ALETHEI DEVOTIONAL: Towards Knowledge
Date: July23, 2017
Topic: ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE 2
Text: Gen4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
The offering up of sacrifices is to be regarded as a divine institution. It did not originate with man. God himself appointed it as the mode in which acceptable worship was to be offered to him by guilty man.
Since the beginning of the creature, sacrifice find its root in the world. And this is done most of the time to redeem men from the wrath to come by appeasing God. Sacrifice is a powerful tools in the old testament used in putting God to the work of cleansing, making new covenant and even forgiveness of sins.
In Gen4:2-4 we read that whereas Cain and Abel brought sacrifice to the Lord, Abel’s sacrifice was accepted as it was pleasing to God.
In the Mosaic period of Old Testament history definite laws were prescribed by God regarding the different kinds of sacrifices that were to be offered and the manner in which the offering was to be made. The offering of stated sacrifices became indeed a prominent and distinctive feature of the whole period Exo12:3-27 ;Lev23:5-8
Sacrifices were of two kinds:
1. Unbloody, such as first-fruits and tithes; meat and drink-offerings; and incense.
2. Bloody, such as burnt-offerings; peace-offerings; and sin and trespass offerings.
From the prophets and the Epistle to the Hebrews we learn that the sin offering represented that covenant as broken by man, and as knit together again, by Gods appointment through the shedding of the blood, the symbol of life, signified that the death of the offender was deserved for sin, but that the death of the victim was accepted for his death by the ordinance.
Psalm51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Heb10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
If God will no longer reckon with the kind of sacrifice given by Moses and the prophets in the old testament, what then is the acceptable sacrifice?
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