HOLY Cow Batman “””Pow”””

I grew up in the early 1970’s watching Batman and Robin. I can remember Batman and Robin doing those fight scenes and I can almost hear Robin exclaiming to Batman something that sounds like “Holy Cow, Batman,” and the fight would be on. Batman and Robin of course would tear the room apart using everything with in reach as a weapon and they would ultimately arise with the Victory.

This mourning in my quite time, I’m currently reading through Exodus by the way. I noticed something that was familiar and at the same time a bit odd. I notice just how often blood was shed, check out this verse Exodus29:38 “Now this [is that] which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.” Now why in the world would these Priest be instructed to offer(which meant to kill) two lambs every day, one in the mourning and one in the evening, now that seems a little excessive you think. Well it would only seem excessive if you don’t understand just how Holy God is. Side bar, here is my ADD kicking in again, “I hope you can end a sentence using "is", anyway.

Let’s see where were we, “Holy” now that’s a four letter word that carries a big punch. To be “Holy” means to be set apart, separate, sanctified, and consecrated, you’re starting to get the picture. Ok, okay God’s Holiness required restitution on our part so that fellowship was even possible to begin with. In other words God is so sacred and good that in order for man that is you and me to have fellowship with him there must be a payment of some kind. So the job of the Priest in the case of the Old Testament, Aaron and his sons, they were to prepare and offer up a lamb, every day and every night as payment or atonement so that fellowship could be possible. Were swimming in deep waters here but what I’m saying is simple if you think about it.

God’s word in the book of Hebrews teaches with clarity what God’s “Holiness” required note Hebrews10:8-10 “Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].”

Don’t Panic this isn’t that hard. God establish a pattern in his righteous law. The pattern was the continual sacrificing of innocent lambs. Remember that two lambs were killed daily to pay for the “sins” of the people. The shedding of the continual lamb’s blood was a symbol of sanctification or a setting apart of the people. Jesus came and he did away with that law or legal pattern because he became that final “sacrificial lamb.” Remember, God’s holiness required payment and that final payment was the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The text says that we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.

So that next time you think about what it means to be “HOLY” try and remember the “cost” of holiness. Jesus Christ paid the ultimate sacrifice so that you and I could become “HOLY,” so act like it. “Oops there goes that “it” again!!!