Even in the Old Testament, much of the relationship between God and His people was based on love. God definitely loved them and they were expected to respond to Him in like kind. Yet, as today, when they began to waver from the Lord, God started getting their second-best. They gave Him the leftovers.
You and I are lame on both feet—but God has a gift for us through Jesus Christ if we will accept Him.
Paul was thrilled to be in the ministry and be able to share the good news to those who did not know Christ. Shouldn’t we be the same?
The children of Israel were to keep themselves separated from the other nations but, by intermarrying with the different nations around them, they had compromised and taken on their abominations. The answer for them, though it might seem harsh, was to separate from their heathen marriages.
The Levitical sacrificial system had five separate and distinct offerings that could be made to the Lord.
