You are also to provide with it every morning a grain offering of a sixth of an ephah with a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour--a grain offering to the LORD. This is a permanent statute. Sermons
I. THE DALLY MERCIES WHICH HAVE TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED. The tokens of God's goodness and bounty, forbearance and grace, do not come to us at long intervals. They are incessantly bestowed. He daily loadeth us with benefits. He giveth us day by day our daily bread. The mind that is at once observant and sensitive is, at the contemplation of renewed, unceasing favors, ready to exclaim, "Every day will I praise thee, and I will bless thy Name for ever and ever." II. THE DAILY SINS WHICH HAVE TO BE CONFESSED, AND FOR WHICH FORGIVENESS HAS TO BE ASKED. The offerings and sacrifices of the temple included not only thank offerings, but sin and trespass offerings. The Israelitish worshipper appeared before Jehovah as a penitent supplicating forbearance and pardon. There is no human worshipper who has not occasion to come into the presence of the God of holiness with shame and confusion of face. Daily transgressions and omissions call for daily acts of humiliation and daily entreaties for mercy. The self-righteous may conceal from themselves this fact, and the hypocritical may seek to conceal it from God. But those who know themselves, and are sincere in their devotions, will implore the clemency and the forgiveness promised by the righteous Sovereign to those who seek reconciliation through the mediation of the Divine Redeemer. III. THE DAILY GUIDANCE AND STRENGTH WHICH ARE NEEDED, AND WHICH HAVE TO BE SOUGHT FROM GOD. Devotion is primarily the offering of the heart, its love and grateful praise, to God. But it includes also the seeking of blessings which it is his prerogative to bestow. There is no day which does not bring with it duties that can be properly fulfilled only with Divine assistance, trials which can only be passed through securely and beneficially through the direction which God's Holy Spirit alone can vouchsafe. If this is so, how reasonable is the provision for daily communion with God! Thus only can we be assured of that grace which will enable us so to pass through the discipline of earth that it may be the means of meeting us for the service and the joys of heaven. - T.
Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the Lord. The old legend that the Grecian host lay weather bound in their port, vainly waiting for a wind to come and carry them to conquest; and that they were obliged to slay a human sacrifice ere the heavens would be propitious and fill their sails, — may be translated into the deepest verity of the Christian life. We may see in it that solemn lesson — no prosperous voyage, and no final conquest until the natural life has been offered up on the altar of hourly self-denial.(A. Maclaren, D. D.) (A. Maclaren, D. D.). People Ephah, EzekielPlaces Most Holy PlaceTopics Age-during, Best, Burnt, Cereal, Consisting, Continual, Continually, Dropped, Ephah, Eternal, Fine, Flour, Grain, Hin, Lasting, Meal, Meal-offering, Meat, Meat-offering, Moisten, Morning, Oblation, Offered, Offering, Oil, Order, Ordinance, Perpetual, Prepare, Present, Presenting, Provide, Sixth, Statute, Temper, ThirdOutline 1. Ordinances for the prince in his worship9. and for the people 16. An order for the prince's inheritance 19. The courts for boiling and baking Dictionary of Bible Themes Ezekiel 46:14Library Chel. The Court of the Women. The Court of the Gentiles compassed the Temple and the courts on every side. The same also did Chel, or the Ante-murale. "That space was ten cubits broad, divided from the Court of the Gentiles by a fence, ten hand-breadths high; in which were thirteen breaches, which the kings of Greece had made: but the Jews had again repaired them, and had appointed thirteen adorations answering to them." Maimonides writes: "Inwards" (from the Court of the Gentiles) "was a fence, that encompassed on every side, … John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica Things to be Meditated on as Thou Goest to the Church. Questions About the Nature and Perpetuity of the Seventh-Day Sabbath. Ezekiel Links Ezekiel 46:14 NIVEzekiel 46:14 NLT Ezekiel 46:14 ESV Ezekiel 46:14 NASB Ezekiel 46:14 KJV Ezekiel 46:14 Bible Apps Ezekiel 46:14 Parallel Ezekiel 46:14 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 46:14 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 46:14 French Bible Ezekiel 46:14 German Bible Ezekiel 46:14 Commentaries Bible Hub |