05/06/202 – “Let us seek today to live our life as an “o-l-a-h”, a whole, total, complete sacrifice to God, ascending to heaven.” / “And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” (Ephesians 5:2)
Messiah’s Olah
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Proverbs 30:4 says, “Who has ascended into heaven and descended?” The word ascended in Hebrew is olah. The same root word is used in Genesis 22 when God tells Abraham to offer up his son as a burnt offering. The word for burnt offering here is olah. The olah is the whole offering because it ascends. Messiah is the One who ascends or goes up. It says throughout the gospels, He’s going up to Jerusalem. Do you know where He’s going to? The Temple on Mount Moriah, the same mountain that Abraham offered up Isaac. He’s going up to become the offering that goes up. That’s what it’s about. Messiah, the Son of God, went up by giving His whole life as an olah. By lowering Himself, He was exalted. If you want to go up in your life or ascend, then you need to offer your life, live sacrificially, give of yourself, die to your flesh. The way to go up is to give yourself completely to God, that’s the olah offering. When you give yourself completely, everything you do will ascend as an olah to the heavenlies.
From Message #561 – The Olah
Scripture: Ephesians 5:2
TODAY’S MISSION – Seek today to live your life as an olah, a whole, total, complete sacrifice for God, ascending to the heavenlies.
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To the side, the WordPress software would not even let me enter the word “h-e-a-v-e-n-l-i-e-s”. urrr!(See “Today’s Mission above”) . I tried multiple times, even with quotes around it; Nuts! Well, it is in in fact a Webster dictionary word, check out Bible Hub’s biblical commentary on just that word:
And I just noticed on a visual spell check: Word press likewise doesn’t, let me type “o-l-a-h”. Before I just corrected it, it was showing : “blah”. To the side, I have wanted to turn off “spell check” on my phone. I know there is a way, but I moved on after trying to find out how to do it. Too much in the way of more important kingdom things, which brings meaning I submit to “opportunity costs” and the expression: “Don’t let perfect get in the way of just good enough!”
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