God's Perfection

September 5, 2015

Devotions:

        “Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the Lord do sanctify them.”  ‭Leviticus‬ ‭21:17-23‬ ‭KJV‬‬

        God is absolutely perfect and demands perfection.  In our humanity we cannot provide that perfections.  Here we see in the Law that a descendent of Aaron who had and imperfection could not serve in the tent before the Lord to offer bread before the Lord.  This is a picture of the Lamb of God who was absolutely perfect.  Our acceptance before God is in Jesus' perfection not in our perfection.  Jesus was perfect, tried in every way and found not lacking.  He was absolutely and totally acceptable to the Father in His prefection.  When Jesus died for our sins and our imperfections, He had no sin of His own and no imperfection.  He was the first perfect man since the creation of Adam.  

        Jesus then is the total satisfactory payment for our sins, trangressions and iniquities.  He is the propitiation for our sins.  He is the total satisfaction for our imperfections.  But unlike the Old Testament type, He did not just pay for our sins but He imparted His perfection into us in the new birth.  So the price is paid forever.  The perfection that we go to heaven with is Chirst in us.  The perfection that we are to live out here on this earth is Christ in us.  And the prefection that we can approach the Father with is Chirst in us.

                “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:”  ‭Colossians‬ ‭1:27‬ ‭KJV‬‬