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 God’s people to have such a living.

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 … [Continue reading]

Living a Rejoicing Life by Calling on the name of the Lord and Rejoicing in Him

Phil. 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

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 … [Continue reading]

Being Cleansed by the Blood and Washed by the Lord’s Life to Live a Clean Life

Isa. 6:5 Then I said, Woe is me, for I am finished! For I am a man of unclean lips, And in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell; Yet my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.

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 … [Continue reading]

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 … [Continue reading]

We need to Experience Christ as the Reality of the Offerings to be Mingled with Him

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality. John 14:20 In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

We need to experience Christ as the reality of the offerings so that we may enter into God and be mingled with God in Christ, the reality of the tabernacle. In Leviticus 1-10 we see how God is training us to worship Him and partake of Him through the … [Continue reading]

We’re being Trained to Worship God through Christ as the Reality of the Offerings

Christ is the reality of the offerings: 1. The burnt offering typifies Christ as God’s pleasure and satisfaction. 2. The meal offering typifies Christ in His perfect humanity as food for God and for the saints. 3. The peace offering typifies Christ as the Peacemaker. 4. The sin offering typifies Christ as the One who was made sin for us. 5. The trespass offering typifies Christ as the One who bore our sins in His own body. 6. The wave offering typifies Christ as the resurrected One in love. 7. The heave offering typifies the powerful Christ in ascension and exaltation. 8. The drink offering typifies Christ, the One poured out as wine before God for His satisfaction.

In Leviticus chs. 1-10 God trained His people to worship and partake of Him through the offerings and the priesthood; Christ is the reality of the offerings with which we worship God. We love God, we enjoy His word, and we appreciate our … [Continue reading]

God is Training us to Worship and Partake of Him through His Speaking in the Church

In the church God is always speaking. The extent to which a congregation is the church actually and practically depends on how much of God’s speaking is there. If a certain group does not have God’s speaking, it is hard to regard such a group as a church. The preciousness of the tabernacle was not the gold in it. There was more gold in Egypt than in the tabernacle. The preciousness of the tabernacle was God’s speaking. The same is true of the church today. The preciousness of the church is God’s speaking....Praise the Lord that in the church we have God’s speaking! This speaking is a treasure to us. Witness Lee, Life-Study of Leviticus, p. 8

This week in our morning revival enjoyment we come to the first part of the Crystallization-study of Leviticus, and we focus on, God Training His People to Worship and Partake of Him and to Live a Holy, Clean, and Rejoicing Life. Through His … [Continue reading]