And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
A peace offering brought to the Lord must be presented willingly, at the offerer's own will. It is to be eaten on the day it is presented or on the following day, and whatever remains until the third day must be burned, for to eat it on the third day profanes what is holy, brings guilt upon the eater, and causes that person to be cut off from the people.
This instruction was spoken by Christ from the cloudy pillar as a lesson preserved for the benefit of future generations. It belongs to a larger passage that makes being holy as God is holy the condition for being accepted and approved by God. It upholds the same high standard as Christ's New Testament teaching, calling those who have received God's great gift in Christ to love one another as Christ has loved them.
That holiness is shown by practicing godliness in every circumstance, first as a blessing to members of one's own family and then to fellow people and to all who need mercy and relief and not only to one's own group, by loving one's neighbor as oneself and by striving daily against selfishness and self-centeredness. It is attained by cultivating the attributes of Jesus, which are the attributes of God, and growing up to the full stature of Christ through individual faith in Jesus as personal Saviour rather than by mere membership in a particular church.
A peace offering brought to the Lord must be presented willingly, at the offerer's own will. It is to be eaten on the day it is presented or on the following day, and whatever remains until the third day must be burned, for to eat it on the third day profanes what is holy, brings guilt upon the eater, and causes that person to be cut off from the people.
This instruction was spoken by Christ from the cloudy pillar as a lesson preserved for the benefit of future generations. It belongs to a larger passage that makes being holy as God is holy the condition for being accepted and approved by God. It upholds the same high standard as Christ's New Testament teaching, calling those who have received God's great gift in Christ to love one another as Christ has loved them.
That holiness is shown by practicing godliness in every circumstance, first as a blessing to members of one's own family and then to fellow people and to all who need mercy and relief and not only to one's own group, by loving one's neighbor as oneself and by striving daily against selfishness and self-centeredness. It is attained by cultivating the attributes of Jesus, which are the attributes of God, and growing up to the full stature of Christ through individual faith in Jesus as personal Saviour rather than by mere membership in a particular church.