My 2025 Theme Verses: Ezra 7:10 (ESV) For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. Daniel 1:8 (ESV) But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Does God accept a 90% effort? Leviticus 22-24
We are not to present anything to God that is less than the best. That is what God told Moses to write for us in this book of Leviticus. Of course, the problem with that is that we are all less than perfect and anything we offer would be less than perfect, since all things are sinful. The "demand" for a perfect sacrifice does not get voided because there is no perfect offering to present. This is why we need to look to Christ to be our perfect sacrifice. He fulfills the Law's requirement and takes our place. His sinless body hung on the cross to fulfill Leviticus 22:20 which tells us to present a sacrifice with "defect." This passage is a picture of Christ in the Old Testament. Only Christ can fulfill the requirements. However, there is something else we can see here. When we, through Christ, present ourselves to God, we have an obligation to present our bodies as a "living sacrifice, holy and acceptable" before God (Romans 12:1-2). We must never present ourselves to Him in a half-hearted and "defect" manner. Everything we do for Him ought to follow this pattern of holiness and perfection. We will fail, but that does not void the requirement. We should never jump into something half-way or to get-by and call that an acceptable sacrifice to God. We should plan and prepare and present a living sacrifice, holy to God. Everything we do carries that mandate. Just getting by is not a holy sacrifice. God requires and "all in" manner to our worship and service ... He showed us that by the example of His Son who gave everything for us to His Father.
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