Daily offering, weekly offering and monthly offering

Numbers 28:1-15

Say to them: ‘This is the food offering you are to present to the Lord: two lambs a year old without defect, as a regular burnt offering each day. Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight, together with a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives. This is the regular burnt offering instituted at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the Lord.

On the Sabbath day, make an offering of two lambs a year old without defect, together with its drink offering and a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil. This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.

On the first of every month, present to the Lord a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect. With each bull there is to be a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; and with each lamb, a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil. 

This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon during the year. Besides the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the Lord as a sin offering.

Why?

Prepare food offerings to worship the Lord, so we prepare our hearts to worship the Lord in the morning daily, and weekly in the church.

The first day of a month and Sabbath day is the special day to remember the Lord has rescued Israelites from slaves in Egypt.

These regulations are the rule to worship the Lord, so everyone come to the Lord should honor the with care and fear the Lord from our heart. For our Lord is a living God.

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神給人繼承土地後，人要如何回應神，因此在此章28,29,30章說明。人過好日子很容易忘記神，每天早晚要記得感恩，不是口頭說而已，而是要獻祭。特定的日子獻祭，以實際行動奉獻給神。燔祭全部獻出，素祭獻麵，奠祭獻酒。早上開始的祭，晚上反省的祭。安息日的重點是要親近神！我們主日是否想休息，或是掛念工作?月朔獻祭是以色列人，不是每個人。在外： 月朔還要持續原來的早晚獻祭的事。目的是我們不能因為特殊的日子，服事忙碌而忽略了親近神的時間。

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How?

Prepare my mind and my heart to meet the Lord every day.