{"id":36209,"date":"2025-06-08T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=36209"},"modified":"2025-06-04T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T22:22:40","slug":"leviticus-12_1-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/leviticus-12_1-8\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re Rich Because Jesus Became Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leviticus 12:1-8 \u00a0 \u00a0(CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 12:1-8.\u00a0With a humble heart, see what sticks out to you in this passage.\u00a0 Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?\u00a0 After you\u2019ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus\u00a012:1-8 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0said to Moses,
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the woman must wait thirty-three days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He shall offer them before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0to make atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood. “‘These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0If she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a01-8:\u00a0\u00a0Have you ever wondered what being ceremonially unclean really means? We’re going to look at this together tomorrow.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, why is it that a woman is ceremonially unclean for only 7 days when she gives birth to a son whereas she is ceremonially unclean for two weeks when she gives birth to a daughter?\u00a0 We don’t know for sure.\u00a0\u00a0In any event, we can be confident that the differing periods of ceremonial uncleanness were NOT because a son was worth more than a daughter.\u00a0 The fact that in verses 6-7 the same animal sacrifice is required whether the baby born is a son or daughter suggests that in God’s eyes baby boys and baby girls are of equal worth and value in God’s eyes.<\/p>\n

Finally, notice that in verse 8 if the mother of a newborn could not afford to buy the lamb required for the sacrifice, she was allowed to bring two doves or two pigeons as her offering.\u00a0 This was the offering that Jesus’ parents,\u00a0Joseph and Mary,\u00a0offered at Jesus’ circumcision (see Luke 2:22-24).<\/p>\n

What’s the lesson here?\u00a0 Jesus was born into a family that was not financially well off. \u00a0 He left all the riches of heaven and humbled himself, being born as a human baby to a poor Jewish family.\u00a0 It goes to show that\u00a0you don’t have to be financially well off to be incredibly blessed.\u00a0 What matters more than\u00a0what<\/em>\u00a0you have is\u00a0who<\/em>\u00a0you have.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0When you have Jesus, you’re the richest person in the world.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0A family with Jesus is richer than any Fortune 500 family without him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank You God for sending Your Son Jesus for poor and needy people like us.\u00a0 He became poor so that we could become eternally and incomparably rich through Him!\u00a0 Thank You for loving us that much.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

copyright \u00a9 2022 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 12:1-8.\u00a0With a humble heart, see what sticks out to you in this passage.\u00a0 Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?\u00a0 After you\u2019ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus\u00a012:1-8 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0said to Moses,
\n2\u00a0\u00a0“Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period.
\n3\u00a0\u00a0On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised.<\/p>\n

On verses\u00a01-8:\u00a0\u00a0Have you ever wondered what being ceremonially unclean really means? We’re going to look at this together tomorrow.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, why is it that a woman is ceremonially unclean for only 7 days when she gives birth to a son whereas she is ceremonially unclean for two weeks when she gives birth to a daughter?\u00a0 We don’t know for sure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36212,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36209\/revisions\/36212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}