RPG Adults
THE INAUGURAL SERVICE
THURSDAY, MAY 2
Leviticus 9
Hebrews 9:13-14
“…This is the thing which the LORD
commanded that ye should do: and the glory
of the LORD shall appear unto you.”
THE INAUGURAL SERVICE
The inaugural service was always the most significant of all services. It set the standard and the tone for all the services that followed. This was from the LORD, and of the LORD, and for the LORD. Aaron and his sons were not to make any mistake as all future services would follow their inaugural holy example. All of Israel was watching. Most important of all, the LORD was watching. Aaron’s two older sons, Nadab and Abihu, were assisting him in this service.
Unlike Moses, who did not have to offer any offerings for himself before he consecrated Aaron and his sons unto the priesthood, Aaron and his sons had to offer offerings for their own sins first. They had to offer the sin offering for the purification of the altar of burnt offering and then the burnt offering for the atonement of their own sins. Aaron and his sons had just been consecrated, and yet before they began their ministry, they were considered unclean by the LORD as it was a new day. Their cleansing was only good for that day as only their outward body was cleansed, but not the inward. That required the blood of Christ. These animal sacrifices as types of Christ had the power to cleanse the outward. It was not powerless at all. This potency allowed the priests to do the work of the LORD for that day as a holy people unto Him. Therefore, they were now cleansed to receive the offerings of God’s people and perform their spiritual duties as God’s appointed mediators. Hebrews 9:13-14 explains, “For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
When Christ died on the cross for our sins, all who believe in Christ are cleansed within and without. But it is necessary for us to repent of our sins daily because we sin daily like Aaron and his sons.
MEMORISATION: Leviticus 9:2
PRAYER: Cleanse me, O Father, with the blood of Christ daily for Jesus’ sake. Amen.