The methods of the meal offering

We turn again to the book of Leviticus, Leviticus chapter 2. We'll read part of the chapter again. Verse 1, And when any will offer a meat offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon. And he shall bring into Aaron's sons, the priests, and he shall take there out his handful of the fine flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof.

And the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord. And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

And if they bring an oblation of a meat offering, bacon in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour, mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. And if thy oblation be a meat offering, bacon in a pan, it shall be a fine flour, unleavened, mingled with oil. Thou shalt part it in pieces and pour oil thereon.

It is a meat offering. And if thy oblation be a meat offering, bacon in a frying pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of those things unto the Lord.

And when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar. And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar. It is an offering made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord.

And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire. No meat offering which you shall bring unto the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven or any honey in any offering of the Lord made by fire.

As for the oblation of the firstfruits, you shall offer them unto the Lord, and they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet savor. And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt. Neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering.

With all thine offerings, thou shalt offer salt. Now we trust God will bless to us the reading of his word. Yesterday we looked a little at the meat offering and its setting, and we won't go over that today.

We pointed out there was five different methods by which the meal offering or the gift offering, I like the word gift offering, surely there's different words for offerings, we won't go into them. You'll find them again in Mr. Newbery's margin. You may think I'm selling Newbery Bibles, but I'm not.

But they are in reprint, I'm told, this fall. I've ordered a few for distribution to some of our brethren who I think would enjoy them. But it's a gift offering, it's a voluntary offering.

We pointed out yesterday it was a bloodless offering, and it was always associated with the burnt offering, and generally with the drink offering. Drink offering would bring that joy, and here this meat offering or gift offering speaks of that perfect life, that perfect path of the Lord Jesus Christ. Someone has said that perfect path of purest grace, unblemished and complete, the life of the Lord Jesus.

We looked a little at the fine flour, and what I did not mention, and I just want to emphasize it, we talked about the harmony and the balance in the life of the Lord Jesus with the fine flour. No unevenness. The balance of grace and truth.

But I was speaking to one of our brethren yesterday, and I said I forgot to mention, I really, you're getting a bit of a rush. No, there was no high points in the life of the Lord Jesus. Now, if you take my life, or take any of the brethren's life, or the sister's life, you'll see things that they're good at, and there are things they're not so good at.

And we've all got those high points and low points. As you search the life of this perfect man, you'll find no high points, and there are no low points. There's a perfect harmony and a perfect balance in this sinless man.

We pointed out there are the five different methods. The one is the uncooked, and that covers the first three verses. And then you've got the four different ways in which they are cooked.

And you have that which is in the oven, that which is in the flat pan, and that which is in the frying pan, or I am told it was really a cauldron. And then the fifth one, verse 14 to 16, is the green ears of corn, which we're not going to touch, but we'll just mention to you very quickly that the green ears of corn will speak to us of the Lord Jesus cut off in the midst of his ears. You think of Daniel 9. You think of Isaiah 53.

You have that there, and it speaks of the life of the Lord Jesus. What has been suggested is that in the oven, and by the way, what I am saying, young people, young brethren and sisters, the older brethren and sisters have heard this many times. And some of our brethren have told me since that they've been speaking on this in recent weeks or months, and that's lovely, and saying much the same things.

And that's true, because these are truths well known to those who are older in years, but some who are younger may never have heard them, and may not. Some of the young folks say, why should I go to the offerings? I don't understand them. And you know something you should learn to do? And I've done this many years.

In fact, I'm digressing a little bit. I was just trying to get something to you. We'd be driving through a little town called Kirkcaldy in Fife on our motorbikes.

We couldn't afford cars, and bicycles didn't get you too far. And we'd drop in at a friend's house, an older brother, about 10 o'clock at night. Now, he got up in the morning at 6 o'clock to go to work.

I worked in the same mine as him. And we'd just drop into his house, and we'd sit there by the fire. His wife, Betty, would bring the tea and go to bed.

And probably at 12 o'clock or 1 o'clock, we would leave and go home to get up to start work at 6 o'clock in the morning. Now, we were 18, 19 years old. What were we talking about? Now, I never in Brother Donald McDonald's house talked about anything but the scriptures.

We learned to enjoy the word of God. And we'd spend night after night doing that. And one of our great delights, I've digressed already, but I'm trying to encourage young people to talk to older people on the scriptures.

You've heard of Brother Albert Leckie. His sister lived across the road from Donald McDonald. And his mother and father would, her mother and father would come and visit.

And sometimes Brother Albert was there, and we'd slip across the road, and we'd just sit at Brother Albert's feet. And that'd be another two or three hours. And he was in no hurry to go to bed when he had young men who were willing to listen to the word of God.

So be prepared if you don't understand these things. Get with some of the older brother and our sisters and talk to them about it. Learn to get in conversations and you know there'll be a wealth unfolded for you of these lovely truths.

And so the first part of the offering was uncooked. And to me, that would speak of the completeness and the life of the Lord Jesus and the perfect harmony and balance. Then we've in the oven, and we did mention yesterday that that could speak of the secret life, the private life of the Lord Jesus.

That which is not recorded in the scriptures. Luke tells us a little bit of the Lord Jesus as a young man. But really, we don't know too much about him from his birth to 12 years old, and then until he was 30 years old when he came into his public ministry.

And those are hidden years, but they're open to the eye of God. And listen, as we stand in Mark chapter one, and we listen to the voice from heaven, and the Lord is just starting in his public ministry there on Jordan's banks, and we hear the voice say, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. God was well pleased with the unrecorded years in the life of the Lord Jesus, child of God.

To please God, we don't have to do anything in public. It never has to be before the eye of our brethren. To please God should be the continual desire in our life.

I think we talked a little bit yesterday about the Lord Jesus seeking to please the father. And he says in John 8, I do always those things that please him. And those hidden years, there was a delight for God.

I think the full frankincense of the first three verses was poured out upon him. We pointed out that the frankincense was never partaken by the priest. The frankincense was all for God.

And there's that in the life of Christ that goes beyond the appreciation of you and I. But our child of God is appreciated by his father. And God delighted in his son every moment of the day as he moved through the scene. Those are the hidden years.

But then you've got the flat pan. And the flat pan would speak to us of the public life of the Lord Jesus. That which men could see.

Now the Lord Jesus was not the most popular figure. You pick up Mark's gospel and start to read through Mark and you'll see how the Pharisees sought to bring accusations against him. Pick up John chapter 8 and have a look at it.

And the names that they called him. They tried to link him with Satan. They said all manner of evil against him.

And they hounded the Lord Jesus many, many times. And Satan was there to seek to destroy him. And it was not an easy life for the Lord Jesus as he moved in public.

The words that he said, the deeds that he did, they were all pleasing to God. But they weren't always pleasing to men. Now we've heard about the word of God.

I want to say something to young men and women. The older saints know this. You've heard it very well said.

I just want to enforce it. In your life what you have to do is to live your life in accord with the word of God and not with the word of your brethren. Now be careful.

I've lived long enough to have heard many edicts from men that are not in the word of God. And we can try to please men and we may not be in conformity with the word of God. And as I've went from country to country, and I've been in a number of countries, there's differences all over the place.

But you know, the word of God, it remains firm and true. And so there in the public life of the Lord Jesus, he was seen by men. And when they came to point a finger at him, he could say to them back in John eight, again, that's a lovely chapter to read, which of you convinced me of sin.

We're going to touch his sinlessness. If we get down to verse 13, the public eye, you and I are in the public eye. I used to work in the mine and along the mine roads, there was a belt, a moving belt that the coal came out on, but the miners would jump on the belt to get out quickly.

It wasn't allowed because if the belt broke and they did, you could get killed or something could happen. And I couldn't go in the belt. I wanted to, but everyone knew who I was.

We used to preach in the open air on a Lord's day night outside the gospel hall. And across from the hall was the, this institute thing. And all the miners went there to drink and do various things.

And on Monday morning, I get a critique of what I said on Sunday night from the men in the work. And I was an electrician. I moved about the mine.

My grandparents worked in the mine. My father worked in the mine and it was a small village. Everyone knew you, you know, you were in the public eye.

You know what it did? It made you very conscious of doing wrong. You know what would we forget sometimes? I do anyway. I just have to look at me.

We're always in God's eye. Does that make us conscious of doing wrong? Or do we sometimes think we're not in the public eye and we can do something? Remember we're in God's eye. Here the Lord Jesus is ever before the eye of God.

He was before the eye of men. But now we'll come to the cauldron and the cauldron that's raised up on the sides of frying pan. And it's been linked with the garden scene.

There the Lord Jesus, he was a stone's throw from the disciples. It was a more private scene. The world was not there.

When they came in in the dark with their torches, they took him and they bound him and they led him away. But there in those dark lonely hours in the garden, as the Lord Jesus was bowed low upon the ground, I don't think the disciples saw too much. Although it's recorded through the spirit of God, they were sleeping.

I think again of the plaintive words of the Lord Jesus, what could you not watch with me one hour? Someone has said one little hour for watching with the master. Eternal years to serve with him in white. And there is a private scene.

But you know, there was another audience, the angels in heaven. They were looking upon the Lord Jesus and listen, an angel ministered unto him. The disciples couldn't minister unto him.

He was far away and beyond what they could go in their human weakness. They'd fall, fell asleep with the sorrow that was in their heart. The Lord Jesus there in those hours of darkness and loneliness in the garden, with that trouble, with that sorrow that was his, he began to be sorrowful.

It began to be very heavy. He bowed low on the ground and that was a scene in the cauldron, an offering to God. If we came on, it's been suggested, I'll just mention it.

If we came onto verse 14 and we deal with the green ears of corn, it's been suggested, and I really like it, that that would take us beyond his death to his resurrection. And it would give us the scene between his resurrection and his ascension. And that would be the completeness of the life of Christ.

So if we follow that typology, we would find that the meal offering or the gift offering covers the life of the Lord Jesus from his birth until his ascension, the completeness of that perfect life. Now we find in the first few verses, and we'll start from there again, and I'm not sure if you go to the loft, the offering, you'll find the priest taking the handful and the word he could refer to the offerer or to the priest. I'm not going to quibble on that just now.

A handful is going to be taken. The whole of the offering is not burnt on the brazen altar, but a handful is taken. I read up on it to see about this handful, and it was most interesting because there's actually being, the writer suggested it was the priest, and there was a certain way the hand had to take the handful.

It wasn't just a big handful, but I like the big handful, and it suits me better what I have in mind. You know, it's a handful. It's not, you know, my wife and I have got a problem with food.

She likes healthy food. I was brought up in Scotland. They don't have healthy food.

You know what I mean. Fish and chips, you know, and the brethren that come from the coast, they know what lovely fish and chips is like, and you go to Scotland, Brother Vanstone in Portage, he was in Scotland to see his daughter at a place called Pit and Weem, the best fish and chips in the world, and when I get this food I don't like, I take just a little bit, and when I see the food that I like, I fill my plate, but when it comes to the meal offering, you know what the Lord wants us to do? He wants us all to take our handful. Now, there's young brethren and sisters here.

You say, well, I don't have a very big hand. It doesn't talk about the size of your hand. It talks about your hand being full.

This morning, and I'm going to just change the word a little, did we come with our hearts full of Christ? Were our hearts occupied with him? Did we come with something to offer unto the Father to tell him about his Son? You know, our hands can get occupied with many things, and idle hands find lots to do, that's for sure, but to have our hands full. Now, we used to hear back in Scotland, what is in your hand? That was quite a thing when the men were going to war, and they didn't want the Christians to have a gun in their hand, and now a lot of Christians have guns in their hand, but they're going out shooting animals, and that's another story, but here he has to take his handful, and on that handful, as it was placed on the altar, was poured all of the frankincense, all of the frankincense. Isn't that amazing? In John chapter 17, the Lord Jesus teaches us that he's sanctified in us.

Here, he's glorified in us. He's got something, and he's speaking about the disciples there, but I take it it would apply to the disciples today. The Lord Jesus is glorified in you and I, and the Father is glorified in you and I. There's a sweetness arises up to heaven, as that handful is placed upon the altar.

You know, that altar is always going to be a sweet smelling savor, whether it's chapter one, whether it's chapter three, whether it's the common people's offering the fat in chapter four and chapter five. It's a sweet savor offering arising to heaven. Do you understand that there was a burnt offering in the morning, and there was a burnt offering in the evening, and I take it the meal offering and the drink offering would associate with them, and all day and all night there would be a meal offering offered up to heaven.

You know what this tells me? God just does not want my handful on Lorsday morning, and he just doesn't want it on Saturday night. He wants my handful seven days a week. Now, we've heard a lot from our brother Scott about the word of God, and we can't emphasize it enough to our young brethren and sisters.

You talk to your older brother and sister, and they'll tell you it's their daily food. It's what they enjoy. It's what they feed upon, and that's where we want to be.

We want to get the word of God embedded in our hearts. I love it to sit down with my older brethren and discuss the scriptures. It's a delight to sit at the table and to talk of Christ.

I can't talk about cars. I don't know about them, and I can't talk about sports. I'm really not up on it, and I don't know much about the novels and everything else, but it's a great delight to talk about the person of Christ, and in your heart, in your mind, in your meditation to offer up your handful.

We heard mentioned about telling Joseph, telling his brethren to tell my father of all my glory, which I have in Egypt. Oh, you know, it's a wonderful thing. Just sit down sometime, and I sat down one day, and I started to write down a list of the moral glories of the Lord Jesus, and I worked on it for weeks, and the list got longer, and the list got longer, and I don't remember how many there is over 30 that you may not count the moral glories, but I did.

The moral glories of the Lord Jesus, his meekness and his gentleness, his love, his grace, his peace, his joy, it's all there. They're all part of the person of Lord Jesus, and this morning, I was thinking of the love of the Lord Jesus, and we think of how he loved individuals, and the Thessalonian church, he loved them. 2 Thessalonians 3, you learn of his love for the church.

You learn of his love for families. John chapter 12, or John chapter 11, sorry, an individual. He whom thou lovest is sick.

That's Lazarus. Then we read, now Jesus loved Mary and her sister, and Lazarus, he loved families. Paul says he loved me, an individual.

He writes in Ephesians, Christ loved the church. Do you see what I'm saying? You could get your mind occupied just with part of what the Lord Jesus Christ is, and let it fill your mind. No, you don't know your Bible like some of your old brethren.

You've got a Strong's Concordance. With computers today, it's just amazing what you can get. They're all based on Strong's Concordance, all these search engines.

You've got an old Strong's Concordance, and just put down the word love. There's different words for love, as you know. You go down them, and you can learn about it.

You go to John 21, and you say, Peter, do you love me? And you have different words. You can see Peter's indignation, and you learn about the love of the Lord Jesus. These moral glories that characterized him, they're rising to heaven in this cake.

But watch what else we have. We'll move on. We talked about the mingling of the oil, the anointing of the oil, the pouring of the oil, and then at the end, in the last three verses, the putting on of the oil, speaking of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Lord Jesus.

We talked a little bit of the action. But I want to look at those cakes. If you come down now to, let me see if I can just get the verse, the verse four.

And if they bring an abrasion of a meat offering, bake in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil. Now, again, Mr. Newbery. I make no apology for reading Newbery's margin.

If you've got a Mr. Newbery, apart from the signs that he gives to give the tenses and everything, his marginal notes are precious. And I mean that. And this word here, if you look in Newbery's margin, it will tell you it's associated with pierced cakes.

I was interested in that. What's pierced cakes? And I look on the internet for some of this stuff, and I found that someone suggested that when they bake the cakes in the pan that they put them in, they put pieces of flint in the bottom. And so the cakes had these piercings in the bottom.

But what does that speak to us of? We heard a little bit about it. They pierced his hands and his feet. Zechariah, the book closes, they shall look on him whom they pierced.

The Lord Jesus, as he comes to the end of his life, there's a physical piercing, but I want to go beyond that. Do you wonder what the Lord Jesus felt as there in the wilderness he was tested of Satan? Can you see a piercing? Can you see as he's speaking to his own? The Bible says he came unto his own and his own received him not. Can you see his own brethren, his brothers, who say he's beside himself? Don't you see a piercing in the heart of the Lord Jesus as those whom he came to seek and to save rejected him? You think of his tears, and you know, John 11, the tears are not loud noises from his mouth.

That's one of the unique statements there in John. Jesus shed tears. Now, three times you get the Lord Jesus weeping, and the book of Hebrews chapter 5, I think it is, will refer to the garden scene, and he's got loud cryings and tears, and that's the scene in the garden.

Luke chapter 19, as Jesus looks over the city, he wept over it, and again, there was groanings, there was loud noises in his crying. Can you see the piercing as he looked over the city, as he looked at the future, what was going to happen to it, as he contemplated in the garden the cross and all that it meant, the darkness, as God making meat upon him, the iniquity of us all. There was a piercing in the life of the Lord Jesus as well as a physical piercing at the cross.

But look at those wavers. Those wavers, the word again, if you look in Mr. Newberry's margin, it carries the thought of being empty, and that took me to Philippians chapter 2. Your authorize will tell you made himself of no reputation. Your marginal note again will tell you I should just have a marginal Bible and leave the rest aside.

You maybe think that's what I have, but I don't. I use all kinds of helps, but I love Mr. Newberry's margin. It means empty, means empty.

He emptied himself. Now, I want to teach something here very carefully, because I've heard it said on the public platform that the Lord Jesus laid aside his deity. You've heard that? I've heard that on the gospel platform.

John 17, glorify me now with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. What's he speaking about? Is he speaking about his deity? The Lord Jesus Christ became what he never was, and he always remained what he ever was. He became a man, but he never ever did not be God.

Listen, listen again to Hebrews 1. Thy throne, O God, is forever. Who's that? Just read before that. But unto the Son, he saith, thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.

And the Lord Jesus Christ never, ever gave up his deity. We have been speaking, not me, but other brethren have been speaking about a lot about Lavergues chapter 16, the two goats. Azazel, the scapegoat, has been much on our minds.

And some have suggested that in that time of separation, the Lord Jesus was separated from God. And so therefore, we go to the cry on the cross, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Suggesting that the Lord Jesus as Son was forsaken by the Father. Can I suggest this? Listen carefully.

If the Lord Jesus was forsaken by the Father, he was not God. Do you understand that now? As the bearer of sin into the darkness of divine abandonment went the Son of God, and he cries, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? But before that, he addresses the Father. And after that, he says, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.

He emptied himself of the garments of glory and beauty, as it were, of the public manifestation of his glory. You know, if the Lord Jesus had wanted to demonstrate his glory, we heard about the scene in Luke chapter 9, upon the Mount of Transfiguration, men could never have looked upon him. They would have fallen at his feet.

They would have been dazzled. They would have been amazed by his glory. And you know, child of God, that's who we're going to see one day.

That's who's coming for us. And we're going to see him. You know, I've got bad eyes.

I've taken, there's what I'm reading from. I've got big print. I can't read my Bible.

I've got to have big print to read. But you know, my eyes, I'm getting needles in them just now to try to help them. And you know, what the Lord's going to do? He's going to take those eyes and I'm going to see clearly.

I'm going to see clearly. You know, I like to think of 1 John 1. I'm going to watch that clock. You know, it speaks about that which was from the beginning, which we have heard.

Have you heard him? Which we have, this is just what's in my mind, which we have seen with our eyes. John says, I actually saw him. And then he says, which we have contemplated.

Yeah. You know what that means? I've meditated on him. I've thought about him.

He left an impression on me that I never forgot. That's why he says in chapter one, and we beheld his glory. He could never forget the glory of the man.

And then he says, our hands have handled of the word of life. He emptied himself. There were waivers.

There were thick cakes and there were thin waivers. Can we suggest that the thick cakes would appeal to God? That's what God would appreciate. The thin waivers was what men would appreciate.

I did notice as I went through this, that you get this expression. It is a thing, verse three, it is a thing most holy and verse 10. It is a thing most holy.

Now you don't get that in chapter one and you don't get that in chapter three for the peace offering. And actually you don't get it in chapter four and chapter five for the sin and trespass offering, but you go over to chapter six and you start to look at the law of the offerings. Now, when you're reading the offerings, don't forget you have to read the offering.

Then you have to go over to chapter six and seven and look at what it says about the law of the offerings. And you put them both together and under the law of the sin offering and the law of the trespass offering, it is a thing most holy. Now understand what holy means.

As a boy, I had a problem because I thought holiness was sinlessness. Do you think that? You young folks, do you think to be holy is not to sin? Well, if it's true, there's no holy people here. No holy people here at all, because there's not one of us are without sin.

And I was saying to someone today that one of the most common sins among believers is not the sin of doing something, but it's he that knows to do good and do it or not, to him it is sin. And sometimes the biggest sin, and I'm just looking at my own life, is not doing what I know I should do. And that might be just something as simple as visiting a sick person in the hospital or in their home, negligence, carelessness, and the things of God.

And here, this is most holy. It has a special place in the heart of God. What is it? It's the presentation of his son.

And when we come to the sin and trespass offering, we have to take our eyes to Calvary. And those offerings, we find that take place in chapter 16, the sin offering and that great day of atonement. And there's that which is most holy, is very precious to God.

It's separated unto him. It's exclusively for him. And there is in this offering, with the frankincense placed upon it, that which is exclusively for God.

Now the time has gone, and I think I've got just about through the chapter. I've got two prohibitions, and I'm just going to take a minute to speak on them. There's three prohibitions, actually.

And we'll try and explain something, too. You may find a difficulty in the chapter. The prohibition first, in verse 11, there is no leaven.

Then the second prohibition is there is no honey. And the third prohibition is the firstfruits. But you say, but in verse 14, there's firstfruits.

Let's look at the leaven. What does leaven speak of? 1 Corinthians chapter 5, you're going to learn of the malice and wickedness of leaven. I'm not going to take time to read it.

Read it yourself. Leaven is associated with sin. Remember, Israel had to scour their houses to make sure there was no leaven in it.

Now easily, leaven can keep into our lives and hearts. There was no leaven in the life of the Lord Jesus. And there was no honey.

Now honey speaks of natural sweetness. Do you know the difference with frankincense and honey? Some of you may be able to tell me right away. If you put frankincense on the fire, what does it do? It smells sweeter.

There's a greater fragrance. Do you know what happens if you put honey on the fire? Smells terrible. It loses any fragrance that it ever had.

There's nothing in the life of the Lord Jesus of natural sweetness. Do you remember in the burnt offering when the sparrow or the pigeon was taken and its crop was taken and put down, its crop and feathers, put down by the side of the altar in the place of the ashes? Now there's nothing natural left about the Lord Jesus that men can lay hold on. Now just think of what they would do if they could have his garments today.

If they could have the bed that he lay on, the chair, they could have the chairs that he made. If they can find a plow that he made, how it would be, it would be set up. And you know, we were in Israel and we were taken and they had one of the boats of Galilee and they must have spent literally millions of dollars getting this thing preserved and put in place.

And it's just bits of wood all put together, big holes in it and everything. But they're spending millions of dollars to preserve a boat that the Lord Jesus might have sailed in on the Lake of Galilee. There's nothing natural left about the Lord Jesus.

He was a man who delighted his God. Very quickly, we have the first fruits that can be offered, but they cannot be burnt with fire. Why? Well, there's two different words used for first fruits in verse 12 and verse 14.

And one just means that which is chief, that which is prime, important. The other means the first fruits of the land. And in your English Bible, unfortunately, you don't get that difference.

So now we go over to Leviticus chapter 23 and we find the wave loaves, which are the first fruits. And what's in the wave loaves in Leviticus chapter 23? Leaven. There's leaven.

Now our brethren will tell you that brings in the church because there's leaven associated with the church. So leaven cannot be offered upon the fire for a meal offering. And it's an entirely different word.

Now, if you look at Leviticus 23, you'll find verse 10 is verse, same word as verse 12 and verse 17 is the same word as is verse 14. So you'll get, you'll find those differences. And this is what you'll find again in the scriptures that some of those words, they're different Hebrew words with different meanings, but that's why you get the two words for first fruits.

That's very simple, but the first fruits, they cannot be offered because there's leaven in them. So as we look at the life of the Lord Jesus, as we review him and all is going, Peter puts it very succinctly chapter one in He's a lamb. He's a lamb without blemish and without spot.

The brother was telling me today that he was led as a lamb to the slaughter. You know that? And he told me, and I loved it. He said, it's a, you lie.

Oh, can you see the sweetness in it? He was led as a lamb to the there's a gentleness and a sweetness in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's very quick, very brief, but we trust my exercise is not only to draw us closer to the Lord Jesus, but to encourage, especially my younger brothers and sisters, not to ignore these beautiful scriptures in the old Testament, but take them and make them part of your diet and talk to your older brothers and sisters, and you'll encourage them by going and sitting at their feet and your heart will be warmed and refreshed in greater knowledge and understanding of God's well beloved son.