Unacceptable Defect Offering

 

Most Of churchgoing Christians don't read their bibles and they get their doctrine and beliefs from their pastors or other persons on the internet who lack foundational faith that only comes through studying, reading, and practicing what is written in the bible.

 To have personal experience with God is the basic requirement to preaching and then sharing the gospel with others.

This is why there is so much deception in the churches globally nowadays like never before though so much information is now available more than ever to know the truth, 

In spite of all this, we are witnessing scandals of churches we thought were not corrupted.

One of the popular yet unbiblical teaching in the churches is that: 

GOD DOESN'T WANT PERFECTION

Even many songs are written about how God doesn't want perfection and he is pleased with whatever you give him and however it is given.

This has caused Christians to lower their quality of giving and living to God.

In the book Of Leviticus Chapter 22:18-22  God gives a clear message to Moses about the type of offerings :

Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel and say to them:

Whatever man of the house of Israel or of the strangers in Israel who offers the sacrifice for any of his vows or for any of his freewill offerings which they offer to the Lord as a burnt offering,

you shall offer of your own free will a male WITHOUT BLEMISH from the cattle , from the sheep,or from the goats WHATEVER HAS A DEFECT YOU SHALL NOT OFFER

FOR IT SHALL NOT BE ACCEPTABLE ON YOUR BEHALF.

And whoever offers a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord

to fulfill his vow or a freewill offering from the cattle or the sheep ,

IT MUST BE PERFECT TO BE ACCEPTED THERE, SHALL BE NO DEFECT IN IT.....

Throughout the bible, we see God angry on the priests who accepted defect offerings from the people and he warned them of judgment if they did not follow his criteria.

When Esau and Jacob made an offering to the Lord, God accepted only Jacob's offering and rejected Esau's offering.

God is Most Holy, which is translated Perfect in many translations and in addition to meaning morally pure he is excellent and as his children, we should be the expression of his perfect image to the world.

He says: Be Holy as I am Holy

The angles around the throne cry all the time Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty because they are seeing all the time a new revelation of his holiness and perfection.

God is shaking the false churches that claim to represent him, but 

are reflecting the most defective image of him

in different ways through false teachings, encouraging sin ,

strengthening the hands of wicked people, using God's name 

in vain etc.

Even the way you dress to church shows how much you respect or disrespect God because according to the new

testament we are living sacrifice and if God has so 

high standard for the animal sacrifices 

how much more for the human being?

who were redeemed by the most perfect

lamb of God.

This puts pressure on us to perform at a higher level

so that our offerings will be accepted.

In revelation 3:2 Jesus says:

Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, FOR I HAVE NOT FOUND YOUR WORKS PERFECT BEFORE GOD.

This means that when serving God, rewards will be based on the quality of the offering, not as most Christians assume it will be.

Let us encourage excellence and set higher standards in churches first then in the world.

Justice With The Righteousness

 

Living in these exciting times is beautiful, knowing that God has chosen each one of us to live in this specific period of time and not before makes all the difference.

Nothing happens unplanned with the great planner of the universe.

If God has chosen to let us exist now, then we must have a different assignment than those who lived before us. The message may be the same, but the methods and the revelations should be different due to the huge access to technology and information that our ancestors didn't have.

With everything speeding up around us, we must keep God's standards even when many may be tempted 

to lower it when times get tough.

The scripture says: When the enemy comes in like a flood; the spirit of God raises a standard against it.

That means the greater the attack, the higher the standard.

God says we are the light of the world and the light is most needed when there is darkness.

For many reasons, the darkness is increasing and this is exactly the time to shine the truth of God's word and way of doing things.

God is counting on the believers to bring back justice and righteousness to their nations although may 

be fought, will prevail.