Leviticus 2: Summary

Verses 1-3: Instructions are given about the grain offering, which is to be made without yeast and with fine flour, oil, and frankincense. A portion of it is burned, and the rest is for the priests.
Life Application: Offer your best to God, symbolized by the fine flour, and let your actions be pure and untainted, represented by the absence of yeast.

Verses 4-10: Further details are provided on how the grain offering can be prepared, including baked in an oven, cooked on a griddle, or fried in a pan. Regardless of the method, it should be without yeast and broken into pieces with oil poured over it.
Life Application: There are different ways to serve and worship, but the purity and quality of our offerings should remain consistent.

Verses 11-13: Grain offerings must not contain yeast or honey but must contain salt. The mention of the “covenant of salt” signifies the permanence and purity of God’s promises.
Life Application: Stay true to your commitments and maintain the integrity of your promises, just as salt preserves and seasons.

Verses 14-16: Instructions are given for the offering of the firstfruits, which includes using green heads of grain roasted on a fire and crushed, mixed with oil and frankincense.
Life Application: Always put God first in everything, acknowledging Him with the first and best of what you have.

Life Applications for Leviticus 2:

1. Purity in Worship: Just as the grain offerings were to be without yeast, our worship should be pure and untainted by sin or wrong motives.
2. Variety in Service: Different methods of preparing the grain offering teach us that there are multiple ways to serve God, but the heart and essence should remain the same.
3. Permanence in Commitment: The covenant of salt reminds us to be consistent and faithful in our commitments to God and others.
4. Prioritizing God: Offering the firstfruits emphasizes the importance of placing God as the highest priority in our lives and giving Him our best.