“And walk in love, as CHRIST also hath loved us, and hath given HIMSELF for us an offering and a sacrifice to GOD for a sweetsmelling savour.” (Ephesians 5:2)
It’s Sunday, and it’s the LORD’s day – so yours truly has taken the precious time to share this message; sort of my Sunday sermon. So, yours truly (me) has been studying the Old Testament book of Leviticus in a regular Bible study session with a friend, and has been confronting the horrible truth about ourselves (our nature) as sinful and fallen creatures. I learned that there were at least five offerings given by the people of Israel as sacrifices to the LORD GOD, who is holy, pure, and perfect. There is the burnt offering, mentioned first in the first chapter of the book of Leviticus. Then there is the grain offering, the peace offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.
But before I continue, I must needs back track to when the LORD GOD revealed HIMSELF to Moses (back at the book of Exodus). If you are familiar with the Bible, GOD’s HOLY WORD, you know that the LORD GOD, the great CREATOR, has revealed HIMSELF to very few (at least to one person) throughout human history, Adam (and Eve), Cain (and Abel), then to Noah, then to Abraham – out of millions of millions of people. And with that changed, and continue to change the devastating course of human lives – and with that changing it for the better. You see, the blessed LORD GOD/CREATOR could have left us to ourselves to continue to destroy ourselves, or better yet, the LORD GOD could’ve destroyed us (which HE did with the global flood – Genesis 6) completely and HE would have been completely justified. The LORD GOD owns everything, and HE has the complete and uncontested right to do what HE wants with HIS creation. But, HE didn’t. GOD chose to save mankind (us). And HE chose to use one man to bring about HIS great salvation, namely Abraham. Through his lineage will come the MESSIAH – Matthew 1.
But going back to the offerings in the book of Leviticus, this was given by the LORD GOD to Moses as revelation of HIS nature, a holy and perfect sinless ALMIGHTY. And this is the way to worship HIM. You see, the people of Moses’ time, or even of Abraham’s time do not know the one true GOD. The millions of people on earth were idolaters – worshipping several gods that they do not even know; idols who can not see, speak nor listen/hear them. Even Abraham was an idolater before the one true GOD called/revealed HIMSELF to him (Joshua 24:2). So for the people of the earth to know the one true GOD, who despite showing HIMSELF through HIS creation:
“Because that which may be known of GOD is manifest in them; for GOD hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of HIM from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even HIS eternal power and GODHEAD; so that they are without excuse:” (Romans 1:19-20).
the LORD GOD picked/chose one man, Moses, out of the many children of Israel, and out of the many millions of people on earth, to reveal HIMSELF – both to the chosen people, Israel, and to the whole world. Most importantly, the blessed LORD GOD revealed to Moses to way for people to approach and worship the one true GOD.
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