We Offer Christ to God for His Satisfaction, we Eat Christ, and we’re in Peace with God

In the morning we may take Christ as the burnt offering and offer Christ to God for His satisfaction, and then we may eat of Him as the meal offering to have Him as our life supply; the result is that we have peace, we’re at rest, and we’re full of joy, for we are right with God and acceptable to Him.

It is so sweet and delightful to experience Christ as the offerings presented to us in Leviticus. Christ is the unique provision from God to us for us to be acceptable to God, come forward to God, enjoy God, be in God’s presence, and live a holy, clean, and rejoicing life as God’s people.

The peace offering, which we are prayerfully considering this week, is fulfilled in a wonderful way at the Lord’s Table, where we come not only in peace with God and with man, but with the Christ we have enjoyed and experienced to offer Him to God the Father for His satisfaction.

The Lord’s table is a feast where we each bring our portion of Christ, the aspect of Christ that we have enjoyed and experienced, and we enjoy Christ with God and man; the result is that we are supplied and energised inwardly, and God is satisfied.

However, when we come to the Lord’s table we need to make sure we discern the Table and we prove ourselves, not taking the elements on the table in a common way, because eating the bread and drinking the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will bring judgment to us.

We need to examine ourselves, put ourselves to the test and have ourselves approved, so that when we eat the bread and drink the cup we are not unclean or contaminated with death, but that we discern the body and blood of Jesus in spirit.

We need to make sure we deal with our sins, are cleansed from any uncleanness, get rid of the contamination of death, and exercise our spirit to enjoy Christ.

At the Lord’s table we should offer the most excellent part of Christ – the top part of Christ that we have enjoyed and experienced – to God for His satisfaction, and we enjoy the loving part of Christ in resurrection and the strong part of Christ in ascension.

Our Christ is so rich, so experiential, and so available, and at the Lord’s table we can enjoy Him, partake of Him, and be filled with Him for our serving supply. We all are priests, and we all can enjoy Christ; Christ is our portion, our enjoyment, and our everything.

When we partake of Him as the One in resurrection and ascension, we enjoy His loving capacity and His strengthening power for our portion for our enjoyment.

This strengthens us and nourishes us for us to continue to live the Christian life and fight the battle in the Body; we are nourished with love and strength and are ready to face a new week in the Lord, with Christ as our supply.

The Best part of Christ is for God’s Satisfaction, and Christ’s Blood fully Satisfies God

Again and again in Leviticus the Lord commanded His people two things: never eat the fat of any animal and never drink their blood.

Rather, the fat of the animals for offerings is for God, it is His portion, the top part for Him to enjoy as a sweet-smelling fragrance through burning, and the blood is to be poured out and sprinkled for God and man to see, for man’s redemption.

Not eating the fat signifies that the best part of Christ is for God’s satisfaction, and not eating the blood signifies that Christ’s blood shed for our redemption fully satisfies the requirements of God’s righteousness, holiness, and glory (see Lev. 3:17; cf. Gen. 3:24; Heb. 10:19-20; Rev. 22:14).

Christ is our portion for our enjoyment in love and strength, but the best part of Christ, the “fat” of Christ, is only for God and His enjoyment; we cannot partake of it, but rather, we should offer it to God for His satisfaction.

In the whole universe only Jesus’ blood is edible to His believers (see John 6:53-56 and footnote 2 on v. 54 in the Recovery Version). The Lord Himself told us that unless we eat His flesh and drink His blood, we have no part with Him; only His blood is edible, and no other blood should be taken in.

To eat any other blood would make Christ’s blood common (see Heb. 10:29 and footnote 3). For example, the wavering Jewish believers were trying to go back to the Old Testament sacrifices with bulls and goats, but by this, they would make Jesus’ blood common.

Only the Lord’s blood is eternally efficacious, for only the Lord’s blood can satisfy God’s righteous requirements, maintain God’s holy position, and keep God’s glory, His dignity!

We should not make Christ’s blood common but realize that His blood is the only blood that can satisfy God and redeem us. What we need to do is come forward to God to enjoy Christ based on the sprinkled blood of Jesus on our conscience, and we need to enjoy the Lord in His love and strength.

The best part of Christ – the “fatness of Christ” – needs to be offered to God for His satisfaction, but the “breast” and the “thigh” are our portion.

Based on Christ’s blood which fully satisfies God and gives us boldness to come forward to enjoy Christ, we can enjoy Christ with God; we can enjoy Christ as the loving ability and the standing strength.

When we exercise our spirit, apply the blood of Christ, and enjoy Christ, we have His loving ability to love others and be concerned for them, caring for them in the Lord’s love and according to Him.

Furthermore, when we eat Christ, we have the strength to stand. The circumstances may not be favorable to us, but as we eat Christ, His standing ability is infused into us for us to stand for Him.

Christ is all-inclusive and so available; sometimes He is the lamb for us to enjoy, and we eat Him in His perfection and beauty (Lev. 3:7); at other times, He is a goat for us to eat, and we enjoy Him in His being made sin for us on our behalf (Lev. 3:12; 2 Cor. 5:21).

What a rich, abundant Christ, and how all-inclusive He is to us for our enjoyment with God and with man!

Thank You Lord Jesus for dying on the cross for us and shedding Your blood for our redemption and for the Father’s satisfaction. Only Your blood redeems us, and only Your blood fully satisfies the requirements of God’s righteousness, holiness, and glory. We take Your blood, we appreciate Your death on the cross, and we refuse to appeal to any other blood. Lord, Your blood satisfies God’s righteous requirements, maintains God’s holy position, and keeps God’s glory. Based on Your blood we come forward to enjoy Christ in His loving ability and His standing ability.

We Offer Christ to God for His Satisfaction, we Eat Christ, and are in Peace with God

In Lev. 3:5 and 6:12 we see that the peace offering is based on the burnt offering, for God commanded His people to offer the peace offering on top of the burnt offering to be a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.

Here we see that the burnt offering is a base for the peace offering to be received by God, and with the burnt offering as the basis, God receives the burnt offering.

Then in Lev. 7:37 we see that the peace offering is an issue of the enjoyment of God and man in the meal offering. So on the one hand, the peace offering is based on the burnt offering, and on the other, the peace offering is an issue of the enjoyment of the meal offering.

These three offerings are inter-related, and they all refer to our experience of Christ; these offerings are not something of a doctrine or mental apprehension, but they are a type of Christ for our enjoyment and experience before God.

We can say that the burnt offering, the peace offering, and the meal offering are “technical terms” of a reality and experience that we all have gone through.

We can check with our experience about this; many times in the morning we praise the Father for His Christ, and we offer Christ to God for His satisfaction, and then we take Christ as our daily supply that we may live by Him.

The result is that we are in a peaceful situation and condition with God, we are joyful before Him, and we are satisfied, for we know we are right with God and acceptable to Him.

In the morning we may tell the Lord,

Father God, we love Your Son Jesus Christ, and we want to offer Him to You for Your satisfaction. Your Son satisfies You, He lived a life absolutely for Your satisfaction, and we offer Him to You.

Then, we enjoy such a Christ in a sweet way, and present Him to God to make God happy. This is to present Christ to God as the burnt offering. After we do this, we may tell the Lord,

Oh Lord, You are our supply for this day; we cannot live without You. Be our nourishment, and supply us inwardly with all that we need for us to live a life fully for Your purpose. Lord Jesus, we feed on You. We open to enjoy You, eat You, drink You, and be inwardly supplied that we may live one spirit with You today.

When we pray in this way to the Lord, He becomes our supply, He inwardly nourishes and strengthens us, and we experience Him as our meal offering.

When we take Christ as our burnt offering and as the meal offering, we have peace; we have an inward sense that something within us is joyful, and that we are right with God and with man, and we are acceptable to God.

It’s not that we do something to please God or appease Him, but we offer Christ to God for His satisfaction, and we eat the Christ of God to be nourished by Him inwardly. Maybe we had some problems with God earlier, but now after offering Christ to God and enjoying Christ before God, we are at peace with God.

We all have experienced this, and this is our experience daily, for Christ is such an all-inclusive and all-sufficient provision for us in our Christian life. This is to enjoy Christ as our peace offering.

If we would enjoy Christ as peace in a practical and daily way, we must first take Him as our burnt offering to satisfy God, and then we must feed on Him as our meal offering, enjoying Him as our food. Hallelujah!

Father God, we love Your Son, and we offer Him to You for Your satisfaction. He is the only One who can satisfy You, for He lived a life absolutely for You and for Your satisfaction. Amen, Lord Jesus, You are our daily supply. We cannot live without You. We exercise our spirit to apply the blood and eat You to be nourished and filled with You. Lord, we take You as our food, our supply, for our daily living. Thank You for making peace between us and God, and thank You for making us right with God, acceptable to Him.

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by Minoru Chen for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Leviticus, msg. 27 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Leviticus (1), week 12, Enjoying Christ as the Reality of the Peace Offering at the Lord’s Table to Present the Total Picture of God’s Economy.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # O what a peace it gives us / To see the sprinkled blood. / The blood of our peace offering / Has brought us peace with God. / With boldness we’re proclaiming – / Now hear this, enemy – / “Peace by the blood of Jesus!” / This is our victory. (Hymns #1104)
  # I’ll offer Christ to God in prayer, / I’ll read the Word, His light to know, / For all His grace I’ll sing His praise, / The Spirit then may flow. (Hymns #791)
  # Thou art the peace-oblation, / The peace for us to make, / That we with God may share Thee, / As food of Thee partake. (Hymns #195)