There is much confusion about the bodily sacrifice in the power of blessing and cursing. The Psalmist is carefully teaching their daily animal sacrifices became obnoxious to God.50 13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? 14 Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High, 15 and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me." The Psalmist is mocking them for scarcely trusting in the arduous task of the daily sacrifices. A pragmatist would merely say their wicked hearts were not genuine in offering the necessary sacrifices. But this context is accurately comparing the sacred word and Spirit with the daily sacrifices. 16 But to the wicked, God says: "What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?" Hence, the final conclusion. "23 He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God." The Psalmist is using the "sacrifice of thank offerings" as a apt metaphor for the generous sacrifice of the faithful heart.He is carefully comparing the saints contrasted with wicked in the Sanctuary as preservation of Gods word.15 and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me."The wicked replaces the authority of the blessing and cursing in pronouncements with these visible markers. 21 These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether like you."He is saying these people lower God by trying to gain acceptance through the bodily acts. They are controlling God.
Hence, God says He must be lifted up above trusting in these corporeal things.Consequently, our genuine desire in the sanctuary is not accepted by excellent attendance as a worshiper. The acceptance of others in the Christian specific context through our sacred offering, or the holy act according to a time frame. But worship is accomplished by spiritual violence. We lower God, subjecting Him to time and visible markers. We exalt God by spiritual work He has accomplished in blessing and cursing.
Worship is being separated from the eternal curse of the wicked and graciously accepted by divine blessing of the righteous. Hence, the joyful heart is destroying sin and opposition through the pronouncement of death. The worship is being baptized into the death of Christ. We die by the authoritative pronouncement of the eternal curses and overcoming all opposition. Therefore, the offering of the faithful heart is precisely defined in life and death pronouncements, not merely the death of the sacred animal. This is why the Psalmist properly says "sacrifices of God are a broken and contrite heart."
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