Subject: Burnt offering, Sin offering-symbolize? |
Bible Note: Thank you for your response, Jesusman. I do understand that Jesus Christ is the final sacrifice. However, I was asking this question to stimulate any insights on pleasing the Lord through our lives. What, in your opinion, would the Lord be most pleased with? What kind of aroma going up from our lives would he find pleasing? Exd 29:18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it [is] a burnt offering unto the LORD: it [is] a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. For instance, Psalm 40 says: Psa 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Psa 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me, Psa 40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart. And again, in 1 Samuel, it says: 1Sa 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams. So, my real question is whether there is any correlation between the types of sacrifices of the OT (Burnt, Sin, Peace, etc.) and what the Lord expects of us believers in NT times. An indication of what He might expect is found in the excerpt from the Commentary by Mathew Henry that I included in the original question. Would love to get a response from you and others in this forum. Thank you and God bless you all, Mrs. Santosh Shetty |