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Discipleship Focus: Obedience
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from our Father.
If you have
been following the commentary that I wrote in my blog three years ago, you
understand that I believe this vision from Ezekiel applies to the time between
Ezekiel and the coming of Jesus. What
that does is leave us with a little controversy. After all, when Christ came there is no need
for the Holy of Holies anymore. As
Christ dies on the cross, the temple curtain is torn. He becomes the ultimate and eternal
sacrifice; no further sacrifice is needed.
Thus, when we
read chapters like this in Ezekiel 42, we still need to appreciate what we are
reading – even if it is different than how we live in Christ. So what can we find here?
We can find
obedience. These Hebrew people lived in
a time before Christ. As they lived
before Christ, they did sacrifice. They
did keep their priestly line separate.
They did keep the food left in sacrifice for their priests. They observed God’s Law as God had prescribed
for them.
Even though
the customs may have changed because Christ has intervened and fulfilled the
Law, we can appreciate the obedience to God that we find here in this chapter.
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