Leviticus 2:1–3
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that has completely detached worship from the rest of life. For modern man, worship is an ethereal feeling, a sentimental mood, an emotional experience cordoned off into an hour on Sunday morning. It has nothing to do with his Monday morning, his checkbook, his garage, or his kitchen. It is a head-trip, a spiritualized sentiment, and it is utterly useless. But the book of Leviticus will not let us get away with such nonsense. Leviticus is God's instruction manual for how a redeemed people are to approach a holy God, and it is earthy. It is full of blood and guts, fire and smoke, flour and oil. It teaches us that worship is not a feeling but an action. After the fundamental sacrifice, the burnt offering, which deals with the problem of sin and establishes our acceptance before God, the very next thing God institutes is the grain offering.