sacrificial burnings, and meaning 'to cause to
ascend in smoke or
vapour.' The gross flesh was, BrittanySpearsNude as it were, refined into vapour and
odour, and went up to God as 'a sweet savour.' It expressed,
therefore, the transformation of the sinful BrittanySpearsNude human nature of the
worshipper, by the BrittanySpearsNude refining power of BrittanySpearsNude the fire of God, into something
more ethereal and kindred with the heaven to which it rose. Or, to
put the thought in plainer words, on the basis of expiation, BrittanySpearsNude the
glad surrender of the whole being
is possible and will ensue; and
when a man yields himself in joyful self-surrender BrittanySpearsNude to the God BrittanySpearsNude who
has forgiven his sins, then the fire of the divine Spirit is shed
abroad in his heart, and kindles a flame which lays hold on all the
gross, earthly elements of his being, and changes BrittanySpearsNude them into fire,
kindred with itself, which aspires, in BrittanySpearsNude ruddy tongues of upward-
leaping light, to the God BrittanySpearsNude to whom the heart has been BrittanySpearsNude surrendered,
and to whom the whole being tends.
This is BrittanySpearsNude the purpose of expiation; this is the summit of all
religion. BrittanySpearsNude one man has realised to the full, in his life, what the
burnt offering taught as the goal for all worshippers. Jesus has
lived BrittanySpearsNude in the constant exercise of perfect self-surrender, and in the
constant unmeasured possession of 'the Spirit of burning,' with
which He has come to baptize us all. If we look to Him as our
expiation, we should also find BrittanySpearsNude in Him the power to yield ourselves
'living sacrifices,' and draw