The Peace Offering – Leviticus 3
- We are all searching for peace
- The Peace Offering
- When you have shalom, offer a shelem
- Are we at peace with God in all things?
- How does this offering teach us these lessons?
- Brought with grain offerings with yeast and without yeast (Lev 7:12-13)
- Ann Voskamp’s, A Holy Experience[1]
- “To bring the sacrifice of thanksgiving means to sacrifice your understanding of what is beneficial and thank God for everything because He is benevolent.”
- Does your peace allow you to be thankful in all situations?
- What are you thankful for? (Phil 4:6-7)
- How does God want to bring Peace into our life?
- Peace is pictured in a Meal = Fellowship
- God wants to eat with us: in the thick and thin times
- God comes right in and shares in our life: Thanks, Vow, Freewill (Lev. 7:15)
- Thanks (Lev 7:12, Ps 50:23)
- Vows are promises made before God in which we promise to do something if he does something. (Lev 7:16, Gen 28:20-22, 1Sam 1:11, Acts 18:18)
- Freewill (Lev 7:16) of a freewill offering…
- God invites us to bring the fat and breast to the Altar (Lev 7:30)
- We bring the best to the Lord.
- God wants to come in and eat and he wants us to see that there are still good things in which to offer to God even when life is hard.
- Peace with God is expressed in supporting the priests (Lev 7:30-32, 1Tim 5:17)
- What gifts are you bringing to God and his servants in ministry? (2Cor 9:7, 8:12-14)
- Application & NT Fulfillment
- Does your peace allow you to be thankful in all situations.
- Only through fellowshipping with the High Priest can you have peace! (Eph 2:13-18, Rev 3:20)
- At the wedding banquet of the Lamb we will enjoy sweet fellowship and know perfect peace!
[1] http://www.aholyexperience.com/2014/10/the-1-habit-we-can-never-afford-to-forget-in-hard-times/
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