King James Daily Bible Study: Lifelined or Flatlined

King James Daily Bible Study: Lifelined or Flatlined
Date: Monday February 07, 2011
Chapters: Leviticus 16-18
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Details of Today's Reading: The day of atonement, the sacrifices on it, and the scape-goat, sacrifices to be offered at the tabernacle only, eating of blood forbidden, unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts.

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Did you ever see a person hooked up to a heart monitor? There is a line that goes across the screen, you hear bleeps when the heart beats, the faster the heart beats the more bleeps you hear. The bleeps are a persons lifeline, it represents how much life is in a person. The key to keeping the heart pumping is the blood, without it instead of hearing lifeline you would hear flatline. As Christians, it truly is amazing to let Christ live through you, but from time to time life gets so overwhelming that you flatline, it seems like you have no life in you at all. During times like these we need to be thankful of the promise that Jesus gave us. “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” - Matthew 11:28-30.

The Day of Atonement was the one day of the year that the high priest could make an atonement for the entire congregation for their sins of the past year. In addition to the normal sin, trespass, and peace offering were two goats.

“And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.” - Leviticus 16:7-10.

One of the goats was offered as a sin offering, the sinner had to eat of that flesh in order to receive an atonement for their sins. Since it was for the entire congregation Aaron, the high priest, in a sense, took on all their sins. Then Aaron had to put his hands on the second goat, placing all those sins on that goat, he said a prayer and let the goat take off into the wilderness, taking all the sins with it. This entire ceremony is representative of Christ, first, He is our high priest, He took on every sin known to man. Second, He became the sin sacrifice, and third He became the scapegoat, which took all the sins of the people away, making an atonement for their sins. A scapegoat is a person who takes the blame for others, Jesus took the blame for you and gave His life for you. Incidentally, the scapegoat being let out into the wilderness also represents the resurrection of Christ when God raise Him from the dead three days later. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” - Romans 10:9.

Blood is so important to God that He forbade anyone to even touch blood from a dead animal, you can imagine how He felt about someone consumming it, “Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean. But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.” - Leviticus 17:12-16.

Blood is our life line, it is what gives us the energy to even get up. There are times when I get so drained that nothing cures me, but eating a good steak. The rich blood in that meat brings me back to life, if you have Jesus in you, you have His blood pumping through you, He is your lifeline, He brings you back to life. Jesus said, “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.” - John 6:53-57. This is spiritually speaking, when we receive Christ we spiritually eat the sin sacrifice, and drink of the blood that He shed for us, which then gives us His rich blood and brings us back to life.

There is a reason why God wants His people to be separated from the world, fleshly lusts war against the soul and will certainly be the ruin of it, if God’s mercy and grace prevent not. There are many sins which level men with the beasts, but some sink men lower than beasts. God addresses these, “After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD...Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:.For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.” - Leviticus 18:3-5,24-26,29.

We think that what we see going around the world is something new, it is not new to God. There is not one thing in this life that God has not seen already over the centuries, this includes every immoral, lustful, and abominable act such as eating dead animals, blood, fornication, incest, bestiality, homosexuality, and even giving into brutal lusts within a marriage bed. We are children of God, that means that we are to start acting like it and not do the things that we see or have done while we were in the world either. Yes, we may have done some things while in the world that we were ignorant to, but that does not give us an excuse to do them now. “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” - I Corinthians 6:18-20.

When a person is in flatline he is given a jolt, a shock to revive the heart, it is the second chance needed for survival. Today, are you in flatline? Do you need a shock? Or are you in a shock already? Jesus is waiting for you, in fact, He gives you more than a second chance, He gives you several. Praise God! Whatever you are going through, give it over to Jesus, He will take care of you, you just need to trust Him and let Him abide in you. “For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ...If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.” - I Corinthians 3:9-11,14.

Jesus Christ Revealed: Today Jesus is revealed through the two goats used on the Day of Atonement. “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.” - Hebrews 8:12.

Thanks and God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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