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.
Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions."
if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without blemish to YHWH for a sin offering.
when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.
All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar.Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
"If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
"Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
We have brought YHWH's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before YHWH."
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.
Do not judge, and you won't be judged. Do not condemn, and you won't be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
"'If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish.
"Be careful that you do not do your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.Therefore when you do merciful deeds, do not sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from people. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.But when you do merciful deeds, do not let your left hand know what your right hand does,so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Honor YHWH with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
"'All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is YHWH's. It is holy to YHWH.
Ascribe to YHWH the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship YHWH in holy array.
You shall keep the feast of weeks to YHWH your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as YHWH your God blesses you:
"'When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to YHWH, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of YHWH your God which he has given you.
That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to YHWH your God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth.
But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to YHWH to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill offering for God's house which is in Jerusalem.'"
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east gate, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the offerings of YHWH, and the most holy things.
You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to YHWH of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give YHWH's wave offering to Aaron the priest.
"Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you."
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
But do not forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
"Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves do not break 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 sows, that he will also reap.
As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to YHWH from the fruit of the ground.Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. YHWH respected Abel and his offering,
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of that which is truly life.
With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, YHWH, for it is good.
"Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.You 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 his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.
They brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: and over them Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.But if you do not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says YHWH. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies.My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as the Lord forgave you, so you also do.
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,for all these put in gifts from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on."
Be careful. If your brother sins, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns to you, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."
Then Peter came to him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"Jesus said to him, "I do not tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says YHWH Sabaoth, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
"Come now, and let us reason together," says YHWH: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you do not have.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
"Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.
For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.
On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.But do not forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.