See yesterday I gave you a sampling of five laws in my household growing up.

One is a civil law that you put toilet paper on the right way so it rolls toward the person

on the toilet, not a way.

The second was a sacrificial law.

If you violate curfew, you have to pay by being grounded.

The third is a ceremonial law about how we do sacred things.

That is, don't set your alarm to go off at noon in church and disrupt your dad when he's

preaching. The fourth is a clean and unclean law about not licking flies waters.

Again, no idea why that had to be a rule in my house, very hard to say. And the fifth is a universal moral law that just says don't punch people.

As we were discussing, the Old Testament is a lot like the household rules that your common sense applies to and that there are different

reasons for those rules to exist.

So Jesus is talking about the law and how he's the fulfillment of it and if we really understand that one understand that we got to go back and

look at the aspect of the law that would be the rules and I used that segue to give myself

time to flip over here to Leviticus. Have you read Leviticus lately? It is kind of nuts. If you're going to read it, read it in conjunction with all of Matthew and all of Hebrews. It really does help make sense of the thing but even if you go through

here and you just look at the headings you get a sense of this multifaceted law

which is part of what's being explained in the book of Leviticus so we open up and we're reading about burnt offering, grain offering, fellowship

offerings, sin offerings, guilt offering, that's the first five, six chapters worth of this stuff.

So it's giving all these details about how you actually

present and give these sacrificial offerings.

We're going to come back to that concept in a little bit.

Yeah, Chapter 7 is more about that,

trespass offering, fellowship offering.

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