18:8-32 The offerings that are holy & belong by right to God are also the Israelites. God has His say over them, but we are to consider them our own.
19:1-10 The sacrifice is costly - it means the person sacrificing it will be unclean and must cleanse himself. The blood will be shed and it will make a cleansing from sin.
Ch 20 Moses and Aaron once again are forced to come before God acknowledging their need and their only hope in Him. However, they also fail in this and don't trust God enough to honour Him as holy.
Do I see honour God as holy in the everyday dealings of my life?
In the same way as ch 21, we repeatedly fail and turn away from Jesus to ourselves and our own way of doing things. We must come back to the Christ of the cross - the One who was lifted up so that we might live.
The Israelites are repeatedly failing, yet God is continually gracious and good. It is a slow road to obedience, but God never tires.
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