The tragic deaths of Nadab and Abihu, who offered unauthorized sacrifice before God, proved that our worship and sacrifice must be done God's way. God has rejected improper sacrifices since the very beginning, when He rejected Cain's bloodless sacrifice.
Contrast all that with Christ's perfect offering for sin! Not only was He perfect, with not a blemish upon Him in thought, word, deed, or attitude, but His offering up of Himself in His capacity as High Priest was performed in a perfectly satisfactory manner before God.
How can we conceive of His perfection! To live a perfect life without one single sin, and then to offer up Himself again without any error on His part!
What was at stake was the same thing that God warned Israel's priests about after the destruction of Nadab and Abihu: if the priests did not obey perfectly, wrath would come upon all Israel.
That is what was riding upon Christ's perfect offering: if He had not performed His duty, laid upon Him by the Father, in a perfect manner, eternal wrath would have fallen upon those He sought to save.
His perfect body and offering at Calvary was our only hope to escape the wrath. If He failed in any point, all His people would be lost forever.
Most haunting of all is God's prohibition against His priests partaking of wine or strong drink while performing the sacrificial offerings: "It shall be a statute forever," He warned.
And so, when Christ was brought to Golgotha, He declined to partake of the wine mingled with myrrh, even though it would have been a physical comfort to Him to ease the pain and grief.
Praise God, our High Priest made no mistakes when He offered up Himself at Calvary!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
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