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Leviticus 1-7


I am happy that I live in the world after Jesus' death. To hear of all of the sacrifices that you needed to do to stay holy and to be able to enter in! What I found interesting is the amount of work that they had to do in sacrificing the animal. It wasn't just "kill the animal and put it on the altar." You had to bleed the animal correctly, cut the fat off the liver and wash it properly.  There was a lot of work that needed to be done just so that you could get forgiveness and be atoned. 

It was also a great reminder for me to ask for forgivness for the sins that i didn’t know that I had commited. When they are brought to my attention that I have sinned, I need to make atonement for it and make sure that I have made them right with the person that I have wronged. 

It is particularly interesting how it talks about the priest's sin that can affect the people (Lev 4:3). It just shows us how as a leader you need to be extra careful because your sins can affect your people and you need to  repent to heal all.  

The last thing that stuck out to me was that all the sacrifices of animal or grain had to be without defect. It was intentionally repeated many times over the chapters. We don’t need to be perfect but our sacrifice needs to be. Thank you for Jesus for being our perfect sacrifice.

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