Leviticus 1:13 (ESV Strong's)
but the entrails and the legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
Subject: Pleasing the Lord
We all wish to please; mostly other people ... even those who say they don't have a desire to please others have an inward desire to please themselves. We have an innate inward bent to please. God has placed it there. When we bend to the peer pressure of the world, that is a desire to please them. This is why marketing works. When a "marketing fade" is created we jump on board so we are accepted by others in that same group dressed alike; eating alike; doing the exact same activity. We love to please. In the above passage we are told that the proper sacrifice to the Lord is a "pleasing aroma." In fact, this same phase is used 17 times in Leviticus about our sacrifice to the Lord. We can't offer a "pleasing" sacrifice to the Lord in our sinful condition. It is only have we have Christ offer for us that Romans can be true:
Romans 12:1-2 (ESV Strong's)
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
We are to offer a "pleasing" sacrifice to God. This is only done when we are in Christ, who was fully accepted and pleasing to God:
2 Peter 1:17 (ESV Strong's)
For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”
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