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Leviticus chapter 7 verses 11 and 12 and this is the law of the sacrifice of

peace offerings that one may offer to the Lord.

If he offers it for a Thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the Thanksgiving sacrifice.

Unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleaven wafers, smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil.

I think sometimes when we think about Leviticus, we think about all of these sacrifices and offerings and and how they cover

over the sins of God's people which is definitely a predominant picture we see but

we also see for example here in the

vitticus 7 11 and 12 a peace offering and a Thanksgiving sacrifice that present a

much different picture this picture is a people who are simply grateful to God

for his grace, for his provision in different ways. They're overwhelmed with God's mercy toward them, God's blessing on them

that they're provoked to offer a sacrifice of Thanksgiving. And I look in the New Testament and I see how critical this is to our Christian lives.

Yes, when we sin against God, we need to confess our sin before God, be reminded of the grace of Christ,

the blood of Christ that covers over our sin, without question.

That's a huge component of our communion with God, our relationship with God,

but so is offering Thanksgiving and gratitude on a continual basis, a continual basis, daily basis, an all-during-day basis, for us to have

grateful hearts before God where we're constantly looking up to heaven and saying,

God, thank you for this. God, thank you for that.

If we're not careful, we can become pretty quickly,

pretty ungrateful people,

where we almost become accustomed to God's blessings

to the point where we presume upon them.

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