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Leviticus chapter 3, verse 1.

If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or

female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.

This is another theme that we see all throughout Leviticus when it comes to offerings that were

presented before God.

They must be without blemish.

So basically, if you were an Israelite, you wouldn't take or couldn't take the animal

who is sick or has all of these problems and think, okay, I'll sacrifice that. That way I'll

kind of save the best for myself and I'll offer the worst to God. No, you would have to give an offering

that's without blemish. That's perfect. And there's really, well, there's multiple purposes going on

here, but at least two of those

purposes.

Think about it with me.

One, God was teaching his people to offer him their best, not their leftovers.

This is where, oh, I would encourage you, and even in my own life, I think, am I giving God my best? There's a reason why tithes,

when it comes to money, were offered first, like off the top, first fruits offerings,

off the top, so that we are from the very beginning saying, God, I give my first and my best

to you, not my leftovers. I think about my time with the Lord. Like, I give my first and my best to you, not my leftovers. I think about my time with

the Lord. Like, I want to give him my best time during the day, not my worst time during the day when I'm

most prone to distraction or most tired, least energetic. I want to give him my best time. So to think,

okay, in our lives, we want to make sure that God is receiving our best in all

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