Leviticus 1-5 Blood and a Pleasing Aroma

6/19/10

Time Spent: 15 min

Main Idea: The 5 major offerings listed in Leviticus 1-5 require blood and a "pleasing aroma".

What I Learned about God: Offerings made for fellowship or for guilt need to take into account the holiness of God

Summary: God has placed us to be holy people. This goes further by the fact that He wants His people to be holy. There are various ways in which people are said to do that. Even sins that are committed unintentionally need to be paid for with the purchase of blood and an aroma offering to the Lord. This requires that something must pay the price. The reason why "blood" wasn't drunk because it was a testament of life to the people. Thus, when blood is being poured out it is stating the life source of the being had been paid. The next thing that priest do was burn the offering as a fragrant aroma to God. Later, Paul will use this phrase to describe both Christ's self sacrifice and Christian giving

Application: An offering entails blood and an aroma to the Lord. When Paul calls us to be "living sacrifices" this means that those two are required in order to give service to the Lord. Any part of service that does not require these two things must not have been the sacrifice that Paul was thinking of. Indeed, Jesus' life is both the payment of my guilt blood and is my pleasing aroma, but I need to remember that my service to the Lord requires my full strength and service. I do not think I gave my full strength to the ministry these past weeks I had a break. Therefore, I want to try even harder by studying and especially praying for the minsitry longer than I usually do

Money Owed $18