Leviticus 1 starts out:
Now the LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him from the tabernacle of meeting, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When any one of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of the livestock – of the herd and of the flock.
…and then he explains how to offer the sacrifice – his way.
Hebrews 10 says we may now ‘enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living a way’, and that we can ‘draw near (to God) with a true heart in full assurance of faith’.
We have access to the Lord through the blood of Jesus, but I wonder if there remains a proper way to approach him. For instance, Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount:
Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
In another spot, in Luke 18, Jesus told the parable about the Pharisee and the tax collector. In the parable, he said the Pharisee ‘prayed thus with himself…’ while the tax collector ‘would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’
Then Jesus said, “I tell you, this man (the tax collector) went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled , and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
As Paul wrote in Romans 12… ‘I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.’
God’s Word is a lamp to our feet, and a light to our paths.
Read it for yourself. 