Think about Job, how he'd offer sacrifices for his children, worried they might have sinned. He wanted to make things right with God. It's a powerful image, isn't it?
But here's the amazing thing: you don't have to do that anymore. Jesus' sacrifice covers everything. His blood has cleansed you, forgiven you. That's a gift worth more than anything, right?
So what can you do now? How can you show your gratitude? It's not about burnt offerings anymore. It's about living a life that honors God. It's about waking up each day and choosing to walk in His will, showing love and obedience in everything you do.
That's the kind of "offering" that truly matters. A genuine heart, filled with thankfulness, radiating His love – that's what God desires most. It's like a beautiful fragrance rising up to Him.
You've already been forgiven. You've confessed Jesus as your savior. Now, turn away from anything that pulls you from Him. Embrace the good, and live each day as a testament to His grace. Live a life worthy of the One who called you out of darkness and into His marvelous light. That’s the best gift you can give.
And the bullock of sin, thou shalt do in the day of expiations, and make an atonement upon the altar in thy making an atonement upon its and anoint it to consecrate it
And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor.
And when ye stand praying, let go, if ye have any thing against any one : that also your Father, he in the heavens, might let go to you your falls.
If the priest being anointed shall sin according to the guilt of the people; and he brought for his sin which he sinned, a bullock, the son of a cow, blameless to Jehovah for the sin.
And the sin which they sinned against it being known, and the assembly brought a bullock, the son of a cow, for the sin, and they brought it before the tent of appointment
And he shall lift up all the fat from it, and he burnt it upon the altar.And he did to the bullock as he did to the bullock of sin, thus he did to it; and the priest shall expiate for them, and it was forgiven to them.
In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace;In which he abounded to us in all wisdom and intelligence;
And he did to the bullock as he did to the bullock of sin, thus he did to it; and the priest shall expiate for them, and it was forgiven to them.
If therefore, thou bring thy gift upon the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother has anything against thee,Let go there thy gift, before the altar, and retire; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then, having come, bring thy gift.
Speak to the sons of Israel, and they shall take for me an offering: from every man whose heart shall impel him, ye shall take my offerings
And we will bring an offering to Jehovah, what each found, vessels of gold, armbands, and bracelets, rings, ear-rings, and globules of gold, to expiate for our souls before Jehovah.
Will man defraud God? For ye defraud me. And ye said, In what did we defraud thee? The tenths and the offerings.
And judge not, and ye should not be judged: condemn not, and ye should not be condemned: loose ye, and ye shall be loosed.
Each as he chooses in the heart; not of grief, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.
And now take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and bring up a burnt-offering for yourselves; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for his face I will accept, so as not to do with you for folly, for ye spake not to me the right as my servant Job.
Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that for him remission of sins is announced to you.
The soul of blessing shall be made fat: also he watering, shall himself drink to the full.
Attend ye not to do your justice before men, to be seen to them; and if otherwise ye have no reward from your Father which in the heavens.When therefore thou doest alms, thou shouldst not sound the trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in the assemblies, and in the streets, that they might be praised by men. Verily I say to you, They have their reward.But thou doing alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right does:That thine alms might be in secret; and thy Father, who seeing in secret, shall give back to thee openly.
Honor Jehovah from thy substance, and from the first-fruits of all thy produce.And thy storehouses shall be filled with abundance, and thy wine-vats shall break forth with new wine.
And all the tenth of the land from the seed of the land, from the fruit of the tree, is to Jehovah: it is holy to Jehovah.
Give ye to Jehovah the glory of his name: lift up a gift and come before him: worship to Jehovah the ornaments of holiness.
And do thou the festival of weeks to Jehovah thy God according to the willingness of thy hand which thou shalt give as Jehovah thy God shall bless thee.
And when ye shall sacrifice a sacrifice of peace to Jehovah, ye shall sacrifice at your will.
Each according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he gave to thee.
That going out of thy lips, thou shalt watch and do according as thou didst vow to Jehovah thy God; a voluntary gift which thou spakest with thy mouth.
And every one which in it is a blemish ye shall not bring it: for it shall not be for acceptance for you.And when a man shall bring a sacrifice of peace to Jehovah, to separate a vow or a willing gift in cattle or in sheep, it shall be blameless for acceptance: not any blemish shall be in it
And every one being left in all the places where he sojourned there, the men of his place shall lift him up with silver and with gold, and with substance, and with cattle, with a voluntary gift to the house of God which is in Jerusalem.
The sacrifices of God a spirit being broken: a heart being broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.
And Kore, son of Imnah the Levite, the gate-keeper to the sunrising over the voluntaries of God, to give the oblations of Jehovah, and the holies of holies.
And ye yourselves are built, as living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to bring up spiritual sacrifice; acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
So shall ye also lift up an offering of Jehovah from all your tenths, which ye shall take from the sons of Israel; and ye gave from it the offering of Jehovah to. Aaron the priest
Give, and it shall be given you; good measure, yielded, and shaken, and overflowed, shall they give into your bosom: for with the same measure that ye measure, shall it be measured back to you.
And because who am I? and who my people, that we shall retain power to show ourselves willing according to this? for from thee all things, and from thy hand they gave to thee.
And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:But treasure to you treasures in heaven, where neither moth, nor gnawing destroy; and where thieves dig not through, nor steal.For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap.
And it shall be at the end of days, and Cain shall bring in from the fruit of the earth an offering to Jehovah.And Abel, he also brought in the first-born of his sheep, and their fat. And Jehovah will look to Abel and to his gift
To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;To do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal, qualified for participation;Treasuring up to themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold upon eternal life.
In willingness I will sacrifice to thee: I will praise thy name, 0 Jehovah, for it is good.
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree rotten, and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.O generation of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaks.The good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, casts forth good things: and the evil man, out of the evil treasure, casts forth evil things.
And they will bring in the oblations and the tenth, and the holies, with faithfulness: and over them the leader Cononiah the Levite, and Shimei his brother, the second.
I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.
For if ye let go to men their faults, your Father which in the heavens will also let go to you.But if ye should not let go to men their faults, neither will your Father let go your faults.
For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats.When ye shall come to be seen before me who sought this from your hand to tread my enclosure.Ye shall not add to bring gifts of iniquity; incense, this an abomination to me; the new moon and the Sabbath, the calling of the assembly; I shall not be able to bear vanity and restraining.Your new moons and your appointments my soul hated; they were for a burden upon me; I was wearied to lift up.And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you.; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood.
(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)
And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.
And having looked np, he saw the rich casting their gifts into the royal treasury.And he also saw a certain poor widow casting there two small coins.And he said, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all:For all they, of that abounding to them, have cast in to the gifts of God: and she from her want cast in all the living which she had.
Attend to yourselves: and if thy brother sin against thee, censure him; and if he should repent, let him go.And if seven times in a day he sin against thee, and seven times in a day turn back to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt let him go.
Then Peter, having come to him, said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I let him go? Till seven times?And Jesus says to him, I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven.
Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency.
He did not to us according to our sins, and he did not recompense upon us according to our iniquities.For as the height of the heavens above the earth, his mercy prevailed upon those fearing him.As far off as the sunrisings from the west, he removed far from us our transgressions.
And if thou shalt make to me an altar of stones, thou shalt not build them, cutting, for didst thou lift up thy sword upon it, and thou shalt defile it.
There is scattering and yet adding; and the withholding more than right, only to wantThe soul of blessing shall be made fat: also he watering, shall himself drink to the full.
Come now we will confute together Jehovah will say: if your sins shall be as deep scarlet, they shall be white as snow; if they shall be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.
The unjust one borrowed and he will not repay: and the just one compassionated, and gave.
If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just that he let go sins to us, and cleanse us from all injustice.
If thou, Jehovah, shalt watch iniquities, O Jehovah, who shall stand?For with thee, forgiveness; so that thou shalt be feared.
And all whatever you do in word and in work, all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
For if a forwardness lie before, according as any has, it is acceptable, not as he has not.
And Jesus said, Father, let them go; for they know not what they do. And having divided his garments, they cast lots.
And I have all, and abound: I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.
Therefore repent, and return, for your sins to be wiped out, so that times of refreshment might come from the face of the Lord;
Therefore all whatever ye would that men should do to you, so also do ye to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
For Macedonia and Achaia were contented a certain mutual participation be made for the poor of the holy ones in Jerusalem.For they were contented; and they are their debtors. For if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh.
According to one day of the sabbaths let each of you put by himself, treasuring up that which he is prospered in, that when I come there be no collections.
I shewed you all things, that so being wearied ye must support the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that himself said, It is happy to give rather than receive.
By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name.And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.