Lakella L. Davenport
We should be ever grateful and thankful that we don’t have to give animal sacrifices any longer for our sins and trespasses. Neither do we have to rely on the human priests or holy men of God to go to God on our behalf or sacrifice offerings for our sins and transgressions.
Jesus Christ is the only high priest, intercessor, and atonement for our sins that we need to get to God, or to hear, acknowledge, and answer our prayers.
Our relationship with God is no longer distant.
In the days of Moses in the Old Testament days, the people of God had to go to the prophets of God to receive a word from the Lord.
Only certain righteous leaders were given God’s Holy Spirit.
Today through Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit is given to all born again believers.
Each individual Christian can now have their own personal relationship with God.
Leviticus chapter six describes how the priests had to make atonement for the people when they sinned, for them to receive forgiveness.
“And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord: and it shall be forgiven him for anything of all that he hath done in trespassing therein,” (Leviticus 6:7 KJV).
“[…] It shall be a statue forever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire; everyone that toucheth them shall be holy, (Leviticus 6: 18).
“In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord: it is most holy,” (Leviticus 6: 25 KJV).
“Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy,” (Leviticus 6: 27 KJV).
Likewise, today everyone that touches Jesus is made whole and holy upon confession and repentance of their sins (Mark 5: 28-34, 1 John 1:9-10 KJV).
“For such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when (Jesus) offered up himself,” (Hebrews 7: 26-27 KJV).
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