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m THE BURNT OFFERING.
LESSON VI, THIRD QUARTER, IN
\1 TERNATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 6.
. Text of the Lesson. Lev. t, 1-9—Commit
4 Verses 4, 6—Golden Text, Isa. 1111, 6.
Wt Commentary by Rev. D. N. Stearns.
■pondensed ■ permission from of H. Lesson b. Hoffman, Helper Quarterly, Philadelphia, by
I publisher.]
■ We have but three lessons assigned us in
His precious book of living pictures of the
Huth as it is in Jesus. Of the five offerings
■escribed in the first seven chapters, we have
ij^iy fthat this one lesson on the burnt offering, so
we must of necessity glance at the others
in order to understand this.
The sin offering tells us what we are, and
points us to Christ who was made sin for us
P Cor. v, 21 ), the trespass offering shows
jwhat (points we do as the result of the sin in us, and
to us Christ who bore our sins in His
body on the tree. (I Pet. ii, 24; iii, 18.)
burnt offering shows us Christ perfectly
the Father’s will and giving Himself an
’ and a sacrifice to God for a sweet
smelling savor (Eph. v, 2 ); and thus present
ing to God as worshipers those whose sins
has put away; the meatoffering shows us
Christ in His pure and holy life, doing
ways those things that please the Father
obn viii, 29); and the peace offering brings
us the blessed result of all His toil and
(CoL i, 20; Rom. v, l.)
In this first chaper of Leviticus we have
burnt offering as a bullock, a lamb or
kid, and a turtle dove or pigeon, but in each
case it is said to be “a burnt sacrifice, an of
made by fire, of a sweet savor unto
Lord.” (Vs.9,13,17.) These different grades
to speak) of offerings were to suit the
of the person offering, and in the case
the sin offering, if the person was not able
bring doves or pigeons, he might bring a
fine flour, and bis sin was atoned for as
be had brought a lamb or two turtle doves
pigeons. (Lev. v, 7-13.) Does not this
that, though a person may but very feebly
the meaning of the sacrifice of
yet if with tree penitence for sin they
to Jesus as their substitute with ever so
faith, forgiveness, is theirs as much as
they understood more fully?
L “The Lord called unto Moses and spake
unto him out of the tabernacle of the con
rogation.” As He ffwolt in the Holy of Holies
x>ve the mercy seat between the cherubim
xxv, 22), so He spake from off the mercy
not as He had spoken the words of the
from the burning, quaking Mt. Sinai,
from the propitiatory, a type of Christ.
“If any man of you bring an offering
the Lord.” No one is compelled to
but “whosoever will” may come, and
“him that cometh” in the appointed way is
assured that he will in no way be cast out.
8 . “A male without blemish.” Whether
were of the herd or of the flock this it had
be; type of the Lamb of God without
and without spot (1 Pet. i, 19), who
in due time present faultless before the
of his glory with exceeding joy all
put their trust in Him. (Jude 24.) Al
though sorely tried by men and demons, even
Judas Iscariot had to say, “1 have betrayed
innocent blood,” and the demons testified
that He was the Holy One of God. Truly of
and of Him only, could it be said, “In
is no sin, He knew no sin, He did no sin,
He was without sin.”
“Of His own voluntary wilL” Concerning
laying down of His life he said,“No man
it from me, but 1 lay it down of my
(John x, ia)
4 . “He shall put His hand upon the bead n
the burnt offering.” Thus fully identify!
Hirwsftlf with it, as if tosay, “l deserve to ..
My sin, but this sinless sacrifice takes M
place, to suffer in stead for My sin wlnt-.
have committed.”
& “And he shall kill the bullock * * *
,Lspi-i n kl® the blood.” Without shedding
blood there is no remission (Helx ix, 22
and although it is not possible for the blood
of bulls or of goats to take away sin (Heb.
x, 4 ), the blood of Jesus Christ can and does
from all sin (1 John i, 7) all
to whom it is applied, that Js, all who
become identified with Him by faith in Him.
ft. “Heshall flay the burnt offering and cut
It M 8 pi ecs, - n CLH. M. says on this that
“it was no mere surface work with Christ;
the more the depths of His being were ex¬
plored, the more clearly was it made mani¬
fest that pure devotion to the will of His
Father and earnest desire for His glory were
the springs of action in the great antitype of
the burnt offering; not only as a whole, but
in all its parts, was the offering seen to be
without blemish.”
?. “Fire upon the altar, * * * wood in
order upon the fire.” We think of the story
of Isaac in Gen. rxii, and see Isaac carrying
the wood, while Abraham carried the fire
and the knife; then, a little later, we see the
altar built, the wood laid in order, and Isaac
bound and laid upon the wood ready to be
slain and consumed; but the knife descends
not upon Isaac, he is spared, and in his stead
the lamb is slam and consumed God spared
both as a sin offering and a burnt offering.
The fire on the brazen altar speaks to us of
God’s holiness accepting the sacrifice as a
sweet savor unto Him (the burnt offering,
meat offering and peace offering were sweet
savor offerings); but the fire without the
camp which consumed the sin offering (Heb.
iv, 12) speaks to us of the wrath of God
against sin. Jesus was both our sin
offering, suffering for our sins, and
also our burnt offering, making us
acceptable to God. It is also worthy of not©
in connection with the fire that the words
used in the Hebrew in reference to the burn¬
ing on the altar, and the burning without the
camps, are entirely different words; the first
signifying the burning as of incense, and the
latter the burning as of that which is ac¬
cursed.
8 . “The head and the fat.” Even the fat
of the sin offering was burned upon the altar
as a sweet savor (Lev. iv, 81), teaching us
God’s appreciation of the excellency of
Christ even while suffering for our sina The
bead indicates the intellect, fully surrendered
to God and appreciated by Him.
9. “His inwards and his legs shall he wash
in water.” The washing with water made
them ceremonially what Jesus Christ was in
reality.
“The priest shall burn all on the altar.”
Part of wasi the eatecT^ meat offering,.©ud the priests, the but peace
offering not so
in the burnt offering; it was all burnt upon
the altar, all for God. One thing in which
we cannot have fellowship with God is the
true estimate of the excellence of Christ as
our sacrifice. That which was consumed on
the altar signifies that which only God can
fully appreciate. unto the Lord.” The
“A sweet savor
phrases “Unto the Lord” and “Oefr>rf
Lord,” in verses 2, 8 , 5, 9, tell us bow
ought to seek to estimate all things, and
we ought to perform all service. It was so
with Christ in everything, all was said and
done unto God and in His sight; it ought to
be so with us.
In connection with this lesson we ought
also to study the law of the burnt offering in
Chron. yi, 8-13.
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