Pure Holy Incense - Ingredients for Incense - 1

Greetings and thank you so much for joining us today on Living Supernaturally. It is always our joy to be able to come to you and spend time in the word and in prayer. This week, we are going to go back into the Old Testament once again and we are going to look at the pure and holy incense which the Lord had instructed the high priest to offer to Him every day in the Most Holy place. The high priest would come and offer the incense in the morning and evening, day and night in the presence of God. This carries a lot of meaning for us as New Testament believers because we know that incense in the Old Testament is speaking to us of prayer and worship. As New Testament believers, we are called to offer this up unto God. In the book of Revelation chapter 5 and 8, we see that incense is used to represent the wordship and the prayer that goes upon before the throne of God as the saints offer this to the Lord. So, we want to take a little deeper look at this pure and hoy incense that God wanted the high priest to offer in the holy place. We will look at the ingredients and instructions that God gave concerning the incense. God was very specific. There were four main ingredients that were used to make this incense all in equal amounts, telling us that these four ingredients should be part of what we offer to God equally, that means they are all equally important. We read about this in Exodus chapter 30, verses 34 to 38. Verse 34 says, ‘And the Lord said to Moses: “Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha…’ Stacte which was a resin that came from the myrrh tree and myrrh in the bible we recognize represents purity and sacrifice. When the wise mean brought gifts to Jesus, there was gold, frankincense and myrrh- myrrh representing the sacrifice. Myrrh was used for embalming in the bible times. The second composition of that incense was another resin – onycha which according to Rabbinic traditions or the Rabbis, for them it represented boldness and authority. So, we are looking at two of the four ingredients today, the first one was a resin called stacte which was taken from myrrh representing sacrifice. The other one representing boldness and authority. When we come before God in the Most Holy place, as we are offering up worship and prayer, what should it be composed of? There is sacrifice and also boldness, authority or confidence in our offer of worship and prayer in the Most Holy place. We will continue this tomorrow.

Let’s pray together, Father, we thank you that you have called us to offer up pure and holy incense to you, to offer up our sacrifices, prayers and worship with boldness, confidence, with the authority you have given to us. We thank you that as believers we can engage in this manner in offering up our sacrifices to you, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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