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THE NEED OF THE PEACE OFFERING
TUESDAY, APRIL 9
Leviticus 3
Romans 14:17-19
“…whether it be a male or female,
he shall offer it without blemish
before the LORD.”
THE NEED OF THE PEACE OFFERING
Peace with man begins after his peace with God. Every man is born a sinner. It appears as if everyone is his enemy. That is why every relationship is fraught with quarrels. There is no genuine peace on earth as the world is grounded and rooted in dissatisfaction, death and destruction. Man quarrels all the time. Proverbs 30:15-17 describes man’s world accurately: “The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough. The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.”
Every person is also an enemy of God as he is conceived and born in sin. Sinful man is born to love the world and the things therein. This makes him an enemy of God. James 4:4: “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” As enemies of God, they cannot approach God. They cannot even see the kingdom of God! Man is doomed to be far away from God in his state of enmity with God.
Yet by the grace and mercy of God, the LORD has provided sinful man a peace offering! A peace offering is not a standalone offering that he can offer or one that he can offer first before the LORD as long as he is a sinner. He needs to have his sins forgiven first before he can have peace with God. The animal sacrifices listed here in Leviticus 3 include a male or female clean animal for a peace offering. The worshipper can choose the gender of the peace offering. Since this is an offering that describes the peace that the worshipper now has with God, and not a direct typology of Christ as our offering, it does not have to be a male unlike the sin and burnt offerings. The peace offering is God’s provision to sinful man such that he can have peace with God when his sins are forgiven in Christ Jesus.
MEMORISATION: Leviticus 3:1
PRAYER: I thank Thee, Father, for the peace that I can have with Thee in Christ. Amen.