Title: Rules of Sacrifice/Num 15:1-31
Content Title: Rules of ancestral rites
Text: Numbers 15:1-31
Key Verse: (Numbers 15:20) You shall offer your first-ripe wheat flour loaves as a large offering, like a large offering on the threshing floor.
In chapters 13 and 14, Israel's entry into Canaan was delayed for 40 years, and at least the first generation of exodus died in the wilderness at Kadesh-Barnea, a tragic event. But in the midst of this, God does not forget to comfort and encourage His people. In the chapter John, various regulations that must be observed when entering the land of Canaan are introduced. In particular, in the text, the supplementary ordinances of Leviticus consisted of the whole ordinance offered with burnt offerings or grain offerings, the ordinances for the large offering of the first fruit, and the ordinances for the sin offering for unintentional crimes.
1. It must be given according to the ordinance.
The regulations for the drink offering (wine or oil poured over the sacrifice) with the burnt offering or grain offering were different depending on the size of the offering. In other words
1) If the sacrifice is a lamb - 1/10 ephah of fine flour, 1/4 hin each of oil and wine 2) In case of rams - 2/10 ephah of fine flour, 1/3 hin each of oil and wine, 3) Bullock Cases - 3/10 ephah of fine flour, 1/2 hin each of oil and wine. And these rules were applied equally to natives and foreigners without discrimination. In this way, the people must give according to the ordinance according to the word of God. “(Numbers 15:13) This law shall be followed whenever a native of the land offers a burnt offering fragrant to the LORD. (Numbers 15:14) If a foreigner sojourning among you, or anyone among you from generation to generation, offers a burnt offering fragrant to the LORD, you (Numbers 15:15) It is an ordinance for the congregation, whether you or the alien who sojourns, an everlasting ordinance for your generations. So it will be with the foreigner before the Lord as you will (Numbers 15:16). It is one rule, one law, and one law.” That is, what God wants is not the gift itself, but the gift of obedience and devotion.
2. It must be presented as the firstfruits.
The firstfruits are the grain representing all crops. It is God's intention to receive it. It is because God has given the ground for the earth, and it is a sign of joy in worshiping God and being blessed, and it is a sign of obedience to God's Word. As a method, it must be offered as a large offering, with flour and rice cakes, and like a large offering at the threshing floor. Therefore, the most important reason to give the first fruit to God is the act of confession of faith in gratitude for God's grace.
In the same way, the saints of today must keep the spirit of the ordinance of the first fruit. This is because it is an example of the spirit that everything comes from God.
3. You must offer a sin offering.
The provision here is for sacrifices performed individually or by the entire congregation of Israel when an Israelite or a foreigner commits an unintentional sin (a sin committed by mistake or ignorance because of human weakness in nature). This is because God knows the weakness of human beings better than anyone. He gave the rules for the sin offering so that this sin could be atoned for. Therefore, God wants to forgive these human sins through the ordinance of the sin offering. In a redemptive sense, we must offer a sin offering to God through the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross. Because He is our eternal and true sin offering.
apply.
1) He wants you to strictly follow God's law for the sacrificial law. Even today, God wants the saints to live according to the word of God's corporation.
2) Are you fully giving your tithes and firstfruits to God in your giving life?
3) Do we live such a life toward our neighbors as God, who knows our weakness, is showing mercy to us as a sin offering?
4) Are you living a life of fully confessing to God for the sins committed because of human weakness?