God established sacrifices from the earliest days of humanity to teach that sinful humans can only find union with God through the death of Jesus, who was prefigured in those sacrifices. There were mandatory and voluntary sacrifices to represent atonement, gratitude, dedication, and requests. All pointed to Jesus' ultimate sacrifice. God wants believers to offer living sacrifices today through helping others, praising God, and dedicating one's entire being to the Lord.

1. Sacrifices
Lesson 3

2. KEY TEXT
“I urge you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies
of God, to present your
bodies a living and holy
sacrifice, acceptable to
God, which is your
spiritual service of
worship”
Romans 12:1

3. SACRIFICES
Of Different animals

4. Just after Adam and Eve’s sin, God
showed them a draft of the His plan
to rescue them. Eve’s seed —Jesus
Christ— would destroy the serpent’s
—Satan (Gn. 3:15)
God sacrificed an animal and made
tunics of skin to clothe them before
driving them out of Eden.
So, from the earliest days of human
history, sacrifices taught that sinful
humans could find union with God,
but only through the death of Jesus,
who was prefigured in those
sacrifices.

5. “God tested Abraham” by asking him to
sacrifice his son Isaac (Gn. 22:1)
1. God is the One providing salvation; He provides the true sacrifice, the “Lamb of
God” (“YHVH Jireh”  “God will provide”, Gn. 22:14)
2. No one can die for his own sins or for any person’s sins. Only Jesus can die for all
our sins; He is our SUBSTITUTE.
God taught Abraham two vital teachings:
Abraham obeyed God’s
order. God was more
important for him than
anything else.

6. The sacrifices in the Sanctuary were not offered only for forgiving sins. They were
also given as an expression of gratitude for God’s blessings, as a symbol of
dedication, as a penitential request or just as a gift given to God.
Mandatory
sacrifices
Sin or purification
offering
When a person sinned or was ritually
contaminated
Repairing offering
When a return was demanded
(e.g. after a robbery)
Voluntary
sacrifices
Burnt offerings
It was completely burnt. It represented the
consecration of the one offering it
Grain offerings
It represented the dedication of the material
possessions
Peace offerings
Given as a token of joy and gratitude. They
were consumed by the one offering them.
There were two
main types of
sacrifices:

7. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood,
and I have given it to you upon the altar
to make atonement for your souls; for it
is the blood that makes atonement for
the soul” (Leviticus 17:11)
“And according to the law almost
all things are purified with blood,
and without shedding of blood
there is no remission”
(Hebrews 9:22)
The blood represents life. God made the expiatory blood a ransom for the human
life. The blood of every sacrificed animal represented the spilled blood of the “Lamb
of God”, Jesus Christ. Life for life. God gave the life of His Son for the sinner’s life.

8. “The Jews saw in the sacrificial offerings
the symbol of Christ whose blood was
shed for the salvation of the world. All
these offerings were to typify Christ and
to rivet the great truth in their hearts that
the blood of Jesus Christ alone cleanseth
from all sin, and without the shedding of
blood there is no remission of sins. Some
wonder why God desired so many sacri-
fices and appointed the offering of so
many bleeding victims in the Jewish
economy.
Every dying victim was a type of Christ, which lesson was impressed on
mind and heart in the most solemn, sacred ceremony, and explained
definitely by the priests. Sacrifices were explicitly planned by God
Himself to teach this great and momentous truth, that through the blood
of Christ alone there is forgiveness of sins”
E.G.W. (Selected Messages, vol. 1, pg. 106-107)

9. Which kinds of
offerings are
described in the
following texts?
Exod. 12:21–27,
Lev. 2:1–3, Exod.
25:2–7, Lev.
4:27–31.
God established the sacrificial system so that believers could enter into
a close relationship with Him. This is why offerings could be brought in
all different kinds of situations: for thanksgiving, for an expression of
joy and celebration, for a gift, for a petition, for forgiveness, for a
penitential plea, for a symbol of dedication, or for restitution.
7 KINDS OF OFFERINGS

10. SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS
BULLS
LAMBS
Among the most important types of offerings were the burnt offering (Leviticus
1) and the grain offering (Leviticus 2), as well as the peace, or well-being, offering
(Leviticus 3), the purification offering (Leviticus 4), and the reparation (trespass)
offering (Lev. 5:14–6:7). The first three were voluntary offerings, which were to
remind the giver (and us) that, in the end, everything that we are and all that we
have belong to God.

11. The burnt offering symbolizes the total dedication of the one making the
offering. The grain offering symbolizes the dedication of our material
possessions to God, whether they be food, animals, or something else. The
well-being offering is the only sacrifice in which the participant receives a
part of the offering for personal consumption.
GRAINS INCENSE GOLD AND SILVER

12. The sacrificing system was abolished when Jesus died.
God does not require sacrifices for sin today. Nevertheless, He wants us to offer
another type of sacrifices.
Helping others
• “Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the
things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well
pleasing to God” (Philippians 4:18)
Praising and proclaiming the name of God
• “Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the
fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name” (Hebrews 13:15)
Being willing to lose our lives for the sake of God
• “For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my
departure is at hand”
(2 Timothy 4:6)
Dedicating our whole being to the Lord
• “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service”
(Romans 12:1)

13. “We are in a world that is opposed to
righteousness, or purity of character,
and especially to growth in grace.
Wherever we look, we see defilement
and corruption, deformity and sin. How
opposed is all this to the work that must
be accomplished in us just previous to
receiving the gift of immortality! God’s
elect must stand untainted amid the
corruptions teeming around them in
these last days. Their bodies must be
made holy, their spirits pure. If this work
is to be accomplished, it must be
undertaken at once, earnestly and
understandingly. The Spirit of God
should have perfect control, influencing
every action” E.G.W. (Counsels on Diet and Foods, pg. 118)

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