King James Daily Bible Study: Dedicated to Christ
Date: Thursday January 27, 2011
Chapters: Exodus 29-31
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Details of Today's Reading: The sacrifices and ceremony for consecration of the priests, continual burnt offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel, the ransom of souls, Bezaleel and Aholiab are appointed and qualified for the work of the tabernacle, honoring the Sabbath, and Moses receives two tables of stone from God.

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The second a person calls on Jesus Christ to save them, they are cleansed from all the sin that they ever done. That simple acceptance of Jesus keeps you not only from going to hell, it removes all the guilt, pain, and suffering that you went through over your sins before you got saved. Praise God! The Bible says, “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.” - Hebrews 10:19-22. The word consecrate is defined as to make or declare sacred, to set apart or dedicate oneself to God, to bless, and to sanctify.

God instructed Moses to teach Aaron and his sons how they were to be consecrated before they could enter the tabernacle. Daily they were to consecrate themselves before they were even allowed to enter the tabernacle.

“And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish, And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them. And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water. And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:..And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock. And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.” - Exodus 29:1-5,9-11.

Can you imagine doing this daily to stand before God? And not everyone was able to stand before God, only the priests. The job of the priest was not to confess your sins to him, it was to present the offering before God. He was the intercessor to God, the negotiator on the sinners behalf. Today, Jesus Christ is our negotiator and we no longer have to go through such preparation to meet with God. “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” - Romans 8:34. Now, we do have to accept Jesus Christ as our Savior before we can meet with God. “By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.” - Hebrews 7:22-25.

The priests were to also offer daily two lambs, one in the morning and one in the evening. These offerings were to be a continual fire burning, day and night, never to go out.

“Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering. And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.” - Exodus 29:38-42.

We are to never let the fire die out for God, it is important to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice day and night. When we keep the fire burning for God something amazing happens, we send up a sweet savor to God. Now, that does not mean that you are to sit in a corner and read your pray and Bible all day long, although that would be a good thing to do once in a while, but what it does mean is that we are to keep in on our hearts all day long. “But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” - Psalm 1:2,3.

Moses was also instructed to make a perfume, a perfume that would be used to communicate with God, no one was even allowed to create something that would resemble this perfume.

“And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy: And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy. And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD. Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.” - Exodus 30:35-38.

Today, the perfume we give off is the blood that we applied to our souls when we accepted Christ as our Savior.

However, if you do not know Christ, any effort you make toward God is just as the imposter perfume, He will cast anyone away who does not know His Son. “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” - I John 5:11-13.

Are you dedicated to Christ? What an amazing life becomes of those who are dedicated to Him. If you have fallen away from Him, fear not, He is still with you, He is just waiting for you to relight the fire. If you are not saved, the time is now, Jesus is calling you and promises to never leave you. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?..For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” -Romans 8:35,38,39.

Jesus Christ Revealed: Today Jesus is revealed through the Laver (30:18) which held the water to cleanse the priests. “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” - I John 1:7.

Thanks and God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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