Feb 22, 2022
LEVITICUS 3-4:
Yesterday in the beginning chapters of
Leviticus, we heard about burnt offerings and grain offerings. In
the first chapter, did you happen to notice how many things were
being done by the person bringing the offering, not the
priest?
Andrew Bonar states about
Leviticus:
“There is no book in the whole compass of that
inspired Volume which the Holy Spirit has given us, that contains
more of the very words of God than Leviticus. It is God that is the
direct speaker in almost every page; His gracious words are
recorded in the form wherein they were uttered.”
Note this in our reading in Leviticus today: By and large, the sacrificial system was set up to forgive unintentional sins. (Some small exceptions will be noted in tomorrow’s reading in Leviticus.) It is good to draw a distinction— as the book of Hebrews does, between unintentional and intentional sins. Each of us should feel uncomfortable because each of us can look back and remember sins we committed intentionally. Let us make the firm commitment to never trample upon our Savior’s kindness by sinning intentionally. But we can praise the Lord for this verse spoken by Paul in Acts 13:
38-39 NET “Therefore let it be known to you, brothers [and sisters//0], that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.”
PSALM 11:
Psalm 11 is a song of trust in the
Lord.
LUKE 8b:
Yesterday we read the parable of the sower or different kinds of soil. Jesus taught about the importance of hearing and doing what is in God's Word, and that was echoed again when his mother and brothers came to see him.