The Offering that God Accepts (2)

The Offering that God Accepts

Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. – 1 Peter 1:18-19

In many instances across the Bible, God expressly stated the kind of offering He expected to be presented to Him, such sacrifice must be without blemish. In other words, it must be of the highest quality to be acceptable to Him. Therefore, whether you are offering money, time, effort, service, worship, evangelism, prayer, helping others, and so forth, such must be done with a consciousness of giving the best to God (Colossians 3:23).

According to our reference passage today, we can see that even the Ultimate sacrifice that was offered as a propitiation for humanity, the blood of Jesus, was offered from a proverbial sacrificial lamb without blemish. That sacrificial lamb was Jesus Christ who had no sin and lived a blameless life (2 Corinthians 5:21, 1 Peter 2:22, 1 John 3:5).

Below are other passages in the Bible where God expressly stated the kind of offering He desired to be offered by His worshippers. You will see that one recurrent word across these passages is “without blemish”, that is stainless and blameless.

Exodus 12:5: Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

Exodus 29:1: And this is what you shall do to them to hallow them for ministering to Me as priests: Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

Leviticus 1:3: ‘If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it of his own free will at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord.

Leviticus 1:10: ‘If his offering is of the flocks—of the sheep or of the goats—as a burnt sacrifice, he shall bring a male without blemish.

Leviticus 3:1: ‘When his offering is a sacrifice of a peace offering, if he offers it of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.

Leviticus 3:6: ‘If his offering as a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord is of the flock, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

Leviticus 4:3: If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, then let him offer to the Lord for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without blemish as a sin offering.

Leviticus 4:23: or if his sin which he has committed comes to his knowledge, he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a male without blemish.

Leviticus 4:28: or if his sin which he has committed comes to his knowledge, then he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.

Leviticus 4:32: ‘If he brings a lamb as his sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish.

Leviticus 5:15: “If a person commits a trespass, and sins unintentionally in regard to the holy things of the Lord, then he shall bring to the Lord as his trespass offering a ram without blemish from the flocks, with your valuation in shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, as a trespass offering.

Leviticus 5:18: And he shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish from the flock, with your valuation, as a trespass offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him regarding his ignorance in which he erred and did not know it, and it shall be forgiven him.

Leviticus 6:6: And he shall bring his trespass offering to the Lord, a ram without blemish from the flock, with your valuation, as a trespass offering, to the priest.

Leviticus 9:2: And he said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a young bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.

Leviticus 9:3; And to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, ‘Take a kid of the goats as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering,

Leviticus 14:10: “And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one log of oil.

Leviticus 22:19: you shall offer of your own free will a male without blemish from the cattle, from the sheep, or from the goats.

Leviticus 23:12: And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Leviticus 23:18: And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be as a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the Lord.

Numbers 6:14: And he shall present his offering to the Lord: one male lamb in its first year without blemish as a burnt offering, one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish as a sin offering, one ram without blemish as a peace offering,

Numbers 19:2: “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which a yoke has never come.

Numbers 28:3: “And you shall say to them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the Lord: two male lambs in their first year without blemish, day by day, as a regular burnt offering.

Numbers 28:9: ‘And on the Sabbath day two lambs in their first year, without blemish, and two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, with its drink offering—

Numbers 28:11: ‘At the beginnings of your months you shall present a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without blemish;

Numbers 28:19: And you shall present an offering made by fire as a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. Be sure they are without blemish.

Numbers 28:31: Be sure they are without blemish. You shall present them with their drink offerings, besides the regular burnt offering with its grain offering.

Numbers 29:2: You shall offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without blemish.

Numbers 29:8: You shall present a burnt offering to the Lord as a sweet aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. Be sure they are without blemish.

Numbers 29:13: You shall present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the Lord: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year. They shall be without blemish.

Numbers 29:17: ‘On the second day present twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,

Numbers 29:20: ‘On the third day present eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,

Numbers 29:23: ‘On the fourth day present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year, without blemish,

Numbers 29:26: ‘On the fifth day present nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,

Numbers 29:29: ‘On the sixth day present eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,

Numbers 29:32: ‘On the seventh day present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,

Numbers 29:36: You shall present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the Lord: one bull, one ram, seven lambs in their first year without blemish,

Ezekiel 43:22: On the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

Ezekiel 43:23: When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the flock without blemish.

Ezekiel 43:25: Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish.

Ezekiel 45:18:‘Thus says the Lord God: “In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 45:23: On the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 46:4: The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish;

Ezekiel 46:6: On the day of the New Moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish.

Ezekiel 46:13: “You shall daily make a burnt offering to the Lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish; you shall prepare it every morning.

Ephesians 5:27: that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

1 Peter 1:19: but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

These all underscore the fact that God is very particular about the kind of service or sacrifice that is offered to Him. He does not just take anything, whether that be time, money, attention, worship, or whatever it is that constitutes your offering to Him. You will do well to note that.

You Will Succeed in Jesus Name!

Also read:

• The Offering that God Accepts (1)
• Men in the Bible: The Man that God Did Not Respect (1)
• The Vital Equation
• God Brought Me Through!

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