SACRIFICES:

Sacrificial

A RELIGION THAT COSTS ME NOTHING

2 Samuel 24:18-25

“I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing.”

“You also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” 1 Pet 2:5

“I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship…”

Rom 12:1

PRINCIPLES OF SACRIFICE

God requires the best or none at all Mal 1:6-14 “If I give all my

possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.”

1 Cor 13:3

PRINCIPLES OF SACRIFICE

God requires the best or none at all

God requires His first Deut 26:2; Ex 22:29

PRINCIPLES OF SACRIFICE

God requires the best or none at all

God requires His first

Real religion counts the cost Luke 14:26-35

Some whose religion cost

them:

THE WORLD NEEDS MEN AND WOMEN…

Who cannot be bought Whose word is their bond Who put character above desire Who possess conviction and a will Who will take risks Who will be as honest in small things as in great Who will make no compromise with wrong Whose ambitions are not their own selfish desires Who will stand for the truth Who will say “No!” with emphasis when all the world is

saying “Yes”

WHAT DOES YOUR RELIGION COST YOU?

In your worship?

WHAT DOES YOUR RELIGION COST YOU?

On vacation?

WHAT DOES YOUR RELIGION COST YOU?

In your dress?

WHAT DOES YOUR RELIGION COST YOU?

In your entertainment?

WHAT DOES YOUR RELIGION COST YOU? "For if we have become united with Him in the

likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin."

Rom 6:5-7

WHAT DOES YOUR RELIGION COST YOU? "...for if you are living according to the flesh,

you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live."

Rom 8:13 "But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no

provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts." Rom

13:14

WHAT DOES YOUR RELIGION COST YOU? “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no

longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me." Gal 2:20

"Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires."

Gal 5:24

WHAT DOES YOUR RELIGION COST YOU? "Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to

abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul." 1 Pet 2:11

WHAT DOES YOUR RELIGION COST YOU?

David Livingstone

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