Leviticus 6

v1-5a: Though the offence is against our neighbour, “it is still called a trespass against the Lord, because though the harm or hurt is done to our neighbour, it is really an insult to our Maker and Master… who has made the command of loving our neighbour second to that of loving himself.”

v5b-7: “Where wrong has been done, restitution must be made.” Repentance does not “undo what we have done wrong” until “we restore what has been wrongfully gained and make restitution for” it. We can be forgiven of our trespasses without offering a guilt offering because atonement has been made by our Lord Jesus, but forgiveness will not be “without true repentance, restitution, reformation, and a humble faith in the righteousness of Christ.”

v8-13: The priests were to keep the “fire with a constant supply of fuel,” so that, all the sacrifices offered “throughout all generations might be said to be consumed with that fire from heaven to show God’s acceptance,” because “if they should ever carelessly let the fire go out, they could not expect to have it kindled again.” This law teaches us to keep the fire of devotion and godliness burning “so that we are always ready to speak and act well.”

v14-23: God’s will is that “his ministers should be well provided for.” When we give to this end, God accepts what is given to them “as offered to himself.”

v24-30: “The pot in which the flesh of the sin offering was boiled must be broken if it was earthen (clay), and if bronze it was to be washed well.” This was because “the defilement [of sin] was not wholly taken away by the offering, but instead still clung to it.” Unlike these sacrifices that were weak and deficient, “the blood of Christ thoroughly cleanses from all sin, and after that there is no need for further cleansing.”

Leviticus 7

v1-10: The priest who offered the burnt offering should have the skin or the hide. Some have suggested that this was to remind the people of Adam, the first priest, who after offering a sacrifice (a burnt offering) was given the skins by God “as an inheritance from which he could make clothes for himself and his wife.”

v11-19: The law about eating the fellowship offering “before the third day, so that it might not go bad, applies to the resurrection of Christ after two days,” so that as God’s Holy One, He might not see decay.

v20-34: “Holy things are only for holy people.” It was a serious matter to eat the meat of the fellowship offering in a state of being ceremonially unclean. In the New Testament, there is a warning given about partaking in the Lord’s Supper, in a manner unworthy, because to do so is to desecrate “holy things and eat and drink judgment on themselves in their uncleanness, as those did who ate the peace offerings.”

v35-36: God has, in His commands, made provision to ensure “that those who are employed for him are… well provided for.”

v37-38: We are not free “to make up our own minds about” how God is to be worshipped. We are not free to do as we please, but are to follow what Christ has commanded in His Word.