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| Dudley Anderson |
The e-Devotional helping to keep you on-track
Published through www.godtracker.co.uk
10 June 2016
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SOON TO BE RELEASED!
God-tracking Through the Year - year two
By Dudley Anderson
The second in the series of 52 weekly readings to help keep you on track with the plans of God.
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Dear God-tracker
GOD-TRACKING STARTS WITH PUTTING YOUR FAITH IN THE WORK OF JESUS AS YOUR SCAPEGOAT
Psalm 103:12
…as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Young Abner watched intently as the high priest pressed his hands on the goat’s head. A man stood by, ready to lead it out into the wilderness. It was the Day of Atonement. The Israelites were camped in the desert near the erected the tabernacle.
“Why does he do that, Abba,” Abner asked his father. “Well, replied his dad, God instructed Moses to make this day holy. It’s called Yom Kippur. On this day the high priest makes sacrifices for the sins of Israel.” Abner watched as the man led the goat away into the desert. His father continued, “When the high priest laid his hands on that goat he was symbolically pressing all our sins on him. Then that man over there, leads the goat off to a faraway place in the desert. There he’ll let him go.” By now the man and the goat had disappeared over a far-off sand dune. “That goat has carried all our sin far away from us. This shows how, by the blood sacrifice, God has removed our sins from us as far as east is from west.” Abner gazed at the dune for some time before turning back to watch the sacrifices taking place at the altar.
The English expression, scapegoat comes from this biblical account as found in Leviticus 16. An innocent goat was used to carry the sins of the Jews into the wilderness. There it was condemned to wonder aimlessly, separated from man and beast. In the book of Isaiah, we read of how Jesus, the righteous innocent Son of God, had the iniquity of us all laid on him. Jesus became our scapegoat, bearing our sins alone in that desert wilderness of crucifixion. He sacrificed his life for our atonement. The true Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) was the day Jesus died. He both bore our sins and paid for our redemption!
Though totally innocent, Jesus had your sins pressed upon him at Calvary. We often forget that Jesus was dead for three days. I believe these three days were like the desert wilderness that the goat was led into, by the High Priest’s assistant in Leviticus. When Jesus carried your sins to the grave he was completely separated from the glory of God. He became your scapegoat. But, thank God, by the power of the Holy Spirit and his own righteousness, Jesus Christ did not remain in the grave; he rose from the dead! Our Scapegoat bore our sins to the wilderness of the grave and returned to bring you and me new life, in him.
Tell me, do you know him?
God-tracking starts with putting your faith in the work of Jesus as your scapegoat
Every blessing
Dudley
READ ALL ABOUT IT!
Leviticus 16
Isaiah 53:4-6
Romans 8:11
Don’t Give Up, Look Up!
Thank you that he bore my sin into the wilderness of the grave so that, by your grace, I may have my sins removed from me as far as the east is from the west.
Pray
“Dear heavenly God I realise that I have been carrying my sin with me all my life. I have missed the mark of your holy goodness. I confess and repent of all I have said, done or thought that has been sinful. Forgive me, too for the sin in me that I am yet capable of committing. Thank you that my sin was pressed upon Jesus at Calvary. Thank you that he bore my sin into the wilderness of the grave so that, by your grace, I may have my sins removed from me as far as the east is from the west. I now ask Christ to come into me as I give my life over to him. Thank you dear Jesus, that you rose from the grave so that I can have new life in you. Amen.”
If you prayed this prayer with meaning for the first time, please email me at dudley@godtracker.co.uk
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