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Today’s Bible Reading: Leviticus 1-4

Today’s Devotional: Leviticus 1:1-4

Handbook of the priests

In Exodus we saw the words God spoke to Moses from the mountain, in Leviticus we see the words God spoke to Moses from the Tabernacle. How it was that the children of Israel were to be set apart to Him and for Him. God is perfect and His nature demands holiness, and it’s through sacrifice imperfect man can approach a the perfect God. All of the sacrifices symbolize a permanent offering that would come from and be sacrificed by God. In the offerings we see that they are all offered by the individual, and are an act of worship, in the worship it’s the worshipper who sacrifices the offering on his own account. It is the worshippers sin which is transferred and it is the worshippers hand which kills the offering. Their sin and the understanding of it’s cost and consequences were to be personal.

Leviticus 1:1-4 the first sacrificial offering is the burnt offering, the burnt offering we sin a transferring of past and present sin transferred to the offering, and the penalty of that sin is death. The burnt offering then is completely consumed on the altar.

This is a picture of our lives as we place our faith in Jesus Christ as our perfect sacrifice. And our old life we lived before the new life we now have is to be completely consumed on the altar, faith in Jesus Christ costs the worshipper something, that something is the claim to the old life. The Christian has no claim to the old life which they lived before Christ, and so we are not to go back to as Paul told the Ephesians, walking as the non-believers walk, and that we are a new man and a new creation in Christ and our lives not to walk away ever changed because of the realization that our old nature has been placed on Christ Jesus and the cost of that was death on the Cross so that we might have fellowship in Him and with Him in God.

This old life is not to be revisited because just as the sacrifice had been fully consumed on an altar of fire, so to if we pick back up our old man and walk in that again we are going to get burned, as Paul said further to the Ephesians, that we are not to walk in the way of the non-believer because they walk in the futility of their mind and their understanding is darkened. The world is wondering around like a blind man around a fire, who over time because of the warmth of the fire his senses are seared then falls into the fire and is burned for the enjoyment he once received from the slight warmth of the fire.