The Unredeemable Things (Lev. 27:26-29)

11/22/2008 10:15 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                    Focus:  The unredeemable things

Bible Reading & Meditation     Reference:  Leviticus 27:26-29

            Message of the verses:  “26 ¶  "You may not dedicate to the LORD the firstborn of your cattle or sheep because the firstborn of these animals already belong to him.

27  However, if it is the firstborn of a ceremonially unclean animal, you may redeem it by paying the priest’s assessment of its worth, plus 20 percent. If you do not redeem it, the priest may sell it to someone else for its assessed value.”

            I wish to go over two of the sections that deal with the unredeemable things in this SD, and hope to finish up on the book of Leviticus tomorrow morning.  The first unredeemable thing to be discussed is found in verses 26-27 and it is the first born of the animals.  The first born animals were set apart to the Lord on the first Passover as these animals took the place of the firstborn of Israel whom the blood of the lamb redeemed from judgment.  The only way one of these animals could be dedicated to the Lord is if they had a blemish and then the person would have to give the priest money plus 20% in order for them to be dedicated to the Lord. 

            “28  "However, anything specially set apart by the LORD—whether a person, an animal, or an inherited field—must never be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted in this way has been set apart for the LORD as holy.  29  A person specially set apart by the LORD for destruction cannot be redeemed. Such a person must be put to death.”

            This section is called “Things ‘devoted’ to the Lord.”  There are things that have already been dedicated to the Lord such as some of the spoils of war.  This was seen in the battle for Jericho and also when King Saul used some of the spoils of war to offer sacrifices to the Lord when these things were all suppose to be destroyed, because God wanted them all destroyed King Saul should have followed His orders.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I will have to admit that this chapter has been kind of a difficult chapter for me to understand and to see some things in it that would be spiritually meaningful to me.  I think that one should be careful what they vow to the Lord, for the Scriptures say that it is better not to vow something to the Lord than to vow something to the Lord and not keep that vow.  I would suppose that there were people in the OT times and even in the Church era that take advantage of these types of things.

My Steps of Faith for Today:

1. Give myself to the Lord for service and worship.
2. Continue to learn, with the Spirit’s help, contentment.
3. Keep the vows that I have made to the Lord.
4. Continue to memorize Scripture in order to have my mind renewed. 

Memory verses for the week:                                  Romans 6:1-6

1. What shall we say then?  Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
2. May it never be!  How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
3. Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
4. Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5. For if we have been united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6. knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin,
7. for he who has died has been freed from sin.

11/22/2008 10:51 AM