The Scapegoat

Leviticus 16

20 “And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat. 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he shall put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness. 22 The goat shall bear all their iniquities on itself to a remote area, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.
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Jesus had all of our sins placed on him in the same way. How lonely and difficult it must have been to receive it! I watched the end of The Passion of the Christ last night and I felt myself being penetrated once again with the Truth of God's sacrificial Love.

We are called to present our bodies as living sacrifices in the image of Him.