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 you shall offer a bull of a sin offering daily for atonement; and you shall purify the altar in your making atonement for it; and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.
and walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrance of a sweet smell.
And when you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive it, so that your Father in Heaven may also forgive your deviations.
if the priest who is anointed sins, resulting in guilt to the people, then he shall bring near for his sin which he has sinned, a bull, a son of the herd, without blemish, to Jehovah for a sin offering.
when the sin shall be known, that which they have sinned against it, then the congregation shall bring near a bull, a son of the herd, for a sin offering. And they shall bring it in front of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And he shall lift up all its fat from it and shall burn it as incense on the altar.And he shall do with the bull as he has done to the bull of the sin offering, so he shall do to it. And the priest shall atone for them; and it shall be forgiven them.
in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of deviations, according to the riches of His gracewhich He caused to abound toward us in all wisdom and understanding,
And he shall do with the bull as he has done to the bull of the sin offering, so he shall do to it. And the priest shall atone for them; and it shall be forgiven them.
Therefore if you offer your gift on the altar, and remember there that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there before the altar, and go. First, be reconciled to your brother, and then, coming, offer your gift.
Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them take an offering for Me. From every man whose heart impels him, let them take My offering.
And we bring near Jehovah’s offering, each what he has found, vessels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and jewels, to atone for ourselves before Jehovah.
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me. But you say, In what have we robbed You? In the tithe and the offering!
Judge not, and not be judged, not ever. Do not condemn, and not you will be condemned, not ever. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Each one as he purposes in his heart, not out of grief or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. Prov. 22:8
And now take for you seven young bulls and seven rams and go to My servant Job, and cause to go up a burnt offering for yourselves. And My servant Job will pray for you. Surely I will lift up his face so as not to do with you according to your folly, in that you have not spoken what is right about Me, as My servant Job.
Therefore let it be known to you, men, brothers, that through this One is proclaimed to you remission of sins.
And if he brings a lamb as his offering, a female, without blemish, he shall bring it,
Take care not to do your merciful deeds before men in order to be seen by them. But if not, you have no reward from your Father in Heaven.Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, do not trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be glorified by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.But you doing merciful deeds, do not let your left know what your right hand does,so that your merciful deeds may be in secret. And your Father, the One seeing in secret, Himself will repay you in the open.
Honor Jehovah with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase,and your storerooms shall be filled with plenty, and your wine-vats shall burst with new wine.
And all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, of the fruit of the trees,, it is for Jehovah; it is most holy to Jehovah.
Give to Jehovah the glory of His name; bring an offering and come before Him; worship Jehovah in the adornment of holiness.
And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to Jehovah your God according to the measure of the free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according as Jehovah your God blesses you.
And if you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, you shall sacrifice it of your free will;
but each with his gift of his hand, accorcding to the blessing of Jehovah your God which He has given you.
That which has gone out of your lips, you shall keep, and shall do it. According as you have vowed as a free will offering to Jehovah your God, do even that which you have spoken with your mouth.
You shall not offer that which has a blemish; for it shall not be acceptable for you.And when a man brings near a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, to complete a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be without blemish to be accepted; no blemish shall be in it;
And all who remain in any of the places where he resides, let the men of his place lift him up with silver, and with gold, and with property, and with animals, besides the free-will offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the gatekeeper at the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the heave offerings of Jehovah, and the most sanctified things.
you also as living stones are being built a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
So you also shall lift up the heave offering of Jehovah from all your tithes which you receive from the sons of Israel. And you shall give from it the heave offering of Jehovah to Aaron the priest.
Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down and shaken together, and running over, they will give into your bosom. For the same measure which you measure, it will be measured back to you.
The sacrifice of the wicked ones is a disgusting thing; how much more when he brings it with an evil intent!
yea, for who am I, and who my people, that we should be able to offer willingly in this way? For all is of You, and we have given to You out of Your hand;
But do not be forgetful of doing good and sharing, for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.
Do not treasure up for you treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves dig through and steal.But treasure up for you treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves do not dig through and steal.For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man may sow, that he also will reap.
And in the end of days, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Jehovah from the fruit of the ground.And Abel brought, he also, from the firstlings of his flocks, even from their fat. And Jehovah looked to Abel and to his offering.
Charge the rich in the age now, not to be high-minded, nor to set hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, the One offering to us richly all things for enjoyment;to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, to be generous ones,treasuring away for themselves a good foundation for the coming age, that they may lay hold on everlasting life.
Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by the fruit.Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.The good man out of the good treasure of the heart puts forth good things. And the evil man out of the evil treasure puts forth evil things.
and they brought in the heave offering, and the tithes, and the sanctified things, faithfully. And over them was a leader, the Levite Cononiah, and his second brother, Shimei;
Therefore, brothers, I call on you through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
For if you forgive men their deviations, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.But if you will not forgive men their deviations, neither will your Father forgive your deviations.
What good to Me are your many sacrifices, says Jehovah? I am sated with burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fattened cattle, and the blood of bulls; nor do I delight in the blood of lambs and he goats.When you come to see My face, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?Do not add to bringing vain sacrifice; its incense is a disgusting thing to Me. I cannot endure the new moon and sabbath, the going to meeting; I cannot endure the evil assembly.My soul hates your new moons and your set feasts. They are a burden on Me. I am weary of bearing them.And when you spread out your palms, I will hide My eyes from you; also, when you multiply prayer, I will not hear. Your palms are full of bloods.
bearing with one another and forgiving yourselves, if anyone has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also you should forgive.
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, having forgiven one another, even as also God forgave you in Christ.
And having looked up, He saw the rich ones putting their gifts into the treasury.And He also saw a certain poor widow putting two lepta there.And He said, Truly I say to you, This poor widow put in more than all.For all these out of their abundance put into the gifts of God, but she out of her poverty put in all the living which she had.
Take heed to yourselves. And if your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.And if seven times in the day he sins against you, and seven times in the day returns to you saying, I repent, you shall forgive him.
Then coming near to Him, Peter said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?Jesus said to him, I do not say to you, Up to seven times, but, Up to seventy times seven.
Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. And test Me now in this, says Jehovah of Hosts, whether I will not open the windows of the heavens for you and pour out a blessing until there is no sufficiency.
He has not done to us according to our sins, and has not rewarded us according to our iniquities.For as the heavens are above the earth, so is His mercy mighty over those fearing Him.As far as the east is from the west, so far has He put our transgressions from us.
And if you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build them of cut stones. When you swing your tool on it, you defile it.
There is one who scatters yet increases more, but a withholder of uprightness comes only to poverty.The soul of blessing will be made fat; he drinking to his fill will also be taught.
Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah: Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red as the crimson, they shall be like wool.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If You will keep iniquities, O Jehovah, O Lord, who shall stand?But forgiveness is with You that You may be feared.
And every thing, whatever you do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father through Him.
For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. And dividing His garments, they cast a lot. Psa. 22:18
But I have all things and more than enough; I have been made full, receiving from Epaphroditus the things from you, a fragrance of sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
Therefore, repent, and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the face of the Lord,
Therefore, all things, as many things as you ever desire that men should do to you, so also you should do to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.
For Macedonia and Achaia thought it good to make certain contribution to the poor of the saints in Jerusalem.For they thought it good, and their debtors they are; for if the nations shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in the fleshly things.
On the first of the sabbaths, let each one of you put by himself, storing up whatever he is prospered, that there not be collections then when I come.
I showed you by all things that working hard in this way it is needful to help the ones being feeble, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Therefore through Him let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God always, this is, the fruit of the lips, confessing to His name.But do not be forgetful of doing good and sharing, for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.