Leviticus 2

hey hey good morning good morning welcome to coffee and devotions this is where every day you and I we get together we have a little bit of coffee we get into God's word and we grow and our love for the Lord together in this year 2023 Lord willing we'll make it from Genesis through Leviticus well I gotta tell you this morning we actually are doing a redo because the kids and I recorded Leviticus chapter 2 and then I went back later to play it before I uploaded it and no audio no you're just with me today I didn't think I wanted to put the kids through doing it again so they'll join with us tomorrow for coffee and devotions but why don't we go ahead and pray and we'll get into God's word Lord we thank you so much for this day and we thank you for your word we pray that you would please bless us now as we read it that it would be a blessing to our souls that we would walk in your ways that we would love you thank you so much for all you have done for us in Jesus name amen all right here we go Leviticus chapter two this is a grain offering when anyone offers a grain offering to the Lord his offerings shall be a fine flower and he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests one of whom shall take it from his hand a fine flower and oil with the frankincense and the priest shall burn it as a memorial on the altar an offering made by fire a sweet Aroma to the Lord the rest of the green offering shall be Aarons and his sons it is most holy of the offerings to the Lord made by fire and if you bring as an offering a grain offering baked of in the oven it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened Wafers Anointed with oil but if your offering is a grain offering baked in a pan it shall be of fine flower unleavened mixed with oil you shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it it is a grain offering if your offering is a grain offering baked in a covered pan so we've had baked in the oven baked in a pan now it's baked in a covered pan it shall be of again fine flour with again oil so all of the fine flour fine flour fine flour with oil different ways of making it all of it fine flour mixed with oil you shall bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the Lord and when it is presented to the priest he shall bring it to the altar then the pre-show take from the grain offering a memorial portion and burn it on the altar it is an offering made by fire a sweet Aroma to the Lord and what is left of the grain offering shall be Aarons and his sons it is most holy of the offerings to the Lord made by fire so this grain offering is right there's this portion of the flower that's going to be burned in the fire no grain offering which you shall bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven again again and again and again here right fine flower mixed with oil no leaven right there's a flatbed bread this is like pita bread this is no leaven to be found whatsoever use for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any offering to the Lord made by fire and some people will say well why why why do you need to not have leaven why no honey honey could mean right honey like we think of it or like a syrup and so you might think of unleavened pancakes with syrup right none of that stuff right because it causes fermentation and death and none of that only unleavened buying flour as for the offering of the first fruits you shall offer them to the Lord but they shall be burned on the Altar for a sweet Aroma and every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt so the opposite of fermentation here salt this preservation you shall not allow the salt of the Covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering with all your offerings you shall offer salt right if you were to come into a covenant relationship with a king a magistrate some type of official above you during this time if you ate the salt of their meal you were in Covenant with them and so here this is this preservation this Everlasting Covenant that was meant to be made from the Lord if you offer a grain offering of your first fruits to the Lord you shall offer for the grain offering of your first fruits green heads of green roasted on the fire grain beaten from Full heads and you shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it it is a grain offering right so when you're going out in the field and you see the wheat field you go out there try my nose itches you go out there and you find the green heads of green get those off and those are what you're going to take to the Lord as a burned offering right this is to say the Lord is the one who brings in the Harvest the Lord is the one who provides for his people the Lord is the one who is their sustainer and giver and provider of life then the priests shall burn the memorial portion part of it is of its beaten grain and part of its oil with all the frankincense as an offering made by fire to the Lord so what's this full portion about a what's this about this is the sacrifice of the grain offering all right levitus 2 is the grain offering what's the best verse in this well I think in my Bible I would probably underline verse 8 and 9 or maybe just verse 9 the priest shall take from the green offering Memorial portion and burn it on the altar it is an offering made by fire a sweet Aroma to the Lord I think I might underline something like that right this is a covenant meal this is a covenant peace offering to God this is could be brought for Thanksgiving as well right this is meant to be the Israelites coming to God it is a special offering that they would bring to him and say thank you Lord for bringing the Harvest for being our God for being our Sovereign and our provider I think we could do that today too we can bring the sacrifice of our praise we don't need to bake cakes for the lord it's not like God is hungry even at this time he didn't need to eat these cakes right but this was meant to show their thankfulness for all God had done for them and who God was and the Covenant he had made with them do we not also have a place to praise and thank him well let's go ahead and pray now Lord we thank you for all you have done for us we thank you that you have given us the Bread of Heaven Jesus Christ and father we pray that you would please let us know that you are the provider and sustainer of all life and that you have kept your Covenant with us a Perpetual Covenant of salt we pray these things in Jesus name amen when may God bless you may you walk in the joy and peace of Jesus and I'll see you next time bye [Music] thanks for listening to this week's message from God's word for you a Ministry of Sharon RP Church in rural Southeast Iowa we pray that the message would be used by God to transform your faith in your life this week if you'd like to get more information about us feel free to go to the website Sharon rpc.org we'd love to invite you to worship with us our worship time is 10 a.m every 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