Topic : Leviticus

Old Testament Gospel Heb. 4:2

Israel in ancient days
Not only had a view
Of Sinai in a blaze,
But learn’d the Gospel too;

The types and figures were a glass,
In which they saw a Saviour’s face.
The paschal sacrifice
And blood-besprinkled door,

Seen with enlighten’d eyes,
And once applied with power,
Would teach the need of other blood,
To reconcile an angry God.

The Lamb, the Dove, set forth
His perfect innocence,
Whose blood of matchless worth
Should be the soul’s defence;

For He who can for sin atone,
Must have no failings of His own.
The scape-goat on his head
The people’s trespass bore,

And to the desert led,
Was to be seen no more:
In him our Surety seem’d to say,
“Behold, I bear your sins away.”

Dipt in his fellow’s blood,
The living bird went free;
The type, well understood,
Express’d the sinner’s plea;

Described a guilty soul enlarged,
And by a Saviour’s death discharged.
Jesus, I love to trace,
Throughout the sacred page,

The footsteps of Thy grace,
The same in every age!
Oh grant that I may faithful be
To clearer light vouchsafed to me!

Olney Hymns, by William Cowper, from Cowper’s Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York

Resource

• Pache, The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture, p. 142

Grudges

A little grudge can create a huge gap in human relationships. The Philippines Daily Express reported on a couple in England who had lived together as “silent partners” for 12 years. The wife was finally seeking a divorce. “For 12 extraordinary years they had lived their lives so that they wouldn’t have to meet each other,” said lawyer Simon King, who was handling the case. “When one would come into the house, the other would leave. And when they did communicate with each other, it was with notes.” They had lived happily together for the first 18 years of their marriage and had raised a son. For the last 12 years, however, they didn’t speak to each other. Ironically, neither one could remember what the hassle had been all about.

Our Daily Bread

Eye for an Eye

Two tugboat captains, pals for years, passed each other every morning in the channel. If all was well, each man would wave, yell “Aye!” and blow his whistle in a friendly salute. One day a neophyte crewman asked the mate, “Why do they do that?” “You mean,” replied the startled mate, “you’ve never heard of an aye for an aye and a toot for a toot?”

Source unknown

Resource

• His name is wonderful, Warren Wiersbe, pp. 93ff

The year of Jubilee

(1) began with repentance,

(2) centered in release,

(3) involved restoration,

(4) brought about reunion,

(5) provided rest,

(6) meant relying on God,

(7) required the remitting of debts,

(8) was a time of rejoicing

Source unknown

Resource

• Evidence that demands a verdict, p. 314