Janah's Oatmeal Cookies With a G.F. Spin

When I was visiting my youngest grandchildren in April, I wanted to make some cookies with my two-year-old granddaughter. It's  just been one of those things I like to do with each of them. I feel that besides getting help making fantastic foods together, cooking bonds the generations.

 Her mother plopped her onto the counter as you can see from this picture, and from there she helped dump flour, oatmeal, chocolate chips and raisins. She liked collecting her own assortment of chocolate chips and raisins to munch on while we worked! This recipe is a family one, and I don't know where it originated, but it is good!

Janah's Oatmeal Cookies

1.  Dry Ingredients - In a large mixing bowl stir together: 
(1)  1/2 cup of white rice flour, 1/4 cup sorghum flour, and 1/4 cup of tapioca flour
(2)  Add leavening & spices:   1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1/4 teaspoon salt.

2.  In a small bowl put 1 cup of quick oats and 2 tablespoons of milk, stir and let sit for 10 minutes.

3.  Cream butter & sugar:
(1)  In a mixing bowl put 3/4 cup of butter and cream with 3/4 cup of brown sugar and 1/3 cup of white sugar.
(2)  Then add 1 egg and 1 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

4.  Add the oats slowly to the bowl of creamed butter.

5.  Then slowly add the dry ingredients stirring to combine.

6.  Stir in 1/2 cup of chocolate chips, raisings, and chopped walnuts.

7.  Drop by rounded teaspoons and bake for 350 for 10 minutes.  Check at 7 minutes.
 

Other Gluten Free Baking & Desserts on This Blog:

Other Gluten Free Baking & Desserts on This Blog:

Breads & Coffee Cakes: 
Gluten free & Low-fat Banana Bread    (From my daughter-in-law's family reunion cookbook)
Celebrate Fall With Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread  (A friend's recipe)
Delicious Gluten Free Zucchini Bread (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
My Favorite Gluten Free Cranberry Nut Bread  (From my daughter-in-law's family cookbook)
Claudia's Blueberry Coffee Cake (Made Gluten Free!)   (From a former neighbor)
Here's a Zucchini Bread with a Hawaiian Twist! Gluten Free Pineapple Zucchini Bread (From my Syre School Cookbook)
Dot's Old Fashioned Pumpkin Bread   (From my father's friend)


Cakes:
Gluten Free German Apple Cake   (From my grandmother)
You Won't Believe It's Gluten Free Carrot Cake (From my daughter's husband's grandma--whew)
Judi's Super Moist Gluten Free Chocolate Cake    (From a church friend)
Judi's Gluten Free Orange Chiffon Cake    (From a church friend)
Marilyn's Spectacular Gluten Free Oatmeal Cake   (My mother-in-law's specialty!)
The Best Gluten Free Black Bottom Cupcakes   (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Delicious Gluten Free Rhubarb Cake   (From my daughter-in-law's family reunion cookbook)
Grandma's Gluten Free Applesauce Cake   (From an Internet search--tastes like my grandma's!)
Old Fashioned Gluten Free Banana Cake   (From my grandmother)
Rosie's Gluten Free Pineapple Upside Down Cake   (From my daughter-in-law's family reunion cookbook)
Overwhelmed By Your Bumper Crop of Zucchini? Try Claudia's Gluten Free Chocolate Zucchini Cake!   (From my former neighbor Claudia of 12 years)
Scrumptious Gluten Free Blackberry Cake   
Decadent & Gluten Free German Chocolate Cake  (From my Come & Dine church cookbook)
Debbie's Delicious Hot Water GF Chocolate Cake   (From my Come & Dine cookbook)
Debbie's Less Oil Carrot Cake (Made Gluten Free!)   (From my Come & Dine cookbook)
Jud's Crazy Cake (You Can Easily Make It Gluten Free!)  (From a church friend)

Cookies:
The Ultimate Gluten Free Cowboy Oatmeal Cookies   (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Mom's Go To For Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
The Best Gluten Free Recipe for Snickerdoodles    (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Gluten Free Rocky Road Brownies    (From a church friend)
Mark's Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies - Made Gluten Free!   (From my daughter-in-law's family reunion cookbook)
Judi's Gluten Free Oatmeal Craisin & Coconut Cookies (From a church friend)
Marie's Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies (Also Great Gluten Free!)   (My friend Marie's recipe)
Bebe's Gluten Free Whoopie Pies  (From my friend Debbie)
Gluten Free Coconut Chocolate Chip Macaroons  - (Recipe on Baker's bag of coconut)
Dale's Gingersnaps Made Gluten Free  (From my Come & Dine cookbook)
Chewy Gluten Free Molasses Cookies (From my daughter-in-law's Family Reunion Cookbook)
Those Famous Neiman Marcus Cookies Made Gluten Free   (From my daughter-in-law)
Janah's Oatmeal Cookies with a GF Spin  (My daughter's recipe)
Homemade Gluten Free Butter Cookies   (From My Heritage School Cookbook)
An Old Fashioned Favorite Made GF - Hermit Cookies- Hermit Cookies  (From my daughter-in-law's family reunion cookbook)
A New Twist on Holiday Peppermint Cookies (You can make them Gluten Free) - (From my daughter-in-law's family reunion cookbook)
Who Wouldn't Love a Cookie that Tastes Like a Brownie? GF Cocoa White Chocolate Chip Cookies - (From my daughter-in-laws family reunion cookbook)

Cornbread & Rolls:
Beth's Amazing Gluten Free Cornbread   (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Judi's Favorite Gluten Free Buttermilk Biscuits   (My friend Judi's sister's recipe)

Crisps & Pies:
Lena's Rhubarb Crunch (A crisp with a gluten free top and bottom crust!) (My daughter-in-law's mother. She's an amazing cook, which I think most of us moms become after a few years!)
Delicious Gluten Free Apple Crisp    (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Ginger's Outrageous Apple Pie    (From a church friend)
The BEST Lemon Meringue Pie with Mrs. Lauralicious Gluten Free Pie Crust  (Internet)
My Grandmother's Favorite Banana Cream Pie  (A recipe from my grandmother)
Granny's Lemon Cheesecake Squares   (From my friend Judi's granny)
Simple & Gluten Free Chocolate Cream Pie   (From my Syre School Cookbook)
Judi's No Fail Gluten Free Pie Crust    (From my friend Judi)

Desserts with Fruit:
Sensational Gluten Free Strawberry Shortcake   (From the back of Costco's organic sugar)

Terrific Gluten Free Strawberry & Peach Trifle  (Modified from an Internet search)
My Favorite Gluten Free Strawberry Cheesecake (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Just Like Grandma's (But Only Gluten Free) Berry Cobbler (My husband's grandma's recipe)
Gluten Free Lemony Rhubarb Bars (From my Syre School Cookbook)
Old Fashioned Strawberry Buckle (Made Gluten Free)   (A recipe I picked up from a berry farm)
From New Zealand - Triple Berry Pavlova  (A friend's recipe - Heritage School Cookbook)

Holiday Cookies & Baking:

Old Fashioned Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies  (Modified from back of the Libby's pumpkin can)
My Family's Favorite Gingerbread Cookies (Now Made Gluten Free!)  (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
My Grandkids Favorite Gluten Free Peppermint Sugar Cookies  (From Syre School Cookbook)
Our Favorite Pumpkin Pie   (With extra spice-- from back of Libby's pumpkin can)
Perfect Gluten Free Pumpkin Cheesecake   (From back of cream cheese box)
Gluten Free Polish Fruitcake  ( Modified from Internet search)
Old Fashioned Gluten Free Gingerbread Cake   (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Gluten Free Nordy Bars  ( From my Syre School Cookbook)
Grandma Pitcher's Old Fashioned Sandies (Made Gluten Free)  (My husband's grandma)
Make a Family Tradition & Make Your Own Fruitcake    (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Homemade Gluten Free Butter Cookies  (From my Heritage School Cookbook)

Muffins:

My Favorite Banana Nut Muffins   (From my daughter-in-law's family reunion cookbook)
Gluten Free Tremendous Pumpkin Muffins   (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Bursting with Blueberries Gluten Free Muffins   (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Toni's Outrageous Gluten Free Corn Muffins    (From back of a Bob's Red Mill package)
Sassy Gluten Free Apple Cinnamon Muffins  (From my Heritage School Cookbook)

Puddings & Ice Cream: 

Dairy Free Strawberry Coconut Ice Cream (And other ice cream favorites!) (From searches)

Baked Coconut Pudding   (Something I worked out from my Aunt Sue's rice pudding recipe)

Tangy Lemon Pudding   (From my daughter-in-laws family reunion cookbook)

Lessons the Israelites Learned in Numbers 11 - Part 1 of 5

     After receiving God’s law and then building the tabernacle, you would think that the children of Israel wouldn’t have any problems on their journey in the wilderness.  Hardly.   Actually the Israelites complained over and over against Moses and even rebelled against God.  But I saw as I read these chapters in the Life-Study of Numbers that God used all these trials to purify His people’s hearts.

    The first thing that happened on their journey was the mixed multitude that had joined them from Egypt began to murmur about the food. As you may recall, there was just manna for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And hey didn't have any onions and garlic to season it with. This caused the mixed multitude in Numbers 11:4b-15 to want some Egyptian food, and this stirred up the lust among God’s people.  Witness Lee says that this lust was already hidden within them, but the environment brought it out.  

And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again and said, Who shall give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic; But now our appetite has gone; there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.   Numbers 11:4-5

     God wasn't too happy with all these complaints. He sent quails to their camp for 30 days that were about 3 feet high and a day's journey on each side.  As they were biting into it, God sent a huge plague.

    So what lessons are in this account?  I learned from my reading that the foods in Egypt symbolize the worldly taste, and the manna they detested represented Christ as the heavenly  bread. We might experience this, too--the world may cool us down, and we may not always want to come to the Lord’s word and eat the spiritual bread.  This is brought out on pages 130-131 of chapter 18:

Manna signifies the heavenly Christ as the daily food for God's people. This is pointed out by the Lord Jesus Himself in John 6:29-35. In the wilderness the people became bored of eating manna. Day after day, they received the miraculous supply of manna. No matter where they were, there was enough manna in the morning to feed more than two million people. This surely was a miracle. But even though the children of Israel witness this miracle daily for forty years, they were not affected by it in a positive way. Instead they became tired of manna, even bored of eating it....If we are honest, we will admit that just as the children of Israel were bored of eating manna, we have sometimes become bored of eating Christ as our daily food (Lee. Witness.  Living Stream Ministry: Anaheim. 1990, Print).

   What's helped me not get bored is to come to God's word with a seeking heart and ask Him to speak to me in the word.  We can ask the Lord to never let us get bored of coming to the Bible.  I can honestly say He can do that.

 You can listen to excerpts of Witness Lee's speaking the Life-Study of Numbers on Life Study of the Bible  with Witness Lee.   You can also read the online Life-Studies of Numbers and check out other resources available to enhance your study of the Bible on Living Stream Ministry's website.

Other Posts on Numbers:

What is the Spiritual Meaning of the Book of Numbers
Lessons the Israelites Learned in Numbers 11 - Murmuring About Manna - Part 1 of 5
Lessons the Israelites Learned in Numbers 12 - Part 2 of 5
Lessons the Israelites Learned in Numbers 13 & 14 - Part 3 of 5
Lessons the Israelites Learned in Numbers 16 - Part 4 of 5

Lessons the Israelites Learned in Numbers  21 - Part 5 of 5

Make Your Own G.F.Teriyaki Bowls

  This afternoon I'm making chicken teriyaki bowls again.  This is one of the few ways my grandkids like Chinese food! 

     The teriyaki marinade and sauce recipes come from my Heritage School cookbook, the first school I taught in after I graduated from college.  I have shared many of the recipes from that cookbook on this site.

     I learned how to cook Chinese food from my friend Rose who was born in Taiwan.  The tips for cooking vegetables comes from her demonstration to me when she came over one day when we hosted International students so I could learn the tricks on how to cook Chinese food.   I find Chinese cooking a lot fun--you can mix and match the vegetables, and add other vegetables like cabbage and snow peas, etc.

Gluten Free Teriyaki Chicken Bowls

1.  Prepare chicken:  Cut 2 chicken breasts into thin slices or into chunks.

2.  Prepare teriyaki marinade - In a medium bowl put:
(1)  1/4 cup gluten free tamari
(2) 1/4 cup rice vinegar
(3)  Mince 1/2 teaspoon of ginger root
(4)  Mince 1 clove of garlic
(5)  Pour over chicken and put in the refrigerator for  6 hours, but not more than 24 hrs.

3.  Prepare vegetables:
(1)  Slice 2-3 carrots  on the diagonal.
(2)  Slice 1 red pepper.
(3)  Slice 2 stalks of celery on the diagonal.
(4)  Cut 1 cup of broccoli into florets.  My Chinese friend taught me how to chop up the stem into thin slices so it's not wasted.
(5)  Slice 1/2 to 1 onion in half and then across the dome.
(6)  Slice 1 zucchini in half and then cut on the diagonal.

4.  Teriyaki sauce - In a medium-sized bowl put:
(1)  1 cup gluten free tamari
(2)  1/2 cup rice vinegar
(3)  3-4 T sugar
(4)  1 teaspoon ginger or use 2 teaspoons of minced ginger root.
(5)  Mince 1 clove of garlic

5.  Meanwhile prepare white or brown rice.  Follow directions for how much rice you would like. For 6 people I cook up about 3 cups of rice  and add water according to the directions on the bag.

6.  Prepare chicken teriyaki vegetable bowls:
(1)  Drain the marinade off the chicken.
(2)  Put 2 T of coconut oil into a wok and warm up.
(3)  Add the chicken and stir-fry until done.  Put in a covered dish.
(4)  Wipe out wok and add 1 to 2 T more coconut oil.
(5)  Add the sliced vegetables and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes.
(6)  Then add 1/4 cup of water and put the lid on and time for 3 minutes.
(7)  Stir in chicken and the teriyaki sauce.
(8)  Taste and make any adjustments--more tamari?

7.  Assemble:  Heap rice into a deep bowl and top with chicken teriyaki and vegetables.  Sprinkle with sesame seeds.  You can let people add more tamari or Sriracha.

Other Chinese recipes on this blog:

Note about Internet recipes:  For the past 6 years we've hosted international students. Whenever I've made something, they have tasted it and given me recommendations to make it taste more authentic. Most of these Internet recipes have been tweaked by their suggestions.

BEEF RECIPES:
Delicious Gluten Free Beef Broccoli Stir-Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
The Best Gluten Free Mongolian Beef Stir-Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
The Best Gluten Free Ginger Beef Stir-Fry (Modification of Internet recipe)

CHICKEN RECIPES:
Gluten Free Chinese Almond Chicken Stir-Fry   (Modification of Internet recipe)
Amazing Gluten Free Chinese Cashew Chicken Stir-Fry   (Modification of Internet recipe)
Gluten Free Garlic Chicken Stir-Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
Gluten Free Chinese - Chicken Broccoli Stir-Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
Gluten Free Chinese - Spicy Kung Pao Chicken Stir Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
Gluten Free Chinese - Authentic Chinese BBQ Chicken  (From my Bible Study friend Rose)
Rose's Chinese Yellow Curry with Chicken & Vegetables  (From my Bible Study friend Rose)
Gluten Free Chinese - Fantastic Soy Sauce Chicken  (Modification of Internet recipe)
Rose's Authentic Stir-Fried Chicken & Vegetables (Made Gluten Free!)
Gluten Free Sweet & Sour Chicken (From my daughter-in-law's family cookbook)
Authentic Chinese Chicken & Leek Stir Fry  (Shared with me by a Chinese student's mother)

TOFU RECIPES:
My Asian Student's Favorite Tofu & Vegetable Stir-Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)
Orange "Beef" Tofu Stir- Fry  (Modification of Internet recipe)

FISH RECIPES:
Steamed Scallion Ginger Fish with Stir-Fried Bok Choy  (Modification of Internet recipe)
Fantastic Mahi & Vegetable Stir Fry   (Modification of Internet recipe)
Tasty Gluten Free Sweet & Sour Fish  (From my daughter-in-law's family reunion cookbook)

NOODLES & RICE:
Gluten Free Chinese Fried Rice    (From my Come & Dine Cookbook)
The Cheung's Gluten Free Chow Mien  (My Bible study friend Rose taught me this)

SOUP RECIPES:
Chinese Chicken Soups  - Bok choy chicken, chicken & spinach, and chicken & cabbage
Gluten Free Chinese Hot Pot  (Combination of Internet & Yingying a student from China)
Making Congee with a Chinese Student  (Recipe from a Chinese friend & a student)
Chinese Egg Drop Soup   (From my Syre School Cookbook)

SALAD RECIPES
Gluten Free Chinese Chicken Cabbage Salad  (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Rose's Refreshing Cucumber Salad  (From a Bible study friend)
Chinese Mandarin Salad & Thai Peanut Dressing   (Dressing is from my friend Judi)

What is the Spiritual Meaning of the Book of Numbers?

The Old Testament tells an amazing story.  Although the plot has many twists and turns, God never gives up His intention. When I read through the Life-Studies of Genesis I saw that God called Abraham with an intention that He would have a people to express Him and represent Him on earth.  This intention is clearly seen  in Genesis 1:26-27, and Witness Lee's sharing on it has helped me to read the Old Testament with these verses in mind. 

Then when I read through the Life-Studies of Exodus, I saw that the children of Israel were delivered out of Egypt so that they would build God a dwelling place.  This was a further step.  God finally had a place on earth where He could descend and speak to His people.   

I learned when I read through the Life-Studies of Leviticus  that God has a precise way for His people to contact Him through many types of offerings.  Without these offerings sinful man could not worship a holy and righteous God. 

I just started reading the Life-Studies of Numbers, and I was touched to see that God is numbering His people so He can conquer His enemy on earth. In these  excerpts on pages 11-13 and16 in chapter two of the Life-Study of Numbers, Witness Lee Explains what God's intention is in this book:

Eventually, the picture in Numbers shows us God and His chosen people mingled together as one entity to conquer the enemy on earth. The enemy utilizes and usurps the entire earth, which God created for Himself and His purpose. How can God regain the earth? God will not regain the earth directly, by Himself as the mighty God, the Creator. In the New Testament economy, God would never do this by Himself....The children of Israel were formed into a body to fight for God as warriors and serve God as  priests for the carrying out of God's purpose....The formation of the children of Israel into a body to fight for God and to serve God typifies the New Testament believers being built up into the organic Body of Christ to fight for God for the carrying out, in its service to God, of God's eternal economy....The army of God protecting God's testimony is a matter of a formed assembly, not of individuals....God desires the formed, coordinated Body of Christ. The children of Israel were formed into a fighting army by being numbered by their families and leaders (vv. 1-16) and according to their age (vv. 20-46)....The fighting Israelites were the outward protection for the serving Levites, who were for the testimony of God. The Levites were encamped around the tabernacle, and they were surrounded by the twelve tribes, who protected them (Lee, Witness. Life-Study of Numbers. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1990, Print).

 
I can see from this that in Numbers God is taking a further step to regain the earth for Himself. I like the way  Witness Lee shares the Old Testament types in light of New Testament realities!

 You can listen to excerpts of Witness Lee's speaking the Life-Study of Numbers on Life Study of the Bible  with Witness Lee.   You can also read the online Life-Studies of Numbers and check out other resources available to enhance your study of the Bible on Living Stream Ministry's website.

Other Posts on Numbers:

What is the Spiritual Meaning of the Book of Numbers
Lessons the Israelites Learned in Numbers 11 - Part 1 of 5
Lessons the Israelites Learned in Numbers 12 - Part 2 of 5
Lessons the Israelites Learned in Numbers 13 & 14 - Part 3 of 5
Lessons the Israelites Learned in Numbers 16 - Part 4 of 5
 
 

Soup's On - Try this Hearty Italian Wedding Soup

My friend Anne came to spend the night in February and brought along a pot of this Italian wedding soup that she had gotten off the back of a box of chicken broth.  She made some changes, like making up her own Italian sausage, added some pasta, and using kale instead of spinach. 

When I took the first bite, I had to savor it.  The combination of flavors and textures made this an incredible bowl of soup. In fact I think I ate about two bowls! I love a soup that can become a main dish with some garlic bread and a salad. 

ITALIAN WEDDING SOUP

1.  Prepare vegetables:

(1) Chop 1 onion

(2)  Grate or julienne 2 carrots

(3)  Chop 1 stalk of celery

(4)  Mince 2 cloves garlic

2.  Saute vegetables in 1 T of olive olive oil until onions are translucent in large pot

3.  Add two 32 oz.containers GF chicken broth.  You may want to add an additional can to stretch the broth.  Then stir in 1 teaspoon of Italian seasoning.

4.  Cook Italian sausages and then cut into rings or make your own.  My friend Anne who gave me this recipe told me she mixed ground turkey, cornstarch and Italian seasoning together and made them into meatballs and fried them.  Add them to the broth. 

 

5.  Let this soup simmer a few hours.

6.  Before serving cook up half a bag of gluten free penne pasta. Use it to add separately to the bowls.

7.  Bring soup to a boil. Then add kale (original recipe called for 2 cups of spinach, both work)

8.  Bring the soup down to a simmer.  Let the soup simmer till kale or spinach is soft and flavors have blended.

List of My Favorite Soups, Chili & Stew Recipes: 

Beef 

Grandma's Favorite Beef Stew  (My mother-in-law's delicious recipe!)

Just Like Home Ukrainian Borscht   (A Polish student  said this tasted like his mom's!)
Mouth Watering Italian  Sausage Soup   (This is my friend Debbie's recipe)

Poultry

This is the Best Gluten Free Minestrone Soup!   (A recipe my son modified)

Mexican Fiesta Chicken Soup   (A recipe I got years ago from a Mexican cookbook)
My Thanksgiving Turkey Soup  (My very own special concoction!)
Gary's Incredible Gluten Free Arkansas Gumbo  (Given to me by a Bible study friend from Arkansas)
Jeannie's French Market Soup  (A friend from when my kids were little)
Southwest Turkey Soup  (From my Syre School cookbook)

Fish
Northwest Salmon Chowder  (From my Heritage School cookbook)
Almost Like Ivar's Clam Chowder (From my Come & Dine Cookbook)

Bean & Legumes
Vi's Best Chili  (A  Bible study friend's great recipe)
Bethany's Crowd Pleasing Tortilla Soup  (One of my daughter's friends special soup)
Country Style Lentil Soup   (From my Heritage School cookbook)
Kathy's Texas Chili & Chips (From my Come & Dine cookbook)
Spicy Cuban Black Bean Soup (From a store recipe card)
Marilyn's Make It From Scratch Chili  (From my mother-in-law)
Lisa's Red Lentil Soup - From my friend Lisa

Vegetable

Downright Delicious Potato & Kale Soup  (From my daughter-in-law's family cookbook)
A Great Fall Soup - Make it From Scratch Corn Potato Chowder  (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
French Pumpkin Soup  (From my Heritage School Cookbook)

Asian
Chinese Chicken Soups  - Bok choy chicken, chicken & spinach, and chicken & cabbage (Modified from Internet search by our Chinese students)
Make Your Own Gluten Free Chicken Pho!  (Modified from a newspaper article)
Gluten Free Chinese Hot Pot  (Modified by a Chinese student)
Chinese Egg Drop Soup  &  Chinese Egg & Tomato Soup  (Modified  from a student's recipe)

Vegetarian & Gluten Free Tom Yum Soup (A delicious Thai soup) 
Deluxe Miso Soup (Kenchinjiru)   (Adapted from Internet search)
A Thai Mom Teaches Me How to Make Tom Yum Kung  (A student's mom's recipe)
A Vietnamese Cooking Lesson - Lien's Vietnamese Sweet & Sour Soup  (An International student's aunt's recipe)
Cooking Beef Pho for Vietnamese Students  (Modified Recipe)
Asian Curried Chicken Soup  (From my Come & Dine church cookbook)
Rose's Very Own Recipe for Chinese Beef Bone Soup  (from Rose my friend from Taipei)

What is the Meaning of the Trespass Offering in Leviticus 5?

    Just like a peach tree produces peaches, the sinful nature we inherited from Adam causes us to commit sins.  It’s important to see this.  When I was newly saved, I didn’t know that when Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil something drastic happened to their bodies (Check out Romans 7:5, 18-24). It was eye-opening for me to hear Witness Lee speak on how when Satan came into Adam and Eve's bodies, it got changed  into the flesh of sin and made all of mankind sinners (See Romans 8:3 and 5:19)   And like Romans 8:23 says we will not be freed from this sinful nature of Satan until the Lord transfigures our bodies.

My grandson at Lake Coeur D' Alene in April

   And for the sins we commit, Leviticus 5:7 shows us that Christ is our trespass offering:

   And it shall be when he is guilty in any of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned; and he shall bring his trespass offering to Jehovah for his sin which he has committed,...and the priest shall make propitiation for him concerning his sin. Leviticus 5:5-6

 On pages 192 of chapter 21 in the Life-Study of Leviticus Witness Lee explains how the trespass offering relates to the sin offering:

  We may also use a fruit tree to illustrate inward sin, not being for God, and trespasses.  A fruit tree needs a proper atmosphere and environment in which to grow. When a fruit tree grows in such an atmosphere and environment, fruit is produced.  In this illustration the inward sin is the fruit tree, not loving God and not living for Him make up the atmosphere and environment in which the tree grows, and trespasses and transgressions are the fruit. Why do we make mistakes and do things that are wrong? We spontaneously and even unintentionally do such things because we have sin in our flesh and because we are not for God and we do not love Him and live for Him....Because we are fallen, we are not for God absolutely. Since we were created by God, we should be absolutely for God, yet we are not....We are fallen, a fallen person is flesh, and this flesh is sin, which produces trespasses as the children, as the fruit....From this we see that God is concerned about the source--the sin within us--and also about the fruit which is produced from this source--the outward trespasses (Lee, Witness. Life-Study of Leviticus. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry,  1990, Print). 

    From the vantage point of man's flesh, Satan is constantly injecting sinful thoughts into our mind, flooding our emotions with evil feelings, and pumping rebellion into our will.  I've come to see there's an all out war going on between Satan in our flesh and Christ in our spirit.  I'm so thankful that God was willing to clothe Himself in the likeness of our sinful flesh  and die on our behalf as the sin offering and the trespass offering.  It's very touching that the Lord died on the Jewish Passover. In doing so He was fulfilling the type of the Passover lamb.  Jesus was willing to die an

Coeur D' Alene hike.

excruciating death, one that I can never fathom, so all of us could be freed from the power of sin.  

      I realize that that every day I need to live in that reality.  When I fail, I just have to confess to God.  1 John 1:9 is a powerful verse because it tells us that when we confess our sins, God not only forgives us, but we are cleansed from all unrighteousness. God knows what the fall did to us, and He's not surprised when we struggle.  Every day I have to keep this before me that Jesus died for my sins, and I have a right to come to God and receive His grace. Thank You, Lord, for dying on our behalf as the Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world.!!  Thank You that You died as the reality of all the offerings so that we could each contact God not just the High Priest and not just once a year but every single day!  In the next time I'm going to be in the Life-Study of Numbers.

  You can listen to excerpts of Witness Lee's speaking the Life-Study of Leviticus on Life Study of the Bible  with Witness Lee.   You can also read the online Life-Studies of Leviticus and check out other resources available to enhance your study of the Bible on Living Stream Ministry's website.

Other Posts on Leviticus:

What is the Purpose of the Offerings in Leviticus 1:2?

Why Does Leviticus Start with the Burnt Offering in Leviticus 1:4?

What is the spiritual Meaning of the Meal Offering in Leviticus 2:1?

Taking a Closer Look at the Peace Offering in Leviticus 3:1

What Do You Know About Christ as the Sin Offering? 

What is the Meaning of the Trespass Offering in Leviticus 5?