Today in our Christian life and in our church life there’s a need for the continual burnt offering, that is, there’s the need for a continual consecration, a continual offering ourselves to the Lord. The burnt offering is so significant and wonderful: the entire Divine Trinity is involved in the aspects of this offering, and […]
Seeing how the Entire Divine Trinity is Revealed in the Type of the Burnt Offering
The entire Divine Trinity is revealed in the type of the burnt offering – Christ the Son is the burnt offering, the tent of meeting, and the offerer; Jehovah as the Receiver and the fire is actually God the Father; and the water washing the inward parts is a type of the Spirit. The entire […]
Christ Lived a Restricted Life for God’s Satisfaction – He is our Burnt Offering
The Lord Jesus is fully qualified to be the burnt offering, for, as John 7 and the entire Gospel of John reveals, He lived a restricted life, seeking the glory of God for God’s satisfaction. The burnt offering is the first offering mentioned in Leviticus because our main problem is not our sins but the […]
Taking Christ as our Burnt Offering, for We are Not Absolutely for God but Christ is
The burnt offering typifies Christ not mainly in His redeeming man from sin but in His living a life that is absolutely for God and in His being the life that enables us as His people to have such a living. The burnt offering is the first offering, and it was an offering that was […]
Living a Rejoicing Life by Calling on the name of the Lord and Rejoicing in Him
God trains us, His people, to live a rejoicing life, a happy life; as we touch the Spirit in our spirit, there’s a law of rejoicing, and we rejoice in the Lord, spontaneously! Amen, Hallelujah! In Leviticus we see how God trained His people to live a holy, clean, and rejoicing life. First of all, […]
Being Cleansed by the Blood and Washed by the Lord’s Life to Live a Clean Life
In Lev. 12-15 God trained His people to live a clean life; we need to be cleansed by the Lord with His blood and with His Spirit and life so that we may be clean, matching Him fully. After David committed the great sin with Bath-Sheba, he prayed in Psa. 51 that the Lord would […]
Being Saturated with God’s Holy Nature to have a Holy Living as God’s Holy People
In Leviticus God charged His people to have a holy living according to His holy nature; we as believers in Christ are God’s people, and we need to be saturated with God to be as holy as He is holy and thus live a holy life. Just as the people of Israel in the Old […]