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Sanctification The Bible says, “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take Aaron and his sons with him,
and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And Moses did as the LORD
commanded him; and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And Moses
said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the LORD commanded to be done. And Moses brought Aaron and his
sons, and washed them with water. And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe,
and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.
And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim. And he put the mitre upon his
head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded
Moses. And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot,
to sanctify them. And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. And Moses brought
Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.”
Leviticus 8:1-13 (KJV) The story is told of a young girl who accepted Christ as her
Savior and applied for membership in a local church. “Were you a sinner before you received the Lord Jesus into your
Life?” inquired an old deacon. “Yes, sir,” she replied. “Well, are you still a sinner?” “To
tell you the truth, I feel I’m a greater sinner than ever.” “Then what real change have you experienced?”
“I don’t quite know how to explain it,” she said, “except I used to be a sinner running after sin,
but now that I am saved I’m a sinner running from sin!” she was received into the fellowship of the church, and
she proved by her consistent life that she was truly converted. The great Scottish
Bible expositor Alexander MacLaren once wrote: “We may have as much of God as we will. Christ puts the key of the treasure-chamber
into our hand, and bids us take all that we want. If a man is admitted into the bullion vault of a bank and told to help himself,
and comes out with one cent, whose fault is it that he is poor?” There is
no substitute for reading, re-reading, and reading again the Word of God! Daily
Chronological Bible Reading: Leviticus 8-10
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