Sacrifices Mean Nothing to God, He Wants Our Hearts

God cares nothing about your sacrifices to appear righteous. He cares about a dedicated heart toward Him.

Psalm 51:16-17 "…16 For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise."

Amos 5:21-23
21 “I hate, I reject your festivals,
Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.
22 “Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings.
23 “Take away from Me the noise of your songs;
I will not even listen to the sound of your harps."

God hates obligatory gifts that only serve to elevate self. He hates our feast days that claim to be for Him but ignore Him and all His principles. Human relationships are this way too, Obligatory gifts and acknowledgements are not pleasing to God or anyone.

Those who say they love God but defend their sin, even treating disrespectfully those who speak for Him, are not honoring God. They pretend to honor Him with their lips but they despise His principles, so they pretend He didn't say what He said.

Matthew 15:7-9 "…7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8 ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”…"

One who claims to love God but negates His truth often is lying. Just the same as someone who claims to love us but demeans and mocks us regularly. Human relationships are closely related to how we think of God.

1 John 3:13-15 "…13 So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.…"

The one who rages because they have been warned about a principle of God is one who has contempt in their heart for not only the one they rage at but also for God.

Ephesians 4:31
"31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice."