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The earthly sanctuary services were appointed of God to help man know and understand exactly what God was willing to do for him. Every animal slain by the hand of the sinner was to be a miniature Calvary. It was to reveal to man the deep-seated enmity he held against God, but in the same instant to prove to him that God held nothing back, not even His Son, if by any means He could bring man to see his rebellion. It was in this way that God prepared the catalyst to break the proud and stubborn heart of man. Nothing less than “blood” could wash away such an awful sin as his, i.e., the will to kill God.
Donald Short, A Study on the Cleansing of the Sanctuary
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Fearfulness is Idolatry

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Adrian Ebens in Devotional - Blog
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What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in your Lord.

Any fear of any thing outside the fear of God is evidence of idolatry, it is evidence of fearing something more than God. There is no fear in love but perfect love casts out fear. I have been subject to the fear of death all my life as it indicates in Heb 2:15

Heb 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

You will have no other gods before me. This means that we will have no fear outside our reverence and love for our Father and His Son the Lord Jesus Christ.

How precious the law of God that convicts me - thou shalt have no other gods before me. It speaks directly to my inward fears. It searches me as a candle and exposes me to the light. I fall at the feet of my Saviour accepting the sentence of death for the idolatry of fear, the idolatry of self. Then I am convicted of His righteousness. I hold on to the belief of His mercy. I find grace in the eyes of the Lord. I believe in His forgiveness and I am free. No fear for my daily needs, no fear of my enemies and those who hate me, no fear of the future, no fear for my sins for they are all forgiven in the blood of Christ. What joy, what love what grace.