Leviticus 2

 

 

The Life of the Grain Offering Offered by the Saved (Leviticus 2:1-16)

 

V. 1. “When someone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering is to be of fine flour. He is to pour oil on it, put incense on it.”

 

 

Today’s passage explains the grain offering. The grain offering was a sacrifice that the people who were atoned of their sins

offered to God to express their gratitude for His grace and to joyfully pledge their loyalty. The grain offering is the only one of the five

sacrifices introduced in Leviticus 1-7 that is not an offering of an animal but grain. Just as the burnt offering in Leviticus 1 required

the best animal, a male without blemish, to be offered to the LORD, the grain offering also required the finest flour, the highest grade,

to be offered to the LORD. While the burnt offering burned the entire animal except for the skin, the grain offering was to burn only

a handful as a memorial, and the rest was to be given to the priests to eat.

 

 

1. The grain offering is a sacrifice of thanksgiving offered with grain

1) The grain offering is “minchah” in Hebrew, which means “gift, tribute.”

2) The main offerings of the grain offering were fine flour, salt, oil, and frankincense.

3) The grain offering was offered in the form of fine flour or cooked unleavened bread or wafers.

4) In the case of the extremely poor, they were allowed to offer a grain offering for the sin offering (Lev. 5:11-13).

 

 

2. What should and should not be added to the grain offering (verses 11-13)

1) What should not be added to the grain offering is yeast and honey.

2) Yeast, which symbolizes corruption, and honey, which symbolizes pleasure, are prohibited.

3) It is emphasized that salt must be added to all grain offerings.

4) An unchanging covenant is called the “covenant of salt (2 Chronicles 13:5).”

 

 

3. God's will and consideration in the grain offering

1) The offering was usually offered along with other offerings.

2) The remainder after it was burned on the altar of burnt offering was given to the priests.

3) We are ones that must live a church-centered life and worship with the 24-hour living sacrifice.

4) God does not demand ability from us.

 

 

Conclusion: Bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD.

1) Verses 14-16 are the regulations for the grain offering of the first harvest.

2) The firstfruits were offered to God to commemorate the covenant made with the LORD.

3) The grain offering was a living worship in which the worshiper completely dedicated his life and ministry.

4) God fed the priests with what was left after the sacrifices were offered.

 

 

The burnt offering makes us look at the cross of Christ who offered his whole self as a sacrifice to God.

For us who are united with Christ, the grain offering speaks of our daily living worship. The object of worship is God,

and we must live a life of gratitude and loyalty as His people. The grain offering is a gift of thanksgiving that Christ saved us

and made us God’s people forever. It teaches us the 24-hour living worship that we must be loyal to Christ, our King,

and live faithfully according to the covenant. In the name of the Lord, I pray that each of us, transformed into fine flour,

may offer the rest of our lives as a living worship acceptable to the Lord.