Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-03
THE BURNT OFFERING.
LESSON VI, THIRD QUARTER, IN
TERNATlONAL SERIES, AUG. s.

Text of the Lesson, Lev. 1, f-0-Commit
Verses 4. 5-Goiden Text, lisa. lii, @.
Commentary by Rev. ID. NJ. stearns.
condensed from Lesson Helper Quarterly. by
permission OF H. S Hoffman, Philadelphia,
publisher.l
We have but three lessons assigned us in
this precious book of living pictures of the
truth as it is in Jesus. OF the five offerings
described in the first seven chapters, we have
only this one lesson N the burnt offering, SO
that we must of necessity glance atthe 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
q Cor. v, Ply, the trespass Offering shows
what we do as the result of the sin in US, and
points to us Christ who bore our sins in His
own body on the tree. q Pet. ii, "a; iii, 49,
The burnt Offering shows us Christ perfectly
doing the Fathers will and giving Himself an
offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet
smelling SAVIOR Eph- v, p; and thus present
ing to God as worshipers those whose sins
He has put away; the meat offering shows us
Jesus Christ in His pure and holy life, doing
always those things that please the Father
John viii, 29); and the peace Offering brings
DtlOTe Us Uue DleSSeO result OF ali Ills UOu and
death. Col. /, 20; Rom v, L.
In this first chaper of Leviticus we have
the burnt Offering as a bullock, q lamb or
kid, and a turtle dove or pigeon, but in each
case it is said to be "a burnt sacrifice, an of
fering made by fire, of a sweet SAVIOR unto
the Lord " Vs.9, 10, ~ These different grades
$50 to speak, of offerings were to suit the
ability of the person Offering. and in the case
of the sin offering, if the person was not able
to bring doves or pigeons, he might bring a
little fine -four, and his sin was atoned for as
if he had brought a lamb or two turtle doves
or pigeons. Lev.v, 7-13) Does not this teach
us that, though a person may but very feebly
apprehend the meaning Of the sacrifice of
Christ, yet if with true penitence for sin they
look to Jesus as their substitute with ever SO
feeble faith, forgiveness is theirs as much as
if they understood more fullyl
l. THE Lord called INTO Moses and spake
unto him out of the tabernacle of the con-
gregation-" As He dwelt in the Holy of Holes
above the mercy seat between the cherubim
lex XIV, 22l, so He spake from off the mercy
seat; not as He had spoken the words of the
law from the burning, q~uaking Mt. Sinai,
but from the propitiatory, a type of Christ.
2. IF any man of you bring an Offering
unto the Lord" No one is compelled to
come, but whatsoever 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
it were Of the herd or of the flock this it had
to be; type of the Lamb of God without
blemish and without spot Il Pet. i, 49,, who
will in due time present ~faultless before the
presence of his glory with exceeding joy all
who put their trust in Him. Jude 24.) AL
though sorely tried by men and demons, even
Judas Iscariot had to say, 81 have betrayed
innocent blood" and the demons testified
that He was the Holy One of God Truly of
Him, and of Him only, could it be said, 'In
Him is no sin, He kne no sin, He did no sin,
He was without sim"
"Of His own voluntary will" Concerning
the laying down of His life he said, mo mar
taketh it from me, but | lay it down of my
self" John x, Isl
4 "He shall put His hand upon the head of
the burnt Offering" Thus fully identifying
Himself with it, as if to say, ~ deserve to die
for My sin, but this sinless sacrifice takes My
place, to suffer in My stead for My sin which
| have committed"
5. And he shall kill the bullock = . .
and sprinkle the blood" Without shedding
of blood there is no remission Heb. tx, %,
and although it is not possible for the blood
of bulls or Of goats tC take away sin Heb
K. A., the blood of Jesus Christ can and does
cleanse from all sin Il John l. \ all
those to whom it is applied, that is, all who
become identified with Him by faith in Him
6. He shall fay the burnt offering and cut
it into his pieces" c. H.. NJ. says on this that
lit 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-"
Z. Fire upon the altar, . wood in
order upon the fire." We think of the story
of Isaac in Gen. xii, 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 slain and consumed. God spared
not his own Son; he carried the wood of the
cross, was nailed to it, and actually died
both as a sin Offering and a burnt offering.
The fire on the brazen altar speaks to us of
bous uoiiiiess accePliAS tue sHcTlLlce as d
sweet SAVIOR unto Him 1.-THE burnt offering,
meat offering and peace offering were sweet
SAVIOR offerings; but the fire without the
camp which consumed the sin Offering Heb.
~, III 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 1t is also worthy of note
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 &C
cursed.
s. "The head and the fat" Even the fat
Of the sin offering was burned upon the altar
as a sweet SAVIOR Lev. iv, 81, teaching us
Gods appreciation of the excellency of
Christ even while suffering for our sins. The
head indicates the intellect, fully surrendered
to Goo and appreciated by Him
o. "His inwards and his legs shall he wash
in water" Tn washing with water made
them ceremonially what Jesus Christ was i'll