The Westminster Confession of Faith, 20.1

All these freedoms were also held by believers under the law. However, under the New Testament, the liberty of Christians has been enlarged to include freedom from the yoke of the ceremonial law, to which the Jewish church was subjected.

Those who read their Bibles faithfully will agree that the Book of Leviticus is, well, a struggle. All those sacrifices, offerings, and cleansings! All those liturgical rules and regulations! What should we make of all these? Two things: first, we are encouraged to remember that, no matter how far away from God we may drift, He has gone to great lengths to make a way for us to return. The most sinful Israelite could re-connect with God by submitting to the regulations of the Tabernacle. But oh! what a load of regulations those were! The second thing we learn from Leviticus is that, while it is an easy thing to break fellowship with God, it is a costly act to renew it. It costs precious life and spilled blood. But in Jesus, the perfect Sacrifice, all those many rituals and sacrifices have been set aside. The final Sacrifice has come, and we are free in Him from the necessity of going through all those washings and offerings. He, our Perfect Offering, has washed us in His own blood – we are free!

Read Hebrews 10.5-18: Why is Jesus’ sacrifice the final and complete one? What does God require of all who enter into His sacrifice (v. 7)?

Psalm 107.17-22
Tune: Faithfulness – “Great is Thy Faithfulness”

Foolish and sinful, afflicted and dying,
All of our ways with iniquity fraught –
You hear our tears, our laments, and our crying,
You sent Your Word and to us mercy brought!
Refrain
Lord, for Your wondrous works, and for Your steadfast love
We give You thanks, we exalt Your great Name!
We who from east and west, north and south gather,
Boldly redemption in Christ we proclaim!

From The Ailbe Psalter (Knoxville: Waxed Tablet Publications, 2006).

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