📖 Lev1:~The Way to Draw Near / 🇫🇷 Lévitique 1 : Le Chemin pour S’approcher de Dieu
📖 Leviticus 1: The Way to Draw Near / 🇫🇷 Lévitique 1 : Le Chemin pour S’approcher de Dieu
"Sacrifice is the beginning of worship and fellowship with a holy God"
Aim: To understand how offerings symbolize wholehearted devotion, and how Jesus fulfilled the ultimate burnt offering.
✨ God's Attributes in Leviticus 1:
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Holy: He sets standards of approach.
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Gracious: He provides a way to restore relationship.
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Personal: He calls individuals by name to draw near.
📌 Key Facts:
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Leviticus opens with instructions on burnt offerings, given directly by God to Moses from the Tent of Meeting.
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Burnt offerings had to be unblemished and offered voluntarily.
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The offering was completely consumed on the altar—nothing was kept back.
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It provided atonement and symbolized full surrender.
🔁 Three Ps in Leviticus 1:
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People: Israelites called to present sacrifices.
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Place: The Tabernacle (Tent of Meeting).
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Purpose: Atonement and consecration to God.
💡 Insights:
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God desires worship that costs us something—true devotion is sacrificial.
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The entire burnt offering points to Jesus, our perfect and complete sacrifice (Ephesians 5:2).
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Drawing near to God requires humility, reverence, and obedience.
🪴 Application:
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Reflect on whether your devotion to God is partial or wholehearted.
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Offer your time, resources, and heart to God as a “living sacrifice” (Romans 12:1).
🤲🏽 Deed:
💬 Set aside a specific time this week to worship and surrender something dear to you to God as an act of devotion—time, habit, or resource.
🙏🏽Prayer:
Lord, help me to approach You with a heart of reverence and surrender. I offer myself as a living sacrifice, set apart and pleasing to You. Teach me to give You my best, not leftovers. In Jesus' name, Amen.
🎵 Worship Songs:
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“Jesus, All for Jesus” by Robin Mark
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“Refiner” by Maverick City Music
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“To Worship You I Live” by Israel Houghton
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