Salt on the Lord's Table

The grain offering provides for us a clear picture of Christ as the propitiation for sin. He satisfied the wrath of God. But the offering also indicates that Christ's offering made us acceptable to the Father. We are reconciled to Him and well-pleasing to Him. The oil and the frankincense point up this restored fellowship that the one who offered had with God.

As Christians, our sacrifices are not grain offerings. The sacrifices with which God is well-pleased are the actions of doing good and sharing (Hebrews 13.16). Paul said that the things sent to him by the Philippian church were a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God" (Philippians 4.18). Romans 15.16 says that the conversion and reconciliation of Gentiles is the offering now acceptable and sanctified by the Holy Spirit.