Pre-requisites to an offering

Lev 2:11 Every grain offering you bring to the LORD must be made without yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey in an offering made to the LORD by fire

Lev 2: 13 Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings

We are sometimes confused by the rituals and offerings mentioned in the Old Testament. While it is true that the OT sacrifices were temporal in nature till the coming of the promised sacrifice i.e Christ, they also served as a shadow of the things to come.

Today as the new testament church, we no longer have any animal/grain sacrifices as we see in the Old Testament. But we do have certain sacrifices that we offer whenever we come to the presence of the Lord to worship him.

Romans 12:1 mentions that we are to offer ourselves as living and holy sacrifices. Heb 13:15 says that we are to continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise.

In the passage we read from Leviticus, we see two specialities of the grain offering. Firstly, they were not to have any yeast and secondly, they were always to have salt.

1 Cor 5:8 refers to the presence of yeast in bread to indicate impurity in our worship and goes on to say that our sacrifices of praise to God must be offered in sincerity and truth.

Mark 9:50 refers to salt to indicate peace with our fellow believers. Also we understand that salt by its nature flavors the food/environment that it is present in.

In other words, the old testament sacrifices indicated two key pre-requisites which we do well to adopt into our modern day worship of God i.e sincerity to God and peace with one another. When that is present, we can be sure that the Lord is pleased with our offering to Him.

God Bless!