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Cleansing
Why are there such detailed regulations for each offering? We can be sure that God had a purpose in giving each of these commands. Starting from scratch, He was teaching, His people a whole new way of life. He wanted to cleanse them from the many heathen practices they had learned in Egypt and restoring them too true worship of Himself. These strict details were to keep Israel from slipping back into their old ways.
The burnt offering was the basic sacrifice that expressed devotion and dedication to the Lord. When we surrender ourselves to the Lord, we put our “all on the altar” and hold nothing back. The ritual of the offering could not be varied. The sacrifice had to be a male animal from the flock (vv. 10-14) or it could be a bird (vv. 15-17). The worshiper had to bring the sacrifice to the door of the tabernacle, where a fire was constantly burning on a brazen altar (6:13). The priest made sure it was without a blemish (22:20-24). In the same way Jesus Christ was made a sacrifice for our sin “without a blemish and without a spot” (I Peter 1:19).
In the case of the burnt offering, the person offering the sacrifice was saying, “Just as this animal is wholly given to God, I wholly give myself to the Lord.” When the offer er laid a hand on the sacrifice (1:4) it symbolized this persons’ identification with the sacrifice and a transfer of something to the sacrifice. The shedding of blood and the laying on of hands meant the worshiper was symbolically transferring sin and the guilt of the sin to the animal who died in the place of the sinner.
Application
No matter how hard I try to clean up my life myself and make it presentable to God it is useless without applying the cleansing power of Christ’s shed blood to my sinful condition.
Leviticus 1:10-17 (English Standard Version)
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Sacrifices To Please The Lord
Leviticus 1:10–17
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A woman once wrote that at a garage sale she had spotted a handsome antique copper kettle for only $2.50. It was badly tarnished, so she asked the woman running the sale if the discoloration would come out. She cheerfully offered to try some copper cleaner on it and disappeared … More
Why are there such detailed regulations for each offering? We can be sure that God had a purpose in giving each of these commands. Starting from scratch, He was teaching, His people a whole new way of life. He wanted to cleanse them from the many heathen practices they had learned in Egypt and restoring them too true worship of Himself. These strict details were to keep Israel from slipping back into their old ways.
The burnt offering was the basic sacrifice that expressed devotion and dedication to the Lord. When we surrender ourselves to the Lord, we put our “all on the altar” and hold nothing back. The ritual of the offering could not be varied. The sacrifice had to be a male animal from the flock (vv. 10-14) or it could be a bird (vv. 15-17). The worshiper had to bring the sacrifice to the door of the tabernacle, where a fire was constantly burning on a brazen altar (6:13). The priest made sure it was without a blemish (22:20-24). In the same way Jesus Christ was made a sacrifice for our sin “without a blemish and without a spot” (I Peter 1:19).
In the case of the burnt offering, the person offering the sacrifice was saying, “Just as this animal is wholly given to God, I wholly give myself to the Lord.” When the offer er laid a hand on the sacrifice (1:4) it symbolized this persons’ identification with the sacrifice and a transfer of something to the sacrifice. The shedding of blood and the laying on of hands meant the worshiper was symbolically transferring sin and the guilt of the sin to the animal who died in the place of the sinner.
Application
No matter how hard I try to clean up my life myself and make it presentable to God it is useless without applying the cleansing power of Christ’s shed blood to my sinful condition.
Leviticus 1:10-17 (English Standard Version)
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