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Poured Out Like Wine: Understanding the Drink Offering in Christian Life

Explore the significance of the drink offering in the Bible, its metaphorical use by Paul, and the call for sacrificial living in Christianity. Discover how joy, sacrifice, and service intertwine in the Christian faith.

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Poured Out Like Wine: Understanding the Drink Offering in Christian Life

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  1. Philippians 2:17-18 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. 18So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.

  2. Poured Out Like Wine

  3. Drink Offering • Of all the sacrifices from the old covenant, the least discussed is the drink offering. • Also known as a libation

  4. Drink Offering Rites • Drink offering concluded the daily burnt offerings

  5. Nazirite Vows • Drink offering was made as a concluding rite to the Nazirite vows.

  6. Heathen Drink Offerings • Drink offerings began and concluded many heathen sacrificial meals, including those of the Romans.

  7. As Paul Used The Phrase • Paul uses the libation twice as a metaphor for his own life. • If we understand his use of the metaphor, we will understand more about a true Christian life. • What was the drink offering? • What does it have to do with us Christians?

  8. A Brief Historical Perspective • First reference to drink offering in Bible: • Genesis 35:14 -- Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. • Offered by Jacob

  9. Twice Daily Offering • Numbers 28:1-7 • Offered with each lamb twice a day every day • About a quart offered at each time • About 182 gallons of wine a year • Was to be strong drink – undiluted, fermented wine • It was part of the “soothing aroma” sacrifices

  10. Distinguished From Heathens • Psalm 64:4 -- The sorrows of those will increase        who run after other gods.        I will not pour out their libations of blood        or take up their names on my lips.

  11. What Did It Mean? • The meaning seems to be JOY in consecration to God. Wine spoke of joy and rejoicing “You have filled my heart with greater joy        than when their grain and new wine abound.” (Psalm 4:7) “Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do.” (Ecc. 9:7)

  12. The Philippians As Burnt Offering • Paul speaks of their “sacrifice” and “service” • Sacrifice is THUSIA – either the act or the victim. • Service is LEITURGIA – of a ritual or observance

  13. An Example of Sacrifice and Service • Remember Paul challenged them to have the attitude of Jesus Christ. • In 2:8, Christ was obedient to death. • In 2:13, they were told to work out their salvation, because God was at work in them to will and to act according to God’s purpose.

  14. What Sacrifices Does God Require? Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:1-2) Sacrifice of heart and mind

  15. Sacrifice of Love • Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (Ephesians 5:1-2)

  16. Sacrifice of Praise and Service • Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name. 16And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. • (Hebrews 13:15-16)

  17. Paul As A Drink Offering • SPENDO – poured out, completely spent! • Paul’s great joy was? • Their sacrifice • His sacrifice • God’s glory

  18. No Easy Crosses

  19. Will You Be Poured Out Like Wine? • We sing the song • We readily answer: Yes, I’ll be poured out like wine…. • Will we? • Really?

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