A Covenant Assembly Abiding Principles from the Ceremonial Law: The Form and Elements of Worship (1) Worship is intended as a celebration of our Covenant relationship with God. “You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your ...
Giving and Self-Denial Abiding Principles from the Ceremonial Laws: Giving (7) The ceremonial laws provide a context for learning and practicing self-denial. “…you shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Leviticus 19:18 Jesus commanded His followers to emulate His example by making their lives living sacrifices, gifts of love to God and neighbors ...
Prayer as a Sacrifice Abiding Principles from the Ceremonial Laws: Giving (6) Prayer is the quintessential means of giving. “The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!” Psalm 50:23 It’s not difficult to see how God can refer ...
Giving to Neighbors Abiding Principles from the Ceremonial Laws: Giving (5) The ceremonial laws encouraged grace toward one’s neighbor. “Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD’s; it is holy to the LORD.” Leviticus 27:30 Tithes in Israel were also ...
Renewing in God’s Covenant Abiding Principles from the Ceremonial Laws: Giving (4) By giving of their possessions as sacrifices to the Lord, Israel was regularly renewed in the promises of God’s Covenant. Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he came down from offering the sin offering ...
To Maintain Focus Abiding Principles from the Ceremonial Laws: Giving (3) We cannot live by grace unless we focus continually on it. “And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.” Exodus 25:8 The sacrifices and offerings God required of Israel were of various sorts. Offerings were made for ...
Disciplining the Heart Abiding Principles from the Ceremonial Laws: Giving (2) Grace begins in the heart, or it is not grace at all. “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve ...
A Reciprocity of Giving Abiding Principles from the Ceremonial Law: Giving (1) The ceremonial laws remind us of the constant grace of God. “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve ...
The Principle Continues Abiding Principles from the Ceremonial Laws: Mediation (7) The ceremonial laws continue to instruct us today in knowing the grace of God. “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; ...
Means of Grace Abiding Principles from the Ceremonial Laws: Mediation (6) Follow the pattern! Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them. Leviticus 10:1 We remember ...