Lev Msg 46

1. God is love, light, holy, and righteous.
2. He has loved us to such an extent that in eternity past He prepared a way first to cover our sins and then to remove them.
3. In the OT, God's economy was to cover man's sins; in the NT, God's economy is to take away man's sins.
4. Atonement is to cause two parties to be one. Atonement equals to redemption in the OT.
5. We need a sin offering to solve the root problem of our sin. We need a burnt offering so that we can be for God.
6. Man's coming to God must be through Christ as his sin offering and his burnt offering.
7. The one who comes near to God should take Christ as his righteousness and holiness in order that he may cover his entire being and express Christ.
8. First we experience Christ as the sin offering and as the burnt offering, and then we minister what we have experienced to others so that they may have the same experience.
9. Sin came from Satan and entered into man, and there is no way for fallen man to get rid of it. But Christ died on the cross for our sins and as our sin offering. The cross gives Christ the position, the strength, the power, and the authority to take sin away and send it back to Satan.
10. His being burned as the incense to be our acceptance before God depends on His death on the cross for our sins.
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Lev Msg 45

1. First factor is our contact with people. Second is the uncleanness of our birth. Third is our leprous condition. Forth is our discharge with its uncleanness and contagion.
2. Whatever issues from man's natural life, whether good or bad, is filthy.
3. The uncleanness of the issue of man's natural life should be ended (death) that there might be a new beginning (resurrection).
4. We need the cross of Christ, the resurrection of Christ, and the Holy Spirit as the water of life in the word of God.
5. As fallen, corrupted people, we need to be broken.
6. Man living by his natural life needs not only the redemption of Christ to deal with his sinful nature, but also the life of Christ that he may live for God.
7. If we stay in Christ's death, resurrection, Spirit, life, and word, we shall have a proper Christian life and church life.

Lev Msg 44

1. The leprosy in a house signifies sins and evils in the church.
2. When the condition of a church becomes abnormal, God causes the leprous sin to appear in the church, reminding and warning the believers that they no longer have a house to live in and are no longer able to enjoy all the blessings God promised in His salvation.
3. In order to stop the contagion, we should be careful about our talking, for gossiping will spread the disease.
4. The priest's examining the house is a kind of grace for healing.
5. Putting other stones in the place of the removed stones signifies the using of other believers to fill up the gap.
6. If the situation of a church reaches the point where it cannot be cured, healed, then it will be necessary for that church to be terminated.
7. We need to ask the Lord to be merciful to us that none of us will be those lying down or caring only for our eating. We should be those who serve in the church.
8. The blood of the bird signifies the blood of Christ, the water signifies the cleansing Spirit, and the oil signifies the anointing Spirit.
9. We should pray for ourselves that we might be able to bring something new of Christ into the church life. We should not pray too much for others or about the situation.
10. The more we experience Christ in a new way, the more the church will be healed.
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Lev Msg 43

1. Leprosy, sin, rebellion, and Satan are synonyms.
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Lev Msg 42

1. To be healed is one thing, and to be cleansed is another.
2. The color scarlet signifies the shedding of blood.
3. Scarlet also implies kingship.
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Lev Msg 41

1. Leprosy in a garment signifies the filthiness in one's outward living, conduct, contact with people.
2. Our conduct should be in meekness, in plainness, and in warmness.
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Lev Msg 40

1. It is easy for leprosy to be hidden within human glory and dignity.
2. Clothes signify our conduct, our daily walk.
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Lev Msg 39

1. Being a sinner is a matter of our birth.
2. The cause of the leprosy is from the outside, but the effect is inward.
3. In order to live a holy life, we must deal with our contact with things, with our birth, and with our leprous condition.
4. Leprosy is the outcome of a certain cause, which is rebellion against God's authority, against God's deputy authority, against God's regulation, and against God's economy.
5. Sin is actually leprosy.
6. Unruliness is a kind of eruption.
7. Friction with others also indicates leprosy. The same is with pride and self-exaltation.
8. Justifying ourselves, that is, excusing ourselves and not confessing our failures, mistakes, and wrongdoings, is a symptom of spiritual leprosy.
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Lev Msg 38

1. Christ is the unique male, and all those who are married to Him are females.
2. We do not become unclean simply by contacting something unclean; we are unclean already by birth.
3. The flesh of the unclean person should be put aside through the death of Christ that he might be brought into the resurrection of Christ, not only to be cleansed but also to have a new beginning of life.
4. To be circumcised simply means to be put to death and buried.
5. After our uncleanness by birth is fully dealt with, we need Christ to be our burnt offering for our not being for God and to be our sin offering for our sin.
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Lev Msg 37

1. As long as there is a carcass, there is death.
2. Since knowledge is related to death, the more knowledge we have, the more we are involved with death.
3. To abstain from gossip is to abstain from death.
4. It is political to have a purpose, an intention, when we give something to a brother.
5. The issue of giving a book with this intention is the forming of a party, and such a party will spread death.
6. In the sight of God, human beings are the most defiling element.
7. Our daily walk should be washed from the defilement of death.
8. The spring of living water signifies the Spirit, and the cistern of the living water signifies Christ, who holds the living water.
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Lev Msg 36

1. In Leviticus 11, the things we eat sisgnify people, and eating signifies our contacting of people.
2. If we intend to live a holy life as required by the holy God, we need to be careful about our contact with people.
3. Beasts that divide the hoof and chew the cud signify persons who have discernment in their activities and who receive the word of God with much reconsideration.
4. Fins help fish to move, to act, in water according to their wishes.
5. Scales protect the fish and keep those fish which live in salt water from being salted.
6. We should be like birds, living and moving in a life that is away from and above the world and that we should take the things of life as our supply of life.
7. Those (insects) who are without wings and jointed legs cannot leave the world at all.

Lev Msg 35

1. Christ is the Maker, the Creator, of the universe and that He is also the Upholder of the universe He created.
2. As the High Priest, Christ is the One who went back to God from us and with us.
3. As the Apostle, Christ came to us with God to share God with us that we may partake of the divine life, nature, and fullness.
4. Christ, as a Minister of the true tabernacle, ministers heaven (which is not only a place but a condition of life) into us, so that we may live a heavenly life on earth as He did while He was here.
5. By sprinkling His blood in the heavens before God, Christ has found, obtained, procured, eternal redemption for us.
6. Christ is our perpetual due. This means that Christ is our eternal portion for us to enjoy.
7. Real worship is to give Christ to God as a present, as a gift, and then to enjoy this gift with God.
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Lev Msg 34

1. The judging and correcting God continues to be merciful.
2. The best way to help a sinful brother is to be a person who lives in the fellowship of the Lord.

Lev Msg 33

1. In Ch 9, the holy fire consumed in the sense of accepting; in Ch. 10, the file consumed in the sense of judging.
2. Strange fire signifies man's natural enthusiasm, natural affection, natural strength, and natural ability offered to God.

Lev Msg 32

1. As we confess our mistakes, failures, and wrongdoings, we spontaneously take Christ as our sin offering and trespass offering.
2. When we serve God with Christ as the offerings according to God's regulations and not according to our own choice, we will often enjoy the appearing of God's glory.
3. Our experience of Christ affects the meetings; it especially affects, even determines, the atmosphere of the church meetings.
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