The Offerings

by PRASHER, G. | Category: General | Nov 1957

Looking backward over the offerings we find a suggestive outline of what might be termed our way of approach. God commences with the burnt offering and moves onward to the trespass offering, but in our experience we seem to make contact firstly with the trespass offering. Conviction of sin, through the working of the Holy Spirit, had to do especially with acts of trespass. As the sense of guilt burdened us we longed for the assurance of divine forgiveness, and great was our joy when our eyes were opened to realize that Christ was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

A further exercise was experienced when we became conscious that we were not without failure and guilt in our lives after having been saved. Then it was exceedingly precious to learn that the blood of Jesus cleanseth us from all sin. It is then as it were that we can advance to enjoy Christ as our peace offering-He who made peace through the blood of His cross.

With these forming a basis for our faith and joy we can advance to consider the moral glories of the Man Christ Jesus as set forth in type in the meal offering. We are assured that a right understanding of the Person of Christ is not obtainable where the above progress is lacking; but wonderful is the joy occasioned from contemplation of what He is, and what He accomplished, as set forth in these shadows.

Then last of all, and as arriving at a zenith, we reach the burnt offering, which, as we have shown, shadows forth Christ as giving Himself to God, and accomplishing all the will of God. Here we wish to express a note of warning. Some assert that when we approach God in priestly service on the Lord's day morning and give Him our spiritual sacrifices, that these should be in the burnt offering aspect of His death only. This we judge is a mistaken view. We should wave Christ before God in every aspect of His precious Person and work-the work He wrought for us in His death and resurrection. The great atoning work which He accomplished at Calvary has many facets, and the burnt offering is but one of the many. We must be free to present the whole before God as the blessed Holy Spirit may direct. God's delight is great in every aspect of the work of His Son upon the cross.

May it be that our consideration of the offerings will be used of God in such a way that priestly service in the holies may be increasingly a joy to Him upon whom we call as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! That with one accord ye may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."

PRASHER, G. | Nov 1957
General