The third voluntary scrafice is found in Leviticus 7:11-21 and is the peace offfering.
It was give to God in 3 different instances. The first was given to as a freewill offereing that was thanking God for his goodness. The second was given with a fullfilled vow. An example would be when Hannah fullfilled her vow to God by bringing Sammuel to the temple, she also brought a peace offering to express the peace she had towards God for her scrafice. And the third scrafice was thanking God for his delievernce during a time of great need.
None of these offerings were given to God as way of appeasing him or trying to get on his good side. And neither today do we do for God to get on his good side. He does not expect us to do for him and yet that is how we sometimes feel. That we must do good for him so that he will bring good to us. And instead he wants us to just confess our dependence upon him.
The idea of in modern times that a gift is given to appease someone, to make them less angry such as a husband that gives his wife flowers after an argument is quite different then what God wanted out of his people in the Old Testamant. And is what he still wants from us today. We do not do good to get his favor. We do good from a heart that yes, wants to please him but because we just love him. And we recongize that he is the one person that we can always depend on when everyone else may fail us.
For more information on the Scrafice of Peace, please visit: https://www.gotquestions.org/peace-offering.html as well sa Leviticus 7:11:21
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