To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Keep this in mind: Sacrifices are not bribes to make the Lord God overlook our behavior or character faults. And it is certainly not permission to disobey His written Word. If our personal and business dealings with others are not characterized by justice, there is no amount of generosity when we give to the poor or when the offering place is passed, that will make up for being disobedient to His Word. Read what God's Constitution--the Bible--says: The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is His delight. The Lord God, as the King He is, wants your obedience, not the sacrifices of those people who embrace the world system of doing things.
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom. Give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah:
“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?” says the Lord. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats.
God's character is unchanging. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Proverbs 21:3 Proverbs 15:8 Isaiah 1:10-11
~~W.R. Luchie
Keep this in mind: Sacrifices are not bribes to make the Lord God overlook our behavior or character faults. And it is certainly not permission to disobey His written Word. If our personal and business dealings with others are not characterized by justice, there is no amount of generosity when we give to the poor or when the offering place is passed, that will make up for being disobedient to His Word. Read what God's Constitution--the Bible--says: The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is His delight. The Lord God, as the King He is, wants your obedience, not the sacrifices of those people who embrace the world system of doing things.
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom. Give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah:
“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?” says the Lord. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats.
God's character is unchanging. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Proverbs 21:3 Proverbs 15:8 Isaiah 1:10-11
~~W.R. Luchie
