Tag: Offerings

Genesis 22:2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” A burnt offering in the Mosaic Law was a bull, a sheep, a goat, a dove or a pigeon with no...

Matthew 5:23-24 “So if you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the Temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you, leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God”. Making peace with those whom we have intentionally...

Leviticus 4:3 “‘If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the Lord a young bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed”. ‘Sin Offering’ is one of the mandatory offerings as atonement for sins under the Mosaic covenant. Atonement is recompense or penitence. The...

2 Samuel 6:13 When those who were carrying the ark of the LORD had taken six steps, he (David) sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. “When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite ‘thank you,’ it is the recognition of dependence” – Billy Graham. Appreciation and thanksgiving is...

Leviticus 2:1 “When anyone offers a grain offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it”.    “A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God’s” – Tim Keller”. Grain Offering was another voluntary...

Leviticus 7:13 With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread.    “Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is being still in the presence of God”. The sacrifices in the Mosaic covenant are typologies of prayer patterns. The purpose of the sacrifices mentioned...

Psalm 50:23 “Those who sacrifice thank offerings honour me, and to the blameless I will show my salvation.”  “Thanks are the highest form of thought, and gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder” — G.K. Chesterton. A grateful heart and thankful lips are the sweetest offering we can offer to the Lord. It doesn’t matter where...