Biblical Principles Daily Devotionals Day 174

Day 174

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

Truth: Altars are an outward sign of a heart matter.

Truth: Altars are a memorial for the heart matters dealt with in the past.

Truth: Altars are to be returned to for both of the above reasons

Truth: Sacrifice is a personal act for the purpose of a greater good

Truth: Sacrifice must be costly to show value to yourself not for a show to others.

Truth: Sacrifices on the altars are a means to get a hold of God.

2Sa 24:19-25 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.

 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.

 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.

 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.

 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

All the altars and sacrifices mean nothing unless we come as it says in verse thirty nine,  “come in the name of the Lord”.   All the sacrifices and altars are all about Him.

Mat 23:19-25,39 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.