[Blog Author's Note: The sacrifice my father refers to as the sweet savor offering can be referenced in Leviticus 1. The sin offering is found in Leviticus 4.]
April, 2002
When a man offered a sacrifice, he put his hands on to signify transferal of himself with his sins to the beast, and slew and offered it. If a sin offering, symbolizing the sins, blood and fat was put on the alter, and the beast burned outside the camp as unfit. If a sweet savor offering, all was burned on the alter. All the offerings together signify Christ's sacrifice, for both the sins are taken by Him and the man himself is accepted, as in sweet savor offerings.
What I am getting to here is the tendency of a man to wonder exactly what was cured in Jesus' sacrifice. People (at least myself for a long time) do not seem to have light within about it. Jesus is acceptable to God for us. Why? Because of both what He did and for who He was and is. It was not just that Jesus was an innocent victim in our place; it was that plus who He was. We put the hands of our hearts on Him because of what we did and because of who we are. He is a whole and complete and infinite savior - as complete as God Himself. Only that is enough for us. And it is enough. The enormity of the sin can be conquered by the magnificence of the cure, and nothing less.
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