February 11, 2010 God's Perfect Sacrifice

God’s Perfect Sacrifice
Read Leviticus 1-4

Lev 3:1-2 “If someone’s offering is a fellowship offering, and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he is to present before the LORD an animal without defect.”

FIRST OF ALL, please don’t get bogged down or bored with the Law of God. It is easy to see these laws as irrelevant to our lives. But my desire is to show you how vital they are to you right now, thousands of years “later”.
Remember this: These words are God’s Word. Sometimes they are difficult to understand. Yet, they are words of life, and they are words of truth. Please stay with these words of life and truth for you.
In Leviticus 1-4, as God defines the way his people are to be cleansed of their sins, there is one constant truth: The animal is to be without defect--perfect.
Here the LORD sets the stage for Jesus Christ’s sin-removing sacrifice. To fulfill his Laws of Repentance, the LORD has presented his Son to the altar as the perfect “Lamb”. God brings his Son to the cross for a slow, agonizing death. Why?
Sin tears us away from God, and sin destroys the joy in our hearts. No animal could cleanse that sin. To remove sin once and for all from our souls, God required a perfect human representative. That is Jesus Christ—the only perfect man who ever lived. His blood atones for your sin, makes you eternally perfect before God.
Yes, Knowing the Law, we see God forming his eternal plan of Salvation. You can trust God’s plan for you.


Pause and Consider: how amazing it is our perfect God invites us to be perfect with him.