Feb 20 - Aaron Presents Offerings

Moses instructs Aaron to go to the altar and sacrifice his sin offering and his burnt offering to purify himself and the people. So Aaron went to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself. dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar. Then he slaughtered the animal for the burnt offering and splattered it's blood against all sides of the altar. He then presented the offerings of the people by slaughtering the people's goat for sin offering and presented the burnt offering. He also presented the grain offering burning a handful of the flour mixture. Then Aaron slaughtered the bull and the ram for the people's peace offering and splattered it's blood against all sides of the altar. Now while doing all of this he was also doing specific things with the body parts like the kidneys, livers...etc as prescribed by the Lord with the help of his sons. When he was all done he blessed the people. He went into the Tabernacle with Moses and when they came back out they blessed the people again, and the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole community.

I want to take a second and explain what's going on with the new testament. I pulled from another bible this "There is only one gospel, but four accounts of it. So we have here Matthew's version of the "good news" from God. Matthew's name means "gift of the Lord". That is the "Title and Background" that is found at the beginning of Matthews account. We are now into Mark's account and we will move on to Luke and John's accounts of the "good news" of Jesus and his walk here on earth and resurrection.

I the new testament today Jesus continues to teach in parables. The bible states that in his public ministry he never taught without using parables; but afterward, when he was along with his disciples, he explained everything to them. So Jesus and his disciples get in a boat to cross the lake and a fierce storm kicks in and the boat begins to fill with water. Where's Jesus taking a catnap in the back! The disciples were freaking out and woke him up, shouting, "Teacher, don't you care that we're going to drown?" (This has Saturday Night Live skit written all over it!)
When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the water, "Silence! Be still!" Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. The he asked them, "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?" Then I'm betting he laid down and went back to sleep! I feel like this in my life when a storm picks up whether it be struggles with work, finances or just runs of everything going wrong! It's so huge that I can't handle it on my own I've got to wake Jesus up! Thanks to Jesus being the ultimate sacrifice the Holy Spirit is now within us. God wants us to call out to Him for help when the waves come crashing in. Don't be afraid to wake Him up when trouble hits.....He's there just waiting to help out call on Him before your boat sinks.....That's the way I see it and at times experienced it:)