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Observations from today’s readings and today’s S-WOD, Saturday, 22 February 2025:
Listen to this teaching on Leviticus 9 by the late Dr. J. Vernon McGee — https://www.blueletterbible.org/audio_video/popPlayer.cfm?id=4098&rel=mcgee_j_vernon/Lev
Leviticus 9:1 — On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel….
The consecration ceremony lasted over a week. This was no casual affair or something to be taken lightly. The eighth day signified a new beginning. In Christ, we are to be new creations, living sacrifices before the LORD, ready to serve him wholeheartedly and faithfully. We have been commissioned as Christ’s ambassadors to the world, His ministers and messengers of reconciliation, a kingdom of priests, charged with the Great Commandment and the Great Commission. This is not something to be taken lightly.
Leviticus 9:6 — And Moses said, “This is the thing that the LORD commanded you to do, that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”
To see the glory of the LORD you must do what God commanded you to do. In the old covenant of the Old Testament, God commanded the Jews to offer the sacrifices which have been described in our readings in great detail in order to receive the glory of the LORD. However, now in the new covenant (explained in the New Testament), Jesus has offered himself as a sacrifice for our sins. He has paid the price for our sins, he’s offered himself as a sacrifice so that the glory of the Lord may appear to us.
Christ has made it possible for us to have a continual glimpse of the glory of God. Jesus died on the cross so that you and I can grow to know God and see His glory in our lives increasingly with each day as we grow in Christlike character and as He is manifested through our obedience to Him. With this truth, Paul exclaims that the only reasonable response from us for Christ’s great sacrifice for us to now offer ourselves as “living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” (Romans 12:1). As we offer ourselves wholeheartedly to the LORD and walk in His commands, the more we see His glory in our lives, and the more we are conformed into the image of Jesus Christ – “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18)
“Do you want to see the glory of the Lord? Do you want to see God in your life and your family more and more and more and more? Then trust in the sacrifice of Jesus first and foremost and then as the overflow that, lay your life down on a daily basis and ask him, ‘God show me more of your glory. God I want to see and know you more and more and more.’ And God will answer that prayer.” (David Platt)
- John 17:6 — “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.”
- John 14:21 – “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
- 2 Corinthians 4:7-10 — But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
- John 17:22-23 — The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Leviticus 9:24 — And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
God demonstrated His glory in a way that could not have been replicated by man; it was unquestionably God at hand. When the people saw the clear presence and activity of God, they shouted and fell on their faces. A genuine encounter with God naturally leads to radical change and uncontrollable praise and worship. How is God’s undeniable presence in your life evident to those who know you due to His supernatural transformational effect on your character, and how does God’s grace in your life lead you to uncontrollable praise and worship?
“Cross” Fit S-WOD (Spiritual Workout of the Day) – 22 February 2025: See Jesus manifested in your life, and manifest Christ to others through your unity and obedience to Him, that the world may know Jesus is the LORD and Savior. Let your Christlike character validate your Gospel message proclaimed to everyone.
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