Scripture Reading: Lev. 2:1-16; 6:14-23; John 6:57; 1 Cor. 10:17
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The meal offering typifies Christ in His humanity as food for God and especially for those who have fellowship with God and serve Him—Lev. 2:1:
A
Whereas the burnt offering is God's food, the meal offering is our food for our satisfaction, with a little portion shared with God—Num 28:2-3; Lev. 2:2-3.
B
The emphasis of the meal offering is on Christ's human living and daily walk, implying His death but emphasizing His living.
C
The meal offering was made of fine flour mingled with oil—v. 4:
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The fine flour, with its evenness and fineness, typifies Christ's perfect humanity with its balance, evenness, and fineness.
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The oil mingled with the fine flour signifies the divine Spirit; this mingling typifies the mingling of divinity with humanity in Christ—Luke 1:35.
D
The frankincense added to the meal offering signifies the sweet fragrance of the manifestation of Christ's resurrection life—Lev. 2:15-16.
E
In typology, salt signifies the death, or the cross, of Christ—v. 13.
F
The meal offering had neither leaven nor honey—v. 11:
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Leaven signifies sin and all negative things—1 Cor. 5:6-7a.
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Honey signifies the natural life in its good aspects, including natural affection—Matt. 10:34-39.
Ⅱ
In the four Gospels we see that the four elements of the meal offering were the components of Christ's life on earth and caused Him to be the real meal offering—Luke 1:35; 3:22; 4:1, 18a; 23:14:
A
Christ is both God and man; He is a God-man mingled, anointed, and filled with the Spirit of God—1:35; 4:18a:
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Christ is both the complete God and the perfect man, possessing the divine nature and the human nature distinctly, without a third nature being produced.
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Christ is a person who is absolutely mingled with God; His humanity is mingled with God, mingled with the Spirit, for the Spirit is in His very being—Matt. 1:18, 20; Luke 1:35.
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Christ is a man mingled with the Spirit and with the Spirit poured upon Him—v. 35; 3:22.
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Everything the Lord Jesus did in His ministry was done in the Spirit—in the essential Spirit and also in the economical Spirit—4:1; Matt. 12:28.
B
Christ's humanity is fine, perfect, balanced, and right in every way, lacking nothing and not having anything in excess—John 18:38; 19:4, 6b.
C
The humanity of the Lord Jesus is without fault; in Him there is no leaven—Luke 23:14.
D
With the Lord Jesus there is no honey of the natural life—Matt. 12:46-50.
E
The Lord Jesus was always salted; He daily lived a crucified life—16:24.
F
Christ's humanity bears the fragrance of His resurrection manifested out from His sufferings—Matt. 2:11; John 11:25:
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Because the Lord Jesus lived daily under the cross, He always expressed resurrection from His humanity mingled with divinity.
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For the Lord Jesus to live in resurrection meant that He denied Himself and His natural life and lived not Himself but the Father—John 5:30; 6:57a.
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In every place and at every time, Christ lived a life in His humanity mingled with His divinity and expressing His resurrection.
Ⅲ
As believers in Christ and as members of Christ, we should be the reproduction of Christ as the meal offering—2 Cor. 4:10-11; 1 Cor. 10:17:
A
We should be the same as Christ is, and our Christian life should be a duplication of Christ's life—1 Pet. 2:21; 1 John 2:5; Phil. 1:21a; 3:10:
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The Christian life should be a meal offering.
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As Christians, we should live the same kind of life the Lord Jesus lived.
B
In order for our Christian life to be a meal offering, it must be a life with the highest humanity—the humanity of Jesus signified by the fine flour—Luke 21:31.
C
We need to experience Christ as the cakes of fine flour, as something solid and with a definite form—Lev. 2:4; Gal. 4:19.
D
We need to experience the killing power in the salt—Mark 9:49-50; Col. 4:6:
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The corrupting elements cannot exist with the salt in the life of Jesus—Matt. 5:13; Luke 14:34-35.
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We need the salt to kill the natural friendships, the natural love, and the natural affection—Mark 9:49-50; Matt. 10:34-39; 12:46-50.
E
If we eat Christ as the meal offering, we will become what we eat and live by what we eat—John 6:57; 1 Cor. 10:17:
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If we eat Christ as our meal offering, we will become Christ.
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If we eat the meal offering, we will live by the meal offering—John 6:57.
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By exercising our spirit to touch the Spirit consolidated in the Word, we eat the human life and living of Jesus, we are constituted with Jesus, and the human living of Jesus becomes our human living—Eph. 6:17-18; Matt. 4:4.