23/07/2024
I LOVE YOU ALL ENJOY
What is an offering?
Webster defines it as: a
: the act of one who offers
b
: something offered
especially : a sacrifice ceremonially offered as a part of worship
c
: a contribution to the support of a church
2
: something offered for sale or patronage
latest offerings of the leading novelists
3
: a course of instruction or study
Walk with me to some Psalm 50:1-15
Vs 1-4 the notes says: as though God is finally ready to judge the evil people on earth, but surprisingly, we read that God’s great fury is leveled against his own people (or at least those who claim to be his). God’s judgment must first begin with his own people, the ones who cannot claim ignorance as an excuse for sin (supporting text 1 Peter 4:17, Hebrews 12:7).
Vs 5-15 God perfect moral nature demands that the penalty for sins is death; however, in the days of old testament people could offer an animal to God as a substitute for their own lives, symbolizing their faith in him and his mercy and forgiveness. But the people were offering sacrifice and forgetting “significance”. (What is significance about your sacrifice)? The very active sacrifice shows that they had once agreed to follow God wholeheartedly, but at this time that hearts were not in it. We may fall into the same pattern when we participate in religious activities, tied, taking communion or attending church out of habit or conformity rather they out of heartfelt love and obedience. God wants righteousness, not empty rituals (supporting text Psalm 40:6).
What was the most important offering in the Old Testament? It’s was the grain offering is described “most holy part of the food offerings presented to the Lord” (Leviticus 2:10b). The requirements for the grain offering were that it had to be finely ground and have oil and salt in it. What is the significance of oil in salt? In biblical times, oil was often used to anoint individuals as a symbol of consecration, blessing, and preparation for special duty assigned by God. God has the meat of sacrifices sprinkled with salt, which represents God’s ability to preserve a covenant (supporting text Number 18:19; 2 Chronicle 13:4-6; and Matthew 5:13). Now that we don’t practice burn offering 🤷🏾♂️ but we do in the New Testament Roman 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. The Lord showed me something with the help of the Holy Spirit Hebrews 13:15-16 NIV or KJV “Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.”
“By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.”
Now I submit to you our new Grain Offering our lips the grain offering was presented at every offering in the Old Testament, everyone didn’t have meat to present but they could muster up some pure grain to present to Most High God. We may not have money, talent, time, but what do have is “THE FRUIT OF OUR LIPS” give Him (Most High God, Jesus Christ) all he deserves because he is “TRULY WORTH OF ALL THE PRAISE”. Don’t be like Psalm 40:6 “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire— but my ears you have opened— burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.” David recognizes that these acts were meaningless unless done for the RIGHT REASON. God isn’t impressed with rituals (you know what his talking about, sacrifices and offering) apart from an attitude of devotion to him. The prophet Samuel told Saul, “Today is better than sacrifice” 1 Samuel 15:22, meaning that who we are becoming is always more important than what we are doing. Make sure You/ I give GOD his RIGHTFUL place in your heart, and then whatever you do will be a beautiful result of your love for him.
Psalm 40:7-8 “Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll. I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.””
Jesus portrayed this attitude of obeying and serving God (John 4:34; 5:30).
REPENT FOR THE SECOND COMING IS NEAR
BLESSINGS