Leviticus 2-4, The Grain Offering, The Peace Offering, The Sin Offering, Firstfruits Beaten, The Liver, Which evolved first, the heart or the blood, fat, outside the camp, keep the whole law

1. Leviticus 2-4
The Grain Offering
The Peace Offering
The Sin Offering
Firstfruits Beaten, The Liver, Which evolved
first, the heart or the blood, fat, outside the
camp, keep the whole law

3. In Leviticus 1 We Saw That;
• God is Holy
• Man is sinful
• The cost of sin is huge
• God allows a substitution
• God alone provides the path/means of
substitution/reconciliation
• The path/means of reconciliation is very costly
and very specific (narrow).
• God in His grace provides a path of reconciliation
for all people (but only one).

4. Worshipper’s Part
Priest’s Part

5. A Few Slides in this presentation are
from Arul Kumar, and others;
Kavaraipettai, Tamil Nadu, India
• Working at SDB
• http://www.slideshare.net/akumarsdb?utm_campaign=profiletracking&utm_medium=sssite&utm_source
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6. • Leviticus receives its name from the
Septuagint and means “relating to the
Levites.”
• The Levites were the priests who were
chosen of God to minister to the
nation.
• The book of Leviticus contains many of
the laws given by God to direct them in
their work as priests for the worship of
God.
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7. By the time of
Moses we are
half way through
human history.
DLK

8. SETTING: Leviticus takes place within
the two years that Israel spent
camped at the foot of Mt. Sinai.
Leviticus continues the story of Israel
receiving God’s instructions at Sinai.
IMPORTANT TOPICS:
Sacrifice and God’s Grace; Role of the
Priests; Purity; The Day of Atonement;
and Holy Living.
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9. NIV Outline
• Lev 1:1 The Burnt Offering
• Lev 2:1 The Grain Offering
• Lev 3:1 The Fellowship Offering
• Lev 4:1 The Sin Offering
• Lev 5:14 The Guilt Offering
• Lev 6:8 The Burnt Offering
• Lev 6:14 The Grain Offering
• Lev 6:24 The Sin Offering

11. SACRIFICAL SYSTEM
• Sin is what separates us from GOD
• God commanded His people to make offerings
and sacrifices to atone for their sins.
• Each sacrifice had specific purposes and
actions depending on the particular person
and need.
• There are 5 major sacrifices outlined within
the book of Leviticus and One Major Day
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13. Let’s Read Leviticus 2:1-16
• Today's photo by Michael Shmidt takes us on a
detour from Jerusalem to the beautiful
northern region of Israel, the Golan Heights.
Jerusalem Daily Photo

14. https://bible.org/seriespage/analysis-
and-synthesis-leviticus

15. Leviticus 2:1, The Grain Offering
• Leviticus 2:1 'Now when anyone presents a grain
offering as an offering to the LORD, his offering shall
be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it and put
frankincense on it.
• Leviticus 2:2 …handful of its fine flour…up in smoke
…by fire of a soothing aroma to the LORD.
• Leviticus 2:3 'The remainder…belongs to Aaron and his
sons…
• V1, offering of fine flour
• V4, baked unleavened cakes (not chocolate, no
frosting)
• V5, made on the griddle (broken up)
• V6, made in a pan

16. Leviticus 2:10, Grain Offerings
• A handful goes up in smoke on the altar as an
offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the
LORD. The rest is for the priests, and is a thing
most holy.
• No leaven or honey
• V12, Grain offerings of first fruits not burned
• V13, Every grain season with salt

17. Leviticus 2:11, No Leaven
• Leviticus 2:11 'No grain offering, which you
bring to the LORD, shall be made with leaven,
for you shall not offer up in smoke any leaven
or any honey as an offering by fire to the
LORD.
• Exodus 29:2 and unleavened bread and
unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and
unleavened wafers…

18. Leviticus 2:14, Firstfruits Beaten
• NAU Leviticus 2:14 'Also if you bring a grain offering of early
ripened things [CSB ESV NIV NKJ KJV use 'firstfruits‘] to the LORD, you shall
bring fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, grits of new
growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened things.
• NKJ Leviticus 2:14 `If you offer a grain offering of your
firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the grain offering
of your firstfruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire,
grain beaten from full heads.
• Why do you suppose that the “firstfruits” offering was
“beaten?”
• Christ our firstfruits was beaten
• Matthew 26:67 Then they spat in His face and beat Him
with their fists…
• 1 Corinthians 15:23 …Christ the first fruits…

19. Leviticus 2:16, Firstfruits Beaten
Burned w/ Frankincense
• NKJ Leviticus 2:16 `Then the priest shall burn
the memorial portion: part of its beaten grain
and part of its oil, with all the frankincense, as
an offering made by fire to the LORD.
• Burn up the memorial portion of beaten grain
with its oil and frankincense.
• John 6:48 "I am the bread of life.
• Matthew 2:11 …they presented to Him gifts of
gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

20. Let’s Read Leviticus 3

21. https://bible.org/seriespage/analysis-
and-synthesis-leviticus

22. Leviticus 3:1, A Peace-offering
Jerusalem Inspiration
• Leviticus 3:1 'Now if his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he is
going to offer out of the herd [cattle] , whether male or female, he shall
offer it without defect before the LORD.
• Today's verse describes a peace-offering in the Temple times, known as
a "korban sh’lamim." The name comes from the Hebrew root "shalom"
- peace - because it has a spiritual ability to increase peace and unity in
the world. It is offered voluntarily by a person who sincerely desires to
express love and gratitude to the Almighty. It is perhaps not a
coincidence that it is the only offering that is not restricted to the
Temple, but may be eaten anywhere in the city of Jerusalem. The
Hebrew name for Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, also has the word shalom at
its root, and is beautifully known as the "ir shel shalom," city of peace.
We pray for the time when peace and unity, symbolized by the korban
sh'lamim, will return to Jerusalem and all of Israel.

23. Leviticus 3:4, The Liver
• Leviticus 3:4 and the two kidneys with the fat
that is on them, which is on the loins, and the
lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the
kidneys.
• Leviticus refers to the “liver” more NAS X’s than
any other book (4 X’s more). 9 X’s in Leviticus 3-9.
Why is God concerned about the liver?
• Maybe it’s to draw our attention to it with
modern understanding of the liver?

24. TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT
YOUR BUSY LIVER
• An adult’s liver is about the size of a football and weighs about
three pounds, making it the body’s largest internal organ. Tucked
neatly beneath the ribs, your liver performs more than 500
different tasks. It is a vital link between your heart, lungs and
digestive system.
Inside the liver is a bewildering
array of microscopic veins in
which each drop of blood is
processed. Here, blood
conditions are constantly
monitored to make sure
everything is up to standard. If
more of certain

25. TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT
YOUR BUSY LIVER
• substances are needed in the blood, they are supplied. Useless
chemicals are broken down into useful chemicals. Proteins are made in
the liver, blood-clotting factors are corrected, hormone balances are
maintained, and poisons are neutralized. If substances are needed to
fight an infection, they are produced and added to the blood.
• The liver also stores vitamins and minerals and prepares itself to
provide your body with quick energy when you need it. In addition, the
liver makes bile, which is essential for digestion.
• Structures like the liver have caused many evolutionists to abandon the
idea that life is a result of millions of years of accidents. The liver is just
too well designed and integrated into the body to have been produced
by purposelessness and mindlessness. Surely it makes more sense to
acknowledge a supremely wise Creator Who loves His Creation,
including you and me.
• Notes: “The Liver: The Body’s Refinery” Discover, April 1984, p. 80. Photo: MDCT image, showing the
liver in pink. Courtesy of Dr. I-Chen Tsai. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

26. Evolution And The Liver
• It’s a good idea to ask an evolutionist, “Which
evolved first, the heart or the blood?”
• You could also ask “How long do you think life
existed until the liver evolved?”
• Not to mention lungs, veins, arteries, kidneys,
spleen, coagulation, hemorrhage.

27. Leviticus 3:6,
Peace Offering From The Flock
• Leviticus 3:6 'But if his offering for a sacrifice of
peace offerings to the LORD is from the flock [sheep or
goat] , he shall offer it, male or female, without
defect.
Leviticus 3:1 …out of
the herd [cattle]
, whether male or
female, he shall offer it
…

28. Leviticus 3:16, all fat is the LORD'S
• Leviticus 3:16 'The priest shall offer them up in
smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire
for a soothing aroma; all fat is the LORD'S.
• Leviticus 7:23 "Speak to the sons of Israel,
saying, 'You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a
sheep or a goat.
• Many cultures (middle East, Inuits, and my
dad) consider the fat to be the best part.

29. Leviticus
3:16 'The
priest shall
offer them
up in
smoke…
• Not “shall
go up in
smoke”

30. Let’s Read Leviticus 4:1-12

31. https://bible.org/seriespage/analysis-
and-synthesis-leviticus

32. Leviticus 4:2, Sin Offering
• Leviticus 4:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If a person sins
unintentionally in any of the things which the LORD has
commanded not to be done, and commits any of them,
• “If a person sins unintentionally” there must be a blood
sacrifice, God changes not.
• James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles
in one point, he has become guilty of all.
• Revelation 21:8 "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and
abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers
and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns
with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
• What about well intentioned, religious people (Molech,Mary)?
• Romans 10:2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for
God, but not in accordance with knowledge.

33. Leviticus 4:12, Outside The Camp
• Leviticus 4:12 that is, all the rest of the bull, he is
to bring out to a clean place outside the camp …
• Matthew 27:31 …led Him away to crucify Him. 32
And as they were coming out, they found a man
of Cyrene…
• Mark 15:20 …they led Him out to crucify Him.
• Luke 23:33 When they came to the place called
The Skull…
• John 19:16 …He went out, bearing His own
cross…

34. Let’s Read Leviticus 4:13-21

35. Leviticus 4:13,
If The Whole Congregation Sins
• Leviticus 4:13 'Now if the whole congregation of Israel
commits error and the matter escapes the notice of the
assembly, and they commit any of the things which the
LORD has commanded not to be done, and they become
guilty;
• KJV Leviticus 4:13 …sin through ignorance…
• ESV …sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the
eyes of the assembly…
• NET …Israel strays unintentionally and the matter is not
noticed by the assembly…
• CSB Leviticus 4:13…errs, and the matter escapes the notice
of the assembly…
• YLT …Israel err ignorantly…

36. Leviticus 4:13,
If The Whole Congregation Sins
• Leviticus 4:13 …they become guilty;
• You can try the “everybody was doing it,
ignorance, unintentional, erred, forgot, didn’t
know, truck blocked the sign, necessity, or I
meant well” excuses next time you get pulled
over for speeding.
• You’re still guilty! Ignorance of the law is no
excuse.

37. Let’s Read Leviticus 4:22-35

38. Leviticus 4:22, When A Leader Sins
• Leviticus 4:22 'When a leader sins and
unintentionally does any one of all the things
which the LORD his God has commanded not
to be done, and he becomes guilty,

39. Leviticus 4:27,
When The Common People Sin
• Leviticus 4:27 'Now if anyone of the common people sins
unintentionally in doing any of the things which the LORD
has commanded not to be done, and becomes guilty,
• How much sin?
• Matthew 5:22 "But I say to you that everyone who is angry
with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and
whoever says to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing,' shall
be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, 'You
fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell. [Matthew
5:28, 48, Romans 3:23, 6:23]
• 1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived;
neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall
inherit the kingdom of God.

40. Leviticus 4:35
…Thus the priest
shall make
atonement for
him in regard to
his sin which he
has committed,
and he will be
forgiven.
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Amen!
Amen!

42. THE
END

43. Hebrews 3:4 Proverbs 7:23 Leviticus
3:4 Ezekiel 21:21, Let’s Look At The
Liver• Ezekiel 21:21…he looks at the liver.
• TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT
• YOUR BUSY LIVER
• Hebrews 3:4
• “For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.”
• An adult’s liver is about the size of a football and weighs about three pounds, making it the body’s largest internal organ. Tucked neatly beneath the
ribs, your liver performs more than 500 different tasks. It is a vital link between your heart, lungs and digestive system.
• Inside the liver is a bewildering array of microscopic veins in which each drop of blood is processed. Here, blood conditions are constantly monitored
to make sure everything is up to standard. If more of certain substances are needed in the blood, they are supplied. Useless chemicals are broken
down into useful chemicals. Proteins are made in the liver, blood-clotting factors are corrected, hormone balances are maintained, and poisons are
neutralized. If substances are needed to fight an infection, they are produced and added to the blood.
• The liver also stores vitamins and minerals and prepares itself to provide your body with quick energy when you need it. In addition, the liver makes
bile, which is essential for digestion.
• Structures like the liver have caused many evolutionists to abandon the idea that life is a result of millions of years of accidents. The liver is just too
well designed and integrated into the body to have been produced by purposelessness and mindlessness. Surely it makes more sense to
acknowledge a supremely wise Creator Who loves His Creation, including you and me.
• Prayer:
• I thank You, Lord, for the wonderful way in which You have made me and for the way in which You keep my life going. Help me to dedicate my life to
You, not only in word, but also in deed. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
• Notes:
• “The Liver: The Body’s Refinery” Discover, April 1984, p. 80. Photo: MDCT image, showing the liver in pink. Courtesy of Dr. I-Chen Tsai. Licensed
under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.