Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

From 2 Chronicles 8, it's really important to see.

So this is the dedication of the temple, the start of offerings and sacrifices there, and

that's kind of the point.

Here in this place where the glory of God dwelt among his people, God's blessing was

clearly attached to sacrifices made before him, according to his Word, all the blessing

of God among his people would hinge on them making sacrifices for sin.

And when we see this picture in the Old Testament, specifically in the temple, and then we

open the pages of the New Testament, and we see that Jesus has come, what we celebrate

at Christmas, that the temple is here, the glory of God dwelling in our midst, and when

we see him die on a cross and the curtain of the temple, torn into, we realize that

where the people of God in the Old Testament needed to make daily sacrifices and annual

sacrifices for their sin, Jesus has offered the full and final sacrifice for the sins of

all who trust in him.

And the blessing of God is attached to his sacrifice, to all who trust in the sacrifice

of Jesus on a cross, him giving his life for us, which is the reason he came to die for

sinners.

This is his name when in Matthew 1, the angel tells Joseph, you will call his name Jesus

for he will save his people from their sins, he will be the sacrifice for their sins.

Like 2 Chronicles chapter 8 verses 12 and 13, just back in us to look again to Jesus today,

as the sacrifice for our sins, to praise him and to realize that it's in Jesus, that

the blessings of God are open to us, it's in Jesus that we have the privilege of coming

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