are you familiar with the five ancient sacrifices of the bible and how they relate to us as believers today if you're not then stick around for this short teaching and i'll show you how these five ancient practices have a radical impact into the life of your family and your spiritual walk today hello everyone jim staley passion for truth ministries and i want to share with you today amazing message about the five temple sacrifices of the old testament and how they relate to us as believers today i know this particular message is not the most popular message spoken from pulpits today but i promise you if you'll stick with me to the very end you will not only be amazed at how these five uh ancient practices relate to yeshua jesus and how he demonstrated and fulfilled i should say each one of these five sacrifices and offerings but how we today can do the very same thing in principle the power behind these relationship connections as i want to call them tonight have everything to do with how we relate and connect to our father as well so let's dive in shall we because we have a lot to go through so grab your bible open it up grab some notes a pen to take notes with and let's find out what the word of god has to say for us today all right number one there are five offerings that we're going to walk through the first one is a burnt offering and then we have the meal offering we have the peace offering we have the sin offering and lastly we have the trespass offering i know the sin offering the trespass offering that sounds like the same thing by the time we're finished you'll see they are quite different connected but very distinctly different as are the sweet saver offerings of the bert offering the meal offering and the peace offering so let's dive in and start off with the burnt offering the burnt offering or in hebrew the ola offering is where the whole animal is completely and totally offered on the altar the brazen altar that's out in the courtyard in front of the tabernacle or the temple itself it was offered every morning and every evening every sabbath new moon on the feast days and at other times as well it was voluntary for the individual and was completely gods in other words no priest could share in the offering of the burnt offering it was completely and totally consumed on the altar and this is something that relates to us today let's talk about this first of all before we get to our practical application let's find out how the messiah fulfills the burnt offering which is one of the most common offerings that they did in ancient israel first of all the burnt offering had to be a male leviticus 1 3 and that connects to matthew obviously yeshua was a male he was without blemish leviticus 1 3 and 1 peter 1 22 23 says that yeshua was without sin he was completely an unblemished lamb he offered himself voluntarily okay this was a voluntary offering that the that the person would bring a burnt offering before the creator was voluntary yeshua said no one took his life he purposely and voluntarily laid it down for us this offering had to be killed before the lord yeshua himself was killed before the lord and it had to be wholly consumed deuteronomy 33 10 says and mark 12 33 connects that and says that yeshua himself was fully and completely and totally consumed there was nothing left of him he had given up his spirit and lastly he had his blood sprinkled upon the altar which was a requirement in the torah for the burnt offering was they would take the blood and sprinkle it on the altar in the same way it says in first peter chapter 1 verse 2 that the blood of yeshua was sprinkled for the remission of our sins prophetically and so we see right off the bat that the whole burnt offering was set aside for the the recipient the offer was a worshiper he was bringing this burnt offering before god saying man i'm giving you everything whereas in some of the other sacrifices and offerings he got to partake in part of the offering much much very much like when excuse me when we have a a steak dinner and you buy the steak or the meat from the butcher the butcher is like the priest of the old testament that would take the cow take the ox take the lamb take the goat would sacrifice it bless it and cut it up into pieces and then share it you paid him to do that so he gets part of it god gets part of it and you get part of it but in the burnt offering everything was consumed for yahweh how many times in our lives my friends do we lay something completely down and we get nothing out of it as a matter of fact the scriptures tell us in the new testament that when we give an offering we're not supposed to let everyone know about it this is something that we're supposed to do in private and in secret why because it's like a whole burnt offering we don't get any part of it it is 100 set aside for kingdom business now how can we fulfill the whole burnt offering today we can wholly devote ourselves to prayer in the morning and in the evening remember every day there was a burnt offering in the morning and in the evening it is it from us prophetically it's completely set aside we are setting ourselves aside and burning up our mind will and emotions if you will we are setting our entire being aside for god and that is called kadosh in hebrew setting aside to be made holy to be set apart we can voluntarily give our mind will and emotions over to the lord in stressful situations so that there is none of us left in those situations how many of us brethren we get in an argument with our spouse or we find ourselves in a very stressful situation and we let our own mind will and emotions completely take over that moment and in that moment we're not sacrificing we're not putting god first we're not putting the kingdom first we're not putting forth his image in the earth realm we have to pour ourselves out like a drink offering which is connected uh to some of these offerings were offered with drink offerings pour ourselves completely out let the fire of god burn us all the way up so there is nothing left of our mind will and emotions it's our mind will and emotions which is the soul of a man is what gets us in trouble because it's always about what we want to do what our feelings are and we are always in our feelings have you ever noticed that that whenever we get in an argument with someone or we get in a stressful situation we always make us the center of the universe everything seems to revolve around us and unfortunately my friends we cannot do that we cannot allow us to be the center of the universe it's his mind will and emotions that is supposed to be center stage in our life and the only way to do that is to allow his presence to burn us up completely so that when we walk into those stressful situations when we walk into a disagreement we can empty ourselves because it is not i that live but christ in us amen mark 12 33 says it the best it says and to love him with all the heart with all the understanding with all the soul and with all the strength and to love one's neighbor as oneself is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices put together do you hear what god is saying right here he's saying look to love him with all of your heart with all of your mind with all your soul with all your strength to put aside your mind will and emotions if you can literally empty yourself of yourself daily in the morning through prayer in the evening through prayer and throughout the day emptying your mind will and emotions of what you want to do that is greater than all of the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices put together so god's telling us look putting yourself aside is just like a burnt offering matter of fact it's better says the lord romans 12 1 says this i beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of god that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable god which is your reasonable service we are to present ourselves before the creator as a living sacrifice don't tell me that the sacrificial system is done away with when all of the new testament passages the authors themselves are referencing the entire temple system and saying that we are supposed to be living sacrifices it even says that we're the temple of the holy spirit how can we be the temple how can we be a living sacrifice if we don't even know anything about the sacrifices of the temple this is why this teaching is so important because if we don't understand the different temple uh sacrifices then how can we properly and not only interpret them but practically apply them for today first corinthians 15 31 says this i affirm by the boasting in you which i have in christ jesus our lord lord i die daily you see we are the burnt offering we are the ones that lay our lives down completely till there's nothing left the entire purpose of the christian life of a believer's life in messiah is to daily remove the flesh and that flesh is so easily aggravated it so easily grows but it is the fire of the living god like mount carmel right with elijah and and the prophets of baal it is his fire it is his presence it is his power that we submit to and his word and we know his word it will set us free set us free from what the law of sin and death what is the law of sin and death it is that which controls the flesh when we destroy the law of sin and death and we kill it through the power of the word of god and the love of his character we remove the flesh and open up the opportunity for that wheat germ to die and the seed to come forth and the inner man to burst into the flame that paul talks about not the spark that's on the inside that he put but to burst it into flame and when we burst into flame we become the living burnt offering before him all right let's move on to the meal offering the meal offering is called the minka offering it's leviticus chapter 2 1-16 you can read that on your own time for more context but it's also connected to the heave offering and i want to talk about this for just a little bit because the meal offering or the minka offering and the terumah offering the terumah offering they are very similar and i love the word picture of the heave offering because in the in hebrew the concept of the terumah offering is to lift up it's like nasa the hebrew word nasa to lift up and this is where we get our concept of raising our hands before the lord in worship or in praise and honor of him so if you've ever felt this overwhelming urge in worship when the spirit of god is just flowing through you you feel his presence and you feel this urge to raise your hands before the lord this is the idea of lifting up an offering before him and and uh and taking the offering and placing it in front of him and waving it back and forth and in uh in israelite times in israel times what would happen is they would take the offering and they would wave it in the north in the south okay in the east and the west before the lord and what's beautiful about that by waving it in all four directions okay we as believers a 21st century western christian believers would say that that's the form of a cross but in hebrew they would never have seen it as a cross of course that was a roman symbol but they would have seen it as the letter tov the very last letter in the hebrew alphabet literally in pictograph hebrew ancient pictograph hebrew meant covenant it's what it meant so when you when you when you made the the uh excuse me the tav the letter tov you're saying covenant so god is saying look take this wave offering take the heave offering take this meal offering hold it up and wave it before me in the form of the hebrew letter top because this is how you make covenant with me says the lord you are thanking me for what i've given you so let's talk about that for just a little bit what is the meal offering it was offered here's the literal part it was offered as cakes like flat cakes fine flour with oil salt and unleavened bread matter of fact the table of show bread in the holy place that was a form of a meal offering okay it was made every single day unleavened bread before the lord it was given to the priests and offered to the lord it was voluntary it was offered as a tribute to gain favor and must be offered after the burnt offering so in other words you cannot well let's just back up first you have to offer yourself as a burnt offering completely and wholly dedicated then you can actually give a thanksgiving offering or a volunteer a voluntary offering that comes from inside of you from your first fruits and then it means something you cannot give a first fruits offering and not dedicate yourself 100 at the same time or the sacrifice doesn't mean anything they the two go hand in hand first you must be submitted to the lord then when you give an offering it will be a sweet savor uh in his throne room it says here it was offered to god and then given to the priest for the purpose of ministry so this was a offering that was shared by the priest and god himself okay and the offer so this was like a dinner date with with god by offering him something you're offering the priest and giving him the opportunity to continue to minister as well as you're showing god that you're thankful for what you've been given it could never have leaven or honey as leaven was associated with sin in the bible it was also accompanied by a drink offering that was poured out at the base of the altar now here's what's interesting the sacrificial gifts all right which is what this meal offering is they were also called corbin and that might be very familiar to you when we get to the new testament when yeshua talks about corbin and the priest and how they misused this concept of the gifts to god because that's what a corbin gift is it's a gift to god it's an offering to the lord so let's talk about this in new testament times they would take the idea of the corbyn offering and expand it beyond the animal a sacrificial system into uh what we would call today ties and offerings or your finances so they would let you bring money to the temple and offer it to god for the service of of whatever was needed for the ministry of the uh of the whole sacrificial system and uh and this is the context that's found when we get to mark chapter 7 verse 11 read along with me for moses said honor your father and your mother and he who curses father or mother let him be put to death but you say if a man says to his father or mother whatever prophet you have received from me is corbin that is a gift of god then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother making the word of god of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down and many such things you do now my friends this is a very a puzzling and mysterious passage unless you understand the sacrificial system because what does that mean you say corbin what this is saying is basically for those that don't want to support their their their parents in their old age for those of you that maybe you don't get along with your parents and you don't want anything to do with them and you don't want to set aside money and finances and gifts to help them then the priest believe it or not created a way for them to make more money and to help their friends get out of of helping their their parents in their old age and this was the corbin offering so they took the meal offering the heave offering the corbin uh gift offering and they said if you take the money that you're supposed to give to your parents and you call it a corbin offering a gift to god if you give it to us first then they can't have it and legally you'll be completely a kosher between you and yahweh because you will have offered a gift to god and therefore satisfying the uh the ability that you're supposed to give to your parents it's absolutely crazy but the priest created a system that people could get around supporting their their family and their parents in old age by taking the money and offering it to god instead of their parents and they would justify it as giving it to god is greater than given to your parents and so everything's kosher and it's not and that's why yeshua called them out on the carpet and said you are dishonoring god by not honoring your parents and calling it corbett and and that's the explanation of that particular scripture how yeshua fulfilled the meal offering was this he was the bread of life john 6 48. he compared himself to a grain of wheat that had to die before it could live again john 12 23-25 he was crushed for our iniquities isaiah 53 10 and in the grain offering you had to totally crush it into fine flour and yeshua was crushed for our iniquities it had to be offered with oil and the oil represents the holy spirit that must be inside of every offering you can't make an offering and not have the spirit attached to it or the offering is not worth anything and yeshua of course was the perfect worshiper because he worshipped the father in spirit and in truth it also had to be offered with salt salt represents how the word made flesh preserves us yeshua when he died he created the ability to immediately preserve us from death unto life because he was the salt of the earth he was the one that kept his father's will alive in the earth by properly interpreting the torah for the for the first century jewish people which ultimately helped us understand the principles of the torah so that we can properly apply them to our lives today and lastly yeshua had no leaven in his life because remember you couldn't use leaven in a meal offering so how can we fulfill the meal offering today say pastor jim i can't make a meal offering before god oh yes you can because the principle and purpose in original intent you'll hear me say that a million times the principle the purpose and the original intent of the creator was that every one of these torah commandments could be timeless almost all of them can be timeless if you can extract the principle the purpose and the original intent behind it so let's find out what it is first of all we can remember to honor yahweh by praying before meals it's one of those is just that simple the first one is that simple i should say it's a meal offering so praying and giving god honor and thanks for every single thing that goes into our mouth is is letting him know that listen i would not have this food without you this meal is because you gave it to me you allowed me to have it and by praying just a simple prayer of thanks is one way that we can fulfill the meal offering today donating part of your food to a local food pantry or homeless shelter is another way because part of the meal offering was that you're giving the meal to the priest who needs it and so not only are you saying thank you to yahweh and you're saying father thank you so much for giving me so much i'm going to give you this this offering uh this meal offering but you are also satisfying uh the real needs of the priest who's in ministry and so this can be a way for you to make an offering to the homeless shelter near you uh to someone that's hurting around you that's having financial trouble uh and so on and so forth look for opportunities to satisfy someone's physical need and you'll be satisfying the meal offering also giving a thanksgiving offering anytime there's a new abundance in your life so if you get a a pay increase you get an inheritance there's a new blessing that comes into your life maybe it's a newborn baby maybe it's a grandbaby like i just had recently in any type of situation where there is an abundance of blessing that happens to you that is the moment that we should be giving a thanksgiving offering that we give that heave offering that we lift it up and praise before our king and say father i'm giving you back some of this blessing because i want you to know that i recognize i wouldn't have anything without you it must be offered unleavened without sin in your life this is important or the offering won't be accepted you can't come before god with sin in your life and you can't come before god with ought against your brother or everything you do gets burned up on judgment day you have to make it right the father says don't hold back from me you can't come to the altar with with troubles and burdens in your hand and then expect him uh to to take the sacrifice out of your hand he won't take both it must be clean hands and a pure heart and lastly it was given to and shared by the priests for ministry purposes and so maybe you're given to a local ministry to your church to a charity but this is to be shared by the local ministry ministries that are around you that are supporting and building up the kingdom of god and all of these different ways are ways that you can satisfy the meal offering all right let's move on to the peace offering what is the peace offering now i know what most of you are thinking especially if you're men you know exactly what i'm thinking is that you have a problem with your wife you're getting a big offer you get a big a fight a peace offering is probably a good idea so you might want to pay attention to what this one looks like all right okay here we go in reality in the literal text the blood and the fat and the kidneys of the peace offering went to god on the altar while the breast and the right shoulder went to the priest and it was voluntary and it was a fellowship offering so the peace offering was a great way to make communion to bring connection okay it was also like a thanksgiving offering the purpose was to re-establish communion with yahweh do you ever feel disconnected from god do you ever feel like you need more communion with him well the peace offering or the shalom offering in hebrew is a great way to re-establish that connection make an offering sacrifice of yourself sacrifice your time the fastest way to have communion with god i can tell you right now here's the secret drum roll please get up before the sun comes up and spend time in silence with the creator that will establish clarity it's better than coffee it will establish clarity it will take the clouds out of your mind and it will move them into a sunshine clear day where you can receive from the holy spirit you'll be able to see your sin clearly and you'll be able to move forward with more spiritual understanding and connection than you did the day before that is a really good way to do that and also the way they did it back here was they simply made an offering before god they sacrificed something that was valuable to them all right that was valuable to the other person and that creates a peace offering and so how we can relate this to our own personal life if if you have someone in your life that you want to have deep connection with such as your spouse or your children a loved one a family member if you want to reestablish connection with an estranged person and maybe it's one of your children maybe it's a son or a daughter that you've been disconnected with the fastest way to get reconnected according to torah according to these sacrifices god gave us the secret and the principle is to sacrifice something that is valuable to the other person you see the difference between like an offering and a sacrifice is a sacrifice is a sacrifice to you you're giving up something that's valuable to you but in an offering and a peace offering you're giving to the other person or the other party something that is valuable to them it may not have any value to you a gift is a great idea it's a great example you know when my anniversary comes along or my wife's birthday comes along and i get her a gift it's not valuable to me earrings are not valuable to me or a a women's shirt is not valuable to me or whatever the gift that i may give her one year i gave her a four-wheel drive kirby vacuum cleaner that was valuable to me it didn't go over real well it wasn't very valuable to her so i was the one that ended up doing all of the vacuuming for the next 10 years straight so don't make that mistake guys get what is valuable to the other person you're trying to connect with if it's a strange son or daughter find out what's invaluable and what's important to them and do something about that insert yourself and give them something that's valuable not just in the material level but the material level is important because it shows value and when you do that you're giving part of your heart to that person and that person looks past the valuable object into the intent and the original intent of the heart behind it and that is what creates connection this is the whole sacrificial system people are giving things that are valuable to them away sacrificing them showing to the god that they're sacrificing you are valuable to me and i want peace with you therefore i'm going to present to you something of value this is all about value okay it was offered after completing a vow as a thanksgiving offering or a free will offering it came from the abundance of the heart and in the case of thanksgiving offering it included included leavened bread leaven on the flip side of the quarter one side of sin the other side is maturity it's the other side of celebration the other side is completeness and so a thanksgiving offering oftentimes was was offered with bread because it was thanksgiving it was the fullness of what bread could be and it was oftentimes offered during joyous times yeshua fulfilled the peace offering because he made peace between god and men we know that he's our peace according to ephesians 2 and without the peace offering of yeshua there can be no shalom no communion and no connection to god he became the bridge of the relationship and that's what we're trying to do with one another are we not how can we fulfill the peace offering today when we find ourselves in joyous occasions we can make an offering to god i thank you to the father you know this is one of the things that is so it's just not taught today in christian circles enough because we don't understand offerings we don't understand sacrifices when we do something and we and we get a tremendous benefit or blessing from it when was the last time that you gave god a thanksgiving offering for giving you so much you know what we do we say thank you when someone gives us something we say thank you but here's what's interesting if i were to go and borrow eggs from my neighbor to make chocolate chip cookies it is natural for me that when the chocolate chip cookies come out of the oven to take some of those cookies and give them to the one who gave me the ability to make them in the be in the first place but yet with yahweh with god our creator he gives us everything the breath in our lungs the strength right in our in our muscles the blood life in our veins the ability to think through things the ability to do things and create wealth he blesses us so much he gives us the eggs to make chocolate chip cookies and we give him nothing that's the saddest part of our walk with the lord today we've lost the eastern ancient culture of the torah commandment that is found in the sacrificial system that says thank you the majority of the sacrifices my friends were literally just to say thank you and keep communion with god they recognized in the wave offering of the barley and the wheat they said father thank you we give you this first fruits offering and we by faith believe that you're going to bring a great harvest in the fall the system created faith it created relationship it created the humble heart of dependence on the creator today we don't have that even as people that that believe in the front of the book most people don't even tithe they don't even follow the torah commandment of giving back 10 percent because god gave us the hundred to begin with we're very ungrateful and we are stiff-necked people that really don't seek first the kingdom of god we seek our kingdom our righteousness we think to be right is the right way to to live for god instead of living holy and humble and partnering in divine assistance with him to build the kingdom this is part of how we can fulfill the kingdom of god on earth is to keep the sacrificial system going and i'm not talking about the blood of bulls and goats i'm not talking about uh uh even calling upon the name of of god he the blood of the lamb is the way the truth the life it's the doorway the eastern gate that even gets us into the temple the presence of the most high god but i'm talking about the growth of the kingdom of israel revolved around the people getting involved and connecting with the levitical priesthood who were ministering before the lord let's move on i'm getting too excited here the last two are the sin offering and the trespass offering what's the sin offering it was burned outside the camp it required it required confession on behalf of the offer the main focus is unintentional sin important and while the previous offerings were primarily offered by the worshiper the sin and trespass offering came before god as a sinner so the other three were all from the position of a worshiper but this one was from the perspective of a sinner and the primary purpose was to deal with sin as a matter of the heart the sin nature of a man the nature unto god while the trespass offering dealt with individual sins yeshua of course fulfilled the sin offering because he became sin for us there's nothing else to say he absolutely dealt with adam's problem of creating the sin nature of man he put to death the deeds of the flesh by his own flesh dying on that cross for he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of god in him second corinthians 5 21 and lastly we come to the trespass offering and this one's important main purpose of the trespass offering is dealing with the intentional and unintentional sin you see the sin offering was only unintentional sin but this one the trespass offering this dealt with intentional sin the offering focused on the effect of sin on other people whereas the sin offering was the effect that you had on god but when we sin and we trespass on someone else's boundary lines then we're affecting their life so this offering dealt with that in the case of the trespassing of another person's property the principle had to be paid back as as well as adding a fifth to it you had to add 20 percent to it not only did you have to make them whole but you had to add to it so that they came out ahead on the other side if at all possible after that then an offering was made to god to make peace with him because when you offend your brother and when you trespass against your brother you are trespassing against god himself right isn't that our father to ask god to forgive us for our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us we're going to dive into this for a couple of minutes because the trespass offering is connected to the our father we can't understand that scripture that says forgive us of our trespasses if we don't understand it's not talking about sin it's talking about trespasses and there is a difference it says by the way yeshua fulfilled the trespass offering by paying the debt that the law required for everyone that trespassed against it and that debt was death right it says in romans 3 23 the wages of sin is death but the free gift of god is eternal life through jesus christ our lord yeshua paid that debt john 19 30 says so when jesus had received the sour wine he said it is finished and bowing his head he gave up his spirit you know some of your scriptures your scriptures some of your bible versions might actually say tetelestai because it is that original word to telesty that actually is a legal financial term in the first century that when the money changers were finished changing their money and the debt was paid the word to telesty was spoken it literally means it is finished the debt is paid the price has been already paid you can have your certificate back you can have your product whatever it was here's the exchange of money it is finished the debt is paid when yeshua died on the cross his last words were father forgive them for they know not what they do and then he said to tell us die the debt is paid that's the trespass offering the debt is paid isn't it amazing how can we fulfill the trespass offering today number one when we trespass or cross the boundary line of our neighbor and we damage their quote property we need to make it right by doing the following four things number one this is important take notes on this take responsibility for your sin and own it verbally is nothing more important than owning it standing up for it saying you know what my bad i totally own this this was my fault and when you do this you cannot bring up someone else's trespasses which is number two don't bring up any trespasses against you because you can't bring anyone with you when you present your offering it's you and god you cannot bring someone else that trespasses that's what five-year-olds do they say cindy did this or kyla did this you no no no no no you don't come and tell on on your on your uh uh on your enemy or your friend or your spouse you don't come before god and complain about this person or that person you come before god with your own sin because humility says i am guilty before god and if if you're not guilty in the situation and they are you are most likely guilty on how you handled it so come before god with your trespass offering before you take the log the speck out of your neighbor's eye i should say so number one take responsibility own it verbally number two don't bring up any trespasses of your of your uh of the one who offended you and number three find out what it takes to make that person right and do it and go above and beyond with that 20 make it right listen to me brethren it is not enough to say i'm sorry it's not enough to verbally apologize this is the american western romanized way of restitution is just saying i'm so sorry no it doesn't work like that the temple system and the believer in christ which is still under the principles of the sacrificial system says that you have to make it right you if you if you uh borrow your neighbor's chainsaw and you break it you have to make it right and then go above and beyond maybe buy him a brand new one and you keep the old one in either case the bible makes it clear and by the way it's some of it's just common sense find out what it takes to make it right if you hurt someone's feelings find out what is valuable to them and maybe you give them a gift certificate to their favorite restaurant or maybe you give your wife a back massage when you're tired give a sacrifice of praise unto the lord by doing something physically for somebody else that my friends is restitution make restitution and go above and beyond that's what creates relationship and then number four make an offering to the lord in proportion to that sin it's important that you follow this fourth one because there's so many people that will be okay with saying i'm sorry and they might even go above and beyond to make restitution but they forget that they have sinned before the most high god and they don't make an offering to him and you can do that in any way that the holy spirit puts on your heart if we were in old testament days it would cost you a sheep at the very least it would cost you a dove if you were poor or pigeon but it would cost you a goat or a sheep and if you're rich maybe a bull depending on the on the size of the sin that you wanted to make connection with god again it was going to cost you something today sin is cheap it's why we keep doing it there's no cost to sin if every time we sinned against god and men looked at pornography and and women were gossiping about their husbands and they had to come and write a check for a hundred dollars to their local church or ministry two we'd have a hundred pastors for every church because the church would be so rich right and number one god would never have a need to complain that his people aren't engaged in the in the kingdom process but we don't do that we've cheapened grace there's no cost there's no consequence anymore we tell it we're like children it's like telling a child if you do that one more time you're going to go to your room and they never get sent to their room so they learn to sin they learn to trespass because there's no consequences i encourage you my friend take this serious apply this as the holy spirit says to do this maybe you have to you got a sin struggle in your life and every time you sin you have to make a physical financial offering uh to to a charity or a ministry or a church or a synagogue you have to pay something to the consequence of your sin maybe it's that you got to do what my kids do and write sentences out maybe you got to write scripture out you got to memorize it it's going to cost you something there's got to be a sacrifice involved here's the purpose as we begin the process of closing here the purpose of the sacrificial system of the priestly ministry is as follows number one to remind us that we're dependent on yahweh for everything the whole point of the sacrificial system was to create the relationship and remind us that all of this is his we didn't do anything to deserve this it's it's to allow us to remind us that we're dependent on him number two to teach us to say thank you by giving thanksgiving offerings did you know that that the three offerings that the meal offering and the burnt offering and the peace offering those are called sweet savor savory smells in his nostrils in the throne room of god that is the sweet savor you know why because that person that is voluntarily giving of the substance that he gave them that they are saying thank you that pleases god when we make restitution for our sin that is not a sweet savor it stinks because it's it's sin that's being offered up yes he forgives us and the blood of his son is amazing but what pleases him is when we give offerings when we're not in sin isn't that true with our own relationships with our spouses and those that we love if we only do nice things and bring flowers when we do something wrong is that not a very sad relationship we should be bringing flowers and doing the right thing and pleasing our spouses and our loved ones when we're not in trouble just because we love them we want to thank them for being so amazing in our lives all the meals that my wife cooks i don't do enough to say thank you that is a true worshiper that brings a sweet smell to the person that's receiving that number three the purpose of the sacrificial system to demonstrate that there was a consequence to sin and restitution must be made today because as christians we have no concept of of the sacrificial system and those that say that they follow the front of the book still don't have any knowledge of torah completely because the whole torah wraps and centers around the temple which is all connected to the sacrificial system and if we are not sacrificing as believers today that we are not truly in connection with god we're not seeking first the kingdom we don't understand consequences and restitution number five the restitution and repentance must come before god and men can't be in secret comes before the lord comes before man we have to confess our sins to one another so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the lord and lastly the purpose of the sacrificial system was to support the ones physically that are supporting you spiritually let me just go through a couple of verses here that are powerful verses to show how even in new testament times the concept of the sacrificial priestly system and the tithes and offerings were a radical part of early christian growth here here it is first corinthians 9 7-12 says this do i say these things as a mere man or does not the law say the same thing also he's quoting the torah for it is written in the law of moses you shall not muzzle the ox while it treads out the grain and then paul says this is it oxen that god is so concerned about or does he say it all together for our sake the ones presenting the gospel for our sakes no doubt this is written that he who plows should plow in hope and he who threshes in hope should partake of this hope if we have sown spiritual things to you he says brother is it a great thing is it a big deal if we reap physical uh material things from you if others are partakers of this right over you are we not even more he says first timothy 5 17 he goes on says for the scripture talking about the torah you shall not muslims while it treads out the grain and the laborer is worthy of its wages now yes the original tithing system went directly to the levites themselves but what paul and the disciples are trying to say is look the purpose the point and the original intent of the of the tithing and sacrificial system was to build up the body of messiah in israel it was to allow those that were gifted and called into full-time ministry to do just that to serve the people of god and they can't do that and wait tables at the same time so that's why he says in luke 10 4 through 7 carry neither moneybag knapsack or sandals this is when yeshua is sending his disciples out he says and greet no one along the road but wherever house you enter first say peace to this house and if a son of peace is there then let your peace will rest on it if not it will return to you and remain in the same house eating and drinking such things as they give for the labor is worthy of his wages in other words he says look when you go minister don't go taking your money with you don't do this trust that they will see that they are seeding into your life and they will make sure that your needs are met period the con what's he talking about a heave offering he's talking about a meal offering he's talking about the peace offering he's talking about the burnt offering he's talking about look these people are living in a sacrificial system during a time of sacrifices they understand that the priests were the ones that received the co-laboring or the benefit of the ministry gifts along with god so that they could further minister to you in the same way that they did they will do for you under uh the banner of love and the sacrificial system of therein in the end my friend here's where i want to challenge you with in today's christian walk we don't understand heave offering we know to raise our hands during worship but we don't know how to sacrifice for the kingdom of god we don't understand what it means to partner with god and for those of you that are out there that say that you believe in torah but you don't give restitution to your wife when you offend her you just say you're sorry you only buy flowers you know on her birthday or anniversary or at the end of the day you don't even you don't even give any part of what god has given you to the work of the ministry you know the parable of the talent says hey i've given you five talents i've given you two talents i've given you one talent you doubled yours you doubled yours but you went and hid yours god says depart from me you're a wicked servant because there was no roi there was no return on my investment can i challenge you today brothers and sisters in messiah what is the return that god is getting from you maybe you can't be in full time ministry but let me ask you what is your part in reaching out to the kingdom what is your part in building up your local community what is your part in building up your family yourself your wife because if you are not increasing the kingdom of god on this earth then you are worthless to him i'm not saying that he's saying that because he invested so much into you i encourage you to audit your books audit your life what are you giving into the kingdom of heaven did you know that the number one quality that yahweh has is is generosity it's giving he's a benevolent god all he does is look for ways to give to his people he says he is a he's a generous and a giving father he's he loves to give good gifts to his children how much more should we what sets a believer a real believer aside in ancient israel is the one who recognized their sin who recognized that all dependence was on him and they gave and submitted to the system of government that made the whole thing work today where are you being fed who's your pastor where is your rabbi who's your teacher wherever that may be found that spiritual food seed into the ones that are trying to build the kingdom of god and partner with them and i'm not even talking about finances and please don't take me wrong but the day has got to come my friends where this movement where the people that claim the front of the book and the back of the book the spirit and the truth stand up and put their money where their mouth is because the other side is doing that the mega churches aren't mega and reaching millions of people for no reason the people believe in that message and how much more is this message worth and how much more valuable is it but yet we as a movement as a people group around the world we don't see that value because we don't seed into it we don't understand meal offerings most of i know people that don't even pray before they eat i know people that don't even tithe one percent of their income to the to the to the to the kingdom of god and therefore there is less and less modern day levites to service and to love and to to minister to the people of god my friends this message is not about giving finances to you this is a teach you the sacrificial system of the new covenant the principles behind the sacrificial system of the old covenant that you can use to have connection with god peace with the creator relationships that are deepened by taking the principles of giving and the principles of partnering because you're partnering with a priest you see everything that that i do if you support this ministry everything that i do you get credit for because we're partnering together to reach the people around the world i encourage you my friends take this message before the lord find out where you're coming up short i know i am i know that i don't give enough sacrifice and enough praise and honor to the lord for everything that he's done for me i know that i don't give enough restitution when i offend uh someone or my my a family member or my spouse or a loved one i know that i still have this roman recognized ideas of that all i can do is verbally apologize that's not true we need to get back to the sacrificial system and can we call it the sacrificial system of the new testament where we do bible things in bible ways and we step up to the plate to make a difference in the kingdom of god i will leave you with this thought we have to do one thing to make a difference in this world and that's to seek first the kingdom because on judgment day there will be a cosmic scale after the blood of christ is applied the books of works are opened and if your works are not found to increase the kingdom of god in some way shape or form i'm telling you it all burns up and your rewards will be nil join with me father god i just come before you in yeshua's name and i pray father first of all that you forgive us for saying that these sacrifices are done away with that that we've cast aside the very principles the point and your original intent of why you gave us these to begin with father i pray that you would ignite in us a fire to understand lord that bringing offerings and our sacrifices before you and before men is all about relationship it's all about bringing the light into the earth it's all about bringing salt lord it's about burning the olive oil in our hearts to be the candle the menorah in a dark and unholy place that's getting darker by the day father i pray that you would bring conviction into every man woman and child's life that has not been taught to partner with york with your son in the blood that he shed as a sacrifice fulfilling all five sacrifices that how dare us not give ourselves holy offered unto you and god i pray we don't have the sheep and the goats and and the mint and human today but lord what we have is our sustenance that comes from the work of our hands help us lord to give freely generously recognizing that you deserve all of it and the fact that you let us keep some of it is absolutely amazing lord let us love you with all of our heart mind soul and strength and father when the sun sets i pray that we will do all of this so that we can love our neighbor as ourself father forgive us for where where we have sinned encourage us where we need encouragement and let us be found faithful when you return and everyone said amen my friends this has been a deep and a heavy message i know they had no intention of this but i can tell you the father will bless you as you study these sacrifices like i have and learn to lay down your life at the altar and the feet of our maker amen shalom and shalom we'll see you next time i'm jim staley with passion for truth ministries someone has donated to this ministry so that you could be blessed today would you consider paying it forward for others if so text pay it forward all one word to 801 801 that's pay it forward no spaces to 801 801 or go to passionfortruth.com [Music]