Reading
SAA Notes
These priests had to offer sacrifice for their own sins and that continually. We find here the reason Christ is most necessary. See Hebrews chapters 7-10, esp. 10:10,11, for a good understanding of how these chapters of Leviticus teach us of Christ.
SJA Notes
* Father God, You are without sin. We are sinners. Thank You for Jesus, through whom we are saved.
“And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, …”
God consumed these offerings with fire.
Another example of this sort of event is when Elijah came up against Ahab and the prophets of Baal, the Lord consuming a very water-logged offering with fire from heaven.
Remember back to when God calls Moses from the burning bush in Exodus 3,
“He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.”
Even though we see God consuming the burn offerings and animal sacrifices with fire (He is a consuming fire) – We know that these are only a symbol, a pointer.
We are called to be living sacrifices (Romans 12), burning but not consumed.
God’s plan was always thus for His people, as we see in Him calling Moses, long before the sacrificial laws were given.
We know that for this to happen Jesus had to become the once-for-all sacrifice.
A sacrifice that purified us and redeemed us from our sin, so that we can offer ourselves up to God each day.
Burning, but not consumed.
* Dear God,
Thank You for sending Yourself to each, You in the Person of the Son, for offering up Yourself as a sacrifice, making it possible for us to burn but not be consumed.
Please help us to offer up ourselves as living sacrifices, today and onwards.
Amen.