Saturday, August 3, 2019

Bought and Born

But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat. Leviticus 22:11

"Strangers, sojourners, and servants upon hire --were not to eat of holy things. --It is so in spiritual matters still.
But two classes were free at the sacred table, --those who were bought with the priest's money --and those who were born into the priest's house.
Bought and born,
these were the two indisputable proofs of a right to holy things.
 Bought. Our great High Priest has bought with a price all those who put their trust in Him. They are His absolute property—altogether the Lord's. Not for what they are in themselves, but for their owner's sake they are admitted into the same privileges which He Himself enjoys, and "they shall eat of his meat." He has meat to eat which worldlings know not of.  Born. This is an equally sure way to privilege. If born in the Priest's house we take our place with the rest of the family."
Charles Spurgeon