The book of Leviticus to most Christians is a very boring book and most people tend to skip over it. But 2 Timothy 3:16 says all Scripture is given by the inspiration of God and is profitable to us for doctrine for reproof and for correction and for instruction in righteousness and that includes the book of Leviticus .
The book of Leviticus was the priest’s handbook and was written for Christians to show the way to a true revival where we come into the manifest and presence of God and experience His Glory, like Moses did.
If you keep these offerings in context of what the spiritual meaning is, the Glory of God will fill your church, and you will experience a real revival or the outpouring of the Spirit.
Leviticus 9:6 And Moses said, this is the thing which the Lord commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the Lord shall appear unto you.
There were five offerings the children were commanded to keep. And these offerings have a spiritual application to our lives today.
So Leviticus 9:6 is saying essentially is if you do what I have said up to this point, the glory of the Lord will appear to you . So what has been covered up to this point essentially has been the five offerings.
Now if we bring these five offerings to the Lord, He said the glory of the Lord will appear to us.
The five offerings are 1- the burnt offering 2-the sin offering, 3- the meal offering 4-the peace offering and 5-the trespass offering .
These offerings were designed to bring us into perfection.
The fist offering is the burnt offering and it is refereed to in Romans 12: 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your spiritual worship. 2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
The word present is in the aorist tense, infinitive mood. It refers to a specific point in time that we are to do this once and for all. We are to keep ourselves on the altar.
The teaching of dying daily is referring to the danger that Paul was in, he could lose his life any day, because he was persecuted by the religious leaders who wanted to kill him. Romans 6:1 what shall we say then? shall we continue in sin, that grace shall abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
The word dead is in the aorist tense indicative mood it refers to an action that happened in a specific point in the past.
By once sacrifice Jesus has already perfected us. So this is a reality in the realm of the Spirit but we have to learn how to appropriate it.
5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also his resurrection:
The word if is conditional, so there is a part that we are responsible for. Been is in the past-perfect indicative. The perfect tense indicates the completeness of the action or the finished results, which have continued to the present.
Planted together refers to a oneness with Jesus in likeness of his death.
So it is an identical experience but not in the same degree as Jesus’s death. In the likeness of his death, to be made like, it is a resemblance, but it is something that we experience with Jesus. He is with us in this process of sanctification. We cannot do it in ourselves, but we do it with Him.
If we suffer with him we will reign with him.
If we have been planted together in the likeness his death we shall be the resurrection,
So this is not a likeness of his resurrection, it is experiencing the glory of Jesus, from glory to glory, we are rewarded in obeying him by experiencing the glory of sonship, and it comes in degrees.
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
The word knowing is just human knowledge. Our old man refers to everything we inherited from the first Adam. So when jesus died the human race died with him.
The body of sin is a roman term, they would literally take a corpse and fasten it to a person who was guilty of murder and they would slowly die, and that is what happens if we do not offer our body a living sacrifice once and for all. But if we offer our body to the Lord, the sin that use to rein in it is rendered powerless.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
11 Likewise reckon- reckon is an accounting term, because Jesus died as us, we reckon it so in our life.
12 let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
We are to11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord not sin. The word let is not in the original text.
13 neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yeild yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
The word yield is a key word it means near-to place or stand or present. We present our bodies to the Lord for him to use.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.