
Calvary Baptist Church Peterborough
The Sacrifices of Leviticus (The Meat Offering)
Speaker: Jonathan VandenHurk
Someone accepted by God by His grace—through the burnt offering—could respond in gratitude through a meat (meal or corn) offering (Leviticus 2). It usually was an offering of flour and oil in which a handful was burned as a memorial of thanks and the priests ate the rest. It was a gift to God from the first and best of the worshipper’s agricultural produce in an act of thanksgiving for sins forgiven. The principle of giving our first fruits to the Lord is still applicable today, not in order to be forgiven, but out of thankfulness that we have been!