7/31/2008 10:07 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The priests were forgiven &
Were completely dedicated to God
Bible Reading & Meditation
Reference: Ex. 29:10-14;
15-18; Lev. 8:18-21
Message of the verses: “10 “Then you shall bring the bull before the
tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of
the bull. 11 “You shall slaughter the
bull before the LORD at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
12 “You shall take some of the
blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and
you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar. 13
"You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe
of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and offer them
up in smoke on the altar. 14 “But the
flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside
the camp; it is a sin offering.
15 "You shall also take the one ram, and
Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram; 16 and you shall slaughter the ram and shall
take its blood and sprinkle it around on the altar. 17 “Then you shall cut the ram into its
pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and
its head.
18 “You shall offer up in smoke
the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD: it is a
soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.
18
Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid
their hands on the head of the ram. 19
Moses slaughtered it and sprinkled the blood around on the altar. 20 When he had cut the ram into its pieces,
Moses offered up the head and the pieces and the suet in smoke. 21 After he had washed the entrails and the legs
with water, Moses offered up the whole ram in smoke on the altar. It was a
burnt offering for a soothing aroma; it was an offering by fire to the LORD,
just as the LORD had commanded Moses.”
I
will attempt to go over two sections in Warren Wiersbe’s book this morning as
the first one is short, but very important.
It
seems to me that the sin offering was the first offering that was offered in
the tabernacle. This offering was not
only for the cleansing of the priests but also for the sanctifying of the altar
which is where the priest would be doing their ministering.
The
important thing as far as NT believers is that Jesus Christ is our sin
offering, for He paid the price of sin for us when He died on the cross and the
Father was satisfied with His sacrifice.
“5 and from Jesus Christ, the
faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the
earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood—6 and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests
to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever.
Amen.” (Rev. 1:5-6)
This
next section speaks of the dedication of the priests and the offering that is
presented to the Lord is the burnt offering.
Unlike the sin offering the burnt offering was totally burned on the
altar and that is where the picture of dedication comes from. Jesus Christ was totally dedicated to do the
will of His Father when He came to earth, that is why He came and He was
dedicated to doing His Father’s will in the ministry period of His life as well
as His dying on the cross for the sins of the world.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: There has been a verse that has been going
over and over in my mind for a number of days, perhaps weeks and that verse is
found four times in the Scriptures, once in the OT and three times in the
NT. “The just shall live by faith.” Hab. 2:4 is where this verse is first found
and then Paul takes this verse and quotes it in his letter to the Romans in
1:17, and then to the Galatians in 3:11 and then who ever wrote the letter to
the Hebrews put it there too in 10:38.
How does this verse fit into today’s SD?
I think that in order to be completely dedicated to what the Lord would
have me to do I have to live by faith. Col.
Jesus
Christ was my sin offering and therefore I am to be totally dedicated to the
cause of Christ and the only way that I can do this is to walk by faith. Paul puts it this way in Gal. 5:16, “This I
say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- The just shall live by faith.
- As I have received Christ Jesus so walk in Him.
- Walk in the Spirit so I do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
Memory verses for the week: Exodus 20:1-4
- Then God spoke all these words, saying,
- I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the
- You shall have no other gods before Me.
- You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
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