body saying well what if you know the eye you know the eyes more important thinks the ear that's what this is going at or the foot is more important thinks the hand or whatever he's talking about you know you can't have one member of a body saying oh because I'm not the most important part I'm not part of the body this is what Paul is getting at because if the whole body were an eye where would be the hearing you're ever playing those games I mean do you ever play these games with your friends when you're a kid would you rather be blind or deaf you know all these kinds of games that you guys play am I the only one that played those with my friends the answer is neither because if you were all eyes you couldn't hear anything if your ears you couldn't see anything if the whole were hearing where were the smelling what if you didn't have a nose but now that God set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him and if they were all one member where is the body if everybody's a hand there is no body see what he's getting out here this is a pretty brilliant little kind of diatribe that he's going off on here he's like he's saying if they're all hands if they're all fingers you know it just all the members is what makes up the actual body folks but you're there are many members yet but one body I cannot say unto the hand I have no need of thee nor again the head to the feet I have no need of you nay much more those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary he's saying even when people look and they say oh the cow is better clearly a cow is better than a dove what Paul here is saying is that even the most feeble members of a body which seat when he says feeble he's saying feeble to our eyes to our view he's saying those members are all necessary even the seemingly small things is what he's talking about here and those members of the body which we think to be less honorable I mean isn't that true isn't that true that there are positions that you think are more honorable and less honorable I mean obviously if you're out in the world and somebody's a you know some big shot you know manager or director at some company or something isn't that considered to be a more honorable thing than somebody who's just the guy that you know cleans the floors or whatever or you know is the is that you know orders the materials or something like that I mean these this is man's problem though is what Paul is explaining and those members of the body which we think to be less honorable upon these we bestow more abundant honor this is the problem Paul is saying and on our uncommon parts have more abundant abundant comeliness look he's saying that it shouldn't be this way in the church he's saying that oh you know you got some guy seems very honorable you know you got some guy where he's an usher at the church that seems to be very honorable you know it is honorable and not everybody can be an usher that's true but guess what there also needs to be people that do all the other things that doesn't get you know the visibility I made this car I made this comment several times in the satellite ministry but there is no magic button here when we leave here on Sunday night one of the most you know seemingly feeble and silent ministries in a church like this is when we leave Sunday night and this place is wrecked especially when we when we eat or have some kind of food or whatever this place looks like a bomb went off look it's good I'm happy about it but there's no magic button that you go push on the back wall saying reset church there's people and in our case there's ladies that come in every two days and reset the church and you know there's no Usher tag for them there's no you know that would be one of those less honorable but look it's not a less honorable position that's what Paul is saying it's necessary look we couldn't have Church Wednesday night it would be a disaster can you imagine if a visitor walked in here and we just never clean the church if my wife and the ladies that help out we're just like you know what it's too much it's too much I'm not getting the honor that I deserve around here and I was just like whatever let's just roll with it just whatever bro let's just let's just be you and us and whatever we feel like in the chairs were just a disaster there we've got you know I mean everyone's there's you know people are just laying in beanbags and I mean there's pizza all over the floor there's rotting food everywhere and a visitor comes in what we would have no visitors everything has to be decent and in order these are honorable positions this is what Paul is saying it's like this is what men do this is what men do though men look at things like oh that's honorable and I don't want to do that but it's all necessary every part of it is necessary look at verse 25 says that there should be no schism in the body that the member should have the same care for one another so the people that are an honorable position should have the same care as people that are in the less honorable positions the people that run the AV and the people that do the bulletins the people that do all the maps and the people that make you know all the different invites and all the different things and order things for the church look those things every single person every single member needs to be appreciated because without it none of there would be no body everyone can't be a hand that's more than just the pastor you know if we just had like everybody was a pastor like it would be a disaster in many different ways but I mean it would just be a disaster because we need all the members we need all the the fingers and the ears and eyes and the hands and the feet and and and you know the nose right so you can tell if things aren't clean but this is what Paul is saying and this is why there's three different sacrifices because people have different means people have different resources he said but now you're all you're you're the body of Christ and members in particular look look at verse six I skipped it he says whether one member suffer all the members suffer with it or if one member be honored all the members rejoice with it I mean that look we win I mean that's such a beautiful verse he's saying we win and we lose together in the church is what he is saying so not every person needs to be a pastor not every single person you know it needs to even go into the ministry pastor humanists has said this many times and it's such a great blanket statement I mean if there's good blanket statements this is a good one he says every single person every single saved Christian should either be a pastor should either go into the ministry you're like oh I don't know or they should be supporting a ministry that is such a great statement right there every single person should be there go into the ministry which look very few people are going to go into the ministry as far as the percentage of saved Christian men out there very few of those are going to go into the ministry and but then you should be supporting a ministry if you're not going to go into the ministry you should be one of these members that he's talking about even if you're like all I have is this dove to give all I have is something from the Fox hey give it voluntarily give it completely and it's necessary and it's just as pleasing to the Lord that's what you have to understand it's just as pleasing to the Lord to give the bird as it is to give the cattle so what even like all the smaller ministries should never be diminished in in a church from the cleaning I mean I mean the cleaning ministry I mean the cleaning ministry is one of the most difficult ministries at this church it requires the most labor you know the most physical labor at the church for sure you know all the different things I was thinking about today I was thinking about as far as different members of the church a Spanish speaker in this church a Spanish speaker in this church is a powerful member of this church is a great member of this church look all the members are great but that's just another member of the church and you can you can speak Spanish in Fresno and give the gospel in Spanish that's a member that's needed that's like an ear you know that's like a that's like a powerful member of a ministry but I mean there's everything become a member is what you know even all you have is a bird that's the that's the key to why there are three sacrifices for the burnt offering turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 9 2nd King Corinthians chapter 9 and look at verse number 7 but trick is this the trick is this if you say I'm going to be a member I'm going to you know give a bird I'm going to get involved somehow and be a member of this body second Corinthians chapter 9 is a good key verse for you it says every man according as he purposes in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver that's exactly what we see with the burnt offering is that God is very happy with this voluntary complete offering so if you just say to yourself and now now now apply that now let's get you know 400 level class with this you're like well I don't want to give I don't want to be part of you know the ministry I don't want to you know voluntarily sacrifice anything in my life well from the morning sermon just serve first and the heart will follow you know start serving first and see what happens you know see what happens the thoughts and the heart will follow as Proverbs 16 3 says turn to Numbers chapter 23 there's one last point about the burnt offering that I want to show you this evening turn to Numbers chapter 23 so what do we see so far it's a complete offering it's a voluntary offering showing that God has given us free will he wants us to voluntarily serve him voluntarily love him voluntarily you know give to him and support that's the same thing here I don't want anyone that feels like they're forced to be here I want people to voluntarily want to serve the Lord in this church I mean that's you know my goal for this ministry look at Numbers chapter 23 Numbers chapter 23 and the third point was that God is pleased with it if those two things match God is pleased with it no matter what it is whether it's a bird a sheep or a cow look at verse I think I said numbers chapter 23 I meant numbers chapter 28 look at verse number let me go there myself to make sure I don't have a mistake here go to Numbers chapter 28 here's the last point about the burnt offering okay yeah verse number one of numbers chapter 28 the burnt offering was continual the burnt offering never stopped that's the the next thing the last thing I want you to see about the burnt offering look at verse number one of numbers chapter 28 the burnt offering so you say what do you mean people weren't people voluntarily bringing burnt offerings yes people were voluntarily bringing burnt offerings but there was a continual burnt offering that was always going on look at verse number one it says and the Lord spake unto Moses saying command the children of Israel and say unto them my offering and my bread for my sacrifice is made by fire for a sweet savour unto me shall ye observe ought to offer me in their due season and thou shalt say unto them this is the offering made by fire which he shall offer unto the Lord two lambs of the first year without spot day by day for a continual burnt offering so these voluntarily burnt off voluntary burnt offerings brought by the people were they brought them but there was an example set that there was a burnt offering to be made every single day this is what Aaron or the Lord commanded Moses to do now shall say unto them the offering it is a continual burnt offering one lamb shall thou offer in the morning and the other lamb shall thou offer at even so there was a lamb in the morning that was offered and a lamb in the evening that was offered and then all the voluntary burnt offerings were just coming in there but there was always a continual offering going on a continual burnt offering that was going on at the tabernacle daily look that doesn't change for us that doesn't change for us I am I mean you think of this for a minute think of this for a minute I am amazed in 2023 America in 2023 America what are we doing here I am constantly reading that I'm reading that the tea leaves the culture of the day that we are in we're not look we're not in post-christian America that's not what people are saying anymore people are saying we are in post religious America people are saying like that the numbers of people that just believe nothing they're just rejecting what they're not going you know into Islam or whatever there's just the numbers of people that are just rejecting all religion all ideas of even any kind of God are through the roof in America today I mean and what do we see no one goes to church anymore those numbers have never been higher it's because look you had a bunch of people as we went into COVID that didn't really like going to church anyway and then they got to stay home and they just never went back so you got this America today where there's never been a time where a few up the smallest percentage of people go to church I mean the smallest percentage of people know the Bible we saw a sign it at Bravo Farms you know one of these signs with the Bible verse on it and it said and we're the only ones that caught it we were just like what world it was like I am the way the truth and the life because they never put the whole verse but it said I am the way the truth and the life they put half of John 14 6 but then it said I'm the way the truth and the life John 14 16 like selling the sign yeah nobody will catch that it'll be fine they'll sell they'll sell a million of them well the point is there's never been a time in our the history of our country where less people know the Bible care about the Bible believe the Bible is true go to church any of that it's it's an all-time low in the history of our country and yet here we are growing a church that is a miracle because the way of the Lord is to have a continual burnt offering Christianity the gospel the truth will never die as a matter of fact it's designed to wear the harder people press on it the more it grows that's why it's here today is because people successfully as we talked about last week passed it on to the next generation what we're trying to do but just think about this today think of the miracle of the fact that when all the fires are going out here we are still having a continual burnt offering still having this this it's not it's not us it's us being obedient and God granting the miracle that's what's happening we are just simply doing what the Bible tells us to do standing out in the Sun and going out and preaching the gospel no matter how we feel or how much water we brought with us or whatever it is we just continually go out and God just gives the increase God keeps blessing in 2023 America I mean you couldn't even say it would be possible to grow a church if it wasn't a miracle but here we are growing a biblical church sorry growing a biblical church in post religious America like how is that possible according to the pop culture it's not it's still pretty easy to serve the Lord today folks I mean you know we still have you know we still have this remnant of the First Amendment that's still there we can still use it you know let's keep let's use it let's use this remnant of this good idea that we had put in place a few hundred years ago to keep this sweet smelling savor to the Lord going and that's what we're doing here you know so that the burnt offering at what it's a complete offering number one it's a voluntary offering this it's all applies to our Christian life you know we should be completely offering our lives to the Lord we should be voluntarily offering our lives to the Lord and it will be pleasing to the Lord when you do that and then on top of that it should be continual you should not be this person that's this bottle rocket Christian it's just like I'm gonna really hit it hard for two years and then I'm out there's a lot of people like that well they're gonna die you know when they're in their 90s or what however old they are and they're gonna look back at those two years and be like well I really did it right then but it's supposed to be continual it's supposed to continue throughout your entire life and look it will be pleasing to the Lord if you do that and that's why God will say you know well done thou good and faithful servant to you know probably a very few amount of people but this is the burnt offering this is what it pictures and it applies all of these things apply directly to us and if you say you know what I'm not some great speaker I'm not some great whatever it just give a dove then give a dove and by the way the the great the great people are never who God uses in the Bible it's always the it's always the fisherman it's always the lowly guy why God wants to take somebody who is of low estate in the world's eyes and use that person to do great things why because it shows the power of the Lord it shows the power of God for for some great you know order and some great powerful person that's just you know he could speak well and he could do all these things you know for him to stand up and do something great you know everyone's like well yeah buddy look at the guy he's pretty great girl look at that lady you know she's she's good at everything she does whatever but no God uses the low people God uses the small members God uses the people that only have a bird only have a might to do great things because it shows his glory that's what God wants from us and that's how the burnt offering applies to our lives let's bow our heads and have a word