OT 12-14-09

OT Notes 12-14-09
Ben Collins
OT Laws and how to handle them

Sometimes we get fuzzy on what is Moral and what is Civil. The lines are fuzzy at times. We have the three categories: moral, civil, and ceremonial.
Example of Civil Law: Ex. 20:2 (is there anything moral about it? Is this a helpful category?) Kills an ox... return this and that. Has nothing to do with morality? No, there are presuppositions. These are illustrative examples of what love looked like for them. Even though i don’t have an ox or a sheep, there are things that i can learn from here. This can become a devotional law for me. This is how we can understand both positive and negative perspectives of Paul.

Ceremonial Laws: Lev. 20:22... all things clean and unlclean
Do all these things so that the land will not VOMIT you out. Shall not do what other nations... being separate from the nations. Separate clean and unclean... so that you might be mine.”” don’t eat pork... owe nothing to anyone, for the one who loves has fulfilled the law... any other commandment is summed up in this word, you shall love your neighbor as yourself... soo how does not eating pork come into loving your neighbor. Love your neighbor by meeting their need of being with God. If it isn’t ethics it’s going to be outward deeds... being separate involves mission. Drawing attention to God, the tabernacle, most loving act is showing God to people, and so by following these laws we are able to love our neighbor.
Uses of OT law::: 3 traditional views... 1) general clarity of what is good. 2) crushes us to point us to Christ 3) pedagogical: teaching/instructive (Luther only used the first two, not this third part) CALVIN made this pedagogical point... Calvin’s commentary on Deut. 230 sermons in 2 years. The Laws, all of them, can be used devotionally.

National history of death... not a rosy picture at all. Reading through Kings... sighhed... read more about the people that turned on God and got killed. The weightiness of sin hit her, and then it really hit Dr. D. For centuries the Godly remnant has been instructed their children in these stories, and now we see the fruit of the Old Cov being death. The Old Cov. is one of death and when you deny Christ’s power and place in redemptive history then you are going back to death. Going back to death, a covenant of death.

Romans 3: none righteous no not one... who are the righteous in the text that he is talking about? Paul how can you say that there are none righteous??? The psalms give clarity for what that righteousness is... it was a person that saw their sin and relied on God fully for righteousness.

Can we really love the Lord? yes, but we can’t do it fully and perfectly. Not going to be perfect until glory! Understand enablement in the now but not yet. While we have a new nature and the spirit of God is in us, we aren’t fully there. Some say that “God never demanded perfection...” uhhh no! Jesus is the only answer to our eternal justification.


OT Law’s Relevance to Christians: DeRo’s View
Terminology
Meaning: the meaning of a text that pattern of meaning the author willed ot convey by the words (shareable symbols) he used”
Implication: Implications are those meanings in a text of which the author was unaware but nevertheless legitimately fall within the pattern of meaning he willed”
Eph. 5:18; 1 Tim 2:9-10
Haggard lookin guy with the glass of alcohol a day.
some say, Paul didn’t say Jack Daniel’s or BL... so let’s drink it up! Paul would say “YOU DIDN”T HEAR ME!” In the context of evil days people are prone to go to the bottle. Whenever we are dealing with specific applications, we need to not only look at smaller things like Jack Daniel’s and such but also beyond to the greater implication beyond what was normally being said.
1 Tim 2:9-10 braided hair, gold, pearls and costly attire... Pearls during the great expansion, time of Master and Commander... western expanders that come in, island has pearls everywhere, kids play with pearls like marbles. Copper button, social classes determined by copper button. Paul wouldn’t say, i never mentioned copper buttons, so you’re ok. No! There is a big meaning behind this.
When we look at OT laws as well, we need to try to see the big waffle.
Key Propositions: pg 33 chart.
The NT calls for followers to fulfill the original intention of the OT law in all its forms
Love is the original intention of the Law
Jesus Matt 22:37-39
Paul Gal 5:14
there is a love principle that is operative here and i might need to hear it.
Love is what comes through!
The whole law - criminal, case, family, cultic, compassionate, has direct relevance to the NT believer in the way it serves as an expression of love in action.
A process for applying OT Law:
HANDOUT!!!
A process for Applying OT Law:
Determin the type, funciton and objectiv/purpose of the OT law (including implications)
Type: criminal, case, family, cultic, compassionate?
Function: primary secondary, supportive?
Purpose: who? what? Where? When? Why? How? How often? To what extent?
ALSO SEE HANDOUT
State the principle behind the law, noting how love is being manifest.
Preserve the principle, but change the context.
Deut 22: 1-3 ““You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother. And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him. And you shall do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with any lost thing of your brother’s, which he loses and you find; you may not ignore it.”
(Deuteronomy 22:1–3 ESV)
Type: compassionate
Function: secondary b/c it isn’t a general principle.
Purpose: to build a service-focused community that respects others and their belongings. (rom 13:10 Deut 5:21)
Principle: (don’t ignore it! Seek out there needs!) Loving your brother means you will treat with care and return if possible any of his lost possessions. Love is to impact our dealing with others and helping them find lost things. New Covenant doesn’t disregard any of this. Even though this may have lead to death, it still holds the principle up, loving each other. Love is empowered by Spirit of Christ in us. Marriage and all of that is in the context of being filled with the Spirit.
Deut 22:4... skippin over it.
Deut 22:5... ““A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.”
geber, not used that often, related to warrior gebor... how is this an abomination
(Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV)
Type: the word “abominable” isn’t a throw away word. Blurring gender issues, cultic area of symbolism... criminal against Yahweh, family law.
Function: secondary
Purpose: maintain gender roles, what would make this abominable???, if it is something in the dress that changes specific dress.
Principle: what is at stake is these are the things that can be controlled... control mannerisms and pitches that people talk in. Loving others (and God) means we will clearly display our gender through our dress (and action) New Context???
Deut 22:6-7 ““If you come across a bird’s nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.”
(Deuteronomy 22:6–7 ESV)
It says enjoy your omelet! save the mother so that there are omelets for others to come. Sustain creation so that others can have it. Serving doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy it, but our responsibility is bigger than me! This text is hugely important!
If you eat the mother, then there won’t be chickens for the next generations, so that it may go well with you and also live long. Hezekiah’s problems. You are looking out for yourself here as well.
New Context: fishing, hunting, limits... all of that

OT 12-7-09 Deut

OT Deuteronomy
Dr. Derouchie
12-7-2009

Israel on Mission to the Nations
Israel’s missions reiterated (Ex. 19: 4-6)
The basis for Israel’s mission 19:4
The means for Israel’s mission 19:5
The context for Israel’s mission 19:5
the nature of Israel’s mission 19:6
Kingdom of priests (Ex. 24: 3-8) and a holy nation (see 1 Pet 2:9 and rev 1:6; 5:10)
Israel’s Mission in the World
Exodus 20: looking at the 10 Commandments
The means of Sanctification
God is the ultimate cause of our sanctification
Lev. 22:31-33 ““So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the LORD. And you shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I am the LORD who sanctifies you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD.””
(Leviticus 22:31–33 ESV)
Rom 6:17-18 “But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.”
(Romans 6:17–18 ESV)
Looking at the ways that the 10 commandments are numbered.
who were they focused to and why?
Adult men
covet your neighbor’s wife.
right before, Moses commands people to not go near a woman.
honor your father and your mother:: isn’t gender specific.
Male-heads of households: all the people are there hearing these 10 words
Sabbath::: has male, servants... and such, points to head of household?
what is it calling of these men?
to lead a community for God?
High standard
Affects a lot of people
Well-fare of others
Characteristics of 10 Words
Deliberately grouped with respect ot loving God and loving neighbor.
Reflects the patricentric nature of Israelite society (not “father focused” but “father emanating”) NOt addressed to priests or rulers but to everyman, specifically adult males who are heads of hte households with wives, children, household servants, and property (gen 1-2; prov)
you have all the rights, not me.
I act in my world with accordance with serving for the benefit of your neighbor.
Father in center, then household, then society...
Text filled with leadership as serving!!!
Emphasizes that biblical leadership is all about serving, honoring and looking out for others; confronts (present or potential) pride, self-exalting power, and abuses toward God, wives, other household members, and property. In Deut., a leader
Loves those in need, fighting for justice... 10:18-19
Includes every household member and visitor 14:26; 16:11, 14
ensure the levite, sojourner, fatherless, and widows are beneficiaries of the tithe 14:27-29; 26:12-13
must be mindful to leave the leftovers of harvest for those in need 24:19-22
is cursed if he “perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow” 27:19
are these only for men? no b/c they are repeated for others as well.
Focus on what others deserve from us, not on what we deserve from tehm (a Bill of Other People’s Rights)
Divine rights (Love God)
YHWH’s right to the israelites’ exclusive allegiance
YHWH’s right to proper representation
YHWH’s right to be viewed as the sustainer adn controller of all (ex. 20:8-11)
Human Rights (Love Neighbor)
an israelite household member’s right to humane treatment from the head
An israelite parent’s rights of respect
an israelite neighbor’s right to life
an israelite neighbor’s right to sexual purity
an israelite neighbor’s right ot enjoy his property
an israelite neighbor’s right to hones and truthful testimony in court
right to his own wife
right to his own household
at the very least gets our eyes off of ourselves and onto others. Loving God is different than loving our neighbor. He showed how love of neighbor is grounded in mercy, and we don’t show mercy to God in any way.
The Supreme Command (Deut 6:4-9)
Deut 6:4-5 “hear o Israel, Yahweh our God, Yahweh is one! and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strenght” Matt 22: 37
Israel, a Sinful, Idolatrous, Hard-Hearted People
Israel’s stubborn Nature:
they were hard
what God did to Pharaoh
Israel’s make-up “stiff necked and stubborn”
Why God will not but must go with Israel
God’s Charge
Israel’s dilemma and future hope
why israel got kicked out of their land, 2 kings 17, emptiness became emptiness
Israel’s faith and faithlessness
Israel’s faith at the Exodus (ex 14:31; ps 106; abe in gen 15:6, rom. 4:3, 22; james 2:23)
had a faith that didn’t endure
not one that was heart transforming
only sees the signs
john uses this language right out of exodus
Israel’s lack of faith in the wilderness Num 14:11
Israel’s lack of faith in the land, following the pattern of their fahters 2 Kings 17:14
NT reflection on Israel’s failuresRom 9:32; heb 4:2; Jude 5
Heb 4:2 “For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.” (Hebrews 4:2 ESV)
wilderness generation is “them” few who listened, but majority heard but didn’t hear.
Paul says, did not pursue it by faith.
Israel’s rebelliosness
Sustained rebellion form the time they left Egypt to the banks of the jOrdan river
Initial refusal to enter into the conquest of the land
sustained disobedience by attempt to fight without God’s help
Rebellion even on the day of Moses
Israel’s memory problem
The call to remember YAHWEH
Fearing and serving him and making promises in his name
recalling his redemption and revelations and provision
staying humble
remaining faithful through obedience to Yahweh above all other allegiances
To forget is to follow the wicked patter of hte nations taht Israel was dispossessing and to receive the same fate
Numbers in Numbers
HANDOUTS!!! CENSUS LISTS FROM NUMBERS
alef;;; meaning thousand can also mean company or group
observations of the numbers
how do these census lists become sermons
simeon is going to dwindle: see that here, simeon is sooo small, and all of a sudden it leaves Israel’s history
parallel with simeon and levi, slaughtered
Judah’s huge and just gets huger
Ephraim gets smaller: striking
almost a full replacement of the generation: sooo close: key word “almost” through blessing God promised, “be fruitful and multiply” Ex. chapter 1:7, all over the place, testament of God’s promise and providence. Now we see Israel on the other side of sin, they have not totally expanded, the number is lower. That tell Dr. D that Israel has been under a curse. This is not good for a nation who’s purpose is to fill the earth.
What does this tell the audience of young men of 20yrs of age, you watched your family waste away, all of them. The area of wilderness wandering wasn’t that big. wandering, waiting and following at that time. Moving around and following God. need to learn to wait and follow. Israel had 38yrs to do so. 38yrs for all those people to die off.
Significance
the numbers point to Israel being a walking mortuary
15,088 funerals of men/year
1,257 funerals of men/month
41+ funerals of men per day
Now double that for women.
Burying people all over the place, and they are just wandering and moving to the next spot. This is happening b/c of disobedience, they disobeyed and failed to believe.
The census lists are included to show that israel ended up with less than how many they started with.
So then what was God’s plan in all of this?
God’s plan:
In God’s purposes, climaxing in Jesus, he did not enable the majority of Israel to obey Deut 29:4
Israel’s doom was sure Deut 30:1; 31:16, 20 Dan 9:4-15
“when” not “they might” the judgments are sure and will come upon the people
The people will turn, despise God, and break the covenant.
Moses says God isn’t going to teach you
the law itself is telling us that the people of Israel will have faith.
Moses failed to hold God as holy. Disobeyed him.
After the curse, God would do a new internal work, enabling his redeemed people to love as they were called. Deut 30:6,8
Staff striking rock (Christ) God says he will rest on the rock, Moses strikes rock, and God takes punishment people should have received. Rock brought life-giving water. Moses then told to speak to the rock, and yet he strikes it again, no God only goes to the cross once, and Moses was dishonoring God in the presence of the people. Ex. 17.
Point is that Moses affirmed that the law was not of faith, that Israel wasn’t going to make it through the law, God’s plan is to give them a good plan and not enable you to keep it.
The context for Paul’s negative statements about the law
the law is not of faith
is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient 1 tim 1:9
was temporary, added to increase the trespass Rom 5:20 adn be/c of transgressions until the offspring (JC) should come to whom the promise was made. Gal 3:19
But it does not call into question Paul’s positive view of the law.
God’s instruction through Moses is holy righteous and good Rom 7:12
The law is the embodiment of knowledge and truth ROm 2:20
the essence of the law is love rom 13:8 which we ar still called to fulfill dependently trusting in the power of the Spirit of Christ in us Rom 8:4
HANDOUT on Paul’s view of the law.
all the commands are able to be used for correction, rebuking, training in righteousness.... the question is how??? the principle-making model. Look at how it was operating then and apply to today.
We are now, having been grafted into the vine, are now being called to keep the law like they attempted,
pursue holiness b/c it is written, be holy as I am holy: peter grounding Christian ethic in OT gospel
we will go through every command and ask : How is this a command to love my neighbor. This is what Paul says, so this is the principle we will look to see all these commands in.

11-16-09

Monday, November 16, 2009
Dr. D
Temple Compound and Beyond

Temple Compound
The book of Exodus devotes 13 chapters to this structure!
How do i get devotional material out of this?
If we know how to read it.
Sacred space discussions always tell us something about God
two spheres, centrality of altar and ark of covenant
east entrance with elaborate system of gates.
This God is willing to have a relationship with his people even with his incredibly holy and protected presence.
Blood soaks up the sin, it contains the sin, blood is like a sponge. It is still sinful blood cuz it was a substitute, the sins were transferred over to it.
Altar of incense, protective cloud for the glory cloud.
Reality of Detail, and try to say that each detail tells us not to deal with our God lightly, enter into worship cautiously, what is God’s name? his character? He is the most supreme and must be recognized as such.
The point is not in the details, but in the overall message.
Every single dimension is designed to say your God is holy, take him seriously.
ALSO, genealogies, God wants us to know his working in us, and to point us to his faithfulness.
Old and New Covenants
Eph 1: every spiritual blessing through Christ
Matt 6: 33. Does this mean Christians shall never die of hunger?
Content with little content with much, and elsewhere Paul says he has hungered.
There is something concrete, over-anticipated promises (health and wealth), God hasn’t promised to remove the storm, but we can have such peace!
That is part of the blessing won for us in Christ.
Family w/o a job: at one level, don’t want to think God has won for a job for me... yes he has, but not necessarily right now, but he has granted the peace to get through that with the strength he provides.
Not supposed to say, we are in a cursed age, Christ has conquered it all in the future... i wanna suffer like Jesus, you have a needle so i can poke myself? That is incorrect
supposed to say “don’t like the curse” deteriorating body isn’t “fun” and he had friends that were sick and he couldn’t change those realities.
Yet, he was able to experience Joy in his life, a compelling commitment to keep going.
Can we go beyond the individual? Yes, community is here at BCS, we help each other in our walks of faith. Heb.12:14 encourage one to not sin.
Identity in Christ that talks about us being together, Church, Holy Nation, Body of Christ, Bride of Christ, Sheep of the same flock, people belonging to God.
Kingdom happening with hospitality. Love is here now in part, it is coming wholly. We need to be careful though, because there can be eschatological realities within a group of interaction, but also within the individual who is all alone who is struck by the Lord’s Word.
Phil text, God meets us in both situations of starving and of plenty.
Poverty and Pride: spend so much $ to spend Dr. D, and building a school that makes kings. These could foster pride, but God will keep us mindful of the poor, especially in our abundance.
Heart of Leviticus:
Yahweh, the One who provides a penal Substitute
Atonement Defined:
The process by which God purifies and re-consecrates his contaminated and desecrated Tabernacle and people by turning his wrath away from the sinner onto a substitute, thus restoring the relationship and right order.
Atonement is the saving act of God which according to Scripture makes possible, and in a sense constitutes, his redeeming and restoring work. It is the means by which his righteousness is re-established in a cosmic order marred temporally by rebellion against its Creator and King” Yarbrough “atonement” NDBT, 388.
Priests were called to distinguish between holy and common, the clean and the unclean.
ON A DIAGRAM
lamb without blemish for the sacrifices: suggests that the lamb is valuable... but... that is for a peace offering, saying here i am, this is me, i’m giving it to you. Peace offerings were potlucks in presence of God. No blemish, it is in right order with creation, but it is dying?!?! SOOO it isn’t being killed for its own defilement, but for ours, so we receive the righteousness of the lamb.
1 Cor 6:9-11“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
(1 Corinthians 6:9–11 ESV)
Paul is saying they were cleansed from their former way.
We are called to be a holy people, but the declaration here is to live out your declared identity.
The israelites identity is expressed in how they live out their obedience to the covenant.
Means of Atonement
The Shedding of blood (life for life)
Lev 17:11“For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.”
(Leviticus 17:11 ESV)
Heb 9:22 “Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.”
(Hebrews 9:22 ESV)
OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES HANDOUT
Whenever we sin against someone else, we are sinning against God’s creation, and we are sinning against God. Before a woman is a man’s wife, she is God’s girl, so no right is given for the man. Desecration: treating what is holy as if it was common, that is a no no.
Contamination: holy thing that is touched by something that isn’t holy and is thus made unholy.
The Types of Sins athat can be atoned for?
Grasping the nature of the “high-handed” sins
Central Text: Nm 15:30-31 ““If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven. You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them.”“But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.”” (Numbers 15:30–31 ESV)
Right after this, there is a high-handed sin of a man gathering sticks on the sabbath.
Two Other Occurrences:
Exod 14:8 “went out BOLDLY”
Num 33:3 “On the next day the Israelites started out BOLDLY”
Tentative conclusion: High handed sins are those done boldly and brazenly. To these there is no means for atonement, and they must be cut off from the community.
ESV contrasts high handed and unintentional sins: why did ESV translate it as unintentional.
Grasping the nature of “unintentional sins” Lit sins of error
Frequent Qualifiers Suggesting “Unintentional”
Lev 4:22-23““When a leader sins, doing unintentionally any one of all the things that by the commandments of the LORD his God ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish,”
(Leviticus 4:22–23 ESV)
Lev 4:27-28 ““If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the LORD’s commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.”
(Leviticus 4:27–28 ESV)
Lev 5:17-18 ““If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the LORD’s commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.”
(Leviticus 4:27–28 ESV)
Sins of Error/Thoughtlessness Though not necessarily Unintentional
1 Sam 26:21 “Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have made a great mistake.””
(1 Samuel 26:21 ESV)
Eccl 5:5-7 “It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands? For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.”
(Ecclesiastes 5:5–7 ESV)
He didn’t pause, then it just clicked, it was a thoughtless act. It is an issue that demands, ultimately, the cross. Fear God and keep your word.
I’m going to pray for you... are you committing to praying for them daily, how intentional are you when you are saying there? Connection between swearing oaths and being a people of God. Watch your words, and be mindful to keep them.
Texts where sacrifice is allowed for intentional, though thoughtless sins. ESV says there can be a sacrifice only for unintentional sins.
Lev. 6:1-5 “The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt.”(Leviticus 6:1–5 ESV)
Now it seems that there are 3 categories, not only 2.
These are intentional, and he gets a guilt offering.
We have to ask ourselves... sins in error, and it is made known to him... if unintentional means he didn’t know about it, why do we sometimes find the “found out about it” phrase and sometimes not??? So thus it is the qualifier that makes one a “SIN OF ERROR” and the other a “HIGH HANDED SIN” Sooooo the word in and of itself doesn’t mean unintentional.
Sins can only be atoned when followed by
Realization of Guilt: Purification offering: lev. 4:13, 22, 27, 5:2, 3, 4, 5; Reparation Offering: lev 5:7, 6:4, 5; Num 5:6
Ps 51:16-17 “For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.”
(Psalms 51:16–17 ESV)
Pagan View: God-----Sacrifice----- Person All Good
Proper View: God-----Different heart------sacrifice
What we offer him, he determines whether or not he will accept it by what is on the inside.
The mercy won at the cross is what enables the grace at the beginning here. My response to God is one of brokenness or i will not receive forgiveness. I will not enjoy rest.
Prov 21:3, 27
1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”(1 John 1:9 ESV)
Conclusions
Sacrificial atonement is barred to the wanton sinner, to the one who acts flauntingly who reviles the Lord but not to the deliberate sinner who... is seized by remorse. “ milgrom, lev. 1-16, 369-70
Heb 10:26-27 “For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.”
(Hebrews 10:26–27 ESV)
The Need and Expectation for more than OT Sacrifices
The Tabernacel and its pageantry were pictures/shadows of a greater reality
exod 25:8-9, 40
Zech 3:8-9
Pictures and patterns that point to reality in Christ.

Growing in Holiness
The Call and Need for Sanctification:
Leve 11:44 “For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.”
(Leviticus 11:44 ESV)
Lev 20:26 “You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.”
(Leviticus 20:26 ESV)
1 Pet 1:14-16 “As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.””
(1 Peter 1:14–16 ESV)
Roman 6:17-18 “But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.”
(Romans 6:17–18 ESV)
The nature of Sanctification:
Def: ever increasing holy state and not just holy status.
Holiness in Lev. 19:
Called to be Holy, picture in Lev. 19 of what that looks like, no real specific order, eating, buying, selling it impacts every aspect of life.
The Means of Sanctification
God is the primary enabler of human holiness:
Lev 22;31-33 ““So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the LORD. And you shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I am the LORD who sanctifies you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD.””
(Leviticus 22:31–33 ESV)
Human holiness is a proper and natural response to God’s holiness manifest through:
Atonement Lev 9:24 and 10:3
God needs to be sanctified? No, just seen, reveled and displayed as HOLY. God is being shown as something that is unlike anything else. This is an expression of sanctification.
The disclosure of himself and his will Exod. 20:20 “Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.””
(Exodus 20:20 ESV)
The Means for Sanctification
Human Holiness is motivated through God’s disciplining hand:
Curses are blessings in disguise for those who learn from them: Lev 26: 18, 21, 23, 27
What can motivate my holiness? Experiencing the curses is one of them. They are instructive and nurturing. This is the context of discipline.

Divine Discipline nurtures holiness: Heb 12:9-11 “Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
(Hebrews 12:9–11 ESV)
Human holiness is motivated through God’s promises of blessing and curse.
faith in God’s promises creates hope, and what we hope for tomorrow changes who we are today:
blessings: lev 26: 1-13, deu 18:1-14, 30:3-10
Curses/warnings: lev 26:14-39; Deut 28:15-68; 29:19-21
2 Pet 1:4 “by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.”
(2 Peter 1:4 ESV)