I think I'll hear you yesterday that today was going to be one of those Bible Avalanche days.

If not, guess what? Bible Avalanche.

Because here is where we connect all the dots on how Jesus is the fulfillment of the sacrificial

law.

So you recall, we talked about five different kinds of offerings that are described

in the first 17 chapters of Leviticus.

Everybody on the hill would have been totally familiar with all of these.

They would have known all the ins and outs, the same way you know what food gets served on

Thanksgiving, you know what kind of gifts you give on Christmas, you know what to expect people to give you on Easter, you know,

what you're supposed to wear and do on the 4th of July.

They knew all the little ins and outs and tiny customs and rituals and rhythms regarding these as well.

So the first of the big sacrifices that the original audience would have been picturing

would be the burnt offering.

This is the one about atonement, covering everything in general.

We are broken, God is not broken, we come to you as broken people and offer these sacrifices

to square things up at least for the time being. Everybody would have had that in their head and

then we go to the New Testament and what do you know there's language

all over it about how Jesus is the ultimate atonement that settles things up

regarding sin we looked at Hebrew 922 yesterday in fact the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without

the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.

Well, that's setting things up in a pretty dramatic way.

Then we flip over to John 1, you know what, it is John 1. I said John 2 the other day is where John the

...