| Wilderness Years sabbath offerings | by A. Wood | |||||
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Continuing Numbers 28 we have the sabbath offerings. We looked last month at offerings the Israelites were to make every day and how that could relate to our every day experience with God. Now I want to take a brief look at the sabbath offerings in relation to our Sundays. While we no longer keep the sabbath day (which was a Saturday) there are parallels we can draw with Sundays. The Sabbath day was to be a day of rest, a day set aside to God. We are not under law but under grace, this means we don't do things because we have to, but because we want to, that is considering all that God has done for us we want to give something back to God. Coming back to verse 9 we see the extra offering was to be two lambs without blemish. How wonderful it is to remind ourselves that Christ was offered for us without blemish, that is He was sinless, He was altogether perfect. In verse 10 we see that the offering was in addition to their daily offerings, in fact it doubled their offering for that day. As the Sabbath day was the Israelites day of rest, they had more time to spend with God, most of us have more time to give to God on Sundays, the day Christ rose from the dead. During the week we are limited in our time as we have other legitimate things such as school work, college work, employment that need to be done, but on a Sunday most of us are free from those restrictions. (I appreciate there are some jobs which HAVE to be done on a Sunday for example we need doctors and nurses on Sundays and so it is not possible for them to give every Sunday to God, but there are plenty of jobs which if we are honest don't need to be done on a Sunday).Please send any comments you have on this article to a.wood@assemblyyouth.net
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