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So, we're going to go over, uh, Leviticus chapter 8, and it's very, very deep. I'm going to just talk about maybe the first two verses, show you how deep it actually is with Hebrew and all that.
So, all the people in Zoom, appreciate you guys for always coming in here. New people, thank you for signing up. Leviticus 8:1 says, "And the Lord spake unto Moses, verse two, take Aaron and his sons with him and the garments and the anointing oil and a bullock for the sin offering and two rams and a basket of unleavened bread." Those two verses are very, very deep. Let's think about that for a second. Let's let you guys catch up. There's always a delay. What did you guys get there? Here's the thing, right? The Bible is always descriptive, not necessarily prescriptive, except for preaching the gospel. And even that, you have to do through the Holy Spirit. So, actually, everything is description. It's a description of things.
So let's think about it here, right? When you read this first verse, "And the Lord spoke unto Moses," God spoke to him directly. God is showing us that there's an intimate relationship here being built with Moses, that he wants this communion with him. He could have just went and told Aaron, told Moses the servant to then tell it to the, uh, other servants, right? So, in Amos 3:7, you don't have to turn to it. God says he reveals his secrets to the servants, the prophets, first before anything else. A lot of people think that they can lead their spiritual life by themselves. People in this Bible study, as well as you, have probably thought that you can lead your life by yourself. Trying to grow with God, trying to pray to him, tithe, going to church, things like this, leading our own spiritual life. But oftentimes, that leads to an imperfect kind of unstable, this up and down, peaks and valleys, highs and lows spiritual life. When we're really, really receiving blessings and we feel close to God, we're very close, right? But then when we fail and we go down, misery, happy, sad, happy, sad, fail, succeed, fail, succeed, fail, succeed. People say that that's life. But there's actually a way to live a spiritual life very based. And it is through the servant of God. For example, God could have saved the Israelites by himself. Could have killed off and sent plagues to the Egyptians by himself. Why did he use Moses? You guys understand? Proof that there needs to be a servant who he establishes, 'cause he cannot go against his own word that says, "I establish servants to lead you guys to steward, to shepherd, to pastor, to minister you guys." He built the whole world. He could, he built all the animals. He, he created all the animals. He created this world. He cannot create an ark for himself and call it God's ark. Why did he establish Noah? So, God is teaching us that through the servant Moses, in this, in this predicament he's in, this situation, this circumstance, he's telling him, "Hey, you lead my people. I will pour through you." Though, notice how he doesn't talk to Aaron, he doesn't talk to anybody else but Moses. You guys following me here? And what this implies is God has this divine initiative to, like, a plan, almost, and steps on how he reaches us. So many people think, "Well, I can hear God." So, there's only two ways that you hear God. Hebrews 13 tells us, through the servants, submitting to them. And the second way is also Hebrews 1:1 and 2, through the word. You guys following me here, I guess? Because servants can get corrupted. So, he gives a back layer, a backup plan, the word. That should actually be the first thing. You should go to the word and then go to the servants who also go to the word. Many people, many servants, servants or pastors, just have the labels but aren't actually focusing on the word. That's number one. Okay. So, in this verse alone, just chapter one, verse one, that is, uh, how deep it is.
And then verse two, you notice how it says, "Take Aaron and his sons with him and the garments." So, garments are being brought up, clothing, anointing oil is being brought up, bullock for the sin offering, two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread. Unleavened means no yeast. You guys got that, right? So, I want you guys to understand something here. Aaron, he's a high priest. Well, who is the high priest in this world? In Hebrews, right, it talks about Jesus. So, Aaron's name is also lightbringer, bringer of light. Who is the light of this world? Jesus. Everything in Leviticus, I want you guys to understand, is pointing to Jesus, yes, but it's also foreshadowing of things to come. It's not the very thing. So, a lot of people follow those old laws and the covenants and the, the, the commandments, but those things are foreshadowing, meaning pointing to, symbolizing Jesus Christ. Not only that, Aaron has the Aaronic bloodline, which is his sons. His sons also are ordained. How did they do something better? Why are they chosen for this? So, God is telling us, right, that there's a bloodline here. Let's think about this for a sec. So, Aaron and his sons, we're going to break down every piece of this. "Take Aaron and his sons with him." And what they're going to do is they're going to, you know, they're already priests. Why though? By bloodline. Notice how it doesn't say because Aaron's did works, because Aaron was greater than anybody, because Aaron was better than people, because Aaron tithed more to the church, because Aaron read his Bible more in the church, because Aaron was ex. There was no Aaron. Take him and his children, just like Noah, who established an ark and his family was saved. It doesn't even say that they're good. That actually shows that the youngest son was actually wicked and judged his own father who saved him. So, he's, he's showing that we're pre-ordained. We're grafted in this family bloodline. Not because of our works, but because somebody was chosen. Lakash, right? In, in Hebrew, Lakash. Lak, right? Because what this means is it's a divine ordination from God. Now, Aaron is a high priest. Think about this for a second. And his sons are now also high priests from the Aaronic bloodline. If Jesus is the high priest, we too have been grafted in, have been ordained when we become the sons of God. Makes sense? So, we can call Jesus our brothers, our brother also our, you know, he's the son and our father, right? God, because we're in one bloodline. But why though? Because of Jesus, the high priest. Why is his sons in the bloodline? Because of Aaron, the high priest. Are you guys following me? We are not ordained into his bloodline because we did well. We're ordained in his bloodline because of Jesus. We can get right with God, be the children of God, be chosen by God, solely because Jesus gave us the way. And when you look at this word, "grafted in" or, you know, "ordained," it's l-a-q-a-c, right? Let's say it's the same word used in Genesis chapter 2 where Adam took his rib, took to take his rib and create Eve. So, think about this for a second. Adam created a bride, right? God created a bride out of Adam through taking something from him. We are also the brides of who? Jesus. Right? The church is the bride. And we were ordained out of who? Jesus. So, that means no Jesus, no wife, no church, no us, right? No Adam, no Eve. Makes sense, guys? He could have easily made Eve out of a pile of dirt. He didn't. He pulled Eve out of Adam, and they became Ehad, which is one. He pulled us out of Jesus, right? It means the bloodline. It means him getting crucified for our offenses. He pulled us out of that. Beautiful. You guys understand what I'm saying? It's very, very deep here.
So, we understand that Aaron is a shadow of Jesus. We understand that Jesus in Hebrews chapter 4 is the eternal high priest, just like Aaron was a high priest that time, right? But why does all of this matter? Let's think about garments, right? So, God then pulls out the garments in this. So, when you look at the garments, the clothing, right? The beed, b-e-g-e-d, it means in Hebrew clothing. But it's not just clothing. It actually means covering. Because what do clothes do? Clothes do, clothes cover you. So, it's the covering. Concealment is what it actually means. Let's think about that for a second. The word for begad, beed, comes and derives from the root word bag. B-a-g-a-d. Do you know what that means, guys? You guys can Google it. What is this holy word of beed? What does this mean? Well, if you Google it, bag, a-g-a, which is the root word of bag, it actually means deceitful, betrayal, or unfaithful. Wow. So, let's think about that for a second. When Jesus tells us that he gives us the robes of righteousness in Isaiah 61:10, why does he have to give us the robes of righteousness? Well, the same bag that was used to conceal or cover somebody in Genesis, Adam and Eve, right? They're one, right? Is the same thing that he uses to cover our sins. Why did Adam and Eve need to have, you know, God make clothes of skin for him, for them? Why? Because they sinned. Prior to that, he didn't make clothes for them. Are you guys following me here? It's because when a person gets clothed, right, by righteousness, God has to do it. And why does he have to do it? Because they sinned. So, in order to meet Jesus today, what God is saying, because Aaron points to Jesus, the tabernacle is a shadow of things to come. How to receive forgiveness of sins? First and foremost, you have to recognize, "Oh, I was a sinner. I need something to cover me, conceal me, cover my, my, my sins." Right? So, he's bringing holy garments now. Now, someone who's unholy, like me and you, can we produce holiness? No. Holiness only comes from the holy one, which is God. So, it is not based off of works and how hard you try to wash your own sins. If there is no high priest and there is no Jesus who provides the robes of righteousness and the peace to you to cover you and atone for your sins through the blood, we are not getting to heaven. Are you guys following me here? So, a lot of people look at Leviticus and they think Leviticus is of works. A lot of people follow Leviticus and think we need to do those types of laws. Even people who are mess, rabbinic Jews, they don't believe in, right, the new covenant. Well, we are under this new covenant because through this blood and the shedding of blood, we have, we now have remission of sins and we are covered. So, I want to ask you guys, if Jesus already died and he is the high priest who has covered you, can you then say you're naked? And nakedness represents sin. To say that Jesus covered you, but you still are naked, it means Jesus could not even cover you. And that's dangerous. That is blasphemous because Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, has covered you through his blood. But the issue is, why don't people take up this new identity? Because they don't believe. So, if I'm covered by, like, my clothes, I cannot say I'm naked. Makes sense. Nakedness means to be fully exposed. Well, Jesus, through the bag that derives from beed, my sinful, deceitful, lustful, sinful nature has now been covered, right? And all of this in Leviticus is foreshadowing what Jesus is going to do and what he's already did, which is cover you with, and all of your sins have been covered, right? And that's why Jesus calls you righteous, holy, sanctified, justified, calls you his sons. He says we can have fellowship with him. Has broken the middle partition, which was sin, and allowed this ladder for us to get up to heaven. But sadly, many people don't believe. So, the gospel is even in Leviticus. Did you guys know that? It's crazy, right? But people don't know just these two verses.
Now, let's move on. So, we talked about clothing. We talked about him getting chosen, the Aaronic priesthood. What's next? The anointing oil, right? The shame oil, right? The rah, right? The Holy Spirit. So, this anointing oil, if you think about this, right? What does the oil represent in the Bible? Most people understand that it is the Holy Spirit, signifies, symbolizes, represents the Holy Spirit. But there's a deeper, deeper meaning to this. Okay. So, when you look at the anointing oil, a lot of people recognize that, yes, it is the Holy Spirit. But did you guys know in the Bible, when you pour oil onto a person's head, do you know why we are to pour oil onto the person's head? Why not rub a person's feet with oil or start with their back or start with their hands? You know, when we put lotion on our hands, we start with our hands first and then rub it up, right? Right. But why does God say to pour oil in Psalm? From the head? Well, let's go to Psalm 13, I'm sorry, Psalm 133:2, and I'll explain this. It's a very deep unlock here. Let's think about this. So, people are always wondering, if I'm going to pour oil on people, why do I pour this anointing oil on a person's head? Psalm 133:2 says, "It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down to the beard, even Aaron's beard," notice he's talking about Aaron here, "that went down to the skirts of his garments." Wow. So, the Holy Spirit represents holiness. And when God leaves his holiness, just like the blood covered all of your body and covered all of your sins, past, present, and future, the oil, holiness, also covers you completely from your head all the way down to the bottom of your garment. It says, and back then, remember, they used to wear full garments. So, it means a full anointing. When many people say sanctification is a process, meaning you being made holy is a process, that's not true. That is not biblical. Respectfully, you are holy. Now, if you truly receive the Holy Spirit, you are holy because the Holy Spirit cannot dwell with an unholy spirit. You guys following me? Very, very deep. But Satan does the job of tricking you into thinking, "Well, because I'm not holy and I'm not acting holy and my heart doesn't feel holy, then sanctification is a process and you have to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, right?" And, and those who overcome will receive that heavenly gift. But that's all misconstrued and out of context. That's why it's important to read the Bible contextually. What God wants us to recognize is one thing. If I work, just like I change water into wine, it's like that. But the enemy comes and says and leads us by our eyes, by our sight, and what we see. Because we don't see holiness, that's why we profess that we're not holy. But doing that is amening Satan. Sheesh, that's a bar. It's a clippy. When you trust what you see, think, and feel, and our thoughts are not from God, our heart is not from God, desperately wicked, deceitful above all things. What you're doing is you are coming to alignment with Satan. That is very dangerous. Understand what I'm saying? 'Cause God doesn't call us to walk by sight. What does he call us, guys? Walk by what? Faith. And faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You need faith to see things, right? That's not there. Confirmation is you see it and agree with it. Faith is even though I don't see it, I agree with it. Sheesh. Understand what I'm saying? So, when this oil pours from your head all the way down, what God is saying, "I have given you this gift, this Holy Spirit." If you truly have it, you are sanctified now. You don't need to trust your thoughts that tell you that you're not sanctified. You do not need to trust your thoughts that go against the word of God. Isaiah 55:8 and 9 tells us our thoughts are not his thoughts. His ways are not our ways. But the issue with Satan and how he works so much and not only in this world but in churches today is to tell you to stand in the position of God and judge according to what you see. That is blasphemous. We don't know what God has in store for us because we're not omniscient. We're not omnipotent. We don't know all things at all times and is everywhere at all times. But we trust the one that is. And if he says Hebrews 10:10, you're sanctified, holy now. And if he says you're righteous now and perfected forever, even if we don't see it, we must believe it. Barzies. Amen. We have to believe Jesus. We cannot sit there and trust what we think, what we feel because then you're not a Christian. You're a mein and a jin. Meaning, I trust what I think. I trust what I feel. I think this, I think that. That's how a lot of people operate by accessorizing God transactionally. If God makes sense to what we think, we accept him. Hallelujah. Amen. If it doesn't make sense to our thoughts and what we feel and what we think, we deny it. That is a mission, not a not a Christian, right? Understand?
And so we look at bullock here, right? And the word for bullock is par, p-a-r. And it represents strength. Strength, right? And the bullock also represents Jesus because he has strength, right? The rams obviously represents sacrifice in Hebrew. They were used for substitution, sacrificial things. All foreshadowing who? Jesus Christ. Jesus is our strength. And the power in his strength is his sacrifice. Sheesh. Do you understand? What really makes God powerful is the fact that he was able to lay down his own life for me and you. Transfer us from hell to heaven. Nobody can do that except God himself, Jesus himself. Amen. That's what it means.
Now, this unleavened bread, mats, right? Matsot, right? It's m-a-t-o-t. The mats, unleavened bread means made without yeast. Let's think about that for a second. So, Aaron is bringing all of these things, right? Moses is telling Aaron through God's guidance and provision to bring these things. Unleavened bread, anointing oil, ram, two rams, one bullock, clothing, these five things. Notice, right? This unleavened bread. Why specifically does God ask him to bring unleavened bread in order to atone for these sins and meet Jesus, essentially, to enter this tabernacle? Tabernacle represents God with us. Emmanuel means God with us. Jesus, God with us. Why? Let's think about this, guys. It's a deep, deep Bible study here. Anybody want to take a crack at it? When you look at Luke 12:1, you don't have to go to it. It represents yeast represents pride, sin, and false doctrine or idols, right? So, sin, essentially, prideful things, this and this and that. But you got to understand something here, okay? What's really, really amazing about this anointing oil and this unleavened bread? Obviously, they work hand in hand. But unleavened bread means there's no yeast. Let me ask you guys something. What is yeast used for? What does it do to the bread? It makes it puff up. It makes it rise. When God chastises the Pharisees, what does he say to them? "Ye who are puffed up." Understand? So, if you want to meet Jesus, how can you meet him as Aaron is going to do? So, with this, if you want to meet God, do you come with a heart of rised and puffed upness, or do you come with a heart of humility? 'Cause bread without yeast cannot rise. Us. If we come to you without the sin, we will be puffed up. But God is telling us, "I have made you a righteous person. You didn't do anything for yourself." Sadly, many people come to God with their own righteousness, their own pride. "Look, I preached the gospel. I was obedient. I did well. I tithed all my money. I broke my heart. I listened to your commandments." I understand that is a heart of pride because the same people that said that are the same people that it sounds familiar to the Pharisees. The Pharisees said the same thing. What did the Pharisees say? "God of Isaac and Abraham, Jacob is my God. I never committed sin. I am not like the politician, the publican. I am not like the sinners. I follow your laws. Thank God that I am not like the adulteress and the harlot woman." You see what I'm saying? God is telling us through these two verses, "This is how I want to meet you." In Leviticus chapter 8, verse 1 and 2, this is how I want to meet you. I'm going to have a relationship with you. I'm going to speak to you directly, and I need you to bring these things to me. Unleavened bread, meaning bread without yeast. So, no puffed up heart and no sin. 'Cause you cannot meet God without sin, with sin. God kills sin. He hates sin. That's why he sent his son to bear the sins on his back and die on the cross so he can wipe away sin. Are you guys following me here? And he needs you to come and trust that you're fully holy, fully righteous in order to meet him. And you must have the clothing of righteousness because heaven is like a wedding feast. And that one man that came in with his own self-righteousness, meaning his own clothes, was casted out to the outer darkness where there was gnashing of teeth. You guys following me here? God is telling us how to meet him today through Leviticus chapter 8, verse 1 and 2. All of it foreshadows Jesus. Jesus is the unleavened bread, the fine flour that was ground up, beat up, and pressured and pressed and stepped on and broken down for our sins. God is also the oil. Jesus is also the oil. Because how do you receive oil out of, out of, you know, nothing, right? It's olive. The olive must be pressed, squeezed to produce the oil. Understand what I'm saying? So, Jesus was the olive. Jesus was the grape that was crushed and produced the wine, which was the blood for our iniquities. It's all Jesus, even in Leviticus. And Jesus has the robes of righteousness in Revelation, as well as Isaiah 61:10. And he provides that for you. You guys understand? So, when you come to these Bible studies, you guys will understand. Oh, all of this from the ordination of Aaron being a lightbringer foreshadows Jesus, to the clothing that he took off and they ripped the garments, right? And they divided it to the four corners of the earth, east, west, north, south, meaning his righteousness clothe has now become available for everybody in this world. Do you understand? Right? So, clothing, the anointing oil, which comes from Jesus, who leaves the Comforter, just like the olive produces the oil when it was crushed. Jesus was crushed for our sins and produced comfort and peace and guidance. Back to his word, back to his truth, the Holy Spirit. Understand the unleavened bread means Jesus, who was the perfect one, who had no sin, met with God and made atonement for our sins. He was never rised. He had every right to be a ruler and a king. But he chose to be a servant, to be the lowest position. All of this is for Jesus Christ. Don't take any credit for it. Okay? In Leviticus. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah.
All right, guys. And with that being said, we will end it here for the sneak peek. If you guys want to join and you guys want to grow your spiritual life in this way, it took me eight years to learn all of these things, nine years now, but we condense everything for you guys in this way. We need leaders. We need servants to lead you. We need mentors and guides. If you want to live a better life spiritually, you truly want to grow with God, take it from me. You know, I've condensed everything. These unlocks just in this one little verse, there are multiple. I pray that everybody can join and truly be led by the Holy Spirit. Amen, guys. Amen.