Leviticus 3

v1-5: The fellowship or peace offering signified “reconciliation, harmony, and fellowship.” In these offerings, “God and his people… held a feast together as a sign of their friendship.” Part of the offering was “to be burned on God’s altar,” and part given “to the offerer to be eaten by them with their family and friends.” In this offering we see “the great sacrifice of peace, that of the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world,” and who “prepares the altar for our sacrifices of praise, which are not accepted till we are reconciled with him.”

v6-17: The people were forbidden from eating the blood, “because it was God’s part of every sacrifice.” He “would not permit the blood that made atonement to be treated as common or unholy.” God will not allow us, who have been reconciled to him, “to take for ourselves any part of the honour of making the atonement.” When it comes to our salvation, our boast is “only in the Lord and in Christ’s blood poured out for the forgiveness of our sins.”