True to His Word

Read Leviticus 17-19
 
Leviticus 17:11 for the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on the altar to purify you, making you right with the Lord. It is the blood, given in exchange for a life, that makes purification possible.
 
WHEN I hear people talk of those they admire, I often hear, “He’ll do anything for you. He walks his talk. He’ll never ask anyone to do something he wouldn’t do himself.”
    Do you know someone like that? I do. His name is LORD God Almighty.
    God’s use of the blood sacrifice as his desired means to worship him began in Genesis 4. There God preferred Abel’s sacrifice of a lamb to Cain’s grain offering. The LORD’s will established this to symbolize offering the essence of life – to give our lives – to the Living God. The LORD then required the blood of an animal to represent Israel’s blood for the forgiveness of their sins.
    Note how the law commanded a priest to sacrifice an animal to bleed out on the altar. Don’t just kill it. Be sure its lifeblood comes out.
    In this blood sacrifice – life-for-life system, you can then see why Jesus, the Son of God, could only die on the cross. Jesus’ lifeblood is “the blood, given in exchange for a life, that makes purification possible.” The Lamb’s blood had to pour out on the altar to fulfill God’s law. (It is interesting to note the altar in the Tabernacle was made of wood.)
     See sin’s deadly cost. Repentance requires we give all our life to the one who gave his life to us: 1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
    Savor a sacred love of the Lord your God. He has offered you the Son’s lifeblood.
 
Isaiah 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.