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Presenting Your Offering - Matthew 5: 23-24
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012
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Beloved,

“Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.” (Matthew 5:23 - 24)

This passage reminds us again just how important purity in worship is to God. Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount that if while we are at worship we remember that something is not right between us and someone else, we are to leave worship and go make amends with that other person. What Jesus is getting at is that we cannot truly worship God when we have not reconciled with those around us. 1 John puts it another way, “If someone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.” (1 John 4:20)
What’s the point? Simply that we cannot say that we believe one thing when our actions say something completely different; we cannot attempt to come into God’s presence at times of worship when we have unfinished business with other people. God will not allow us into His presence with disobedience in our hearts.
Psalm 24 says this, “Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? And who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, (He) who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood And has not sworn deceitfully.” (Psalm 24: 3 - 4) If we are unwilling to do the hard work of being reconciled with those whom we disagree, we have no hope of ever coming into God’s holy presence.

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Offering (4374) προσφέρομαι (prospheromai): vb.; behave toward, act toward someone in a certain way; bring to, carry a thing into the presence of; bring into presence, lead someone into the presence of; present to, offer a gift. Used in Mathew 5: 23 - 24; look it up.

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