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Leviticus chapter 22 verse 20

you shall not offer anything that has a blemish for it will not be acceptable for you.

Now we've seen this already in Leviticus the necessity of bringing an offering that did not have a blemish that was the best that was pure and

holy and there were there various reasons behind that. What I am drawn to in this particular verse though is not

just that the offering shall not have a blemish but the word that God uses

after that when he says it will not be acceptable for you.

And basically, Leviticus 2220 is emphasizing something that we see all throughout Leviticus

but is worth mentioning at this point.

God is prescribing what is acceptable before him all throughout this book.

What's acceptable and God defines,

God determines what's an acceptable offering

and what's not an acceptable offering.

Man doesn't determine that.

You and I, men and women, do not determine what is an acceptable offering before God.

God determines that.

That's why he's given us this whole book, Leviticus, really in a sense,

that's why he's given us the whole Bible. Because we don't come up with what we think is acceptable pleasing honoring to God.

That's not our job.

God has shown us, he's given us in his word,

that which is acceptable, that which is pleasing and honoring to him and it's

our responsibility to do that which he has said that which he has defined that which he has

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