SPIRIT AND TRUTH WORSHIP -PERFECT WORSHIP

SPIRIT AND TRUTH WORSHIP - PERFECT WORSHIP 

"Without blemish" Lev. 1:3

Leviticus was the hand-book of the PRIESTS. It contains the laws governing the whole system of WORSHIP. In Exodus we have the record of the words God spoke to Moses from the Mount. They are the fundamental words of MORAL ORDER. In Leviticus we have words God spoke to Moses from the midst of the Tabernacle. They are the words of His ADMINISTRATION of the affairs of His people in HOLINESS and in GRACE. Throughout God is seen as THE GOD OF ALL PERFECTION, making it possible for imperfect man to draw nigh to Himself through SACRIFICE. The sacrifices and offerings were all to be provided by the worshipers, but they were to be the SYMBOLS OF AN OFFERING AND SACRIFICE WHICH THE WORSHIPERS COULD NOT PROVIDE, BUT WHICH WOULD BE PROVIDED BY GOD. Because they were thus to symbolize PERFECTION, they must be, so far as man could make sure of it, PERFECT IN THEMSELVES. That is the significance of this phrase "without blemish." Nothing offered to God must be imperfect. The principle abides, even though we are looking back to the ONE PERFECT OFFERING, rather than onward in expectation of its coming, our only right to offer anything to God, in any form, is created by the one Offering through which we are sanctified. Every offering is a symbol still of the One, therefore only of the best we have, have we any right to offer to Him. He is worthy to receive the most precious, and we do wrong to the perfection of His Sacrifice when we give to Him in kind, or in effort, that which is second-rate or imperfect. Our best is but poor, but that which we do give, must be our best; our worship must be in spirit and truth as He told the Samaritan lady at the well. (John 4:23) “But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.” (PERFECT WORSHIP)