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Leviticus 11 & 12 – Acceptable in Gods eyes

May5

Good afternoon y’all. Today I’m combining Leviticus 11 and 12 together.

A common theme runs through both chapters (actually, it’s through all the chapters for this week).  The theme is: being acceptable by God and being holy.

As I read the chapters, I realised that God takes the issue of being clean/holy very seriously. He gives specific instructions on what makes the Israelites clean and unclean. He didn’t just stop there though,  He made provision for how to become clean, if in case they ever get themselves unclean. What a loving God He is 🙂 .

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God demands holiness from us because He is a holy God. In verse 44 and 45 he tells the Israelites :-
“I am the Lord your God, and you must keep yourselves holy, because I am holy. I am the Lord who brought you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. You must be holy, because I am holy”. (Leviticus 11:44-45 GNT)

I believe the same applies to us today, yes we are no longer under the law but the truth is God never changes. If He demanded holiness from the Israelites back then, He is also demanding the same from us today. In 1 Peter 1:15-16 we see Peter repeating the same instruction to us.

“But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:15-16 NLT)

God has standards for us. Throughout the scriptures He tells and shows us what is acceptable and unacceptable by His standards. The blood of Jesus cleanses and makes us holy and acceptable before God but I believe we also have a part to play to ensure we do not defile ourselves by going back to the lifestyle or things we used to do before we met Jesus. That’s why Paul urged us in Romans 12 to offer our lives to God as pleasing sacrifice, holy and acceptable in His sight.
“And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him”.(Romans 12:1 NLT)

The same Paul also tells us in Eph 5:1 to copy God in all that we do.
“Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are His dear children”.( Ephesians 5:1 NLT)

Sin is the main blocker to living a holy life and according to psalms 119 verses 9 & 11, one of the ways we can prevent ourselves from sinning against God is to keep his word close to us and obeying them.

“How can young people keep their lives pure? By obeying your commands. I keep your law in my heart, so that I will not sin against you”.(Psalm 119:9, 11 GNT)

Today, lets pursue holiness in all that we do and let’s get rid of all that makes us unholy.

“With promises like this to pull us on, dear friends, let’s make a clean break with everything that defiles or distracts us, both within and without. Let’s make our entire lives fit and holy temples for the worship of God”. (2 Corinthians 7:1 MSG)

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Have a blessed day 🙂

***With God all things are possible***

Leviticus 8 – Obedience is Key

Apr29

Good evening y’all. Today we are in chapter 8 of Leviticus

There were few points I observed while reading the chapter. I am going to use the SOAK method for each point.

In case you are wondering what SOAK means: 

S stands for Scripture
O stands for Observation
A stands for Application
K stands for Kneel in prayer

Be blessed 🙂

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S1) V 9, 13, 17, 21 and 29

O1) Moses did everything as the Lord commanded Him. He was fully obedient to God’s instruction. He didn’t deviate one bit from what He was instructed.  Basically, he followed the instruction to the letter

A1) How obedient are we to Gods instructions? Do we only obey the bits that seem convenient for us and ignore the rest? God desires total (and not partial) obedience from us. Jesus said if you love me you will obey me. Obedience is a sign of our love for God.

K1) Dear Lord pls give us grace to do all that you have asked of us. In Jesus Name, Amen

S2) : Next Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar, and he sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. In this way, he made Aaron and his sons and their garments holy (Lev 8: 30 NLT)

Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the Altar and sprinkled Aaron and his garments, and his sons and their garments, consecrating Aaron and his garments and his sons and their garments. (Lev 8: 30 MSG)

O2) The priests were consecrated by the sprinkling of blood to make them holy and fit for use

A2) In the same way the blood of Jesus consecrates us, makes us holy and worthy to be used by God.  God cannot use a vessel that’s unholy. It has to be holy 2 Timothy 2: 21 says

“If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work”.(2 Tim 2:21 NLT)

K2) Thank you Jesus for your blood that was shed for us.  Through it we have victory over sin and can come boldly before God. We ask you consecrate and sanctify us for your use oh Lord. In Jesus Name, Amen

S3) So Aaron and his sons did everything the Lord had commanded through Moses.(Lev 8: 36 NLT)

O3) Aaron and his sons did as the Lord commanded them through Moses. They obeyed and respected the authority of God in the life of Moses. They weren’t too proud to obey the instructions. They obeyed completely as well.

A3) How obedient are we to instructions passed to us by God’s servants? Do we obey or ignore them? Do we respect the authority of God in their lives.
A word of caution though, we have to test every instruction against the word of God because there are many false prophets out there today asking people to do things that are contrary to God’s word. May God help us be able to discern right from wrong.

K3) God pls help us to be obedient to the instructions you send us through your servants.

S4) “Now stay at the entrance of the Tabernacle day and night for seven days, and do everything the Lord requires. If you fail to do this, you will die, for this is what the Lord has commanded”. (Lev 8: 35 NLT)

O4) There are dire consequences when we disobey God. Aaron and his sons were told to obey what God commanded them, failure to do so was death.

A4) Same with us, when we disobey God willingly, we are gradually killing ourselves spiritually and sometimes there are also physical consequences for our disobedience., Romans 6 tells us that the wages of sin is death.

K4) God give us grace to obey you wholly. Deliver us from presumptuous and willful sins. Pls do not let them have control over us. In Jesus Name Amen

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Have a blessed day 🙂

***With God all things are possible***