DAY 53 Read Leviticus 16 through 18.
Today's reading describes, among other things, one of the most important aspects of the sanctuary service--the yearly Day of Atonement.
Memory gem: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9).
Thought for today:
In Israel of old, when the holy temple was cleansed at the end of the year, each offender had a chance to show that he was still repentant, that he still wanted forgiveness. If that was true, the record of his sin was blotted out when the sanctuary was cleansed. When that day of remembrance was made again of sins, as the writer of Hebrews puts it in Hebrews 10:3, every true Israelite renewed his consecration to God and confirmed his repentance.
"On that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord" (Leviticus 16:30).
How happy they must have been when that day had passed and they were clean from their sins! Friends, we may have that same experience. We read in 1 John 1:9: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Notice, we are not only forgiven, but cleansed from all unrighteousness, from all our sins. Then we can sing:
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
----Fanny J. Crosby
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Difficult or obscure words:
Leviticus 16:8. "Scapegoat"--Azazel, a superhuman, wicked spirit. One goat was "for the Lord" and the other was "for Azazel." The blood of this goat was not shed as a sacrifice for the sins of men; its death was in no way substitutionary.
Today's reading describes, among other things, one of the most important aspects of the sanctuary service--the yearly Day of Atonement.
Memory gem: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9).
Thought for today:
In Israel of old, when the holy temple was cleansed at the end of the year, each offender had a chance to show that he was still repentant, that he still wanted forgiveness. If that was true, the record of his sin was blotted out when the sanctuary was cleansed. When that day of remembrance was made again of sins, as the writer of Hebrews puts it in Hebrews 10:3, every true Israelite renewed his consecration to God and confirmed his repentance.
"On that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord" (Leviticus 16:30).
How happy they must have been when that day had passed and they were clean from their sins! Friends, we may have that same experience. We read in 1 John 1:9: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Notice, we are not only forgiven, but cleansed from all unrighteousness, from all our sins. Then we can sing:
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
----Fanny J. Crosby
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Difficult or obscure words:
Leviticus 16:8. "Scapegoat"--Azazel, a superhuman, wicked spirit. One goat was "for the Lord" and the other was "for Azazel." The blood of this goat was not shed as a sacrifice for the sins of men; its death was in no way substitutionary.
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