The Way to GOD by SACRIFICES - Genesis 8:20-22

THE OFFERINGS

1. The Burnt Offering
2. The Meat Offering
3. The Peace Offering
4. The Sin Offering
5. The Tresspass Offering

These Offerings were divided into two (2) classes.

1. The Sweet Savor Offerings (Burnt, Meat, Peace)
2. SIn Offerings (Sin, Tresspass)

Today's Focus:  Noah's (Sweet Savor) Offering - Genesis 8:20-22

Noah’s first act after leaving the ark was to worship God through sacrifice. His gratitude and admiration of God’s greatness lead him to worship God. Took of every clean animal and every clean bird: As is the nature with true sacrifice, this was a costly offering unto God. With only seven of each animal on the ark, Noah risked extinction by sacrificing some of these animals. But costly sacrifice is pleasing to God.

The sacrifices we are called to offer to God should also cost something. Costly sacrifice pleases God, not because God is greedy but because God Himself sacrificed at great cost (Ephesians 5:2 and Hebrews 9:26, 10:12) and that we are being conformed into the image of Jesus, who was the greatest display of costly sacrifice (see 2 Samuel 24:24)

Paul wrote in Ephesians 5:2, we should be like Jesus in this regard: And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

Footnote

We should present our bodies as a living sacrifice to God (Romans 12:1), the giving of our resources is a sacrifice (Philippians 4:18), and we should give the sacrifice of praise to God (Hebrews 13:15).