January 23, 2024
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Reading along with us in Leviticus? Here’s today’s reading:
Leviticus 6 (NIV)
The Lord said to Moses: 2“If anyone sins and is unfaithful to the Lord by deceiving a neighbor about something entrusted to them or left in their care or about something stolen, or if they cheat their neighbor, 3 or if they find lost property and lie about it, or if they swear falsely about any such sin that people may commit— ……Continue Reading
Leviticus 6
It’s exhausting just reading these chapters in Leviticus. I can’t imagine living in those days I would’ve had to bring a bull, a lamb and a pigeon twice a day to atone for my sins. I spent 25 years of my life struggling to do the right thing but all I knew was the law and the law is weak. I could easily justify sins, then the spirit came, and as I continually read and prayed and fellowshiped, I understood to a degree how much God loves me and how I do not want to sin to hurt my father in heaven, or my Savior 1 trillion times more powerful than the Law of the Old Testament
Leviticus 6
As God sets down laws that would form a society that His people would live in, how important it is that private property is something that is upheld. If someone misuses someone’s property, recompense must be made recognizing the property being theirs. There would also be a constant awareness of God amongst them in various things and here in the offering fire that never goes out and how the burnt offering would be handled. Detailed direction was further reenforcement of remembering God as well as the various things that were deemed holy. God also made sure that the priests were taken care of. Certain offerings were dedicated to the Lord completely, but a significant amount of them involved provision for the priests.
Leviticus 6
These chapters show us the importance God places on how things are handled. He leaves nothing up to whim or chance but rather thoughtfully and painstakenly considers each detail and explains them to His people. First, He knows our nature and our desire to do things our own way (typically the easy way out) so this gives us clear instruction and expectation on how we are to act. Second, He knows that we become easily comfortable in things and in giving such specific and important instruction the hope is that we will never take our sin for granted and become complacent in it but rather remember how important it is to repent before God.
27 Everyone who touches its flesh must be holy. And when its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled, in a holy place. 28 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. And if it is boiled in a bronze pot, it shall be both scoured and rinsed in water.
I can’t help but wonder how they got the blood out of their garments.
Also, an earthen vessel that it was boiled in must be broken, but a bronze pot scoured and washed. I wonder if earthenware somehow “held” the impurity but bronze would not. Interesting to think about.
I couldn’t help but think of the responsibility of the individual in these matters to admit to the act and bring the offering. The people did not have the Holy Spirit, but I believe this is evidence of the Holy Spirit’s work in the world at large, in one’s conscience. There are many verse in the NT about man’s conscience convicting them.
Romans 2: 14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Leviticus 6