The consecration: set apart for God's service

Exodus 29:1-46

This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests:

It is a sin offering. 

It is a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the Lord.

And take some blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. Then he and his sons and their garments will be consecrated.

Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and have them wave them before the Lord as a wave offering.

Aaron’s sacred garments will belong to his descendants so that they can be anointed and ordained in them. The son who succeeds him as priest and comes to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place is to wear them seven days.

This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old. Offer one in the morning and the other at twilight. With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering. Sacrifice the other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and its drink offering as in the morning—a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the Lord.

For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the tent of meeting, before the Lord. There I will meet you and speak to you; there also I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by my glory.

The consecration: Everything about this elaborate ceremonial points to the 'otherness of God. He will be with his people, but there can be no familiarity. God is to be approached only in the ways he lays down. Sin disqualifies everyone from entering God's presence. The priest s and every item of equipment must be specially set apart for God's service. So Aaron and his sons must be cleansed, robbed and their sins expiated by sacrifice before they may take office. The living God is no impotent image to be worshipped as human beings think fit. God lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people.

Why?

All of these ceremonies are to consecrate God's servants, Aaron, and his sons to be priests of the Lord.

For God is holy so everyone to serve the Lord has to be consecrated.

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祭司的就職禮拜

1.亞倫和他子孫的預備：準備祭物，準備潔淨自己，

2.就職典禮的禮拜： 獻贖罪祭，獻燔祭，獻(平安祭、素祭：表示甘心樂意，生活中活出見證，所行的為了敬畏神) 不可帶著罪來服事神！膏油抹在亞倫衣服上：要靠聖靈的管教。沒有燒掉的是給祭司食用：神給服事的人得神的恩典。

3.每日的獻祭：每天都是獻給主的。每天早晚都要獻祭，更新貢物，我們給神的也要常常更新。神更新約，因為人會忘記。神向我們說話，我們要聽主的聲音。

這一切是因為神要住在我們中間，要向我們說話，我們樂意聽主的聲音嗎？願意主與我們同住嗎？

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How?

Set apart from this world to be a good servant of the Lord.