The Ingredients of Sacrifice
Fine Flour
The perfection of the personality of Jesus Christ,
which was even and well balanced, a perfect personality in complete balance
just like Adam’s personality was. Fine flour was expensive and highly prized,
just as Jesus nature was to God. The whole grain of wheat has to be crushed
to obtain fine flour.
“He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed
for our iniquities; the punishment that brought up peace was upon Him.”
Salt
Salt
Speaks of Preservative and enhancer
Mark
9:49
Salt is good, but if it looses its saltiness, how can
you make it salty again. Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with each
other”
Colossians
4:6
“Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with
salt, that you may know how to answer everyone”
In
judgement
Mark
9:49
“Everyone
will be salted with fire”
Honey
Honey
Speaks of natural sweetness and is not acceptable for relationship with
God.
Beaten
Oil
The bright light of the Holy Spirit
Frankincense
The pleasing fragrance of the person
of Christ, and His life to God the Father.
Yeast
- Leaven
Wickedness and Evil
1 Corinthians
5:6-8 KJV
“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little
leaven, leavens the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven that
ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For Christ our Passover is sacrificed
for us. Therefore keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven
of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and
truth.”
The inner beauty and the zeal of The Lord Jesus
Christ.
John
2:17
John
4:34
Kidneys
Deuteronomy 16:33
On
this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you.
1 John 1:7
“The
blood of Jesus Christ God’s Son cleanses us from all sin.
Shoulder
Strength
Nehemiah
8:10
“The joy of the Lord is your strength”
Psalm
118:14
“The Lord is my strength and my song”
Isaiah
40:31
“They that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength”
Breast
Zephaniah
3:17
“The
Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will delight in you,
He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Blood
Life
·
Blood is either literal or a figure of speech
·
Shedding of blood represents the slaying of
the innocent and then the punishment of the guilty
·
The blood of Christ figuratively refers to His
Spiritual death
Leviticus
17:11
1 Corinthians
5:7
“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”
Revelation
1:5
“Grace and peace to you from Him who is, and
who was, and who is to come ---- and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful
witness, the first born from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the
earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins,
by His blood.”
Matthew 26:27
“Then He took the cup, gave thanks and offered
it to them saying, drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant,
which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
John 6:53
Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, whoever eats my flesh and drinks my
blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
1 peter 1:2
By believing in Jesus Christ, the
sacrificed Messiah, we partake of Christ life, which is eternal in nature.
The
Oven
The Hidden Work of Christ
Luke 23:44
“It was about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until
the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining.”
Psalm 22:1
“My God. My God
why have you forsaken Me, why are you so far from
the words of my groaning”
2 Corinthians
5:21
“He who knew no sin was made sin for us”
Griddle
- Flat Plate - Pan
Suffering dished out and observed
Crumble
All the work of Jesus on the cross.
Fire
·
God’s Holiness as seen in condemnation, disapproval
and judgement.
·
God’s Holiness as seen in acceptance.
·
God’s Holiness as seen in purification.
(See the fire of the tabernacle)