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Retired Christian Vet from Wisconsin
Member since Apr 2023
About
Retired Christian Vet from Wisconsin
Member since Apr 2023
Recent Media
Elon Musk Vows DOGE Probe Into These ‘Strangely Wealthy’ Dems: ‘How Do They Get $20M?’
Musk vowed a DOGE-led investigation into the personal fortunes of Democratic members of Congress during a town hall in Wisconsin.
Mediaite@WayneCowles
I believe it’s Pelosi who is worth over 100 million
The big show will be the Federal Reserve. I have read that they have stolen over 800 trillion from taxpayers. That out to finish the USA, Inc off.
Daily Jot: Of sacrifice and obedience
Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com
Jesus said in John 14:15, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” What are those commandments? In Matthew 22:37-39, Jesus told us: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” 1 Samuel 15:22 says “to obey is better than sacrifice.” Hosea 6:6 sums it up, “For I desire lovingkindness, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.” Throughout the Bible, the concept of obedience is greater than sacrifice. Obedience is likened to your relationship with the LORD. This was established from the time of Moses and the Tabernacle.
At the end of Exodus, Moses assembles the Tabernacle on the very day one year later, that the Israelites had left Egypt, on the first day of the first month. The singular verbs imply that Moses does this himself: “Moses erected the Tabernacle, put its sockets in place, put up its planks, put in its crossbars and set up its posts. He spread the tent over the Tabernacle and put the covering of the tent above it, as ADONAI had ordered Moses (Exodus 40:18-19).” Moses put the testimony inside the ark, and set up the contents of the Tabernacle. He erected the courtyard around the altar and put up the screen at the entrance of the Tabernacle. This is important because it represents the pattern of God’s will toward his people and their relationship with him.
The rabbinic leader Nachmanides (13th century France), says that the Tabernacle, and later, the Temple in Jerusalem where an extension of the experience of the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. It is only fitting that Moses, giver of God’s word, constructed the Tabernacle. In the center of the Tabernacle was the Ark of the Testimony which held and received God’s word, emphasizing the preeminence of the Bible as our most intimate connection to the Lord. All of this can also be applied to the Temple in Jerusalem—which is geographically in the center of the land of Israel, with the tribes surrounding it all around. Like our bodies as the Lord’s temple, we pray, opening our hearts and minds to the most sure way for God to dwell in our midst, and that is through the study and practice of His word.
The Hebrew word for sacrifice is korban, meaning “to draw near.” As important as that is, it is not our primary purpose as servants of God. The sacrifices were positioned outside the Tabernacle, not in the Holy of Holies, inferring that the purpose for prayer and worship is to draw us closer to God. Sacrifices are a means to an end, when we worship and pray to God, we draw near to Him, but it is the study of His word that gives us our mission, represented by the Ark of the Covenant with the word of God at its center. Understanding God’s word helps to understand His will, which puts us in the most intimate place of blending our thoughts with God’s. His will becomes our will and we then become His agents carrying out His will to the world. The Lord IS our center, and all we do revolves around Him and His son, the Word of God!
