I Will Offer
I Will Offer
5/15 Reading Portions: Numbers 24; Psalms 66-67; Isaiah 14; 1 Peter 2
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5/15 Reading Portions: Numbers 24; Psalms 66-67; Isaiah 14; 1 Peter 2
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I will offer unto Thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Psalm 66:15, KJV
SACRIFICE
Here’s a wonderful truth to consider. Our Lord Jesus Christ never brought an animal sacrifice to the temple! He never needed to. He was perfect Man and never committed a single sin (Heb 4:15). Jesus never had to bring a fellowship offering to the temple. He knew perfect, unbroken communion with the heavenly Father (John 1:18). Our Lord Christ never had to bring a peace offering to the temple. Jesus Christ was certainly the Prince of Peace (Isa 9:7); and He knew perfect peace because His mind was stayed upon the will of the LORD since He trusted His heavenly Father implicitly (Isa 26:3).
The psalmist’s sacrifices were offered by faith and received by the LORD based upon Christ’s sacrifice to come because the blood of bulls and goats could never take away sins (Heb 10:4). He offered fatlings as burnt sacrifices, indicating that his offering was the very best he had to offer. This foreshadows the very best sacrifice offered by Christ Jesus— Himself. The fragrant incense of rams is the smoke of the sacrifice ascending to YHVH God. It reflected the interceding prayers of Christ in His substitutionary atonement (Luke 23:34), as well as His continual, heavenly intercessions (Heb 7:25). The psalmist offered bullocks with goats, indicating there would be no sacrifice withheld and that every sacrifice necessary for approach to God would be given. This, again, reflects the sacrifice of Christ upon Calvary’s tree, as the Lord’s sacrifice was sufficient and supreme, lacking nothing before God.
The sacrifice of Christ Jesus our Lord is complete, consecrated, and can save the most vile wretch full of heinous sin. Hallelujah! What a Savior!
The sacrifice of Jesus Christ
Is consecrated and complete;
‘Twas sufficient to pay sin’s price
And bring Satan’s kingdom defeat.
